Chapter VIII- Traverse Town (Part 3)

Things were not looking up for the Knight and Mage.

Goofy and Donald were exploring every nook and cranny of town looking for the Key that the King mentioned. So far nothing, but they haven't given up yet. The only info they got was the mention of the 'Heartless' and to be careful around them. They were checking the rooftops of the Third District when Goofy saw something down below. He saw two boys across the plaza in a hurry.

"What are you looking at?" Donald asked frustrated.

"Uh, nothing."

"Well quit gawking at nothing and help me find the Key!"

Suddenly a pair of Soldiers surrounded them from both sides. Goofy and Donald looked at them with surprise.

"Gawrsh, are these the Heartless fellas everyone's talking about?" Goofy asked, pulling up his shield. "They don't look too friendly."

Donald wasn't as intimidated as his friend. He pulled out his staff and got ready to fight. "Let's get them Goofy!"

"Where are all the Heartless?" Koga asked. He and Sora finally made it to the Third District but none of the Heartless followed them into here strangely enough. The Third District was a more lit up area compared to the other districts but not a soul was in sight. It was eerily quiet.

"Maybe they gave up?" Sora thought.

"I don't know, something's not right."

Then they heart a explosion up above. They looked at a baloney that exploded and out of it two figure flew up screaming. Then they started falling, getting closer to them.

"Look out!" Sora tried to push his brother out of the way but they both ended up tackled to the ground with a loud thud. They felt a heavy weight laying on the both of them. Together they pushed off whatever was on top of them. Straightening their neck and cracking their backs, they got a good look at the strangers. They saw a duck with a blue jacket and sailor hat, and they saw a anthropomorphic dog in green clothes and a tall yellow hat on his head.

Both of the strangers looked at Sora weapon with wide eyes.

"They Key!"

They then noticed Koga's weapon.

"Two of them!"

"Uh, who are you guys?" Sora asked.

"Oh, I'm Goofy an this here is Donald. We came to-"

Sora felt a hand on his shoulder. "No time to talk, they're coming!" Koga shouted. The ground rumbled as a large group of Soldiers run into the plaza. Everyone readied their weapons and charged.

Sora and Koga managed to hold off the Heartless when they were making their way to the Third District, despite their lack of experience with their new weapons. With the two called Donald and Goofy at their sides they were strong. Goofy used his shield to bash into the Heartless and block attacks with it. Donald looked to be some kind of mage, using his staff to fight the Heartless with spells of Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder. A Heartless tried to attack Koga, Goofy deflected it with his shield. Donald supported Sora as he sliced the Heartless down. They fought as a team.

When it looked like the last one was gone, they looked around the area for any stragglers.

"Look!" Donald pointed up.

They all watched as large pieces of knight armor fall from the sky; a helmet, a torso, and two pairs of arms and legs. As they landed, they bounced wildly, then attaching to each other by an invisible bond. The helmet finally landed hard on the top of the torso, which had a strange black/red heart emblem. Sora noticed that it was the same emblem as the ones he saw on the Soldiers. The floating armor parts formed a Giant Armored Heartless.

Guard Armor

"I think we found their leader..." Koga sweatdropped. He then shook his head as he aimed his gun at the Guard Armor. He managed to get three shots at it, it didn't flinch but it definitely got damaged from the shots. On the fourth shot his weapon only coughed out a small spark of blue light. His eyes widened as he looked at his gun. He had this strange empty feeling in his stomach.

The Guard Armor shook angrily as it approached with it's arms spinning around. Goofy tried to block it with his shield but the impact was too strong and knocked him back. He crashed into Koga who stood there dumbfounded.

"Koga, what's wrong with you?" Sora asked, using his Keyblade to deflect the blow, stunning the Guard Armor. The Heartless then broke it's limbs apart to seek out the scattered group.

"I think I'm out of ammo!" Koga said, sidestepping a punch from the armored fist. He smacked it with the butt of his weapon doing little damage.

"I didn't even know it had ammo." Sora was talking while trying to avoid the stomping feet.

"I don't know!" Koga screamed out. "I just got this empty feeling in me, like a second battery that ran dry."

"Waak, I know what you're talking about!" Donald exclaimed as he launched a fireball at the torso. He quickly fumbled through one of his pockets and pulled out a small blue cube. "Try this ether!" He said, tossing it to Koga. As soon as he held it he felt himself absorb an energy coming from the ether. That empty feeling in him immediately went away. He laughed out loud as he stood up straight, puffing his chest.

"Just what I needed! Get ready Heartless, because here I c-" Koga was immediately slapped by the Guard Armor, knocking him to the ground. Sora rushed to his side.

"Koga! Are you okay?"

"Oh look, stars..." Koga mumbled, eyes spinning. Sora pushed him to the side so he won't get in the way and returned to battle. Donald took out the legs and Goofy smashed the hands. The only thing left was the torso. The torso spun around rapidly and slammed itself into Sora and Goofy.

"Thunder!" Donald shouted as a bolt of lightning shocked the Heartless. Before it can recover it got blasted in the back. It turned around and saw Koga scowling defiantly at it. He was holding his weapon with both hands as something was charging from it. The Guard Armor charged straight at him, and Koga unleashed his charged shot. It struck it straight in the head as it suddenly stopped. It suddenly started exploding from the inside as it's head falls off, a large crystal heart floats out of it and into the sky.

The Guard Armor was defeated.

Koga sighed and wiped his forehead. He looked at his brother who looked as sweaty as him. "You alright Sora?"

"Yeah, I'm okay. Good job out there!" He said giving a thumbs up.

He turned to the two strangers who helped. "Thanks for the help. You two really helped us out."

"It was nothing, we were just following orders." Donald says.

'I swear I can barely understand what that duck is saying.' Koga mumbled. Though he is genuinely curious about his magic.

"Orders?" Sora asked.

"Yup, we were assigned by our King to find the person who bears the Key and that they will help. Though he didn't say there would be two of them." Goofy said.

Sora and Koga looked at each other having a silent conversation then nodding. They turned back to them with a frown.

"Can you help us, we need to find our friends, they got scattered with us after out home got attacked by Heartless."

"You should come with us, we can go to other worlds in out vessel!" Goofy suggested. "We;re trying to find the king but maybe we'll run into you're friends on the way."

"Sora." Koga whispered. "I think we should go with them. They're our best bet at finding Riku and Kairi."

"...Yeah, I guess." Sora said dejectedly.

"Good!" Donald shouted. "But you can't come looking like that." He pointed at their depressed looking faces.

"Huh?" They said in unison.

"No frowning, and no sad faces okay? This is a happy ride!"

"Yeah, this boat runs on happy faces." Goofy chuckled.

"Happy?" The two of them pulled themselves together and pulled a wide and goofy grin. Donald and Goofy fell over laughing at their funny faces. Sora and Koga relaxed themselves and smirked at them.

"So are you coming with?" Donald asked.

"Alright, why not?" Sora said with more confidence.

"Let's start over introductions." Donald put his hand out. "Donald Duck."

"Name's Goofy." Goofy put his hand out as well.

"I'm Sora." He said joining them. Koga followed suit.

"And I'm his twin brother Koga."

The newly formed team looked at each other.

"All for one and one for all!"

So in KH3 it was revealed that the line 'this boat runs on happy faces' should be taken literally. That... really doesn't make much sense so it's not a thing in this fic.

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