Kingdom Hearts: Warriors of Light
Joined Forces- Chapter 9
Kita, Ti-Day and Ni-Ne Nite boarded the Gummi Ship with Pom-Pom and set off back to the Magic Kingdom, not knowing King Mickey was no longer there. But mean while, in Traverse Town, Sora was busy getting to know his new accomplice's Donald and Goofy. They had been all around Traverse Town destroying heartless after heartless, all the while keeping an eye out for Sora's friends.
"Sora, watch out!" Donald shouted, as Sora stood in his place unaware of the heartless about to pounce him. Just in the nick of time Sora swung his key blade in a 360 and hit the heartless right on, destroying it in one blow.
"Thanks Donald," Sora said. "I'll bet Riku would have loved this kind of adventure. He was always the one who wanted to get off our island the most. He wouldn't even believe me if I told him about all this!"
"I think he would," said a familiar voice from behind Sora.
"Riku!" Sora shouted in high hopes. When he turned, his eyes met with his dear white haired friend. "Riku! You're here!" Sora dashed towards Riku and rapped his arms around him uncontrollably just to make sure it wasn't a dream.
"Um, ok, you can let go now," Riku said laughing at Sora. "Where you really that worried about me? I'm a big guy. I can take care of myself."
"Well the last time I saw you, you were being sucked into some dark vortex," Sora said, making it sound like this was obviously something strange.
"I actually just ended up here like you I guess," Riku said looking around the town. "Seen Kairi yet?"
"No… I thought maybe she was with you," Sora said suddenly sounding confused and worried.
"No, I haven't found her yet," Riku said. "Maybe she's stuck in that dark place."
"Don't even think that way!" Sora shouted at Riku. "We have to find her!"
"Hold your horses," Riku said trying to calm Sora down. "You didn't think I was just gonna set out my beach towel and umbrella and call this a vacation did ya? I promise, I'll try to find Kairi too. We're all friends. What kind of friends would we be if we didn't look for her?"
"Your right Riku," Sora said. "I'm just worried about her that's all. Thanks for your help." Sora turned to look back at Donald and Goofy who where standing there looking confused and left out. "Oh! Sorry. Riku, this is Donald and Goofy. Guys, this is one of my friends, Riku." Donald stared at Riku with a suspicious look. Sora could tell there were some tensions between them. "Hey guys. Can't we all just be friends?" Sora asked nervously looking at Donald and Riku.
"Well of course we can," said Goofy with a chuckle as he went up behind Riku and patted him on the back.
"Well good to see at least one of them likes me," Riku said, still eyeing Donald.
"Heh, yeah," Sora said laughing nervously. He was hoping Donald and Riku wouldn't break out into some sort of fight. "Well, we've got to get going," Sora interrupted the stare down. "Donald here told me I was suppose to seal the worlds with my Key Blade, and I'm sure they aren't all gonna seal themselves if we just stand around. Besides, Kairi is out there. We're wasting time."
"Sora's right," Riku said, still not taking his eyes off of Donald. "Lets go."
"Who said you were comin?" Donald asked with a grumpy tone. "We were only suppose work with the Key Blade Master." Riku looked to Sora for some support. Sora rolled his eyes.
"Donald, we went through this," Sora said sounding agitated. "I said I'd help you seal the worlds and find your king if you helped me find my friends. He's my friend Donald!"
"And he's found," Donald said stating the obvious. "So he can stay and we'll go on our way."
"That's not fair!" Sora fought back. "He can help us too! Right Riku?" Riku motioned to speak, but Sora interrupted again before he could say anything. "Of course he will! Come on Donald!"
"Yeah, come on Donald, he just wants to help," Goofy said, joining in to support Sora.
Donald stood his ground looking at all the puppy eyes staring back at him. "Oh fine!" he said in final defeat.
"YEAH!" Riku, Sora and Goofy shouted together in victory. The newly formed group headed for the Gummi Ship that Donald and Goofy had traveled to traverse town in. They headed to the Magic Kingdom to collect any new instructions or information before heading out to new worlds.
