"Ugh..." I slowly began to open my eyes. The sun's brightness was intense... And my back was burning... And itchy. My clothes were thoroughly drenched, and I was still feeling the water rising underneath my legs. I sat up. I looked around, Where am I? Where's Han? I realized he was nowhere to be seen. But I was on a beach of some sort. Behind me was a jungle-like biome. I stood up and dusted myself. How am I alive? I began searching for any signs of my raft. I found a few pieces of wood, scattered throughout the sand.

Suddenly Chirithy appeared by my side,

"Good, you're awake."

"Chirithy... Have you seen Han?" I asked.

"Hmm... he ran off somewhere I believe. Don't worry; he'll come back." "Yeah, I know... so where are we?" Chirithy began wandering around,

"I'm not too sure... some small island" they turned towards me, "But you got here because you sunk below and washed up here."

"I'm going to have to have a word to Ava after this" I said remembering Ava's lie.

"Well, you'll do no good without another boat. I think I saw a village of some sort, on the other side of the forest" I nodded, I equipped my keyblade and began my hike.

I moved slowly; there was a lot of bushes and other growth that was covering almost every inch of the ground. There were lots of animals running about; it was a real tropical rainforest! Lots of colorful birds and insects flew by; it was so beautiful! I even stopped to observe some of the wilderness. That was when I heard something, crashing through the trees. I quickly ducked down and went to investigate it.

It was a group of Powerwild's (Heartless shaped monkeys)! They were jumping around, attacking random animals. I jumped out and confronted them,

"Blizzaga!" I cast. I hit all of them with multiple icicles. They all flew back and started screeching at me. A few lunged at me, and jumped out of the way, barely. I lashed back at them, knocking a few of them aside. The rest circled me. I stood still as they moved. Eventually one jumped at me, I knocked it out of the air, and the rest made their move. I got kicked and knocked down, but I made a quick recovery, "Gale Assault!" I spun my keyblade, creating a massive wind strike. The group of powerwilds was thrown up in the air. Some of them landed with a crash, vanishing and dropping their lux. The rest were barely even able to get up, I quickly dashed forward and finished them off. I had won the battle!

I kept making my way through the jungle.

Eventually, I ran into an armored knight. It took me by surprised and sliced my chest twice,

"Gaha!" I cried. I held my chest; I gritted my teeth in annoyance. I swung out at the heartless; it parried my attack a couple of times before I finally landed a blow on it. It stumbled backward; I quickly began striking it more. It fell back in defeat and disappeared. There are already so many of them here. I said to myself. I kept walking forward. I was making my way along through the jungle quickly. And as I walked, something brushed my leg.

"Huh? Woah!" A net engulfed me and trapped me. I was unable to move. "Chirithy, help!" I said. Nothing happened though. I continued to try and move around. I stopped when I heard something move in the bushes. I looked over; my skin crawled as it slowly got louder. Out rose... a man. He was skinny, but a muscular guy with only a red skirt on. He carried a makeshift spear. He had it pointed at me, and more others appeared around me; in similar apparel. They all gave me a curious look of confusion. One of the larger men came closer,

"Who are you?" He asked.

"My name is Leaf, who are you all?" I replied.

"Where did you come from?"

"Um... out from the sea."

"Where from the sea?"

"Far away, I crashed landed here" The man eyed me suspiciously,

"It is just child" he struck the net, and I fell out,

"Oof!" I hit the floor with a clunk. I got up; the man towered over me, "So who are you guys?" I asked once more.

"My name is Azul, we, are the people of the Motunui."

"Motunui?"

"This island!" Azul waved his hands around, "This is Motunui, and we, are it's people" Another man moved towards us,

"What tribe do you come from?" he asked.

"Me?" I said, "I'm from... the tribe Gups!" I said casually.

"You live on Island Gups?" another person said.

"No, we live on an island called Daybreak" I lied.

"He comes from the sea!" A burly woman stepped forward, "He can not be trusted."

"Auryon, what do you mean?"

"He said he came here from the sea, we all know nothing good ever comes from the water!" They all looked at me once again.

"I swear I'm not here to hurt anyone! I'm just looking for-"

"Monsters!" someone shouted. Around us, heartless appeared out of the ground. I readied up my keyblade as the others raised their spears.

