Slowly but surely I'm getting out of my writer's block. ...DAMN IT!

OCs (c) Me

Kingdom Hearts (c) Square Enix

Kingdom Hearts

Sanctioned Soul

Chapter 11

"Who are you, and what are you doing with Pocahontas?" Miu growled as she pressed her blade to the man's throat, her boot firmly placed over the armor of his chest as she pressed down, pinning him there. The man stared at her in surprise, shocked that a person with the same skin tone as his being affiliated with Pocahontas. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Demyx, and Pocahontas were at the girl's side immediately, trying to pry her off the man.

"Miu, stop! He is my friend, John Smith!" Pocahontas protested as she grabbed Miu's arm, pulling it back so that the sword wasn't at his throat. Miu growled as she turned back to her.

"Pocahontas, he's a bad guy! He's with the people who are controlling the heartless!" she exclaimed. Immediately a keyblade, wand, sitar, and chakram joined her blade as Sora and the others glared down at him.

"What? He's with the heartless?" Donald exclaimed, glaring at the man. Miu nodded as she turned her attention back to the man. "Uh-huh, I saw it! When I was trying to find the source of the darkness in this world, I found their fort and nothing but heartless surrounded it!"

"Uh, pardon me, but don't I have a say in this?" the man, John Smith, spoke as he looked down her blade and the other weapons pointed at him. Miu glared at him, looked at Pocahontas, then back to him again. "Ugh, fine. But I'm warning you, if you do anything fishy-" but his eyes widened as he spotted a shape coming at her.

"Behind you!" he exclaimed, pointing. Miu ducked just in time as a Solider flew over her head and John's, landing on the ground with a thud. Swearing loudly, she and the others turned to see various heartless surrounding them including Neoshadows, shadows, creeper plants, and Sapphire Elegys. The group surrounded Pocahontas and John Smith, their eyes on the heartless as the horde surrounded them.

"Where'd they all come from?" Sora exclaimed. Axel shook his head.

"I don't know and I don't care. These punks are going down!" he quickly threw his chakrams, taking down five each before they returned to his hands. Everyone else followed, John Smith pulling out a gun as he began to shoot at the heartless. Once his group was gone, Axel turned to the others.

"Anyone need help?" he called. Sora nodded as he jumped, taking out a Sapphire Elegy, before landing and turning to him.

"Yeah, make sure Pocahontas and that guy are all right!" he called back. Axel nodded as he turned to Pocahontas and John Smith, only to see someone else. Miu was playfully dancing around the heartless, dodging their attacks and drawing more to her. The dance was similar to how a butterfly flitted around the flower, graceful but playful as well. The others stopped and watched, was she playing with them?

"Nyah nyah! Can't get me!" she cried, blowing a raspberry as she shook her behind at the heartless, irritating them even more. Sora sighed as he scratched his head.

"Miu, this is no time to be playing around! We've gotta-" but her persona quickly changed from playful to deadly as she mercilessly took them down, slashing her sword as her eyes became steely and cold. Her attacks were quick and merciless, nothing like the playful dodges she was displaying only moments before. Ducking and dodging the heartless attacks with ease, she even went as far as to physically punch a Neoshadow back as it tried to lunge at her. Once they were gone, she turned to them, a goofy grin on her face.

"Wow, that was fun! Those heartless were no match for Miu, adventurer extraordinaire!" she exclaimed as she began shadow-boxing the air, clearly having enjoyed slaying her enemies as if they were nothing but prey. Everyone blinked before Sora turned to John Smith, who was standing with Pocahontas. "Thanks for the warning back there. She probably didn't realize it, but that heartless could've hurt her if you hadn't said anything." he explained, thanking the man in Miu's place. He nodded.

"It's nothing. By the way, my name is John Smith." he said as he introduced himself. Sora grinned. "My name's Sora. This is Donald, Goofy, Demyx, and Axel. And the girl over there is Miu." he pointed to each person as he said their name, and they waved in response.

"Hello!"

"Hiya, A-hyuck!"

"What's up?"

"Yeah, name's Axel, got it memorized? A-X-E-L." John blinked at them, before chuckling. "When we were coming here, I didn't expect to see other travelers who'd made friends with the natives." he explained when they blinked at him in confusion. At this, Sora gasped.

"Oh yeah! What Miu said, is it true?" John was silent as he scratched the back of his head, before shrugging.

"I didn't know that that's what they were called. I guess you could say that what she said is partly the truth, only myself and the other crewmen aren't fond of them. Governor Ratcliffe however…" he trailed off before looking at an old willow tree that was behind him. "For some reason or another, they only listen to him. Thomas and the other crewmen don't trust either him or them, and neither do I." he finished. Axel scratched the back of his head.

"Governor Ratcliffe? Who's that?"

"He's a Governor of our country, and I guess you can say our captain besides myself. We came here from England, looking for gold." he explained. The group nodded before a vine shot out, tapping Smith on the shoulder.

