Chapter 3:
"…I'm gonna stick like glue…" ~ ~ "Stick, because I'm- stuck on you…" ~ ~
Sora roused to the music of Elvis coming from a record player on the floor of the room. He awoke feeling ice on his forehead that made him shiver at the same time that he groaned a mumble of tiredness. He shifted around and then parted his eyes open in a room that was already full of light, and he turned his head and looked at the small tan-skinned girl sitting at his side leaning over him with an icepack in hand pressed on his head.
The girl had long black hair and wore a blue dress with white leaf patterns on it. The leaves were so large that there were only four of them on the front of her dress, and there were cuts inwards on the sides of the leaves that made them look like flames. She had on a pair of green sandals, and she tilted her head to the side when Sora turned his to look at her in her brown eyes. "Hi," she rose a hand and waved at him while the Elvis continued to play in the background.
Sora tried to lift up his right hand to do the same, and he winced which made the girl look at him in surprise and worry. "Sorry! Don't move around a lot!" She put her hand back down and grabbed the icepack wrapped in a paper towel that she put back on his forehead. "Are you okay? Your right arm looked really bad-"
"My arm," Sora muttered, turning his head the other way as the girl on his left. He looked to his right and down, and he stared at his arm that was flat out at his side with the top of it wrapped in white bandages. Sora started sliding up the bed and the girl next to it backed off as he came up from under the covers. "Oh-" Sora stopped sliding out as he realized he was not wearing a shirt, then he got confused as to why that was and started looking around. I had on a cloak- it was soaked and bloody though- and my arm! That guy, he… Where am I now? What is- "What is this place?" Sora asked, turning back to the girl who looked back at him and stared him in his gold irises.
"This is my room," the girl replied. "I'm Lilo by the way." She reached to Sora's left hand and grabbed it, and he got confused but let her move it up to his own forehead where she pressed it onto the icepack so she could stop holding it there and back off from him. Lilo then stepped away from the bed and tilted her head to the side again, "Who are you?"
"I'm… I'm, looking for someone."
"'Looking for someone?' That's a weird name." Lilo remarked.
"That's not my-"
"Hey Nani! He's awake!" Lilo shouted out of nowhere while Sora was still trying to defend himself there.
Sora pulled back at the shout before realizing that it was meant for someone else. He glanced past the small girl in the middle of the room, and he looked towards the window and out into a forested area. It's bright outside. That's nice. At least I'm not, in the darkness! That's where I was when I passed out. So how, did I get here? This is too confusing. Sora slid down the bed and he rested his head back on the headboard behind him.
"There's no way, Lilo," an older woman's voice started while Sora heard footsteps approaching the room they were in. "I told you to leave him be. He's not going to be getting up for a while, so just wait until the doctor-" the door opened up and Nani Pelekai walked in only to stop as she looked to the bed and into the eerily dark yellow eyes of her guest. "Or, maybe he's already awake," Nani lost her annoyed and hurried expression to instead smile and brush down her pants before stepping towards the bed. "Are you okay there…" she trailed off so he could tell him her name.
"Looking for someone," Lilo said. Nani turned to her sister in confusion while Sora sweatdropped and racked his mind to try and remember what it was he was forgetting. Lilo continued meanwhile, "That's his name-"
"No it's not," Sora mumbled. "It's… it's!" Sora grabbed his forehead tighter with his left hand, and he clenched his eyes shut trying to think of it.
"Hey hey," Nani reached out and she put a hand over Sora's that had his stop shaking. Sora opened his eyes, and the older woman who looked like Lilo but older gave him a small smile after losing her worried look. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure you'll remember soon." Nani had leaned forward over Sora while saying it, then she turned and sat on the side of the bed after reassuring him and seeming to calm the boy down. "But you sure surprised us."
"I did?" Sora asked, wondering what she was referring to.
"You don't remember?" Lilo asked, running back up to the bed and leaning in towards the face of the teenage boy who just shook his head no in response. "You totally like fell out of the sky-"
"He fell out of a tree," Nani corrected with a sigh as Lilo tried to exaggerate it. Sora looked back at the older woman and then to Lilo, and he wondered to himself if the little girl had the more likely explanation. "And you really cut up your arm badly," Nani continued. "It's a good thing David was with us-"
"David's Nani's boyfriend," Lilo said with a hand cupped to her mouth. "And he used to be a lifeguard, so he knows first aid. We were going to bring you to a doctor, but Stitch really wanted to bring you home with us."
