Yay I love writing this story so much! Lol I've been planning this for like ages! Well not that long only since the last chapter lol. So on to the story.
Disclaimer: I only own Seth
Kingdom Hearts: A Story Retold
Ch.5 A Town Called Traverse
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Seth groaned as something woke him up. Someone was shaking him. Slowly he opened his eyes expecting to see Riku shaking him for sleeping in but saw the worried face of Sora. Then he remembered what had happened.
"Good you're awake I was worried," Sora said looking relieved.
"I'm fine but where are we? And where's Riku!" he asked suddenly sitting up.
"I don't know but if we ask around I'm sure we'll find out," Sora stood up followed by Seth.
"What happened to my swords?" Seth said as he noticed they were gone.
"I don't know where they went but I think if you concentrate you can get them to come back watch it's really cool!" In Sora's empty had their appeared the giant key he had before. He then made it disappear. Seth tried and his swords reappeared by his side. He put them away satisfied.
"We should find the others," Sora nodded and the two friends walked out from the alley they were in to a large square in a rather old looking town.
"Wow that's so cool,"
"I wonder if they have a book store,"
"You're hopeless," Sora sighed. They two took of to the nearest store to ask if where they were and if they had seen their friends. The store hey entered was a weapon store. There were swords and bows and all kinds of weapons on the walls and in cases. Behind the counter was a gruff looking man that was smoking a cigarette.
"What d'you kids want? This ain't a store for you," the man said.
"Watch it gramps! But what is this town called?" Sora said loudly.
"The names Cid don't call me gramps punk,"
"My name is Sora and this is Seth and don't call up punks,"
"Yeah whatever this town is called Traverse Town. You two must have just gotten here," Cid said eyeing them.
"What if we have?" Sora asked.
"Nothin'," he replied gruffly.
"Please," this was the first time Seth had spoken since they had entered the store and he was practically pleading. Cid looked over curiously, "Have you seen this boy?" Seth held out a picture he had removed from his wallet. Cid took it and looked it over. It was of Seth and Riku taken on Riku's birthday. They were both in just their bathing suits. Riku had one that matched his eyes and Seth was wearing his blue one. Seth had a jewel attached to a chain on his neck. It was white and had a book inscribed into it. He had it for as long as he could remember. Riku was standing behind Seth his arms were playfully around Seth's rather feminine waist. Seth was blushing at both having Riku's arms around him and being at such a close proximity to a half-naked Riku.
Cid handed back the picture to Seth, he was thinking about whether he had seen him, and Sora managed to see it.
"How come you don't have a picture of me in your wallet?" Sora asked while putting on his signature pout.
"Be-because you never gave me a picture," Seth said blushing as he put away the picture.
"Nope sorry can't say I have," Seth looked down disappointed.
"He your boyfriend or something?" Cid asked as he took a long drag from his cigarette. Seth blushed even redder.
"N-no what makes you th-think that?" Seth stuttered.
"Well his arms are 'round your waist and you're blushing like hell,"
"No he's just a friend," Seth said. Cid noted he sounded extremely disappointed.
Sora went on to describe Kairi and the others to Cid but he hadn't seen any of them.
"Why don't you go ask around the town? I bet someone would have seen them," Cid suggested.
"Thank you anyway sir," Seth said as they left.
"Its Cid, sir makes me sound old," he yelled after him.
And so the two friends made their way around the town asking people if they had seen any of their friends. Unfortunately they didn't find anyone the first day. The found an inn and stayed the night luckily the lodgings were cheep. They resumed their search the next day until noon when they had searched the entire town or what seemed like it. Wearily they made their way back to Cid's shop.
"So find your friends," Cid asked as the two entered. However he knew the answer before they answered. That spiky haired one, Cid couldn't remember his name, had a look of disappointment on his face. The other one Seth, Cid remembered him as he was kind of prissy, looked close to tears.
"No we didn't," Sora answered. Seth just shook his head staring at the ground. His hair hung limply at his side and wasn't as neat as it usually was since he had just been running around town.
