* I don't own ANY of the Kingdom Hearts characters, How To Train Your Dragon characters, or Stitch. I only own Katie.
Riku was on Stitch's heels. Stitch suddenly stopped and started to growl. "What is it?" Riku asked.
"Seeker…Darkness…" Stitch growled. He started to fade. "Huh?!"
"Stitch?! What's happening? Stitch!" Riku called at the fading space experiment.
"Ah…ah…! Riku!" Stitch pointed up ahead. "Seeker…Darkness…there. Ka-ti…help!" He was gone.
Riku stared where the space experiment once stood. 'Where did he go?' He looked up to the sky; it was moon high. "Katie's been gone for hours…I hope she's alright…" He kept on going down the path Stitch was taking him down. As he continued, he could feel the faint presence of Ansem…he was getting close. He stopped in his tracks when he heard a yell. It belonged to Katie. "I'm coming, Katie!" Riku yelled into the dark forest. He ran as fast as he could until he ran out of road. He reached the cove.
Down below was Ansem and his Guardian. Guardian was holding onto Katie but there was something…different about her. Her hair was black and spiky and was wearing white shorts and a navy blue shirt. Riku can see that her blindfold was off and saw tiny red orbs in the pale moonlight. "She must've summoned that kid from Kohona…" he said under his breath. He saw shadows rise from the ground; a dark portal. Ansem motioned Guardian to go into the portal, he did. Riku was running out of time. "Ansem!" He jumped into the cove and wielded Way to Dawn. "Let Katie go."
"Riku?!" yelled Katie. "Get outta here! Ansem wants me, not you!" Her eyes were spinning like a pinwheel.
Riku shook his head 'no'. "I said…let Katie go, Ansem…"
"You can't touch me, Riku…I have your precious friend in my possession…you wouldn't what to hurt her on accident, don't you?" Ansem asked mockingly.
Riku growled in frustration then realized that Ansem was right; Katie would get hurt if he attacked…but she would be in Ansem and Master Xehanort's hands. Either way, Katie would get hurt. Riku looked at Katie, who was shaking her head like crazy.
"Riku, get your butt out of here." Katie's voice interrupted his thoughts. "I'll be fine, honestly…all they're gonna do if I get free is chase me down again. This will continue until either I join or they capture me…and look. I'm captured." She yanked her head to the side. "Go on. Scat." She winked.
Riku gave her an odd look then understood. "Fine…have your way Katie…" He dismissed his Keyblade and backed up slowly. "See? I'm going…"
"Good. Keep going, Riku." Katie said. "And I'll just—" She disappeared with a flash of darkness.
"What?" Ansem growled.
Katie appeared next to Riku, back in her own attire and hair color. Riku noticed her eyes were squeezed shut. "Just to let you know, Ansem, I could have done that any time I wanted to." She said with a smirk. She wielded Darkness' Master and pointed it at him. "Now, get your sorry butt out of Berk. Send my condolences to Master Xehanort, tell him to live long and suck it!" With her other hand, she held it out and spread out her fingers so that her middle and ring finger were apart.
Ansem growled and dismissed Guardian. "This isn't over, Katelynn Heart…" he warned.
"Oh, put a sock in it." Katie scoffed. She clicked her tongue and motioned her Keyblade to the dark portal. "Go on. Get." The Keyblade burst with a dark aura when Ansem didn't move. "Don't make us make you leave…" she threatened. Ansem thought for a moment then growled. He slowly backed into his portal and disappeared along with it.
Riku turned to Katie. " 'Live long and suck it'?" he repeated.
"Long story." Katie said shortly as she dismissed Darkness' Master. "Can you get me my blindfold, please? It's over there, somewhere. I can't see."
Riku chuckled and rolled his eyes as he went to get her blindfold. "Maybe if you open your eyes you'd see."
"I am not opening my eyes until I have my blindfold back on." Katie grumbled, she held out her hand.
Riku walked back to her and asked as he placed the ribbon on Katie's hand, "Why are you hiding your eyes from us, Katie?"
Katie bent down and flipped her hair down to tie her blindfold back into place. "I don't know. Why did you?" she shot back. She stood back up.
Riku shifted uncomfortably at the question. "I'd rather not talk about it…"
"So I have the same rights as you not to tell." Katie told him with a smirk. "C'mon, let's go back to the village. That Tournament is tomorrow and I—we don't want to miss it." As she turned around she bumped into someone. "Sora?"
Sora looked at Katie from head to toe. "Katie, you alright? Lea said something about you being in—"
"It's alright, Sora." Kate cut him off. "I'm fine."
"What happened?" Sora asked.
