Dragonium: Oh, I always wanted to do this, but I forgot to. Sora?
Sora: This is a work of FanFiction. Any similarities to Kingdom Hearts 3 are likely a coincidence. And, why don´t you do the usual disclaimer of "X doesn´t own…"?
Dragonium: It´s already too used.
Kingdom Hearts: The Other Dimension
Riku´s Dive to the Heart
Riku wasn´t scared at all. When he dived into the water, he would just swim up. However, when the Keyblade wielder got to the water, he discovered that his body wouldn´t respond, and the boy just kept diving, deeper and deeper. He tried to hold his breath, but his lungs quickly started to burn, asking for more air. He exhaled and inhaled, finding out with astonishment that he could breath.
His body turned around, and he found himself standing on darkness. He took a step forward and suddenly, a flock of doves flied up, emerging from the floor, which started glowing violet. The boy looked around, bewildered, and noticed that he was now standing on a circular, stained glass floor. It´s design showed a boy standing up. His face was exactly like Sora´s, but his hair was longer. The portrayed teen was wearing a mostly black cloak with red and yellow details. The Sora look-alike had a book in his hands. It was big and had a red bookmarker. The design on its cover showed… itself. This lead to an infinite loop, because the depicted book showed itself too and it showed itself and… well, you know where this goes. On the background was showed a mountain range. The main color was violet. In the circles were a teen that looked exactly like Riku, but with short, spiky hair, a boy with green hair and four red eyes, a boy with completely black hair and a black mask and another boy with what looked like fangs instead of teeth and red hair. Inside a heart was a girl that looked like Kairi.
'Who the darkness are these guys?' asked Riku. Suddenly, three pillars emerged from the ground. One had a sword floating over it, other had a shield hovering over it and the last one had a staff flying over it. Two white words appeared in front of Riku: Pick one. They quickly disappeared.
'A voiceless spirit thing appears out of nowhere and tells me to pick a weapon? I´m sorry, but I have seen that film.' The words "Pick one" appeared again. This time they didn´t disappear. Riku sighed, and headed to the sword. He picked it and looked up, where some words appeared. Riku read out loud,
'A sword of courage that will defeat your enemies. A blade of fear that will stop you when facing your strongest enemy. Is this what you want?' he thought for a second and said, 'Maybe.' He then proceeded to leave the sword on its pillar and grabbed the shield. The Keyblade wielder looked up again, this time seeing the words, "A shield that will protect your friends from any harm. A hard cover which only the strongest emotion alter. Is this what you want?" The teen didn´t have to think it.
'No,' he said, throwing the shield back to its pillar and walking to the staff. When he grabbed it, the words appeared on top of him. This time, they read, "A staff of magic that will grant you unimaginable powers. A cloak of mystique that will make your emotions unreadable. Is this what you want?"
'I´ll think about it,' he said. He left the staff on its pillar and stood up, thinking. Should he choose the sword or the staff? Finally, he decided. He grabbed the staff and said,
'Yes, this is what I want.' The staff suddenly disappeared into his hands. Riku read the words "Give up one" that had appeared in front of him. Knowing the attitude of the voiceless talker, he headed to the shield and said,
'I give up the shield.' The shield disappeared into thin air. The teen read the words that had appeared in front of him.
'You have chosen the power of the mystic. You have given up the power of the guardian. Is this what you want?' Riku started to get impatient.
'Yes, I want this!' He shouted. The stained glass floor started to shatter, the pieces falling into darkness. Riku tried to stay on the solid ground, but he eventually fell.
He landed on another stained glass floor. This time, the floor showed a boy that looked like Sora, except for his clothes and hair, which were like a Taekwondo uniform and shorter, respectively. The boy was jumping, with a leg bended and the other one extended downwards. He had a card in his right hand. It showed a sword. On the background was a large valley. In the circles were a boy that looked like Riku with closely-cropped hair, a boy with long, black hair, another boy with brown, short hair and an old-looking man. He was strangely blurred. Inside a heart was a girl that looked like Kairi, but with curly hair.
