Anne: At last! I finally have my newly edited chapter back! Yippee!
Ashley: Yeah, yeah start the story already!
Sora: Get on with it!
Leon: Get on with it!
Disclaimer: Anne does not own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters, though she has kidnapped two of them from Squaresoft and Disney.
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Chapter One: The Arrival to Twilght Town
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we—"
"NO!" Squalled Donald Duck, a mage duck dressed in a blue outfit that could be best described as that of a sailor's.
Sora, the fifteen-year-old Keyblade Master, with spiky brunette hair and brilliant sky-blue eyes grinned slyly. "Just checking," he said.
The trio, Sora, Donald, and Goofy (the Captain of the Royal Knights) were currently somewhere in deep space, on their way to Twilight Town, where Leon back in Traverse Town, told them was the best place to start looking for King Mickey and Riku, both of whom had not been heard of since Kingdom Hearts had been closed a year ago. Over the past year, though, Sora and his comrades have been hunting down rouge Heartless and searching for the King and Riku. But even that didn't stop Sora from growing up. Eventually he had to get new clothes and shoes or else he would have to go around naked for Christ's sake!
Sora's new duds weren't that bad, though. A navy blue and red shirt under a black jacket that was similar to his old one and black shorts with yellow bands criss-crossing over each other on his legs. Black, fingerless gloves and yellow and black shoes adorned his hands and feet. Despite these changes, Sora still attained his crown medallion and the chain that hung down on his hip.
"You got 30 seconds till you're off," the young Keyblade Master announced to Donald, who was piloting the Gummi ship.
Donald gulped. Not because he was getting booted off the pilot's seat any second now, but because of who was going to replace him once his shift was over.
"10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. BLAST OFF!" Yelled a rather enthusiastic Sora.
"Yippee!" Cheered Goofy.
Donald let go of the controls and somewhat reluctantly got out of the pilot's seat. Sora was sitting in it in a heartbeat.
"Please keep all hands, feet, wings, and ears in side the gummi ship at all times. We will be arriving in Twilight Town shortly," the brunette said to no one in particular as he flipped a few switches and pressed a couple buttons
2 hours later
"Twilight Town dead ahead!" Sora announced to his comrades.
No response.
Looking back, the fifteen-year-old saw Goofy looking a bit woozy and Donald clutching his chair as if his life depended on it.
"Aw… c'mon! It wasn't that bad was it?" the teen pouted.
Goofy only shaded a few colors more green and Donald looked like he was going to explode into a jillion pieces of guts and feathers.
"DAMNIT, SORA! LOOK WHERE YOUR GOING!" the short-tempered duck practically screamed as Sora snapped back to piloting the gummi ship.
After a somewhat rough landing, and Goofy had thrown up, the trio entered Twilight Town from the train station.
"Wow," Goofy gasped as Sora blew a low whistle, "This place is mighty big. Do you think we can find the King and Riku here?"
"Of course!" scoffed Sora, "They're probably wandering around somewhere."
"King Mickey does not just wander!" Donald protested against the way Sora talked about his King.
Sora sensing another "Donald rant" started walking out of the train station towards the Clock Tower, which stood out like a candle in a dark room. "Hey, why don't we check out that building over there?" he asked pointing at the Clock Tower. Goofy nodded in agreement while Donald continued his rant not giving any sign he had heard Sora.
"C'mon Donald!" said Goofy as he tapped Donald on the shoulder to let him know they were moving on. "Besides, Sora isn't even listening anymore."
Still grumbling, the duck followed his friends wondering why the King had put him up to this.
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"Look! Look Sekou! The shooting stars!" a girl shouted, almost falling from her perch on the highest ledge of the Clock Tower.
"Wow, cool!" a boy with black hair that stood straight up on his head due to a blue and white headband exclaimed.
Sekou gazed at the meteor wondering. He knew what falling stars meant, the world barrier was down, but surely not here in Twilight Town?
"You okay, Sekou?" asked Haru, a sixteen-year-old with dirty blonde hair and jungle green eyes, looking at the dazed expression on his best friend's face with concern. Ever since Sekou returned to Twilight Town, he's been acting different than before the fifteen-year-old left.
"Huh?" said Sekou as he snapped out of his trance, "Oh, yeah, I'm fine."
"Good! 'Cuz I wanna get a picture of this!" Haru stated, taking out his camera.
"Aw… Haru! Not another picture!" complained Kocha, the boy with the black hair.
