What the? I haven't updated this in a year???? 0_0. Wow.......
oh well, I doubt anyone has been missing it. (jk... sorta?) Anyway, thanks to some funny art work and having a new Ps2 my old Kh fan mode has been started up and been updated. To be honest I would have put this chapter up sooner, but I had no clue on how to write it. The orignal story chapter was the same on I had written 7 years ago and was ugh... horrible. I was 12 , maybe 13, so you had all the mary-sueness, cross over, what the fack going on? And this was also before I changed the plot when other details evolved. So I bascily wrote 50 diffrent chapters and scrapped 49 of them untill I had this.
Now, I can only hope I steered away from all the mary-sue ness and made Sara at least a somewhat like able realistic character. Another thing is I'm going to try (underline Try) to steer away from any full on exsiting/oc romance as much as possilbe. But umm there will be some later on in the story. (but much later on at least.) Lol , after all I wrote this in dedication to my firends. As of right now, there's still the whole Sora and Riku fighting over Kairi mess; It just so happens that Sara likes Sora a tiny bit. ( but she does not act on it.)
Also let it be known that , Yes I am not a Kairi fan. Yes, I would love to be her friend, but the girl is one of the weakest, cliche, D.I.D (dammisle in destress) characters I've ever seen. ( And believe me I've read/ seen my share . I've read Fushigi Yugi, Twilight, and all the other things.) A little advice , oh Princess of Heart... STOP GETTING KIDNAPPED!!! And ugh, don't get me started on her keyblade... -_- (if you can call that flower pot on a stick that..)
Seriously, Yuna and Aerith had staffs and they were more kick ass than her. (okay yeah, that may a little biased since Yuna is one my fav female characters ever and I love Aerith too.)
Well anyway, I won't put any bashing in here. ( or if I do, it'll be a min.) Btw anywhere it says. " Bless her heart" is not a bash. XD.
Disclamier: I, Yuna Tsukiko, aka FallenxMidnight, do not in anyway shape, or form own Kingdom Hearts. (Saddly *Sniff*) Minus my copy of the games, game guides, mangas, and posters tapped to my wall XD. I DO however own Sara. ( and all the proof you need is my name XD)
Oh yeah I also don't own Dart. He's from Legend of Dragoon. ( Even though he's just mentioned in here and you never actually see him. I just barowed his name XD)
Also I aplogize for any and all garammar or spelling mistakes. They're not my strong points.
Key:
"Talking"
'thinking'
Flash back
"Flash back talking"
Destiny Island : Episode 2
The tiny row boat easily slid into its spot with the bow nudged under the small dock.
" I can't believe how long practice lasted." Sara muttered under her breath as she tied the boat off before jumping on to the pier. Wakka had almost driven Tidus, her and the rest of the blitzball team into the ground with the leg breaking "training" he put them through.
What happened to summer fun?
" Ehhh it doesn't matter anyway. I'm still going to get chewed out by Riku about being late." She sighed. The older silver haired boy always had a stick up his butt when it came being at a certain place at a certain time. Heaven forbid you were a second late!
Well since she figured she was going to be dead anyway, what was the harm of taking a few minutes to enjoy a little peace?
Sara turned to face the large body of robins egg blue water that isolated the tiny island from the rest of the larger island that they lived on. The main shore was almost invisible, just a thin dark strip on the horizon.
' This has basically been our whole world. Just this island and the main one.' she thought. Well, there was the mainland, where her older brother went to school, but she had never been there. The memory of the conversation she and the others had had yesterday returned to her.
" Hey, when we get to the other side of the ocean... you think we'll really find another world?" Sora asked.
The four of them , Riku, Kairi, Sora and Sara sat on the even smaller island that jutted out from their usual hang out. A large makeshift bridge connected the two. They watched the sunset from the bent Paopu tree ; Sora and Kairi sat on the trunk, Riku leaning against it and Sara was sitting on the ground with her legs dangling over the edge and water while she leaned back on her arms.
