Disclaimer: I don't own any of the titled games in this fic.

Chapter: Rescue Mission Pt. I

Narrator: Fira

First before I say anything else…. I'd like to say riding a Gummi ship is beyond cool. I was riding in the gummi with King Mickey, Betha and Riku who was piloting the ship at the time. We road over trees, mountains, waters it was way better than an airplane back home and moved three times the speed. We came up on a ghost like city with a black tower rising from it. The tower was bigger than any capital building I had ever seen.

Riku landed the Gummi ship down on the outskirts of the town and we jumped off. We started towards the town and went through the front gates and into the first district. Waiting there was Leon, Yuffie and Aerith…

" Your Majesty" All of them bowed their heads slightly. King Mickey shook his head in acceptance and they turned around starting to walk up the stairs towards the next district. I followed closely behind as Leon told us the situation.

" As you can see a Dark Tower has arisen right in the center of district three" Leon said as we entered District 2 and headed for the Inn. We entered the Inn and walked to Green room in the back, inside the green room sitting there was Cid.

" The heartless are getting stronger and it's becoming alittle too much to handle" Yuffie said. I walked around them and jumped on the bed facing the ceiling. Feels good to actually be in a bed again.

" So what are we gonna do we can't just waltz in there we've tried it and we got our patoots kicked" Cid said nibbling on a wooden straw.

" What kicked your butts?" Riku asked.

" It was a girl, well it was a girl then it turned into this black fire bird that spat black fire" Cid replied.

" It was extremely powerful and none of our magics could even phase it" Yuffie said. A fire bird, WAIT WHAT! A fire bird?

(Flashback)

Kuro rose her darkness cards and was engulfed by a ball of black energy. When the dark ball cleared she arose a dark feather bird that stood like a human. It had bright transparent rainbow like wings, with black feathers all over it's body. A red beak, red eyes and red feet and red hand claws.

(Back)

I opened my eyes wide and sat up with utmost quickness

" KURO" I jumped out of the bed and ran out of the room. I ran down the hall and out of the inn… As soon as I stepped out I was surrounded by viral Heartless. I pulled out my keyblade and drew 5magic cards and attached them to my keyblade.

They all jumped at me, I swung knocking the first one straight out of the air and I dove off of the upper level down to the lower one. As soon as I landed down there I was surrounded by ghost like heartless (Ya know the ones that hang around in Halloween Town) I dove pasted them all and ran straight down the alley and to the door of the third district. I went through the third district upon going to the third district I found myself looking at two defender heartless.

" I don't have time for you!" I shouted jumping off of one of their heads and landing down near the base of the dark tower. I looked up at the black tower it was as tall as I could seen, it seemed to touch the sky. I walked up to the door and placed on hand on it.

" A girl that turned into a bird" I said to myself silently. I opened the door with both hands and it creaked open like old castle doors. I walked in and upon entering I bright light shined, when the light subsided I was in a big flower field it looked like something from the farplane.

(Song: Farplane Abyss from FFX2)

I turned around to see that the door had disappeared… Now how did Leon and the others escape when the door disappeared? I walked over to where the door used to be… nothing the door is completely gone. I turned around and looked about this field. It had no paths, no nothing it seemed to go on forever.

Suddenly the flowers blackened and two huge pillars arose from the ground. Appearing out of nowhere was Kuro she was held by two chains in the middle of the pillars, she looked pretty banged up. I ran over to her but a black wall of energy threw me back. I got up off of the ground and walked over to her touching the dark wall that protected her. I attached five cards from my deck and attached them to my keyblade. I tried over and over whacking at the shield but it wouldn't shatter.

" Dammit…KURO, KURO WAKE UP!" I shouted bamming on the glass shield with my fists.

" It's no use keyblade master" A familiar voice said. I turned around to see…Kuro? Kuro stood there with her blackmage hat tipped on her head, she sat on a large boulder. I walked over to her and stood about 3meters from the boulder she was standing on.