"It's not that bad, guys!" chipped in Sakura, the only girl in their gang.
Sekou and Kocha still groaned. But when Haru raised the camera, they smiled anyways (might as well look good in a picture). Then, quite suddenly, Sakura's phone rang, startling the guys.
"You gotta turn that thing off sometime!" scolded Sekou.
Sakura made a face as she answered her phone.
"Hello? Oh, hi! Yeah, I'll be right there!"
Hanging the mobile phone up, the brunette turned to look at here guy friends who were yawning and looking at invisible watches that weren't there.
"Ha ha, very funny," she said, "By the way my mom wants me home, so I gotta go. See ya!" With that, the fourteen-year-old stood up and walked to the stairs that led to the Clock Tower's exit.
"Later."
"Bye."
"See ya 'round."
Taking one last look at the meteor shower, Sakura waved good-bye and headed down the stairs.
The boys stayed up on the ledge for about another hour before they trooped back inside and talked about "guy stuff" (girls, food, what you would do if you had a million munny, etc.). Eventually, Kocha left for home, leaving Haru and Sekou alone.
"Hey, Sekou?" Haru asked as he sketched in his sketchbook that he took practically everywhere with him. Haru was an awesome artist. He could draw almost anything you told him to. Once he even made a comic about his friends in the Clock Tower.
"Hm?" replied Sekou; nearly falling off the crate he was sittingon.
"Are you still having those dreams? You know, the ones about you protecting the 'Keyblade Master'?"
Sekou was silent for a moment. Yes, he was still having those dreams about protecting the Keyblade Master, but the latest one, (which was last night in fact) had been quite confusing. "Yes. And I think they're getting worse, Haru."
Haru nodded knowingly, and taking up his pencil and paper, he said, "Tell me about it."
"Well, it begins and everything's all black and still," Sekou started, "Then, I see a woman just standing there with a light shining on her."
"What does this woman look like?" asked Haru as his pencil sketched lines madly on the paper.
"She had long, red hair that went to her waist, it was tied up in a high ponytail, too. Her eyes werebright forest green, and almond shaped. She wore a white habit-like robe with a red cord tied around her waist. There was a scabbard with a long knife there, too."
"What was her expression like?"
Sekou thought for a minute. "You could hardly see it, but she seemed to be pleased about something."
"Did she say anything?" Haru pressed on, still drawing.
"Yes," replied Sekou, "she said her name was Fortuna and that she has been given the duty to urge me to find the Keyblade Master. It was pointless, though, cuz I don't have any leads or clues whatsoever on where this 'Keyblade Master is! Then suddenly, she challenged me to fight her."
"Did you?" asked Haru curiously.
"Yeah. I didn't want to, but yeah," scoffed Sekou, obviously not liking the next part of the dream. "I drew my keyblades, the Oblivion and Oathkeeper, you know, and she drew her long dagger. Suddenly the scenery changed and we were in a desert or somewhere like that. She attacked first with that dagger and nearly got me by a hair. We battled until she started using magic on me. Everything felt so real, the heat of the sun, the sand under my feet, even the attacks I couldn't evade felt just as real as if I were awake."
"Who won the match?" inquired Haru, pausing briefly from his sketching of Sekou's dream.
"Neither," he said, "I was on the ground and she was about to deal the final blow when I woke up."
The boys sat in silence as Haru finished up his sketching. When he was done he showed it to Sekou, who was surprised to how much resemblance the drawings had to the actual "people" (if you could call them that) Sekou had described.
"Wow, Haru! You outdid yourself this time for sure!" complimented Sekou.
"Heh. You haven't seen it yet! Wait till I fine tune it!" Haru smirked.
Sekou smirked back, "Then wait I will do."
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Anne: Whew! That was a lot of typing for me! (Most I've done in like a jillion years!)
Sora: it was only five pages, Anne!
Ashley: Yeah! Think about the original written draft you did! Eleven pages! And all the editing I had to do to slave away at this for! Then you practically change the entire thing!
Anne: (Looks at written draft, then at typed version) You're right! This is way different! Look how much I cut out and rearranged!
Leon: god let me out of here!
Ashley: (glomps Leon) Oh, you don't mean that do you, Squally?"
Leon: that's Leon. And let go of me!
Anne: It will make me very happy if you review and tell me whether or not if I should continue.
Sora: Anne would also like to thank her reviewers on her other stories/ poems!
Everybody: Ja ne!