Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and everything else belongs to Walt Disney and Square-Enix.
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::
-Homecoming-
"This is Trishelle Banks. High school's most reliable gossip girl. Reporting live on all the dish on the what's what, who's who, and everything un-missable about Midlight City High School: the Hollywood of Teenagers"
Gossip girl Trishelle Banks said to the camera in front of the school. Behind her was a mass of crazy fangirls waving in the air posters and signs with the name Jean-Michel Elincio on it. The whole block felt like everyone was awaiting a parade.
"I am here," Trishelle continued her report, "proudly to inform you, that for this year's Homecoming theme, we'll be having a Winter Wonderland! And what better way to celebrate that time of year than with a special guest appearance by our very own Midlight City celebrity icon, Jean-Michel Elincio! Oh my gosh, he's a big-time movie actor, he's a hip-hop artist, he's a racecar driver… he is cute like everything…"
On cue, girls started screaming a furious cheer. Trishelle turned to see what was going on and immediately hyperventilated at the sight of the white limousine pulling out by the curb and security guards getting ready to hold off the crazed fans.
"OH MY GOSH, HEREHECOMES! HEREHECOMES! HEREHECOMES!"
A foot stepped out of the limousine. The feet were wearing fine dress shoes: the celeb's signature style. He sported black pants, and a cool black suede jacket underneath his red warm and stylish shirt. He wore diamond earrings showing off their blings and the actor shielded his eyes with his stylish sunglasses. The celeb was African-American with a strong thug-like physique and appeared to have a too-cool personality. Girls went wild at his sight, "SHRRRIEEEEEK!"
xXx
Apparently the fans weren't the only ones excited to see Jean-Michel. The Blackhearts Dominion witnessed his arrival at the school through the moon's reflection back at their base.
"So the famed Jean-Michel Elincio comes to the picture at last." Maurchel said.
"It's about time he showed up." Sage replied.
"What are you talking about? He shows up on TV all the time!" Tidicus pointed out, "He's like my favorite celebrity!"
"I know!" Ivy agreed with Tidicus, "I loved him on that one drama series, 'Trinity Magic'"
"Ooh, what about that new action flick he just did, 'Mission So Possible'" Tidicus said, smiling broadly at the thought. The two Blackhearts went on and on about how popular Jean-Michel was until Alistare ruined the mood.
"ENOUGH!" he barked, "He's no longer your favorite celebrity. He's your enemy now. And I suggest that you do the right thing. And that is to steal his Heart of Pure Bravery."
"I believe you have a monster in handy yes?" Maurchel asked Tidicus, who appeared reluctant. He pulled out a remote control and pushed a button as he wept in silence.
A gate opened near the room, catching the villains' attention. There they saw a large snake with the Unversed sign on its neck. The snake's skin was as soft as silk and its body mass was twice the tree trunk weight. It raised itself from the ground as if ready to strike, and roared on cue with its eyes beaming a flashing light.
"Beautiful." Sage smiled, as the Blackhearts watched with a mix of horror and joy.
"Gentlemen. Meet the Ana-Con-Verse!" Tidicus introduced his latest monster, "Artificial unversed that is 100% digital with 1080p surround sound for voice. A bite as deadly as the real thing, and a face that scares the Bee Geebees out of him! But can we please, please, please go easy on him? I so want his autograph!"
"Ooh! Ooh! Me too!" Ivy said, raising her hands in the air and squealing.
The snake roared on cue.
Maurchel and Alistare exchanged gazes. Alistare groaned, "Fine..."
Tidicus and Ivy took their leave with the monster, giggling with each other like they were fangirls, desperate to meet their heroes.
"All this excitement over a gang member from the ghetto?" Maurchel said.
"I don't care what part of the ghetto he crawled out of." Alistare snarled, "Ivy and Tidicus need to take care of him and the others. Or there will be hell to pay."
xXx
Inside the Gummi Ship, Chip and Dale, and Goofy and Terra were hard at work, researching lots and lots of sites and apps on the Gummi Net and locations in the KH3OHD game for something very important.
"Any luck Goofy?" Terra asked him.
Goofy shook his head, "Not a thing, Terra." He then called out the chipmunks, "Found something?"
"Negative guys!" Chip said sadly.
"Not a clue." Dale replied solemnly.
"I could have sworn I felt a strong presence in the Realm of Light." Terra said.
"Thunder! Any luck finding anything?" Chip and Dale asked the Keybearer from inside the game.
"Nope! Nothing." He said.
The gang sighed, then pushed a button for release. Thunder reappeared to the Gummi Ship. Thunder reverted back to Rian.
"Are you sure it was King Mickey you sensed earlier Terra?" Rian asked, "It couldn't have been him?"
"I'm positive." Terra said, "Last time he was with me was back at Radiant Kingdom, before I saw Donald and Goofy."
At that moment, Sierra was heard screaming through the ship. She barged into the control room, hyperventilating and overexcited. She couldn't even speak. "Ohmigosh! Ohmigosh! Ohmigosh! Omigosh!" she inhaled then blurted out, "GUESS WHAT?"
She stopped talking and noticed something, or someone, was missing, "Where's everybody?"
"Uhh… they're at school?" Rian clarified.
"Oh!" she said before quickly dismissing that thought, and went back to her excitement, "Guess who's coming to our high school! OUR high school?"
Rian, Donald, Goofy, and Terra were ready to speak, but Sierra quickly interrupted them, "OKAY! STOP GUESSING! JEAN-MICHEL ELINCIO'S IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL!"
"Whoa! Jean-Michel Elincio?" Rian looked surprised, "Isn't he like a Kingdom Hearts player or something? I heard he's the richest KH player yet!"
"Who cares about that?" Sierra threw a hand in dismissal, "He's like THE biggest celebrity icon in the world!" she squealed, quickly filling Donald, Goofy, and Terra on the-know, "His albums have outsold all R&B singers, he did all awesome movies like that romantic comedy 'Trinity Magic'!"
"…and that new action flick 'Mission So Possible'." Rian added.
"I KNOW!" Sierra blurted out, "No really! And guess what again?"
The heroes opened their mouths to speak but Sierra blurted out again, "HE'S GONNA BE THE NEW HOMECOMING KING FOR THE BALL!"
xXx
The heroes—except Terra, Donald and Goofy who were still back in the ship—were at the school halls' popular corner to check out posters that had spread out across the school hallways. The information in the poster was proof enough that Sierra wasn't lying after all.
"JEAN-MICHEL ELINCIO IS THE CHOSEN HOMECOMING KING FOR THE BALL?!" Pierre felt his jaws dropped.
"I KNOW, OMG!" Sierra squealed like an overexcited mouse, not realizing the uneasiness in her boyfriend's face, "This is a blog moment."
"Not really." Pierre disagreed.
"Aw, I'm so happy for you girl!" Taylor said, feeling tears in her eyes, "I wish I was running for homecoming." She then looked up in space, dreamily, "Oh, just think. If I were homecoming nominee, and I have won, I would have so—!"
She stopped talking once she saw Matt staring at her with a wary look. She changed her end sentence, "…dance with my boyfriend. And my boyfriend alone!" she gave Matt a kiss. The relieved Matt kissed back.
