Kingdom Hearts: Warriors of Light

Mirage-Chapter 19

"Today we're going to check on the pumpkins Ni-Ne. Doesn't that sound like fun?" Jack asked holding little Ni-Ne's hand. She was only a few feet tall and her eyes were large and curious. Jack Skellington smiled down at the innocent child leading her away to the pumpkin patch. It was summer now and the pumpkins had only just been planted. Jack was always ready to work on provisions for Halloween. But he would never do any of it without Ni-Ne.

"Papa. Can I water them?" Ni-Ne asked sweetly.

"Yep, that's what Papa's little helper does best," Jack replied. Ni-Ne pulled on Jack's boney hand so that he would know to pick her up. He did so and gave her a big hug.

"I love you Papa," Ni-Ne said.

"Ni-Ne?" Ti-Day said poking her in the shoulder. "Are you ok? You just said I love you Papa."

Ni-Ne sat up slowly waking from her sleep. She must have fallen asleep shortly after the heartless incident upon leaving Atlantica. "Huh?"

"You were sleeping and you just said I love you Papa," Ti-Day repeated. "Where you having a dream?"

"Yeah," Ni-Ne said. A tear formed in her eye and then rolled down her face. "I really miss him."

Ti-Day put his arms around her. He didn't really know what she was feeling inside, but he had always been there for Kita when she was going through these things that Ni-Ne was feeling now. "It's ok. I'm sure we'll get a chance to go see him sooner or later."

Kita looked over her shoulder. She started to think about her own father.

"I'm not particularly close to my parents," Riku said out of nowhere. He had his head cradled in his arms lying on the Gummi Ship's dashboard. "I'm guessing you have some family issues if it really is your father behind all of this."

"That's none of your business," Kita said sounding offended.

"Whatever," Riku said blowing off her anger. "We didn't come all this way to watch you run the show. If you wanna do that then I guess the rest of us can just go home and tell ourselves that you've taking care of everything."

"Just because I won't share with you my personal information?" Kita asked. "You're really stupid, you know that?"

"Personally, I just think you're hiding from the rest of us," Riku said. "You've got problems and you won't let anyone help you. But what you don't realize is that everyone has their own problems. Teams are about helping each other." Kita looked at Riku like his voice was painfully annoying to listen to.

"I don't get it," Kita said. "Why are you always bringing that up? Do you just like to make me mad?"

"It's called caring," Riku said. The tone of his voice was serious despite the face that his sentence was somewhat sarcastic. Kita didn't say anything more about it. Riku seemed so intent to get to her despite the fact she pushed him away every time. "Are we ever gonna arrive at the net world?" Riku asked. "It's really stuffy in here."

"I see something up there," Kita said pointing to a speck in the sky. A little world covered in sand was growing gradually in distance.

"Kita?" Hercules voice came over the intercom.

"Hercules? Since when did you become the radio guy?" Kita asked caught off guard.

"It's not important," Hercules answered. "Agrabah is up ahead. We're landing there next."

"Ok, ok," Kita said following Donald's ship closely. Kita realized Riku wasn't kidding about it being stuffy in the ship. She was now more than egger to get out and breathe a little. Flying in close to Agrabah, the two Gummi Ships flew over a little village and straight past a gigantic palace.

"Donald says we're landing in the village," Hercules informed. The two ships flew into a small ally way and landed behind what looked like an abandoned market stand.

As soon as Kita had her ship in park, she jumped out of her seat and ran for the door. She pulled I open to welcome a fresh breath of air, but instead got hit with a blast of hot air. She coughed in shock. "Deserts are hot," Kita said. "I should have seen that coming." Riku looked just as disappointed. The two of them took a few steps outside and collapsed in the hot sand.

"You two are babies," Ti-Day said looking down at them pathetically. Ni-Ne smiled and waved at them as she passed. Pom-Pom started rolling in the sand thinking that was what Kita and Riku were doing. Sora, Donald, Goofy and Hercules were now making their way over.

