I'M NOT DEAD! YAY!
Just took a small break from writing for a bit. Chapters will be a bit shorter from now on because I want to avoid the dreaded writers block, but still put out content. If that makes any sense.
Anyway, on with the show!
My Name is Sora! The Attack On Greece!
Greece - Thebes
Quiet and empty, two words that would never be used to describe Thebes. Yet they fit perfectly as of now. The city shows clear signs of battle, some buildings on fire, other buildings outright destroyed, the same can be said for the few Greek columns lying around. The solemn silence continued until a small hum was heard, then the hum started getting louder. As the hum got even louder, a pink ball of light appeared slightly above the pavement of the city, then it started to grow bigger as white lightning bolts shot out of it. The area itself was shaking due to the intensity of it all. Then with a boom, the ball turned into a pink portal, the noise was all gone as well. After a brief moment, a pink haired girl fell out of the portal, which closed soon after she fell out.
"Ugh, that was unpleasant" Momo commented as she picked herself up from the ground. Upon standing she took the time to wipe the dust off her dress and take her surroundings in.
"My goodness, where are we? what happened here?" wondered the pinkette. She then noticed two things besides the wrecked city. One, she still had clothes on. Usually when her eldest sister made an invention involving portals they would have the...unfortunate drawback of not bringing clothes with the person using said invention, so this was indeed a strange occurrence. Two, and something more pressing, she was the only one there, Zastin and Yami were nowhere to be seen!
Momo's eyes went wide at this realization "Wait, where are they? Hello?!" she exclaimed as she looked around for her two companions, hoping for an answer from either of them. Unfortunately, she was met with silence. 'Did we get separated somehow?' Momo was now very worried, looking down at the ground, her mind racing at the possible scenarios. They could have ended up separated across just this world at best, but at worst they could have ended up on separate worlds entirely.
As her gaze stayed focused at the pavement, something rose out from the ground a few feet behind her. A feeling of dread suddenly filled Momo as she turned around to confront the source of this feeling, only to find a small black shadow creature. It looked as if it was a being of pure darkness itself. It had a somewhat humanoid body with a round head. The head had two crooked antennae sprouting out of the top of its head drooping forward. Each of it's hands had three clawed fingers, and it's feet were large and lack digits. It's eyes were yellow orbs that seemed to glow through the darkness that made up it's head. It was constantly twitching it's body and head, making it look feral. Now, there was a part of Momo that thought the creature looked cute in a way, but that did not overshadow the dread she felt nor the hostility the little shadow was emitting.
The creature then suddenly lunged at Momo, causing her to grit her teeth and dodge to the left while eying it. After that it became apparent to her that the creature wasn't by itself, as more of it's kind came from the ground, surrounding her. She had never seen beings like these before in her life, nor were they the one's that attacked Yami from the way she described them.
'Just what are they?' she thought to herself.
"It's the heartless, look out!" yelled a nearby voice. Momo looked toward it to find a...dog of sorts, running upright toward her. A shield then materialized on his right arm from a flash of light and he started spinning toward her with his shield outstretched. Momo watched in bewilderment as the dog spun into the 'heartless' around her in a circle, destroying them. The dog started 'woahing' to himself as he slowly stopped spinning in front of Momo. Once he did stop he was facing in her direction a bit dizzy from the spin, giving her a chance to take his appearance in with more detail. To her, the dog looked like he was right out of a cartoon Celine could watch.
Once the strange dog recovered from the dizziness, he noticed Momo staring at him "Gawrsh, Ms? Are you alright?" the dog asked her.
Momo's eyes lit up and she put a hand to her chest. "Oh! Um, yes. Thank you very much...ummm?" She gestured to the dog, wanting to know a name.
"Goofy! Wait!" a new voice said. Momo and the dog looked toward the voice to find a boy with spiky brown hair and blue eyes hurriedly round the corner, presumably where this dog came from. "I heard you say heartless! You alright?"
"A-hyuck! Don't worry Sora, I'm A-OK!" Goofy cheerfully replied. "In fact, I just saved this girl."