"Yes, and since you lot came all I can feel from my roots is the vibrations from the earth being dug up by those men. All in search for this 'gold'." Donald cried out as he jumped onto Goofy, who was equally astonished.

"Yah! A vine that talks!" the voice snorted.

"What a rude thing to say! Don't you boys have manners?" Miu and Pocahontas giggled as they looked at the willow tree. "Don't be angry with them, Grandmother Willow."

"Yeah! They probably don't have talking willow trees where they're from!" Miu added. The boys blinked at her, before looking at the willow tree where sure enough, you could see the face of an aged woman.

"Whoa!" Sora exclaimed as Demyx pointed. "A talking tree!" Miu rolled her eyes at this.

"Well duh! Didn't you idiots listen to a word I just said?" Pocahontas placed a hand on the girl's shoulder, calming her down before turning to them.

"Sora, Donald, Goofy, Demyx, Axel, this is grandmother willow, a willow tree. Grandmother willow, this is Sora and his friends." the girl spoke as she introduced the boys to the wise tree. The tree smiled, holding a vine out to them.

"It is wonderful to meet you." they stared warily at the vine before she chuckled. "And don't worry, my bark is worse than my bite." Sora nodded as he reached out and grasped the vine, giving it a handshake as the others followed suit. But Axel stayed as far from the tree as possible, obviously not interested.

"We need to find the keyhole to the soul of the world and leave already. We already found Miu, now we need to find out where Kyrie is." he thought as he stood there, his arms crossed. Suddenly, voices began to echo through the trees, catching their attention.

"John!"

"John Smith!"

"John, where are ya, it's time to go back!" John Smith groaned as he face-palmed. "Oh great, Ratcliffe's sent the men looking for me. And from the sounds of it, it's Ben and Lon." Miu and Grandmother Willow looked at each other, before winking.

"Well then, let Grandmother Willow and I take care of them for you. We don't need them running home to tell them of what you two have been doing, right?" with that she pushed the others into the bushes and under the larger roots of the tree before she began climbing up. Within moments two men with pale skin walked over, obviously looking for someone.

"Do ya suppose we'll run into any savages?" one with red hair and a bear asked another. The other man scoffed, positioning his gun. "If we do lad, I'll just pull the trigger and show them what happens when they cross us Englishmen." at this, Grandmother Willow raised one of her roots, effectively tripping them as they landed flat on their faces. She kept the root raised as they looked at each other in confusion, but when they looked back she quickly lowered it back to the ground. The men blinked, before turning to each other.

"Did you see that there? It moved on it's own!"

"Ah, you're just seein' things! There's no way that-"

"Arrroooooooooooooooo!" a sudden howl echoed through the forest, catching the men off guard. They cried out in surprise, getting to their feet as they looked around in confusion. Sora and the others were confused too, what was making that sound? "What was that?"

"I don't know…but let's get out of here!"

"Arrrrooooooooooooooooooooo!" with that they quickly ran, Grandmother Willow using her vines to whip them on the behinds as they did so. After a few moments, everyone walked out of the brush as Miu swung down from the branches, laughing as she did so.

"Did you see the looks on their faces? Man, that was priceless!" she laughed as she pointed to the direction where the men had gone. Everyone stared at her.

"You mean- that was you?" Sora gasped. She nodded, cupping her hands around her mouth and howled again. "Arrrooooooo!"

"Wow, that was awesome! You really scared the crap outta those guys!" Demyx laughed, patting her on the shoulder. She grinned before turning to Grandmother Willow. "What really freaked them was when they saw her root slam to the ground! Bet they don't see that everyday where they're from!" The old willow tree smiled as she snapped one of her vines.

"I still got some snap in these old vines!" she chuckled, waving her vine in emphasis. As she and the old tree continued talking, Sora and the others turned to Pocahontas and John Smith. The blonde-haired man sighed as he ran a hand through his hair, before turning to her.

"Looks like I better go, before they send the whole crew out to look for me." she looked at him anxiously. "Will I be able to see you again?"

"Sure, let's meet up later tonight. Then we can think of a way to smooth things over with your father and Governor Ratcliffe." and with that, he turned and walked away. Once he was gone, Pocahontas looked back at the others.

"I'll go ahead and see if my father will consider meeting John Smith and the rest of his men. I will see you at the village." and she disappeared too, running back in the direction of the village. Sora turned to them.

"Let's go and see if we can help her convince her dad about making peace with them. It can't be that hard!" he suggested, but Axel shook his head.

"Sora, they've been getting attacked by heartless that hang around those crewmen! There's no way he's gonna try and make peace with them, not after nearly losing his daughter to one of them!" he explained. Donald sighed, crossing his arms.

"Then what'll we do? Things could get worse if we don't try something!" he stated. At this Miu turned, walking towards them.

"Maybe we can-" but her words died in her throat as a new aura wrapped itself around her body, this one white as it shot out into the environment. The world changed around them, turning into night as figures began to appear. Once the haze cleared, they could clearly see Kocoum and John fighting with Pocahontas trying to stop them.

