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Chapter 1: New World

"Will you shuddup?!" I yelled aloud. I didn't think anyone could hear me and at the moment I really didn't care.

'I'm just telling you to go down to that town.' That was the voice inside of me, I wasn't sure what she was but all I know is that she just appeared when I showed up here. This was less then half an hour ago…

"I think I could have figured that out on my own."

'Then why haven't you done it?'

"Because someone won't be quiet long enough for me to even take a step."

'Just get moving.'

"I feel like such aschizophrenic right now…" I sighed to myself. I couldn't believe that I was actually having an argument with myself.

'Do you remember what I told you?'

"I'm here to protect some kid named Sora because he's this KeyBlade Master. If he's the Master why does he need protecting?"

'Lot's of reasons that'll become clear as you travel.'

"Can't you just be specific?"

'What would be the point behind that?'

I ignored her sarcasm. "And how am I supposed to protect him? All of a sudden I'm a normal kid? No more than normal!"

'Haven't you noticed your health?'

I paused, "My heart hasn't been hurting." I admitted.

'See, now get on with it.'

She was right; I hadn't felt sick the whole time that I had been here. I know it wasn't very long, but that meant enough for me. I started walking down the hill. The trail lead to a small town next to the ocean, and you could see a small island just off the coastline.

I had walked around the town for a little bit. It was early morning and no one was up yet, or if they were they were still stumbling around. The door to a house opened. I jerked and turned to look. I saw a man who was in his PJ's.

"Who are you? I haven't seen you around here before." The man demanded.

"Well I'm uh, Kyde. My name is Kyde, and I'm new around here." The guy had startled me. It wasn't so much that he just popped up out of nowhere it was the fact that he was outside in his PJ's.

"Where are you from? Oh never mind that, would you like to come in?"

"Well, sure I guess so." I didn't want to be rude and not accept his offer, I mean what can happen? I'm already in a different world.

"Well come on in then, I'll get you situated."

I walked up to the door and didn't sense any danger so I continued in. The house looked nice, almost like a summer beach house. It had sea shells, jars filled with sand, empty bottles, and everything you would think of being in a beach house.

"Well come on sit down." The man said offering me a chair right by a glass coffee table.

I nodded and gladly took it. When I sat in the beach side chair I sunk in and made me feel comfy.

"So Kyde, you're not from around here."

I nodded, no reason to tell him more then he asked.

"Well don't be discouraged. We have a lot of people like that here so you'll fit right in."

I sighed, that was supposed to encourage me?

"So you just arrived here?"

"Yup."

"Well I know a way you could make a few friends if you want my advice."

I shrugged, "Shoot."

"Well some of the kids in the village go to an island that's just off the coast. They call it 'Destiny Islands'. You could go over there and take a look around. Then make some friends. Do you have parents?"

I just looked away, what did it matter? Not like he could help me in that category.

"Well anyway, I have boats made just for the kids so they can go back and forth from the island. You can have one, oh and the kids like to play rough so I have a wooden sword you can have as well. Come with me and I'll get you on your way." The man stood up and walked to the front door. I followed him and we got through the door and around to the side of the house. There were boats and oars leaning up against the house.

He grabbed a boat and two oars, put the boat on the ground and threw in the oars. He walked over to another pile of wood and picked up what looked like a play sword. He tossed it in the boat and grabbed a rope then put it around the front of the boat where he tied it on and grabbed one end. "Well here is all you'll need. Grab that end of the rope and we'll get it down to the water."

I nodded, taking the rope. Good thing he was close to the shore or else I would of thought he was nuts. We pulled the boat to the water and he untied the rope from the front. He pushed it in a little and then motioned me in. I jumped in and he pushed the boat the rest of the way. As soon as I was far info out to sea I stood up and looked back. The man was still there and waving to me. I waved back.

"Good bye! And thank you!" I yelled.

"It's not a problem! Have fun!" he replied.

"I will thank you!" I was surprised he heard me but it didn't matter. I sat back down and paddled my way to the island.

