Prologue
A Call to New Adventures
A new day dawned bright and clear on Destiny Islands as the Keyblade Wielders and their friends celebrated their victory over another force of darkness that tried to take over another world. Sora Lucis Caelum and Kairi were sitting on the Paopu Tree holding hands looking out into the sunrise as they smiled at each other. A tear rolled slowly down Kairi's cheek as they leaned towards each other and kissed.
Everyone stood as they watched this moment unfold before them.
"I'm glad we pulled through together, Kairi," said Sora as he plopped down from the Paopu the ground.
"Thank you Sora," she replied, "I'm glad you're okay too."
Riku and the others smiled at the happy couple when his gummi phone rang in his jacket pocket. He picked it up and answered it.
"Hello," said Riku.
"Listen guys," said Chip, "We need you to come to Master Yen Sid's Tower right away!"
"It's really important," added Dale jumping excitedly on the desk.
"Tell Master Yen Sid we'll be right there," replied Riku, and clicked the transmitter off.
Riku soon arrived near the tree with Sora and Kairi. "Hey you two, duty calls!" called Riku.
"Yes sir!" replied Sora and Kairi, and the three friends laughed at their humorous banter.
Once everyone was gathered at the docking bay of the Gummi Ship, Sora took a look through the Canopy of the Golden Highwind as they lifted off from the Islands into deep space. They said goodbye to Hayner, Pence, and Olette after dropping them off at Twilight Town with a promise to see each other again. Afterwards, they raced off into the farthest reaches of the Realm of Light to the Disney Castle, the heart of Disney Town, where King Mickey would be welcomed back by Queen Minnie and Duchess Daisy. Among them was the world Traveller Scrooge McDuck with his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie who were excited to meet the Savior of the Worlds, Sora. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Riku, Ventus, Terra, Aqua, Lea, Roxas, Xion, Namine, Isa, and Mickey soon off-boarded the Gummi Ship as they had endured a long and arduous journey across the stars. They climbed the stairs of the hanger to the Castle Courtyard where everyone would be waiting for them.
"Ah Sora, Donald, and Goofy!" cried Scrooge happily greeting them. "And Sora's friends no doubt!"
"Way to go Sora!" cheered Donald's nephews.
"Thanks guys, but I couldn't have done it without my friends," replied Sora.
"But never forget, that darkness will always find a way to exploit your greatest weakness" interrupted Yen Sid, looking at Sora with a stern gaze in his eyes.
"I know, I have to try and keep them safe or else there'd be nothing left for me but an empty hole in my heart," replied Sora somberly.
"But in the end, I am pleased that you survived the ordeal against Maleficent and her new allies Pete found. It is my pleasure to hereby name you our new Hand of Masters, and declare you and your friends our new Guardians of Kingdom Hearts! But while we contend with her, I have something to show you," informed Yen Sid.
Everyone gathered in the Castle Library where Yen Sid pulled out a book of ancient legends.
"According to legend there existed a kingdom upon a moon near another world that is surrounded by eight other worlds," explained Yen Sid, "These worlds are called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and they all have their own moons."
Sora and his colleagues listened very carefully, eager to learn more about the kingdom on the moon. They watched carefully as Yen Sid placed the book on the desk and left it open. It's pages had an ancient text that no one had ever seen before.
"This book was given to me by my old friend Queen Serenity the First, daughter of Selene, ruler of a great kingdom on the Moon called the Silver Millennium. But when a Dark Spirit called Metalia enslaved mankind upon the Earth, a wicked sorceress called Beryl made a deal with this dark omen. Metalia is an entity of darkness spawned forth by a being that is very much like the darkness inside of all of us by a being called Chaos. Together they enthralled the hearts of so many people by making them embrace their inner Darkness, and ravaged the Moon of all its inhabitants. Queen Serenity's daughter Princess Serenity the 2nd and her husband to be, Prince Endymion were both slain by Metalia when the latter refused to join Beryl in her attempts to rule all worlds with an iron fist of Darkness. But Serenity the First refused to let this tragedy continue, and so with the Legendary Silver Crystal sealed the Dark Spirit Metallia and her followers in the crystal for 1000 years, while her daughter, future husband, and their most trusted allies were sent to Earth to be reborn as Human beings. Though the Power of the Crystal was strong enough to contain the Darkness, Serenity stated that only one of royal blood could use the Crystal to save the cosmos from Darkness, but if it fell into the hands of Evil, darkness would engulf the universe and bring forth an eternal age of terror to all worlds," he explained.
