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Kingdom Hearts Trinity Sight

Episode 10: The Lion Doesn't Sleep Tonight.

Standard Disclaimer

The following is a work of fan-fiction. This means it contains characters, locations and other things drawn from various sources such as books, movies, television shows, anime and video games, none of which I own the rights to. In this episode they are Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, by Square-Enix Inc and the Wizard of Oz Series, originally created by L. Frank Baum. There is also an appearance by one Sailor Moon 'Monster'.

Donald and Goofy found themselves fact to face with a large and venerable Lion. The two of them took up defensive stances as the Lion spoke, asking "Who are you and what are you doing in my domain?"

Donald, although startled by the Lion's sudden appearance and challenge answered with his usual bluster "Quack! We might ask you the same thing you overgrown pussycat!"

"Now Donald, let's not upset him too much!" Goofy chimed in right after, before the Lion could reply.

"Mind your own business Goofy!" Donald snapped back.

"Well, it's just that this is a Lion, and they can get pretty upset. We don't want any unnecessary violence do we?"

"That's not the point Goofy! He shouldn't just come up to people all roaring without announcing himself!"

The banter went on for several more lines, until the Lion, more than a little annoyed at being ignored and talked about as if he wasn't there, roared again, startling them back to reality. "Excuse me! I hate to interrupt, but I really think it is rude to just ignore your host like this! Now tell me, who you are and I shall tell you who I am. That's how it works, isn't it?"

Goofy answered "Uh sorry! My friend and I were just having a little argument."

"We were not!" Donald spat back.

Goofy ignored him and continued "Ah yes, now I am Goofy, and this is Donald. We're both travelers trying to get back to Disney Castle."

"I've never heard of it." the Lion answered simply. "As for me, I am known as the Lion, and I rule this wood."

"Much obliged Sir Lion." Goofy replied. Donald said nothing as his was sulking from being interrupted in his rant. Goofy continued, apologizing for him "I'm so sorry to be getting off on the wrong foot like this, but my friend her can be a little rash sometimes."

"Quite all right Goofy. I've sometimes been a little rash myself. Now as I said, I've never heard about any Disney Castle in Oz. That means that you two must be from another country. But that's impossible nowdays!"

"Huh!" Goofy replied.

"I mean that since Queen Ozma put up the great barrier, all entrance or exit from the country was supposed to be impossible. Yet here you are."

"Well" Donald chimed in, now paying attention to what was going on. "There must have been some magic involved. There were a lot of magic knickknacks in the room we woke up in inside that old castle."

"What old castle?" the Lion asked, it now being his turn to be puzzled.

"I don't remember where it was to tell the truth, but it was an old castle with a lot of magic stuff inside it."

"The old Witch's Castle?" the big cat asked.

"It could have been for all I know" Donald told him.

"Hmm, I don't know what to think, but I bet the Queen or old Glinda could figure it out, since they're both Witches, Good Witches that is, themselves."

"Huh?" both Donald and Goofy said simultaneously.

"Well you'll just have to meet them and you'll see." Lion told them. "I'll show you the way to Emerald City if you wish."

Donald and Goofy looked at each other as if sharing the same thoughts. Then Donald spoke saying "Well, we don't have any better ideas, so I guess we'll go. Lead on you big pussycat!"

The Lion was a little rankled by Donald calling him a 'pussycat', but being a noble creature he motioned for the others to follow him anyway along the road to Emerald City.

A little ways down the road in the opposite direction from the way Donald, Goofy and the Lion were headed Tin Man was busy helping the Munchkin farmer Jeritt Grenville and his son Nathan repair their farm cart in return for some food for Sora and a ride back to their farm so that the boy could rest. They were making good progress, having jacked up the cart's axle and successfully remounting the wheel upon it. Now all that had to be done was to drive a cotter pin through the hole on the end of the axle to hold the wheel on. Problem was the farmer didn't have one, since that was the part that had broken in the first place. So it was that Tin Man had to leave Sora and the farmers for a while in search of a suitable piece of wood to carve a new temporary one. Moving off the road toward a small clump of trees, the metallic woodsman thought he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Turning to get a better look, he found nothing and so continued on his search for the proper kind of wood for the cotter pin. A little while later he found what he was looking for, a standing dead elm that had baked dry in the summer sun and had not rotted away or been eaten by termites. Selecting a branch that was nearly the right size, he cut it off the tree, cut it to length and started back to the camp.

Meanwhile, farmer Grenville's son Nathan had managed to get the unconscious Sora to take a little Bingleberry juice. The farmer's son watched the Keyblade Master, seeing that he was not getting any worse, although he wasn't getting any better either. Nathan's father, not having anything else to do until Tin Man returned with the wood for the cotter pin, came over and crouched down beside the two boys Looking at Sora the farmer commented, asking the obvious question about who he really was and where he was from, since Tin Man didn't say.

"Well in any case, if all this is in fact due to some left over magic or curse from that old witch, the best thing to do, after getting him back to the house would to be for old Ozzie to get back to Emerald City and talk to the Queen, or perhaps Glinda. They would know something about this sort of thing."

Nathan nodded, agreeing since he himself had no better ideas, as he had no experience with curses or magic himself. Both of them continued to watch the other boy as he slept.

Elsewhere, in the castle known as Oblivion, Namine awakened from an unintended nap, forced on her by sheer exhaustion. She awakened to find out that the worst had happened, that is she had been captured by the Organizations thugs, as she found herself being carried by her arms and legs by two of them.

"Hey, hey, let go of me you creeps!" Namine said as she began to struggle against her captors.

