Introduction, Info, Notes, etc:
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This story was created by Akane and I. (It was made equally by two people.)
This is a LONG story! It will span over several chapters, eventually..So don't expect to get through reading it too quickly. Skimming through it might be fun if you're not patient enough to thoroughly read it…
Even if you don't know much about Kingdom Hearts, you may be able to understand it anyway..Execpt maybe in the later chapters.
IMPORTANT! The main characters are made-ups, not originals! Originals do make a few appearances, mainly in the later chapters, though.
And lastly…Leave a review. Please. I'm not being desperate, we just like them. Even if you don't read the whole thing, or you just skim through, leave your impression of it. Even if you barely have anything to say, just say a single word for all I care. Okayy?
If you want to have more of a general idea of what the story's like, well, I guess it's sort of like .hack, Inuyasha, and maybe Naruto…? It has a few mystery-ish themes to it, and not that much action. -.- We need to have more action! XD
Now on with the story…!
1 – The Cat, the Rabbit, and the Foxes
A girl of the age of fourteen was walking through her hometown, Traverse Town, carrying her staff. She had red hair that went to her shoulders, and she had cat ears and a tail, but they looked strangely like a Heartless'. The clothes she wore were a variety of gothic lolita styles, and she also had a locket that wouldn't open. Her name was Akane, and with her was Aiko, a female, pure white rabbit that accompanied her where ever she went. Akane grew up in Traverse Town as a normal citizen, but one day she came across a dying Heartless; She didn't know it was evil at the time. So she took care of it, and hid it when her parents told her to leave it alone. But, they didn't tell her why. When the Heartless regained its complete power, it attacked her. But with a mysterious magical reaction, the Heartless was absorbed into Akane. Now she can't remember anything of her past, and she is mutated with a Heartless. Because of this, her only friend is her pet rabbit... She is usually quiet, and talks to Aiko instead of other people when confronted. She also tries not to run into fights.
Akane walked through an unknown district with Aiko hopping behind. Wondering where she was, she turned to Aiko, and saw a Heartless instead, then discovered even more around her. She looked around but no trace of Aiko, and panicking, she used Thunder.
Also wandering through this mysterious Unknown District was a fifteen-year-old girl with purple eyes, and long black hair. She was Kitsuko, a half-demon fox, with fox ears and a fox tail. She wore black boots, long dark-blue pants, a black jacket, and a dark purple shirt. Her belt was black and dotted with silver stars. She also wore a chain necklace holding a pendant in the shape of a dragon head.
Kitsuko's partner was Kieon, a small Eevee who possessed a necklace bearing a softly glowing stone. An Eevee is a Pokemon. It is called the "evolution" Pokemon, and it stands about one foot high, and has brown fur. It looks like a fox.
Kieon was sitting atop Kitsuko's head as the swarm of Heartless caught their attention. Suddenly, Kitsuko noticed a rabbit hopping next to her.
Akane used Thunder a few times until the Heartless had vanished. She went the opposite direction she had been going before, confident that Aiko had run that way to avoid the Heartless. Kitsuko saw the girl running away, and then looked at the rabbit now sitting next to her. "Hmm…" Kieon's ear twitches as she says, "Huh?" Kitsuko picks up the rabbit and runs after the girl.
Akane heard footsteps behind her, and not wanting to take any chances with more Heartless, ran faster. Not being a very loud person, Kitsuko didn't want to yell out to Akane. So she stopped and shot a stream of fox-fire near her, hoping that would make her stop. (Fox-fire, or kitsune-bi, is blue.) Akane jumped out of the way of the fox-fire, and looked back at where it came form.
"What in the --" she started but, saw Aiko and stopped right there. "You didn't have to shoot fire at me.." she said, still a little spooked form the fire. "But thanks for bringing Aiko to me!" Akane said. Kitsuko looked at her hand, which had shot out the fire, and put it behind her back in slight embarrassment. "Uh, sorry about that. You should be more careful. This little guy wouldn't last a minute out here with all the Heartless around." Kieon closed her eyes and smiled at Akane. "Heh, unlike Kieon here," Kitsuko added.
"What are you talking about?" Aiko asked, jumping from Kitsuko to Akane, who caught Aiko. "I'm the one who taught Akane magic in the first place," Aiko continued. Akane was silent, and there was a sweatdrop on her forehead. Kitsuko took a tiny step back, surprised. "Oh...So it can talk, too..." Kitsuko and Kieon looked at each other. A sweat drop appeared on Kitsuko's face as well as she said, "Kieon can talk too." She fell silent for a moment, then said to Akane, "Well, see you."