Maleficent, former denizen of the Princess Aurora's world, The Enchanted Dominion, stood furiously before her right hand man, Pete the former captain of the Steamboat from his past when Disney Town was once called the Timeless River in the ruined palace of Insomnia and Sephiroth, the One-Winged Angel, and Ardyn Izunia, the chancellor of Niflheim. Pete cowered before Maleficent's wrath as a woman with long wavy red hair, and eyes that seemed to glow like yellow-orange flames in a fireplace or campground. She wore a purple maxi dress, a golden choker with an indigo gem at its center, turquoise earrings on her ear lobes, silver bracelets on her wrists, and a black forehead tiara upon her forehead. Queen Beryl leader of the Dark Kingdom, servant of the Dark Spirit Metallia, was flanked by her four trusted lieutenants, the four Kings of Heaven, Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite all dressed in grey uniforms befitting of their roles as commanders of the Dark Kingdom's army of vicious demons and other deformed lifeforms.
"You summoned us, Maleficent?" Beryl asked as she stood before the dark fairy.
"Yes, It appears that you have a debt that must be repaid by locating a singular crystal that glows bright silver like the Moon you and Metallia once ravaged all those years ago," said Maleficent.
She presented an image of a silver diamond shaped object with a silver glow. Beryl knew it was a projection of the real crystal Maleficent conjured with her powers, but it was the same item she was searching for.
"Mistress Maleficent," Jadeite interjected, "I know this isn't my place to speak my mind but, we may require some assistance in this mission."
Maleficent turned and faced the blonde haired warlord.
"Very well then, I shall grant you all a beautiful gift," the witch said to her five new allies, "The power to command the Heartless at will."
With her arms outstretched like a demon, a cloud of darkness emanated around Beryl and her warlords, and vanished as if by magic.
Beryl clicked her fingers, and a swarm of yellow eyed creatures appeared before them. The black humanoid creature Maleficent called a Shadow, was referred to as a pureblood Heartless. It's eyes were yellow, lacking any pupils. The Shadow's circular head had twisted Antennae on top of it, three clawed fingers on its hands, while it's feet enabled it to jump high. It flattened itself on the surface and snuck behind Kunzite who saw it rising up taking a physical form. The other Heartless had an emblem on them Since they had been taking the hearts of other people to increase their ranks.
"Take heed of the Darkness in your hearts, as the Heartless shall prey upon it and consume you," Maleficent warned them.
Beryl smirked pridefully.
"We'll heed your warnings Maleficent; for now, we must return to our fortress to plan our next move," she said.
Pete looked worriedly at his superior.
"Are you sure we can trust them Maleficent?" he asked.
"Yes, but we can find more trustworthy candidates who can eliminate the Keyblade Wielding Guardians of Kingdom Hearts," replied Maleficent.
She opened a portal to darkness and vanished with Pete to Queen Beryl's fortress that would serve as a temporary meeting ground.
Back at the Yen Sid's tower, Sora and his friends had finished gathering the necessary supplies for the next big mission Yen Sid gave them, to travel to the world where it's moon had a prosperous kingdom, find the Sailor Goddesses, discover the location of the Silver Crystal, reveal the secret of the Moon Princess, then defeat Queen Beryl and her lackeys. With the supplies gathered and stored for their big mission. They loaded the now refueled Golden Highwind with their supplies as Jiminy Cricket, the Royal Chronicler,hopped into Sora's hood.
"I hope we do our very best and ensure that we find those Sailor Guardians and save their world from Darkness," said Pinocchio's former conscience .
"We will Jiminy, and you can chronicle everything that happens when we do," grinned Sora as he and his friends boarded the Gummi Ship.
Isa said he'd stay behind to guard the castle in Goofy's absence as acting Captain of the Guard. Minnie and Daisy agreed and the matter was settled. Chip and Dale, the launch crew, had managed to fuel the Gummi Ship to full power for it's long journey to the new world Yen Sid mentioned in the castle Archives.
"You are cleared to launch Golden Highwind," said Chip through the intercom.
"Launching in five, four, three, two, one, ZERO!" announced Dale.
The Golden Highwind's engines bucked, roared like caged beasts, and the Gummi ship burst out of the docking bay at full burn. They left Disney Town's atmosphere for the stars above as Isa stood watching from the ramparts of the Castle.
"Good luck Lea, Roxas, Xion, and Namine," he said quietly, as the stars twinkled above him.
With Sora at the helm of the Golden Highwind he carefully pulled at the control stick setting his course for the new world. Once out of the gravity well of Disney Town, he punched in the coordinates that Yen Sid gave him, and activated the ship's hyperdrive. Sora turned to his colleagues.
"We'll have plenty of time to reach our destination when the time is right," he said, "In the meantime Riku, Mickey, and Aqua will be training you all as their new apprentices," he said
Riku nodded, he was surprised to see that Namine and Kairi would be his first official apprentices, while Aqua would train Terra and Ventus, and Mickey would begin training Lea, Roxas, and Xion as his apprentices in the training room.
After training, the Keyblade wielders soon heard an alert on the control console. "We're approaching the world where the Silver Millenium existed over a thousand years ago," called Sora from the intercom.
Sora carefully brought the Gummi ship out of hyperspace as he slowed it down to a gentle cruise towards the world's atmosphere.