"Attack!" Azul yelled. The people began attacking the heartless. I dashed forward and slashed at a group of them,

"Blitz Raid!" I whooshed past the heartless, killing them in one blow. I saw a heartless lunge at one of the tribe members, who was fighting off two others. He saw the heartless jumping towards him,

"Ah AHH!" *CLANG* I threw back the heartless, "T-Thank you" the man thanked me. I nodded in acknowledgment and returned to the fight. As I fought, I noticed the one girl, Auryon, battling multiple heartless. She gave quick and massive strikes. I saw a shadow behind me; I turned quickly to see an Invisible (Large sword-wielding heartless) it swung it's blade down at me. I managed to parry with its attack. But this one moved quicker than most; it dashed forward into me. I tumbled over but got back up quickly. I jumped up and bashed the Invisible in the head. It smacked me away, and I fell back. It started flying rapidly around, and then tackled me. I was overpowered, and it knocked me over once again.

"Ghe ah!" I cried. I was slower at getting up, and I saw the Invisible standing over me. I couldn't stand another attack; it raised it's blade and swung down on me.

"Hurrah!" *Tink* I looked up to see that Auryon had blocked the Invisible's attack, "Get up!" she growled. I raised my keyblade,

"Cura!" I healed my wounds. I was able to get up now, I ran around the side of the heartless, "Thunder!" I gave it a powerful shock. It gave a loud cry, and I spun and landed a heavy blow on the Invisible. It faded away. I looked at Auryon, "Thanks!" I gasped.

"Don't mention it, kid, c'mon" She ran over to aid her friends. I joined in, and after some time we cleared up the rest. With little to no casualties.

"Woo-hoo!" all of the villagers cheered. They all raised their spears up and danced around with one another. I wandered over to Azul, who was watching the others. He turned when he noticed me.

"Ah! Friend! You fought really well for someone your size" He gave me a huge pat on the back, it pushed me forward a little, "It is good that you were here. Lately, we've had some rather bad fortune upon our island lately..."

"Bad fortune?" I asked.

"Lately, we have been struggling to keep our food source of fish going, and our plants have been rotting a lot more than usual. We are all worried..."

"Anything I could do to help?" Azul looked down at me,

"A kid... not much you could do... you say you were wrecked yes? You can come and stay with us. I think the chief would like to meet you."

The group of hunters and I traveled through the jungle back to their village. Along the way they had explained to me of how the island was slowing losing resources, and that more and more monsters (Heartless) were showing up. I had started to learn that this world hasn't quite reach modern technology. Electricity was utterly absent; they relied solely on manpower and each other. Course, I had not mentioned anything honestly about my home to them. I didn't want them to know I was from another world.

"Say, you're clothes are funny looking," Someone said. Crap. Of course, my giant mushroom cap and backpack was entirely off-putting.

"Yeah, what is this?" Another said as they poked my backpack. Eventually, we had found ourselves on top of a hill, overlooking the village. It was a large village; there were people all around. Children running about, adults carrying baskets of food and wood.

"Welcome, to our tribe," Azul said.

"I will go and tell the chief of your arrival. I will come to find you when we are ready. For now, just enjoy the place!" Azul said. I nodded as he walked off. First thing's first, I need new clothes. I walked around town, getting a lot of stares from people. I kept looking around, but there didn't appear to be any shops. I had no choice but to ask someone for directions. I walked up to a rather older lady sitting on her porch, working on some sort of flower necklace,

"Pardon me ma'am" I greeted. She looked up at me with a friendly smile, "Do you perhaps know where I could get some better... apparel?" She got up and gestured me inside. Her house was a wooden hut, like all the others. It consisted of a number of straw beds combined with huge palm leaves, as well as countertops and a small fireplace for cooking. She had reached for something on her wall; it was a map of Montui. She brought it over to me, pointing at a place labeled, 'Palms Reach" It was someways off from the village. A red circle was on a specific point of that area. It looked to be on some sort of group of trees... She then pointed from that spot to me. She scrunched up the map and handed it to me as she walked back outside with the flower necklace.

