Kingdom Hearts: The Other Dimensions

Chapter 6: Gliding

Dragonium: Hello to all my readers! I've realized that my chapters are too short, so this one is longer. I've also gotten a beta reader, Scribbles I, writer of the great fanfiction The Official Kingdom Hearts Academy of Fanfiction, amongst others. Well, here goes the chapter. Hope you like it! Donald.

Donald: The following is a work of Fanfiction. Any similarity with KH3/KH3D is most likely a coincidence.

"Glide?" Kairi repeated. "I've never tried, but I guess I could try. One of the Keyshield's powers is to create objects made of light. Look at this." As she finished saying that phrase, she separated the tiny Keyblade from the chains that held it to the front of the shield. The small weapon magically stayed in place. The teenager joined the two parts of the chain and held the shield by it. She concentrated and suddenly a big sphere appeared in front of her, created from a ray of light from the tiny weapon. When her face stopped showing signs of concentration, the sphere faded. Sora then said,

"Good sphere, but it didn't last long. Wait, I've got an idea. If you can move the chains to hold the shield like a backpack and practice enough to create a glider or wings without effort, you should be able to glide."

"I was about to say that," said Kairi. "Anyway, I'll try to do it." In little to no time, she did the first part of the idea. After that, she added, "I'll go for wings." The Princess of Heart concentrated again and two white wings slowly sprouted out of the Keyblade while Sora watched her, spellbound.She is an angel,he thought, a small smile on his face. Seconds after that, the wings faded.

"Okay, now I know that I can do it," the teenager said, grinning. "But I'll keep on practicing." The wings sprouted again. After that, Sora asked Riku if he also had means to glide.

"Well, I think I could control the wind," he answered. "You know, with an Aero spell." Right after that, he cast the spell with the Keystaff lifted up, and he was sent flying up, higher than Sora could ever have jumped. Then, Riku casted Aero again, this time with both arms extended, and he started gliding. He glided for a couple of seconds, then casted the spell again, this time with the staff pointing down, and a burst of air send him flying down. He landed swiftly and Sora asked,

"Hey, did you learn how to glide in your dream?"

"No," answered Riku. "I learned how to do it right now. It's actually quite easy."

"Quite easy?" Sora nearly shouted. "I had to fly through that whole ship at Neverland before managing to glide without the aid of fairy powder, and you say it's quite easy?"

"I do have the help of magic weaponry we didn't know about until that dream. Or maybe you're just lame, Sora," Riku said teasingly with a smirk.

"Hey guys!" Kairi called. "Look, I'm getting better at this!" Sora and Riku ran over to Kairi, who summoned her wings. The concentrated look had almost faded from her face.

"It's a lot easier now," she said.

"That's good, but, how did you get so good in such a short time?" asked Sora

"Maybe it's because of the magic equipment's help," said Riku. "Now the only thing you need is to try and go gliding."

"Okay, I'll count up to three. One… Two… Three!" She jumped. Kairi fell for a second, and then started to gracefully glide. Before touching the floor, she flapped the wings and gained more altitude. She continued gliding for a couple of minutes, beating the wings when she was close to the floor before landing in front of her friends.

"That was great, Kairi!" commented Sora.

"Thank you!" she answered, practically glowing with a soft smile curling her lips.

"So, Sora, why did you ask us if we could glide?" asked Riku.

"Well, I wanted to do a gliding race. What do you say?" the teen answered.

"That would be cool! But hey, Kairi can change her altitude. That's not fair."

"Well, we can control the wind," Sora argued.

"No, I can control the wind. You can't," Riku said smugly, folding his arms.

"Well, it turns out wind's the Kingdom Key R's ability."

"Really? Then why didn't you show it when we were showing our abilities?" the silver-haired teen countered.

"Hey, guys, are we racing or not?" interrupted Kairi, who had been hearing the conversation and seemed eager to race.

The two males stopped talking, said, "Yeah, let's go," and headed towards the cliff. When they were in position, Sora counted up to three and the racers started to glide. Sora quickly got ahead of his friends, but Riku quickly got impulse creating a current of air. He also made a wall of wind behind him to stop Kairi, who stopped and flapped her wings towards it, creating a powerful wind blow that destroyed it. Sora created a current of hot air to stay afloat, and quickly turned it into a cold air one to throw Riku to the ground, but the silver-haired teenager avoided it. The three friends were getting near to the Cove's entrance. They sped up, while trying to hinder the others. Suddenly, Riku grabbed Sora´s right leg and sent them both to the floor at the entrance of the cove with a rush of wind. They stood up, immediately beginning to argue.

"I won!"
"No, I won!"
"What are you saying, it's obvious that I won!"

"Hey, let's just call it a draw," Kairi interrupted, ever the peace-maker between the two.

"Actually, Riku touched the floor first," said a jolly voice.

"King Mickey!" Sora, Riku and Kairi said happily.

"Hiya pals, long time no see," the King greeted. They all hugged and then Mickey said,

"Goofy and Donald are waiting in the Gummi, I mean, Jelli ship." But Sora wasn't listening to the royal mouse's words. As soon as he heard the names of his two friends, he ran off to see them. He found a red transporter and started waiting. However, nothing happened. Sora realized this wasn't like the Gummi ship's transporter, in which he could just wait and be transported to the vessel. His friends quickly got to him.

"Sora, to transport to the Jelli ship, you have to use this special control," Mickey said, showing a small, red remote control with yellow buttons. The teens got into the transporter, Mickey pushed a button and they suddenly were inside the ship.

"Sora!" said Donald and Goofy, who were sitting on two chairs looking straight to the transporter.

"Donald! Goofy!" he called. The friends jumped into a hug.

"Good, Sora. I guess you really missed your friends, but we've got something important to talk about," said Mickey, growing serious. "The Undimensionals."

Dragonium: Okay, so this is the end of the chapter. Next chapter will be more about the Undimensionals and information about other enemies.