Chapter VI

New Friends and an Adventure

"Here it is, The Third District." Sora whispered. "Can't believe that I decided to listen to that figure in the first place, well do I have any other choice. Might as well risk it. Still don't know what he meant by 'Even in the darkest of lies, the truth lays hidden. Gee, even with all that explaining didn't help any." He thought.

Sora walked into a large opening, it was nice and quiet… to quiet.

Above Sora, Donald and Goofy were surrounded by heartless of all sorts.

"Gwarsh, are these the heartless guys?" Goofy asked Donald like if he knew all the answers.

"Gee, dark, black, not friendly what so ever, trying to kill us… yeah I believe these are the heartless. Well let's see how they like my magic!" Donald exclaimed and shot a magic blast at the heartless. Well it did destroy them but the magic blasted the two off of the balcony and right on top of Sora.

"Ow, I knew it! This was a trap!" Sora shouted.

"Trap? A-yuk." Goofy asked.

"Get off of him you big palooka!" Donald yelled after getting off of Sora, "Can't you see he has the 'key'!"

"Gwarsh, sorry." Goofy said getting off of Sora.

"Hey you guys don't look like heartless." Sora pointed out.

"Duh we don't." Donald said, "But they do."

Soras turn towards where Donald was pointing and saw a lot of heartless.

"Crap." He said. "I knew that this was a trap! Oh, why did I listened to that blanket wrapped person in the first place?!"

"Blanket wrapped person? A-yuk." Goofy asked.

"Yeah, Some small… around that duck's height, maybe a little bit taller then that, high sounding voice, has a blanket wrapped around himself, claims to be old, says weird stuff like dark lies and hidden truths, so if you see anyone like that… Don't trust him!" Sora said sternly.

"O…K?" Donald said looking at Sora kind funny, "But should we just destroy these heartless first, then talk things out?"

"The heartless… Oh right! The heartless!" Sora exclaimed.

And so Sora with the help of Donald and Goofy fought off the smaller heartless. They figured out their individual names and strategies thanks to that book. The small black ones are called Shadows, the slightly armored heartless are named Solders, and the frog-like ones are called Bugglehops.

"Ha! To easy!" Sora said.

"Don't be to sure, look!" Donald pointed up at a gigantic armored heartless that just appeared. It had floating arms and feet. The heartless then attacked them.

"Why do things appear like this?!" Sora whimpered.

"How should I know?" Donald sighed.

The gigantic armored heartless attacked with its floating arms. Sora, Donald and Goofy dodged the attack. It then walked up to them and sent its two arms at Sora and Donald while its floating feet stomped Goofy flat.

Jiminy popped out of Donald's hat cause of all the noise and looked around. Chaos was the only thing he could see. He turned his head to see Sora receiving a very heavy blow. As Sora flew towards a wall, Jiminy saw the small, thick book that Sora had use to find out about the smaller ones fly out of his pocket. Jiminy hopped to the book and grabbed it. He flipped the pages, he figured; that if this book had info about the smaller ones, it should have info about the bigger ones like the one attacking them. It took awhile before he found the heartless that was attacking them.

"That heartless is called Guard Armor! It says here that you have to destroy parts of its floating limbs then attack the body to destroy it!" The cricket cried out.

"Gwarsh! Thanks Jiminy!" Goofy said as he got off the ground and charged at the left foot of the Guard Armor.

"Your welcome Goo… Whaa!" Jiminy said till a foot nearly squashed him like a bug.

"I got to hide." Jiminy said looking around till he saw Sora's hood and jumped into there for safety.

Sora wasn't aware that a cricket was in his hood. He went and sung at the arm as hard as he could. After a bit of attacking a dodging he completely destroyed the arm that was bothering him.

"Ha! One arm down! Another arm, two feet and a body to go!" He exclaimed.

Donald shot the fire ball that was needed to destroy the other arm. "You mean a foot and a body to go! Look! Goofy just finished off a foot! Let's just destroy this thing."

Sora nodded and with Donald and Goofy destroyed the foot and the body. As it disappeared they saw a something heart shaped float away.

Sora turned to the other two and then exclaimed all triumphantly, "Ha! Can't believe that we defeated that thing! And thanks to our weapons, strength, and that book."

"How did you get that book?" Donald asked.

