Chapter 5: An Adventure Begins
Noel is unconscious in a bed and later on she starts to open her eyes slowly with her vision a little blurry.
"I think she's waking up." A female voice said.
"Yes. It seems so." Another female voice said.
Noel's vision is now clear and she sees Tsubaki and another girl with light brown hair tied to a short ponytail, hazel eyes, wearing a teal and orange dress, and brown short boots.
"I see you're awake." Tsubaki said.
"You... Wh-Where am I?" Noel asked.
"Don't worry. You and your friend are safe now. I'm sorry for knocking you out like that. We just had to take you in because those creatures are after the Keyblade. Not only that, but your heart as well." Tsubaki said.
"I-I..." Noel doesn't know what to say.
"I think she's scared of you, Tsubaki. What did you and Ry do to her?" The girl asked.
"I thought it was the only way. She didn't really resist when Ry was attacking that boy, but we had to get the Keyblade away." Tsubaki said.
"Wh-What are you talking about...?" Noel asked.
"We're trying to you safe, kid." A voice said and they see Ry entering.
"Did you have to go overboard on her, Ry? I mean, she's just an innocent girl." The girl said.
"Shut up, May. We did what was necessary." Ry said.
"Um, what happened to Ken...?" Noel asked.
"He's okay. He's just in the next room. Speaking of which, May, go take care of that brat. We need to talk to the girl." Ry said.
"If you say so." May said leaving the room.
Noel then sees the key weapon next to a door.
"K-Key...blade...?" Noel asked.
"Yeah. We had to get it away from you in order to get the creatures off our backs. That's how they were tracking you." Tsubaki said.
"We did what we had to in order to conceal your heart from them. It won't work for any longer." Ry said.
"Y-You have what you wanted, but what do you want from me?" Noel asked.
"We told you, to keep you safe for now." Ry said picking up the key weapon. "I still can't believe a girl like you, of all people are the chosen one." Ry said and then the key weapon disappears and reappears in Noel's hand.
"Wh-Why is it in my hand...? I didn't even want it..." Noel said.
"The Keyblade chooses its master and it looks like you're its chosen wielder." Tsubaki said.
"Tough luck, kid." Ry said.
"Wh-What is a K-Keyblade? C-Can you pl-please tell me what's going on...?" Noel asked.
"Noel, correct? You know that there are other worlds besides Wisdom City, right?" Tsubaki asked.
"I'm...not too sure..." Noel answered unsure.
"Well, there are. There are many worlds beyond our own and they've been secret because no world has ever been connected, until now." Ry said.
"Ever since the Black Xetis and the Heartless came, everything changed." Tsubaki said.
"Bl-Black X-Xetis...? H-Heartless...?" Noel asked confused.
"The ones who attacked you and kept tracking you." Tsubaki said.
"Both are creatures without hearts. They're born from the darkness in others' hearts. There are forms of Black Xetis and Heartless and they have dangerous and unique powers. They look for hearts to consume and attack people to do it." Ry explained and Noel gasps in horror.
"Th-That's sc-scary..." Noel said.
"Yeah. There are two men known as Aptus and Ansem who studied the Black Xetis and the Heartless. Both the Black Xetis and the Heartless serve who has full control of the darkness itself." Ry explained.
"But there is a way to defeat them. Your Keyblade is the very unique weapon with amazing powers." Tsubaki said.
"But they both have great fear of the Keyblade and they'll keep attacking you, no matter what." Ry said leaning against the wall.
"H-How did this all happen...? All I remember was being in my room and in my house..." Noel then realizes something. "Wh-What happened to my home? Shine City? Ruby? My brother, Luke?" Noel asked.
"I don't know..." Ry answered and Noel hangs her head down.
"I-I have to look for him." Noel said.
"It's dangerous out there. If you want to leave, then you'd better prepare yourself." Ry said.
"Prepare...myself?" Noel asked.
"For any Black Xetis and Heartless that will come to attack you." Tsubaki said.
"I'd like for you to say with us." Ry said.
"Okay." Noel said.
"Tsubaki, let's go see May." Ry said.
"Yeah." Tsubaki said.
Just then a creature in silver head armor, yellow eyes, black and blue body, red claws, and a black heart shaped symbol with a red outline and two red lines across the black heart appear.
"Oh, crap..." Tsubaki said.
"Tsubaki, go. NOW!" Ry said and Tsubaki leaves to the next room.
In the next room Ken starts to wake up and rubs his head.
"Dammit... That guy packed a punch. Where the hell am I?" Ken asked.
"Please watch your mouth." May said.
"Who're you...?" Ken asked.
"I'm May and I promise you, you're safe." May said.
"Good to know." Ken said.
