Yay, chapter 2 :D...I really need to do some of my collage work -_- Ah well.

I don't own Kingdom Heards.

Traverse Town

'Fear not the darkness. Fear not the light.'

'For within you there lies the strongest weapons in existance.'

'The power that sleeps within you.'

'Light and dark.'

"Urg." Sora groaned at the pounding ache in his head. He slowly opened his eyes as he felt something wet and sticky across his face; the world was fuzzy aound him so he shook his head, attempting to regain some of his sight. Once his vision had cleared, he noticed the source of the wet sensation on his cheek.

A golden coloured dog, with floppy black ears, sat panting infront of him with, what could only be described, as a wide smile.

"Wha?" Was all the brunette could say. He suddenly felt someone shift next to him and, to his great relief, he noticed his brother, still out cold, propped up against the wall next to him, their hands still intertwined.

"Roxas?" Sora gently shook the blonds shoulder in an attempt to wake him,

"Hey, Roxas?" Roxas groaned as his eyes finally cracked open, the blue orbs hazy and unfocused. "You alright?" Sora asked, giving his twin a once over.

"Urg, did you get the number of that bus?" Roxas asked groggily as he rubbed his eye. Sora smiled at his brother's comment before returning his attention back to the dog. "Um...What's with the dog?" Roxas asked again as he finally noticed the animal.

"I dunno. He was here when I woke up." The spiky haired brunette answered as he wiped the slobber off his cheek. The dog continued to stare at them before it finally jumped up and trotted towards the entrance of the alley way they were currently sitting in. It gave the twins one last look before disapearing around the corner.

"Well, that was...wierd." Roxas commented as he lifted himself off the gound and dusted off his clothes.

"Speaking of wierd." Sora said as he stood aswell. The twins shared a look before running out of the alley way and into a large plaza. They quickly took in the unfamiliar surroundings. "Where are we?"

"What happened to the islands: Kiari...Xion?" Roxas' eyes widened as he tuned to his brother, silently asking if it had actually happened. Sora returned the look with equal fear and confusion.

"What's...What's going on?" Sora asked softly.

"I...I guess it wasn't a dream after all." The boys stayed silent, contemplating on everything that had happened. Roxas suddenly got an idea. He brought his hand up in front of him, closed his eyeas and concentrated.

Sora was about to question him, but the words died on his lips as he watched a large, black key appear, in a swirl of darkness, right into his brothers waiting palm. Roxas examined the key closer, feeling its power flow through him. He looked at his brother and raised an eyebrow. Getting the message, Sora copied Roxas' actions and was equally surprised when the large, silver key materialised, in a wave of light, right into his own hand.

"The Keyblades." The brunette whispered. The twins went silent once again, carefully examinig their new weapons.

"Is..Is this really...happening?" Roxas' voice shuddered with uncertainty.

"Oh no! We forgot about Axel!" Sora suddenly exclaimed. "I hope he's ok." Roxas nodded in agreement.

"Come on, let's take a look around."

-Line Break-

The boys spent the next hout or so exploring the large, orange tinted town. The place ha multiple wooden gates that lead to different districts, which caused the twins to easily get turned around.

They noticed that they were not the only ones who were wondering around the town. Multiple people dotted the area looking lost of confused.

"Excuse me?" A young woman looked up from the her place, leaning against a lampost, as the twins approached her. "Would you possibly be able to tell us where we are?" Sora asked politly. The woman gazed at them with a sympathetic look.

"You're in Traverse Town." The woman answered.

"Traverse Town?" Roxas echoed as he cocked his head.

"Yes. A world for those who have lost their own." The boys eyes widened as she said this.

"Our world...lost?" Sora practically whispered.

"I'm so sorry boys." The woman said sincerely before standing straight and walking away with one last sympathetic look.

The boys took a few seconds to process the new information.

"So...we're in a different world?" Sora pointed out more than asked.

"I...I gues so." Roxas answered uncertainly. "But...if we're here...what happened to everyone els?"

Sora didn't answer; couldn't answer. He simply crossed his arms and turned his gaze to the cobblestone floor.

"Did that really happed?" The eldest twin finally said. "The monsters, the protal...Kiari and Xion?"

"It must have or els we wouldn't be here." The spikey haired blond said softly. "How did we even do all that?"