"King Mickey?" Kita shouted as she wandered around the Magic Kingdom Castle. The placed seemed to be very quit. Ti-Day, Ni-Ne Nite and Pom-Pom followed her, also looking around for any sign of anyone. "Where could he be?" Kita thought out loud. "He's usually in his study or throne room, and he's in neither."
"Maybe something happened while we were gone," Ti-Day suggested with a worried tone. None of them knew anything about King Mickey's absence, and so continued on looking for anyone at all who might be left in the castle.
"Your Majesty!" Kita shouted louder. "Queen Minnie! Donald! Goofy! This just isn't right," Kita said to herself. She took out her key blade thinking ahead that perhaps the Magic Kingdom too had been attacked by the darkness while she and Ti-Day were away. Ni-Ne followed Kita in her action of keeping her key blade at hand just incase. Pom-Pom floated around, bouncing off the walls without a care in the world. "Careful Pom-Pom," Kita said to caution him. "Something's wrong."
"Maybe we should split up," Ti-Day suggested. "We'll cover more ground that way. Me and Ni-Ne will go to the west wing, and you and Pom-Pom can take the east wing." Ti-Day continued on in a quite voice, "Then me and Ni-Ne can have a little alone time," he said winking at Ni-Ne who only looked confused because she hadn't heard what Ti-Day had just said.
Kita on the other hand did. WHAM. Kita knocked Ti-Day over the head with the handle end of her key blade. "I think you're missing the whole point," she said with a small twitch in her face.
"I was kidding!" Ti-Day said defending himself and rubbing the bump on his head. "I promise, this is serious." Kita didn't look entirely convinced. "Besides, I don't really consider it romantic to lurk around hallways on our first date." Kita swung her key blade hard at Ti-Day's head again, but this time he knew it was coming and ducked instead. Then he darted off, laughing and grabbed Ni-Ne's hand and started pulling her off in the opposite direction.
Kita stood in place with an unbelieving look on her face. "I'm not even gonna waist my breath this time," she said to herself. She turned to follow Pom-Pom who was an incredible distance ahead of her now. "Hey, wait up!" she shouted, running after him. Pom-Pom was much faster than she gave him credit for. Soon, Kita had entirely lost sight of him. "Where did he get to?" Kita asked herself, feeling lost. The castle was huge, and it wasn't like she was completely familiar with it. But soon enough she heard Pom-Pom squeal loudly as though he was in distress. "Pom-Pom!"
Racing toward his squealing, she found her way to an open rotunda where two corridors crossed. There in one of the corners was Pom-Pom being held tightly in place by a black wing sword that was held by a white haired boy. Seeing the pain Pom-Pom was in, Kita fearlessly leapt towards the boy raising her key blade high ready to strike. She swung down hard knocking the boy to ground. She then landed squarely on top of him holding her key blade across his neck and kneeling right into his gut so as to hold him down.
"Ack!" The boy sounded, hardly able to breath under Kita's weight. "Wah wa tha for?" he tried to ask with what little breath he had.
"Who are-!" Kita started to say, but when she looked at the boy, she immediately recognized him. She quickly got up off of him and backed away hardly able to believe her eyes. It was the boy who had saved her from drowning.
"What's the big idea?" the boy said, doubled over trying to catch his breath. He slowly looked up at his attacker and found himself wearing the same puzzled stare that Kita had on her face. "You," He said. "You're the girl from my dream."
Kita couldn't find words to say. How was someone she had only met once, and had disappeared now standing before her? She knew she had been saved, but why did he disappear? She had never thought he was even real until this very moment. "Is it you?" she asked, still unbelieving. She reached out to poke his chest, just to make sure he wasn't a figment of her imagination. Real as the castle around her, when Kita touched the boy, he was solid.
"Um, are you ok?" the boy asked a bit confused as to why he was just poked. "If that's how you say hello, I'm afraid I can't do it back cause where I'm from, that'd be considered indecent to a lady."
"No, I was just curious," Kita said slowly, as if lost somewhere in the back of her mind. "Who are you?"
"The name's Riku. You?" he answered.
"Where did you come from?" Kita continued ignoring his question, now circling Riku still trying to convince herself he was real. "I still can't believe you're here."
