Kingdom Hearts: Warriors of Light
Call of the Warriors- Chapter 3
King Mickey and Queen Minnie had been sitting in their throne room for so many hours and the sun had yet to rise. Sometime in the middle of the night they had been given the disturbing news about all the worlds vanishing into darkness and people everywhere swallowed up into nothingness. There wasn't much they could do, for they had no idea how to control it, but luckily visitors from other worlds had come to the Magic Kingdom willing to help.
"King Mickey? There's some visitors here to see ya. They say they came from worlds that vanished," Goofy informed his Majesty the King.
"Send them in Goofy," Mickey requested. Upon his command, the doors at the front of the throne room opened. One of the Kings servants, Donald Duck led the way as a young man and a lion cub came following after. Donald stepped aside when the three of them had reached the thrones. The young man, tall with a muscular build and red hair and the lion cub, covered in golden fur bent down in respects to the King.
"Who might you be?" King Mickey questioned.
"I'm Hercules," the young man said. "I've come from the world of Olympus looking for help because everyone's disappeared from my world."
"And I'm Simba," the lion cub cut in. "I've come from the Pride Lands. There's no one left in my world either."
"And you've come here for my help?" King Mickey asked.
"Well, we don't know what's going on, but we've lost those close to us and were wondering if we could assist in getting to the bottom of this problem so we can find our families again," Hercules explained.
"I see," said King Mickey sounding a bit doubtful. He didn't know what was going on either. "Well we've been trying to conclude who's behind this all morning, but so far no luck. So, I'm sorry guys."
"But we've got to find them!" Simba shouted from the floor. "Nala's missing, I can't just forget about her. She could be in real danger!"
"I'm afraid as of now, there's nothing we can do," King Mickey tried to explain. "Until we can figure out what's going on, it's too dangerous for even you to leave this world."
"King Mickey?" Goofy interrupted.
"What is it Goofy?" replied King Mickey sounding a bit defeated.
"There's a girl here to see you," Goofy said. Together everyone in the room looked towards the doors at the front of the room and saw standing there a young girl with vibrant pick eyes and snow-white hair.
"Hello?" King Mickey said, as he was caught off guard by her presence.
"King Mickey I presume?" the girl said as she made her way towards the throne.
"Yes?" King Mickey replied. "Who are you?"
"The name's Kita," she said. "I am the daughter of King Ansem, ruler of Hallow Bastion. You've met him before?"
"Ah, yes, I have," King Mickey remembered. "Has your world vanished as well?"
"No, but it might has well," Kita said sounding irritated. "The darkness is growing fast and people are dieing left and right. The entire world is falling apart."
"I recall sharing with Ansem how to travel from world to world," King Mickey said. "He must have shared with you this information or else you couldn't be here."
"No, actually it is by fate I am here," Kita said with superiority. "I told you the darkness is growing. Huge black holes appearing out of nowhere just swallowing people. A friend of mine got sucked into one. I thought if I went through it he would be on the other side, but I was here when I emerged."
"Those holes, they were in my world too," Hercules spoke. "The same thing happened to me. I went through one and ended up here."
"You make it sound like a game," Simba said. "Nala got sucked right into one. We were just minding our own business and there it was and it just started pulling on everything around it. And I couldn't catch her in time…" Kita was sure she saw a tear in Simba's eye. It reminded her of the moment she saw Ti-Day fall to the ground and just get vacuumed right into the black hole without any warning at all. An anger was flaring inside Kita and she knew if there was anyway to stop the darkness, she was going to have to find someone to help her fight it.
"My father did it!" Kita shouted making everyone jump. "He's been obsessed with this darkness. He's the one making it grow! Everyone getting sucked into the black holes are becoming heartless. They are lost somewhere where there is no light." Kita's voice was getting shaky.
"How do you know?" King Mickey asked.
"Because I've been there," Kita said in almost a whisper. "My father's gone mad. He even turned me heartless, but it didn't last. He tired to kill me! Me! His own daughter!"