"Maybe, Maybe not. Either way we get to go on a adventure." Sara turned to him with a smile. "Right?"
Sora gave one of his cheesy smiles, showing that he was more than ready for a adventure, before asking. " So, Kairi's home is out here somewhere ,right?"
"Could be." Riku shrugged. " We'll never know by staying here."
"But how far could a raft take us?"
"Who knows? If we have to, we'll think of something else."
" We could borrow one of my dad's boats." Sara suggested. " He is a fishermen, remember? I'm sure he wouldn't mind."
"Yeah? And how would we be able to work those things , let you be captain?" Sora joked. "Ow!"
His joke rewarded him with a coconut thrown at his head, and one of Sara's deadliest glares.
" Who's in charge of navigating? You'd get lost with out me. Everyone knows you can't steer to save your life, Sora. Besides, I practically grew up on those things!"
"Ack," Sora rubbed the bump on his forehead where the coconut struck ' Stupid ,great aim!'. " Hey I can so steer!"
"Oh yeah? What's the "port"?" she challenged.
"That's easy!" He paused " ummmm.... that's the place all the boats stay, right?"
Kairi, bless her heart, ignored the loud burnets as they argued and turned to Riku. " So ,suppose we get to another world." She stopped to giggle as Sara called Sora an "idiot" stuck out her tongue, and he whined back. " What would you do there?"
Riku didn't answer right away. " Well, I-I haven't really thought about it. It's just.. I've always wondered why we're here on this island. If there are any other worlds out here, why did we end up on this one? And suppose there are other worlds.... then ours is just a little piece of something much greater. So, we could have just as easily ended up somewhere else, right?"
He look at his friends to see if they got what he was trying to explain , or if they thought he was just plain nuts.
"I don't know." Sora said in a "yeah, yeah." tone as he swung his legs over so he could lay down on the tree with his hands behind his head. He really couldn't care why they were doing this, as long as they got to have some fun!
The girls just looked at him with blank looks.
"Exactly." Riku kicked off of the tree and walked to the edge until he stood next to Sara. " That's why we need to go there and find out. Just sitting here won't change a thing."
The playful air that was around them suddenly turned more serious as Riku's words sunk in and they started out to the sea, and the breeze pulled lightly at their hair.
"It's the same old stuff! So let's go."
Sara looked up at him. " You've been thinking a lot lately, haven't you? I'm mean you've always been the one who questioned things the most, but you've never been like this before."
Riku looked down at her with an embarrassed smile. " Guess so, but I guess it's all thanks to Kairi."
"Me?" The russet haired girl squeaked as her dark blue eyes went wide.
He nodded. " If you hadn't had come here, I probably would 've never thought of any of this." His voice was so full of fondness, you would have to be deaf or in denial not to tell how he felt about her. " Kairi, thanks."
Kairi gave an embarrassed laugh. She really didn't think she did that much. " You're welcome"
But the most interesting moment to Sara would have to be the talk she had with Sora a little after that.
"Sara! Hey, hold on!"
The brown haired, green eyed girl paused and turned at her name as Sora ran towards her. He and Riku had lagged behind for some reason and were just now coming out of the Sea-Shack.
"Hm? What is it Sora?"
She waited as he caught his breath. " Hey, you said you had one of those dreams again, right?"
She went stiff at his question, like she had just been burnt, but then brushed it off as she nodded.
Sora looked at her with concerned eyes; after all she was one of his closest friends. " You remember what it was about? "
Sara shook her head, the long layers in her hair splaying out. " Not really, it was just like the others. Really broken up, and I couldn't make heads or tails of it. " Her voice was soft as she lowered her eyes to her feet and watched the sand. Her eyebrows knit together as she tried to remember. " I was running again, and there were voices too.... and someone.. It was dark: I didn't like it, I was really scared. I was small too... like back when I was four."