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When I got to the island I knew I was stronger. I knew that I wouldn't have made it to the island without a break if I wasn't. I found a 'dock' and found some ropes tied to it. I grabbed a rope and tied the end to the boat; leaving the paddles I grabbed the play sword. Looking around I found a small chain and fastened it around my waist, then stuck the toy through it. Lucky for me the sword was smooth and had no splinters. Now I wanted to look around.

The island was small and had a 'mountain' in the middle separating it into two basic parts. The side I docked at had a waterfall and some REALLY big trees. I went around to the other side by going threw a door and it was a bridge and a lot more trees. I went back on the other side of the island and realized that the large trees had platforms nailed to them and they led to all sorts of places. I climbed up a ladder and went to the tallest platform. I sat on the edge and watched the sun as it finished rising.

When the sun reached the sky, I saw boats coming in and they each had kids in them but only one to a boat. They reached the dock and tied up there boats but stayed there.

"Well they know I'm here." They were inspecting my boat and I guess they were all there or they would have thought that the one that was missing came early.

"Look! Up there." One of them pointed up to me.

I didn't feel like running down all the way to the bottom so I jumped down from platform to platform as they wound around the trees. I was scared out of my wits but I was enjoying it. I hit the soft sand at the bottom and lifted my head, "Um hi." There were a total of six kids, four boys and two girls.

The one that had pointed to me spoke first, "Who are you?"

"Isn't it rude to ask someone else's name before giving your own?" was my reply.

Then one of the girls spoke up, "I'm Selphie, and this is Kairi." She motioned toward the other girl, Kairi smiled.

Selphie had brown hair that flipped out on the sides; she wore a yellow dress and carried a jump rope. While Kairi wore a black sleeveless shirt with a spaghetti strap belly shirt that was white and purple. She also wore a purple scort; also she had a purple arm band on her upper left arm with a large yellow one on the wrist of the same arm. On the other arm she wore a black and yellow one on her wrist. She had short red hair

"Name's Tidus." The one said. He wore an open jacket that revealed his chest and black boy-shorts with red belts. He had fingerless gloves and blond spiky hair.

"The name's Wakka, welcome to Destiny Islands ya!" another smiled. He had orange hair that had some kind of dew in the front. I didn't get it really; anyways he had what looked like a yellow-and-black gym shirt on with orange baggy pants. He was carrying a ball that was striped with white and blue colors and he also had two blue wrist bands on each wrist.

"Ya! I'm Sora and that's Riku."

'So that's Sora…' I thought.

Sora had brown spiky hair with a white, black, and blue jacket that was open. He also wore a red body suit with a blue belt. He had a chain with crowns and a chain necklace with a large crown hanging from it. He also wore oversized fingerless gloves.

Riku had a yellow and black singlet and long blue pants. He had black gloves with fingers. He looked rather plain to me except he had shoulder length silver hair. Silver wasn't a hair color where I came from.

"What's your name?" Selphie asked.

"I'm Kyde nice to meet you all." I smiled.

I guess I should explain myself also. I have short purple hair, which wasn't a color in my world either but when I came here it changed from my normal brown to purple. Anyways it was different lengths, I had bangs then the sides went to my shoulders and the back went maybe an inch past my shoulders, and it was a little spiky. My eyes are also purple, and I wore a purple crystal around my neck. I have a black half-cut jacket with short sleeves and a hood. Under that I have a tight silver belly shirt. My pants are black gauchos that went just past my knees and were loose. Completed with black combat boots and black fingerless gloves that showed off my purple nails, I had the complete outfit of my dreams.

Everyone smiled except for Riku. I gathered he wasn't the happy type. "So you've got a wooden sword, can you use it?" Tidus asked.

I looked down at the toy, "I guess we're going to find out."

"Great! If you can beat me then you can pick your next opponent. We have this little thing that if you beat Wakka, Selphie and I one on one then you have to beat all of use three on one."

"Is that fair?" I raised an eyebrow.

"It only proves how strong you are." Selphie smiled.

I shrugged, "Sure why not?"

