Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, related characters, trademarks, etc. in any way, shape or form. Skyler is mine, though. So is Skyler's dark side, the Chibbis, the Evil Chibbis, the weird balls of light and the weird balls of dark light.
So…yay, next chapter. By the way, I was thinking about the last chapter. I don't own Sony (the maker of PS2s) but, I own my own PS2…wow, that was confusing. I think you'd better sit back, relax, and enjoy another chapter of Kingdom Hearts: RETOLD!
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"Kairi!" exclaimed Sora as we entered through the new door and walked into the cave. Kairi was standing in front of another mysterious door with no knob that had always been in the cave.
"Sora," she whined mournfully as she turned to him.
"What's up with you, lady?" I demanded. It wasn't like Kairi to be mournful.
Just then, the door behind her burst open, sending out a dark and powerful burst of energy. Kairi was thrust forward towards Sora.
Sora put his arms out to catch her, but she flew right through him. We were then blown out of the cave and thrown upon the sand.
Sora looked down. The island had broken into pieces. We were on top ofone piece of the island, and it was floating upward through the sky!
"Sora!" I screamed out. I was dangling from the edge of the floating piece of island.
He stood up and ran to me, but he was too late. I was blown off the floating island and onto another piece. Sora screamed to me, then turned around and rushed to the center of the piece he was floating on, his giant key ready for battle.
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Still dazed, I looked behind me. Then, I heard a cold, cruel voice.
"Evening, Skyler."
My head whirled to the side. It was my dark self, with the different color eyes. She had a black version of the key in her hand. My copy of the key was still with me.
"I hope you enjoy your plunge into everlasting darkness," my dark side sneered, then swung at me. I rolled out of the way.
We continued fighting in this manner (she swings, I dodge) until I was at the edge of our piece of island.
"What do you want from me?" I demanded.
She smirked an evil smirk. "Your heart," she finally concluded, and began to bring her key down.
Please, someone help me, I prayed silently. My prayer was answered. There was a blinding flash of light, and suddenly a pink thing appeared in front of me. A…Chibbi?
A Chibbi was a pink creature made out of pom-poms and gems that I made one day in Art Class. How was it alive?
Then I realized how. The balls of light had saved me by taking the good-luck Chibbi in my pocket and making it comealive.
The Chibbi had an angry expression on its face. "Chibbi!" it announced before clamping its eyes shut. There was a blinding flash of light, and my dark side was thrown back.
My dark side was pushed back to the edge of the piece of island. "So, Skyler," she taunted. "That's the way you wanna play, is it?"
There was a flash of dark light and what I now call an Evil Chibbi appeared. It was exactly like mine, only it was darker, and it had horns. It too said "Chibbi!" and began fighting mine with dark flashes of light.
My Chibbi fought back with a flash of bright light. The Evil Chibbi flashed more dark light. The battle went on in this manner until the Evil Chibbi had been pushed close to my dark side. My Chibbi gave a final flash of light and the Evil Chibbi disappeared. Then it gave a flash of light to my dark side, and she began to fall backwards.
"You'll pay, for this Skyler!" she yelled at me, continuing to lose her balance. "You can't escape from me! I'm too powerful! Every time your power grows, mine does too! I'm inside you, Skyler! I'M INSIDE YOU!"
With that, she screamed and toppled off the piece of island. I picked up my Chibbi, which had lifelessly dropped to the floor and was getting slightly buried by the sand. "Maybe you really are good luck," I told it, and slipped it back into my pocket.
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"Skyler!" I heard another voice. But this one didn't belong to my dark side. It was…Sora.
Sora jumped down from his piece of island and landed next to me. The site of someone so familiar felt so good. I burst into tears and fell into his arms.
The black hole in the sky was giving off a huge burst of energy. "Sora!" I screamed, scared. I gripped him tightly.
He grabbed my hand tightly and together we sailed into the black hole, both of us screaming.
