Alright, so I got another chapter for this story done! Woo! It may start a bit slow but I did the best I could and wrote a lot.
Please enjoy!
Ch. 2
Sora, Donald and Goofy had just returned to Traverse Town, and were in the First District. They saw Yuffie walking around the area. She turned to see them and with a smile she waved for them to come over.
"Hey guys, welcome back," Yuffie said. "If you are looking for Leon, he is probably at the underground cavern. He trains there often. You know, the channel in the alleyway is connected to the cavern. Isa and Lea are probably around here in the first District if you wanna go look for them."
"Alright, thanks Yuffie," Sora said as he started walking up the stairs with Donald and Goofy following behind.
They headed up the second set of stairs next to the Accessory Shop and rounded the corner, heading towards the Second Distract door. Just before they got to the door they heard a voice from somewhere behind them.
"Hey Sora!"
Sora turned around to see Lea and Isa sitting on top of the lower section of the roof on the Accessory Shop. They both jumped off and ran over to Sora.
"Glad to see you came back," Lea said with a smile. "How has traveling to other worlds been?"
"It's been awesome, we also ended up finding some keyholes, so we were going to find Leon." Sora explained.
"We saw him earlier heading to the cavern area to train." Isa said.
"Yuffie told us, we were just going to head there now." Goofy added.
"Well let's all head over there." Lea said cheerfully as he opened the door to the Second District.
"Lea, wait. We have to be careful of the Heartless. They are still roaming around." Isa said
"Hey we got Sora and his friends with us," Lea said as he put an arm around Sora. "They can handle them, right?"
Sora nodded and summoned his keybalde, "Yeah we can take them."
"Then let's get going," Lea said now actually opening the door. Once they entered into the next area several shadow and soldier Heartless appeared and charged at the group. Lea and Isa did their best to stay clear of the Heartless while Sora, Donald and Goofy, who all had their weapons summoned also charged at the Heartless and struck them down until they disappeared. They then proceeded down the staircase to the lower section, where of course more Heartless showed up, more shadows and soldiers, and even a few large bodies. Once the area was cleared they made their way to the door that lead to the back alleyway. They walked through, with Sora clearing out the few little shadow Heartless around, till they got to the end of the alley where the water way was and a grate at the end of it.
"Yuffie said that beyond this grate is the underground cavern." Sora said as he looked at the grate, "But how are we going to get it open?"
"There's got to be some way in," Donald said.
"Is there no other way into the cavern?" Lea asked aloud.
Isa crossed his arms and closed his eyes, "I know there is a secret entrance to the underground cavern, I just don't know-" Before he could finished there suddenly was a loud crash. Isa opened his eyes to see that Sora, Donald and Goofy and ran together and rammed into the grate, breaking it and opening a secret waterway.
Lea laughed, "Well that's one way to get through."
Isa sighed and just rolled his eyes while Sora just rubbed the back of his head and chuckled. The five of them swam through the waterway until they entered the underground cavern. There they saw Leon practicing some swings with his gunblade. Aerith was off to the side watching him. Walking out of the water Sora ran up to Leon and quickly explained what had happened so far.
"So you found the keyhole," Leon said.
"Yeah. The Keyblade locked it automatically." Sora said.
"Good." Aerith said as she walked up to join the group.
"Every world among the stars has a Keyhole. And each one leads to the heart of that world. There must be one in this town as well." Leon said.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked.
"It was in Ansem's report," Aerith added.
Leon crossed his arms, "The Heartless enter through the Keyhole and do something to the world's core."
"What happens to the world?" Sora asked.
"In the end, it disappears," Aerith said with a sigh.
"What?!" Sora, Donald, and Goofy all shouted at the same time. Isa and Leon remained quiet though, Leon had told them before what happens to a world when the Heartless get to it, so it wasn't surprising to them.
"That's why your key is so important," Leon continued.
"Please lock the Keyholes. You're the only one who can." Aerith asked in a kind, gentle voice.
"I don't know…" Sora said, not sounding all that determined or enthusiastic about it.
"Seeing other worlds would probably serve you well." Leon added.
"Yeah!" Donald encouraged.
"We gotta find your friends! And King Mickey," Goofy also added.
"So he still hasn't founded any sign of his friends… I wonder where they could be?" Lea whispered to Isa who just shrugged.
"I guess you're right.. Okay!" Sora said, turning his mood around to being happy again.