"I have no idea. It was a blur." Sora scrunched his eyebrows as he attempted to remember all the incredably, impossible moves he and Roxas had performed back on the island. "So what do we do now?" The brunette finally asked the question that was on both boys minds.

As if on cue, the twins were suddenly surrounded by the small dark and light creatures that had previously attacked them.

"I guess we fight!" Roxas exclaimed and without hesitation he summoned his keyblade and jumped into action. Sora quickly followed suit, the brothers once again moving instinctivly.

The boys continued their attack, slamming down on each enemy with force. Roxas swung around Oblivion in one swift motion and whacked away a shadow chreature as it jumped at Sora, the brunette soon returning the favour. However, with each foe they vanquished, another appeared to take its place.

"Where are they all coming from?" Sora growled as he stopped a light creature jumoing at his brothers head. The twins suddenly found themselves massivly outnumbered and out of enerygy, not yet used to such fighting.

Just as the creatures began moving in a large, silver object came flying past their heads and impaled its self into an unfortunate shadow creature. The impact caused the other monsters to vanish, leaving Sora and Roxas in a state of shock as they finally got a good look at the mystery object.

The handle of it looked like that of a gun, however, as it traveled down it became a large, extremely sharp sword.

"They will come at you out of nowhere."

The new voice caused the two teens to jump as they spun around to find the source. Standing at the top of some steps was a tall young man with mid-length brown hair and a large, thin scar going across his face.

"As long as you continue to wield the keyblades." The stranger continued as he pointed to the boys weapons.

"Wha...Who are you?" Sora asked as he tightened his grip on his keyblade. The mystery man ingnored him as he walked towards them.

"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to take a little nap for a while."

Before the twins could voice their confusion the man was next to them, whacking them on the back of the heads hard enough to instantly knock them out.

-line break-

"Hey kid, you alright?"

Roxas groggily forced his eyes open. Standing over him was a young girl with short, black hair.

"Xion?" He asked softly.

"Xion? Who's that? I'm the great ninja Yuffie."

Roxas watched as the girl he mistook for Xion morphed into a complete stranger, with similar short black hair and a head band tied securly around her forhead.

"Huh?" The blond simply blinked.

"I think you hit them a bit too hard Squall. I thought you said you'd go easy on 'em." Yuffie shouted over her shoulder to the young man leaning against the wall.

"I thought I told you not to call me that. The name's Leon."

Yuffie ignored him and turned back to adress Roxas.

"Is he ever gonna wake up?" The ninja asked, gesturing at the spot next to Roxas.

The teen turned and saw his brother sprawled, not so gracefully, on the bed next to him, a small drop of drool hanging out the corner of his mouth. Roxas shook his head then gave his twin a quick jab in the gut.

"I'm up!" Sora snorted as he shot from the comforter. He then noticed all eyes trained on him. The brunette 'subtley' wiped the drool from his face as he tried to acces the situation.

"Hey there, I'm Yuffie." Sora's arm nearly popped out of its socket as the energetic youth shook it vigorously.

"Ur..."

"I'm Roxas. This spikey haired dunce is my brother, Sora." Roxas introduced for his incapable twin. The insult went right over Sora's head as he continued to stare at the new people.

"Now that the formalities are over, is there any particular reason you felt the need to knock us out and kidnapp us?" Roxas continued as he raised a brow at their new aquaintances.

"We needed to get you out of the way of the heartless of course." Yuffie answered as if it was obvious.

"You didn't have to knock us out." Sora grumbled as he rubbed the bump on the back of his head. Yuffie and Leon simply shrugged.

"So, what are the Heartless?" Roxas asked.

"Those without hearts." Roxas and Sora gave a blank look at Leons slightly vague, pointless answer. "They come from both the dark and the light, feeding on peoples hearts and consuming worlds." The older man clarified.

The twins shared a sad look at the thought of their own lost world.

"How do we stop them?" Sora asked hesitantly.

"A select few of us from different worlds have banded together in an attempt to controll the growing Heartless threat, however, there are only two weapons in existance that posses the power to destroy them." Leon gave the younger boys a pointed look.

They got the message and hastily summoned their weapons.

"The heartless have great fear of the Keyblades." Leon said as he examined the blades with interest. "They are the only hope we have of finally stopping the Heartless and restoring the worlds."

"So, these are the Keys?" Roxas asked as he hels up oblivion. Leon nodded.