She paused again and absidmindly her hand came up and started to play with the gold keyhole shaped pendant around her neck. A old habit of hers. " I think I was chasing after somebody ... that person... I called him. .my "brother"."
"Brother?" Sora repeated ,shocked. " You mean Dart?"
"No. I mean.." She let out a frustrated sigh. " I don't know! This is all....ugh!"
Sora cocked his head , but took a step back in case she deiced to take out her frustration on him. Sara had a terrible philosophy of when she got mad, to use the nearest object as a punching bag. To his surprise all she did was walk to the water and kick at the waves.
"So, you're having dreams about chasing Dart?" he asked confused.
Sara let out another sigh as she plopped down on the sand and folded her legs under her chin. " It's not him; at least... I don't think it is. I don't even know why I'm having these dreams in the first place."
Sora laughed lightly as he sat down beside her. " Yeah, well you're not alone in that feeling."
Sara looked at him. " Oh, that's right. What about you?"
"Hm?"
"Your dreams ,Sora. You started having weird ones too."
He was quite, almost serious for a few moments. It sort of scared her. Quite just, well just wasn't Sora. Neither was serious. Those words just weren't in his vocal.
" Yeah, I had another weird one today too." He sounded so distant, like something was nagging at the back of his head.
"What about?" The question was open. If he didn't want to answer it he didn't have too.
" Mostly the same thing always for me too. I was falling through water again, then that strange part when I'm on the island and there's Kairi and Riku, then I'm falling again until I land on that platform. It's nothing but darkness except for a single light that's coming from high above, all these strange creatures that look like they come right out of the darkness and that voice. But, I finally got to the end of this time! But there was this giant ...shadow, I tried to fight him and I was winning too! ..but I my sword vanished , I fell and I felt like was being devoured by darkness. " He shivered from the nasty terrified feeling he got from just remembering it.
It was a dream, but it felt so real. He also didn't realize that as he talked Sara's eyes kept getting wider, and wider as she became more pale.
"Man, that thing had the creepiest yellow eyes I ever seen! I couldn't move. I just felt ... helpless. then that voice came back.."
---- But don't be afraid
You hold the mightiest weapon of all.
So don't forget;
"You are the one who will open the door."
Sora's snapped his head as he look at Sara with wide eyes and a gapping mouth, but the girl just looked forward out to the sea.... with a slightly blank look. But he was sure it was her breathless voice that had just said the final part.
He studied her for a moment. Her face was blank but her eyes, the one part that could never lie, ragged like a storm was going on.
Sora was dumbstruck.
" Sara, you've -"
"I had that dream a few days ago."
Sora laughed " Did you choose the sword?"
"Of course!" Sara smiled.
Although they were making light of the situation, the dread they felt wouldn't stop nagging at the back of their heads.
Sora sighed. " So any idea what it was about?"
"No, but I don't think it was good. It felt more like a -"
"Sara!"
Sara snapped back to reality when someone called out her name. She turned around to see a girl around her age with short flipped out sandy hair and in a banana yellow jumper run towards her and waving.
She waved back with a bright smile. "Hey Selphie!"
Selphie jogged to a stop as she reached the pier. " Done with practice?" she chirped
"Yep, I'm shocked I'm still walking though. Wakka can be a slave driver sometimes."
The happy-go-lucky-jump-rope- welding girl laughed. " I guess really wants to win the cup this year, huh?"
Sara shook her head slightly. " Not if he kills the team. Oh he and Tidus will by later, by the way."
Selphie nodded. " Okay. Oh if you're looking for Sora, Riku, and Kairi – they're on the other side of the island working on the raft."
" I figured as much." Sara then groaned. " Man, Riku is so going to kill me."
" I'm sure he won't be too mad once you tell him about blitz ball practice."
"Are you kidding? That might make things worse. He doesn't show it, but I bet you 200 munny he's still mad that I made the team and he didn't."