"I'll tell you on the trip back…just don't tell Repliku, okay? He'll flip." Sora nodded and the trio headed back to the village. Sora couldn't keep his mouth shut and Repliku found out who Katie bumped into. He was pissed with a capital 'p'.
Katie and the gang headed to the arena along with the other Vikings in the village. Today was the day Hiccup kills his first dragon. Since they had to watch out for Nobodies and Heartless, they were stationed at different areas. Katie was so bored she started playing with her hair.
Stoik's voice erupted through the crowds chattering, "Well, I can finally show my face in public again! If anyone had told me that in just a few short weeks, Hiccup would have gone from, well, being, uh...Hiccup, to placing first in dragon training-well, I would have tied him to a mast and shipped him off, for fear he'd gone mad!" He laughed before he continued, "But here we are, and no one's more surprised, or more proud, than I am. Today, my boy becomes a Viking! Today, he becomes one of us!" The crowd cheered. "Raise the gates!" Katie watched Hiccup walk into the arena, she eyed at him when he chose a knife as weapon and a shield.
"That kid is stupid…there's a stone hammer, a sword, an axe…yet he chooses a dinky little knife? Pathetic…" V scoffed.
Katie rolled her eyes, 'He's not stupid'
"And why's that?" V challenged.
'You'll see…' Katie assured her mind-friend. 'By the way…you never really told me why you're in my…well, noggin, V.'
Katie heard V sigh, "I'll tell you later. I want to watch the runt get squashed by a dragon."
'Boy, aren't you Mr. Happy?' Katie asked rhetorically. Katie watched the arena suddenly fill with smoke. Being an asthmatic, she instinctively pulled up her shirt collar over her nose and held it there. The smoke cleared to reveal a large red dragon on all fours hissing at Hiccup. A Monstrous Nightmare. It crawled slowly at the boy. Hiccup dropped his knife and shield to the ground, which earned shocked gasps from the crowd of Vikings.
"What on earth is that runt doing?!" V yelled.
Katie winced at the minor headache that V's yell left behind before she responded, 'Just give him a sec.'
Hiccup reached for the Viking battle helmet and took it off. "I'm not one of them." He told the dragon. He threw his helmet to the ground. Hiccup turned around to the crowd. "You all need to see this…"
"Stop the fight…" Stoik said quietly.
Hiccup held out his hand to the Monstrous Nightmare. "They're not what we think they are!" he said to the crowd.
Before the Monstrous Nightmare bumped Hiccups hand with its head, Stoik yelled, "I SAID STOP THE FIGHT!" He slammed his hammer on the arena's barred roof.
The Monstrous Nightmare stopped and its eyes quickly turned to slits. It spewed molten lava-like fire at Hiccup. "Hiccup!" Katie yelled. She ran to the closed metal gate and wielded Void Gear.
"I'm helping you." A voice came from behind Katie. Katie turned around to see Hiccup's friend, Astrid. Katie opened her mouth to protest but Astrid already pried the gate open with her axe, kneeling down she and Katie slid into the arena. Astrid grabbed the stone hammer on the wall and threw it at the Monstrous Nightmare's head to get its attention away from Hiccup. The Monstrous Nightmare glared in Astrid's direction and ran towards her, making Astrid run for it. Katie teleported next to the Nightmare and grabbed one of its horns, with her Keyblade, she butted the dragon with its hilt. "Leave them alone! Fight me!" she growled at the dragon. Sending Darkness to her arm holding onto the horn of the dragon, her arm grew in size and threw the dragon at the wall with a large 'thud'.
Katie heard the gate creak open. "This way!" she looked up to see Stoik motioning her and Astrid to escape. Katie grabbed Astrid's arm and ran to the exit with Hiccup close behind. Katie and Astrid got to safety and right before Hiccup joined them, a stream of fire plastered to the wall making Hiccup turn around and away from the exit. "Son!" Stoik called after Hiccup.
A roar was heard above the stadium. Someone in the crowd screamed, "Night Fury!"
"Get down!" yelled another voice. An explosion rang in Katie's ears. Through the smoke of the explosion, Katie saw the outline of Toothless. Fighting off the Monstrous Nightmare and protecting Hiccup. Unfortunately, Stoik didn't see that Toothless was protecting Hiccup not attacking him. Stoik grabbed a sword and charged towards the Night Fury as Vikings jumped into the arena to attack the dragon. Katie watched in fear as the Vikings pile onto Toothless and tied him up. Before Katie knew it, Toothless was captured and was put on a boat with a whole militia of Vikings, going to the Nest. They were going to destroy the home of the dragons. And Katie and the gang couldn't do anything about it except watch and be there for Hiccup as they took his best friend away.
If you guess what Katie was making a "reference" to with her own twist right, you get a cookie! O3O