"Be quiet girlie!" a third thug shouted as he backhanded her in the face.

"Now now," a female voice sounded from behind them. "We don't want her mind damaged, do we?"

The thugs turned their heads to look at the woman, who just happened to have pea green skin, wore a monocle and a lab coat, and had a bright red shock of hair hanging down in a ponytail from the top of an otherwise shaved head.

"Mistress Riko, we didn't know you were" one thug started to say.

The woman sighed. "Of course you common thugs don't know anything. This girl, if she is one of the seven, is destined to play a great part in our plans. Remember that!"

Namine's heart sank a little. She remembered enough of what she had overheard years ago from some of the Organization's officers to have some idea of what 'their plans' entailed. If they managed to force their way into 'that place' she had heard about and had seen in Sora's memories, the entire Multiverse could very well be doomed!"

"Listen Riko!" she shouted. "Don't do this! If you succeed, there will be nothing left, anywhere or anytime!"

The woman 'Riko' stepped around her subordinates and turned to face her. Then she said "That would not matter to our Master, even if it were true, which it is not. And by the way the name is Rikotechtiton, Chief Scientist of the Organization, and one of the Seven Great Monsters of the old Dark Kingdom."

"That you're a Monster is quite obvious!" Namine retorted. "However, one day I or someone else will defeat you! That I promise!"

"You must be referring to that so-called Keyblade Master that you have until recently been sheltering. Well, hope all you want. No power in all the Universes can defeat our Master."

Rikotechtiton turned away and walked on down the castle corridor, giving orders to her thugs to follow and bring Namine, who continued to struggle against her captors, occasionally shouting defiance and curses at them.

In the farmer's camp by the side of the Yellow Brick Road, Sora groaned and talked in his sleep. "No, no! Please, please don't take her away! You can't!" Jerritt and his son assumed that this was simply due to the effects of the young man's exhaustion and starvation. He continued to talk, saying "You fiend, let her go, I'm warning you!"

Sora turned and twisted, as if trying to get up and confront whomever or whatever had captured the unknown girl in his dream. Jerritt and Nathan Grenville moved quickly to hold the young man down and prevent him from hurting himself, or them, in his raving. It was at that moment that Tin Man returned carrying the wood for the new cotter pin.

Tin Man rushed over to the cart, axe in one hand and stick in the other shouting "Hey! What is it, what's wrong!"

Jerritt and Nathan turned around with as start, as their nerves were already on edge from dealing with Sora. "Oh Ozzie, you startled us!"

"Sorry, I thought that some wild beast was attacking or something!"

"Oh it was nothing like that! The boy was just having a nightmare and shouting in his sleep, right Nathan?"

The boy nodded.

"Oh, I'm glad" Tin Man answered.

"I'm not surprised that the boy's having bad dreams. I would too if I were starving." The farmer patted his stomach for emphasis.

"Poor Sora!" the Tin Man said empathetically.

"We better hurry and get that wheel fixed!" Jerritt said. "The boy may not have much time left!"

With that, the conversation ended, and everybody went back to their tasks. Jerritt and Nathan to tending Sora, and Tin Man went to work carving down the piece of wood he was carrying into usable form.

Back in the wooded area that Tin Man had just left, a number of small black creatures roughly shaped like humanoids with large glowing yellow eyes were looking toward the road, their stances somehow conveying a sense of barely contained anticipation and longing. Milling about, some of the beings started to edge toward the road, only to stop when the gems mounted in their strange headbands glowed and pulsed briefly. Standing in their midst was a taller, more recognizably humanoid figure, dressed in a slightly frayed black dress and wearing a worn and bent black pointed hat. Furthermore, she had a long pointed nose and warty green skin on her face and hands. In other words, she was the stereotype of a Wicked Witch. In one hand she held an old magic wand with a tarnished silver tip and cracked varnish. In the other she had a brand new looking electronic device, a box with three variously colored square buttons and having a small antenna sticking out of the top. Like the creatures around her, she too was watching the road.

Suddenly, a soft glow began in one of the pouches the Witch kept on the cord tied about her waist, along with a soft ringing sound. She reached down and opened the pouch, taking a small crystal ball out and looking into it, stuffing the wand into the pouch temporarily.

"Yes master?" the Witch said to the image in the crystal ball, a touch of bitterness and resentment in her voice at having to take orders from anyone other than herself.

"Word has been received that a second Princess of Mind has just been captured, and that Castle Oblivion has been secured. Have you made any progress in your search?"

"I, I'm sorry Sir. Both 'candidates', indicated by my spies have turned out to be negative. However, there is something in this area that is drawing the Heartless to it. I have had to use the control device twice to keep them from charging."

"Oh, I see." the image in the crystal said. "There must be a very strong, pure heart in the area, perhaps that of one of the fugitives that we have been searching for. Check it out. In any case, we are going to the next phase of the Grand Plan. More Heartless will begin arriving on your world shortly."

"Yes, yes, good." the Witch said. "I will capture the 'fugitives'."

"Negative Witch." the voice replied. "If it is who I suspect it is, I'm sure the Master will want him dead!"

"I'll make sure that 'he' suffers greatly before he dies."

"Do what you will. Just don't gloat too much." Then before the Witch could complain, the image in the ball faded out.

Next time on Kingdom Hearts Trinity Sight: Attack on Zelan, the War begins.

Author's Note: This episode came together much faster than the last few I've written. I'm on a roll. In any case, just as the next episode's title suggests, the real conflict is about to begin. Look forward to it.

Cordially yours: Talanane.