"Hey, isn't Jean-Michel Elincio, Talen's cousin?" Violet asked, before looking around for him among her group, but he was not here, "Where is Talen anyway?" she asked.
All eyes looked around. No signs of Talen. They then saw Axel running toward them, completely sweaty like he ran a marathon. He immediately opened his mouth to speak but found it difficult to do so. He started panting and his chest heaved up and down.
"Hey, guys! G-guys!" he gasped. "Guys! GUYYS!"
"Woah, a little less talking, and a little more deep breath." Matt advised the excited teen.
Axel finally calmed down, able to speak again, "Have you guys seen Talen?"
"We were just looking for him." Rian responded, "Why?"
"Well, he was like right behind me, ready to end me and—!" He suddenly stopped talking. He felt all wary eyes fixated on him, eyes asking a 'what did you do again?' question. He grinned innocently and changed subjects, "So, you haven't seen Talen, huh?"
"What did you do?" Violet scowled, finally asking that question.
"Can we talk about Kami instead?" he changed subjects again, "Now, she's hot! Speaking of, where is she anyway?"
"She left for the hospital to see her brother." Taylor quickly informed before she stepped in front of Axel along with the teens, ready to corner Axel, "Axel, what have you done now?"
"Well…" Axel reminisced…
After a moment, his friends exploded in shock, "What?"
"You put Talen Brightfire in detention?" Rian shouted. Then Matt added, "With my sister as the detention staff?!"
"Is that bad?" Axel asked, despite seeing the tension in everyone's faces. He felt like he had just committed a serious crime and just found out about it.
Pierre laughed, patting Axel's back like a good friend, "Dude, you just signed yourself a death warrant." He laughed, "Talen's gonna come at you like a hunted dog!"
Everyone started laughing hard and Axel didn't like that. Then Rian added to Pierre's comment, "Oh! Or, he's gonna scorch you scarred!"
They all shrieked with laughter. Axel cowered, "But… all I said was he was good at Calculus and I was bad."
"The Calculus you made Principal Law thinks he cheated on!" Sierra said, however sounding upset, "Now he's not gonna be at the Homecoming Ball. I was so excited for that event, when he and Jean-Michel Elincio meet again!" she then looked up dreamily, "Just think: I could be dancing with the two best popular guys in school."
"But… Sierra…" Taylor tried to reason with her best friend, "…you hate Talen."
But Sierra was already lost in her fantasy, "Not when he's related to the hottest hunk in the universe… Ohhh…"
"Speaking of hunk." Rian pointed everyone's attention to the star of Hollywood, strolling down the school hallways. Screaming fans that were following were pushing and shoving, and security guards were restricting their very fast-pacing movement. Jean-Michel had his own taskmaster following him everywhere he went. The taskmaster's face looked geeky. But strangely enough, it looked familiar.
"Now 10:30AM we have arrived at the school, and are heading down the main office to get a formal greeting from the Principal Lawrence Winchester. Now he's a ruthless guy they say. He confiscates every electronic you own or carry in classrooms for five years straight. That's like the longest period since my principal confiscated my candy!"
Jean-Michel stopped. He raised his arm to stop the taskmaster from taking another step. The taskmaster looked up to Jean-Michel with a stunned expression, "Something's wrong, JM?"
Jean-Michel coldly glanced over his taskmaster. The taskmaster cowered.
"Yo, what did I say about calling me by acronym?" Jean-Michel finally spoke, carrying a fluent blend of English and French accent.
"Err…" the taskmaster stammered.
"It's Jean-Michel." The celeb added before turning back, "JM don't sound cool when people like you say it." He said, stereotypically referring to the taskmaster's geekiness personality.
"Uh… Right, right! My apologies. But why are we stopping? I mean, why have we stopped?" the taskmaster demanded. Jean-Michel removed his sun shades to reveal his cocky brown eyes, and redirected them to the heroes.
"Keyblade." He whispered.
The heroes all looked at each other, froze up by what he said. Then Matt spoke, "I'm sorry, did you say something?"
" 'course I said something!" Jean-Michel responded absurdly, "What did you think?" he then came close to Sierra and with a romantic, but still cocky smile, he gently caressed her blonde hair, "…that I wouldn't smell my beautiful fragrance again? The Keyblade?"
"Huh?" The gang appeared lost at what he said. Jean-Michel snapped his finger and his taskmaster pulled out a gift basket of all the fragrance with the name "Keyblade" on it. The fragrance had a pointy shape but with a cap that was shaped like a miniature Keyblade.
"They come in all varieties: Brave Warrior for men, and Sensual Princess for women! Inspired by my all-time favorite game KH III Online HD, now available at all retail stores." He then winked at Sierra and pointed the gun-fingers at the heroes, "Look it up!" he said before sporting out his sunglasses again and walked away.
There was a complete silence in the hall, like there was no one. Then like a sudden explosion, Sierra let out a shrieking scream that followed by all the girls in the school shrieking like that as well. The excitement of Jean-Michel Elincio in the school was just too overwhelming.
"SHRRRIEEEEEK!"
"Is this what we're gonna be living with all day long, until the end of Homecoming?" Pierre shouted through the crazed noise, before Sierra shrieked in response, "HE TOUCHED ME! HE TOUCHED ME! HE HAS TOUCH-ED MEEEEEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeE!"
"I'll take that as a yes!" Pierre helplessly shouted.
xXx
Detention room. Talen was working hard on his Calculus make-up exam.
"Use the logarithmic differentiation to find a derivative formula for the function F(t) = the 5th root of E to the t times arc-tangent of t over 6 tangent cube times t times the 5th root of t to the power of—GRRR!"
Talen slammed down his pencil. "I'm gonna kill Axel." He muttered, burying his hands around his face then finally cupping his cheeks to stare at the function problem. It was at this point that Talen noticed something in the 5th root of E. It looked like the blending of a Keyblade with a crooked arc handle.
He then noticed the 6th tangent cube. He pictured the 6 as the sun, and the tangent cube, as different Keys in each character coiled in a different shape. Before he knew it, the dreaded calculus equation had turned into a red-hot soiled field with a cool temperature, and thousands of Keyblades stabbed to the ground, surrounding him.
"What in blaze—?"
He suddenly heard clashing of the swords, as if there was fighting nearby. He turned around, but still saw nothing. Nothing but the mass graveyard of Keyblades—light and dark ones—over that wilderness: the gathering. The noise he kept on hearing gradually grew from clashing of the swords to battle cries: cries of pain, cries of tears, cries of help… all kind of cries one could hear in a war.
Talen heard a Keyblade pulling out of the ground. He turned around and saw a figure, aiming the Keyblade at him. The figure wasn't a Blackheart. It wore a suit of armor. It was a Keyblade Knight!
…Keyblade War… it whispered in a breathing fashion underneath the helmet, Darth-Vader style.
Talen couldn't believe his eyes. At first, he thought it was Terra, but once he saw it was someone else, he didn't had the chance to retaliate, and he found himself back on his seat, staring at the tough Calculus equation.
"Hey! Wake up Sleepyhead!"