"Though why they chose a couple of kids like you...?"

"Hey!" The twins glared at Leon, who simply smiked back at them.

Suddenly, a huge quake shook the house.

"Leon, it's the Heartless!" Yuffie shouted frantically. The ninja girl grabbed the large shurican that was attached to her back, threw open the door, and dissapeared throught the sea of dark and light creatures.

"You two stay here." Leon ordered as he grabbed his weapon.

"But-" It was too late. Leon was already gone, shutting the door behind him.

The twins sat in silence, staring at the wooden door in slight shock.

"We gotta help them." Sora sudenly said as he crawled over his brother and walked towards the door, Keyblade in hand. Roxas nodded and followed him.

"We may not have alot of experience, but..." Roxas held his Keyblade tighter. "Somehow we were able to fight them. And I'm not about to just sit by and watch people get hurt, expecially if we have the power to stop it." Sora smiled at his brothers quick monelogue, nodding in agreement.

"Come on. We got friends to help."

-line break-

The boys dramatically kicked open the door and got into fighting stances, ready to battle the giant hourd of...

"Huh?" Roxas and Sora straightened up and looked confusedly around the plaze. They expected to jump out of the house and dive into an epic battle, side by side with their new friends, however, what they imagined and what they actually saw were completely different.

Nothing. No heartless, no Yuffie, no Leon, no epic battle. Just nothing.

"What...where did they go?" Sora asked as he gazed down the extremely empty streets.

"They couldn't have just dissapeared. Maybe the fight's move somewhere els." Roxas reasoned. The boys decided that they would simply find the fight and make their dramatic entrence there.

"Wait." The twins had just walked into the Second District when Sora grabbed his brothers arm, forcefully making the blond to stop.

"What is it?" Roxas asked once he re-gainded his balence.

"Do you hear that?" The younger twin strained his ears, attempting to hear what the other was reffering to.

"I don't hear anythi-" Then he heared it. It sounded like distant screaming.

"It's coming from...above?"

The boys slowly raised their heads and squinted. To their surprise they saw two figures falling from the ledge above...right where they were standing. They too screamed and attempted to run out of the way, but it was too late. The figures fell right on top of them, knocking the air out of their lungs and the Keyblades out of their hands.

A chorus of pain filled groans came from the pile as each indervidual had yet to move, still to stunned from the fall/landing.

"Oh, the Key...s?" Two rather strange, unformiliar voices exclaimed. Roxas and Sora groaned again, allerting the two newcomers of their presence.

"Gee, we're sorry about that, hyuk."

"N-no big deal." Roxas grunted as he helped his brother off the floor and hand him his dropped keyblade.

"Next time, watch where you're fall...ing." Sora's words trailed off as the boys finally got a look at who had dropped on them.

The first figure was a tall...Dog? Dressed in orange and green; Whilst his companion was a much shorter white duck dressed. well shirt and hat, in blue. The twins continued to openly stare as the animal-people dusted themsleves off.

"I don't recall the king mentioning more than one key?" The dog said as he scratched at his head.

"Well, the letter only said find the key, he didn't specify how many." The duck grumbled as he attempted the staighten his jacket. Right away the twins could tell this guy had a bit of an attitude.

Their conversation was cut short by another object falling from the sky. It looked like a large pair of feet. These were sooned followed by a body, arms and finally a head, each part decked out in sturdy looking, deep purple armour.

The boys took a minuet to gape at the giant Heartless, before they got into a fighting stance. Out of the corner of their eyes they saw the Dog and Duck do the same. The duck summoned a a large wand with a blue ball wearing a brown wizzards hat at the end; the entire thing seemed to radiate magic, whilst the dog summoned a round, silver shield, no weapon, just a shield. All four shared a quick nod before jumping into action.

They began by attacking the feet, the easiest part to get to, however, the Heartless bought one foot up to a menacing hight, before slaming it back down, the resulting shockwave nocking Roxas and Sora off their feet.

"HEAL!" The boys were suddenly surrounded by a warm, green light. Their eyes widened in shock as they felt all their injuries dissapear; a quick glance at the duck showed the head of his wand glowing with the same green light. He winked at them and returned to battle.

Together, the quartette managed to defeat each part of the Heartless, the dog usung his shield as a weapon as well as for defence. Roxas and Sora jumped up for one final blow, simultainously bringing their Keyblades down on the creatures head with great force. They watched as the being spasmed for a few seconds before finally evaporating, a large, red, glass like heart left rising into the air.

