Tsunade quickly assigned me the first mission she had with Heartless attached, putting me into a group with Kyle and a white-haired ninja named Kakashi. Kyle seemed to respect him, calling him his 'sharingan brother.' I had no idea what that was, but went with it, as you have to around Kyle; if you didn't, you would end up going just as crazy as him. Unbeknownst to me, this would be an extremely important mission, as I met Yetracx (pronounced Yeh-track-sis, though she told everyone to call her Yetra.)
We'd been walking for a pretty long time, Kyle singing all the while.
"God save us everyone/ We were broken people living under loaded gun." Kyle sang The Catalyst by Linkin Park. Kakashi had tuned him out, instead reading his book. I, though, had to suffer Kyle's singing. It wasn't bad, but, after several miles of walking in hot weather, you think the guy would shut up. After a few more lines, I finally broke my silence.
"Would you shut up?" I shouted. Suddenly, we were surrounded by Heartless, and very outnumbered. My keyblade appeared, even though I wasn't feeling like I should fight. Instead, I felt like I should just lay down and die. Kyle and Kakashi weren't so easily depressed, jumping into the crowd and causing major casualties. Still, they didn't look like they would win.
Of course, that's when lightning shot through the crowd, vaporizing about two-thirds of the Heartless.
"That was wicked, Kakashi!" Kyle shouted, patting his sensei on the back.
"That wasn't me." Kakashi said, looking around while picking off the few remaining Heartless. I began fighting, though thought about what had happened. I didn't have to think about it long, granted, because the powerful lightning-user came out of nowhere, impaling a Heartless I was about to destroy.
"Kill stealer!" Kyle complained when she killed his.
"This is a fight! Be serious!" The girl said. She had a light blue bob, wore a black hoodie, tight jeans, and black Converse shoes. I was shocked because the girl wore clothes that were like the clothes in my world.
"Who are you?" I asked, then saw the fairly large sword the girl used. Light blue lightning that matched her hair crackled around the sword, and flew from it at her command.
"Yetracx." The girl said.
I nodded, acting like it was a normal name, and destroyed three Heartless with a half-circle swipe.
"Just call me Yetra."
"Alright," I said. "So, where can I pick up one of those lightning swords?"
"Nowhere." Yetra said, destroying the final Heartless. She looked at me, and I saw that her eyes were ocean blue, and very serious. She looked me over, stopping on the keyblade in my hand. She searched the front pockets of her hoodie, taking out what looked like one of the headbands the ninja in this world had.
"Wha-!" Kyle exclaimed. "Dude, that's mine!"
"I stole it." Yetra said. My keyblade began to glow, and Yetra began to speak "You focus the keyblade on the item. I won't go into detail, but it keeps the Heartless from coming-"
"Destroys Heartless? Then it's done!" I said. A crown began to glow under my feet as the headband floated into the air, a giant keyhole glowing in the background, and I pointed the keyblade at the headband. Once the process was over, Kyle caught the headband, glaring at Yetra.
"Most girls with weird hair colors are nice." Kyle said. Neither Yetra nor I got it, but that didn't really matter, as nobody got what Kyle said anyway.
"That was kind of easy," I scratched the back of my head. "So, any reason you wear clothing like my world?"
"I'll make a deal with you," Yetra said. "Every time we get rid of the Heartless in the world, I tell you a fact about me."
"'We?'" I asked.
"You obviously don't know what you're doing, and a little help wouldn't kill you." Yetra said. I shrugged, then waved goodbye to Kakashi and Kyle. "See you guys. Tell Tsunade your world is safe."
"Will do, dude. Good luck!" Kyle said as Kakashi walked with him, his nose in a book.
I held my hand out to Yetra, and she looked at it.
"Hey, we've got only one way to travel, and I don't want to get separated." I said. In truth, I was desperate to have a friend with me, having never been alone for most of my life, and was worried that Yetra would disappear like Ianus did.
Yetra sighed, then took my hand. My keyblade appeared, and I thrust it forward, turning it. A portal appeared and Yetra gasped.
"Cool, ain't it?" I smiled. "Guess where we're going?"
"Hollow Bastion?" Yetra asked.
"Where?" I asked, confused, then shrugged. "It's possible. I just hope we end up somewhere good."
"Wait, you don't know where you're going?" Yetra asked, her voice a bit higher in her mild fear.
"Nope." I said, and jumped through the portal. Yetra fell with me, her eyes wide. To her credit, she didn't scream when we appeared several feet over a body of water.