Kitsuko turned and started to walk away, but paused and looked back at Akane. "Um...Have you seen anyone dressed in black with a hood?"
"We haven't," Aiko said before Akane had a chance. "Nope," Akane agreed. "But, if I do see anyone like that, I'll be sure to let you know," Akane said, before Aiko could say anything this time.
Kitsuko closed her eyes for a moment and sighed. "Oh. Alright." She continued to walk away, but Kieon abruptly muttered, "What are you doing? She could help us find him! Follow her!" Kitsuko thought about it for a moment. She didn't like company, but she trusted Kieon.
Kitsuko called out to Akane. "Hey...Do you want to help me with something? I'm trying to find the guy who--- well, uh, just some guy."
"Sure, the guy with the hood right?" Akane asked, putting Aiko back on the ground.
"Yeah. I've looked all around Traverse Town, but he's not here. I think he's in Twilight Town. The problem is that I don't know how to get there. The way I got here was that the Keyblade Master and his friends gave me a ride on their Gummi Ship, and I've been staying here for a while. But, that was a while ago, and I haven't heard from them since…Now I don't have a way to go to other worlds…" Kitsuko explains to Akane. Kieon sighs.
"Oh. I see. I haven't been to any other worlds besides Traverse Town," Akane explained, "or at least any that I know of." She added, "By the way, what is a Gummi Ship?" Akane asked. Akane wasn't sure of what most of the things Kitsuko was talking about. She had long known there were different worlds…But this twilight world...Wasn't something she familiarized with at all.
Kitsuko stood there for a moment, thinking. "Hm, I don't know what to do. You don't understand most of what I'm saying, do you? A Gummi Ship is something used to travel between worlds. And Twilight Town is where I'm from, at least, I think so. I'm not sure about a lot of things. That's why I have to find this person...even though I don't know who he is." She winces. "I just...I don't know what to do!"
"Well if you think that if you find this person, he will give you some answers, then finding him is worth it. And if that's where you think you're from, then going there at all would give you answers too…Right?" Akane said.
"I'm not so sure. But, I suppose you are right. I'll just focus on finding him. Now, we need to find a ride." Kitsuko looks around at the unknown district. "Um, do you know how to get to the first district from here?"
"No, actually I got lost in here." Akane said. "I don't know how to get there from here either," Aiko agreed.
Kitsuko's ears perk up as she hears something. "Well, we'd better go somewhere fast--- Look out!" Heartless begin to appear in a circle, surrounding them. Among the Heartless are the powerful NeoShadows. Kitsuko glares at them. "Those Heartless...I remember seeing a bunch of them in Twilight Town..."
"Oh no," Akane said as she used Thunder to destroy enough to break the circle. "Go that way," Akane said pointing at the break, continuing to use different spells against the Heartless, while getting out of the circle. Kitsuko uses a blue thunder attack on the Heartless, and rushes after Akane. She looks around hastily, and points at a nearby door. "Let's try going this way!"
"Okay good idea," Akane said, as she finished off a few Heartless around her, then started heading for the door, just noticing that Aiko was on her head.
Kitsuko stops for a moment to look around. "This is the second district...I think...Huh?" She notices Squall standing near the alley. Nervously, she rushes back the other way into the unknown district. "Uh, hey, wrong way!" she yelled to Akane. Akane stopped and started running back into the unknown district. "Wait a minute!" Akane called after Kitsuko. "We can just go to the first district, through the second district, right!-- Wait!" Akane said, struggling to catch up with Kitsuko, and not wanting to use her wings. Kitsuko stopped, still shaky from seeing the person whom she despised. "You're right. Fine, let's go that way, but hurry!" Kieon was still quietly clinging to Kitsuko's shoulder.
Akane ran back, through the door and into the second district, yet again. Her wings appeared on her back, and she flew, not very far from the ground, in the direction of the first district door. "Sorry , but my legs are starting to get tired.." Akane called to Kitsuko. She had never been that good of a runner, she knew that, even though she didn't remember.. Kitsuko glanced at Akane while running and grinned. "No problem." Glowing, blue, almost dragon-like, wings appeared on Kitsuko's back and she took flight as well. "We should've tried this in the first place!" A sweatdrop appeared on Kieon's head.
end of chapter one – the cat, the rabbit, and the foxes