" Ah Fira…It's been along time since we saw eachother…what about 5days…while you were knocked out at the bottom of the mountain we had to face Felix and guess what…" She tipped her hat up to reveal eyes that were blood shot. She jumped down and walked past me with her dark wand thrown across her shoulder, she walked over and looked up at the chained Kuro.

" You can already deduct from the way that my…weaker self look that we lost the battle" She said with abit of irritation in her voice. I could already tell that this wasn't the real Kuro? This could only be her darker self… but how? Darkness cards can't become a being without having a heart to grasp on to…how is it that this evil Kuro escaped the heart from which she was born.

" You know what Fira" She started raising her dark wand.

" What?" I replied.

" I never really liked you, I always knew behind that tough guy ego was the beating heart of a true coward" She grinned evilly and I was blasted by a dark fireball. I landed on the dead waste that used to be flowers and looked up at the dark sky filled with lightening. I really wasn't hurting at all I was just shocked at what she said… Is that what Kuro really thought of me. I heard her foot steps growing ever so near to me… She looked down and picked me up by the shirt.

" I knew you were always just a fool, an immature little punk who didn't know what he was getting himself into" With that she blasted me again with another Dark Firaga attack. I went flying over by the dark shield I hit it then landed on the dirt again. I looked up at Kuro whom was tied up,

" Do you really hate me?" I whispered to myself.

" Oh and it just wasn't me… It was Raithu, Kiako, Avalon and even Utada" I stood up on my own and looked down at my shoes. " Everytime you would sleep we would talk about ditching you and our ever so much hatred for your childish acts." She said. When she got within two feet of me I slapped her back with the keyblade and hit a five piece combo knocking her back quite the ways with the cards I attached from earlier when she was blasting me around.

" What are you doing?" She shouted.

"What you didn't expect me to fight back?" I walked over to her drawing three attack cards. Then performed the Blitz sleight. I jumped in the air swinging down on her once knocking her back, then swung again swinging down on her knocking her back again then swung one final time knocking back one last time. She flew into the air and landed in the dirt.

" You see DK…you don't mind if I call you DK do ya?" I smiled making my way over with the keyblade.

" Err…DARK THUNDAGA!" She shouted. A black thunder bolt struck me down I laid on the ground for abit then got up raising a cure card over my head. My wounds were healed so I continued my slow suspense walk over to her.

" I don't care if you hate me…" I said. She rose her dark wand again while sliding back blasting multiple black fireballs at me. With my keyblade I knocked all of the dark fireballs away. " Because your not on this journey with me…she is" I said pointing behind me. " And besides… your DARK Kuro of course your going to hate people twice as much as Kuro does…"

(Author's Note: Remember this is DARK Kuro so she doesn't have to use cards to attack… oh and ugh the Farplane Abyss song is still playing)

She jumped up and rushed me, I pulled out 10 cards and attached them to the keyblade just before she tried to attack me with her staff. I rose the keyblade to block her attack then I knocked the dark wand out of her hand. When the wand it the ground it turned back into Kuro's regular Blackmage Wand.

" Games over" I said.

" On the contrary… The games just begun" She screamed. Suddenly a dark gust of wind blew me back I flew past the dark barrier that Kuro was in and hit one of the pillars knocking it over and catching a serious nose bleed. The pillar fell over right along with the other and so did Kuro who landed on me… I picked Kuro's lifeless body up off of me and moved it aside getting myself up first.

(Song: Chaotic Dance from Baton Kaitos)

I checked her pulse as the rapid dark winds flew past me. She was as pale as a ghost but she was still alive. I knocked the chains loose from her hands and picked her up on my back. She was pretty heavy…

" Lay off the cheese cake Kuro hahaha" I laughed out loud. Glad she wasn't awake to here that or else I'll be eating a knuckle sandwich. I turned and ran with her on my back towards ugh…nowhere. The door had disappeared behind me and I was still missing to this point. Suddenly behind me I heard a loud screech… it was like a bird cry… gulp.