"From that blanket wrapped person that I told you about." Sora answered.

Donald stared at Sora. "I thought that person was not to be trusted."

"Well… um…" Sora stuttered.

Donald tapped his foot while giving a smug look seeing Sora looking foolish and stuttering trying to answer his question.

"Let's just forget about that and let's introduce each other." Jiminy said poking his head out Sora's hood. "Sorry about that but I need to hide. I would have been one that things foot!"

Sora looked down at the cricket and said, "Its ok!"

"I am Jiminy Cricket! And that's Donald Duck and Goofy. We were sent by their queen to look for our missing king and someone with a 'key'."

"Well I'm Sora and I'm looking for my friends Riku and Kairi. Have any of you seen them?" asked Sora.

"No not by anyone by those names, but you are the person with the 'key' that we are suppose to be with. Let's make a deal here. You come with us on our gummi ship and we'll take you too many worlds. You help us find our king and we'll help you find your friends. How about that Sora, do you agree?" Questioned Donald.

"You'll most likely find your friends if you go with us. A-yuk." Goofy said.

After some thought Sora looked at them and said. "Alright, I'll go with you. We'll work as a team, together, the four of us."

Jiminy looked up and said. "Well at least I'm not forgotten." Then said to himself "This is the start of a new story, which I'll record in my 'Jiminy memo'!"

What our now team of heroes don't know is that they are being watched by some dastardly villains.

"That little squirt took down that heartless! Who would have known!" yelled the fire haired Hades.

Another villain, Jafar rubbed his cobra headed staff. "Such is the power of the Keyblade. The child's power is not his own."

Ursula the octopus butt said to the others around her. "Why don't we turn him into a heartless and his friends to? That'll settle everything."

"That kid was just some town boy. And the brat's friends are the king's lackeys. Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them." Said the pirate, Captain Hook.

Burlap sack, Oogie Boogie, laughed at Hook, "You're no prize yourself!" and continued to laugh.

"Shut up Oogie Boogie!" Hook yelled.

"How can I take a guy like you seriously? Come off it, you say really stupid things like, "Moogle me eyes." Oogie said still laughing

"I said SWOGGLE me eyes! Not MOOGLE!" Hooked said angrily. "Besides, you look like a bag of potatoes."

"I'd rather look like a bag of potatoes then an exploded birdy!" Oogie taunted. He started to prance around Hook while laughing all the while, "Exploded birdy! Exploded birdy!"

"Why you…." Hook growled.

"Enough! The Keyblade has chosen him." The evil witch Maleficent told them staring with her glowing, yellow eyes. With her horned costume she almost looked like a beast.

Then all of them heard a calm sounding voice, "It's a good thing that Maleficent stop your arguing instead of me."

The villains all looked in the direction of the voice. They could see an elf lady with dark brown hair down to her hips, part of her bangs covered her right eye. Her left eye looked like one big pupil and under the eye were pale green markings. The clothes she wore where the colors green and purple with some gold trim.

"You know what happens when I am annoyed and angry." The elf lady said.

"Prapilia!" Maleficent said. "What a surprise. It seems like the Keyblade chose its master."

Prapilia looked at Maleficent. "I know. But I have an idea to stop him and his pathetic friends. That boy will either conquer the darkness or be swallowed by it. He'll be useful either way. We just have to make sure that the Damascan doesn't interfere."

"What can that thing do? Why do you find it a threat? All it is is a pimpsweek." Hades asked.

"Don't underestimate Damascans Hades." Prapila answered while glaring at the hologram of Sora and friends. She then stared at the villains and growled. "All of you better get going and do as you're told. Now!"

"Yes Prapilia." The villains responded.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy found Leon, Yuffie and Aerith and told them of what all had happen.

Sora then asked the three "Do you guys have any idea about who that little cloaked guy I told you about or what his business is?"

"No. Never saw or known about anyone like that." Yuffie answered.

"But he seems to know about the heartless if he gave you a book all about them." Leon admitted.

"Well enough chit-chat. We better get going to find the king and your friends." Said Donald.

"Better get ready for your trip then." Aerith told them.

And so Sora and friends ran around getting stuff for the journey ahead. The girls made sure they actually took the necessities of life, and Leon just showed Sora a few fighting tricks. It wasn't long before they waved good bye and our hero's went into the gummi ship and took of to the next world.