Halee Salazar was right in front of him. Halee was not your average teacher. She was the youngest and hottest teachers in the school in the art subject. She was also the sister of Matt and the most nosey one also, because she would always get herself involved in a private situation every time. Likeright now when she caught Talen in his latest vision.
"Whoa…" he whispered, just thinking about this.
"Are you okay?" Halee asked him. Talen finally shook his head, returning to solid ground, "Oh… um… yeah. Fine. Why do you… ahem… why do you ask?"
"You've been staring at this blank Calculus test for an hour and a half already." Halee informed him, before reaching out for his paper, "You detention's session over and so is your test. Time to turn this—!"
Talen pulled away, "No! I mean, can I get like five more minutes? Sorry. I was having a moment."
Halee sighed, "Ohh-kay. If you say so. But you gotta let me in on your dreams sometimes, Brightfire. You seemed to be enjoying this."
Talen shook his head, scoffing, "Yeah right." there was nothing enjoyable about what he just saw. He readied his pencil and was about to scribble his answers to the test.
"Psst! Hey, yo."
He heard a voice. He looked back and saw two students among a small number of delinquents in the detention room, catching his attention. The first student had grey eyes with brown hair and wore a white shirt with the FF8 logo and black pants. The second student, who was possibly his buddy, was African-American with dark blue eyes, black hair and a long ponytail with red highlights. He wore a black shirt with PacMan on it and a black leather jacket with a red tint to it. He wore black ripped jeans and black and red Nike shoes.
Glaring at the two students, Talen wasn't aware he had company.
"What'chu want?" he asked, almost rudely.
The first student leaned over to Talen and spoke, "I know who you are, you're Talen Brightfire. Popular kid in school, first to Matt Salazar, Pierre Brock, and Rian Rivers." He looked around to see if no one was watching before he added, "Name's Denzel." He then introduced his buddy, "And this is my bro from another mo, Trayne."
Trayne just gave him the chin-up greet, " 'sup."
"We know the answers to your test." Denzel said, before winking.
Talen simply stared at Denzel, then at Trayne, as if they were talking crazy. "Uhh… nice try." He returned to his Calculus exam and without another word, went for it, finishing every problem neatly before five minutes could strike. "Done!" he declared, handing it over to Halee, and leaving Denzel and Trayne stunned.
"Wow, Brightfire! Great job!" she smiled broadly, "Even though I suck at Math, I'm impressed!"
"Whatever. Can I get out of here now?" Talen said.
"Uh, not so fast." Halee stopped him before he could step a foot out of the room, "you're on cleaning duty and ticket duty with Denzel and Trayne. So you ain't off the hook yet." Halee almost sounded singsongy.
Talen felt like he just saw a nasty car crash. He was that surprised, "B…bu…but what about Homecoming?" he exclaimed.
"Ooh, yeah." Denzel joined in the conversation, "About that, believe me…" he wrapped his hand around Talen's shoulder as if he was a good friend, "they said all bridges are closed, the roads are closed, the hills are blocked…"
"…technically, Homecoming is done, man." Trayne added. That news didn't reassure Talen. Heck it made him glare some more at his detention buddies.
"But hey! Guess what?" Denzel sounded over-enthusiastic all of the sudden, "At least you get to listen to Jean-Michel Elincio's latest smash hit single from his new movie 'Mission So Possible: So-So Possible'! He's performing it live at the Homecoming Ball!"
Trayne and Denzel sang along their favorite line, "Possible! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! So-So Possible!"
Talen felt like screaming, realizing that he was gonna miss the most important dance of the year, and a chance to find and gloat at his rival cousin celeb Jean-Michel to the school! Already he knew just what and who to scream at,
"AXEeEeEeEeEeEL!"
It's time for the Kingdom Hearts Trivia!
(Where we ask fans everything about the development of the Kingdom Hearts series)
Hey everyone, It's Rian Rivers. Got a quick question for ya: Do you know where the idea of Kingdom Hearts took place?
xXx
Homecoming Ball. The greatest event of all high school kids' lives, where they can enjoy dancing, hanging out and eating all junks they can eat.
The gym had transformed into a massive dance floor adorned with snowflakes, blue ornaments, and blinking lights, just to celebrate winter. The gym was also blasting with the hottest music and was choke-full of students. Sierra was ravishing in her silk, curve-shaped blue evening gown, and her hair was attached in a two story bun with a tiara.
"Sierra!"
She turned to greet Taylor and Violet approaching. Taylor looked might fine in her red party gown with a knee-reaching skirt. Her hair were worn down and looked fantastic. Violet wore a sexy lime-colored ruffles dress with a light blue translucent cape by her colon. Her hair was similar to Sierra's, except they were purplish black.
"Ooh, girls! You look fantastic!" Sierra squealed.
"Thank you! So do you!" Taylor said to Sierra.
"Any words on Jean-Michel?" Violet asked.
Sierra looked around the gym.
"We've arrived at the Midlight City High School Homecoming Ball at approximately 9:30 PM!" Taylor and Violet heard someone speak from a distance and finally spotted Jean-Michel entering the room from the other exit, surrounded by two of his bodyguards, heavy-built like rocks, and his taskmaster. His presence caught a lot of attention. Violet pointed Sierra her favorite celebrity.
"We are soon gonna be surrounded by crazed fans of Jean-Michel's music and newest movie 'Mission So Possible', and of course endorser of the all-for-all cologne Keyblade." The taskmaster continued to speak on his iPhone that had the recording apps for him to record his diary. He then locked his iPhone and faced one of the bodyguards, "…and remember, protect Jean-Michel Elincio. Keep an eye on him, got it?"
"Roger that." The bodyguard mumbled in a monotone.
Before the taskmaster knew it, Jean-Michel's crazed fans ran toward him and completely surrounded him for autographs. Jean-Michel, still looking as smug as ever, gladly started signing their autographs. Sierra couldn't stop staring at him from the distance and drooling.
"There he is…" she sighed, "…the man of my dream…"
Ahem!
Sierra saw Pierre behind her, along with Matt, Axel, and Rian. The guys were ravishing in their cool tuxedo and party outfits. Sierra blinked to reality before changing her tune, "Err… I mean the man… of every other girls', except me's, dreams."
Pierre narrowed his eyes, "Uh-huh." He mumbled in disbelief, "So, what's so special about this guy anyway? Besides the fact that he's like the biggest celebrity in the world, and the richest player in Kingdom Hearts III Online HD?"
"Gosh, he thinks he's so perfect…" Matt mumbled, unable to pull away from his cocky smile. He wasn't such a big fan of Jean-Michel himself. His smile irritated him.
"He doesn't think he's perfect!" Taylor corrected her boyfriend, before being enthralled by Jean-Michel's charm as well, "He is perfect."
"Hey, guys! You know what I've realized?" Axel began, coming up with an idea, "If Jean-Michel is a KH player, that means his Keybearer form must exist in this universe too!"
"Your point being?" Matt asked as if he didn't care.
"What's the one thing that is always after us, Keybearers; always after our Hearts of Pure Bravery?" Axel declared, "Come on, I'll give you a hint: they…" he paused dramatically, "…got a black heart."
