Note: The parent thing is just this little joke I have since it seems no adults ever appear from Kairi and Sora's world yet in KH1 Sora's mom calls him down on dinner. Plus from his room he could see Destiny Island when home was hardly visible from the island, at first I thought that world consisted of 6 kids living on one island, I was wrong but there's really not that much supporting evidence asides from Sora's invisible mother and the architect from the brief view of Kairi's world in KH2.

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A girl with wavering brown hair stood at the edge of the beach, gazing out to an island that was within reach of a short paddle.

From behind her, an enormous duck and a walking dog approached.

"Guh Kairi? Staring out at that island again?"

Kairi turned around, her face a wide smile and whatever expression she might have been making before left without a trace.

"Yep, don't you think it looks wonderful there? And it's such good weather too, I'd take a paddle over if the row boats over here didn't have holes all over the place."

Kairi took the lead and the three began heading back into the village. Everytime Kairi walked away from that view it felt strange to her, like she was leaving her world once again. Destiny Island had been her home, this place where she stood now represented nothing more to her than the link between this world and the next.

They treaded past a field where the crop growers worked, where Wakka looked up from his crop works to wave them off, it seemed he was far too busy to say more, although he did manage to give Donald the stare before they parted.

In the heart of the city, there was a school, a library, the general essentials of modern day life. Kairi's home lay on the other end of the city, at the foot of a mountain where she would usually spend most of summers fanning herself off and most of winters stuffed in bed. And well, Donald had feathers, though she had never seen him shed for the summer while Goofy simply seemed immune to change of climate altogether.

On her way home, she passed by Selphie who was waving her off along with some blonde boy. Kairi rubbed her eyes a bit when she seemed to notice that the boy had a tail extending out, but she dismissed it as another unusual hobby that was in the trend. Not to mention it wasn't all that strange when large walking ducks and dogs talked.

There was also Tidus passing by who seemed to busy to notice her, no doubt he was off again to steal Wakka from his crop work so they could practice ball again. Kairi watched as he sped off into the distance, for a brief moment she wished he'd stop and talk a bit to her, after all Tidus had grown out quite well, he was good-looking, cheerful, active, Kairi was sure that she wasn't the only one who had had such thoughts before. But alas, he was a ball freak, not to mention she had duties of her own.

Kairi reached her home, a wooden building big enough to comfortably hold all three of them. Her mother and father? Well she was sure she had one, yet it seemed somewhere along the line their absence went unnoticed. She remembered being called down to dinner the night before, but she also recalled making her own dinner...

Well every world had their mysteries, she would solve this one after she prevents the heartless from reaching Kingdom Hearts.

Kairi sat down on her bed while Donald went to fetch some herbs from the kitchen and Goofy got some warm water boiled up.

Kairi gently lifted her school uniform while she grimaced to reveal a fresh wound that stretched from her lower back to her belly-button.

Donald and Goofy came back in with their respective items plus a towel that Donald grabbed on his way over.

"Kairi, don't push yourself, you need more rest." Donald quacked as he used to towel and the water to clean off her wound.

"I think Donald's right, guh, no good to anyone looking like that." Now that Goofy had delivered his water, he was at a loss when it came to the more delicate portions of treatment.

Kairi smiled and raised her arms as Donald bandaged some herbs around her wound. The keyblade granted her incredible healing powers, but pain was still pain and a wound that deep wasn't just going to vanish overnight.

"Don't worry guys, it's not as bad as it looks." Then more sternly, "Plus we don't have that much time, they must be close to Kingdom Hearts by now."

Donald sighed, "Alright alright, but at least eat something first. We'll have your mom...you have a mom?"

"Gwarsh you mean that pale white lady I saw last night? She was pretty but you look nothing like her."

"Goofy that's called a ghost."

"Like the ones living in the King's castle?"

"No those are just walking brooms."

Kairi laughed out loud, barely controlling herself from hurting on the wound, "O you two, thanks guys."

Donald and Goofy went off to try and cook, in the process Kairi intervened so that the meal could be edible and safe.

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Kairi stood at the door leading out. She had changed from her school uniform into something more flexible, a tanktop and a pair of shorts, her hair was also tied back with a pink elastic.

"Ready guys?"

"Gwarsh anytime."

"Heartless butts are waiting to be kicked."

Kairi extended her hand and from it the kingdom key shimmered to life. A golden handle with a silver blade.

Kairi reached into her pocket and pulled out the oathkeeper, a starman that she had given Sora as a promise. It had come back to her miraculously and fulfilled the promise, but Sora never came back with it. All that did was the oathkeeper and his legacy, the keyblade.

She chained it gently to the end of the kingdom key and immediately change began to take place.

"Huyuh, I never get tired of this."

