Chapter 3: World 1- Corpse Bride

A/N: Well, here is the first world, it's based on the corpse bride movie if anyone has watched it. If you haven't then go watch it, it's awesome! Also if anyone knows a link to a really good picture of all the characters in kingdom hearts two. (Sora, Riku, Roxas, Namine, Kari etc.) And they must be in their new clothes, also a link to the cast in the first one, and chain of memories. Why? I'm planning to make a drawing for my friend, also another Kingdom Hearts fan. Its going to be a bye bye gift for when school is finished.

Disclaimer: Kingdom hearts is not mine of course, although I wish it was…

Sora, Donald and Goofy were amazed at what they saw. Mickey though wasn't surprised.

"Where are we your majesty?" Goofy asked poking various plants and rocks.

"This is the world of the corpse bride. Legend has it there was a beautiful bride about to wed the love of her life, after waiting for her fiancé where the couple planned to rendezvous before getting hitched. When her groom arrives, he kills her, and she rests in the ground to wait for her soul mate."

"That's awfully sad," Goofy said.

Sora looked ahead of them, and all he saw was a gloomy street. A blur suddenly passed them, and Mickey told them to follow it.

"You never know, it could be a heartless," Mickey said right before they ran after it.

They hid behind a tree as the creature stopped. Goofy was about to say something, but Donald covered his mouth because the creature appeared to be a man, and it was saying something.

"What is he saying?" Goofy finally whispered after Donald let go of his mouth.

"Sora and Goofy both shrugged, but Mickey had the answer, "It sounds like wedding vows."

"Why is he saying it in the middle of nowhere?" Sora asked looking at the man again.

"Probably practicing," Donald replied.

They continued to watch, and as he finished it, he placed the ring on a tree branch.

"I did it I did it!" he yelled.

But a mist surrounded him, he fell down on his ass and had a scared look on his face.

"What's going on?" Sora asked, but was quickly silenced by Mickey.

"You may kiss the bride!" a voice said.

It was a blue woman, she was dressed in a bride's dress but it looked torn, and one of her hands were all bone.

"Who are y-you?" the man asked.

"Why I'm your new bride!" and she pulled him into the mist.

"We have to go save him!" Sora cried and ran for the mist.

Mickey ran after him, and Goofy followed. Donald tapped his foot and said, "Oh brother!" and he took off with them.

When they entered the new place, they too turned blue, also Sora had a bandaged arm, and parts of his pants were torn. Goofy's hat was gone, and parts of his clothes were torn.

Donald had no feathers on his tail and wore a eyepatch. Mickey had part of his ear torn, and his suite was torn.

"What happened to us?" Goofy said, but before anyone replied, a bell rang and many people came.

"New arrivals!" a woman said.

Suddenly the bar they were in was full, and a head with a whole bunch of ants carrying him came over.

"Bonjour gentlemen!" it said, Sora jumped up in surprise and Donald turned bluer.

"What? Anyways, here's a drink on ze house!"

They looked at the bubbly liquid, "But I'm not of legal drinking age yet!" Sora said pushing it away.

They then turned around to see that people were singing. Apparently, a skeleton was telling the story of the corpse bride.

After the song, the woman turned to the man, "I'm so excited now that we're married."

The man stuttered, "But it's all a misunderstanding!" he was about to say more, but then another skeleton came in and was in shock.

"T-there are a lot of monsters outside!"

"There are always monsters here."

"No, like shadows, real scary monster!"

"Why would heartless be here when they're all dead?" asked Sora.

"They must be after him!" Goofy yelled.

Sora looked at him, the bride heard what they said, and told them to follow her.

They ran and ran til they reached the top of a hill.

"What's your name miss?" Goofy asked.

"It's Emily, and who are you four?"

"I'm Sora, these are Donald, Goofy, and Mickey."

Emily smiled and faced the man, "What's your name?"

"It's Victor."

They all shook hands, but their time was cut short because a heartless appeared.

"I've never seen these ones before," Sora said.

"Ansem created more heartless, they're called empty shells," Mickey explained getting out his keyblade.

Sora took out his and told them to get ready.

"I haven't done this in a while," Sora said. He dashed towards them, he evaded all their attacks and slashed each of them. They all died in just a simple hit. Goofy plowed through them with his shield, and Donald launched various magic spells. Mickey too attacked the heartless.

They finished the last one and gave each other high fives.

"Are you ok?" Sora asked Emily and Victor.

"Yes, that was incredible!" Victor's frown turned into a smile amazed at what they did.

