14 year old Yumi sat on the couch with a tissue box in her right hand and a picture of her brother, Issa posing with her on a holloween night. Issa dyed his hair blonde, spiked it, used his contacts to turn his eyes blue and wore a weird outfit. Someone asked him who he was, and he replied, "I'm from Kingdom Hearts." Yumi dressed up like the great ninja Yuffie from Kingdom Hearts in a jet black picture frame in her left hand. She starred at the TV and sighed. She put the picture and the tissue box next to her on the couch and looked out the front window. The streets were flooded with policemen. Some had notepads and pens jotting down every detail interviewing my parents of what had happened. She slumps on the couch and stares at the blue teddy bear that Kumo gave to her on her 14th birthday not too long ago.
"How stupid." She said to the bear. "Why would the police be talking to my parents when they don't even have a single clue about my brother's disappearance." She made the bear nod its head to make it look like it was agreeing to her answer. She looked at her lavender watch. It was 11:30 p.m. She got up and went straight to her bed. She nuzzled her face on her pillow and pulled her pink sheets until it touched her chin. She reached for the music box that stood on her bedstand. She turned the golden knob until it couldn't turn any farther. She placed it back on the stand and a sweet melody filled the room causing Yumi to shift her eyes in a different position and her eyelids gently closed as she fell in dreamland.
She woke up on a green and yellow stain glass floor of Snow white. Surrounding Snow White was the 7 dwarfs. As she looked around, she heard a voice call out to her.
"So much to do, so little time……. Take your time, don't be afraid."
She jerked and looked around to see where that voice came from.
"Take my time? What do you mean by that?" Yumi said to the air.
"The door is still shut. Now, step forward. Can you do it?" the voice called out.
"Wait a minute. I've seen this place on the television before…. Anyways, what door? What are you talking about? And who are you?" Yumi hollared.
"Ahem…. I'm the cabalistic voice that tells you what to do. So if I say walk, you say 'how fast?'. And if I want a hot dog, you always know to put on ketchup." the voice said and then added, "……uh, extra ketchup."
"Uh, ok." Yumi squinted her eyes and looked around. "Where are you, exactly?"
"Argh, stop asking questions!………Now, step forward to the light. Do you see it?"
"Jeez, I'm not 2…and I'm not blind!" Yumi yelled. She walked up to the light. "Now, what!"
The floor vibrated bringing up 3 silver stands. The first on contained a sword of power. The second contained a staff of wonder. The last stand contained a shield of strength. She walked over to the sword and picked it up.
"Now, what will you give up in exchange?" the voice said.
"But I'm not finished yet!" Yumi whined.
"Very well." The voice grunted.
Yumi laughed hysterically. "haha, I'm just messing with you!"
"Sigh, kids these days…."the voice grumbled.
"I'll give up this one." Yumi said holding onto the mickey mouse staff.
"ok……."the voice said.
The floor vibrated again causing the stands to fall. The stain glass broke into a million pieces. Yumi fell into the darkness. After a whole minute (Yumi was counting…) a light had shown from the dark. When she fell closer to the light, she saw a Cinderella stain glass with a pink and purple colored border. Yumi fell face flat on the glass.
"ow…..that hurts.." she said making funny faces.
"grr….stop that this instant and get up!" the voice said.
"oww……Hey! You're the one who dropped me!" Yumi hollared.
"It wasn't my fault you were too heavy. Anyways, get up."
Yumi got up and dusted herself off. Then, a flash of light appeared in her hand. The next thing she knew, she was holding onto a sword.
The voice said, "You've gained the power to fight."
Yumi whipped it a couple of times. "But I hate fighting!"
"Just do what I say! I'm getting payed for this, you know!"
Two boxes appeared. Yumi gave the sword a slice at the box and the box broke. "Cool!" She gave the other box another slice and it broke.
"All right! You got it!" the voice cheered.
"Thank you, thank you. I'm here 'til Friday!" She said bowing pretending an audience was cheering.
"Ahem…."
Yumi stopped "….sorry."
"Use this power to protect yourself and others." The voice said
"But no one else is here, besides me!" Yumi said.
"Sigh…..there will be times you have to fight. Keep the light burning strong."
"Wha…." Before Yumi could finish her sentence, little black things appeared out of the ground and bit her. "Oww….." She whipped the sword the left, then to the right, killing 2 of those black things. The little black things decided to retreat, disappearing, leaving neon green fluff balls on the floor.
"Furthermore, defeated enemies sometimes leave items behind." The voice said.
"Like those green things?" Yumi asked.
"sigh…yes, those green things especially. They restore your HP…Behind you!" the voice hollared.
"Wha…?" Yumi turned around and saw the black thing again. She screamed really loud. "EEKK! GET IT AWAY FROM ME! AHHH!"