"Um... alright then," I said. I placed the map back in my backpack and began to head back up north. I decided to just stick to the outskirts of the jungle. Eventually, I came to the place on the map. However; It was a cliff, and I was on the bottom. According to the map, the trees were on the top. There was no way I was going to be able to climb up, so then I had to go back into the jungle and make my way up. I snuck my way through the endless shrubbery.Bum! Bum! Bum! Something was shaking the ground! I looked around, noticing a large figure moving in the distance. I walked over to see what it was. Another heartless obviously but... this one took the shape of a giant rhino! It was stomping its way forward. I was about to jump it when a couple of Blue Rhapsody (Blue colored floating heartless with yellow wizard-like hats) flew out of nowhere and hit me.

"Ack!" I said. I looked up at them, they all starting flying around frantically. As soon as they stopped, they began casting their blizzard spell. I had to stop them; I threw back my keyblade, "Fire Dash!" I flew forward and blasted all of them with fire. All of them gave out and disappeared. I smiled at first, but then I noticed that I had forgotten I was in a jungle. A single tree had caught on fire. Oh no! I quickly cast, "Blizzard!" And put the fire out. Finally, everything was quiet. But I lost track of the large heartless. I decided I would catch it later, for now, I just wanted to get up the cliff.

After just a quick minute of running upward, I had finally seen a peculiar group of trees up ahead. I walked up there and could see that these trees had a lot more leaves... but these looked different somehow... were they shinier or...? I looked down on the map to confirm it was the spot... I guessed it was. I was never the best tree climber though, I felt around, trying to see if I could get a good grip on it. Bum! Bum! Bum! I turned to see the Rhino Heartless right behind me!

"Wah!" I readied my keyblade. I felt something in my backpack move; a blue fluff popped its head out,

"Yip yip!" Han said. He jumped out and snarled at the heartless.

"Good timing boy" The rhino flared its nostrils at us and stomped it's feet, "Let's do this!" I yelled.

The rhino charged forward, and I jumped up with Han.

"Shining Stars!" I blasted the heartless with a burst of shooting stars. It flopped over but got right back up. I dashed forward and sliced at it. It swung it's head, hitting me with the horn it had, in anger. "Oh!" I said. Han ran up and jumped on my head, I felt a surge of energy flow into me, I raise my keyblade, "Blade of Seven!" I shot our seven blades at the heartless. It stumbled back in pain, then it began charging once more towards us. Han and I jumped out of the way in time, and I bashed it in the side a couple more times. The heartless turned once more and dashed incredibly fast towards me, I was taken by surprise and gave a weak block. It shoved me back incredibly far; my boots had begun to dig up dirt. The monster charged once more, this time I was more prepared, but still forced back. I was now standing on the edge of the cliff. The sudden realization made me turn and look down, "Uh-" It was a far drop down. But the situation gave me an obvious answer. I turned back to see the heartless running straight towards me. At the last possible moment, I jumped up over it. It flew off the cliff, and landed with a thud! I looked down, but it was still alive! It got up and shook its head before it ran back off into the jungle. "Dang it!" I said, disappointed. That was a tough one, where did it come from?

"Bark bark!" Han drew my attention back. I looked over, and he scratched at a tree. It was the one with the odd-looking leaves. I climbed up and grabbed as many of the leaves I could. They were quite large and heavy, so I could only take so many. I still didn't know why I was doing this. But I took them and headed back to the village with Han. We finally reached back to the old lady's home. Her eyes widened when she saw the leaves. I handed them to her; she pointed to the table. So I sat them there. She then took out a stick and quickly began measuring me, my waist and height. Then she shoved Han and me outside. We sat and waited outside for a good while. That's when finally she opened the door and held up a small grass skirt and a necklace with teeth (I think shark teeth). She handed it to me. I noticed there was also a couple of smaller leaf bands for my legs and arms like the others had. I realized the skirt was green, as opposed to the red and white apparel that everyone else wore. I liked it. I put it on; it fit almost perfectly! I put away all my other clothes aside from my backpack.

"Wow... thank you!" I said. The lady bowed her head. Her eyes moved to look behind me. I turned, to see Azul and Auryon heading towards us.

"Leaf!" Azul said, "Glad we found you, nice clothes by the way."

"Chief Tui is ready to see you now," Auryon said, "We're going to the Chief's hut."