Bonnie: Okay, I know that everything that's been happening so far is sort of following the storyline of Kingdom Hearts but here is where most of the similarities end and the only exception of similarity are the parts Ansem plays and what he's been trying to do to the heartless. I've beaten Kingdom Hearts II already so it's a little hard to revert my memories back to Kingdom Hearts I but here it is a whole new plot with different character and worlds!
Pairings in this chapter: Sirius x Remus and some Severus x James hinting!
Disclaimer: Remus, Sirius, James, Severus and all other Hogwarts characters belong to J. K. Rowling; I'm only using them for a plot and romance! Oh yeah and that evil witch from Sleeping Beauty is also not mine either. Just there for the heck of a bad… girl? Anyways, it's for the story.
Chapter 6: Dark Days: James and Sirius's Story
Hogwarts Day 2.5 (Last day)
James had a really prickly feeling in his blood, like the one he described to Remus the night before and it was really getting on his nerves. He folded his arms to keep himself warm, wait… why was it cold when it was already June? Nights in June weren't that cold but James felt a shiver run along his spine and a feeling that something big was about to come. He looked outside, dark clouds were forming and it looked like a storm was coming. James then noticed it. A shaggy black dog running madly into the Whomping Willow and James let out a gasp, "Sirius?"
Sirius's bed was empty which led James to realize that Sirius must've been the dog running into the Whomping Willow but why Sirius would go there at this time of night is beyond James so he hurried out to find the dog animagi.
Using his trusty invisibility cloak, James snuck out of Hogwarts and onto the grounds where he transformed into a beautiful stag to be faster. When he reached the dangerous Willow tree, Prongs transformed back into James and put the invisibility cloak over his head once again and he snuck into the Willow tree to the path leading to the Shrieking Shack.
James reached the shack without difficulty but when he neared the door to the shack itself, he heard voices shooting angrily out from the doorway. One was Sirius's familiar voice but in an angry tone and the other was unfamiliar, the voice of a deep, yet feminine voice. Just hearing that voice brought shivers to James although he didn't know why but his instincts had never let him down. James edged closer to the door and tried to hear what they were saying.
"…there's no way in you will conquer this world while I'm here and the keybearer won't let you either!" That was Sirius.
"Ah, but the keybearer is already doubting himself and soon he won't be able to save this world with that wretched keyblade anymore," the other voice said in that cold chilling voice. "And as for you, it would be easy enough to get you out of the way and to where you're supposed to be!"
James could practically feel the anger waves coming off Sirius and then suddenly it cooled, it was quite sudden. When Sirius spoke again, it was with confidence.
"If I was out of the way, there is still no way you can complete your mission, as I recall from my other sources, don't you still have some of the others that you could not find?" Sirius said quite coolly and no longer angrily.
This time, the other voice seemed angry. "I happen to know exactly who they are and I will get them, even if I have to search a million worlds to find them."
"So you don't know where they are, hm?" Sirius seemed almost back to his normal self, sounding as the usual Sirius who teases Slytherins and the Marauders alike. James caught on to the million world's part of Sirius's speech and thought to himself that Severus was right and that there were other worlds out there. At this point, James didn't notice that his invisibility cloak had slipped right off and it was the one thing keeping him from being sensed by the others in the room.
The truth was, Sirius already knew about other worlds and was also worried because he can feel a disrupt balance in Kingdom Hearts. He also knew who he was or how should he say it: He knows that his role for Kingdom Hearts is to keep it from opening and unleashing destruction on all worlds.
When James landed in their world, Sirius knew right then and there that the worlds were safe and James losing his memories made it even safer. So then Sirius could worry no more and focus on his life. Mainly, getting Remus to fall in love with him and now that it worked, Sirius began sensing something dark coming. His eyes had glowed violet while ago and he felt it.
'I should've seen this coming along time ago, but I was so preoccupied…' Sirius thought to himself angrily as he glared at the source of the darkness that was looming over Hogwarts.
As things weren't bad enough for Sirius, he suddenly felt another presence in the Shrieking Shack. He whirled around to find his greatest fear coming true: James was right in the doorway and from the shocked, confused expression; Sirius could tell James had heard most of the conversation. That was not good.
"James! What are you doing here?" Sirius quickly ran to James, putting himself between James and the evil woman from Hell.
Sirius thought rapidly as the evil woman started conjuring up shadows once she realized James was there and who James was. Sirius's body started to react to the shadows and his eyes started glowing violet and building up energy. Sirius knew that he shouldn't attract any attention from Hogwarts so he suppressed the power building and aimed small beams at the shadows to destroy them.
But it wasn't good enough, James had started to radiate gold coloured power all around without any control and the shadows were multiplying. Fast.
James blinked as he felt a warm energy building up inside him and it radiated in all different directions, he couldn't control it.
"Sirius?"
The evil woman Sirius had conversed with earlier was observing the fight of Sirius against the heartless (Sirius only since James can't control his and only every once in a while, he hits right on target) and knew this was the time to take action. It wasn't everyday she can find one of the seven special ones and two of them at that!
Sirius was having a really hard time now. Between trying to help James contain his power (and that was a lot of effort) and defeating the heartless was exhausting. Sirius could bet that that woman was laughing her ugly head off now just watching him struggle. He inwardly growled, feeling the energy that reacts to heartlesses starting to fade. Damn! The seven of them have so much energy for fighting heartlesses but even they could run out of energy. They need the help of the keybearer.
Sirius ran over to James to help fend off the heartless. James was decreasing in energy much faster because he was releasing so much of it without control. "Sirius?" He said weakly as he was decreasing in energy. Sirius still had plenty with the control he had but it was tiring his body to destroy the heartless with his power.
The shadowed woman reappeared again, "having fun are you?" Sirius just growled, almost dog-like.
By now, James was thoroughly and utterly confused and although he appreciates Sirius trying to explain some of while in battle, it was hard to comprehend what was really going on.
And because it was annoying to call the evil woman by the words… evil woman, Sirius finally revealed the name of this dark being. "Maleficent"
"Maleficent?" James voiced out, confused. Is that the name of the woman?
By now, Maleficent was getting fed up with the stand-still between her and the two she needed; she still had four more to find since she already found one of them and the most important one.
Maleficent started mumbling a spell but to Sirius's sensitive dog ears, he heard them clearly and his eyes widened.
Sirius didn't care about his own safety this time, he had faith in the keybearer who should be chosen around this time, and he didn't know who it would be. Right now, it was James who is more important and he jumped forward to protect James while uttering his own spell and he covered James in time for the magic to hit.
TBC…
Bonnie: That was just bad; I had major Writer's Block and it was extremely painful to write! Hard to keep them in character sometimes when my mind is on another storyline with different characters… but I will not stop! Argh!
Fuji: That's right, we have to be in it soon too, ne Ryo-chan?
Ryoma: Our time is still mada mada dane Fuji-senpai.
Bonnie: Please read and review!
