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The OCs and their alter-ego that appear in this story belong to their respective authors. More information about them are found in the "Original Characters' Intro" chapter.
::KINGDOM HEARTS III Online HD::
-Days of Modern Day Keybearers-
Here, in the days of the lives of these Modern Day Keybearers, we'll be talking about our teenage heroes as their regular lives and their undying passions for the Kingdom Hearts III Online HD game will head down a crucial conflict with one another. Think of it as a Medieval person trying to fit in, or a dog trying to be a cat, a monster trying to be a kitty.
Yes, everyone wants to fit in. And that shouldn't be too difficult for our heroes since they know pretty much how to do it at school or at home or wherever...
The Gummi Ship was quietly hovering above a massive body of seawater, passing by clouds on their way to their next destination.
"Goofy!"
Donald's cry jerked Goofy from his quiet nap at the Gummi Ship Atrium by a marble fountain.
"We gotta train these Keybearers the ways of the Keyblade, just in time for them to go on their first mission!" Donald then looked around, "Where are they?"
"Uhh... I dunno." Goofy hesitated, scratching his head, "last time I remember they say they were-!"
"LAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!"
The teens' cry echoed through the ship.
"LATE! LATE! LATE! LATE!" they were crying as they rushed past Donald and Goofy in a mad dash, all trying to dress up and fix breakfast at the same time.
"Can't believe we overslept!" Taylor whined.
"This is all your fault, you know?" Talen barked at Rian, blaming him for whatever he did as he was putting on clean pants.
"My fault?" Rian yelled back defensively as he quickly slipped on a clean shirt, "How am I supposed to know if I set the alarm clock right?"
"When the 6 o'clock is at AM and NOT PM!" Talen yelled back.
"Uhh... what are you late for exactly?" Goofy asked the teens.
"School." Axel replied, "We're teens, so we gotta go to school."
"It's part of life!" Taylor explained.
"Your adventures are a big part of life too!" Donald explained, stopping the teens from heading toward the exit with their cheese bagels and some sausages handing on their mouth. "You as Keybearers are committed to that 24/7."
"Gawrsh. 24/7. That's a lot." Goofy thought.
"You'll go on missions, side quests, requests, and behests all across the KH universe!" Donald explained.
"MISSIONS AND SIDEQUESTS!" the teens exclaimed.
"Finding the King is a mission too." Goofy implied.
"But we thought our only mission was to defeat the Blackhearts Dominion by recruiting more Keybearers." Rian looked more confused, and so were his friends.
"And how are you going to do that in one day?" Donald queried. The teens stood there speechless, unknowingly able to answer that.
"...this is why Goofy and I are going to teach you all the ways of being a Keybearer." Donald said, "You, as Keybearers, are committed to an eternal life of defending the Realm of Light and the Heart of all Worlds-!"
"24/7" the teens said in unison, "we know!"
"You better...and thousand of hearts are at stake here, including your owns! So, as for now, no school for you!"
The teens' jaws dropped. But then Donald added, "At least till your training's over."
They couldn't believe what they just heard. Not going to school almost sounded like a punishment than an excuse.
"Now let's get this training started shall we?" Donald said before waving his staff around the Atrium and suddenly flying furniture started materializing, surrounding the Keybearers.
"Let us start with the basics of Furniture Smashin'!" Donald lectured, "Smash as much furniture as you can to score big! Remember the bigger they are, the harder they fall."
Large armoires charged toward the unprepared teens. They dodged in the nick of time. One broom swept Rian off his feet. Rian screamed in panic as the broom took him high into the sky. Taylor transformed into Soledad, and shot Fire from her Keyblade, scorching the broom into dust. Rian fell right onto Pierre's arms.
"Put me down!" Rian exclaimed and Pierre put him down quickly, "Sorry." He said before a futon went flying toward him and knocked him out. Rian quickly transformed into Johnny in reaction, and soon all six teenagers transformed into their Keybearers counterparts and started attacking the flying furniture.
"Let's kick it up a notch!" Donald then waved his staff around and holographic Neoshadows formed alongside new furniture, some even came out of flying armoires, and they all surrounded the heroes.
"Do you have what it takes to show your worth?" Donald sounded like an evil duck right there.
The Keybearers turned nervous at the number. Blazen got taunted by Neoshadow hiding inside flying teapots. He smashed the teapots and the Neoshadows escaped to spook him from behind. Before he knew it, Neoshadows were at his tail.
"Wait a minute!" he screamed, as he tried to dodge and counter the number of Neoshadows that were attacking him, "Twelve against one?" he counted, "That's cheatin'!"
He then felt a kick on his head, knocking him to the ground.
"Actually, make that thirteen." Donald corrected.
