Our Sanctuary
On To a New World! What? THE talk? Sora the Explorer?
Sora looked at his surroundings in shock. He was at his island. He gasped when he saw Selphie, Wakka, and Tiddus all walking up the ladder and into the ship in the tree. Tiddus was swinging his wooden sword around with a smirk as usual while Wakka and Selphie shook their heads and laughed. He heard giggle and footsteps above him on the bridge.
Sora smiled and ran into the shack, up the stairs and out the doors. There he saw Riku and Kairi on the paopu tree talking and laughing.
Sora grinned widely and ran over to them, calling their names. But when he got to the end of the bridge they dissolved. And so did everyone else but him.
Sora stopped and stared at the place where his friends once sat.
"Is this what you want?" a soft, worn female voice asked.
Sora spun around twice before stopping and looking at the paopu tree where a girl sat. She had on a long gray cloak with the hood up. She watched the sea with interest.
"What? Who're you and why are you on my island? Are you a enemy?" Sora asked and summoned his keyblade.
The girl looked at him and her thin lips, which was all he could see of her, curled into a smile.
"Depends. I am enemy to many though I have done nothing but existed. Apparently that all it takes for people to hate you and condemn you as an evil person who will hurt others." she sighed. "So, Sora, am I your enemy?"
"...No...?" he said unsure.
"That's good. So, Sora, is this what you want?" she asked again with a smile. "To live here on the island with your friends?"
Sora brightened. "Yeah. More then anything!"
"Who are all the people that come here?"
"Uh, Riku, Selphie, Wakka, Tiddus, and Kairi..." he said her name with a dreamy sighed.
"Is that all?" she asked. He nodded. "Is Kairi... your girlfriend?"
He blushed. "N-no! But, when this is all over I was hoping that we could... share a... paopu..." he sighed dreamily again.
"Oh." her voice was mono-toned and her smile dropped. "Well, okay then. I guess that was erased as well...Oh well. It can't be helped. I guess they were right after all. It's useless. But Sora..."
She walked over to him and pointed at his chest. "Rely on this." she moved her finger to his head. "Not this."
Sora woke up with a start and whimpered, holding his heart. It was aching and a uncontrollable sadness spread throughout him. He closed his eyes and though of the girl in his dream, then it went away.
"Sora, are you okay?" Yuffie asked as she opened the door.
"Yeah, I'm fine." he smiled. "Is Yumi up?"
Yuffie nodded. "She was waiting for you. She wants to leave as soon as possible."
"And Ophelia?"
"Disappeared." Leon who now entered the room said. "Gone without a trace."
"That's weird. I should go." he jumped out of the bed and Yuffie started to laugh uncontrollably and Leon snickered a bit. "What?"
"Nice boxers, Sora." Sora blushed and quickly pushed them out and got his clothes on.
.x.X.x.
"So, what's our first world?" Yumi asked.
"Uh...I don't know. It's a new world."
"Sweet." Yumi grinned.
They landed and Yumi's clothes had changed a bit. She was wearing binds to flatten her chest and a hat that hid her hair. Yumi groaned.
"Oh, great. Just great. I have to be a guy again." she sighed. The boys snickered, making her glare at them. "I'm getting too old to be hiding my gender."
The group of four walked in the bamboo forest until they saw a guy and a monster's shadow. The three boys went into a circle to plan their next move while Yumi studied the situation. She discovered that was definitely not a guy and that was a shadow. Whatever the creature was wasn't a threat.
"Hey guys I think- Hey! Stop!" Yumi growled and ran to stop them.
"Listen to Yumi!" Goofy called and ran after them.
Just as she had suspected a lizard looking animal lept into the girl's arms as they charged. Sora stopped and stood for a minute before Yumi hit the back of his head.
"Ow!" he moaned. "What was that for?"
"For being an idiot and not listening to me!" she hissed.
"Is that Mushu?" Goofy asked, saving Sora from a possible concussion.
"That's right! I know we've heard of me! Now scram before I get my fierce dragon on!" the red lizard hissed.
"Hey Mushu! We missed you." Sora smiled.
"You scare me sometimes, Sora." Yumi said with a shake of her head.
"Yeah, you better HOPE I miss you or else you're-" he stopped and stared at the four. "Sora, Donald, Goofy! And... is that Yumi?"
"Sadly, yes." she sighed.
"She doesn't look that different." Sora put a hand over his mouth and cowered behind Goofy.
"What. Did. You. Say?" she said as she slowly turned toward Sora with a madman smile. "Hm...?
