Hurky: Sorry for not updating in such a long time! Too much has happened! Now, without further ado, here's the next chapter of Dude, Where's The Keyblade!
Riku: She suffered a bad case of writer's block! And now, Mr. Disclaimer Guy! The Disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Hurky doesn't own Kingdom Hearts or anything associated with Disney or Square Enix. And please excuse Hurky for the bad word she will say at the end of the chapter. Now please enjoy.
"So, Skye has a keyblade?" asked Yuki, staring at the shiny keyblade in Skye's hands. She turned to her father. "Why don't I have one?"
"That's something I'm asking myself," Riku said, scratching the five o'clock shadow on his chin. "Why does Skye have one and not the other kids?"
"Maybe King Mickey could tell us," Sora answered. "All we have to do is contact him. I haven't spoken to him in a while anyway. I should check on how he's doing."
Riku didn't say anything else. He just turned around and started to walk off. "Come on, Yuki. Your mom's brewing some white tea." he said.
Yuki smiled and ran alongside her father. "Yay! I love-"
Suddenly, there was the sound of someone cackling in an evil, shrill laughter.
"Ugh, what is that awful sound?" cried Bryan, covering his ears.
"My laugh is NOT awful!" boomed a female voice. Sora and Riku looked up to find a woman with red eyes, tanned brown skin, like Ansem's, with long, horse-like blonde hair, and wearing a leopard jumpsuit that showed off most of her chest area and a pair of long black boots. She had a heartless symbol right below the clavicle on her chest. She was floating in the air.
"Who are you?" demanded Skye.
The woman tossed back her long blonde hair. "Don't you remember, me, Sora? Riku?" she scoffed. "You guys used to publicly humiliate my daddy?"
Sora and Riku studied her.
"Uh, I don't recognize you. Sorry." said Sora.
"You put our house up for sale for 1000 munny? AND IT SOLD!" asked the woman (equivalent to $10.00)
"Nope." said Riku. "Don't think I remember doing that."
"You made him lose on his mayoral campaign?" said the woman.
Sora and Riku shook their heads.
The woman growled. "My daddy was Ansem Bon Sorton!" she cried.
"Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" said both Riku and Sora, remembering. "So that's Oarah!"
"I was wondering what happened to her!" said Riku. "I thought she died with Ansem!"
"I DIDN'T DIE WITH DADDY!" cried Oarah. "I think you killed him!"
"Okay, so are we cancer?" asked Riku, crossing his arms. Oarah was silent. "Thought so! Doesn't look like it!"
Ansem had died about ten years ago due to cancer. Oarah thinks Sora and Riku had something to do with it. They did hope she also had cancer, but she didn't. Sora and Riku have not heard about her since then. That was until now.
"Uh, Dad, who is this crazy lady?" asked Yuki, tugging on her father's shirt sleeve.
Oarah darted an evil look at the silver haired girl. She growled in anger.
"So, you must be one of those little monkeys Ryo and Riku had?" she said, meaning to be offensive. "And who are you to call crazy?"
Suddenly, power welled up in her hands and she was about to hurl it at Yuki when Skye sprinted in front of the woman and hit her with his keyblade. It sent her flying several feet backwards and she hit a wall. Everyone stared at the damage that Skye's keyblade had caused.
"Whoa!" said Bryan and Yuki at the same time.
Oarah grunted and stood up. She examined the keyblade in the boy's hands. Then, she got an idea. She had learned many new abilities in the past few years. Now was the time to put one of them to use.
"Hmm. Nice keyblade." she said, walking over to Skye. "Mind if I take a look at it?"
Before Skye could even say no, Oarah grabbed the keyblade and teleported out.
"NO!" cried both Sora and Skye.
"That stupid bit-" said Riku until Yuki stopped him.
"Hey, you can't use bad language around me!" she said. "Remember? Mom said that if she learns you swore one more time-"
Riku handed Yuki 500 munny. "Do not tell your mother-"
"THIS IS NO TIME FOR BRIBES, RIKU!" Sora cried angrily. "Skye has just lost his keyblade!"
Riku didn't say anything. He just reached into his pocket, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. Then, he pulled out a Zippo lighter, lit the cigarette, and took a puff.
"Riku, you smoke?" asked Sora. He was Riku's best friend and he knew everything about Riku, but not as a smoker.
"I have one every now and then," replied Riku, putting away the lighter. "Ryo doesn't like me smoking. I smoked two after we got married and she threatened to have all the burrito restaurants shut down if she caught me smoking again. But so freaking what? I need a smoke to relax. Besides, I'm not addicted. I don't need a smoke every five minutes. I gotta bribe Yuki not to tell her mother."