"Guys, wait!" they then saw themselves as they ran in to intervene, but a gunshot rang out, causing them to stop in their tracks. Kocoum gasped, his body falling back and landing in the water nearby. A young man walked out of the trees, shocked as he held a gun in his hands. Before anyone could move, they could hear the distant sounds of the villagers and Chief Powhatan, and John pushed him towards the forest.

"Thomas, go!" he instructed, the man nodding and doing what he was told. Within moments after he ran, the village men arrived, taking in the scene in front of them. Without a moment's hesitation, they quickly apprehended John, Pocahontas protesting as they began to take him away, along with Kocoum's corpse.

"What the-" Sora started but within seconds, everything was back to normal and Miu staggered, before her knees gave out from under her. Demyx was quick to catch her before she hit the ground, dazed and disoriented. Everyone crowded around Miu as she tried to pull herself together, spouting a million questions per minute.

"What was that?"

"What did you do?"

"That was…future memory." she gasped as she tried sitting up. "It's like a prediction, it shows a memory that's going to happen through the same energies that I use to see into the past. But…I can't control it, so it happens randomly and drains some of my energy when it does. That's…what you all saw." she explained as Demyx helped her to her feet. But she staggered a little, causing the melodious nocturne to wrap his arm around her shoulders to steady her. Sora stared at her, amazed.

"So…what we just saw-"

"Is going to happen. Which means that Kocoum's gonna get killed and that guy's gonna take the fall for it." Axel stated, crossing his arms. Everyone gasped, before Donald turned to her.

"We can't let that happen!" Goofy nodded as he joined his feathered companion.

"Gawrsh, is there any way to stop it? Can't we change it?" he added. Miu was silent, before nodding. "I've only changed the future once, so I can't guarantee that this will work, but…" she looked at them, her eyes hard.

"We have to stop Pocahontas from leaving the village and meeting with him, it's the only way. If we can prevent one of the parties from meeting, then we can change what's going to happen."

-The Village-

It was dusk now, and the group had been around the entire village looking for Pocahontas. But the girl was nowhere to be found.

"Argh, where is she?" Axel growled. Miu looked around before spotting a familiar face as they walked into the village from the corn patch. "Nakoma!" the girl stopped and looked at Miu, a worried expression on her face.

"Hey, have you seen Pocahontas?" she asked the girl. Nakoma was silent, before nodding. "Yes…but please, you must help her!"

"What's happened?" Sora asked. The girl turned to him, a hand clenched over her chest. "She's gone to see one of the pale men, I tried to stop her but-!" Miu placed a hand on her shoulders, calming her.

"Hey, it's gonna be okay. We're not gonna let anything happen to her. So she left the village?" she nodded, causing Axel to swear.

"Damn, then we're too late." but Demyx shook his head as he placed a hand on the pyro's shoulder. "Wait, we can still stop her!" Donald and Goofy nodded as the group started for the direction of Grandmother Willow's tree.

"Then c'mon!"

-Grandmother Willow-

"Hey, I can hear shouting!" Sora exclaimed, the sounds of a struggle sounding through the trees. The group ran faster, getting to the clearing just as Kocoum neared his knife to John's throat, Pocahontas trying to pry the man off of him as he did so. The group watched the struggle with wide eyes, before Sora, Donald, and Goofy ran in.

"Guys, wait!" he exclaimed as he ran in, causing the two men to glance at him. But at that moment, a gunshot rang out, causing them to stop in their tracks. Just like in the vision, Kocoum fell, his body landing in a nearby pool of water with a resounding splash. They were too late, the vision had become true.

"No…" Miu gasped, running to them just as a young man staggered into the open, gun in hand. John turned to the boy and Pocahontas cried out, trying to lunge for him. "You killed him! Monster!" she exclaimed. Axel and Demyx joined him in holding her back, as Miu got between the two parties.

"Wait, everyone just calm down!" she quickly turned to the boy, who was trembling in his boots. "Hey, you okay?" she asked, her voice uncharacteristically soft as she placed a hand on his shoulder. He looked at her.

"He…was gonna kill John! I had to stop him, I had to-" Sora joined her in calming the man. "Hey, it's-" but he was cut off at the sounds of the male villagers calling out, and John turned to the boy.

"Thomas, go!" he instructed. But the man looked at him. "But-"

"Go!" he commanded, his voice hard. Thomas hesitantly nodded and ran off, just as the villagers walked into the clearing. They looked at the group, before looking to where Kocoum lay, anger etched into their features. "Capture him! He has killed Kocoum!" within minutes, John Smith was tied up and being led away as Pocahontas, Sora, and the others watched on. Miu sighed as he looked towards Grandmother Willow, where Meeko, Flit, and a white dog were trembling under one of her branches.

"We tried to change it, but like I said there was no guarantee that we could. There's no stopping the future from happening."

OMG! Kocoum is dead! *applauds* ...Wait... that's not good! John Smith's gonna be executed now! SHIT!

Anyways, enjoy. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up by next week.