"Well I was only gonna do this as a last resort, he doesn't like being bothered," he added the last bit in an undertone, "My friend Leon he knows a lot about what happens around town. I'm sure he could help you. He should be 'round here in a bit his friend needed some weapons. She would pick them up herself but she thinks its fun to make him."
Sora looked up hopefully. Seth immediately ran up to the counter excitedly. "Really? Thank you so much Cid!" he said overjoyed.
"Hey hey calm down kid its nuthin'," Cid said waving his hand at him. "Go on wait outside," he said pushing the two out. Seth grabbed Sora's hand and pulled him outside. There they waited for perhaps ten minutes. Until a boy a perhaps a few years older then them walked up to them. He was clad in all black leather with the exception of his shirt which was a simple white T-shirt. The young man had shoulder length brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He had a long scar down the middle of his face that made him kind of creepy. He was holding some kind of weapon that looked like a cross between a sword and a gun.
"Are you the Keyblade Master and the Warrior of Heart?" He asked them after studying them for a while.
"The what?" Sora asked. Seth looked up at the man confused.
"Augh I can't believe you're them," the young man said annoyed. "I guess I'll just have to test your strength." He raised his weapon up at them, "Prepare yourself!"
"Ack wait we don't want to fight!" Seth said jumping up and raising his hands in protest. But the man didn't listen to him and slashed at him. "Eep!" Seth squealed and jumped out of the way.
"We're just going to have to fight him," Sora said calling upon the giant key. Seth called out his swords and they were once again at his hips.
"I really don't want to hurt someone we don't even know…," Seth said worriedly.
"Me either but if we don't want to die we have too," Sora said as he dodged the oncoming blow. He swung at the mysterious man and his key connected with the side of the man. However it didn't cut. "My-my weapon doesn't cut!" Sora said astounded as he looked at his key oddly. The man in leather sighed were they really this dense.
Suddenly Seth rushed out the blade in his right hand across his body ready to slash out at the leather clad man. He brought his arm across his chest the blade hitting the man's blade. Seth brought his other arm around and hit the man in the side. However his blade didn't cut either.
"My swords aren't cutting either!"
"Alright enough I guess you really are them," the man sighed disappointedly. Seth put his swords back into his sheath but Sora didn't stop. He ran at the man who held up his blade. A red ball of energy started to gather there and Seth gasped in amazement as a ball of fire shot out from it hitting the ground in front of Sora who immediately stopped attacking.
"Why did you stop? I thought you wanted to kill us?" Sora asked questioningly.
"Hardly I just needed to make sure you were the Keyblade Master and the Warrior of Heart," he replied.
"Wait we're the what?" Seth asked.
"I'll tell you later. Follow me," He said commandingly.
"Wait who are you?" Sora said running to keep up with him.
"The name's Leon," he said gruffly.
"Wait your Leon?" Sora asked.
"How do you know my name?" he asked suspiciously.
"Cid told us. Have you seen a girl with short red hair and blue eyes and her name is Kairi?" Sora asked.
"No,"
"What about this boy?" Seth held out the picture of him and Riku.
"No," he continued on leading the two. Seth looked down on the ground. They walked for about ten minutes and stopped outside of an inn. They followed Leon quietly into the inn and up to a room. It was rather small with a table in the center a bed in the corner. There were several pieces of furniture and a large glass doorway that lead to a balcony. There was also a second door on the wall next to the one they had just entered.
Sitting on the bed was a girl about Leon's age. She had black hair and dark blue eyes. She was dressed in a bright yellow ninja outfit. The girl had bin sitting idly on the bed swinging her legs and humming a song but she jumped up as the door opened.
"Squall did you get my shuriken?" she asked hyperly.
"It's Leon, and no but I found the two we've been looking for," he replied grumpily.
"Meanie," she said sticking out her tongue at him. Leon just grunted. "OH you're so cute!" She said pulling the two boys into a giant hug.
"Um I can't breathe," Sora said gasping for air.
"Oh I'm sorry! I guess I don't know my own strength," she said giggling.
Sora and Seth smiled they liked this chipper girl already.
"My name is Yuffie and I'm the greatest female ninja ever!" she said punching her fist into air.
