Chapter 4: The Beginning
"Ughhh." Sora moaned as he started waking up.
"How are you feeling?" said a familiar voice. He opened his eyes and saw a blurry Kairi.
"Fine. I'm happy to see you're alright Kairi." he responded with a content smile on his face.
"Kairi! I'm the great ninja Yuffie!" she said boasting with pride. Kairi's figure changed to a girl with short black hair and a skimpy ninja outfit.
"I think you may have over done it Squall." Yuffie said knowingly.
"It's Leon." he said stiffly.
"So you're the keyblade master?" Leon said dumb founded. "But why would it choose a kid like you?"
"Don't look at me! I didn't ask for this." Sora pouted.
"Tough luck." Leon said with no emotion at all.
"What were those things? Wait! My island! What happened to my island? -Riku? -Ledah? ...Kairi?" he said sadly.
"You know what kid? I don't know. But I do know those creatures that attacked your island are heartless, beings without hearts."
"Heartless?" Donald quacked in confusion.
"Yes. Ansem took notes on their behavior and on everything about the heartless. He wrote many different reports." Aerith stated calmly.
"Can't we see these reports?" Goofy asked dumbly.
"No. Its pages are scattered everywhere, throughout all the worlds. You would have to go searching for them all." she sighed.
"I bet that's what King Mickey did!" cried Donald with glee.
"Precisely." Aerith said.
"The keyblade is meant to seal a keyhole to a world and prevent darkness and heartless from opening and taking over that world. Every world has a keyhole so you need to do this to all the worlds."
"So it's my responsibility to seal all these keyholes?" Leon nodded his head which made Sora let out a sad groan.
"You should try opening up something with your keyblade." Yuffie suggested. "I heard it can pick lock just about any lock." She said eagerly rubbing her hands together. Leon just rolled his eyes at her immaturity. Sora nodded and jumped in surprise as a soldier heartless appeared.
"Aerith! Come quick!" Yuffie called as she slammed open the door leading to Aerith's room. "The heartless!" The two girls rushed out of the hotel to second district where Aerith would be safe.
Leon was quick with an attack and cut it in half making it vanish. "Come on Sora!" After that Leon and he jumped out of the window. They demolished heartless after heartless and kept running. "Leave the small fry. Look for the queen bee." He ordered and ran off towards first district.
Sora went into pursuit at the third district door since there was no sign of a source in second district. Walking into third district he saw a few heartless awaiting him. He ran down the stairs and destroyed more heartless and red nocturnes, taking them down with ease.
"Wahhhoooieee!" cried a voice above him.
Sora looked up and saw a large dog and a duck falling from a balcony right towards him.
"Watch out!" cried the dog but it was too late. The two landed on Sora with a thud and spotted the keyblade in his hand. "The key!" they wailed in unison. A bunch of heartless surrounded them as they stood up straight and in their fighting stances. They were back to back trying to fight them all off, but they kept coming back as if they were multiplying. Donald was casting thunder and cure at every possible moment. A dagger came zooming through the air cutting at least five heartless in a row. Sword clanging was heard from the other side of the heartless, and the trio kept fighting until the heartless were nearly gone. Donald cast a final thunder spell destroying the last heartless. Sora didn't hesitate a second to look up to see who the owner of the dagger was. Ledah was standing there with another guy that he didn't recognize who was next to her panting to catch his breath. "Ledah!" Sora yelled and she looked into his cerulean eyes and smiled happily.
CLANG
A large armor with the heartless symbol on it dropped from the sky and landed in the open space where the heartless used to be. Everyone took their positions again as they started hammering away at it trying to bring down the giant heartless. The battle went on like this for a while until it was only the body's base and head.
Ledah was watching the heartless attentively. She saw every time the helmet was hit the entire heartless would stagger. "Goofy! Could you give me a boost?" Ledah asked. Goofy squatted down and she got on his shoulders while he stood up. She leaped onto its back and crawled up towards the head. Ledah pulled a grenade from her pocket and laid it inside of the armor's helmet. She jumped down and landed in Goofy's arms. "Take cover!" She yelled at the top of her lungs and everyone back away from the heartless.
BOOM
The explosion must have echoed throughout the whole town it was so loud. The soldier armor collapsed to the ground and a glowing heart rose from it and vanished into nothing. The armor disappeared and everyone was left standing there in silence.
"How… how did we get here?" Sora questioned towards Ledah.
