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Chapter 3: New Town, New Friends

Danny felt something wet touch his arm and jumped to his feet when the something licked his face. The something was a strange little yellow dog with black floppy ears and a rather thin black tail that was wagging furiously. He was obviously happy Danny had woken up. Danny tried to grab his green collar to find out the dog's name was, but he had other plans, like waking another boy up. Danny stood up and leaned against the wall to watch.

The boy had really spiky dark brown hair, a white-blue-gray half jacket with a hood, a red zip-up shirt underneath (the jacket was open), a blue belt, a chain of crowns on his right side, red shorts that fanned out, a crown charm necklace, and oversized yellow shoes.

On the first try, the other boy was still half asleep.

"What a dream..." he muttered. The dog jumped on him, probably scaring him into knowing it wasn't one, because he said it like this: "This isn't a dream!"

"I wish it was..." Danny muttered as the boy got up and noticed him.

"Um, hi. I'm Sora." The boy introduced.

"Danny."

Where are we?" Sora asked as he looked around at their new surroundings.

"No clue." Danny shrugged with open palms.

"Oh, boy."

"Just what I was thinking..." Sora turned to the dog.

"Do you know where we are?" The dog seemed to hear something and ran off, leaving Sora and Danny behind. "Hey..."

"So much for that." Danny commented dryly. "We should find someone who can tell us."

"Looks like there's a building right in front of us, so let's try there first."

"Good idea." Danny agreed and walked with Sora out of the alley.

"This is totally weird... We're in another world!" Sora seemed very happy about this when he saw all the different people assembled in the square. Everything seemed old fashioned, like something you'd find in Europe that may have been built a hundred years ago.

"C'mon, there might be someone inside." Danny said, pointing to the Accessory Shop behind them, breaking Sora's concentration.

"Oh, right. Let's go." Together, they walked in.

There was a large fire place, a couch, a display piece, and a counter with a blonde old man behind it. The old man wore blue pants, an orange waist band, a white shirt, and goggles. He slouched a little, too. The old man turned to them.

"Hey, there, how can I... Aw, it's only a couple of kids." He had a slight country accent.

'We're not kids!" Both of them said it, at the same time. "And it's Sora/Danny!" They said their own names, but they looked at each other in confusion.

'How did he know what I was gonna say?' To that, his ghost-half didn't seem to have an answer.

"Okay, okay, simmer down. So, why the long faces, Sora, Danny? You lost or somethin'?"

"No! Well, maybe. Where are we?" Once again, both boys had spoken at once.

"Huh?" The old man told them very quickly.

"Traverse Town..." Danny had no clue where that was, but Sora was eager to find out more.

"So, gramps, is this really another world?"

"Don't call me gramps!" The old man shot back. "The name's Cid! Anyway... not sure what you're talkin' about, but this sure ain't your island." Then he turned to Danny. "Or your city."

"Hmm... guess we'd better start looking for Riku and Kairi."

"And Sam and Tucker."

"Well, good luck with whatever it is that you're doing. If you ever run in to trouble, you come here. I'll look out for you." With that, the two boys left to search the town. They walked to the side of the shop and behind. There was a large and really heavy looking door at the end of the path.

As the door closed behind them, a man ran past like he was being chased by something. He fell down and a bright pink-white light appeared as a heart-shaped crystal floated out of the man's chest, only to be trapped in a small orb of darkness. The orb took the shape of what reminded Danny of a knight, as it had armor on, but it had a funny symbol on its breast-plate. It moved in jerks before it did a small flip and vanished. The man had disappeared, too.

Danny and Sora ran forward to try to see where the little soldier-thing went, but the giant ants wanted to say 'hi' again.

Both Sora and Danny pulled out their Keyblades.

"You got one, too!" Sora exclaimed as he looked at Danny's Keyblade, which was identical to his own. Danny nodded as they beat the Shadows. "They were on my island!" Sora couldn't hold it in afterwards. Danny almost thought Sora was crying. He put his hand on Sora's shoulder.

"If they're here, then we'd better find our friends before these guys do." Sora nodded in agreement before they walked down the steps talking about their worlds.

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"My parents are actually kinda hostile..." Danny trailed off, wondering what could have happened to them. He hoped they were alright.

"Worried?"

"Yeah, about my sister, too."

"What's she like?"

"Bossy, overprotective."

"I guess all red-heads are. Kairi's the same way." Sora sighed softly.

"Miss your girlfriend?" Danny couldn't help but tease the brunette, whose face burned a deep red.

"She's NOT my girlfriend! What about Sam? Isn't she YOUR girlfriend?" Danny's surprised face flushed an almost deeper red than Sora's, who gave a large triumphant smile. Sora seemed to like making his new friend blush. Danny decided to change the subject before it could go on.

"What're your parents like?"

"My mom is like, really, really nice."

"And your dad?"

"I never knew him. He left before I was born." Sora remarked sadly. It was one thing to have a bad dad, but it's another thing entirely to not have one at all.

"If he's out there, we'll find him." Danny could make that promise. If they didn't find him before their friends, then maybe they'd get a chance after this.

"What do your parents do?"

"They...hunt ghosts." He said it with trepidation, trying to make it seem like he was embarrassed about it.

"I thought ghosts didn't exist, or at least that's what Riku told me."

"They exist on my world, but they're more annoying than dangerous. Especially the Box Ghost. He annoys me— I mean the town— the most." He managed to catch himself at the last minute. He didn't know how well Sora could keep a secret, and with said brunette as overly excited as he was, it wouldn't be easy to find out.

"He can't be THAT bad." Danny nodded slowly with a blank stare.

"He is. Trust me." They continued walking and talking, not paying attention to where they were going. Turns out that they were born on the same day, so they were almost exactly the same age!

Sora was laughing at Dash's stupidity when they realized they were lost. They had walked down a pathway and were standing in front of a large blue door.

"Well, what're we waiting for? Let's see who lives here!" Sora said, pushing the door open before Danny could tell him not to. Up above, on a ledge a duck and a dog walked out.

"Not here, either!" Donald sounded really mad.

"This could take a while..." The dog muttered softly.

Inside the building, Danny and Sora saw a pair of adult Dalmatians. The one with the blue collar noticed the boys and grabbed a picture in his jaws to show them. In the photo, the mommy and daddy Dalmatians were literally surrounded by what looked like a bazillion puppies!

"You want us to find your puppies for you?" The dogs' eyes lit up at Danny's words.
"Okay, we'll find 'em." Nodding and waving, the boys left in favor of finding their way around. They wandered a bit until they hit a large door labeled '3rd District'. They pushed the door open and walked to the next district of Traverse Town.

Next time on... Kingdom Hearts a Story Retold—

Will we find out any other similarities between our heroes? Will they find their friends? Will the Dalmatian puppies be found and retrieved? Will the Heartless make a snack out of somebody else? Catch all this and more on the next chapter of... Kingdom Hearts a Story Retold!!!!

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