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I awoke to warm breath blowing in my face. I slowly opened my eyes to the sight of…a dog!
The dog was licking Sora's face with gusto. Sora was slowly awakening. He groaned, then opened his eyes. "What a dream…" he mumbled.
The dog pounced on him. "This isn't a dream!" he realized. He slowly stood up and looked around, helping me up too. I clung to him like a parasite.
"Where are we?" he asked no one in particular. Maybe it was me. Maybe it was himself. Maybe it was the dog.
"Do you know where we are?" he asked the dog. The dog nodded, but then perked an ear, turned and ran off.
We were in an alleyway. I clung to Sora as we madeour way into the main part of the city…or town. Wherever we were.
"This is totally weird," Sora mumbled as we approached the city. "We're in another world!"
"You just realized that?" I asked him. He nodded slowly, then looked around.
"We should explore a little," I suggested, and he nodded again.
We wandered all over the place, including an accessory shop, where we met a grumpy but kind man named Cid. He explained that we were in Traverse Town, and that he would look out for us.
We continued on our exploration until we came upon the door to the Second District. When we walked out, we saw a man running quickly down the street. I tried to stop him.
"Hey, excuse me sir," I began, but he wasn't listening. He fell, and a bright light emanated from his chest. A heart came out and was sucked into a dark portal, which disappeared soon after collecting the heart.
Then one of those black things appeared, only it was in armor. It shuddered slightly, and then disappeared. Sora charged out to the middle of the balcony, dragging me behind. We stood for a moment, observing the view, and Sora asked me a question.
"Skyler?"
"Mm?"
"Do you think we'll ever see our friends again?"
"Sora…I-"
The black things suddenly rose out of the ground. Sora readied his giant key and I made mine appear.
I attacked the things on the right. Sora got the ones on the left. Finally, after much slashing, one thing remained. Sora and I both brought our keys down at the same time, and it bursts into several pieces of munny.
Sora picked up the munny and we continued on our way, stopping at a hotel, a gizmo shop, and anelegant house where two Dalmatians lived, each time encountering and battlingthe things.
Finally, we made our way to the Third District. There wasn't much here except more of the black things, so we made our way back to the First District.
"So Skyler," Sora asked me as we walked.
"Yeah?"
"Do you think we'll ever see them again? Our friends, I mean."
"Sora…" The truth was that I didn't know. "Sora," I began again. "I think…yes."
"Really?"
"Really."
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The First District was overrun with black things. We slashed at them blindly, all the while looking for some refuge.
"Quick!" yelled Sora. "The Accessory Shop!"
We dashed inside and huddled together. The noise outside soonfaded awayas the black things passed.
"Do you think we should go?" I asked Sora.
"I'm not sure. Let's try."
We ventured outside and were greeted (sort of) by a man with long brown hair.
"They'll come at you out of nowhere," he said softly.
"Who are you?" demanded Sora, shoving me behind him.
"And they'll keep on coming at you," he continued, ignoring Sora's remark, "as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade."
He pointed to Sora's weapon.
He seemed suddenly disappointed and confused. "But why?" he asked the air. "Why would it choose a kid like you?"
"Hey what's that supposed to mean?" Sora demanded. Sora readied his Keyblade.
"Never mind," scoffed the man. "Now, let's see that Keyblade…"
"What?" Sora yelled back. "There's no way you're getting this!"
"Alright, have it your way." The man took out a huge sword that was half gun, half sword. He pointed it at Sora.
Sora charged into battle. The man fought by swinging his sword and shooting fireballs. Sora whacked him with the giant key…the Keyblade?
Sora was the ultimate victor. He staggered slightly, tired, then collapsed, revealing me. I had been hiding behind his back the whole time.
"Hey, you found it. Nice going, Leon," said a pretty girl who had just appeared beside him.
"Yeah," he said calmly, "but what do we do with that girl?"
I was timidly holding my "Keyblade" out in front of me, preparing myself for battle.