"Well, we're got a worse problem!" said Sora, ignoring Riku's secret smoking habit. "How will I break this to Skye's mother?"
Right when Sora said that, his cell phone rang. It was Kairi and she said that someone was there to see him, Riku, and the kids. So, they were ordered to go to Sora and Kairi's house immediately because someone important was there. When they got there, they found King Mickey, sitting in the living room with Kairi, the other adults, and the kids.
"King Mickey!" said Sora and Riku, both bowing down to him.
"Uh, why are our dads acting funny?" asked Skye. Yuki shrugged.
"Now that everyone's here, I came to warn you and to also inform you all." began King Mickey. "The heartless have come to the islands, indeed. But there is another keyblade wielder among us."
Everyone but Sora, Riku, Skye, Yuki, and Bryan gasped.
"Yeah, about that," spoke up Sora. "Skye got his keyblade, but it was taken by Oarah Bon Sorton."
"What?" cried all the adults.
Mickey kept a stern look on his face. "I feared that was going to happen." he said. "Skye was destined to be a keyblade wielder."
"How?" asked Kairi.
"Even though each world gets one keyblade wielder, only one gets to have more than one and that is the one with the most powerful keyblade, meaning Sora. The first-born child of the main keyblade wielder is to wield a keyblade. And Skye is the first-born child. He is to take the place of his father when he is too old to fight or dies."
"Stop making me think about it!" cried Kairi. She stood up from the couch that she was sitting on and went to Sora and put her arms around him. Sora wanted her to let go, but he knew that she didn't want to think about what could happen to the man she loved.
"I know you don't want to think about Sora dying, Kairi, but everything does. I know I've lived for a very long time and my life expectancy is different than all of yours, but even I will die someday." said Mickey. He was about 100 years old. "But the keyblade has a mind and it knows that it needs a main wielder. The keyblade Sora has is Sora's, but Skye's keyblade will take its place. He will be the main wielder when Sora dies, and the title will go to his first child and so forth."
Kairi began to cry and buried her face in her husband's chest. Sora stroked Kairi's head and tried to comfort her.
"But Your Majesty, what will happen to our keyblades in the future?" asked Hurky.
"Balamb and all the other worlds will have one wielder and only one. They arise in different parts of the century, but back in the 2000s was when a lot of them shined at once because of the darkness. It was a state of the emergency." explained Mickey. "There are still worlds whose keyblade wielders aren't even born yet."
"Just a question, Your Majesty," spoke up Riku. "You know how if someone else holds your keyblade, it automatically goes back to the wielder. Why didn't it go back to Skye when it was taken from him?"
"Good question, Riku!" replied Mickey. "The keyblade had not become accustomed to Skye, yet. He only had it for about five minutes. It has to be with the wielder for more than 12 hours before it can do what your keyblades do. I also know that Destiny Islands has three wielders, but it's because they are needed to accompany the main keyblade."
Mickey stopped talking. Hurky and Alexa sipped on their tea. All the sets of twins were shifting in their seats. Rei sucked on the bottle of formula Ryo was giving her. Kairi was still sobbing on Sora. Riku fingered the pack of cigarettes in his pocket.
"I think it's best that I leave, now." said Mickey. "Sora, you and Skye have only one thing to do and that's to get the keyblade back. Do you think you're up to the challenge, Skye?"
Skye grinned a big grin. "Yeah! I'm totally ready for some adventure!" he said excitedly.
Mickey laughed. "You're just like your father." he said. He turned to Sora and Kairi. "Sora, Kairi, your children have grown a lot since I last saw them."
The last time King Mickey saw Skye and Kari, they were very little. They were still toddlers.
King Mickey stood up and walked out the door. Everyone was silent except Kairi.
"Shhhh..." shushed Sora as he rubbed Kairi's back.
"I'm scared, Sora." Kairi said in a muffled voice. Sora felt the warm tears soaking his shirt. "I don't want you to diiiieeeeeeee!! WAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
"Kairi, I know I'll die eventually, but it's not going to happen for a very long time." Sora reassured. "You can let go of me now."
Kairi let go of Sora. "Sorry..." she said with a tiny smile.
Sora smiled. He kissed Kairi on the forehead and wiped her tears.
"Okay, now that all that drama's over, we gotta go find the keyblade." said Riku, breaking Sora and Kairi's near tender moment and reminding him that there were other people in the room.
"Yeah, but where can we look?" asked Skye. "We don't know where the crazy lady is!"
"Crazy lady?" asked Alexa. "Who?"
"Oarah Bon Sorton." answered Riku. He made a fist. "That bitch is going to get what she deserves..."