"I'm Sora," Sora introduced himself.
"And I'm Seth," he said giggling. Yuffie reminded him of Selphie a lot.
"I bet old Squally here didn't even tell you why he brought you here did he?" before waiting for an answer she walked up to Leon and began scolding him. "Shame on you. You should have at least told them a little bit on the way!" she said wagging her finger at him. Leon just grunted.
"Well anyway if you don't know you those weapons you have the giant key and the swords they are legendary weapons used to get rid of the Heartless. The heartless are like shadow creatures that have no heart. They take over a world and destroy it. There are a lot of worlds there all separated by a barrier though,"
"They destroy it! Then that means our home was destroyed!" Sora said sadly.
"Do the people get out ok?" Seth asked hopefully.
"Most don't," Leon said. Then Yuffie seeing his crestfallen face added, "Yeah but some do I'm sure your friend are ok." Seth looked up feeling a little better.
"Take out your weapons," Leon ordered and the two took them out, "This," he said pointing to Sora's weapon, "Is called the keyblade. Yours are called the Blades of Heart." He told Seth.
"You two are called the Keyblade Master and the Warrior of Heart respectively," Yuffie explained.
"The reason your weapons didn't cut was that they can not cut if you not want them to. So if you don't want to hurt someone they won't cut," Leon said leaning up against the wall.
"Really?" Seth asked more to himself then anyone else.
"That's so cool!" Sora exclaimed.
"Lemme see your swords for a sec. Seth 'kay?" Yuffie asked. Seth nodded and handed her the unsheathed blades. She held up the one from the right sheath. "This one is called Hikari, light," she held up the other one, "This one is Yami, dark." (A/N I hope that is right… I'm not sure if the Japanese word for dark is Yami I'm pretty sure it is though.) The ninja handed back the blades. "The two things that define each and every heart how much light and how much dark there is in it. They will only go into their respective sheaths."
"But they look the same to me," Seth said confused.
"They do now. See this hole in the belt for the sheaths?" Seth looked at his belt and there was a hole with a jewel in it. The jewel was silver and had a small carving etched into it. Three circles connected like a head and two ears. Seth couldn't believe how he didn't notice it before. "You will find more on your journey. They will change how they look and you'll be able to tell the difference by looking at them. Your Keyblade can do that too Sora. That chain can be changed. And Seth if you concentrate on your swords you can see an aura around them."
Seth did as he was told and indeed there was an aura around the swords he could see. Hikari had a white aura and Yami had a black one.
"That's so cool isn't it Seth?" Sora said excitedly.
"Yeah!"
"This crown you have that is a chain for your Keyblade," Leon suddenly said.
"Really? Cool!" Sora took of the crown from his chain necklace and hooked it on next to the three circled one on the chain. Immediately the Keyblade began to change. It began to grow and become very regal looking. The handle changed to a deep royal purple and the blade part shinier. The part that made it a key started curving into what looked like the handle of an old key. "Wow awesome!"
"That's soo cool! I wish I had one!" Yuffie exclaimed excitedly.
Leon looked impassive as the others stared at the Keyblade. "Seth your necklace is one too." Seth took out his necklace that he always wore. The gem easily came off. Gently he placed it above the one on his belt as he had now idea how to get the other one out. The gem sunk into the other one taking its place. There was a bright light from his sheaths. As it faded he pulled the Blades of Heart out. He pulled them out from their sheaths. Hikari's was on his left side and Yami's was on his right.
They had both become paper thin and had some kind of writing on them. He had no idea how they fit into the sheaths being so thin. The hilt of Hikari was white and Yami's was black. Each hilt had an aquamarine gem on both sides the same color as Riku's eyes. Their color had also changed they were now looked like the color of paper. He inspected Hikari closely and the writing turned out to be the titles of books he had read. Hikari had books such as Eragon and Dragonrider. All of them were happier light books. Yami however had the darker stories Seth had read like Inkheart and The Seventh Tower Series.
"How does it know what books I've read?" Seth asked incredulously.
"The gem is made from your heart it reflects you," Leon said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"If you concentrate you can switch between them," Yuffie said. Sora tried this and began to switch them back and forth as fast as he could.
