"Well that was rude," I muttered to myself. I stood up a little bit of purple dirt stuck to my hands and I brushed it off on my tattered jeans. Nessa and Meg were still down on the ground. I looked around curiously. "EXTREMELY RUDE!" I shouted. My friends twitched but didn't wake.
The ground I stood on was a soft purple dirt. Kind of light like sand but a bit heavier. The surrounding blackness could have been the walls of a room if I hadn't known better. I reached my hand out to touch it and as soon as my hand left the ray of light coming from the dirt it disappeared into the inky blackness.
Whoever had been in that cloak sent us straight into the darkness where the door to Kingdom Hearts would be revealed. In the deep darkness I heard a rumbling laugh. It was hard to tell where it came from or even how far away it was. I moved back into our small circle of light and waited, keeping my friends under close watch.
Meg was the first to wake up. She seemed to realize exactly where we were the second her eyes popped open. She sat up and looked at me. I looked into her questioning eyes and nodded.
"The realm of darkness."
"Why would that freak send us here?" She asked.
"I'm not sure. But all I do know is when spiky gets here we have to be ready to make a run for it, Nessa conscious or not." Meg nodded solemnly. We sat in silence for a bit. Loud screams and shouts blasted through the darkness. I tried to reach into the darkness at where the sound was coming from but the direction always changed.
Nessa was now starting to come around. She opened her eyes and the aura of light that shot off of her extended our view of the soft patch of dirt. It was a path and we were sitting in the middle. We could go two ways: the way closest to Nessa or the one behind me.
"Where are we?" She asked.
"The realm of darkness!" Meg answered cheerfully. I smiled at her. Nessa smiled back and took in our surroundings. "Is Sora almost here yet Rach?"
"Possibly. There is something pushing at the force of darkness on the light side. Its possibly him." As soon as I had spoken a brilliant white light came falling down everywhere the path around us was lit.
"WHICH WAY?" Meg said jumping up. Nessa and I were right behind her. I looked around quickly, taking in everything. I saw the huge doors that I had seen in the heartless made by Ansem mind.
"Past Nessa!" I screamed and started running. They took off in the same instant. We only covered a short amount of ground before it fell dark again.
Off in the distance we heard "WHA-" then a loud quack.
"Donald!" Nessa said cheerfully. We stopped and waited. Another bright light flashed and we were off, running in the same direction.
"GO GO!" I screamed. We ran faster and then suddenly the light was gone. We skidded to a stop.
"Gwahuh!"
"Goofy!" I said with a smile. Meg nodded. Any second now Sora would come flying through and give us the last patch of light to get to the door. It seemed to take longer than the other two. What was taking him so long? I was about to scream in the tension but then the flash of light came and we were off. The path curved sharply to the left and we had to skid to a stop before turning. We ran quickly and the doors were right in front of us. The light was gone but the doors gave off such a brilliance that we didn't need it anymore.
"AHHH!" Meg screamed and she was gone. I instinctively reached out with my hand and caught a loose grip on her hand. My stomach hit the edge of the path and the impact knocked the breath out of me. "Thank you Rachel," Meg said matter-of-factly.
"No problem," I grunted. Nessa reached down with her hand and grabbed Meg's other hand. Together we pulled her back up to our sound.
"That was exciting!" Nessa said. "I think this has been the most tense I've felt since Rachel tried to kill us in the library!" She joked. Meg nodded, I looked away sheepishly.
"So how big is this thing?" I asked. Meg shrugged. Nessa's face suddenly scrunched up and the aura of light suddenly came shooting further out of her. I had to jump back to keep it from hitting me. "OUCH!" I screeched as a bit of it touched my arm. She smiled apologetically. The break in the path was only about 100 feet. Not easily jumped.
"Can you open portals here?" Nessa asked. I shrugged and tried to reach out to the darkness for the portal. I concentrated hard, trying to make the waves appear.
"No," I muttered in defeat, "I think its because it's the place where the portals connect and we have to shoot through here to get from Point A to Point B."
"Makes sense," Nessa agreed. Meg grunted. "Any ideas." We all paused to think.
"GOT IT!" I shouted. I reached back into the darkness and thought of the most convenient heartless to create. Then suddenly Meg and Nessa gasped. There were three heartless dragons landed on the edge of the cliff. I smiled at them and helped my friends mount.
"Good plan!" Meg shouted as they took off. Quickly flying across the pit to get us safely to the other side. I smiled as we dismounted and in turn patted the heartless in the had before they disappeared back into swirling blackness. We took off running again, this time a bit slower, for precaution.
We reached the door and there was no one around. My stomach dropped. Where is Riku? I thought. He should have made it out like me, where was he? We waited a long time, keeping just out of sight by the side of the door. Within minutes of Sora entering the realm of darkness light flooded everywhere and we could see the battle with the huge ship.
Ansem went down without much effort on Sora's part. I laughed happily as he was shocked into light. He floated towards us moving fast. The doors became brighter.
"I KNOW NOW, more than ever, that Kingdom Hearts, is light!" Sora shouted. The doors shuddered and then flew open. A blinding light came flying out of it. I screeched as badly as Ansem and ducked behind Meg with my eyes squeezed shut and covered with my hands. Meg and Nessa gasped with amazement as it opened. We raced around as Sora, Donald and Goofy came running up and started to close it
"HURRY SHUT IT!" Donald was yelling. Sora, and Goofy grabbed the edges and started pushing. Meg, Nessa, and I arrived to help them.
"I can't!" Sora complained. A pair of black-gloved hands reached around and grabbed the sides. My hold on the door was no more.
"Don't give up! Come on Sora, together we can do it!" Riku called. Sora nodded and they started pushing again.
"RIKU!" I reveled, "YOU MADE IT!" He looked at me but kept his mind on the task at hand.
"Rachel, we have to shut the door," He explained.
"I know that," I said, grabbing a hold of the door again. "I'm so sorry!" I apologized, "I didn't know that was plan. Come over to this side!" He shook his head.
"This is impossible!" Donald yelled. There was a flash of light from the inside. We could see the outline of the king behind Riku but I refused to look away from him.
"But-" Sora and I said at the same time.
"Don't worry there will always be a door to the light," the King said. Riku was looking directly at me. His green eyes bright behind the locks of silver hair in the blackness. Goofy was encouraging Sora and a moment of understanding my struggle against them.
"Now Sora!" King Mickey said. "Let's close this door for good!"
"Close it quick!" Donald yelled. passed between the two of us. I slipped my hands out of the crack with the last shove of Goofy and Sora.
"I'll see you on the other side." He said, reaching his hand towards me. I half smiled back and reached my hand towards him. The door shut and Sora leapt back. A flash of white light between the crack sealed the door and it dissolved into the surrounding darkness.
"What do we do now?" Meg asked, looking around. Sora, Donald, and Goofy had disappeared. Nessa looked around. We were standing on that dirt road that stretched in two directions into the darkness again.
"I guess we start walking."
"Does anyone else hear that noise?" Meg asked, looking behind us. I squinted into the darkness, though I could see into it pretty well without squinting. I could see the outlines of heartless flying at us.
"Yeah," Nessa answered.
"There's a bunch of heartless coming towards us," I answered. I whipped out my sword, "You guys ready for one more fight? These aren't ones I can control," I asked. They got out their weapons too and we stood ready on the path for them.
"I think I can handle one more," Meg said hotly. Nessa laughed as she tightened the straps of the shield to her arm and slipped the spiked arm bracelets over her other arm. The heartless were only 10 yards away now. "SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!" Meg yelled and she charged towards them. Already a bright red ring of fire was encircling her.
The end… of game one.