The Keybearers looked around and got no sight of Donald or Goofy. They were all alone, and they could hear Donald everywhere like a god speaking. Suddenly they saw a large glass baking pan flying toward Pierre, Sierra and Axel (as their Keybearers alter-ego Stone, Ciel, and Sharx). The three teens dodged and watched the pan knocking out a bird that was passing by from a distance.
"Donald, please! You're going to kill us!" Ciel begged.
"What are you talking about? Training is just getting started." Donald said from out of nowhere.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Ciel screamed as the Keybearers suddenly found themselves on a narrow platform, hovering above a sea of skyscrapers surrounded by zigzagged webs of twisted roads and highways; like some sort of a futuristic city.
"Oh, don't mind the view, folks! This is just a digital hologram stage!" Donald explained, "Perfect for the thrill of training!"
"I feel like we've just entered the Super Smash Brothers Brawl stage Aero Dive!" Sharx referred.
"You think?" Blazen exclaimed
The Keybearers saw flying cars zooming toward them, as if ready to collide on them, or each other. They screamed.
"I got this!" Johnny Thunder swung his Keyblade countless times, countering the cars from running on him and his friends. The Keybearers joined the cause. Thunder, Ciel, Stone, and Soledad teamed up to cast their best Reflect attack, bouncing away the cars, while Sharx and Blazen teamed up to deliver a combined Chain Lightning with Fira Spells, striking and burning multiple cars in one massive blow.
The platform suddenly started moving, and zoomed up into the sky at an incredible high speed, causing the Keybearers to feel unstable.
"What's going on now?!" Stone asked, "We're moving!"
"I dunno about you guys, but I feel like puking!" Ciel whimpered.
The platform suddenly left the city, to hover above a narrow city bridge with a bunch of traffic over a mass body of water. Soledad's eyes boggled.
"Donald?! Is that water?" Soledad sounded like screaming.
"Of course it's water." Donald sounded comical there, "It's the same water you drink everyday! Except for the salty part. What's wrong with it?"
"What's WRONG with it is that it's the SAME TYPE OF WATER THAT I ALMOST DROWNED ON A LONG TIME AGO!" Soledad screamed so hard, her throat felt like cracking.
"Taylor, you're shakin!" Ciel noticed her friend trembling.
"UH, YOU THINK?!" Soledad replied.
"Whoa!" Thunder freaked out upon noticing the platform disappearing from the teens' feet, "Where's the platform?"
The teens shrieked when they saw no platform on their feet. They felt like flying above the body of water and the many twisted bridges. They suddenly saw flying Neoshadows hovering right besides them, carrying lances and taunting them to attack or else they will be attacked.
"Nothin' to worry about folks!" Donald sounded evilly cheerful. "Just let your Keyblades and your Hearts get the work done!"
"You mean let our nervous stomachs get the work done?!" Sharx exclaimed.
"No freaking way I'm losin'!" Blazen said before turning his Keyblade red, "Fira!"
"Wait, whoa! What are you doing?" Thunder extended his hands toward Blazen trying to stop him but then just like that a Thunder Spell shot at random from his fingertips and struck some Neoshadows, and almost struck the gang. "UUWAAA!" The gang edgily screamed and Ciel tripped and grabbed on the invisible platform by luck. The Keybearers panicked.
"What are YOU doing? You almost shocked us!" Soledad snapped at Thunder.
"Here's something to be shocked by." Donald said, and before the Keybearers knew it, they no longer felt the platform. They just fell.
UUUUUWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
Five hours later...
A traumatized Taylor was shaking as if cold. She was on a chair and rocking back and forth on it as Sierra tried to console her. The rest of the teens looked exhausted and too freaked out by the experience.
"Well, that's it for our five-hour training session!" Donald announced, "Let's take a five-minute break."
The gang turned to stare at Donald in shock, like "he said what now?"
"Uh...Donald?" Goofy whispered to him, "Are you sure?"
"Aw, come on Goofy! This is fun!" Donald said happily, before facing the Keybearers, "Rest up now. It's gonna be a short break... with some food!"
Donald then faced the kitchen at the corner of the Ship Atrium, and pointed with his staff to conjure up a dish of delicious mashed potatoes with gravy, a bowl of grilled fishes, chickens, fries, burgers, and milkshakes with lemon éclairs for dessert. The teens stared at the lunch feast, drooling.
"Enjoy now while you can." Donald walked away and Goofy followed him.
Sierra glared at her friends, "Five minutes?"
"Five hours?" Talen exclaimed.
"Next thing you know he's gonna said five days." Axel commented as he was chewing on a piece of crispy chicken.
"Don't forget we're gonna be doing this for five days!" sounded Donald, and the Keybearers roared in disappointment. Axel's jaws hanged open.
"You had to say that! What is wrong with you?" Talen snapped at Axel.
"I... I..." Axel stammered, "I was just-!"
A fuming Talen did a zip-your-lips signal to Axel and Axel immediately hushed.