"Don't break it stupid," Leon said hitting Sora upside the head. He pouted and Seth giggled.
"I think I'll keep mine like this," Seth said keeping the Legible form of the swords. Legible how did I know what that the name of the gem was? But he just shrugged it off and sheathed his blades. The gems seemed to glow gently from the sheaths. They were just like Riku's eyes. Seth missed Riku so much. Seth started as Leon held something out to him. It was a very tiny back with a loop for it to hang off of a belt.
"This is a special bag you can put things in it and it never grows. Just grab into it and you'll pull out what you wanted," Yuffie said as she handed a bag to Sora who pocketed it. Seth put his on his belt.
"They have clothes in it the same as you're wearing in fact," Leon said going back to leaning against the wall.
"How did you know?" Sora asked suspiciously. Seth started to get the feeling that they might have been spying on them.
"Now don't go and think we spied on you guys! That would be totally rude but like a ninja would do it I guess…," Yuffie trailed off.
"Our friend Aerith is I guess you could say psychic she has visions and stuff. She knew you would be coming and she went out and got clothes for you somehow she knew what you would wear. There is also food in their," Leon said.
"OH but I'm gonna get sick of wearing this all the time. Besides what if my jeans get soaked?" Seth asked. Although he was grateful he couldn't help saying that.
"So you don't just look like a girl but you act like one too," Leon said angrily. Seth immediately shut up and blushed.
"OH Squall why do you have to be so mean! Don't listen to him he's just a big old meanie," Leon's mumble of "The names Leon" went on death's ears as Yuffie ignored him.
"Um how do you guys know so much about Heartless and stuff?" Seth asked.
"Our old world had a leader named Ansem and he had studied the Heartless. Unfortunately most of his work was destroyed and that which was saved was stolen from us," Leon said with a tinge of longing in his voice.
Yuffie had opened her mouth to say something but she was cut off as the glass doors shattered scattering glass everywhere. The four teens jumped up and tried to shield themselves from the glass that was flying everywhere.
"What happened in here?" A light and pleasant voice asked from the second doorway. Seth turned around there was a girl about Leon and Yuffie's age. She had long light brown hair and green eyes. She had on a simple pink dress and had a red ribbon in her hair.
"Aerith go with Yuffie to the secret training ground. The heartless are attacking," Leon yelled as he grabbed his gunblade. "You two come with me," he said indicating Seth and Sora. Leon jumped off of the balcony accompanied by Seth and Sora. There were many heartless but these weren't like the others they had seen. They were more humanlike. They had bright yellow eyes like the others but they also had a helmet over their head. They had some kind of armor too. They stood on two feet with red claws at the end of their fingers. On its chest was some kind of insignia. It was a heart with two diagonal lines through it.
There were several in front of them and several behind. "You two go that way and I'll go this way," Leon said pointing from one way of the alley to the next. "We'll meet at the third district," Sora nodded as Leon took of in the other direction. One of the heartless lunged at Seth who blocked it with Yami. He swung Hikari around and sliced the heartless in two. Sora dashed at the oncoming one and smacked it with the keyblade cutting off the head.
Another soon followed and Seth thrust his blades into where the heart would be and the heartless disappeared. They continued their way fighting the heartless as they traveled to the third district. They saw many people fall prey to the vicious attacks of the heartless. The same thing happened when they died as when the people from Seth's world died. A pinky red heart shaped thing would rise from the people and a new heartless would come.
Finally after killing countless heartless they reached the third district. Surprisingly though there weren't any heartless their. Sora as Seth pondered this as they went down the staircase into the district. The third district was basically a giant square with buildings surrounding it. They got to the edge of the staircase and heard some kind of yell from above. They were really odd yells one kind of sounded like a duck and the other well there are no words to describe the other.
"What was that?" Sora asked looking up. Seth shrugged and looked up to see what looked like a giant duck and dog come falling down at them.
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Yay I got this updated. I won't be able to update for a while though cause I am going on vacation for like a week on Saturday so… hopefully soon though. Keep on reviewing!