"Hey," Lea said looked at Sora, "Maybe we can go looking for that keyhole in this world. I wanna see the keyblade in action."
Sora started to say something, but before he could give a actual response, Leon shook his head, "No Lea. It's too dangerous. We don't know where they keyhole is or what Heartless may be lurking around it."
"So? I wanna help look for it." Lea persisted.
"I said no." Leon repeated.
"But I am not a little kid any more. I can-" Lea started to say but Isa grabbed his shoulder.
"Just drop it Lea," he said. Lea sighed, and slumped his shoulders.
"Don't worry Lea, maybe another time, when there aren't so many Heartless around," Sora suggested to try to cheer up Lea. "Oh," Sora said, suddenly remembering something. He pulled out a gummi block from his pocket and showed it to Leon, "Hey, Leon. This gummi block's different from the others. Do you know what it's for?"
Leon just started at it and remained quiet. On the other hand Lea looked at the gummi blocked and then said, "You should go ask Cid. He knows a lot about gummi ships and all that stuff."
"Alright! Let's go," Sora said as he started to turn around.
"Wait, Sora. Take this with you," Leon said as he handed a colored stone to Sora, "This stone holds some mysterious power. I've been carrying it for luck. I want you to hold onto it."
Sora inspected the stone and then looked back at Leon, "How do you use it?"
Leon crossed his arms again and didn't answer.
"Uh, Leon?" Sora asked again, but Leon still just remained silent.
"Let's just go and let him think." Lea suggested. "Race you back to the alleyway!"
"You're on!" Sora said as both he and Lea jumped back into the water and started swimming back the way they came. Donald and Goofy laughed as they watched them swim off.
"Guys...you know there is a exit right over there...right?" Isa said as he pointed to the open doorway behind him.
"Yeah we know, but this is more fun!" Sora shouted as he continued swimming, trying to stay ahead of Lea.
Isa sighed while Donald and Goofy laughed again. Soon the remaining three swam back through the waterway to the back alley. Once they got out of the water they saw Lea and Sora childishly arguing with one another.
"I was first." Sora said.
"No I was first, I made it here just a little before you." Lea retorted.
"How about you guys quit arguing and we go find Cid?" Isa asked, with a slightly irritated tone in his voice because of how childish Sora and Lea were acting.
Both Lea and Sora looked at Isa and then nodded. "Alright. So Sora, tell me about the worlds you visited so far. I wanna know what's out there." Lea said as they started to walk again.
On their walk back to the First District Sora talked about the three worlds he had visited so far, while also running around fighting any Heartless that decided to show up. They made it back to the First District and headed into the Accessory Shop where Cid was. Lea and Isa leaned against one of the walls while Sora, Donald and Goofy went to talk to Cid.
Sora walked over to Cid with the gummi block in hand. "What've you got there?" Cid asked as Sora placed in on the table, "Hey! Well, if it ain't a gummi block."
"Yup," Donald confirmed.
"What's this one for?" Goofy asked.
Cid looked surprised with a little annoyance, "You're kiddin' me! You're flyin' a gummi ship and you don't know nothin' about navigation gummis? Bunch of pinheads. Interspace ain't no playground."
"There's a lot we don't know. So what! We have to use the gummi ship to go to other worlds. We don't have a choice." Sora retorted as he crossed his arms.
Cid put his hands up, "Whoa, easy." he then scratched the back of his head, "I didn't know. No hard feelings, all right? Well, I guess I could lend y'all a hand, then."
"Thanks," Sora replied.
"Basically, with navigation gummis, you can go to new places. You want one on your ship, right?" Cid asked and the three nodded. "I'll install it for you. But I got this thing I gotta go deliver first."
"What do you need to deliver?" Sora asked.
"Just this book. It's real old. When the guy brought it in, it was practically falling apart. Too beat up to restore it to the way it was. But overall, I did a decent job puttin' it back together. Anyway, you mind deliverin' it for me? It's the old house past the Third District. Look for a big fire sign. They boys can help you find it." Cid explained before handing Sora an old book.
A few seconds later a loud bell was heard ringing. "What was that?" Sora asked.
"Hmm? The bell at the gizmo shop is ringing. Go check it out if you want, but deliver that book for me first. When you're done, stop by the house in the Third District. I'll be there." Cid said.
Sora thanked Cid and then walked over to Isa and Lea, "Alright, let's head over to the third District."
The five made their way through the Second District and then to the Third, where they came upon the big door with the fire symbol on it. Sora walked up to the door and gave it a push, but it wouldn't budge.
