Sora let out a hum as he tried to process what he just/they just figured out. Those three were from different versions of some place called Japan. While he had been to different versions of Twilight Town the keyblader had never expected for there to exist so many different versions of a world. "Hey what was your Japan like?" Motoyasu asked looking a Sora while leaning his spear on his shoulder. "I noticed you didn't answer many of the questions."
Now with everyone looking at him Sora let out a chuckle while rubbing the back of his head. "Well that's because I don't live in Japan." This caused everyone to fall quite. "What did I say something?"
"Well guess it was bound to happen." Naofumi muttered while leaning back. "So where did you live?"
"Destiny Islands!" Sora happily answered back. "It's a small island near a bigger county." The others nodded while the Bow and Spear talk to each other. "So you said this world was like a game you played in your world?" The keybalder inquiered to the Itsuki and Motoyasu.
"Yup, it's just like a console game I played." Itsuki happily said, "I know Motoyasu and Sora said it had similarities to games in their worlds but how about you Naofumi?"
The Shield Hero let out an awkward chuckle while he rubbed the back of his head. "Well it might but I was never big into gaming. I was more a light novel reader you know."
"Yeah I gotcha!" Sora happily replied slapping his hand on his shoulder. "I only occasionally played, I was more interested with playing sports with my friends when given the chance!"
"Well looks like it is up to me and Motoyasu to carry this." Itsuki joked while sitting a bit straighter.
"Don't any of you worry! Big Brother Motoyasu will help you!" Motoyasu cheered while taking a swig of his drink, something alcoholic. "Except you! Never played anything related to Shield characters!" While he said this he pointed at said shield holder.
"Wait, what?" Naofumi wore the most confused expression on his face.
"Shield characters are trash," Motoyasu 'explained' downing another drink before getting a smile on his face. "Only beginning players use them, so I never used them or played as them." Sora tried to processes what he said. Having fought alongside Goofy he knew just how good a shield could be, so to just toss them aside…
"It is the same for me and most games I played." Itsuki stated while Naofumi fell over in shock. "How about your world Sora?" Having the attention on him now Sora felt a chance.
"Well like I said I was a casual player but know someone who was really good with the shield." As he finished saying this he saw both Motoyasu and Itsuki shaking their head.
"As you said your a casual so your opinion doesn't count for much." Motoyasu said dismissively before he joked to Itsuki about something which caused both of them to start happily talking to each other. Turning Sora saw Naofumi standing by the balcony.
Standing up Sora arrived beside him and saw the view of city leading toward a wide open field. "Hey don't let what they said get you down." Sora softly said while patting his fellow 'Hero' on the shoulder. "Like I said one of my friends did great with a shield and we have Legendary Weapons!"
The black haired man gave a solid nod while having a small smile on his face. "Yeah, your right. We'll make our way in this world!" Both stood in silence for awhile before they heard a lot of noise behind them causing them to sprint into the room only to find Itsuki and Motoyasu sprawled out on the floor with Itsuki peacefully asleep while Motoyasu clutched his bottle. "*Sigh* you mind helping me get these two into a bed, then we should probably also get some sleep."
Walking forward the Shield Hero started to pull the Spear Hero up while said Hero looked like he was talking to someone. Whatever he was talking about started to make Naofumi turn more and more red. With a shrug Sora managed to get the Bow Hero onto his back and toward the bed the Hero had picked out earlier. As Itsuki was tucked in Sora looked over toward Naofumi who looked like they just pried themselves away from the most fowl thing in the world.
As the Shield Hero threw himself into his bed Sora to went to lay down only to feel the same desire he had for over a year now. The desire to head out and do something. So with a smile Sora crept over to the balcony and slid out of the room after making sure everyone was asleep. Taking a quick look down Sora took a running start before jumping over the edge. As he fell he felt the surge of adrenaline rush through Sora felt a smile creep up his face. With a surge of energy Sora transferred his momentum forward as he landed on a rail he had spotted. With a surge Sora followed the rail as he reached the end the Keyblade user flew off the end and continue the momentum after wall jumping off a wall.
As he travelled over the city Sora made kept an eye open for any chests that might be laying around only to sadly find none as he arrived at the outskirts of the city. "Man can't believe there weren't any maps laying around." Holding the sword Sora scratched his head while letting out a sad mumble. "Well I guess I can check in the morning, maybe I just missed something." Hearing a weird sound Sora turned his head to see some Balloons heading his way. "All right time to get my groove back!"
To say Sora was lax with his training was somewhat untrue. While he kept up his physical and mental training his fighting ability went unattended. Not that it really mattered when faced against such weak opponents like these ball creatures were. Sora ducked and weaved through their attacks while occasionally lashing out with his own attacks. It only took half a minute to wipe out the few balloon type creatures. "That was a good warm up." Sora chuckled while leaning down to pick up some of the leftovers from the monsters. "Wonder what a moogle can make with this?" As he held the skin Sora felt a pull on it and then watched as it was sucked into the jem on the sword. Hefting the sword Sora watched as the weapon tree glowed before a new sword was unlocked.