"I was going to ask you about that," Nani started. She pushed her hands down on her sides and got up from the bed. "But seeing as you're still a bit hazy on your own name, I don't think we'll be getting any answers yet. So how about I make us some breakfast?"
Sora's stomach rumbled at the mere mention of breakfast. Nani laughed and Lilo smiled wide at Sora's stomach's answer, while Sora just stared down at his stomach and got a much more thoughtful look on his face than the other two thought he would. When was the last time I ate something? What's my favorite food? Why do I know what food is? What breakfast is? Yet I can't remember… what can't I remember? Anything important. My name. My friends… Stitch? "Wait, who's Stitch?" Sora asked, looking at Lilo as Nani headed out to go back downstairs.
"Stitch is my dog," Lilo replied. She glanced behind her towards the window, then back at the door, then to Sora who she leaned towards while cupping a hand to her mouth again. "But he's actually an alien!" She whispered it to him but her whisper was loud and excited. "It's a secret, but I think you already know, right? Did it jog anything?"
"An alien," Sora whispered quietly in response. He slid back up the bed again, and he stopped even though he wanted to get up as he was still only partly dressed in what felt like a pair of boxers.
"Here," Sora looked at the girl who said that while reaching to her side around the foot of the bed. "David had to go to work, but he brought one of his shirts that you can wear. Your, cloak, is outside on the drying line. Nani didn't want to throw it in our laundry with that blood on it-"
"Thanks," Sora said, taking the shirt with his left hand and then smiling at the girl he cut off. "I like it." He lifted both arms and slid them up into the shirt and through the sleeves of the orange Hawaiian shirt. He winced while raising his right arm, but he ignored that bit of pain and just sat up more comfortably once he was dressed.
"Here's a bathing suit," Lilo held up a pair of shorts with strings on the front that Sora grabbed too in a bit of surprise. "I'll leave you alone for a minute. Don't touch anything, okay?"
Sora sheepishly nodded his head. "Yeah, got it," he replied. I'm in a girl's room. I shouldn't mess with any of her things. They're being really nice to me after all. I need to get out of here though. I need to figure out, if this is the world that she's in. The girl I promised I'd come back to! She's the reason I'm here, and if I find her I'm sure I'll remember everything else too!
Lilo left the room, and Sora came out a minute later dressed in attire more fitting of that world than the black cloak he had arrived in the night before. "So, is Stitch-"
"Breakfast's ready!"
"Let's go!" Lilo grabbed Sora's hand and started leading him towards the kitchen before he could finish his question.
Sora frowned as he was unable to figure out what was going on, but he reminded himself as he followed the small girl how much they were doing for him and tried to smile despite his frustration. That man, the World Eater, different worlds, darkness. I still feel, dark. Ever since I used it, something's different. Different from just how strange I felt after coming back… coming back from what? What happened to me? That guy thought I should be dead. I feel, like I almost died.
"Hey now, you don't like pancakes?"
Sora rose his head and looked at Nani who gave him a more hesitant look at the dark one he had on his face. Sora's eyes widened at the way she pulled back, and he shook his head around fast to try and shake his dark expression away. "Sorry, no of course I do. I was just, trying to remember-"
"Remember what?" Lilo asked, lowering her fork from the seat on Sora's right. "Your name?"
"Everything," Sora said. He started to cut his pancakes as he was feeling really hungry, but he asked as he started to eat, "Do you know why Stitch wanted me to come with you? Do we know each other? Could he tell me who I am?"
"Maybe," Nani replied, though she turned away and her voice sounded doubtful. "Though, Stitch isn't really… that great of a talker."
"I'm sure he'll know exactly who you are! Once he gets back with Jumba and Pleakly," Lilo lowered her excited look a bit while mentioning that.
As she was going to continue, Sora cut in, "Where did they go?"
"These creepy, things have been showing up all over the place," Nani said as she washed the pan she had used to make the pancakes. She waved it up in the air and then brought it back down to keep scrubbing while saying, "They kept popping up and destroying stuff around town, and people obviously started blaming Jumba and Stitch."