"Well I just arrived with Sora, Goofy and Donald," Riku explained, giving Kita strange looks as she circled him like a shark. Kita didn't know who Sora was, but then again Riku was close enough to a stranger too. "I'm actually from a place called Destiny Island," Riku continued. "I don't know how I actually met you in that dream. I really thought it was just a dream."
"Well, it wasn't a dream to me," Kita said. "I would have died had you not helped me. Thank you," she finished with an innocent look in her eyes though hesitant to give him too much praise. Riku stared back at her. He was lost in her bright pink eyes. She was somehow more mystical now in the flesh than she had been in the dream.
"Curious. When I first saw you in the tank, your eyes were all black. What was that about?" Riku asked curiously.
"No time for story telling," Kita said snapping back to reality. "I've got to find King Mickey."
"Well I can't help ya there," Riku said. "No idea who he is or where he could be."
"Well then what good are you standing around here picking on my pal Pom-Pom?" Kita asked toughening up.
"Your pal? I thought that thing was a heartless," Riku said looking over at Pom-Pom who was cowering in fear on the floor.
Kita bent down to pick up Pom-Pom. "Does this look like the face of a heartless to you?" Kita asked holding Pom-Pom up next to her face. The pair gave Riku innocent puppy eyes to gain his sympathy. As Riku stared at them feeling sorry, Kita and Pom-Pom dashed forward. Pom-Pom landed on Riku's head and messed his hair up so he couldn't see and then Kita gave him a little push in the back causing him to stumble forward. Kita laughed as her and Pom-Pom made an escape. "Did you see his face? He looked like he was falling in love with me, ha ha!" Kita laughed continuing on her way to find King Mickey.
As Kita ran on ahead, she was stopped suddenly by a boy with brown hair that was spiky like Ti-Day's. He too had a key blade. Kita stopped and Pom-Pom hid behind her. The two had a stare down. "Who are you?" Kita asked, wanting to get moving.
"The name's Sora," the boy said. "Who are you?"
"Kita," she replied. "I work for King Mickey. What are you doing here?"
"The same I guess," Sora said, sounding a little shy. "I haven't actually met him. Donald and Goofy brought me here. They said the King was gone."
"Gone?" Kita said urgently. "But… he didn't say he was leaving. We came back to see him. What are we suppose to do now?" Kita was pacing around looking worried. Ti-Day and herself had managed to collect Ni-Ne Nite, but now King Mickey wasn't here. "Where are you going?" Kita asked Sora thinking she should at least know that.
"Donald said my Key Blade can seal the worlds," Sora said. "As soon as they are done here, we're departing for another world I guess." Kita eyed Sora's Key Blade. It was different from hers, and she could sense great power coming from it. King Mickey must have discovered this boy after Kita had left, and he had sent Donald and Goofy to find him.
"I'm going with you," Kita said.
"What?" Sora asked. He knew Donald had barely let Riku on the Gummi Ship, so why would they let Kita come too?
"I'm going with you," Kita repeated herself. "And Ti-Day and Ni-Ne are coming with."
"Who are they?" Sora asked feeling really clueless.
"My friends. Ever heard of the Warriors of Light?" Kita asked. "That's us. We work for King Mickey. Our mission is to stop Ansem."
"Is that who's behind all this?" Sora asked.
"Boy they did a bad job briefing you," Kita said, unimpressed with Sora's knowledge. He was here to join the team and he knew nothing at all. As Kita finished her sentence, Riku had managed to find his way to the hall where Sora and Kita were. "Back for more?" Kita laughed.
"No, I just didn't catch that pretty name of yours," Riku said flirtatiously.
Kita just stood there looking at Riku with her famous dumbfounded expression. She was looking at another Ti-Day. A slightly younger, white haired version of that ladies man. "I can't even believe this universe I live in," Kita said just walking away. "Well, we need to find the others and get going cause this universe isn't going to save itself."
Sora, Riku, Kita and Pom-Pom continued on their way through the castle to look for Goofy, Donald, Ti-Day and Ni-Ne. New adventures only lie ahead for the newly grouped Warriors of Light.