Announcements and response to Unknown/Anonymous reviewer of chapter 5. #1) Any and all holes in the story shall be filled and packed by the end. You must have patience. Why would you read any fiction if you knew what was going to happen? That's no fun atall. Any thing that you do not feel was covered well by the end, I will personally e-mail you and fill you in, unless whatever you said is just stupid. In which case I will tell you so. #2) This story is based on actual knowledge and many decent/acceptable theories that I have come up with and or have heard. If you want my source, by the end (again) I will tell you it.
Sora looked out of the ship cockpit. It felt like forever since he had last been in one of these. But as he watched the stars rush by, his mind eventually wandered back to the task at hand.
Sora checked his personal inventory and things were not looking good. Firstly were his key-chains. He had lost a good deal of them, including the Fairy Harp, the Crab Claw and the Pumpkin Head. He had stupidly given the Lionheart back to Leon and the Ultima Weapon chain was destroyed in the final battle with Ansem. And as Sora did a re-check he had apparently lost Oblivion and Oathkeeper as well.
Crud... I was positive that I had had them a few days ago... This left Sora pretty much with the Jungle King, the 3 Wishes and the Spellbinder he received from Merlin. Unfortunately, these chains weren't very impressive. He also had the metal Chobocco, however that was too heavy to be useful in a real battle. For now, Sora would simply stay with the default Kingdom Key chain.
Sora looked out of the window again and was surprised to see that they had entered a new cluster of stars, and a new world was coming into view. They'd only been flying for a few hours, usually the length of time was much longer.
This world had snow all around it, and visible, even from space, was a huge building. It looked like an emperor's palace. "Why are there fires all around that Palace?" Sora asked.
"I dunno" said Goofy who was apparently awake. Sora shook his other companion. "Donald! Let's go down there!"
"Alright. Here we go..." Donald said, the duck moved the ship and they slipped into the new world's atmosphere.
Sora & Company walked into the middle of a battle field. Arrows were flying, soldiers were charging and metal was clashing. Sora ducked as an arrow missed him by inches. Together they took cover behind a large rock, however they already had company.
A soldier was trying to light what looked like a rocket. "Light." The soldier said forcefully. He had a strange voice. "Light. Light!!" He was clashing two rocks together probably hoping that the stray sparks were going to shoot the rocket off.
"Here" Sora said, startling the soldier who instantly whirled around. "Let me try." Sora brought out the Keyblade and tip the end of the rocket with it. In his mind Sora mentioned fire, and a several sparks fell from the tip, igniting the dragon rocket.
The soldier's eyes widened and he hastily aimed before letting the missile fire off. It flew up, sparking and launched toward the top of the snow covered mount. Its explosion caused a small avalanche which buried many of the oncoming enemies.
The soldier looked up at Sora who was crouched beside him. "Thanks" he whispered in that strange voice, like it wasn't quite his own. It sounded like he was trying to hard to be macho or something of the sort.
"Yeah! Much thanks" said a cocky voice. A red lizard appeared on the soldier's shoulder. "D'you know last time she used me to light that thing?!" The soldiers eyes widened, and something was clicking into place in Sora's mind. "Mushu!" Both the soldier and the lizard instantly stopped their struggling and turned to stare at Sora.
The little dragon squinted at him hard. "Do we know you?" Sora nodded his head enthusiastically, "Don't you remember? Back when-" Sora felt a fierce tugging on his vest. It was Donald.
Donald whispered to him hurriedly. "He won't remember you! He was only a lost heart back then, and all hearts were properly returned to their world when you closed Kingdom Hearts!" Sora was frozen with sudden understanding. "Oops, sorry Donald forgot..." Donald gave him a look of annoyance and incredulity.
Sora turned back to Mushu and his friend. "Sorry. But I must be thinking of somebody else." This seemed to relax them both slightly, however they still shot strange looks at him occasionally.
"So, who are you fighting?" Sora asked, trying desperately to change the subject and learn more about this place at the same time. "Sudden invaders" said the soldier "they showed up out of nowhere a couple days ago. We're trying to get back to the Emperor, but we got held up here...."