"There's no way you're taking him or me away," I said bravely, though I was shaking. "You're not taking him away from me."
The girl, who looked like she was around 16 years old, bent down to reach my height.
"How old are you?" she asked sweetly.
"T-ten…" I replied, shaking.
She walked up to me. Afraid, I dropped my key and it turned back into the two balls of light. The balls of light then flew into my pocket."No…" I said quietly. "Please no…"
The girl picked me up. I resorted to my last weapon- kicking and screaming. But because of the recent attacks of the black things, the streets were empty and no one heard my shouts.
The man- Leon?- picked up my brother and began to walk away, the pretty girl following.
It was in this manner that an odd collection of people made their way to the Second District Hotel, a long-haired man carrying a boy who, in turn, carrieda giant key, and a pretty girl holding a younger girl who was kicking and screaming. However, my screams and kicks had no effect on my captor.
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"Come on, lazy bum!" said the pretty girl to my brother once we were back in the hotel. She and Leon had not hurt me at all. All they did, actually, was give me a cup of hot chocolate and go to examine Sora.
Sora slowly sat up and rubbed his head. He looked up at the pretty girl.
"You okay?" she asked.
"I guess…" Sora decided.
"Those creatures that attacked you are after the Keyblade," the pretty girl explained. "But it's your heart they really want, because you wield the Keyblade."
"I'm so glad that you're okay, Kairi," Sora said happily.
Kairi? The pretty girl was Kairi? No, Kairi was very different.
"Kairi?" The pretty girl was confused. "Who are you talking about? I'm the great ninja Yuffie."
That was her name…Yuffie. Great ninja? All she had done so far was take me to a hotel against my will. Some ninja.
"I think you might have overdone it, Squall," Yuffie said to the man. Wait, was his name Squall or Leon?
"That's Leon," the man corrected. Okay, so he was Leon.
"The Keyblade…" Sora said, looking at his weapon.
"Yeah," explained Yuffie apologetically. "We had to get it away from you to shake off those creatures. It turns out that that's how they were tracking you."
"It was the only way to conceal your heart from them," added Leon. "But it won't work for long. Still hard to believe that you of all people are the chosen one."
Chosen one? That sounded like something straight out of a movie.
The Keyblade appeared in Sora's hand. "Well," continued Leon. "I guess beggars can't be choosers."
"Why don't you start making sense!" demanded Sora. "What's going on here?"
Yuffie and Leon began explaining about the other worlds. These worlds were supposed to be secret because they were notconnected to any other world and had protective barriers between them. But the Heartless- the creatures from before- broke down the barriers separating them.
"The Heartless?" asked Sora.
"The ones who attacked you, you remember?" said Yuffie.
"Those without hearts." Put in Leon.
"The darkness in people's hearts- that's what attracts them," said Yuffie.
"And there is darkness within every heart," Leon finished.
"Hey," said Yuffie suddenly. "Have you heard of someone named Ansem?"
Ansem was studying the Heartless, recording all his findings in a detailed report. However, the pages of the report had been scattered to many of the other worlds after Ansem's world was attacked by the Heartless.
"So…" said Sora after the explanation. "This is the key?"
"Exactly!" said Yuffie, happy at Sora's comprehension.
"The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade," said Leon. "That's why they'll keep coming after you no matter what."
"Well, I didn't ask for this," said Sora.
"The Keyblade chooses its master," said Yuffie. "And it chose you." She said it as if Sora was a grand-prize-winner or something.
"So tough luck," said Leon.
"How did all this happen?" Sora asked. "I remember being in my room…" He suddenly gasped and stood up. "What happened to my home? My island? Riku? Kairi?"
"You know what? I really don't know," said Leon.
Sora looked awfully sad. Then Leon came over to me.
"You need an explanation too?" he asked.
I nodded. "What's with these balls?"
"The Mystical Orbs…" said Leon slowly. "They have the power to make anything you want, even a new reality. They can't mess with the real one, though. And even if they could, it would be bad."