The four just stood there, attempting to compose themselves.

"Great work you guys!"

The boys nearly threw their keyblades at the sound of the voice.

"Yuffie, Leon? Where the heck did you guys go?" Roxas exclaimed as he pointed an accusing finger in their direction.

"Dealing with the heatless of course." Leon said dryly.

"You just left us to take out that thing." Sora complained as he pointed his Keyblade to where the giant Hearltess once stood.

"It's not like we knew it was gonna show up." Yuffie defended with her hands on her hips. "You handled it pretty well, besides, you weren't exactly alone." Yuffie and Leon nodden in the direction of the two aprouching figures.

"I'll take it the King sent you?" Leon asked, adressing the new comers.

"Yep, he told us you would be able to help us locate the Key." The dog said.

"Hm, well, that's one job done." Leon said as he crossed his arms. He gave the younger boys a pointed look so they stepped forward.

"You're looking for us?" Sora asked as he pointed to himself and Roxas. The two animals nodded.

"They too were seeking the weilders of the Keyblades." Leon said as he leant against a wall.

"Why don't you come with us? We can travel to other worlds on our vessel." The dog asked.

"We're trying to find our King and you two just might be able to help." The duck said, getting straight to the point. The twins hesitated.

"What about Xion and Kiari." Roxas asked softly.

"You'll find 'em, ahyuk." The dog said encouregingly. The boys continued to hesitate.

"Sora, Roxas, go with them, especially if you wanna find you friends." Leon said as Yuffie nodded. The teens shared a look. He was right, they had more chance of finding Xion and Kiari if they had means of traveling to other workds.

"Alright." Sora finally said, though the boys still looked unsure.

"But you can't come along looking like that." The duck stated, waging a featherd finger in front of them. "No frowning, no sad faces."

"Yeah, you gotta look funny, like us." The large dog said as he hooked an arm around his companions shoulder. The duck got an irritated look on his face, pushed the dog away and continued to smile.

Roxas offered a small smile Whilst Sora...

"Like this?" The brunette got a ridiculously large smile on his face. "Cheeeeeee...ur."

The two animals suddenly broke into a fit of laughter.

"Ahyuk, that's one funny face, ahyuk."

Sora sheepishly scratched his cheek with a smaller, more reasanable smile.

"Donald Duck." The duck sudenly stated, putting his wing into the middle of the small circle they had formed.

"The names Goofy." The dog did the same thing.

"Roxas."

"And I'm Sora."

"We'll go with you guys." The twins stated in unison as they placed their hands on the pile. Though a little taken back by the boys sincronisity, Donald and Goofy smiled.

-Line Break-

"Wait Roxas, Sora."

The boys turned to face Donald who had his staff in hand.

"I wanna give you summet." Donald raised his staff, the head shinig with a red light. The red light covered the boys causing them to flinch a little. The light was hot, extremely hot. It soon faded, allowing the key bearers to cool down.

"What was that?" Roxas asked, still feeling some remenance of the heat

"Magic. You two now have the ability to cast Fire." The boys eyes widened at the thought of being able to do magic. "Give it a try." Donald encouraged as he summoned a small flame into his featherd hand.

Roxas was the firt to give it a try. He held out his hand and attempted to summon his own fire. After a while a small flame flickered to life in his palm, though not as strong as Donalds. The boys eyes widened in facination. Feeling encouraged, Sora tried the same thing and like Roxas, a small flame appeared in his own hand.

"This is so cool!" Sora exclaimed excitedly as he played around with the fire.

"Now carefull boys. Just 'cause you can create fire doesn't mean you amune; you can still-"

"OW!"

"-burn yourselves." Donald sighed as he watched Sora stick his burned finger in his mouth.

"I know who can give you a hand with that." The quartette turned to face Leon. "Why don't you go see Merlin?"

"Merlin the wizzard?" Goofy asked. Leon nodded

"Go to the Third District, there's a red door with a flame, try using some of you magic on it."

-Line Break-

The group soon made their way to the Third District, quickly locating the door.

"Well it's kind of hard to miss." Roxas stated as they gazed upon the large, red door.

"I got this." Donald said as he sent a quick fire spell at the door. The flame on the door suddenly begane to shine, causing them to cover their eyes, before the entire thing began to open.