"How terrible!" Queen Minnie spoke sounding scared.
"Gorsh, we've gotta stop him!" Goofy proclaimed.
"That's it, I'm going to Hallow Bastion right now!" Hercules said storming towards the door.
"He's not there," Kita said. "He's been gone for sometime. But not even I know where he's gone to."
"But maybe there are clues," Simba said sounding desperate. "He worked there before he left? Something, anything could lead us to where he is."
"He has a point," King Mickey said as he thought. "I can't leave the Magic Kingdom right now to go looking myself, but the three of you could. Kita, I'll have to teach you how to get back to your world. You should take Hercules and Simba with you."
"Yes your majesty," Kita said truly acknowledging King Mickey as a King.
"Donald? Go find Daisy and have her prepare some battle costumes for our new warriors," King Mickey commanded. "And Goofy, I need you to have the blacksmith make these weapons for them," he said handing Goofy a piece of paper. "In the meantime, I'll have to teach you how to travel from world to world, because by the looks of it, this darkness is covering the entire universe."
King Mickey got up off of his throne to lead the three warriors off to his lab. As they walked behind King Mickey, Hercules wanted to use the opportunity to get to know Kita better.
"So, you come from Hallow Bastion?" Hercules asked.
"Yeah," Kita said in a tone that suggested even she would have known that was obvious by now.
"Well, I think you're pretty," he said daringly. "Was this Ti-Day guy your boyfriend?" Clearly Hercules has struck a nerve. Kita turned on him suddenly.
"The answer's no," she claimed with the look of a killer shark in her eyes. "And if you're thinking of hitting on me, think again cause I've got far more important things to do than fool around with boys." Kita picked up her pace and walked beside King Mickey for a change. Hercules was left dumbstruck, not even sure of what just happened.
"Smooth," Simba added, just to rub it in.
For the remainder of their visit, the three warriors trained for their journey. They learned the way of the gummies that would allow them to travel from world to world easily. They trained to fight heartless as there were sure to be many now in every world. Mickey had made special weapons for each of them to carry to aid them in the fight. For Simba, stainless steal claws for ultimate slashing. For Hercules, the strongest sword metal could make with a sturdy gold handle. And for Kita, a special silver key blade with a pink gold handle.
"Now Kita, you're key blade possesses a magic power," King Mickey explained. "I can't reveal to you what it is, but I can tell you that your heart will show you what it does."
Kita was confused by this, but she accepted it greatly anyway.
"Whenever you put a key chain on it, it will change size and strength," King Mickey explained. "Use it well to defeat this evil that has over come the universe."
"Thank you my King," Kita said. She truly respected King Mickey for all his help more so than her own father who was a King himself.
Daisy had prepared battle costumes that would protect them from the damage that could be inflicted on them physically and magically. Kita's was a sleek skirt and top that was a silvery blue color all over. And her shoes were large, made for running long distances. To show that she worked for King Mickey now, there was a Heart Emblem in the center of her chest with the crown of King Mickey in the center. Hercules had an orange sleeveless shirt with many belts and straps that protected his vital organs. And he wore blue pants that were completed with strong rubber shoes. For Simba, a green necklace that deflected unfriendly spells. The three of them truly looked like warriors now.
"Before you go, I wish to knight you all and wish you the best of luck," King Mickey said as he took his staff and knighted them each upon their shoulders. "I proclaim you from this day forth, the Warriors of Light. Retrieve what you can and bring it back to me so we will know where to start looking for Ansem. The sooner we find him, the sooner we can sort out this huge mess."
"I won't fail you," Kita said sounding like a true warrior princess. She truly desired above all things just to seek out her father and get revenge for what he did, and for the millions of lives that were torn apart because of him. For the pain he had caused to all in every world. She would never rest until he was found. And so the three Warriors of Light set out on their journey to Hallow Bastion.