I turned around to see a huge black bird flying my way it was about the size of a jet. And it's big red beak was trailing along the ground attempting to sallow us. I jumped aside with the dead weight Kuro on my back she was a complete liability. I looked around and found a rock formation I ran over to it and placed Kuro in what looked to be a gap in the rock formation.

" Hey don't die on me now…. pwahahahaha!" I laughed falling on my back. I was laughing so hard I forgot I was up against a 30-foot tall black firebird. Until I was reminded with a stream of black fire flying my way. I dove aside and dodging the fire.

Man that's hot… I looked over at the sleeping Kuro…

" KURO STOP YOURSELF! HAHAHAHAHA!" I laughed. " Man I'm so good, I should do stand up" I said to myself. Suddenly the giant black fire bird was flying down at me again.

" Hmm…what else would be a funny one? Oh I got one…WHY DID THE BLACK PHEONIX CROSS THE ROAD!" I shouted.

" TO HAVE LUNCH" The giant pheonix should scooping me up with it's arm.

" Hey, hey heeeeeeeeeey!" I shouted as it carried me through the sky with it's claw gripped around my body. I looked at around and slowly slid out of it's claw then I climbed it's leg and up it's thigh then on top of it's back. I crawled up to the head gripping onto it's feathers. Then sat up as if I was riding a flying horsy!

" YEEEEEEE HAWWWWWW! RIDE EM COWBOY!" I shouted as the giant Pheonix swaggered around in the air. " WHOA! THIS IS LIKE A RODEO! A FLYING RODEO!" I shouted as the giant Pheonix did flips and turns and even rammed into afew boulders. But I held on pretty tight.

" THIS IS SO FUN! I WISH UTADA WAS HERE!" I shouted. The giant bird went in a series of loops and we flew directly over the rock formation I set Kuro down in.

" WOOOO YAAAAAAAA! KURO LOOK AT ME!" I shouted. " OH I FORGOT YOUR STILL KNOCKED OUT!"

" GET OFF OF ME YOU BAKA" The giant bird screeched.

" NO THIS IS TOO MUCH FUN" I shouted back. With that the dark pheonix took a nosedive towards the ground.

" Oh you want to play chicken huh? Well I'm not backing down" I said grasping some feathers and hanging low on her feathers. I rested my face on it's feathery exterior as we plunged towards the solid ground. We were drawing closer and closer, she'll pull up. I know she'll pull up, ya she'll pull up! Any time now…we're within 30meters of the ground…any time now!

(Song stops playing)

Suddenly we plunged straight into the ground I went flying off of her and hit and into the sand. When the sand cleared from the air. Lying in a huge crater was Dark Kuro she seemed to change back… I crawled in closer to the crater and the Dark Kuro disappeared into black dust.

I stood up on my feet dusting myself off. I walked over to Kuro and lifting her up on my back then proceeded onward. The black door that disappeared earlier was back now, I opened it and walked outside. When I took more than three steps out the black tower crackled and broke apart like glass! It shattered to pieces and disappeared right along with the Heartless.

I was looking up at the sky full of stars, then I looked back at Kuro whom was sleeping on my back. That's one down, four more to go. Not to mention I have to settle things with Thunda… I let out a deep sigh… Although I didn't like it, some of the things Dark Kuro said was true, they did fight Felix and this is what happened to them. If I was there I would have…wait If I was there would it had made any difference?

Suddenly Leon and the others came running down stairs with their weapons equipped.

" Huh?" Yuffie walked over beside me and looked up. The tower was gone, nowhere to be found just empty space.

" What happened to the tower?" Aerith asked making her way downstairs.

" Uh let's just say I ugh…knocked it down" I smiled turning around and winking. Everyone looked at oddly and sort of carried on. Cid walked over and offered to carry Kuro back to the inn, Left Kuro in Cid's safe keeping and went with King Mickey and the others to help look for the rest.