"All this sand is reminding me of home," Sora said sticking his hands up behind his head. He couldn't linger on the thought for long as a group of heartless appeared surrounding the warriors and holding long machetes threateningly. "Oh boy," Sora said grabbing his Key Blade ready to go.

Kita and Riku jumped up off the ground and drew their weapons. As they did, a black-haired man came running onto the scene. He had a purple vest, baggy patched pants and a sword. "Hi-ya!" He yelled attacking the heartless. He seemed to be having difficulty fighting all alone while everyone else just stood there and stared.

"Thunder!" Sora shouted sending lightening bolts into all the heartless at once.

The man stopped and turned to see the group for the first time. "Woo, who are you? I thought you were just some of the villagers.

"We're the Warriors of Light," Sora said. "I see you've go a heartless problem. We've come to find the keyhole to this world and seal it to stop them from getting in."

"Really? That's awesome!" the man said. "I'm Aladdin," he said sticking out his hand to shake Sora's.

"Sora," Sora introduced himself.

"Listen, there's a huge swam of heartless surrounding the palace right now," Aladdin explained. "Princess Jasmine's in trouble."

"Oh no," Kita said slapping her forehead. "Another Princess of Heart! Aladdin, Jasmine is in more trouble than you know."

"Well then what are we waiting around here for? Lets go!" Aladdin said thrusting his sword up into the air to lead the troops into battle. It didn't take long to reach the palace for as large as the village was. Everyone was worn out quickly from the aspiring heat of the desert. They were more than happy to get into the palace just to have some shade. As they were all catching their breath, Aladdin, so high in spirits, was still way up ahead of everyone running as fast as he could. "You guys aren't giving up now are you?"

"No, just need air," Ti-Day said, huffing and puffing away. Kita looked like she could have died. Hercules was the first to go forwards and catch up to Aladdin.

"Right behind ya," Sora said sounding faint. His head was spinning from the heat.

"Sora, you're not just gonna sit there are you?" a distant voice said. Sora looked up and searched all around him.

"Kairi?" he said, still searching.

"You're hearing things," Riku said, just about ready to catch up with Hercules and Aladdin. "Come on Sora." Riku and Sora took off in the direction Hercules and Aladdin had only moments ago. Donald and Goofy were up just as quickly and ran off behind them.

"Ok girls," Ti-Day said. "We gotta get movin."

"Oh but my head feels horrible," Kita said swaying to and fro.

Ni-Ne was a little lighter on her feet and recuperated faster. "Ni-Ne, you catch up. Kita needs to be dragged apparently," Ti-Day said. Ni-Ne didn't really want to leave them behind, but someone else who was in danger was in need of her help. As Ni-Ne dashed away, Ti-Day tried to get Kita up off her feet. Even though he did manage to get her to stand, she still seemed too fried in the head to walk.

"Ooh," Kita said looking sick. She looked over to a doorway that lead into an open hall. There was a figure standing in the middle of the room. His back was turned away from Ti-Day and herself, but Kita was sure it was who she thought it was. "You…" she said sounding suddenly devilish.

"What?" Ti-Day said sounding surprised. "I'm just trying to help you." Kita seemed to make a split second recovery as she started walking towards the big room without telling Ti-Day what was going on. "Um, Kita?"

Kita continued making her way towards the figure. She pulled out her key blade and fastened a tight grip on the handle. She slowly started to break into a run and fumed like a bull. "I HATE YOU!" she screamed as she ran full speed for the figure. He spun around locked eyes with her just before she sliced her key blade down through his body. But something was wrong. Kita's key blade didn't hit anything solid. There was only a swift movement and the figure disappeared as Kita's key blade hit the ground hard.

Ti-Day was jogging now into the room to see what was the matter. "Kita, are you alright? Who where you talking to?"

"My dad," Kita said.

"What? I didn't see your dad," Ti-Day said looking around to make sure he really wasn't there. "Maybe it was just a mirage. You aren't feeling well. It's just your mind playing tricks on you."

Kita was silent. Ti-Day was probably right. But upon seeing Ansem, Kita felt great rage and hatred in her heart towards him. What would happen when they finally met up with the real Ansem? Her anger would surely be unstoppable. Ti-Day stuck out his hand to pull Kita in the right direction. "Come on Kita, let's go." He took her hand and gave her a tug so she followed him.