She simply shrugged and stared at her feet sadly. "I don't know."
"Well, what are we supposed to do?" Sora asked in confusion.
"Well, we've got orders from the king to get the key and help its bearer. That's you!" Goofy said pointing at Sora.
"What!" Donald shrieked. "Oh yeah, we need you to come with us."
"But what about Kairi and Riku? Will we find them?"
"Of course!" Donald said with reassurance.
Goofy and Donald hunched over in a mini huddle. "Do you think we'll find his friends?" Goofy asked.
"Who knows?" Donald said shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. "But we need him for our mission so he has to come!"
"Okay." Goofy said goofily while turning back towards Sora.
"I don't know about this..." Sora said unsurely.
"Go with them Sora." Leon said. "The universe needs you now more than you'll ever know."
Sora thought about it then replied. "Alright, I'll go with you."
Sora's the keyblade bearer! He can barely beat Riku at a wooden sword duel. She watched as he joined Donald and Goofy, it looked so right. He threw his head back and laughed at Goofy's antics. He was happy. Ledah walked out of third district unnoticed. I guess I'm on my own again.
"Not so fast." Came that voice she dreaded to hear. She turned around to face Logan. "Thought you could get rid of me, eh?" He said jokingly scratching the back of his head.
"That was the plan." She remarked sarcastically giving a weak chuckle. "A damn good one too."
He laughed heartily and she chuckled more with him. "So what are you going to do now?"
Ledah sighed. "I don't know. I want to go out there to other worlds and find my friends. What about you?"
His smile vanished from his face as he said sternly. "I'm on a journey looking for someone too." His eyes darkened for a second then brightened up again. "Come with me."
Her face changed to a look of disbelief. "What?"
"You heard me right. Come with me, we'll go on our quests together and look for your friends. Besides, we need to protect each other or the heartless will get a hold of our hearts for sure."
She thought about what it'd be like to travel across the galaxy with Logan. "What's the upside of traveling with you?"
"Besides having my company? You'll have to find out yourself." He smirked at her then gave a sly wink.
She faked being deep in thought then stuck out her hand asking for a handshake. He smiled as he returned the gesture. "You've got yourself a traveling buddy."
He smiled and looked over her shoulder to see Sora standing alone. She looked at Logan as if asking silently for some private time. He left reluctantly and she and Sora stood outside of the hotel in silence.
"I'm sorry. I'll find you again though, with Riku and Kairi. I promise."
She looked up at him and lied. "It's no problem. You have duties, I understand."
He shook his head and smiled at her. "I'll always be with you, along with the others right here." He said pointing at her heart. "Just remember that."
"I will. Be sure to give Kairi a big kiss when you find her!" She said teasingly.
He blushed a light rose on his cheeks and smiled a toothy grin. "See you around." He said embracing her in a warm hug.
"And be sure to welcome back Riku." Sora teased.
"I don't like Riku."
"What about the guy that was here a second ago?"
"Hell no. He's not my type."
"Okay. I should be leaving. Donald will call me-"
"Sora!" Donald's shrill quack cried out.
"Right on queue. I better go. I hope I'll see you soon."
"Right back at you Sora." She said as he walked away toward first district. "Bye then." She murmured gloomily. She felt very wrong about letting him walk away, but assumed he was right and that they would meet again soon. Logan decided to come out at that moment and saw the back of Sora's head vanishing into the district door. She was actually glad to see him to take her mind off Sora.
They headed to Logan's wreck of a gummi ship. Ledah wondered if she'd live long enough in that thing to find her friends.
"Dibs on the captain's seat." Ledah said.
"Tough luck princess." He snorted then starting flipping on switches and turning knobs.
"Don't call me that. Give me the seat now. I don't trust you flying this vehicle."
"You have 3 seconds to sit down."
"I won't sit down until I get the—AHHH!" Ledah clung to the closest object she could find.
"Blast off!" Logan laughed as they flew their way out of Traverse Town. Ledah wasn't sure where they were headed. She had mixed feelings. She was more than excited to be on an adventure. It was all they talked about back on Destiny Island and here she was now experiencing it. Yet se felt empty, sorry for not going with Sora and his new crew. Sure she was fine traveling with Logan, maybe, but in that moment she missed her friends more than ever. Sora, Kairi, and Riku.
"I'll find you."
(So what do ya think? Do you like Logan? He's kinda a bad boy but I like it.)