Author's Note: Sorry it took so long for this chapter to come out. I had one of those days (or shall I say 'weeks') where I can't write, you know? Oh! And thank all of you for reading!
003- Hollow Bastion
The three friends took off on their new ship.
"Hey guys!" it was chip and dale from somewhere in the Gummi ship, "A new world has just appeared on our screen!"
-Inside Hollow Bastion-
"Uraaaghhhhhh!" groaned Lily. She had just awoken in the most awkward place that she had never seen. Where am I, she thought. She took in her surrounding. A couple of cozy looking homes, and what seemed to be, an alley way. She heard voices from behind one of the doors.
"Are you positive that they are coming Merlin?" said a deep voice.
Curiosity got to her; Lily walked up to the door and knocked.
"It must be them!" squealed a female voice.
A girl with black boy-styled hair opened the door, her face changed from a giant smile to a rather unhappy face.
"It's not them Leon" she said disappointedly. A guy with long brown hair and a scar in between his eyes closed his eyes and shook his head. She looked around some more and saw a man wearing a giant blue hat with a robe to match, and his long white beard was a nice accessory. Lily turned around thinking that she was not needed here.
"Wait" she twisted around to see Leon talking, "You might be some use."
Oh that's lovely! He thought I was useless!, she thought. "Oh Yes! You may come in!" the man with the long beard screamed. She stepped through the door with a look of confusion in her eyes, for one thing she didn't know how the heck she got there, another, that she didn't where the heck she was!
-Else where at Hollow Bastion-
Sora walked over to an adorable little creature with a bright red pompom on its head. "Hey guys, isn't that a Moogle? What are they doing in here? I thought they only had them in Twilight Town."
"They have them everywhere Sora, how dense are you?" exclaimed Donald.
"I'm not dense!" retorted Sora.
"Guys, please." Goofy said and he walked away.
Leon and the other members of the restoration committee have set out on a search for the three friends.
"So, where do we look first?" Lily asked Yuffie. Everyone had spit up into groups of two.
"How 'bout the Market Place?" she replied.
On their way they met up with Leon and Merlin's group. When they arrived they heard a quack like yelp, "Thunder!"
The first thing Lily saw was a boy being electrocuted. When the sparks disappeared the area was silent. This was interrupted by a small cough followed by a small voice.
"Roxas?" it was Lily.
"What?" Sora replied, "My name is Sora."
"Oh. Sorry" she said silently.
As the cluster of friends and Lily walked back to the borough, she and Sora began to talk, a lot.
"So you didn't know how you got here huh?"
"Yeah, I just sort of woke up here…"
"You want to come with us then, since you don't have anywhere to go?"
"Sure."
"Anyway, why did you call me Roxy? Or however you say it."
"It's Roxas, he my friend but, we got split up. And I called you that because you look like him, in a way…"
"I see."
-At the Borough-
"Hey Yuffie, what were those glowing orbs that we saw when we got here?" Sora asked.
"That's the town's defense system. We're the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee! And Sora, you are now and honorary member!" she squealed.
"Huh?" he replied but was interrupted by Leon.
"Sora, meet me at the Bailey," he declared.
When he walked outside, Lily following, a number of creatures appeared. "Dusks!" gasped Lily.
"What?"
"They're these weird creatures that attacked my homeland!" she said holding out her hand, a keyblade materializing.
"You're a Keyblade wielder!" he gasped.
The four allies fought off the creatures. Lily hit one and it painfully dematerialized, shriveling into nothingness. Donald cast thunder and electrocuted a few while Goofy threw his shield at them. Sora, bumped by a few, slashed through the remaining.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?"
"That you wield a Keyblade?"
"A what?"
"A Keyblade."
She gave him a puzzled look. A keyblade? Does he mean the oversized key that she and Roxas had used in the mansion and now what she used in battle?
"Um…. Roxas and I 'wield keyblades' as you say it. Why? I don't know. We just do."
"Ok, let's head toward to the Bailey" Sora said walking away, leaving a confused girl behind. She ran with the duck and dog to catch up with him. What is up with that guy, she though. When she caught up she gave him yet another puzzled look.
"Sorry, I just don't want to keep Leon waiting, he might kill me if we don't get there" he replied with a smile.
When they arrived there Leon was standing near an opening with a view of a building. Sora and Lily walked toward the opening to see the view.
"This is how much we need to rebuild…" Leon said, "There's still a lot to do, but I'm sure we can handle everything-" but before he could finish an abundance of Dusks appeared, "Don't Let Them Get To The Gate!" Leon cried.
Lily and Sora ran toward to the gate to defend it. Dusks swarmed them. They clawed and head-butted them, but they dodged and slashed their blades through, putting and end to its existence.
"You're not bad!" yelled Sora over the noise from the fight.
"You aren't so shabby either!" she responded.
The enemy ceased their attack on Lily and Sora. They watched as Leon finished up a more powerful looking creature.
"Wow…." Lily gasped. Sora looked at her. He thought, she really is different isn't she.