A deep emerald spread through the blade as it lengthened another 4 inches. The golden handle slimmed itself and turned azure while the handle she held remained the original silver.

In her guise she had imprinted a deep picture in the recesses of the heartless' minds from a year ago ever since her narrow escape from Hollow Bastion. She had taken out countless heartless more than Sora before her and with such talent that she was known throughout many worlds as "Kairi, wielder of the Emerald Keyblade, last hope of the worlds."

"Last hope of the world" was naturally quite an immense amount of pressure, but she had done the best she could, slowed the progress of the heartless and even swayed them off whole worlds all together.

But their latest and final campaign, a path towards Kingdom Hearts was something she had little success of delaying. Her third attempt had left her with the fresh wound but with little time left, she was ready for her fourth attempt the day after.

Kairi raised her keyblade and tapped the handle of the door with the emerald tip.

From the handle, a surface of white began spreading until it consumed the door and the handle, it was the ultimate magic of decorating, except white was a bit dull and she had yet to manage to make it multi-coloured.

Well ok...that's not really what it does.

Kairi spun the white handle and pulled open the door, behind it lay the scene of a distorted world, a black tower in the far distance with strikes of black lightning surrounding it. A path leading towards that tower when all else besides the path was a muddled mixture of dark colours. Then came into view the masses of heartless in the far corners of this world, this place of darkness.

Goofy had suggested to call this place "End of the World", Donald insisted something like "World of darkness" was more fitting, in the end World of Darkness won in a game of rock paper scissors.

Kairi stepped through the door and entered the world of darkness, Donald and Goofy following behind her.

"Well guys, how far do you think we are this time?"

Donald stared into the tower in the distance, "Closer than last time anyways, but not as far as we made it."

Kairi's keyblade granted her the ability to open doors into other worlds, however the precise location of the doors was a trick she hadn't mastered thus each time the door would open into another location of that world.

This time the door had opened closer to the black tower than last time, but alas, it would have been a lot better if it simply opened right at the top of that tower.

Too good to hope for...

"Come on guys, we have a long road to hike."

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The chubby heartless looked as though it wanted to giggle, the idea was atrocious and frightening. Imagine for a moment a 300 lbs male walking up with a fat wide smile, a heavy face of beard and saying he wanted to give you a hug.

Donald and Goofy were slightly occupied with a set of disastrous flying balls of light, especially bad for Donald as they insisted on continuously frying his tail with fire magic.

Kairi lunged at the fat heartless as it reached out to grab her, her left arm grabbed his right wrist as she lifted her entire body onto his right arm. She jumped towards him and spun herself around so that her heels caught on the heartless' shoulders and she was essentially standing on them.

Virgin's Kiss - Last Touch

Kairi dropped from the heartless' back as her blade struck him straight on the head, she then jumped off his back like a dolphin and as she arced forward, preparing to land, her blade flashed again slashing at the heartless' head sideways.

The head of the large figure tore into four pieces and the rest of the body disintegrated behind it.

Another one appeared before her in the place of the fallen, she would have done the same thing, but she was getting tired. Lack of stamina was the only reason she hadn't made it to the end of the world of darkness as far as she was concerned.

She lifted her keyblade in front of her, closed her eyes and began to concentrate.

Keyblade Magic - Open

The emerald blade glowed as she plunged it into the belly of the fat heartless, the blade sinking in as though the round shield were cotton.

When the blade had completely sunken in, she turned it sideways and emerald light exploded from the corners of the heartless, sending the dark image away and releasing another heart that flowed off into the distance.

Yet another heartless stepped into the void she had created, there seemed no end to these things. Her steps began to fall back as she fended it off and before she knew it, her backs touched that of Donald and Goofy's.

"Gwarsh looks like we're in trouble again."

"Wrong Goofy, this is called a tactical gathering of strategic minds." Donald quacked.

"Gwarsh that's uhh... a wut and wut?"

Kairi chuckled, "Looks like we lost this one, we'll have to pull out while we still can."

Just then all the heartless went silent as they stepped aside and opened a path in front of Kairi.

Astonished, confused, and extremely cautious Kairi beckoned Donald and Goofy to look her way.

"Huyuh, I think it's a sign."

"From the heartless? Are you crazy Goofy?"

"But gwarsh Donald, they've never done this before."

Kairi stopped the two of them, "No matter guys this is one chance I don't want to..."

But she realized by this point that the path hadn't been made for her, it had been made for someone else who was coming to them. In the distance she could see a man who was floating closer, a tall lean figure, silver hair, wearing a large black coat. (Not Sephiroth.)

"Welcome wielder of the Keyblade, my name is Ansem the Wise."

"Gwarsh, as in Ansem the Wise is your whole name or just the Wise part?"