Just then Tsubaki enters the room.
"May, we have to go! They've found us! Hurry!" Tsubaki said.
"Okay." May said as she and Tsubaki leave the room.
"Hey! The hell's goin' on?!" Ken asked. "Whatever. I'd better get out of here." Ken said as he gets off the bed and makes his way out of the room.
"Noel, follow me!" Ry said as he takes out his nunchuku and attacks the Heartless knocking it out of the house and Ry follows after it.
"Okay." Noel said as she follows Ry.
"Yo, Nual!" A voice called and Noel turns to see Ken.
"Ken, you're okay." Noel said.
"What the hell is goin' on?" Ken asked.
"I-I'll explain later. W-We need to get out of here." Noel said.
"Fine. C'mon." Ken said as the two leave the house.
Noel and Ken are now outside the house and are with Ry.
"Okay, punk! Start talkin'! This'll be the last time I'm gonna ask; what the hell is goin' on?!" Ken demanded pointing his finger at Ry.
"Calm yourself, idiot. We have bigger concerns going on." Ry said as more Soldier Heartless surround them and just then creatures that look like zombies rise from the ground. "I knew the Black Xetis would appear. Let's split up. Noel, you and the punk brat deal with the Heartless, I'll handle the Black Xetis. Let's go!" Ry said as he attacks the Black Xetis.
"Punk brat?! Why you...!" Ken growled.
"Ken...w-we should f-focus on leading them away." Noel said.
"Dammit...fine. I've been wanting to bash something anyway." Ken said as he takes out a green guitar with blue flame designs and grey six strings.
"L-Let's do our best." Noel said.
"Yeah. Sure." Ken said.
The Soldier Heartless attack Noel and Ken but the two dodge the attacks and Noel attacks with her Keyblade while Ken uses his guitar to unleash a fire spell but the Solider Heartless spin kick at the two but Noel slashes with her Keyblade followed by a weak swing while Ken bashes with his guitar and then shoots what look like magic music notes from his guitar but Soldier Heartless leap attack at the two but Noel slashes with her Keyblade while Ken unleashes another fire spell from his guitar and the two defeat the Soldier Heartless.
Noel and Ken start moving through Wisdom City while fighting off shadow creatures that are Heartless and phantoms that are Black Xetis and later on the two arrive at what looks like a different area of Wisdom City which is a plaza and they see more Soldier Heartless and Black Xeti zombies appearing and they attack the two but Noel slashes with her Keyblade while Ken strikes with his guitar and the two defeat the Soldier Heartless and Black Xeti zombies and explore around the plaza and then Noel notices something in the middle of the plaza and it's what looks like a swordsman statue on a stoned stand and as Noel examines the statue something appears in the middle of the stoned stand and it's what looks like a keyhole.
"What is that?" Noel asked.
"I dunno. Who cares, anyway. Let's find the rest of those freaks and..." Ken was then cut off by something dropping in front of them.
Two black swords and two black axes drop from the sky and land in front of the two and then something appears and it's what looks like a black armored monster with flaming red eyes, crimson ethereal energy flowing around it, and has a crimson spiked crescent symbol on its chest floating in midair while levitating the two black swords and the two black axes around it.
"Oh, dear..." Noel said.
"What the hell is that?" Ken asked.
"I think it's either a Heartless or a Black Xeti." Noel said.
"A what?" Ken asked and the black armored monster attacks the two but they dodge.
"We're going to have to fight..." Noel said.
"That's what I'd do. C'mon! Let's fight this thing!" Ken said and the black armored monster attacks the two.
The monster known as Blade Armor horizontal slashes at Noel and Ken with its black swords but they dodge the black sword slash and Noel slashes at Blade Armor with her Keyblade while Ken shoots multiple magic music notes but Blade Armor attacks at the two with its two black axes in a windmill fashion but Ken unleashes a sonic wave at the two black axes while Noel slashes at the body with her Keyblade but Blade Armor unleashes a crimson ethereal whip attack at Noel who dodges and keeps slashing with her Keyblade followed by an aerial slash but Blade Armor uses its black swords to vertical slash at Noel who tries to dodge but Blade Armor's black swords spin slash at her but Noel slashes at the black swords with her Keyblade while Ken bashes with his guitar at the black swords but Blade Armor's black axes swing at the two who dodge out of the way and Noel tries to attack the body but Blade Armor's black swords and black axes attack at her and Ken.
"Those swords and axes are annoying!" Ken said.
"I guess we'll have to get rid of them first before attacking the monster." Noel said.
"Whatever works." Ken said.