"THUNDER!" Ni-Ne shouted at the top of her lungs. She had just arrived to find that everyone was having a tough time beating the hundreds of heartless blocking a door where Princess Jasmine must have been kept. Her attacking wasn't taking much effect. "I wonder…" she said to herself. She pulled out the black rose keychain she obtained in Wonderland and attached it to her key blade. It morphed into a black steal key blade with a shiny black rose on the end. "Ok!" Ni-Ne charged forward and started whacking the heartless left and right.

"Wow, that key blade sure is something," Sora said watching Ni-Ne take out the heartless with ease. Ni-Ne was unstoppable. It was her true nature to fight to the death.

Ti-Day and Kita finally arrived to find the large room swarming with heartless that looked like some sort of circus. "Oh boy," Ti-Day said looking around. Ni-Ne was busy plowing the heartless down while Aladdin was cornered. Donald was being suspended in the air while a heartless was playing with his staff. Riku and Sora were still fighting strong, but they were looking tired. Hercules was tossing the heartless out one of the windows clueless to the fact that they were coming right back in only a few window's behind him. Goofy was knocked out in the middle of the madness. "I think we'd better do something."

"Yeah, lets go!" Kita said charging forward. She started with her transformed key blade ready to go. She was able to defeat a good amount of heartless just like Ni-Ne was doing, only not as quickly. Ti-Day ran to the center of the room. "Everyone come over here!" he shouted. Everyone fought their way to the center of the room. Hercules jumped and pulled Donald out of the air to bring him to the center of the room with everyone else.

"Whatcha doin?" Ni-Ne asked holding her guard.

"You'll see," Ti-Day said smiling. "Ok everyone around me? NOW DUCK!"

"What!" Donald yelled looking confused.

"GET DOWN!" Ti-Day shouted again. He held up his magic staff and thought hard about all the heartless. "OBLIDERATE!" he screamed. A huge explosion occurred all around the group. The heartless where all destroyed.

"I must say you're getting good at that," Kita pointed out. After the dust cleared Aladdin ran for the doors that led to Jasmine's room.

"Jasmine! Are you ok?" Aladdin yelled looking for her. He ran to her balcony and found Jasmine tied up.

"Oh look who it is," said a man wearing black and holding a snake staff. "The street rat!"

"Aladdin, help!" Jasmine pleaded.

"Jasmine!" Aladdin said looking at her helplessly. "Jafar, you won't get away with this!"

"Oh? I think I will," Jafar said laughing evilly. "Take that!" A shot of red light came out of Jafar's staff and knocked Aladdin to the ground.

"I'm gonna need Genie for this one," Aladdin said to himself. He reached into his pocket. "Oh no! Where's the lamp?" Aladdin said looking confused.

"Looking for this?" Jafar said holding up a golden lamp.

"Hey! Give that back!" Aladdin said jumping up off the floor and running towards Jafar.

"Ah ah ah. Finder's keepers," Jafar said rubbing the lamp. A huge blue man came out which everyone presumed to be 'Genie'.

"Al, I'm sorry. I serve this guy now," Genie said looking defeated.

"Genie, for my first wish, I wish to be Sultan of Agrabah," Jafar said. Genie pointed his finger at Jafar rather unenthusiastically and Jafar was suddenly wearing a white outfit like a Sultan. "Ha ha, now you shall all bow to me!" With one swift movement of his snake staff, everyone on the balcony was forced into a bowing position except for Princess Jasmine who was still tied up next to Jafar. "I am so happy you could all be here for this." Jafar turned to Princess Jasmine and looked her in the eye. "Marry me," he said.

Jasmine pulled her head away as far as she could. "Never!" she screamed.

"Jafar! Stay away from her!" Aladdin shouted, his head still forced to bow to the ground.

"Very well then. Genie, my second wish. I wish for Princess Jasmine to fall in love with me," Jafar said sounding irritated.

"I can't do that," Genie said looking nervous.