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Tidus and I stood on the beach that was cleared of everyone and Wakka was refereeing. I had my sword out and so did Tidus, only he held his to the side and I held mine pointed down in front of me.

"Now remember, you have to stay on the beach. No going in the water and no running off. If you do you lose. Everyone ready?" Selphie yelled from the dock.

"Just tell me when to go." I replied.

"Bring it!" Tidus yelled.

"Alright one three, ya. One, two… three!" Wakka whistled.

Tidus ran toward me and jumped in the air, he was going to slash down. I jumped to the side, and as he came down, I pushed him to get him off balance. He ended up falling on his side and I swung down. Tidus barely blocked and pushed me back, that gave him just enough time to get to his feet. I swung in from the side and when he blocked I kicked him in the gut sending him flying. Tidus rolled in the sand and out of boundaries.

"Battle over! Kyde one and Tidus zero!" Selphie yelled jumping down from the dock. "My turn!

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"One, two… Three!" Wakka whistled again.

Selphie, who was using her jump rope instead of a sword, flicked her rope like a whip. "This is fun!" she then flung her rope at me.

I jumped back just to have the end of it slap me, which hurt. I ended up doing this for a while. She wasn't coming any closer, and I wasn't getting anywhere just jumping around. Tidus was a short range attacker; he flew into the battle. Where Selphie stayed back and attacked from afar. I had to get close to her in order to get a hit on her. After a few more times of jumping she managed to wrap her rope around my sword and she pulled it out of my hand and sent it flying into the water. I scowled; I couldn't go get it without loosing. Next thing I know is Selphie's rope is around my neck and she yanked on the other end.

Gasping for breath, I fell to one knee. I wasn't going to lose to a girl in a yellow dress and a jump rope! I grabbed the rope and wrapped my hand around it and pulled. She still stood but lost her balance, now that the rope had some lax I quickly maneuvered my wrist to get it wrapped around it and pulled again. This time she nearly fell forward, I pushed off the sand and rammed her with my shoulder and she went into the water.

"Battle over! Kyde two, Selphie zero!"

"Owwwwy!" Selphie exclaimed as she rose from the water.

I loosened the rope from around my neck and walked out to the water, where my sword was floating. I shook it to get some of the water off, and then I looked up. Riku turned away and looked out to the water. "He was looking at me."

Selphie walked up, "What?"

"Oh nothing." I smiled, "You ok?"

"Uh hu!" she smiled.

'Why is she so perky?' I thought, 'I just rammed her in the gut!'

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Wakka stood on the other side now with his ball; he called it a blitz ball. "I won't be goin' easy on you ya."

"Fine with me." I smiled.

Now Tidus stood and counted down, "One, two… three!"

Wakka brought his arm back and blasted the ball forward. I jumped out of the way and the ball slammed into the sand making a large crater. What amazed me was that the ball was still spinning, and then it retracted back to Wakkas hands. I moaned, this was another long ranged fight. Also because my wooden sword got wet it became a little loose at the 'hilt' and it was now rough and hard to hold.

The Blitz ball zoomed past my head and I looked back. He had missed me on purpose. The ball came back toward me as it was retracting back to its master. I put up the sword to try and block it, but the ball hit hard as it spun in the air. It didn't stop when it hit me. It kept coming and it was pushing me back toward Wakka. I had no choice but to ditch, and I pushed upward and rolled over on the sand. I quickly got to my feet before Wakka made his next shot. I felt some leeway in my sword and looked at it; there was a crack where the ball had hit. I threw down my sword and waited for the ball.

"What are you doing, ya?" he laughed and threw his ball again.

I crossed my arms in front of me to block and the ball hit dead center. The force pushed me back but I didn't loose my footing. I broke my block and punched the ball toward Wakka. Instead of catching it the ball slammed into his chest knocking the wind out of him. I ran toward him then got him straight in the gut, sending him flying then landing on his back.

"Kyde wins again!" Selphie shouts.

I left Wakka and walked over to my sword, picking it up the sword continued to wiggle. "I think it's broken." I said aloud.