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorryImsorryImsorry! IMSORRYIMSORRYIMSORRY!" he yelled until they were a jumble of words.
"Why you little-"
"Yeah that's Yumi all right. Hey were's that other person. There was another, right?" Mushu asked.
"No. It's just us. Why? Do you remember someone else?" Sora asked.
"huh? Oh. I could've sworn there was someone else though." He jumped off and went over to the four.
"You know them?" the woman asked.
"Know them? Yeah, we used to kick all kind of bad guy butt together! Yeah, you know, I used to help these guys out of a lot of tight spots 'Cause I'm a mighty dragon, right?" Mushu bragged.
"Something like that. And you are?" Sora asked.
"I'm Mulan. No- I-Uh- mean." she cleared her throat and deepened her voice. "Ping!"
"Mulan Ping?" Donald asked.
"Just Ping. I am Ping, the son of Fa Zhou."
"You know Mushu?"
"He's one of our family's guardians."
"We didn't know we borrowed someone as important as a family guardian." Goofy said.
"Yeah that's right!" Mushu slithered up onto Mulan's shoulder. "And that puts you four up to your eyes balls in dept to Ping here. Well guess what kiddies, it's payback time."
"Mushu..." Ping (coughMulancough) said sounding unsure.
"Ah, they don't mind. Right guys?"
"Sounds fair. I don't like it but, he's right Sora." Yumi said with her hand on her chin.
"You see Ping here was just on his way to join the Imperial Army. We gotta go find the other recruits over at the training camp." Mushu explained.
"Would you join us? it'll be easier to fit in if I'm with guys."
"What do you mean, 'fit in?'"
"Hey, Mulan, if you go mono toned then your voice sounds more believable. For one girl pretending to be a boy to another." Yumi said with a wink.
"What?" Sora asked. Yumi just sighed and whispered in his ears. "Okay, okay! Eew! You didn't have to explain it that way!"
"What?" Donald asked. Before she could get to Donald Goofy said it out loud.
"You're pretending to be boy, aren't ya?"
"What?" Donald and Sora exclaimed.
"Sora, don't act surprised! I already told you!" Yumi yelled.
"But you didn't say it like that! I thought she had-"
"Let's not go there, Sora." Yumi put a hand over his mouth.
"So, you didn't notice?"
"No." Sora and Donald said.
"I'm just over observant. Also I have super girl senses of something like that." Yumi shrugged. "So you can't count me."
"I think it's working." Mulan said to Mushu excitedly.
"I don't know. Those two would fall for anything." Mushu shook his head as they walked off.
"Hey I'm right here!" Sora huffed and walked with them.
They all walked around for a while before they got to the site. Sora was the first of the group to get in line. He wasn't in there for more then a second before a guys pushed him and took his place.
Long story short: Donald and Sora got into a fight, Yumi ate magical popcorn from nowhere before finally stopping them, they ended up getting into another fight, captain stopped them, faught Heartless, and now they had already completed three missions.
"You did well."
"Knew it!" Sora cheered.
"Captain..." Mulan said.
"I suppose you've made A LITTLE progress."
"Not a little, a lot!" Donald huffed.
"No, he's right. Please give me one more assignment. This time, I'll show you what I'm truly made of."
"This time I'll give you one more chance. You're mission is to secure the path over the summit so our company can pass. I've authorized to let you through the summit. Don't let me down."
The three did so in less then five minutes.
"Ping sure did great!" Goofy said.
"He was awesome!" Sora added.
"Fine. I'll let you join my troops. But I'm still not convinced you have what it takes."
"Why not?" Sora yelled.
"Well that totally killed the we did it and by that I don't mean sex mood." Yumi sighed and crossed her arms.
"Yumi! Don't say that word." Sora scolded.
"What? Sex?" she tiled her head.
"You said it again!" Sora said with a blush.
That's all it took to send her rolling on the floor laughing. "Oh, Sora," she wiped a tear from her eye. "We NEED to have a the talk when we get back on the Gummi Ship." She slung an arm over Sora's shoulder. "As you were saying, Cap-EE-tan."
He gave her a weird look before speaking. "If you still want to prove yourself, I'll give you one more chance."
"Thank you, sir." she said as he walked away.
They were to the camp when Mushu announced something about seeing a strange figure. They ended up trapped in a cave and had to fight Heartless. Shan-Yu was sadly not there so it was unproductive. Mushu suggested that they lied to the captain saying that she defeated almost all of the Heartless. They went along with it because they wanted to help the gir- boy, out.