Ansem held back a popping vain while Kairi held back her breath.

"You may call me Ansem." Well it did kind of answer the question.

Kairi's blade pointed towards Ansem, "You're a heartless."

"Not the most difficult observation but yes you're right. I was bored with the preparations and had heard of the feeble struggles of a lone keyblader here so I decided to drop in and say hi."

Donald stepped forward, his tail wiggling behind him, "Are you the leader of these heartless?"

"Ye...well...no technically speaking, although I do order them to do the menial chores. Such as disposing menacing keybladers, ducks and dogs."

"Well than take us to him, we're stopping you from opening the door to Kingdom Hearts."

Ansem raised his right hand as a ball of flame gathered within his palms.

Kairi pulled her keyblade back in a defensive stance just as the flame was released. The flames scattered in front of the keyblade but the searing heat scorched her lungs.

"Cough...cough."

"There is no rush...Kairi, nor do you have the ability to do much."

Kairi's face flashed up, "How do you know my name?"

"Don't recognize me? It can't be helped I suppose. I am Riku."

Kairi flung her keyblade wildly at him, "No! You're nothing like Riku!"

Ansem sidestepped the slash, "But I am, Riku, Ansem, we're one and the same. His light, my darkness. My power, his heart. Equivalent trades, a fine transaction if I do say so myself."

Kairi stood up again slowly, her posture seemingly recovered. "Let him go."

"He wants to be a part of me Kairi, why don't you just join us?"

Ansem lunged forward, another ball of flame fresh in his hand.

"Donald, Goofy."

Donald raised his staff at Kairi's blade. "Aeroga!"

Goofy stepped in front of the whole group as Ansem released his flame. Goofy raised his shield and repelled it.

Kairi stepped in from below Goofy's shield. Ansem outstretched his hands and summoned a buff heartless in front of him. Kairi jumped up.

As she began to fall, the heartless guard reached outwards with its claws, intent on shredding her.

"Ice!"

Kairi jumped off the pillar of ice beneath her while Goofy charged in with his shield repelling the heartless' assault and stunning both of them.

Kairi landed behind Ansem, without any guards in her way and his back exposed.

Virgin's Kiss - Dive

The wind gathered on the keyblade extended towards the tip until fired off like a spinning tornado. Ansem scowled as the spinning wind slashed him in the back.

He spun around, angry and his hands extending towards Kairi.

She lowered her body and slid into him as her right foot stepped on his left. For a moment Ansem looked as though he was slipping forwards.

"Second strike."

The keyblade was brought up to his falling body as she released the foot she was stepping on. Sending Ansem flying back with another scowl of pain.

She pointed her keyblade at Ansem as he struggled up, lifted by a crowd of heartless that still surrounded them motionlessly.

"You seemed mistaken Ansem, you're not fighting a struggling keyblader, you've chosen the wrong match and the wrong group to have it with."

"Huyuh, that's right."

"Just go back to the hole you crawled out of."

Ansem stood up, and with a wave of his hand dispersed the surrounding heartless.

"You would strike down a friend Kairi?"

"Don't get familiar with me, if you're really Riku then I'll take out the boss of this place and free him from you all in one fell swoop."

"Brave words girl. Come then, this encounter was a fated one and so shall be your presence."

Ansem waved his hand, the path leading to the dark tower that had dissappeared moments ago reappeared. "I shall be waiting."

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Kairi dropped to her knees, trembling as she hand her face in her hands, her keyblade dropped at her side.

"I could feel him, it was really him, Riku's alive."

Donald padded her on the back, "Don't worry, we'll save him from Ansem and we can all go home together this time."

"It's not just that Donald, if Riku's still alive, then maybe, maybe Sora is."

Goofy seemed to have a lightbulb click ontop of him, "Gwarsh why didn't I think of that. Sora and Riku were both together when we last saw them."

Donald didn't seem as optimistic, he remembered how Riku had taken Sora's heart, it was hardly likely that he was still alive, or at least human.

"Sora, please be ok...please...come back to me..."

Kairi sobbed silently, as she stood up, she still had ways to go, it couldn't end yet, not until she found everyone like Sora once did and this time they would go home together.

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Yet the judge plays with cruel twists, Sora will no longer be Sora. Riku feels no desire to return, and soon Kairi herself will be engulfed by the darkness.

All this Sora, because you broke the law. If only you could see how your other selves suffered, what would you do? What would you think?

This is punishment, this is judgment.

There is no happy ending.

...I do apologize to you disney lovers out there...

Is there no happy ending? Is this not a disney fanfic? There's certainly no pornographic material and I've even laid off on swearing, so then maybe there is a happy ending after all?

Find out in the next chapter, or the one after that, or the one after that, in this epic saga of Kingdom Hearts: Defying Judgment