AN: Hello, hello! Well, a lot of you guessed correct on which world Sora, Riku, Donald, and Vern are in! I mean, it is pretty obvious if you really think about it. Anyways, some people didn't know what world Kairi, Tidus, and Selphie were in, but you'll just have to find out! Oh yah, and I'm surprised I did the world that Sora's in, 'cause I'm sooo scared of you- know-who. He just freaks me out, the way he says 'Hi' and all. o.O
BTW, Zanisha, I had a dream about you the other night. In my dream I saw in your profile a link to take me to see a picture of you. I was like "I wanna see what Zanisha really looks like!" You looked older (like 16) and you had blond hair. Anyways, it would be cool to see you. Actually, I picture you with dark hair. Oh, and I saw Astaldotholwen's picture, it was NOT what I expected her to look like! If I can scan a pic of me and Heather, I'll do that. What do any of you think I look like? Tell me in your review!!!
Disclaimer: Ugh, I can't think of any clever way to say this: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Yeesh, this really bugs me, because it's so annoying saying it over and over again. I mean, c'mon, if I did own Kingdom Hearts, I wouldn't be typing a fanfic. I'd be playing a secret early released game of KH2 and CoM while stroking my Sora plushie. Hey, that was pretty clever, yay!
Chapter Six: The Voice
"Hold on, you guys. Let me talk to Vern for a sec." Sora said. He grabbed Vern and led her over to a tree stump where Donald and Riku couldn't hear. "Vern, it would be a big help to us if you came with us."
"But I'm pretty sure I've lost my powers, so I wouldn't be a big help there. And everyone will be staring at my scars. I won't be able to deal with that." Vern said sadly.
Sora grabbed Vern's hand, and said softly, "Vern, you are a very strong person. You don't need to have powers to help us. You might help us in another way. I know you've been through a lot. You're going to have to face others someday. That day might as well be today. And your scars are a part of you now. You are beautiful, even with them. You got those scars in battle. Do you think a war hero would be ashamed of the scars he got in war? No! So be proud of them. And never let it get to you."
Vern was stunned. "Wow...I never thought of it that way. I never even really thought about it at all." Vern was silent for a while. "I guess I will go with you guys. Thank you so much Sora. You really made me feel better."
Sora smiled. "Anything to help a friend." Sora and Vern met back up with Donald and Goofy, and walked out of the forest. Hawaii reminded Sora and Riku of Destiny Islands, which made them miss home even more.
"Isn't this place great?" Donald said. Everyone agreed. There were tons of activities going on, and tons of people.
The four heard a voice call out "Heads up!" but it was a little too late. Soon Donald was lying on the ground. He had been hit with a frisbee.
"Sorry about that!" a boy called out, about 15 years old. He ran over to the group. "Threw it out a little too far!" He picked up the frisbee and helped Donald up.
Donald brushed off the sand. "Watch yourself next time!" Donald grumbled.
"It was an accident, Donald!" Vern said. At first she was hesitant to face the boy, but then she remembered what Sora had told her. She faced the boy and held out her hand. "Hi, I'm Vern. What's your name?"
The boy shook her hand. "I'm Mesna. Nice to meet you." Mesna heard a voice in his head, talking to him. The boy, talk to the boy... "What's your name?" he asked.
"I'm Riku."
No, the other one! "And you?"
"Sora."
Now, ask him- "Shut up!" Mesna yelled out loud. Everyone was staring at him. "Oh uh, sorry. Sometimes I, uh, kind of space out. Sora, you're the Keyblade Master right?"
"Yah." Sora said surprised. "How'd you know about me?"
"Uh, I've just heard."
"What kind of a name is Mesna anyways?" Donald said snottily.
"Donald, stop being rude!" Riku yelled, slapping Donald on the head. "Ignore him, Mesna."
"Well, there is something I have to tell you about my name." Mesna said. Now everyone was all eyes and ears. "Is there something unusual about my name?"
Everyone started thinking. Mesna...what is his name backwards, Sora thought. Sora said slowly, "Ansem...."
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"Is this King Mickey's castle?" Kairi said slowly.
"Who?" Tidus asked.
"Oh, a friend of mine." Kairi said. "Well, hopefully someone's there." Selphie and Tidus flew up to the huge doors with Kairi walking swiftly behind them. Suddenly someone burst through the open doors. It was King Mickey! He had his Keyblade, and with one mighty swing knocked Tidus to the ground.