"Stop screaming and kill it!"
"I FORGOT HOW! KILL IT, KILL IT!"Yumi screamed.
"Kill it with your sword, idiot!"
"OK, OK. Ow….! Take that!" Yumi said swinging the sword killing the little black thing. More black things appeared on the floor. She kept whipping the sword until all of them disappeared, except one. The black thing sank into the floor leaving a black blob of stuff on the surface. Sooner or later, the whole floor was completely covered in a black blob. Yumi fell in a hole. She reached for the surface but the hole pulled her down even further like quick sand. She tried to break free from the black blobs. When she opened her eyes, she was on another stain glass floor. When she got up, there was a door that stood in the middle of the glass. Her thoughts were being interrupted by the voice.
"uh….lights please." The voice called out. Then, a beam of light fell onto the door.
Yumi went up to the door and examined the door. She jerked at the door opener.
"You can't open it yet." The voice said.
"Why not! This place is giving me the creeps!" As Yumi turned around, she saw a red treasure box lined with gold borders. She walked up to it and tapped it with her sword. It opened but there was nothing in there.
"Aww….I don't get anything!" Yumi complained.
"No…" the voice replied. "But you can push large crates.."
"Yea right. I could barely push my bed to the wall. Pssh……" Yumi turned around and saw a large crate. Thinking about what the voice said earlier, she went up to the crate and pushed it to the side. She saw the door glistening with light. Then a barrel appeared.
"You can also lift barrels." The voice said.
"Like I said before, yea right. I could barely lift my computer….." Yumi whirled around and saw a barrel. She went up to it and lifted it up, then threw it across the room. The door glistened again but this time, it looked like you can actually open it. Yumi went up to the door and examined it. She heard something on the other side of the door. She stepped back and the door opened by itself. A bright light showed at the other side of the door. Curiously, Yumi walked into the doorway. She appeared on a wooden deck. There was a girl wearing a yellow dress, a boy wearing weird shorts and a yellow and white shirt, and an older boy wearing a cream colored shirt with yellow pants and had a blue headband with blue wrist bands holding onto a white blue striped ball.
"Hold on, the door won't open just yet. First tell me more about yourself." The voice asked.
She went up and talked to the girl. The girl asked, "What's most important to you?"
"uh…friendship, really." Yumi replied. "Is friendship that big of a deal?" the girl asked. "Duh! Hey, it's better than the rest of your choices you had."
She approached to the boy. He asked, "What are you so afraid of?"
"Jeez, you gotta put better choices…. But I guess I'll go with being indecisive." Yumi said. "Being indecisive? Is that really so scary?" the boy asked. "Hey, you're gonna have to make decisions in your life…well, if you got one." Yumi said.
"She turned to the older boy. He asked, "What do you want outta life?" Yumi answered, "To be strong…". "To be strong huh?" he asked. "Now that was a reasonable reply" Yumi said.
"You want friendship.
You're afraid of being indecisive.
You want to be strong." The voice said.
"Your adventure begins in the dead of night. Your road wont be easy, but the rising sun awaits your journey's end." The voice said quietly. " The day you will open the door is both far of and very near."
"What the hell……what kind of fortune telling do you do!" Yumi asked.
Then a blinding light fills the air. Yumi stepped forward and saw another stain glass with Sleeping Beauty and thorns. Yumi went all the way into the center. There, she was being ambushed by the black things. They surrounded her. She quickly fought her way through until all the black things were gone. A stain glass stairway appeared at the edge. Yumi went up the stairs. The stairs climbed high onto another platform of Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
"The closer you get to the light, the greater you shadow becomes." The voice said.
"Whaddaya mean by that?" Ymi asked stepping into the light and saw her shadow.
"I don't know. It's in my lines." the voice replied.
Yumi's shadow grew large and tall. Then it lifted out of the floor. It was a black figure. Yumi walked backwards staring at the enormous creature. She took her eyes off of it, turned around and ran but almost fell off the edge.
"Don't be afraid. And don't forget….."
The next thing she knew, she was holding onto the sword.
"Holy shit…….I gotta fight this thing! Hell, no!" Yumi screamed staring at her battle opponent. She whacked the sword a couple of times. The sword disappeared.
"Oh, crap! Where did it go!" Yumi yelled. She dodged every attack that weird thing did. Then, she landed on a dark blob. She tried loosening herself from the blob that restrained her from getting away. She took on last glimpse of the shadow monster.
"Don't be afraid. You hold the mightiest weapon of all. So don't forget: You are the one who will open the door."
To be continued in Chapter 2: The Mystical Land of Kingdom Hearts……………..
R&R (read and review) please! Go easy on me! Its my first fanfic!