Sora looked up over the boulder, the avalanche had taken out a good deal, but there were still several black dots moving towards them, there were still people fighting on both sides.
"Do you know who these invaders are?" Sora said dropping back down behind the boulder. The soldier shook his head. "We've never seen them before. They have strange dark bodies, and have powers of demons. But we must still fight on. Whether they are demons or not."
Sora felt a strange sinking feeling in his stomach. Never before seen? Dark bodies? Demons? The Keyblade master was willing to bet that knew what these beings were after all. He soon found out for sure as a figure leaped on top of their hiding place.
Sora looked up. The figure had great wings and was a deep shade of mixed purple colors. It had a dark jagged mouth and glowing yellow eyes. "Heartless!" At this moment the gargoyle tackled into him, instead of flying and blasting from afar. Sora and the Heartless tumbled through the snow, eventually coming to a sliding stop a good way from the boulder. Sora staggered to his feet, dizzy. He didn't know if Heartless got dizzy, but he did notice that the Gargoyle's wing had been damaged so it was unable to fly.
Sora held his head with one hand and raised the Keyblade with the other. Once he stopped wobbling, he charged forward in an overhead smash, followed up with a stabbing motion and finished the combo with his usual spinning slash. The Heartless went flying and laid in the ground. But it slowly started to get up again. "Yeah well, eat this!" Another fireball blasted from the Keyblade and hit the gargoyle squarely in the chest, releasing the captive Heart and destroying the Heartless.
He saw Donald and the others struggling with other Heartless back at the boulder. He ran uphill, making slow progress due to the snow and the steepness. They would have to hold on until he got there.
Donald's staff glowed with power and he smashed a Shadow with it, releasing dark vapor and a stolen Heart. Another Gargoyle appeared and fired a dark ball toward him. Goofy stepped in front of Donald, blocking the attack with his raised shield.
Donald waved his wand in a downward motion, a tiny black ball appearing at the end of it, and a larger black ball crushing the Heartless. Donald knew that Gargoyles tended to need a good beating before finally disappearing, but the Gravity spells seemed to do an extra bit of damage, especially if the Heartless was high up.
Donald did not have the brute strength of Goofy, or the outright skill of Sora, so the only way he survived the journey was by learning what spells did what. For instance, he noticed that Shadows didn't like fire, attacks could be reflected with the proper Aero spell level, and lightning did decent damage to all except, Gargoyles, Invisibles and those hour-glasses with wings. He couldn't remember what they were called, Jiminy had returned to the Magical Kingdom.
"Mulan!" Donald turned as he heard a struggle. That soldier and the mini-dragon Mushu had been confronted by two Heartless. Donald was about to use Thunder before realizing that he'd probably hit the allies too, they were too close to the Heartless.
The Heartless were of the Soldier variety and one leapt up to strike..."No you don't!" Sora had finally reached them and hacked away with the Keyblade dispatching them without any harm done.
Sora stood up, still alert, but the Heartless were retreating. Sora knew they had to be up to something. Heartless didn't care about losing numbers in a battle, there was more than enough Darkness to draw power from. They could only have been ordered to draw back.
"Are you alright, Mulan, was it?" The soldier vigorously shook his head. "The name's Ping" Sora looked confused and was about to reply but was cut off. "And I'm fine thanks"
Ping looked up and saw her fellow warriors rallying. "I gotta go. Thanks for your help." Ping ran over to her companions, Mushu disappearing under the armor. "Gawrsh." Goofy said. "I was sure that the name was Mulan..." Donald shrugged.
Sora felt the same way as the duck. "It doesn't matter, the Heartless are after something here, probably just the world's heart, but we still gotta check it out." The ally soldiers were beginning to march off somewhere. Sora could see Ping constantly stumble and then try to catch up again.
"C'mon" Sora said. "Let's follow them"
And that's that for this chapter....However in the next chapter (two chapters? Maybe?) some holes will be filled in. Or perhaps new ones will pop up. –Shrugs- Who knows what the future holds?
(I sure don't)