They uncovered their eyes and gaped at what they saw.

"Woah." Sora breathed, his voice echoing around the large cavern. The cavern was filled with water with a single, tiny island in the cantre; upon the island was a funny, rather run down looking shack. A path of large, stone platforms lead over the water to the island.

"Well, this should be easy...if they didn't..." Sora trailed off, gazing at the platforms.

"Do that." Roxas finished as they watched the platforms move side to side on the water.

The group shared uncertain looks, before carefully making their way across the platforms.

"Did we lose anyone?" Roxas asked as he looked round the small group.

SPLASH

"Hyuck, Slippy." Roxas, Sora and Donald sighed as they reach down to give Goofy a hand, who was floating at the bank of the island.

"One...Two...THREE!" They shouted as they hauled him out of the water and onto dry land, unfortunatly right on top of them.

"Urg...Again." Roxas grumbled.

"Well...This is one way of getting closer." Sora wheezed.

"Ahyuck, sorry fellas." Goofy said as he picked himself off the group.

"What's all that ruckus?" A new voice exclaimed. The quartette looked up in time to see an elderly man materialise right infront of them. The man had a long, white beard and was wearing a blue robe and a tall blue, pointy hat. A small pair of glasses covered his eyes, which were wide, staring at the pile of people at his doorstep.

"By Jove, Donald, Goofy, is that you?"

"Merlin!" The two animals greated excitedly. The group untangled themselves and stood to greet the wizzard properly.

"You guys know each other?" Roxas asked as he rubbed his sore back.

"We sure do. Merlin is the source of most of the books in the Castle library." Donald explained. "He's also the one who tought me how to use magic." The boys looked surprised. "What? You think i tought myself?" The boys raised their hands in surrender.

"Ah, and who's this?" The elderly wizard asked as he gazed at the young teens.

"This is Roxas and Sora." Goofy introdused as he placed a hand on each of their shoulders. "The Key bearers." Merlin seemed a little taken back by this.

"Really." He said as he gazed at the boys with great interest.

"Leon sent us. He said you might be able to help them with their magic." Donald explained.

"Ah, of course. Come in, come in." Merlin quickly ushered them into the shack.

-Line Break-

"You know, I was expecting some sort of amazing lesson with magic flying around the room or somthing." Sora grumbled.

"Mhm." Roxas agreed. Both boys currently had their noses stuck in old, deep red, hard back books as the group made their way to the world exit.

"Don't worry, I started out with the same thing." Donald reasured as he looked at the Magic For Beginers books, feeling a little nastolgic. This ended however when a rogue blast of ice shot uncomfortable close to his head. "Qwuak!" He squarked as he hastily dodged it. "Hey, watch it!"

Roxas smiled sheepishly, his outstretched hand still smoking with the cold magic.

"Besides, we don't have time to stay and learn directly from Merlin." Goofy reasoned.

"We know." The boys grumbled.

"Do you always do that?" Donald asked curiously.

"Do what?" They twins asked.

"That. Say the same thing at the same time? It's a little freaky." Roxas and Sora shrugged. It always took a while for new people to get used to their syncronised talking.

"Ahyuck, must be a twin thing." Goofy stated.

The group finally made it to the large wooden gate that lead to the world exit and quickly pushed it open. On the otherside was a strange looking...space ship? It was thick and blocky, coloured in an array of bright yellows and reds.

"What is that?" Roxas asked, both boys not bothering to hide their amazment.

"This is the Gummi Ship." Donald stated proudly. "We can use it to travel to different worlds." He finished as he opened the door and allowed the boys to step inside.

"It's so cool." Sora sighed dreamily.

"You better buckle up back there." Goofy said over his shoulder as he took the seat next the the driver, Donald taking the drivers seat. The boys did as they were told as the Gummi Ship hummed to life. The twins were practically vibrating with excitement.

"So, where are we going?" Roxas finally asked.

"To see a wizard." Donald said simply.

"Another wizard?" Sora cocked his head in comfusing.

"Yep, and a powerfull one at that." The ship finally lifted off the ground and shot forward into the abyss, leaving the world of Traverse Town behind.

A.N. Urg, I've finally finished this chapter DX

Again I apologies for any grammer or spelling mistakes, I'm trying my best ^-^

Untill next chapter :)