Dreams in Reality
Disclaimer: No, I don't own Kingdom Hearts, and never will… ever.
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Chapter two –
Sora, Donald, and Pluto ran to the second district doors. They slammed the doors shut and a mere few seconds after that, they heard the unmistakable THUMP of the Guard Armour's head against the thick wooden door.
Donald puffed. "That was close!" he said. He glanced around briefly as if expecting another head to be flying in their direction. He didn't see one, instead, two heartless materialized in front of them. One Shadow, and one Soldier.
Donald caught Sora's eye, and it was clear what he was trying to say: Sora, do something!
Suddenly there was a shimmer of light around Sora's hand and the Keyblade appeared.
Donald pulled out his Mages Staff from his pocket.
Donald and Sora signalled at each other and ran towards the two Heartless. Two blows later, the Heartless disappeared. Sora looked up triumphantly.
"C'mon Donald. Let's go before more heartless show up."
"Go where?"
"I don't know. Deep Jungle, maybe?" Sora said.
"But how?"
"You'll see."
"I really don't see how we're going to get out of here without a gummi and---"
Almost instantly, everything around them changed. The walls turned green. Trees grew all around. Soon they were in Hippos lagoon of Deep Jungle.
"What happened?" Donald asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"That's how I got to the third district and met up with you again." Sora said, acting as if he knew everything. Suddenly, Sora noticed something different. "Where's Goofy?" he asked.
"Don't know." Donald replied. "That's why I went looking for you."
"Oh, well, come on before we run into more heartless."
Almost immediately, everything around them began changing. The walls of the second district turned into trees, and everything seemed to grow moss. A swamp came into view in front of them and soon they were in Hippos' Lagoon of deep Jungle.
Donald, Sora, and Pluto ran across Hippos' Lagoon, jumping over and onto hippos. Suddenly, Donald stopped, staring at something in the water. "Hey Sora! Look at this."
Sora went over to see what Donald was looking at. He stared into the murky water. He scrunched his eyes up to see farther down, but all he could see was a small black splodge swimming round in circles.
"What is it?" he asked still starring into the water curiously.
"I don't know," Donald replied.
Unexpectedly, the hippos began making groaning loudly as if something was biting them underwater. Slowly they made their way to the bank and looked into the water.
Sora looked across the swamp, and saw that there wasn't just one black splodge in the water.
There were thousands.
"Uh…Donald, I think we better get out of here. Fast."
Donald looked up at Sora. "What do you mean?"
Suddenly, a spray of water gushed around them, and two eels popped their heads out of the water. Their huge yellow eyes stared directly at Sora. Quickly they sprang out of the water, with their mouths wide open, ready to strike a blow. Sora got out his keyblade, but before he could do anything, he saw a tip of a gunblade slice through both eels. The eels fell to the ground and began to writhe grotesquely.
"Leon!" Sora called, his smile, growing by the second.
"Hey Sora," Leon said coolly. "Glad I found you."
"And I'm glad I didn't get eaten by two huge eels."
Leon laughed. "Come on. I'll take you to the others," he said.
"The others?" Donald asked with curiosity.
"Yeah. I somehow got here with Aerith and this other kid. He says he knows you?"
"Riku!" Sora said, "Is his name Riku?"
"Something like that, yeah," Leon replied. "Well come on already."
Sora and Donald followed Leon to a familiar campsite which both Donald and Sora recognised.
"Hey Leon," said Sora. Leon turned around. "Is there someone here who sounds like they can speak gorilla?" He asked.
"Not that I know of," Leon replied.
Sora looked down. "Okay then…"
The threesome walked into a tent to find that only Aerith was there.
"Aerith, where's the kid?" Leon asked.
"I don't know." Aerith said. "I was just sitting here, minding my own business, and he just ran out. I caught him before he got away, but he just pushed me back saying that he saw a girl….." Aerith trailed off, unable to meet anyone's gaze. "He disappeared into the Bamboo Thicket."
"What?" Sora yelled in disbelief. "Not again!" He said, slapping himself on the forehead.
"Let's go find him!" Donald suggested, trying hard, not to make Sora feel bad.
"Not without me you aren't!" Leon added hastily.
"I'm coming too." Aerith said. The threesome stared at her in surprise. "What? Just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean I can't come."
So the threesome agreed with her, and set off into Bamboo Thicket in search for Riku. It seemed more silent than they had expected.
"Don't you guys think it's too quiet?" Donald asked.
"Yeah," Aerith had to agree.
They all stopped, listening for any sounds at all. But they could hear nothing but the faint whistle of the wind around them. Suddenly, the trees behind Sora began rustling. Sora spun around briskly.
"Uh… guys?" Sora said, backing away from the trees. He turned towards his friends, and saw that they were all taking a step back as well.
"What do you think it is?" asked Aerith, a terrified look creeping onto her face. Leon gestured for her to be quiet. He stared into the trees with great concentration. Suddenly, a tiger, which Donald and Sora knew well, jumped out of the bushes, roaring angrily at each one of them.
"Sabor!" yelled Donald.
Sabor looked around, and caught sight of a baby Gorilla. Sabor pounced, and the gorilla ran as Sabor chased it into the forest.
"Whew! I'm glad he couldn't see us!" Sora said, wiping his forehead nervously.
"Sabor can't see you, but heartless can." An unfamiliar voice called from behind Sora. The foursome spun around briefly, and found themselves staring at a short, stubby little girl, with frizzy ginger hair, trying to balance one-footed on a thin log.
"Who are you?" Sora asked, having the suspicion that Riku followed this girl.
"Tesa," said the girl.
"Uh… who?"
"Tesa," Said the girl again. "Just Tesa."
No, Tesa is not a sue. Just in case you jump to any conclusions, I guarantee you, she will not be a sue. As long as my sister remains a Sue basher, I cannot and will not write any sues.