"Yes, I never new that you guys could do that!"

"Have these things ever been here before?" Donald asked.

"No, this is a first time!" Emily looked around to see that there were no more.

She then turned to Victor who once again turned mopey.

"I have a surprise for you Victor!"

He looked at her and heard barking, "Oh my gosh!"

He picked up the dog of bones and happily played and petted it.

"It's so cute!" Sora said petting it.

They played with it for a while, but then Victor stood up, "I have to get back."

"Back?" the corpse was curious.

"You mean to the living world?" Mickey asked.

"I miss her," he said petting the dog softly and sighing.

Emily grew angry, "Her? Her? Who is this other woman?"

"You don't understand, you're the other woman!"

"But you're married to me!"

"No, it's all a misunderstanding, everything I said in the forest, it was practice. I didn't mean to marry you," and he turned away from her.

Sora and co. just stared at them lost for words.

'So she thought that he was going to marry her. I feel so sorry for him, but her story,m it's too sad,' Sora thought frowning.

"But…" she pulled out her hand, then she turned and stood up, "I thought you wanted to be with me," and she ran for it.

Vioctor turned to the direction she ran, "Emily, I'm sorry…"

"Why won't you say it to her?" Donald suggested.

"I just want to go back."

Back in the living world, Victor's true bride to be was sitting restless in her room.

"Victor where are you?"

Downstairs, hyer parents walked around impatiently, "Where is that boy?" the father said.

They stopped to hear footsteps approaching, "Poor girl, such a beautiful young lady, and yet this boy runs away," he turned to face them.

"Lord Barkus? What are you doing here?" the mother asked.

"I heard about what happened to the boy. He ran away."

"Yes, but why are you here."

"To see the young lady, she must be lonely."

"What about your wife?"

"She died, she was murdered before our wedding."

"I see, what if you marry our daughter?"

As the man thought, the two parents talked.

"Yes, we shall regain our status."

"We won't have to be connected to that other family anymore!"

"This opportunity is brilliant."

They turned to him again and he gave them his answer, "Yes."

"Victoria! Victoria darling!" her mother burst through the door.

"What is it mother! Did you find Victor?"

"Forget him, Lord Barkus will be your new groom," she announced, and a man stepped in.

"Hello my dear Victoria, may we have a wonderful wedding," he smiled at her and he and her mother left.

"No, no it can't be…Victor…"

Victor was pacing around, "How am I supposed to get back?"

"You can ask Emily," Mickey suggested.

"She probably won't even look at me."

"It's worth a try," Goofy added.

Sora put his hand on Victor's shoulder, "She probably loves you Victor, she'll help you if it'll make you happy."

Victor nodded in agreement and they ran into the direction of where she ran off.

Meanwhile Emily sat before her piano, she played a sad song, "Why, why can't I ever find happiness?"

A worm popped out of her head, "Your happy, most of the time."

"But my heart, I have non yet I still feel this pain, I strike a knife into my body, I feel no pain, yet his words, they hurt me so much."

Victor heard the music playing and decided to follow it, "This way Sora."

Sora nodded and he heard the music playing, 'It's beautiful, but so sad.'

They finally reached her, "Emily! I'm sorry."

She turned away and continued to play. He looked down at the piano and he too began to play. She noticed this and tried to beat him. But in the process she ended up having so much fun she overdid it and her hand snapped off.

"Sorry," she said.

"No it's ok," he smiled at her and she smiled back.

Back in the living world, Victor's parents continued to search for him. Their driver just kept on driving, but gasped at what he saw. He moved the strings around making the horse move.

"What in the world?" a huge shadow appeared before him and knocked him off. The horse kept on going, but he was stuck.

The shadow came closer and placed it's hand into him. He screamed in horror as it pulled out his heart.

"NEW ARRIVAL!" yelled the same woman from before.

He arrived down in the world of the dead.

"I'm dead?"

"Yes!"

"But what was that?"

Sora and co. decided to leave them alone and decided to see who the new arrival was. When they enetered the bar they saw a man shivering.

"What was that?" he said over and over again.

"What was what?" Donald asked.

"There was a huge shadow thing, it stole my heart."

Mickey's eyes thinned, "Heartless."

Sora grew angry, "What? There too? I can't believe it, their back!"

Another scream was heard outside.

It was Emily, she was attacked by an empty shell.

"Again?" Goofy yelled.

They charged after it, using the same maneuvers as before. They just appeared over and over again making them tired. They finished it off without a scratch, but they were exhausted.