The heroes immediately got the hint. "You're right!" Rian agreed, "The Dominion might be coming after him too!"
"So," Axel articulated, "we gotta protect him!"
"Aw…" Sierra whined, "I don't wanna protect Jean-Michel Elincio! I wanna enjoy my homecoming night with him!" her words clearly disturbed Pierre, but of course, she didn't notice that. She continued, "Can we talk about this some other—!"
Before she could finish she saw something shocking. Something she never thought she'll see in her life. It was horrifying!
"What is it?" Taylor asked the frozen Sierra. She looked over at the direction she was staring at. She appeared shocked as well. All attention turned toward that direction.
It was Milene Vitali! And she was with Jean-Michel!
Milene appeared sultry in her red silk high-slit robe that only revealed one leg.
"Hi, JM…" Milene greeted him amorously and pressing herself close to him till she felt him, "remember me? I'm your biggest fan," she wrapped her arms around his neck and her exposed leg around his waist, like she was ready to kiss him any second. That angered Sierra.
"…and your one true Homecoming queen." She went on, bashing her eyes at him. "Now I'm sure you want me, do you?"
Sierra knew that evil little smile on Milene's face the moment she saw it. And nothing good ever came from it.
"Uh-oh. Looks like somebody got your man…" Axel whispered, singsong-y, not realizing Pierre's presence for a second. He then realized that and changed tune, "I mean, your favorite celeb!"
"Hold up!" Jean-Michel snapped at Milene, whose eyes flew open in sudden shock. Thought she had him under his skin, but he was glaring at her in absolute disgust. Sierra appeared shocked too, but her face gleamed.
"Did you just call me JM?" Jean-Michel questioned Milene.
Milene fretted, not knowing what to do or say next. But Sierra let out a broad smile. Jean-Michel hated when people called him JM. She couldn't wait to see what was coming.
"I like it." He said that instead in a whisper, "Sounds hot on you." He growled low in his throat like a feral jungle cat.
"WHAT?" Sierra's jaws dropped, but Milene smirked at JM's sudden change in character. With a feral grin and a growl in return, she planted him a thunderous kiss that sent a shock wave across the ball, "GAAAASP!"
The heroes stood there in disbelief. Sierra's eyes took the size of golf balls at this sight. Violet burst out laughing, being the only one who was not serious. "OH MY GOSH… THAT WAS… THAT WAS… THAT—GAAAAH! HA! HA! HA! HA!"
"Hey! Break it off!" the taskmaster tried to pull Milene off JM, but she wouldn't let go. "I said break it off!" He snapped at the bodyguards who snapped back to reality from being hypnotized by that disturbing display, "HEY! Get that mangy teenager off Jean-Michel Elincio! NOW!"
"Coming boss!" The bodyguards quickly closed in on Milene, ready to pull her from Jean-Michel. But Milene quickly removed her grasp off Jean-Michel and her lips as well before they could get to her.
She gently wiped off the kiss from her lips, and said to the guards, "Don't touch the outfit. I'll show myself out." and walked away, briefly giving Sierra a wink. Sierra's face turned red and steams were shooting out of her ears.
"She moved on already? I thought she was all over me." Rian commented.
Trishelle who was nearby, spoke to the camera, "Oh… mahgosh! You just saw it firsthand! Drama sparkling at tonight's Homecoming! Milene Vitali just kissed celebrity sensation Jean-Michel Elincio. And girls, especially Sierra, are sooo not happy about it."
"I know!" Axel exclaimed, facing the camera as well and interrupting Trish's report, "I smell a catfight coming people! Do you smell a catfight coming? I do!"
Confused Trish blinked at Axel, and then faced the camera, then back at Axel "…who are you talking to? I'm trying to have a report!"
"Uh, hellooo. Who are you talking to?"
(Anyway, moving on…) A fuming Sierra dashed off, screaming, "That's it!" and the heroes followed her.
"Sierra, where are you going?" Pierre called out to her.
"That woman has crossed the line!" Sierra responded, "She's gonna pay!" she took off and the others followed. But Pierre stood behind with a saddened look on his face. "Yeah, go fight for your new boyfriend." He sighed.
Meanwhile, the taskmaster and the bodyguards were trying to keep the crazed girls from taking another step close to Jean-Michel. "HEY!" the taskmaster screamed, "NO ONE comes in near or close to Jean-Michel ANYMORE! Autograph time is OVER!"
The girls groaned in disappointment. The taskmaster then faced the bodyguards, "Boys! Take him away!"
The guards started dragging Jean-Michel, who still looked head-rushed from that kiss. The taskmaster followed behind, an evil expression crossed his face as he gazed the out-of-controlled ballroom. "Nobody's taking him from me. Nobody."
He finally reached the exit and his geeky look morphed back to his true self: Tidicus!
"Nobody." He growled under his breath. He pulled out his remote control and pushed the button. The Ana-Con-Verse formed a massive shadow behind Tidicus, lurking and glaring around for its target. Tidicus faced the shadow, "Take care of everything."
The Ana-Con-Verse growled and Tidicus left.
xXx
"HEY!"
Milene jumped at the scream of Sierra. She turned to see the blond teen girl approaching her, ready to deliver her a beating. The rest of the heroes except Pierre followed her behind. Milene smiled briefly, "Oh…!" she then frowned in disgust, "it's you."
"Yes it's me you wench!" Sierra barked, "How can you do this to me? Is it because I won the pageant? You wanna get back at me?"
"Oh, still dwelling about the past?" Milene acted all sweetly, "I thought we were past this, but since you insist."
"First you go after Matt, then you go after Pierre, then you go after Rian—! What are you, some sort of gold digger?"
Milene looked around for something, like she was ignoring Sierra's insults, "Speaking of Pierre, where is he?" she asked her, interrupting.
Sierra looked around her friends. There was Rian, Matt, Taylor, Violet, Axel, but no Pierre. She hesitated. Milene went on, "In case you didn't notice, your boyfriend is extremely jealous of your involvement with JM. So technically, me kissing him was no act of vengeance. It was act of deliverance. And yes, I did call him JM, because he likes to hear that coming from me!"
"You know what, Sierra. Don't let her get to your skin. Let's leave." Taylor told her friend, and everyone was ready to depart. But Sierra wasn't gonna leave without the last word, "You know what, Milene? Do what you want to hurt me, but sooner or later, you're gonna end up being an older bitter woman under the same roof of forty-seven cats with no love… and no future." She said these last phrases nose-to-nose with her in low tone.
"Oooh! That's gotta hurt." Axel said, not able to contain himself from the excitement.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! It's time for the moment you've all been waiting for! The crowning for your new Homecoming Queen!" Tidus was announcing to the whole ball room. Tidus looked fine in his four-piece dark-blue prom tux.
The heroes left Milene all bitter and fuming, just in time for the big moment. "Grrr…"
xXx
Talen, Denzel, and Trayne were all in the school park with Halee, fashionably late for homecoming. Talen looked fine in his black checkered sweater-vest over a white formal shirt and Fedora hat. Trayne's hot sunglasses were a nice touch to his leather jacket's outfit, and Denzel had a red blazer and white hoodie. Halee also appeared sexy in a similar dress than Milene, but violet.