"Riku's just stubborn" she giggled.
Sara laughed. " No , he just hates to lose – same as Sora."
It was then that Selphie got that strange look in her eyes and that bad cat like grin on her face.
' oh snap! Run for it Sara! Run for it!'
"Sayyyy, speaking of which – who do you like better, Sora or Riku?"
Sara choked on her laugh , turned as red as her shirt and looked at Selphie like she had grown another head. " W-----what? Neither, I mean they're my friends!"
"Are you jealous of Kairi, then?"
"Selph! What is this about?!" Sara demanded.
Selphie sighed. " I just thought, you know, you might be. I mean both of them are head over heels for her. Aren't you left out?"
Okay, it was true – Riku and Sora had been not so secretly fighting over Kairi for years now. (Heck, the only person who probably didn't know was Kairi herself. The girl was sweet, but way too naïve for her own good sometimes. ....Then again , Sora and Sara weren't far behind her.)
And as much as she hated it, Sara did envy her only girl best friend a tiny bit. She had a small, itty-bitty- speck- the-size-of- a grain -of -sand- small, crush on Sora that had developed maybe a year ago.
Blame it on that fact that be was too cute for his own good ,or the fact that he always seemed to be there for her, or maybe even the fact that had known each other since they were toddlers!
But the truth was, she respected her friends way to much to let a petty thing like a crush and jealously to get in the way of their friendship.
Yet, why did her voice sound so weak when she responded "No... I mean .." She shook her head and looked Selpie dead in the eye, her voice strong again. " I don't feel left out, we're a team. Letting something like a crush get between us is stupid."
'Lair'
Selphie let out a half hearted sigh. " Oh well, too bad. But wouldn't have just been so romantic?"
Again Sara looked at her like she had grown a second head and gave a nervous laugh " Ummm, Selph.. I think you should lay off the love stories for a while."
She walked past her and smiled. " Well, I'm going to find the others. See ya!"
Sara didn't waste any time in running over to the over side of the island. As soon as she rounded the corner next to the wooden tower, she instantly spotted the others at the raft they had built.
"Hey guys!" She called out as she jumped down from the short cliff.
"You're late." Riku growled.
Yep, Mr. grumpy -wading- pants was up and about.
Sara gave a innocent nervous laugh and scratch the back of her head. " I know, I'm sorry. Practice was longer than I thought it would be."
She then gasped when she saw Sora passed out on the ground. " Sora?! Oh god, are you alright?"
She asked when she bent down.
"Yeah....fine.... just... won't ...stop .. spinning..." He mumbled, but gave a weak thumbs up.
" He fell off the cliff over there when we were racing." Riku informed her and then had a smug smirk as he knelt down too. " So, looks like were calling the raft " Highwind " after all!"
"Riku be nice!" Kairi whined. " He could've seriously been hurt!"
"Don't worry, he'll be fine. His skull too hard."
"Riku, that's not funny!"
Riku laughed. " Hey, who said that was a joke?"
Sara rolled her eyes before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a small bottle of sparkling green liquid. Her pulled the stopper out and pressed it into Sora's hand. " Drink that."
Riku raised an eyebrow. " You brought a potion?"
Sara gave quick snort. " After hanging out with you two for how long?, Kairi and I learned to always keep a few bottles on hand."
"We keep them in the tree house." Kairi added with a giggle
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Later that day, Sora was in the tiny cave that was at the heart of the island.
" Mushrooms, Mushrooms..."
Kairi had send each of them , Riku, Sara, and himself, out to collect items that would need for the trip.
Riku had gone back to town to get some of the more important things blankets, a radio, canned food, while he and Sara split up the list for things they could find on the island.
So far they had gotten fresh drinking water from the water fall, three coconuts (after he got rained on / buried alive by coconuts when they attack the tree too hard.), a sea gull egg ( which was one nasty storm of feathers, beak markers and once nasty mama bird that didn't like the idea of her baby being fried into an omelet.) and three out of the four mushrooms they needed.