"So that's how I open more weapons?" The keyblader wondered to themselves. "Well might as well open some more!" With that cry all the monsters in the area felt a chill go down their non-existence spines.
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The forest floor crunched underneath the heavy and fast foot falls of a boots. "Damn soldiers, damn nobles!" A rough voice almost coughed out in between gasps of breath. A bark drew his attention as he was forced to dodge to the side as a small fireball nearly hit him.
Turning he saw a black dog with glowing red eyes stalk toward him. The dog was decently big with its head almost at his shoulder. "Damn it, how long are you going to keep following me!" Thanks to the fire made by the more man was made apparent. He had a mop of black hair that went in all directions and blue eyes that almost seemed to glow in the dark. He wore a simple black armor chest plate, bright blue pants and black armored boots. Most of clothes though had obviously seen better days with rips and burn marks decorating them. "Fine I can take a couple more of you!" With a satisfying sound he drew a sword that looked like it had seen better days. As he got ready to charge he instead stumbled as something hit his back.
"What more of you!" Looking back he saw two more make their way out of the dense foliage. "I refuse to fall here!" The young soldier dug his blade into the ground as he slowly got to his feet. Looking forward he saw a ball of fire start building up in the dog's mouth.
"Coming through!" A happy voice called out as a foot slammed into the side of the dogs head stopping the attack. Landing the soldier saw one of the weirdest people he had ever seen. The person had spiky brown hair, blue eyes, and weird black clothes with a lot of belts. "You okay?" A kind voice asked as those bright blue eyes stared back at him.
Staring at the man who stood before him the soldier slowly recognized him. "Your the-" whatever he was about to say was cut off as one of the dog enemies let out an ear piercing howl which caused some Red Balloons and other smaller enemies to appear.
"We can talk later. For now let's take down the enemy!" The Hero of the Sword said as he settled into a solid stance. "Names Sora by the way!"
"Zack, nice to meet you to." Zack said falling into his own stance while one of the rabbit enemies jumped forward to fight. Sora rushed forward as his sword changed into a more orangish blade that looked like a stretched balloon skin. Zack followed as they waded into the fight.
Sora kept up the best pace he could but was getting worn down from the amount of enemies he was fighting. Looking over he saw Zack also being ganged up on by a group of rabbits and one of the dogs. Feeling his danger sense go off Sora swept his blade to the side just in time to knock a balloon away. He had gotten a bit excited when he learned how easy it was to bounce on the Balloons. Needless to say he might have gotten a bit carried away and it carried him far away from the castle. So as he finally settled down he quickly tried to figure where he walked into the forest.
Not having been in the forest for even a minute Sora heard the sound of fighting and voices so he ran toward it without a second thought. So here he was now with waves of small rabbits trying to take a bit of him alongside Red Balloons. As he swatted another Balloon aside he started to realize just how much stronger these enemies were then the ones in the field. So seeing how he needed a better weapon…
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The sword watched as it was used by his Wielder to fight the beasts. Roxas and Xion watched with him as they seemed to talk about Sora's performance in the battle. Oh well it was only natrall for people to be impressed by them, they were a Legendary Weapon, and their Wielder a Hero. Even now, outnumbered the wielder fought on. The blade watched as they channeled magic and cast a quick, unusual fire spell, it didn't even have a chant just magic! So with given room The Wielder used the time it took for them to recover and then slung them on his back, a comfortable but unusual position seeing as how the battle was still going on. Then as a Red Balloon came flying at the Wielder they swiped with their empty hand at them.
Time seemed to slow down for the Sword as it felt something pass it. The presence was much like the Sword in how linked it was to the Wielder. No it was somehow more linked into its Wielder, as if it was a very part of him.
Meanwhile the Wielders hands were no longer empty as a unusual weapon were now held in his hands. It had a long silver blade that ended with a three point teeth like replicating a key. The hilt was a bright golden color that was square and had a silver chain that looked like three touching circles. At its appearance the Blade was quick to examine it but that just lead almost to a circle. The Keyblade was the Wielder, and the Wielder made the Keyblade. Yet he didn't, the Keyblade was something very old, and had chosen Sora over another. So seeing how it was somehow linked to the Wielder and was a blade the Sword couldn't reject it.
"Wow he took longer than I thought." Xion said to Roxas while resting her head on her legs. "Then again those orange balls weren't as dangerous as these things."
"Yeah but look at him now, those things are being shredded by the Keyblade." Roxas commented on the fight in which the Wielder was now able to take the Red Balloons in around two hits. The Sword also, sadly noticed that sadly not only was it stronger but the Wielder could also use magic a lot easier with it.
