AN: Over a hundred views so far, I'm really grateful to everyone who has taken the time to read my stories so far. And I'm even more grateful to those who have taken the time to review my story so far. I hope to keep hearing from you, and please know that if you have questions for me, feel free to PM me I will happily do my best to answer you. Also I know this story isn't exactly following the story of Kingdom Hearts, but I do have to make adjustments for the fact that Harley is there. And finally for this AN I sadly still don't own Kingdom Hearts or Harry Potter.
Harley sighed as she sat in the hotels aptly named red room, trying to come to terms with everything that Yuffie had explained to her on their way back to the hotel. All while Leon simply batted away all the shadow creatures, which Harley now knew were actually called Heartless, proving that he had been holding back a great deal while he had been fighting Sora.
That thought made Harley wonder if Sora was awake yet, and hope that he wasn't to injured, even though Leon had stated that Sora had only passed out due to exhaustion. A fact that made Harley feel guilty since in her mind Sora had only exhausted himself protecting her. Even though in actual fact she had been doing her best to help him, the girl had become so used to blaming herself when someone got injured.
Harley was knocked out of her depressing thoughts by the sound of the door opening and a nasally voice that she couldn't understand slamming into her eardrums. Her green eyes shot to the door only to take in arguably the strangest sight she had seen so far. The first to enter was an older woman with her brown hair in a braid, a pink dress and a polite smile on her face. The two that followed her though are who gave Harley pause as she saw an overly large duck, wearing a blue coat, with more then a few zippers, and a blue hat with one long zipper running the length of it. Followed by a tall dog, walking on two legs with a pair of burnt yellow pants, a green sweater, and a black vest, wearing an orange unique shaped hat, and a pair of goggles. Harley couldn't help but to stare at the two anthropomorphic animals, her mouth actually dropped open when the duck talked to her.
"Who are you?" He quacked at her, Harley turned to look at the older woman to see if she could understand the duck as well, only for her eyes to widen when she realized that the older woman had in fact understood the duck.
"Ha..Harley." She stated calmly, trying to understand just what was going on here, and beginning to worry that she may have gotten hit in the head or that she was dreaming. Seeing the younger teens distress the older woman went to sit beside her.
"Calm yourself Harley." She stated softly while gently running her hand down Harley's back in a soothing manner. "You have to remember that other worlds don't all follow the same rules as your world does, okay?" She explained softly, while still soothing the teen.
"Right" Harley stated even though she wasn't actually sure that she understood what the older woman was talking about, nor was she entirely sure that she wanted to. What she did know was that at this exact moment she really wished that Hermione was there with her. The bushy haired witch would have easily understood exactly what the older woman was stating, and been able to help Harley understand it to. Harley sighed though as she felt herself relax thanks to the older woman's gentle menstruation, causing her to come to the quick realization that she still didn't know this woman's name.
"I'm Harley" She stated as she looked up at the older woman, hoping that she wouldn't be offended by the fact that Harley was just now introducing herself. Her fears were quickly soothed though by the small almost maternal smile that came to the older woman's face.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Harley, my name is Aerith." Aerith stated calmly, before turning to look to the two anthropomorphic animals, gently waving her hand, to signal for them to introduce themselves.
"Goofy ah-yuck" The large dog stated as he waved at Harley causing the thirteen year old to smile softly feeling more comfortable around the dog because of how friendly he seemed to be, before looking to the duck.
"Donald Duck." Donald stated calmly as he looked at Harley before turning to look back to Aerith, obviously expecting her to start explaining something.
Harley almost wanted to giggle as she looked at the two, she wasn't sure why she had been so scared of the two at first, they both seemed really kind, although the fact that Aerith was still rubbing her back while explaining about the heartless to the two did help Harley feel at ease. Harley was barely paying attention to the conversation between the three though because after all she had already heard most of it from Yuffie, sure this thing about some report, had peaked her interest, but the fact that most of the pages seemed to be lost, made it kinda pointless.
Harley did however perk up when she heard Donald mention something about a key followed by Aerith correcting the duck that they were actually looking for the holder of the Keyblade, causing Harley to wonder just why they were looking for her new friend. Her thoughts were interrupted though as the door connecting the red room to the room Sora was currently resting in, burst open, slamming Donald into the way as Yuffie burst through and raced into Aerith's arms.
"Yuffie what happened?" Aerith asked as she held the scared girl. Harley was quick to run into the blue room to try to make sure her new friend was okay, only to stare in shock at the empty room and the open window. She quickly turned back and pushed the door back against the wall, inadvertently slamming Donald back into the wall as she ran back in to here exactly what happened from Yuffie.
