Listen With Your Heart

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any other Disney/SquareEnix games/movies.

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Ch.1

A beautiful young native girl paddled quickly toward the shore. Her arms ached and begged for her to stop, being the only one on the canoe and all. The current was going the other direction of which she wanted to go.

It took awhile, but she managed to jump out of her canoe, carelessly leaving it in the shallow water. She needed advice, and she needed it before anything should happen.

"Grandmother Willow! Grandmother!" she yelled as her ivory black hair blew wildly behind her. A curious raccoon and a hummingbird were at her heels.

She stopped in front of an old willow tree, where there was a stump platform, and faced it. Suddenly, a kind old face suddenly formed at the midsection of the willow tree. "Pocahontas, what's wrong young one?"

"I think something terrible is about to happen!" she wheezed out.

The aged tree looked at the worn out girl, "Slow down, what is going on?"

Pocahontas stopped in mid-sentence and took in a deep breath. "Grandmother Willow…I've been having these strange dreams for many days now, and it seems like there will be trouble."

"Explain, my child," the old willow said as she turned her full attention to the native girl sitting in front of her.

"Well," she began, "I'm standing in the sky around the stars. In my hands, there is a round ivory stone that shines so brightly, my eyes sting. As I'm looking at it, it starts to glow a menacing color. All of a sudden, the ivory turns black and it falls to the ground and shatters into many pieces…"

"Oh my…," the willow gasped.

The girl then stood up. "But I think there's a way to fix it."

"Do tell..."

Pocahontas put her hands over her heart in hopes. "In my second dream, I am still in the night sky holding the black, ivory stone. But, this time, a hand reached out and touched it. And, as quick as it turned black, it became white again!"

Grandmother then asked curiously, "do you know to whom the hand belongs to?"

"No, not really. Their face was covered with shadows. The only thing I saw was a strange symbol hanging around their neck. It sounds similar to the object that the king in London wore, as John Smith described to me. I think it is called a 'crown.' "

"Hmm." The old willow pondered for a minute, "it was 'you' that was holding the rounded stone, was it not? I think the future of the earth lies in you and that person's hands. I don't think my aged wisdom cannot aid you on this journey."

Pocahontas had a disappointed look on her face, "I understand Grandmother Willow. Thank you for all your help."

And with that, she got up and walked back to her canoe. She called out to the raccoon and the hummingbird; "Meeko. Flit. Let's go home."

It was going to be an awful day.

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"Pocahontas!" yelled Nakoma, another native girl. She always worried about Pocahontas because she always got herself into bad situations. Her short black hair was pulled back into a folded bun that was held together with a bone pin. Her tanned skin almost matched with her friend's. But, she was a little shorter than her.

"Pocahontas! Where ARE you!?" she yelled as she walked through the thick forest. "Where has she run off to 'this' time." She muttered to herself in frustration.

"GOTCHA!" someone yelled from behind her and tackled her to the ground.

Nakoma let out a yelp as she fell to her knees. "POCAHONTAS!"

The other girl began to giggle and help Nakoma up. "I'm sorry, but you were just standing there. I couldn't resist!"

"I think we're a little too old for these games, don't you?"

"Well," Pocahontas dragged as she ran behind and tugged at Nakoma's hair.

"Okay!" The shorter girl shrieked, "You win!" She pulled her hair back and fixed it. "Can you come with me down river to gather some berries? It would be much faster."

Pocahontas sought this as a chance for another adventure and immediately agreed. They both entered a canoe and lightly paddled, seeing that the river was already carrying them.

They traveled about two miles until they stopped near a large cliff. At it's base were many colorful kinds of berry bushes. Both put a bag on their shoulder used to gather the berries.

"Okay," Nakoma declared cheerfully, "we'll start on the outside bushes and work our way toward the middle, alright?"

Pocahontas was already heading the other direction. "Just as usual."

The shorter girl sighed to herself, "I hope she doesn't wander off again…" and she began to walk toward the other direction.

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After awhile of picking a few berries, Pocahontas decided that it was too boring and wanted to walk around a bit. Picking up her basket she walked along the river.

She loved the river, it's never the same because it always changing.

But, some people don't think like that, she guessed.

Suddenly, Meeko crashed right onto her head from above and she dropped her basket, making the berries scatter everywhere. Seeing a little bit of stars, she grabbed the raccoon and looked right at his squirming figure. "What's wrong with you?"

The raccoon started making little noises and began to point in the direction that she had been going. "What's over there?"

Immediately, it pulled itself out of her grasp and began to lead her in the direction, looking behind to see if she would follow. She saw that he looked worried, which was strange because he was the carefree type. Meeko turned back around and began scurrying forward with Pocahontas behind.

About a short minute later, he stopped inside a bush in which she crawled into. The raccoon pointed to look outside. She got the message and pushed a bit of the bush with her hand and gasped in horror at what she was looking at…

TBC

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a/N: YAY! I finished a chapter! This took a lot of effort to finish so quickly. AND I never wrote a chapter THIS long before! I took K.Megumi's advice and wrote a chapter ahead (so I can rush myself)! Arigatou Koorino Megumi!!

After watching Pocahontas like 3 times, this story suddenly hit me. (Literally, I tried to put it back on my video shelf, and it came crashing down on me. *Ooww!*)

THANX FOR ALL OF THE WONDERFUL REVIEWS! It keeps unpopular writers like me going and going. Please read and review!