Now they only had two more items, and Sora decided had been battered enough – so he chose the safer one. Which was why he was in the dark chalk-gratify covered cave looking for a mushroom, while Sara was trying to catch four fish.
" Gah how hard is it to find a ,..... found ya!"
Sora dove toward the giant brown cap he spotted by a net of thick tangled roots that crept down the rock wall. He then paused and looked at the wall. His eyes softened at the two scribbled on etchings he and Kairi had done when they were little.
' A lot of memories are here.' He sat down , grabbed a stray jagged stone and began craving into the wall. Once he was done he leaned back to look at his hand work. Then his eye caught sight of another bunch of white starches. It was partly covered by the growing not of roots , but Sora used the rock in his hand to hack away at some of the thinner ones.
His eyes widened at what he found. " This is..."
"Sora?"
Like someone had just caught him dancing around in his boxers Sora sprung up and hid the drawing with his body. "It's not what you think .....oh Sara?"
The other brown haired teen blinked at him as she dropped the net of fish she was holding. " What...are you doing?"
"Me?" Sora gave a nervous laugh. " I ugh...I .. I found the mushroom!" He held up the fungi and grinned like a kid holding his first trophy.
"Oh, that's good...." She walked up to him. "But what were you looking at?"
She gently pushed him aside and looked behind his back and her breath seemed to get caught in her throat.
Sora moved aside. " That's your drawing ,right?"
She didn't say anything as she knelt down and traced her finger over the white outlines of the castle. "Yeah.." she breathed " but I ....."
"Wow, It's so big!"
" Mom and Dad work in there."
" One day, I'll take you in there little star."
" I think I know this from somewhere."
" This world has been connected..."
They sprung up at the sound of the voice and turned to face a shaded hooded figure that stood opposite them ' partly hidden in the shadows of the wall.
"Who- who are you? " demanded Sora as he got into a defensive position in front of Sara, who already gapped her wooden sword.
"Tied to the darkness..."
They had no clue what the stranger was talking about, but at the word " darkness" a overpowering helpless terrified feeling hit them.
"....soon to be completely eclipsed."
Sara's head buzzed and her ears rung and images and voices flashed through her head.
" Raine, they're coming! GET THEM OUT OF HERE!!"
"It's not safe. They'll be here soon. Darkness will overpower us."
" What are those things?!"
"GO! Don't let them get to the keyhole!"
"What do you want?" Sara asked, fighting back the buzzing in her head. " What are you talking about?"
"You know not what lies beyond that door...."
"No, don't take her!"
"Are you behind this? What door?"
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little."
Sora seemed to be offended by this. He never did like it when people thought he didn't know a thing because he was still just a kid. " Oh yeah? Well you'll see. We're gonna get out and learn what's out there."
If the stranger heard them, he seemed to think they were little threat. In fact he seemed to mock them.
"A meaningless effort. Once who knows nothing, can understand nothing."
Then a sound came from the smooth, brown, oval shaped rock beside them. It wasn't a whipping howl, or a dangerous low growl – it was something much darker.
When they looked back the stranger was gone, and the buzzing in Sara's head had stopped. Sora rushed forward to where the man had been standing moments before. " Hey! Where did he go?" He looked around and checked the walls but found nothing.
"Sara, did you..." His voice trailed off when he saw her just staring at the door way, white as a ghost. "Sara?"
I don't know why, but at that moment lead heavy dread crept back into me. I could feel it welling up in my gut. Something was coming, something big was going to happen. I could feel it.
That afternoon as we said goodbye to each other from our row boats before we paddled home, I just sat there and looked at the island. That dread grew. Everything was clam and peaceful. We had no idea what would happen in only a couple of hours.
It was the calm before the storm. And like I said to Sora the afternoon before...
" A warning."
R.E.V.I.E.W and you get a keyblade shape cookie!