"Fashionably late for homecoming was the best idea you've ever had, Talen Brightfire." Denzel sounded too excited. "And what's more excited is that we got a HOT teacher!" he giggled, not able to stop staring at Halee. Halee felt repulsed.
"Yo, yo, YO!" Talen exclaimed at Denzel, "What did I just say? Look cool and confident. Girls will fawn over you for that, yeah? And yes, I gotta admit, Ms. Salazar looks mighty fine."
"Kids, I thought we weren't gonna talk inappropriately at my presence." Halee reminded the boys.
"Sheesh, Ms. Salazar." Trayne removed his sunglasses to stare Halee down, "We ain't in detention anymore. Stop arching our mellow."
A chilly breeze suddenly touched Talen. Talen looked around, having this feeling that someone was following him. He looked to face Denzel, Trayne and Halee, but they were gone. He saw himself back at the gathering, surrounded by the mass Keyblade graveyard again. He then saw the Keyblade knight he saw earlier, still pointing the Keyblade at him.
The Keyblade knight spoke faintly. Talen couldn't understand what the knight was saying and had trouble making out the words. But when he finally did, he was shocked. Don't… let Thunder… perish…? He repeated.
"What does that supposed to mean?" he shouted.
Before he knew it, he was back in the school gardens. The guys and Halee were all staring at him.
"Thunder perish?" Trayne repeated.
"Yo man, you're okay?" Denzel asked.
Talen quickly shook his head, dismissing the thought, "Of course I'm okay!" he snapped, "What'chu looking at me for? We got a dance to crash."
The band of four suddenly bumped into Tidicus and the bodyguards. Tidicus saw Talen, and knowing that he cannot morph back to JM's taskmaster to hide his identity, he looked away.
"Hey, what's going on?" Halee asked, "No leaving school grounds till after the dance."
"We got orders." One of the bodyguards said to the band of four, "So move it!"
"Hey, is that Jean-Michel Elincio?" Denzel saw the person the bodyguards were carrying and almost fluttered. Trayne and Talen saw him too. Talen was surprised to see Jean-Michel still looking dazed.
"Hey, what's up with—!" Trayne tried to speak but got cut off.
"OHMYGOSH! It's Jean-Michel Elincio!" Halee screamed, "I can't believe this!" she quickly approached Jean-Michel, pushing the bodyguards away, "HEY!" They screamed.
Jean-Michel snapped back to reality, "Huh? What?"
Halee closed in on JM and froze, hesitant yet too excited, "I cannot believe you are really him, in the flesh!"
JM couldn't help but smirk, "You bet I am in the flesh." He said.
"Can I have your autograph? Sign my arm. Make it a tattoo." Halee said before revealing her shoulder and handed JM a pen. Denzel, Trayne, and Talen looked away embarrassed by Halee's behavior, "Ms. Salazar…" they sighed exasperatedly.
"Yo, what happened to you out there?" Talen approached JM.
"Well, 'sup with you too, cuz." JM grinned.
"Stop being so cocky. That's my thing." Talen snapped.
"Whoa, look!" Trayne pointed. All attention turned to the bodyguards who were knocked down by Halee. Their bodies were slowly transforming and to their biggest shock they turned to Darkballs.
The pureblood heartless swung around the teens and Halee. Halee screamed in terror before she fainted.
"Is that—?" JM said.
"Heartless?" Talen, Denzel, and Trayne said together with JM. The four guys looked at each other, surprised.
"Wait a minute; aren't they supposed to be in the Kingdom Hearts III Online HD game?" Denzel exclaimed.
"Aren't they supposed to not exist?" Trayne asked.
"Apparently, they do." Talen said before he summoned his Keyblade to the three guys' astonishment, "Stay back!"
Before he could jump into attack, the Darkballs vanished into purple clouds and misted up the gang in blinding smoke.
"You're the one who should stay back."the gang heard Ivy speak. Before they knew it, vines shot out from the cloudy smoke, pinning Denzel, Trayne, Talen, and JM to a wall. The vines quickly spread out, constricting them in place.
"Hey! wh-what gives?" Talen struggled, so where the guys.
Ivy revealed herself from the cloudy smoke, alongside Tidicus.
"You!" Talen growled at her presence.
"Hey," JM saw Tidicus, "aren't you my taskmaster?" he asked, "What'chu doing here?"
"We came for one thing and one thing only." Ivy interrupted him. She then faced Tidicus, "You know what to do."
"I told you, I don't want to do this!" Tidicus whined. Ivy still glared down at Tidicus. Tidicus sighed exasperatedly, "Fine. But if he gets hurt, it's your fault."
He finally pushed the remote control button and the Ana-Con-Verse emerged from the ground, casting horror on the four guys. The great serpent tackled Jean-Michel, crumbling the wall in process, and whisked him away to the sky with Ivy and Tidicus riding on its back and yowling.
"HEY!" Talen screamed, "You're not getting away with my cousin, jerk!" He angrily struggled before his body took flame and scorched the vines, setting him free. Denzel and Trayne were astonished. Talen summoned his Keyblade back, pointed at his target in the sky, and shot a stream of fire, striking the great serpent down.
The Ana-Con-Verse roared in pain. Tidicus and Ivy were screaming, as the great beast was falling to its doom and crashed through the building where the Homecoming Ball was on. Talen ran back inside, leaving Denzel and Trayne still tied up on the vines.
"HEY! Where are you going? Aren't you gonna help?" Denzel exclaimed.
"Stay there!" Talen ordered the two guys before entering the ball.
"So much for fashionably late." Trayne complained.
xXx
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! WE HAVE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED OUR NEWEST HOMECOMING QUEEN!" Tidus announced at the ball's center stage, before ripping open the sealed envelope, "Give it up for the beautiful and talented… Sierra Stellaserah!"
The crowd cheered oh-so-loudly for Sierra, and so were her friends. Sierra was chocked up with joy. She couldn't believe she got the title. Best of all, she get to dance the Homecoming dance with Jean-Michel Elincio. Wherever he was, she though, briefly looking around before stepping to the center stage to get her crown.
Her overwhelming excitement had surely made her forget about her real boyfriend Pierre. He was smiling, happy for her victory. But his smile was faint. He had surely lost his girlfriend for some rich celebrity, dumping a poor-average guy like himself, like some weeks-old spoiled banana. He sighed and readied to leave the gym and heading home, when the double doors suddenly busted open in front of him and he bumped into Talen.
"Talen!" Pierre appeared surprised, "What are you—!"
"Pierre, stay back!" Talen exclaimed, "And get ready to transform to your Keybearer!"
Pierre looked confused, "Why?"
On cue, the Ana-Con-Verse crashed through the ceiling, sending panic across the ball as everyone spread out for safety.
"Oh, so that's why." Pierre mumbled.
The Ana-Con-Verse raised its body up in full-recovery and faced everyone in the ballroom, hissing and terrorizing. Talen didn't hesitate to transform to Blazen and summoned his Keyblade.
"YOU ARE GONNA PAAYY!" Tidicus was heard, screaming out from on top of the monster. The colossal beast caught the rest of the teen heroes' attention.