"Leon and I had just finished explaining about the Heartless when one of them burst through the window. Leon knocked it back out the Window and then they both ran out to go and fight it and any others that may be nearby." Yuffie explained as she looked at Aerith. Harley didn't hesitate as she pulled out her wand, planning to go out and find her new friend. She was barely two steps out the door when she was met by an armored heartless, its claws already poised to strike her, only for them to bounce off of Goofy's shield, followed by a small ball of fire flying past her and striking the heartless in the chest. The knight heartless let out a small almost silent cry as it burst into a puff of smoke. Harley turned to look at Donald who was holding a staff, before the duck simply nodded at her, as all three took off to go and try to find Sora.
Sora sighed as he made his way into the third district, he had been destroying every heartless he had come across since splitting up with Leon, but his search for the leader heartless was not going well, and mix in the fact that he could only hope that not only his friends Riku and Kairi were okay, but now he couldn't help but to hope that Harley was okay since he knew that she was in this town as well. He sighed as he slashed through another Shadow heartless, before taking a few steps. His thoughts were quickly interrupted though by the sound of an explosion above him causing the chocolate haired teen to turn and look above him only for his eyes to widen in shock as he saw three people falling towards him. One he easily recognized as Harley the other two though appeared to be large anthropomorphic animals, not that that really mattered to Sora at though moment though what did was the fact that all three were falling right towards him, so quickly spinning Sora started to try and run so he'd be out of the way, sadly though Sora started trying to run to late, as all three managed to land on him, causing the thirteen year old to groan in pain as he simply lay under the three.
"The key" The two anthropomorphic animals stated as they saw Sora's Keyblade. Harley couldn't help but to feel slightly sorry for the boy as she climbed off the top of the pile, quickly followed by Donald and Goofy, before Goofy helped the downed boy up. Sora sighed as he looked at the three, briefly smiling at Harley, before turning to look back at the two anthropomorphic animals planning to try and get answer to them only to pause as the ground began to shake massive pillars of stone erupting from the ground all around them boxing the four in.
Sora's head was quick to swivel around as he tried to find where the heartless would be making their appearance only for five large pieces of armor to slam into the ground before slowly lifting to form together into a massive armor based heartless, its arms and legs floating freely in the air, as it's head slammed into its body before the pieces began moving around.
Sora was quick to re-summon his Keyblade, before jumping to the side, dragging his blade against the descending arm as it passed, before running to the side to try and make sure that the heartless wouldn't be able to hit him, his blue eyes quickly shifted to the side, taking in the whole field around him, a skill he had learned from fighting against Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka three on one. He smiled as he saw Harley dodging out of the way of the arm that he had just injured before launching her own spell at it, causing the arm to jerk for a moment before going limp. Sora smiled as he shifted his run before charging at the downed arm.
"Sora watch out!" Harley cried causing the teen to shift his eyes to the side as he saw the Heartlesses other arm rushing at him. Sora frowned before jumping as high as he could barely clearing the rushing arm, before shifting his decent into a downward strike against the slowly recovering arm. His Keyblade cleaving through the shuttering arm, before the arm burst into a puff of black smoke. Sora smiled at Harley in gratitude before turning back to the heartless, glad that they had managed to take down one part but that still left four more.
"Harley" Sora started causing the green eyed girl to look at him. "Can you use that spell again?" Sora asked calmly as he dodged another strike from the monsters remaining arm.
"Yeah, Sora I can use it as many times as we need." Harley stated as she spun out of the way of a descending foot, only to be knocked back by the resulting shock-wave. Harley couldn't help but to glare as the large boot made its way back towards her, before rolling out of the way with a bellow of "Stupefy" causing a jet of red light to shoot forth, slamming into the bottom of the boot. She smiled as she watched the boot shutter for a moment before it was blown backwards by the force of the spell sending it crashing into the ground. She grinned as she watch Sora drag his Keyblade through it causing the large boot to burst into a second cloud of black smoke. Before Sora turned to look back at her with a large smile. Harley simply grinned as she took in the rest of the field, seeing that Donald and Goofy had managed to take out the other arm, and from the look of it would soon destroy the second leg, leaving only the main body and head. With a grin Harley launched another "Stupefy" at the Heartless only this time the main body began to spin and Harley was forced to watch as her spell hit against a barrier of wind created by the rapidly spinning Heartless, the spell dissipating against the overpowering force of the wind.
Sora growled as he watch Harley's spell blow away, before charging at the heartless hoping that his blade could get past the barrier of wind. Sadly all Sora managed to accomplish was him being blown away by the wind himself, slamming against a wall. He groaned as he looked back at the heartless, his eyes narrowing as he noticed the heartless stop spinning, while at the same time the wind surrounding the heartless began to slow.