Tidus was over looking at Wakka and Selphie walked over to me. "I guess our three-on-one will have to wait tell tomorrow then."

"Ya, you didn't even get to fight Riku." Tidus popped up behind her.

"Riku?" I asked.

"Ya! Even three against one we can't beat him. Both him and Sora are really good, but Sora wouldn't fight you." Selphie sighed.

"And why is that?"

"He's more interested in beating Riku." Tidus said.

"Well then, I'll just have to beat Riku then."

They looked at each other then at me, "You're kidding right? We don't even know if Sora's ever beaten him yet." Tidus exclaimed.

"Why would I be kidding?"

"Ya Tidus, she kicked our butts!"

"But Riku's different."

They both sighed.

"Shouldn't you two be helping Wakka?" I jabbed my thumb toward him.

"IT HURTS!" he started to whine.

"I'm coming Wakka!" Selphie yelled and grabbed Tidus. They both ran over to Wakka.

I smirked at this, such good friends. They cared for each other even though they beat the living crap out of each other. "I wish I had friends like that…"

"Friends like what?" Kairi asked.

I nearly jumped, I thought I was alone and here she was standing beside me. "Like them, like all of you."

"Well I'll be your friend." She had her hands clasped behind her back as she was looking at me.

I returned her gaze, "You don't even know me."

"That doesn't matter; I can tell that you're a nice person."

I smiled, "Thanks, but you guys have a great thing here."

"You can be apart of it, you mostly are now." She laughed.

I laughed also, "I just did my best."

"So does everyone, and that's why were all such good friends."

"What do you mean?"

"Well we all do our best and we all know it. If one of us was in trouble or anything we would all do our best to help in anyway we could. We care for each other." she removed her hands from her back.

I looked at everyone; I could feel the difference here from my home. Back there I didn't have friends. "Hey Kairi."

"Ya?"

I looked back at her, "Best friends?"

She smiled and nodded, "The best!"

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"Tell me how you got me into this again." I asked sitting down.

"We just need some water and one more mushroom." Kairi said looking at a list.

"I'll get the mushroom."

"Then I'll get the water." She stuffed the paper in a pocket and ran off.

I stood up, "Mushrooms would be in a dark damp place…" I looked over to the dark corner that was hidden by the tree. There was a hole in the rock wall there, that would be the best place.

I headed over toward that area when I heard my name called. I looked up and Sora dropped down from a tree.

"Kairi said you were helping with the raft." He smiled, he was always smiling.

"Ya, I just need to get the last mushroom."

"I'll come with you. Your heading to the cave right?"

"That's the only place you haven't looked hu?"

He shrugged, "I didn't think of it."

Ignoring his obvious stupidity we walked toward the cave. Once we got to it Sora didn't bother to stop, he just walked right in. He took hold of my hand and pulled me in.

When we got to a small room the stopped and said, "Look over their!" he pointed to the corner of the room by an interesting looking door where a mushroom lay hidden in the shadows, the room had a sky light type thing so you could see, "Now we have everything we need. I'll grab the mushroom and we can get back to Kairi." He let go of my hand and walked over to the mushroom and picked it up from the ground and stuffed it in a pocket.

I was admiring the room; it had places where the kids had drawn on the walls. I didn't get all the drawings but it was all very interesting to try and understand them. As soon as he turned after scribbling on the wall with a rock a voice startled us both. We looked in the far corner of the room next to the door where there stood a man covered with a brown cloak, his hood shadowed his face to where we could see any facial features.

"Who are you?" Sora asked startled.

"This world has been connected." The man replied.

"Well whoever you are, quite freaking me out ok?" Sora said, his nervousness didn't subside.

Then the guy disappeared after saying some more stuff that totally freaked me out. I don't even want to remember that stuff, it wasn't I'm going to kill you bad but end of the world bad.

After he was gone, I looked at Sora. He returned the stare. "So is that normal? Or am I just special?" I asked.

"No I don't know who that guy was, but I think we've seen the last of him."

I nodded and smiled, "Well we've got the mushroom, let's get out of here."