Blade Armor attacks the two with its black axes and then diagonal slashes with its black swords but Noel slashes at the black swords with her Keyblade while Ken bashes at the axes with his guitar followed by a fire spell but Blade Armor upper vertical slash with its black axes to get the two but they move out of the way but Blade Armor fires a crimson ethereal beam at the two but Noel aerial slashes at the black axes but the black axes swing at Noel while the black swords horizontal slash but Ken bashes with his guitar at the black swords but Blade Armor attacks at the two with its black axes in a windmill fashion but Noel strikes back at the black axes but one of the black axes swings at Noel and then flip attacks but Noel aerial slashes at the black axe and destroys it but the other black axe spin attack at Noel but Ken unleashes two magic music notes and then casts a fire spell and destroys the black axe.
"Two of those stupid things down." Ken said.
"N-Now the swords." Noel said.
Blade Armor's black swords slash at the two and then flip slashes at the two who move and Noel slashes at one of the black swords with her Keyblade and then aerial slashes while Ken bashes at the other black sword with his guitar and then shoots multi magic music notes but Blade Armor's black swords vertical slash at the two and then diagonal spin slash but Ken casts a fire spell at one of the black swords but Blade Armor unleashes another crimson ethereal whip to strike at Ken but Noel slashes at Blade Armor's body with her Keyblade but the two black swords stab down at Noel who moves out of the way and then slashes at the two black swords with her Keyblade while Ken shoots magic music notes at the black swords but the black swords slash at the two in a windmill fashion and then they unleash slash streaks but Noel and Ken dodge the slash streaks and Ken bashes at one of the black swords with his guitar and then casts a fire spell destroying the black sword but the other black sword vertical slashes at Ken and then horizontal slashes but Noel slashes at the black sword with her Keyblade and destroys it.
"Finally. They're down." Ken said.
"Let's stop the monster." Noel said.
Blade Armor spins its body around at the two while unleashing crimson ethereal beams at them but Noel slashes at the body with her Keyblade while Ken bashes at the body with his guitar and then shoots magic music notes but Blade Armor unleashes another crimson ethereal whip and lashes at the two but Noel strikes at the body with her Keyblade and then aerial slashes while Ken unleashes a fire spell but Blade Armor backs off and then rains down crimson ethereal shots down at the two who dodge and Ken shoots multiple magic music notes from his guitar at Blade Armor who spins its body again at Ken and then spin lashes with its crimson ethereal whip but Noel slashes at the body with her Keyblade followed by a spin slash but Blade Armor unleashes a crimson ethereal beam at Noel who dodges out of the way and then keeps slashing with her Keyblade but Blade Armor rains down crimson ethereal shots but Ken bashes at the body with his guitar and then casts another fire spell but Blade Armor spins its body around again and then shoots crimson ethereal blasts but Noel attacks with her Keyblade while Ken bashes with his guitar and the two deliver their final attack on Blade Armor and it falls to the ground as it disappears in dark mist and is destroyed.
"W-We did it..." Noel said.
"'Bout time. I hate that thing." Ken said.
"Why is this here on the statue?" Noel asked looking at the keyhole.
Just then Noel's Keyblade reacts to something and then shoots a beam of light at the keyhole and a locking sound is made before the keyhole vanishes.
"What the...?" Ken asked.
"Um, what just happened?" Noel asked.
"So you sealed a Keyhole." A voice said and the two turn to see Ry and Tsubaki.
"A Keyhole...?" Noel asked confused.
"Yes. That's was what your Keyblade just sealed. It has the power to seal Keyholes. It's really important too." Tsubaki said.
"Why is that?" Noel asked.
"Every world among the stars has a Keyhole and each Keyhole leads to the heart of that world." Ry explained.
"And your Keyblade just sealed the one in this city." Tsubaki said.
"What would have happened if I didn't seal that Keyhole?" Noel asked.
"The Heartless or the Black Xetis will enter the Keyhole and will do something to the world's core and after that, the world will disappear in the end, ceasing to exist." Ry explained and Noel is shocked while Ken whistles.
"That sucks." Ken said.
"It's true. There are other Keyholes that will need to be sealed before the Black Xetis or the Heartless find it." Tsubaki said.
"You'll have to go to other worlds, stop the Black Xetis and the Heartless, find the Keyholes, and seal them. You're the only one who can." Ry said.
"I don't know..." Noel said.
"Going to other worlds will serve you well. You'll might be able to meet other people and even help them. I'm sure there will be a good chance to find your brother in a world too." Tsubaki said.
"Well...if it means helping others and looking for Luke, then I'll do it." Noel said.
"Good. I'm sure other worlds will depend on you." Ry said.
Meanwhile in what looks like a dark room a projection of Noel and Ken walking is shown and there a few people watching this.