Sora then looked at Momo. "Uh, Hi there!" Sora looked her up and down in curiosity "Are you-"
"Sora! Goofy!" another voice quacked out loud. A duck now rounded the same corner Sora came from. "There you two are!" he declared once he made eye contact with them. He stopped in front of them while looking up at the two with a glare. "We're supposed to stick together you guys!"
"Sorry Donald, I just spotted a heartless round' the corner." Goofy explained to the duck "Good thing I did too." he finished while looking toward Momo.
Donald turned his head to look at the female "Wha?..." and began looking her up and down just as Sora did a moment ago. Though unlike Sora, it was done with a hint of suspicion toward the girl.
"I was going to ask..." Sora began talking to the pinkette "Are you from around here?"
Momo was about to reply, but she recalled what Yami and Zastin said about how people don't and shouldn't know of worlds outside their own for very good reasons. So she...
"No, I come from...very far away." told a non-specific truth.
Sora and Goofy just exchanged glances while Donald continued to look suspiciously toward her. Then, they slowly broke out into audible laughs.
Momo just stared at the trio with a mixed expression of disbelief and confusion. "Wait, what did I say? Why are you laughing?!" It didn't feel good to be laughed at for no apparent reason.
"Hahahaha! Your from another world, aren't you?" Sora replied. To which Momo's eyes went wide.
"How do you-"
"Sora used that same excuse before, on our first adventure together!" elaborated Donald.
"But-"
"A-hyuck-hohohoho! And we've been here before too. You don't look OR dress like anyone who would be from this world!" Goofy added.
"...oh" was all Momo could say with a frown.
Now that the laughter died down, Sora spoke "Sorry, that must have looked rude from where your standing."
"It was." the pinkette stated with a glare. The trio felt shivers down their spines as they realized that she was upset at them.
Sora cleared his throat and bowed, Donald and Goofy soon following after "We're VERY sorry, Ms...um..." he looked up to her, as he didn't know her name.
After a moment, Momo's expression softened, sensing the sincerity and non-perverted intent behind his apology "Momo Belia Deviluke."
"I'm Donald Duck!" the duck gave his name while pointing a thumb to himself
"The name's Goofy!" Goofy introduced himself while putting a hand to his chest.
"And my name is Sora!" The boy declared while putting both his hands behind his head in a Criss-Cross fashion.
A few moments passed as Momo looked at the Trio. Realizing they were not laughing out of malice, but out of how carefree they are, she smiled 'Yeah, we definitely got to the outside worlds' she thought to herself. 'I hope Yami-san and Zastin are OK...'
"Ummm, Goofy-san, you called those dark shadow creatures 'Heartless' right?" asked Momo
"Huh?" for a moment, Goofy was confused about the added 'san' before deciding to forget it "Oh! Yeah! That's what they're called, Ms. Momo."
"They started attacking this world just recently. Right as I was training too." Sora wistfully complained.
The pinkette looked quizzically at Sora "Training? For wha-" before she could finish, a LOUD crash was heard deeper into the city by the four, snapping them to look in the direction of the crash.
"More heartless?!" Sora turned to look at Donald and Goofy, who nodded their heads with expressions of determination. "Momo, you get to somewhere safe, we'll handle this!" he swung his right arm as he finished his sentence, summoning the kingdom key in the process. Momo's eyed the key with curiosity, wondering how he summoned it from thin air, watching the trio go as she did. She then remembered something...
There is someone out there with the "Key" to our survival. I need you to find him and make sure he stays unharmed, understood?
Without that "Key", all worlds may be lost.
'Could father have meant that literally?' Momo pondered to herself 'If so...'
Momo was now making a '-_-' face 'That didn't take long at all...' she concluded in her head before going after them.
E3 was AMAZING this year for me, especially with the Kingdom Hearts stuff shown. Going back to Pirates and they look SUPER Good compared to KH2!
Anyway, this chapter is basically me announcing "I'M NOT DEAD!" earlier. It's a good thing I made this fic AU too, with all they showed at E3, I don't lose motivation to keep going. In fact, I GAINED motivation!
Also, I went with Greece for the Hercules world because Olympus is the place where the gods live. In KH3 we are actually going to Thebes and climbing Mount Olympus to stop whatever Hades is cooking up. That and the fact that the Pirates world is now called The Caribbean, not just Port Royal.
Bye!