"How come it's not opening?" Sora asked.
"Since there is a symbol of fire on the door, I would assume you would need to use fire magic to unlock it." Isa stated.
"Hmm alright, I'll try that." Sora said as he summoned his keyblade and pointed it at the door. "Fire!" Sora shouted and a ball of fire burst out from the tip of the keyblade and collide with the door. The fire symbol glowed red and then a click sound was heard. Now when Sora pushed the door, it actually opened.
"Awesome," Lea said.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy started to walk through the door when Lea spoke up, "Hey Sora, I think Isa and I will wait for you back here. No need for so many of us to go with just to delivery a book."
"Are you sure you'll be alright out here?" Sora asked.
"If any Heartless decided to show up, we will head inside and meet up with you. Besides there is something I need to talk to Isa about." Lea said as Isa gave him a suspicious look.
"Okay see you soon," Sora said with a wave as he went through the door and it closed behind him.
"Lea...What was that all about?" Isa asked as he crossed his arms.
"Well I was thinking, since Sora is here and can fight the Heartless with the keyblade, we can finally go check out the gizmo shop." Lea said to Isa.
"Even if we are with Sora, you and I shouldn't go there. Leon said that there was a lot of Heartless surrounding it. It's off limits to us," Isa replied.
Lea frowned, "We don't need to listen to everything Leon says. We're old enough to do what we want."
"Yeah, but is risking our lives really worth it?"
"I just want to do something fun for once…" Lea grumbled as he sat down.
"Once the Heartless problem is taken care of you can go check out the shop."
"But who knows when that will be?! The Heartless keep showing up again and again no matter how many times Sora destroys them."
"Just be patient and wait." Isa replied.
"I've been waiting for nine years. Nine years Isa! Nine years we have been stuck in this world and we hardly get to do anything fun or interesting." Lea pouted as he crossed his arms.
"Leon and the others just want to keep us safe."
"Well we are older now. They should let us help out more. I'm tired of them treating us like we are little helpless kids."
Isa sighed as he placed a hand on his forehead, "Sometimes it's just impossible to get through to you."
Moments later the door opened again and Sora and co. walked out. Lea jumped back up to his feet, "So you got the book delivered?"
Sora nodded, "We also learned what the stone does. It has the spirit of a lion named Simba, his world was destroyed but his spirit is within this stone. I can call out to him if I ever need help in a fight with Heartless."
"Cool," Lea said as they started to walk back.
They rounded the corner to see some soldier Heartless appear. Sora prepared to take them out, but in a quick flash someone else destroyed them. The boy, who looked about a year older than Sora, stood in front of the group had a odd looking sword like object. The only one in the group to truly look surprised was Sora.
"There you are." The boy said looking at Sora, "What's going on?"
"Riku!" Sora shouted as he ran up to his friend and pulled on his face.
"Hey, hey cut it out." Riku said pushing Sora back.
"I'm not dreaming this time, right?" Sora asked.
"I hope not. Took forever to find you." Riku said as he ran a hand through his hair.
"Riku!" Sora said with a happy smile.
"So this is one of Sora's friends he talked about. Well it's good he found one of them. But.. how come we haven't seen him around here before?" Lea wondered.
"Wait a second, where's Kairi?" Sora asked Riku.
"Isn't she with you?" Riku asked back.
Sora didn't reply, he only looked down at the ground sadly.
"Well, don't worry. I'm sure she made it off the island, too." Riku said before looking up to the sky, "We're finally free. Hey, she might even be looking for us now." Because Riku was facing the group, he didn't notice the little shadow Heartless forming behind him, "We'll all be together again soon. Don't worry. Just leave everything to me. I know this—" But before he could finish he heard a noise and turned around to see Sora destroying the Heartless.
"Whoa, he moved fast there." Lea muttered quietly.
Sora stood up straight and placed the keybalde onto his shoulder, smiling proudly, "Leave it to who?"
"Sora, what did you-" Riku tried to say, but Sora interrupted him.
"I've been looking for you and Kairi, too, with their help." Sora said as he pointed to Donald and Goofy, "And these guys have helped when we're in this world," Sora then pointed to Isa and Lea.
"Who are they?" Riku asked looking at the group.
"My name's-" Lea started to say his usual shtick, but Sora interrupted.
"We've visited so many places and worlds, looking for you." Sora explained to Riku.
