She awakened in some odd location, laying on a bed. her head was spinning and her vision was very blurry.
She saw a shadowy figure in the darkness of the small room.
"are you okay?" the figure said, the voice was high in pitch, must have been a woman.
"can you speak?" she said again, the woman walked a little closer and now it was easier to look at her.
She was wearing dark clothing and a headband, she also had short black hair.
"who are you?"
"who am I? You been living under a rock or something? I'm the great ninja, yuffie!" she said with pride. She seemed kinda offended that this one person didn't know who she was, but she didn't look angry, she was wearing a very huge smile.
"so you got a name?" yuffie said to the silver haired girl who was now siting comfortably on the bed.
"Ria, my name is ria"
"well, nice to meet you ria" It felt nice to hear someone actually call her by her real name, it was better than being called prisoner, that was for sure.
"where am I?" Ria said.
"you're in radiant garden." yuffie said. Radiant garden, the name sounded familiar, she remembered one of those black coated freaks talking about it. What if this was some kinda extra base used by those weirdos.
Actually, now that she was able to get a better view of the room she was in, she could see that she was wrong.
The room had dark red walls and a nice blue carpet, the room had a few painting and even some furniture, she was sitting on a white bed with red pillows and a large, very comfy blue blanket.
To the left of the room was a wardrobe with a full body mirror next to it and a door that led to a bathroom. To the right was a coffee table surrounded by three small velvet armchairs and one velvet loveseat. Red and blue seemed to be the theme of the room.
Leaning on the side of the bed was lost memory, Ria's keyblade.
"so, how did I get here?" ria asked.
"you fell from the sky" yuffie said casually.
"i... fell from the sky?"
"yeah, care to tell use how that happened?" her attention was turned to a man in a black leather jacket with long brown hair.
"i'm leon by the way, nice to meet you"
Ria had explained her story to them, about the flying castle, those weird heartless things, and the coated freaks. She expected leon and yuffie to give her odd looks and call her crazy, but instead they seemed to understand her situation, leon even knew about her keyblade and those coat guys.
"organization XIII" leon said. "those are the ones who kidnapped you"
"organization XIII?" gee, that had to be the most original name for a group that only had thirteenth members. Ria thought. To be honest, she thought they would have a more threatening name.
"so... who are they exactly?"
"Nobodys" leon said coldly.
That seemed like an odd thing to call them, she wouldn't call a bunch of black cloaked guys (who held giant weapons and controlled lightning) nobodys.
A nobody was a title given to someone who went unnoticed, someone who didn't really have friends, somebody who could blend into a crowd perfectly and never be seen as different, almost as if they didn't even exist. She knew that feeling.
"so... they wanted you to kill heartless?" leon said, pulling her away from her thoughts, ria noticed that yuffie had left the room.
"yes, but if the heartless are evil then does that mean the organization are good guys?" ria asked.
"no, they just want hearts" leon said
"hearts?"
"how can I explain it?" he said scratching his head, trying to find the words.
"you see, a heart is made out of two things, light and darkness." "when a heart is consumed by darkness, a heartless is created"
"the heartless travel from world to world, slaughtering innocent people, and stealing their hearts, in order to create more heartless." leon said
"so... those things used to be normal people?" ria said. Had she been killing innocent people who just wanted to be free from some horrible darkness?.
"no... the heartless are just the blackened heart of the person. I don't know what happens to the body"
"so... killing them is a good thing?" she was still confused.
"well yes, you have a keyblade, and the heartless have great fear of the keyblade because it's the only weapon that can release the hearts trapped inside the heartless."
"so what happens when the heart is released?"
"i... don't know" leon said, he seemed to be having a hard time explaining everything, it was like he was reading everything out of some book.
"but I do have a friend who knows more about hearts then me, maybe he can tell you?"
"i'm back!" yuffie said as she returned to the room with a steaming bowl of soup.
that delicious smell invaded Ria's nostrils, causing her mouth to water and her stomach to growl fiercely.
Yuffie saw the reaction ria made and gave a little giggle "i though you might be hungry, so I had aerith make you some soup."
yuffie handed the bowl over to ria along with a fork and a spoon, ria just put the spoon and fork on the nightstand and sipped the soup from the bowl instead. She finished rather quickly, she must have been really hungry.
"can I have seconds?" she said as she handed the bowl back to yuffie.
"sure, i'll be right back."
sora was walking along the streets of radiant garden with with cloud strife. It was good to be back here. the marketplace was booming with business, huge amounts of people had lined up at the many shops, all of them waiting to buy their goods. you could also hear the merchants as they advertised their businesses.
"weapons for sale!, axes, maces, swords and daggers, come and see my fine selection!"