"Jumba's going to capture one, and then they're going to do experiments and figure out what they are," Lilo said, and she made creepy hand motions in front of her of pretending to use medical tools that had Sora get an uneasy feeling in his stomach. "They're monsters though! And they've been attacking people after popping out of nowhere, just like…" Lilo started humming and she leaned back in her seat, looking down her nose suspiciously at the boy who lowered his bottom lip a little bit before telling himself that she was joking with him.
Sora paused his chewing for a second. He pointed at himself with his eyes big and a shocked look on his face, then he swallowed a big gulp of his breakfast before grinning at the girl sitting next to him. "Maybe I am one of-" Sora started joking to the girl but he froze. The older woman at the sink had looked back over her shoulder and started smiling at the teen's ability to joke despite not really knowing what was going on, and Lilo had started looking at him with big eyes only to get confused as he stopped what he was saying.
A light flashed on Sora's right hand and he held his arm out to the side while turning to look at it. Lilo and Nani both stared with their eyes huge too as the golden hilt emerged with black tendrils snaking around it to the dark steel hilt. The hilt extended out a few feet before turning into a key at the end, and Sora had a bad gut feeling as the Keyblade emerged in his grasp. He spun his head towards the opposite side of the room and jumped out of his chair, right as three black circles appeared sliding across the floor towards the room.
"Inside the house?!" Nani shouted, sounding more angry and frustrated than afraid.
"Ooh! I'll get them this time!" Lilo shouted excitedly, jumping out of her seat herself and running towards the creatures.
"Wh- hey! Be careful!" Sora called out, looking to his side at the girl running next to him in surprise.
Nani started forward with a frying pan she had just dried off, and she called at her sister, "Lilo stay back!"
"I can do this!" Lilo exclaimed, and she pulled out a ray gun that she aimed at the dark forms popping out of the floor. She hesitated after aiming towards one, and she tilted her head to the side as the oddly cute Shadow tilted its own at her. "Or, maybe I don't need-"
"Look out!" Sora jumped forward and slashed his Keyblade down, slamming it into the closest Shadow that just leapt at Lilo after staring at her with its beady glowing yellow eyes. He knocked the creature back, but it just landed on its four feet and kept slinking around on the wood floor while looking at the humans with their dark faces. "Are you alright?" Sora asked, looking next to him at the girl he had to shove a bit when he leapt like that.
"Alright!" Lilo exclaimed, throwing a fist forward and shaking it at the creatures past Sora. "I wanted to give you a chance, but you're not like-" Two of the creatures rushed forward, and Lilo dropped down and did a barrel-roll to the right before sticking both arms out in front of her. "Pew pew pew," she fired the ray gun and slammed the creatures before they could reach Sora.
Nani was reaching down for her sister, but she snapped her head up and dropped her jaw as the Shadows flew across their living room. One slammed into a recliner chair and knocked it backwards while the other flew through the window that shattered past the explosions of blue light Lilo was firing. Sora had his jaw dropped as he looked to his right and down at the girl on her stomach who was grinning big after firing those shots. Nani shouted at her younger sister though, "Just what did that idiot Jumba think he was doing?! Giving you a weapon like-"
"Were you just, making 'pew pew' sounds while you shot it?" Sora asked, looking at the girl's face in amazement and then smiling big as she turned and nodded at him.
"I thought it would make the noise itself, but it's kind of disappointing…"
Sora lifted up his Keyblade and aimed it forward at the Heartless that he had already knocked backwards. It looked about to rush at him, and Sora smiled before saying, "Pew pew pew pew pew!" White light shone at the end of his weapon, and Lilo and Nani both let out a combined 'Wow' as five white lights fired from the boy's weapon that had materialized out of thin air a minute ago.
The Shadow blew apart after the final shot slammed into it, and Sora let out a laugh as he was not expecting it. "These things have been messing up your town?" Sora asked. He jogged forward into the other room and towards the recliner that a flat black circle just slid up and emerged as the Shadow that Lilo had shot back before. He smashed it up with his Keyblade and then jumped and slammed down on it, breaking it apart again into black dust and bubbles that faded away after a second.