"Really? Well, what do you know? I never would have guessed." Riku replied casually.
Goofy then placed his hands on Sora's shoulders, "Oh, and guess what? Sora's the Keyblade master."
"Who would've thought it?" Donald grumbled.
Sora turned to Donald and stomped his foot, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"So, this is called a Keyblade?" Riku said holding up Sora's keyblade.
"Huh?" Sora said as he noticed somehow that Riku had gotten a hold of his keyblade.
Lea looked over at Isa, "How did he manage to take that with out Sora knowing?" Isa just shrugged in response.
Sora rushed over to Riku, "Hey give it back." He tried to reach for it, but Riku stepped back and Sora fell forward to the ground. Riku examplied the keyblade while Sora stood back up. "Catch!" He said as he tossed back over to Sora.
"Whoa!" Sora said as he just managed to catch it. "Okay, so you're coming with us, right? We've got this awesome rocket. Wait 'til you see it!"
"No, he can't come!" Donald said rather rudely.
Sora faced Donald again, "What?"
"Forget it!" Donald replied.
"Oh, come on! He's my friend!" Sora shouted.
"Yeah," Lea interjected, "You know he has been looking for his friends and now he has found one of them."
"I don't care!" Donald shouted.
"Huh? He's gone." Goofy said, pointing to where Riku once was standing.
"Riku?" Sora said as he looked around.
"What? How...How did he disappear so quietly like that?" Lea asked.
"Who knows." Isa replied.
"You mean you didn't even see where he went?" Lea asked.
"Nope."
Sora looked at Donald, "Nice going." He then turned around and placed his hands behind his head, "Oh, well. At least, he's okay. And who knows? Maybe we'll run into Kairi soon, too."
"I still can't believe how quickly you can become so optimistic." Lea said and Sora just smiled.
"Well, now that that's over. Let's head to where Cid is now. The small house is just up the stairs." Isa said as he pointed to the staircase leading up.
They group walked up the stairs and headed into the small house, inside waiting for them was Cid, Yuffie, Leon, and Aerith. Once everyone was inside Cid walked up to them, "You guys ever hear of Maleficent?" Sora shook his head. "I hear she's in town."
"Who is she?" Sora asked.
"A witch, man, she's a witch!" Cid replied.
"She's the reason this town is full of Heartless. Don't take her lightly." Leon, who was leaning against a wall, said.
"She's been using the Heartless for years." Aerith added.
"We lost our world, thanks to her." Leon said, looking down.
"One day, a swarm of Heartless took over our world!" Cid said.
"That was nine years ago." Leon added quietly.
"I got out of that mess and came here with these guys." Cid said, referring to Leon and the others.
"That's awful." Donald said.
"Our ruler was a wise man named Ansem. He dedicated his life to studying the Heartless." Leon said.
"His report should tell us how to get rid of the Heartless." Cid added.
"Where's this report?" Sora asked.
Leon sighed, "We don't know. It got scattered when our world was destroyed."
Cid crossed his arms, "I'm sure Maleficent's got most of the pages."
Sora looked over at Isa and Lea during all of this. They had their heads lowered, "Hey, you guys alright?"
"Yeah, it's just that we were pretty young when Maleficent took over our world." Lea explained.
"We were only around six or seven, and there was a lot of Heartless and chaos going on. It was pretty crazy," Isa added.
"Oh, sorry to hear that," Sora said.
"Nah it's fine. I mean we survived and made it here. One day though, we will make it back to our home." Lea said with hopefulness.
Cid then walked up behind Sora, " So, you delivered that book? That navigation gummi's installed and ready to go. You find another one, you bring it to me. I threw in a warp gummi for the heck of it. Now you can jump to worlds you've been to before. Well, better get back to my real job. What's my real job? You'll see. See me at the First District."
"I've been thinking about the bell in the Second District." Aerith said aloud.
Sora looked over at Aerith, "That one that rang a bit ago?"
"The one above the gizmo shop. There's a legend about it, you know." Yuffie informed the group.
"But it's all boarded up. Nobody can get in there." Aerith said.
"Heck, go check it out. Ring it three times to see if anything happens." Cid said.
Sora nodded and he headed out the door with Donald and Goofy, Lea was about to follow but Leon grabbed his shoulder. "Where do you think you're going?"
"Going to go see Sora ring the bell." Lea said.
"No, it's too dangerous." Leon said.
Lea rolled his eyes and muttered quietly, "Everything's too dangerous too you."