"What're you doing?!" Kairi yelled. "Stop, these Heartless are okay!" That shocked King Mickey. He immediately stopped and ran up to Kairi.
"What are you talking about? Won't these Heartless attack us?" Mickey said.
"No. They are my friends from Destiny Islands. They were swallowed up and turned into Heartless. But because of Iqui, they were not fully taken over, so they know what is happening and they are good." Kairi explained.
"And we can talk." Selphie said, bobbing up and down.
"Whoa! Uh, sorry about that. I was only trying to protect Kairi." Mickey said apologetically. They looked to Tidus but he was lying on the ground, a huge gash tore through the wizard's clothes.
"Tidus? Tidus are you okay?" Kairi said nervously. All of a sudden, a white light came down from the sky, circled around Tidus, and was gone.
"Was that Iqui?" Kairi asked.
"Probably. She's a part of Kingdom Hearts, our guardian." Mickey said. "And she sure knows how to take care of us!" He pointed to Tidus, who had become his original self. Of course, across his chest was a huge scar, from where Mickey struck him.
"Whoa." Tidus said. That was the only word he could get out. After staring at Tidus for a good minute, everyone snapped back to their senses.
"Come on, let's go inside." Mickey said. Everyone rushed inside.
"Is anybody else here?" Kairi asked. Please say Sora, please say Sora, please say Sora!
"Just me and the Goofster." Mickey replied.
Darn, Kairi thought.
"We better tell your other friend not to attack Selphie." Tidus said. "I don't want this to happen to her!"
"You're right. Let me go get him." Mickey left and came back a few minutes later with Goofy. They explained the situation to him, but telling by Goofy's brains, he'd probably still yell out "A Heartless!" and hit Selphie with his shield (j/k).
"We've got a gummi ship here. I think we should go look for the others. We've also got to find the other door to the light and close it. But of course, I need to find Sora." Mickey said. Everyone decided that it would be a good idea, especially Kairi.
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"A-Ansem..." Sora stuttered out. "Are you Ansem?"
Mesna replied, "Of course not! If I were Ansem, I wouldn't have told you I was. Actually, I'm his son."
"Ansem has a son? No offense, but who would want to have a child with that guy?" Riku blurted out. "Well, who is it?"
"My mother? I never knew her. I grew up with my father. It was very horrible, living with Ansem. I mean, at first it was good. He was a great father. But then he started created those Heartless. I seriously felt like he was going to use me as an experiment. That's how much he was into his work. He didn't care about anything, only about the Heartless. So one day, I just left. I left Hollow Bastion and took his ship. Of course, at the time I was 10 years old. I crashed the ship in a world called Bendugria, and I've lived there ever since. Well, I ended up here during a storm."
"Wow." Vern said. "So, do you know what happened to Ansem?"
Of course you do. "Nope. What happened?"
"Well, we're pretty sure he died. Sorry, but I kind of ripped him open from inside him and then he just disappeared. But I don't think anyone can live through that." Sora explained.
"So basically, Mesna, you're telling us that you're good?" Donald asked.
"Yes, I'm not like my father. I wanted to get away from him, because I knew the darkness was swallowing him up. The name Ansem gave me was Evelsone. He made up the name, and it represented the words Evilson, or evil son. I was not fond of that name, so I changed it to Mesna. Because Mesna is the opposite of Ansem, that was exactly what I was, the opposite of the father who was bad. I was good. Well, I still am good. I just wanted to explain that to you."
"I'm glad you told us about that." Sora said.
"I'm glad that you're not like your father!' Donald exclaimed. "Well, we better go." Donald said, trying to hurry up and search the island before it got dark. Everyone started to walk away.
"Wait!" Mesna called out. "C-can I come with you guys? On your journey?"
"I don't know-"Donald started to say.
"Of course you can." Vern said.
"Really? Thanks so much!" Mesna said, running over to the group. Donald gave Vern a deathly look. They searched the whole island, but found none of their friends. They returned the gummi ship in the forest.
"Uh guys, did we leave the door open?" Riku asked.
"No...." Donald said.
Sora didn't waste a minute. If there was a Heartless in there, he would be ready. He pulled out his Keyblade and stepped into the gummi ship, with Riku, Donald, Vern, and Mesna following right behind him.
"Is anybody here?!" Sora exclaimed. They heard some ruffling coming from the back room, which its door was also open.