Sora groaned as he slowly stood up trying to regain the breath that had been knocked from him by the blow against the wall, only to smile as he saw Harley standing right next to him.
"You seeing what I'm seeing?" Sora asked calmly as he shifted into a striking stance.
"If you mean the fact that the Heartless is about to lose its shield, yeah." Harley stated before smiling at Sora. "I hit it with a spell and then you finish it with your Keyblade." Harley said as she smiled as him, causing Sora to simply grin.
"You read my mind." Sora responded, before he began running towards the massive monster, Harley simply smiled as she realized that even though Sora hardly knew her he was willing to trust her without really thinking about it.
"Stupefy" Harley bellowed, watching as the jet of magic burst forth from the tip of her wand only to slam into the Heartless, and just like with its other extremities the main body shuttered for a moment before collapsing to the ground. Much to Harley and Sora's surprise Harley's wasn't the only spell to hit the heartless as mere seconds after her Stupefy disabled the monster a ball of flames slammed into the shadow creatures helmeted head, causing it to catch flame. Sora growled as he lunged into the air before bringing his Keyblade down against the heartless causing the monster to rattle once before it began to float into the air.
All four growled as the quickly regrouped before shifting into their fighting stances, Sora and Goofy standing in the front with Harley and Donald right behind them ready to begin launching spells. But the four watched in shock as a massive heart seemed to float out of the creature before disappearing, followed quickly by the heartless itself.
Sora smiled as he lifted a hand to the back of his head and taking what Harley was quickly coming to think of as his trademark stance. Easily shooting Harley a smile, almost as if he was saying that he was glad she was okay with that simple gesture before turning to look at the two anthropomorphic animals standing before them.
Harley simply sighed as Donald and Goofy explained to Sora what had been going on and that they needed him to go with them. Harley's thoughts though were elsewhere, mainly focusing on the fact that neither Ron or Hermione had been in this town and that meant that they were on a different world, unless they had been turned into heartless like Fred and George had.
Harley quickly banished those thoughts though as she heard Donald state that they couldn't take her with them. She was about to begin arguing the fact that she should be allowed to go as well, but before she could say anything Sora surprised her by making a firm statement.
"Harley comes with us, or I don't go." Sora stated causing Donald to simply stop and stare at the boy, before grudgingly accepting. Harley couldn't help but to stare in shock at Sora, more then grateful that he had been willing to push so hard for her to be able to search for her friends with them.
"Sora thanks." Harley said softly, causing the boy to turn to look at her with that large smile on his face.
"I said we'd look for your friends together." Sora stated simply before turning to follow after the two. Only to halt as he saw Donald standing before the two, his wing held out to signal them to stop. Before he pulled out his staff.
"Wait before we go anywhere, you both need to learn how to use magic." Donald stated, Harley was about to argue that she already knew how to use magic, when she saw Donald launch a fireball from the end of his staff. "This is the most basic spell that I know. It's called fire." Donald stated as he then began to explain to them both just how to cast the spell, Harley grinned as she managed to launch a fireball on her second try while Sora continued trying for another half hour before he was able to launch fireballs at a consistent rate.
Once Donald felt that the two were sufficient at the spell the three continued their journey to the gummi ship that Goofy had spent the last hour making sure was ready for their arrival and then subsequent departure.
Sora smiled as he looked around the ship until he noticed Harley sitting by herself in the back of the cockpit. Unsure of what was bothering her, but never one to let someone feel down, Sora quickly made his way over to the dark haired girls side. Sliding down the wall until he was sitting next to her, before nudging her shoulder softly, causing the girl to shift her head and look him in the eyes. Sora simply smiled while raising an eyebrow, silently asking her what was wrong.
"Neither Hermione or Ron, or your friends were there." Harley whispered softly as she looked directly at Sora. To her surprise though Sora simply smiled before looking forward.
"No but I'm sure their out their somewhere, and that their safe to. We just need to go out to find them." He stated, causing Harley to stare at him in shock. How could he be so sure that they'd find them, how was he not just as downtrodden as she was. Harley was about to begin bombarding the boy with question when he once again managed to surprise her.
"Hey tell me about them, Ron and Hermi...Hermien..no um." Sora said as he was scratching the back of his head before looking at her, obviously having forgotten Hermione's name. Harley couldn't help but to laugh at the boy. Before looking at him with a smile now gracing her face.
"Only if you tell me about your friends Riku and Kairi." Harley stated staring Sora right in the eyes. Sora simply smiled as he looked at her.
"Deal."
AN: Alright and that's chapter three done. I hope that everyone liked it, if you have any question or anything please feel free to PM me. Also this was my first real fight scene, so I hope that it was okay. Finally please remember to leave a review. Thanks.