"You know what that is?" Sword asked its friends.
"Oh right you don't know do you?" Roxas said leaning more against the collom. "Well the Keyblade is a weapon of light is very powerful…" Roxas tries to elaborate but stops, "Huh I actually don't know that much about it."
"Hmm…" The Sword slowly dug up some of it's wielders memories, thus it would learn what it could about the Keyblade so that it could surpass it. It would be its Wielder go to weapon, not some copy of something else. Wait copy?
It doesn't matter, what matters is growing stronger than some childish toy.
You may try, the heart never stops growing.
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Sora kept fighting using the Kingdom Key which was able to easily kill the Balloons and rabbits. "Deep Freeze!" A blast of cold air flew out of the now blue tipped keyblade and hit one of the dogs. The dog let out a yelp as it was frozen by the spell so seeing a chance Sora pulled back and with all his might threw his weapon. "Heads up!" The Keyblade flew through the air with ease and hit one of the dogs in the head before bouncing back towards Sora who caught it. Zack followed up by hitting the stuned dog while Sora turned back to the first dog that was now recovering from being frozen.
Running forward Sora started his basic ground combo. Getting close he started with a few basic hits before going into an explosion that sent out two balls of light sending the dog back who didn't get back up. Nodding he turned to the last two where he saw Zack fighting against one while the other got ready to . "Thunder!" The tip of the key flashed yellow as a bolt of lightning shot down and hit the dog intending to sneak up on Zack.
Jumping forward Sora started his air combos as he slowly hit the dog back. "Take this!" With a last hit he started the magnet release sucking the dog closer before sending it flying. Landing in a roll Sora stopped and watched the dog for a few seconds and nodded at seeing it not getting back up. Turning he saw Zack deliver one more crushing attack to his four legged opponent that fell down not getting back up. As Zack swiped some sweat from his brow Sora casually walked up to him.
"Good job!" Sora complimented patting the young soldier on the shoulder.
"Thanks!" Zack said giving a flourish as he sheathed his blade. He was about to say something before stopping. "Wait that's right! Your the Sword Hero!" Sora took a step back shocked before giving a slow nod. "This is perfect you can help me save them!" Tilting his head in confusion Sora tried to processes what he was hearing and Zack must have noticed. "Oh, sorry, I need help saving my village."
Zack was about to continue when Sora grabbed his arm. "Then let's go! We better hurry!" He started dragging Zack as he pulled along with him. "So where to?"
"That way!" Zack happily said pulling his arm away and pointing to the left. "And we should make sure were not forgetting anything before heading out." As much as Zack wanted to hurry he had it drilled into his head the importance of being prepared.
Taking a second to think Sora ran back and started pulling his sword. "HOW COULD I FORGET!" The Sword Hero shouted as he started feeding the supplies into his weapon. "Donald would never have let me live this down." Zack didn't know who this Donald was but for some reason felt sympathy for them. "I also need to keep some in case I come across a moogle." Sora mumbled to himself as he put some in his pouches. Zack watched ready to offer his bag that he brought with only to stop and stare in… awe(?) as the hero just kept putting things in that one pouch.
"Um… you're not going to be weighed down by all that, right?" Zack asked while Sora searched around for anything else he might have missed.
"Don't worry I'll be good." Sora promised with a smile as he stood up. "Now let's get going!" Taking a second to remember the direction Zack pointed to Sora took off in the direction. Zack took a second before shaking off what had happened and ran forward to catch up.
"We will stop at the nearest town to sleep. Need to sleep so we can keep up our handsome looks." Zack joked having caught up to Sora while they walked deeper into the forest.
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AN: Well here's the second chapter for you guys. Now to answer some questions, Donald and Goofy will appear later in the story, I just couldn't have them. Now onto the next question, Sora's party will be made of FF characters but I will have OCs at some point if I need them. Now about why KHII over KHIII, well that has to do with some things like Sora's current strength and what he can do in each game and what he has available.
"Oh how interesting that you would come seek me out." A man wearing a heavy coat said while looking into the sky. Hanging in the sky was a glowing blue heart shaped moon. "Is this because I took one of your guardians of light?"
The moon said nothing but the man in the coat could feel it's dissatisfaction. "Well you weren't using him and I didn't like the Swords original choice so I gave it a better one." This still didn't seem to please the moon but that didn't seem to bother the man. "Besides your the only one bothered by what I did. I haven't heard the goddess complaining, yet." A note of venom entered his voice as if he was talking about something awful. "Now I wonder what will happen when that man will do when he learned what I have done?"
The moon still did nothing before the man spun around. "Hey what do you think the Sword will do to compete with the Keyblade?" After a few seconds the man nodded, "Yes that would be interesting to see, and the Keyblade would escalate. Maybe that will be enough for the Guardian to finally learn how to change his key's form." Turning he looked past the wide horizon, "My, things are getting interesting."