"The power to control reality…that's what the voice in my dream said," I muttered quietly to myself, but Yuffie heard.
"Not exactly," she said cheerily, "butthey do possess great power.They can copy any weapon you see, like the Keyblade."
"Only remember one thing," added Leon. "A copy is never as good as the real thing. A copy of the Keyblade may lack the power to unlock any lock, though it is still a useful weapon. A copy of my weapon, a gunblade, may lack the gun part. You never know."
"And a copy of this world might lack people," said Yuffie, cheery, as always.
"The Heartless fear the Mystical Orbs too. Even if they destroy the Keyblade, they know the Mystical Orbs could create another one, and with the original Keyblade gone, your "copy" would now be the real thing."
Honestly, I didn't want the responsibility of wielding my brother's weapon. A copy was good enough for me. "Well then, let's make sure the real Keyblade doesn't get destroyed," I said aloud.
Sora smiled and gestured for me to come. I summoned theMystical Orbs out of my pocket andonce again they turned into a copy of the Keyblade. I then walked over to Sora.
"Are you ready? We can't hide here forever. They'll find us eventually," said Leon, who was waiting at the door.
"We're ready," said Sora proudly.
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"Yuffie," said Leon. "Let's go join Aerith. She should be there by now with the other visitors."
But Yuffie wasn't listening. "LEON!" she screamed as a Heartless appeared in the middle of the room.
"Yuffie, go!" yelled Leon.
Yuffie dashed out the door, past a lady in a pink dress. Sora and I readied our Keyblades, and Leon prepared his gunblade.
"Sora, let's go!" he announced. He blasted the Heartless through the window, then leaped out the windowhimself. Sora and I, being less reckless, took the stairs.
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"Don't bother with the small fry," Leon advised us once we were outside. Two Heartless in armor shivered behind him. "Find the leader!"
Sora and I nodded and we set out looking for the leader of the Heartless.
We passed through the Dalmatian's House (they asked us to please look for their puppies) and wandered into the Second District. We checked seemingly everywhere for the leader of the Heartless- the Gizmo Shop, the fountain, even in the First District.
Finally, Sora said, "Let's try the Third District."
I nodded and we ran together to the Third District. It wasn't an easy journey. Armored Heartless popped up left and right. After our 12th batch of Heartless, I got annoyed and sent a Chibbi after them.
The Chibbi quickly frightened them away with various flashes of light, and we entered the Third District.
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The Third District was oddly quiet. Sora and I dashed down into the square, looking for the leader of the Heartless.
"Do you see it?" I asked.
"I dunno," he said. "What does it look like?"
"Beats me."
Just then, a goofy-looking dog and a weird duck dropped seemingly out of the sky and landed on top of Sora. I was unharmed.
The odd pair groaned for a while, then saw Sora's Keyblade. "The key!" they both gasped. Then their eyes wandered up to me.
"Hey, look!" said the dog. "It's those ball things…"
"The Mystical Orbs, doofus!" quacked the duck. Then he took a moment to observe me. "What's a little girl doing with the Mystical Orbs!" he demanded.
"She's not a little girl!" said Sora somewhat indignantly, but proudly all the same. "She's my sister, and she's a great fighter."
"Gawrsh, really?" said the dog.
We had no further time to talk. The ground suddenly began to shake. Several columns shot out of the ground, each one with an armored Heartless on top. They barricaded our exits.
Several more armored Heartless appeared around us.
"I don't know who you guys are," said Sora, "but let's fight!"
"Okay!" said the duck and the dog in unison as we all charged forward and beat the Heartless to a pulp.
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After the armored Heartless were defeated, a giant purple suit of armor dropped out of the sky. The armor reassembled itself quickly and glared at us through its visor.
Even though this had not been confirmed, I knew exactly who it was. The leader of the Heartless.
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Well, that's the third chapter! I kinda finished it off quickly, I know. But, it's still good. Please review, and I plan to update soon!