"That girl just defeated a Black Xeti? How laughable!" A voice said and it's a male with silver hair with two bangs on both shoulders, wearing a black and red robe with a cape at the back, and wearing a black and red mask over the male's face.
"Not to mention, she just sealed a Keyhole to a world. Who would have imagined it? And she's new to that Keyblade." Another voice said and it's a a man wearing a black outfit with grey pads on his shoulders, grey gloves, grey belt around his waist, and a black and orange mask and the man's one eye is on the orange side of the mask.
"Such is the power of the girl's Keyblade, yet her strength is not her own. She's viewed as weak." Another voice said and it's a man with tan skin, orange hair and goatee, wearing black and grey armor with a black torn cape at the back, and a jewel on his forehead.
"Why don't we turn her into a Heartless or a Black Xeti? That would be able to benefit our cause and settle things very quickly." Another voice said and it's a female with pale white skin, red snake like eyes, wearing a regal purple and red robe with gold trims, carrying a large staff with a blue serpent wrapped around it, and has snake hair.
"Agreed. It would be excellent to have her serve us!" Another voice said and it's a floating dark brown mask with yellow eyes, an orange goatee, and a bone on each side of the mask while another bone is at the top of him.
"Yes. That would work well. She would even make a great experiment for me." Another voice said and it's a man with yellow skin, black circled hair on the back half of his head while a little bit of black hair is on the near top of his head, a black goatee, a white lab coat, yellow gloves, black boots, and a big N on his forehead.
"Ha! Says the foolish scientist who can't even destroy a mindless mammal!" Another voice said and it's a black bird with a tan beak, orange eyes, a purple neck, light blue eyebrows, grey legs with tan talons, wearing a white scarf, and has a tan bump on his head.
"Shut up, birdbrain!" The yellow man replied.
"ENOUGH!" A very evil demonic voice commanded and everyone turns to see a knight in azure and black armor, red eyes, a big right claw, and is carrying a large red sword with an eye in the center. "The Keyblade has chosen the girl and has some worthy strength...for an inexperienced wench. Will it be she who will conquer the darkness? Or will the darkness devour her? It does not matter to me. Either way, she would prove quite useful to us..." The knight figure said. "Would you not agree, Odium?" The knight figure asked turning to Odium who is leaning against a wall.
"Meh. I don't give a crap what she does. She can prove herself all she wants, but deep down, she's nothing more than a weak little baby." Odium said making a twisted smirk. "Then again, I'd say it would be fun to watch her suffer." Odium said.
"Yes. What say you, Rixla?" The knight figure asked turning to a young woman with pale skin, dark violet long hair tied to a long ponytail with two braids hanging on both shoulders, has dark purple eyes, wearing a black and dark purple dress, a violet gem in the middle of the dress, black gloves, and black high-heeled boots.
"I would say allow her to do what she wishes. We shall wait for our moment to destroy her." The woman named Rixla said.
"I could not agree more. You and Millia continue to destroy worlds so that their destruction can strengthen our Black Xetis." The knight figure said.
"Of course." Rixla said.
Meanwhile in the Wisdom City plaza Noel and Ken are with Ry, Tsubaki, May, Noah, and Rex.
"Make sure you prepare yourself for your journey. We don't know how much Black Xetis and Heartless are in other worlds." Ry said.
"Remember to watch yourself. Different worlds do mean different dangers." Tsubaki said.
"We have something that could help you." May said giving Noel Fire magic. "Now you're able to do magic. Ry thought you'd deserve it." May said.
"Good luck, Miss Noel." Noah said and Rex barks.
"Thank you, but how will I be able to go to a different world?" Noel asked and just then Noel's Keyblade unleashes another light beam but it creates a light portal in front of them. "Huh? What just happened? How did I do that?" Noel asked.
"I think that with that light portal, you'll be able to travel to different worlds. You should get going." Ry said.
"Right." Noel said and she turns to Ken. "Um, Ken, would you like to come with me to help?" Noel asked.
"Meh. What the hell? This city's boring and I got nothin' to do here anyway. I guess I'll come along for the ride." Ken said.
"Good luck on your journey, Noel. I hope you find what you're looking for." Tsubaki said.
"Thank you for everything. Are you ready, Ken?" Noel asked.
"Sure. Let's just get this started." Ken said.
Noel and Ken both run into the light portal and they leave Wisdom City and the light portal disappears.
"That girl's our only hope now. I know she'll be able to stand against the darkness." Ry said to himself.
Chapter over! I hope you guys enjoyed this one. Let me know what you think. Now Noel has started her journey. I hope you look forward to that. Next time, Noel and Ken arrive at a new world and will meet a new friend and ally. I'll be seeing you guys in the next chapter. Take care, goodbye for now, and don't forget to review!