"Hello?" Sora asked, peeking into the back room. There among tons of garbage and food, was an ugly, small rodent.
"Hhiiii."
Vern was the first one to react. "Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!"
"A Heartless!" Sora swung at the creature. He missed it as it scurried quickly up the side of the wall.
"You no hurt Stitch!" it yelled as it blew out flames, which burned a hole in the wall.
"Enough!" Vern screamed. She twisted her hands and out came a lightning bolt that struck Stitch. Stitch fell to the ground.
"Whoa." Riku muttered, staring at Vern.
"Your...your powers...they're back." Sora said.
"I can't believe it!" Vern said, stunned.
"Um, can we do something with this Heartless. It's still alive!" Donald said, the only one remembering about Stitch. Stitch was up again, gnawing on a sock.
"I'll do away with it." Riku said.
"No wait!" a voice called out from behind them. Everyone turned to see a small girl standing there. "Stop, Stitch will not hurt you."
"Well, he almost. Look what it did to the wall." Donald said, pointing to the huge hole.
"I'm sorry. Stitch can be quite a troublemaker sometimes. He was probably doing it in self defense."
"Well, I was trying to attack him. But I thought he was a bad creature. By the way, I'm Sora."
"Lilo. Actually, I have seen some bad creatures around here. They started coming during a storm on our island. Stitch has been protecting me from them ever since. And once he saw your ship, he came to get rid of any of those bad creatures. I went looking for him and so here I am."
"I see. Well, Lilo, we're here to help you get rid of those Hear- uh, bad creatures. I'm Riku. And this is Donald, Vern, and Mesna." Riku said, introducing the others.
"You can come with, but I really don't need any help. Stitch is indestructible." Lilo said, holding up Stitch.
"No wonder he got up right after Vern hit it with a lightning bolt!" Donald whispered to Sora. "Well, we would still like to come."
"Can we please rest first?" Vern said. "I'm so tired!"
"Yah, I'm pretty beat." Riku said.
"I agree. We'll head out tomorrow. Lilo, you can stay too, as long as you can make Stitch behave." Sora said.
"Well, then I can't stay. I can rarely make Stitch behave. But thanks anyway. I live just near the crab shack, so if you ever need anything, come get me." Lilo said.
"Vice versa." Sora replied. "Let me walk you home so I can make sure I know how to get to your house."
"I'll come too." Mesna said.
"Cool." Sora said. "So I'll see you guys later." The three walked out of the gummi ship, including Stitch.
BTW, Zanisha, I had a dream about you the other night. In my dream I saw in your profile a link to take me to see a picture of you. I was like "I wanna see what Zanisha really looks like!" You looked older (like 16) and you had blond hair. Anyways, it would be cool to see you. Actually, I picture you with dark hair. Oh, and I saw Astaldotholwen's picture, it was NOT what I expected her to look like! If I can scan a pic of me and Heather, I'll do that. What do any of you think I look like? Tell me in your review!!!
Disclaimer: Ugh, I can't think of any clever way to say this: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Yeesh, this really bugs me, because it's so annoying saying it over and over again. I mean, c'mon, if I did own Kingdom Hearts, I wouldn't be typing a fanfic. I'd be playing a secret early released game of KH2 and CoM while stroking my Sora plushie. Hey, that was pretty clever, yay!
Chapter Six: The Voice
"Hold on, you guys. Let me talk to Vern for a sec." Sora said. He grabbed Vern and led her over to a tree stump where Donald and Riku couldn't hear. "Vern, it would be a big help to us if you came with us."
"But I'm pretty sure I've lost my powers, so I wouldn't be a big help there. And everyone will be staring at my scars. I won't be able to deal with that." Vern said sadly.
Sora grabbed Vern's hand, and said softly, "Vern, you are a very strong person. You don't need to have powers to help us. You might help us in another way. I know you've been through a lot. You're going to have to face others someday. That day might as well be today. And your scars are a part of you now. You are beautiful, even with them. You got those scars in battle. Do you think a war hero would be ashamed of the scars he got in war? No! So be proud of them. And never let it get to you."
Vern was stunned. "Wow...I never thought of it that way. I never even really thought about it at all." Vern was silent for a while. "I guess I will go with you guys. Thank you so much Sora. You really made me feel better."
Sora smiled. "Anything to help a friend." Sora and Vern met back up with Donald and Goofy, and walked out of the forest. Hawaii reminded Sora and Riku of Destiny Islands, which made them miss home even more.