"Woah, beast." Axel pointed.
The surprised Sierra saw JM on the ground, struggling to get up. She sprinted for his aid, "Jean-Michel!"
The Ana-Con-Verse spotted Sierra, "Target acquired, Tidicus!" Ivy ordered her hesitant partner, "You said no one's gonna get hurt." He whined.
"Just push the button." Ivy ordered and Tidicus obeyed despite grumbling. He pushed the button and the Ana-Con-Verse spat out a gooey ball, going straight for Sierra. Pierre saw Sierra in trouble and jumped in, taking the hit. Pierre hit the ground hard, and got completely paralyzed.
"Pierre!" Sierra ran for her boyfriend's aid, "Oh no! You're hurt!"
"I'm…I'm f-fine…" Pierre grunted in pain, not feeling any of his arms and legs moving.
"You paralyzed my boyfriend!" Sierra barked at Ivy.
"Oh, boohoo." Ivy mocked, "I thought you had moved on. What happened to your Jean-Michel crush?"
Sierra stood up to face the enemies, "He may be a crush." She said, "But Pierre is my life! And you mess with my life, I mess with yours!"
On cue she transformed to Ciel. Unknown to her, Milene who was hiding from the gym's main door at the trophy room, saw her transformed. She soon saw the rest of the gang, except Pierre and JM all transforming to their Keybearers. She couldn't believe her eyes. "What in freak…?" she uttered.
"You're gonna pay dearly!" Ciel barked before shooting Water from her Keyblade. The Ana-Con-Verse dodged, Ivy dodged, but the water nailed Tidicus off the snake. The snake shot out another Paralysis Spit attack. Ciel dodged.
"Come on guys, let's help them out!" Thunder ordered and everyone jumped into the action. Thunder casted Thunder attack; Blazen, Soledad, and Cross both casted Fire; Flora casted Aero; and Sharx's Keyblade turned to his gun and he started shooting. The Ana-Con-Verse hissed, started swaying and thrashing around the school in an out-of-control manner, and zoomed right toward the Keybearers
"Watch out!" Sharx exclaimed. The Keybearers ducked for safety. But the fast and cunning Ana-Con-Verse swept them off their feet for a ride along. Tidicus and Ivy were laughing maniacally.
"You'll never take us alive!" Ivy hissed like a crazed woman before casting Aeroga both sides, sweeping away two Keybearers. Flora took the wind Ivy casted and rode on it toward her. "Forget it, witch! You're done!" she zoomed past Ivy and with a stroke of her Keyblade, Ivy was off the snake. The snake kept thrashing around, and the Keybearers kept on screaming.
Ivy and Tidicus saw their beast was getting out of control. Tidicus pulled out his remote control and pushed the button, but nothing happened.
"Keep pushing!" Ivy barked. "I'M TRYING!" Tidicus hissed.
The beast kept crashing and thrashing everywhere, until it was heading straight for a wall. The gang didn't know what to do next, but scream some more.
"Guys, let's jump!" Cross ordered and the Keybearers jumped out of the way, watching the Ana-Con-Verse still dashing for the wall.
Suddenly the snake felt a burst of speed zooming past him in a strike. The snake twirled around by impact. Then a gush of water came from out of the blue and shot from the ground, blasting the snake up in the air to a laying position. The Keybearers spread out of the snake's way before it could crash.
"WHAT?" Tidicus exclaimed, "It can't be! IT JUST CAN'T BE!"
The Keybearers all turned their attention to what Tidicus was crying about. And they too were surprised, especially Blazen.
"Denzel and Trayne?!" he exclaimed.
"No." Denzel's Keybearer-self corrected. "It's Aegis and Tandem." The teens were in their Keybearers forms. Denzel had a Keyblade that resembled Riku's Keyblade from KH2 without the wing tip which he calls Garn. He wore a white vest and black shirt and the rest of his wardrobe was similar to final form. Aegis has spiky white hair and blue eyes. Tandem had white hair with light-blue highlights. His shirt was light blue at the bottom and transitions to white, and his jacket white, tinted light blue. His jeans weren't ripped this time, but were crisp with a light blue line going down them, and shoes were white. He too had his Keyblade out.
"You two are Keybearers too?" Blazen exclaimed.
"We didn't know that until now." Aegis responded.
"Ready?" Tandem faced Aegis before transforming his Keyblade to Rotor Mode. He tossed it toward the Ana-Con-Verse, and started controlling it with his hands as if by wind magic. Aegis powered up a burst of flame from his hand and shot out Firescatter. The fire imbued into the Rotor and in an extreme speed, scythed through the Ana-Con-Verse. The beast cried out in pain, short-circuited electricity flew apart from it.
"My beast!" Tidicus cried out.
"Let me deal with it." Blazen said.
"No! Let me deal with it!" Ciel interrupted.
"Alright, fine then. We'll do it together. Supernova!" Blazen cried out.
"Chilly Stab!" Ciel cried out also.
The duo took focus on their enemy. Blazen covered in flames, flew into the air then started shooting out multiple of flames, while Ciel shaped a harp from water and used it as a bow with lots of ice picks as arrows, and on contact took the shot. The flames and the ice picks danced in harmony as they traveled from their casters to the dying snake. The snake detonated, rending a massive explosion in the gym.
The smoke cleared up and debris of the Ana-Con-Verse was falling. Tidicus was horrified, "MY BABY!" Tidicus wailed, picking up pieces of what remained of the beast.
The teens morphed back to their regular selves.
"That's what you get from messing with us." Talen said, and high-fived Sierra who high-fived back, "Yeah, that's right." Sierra added. The teens went to Pierre and JM's aids.
"Pierre, are you okay?" Sierra asked him, "I am so, so, sorry! I've been such a jerk!"
Pierre smiled, shaking his head, "Nah, I forgive you… thanks for still caring."
"Yo, man. What was that beast? And that Keyblade on your hand?" JM confronted Talen as his cousin was helping him up to his feet, "Think you got some explaining to do."
"Do you really wanna know?" Talen asked JM. Before JM could respond, Talen heard someone he so wanted to inflict vengeance on.
"HEEEEY, TALEN!"
Talen's eyes narrowed at the sight of Axel. Axel was brimming with smiles, "Good to see you man! You missed out on so much fun!"
Talen smiled back, "Axel, my man. How about a hug?" he raised his arms for one.
"Love to, but no thanks." Axel shook his head.
"Aw, come on, man!" Talen approached him. Axel receded, "Don't you wanna hug for old time's sake?"
"Not when you wanna punch me!"
Grr…
The teens turned around at the growling sound of Tidicus. Tidicus and Ivy were still there, not ready to give up.
"You reckless evil rats!" Tidicus screamed, "Do you know how much you owe me for a new Ana-Con-Verse?!"
"Give it up, Tidicus. You're done for." Matt said.
"We ain't gonna be listening to you, traitor." Ivy barked at Matt, "It's time you meet your doom."
With a snap of the finger, Tidicus summoned a group of heartless, cornering the teens in a circle. The teens summoned their Keyblades without transforming to their Keybearers first. Before the heartless got the chance to attack, they suddenly vanished in dark smoke to everyone's surprise. "What?" Tidicus shouted.