Victor and Emily entered the bar after and Victor quickly recognized Mayhew.

"Mayhew! I'm sorry, what happened?"

"This shadow thing knocked me back and stole my heart."

"Victor, it's a heartless," Sora said eyes growing anghry.

"Oh no, mom, dad, Victoria!"

"We must quickly go to your home. Follow me, I know how to get there."

They followed her, and as they ran more empty shells came after them. They were able to destroy them though.

Sora saw an old man, and he created a potion for them, they all drank it and teleported to the next world.

To Sora's surprise, many heartless roamed around.

"Dammit!" he groaned.

The heartless surrounded them, they did what they could to let Victor and Emily pass by. They ran and fought doing their best to fend the heartless off.

They finally arrived at Victoria's house, they knocked fiercely.

"Please be ok Victoria…"

The door swung open and they saw Victoria's parents unconscious.

"What happened here?" Mickey asked.

Victor didn't answer, he quickly ran up the stairs to Victoria's room.

"VICTIORIA!"

She was in a corner, hiding from something. Victor without thinking ran to her. But then they heard a beast snarl. Victor quickly looked back, he tried to run away but the beast knocked him out.

"Firaga!" Donald called out attacking the monster from a far.

"What is that?" Mickey asked Victoria.

"It's Lord Barkus, he lost his heart and then a huge shadow took over him."

They looked at him. Another pool of darkness appeared, and someone Sora couldn't believe came out. It was Riku.

"Riku!" Sora yelled and ran to him, but was topped when Riku pulled out his hand.

"Stay away from me!"

"But Riku…"

"You stay away!"

"Riku, what happened, you look different."

"This is my new outfit. I control darkness, I control the shadows Sora. I don't need you or anyone."

"Riku!" Mickey cried out, "What's gotten into you?"

"Nothing your majesty," he looked at him directly, "I just became stronger."

Sora ran towards him again, but Riku disappeared into the pool of darkness, just as he faded he screamed out, "Go Barkus, destroy them!"

Victor came back to consciousness and stayed next to Victoria, "Don't worry Victoria, I'll protect you."

Emily looked at him, and sighed, 'He loves her, I can't come between them…' Emily then walked to the other corner watching the beast attack Sora.

Sora blocked the attack and countered it. He leaped up and struck the beast in the head.

Donald casted various spells trying to help the best he can. Goofy attacked from the rear, and Mickey joined Sora in attacking.

Mickey jumped onto its head and sliced the horn. Sora saw how effective it was and told Mickey to continue.

Donald saw that they were getting injured and cast aeroga and curaga on them both also cura on Goofy because he received the least damage.

After Mickey shattered the horn Sora was to strike the finishing blow. And it connected.

It was destroyed and it showed Barkus. He stood up and saw the corpse bride, "You again?"

Emily saw him and glared, "You."

"I thought I got rid of you," Barkus said. He turned to see Victor, "You boy?"

He walked towards him and saw a piece of the horn Mickey shattered.

"You boy will not get in the way."

He walked towards Victor and Victor got up. Barkus swung the piece around, but Victor continued to dodge it. But as he was to be struck with no where to go, Emily stood in the way and took the blow. The shard got stuck into her and she pulled it out.

"Now you get what you deserve," and she struck him with it.

Later that night after they got cleaned up, Victor and Victoria got married.

Emily stood at the exit and faced the stars.

"Are you ok Emily?" Sora asked.

"Barkus is dead, I'm free…"

Victor came next to her, "Are you going to be ok?"

"Yes, you helped me. I knew what it felt to love again, and Barkus' death set me free. I want to thank you Victor, and I want you to live a loing and happy life with her. Goodbye…" she breathed in again, and as she exhaled, she turned into many butterflies and flew away.

"Beautiful," Victoria said, Victor nodded and faced Sora.

"Thank you Sora, your majesty. You helped set her free, I am most grateful."

"No problem, but we have a problem of our own, we have to go now," Sora waved goodbye to them and the others followed him out.

The world turned into the field again, "I can't believe it. Its happening again, Riku, why?" and Sora just stared out.

"Shadow, Barkus failed to destroy them."

"It's ok Riku, we have other chances."

"But I want to kill him!"

"Not now, I just need you to test your strength. Your strong, but not as good as I. Go train, I have to go speak to the Organization."

Riku bowed to Shadow, "Yes master."

A/N: What is Shadow's connection to them? Is he master to them? Master of Ansem? Or are they just rivals, old friends, you never know…