"accessory right here, I got rings that can increase fire resistance, how about a bracelet that makes you immuned to lightning?!"
"potions!, ethers and elixirs!, the perfect pick-me-up!"
it really did feel like a proper town, sora was glad to see it like this.
"so hows the restoration going?" sora said to cloud.
"pretty good, I guess. The only thing left is to pick a new leader for the city"
"a leader?"
"yeah, half of the town want me to be leader, but another half want leon instead" cloud said in his usual low voice.
"who do you think would make a better leader, cloud?" sora asked
"leon, he's the one who got everybody to build this place back up, I only protect the workers from the heartless" "besides, I don't lead... not anymore" sora looked down at his feet, he liked cloud but sometimes he could just be... depressing.
Ria had just finished her third bowl of soup, finally feeling full. She laid there on that comfy bed for a few seconds, maybe a little nap would do her some good too.
Okay Ria, time to stop being lazy. She thought to herself. She got up and decided to check out the bathroom, it had been a long time since she bathed and judging by the dirt on her body, she would need a good soak. She stopped in front of the mirror and looked at her reflection, she actually forgot what kind of clothes she was wearing. just a simple white tee shirt and a pair of worn old jeans, she thought that now was the time for a new outfit, maybe this town had a shopping center, but she didn't have any munny. (←this is the kingdom hearts version of money, so don't say I misspelled it)
that kinda sucked, these old clothes were all dirty and she didn't really feel like wearing them anymore. but nothing she could do about it, maybe she could get a job and earn some munny.
She entered the bathroom, it had the basics. toilet, sink, bathtub, it even had a few bottles of shampoo.
She turned the knob and the hot water began to pour into the tub, she made sure it was at the right temperature, not hot enough to burn your skin off, but hot enough to be enjoyable.
She also put a little bit of body wash into the water, just to make it smell nice.
Ria began removing her clothes and submerged herself into the bathtub.
Her whole body was in the nice hot water, the only part of her above the water was the top of her head.
She breathed through her nose, since her mouth was underwater. And began to relax as the soothing bath washed away her cares.
Sora walked through the castle, finally finding the dinning hall, there he saw aerith, tifa, leon and cid, siting down and looking at a few blueprints at the table.
"hey guys" sora waved to his friends and took a seat.
"we missed you" aerith said.
"so whats up?" sora said
"we have a visitor, a keyblade wielder, like you" leon spoke
"another keyblade wielder?" sora sounded interested, could this be the keyblade wielder yen-sid had been talking about? The one who was unlocking the worlds?
"where is he?!" sora shouted, standing up and slamming his hands on the table.
"calm down sora, everything's okay" leon said, reacting to sora's sudden behavior.
Sora took a deep breath and explaned to leon what yen-sid told him.
"unlocking the worlds?" leon questioned. "but why?, why would someone want to do that?"
"i don't know" sora said "but what I do know is that the only way to unlock a world is with a keyblade"
"ease up there, kid" cid said "im havin trouble following ya"
sora growled "i said don't call me kid" "the only person I know, who can gain from this is maleficent."
"what about organization XIII?" yuffie said.
"all of the organization are dead." sora said, recalling all the pain they put him through.
"anyway, I need to find that keyblade wielder"
"well your in luck, some little girl fell from the sky yesterday, and she had a keyblade" cid said
"but I don't think this is the person your lookin for"
"Ria wouldn't hurt a fly" yuffie said
"she's here?" sora questioned. "well maybe a should talk to her"
"wait sora" aerith grabbed sora's wrist as he was walking out the door. "she's in the shower"
"oh, well i'll wait then" sora said retaking his seat. Now he was kinda embarrassed since he just caused a gigantic scene and probably made himself look like a jerk in front of everyone
Ria left the bathroom, feeling fine and refreshed. She had a bathrobe covering her body and she held her old clothes in her hands. It felt nice, getting all cleaned up. She just wished she had some nicer clothes to wear.
Her attention was turned to a bright red and green box with a blue bow wrapped around it.
The box was just sitting there on the bed, it had a small note attached to it
don't be sad and don't be blue, to cheer you up, we bring a gift.
-from us to you.
She opened the gift and her eyes widened, inside the box was an outfit that was just her size.
She tried it on and looked in the mirror.
Her outfit was a black turtleneck sweater with black leggings, knee high leather boots, and a short red skirt with a gold trim, there were also two fingerless gloves with strong leather sewn into them, the gloves reached all the way to her elbows in length, so it was more appropriate to call them gauntlets.
Hanging from the sleeve was a cardboard tag.
Three Good Fairies clothing company
-A Proud Part of The When You Wish Upon A Star Corporation.
Ria smiled. What a nice gift.