"Well…" Nani started, composing herself and stepping into the living room after Sora. "Most people here can't just, summon, strange weapons out of thin air."
"And I'm the only one with-"
Nani snatched the ray gun out of Lilo's hand as she was bragging about it. "Hey!" Lilo called out, reaching up for it and then putting her fists on her hips when Nani started scolding her and saying how she did not need a weapon like that. "But how am I supposed to protect myself if those monsters come back?" Lilo argued, to which Nani actually hesitated.
Nani turned though and she looked at the spiky-brown-haired boy who felt like something was happening that he should probably argue with. "Don't worry, our mystery boy here seems plenty strong enough with that…"
"It's the Keyblade," Sora said, then he let go of it and watched as it disappeared in a sparkle of glowing lights.
"Cool." Lilo said, looking back up at Sora after gawking at where the weapon just disappeared. "But you know, Nani's right! You could totally protect me, soooo… why don't we go look for Stitch?"
Nani sighed and rolled her eyes. "Lilo, I told you-"
"I know I know, it's dangerous outside! But we haven't heard from Stitch and the others all morning! I want Stitch to be able to meet his friend!" Lilo turned to Sora looking for help from the mystery teen, but Sora held his hands up defensively not wanting to get between the sisters. Lilo added when she saw Sora's hesitant look, "And maybe if we look around, some of your memories might get jogged! You're not going to remember anything just sitting around here."
"Huh," Sora turned and looked at the broken window that Nani had walked to and started sweeping up around while mumbling about the creatures. She turned to him and sighed again with an exasperated look, but Sora did not notice as he kept staring through the cracked glass. She's right. I'm not going to find out anything in here. I don't know what those monsters were, but I feel like I recognized them. Maybe if I go out there, I'll recognize some more…
"Hey Lilo, Nani," Sora looked from the older woman right in front of him back to the girl on his side who had watched his thoughtful look quietly there for a few seconds. "What's this world called?" Sora asked. To him, it seemed like a reasonable question. He quickly realized that it was not a very normal question to ask though.
"Whoa! Are you an alien too?!" Lilo exclaimed in awe.
"This is too weird," Nani started rubbing her forehead and then made her way back for the kitchen. "Be careful around the window, I'm getting a broom."
"This is Earth. Do you think you're an alien? Like Stitch?" Lilo asked, climbing up on the couch and jumping on it in excitement while looking the boy up and down. "You look human though." The girl tilted her head to the side and added, "Most aliens look real alien-like."
"I think I'm human," Sora replied. "I just don't know, if this is my world."
"Do you mean, where you're from?" Nani asked from the kitchen. She started coming back in, and she continued to the boy who gave her a confused look, "Well you're in Hawaii. You remember how you got to Hawaii?"
"What's Hawaii?" Sora asked.
"Our islands," Lilo started, only to open her eyes wide as the boy in front of her did the same. "What? Do you remember-"
"Islands," Sora whispered. The girls stared at him while Sora looked back out the window again. "I think, my home was…"
Nani hummed and she glanced over at her sister, before sighing and starting in a reluctant tone, "I guess, Lilo might be right. Maybe we should go look around. Try and jog your memory. If your home is around here, which I'm guessing it is, and you're really just one strange… well, it's worth a shot."
"Yay!" Lilo agreed with her sister with a shout of excitement.
Nani hummed to herself and then turned to go grab the pistol she had put away, thinking it might be a good idea to bring it along if those creatures were still lurking about. "How's your arm, by the way? Feeling better?"
Sora glanced to his upper right arm where he could feel the wound but had been moving it around normally for a while now. "I think so," Sora replied. "Thanks, for taking care of me." He turned to Lilo and added, "Both of you."
"It's no problem," Lilo said with a wave of her hand, barely focused on his thanks since she was excited about going out now. "I'm going to get my bathing suit! Nani I'll grab yours too!"
"Thanks Lilo!"
Huh, guess I'm already wearing one so that's good… Islands. Islands. I can't picture them, but- but I feel like-
"You ready?" Sora opened his eyes and he looked at the younger girl in front of him who had a bag over her arm with towels and changes of clothes in it. Sora nodded and Lilo waved at him to follow her.