"Lea, just forget it." Isa said.
"Well...can we at least go back to the First District?" Lea asked.
"Yes, but you are going to take the shortcut, and you'll go with Cid, so that way you can't sneak to the Second District." Leon said.
"Fine…" Lea grumbled.
A few minutes later, Lea, Isa, and Cid headed out of the door and quickly made their way to the shortcut door to the First District. Thankfully no Heartless showed up on their run over there. Once back in the First District Cid went back over towards the Accessory Shop, leaving Isa and Lea alone.
From the distance the two could hear loud clunking sounds coming from the Second District. Lea sighed, "I bet that's Sora, fighting another giant Heartless or something."
"You gotta stop complaining so much," Isa said.
"I'll stop complaining once I get to actually do something."
"Isn't there anything you would want to do that doesn't involve being stupid or running right out into the Heartless?" Isa asked.
"Well…" Lea thought for a moment, "Ah I know. I gotta grab something. Be right back." Lea then took off running towards one of the houses in the District. A few moments later Lea was back, carrying two red frisbees, one in each hand.
"What are you doing with those?" Isa asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"When Sora gets back, I am going to challenge him to a fight." Lea said with a determined smile.
Isa laughed, "I said do something that doesn't involve you being stupid."
Lea frowned, "What? What's wrong with me wanting to challenge Sora?"
"What's wrong is...He'll completely destroy you." Isa chuckled.
"Hey, come on...Why don't you ever take my side?"
"Because." Isa replied.
Lea sighed again, and then stood back up straight, "Well I am still am going to challenge him. Just for the fun it, and it would be nice if you actually supported me."
Isa rolled his eyes and chuckled, "Sure thing."
They waited several minutes before Sora show up in the First District again. He walked over to them, "Hey guys. So we managed to take out a giant Heartless in the Second District and then the keyhole was revealed."
"What, really?! Aw man, I wish I could have seen it." Lea sighed, "But anyways, Sora I have a challenge for you!"
"Huh? What is it?" Sora asked.
Lea jumped back and held up his frisbees, "Before you leave again, I want to challenge you to a quick fight."
Sora smiled with determination, "Alright," he summoned his keyblade and took a battle stance.
"But we should get going…" Donland mumbled as he stomped his foot.
"Aw come on Donald. It won't take long." Sora said,
"Won't take long? It sounds like you think you already are going to win." Lea said.
"Well, let's see then, shall we?" Sora and and then charged at Lea.
Lea just managed to the attack with his frisbees, and jumped back a little more. When Lea tried to attack Sora, he easier dodged out of the way. Lea was actually a little surprised that Sora was this good at fighting. After a few more hits between the two, Sora knocked Lea to the ground.
"Alright, I won!" Sora cheered as he jumped in the air.
"Ah...I almost defeated you." Lea said as he sat up.
"No you didn't," Isa replied. "Sora completely beat you."
"Wha-..Isa! I said you were supposed to support me." Lea said as he jumped to his feet.
"But you lost." Isa said blantly as he chuckled.
"Ugh...Some friend...At least your friend Riku isn't anything like that." Lea said turning to Sora.
"Yup," Sora said with a laugh. Then all three boys began to laugh.
"So Sora how did you learn to fight like that?" Lea asked out of curiosity.
"Back on my island, Riku and I would always play around with wooden swords. We practiced a lot so using the keyblade is pretty much the same thing."
"So, I'm just wondering, could I maybe hold the keyblade?" Lea asked.
"Sure," Sora said as he handed the keyblade to Lea.
Lea held it in his hand, feeling the weight of it, and gave it a few swings. "This thing is still so cool. You really are lucky that you get to wield it."
"Thanks," Sora said as Lea handed the keyblade back. "Well probably should get going, there are more worlds out there and more Heartless. But we will be back again."
"Alright, see ya Sora." Lea said as he and Isa waved goodbye while Sora, Donald and Goofy headed towards the main door.
Well that's the end of that chapter. And yeah that last bit is a slight reference to what happens in BBS with Lea, Isa, and Ven. I just thought it would be nice to have a little sort of similar scene to it in this.
I also know I do pretty much have a lot of the original dialogue from the game, but next chapter I got something really interesting planned. Lea has an idea...and well...something of course will happen.
Please let me know what you think of this story, feedback is really nice to see.
See you guys all in the next chapter, or in one of my many other stories. (I got a lot of KH stories, so don't forget to check them out)