"Isn't this place great?" Donald said. Everyone agreed. There were tons of activities going on, and tons of people.
The four heard a voice call out "Heads up!" but it was a little too late. Soon Donald was lying on the ground. He had been hit with a frisbee.
"Sorry about that!" a boy called out, about 15 years old. He ran over to the group. "Threw it out a little too far!" He picked up the frisbee and helped Donald up.
Donald brushed off the sand. "Watch yourself next time!" Donald grumbled.
"It was an accident, Donald!" Vern said. At first she was hesitant to face the boy, but then she remembered what Sora had told her. She faced the boy and held out her hand. "Hi, I'm Vern. What's your name?"
The boy shook her hand. "I'm Mesna. Nice to meet you." Mesna heard a voice in his head, talking to him. The boy, talk to the boy... "What's your name?" he asked.
"I'm Riku."
No, the other one! "And you?"
"Sora."
Now, ask him- "Shut up!" Mesna yelled out loud. Everyone was staring at him. "Oh uh, sorry. Sometimes I, uh, kind of space out. Sora, you're the Keyblade Master right?"
"Yah." Sora said surprised. "How'd you know about me?"
"Uh, I've just heard."
"What kind of a name is Mesna anyways?" Donald said snottily.
"Donald, stop being rude!" Riku yelled, slapping Donald on the head. "Ignore him, Mesna."
"Well, there is something I have to tell you about my name." Mesna said. Now everyone was all eyes and ears. "Is there something unusual about my name?"
Everyone started thinking. Mesna...what is his name backwards, Sora thought. Sora said slowly, "Ansem...."
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"Is this King Mickey's castle?" Kairi said slowly.
"Who?" Tidus asked.
"Oh, a friend of mine." Kairi said. "Well, hopefully someone's there." Selphie and Tidus flew up to the huge doors with Kairi walking swiftly behind them. Suddenly someone burst through the open doors. It was King Mickey! He had his Keyblade, and with one mighty swing knocked Tidus to the ground.
"What're you doing?!" Kairi yelled. "Stop, these Heartless are okay!" That shocked King Mickey. He immediately stopped and ran up to Kairi.
"What are you talking about? Won't these Heartless attack us?" Mickey said.
"No. They are my friends from Destiny Islands. They were swallowed up and turned into Heartless. But because of Iqui, they were not fully taken over, so they know what is happening and they are good." Kairi explained.
"And we can talk." Selphie said, bobbing up and down.
"Whoa! Uh, sorry about that. I was only trying to protect Kairi." Mickey said apologetically. They looked to Tidus but he was lying on the ground, a huge gash tore through the wizard's clothes.
"Tidus? Tidus are you okay?" Kairi said nervously. All of a sudden, a white light came down from the sky, circled around Tidus, and was gone.
"Was that Iqui?" Kairi asked.
"Probably. She's a part of Kingdom Hearts, our guardian." Mickey said. "And she sure knows how to take care of us!" He pointed to Tidus, who had become his original self. Of course, across his chest was a huge scar, from where Mickey struck him.
"Whoa." Tidus said. That was the only word he could get out. After staring at Tidus for a good minute, everyone snapped back to their senses.
"Come on, let's go inside." Mickey said. Everyone rushed inside.
"Is anybody else here?" Kairi asked. Please say Sora, please say Sora, please say Sora!
"Just me and the Goofster." Mickey replied.
Darn, Kairi thought.
"We better tell your other friend not to attack Selphie." Tidus said. "I don't want this to happen to her!"
"You're right. Let me go get him." Mickey left and came back a few minutes later with Goofy. They explained the situation to him, but telling by Goofy's brains, he'd probably still yell out "A Heartless!" and hit Selphie with his shield (j/k).
"We've got a gummi ship here. I think we should go look for the others. We've also got to find the other door to the light and close it. But of course, I need to find Sora." Mickey said. Everyone decided that it would be a good idea, especially Kairi.
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"A-Ansem..." Sora stuttered out. "Are you Ansem?"
Mesna replied, "Of course not! If I were Ansem, I wouldn't have told you I was. Actually, I'm his son."
"Ansem has a son? No offense, but who would want to have a child with that guy?" Riku blurted out. "Well, who is it?"