"Ok we'll go give this to Kairi." Sora then headed off down the hall, but I wanted to see what he had scribbled on the wall.

I walked over to the place he had knelt and say what looked like Sora and Kairi's heads facing each other scraped on to the rock with rock and fresh scrap marks that Sora had done. It was what looked like an arm from Sora over to Kairi with a Powpo Fruit in his hand like he was offering it to her.

'Oh that's so sweet; I guess that Sora likes Kairi.' I thought, 'Wait! What do I care? Why should I care?'

"Hey Kyde! Come here I want you to watch this!" Sora's voice came echoing into the cave that stopped my thoughts.

I turned toward the tunnel and yelled, "Sure coming!" and ran out the tunnel.

When I reached the outside, Sora looked at me and smiled, "Good I wanted you to watch this."

Walked to where he was standing on the ledge to the beach, "What did you want me to see?"

"I'm going to fight Wakka, Tidus, and Selphie three on one."

I looked at him and then the trio he was to face, and gave Sora a look like I didn't care, "Have fun. I'll be watching from here."

Sora gave me a strange look, "You don't want to fight?"

"She already kicked our butts." Selphie smiled.

'There she goes smiling again…' I thought.

"She did?" Sora said in shock.

"Uh hu!"

"Sorry I missed it." He turned to me, "I was on the other side of the island for the first part of the day."

"It's ok. Besides I broke my sword so I can't fight anyways." I sighed, "Now get going, or do you still want to fight?"

Sora handed me the mushroom and the foursome ran off toward the beach.

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I found Kairi and gave her the mushroom; she thanked me and ran off the place it on the raft. After that I ended up lounging around on the small island that I saw Riku on earlier, when he was watching me. There was a tree leaning off the island over the water with star-shaped fruit on it. Board I grabbed one and took a bite, to my surprise it really tasted like candy. Mostly like roasted starburst, hard on the outside but soft on the inside with the sensation of different tastes.

I finished eating it and forced myself not to grab another one, and then my focus was interrupted. "That's my spot."

I looked toward the bridge that connected the smaller island to the bigger one; Riku was standing at the edge. "I didn't know they were marked." I said with sarcasm.

He jumped up next to me, "There not."

There was silence for a while. "Why were you watching me earlier?" I finally asked.

He just looked at me, "You're a good fighter, if your sword hadn't have broken I was going to fight you."

"Really." I said, "Well maybe later when I get another sword."

"Try not to break it before you get to me." he laughed.

"Sure," I laughed with him, "it's a promise."

"Then it's my promise that I'm going to win." He said.

"Sure you will." I smiled.

It was silence again. "So…" he started, "Do you have a place to stay?"

This shocked me, was he asking or offering? "I was just going to stay here."

"Here? On the island?" he seemed confused by my reply.

"Ya, I like that highest room in that tree up there." I pointed to one of the huge trees that had platforms allover it.

He looked where I pointed, then at me. "You sure?"

"Ya, just like camping."

He shrugged, "If you're ok with it."

I smiled, for someone that was so hard and tough he sure had a soft spot for something. "When does everyone start to go home?"

He looked at the ocean, "In about an hour or so. When the sun starts to touch the water. That gives us enough time to get back home before it gets dark."

"I see. And the raft?"

"What about it?" he looked at me again. "Kairi asked you to help didn't she?"

"Well it's not like she forced me to." I admitted.

He gave out a smirk, "We planned on going tomorrow. The weather should be good, and everything will be ready."

"I thought everything was ready."

He shook his head, "We were all going to bring something extra tomorrow."

"Oh…" I looked down at my dangling feet.

"You can still come."

I looked back at him, "Really?"

"Sure."

This made me happy; there was never a time someone actually wanted me to do what they were doing.

He sighed and stretched, "Well," he jumped down, "I've got some stuff do finish up. See ya later Kyde." He started to walk off.

"You can bet on it, Riku!" I yelled to him.

He turned back to face me and smiled, then continued to walk off.

-Chapters 1 through Chapter 6-

That is the amount covered in this chapter from my old story... that is so sad. T-T

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