On the city streets of Juuban, Mamoru Chiba looked up into the sky and saw something that looked like a shooting star. He turned and continued walking down the streets wondering what that shooting star meant for him. But, what Mamoru didn't know was that it had strange people on board that had come to help find the Silver Crystal he was looking for.
"If they're here for the Silver Crystal, I'll have to be extremely vigilant," said Mamoru.
The Golden Highwind was slowly gliding down towards the city when Sora saw a suitable landing site in Juban Park. He activated the landing gear, then gently set the ship down in the lake, hoping that the clean normal waters would easily camouflage it completely.
"All right, let's see if we can find places to stay and make ourselves feel right at home," said Sora.
The other guardians nodded and soon followed him. They had to make sure to lay low for a while as they managed to find an apartment complex that would provide them with shelter for a while. The guardians soon got their own living quarters next to and across the door that had a sign reading, "MAMORU CHIBA" on it. They went inside and settled down hoping to rest and recuperate for tomorrow's big events in the new world called the Solar System.
Unbeknownst to Sora, a figure clad in a Sailor outfit consisting of a red and white midriff shirt with a navy blue collar with red stripes, a red mask, a choker with a crescent moon, white shoulder pads with armored shoulder guards, a red bow in her long blonde hair, an orange front bow, white gloves with orange fittings reaching her elbows, a blue skirt with a red border and blue back bow, and blue shoes with ankle straps. She carefully knocked on the window rousing Sora from his slumber.
"I hope I didn't disturb you," the mysterious figure in the sailor outfit said.
Sora smiled at the new girl and gently opened the window to let her in. Riku and Kairi were a bit surprised at this, but the two of them knew that their friend always knew how to welcome new people into his heart. The masked girl took Sora's outstretched hand and gently stepped into the room. The girl looked at the stranger that touched her hand and carefully let her inside as she sat down with an exhausted look on her face. Sora saw her slowly pull off her mask and saw that her eyes were a beautiful blue.
"By the way, who are you guys?" she asked.
"I'm Sora," Sora said.
"Donald Duck," quacked the court magician.
"Name's Goofy," added the captain.
"My name is Kairi," the red-head said.
"I'm Riku," said the silverette.
"My name is Terra," the brunette man said.
"I'm Aqua," The bluette said to the blonde.
"I'm Ventus, call me Ven," said the other boy.
"I'm Roxas, Sora's brother," Said the former Nobody.
"My name is Xion, Sora's sister," The former replica said.
"Who am I? Oh my name is Lea, but my friends call me Axel. Got it memorized?" the spiky red-head said.
"My name is Namine, and I'm Kairi's sister," she said.
"I'm Mickey, nice to meet ya," said the King of Disney Town.
"And together, we are known as the Guardians of Kingdom Hearts!" Sora said to her in a near whisper.
The other blonde girl stood up, and smiled at him. She saw that Sora was very brave and strong, but sensed a special power inside of his heart that she had no Idea about.
"In this outfit, I'm known as Sailor V, or rather, Sailor Venus. But my real name is Minako Aino," she told him.
Sora blushed bright red at the sight of another girl's smile, but Kairi was aware that Sora had met other girls from other worlds. She knew about his visit to Atlantica where he met Ariel and helped her defeat a witch who wanted to usurp the throne for herself. She even knew about the time he met Mulan, Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna, from the other worlds he visited.
"Nice to meet you," Sora replied.
When Minako looked closely at him, she felt something open in her heart. A certain light of hope. Then she felt Sora's hands touching her shoulders making her feel at ease with herself. Then suddenly she saw a small insect on Sora's shoulder wearing a royal blue top hat with an orange band near the base, a red vest with a single pink button on the front, a yellow ascot, a black blazer, a high collared white shirt, white gloves, tan pants, and yellow shoes with black tips. His skin was olive colored, with thin black eyebrows, and he carried a red umbrella in his hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Aino. Cricket's the name, Jiminy Cricket at your service," the small insect said to her.
Minako carefully held her hand out, until Jiminy jumped onto it.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Cricket," She said.
Instantly a small white cat with a crescent shaped mark on its forehead carefully clambered into the room through the window.
"Did I hear cricket?" he asked.
"Of course, Artemis. This is Jiminy Cricket. He once was Pinocchio's conscience. But now, he's the royal chronicler of a place called Disney Town. So don't eat him," warned Minako.
Artemis nodded immediately, as Jiminy jumped down from Sora's shoulder, landed on the desk, and bowed respectfully to the white cat.
"It's a pleasure to meet Ms. Aino's conscience," he said.
"And to you, Sir Jiminy," replied Artemis who also bowed in respect.
A short while later, Minako and Artemis said their goodbyes to Sora and his friends, and decided to return to the task of taking out dangerous new adversaries that were causing trouble in town. The next day, Sora woke up bright and early, and together with his friends, began their search for the Sailor Guardians.