"My mother? I never knew her. I grew up with my father. It was very horrible, living with Ansem. I mean, at first it was good. He was a great father. But then he started created those Heartless. I seriously felt like he was going to use me as an experiment. That's how much he was into his work. He didn't care about anything, only about the Heartless. So one day, I just left. I left Hollow Bastion and took his ship. Of course, at the time I was 10 years old. I crashed the ship in a world called Bendugria, and I've lived there ever since. Well, I ended up here during a storm."
"Wow." Vern said. "So, do you know what happened to Ansem?"
Of course you do. "Nope. What happened?"
"Well, we're pretty sure he died. Sorry, but I kind of ripped him open from inside him and then he just disappeared. But I don't think anyone can live through that." Sora explained.
"So basically, Mesna, you're telling us that you're good?" Donald asked.
"Yes, I'm not like my father. I wanted to get away from him, because I knew the darkness was swallowing him up. The name Ansem gave me was Evelsone. He made up the name, and it represented the words Evilson, or evil son. I was not fond of that name, so I changed it to Mesna. Because Mesna is the opposite of Ansem, that was exactly what I was, the opposite of the father who was bad. I was good. Well, I still am good. I just wanted to explain that to you."
"I'm glad you told us about that." Sora said.
"I'm glad that you're not like your father!' Donald exclaimed. "Well, we better go." Donald said, trying to hurry up and search the island before it got dark. Everyone started to walk away.
"Wait!" Mesna called out. "C-can I come with you guys? On your journey?"
"I don't know-"Donald started to say.
"Of course you can." Vern said.
"Really? Thanks so much!" Mesna said, running over to the group. Donald gave Vern a deathly look. They searched the whole island, but found none of their friends. They returned the gummi ship in the forest.
"Uh guys, did we leave the door open?" Riku asked.
"No...." Donald said.
Sora didn't waste a minute. If there was a Heartless in there, he would be ready. He pulled out his Keyblade and stepped into the gummi ship, with Riku, Donald, Vern, and Mesna following right behind him.
"Is anybody here?!" Sora exclaimed. They heard some ruffling coming from the back room, which its door was also open.
"Hello?" Sora asked, peeking into the back room. There among tons of garbage and food, was an ugly, small rodent.
"Hhiiii."
Vern was the first one to react. "Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!"
"A Heartless!" Sora swung at the creature. He missed it as it scurried quickly up the side of the wall.
"You no hurt Stitch!" it yelled as it blew out flames, which burned a hole in the wall.
"Enough!" Vern screamed. She twisted her hands and out came a lightning bolt that struck Stitch. Stitch fell to the ground.
"Whoa." Riku muttered, staring at Vern.
"Your...your powers...they're back." Sora said.
"I can't believe it!" Vern said, stunned.
"Um, can we do something with this Heartless. It's still alive!" Donald said, the only one remembering about Stitch. Stitch was up again, gnawing on a sock.
"I'll do away with it." Riku said.
"No wait!" a voice called out from behind them. Everyone turned to see a small girl standing there. "Stop, Stitch will not hurt you."
"Well, he almost. Look what it did to the wall." Donald said, pointing to the huge hole.
"I'm sorry. Stitch can be quite a troublemaker sometimes. He was probably doing it in self defense."
"Well, I was trying to attack him. But I thought he was a bad creature. By the way, I'm Sora."
"Lilo. Actually, I have seen some bad creatures around here. They started coming during a storm on our island. Stitch has been protecting me from them ever since. And once he saw your ship, he came to get rid of any of those bad creatures. I went looking for him and so here I am."
"I see. Well, Lilo, we're here to help you get rid of those Hear- uh, bad creatures. I'm Riku. And this is Donald, Vern, and Mesna." Riku said, introducing the others.
"You can come with, but I really don't need any help. Stitch is indestructible." Lilo said, holding up Stitch.
"No wonder he got up right after Vern hit it with a lightning bolt!" Donald whispered to Sora. "Well, we would still like to come."
"Can we please rest first?" Vern said. "I'm so tired!"
"Yah, I'm pretty beat." Riku said.
"I agree. We'll head out tomorrow. Lilo, you can stay too, as long as you can make Stitch behave." Sora said.
"Well, then I can't stay. I can rarely make Stitch behave. But thanks anyway. I live just near the crab shack, so if you ever need anything, come get me." Lilo said.
"Vice versa." Sora replied. "Let me walk you home so I can make sure I know how to get to your house."
"I'll come too." Mesna said.
"Cool." Sora said. "So I'll see you guys later." The three walked out of the gummi ship, including Stitch.