"Playtime's over, lady and gent." A voice took over the gym. Without much anticipation, the figure who just spoke came to sight as if by thin air. It was Phantamis. The Keybearers readied their weapons.
"Phantamis!" Tidicus cried out, "You're ruining our plans here!"
"Plan time is over." Phantamis informed the two Blackhearts, "You've failed."
"Failed?" Ivy complained, "What do you mean failed?"
"Failed, as in Zero, loser, F, underachiever… that failed." Phantamis said, "May I suggest you, to head back to the stronghold and stay there. Cause our plans have changed."
"What plan?" Axel asked, "What are you talking about, Blackheart?"
Phantamis turned to face Axel and the teens, "Excuse me?" he said rudely, "Trying to have a private conversation here." He turned back to Tidicus and Ivy, "Like I was saying…"
"I thought our plan was to get Jean-Michel Elincio's heart! Not stop our plan to take Jean-Michel Elincio's heart!" Tidicus cried out.
"What, wait, whoa… my heart?" JM said, "Can someone tell me what's up with y'all, man?"
"Oh, I'll tell you what's up." Phantamis replied, "Plans have changed. Case closed. By order of Alistare, gotta eliminate something that'll interfere our plan. Eenie…" he pointed at Tidicus, "Meenie…" he pointed at Ivy, "Minee…" he pointed at himself, surprising, yet confusing everyone. Finally, he pointed at Rian, "MOE!"
A thin violet beam shot from Phantamis' finger and struck Rian in the heart. Rian screamed in pain as the violet beam locked him in place, making his body burning up.
"Rian!" The gang panicked. They ran to help him out, but Phantamis' eyes gleamed on cue, and they froze in place.
"What are you doing?" Ivy screamed at Phantamis who was still working his deathly magic on Rian.
"Eliminating the problem, what do you think?" Phantamis said with a charming smile.
"What about the plan?" Tidicus shouted. But Phantamis ignored his plea, "Time to get erased, Rian." He said to the struggling teen, "Or as your best friends would say… PKed!"
The teens heard that and panic struck them. Rian was gonna die if they don't do something, "RIAN, NO!" Taylor screamed and everyone watched in horror as they saw Rian's body disintegrating.
"G-guhh… I…ugh…ughh…" Rian gave up on cry of help, moaning as if dying. Talen suddenly remembered his vision, "Don't let Thunder perish!" He couldn't stand there frozen in place and watch his rival get PKed.
"NO!" Talen cried out, putting all of his force on the magic that bounded him until he finally broke it and took a mad dash. "Talen!" Sierra shouted.
"I won't let you get away with this!" Talen jumped into the beam and everyone screamed, "NOO!"
The beam struck Talen and Talen immediately transformed into his Keybearer. But the power impact caused a massive explosion of light that raided the entire gym. The light screen cleared up and Rian and Talen were gone… vanished without a trace. The magic that bounded the teens vanished also, setting them free. They looked around.
"They're gone…" Axel said.
"Rian! Talen!" Taylor called out to them, but they were nowhere in sight.
"Yo, Talen! Where'd you go?" Jean-Michel looked around, panicked, "Don't joke with me, boy!"
"They're gone." Phantamis responded, "And not the way I expected. They ruined the plan!"
"What?" Tidicus said, "Where are they?"
JM angrily stepped forward Phantamis, "What'd you do to my cuz?"
"Epepeh!" Phantamis stopped JM's paces with his hand, "I wouldn't get closer to me if I were you. Now why don't you be a good little celebrity rapper or whatever you do in the hood and back off."
"I ain't backing off anywhere bum." JM turned angry, "You mess up with my cousin I would mess you up." And with these words, he took one step back and transformed into his Keybearer. His transformation sends shock waves across the gym. Milene who was still hiding out and watching thought she was dreaming. Sierra looked like she was about to faint. Pierre caught her in his arms.
"Holy… Keyblade…" Denzel gasped.
"Jean-Michel Elincio is a Keybearer…" Trayne mumbled. Finally Sierra fainted to Pierre.
Phantamis was the only one not surprised, "Arctic." He called JM's Keybearer, "We meet again."
"Don't sweet-talk me you fool." Arctic sneered before he summoned his Keyblade and pointed up in the air. The Keyblade emitted an icy glow and then swung it, unleashing Arcwind. Phantamis vanished and the Arcwind froze a wall. Phantamis reappeared behind Arctic. Phantamis threw his hand toward him, but Arctic jumped out of the way and shot Arcwind again. Phantamis jumped out of the way again. The Arcwind attack struck and froze Tidicus this time. Phantamis and Arctic kept going at it, Arctic casting Arcwind and Phantamis dodging his attacks, freezing every place the attack struck.
Finally Arctic stopped, "Dang it!" he lifted his Keyblade up in the air telepathically, "Why don't you just stay—!" and with his arms thrust toward his opponent, and the Keyblade pointing the same direction, he yelled out, "—STILL?" and a massive Blizzara attack took over the gym, slowing down everyone.
Phantamis twisted his hand and all the Blizzara attack formed around, creating a large snowball to Arctic's and everyone's surprises.
"Maybe you should stay still." Phantamis said, smiling. He then snapped his finger and the snowball fell on Phantamis as snowfall, and he vanished on cue. Arctic ran to catch him but he was gone. The teens and Arctic stood still. Phantamis, Tidicus and Ivy were nowhere in sight.
Arctic returned to his Jean-Michel self and faced the teens, looking confused. The teens appeared stunned also by what has happened for the past few minutes.
"Jean-Michel. I'm…" Matt hesitated, "I'm sorry about your cousin. But rest assured we will find him. Him and Rian."
"Yo, man. I can't rest till somebody tells me what's going on here!" JM snapped, "Like, how come I'm seeing heartless? Why did I just saw the Blackheart Dominion kidnap my cuz? And speaking of my cuz, why did he, and myself, and you bunches, have this sudden power inside us?"
"Well…" Axel began, "It all starts with a little game called Kingdom Hearts III Online HD."
"I know what that game is." JM said, "I should remind you I'm rich in that MMO, not a fighter. Now, spill. And don't bail this time. Tell me what you know."
Unknown to the Keybearers, Milene was still there, hiding at the trophy room. She had seen everything. And she had captured all of what she saw on her camera phone. The picture she couldn't stop staring at was of Sierra transforming to Ciel.
"Keeping a secret Sierra?" she muttered, "Once I show this to the feds, we'll see who gets no future."
xXx
Midlight City University Hospital was where Kami's brother Tenshu was located. Still in the coma, he was still staring blankly into space. Kami had entered his room, and stared at him. She reminisced her conversation with Rian and the Keybearers about a week ago.
"We need to head back to the Kingdom Hearts world if we can, and you can do this since you can manipulate their powers with your own dark one. Come on, Kami. I know you don't want to do this, hanging out with us. But together we're a team. What do you say?"
Everyone awaited Kami's response. It didn't take long for Kami to respond.
"Violating the heart of the Purest of Light is just as worse as someone dishonoring my family and taking them away from me." She said, "I'll come with you. But on one quid pro quo, you help me seek out my brother's assassin, the PKer."