"I can't believe we're gonna be doing this for five days! And we aren't gonna be getting no improvement!" Pierre complained, "Remember the ol' saying 'All Work and No Play makes Jack a dumb boy? I'm becoming that Jack! Feel my head!"
Pierre showed his head to the gang for them to feel it. Talen went to feel it, "Oh, I feel it all right." He said, "Hollow." He gave a knock on his forehead as if knocking on a door.
"You think you got problems?" Sierra said to Pierre panicky, "I have problems! It's Homecoming Week for crying out loud, and I've been nominated for the True Beauty Pageant!"
The teens immediately harked back. Homecoming Week is the most important week of all high school teens' lives. For Sierra, it marked the day the most popular girl in school would be nominated by the student body for the True Beauty Pageant during the Homecoming Week for the Homecoming Ball event, where the winner would be crowned Homecoming Queen and would immediately danced with the chosen Homecoming King.
"Oh, that's right! Homecoming Week!" Rian said, reminiscent, "It'll be so cool if we all go!"
The teens all agreed, but then Rian added, "But you know what worries me? Donald." Rian did sound worried, "I don't know if you guys noticed, but something's seriously wrong with him. He's too happy like freaky happy. If we leave, he might have our heads."
"I rather have him have my head than to kill us softly with all those vigorous training." Talen complained, "What's with all of that anyway, to prepare us for the apocalypse?"
"Yo, guys, let's not panic okay?" Axel reassured, "I got a better plan: we sneak out of here to our world, and enjoy our Homecoming moments."
"But how can we get into our world?" Taylor asked, "Wait. You know how to teleport from one place to another, do you?"
Axel summoned his Keyblade, "Like a piece of cake." He pointed his Keyblade out of nowhere, turned and pulled, and a Key-shaped Portal magically appeared in front of the teens.
"Whooaaa..." they gasped.
"Okay seriously? How doyou even know that trick?" Rian complained.
Axel shrugged, "I dunno: discovering new places, uncovering new items, defeating secret monsters, that kind of stuff we do in the game... you should know that, man! Aren't you the best KH player in the game?"
Rian then mumbled in response, shrugging as if he didn't care. He then glared at Axel, "I hate you so much right now."
Axel didn't say anything and he just jumped into the portal. The rest of the KH players jumped in also. Pierre was the last one to jump in when he heard Donald.
"What's going on here?"
Pierre panicked. He faced Donald and Goofy who were approaching, before facing the Keyhole Portal. Instead of entering, he extended his hand to it and the portal vanished into his hand.
"Oh, hi!" Pierre smiled at the toons, "I was just-!"
Donald interrupted, "Oh, I know what you guys were just doing?"
Pierre hesitated, "You do?"
"Yeah!" Donald then pulled out a big smile, "You guys are going on a mission!"
Pierre looked dumbfounded before smiling broadly as well, "YEAH!! That's... what we were doing! Ah! Ah!"
"I can see that you're ready to take on the quest." Donald said proudly.
"Gawrsh! That's so cool!" Goofy cheered also, "Say, should we assist you guys on your mission? Just in case-!"
"Actually!" Pierre quickly interrupted them, "Let us do this. I mean, let us... go on this mission ourselves. It's very important, private mission, dudes! Just one question! What kind of mission is it?"
Donald and Goofy looked dumbstruck.
"By that, I meant, what world are we going on the mission!" Pierre quickly recovered, "Yeah! We-!"
"You guys didn't read the Key Mission sent to you by Terra?" Goofy looked surprised. Pierre hesitated again, trying to choose his right words.
"It was on your Digital Gauntlet." Goofy clarified.
Pierre slapped his head, "Of course! Pshaah! It's was on my digital gauntlet! Now why didn't I think of that?"
Pierre turned on his digital gauntlet and checked out his mail to read the mission. Donald began, "It seems that there's trouble brewing at Dwarf Woodland, home of the dwarves and one of the Princesses of Hearts of Pure Light, Snow White. It appears that Snow White's stepmother the Queen cannot stand her daughter's beauty and is a threat to the princess!"
"We're afraid that the Queen's obsession with beauty will drive her mad enough to join force with the Blackhearts and hire them to do unmerited crimes to the princess and her comrades!" Goofy added.
"So your mission is to protect her"
"And drive the Blackhearts' and their creatures away from her world as soon as possible."
Donald then smiled, "Then after that, you'll be free to head home."
That caught Pierre's attention. "Free?"
"Yeah, at least for a little while." Donald then added, "What? You can't expect us to keep you away from your real lives, can you? That'll make you a dumb boy like Jack! Remember? All work and no play? Ha! Ha!" Donald then started laughing so hard, it prompted Goofy to laugh on cue.
Then Pierre joined in the laughter, but he laughed so hard, his voice quivered in fear, "Right you are! Hey! Hey! Hey! Oawwhh…"
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