Suddenly, five creatures appeared. They looked like Neoshadows, but were silver. They had a strange symbol on their chest. It looked like a black hole with a heart, a star and a moon around it. He summoned his Keyblade, Way to Dawn, and quickly slashed through them… the creatures, however, didn´t even flinch. He slashed through them more times, backing away. When he was between the creatures and the free fall, his Keyblade started to glow. It flied until it was in front of the teen, and started to change form in front of him. The wing separated from the rest of the blade, which disappeared. The handle separated from the guard and became longer. It stuck to an end of the guard. The wing got blunt and stuck to the long handle. Finally, the token separated from the keychain, which disappeared, and started floating between the two parts of the guard. The Keyblade had disappeared, and the Keystaff had appeared. Riku got it and started to strike the creatures with it. It didn´t work. Sweat drops started to appear on Riku´s forehead. He decided to use magic. He lifted the Keystaff up and exclaimed, 'Dark fire!', expecting three dark fireballs to surround him. However, big was his surprise when a huge flame engulfed him, without damaging him but damaging the creatures. When the fire stopped, no creatures were seen. Riku headed to a door that had appeared out of thin air. When he saw the door, a huge light engulfed him.
He found himself standing on the rock pillar on Destiny Islands, where he gave himself to the darkness. There he saw Sora, Kairi and King Mickey. He approached to the latter who asked,
'What´s your greatest fear?'
'Um… er…' clumsily answered Riku, 'My friends' death.'
'Your friends should be really important to you.' Riku then headed to Sora, who questioned,
'What is what you most want?'
'To represent the balance between Light and Darkness.'
'You have deep thoughts.'
He then walked to Kairi, who interrogated,
'What do you want to do in your life?'
'To be with my friends.'
'You surely love your friends.'
After answering this, Riku was blinded with a flash of light.
He found himself standing on another pillar. This pillar was the one of Sora. He looked at it for some time, focusing on the heart with Kairi inside. When he first saw it, he exclaimed,
'Ha! I knew it!' He continued staring at it for some time, until he was attacked by a silver Neoshadow. He used the spell he had discovered in his last fight, but it was not enough. He then noticed a sentence he didn´t see before, "Sometimes, you need more than words." He understood the cryptic message and, moving the Keystaff forward like stabbing, he launched his Dark Fire spell. A huge Dark Fireball was fired. The Keystaff wielder continued fighting, discovering not only the spell for the three fireballs around him, which was made by spinning around with the Keystaff extended, but also: a kind of Dark Fire slash, by chanting the spell while doing a slashing movement, a Dark Fire wall, by invoking the spell while moving the Keystaff horizontally, and engulfing the Keystaff in flames, by doing the spell while grabbing the Keystaff like a bat. He even managed to use Dark Blizzard, and turned a creature into ice by chanting the spell while tounching it with his staff.
When he finished, he was worn out. He looked at the words that recently appeared. They told, "Walk to the red circle. It has healing abilities." He did as he was told. Just as he touched the circle he felt better. In a second he was ready to fight again. Suddenly, a long staircase appeared. Riku walked to it and started to climb it. It was long, but not tiresome. When he reached the other pillar, he looked at it, in shock. It showed a heart, a star and a moon, but half of the heart was white and the other half, black. The same happened with the other symbols. The background was grey. Riku then looked to his front, where he saw more white sentences, but this time, the letters were wavy. He read out loud,
"Remember, the stronger you are, the stronger your other is. Be careful when he is around, if you don´t want to die, or lose a friend. The words then dissapeared, leaving a shocking scene to the Keyblade wielder: In the other side of the pillar, there was a person that looked exactly like him, excepting, of course, that he was completely black, clothings included, and his shining, red eyes.
Dragonium: Whew, finally uploaded this chapter. I am sorry for the late update, but I got grounded. In the different stations you can see a sneak peek of my OCs, as well as thir friends and powers. You can also the symbols of the soul and the life/death. Boss battle in the next chapter. I would like you to review, but it´s all up to you. By the way, I can´t wait for the holidays. I live in Argentina, so in December starts the long, summer holiday. See ya!
Riku: What? You are letting me there, shocked because the thing that the voiceless voice warned me about has appeared right in front of me!
Dragonium: Yep! See ya!
Riku: But-
Dragonium: I said see ya!
Riku: OK