She remembered everyone beaming at her response. It was a smart decision, she thought. She's been all by herself for so long, it felt like she was breaking out of the status quo for the sake of the world and her brother.
She sat by his bedside and held on his cold hand. She reminisced once more.
Naraku (before she was called Death-Scythe) and Kage Ruin, Tenshu's alter-ego Keybearer, were surrounded by a massive group of Unversed at the Gathering.
"Ready, Naraku?" Ruin asked her. She smiled, "I've been ready since I was born, brother!"
"Let's do this." He said and the siblings jumped into battle. Naraku hacked through the enemy line with her Keyblade, while Ruin delivered with his Keyblade a series of Black Magick spells. The stampede filled up more. Then Ruin changed mode to Black Mage mode, his outfit drastically changed to that of a black mage and his Keyblade morphed into a Grimoire. He delivered more dark magic combos with ten times more power, quickly erasing a third-quarter of the stampede. Then Naraku used her Focus Mode, Soul Reaper. Targeting her half of the Unversed stampede, she struck them up to the sky, forming them into one huge Unversed ball. She then leapt upward them, hacked two times and landed a final blow on them, slamming them up to the ground with a lot of damage.
The enemies were no more.
"We did it!" Ruin cheered, and Naraku high-fived with him, "All right!" she said, "Wow, you were really fast? Have you been working out?"
"Yeah, you know the usual: pumping up the old guns here." He showed up his muscle. Naraku pushed him teasingly, "Oh you." She said. The two laughed.
"Wow! What time is it?" he wondered, "We had a great time, didn't we?"
Kami almost smiled at the fond memory, still staring at her brother. "We did have a great time, brother." She said in response. She turned to leave the hospital room. As she was leaving, a faint voice sounded from inside Tenshu, crying and shouting out for desperate help. But Kami was gone already, halfway from the bedroom.
Inside Tenshu's mind was another scenery, none other than the mass Keyblade graveyard field; the gathering. But this time it was dark, stormy, and frigid. Tenshu's Keyblade, the Grimoire, similarly designed like so, was among these mass dead Keyblades. And right underneath that ground where the Keyblade was stabbed, was a coffin. Inside that coffin… was Tenshu!
He kept on pounding on the top above him, unable to move it, unable to break it.
"HEEEEELP!" He cried out again, "Kami?! Can you hear me?!" he kept pounding with all his might, "Can anybody hear me?! Somebody, please! HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLP!"
His voice echoed through the gathering, like the howling of a ghost, but still there was no one.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAALLLLP!"
xXx
Back in the Gummi Ship,
"Anything?" Donald asked Terra and Goofy who were still searching around the Gummi Net and the game. They shook their heads. Donald sighed.
"Maybe we should just give up." Goofy proposed, "I don't think we will be able to find anything."
"Wait!" Terra shouted, alerting Donald and Goofy. He felt a strong presence.
"What is it?" Donald asked, "Finally got something?"
"It's coming from the Realm of Darkness." Terra said, before he jumped back into the keyboard and started typing aggressively, "Help me locate it. It could be anywhere."
Donald and Goofy went on the search with Terra. They were closing in on the exact source Terra was sensing. They were ready to ID the source when the ship's door suddenly busted open and in came two men and a woman in formal suits and ties, sporting glasses. The woman had blonde and wavy hair, the first man who appeared to be the youngest had auburn hair and had the style similar than Roxas, and the second man had dark hair, tall, in shape, and looked a lot like Terra. Donald, Goofy and Terra were flabbergasted to see these unwelcoming visitors.
"What is this?" Terra approached them, and the Terra-like agent pulled out a stun gun and jolted Terra to his knee.
"Terra!" The alerted Donald and Goofy shouted for their friend. They summoned their weapons and Goofy charged toward them with his shield. The Roxas-look-alike agent leapt over Goofy and landed a kick on the back, sending him flying to a wall. Goofy fainted. Donald casted a Thundara spell from his staff, aiming at the girl. The girl blocked the spell with her arm and pushed it away, before pulling out a whip gun and shot a whip, wrapping around Donald and jolting him to his knees.
The three unknown cast approached the defeated trio. Terra was on the ground as he slowly and painfully looked up to stare at them.
"Who…" he grunted, "who… are you?"
The three unknown flipped their badges.
"US Secret Service." The woman said, "You're coming with us."
xXx
Rian was found in a complete void of darkness, unconscious, unresponsive… as if he had died.
"GAAASP!" He let out a sharp gasp as his eyes flew wide open. His eyes glanced around feeling out of place and he quickly sat up as if he woke up from a terrible nightmare. He looked around again, breathing heavily. He saw nothing but void. Complete darkness with the foul stench of rotting bodies, the feel of scorching heat at about 120 degrees and cries of tormented pains. He saw Keyblades everywhere, rotted Keyblades, like it was the hell version of the Keyblade Graveyard… He was out of place.
"Oh god… where am I?" he muttered, quickly standing up, "Guys?" he cried out, but only got an echo.
Guys… Guys… Guys…
"Where are you? Is anyone here?"
Anyone Here…Anyone Here… Anyone Here…
"I need help, please! Somebody!"
Somebody… somebody… somebody…
"What is this place?" his eyes searched around for at least something or someone wandering this dark place, or at least a pinch of light, glimmering at a distance. Though he could hear presence all around him, it sounded like they needed help more than he does. But he couldn't see through all that foggy darkness either and series of abandoned haunted Keyblades. "Am I dead?" he wondered.
"No need to know." A throaty voice answered behind him. Rian quickly looked back. He saw him and he felt a wave of absolute terror. It was Master Xehanort, emerging from the depth of darkness, surrounded in black smokes, eyes gleaming bright yellow, as if for vengeance.
xXx
Hiya, guys! This is King Mickey Mouse, giving you an update of what's gonna happen next time on Online HD! Gosh, tragic moments have happened in the middle of Homecoming: Rian and Talen are gone, the Blackhearts are on the move, and Donald, Goofy, and Terra have been captured by the US Secret Service.
…but who are these US Secret Service fellas?
And Tenshu is alive! But what will become of him if he's not rescued soon? And what's gonna happened to Rian and Talen?
Watch out, next chapter, as new Disney allies lend our heroes their strength, the return of a young king, the Blackhearts' ultimate plan gets revealed, and another big reveal get exposed in a two-part saga of good vs. justice.
Here's your answer to the Kingdom Hearts Trivia!
The idea of Kingdom Hearts took place inside an elevator where two respective executives from Disney and Square-Enix met inside for the first time. Hmm? Maybe I should generate my ideas there. :D
Author's Note:
To all KH fans and readers, thank you for reading KH3 Online HD. Brand-new episodes of the fanfic will return starting in February. But in the meantime, check out its Christmas sidestory: KH3 Christmas HD, now available just in time for Christmas.
And if you like this fanfic, but you'd love to see Kingdom Hearts crossing over with Nintendo Super Smash Bros., then you'll love my next KH fanfic project featuring Smash Brothers called: SSBxKH: Chasers' Brave Saga, based on the sidestories at Deviantart. Coming 2010. Sneak peek now available.
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