Yumi and Sora were cracking jokes at each other and enjoying themselves when they came to the village. Yumi gasped loudly.
"Oh. My. Goodness." she said.
The whole place was burned badly. The captain even had an injury. When they got to him he explained there was an attack. The enemy went towards the summit so the group went there as well.
"Well, I don't see anything." Yumi sighed but then looked up. "Crap. Never mind."
They got out thier weapons and prepared themselves for battle. The Heartless swooped down the hill by the dozens. It was a good thing that they all sucked or else there would have been some major issues.
Yumi was they first to attack. She charged at them and hit them with all she had. The others followed suit and defeated them in 5 minutes flat.
"Hell yes!" Yumi fist pumped and jumped around in circles. She stopped when Sora tapped her shoulder and pointed up at the wall of Heartless surrounding Shan-Yu. "Damnit!"
"Stand back! We'll handle this!" the gorilla like man said with a large dragon like firework.
"Sorry!" Mulan cried and took it from him.
"Mulan! What are you dong?" Yumi yelled as she watched Mulan get closer to the enemy.
"Just trust me!"
She shot the firework-like missile at the top of a hill, causing an avalanche. They all just sat and watched as it came closer .
"It's times like this when I say," Yumi started running, "RUN LIKE HELL!"
They followed her and got out of the way in time, mainly because Donald casted a slow spell when no one was looking. Yumi laid in the snow, sinking it a bit. Sora nudged her.
"Come on, let's go see what's up with Ping."
"Mmphgnffddmedf!" she said.
"What?" Sora asked.
"Mmphumhph!"
"What?"
"Fine, let's go!" she growled and shot up, running towards Mulan.
"Hey! Wait, Yumi!"
"Oh boy, you're ok!" Gopfy cheered when they saw them.
"You all knew, didn't you?" Captain asked.
"Knew what?" Yumi asked.
"That Ping was a girl."
They were dumb founded and mumbled.
Sora slapped his cheeks with his hand and pointed at Mulan. "YOU'RE A GIRL?"
Yumi sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Nice try, Sora. The jig is up. We lost."
"Lost what?"
"The game!"
"What?"
((A/N: I bet most of you that's reading this is going, "damnit! I lost the game again!" Sorry I couldn't resist. I love Demyx Time! Anyways...))
"What was I saying?" Yumi asked.
"That we lost the game."
"What game?"
"I don't know." Sora groaned.
"Huh." she said and looked to the ground. "Weird." Her eyes looked up at Mulan and the Captain. "Oh, oh! Don't let us interupt! Please, continue."
The Captain shook his head before going on about how disappointed he was at them and how they were now kicked out of the army.
Mulan took off the armor and let her hair down, looking more like a woman. She thanked them and said she was going home. Yumi was outraged and went into a whole speak that you'd hear at a woman empowerment program.
The group of awesome plus one were on thier way to her house when they found out that Shan-Yu was still alive. They immediately went to the palace to inform the Emperor and his army. He didn't listen at first but he quickly changed his mind when he saw Shan-Yu himself.
After securing the courtyard they went to palace and fought Shan-Yu. This time Mulan finished him off and made sure he didn't cheat death again.
They were proclaimed as Heroes of China. They unlocked the pathway and left the world.
"So, Donald, what was you're favorite part?" Sora asked.
"Being proclaimed heroes!"
"Mine too!" Goofy said.
"Well, my favorite part was when we defeated all those Heartless at the summit." Sora grinned.
"What was your favorite part?" Yumi asked.
"Yumi, what are you looking at?"
"Huh? Oh, I don't know. My favorite part is when Shang didn't have the guts to ask Mulan out right. What a loser! I know he ain't gettin' any tonight!" she laughed but stopped and looked at Sora's blushing face. "Which reminds me, I needed to have the talk with you..."
Ha! I love that last part. Sorry it's been so long. I've been busy and I'm using SSoHPKC's KHII walk through. It's just easier that way. I won't go into every detail on every world but just to let you know this does go that far into the game since Yumi's there. She alters everything. How? Read and you'll find out!
Sora, Sora, Sora the Explorer!
Anyways, I have an anoucement! I have drawn a picture and it is now on deviantART! Yayzers! My username is the same since it's easier for you guys and I have the link on my profile. Go check it out!
Thank you for reading, bye! Review if you want to. You can tell me your favorite part since Dora never let's you finish cuz she doesn't care. Stupid littl-
Sora: *Cover's Midnight's mouth* see ya later!