"…yeah no, I think we'll just stop by your place later. Thank you for saying you're willing to come out, but I think my last message was more frantic than it needed to be. He doesn't look bad at all- Hey Lilo hold on a minute! Yes, sorry. I did. Yes, I made sure I cleaned it out. I know. I'll have him over sometime soon- okay, yes, noon is great. Sorry again. I'll see you then."
"Come on, Nani!" Lilo complained.
"I think she's just taking her time because she doesn't want me to remember and have to leave," Sora said, cupping a hand to his mouth like Lilo had done with him earlier in her room. He kept his voice raised a bit while Nani was walking over towards him, and he grinned a little while saying it as the woman could see he meant for her to hear which just had her rolling her eyes at him.
Lilo started laughing though, and Sora smiled which had Nani smiling too and laughing after a second as she admitted to herself that she did not mind the boy too much. They started out of the house, but Nani slowed down near the door she was going to close and lock behind her. She looked back through the house and out a window towards the drying line she had outside, and her smile lowered back down. That cloak is like nothing I've ever seen. So strange. And what was that question about worlds? This kid, might really be an alien. Still, as much crazy as we've seen, Nani turned back around and looked down the steps at her sister and their new friend who were walking down and talking to each other. Making that thing appear out of nowhere, it was like magic. And these monsters popping up lately, they're coming out of nowhere too. People are scared… I'm scared.
His eyes scare me. He's just a boy, but that gold hue. His weapon was dark too, and what if when he gets his memory back… what if he's not…
A/N Lilo and Stitch world! Sora wakes up in Hawaii, and there are Heartless popping up all over the place for some reason. Not that he yet knows what a Heartless is... Stitch is around though! We'll see what's up with this world and if Sora can regain any of his memories on his search for "the girl," next time! Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed, and leave a review below telling me what you think of the start of the story so far!
Smlluffy67 chapter 2 . 11h ago
Welp you are are one of the first people to start making a where sora ended up at fanfiction and thank God it's you cause I know with the way your storys are this is gonna be great and I can agree kh3 had ists flaws but it's still one of my favorite kh games heck on of my favorite games of all times and hey maybe well get a final mix dlc somewhere down the line
Vanitas getting thrown through doors was my favorite part lol
Thanks for the review! Glad you've got high hopes for this, I'll try not to disappoint. KH3 was one of my favorite games ever too, hope no one thinks I feel otherwise just 'cause of all the negative stuff popping up lately. Def really enjoyed it, despite the flaws. Hope you liked the new chapter! Also fav part: probs Dog Street popping in and saving Ansem the Wise from Ansem, really didn't expect Hayner, Pence, and Olette to manage it and it was awesome XD Vanitas through doors was funny too lol
serpent1234 chapter 2 . 9h ago
I hope you also include Kairi in this story. I want her to look for Sora and unleash her potential.
We'll see... no spoilers though!
redlox2 chapter 2 . 9h ago
Sora litterally brought everyone together by giving himself up. Bro I have a couple KH3 stories on my page if you want to check them out!
For this chapter I like you portraying Luxu with his Xignaf personality (which he implied was an act in the secret reports but he chose to just roll with it),
Yeah Sora managed to save Kairi, but lost himself. I just checked out your new stories, (nice btw), but I didn't think in that final cutscene anyone else could see Sora. My interpretation which I get isn't everyone's, but I think when Donald tries to go over he wants to get Kairi to join in the fun but Mickey and Goofy stop him, hold him back and they all look out towards Kairi and the sunset past her knowing who she's thinking about which is why she's not over with all of them. I think at this point everyone is thinking their goodbyes to Sora, but I thought only Kairi actually saw him, and yet Sora was not actually there even though she saw him. It was more like she wished he was there, and Nomura was tricking us into thinking maybe Sora did survive, only for us to realize as Kairi lets go and Sora disappears for her too that he's gone for good. (At least in their minds right now, I assume/hope next KH game maybe someone will start a new mission to find Sora). But it felt to me when I watched that the first time that it was over, and Kairi was sitting out on the tree by herself thinking about Sora and wishing he was there with them, with her... Thanks for the review and hope you liked the chapter, and glad you liked Luxu's portrayal. I think even when he was revealed as Luxu he kept acting very Xigbar-y to the other ancients who appeared so that's how I'm writing his character.