Alright here is chapter 4 of the Kingdom Hearts crossover with Pokemon story! Co-written with my friend Hika-neko-chan.
Now I know i posted this a few days early, but that's because I am leaving for vacation soon and I won't have Wi-Fi very often. So the chapter is here early. Idk about next week, but I will try to get it posted sometime next week. Also this does apply to my other stories (I am trying my very best to work on them...but I just get writters block a lot on them, but I am getting somewhere).
Thanks for everyone who has reviewed, followed and favorited.
Anyways on to chapter 4!
Chapter 4:
As dawn broke the following morning, Hikari began to stir in her tent. Although she was half asleep, she noticed that the familiar weight of the wings on her back was missing. While this was not a common occurrence, Hikari's groggy mind didn't find this odd, it was instead focused on the fact that her cat ears were shaped differently, and that her tail split into two partway down it's length. After rubbing the tiredness from her eyes, she realized that this wasn't caused by half-awake dreams. Instead of freaking out, which she was sorta doing internally, Hikari decided to open up the flap of her tent and check on Claire.
Claire was still fast asleep, cuddled up in her sleeping bag. She was sleeping on her side and her feet were facing the entrance of the tent. As Hikari looked at her she saw that Claire now had orange fox ears atop her head.
Hikari reached into the tent, trying to rouse Claire by tugging at the bottom corner of her sleeping bag.
"Mmmm" Claire let out a sleepy mumble as she stretched out her feet and turned onto her back.
Hikari sighed before stepping away from the tent and towards her bag that was still making snoring noises. Being careful as to not disturb sleeping Dawn inside, Hikari pulled out the empty water bottle and quickly closing the bag. She then returns to Claire's tent, chucking the hollow bottle at her head.
The bottle hit Claire right on the head, which caused her to open her eyes. Just as the bottle was about to fall off her head Claire quickly grabbed it, sat up, and chucked back in the direction of Hikari. Having been somewhat used to this sort of reaction from Claire, Hikari barely ducked out of the way before the bottle could hit her.
"You up now Claire?" asked Hikari.
Claire glared at Hikari before she sighed, "Yeah yeah...now what do you want?" In the next moment before Hikari could say anything Claire slowly reached up and placed her hands on top of her head and felt her new fox-like ears. "What… What's on my head?"
"Uhm…" Hikari though on how to answer this before saying, "They appear to be a pair of red-orange fox ears."
Claire blinked a few times with a surprised look on her face. She then jumped up out of her sleeping bag and looked behind her. Pushing up from under her nightgown was a yellow colored, very fluffy tail. Claire turned back to look at Hikari, with a mixed emotion of surprise and shock on her face, "I… I also have a tail."
"You do?" Hikari asked with mild confusion, staring at the yellowish 'pile' of fur attached to Claire's behind.
"Yeah…" Claire said, as she looked back at her tail. She slowly ran her through the fur and her eyes lit up with joy, "So soft and fluffy!" Claire shouted happily as she ran around in circles a few times before jumping down to the ground. She hugged her tail as she rolled around for a moment, laughing happily as she did. Then she curled up so her face brushed up against her tail, she rubbed her face in her tail's fur, still smiling happily, "Fluffy!"
"Oh dear." mumbled out Hikari with an exasperated sigh. "I don't need another Dawn."
A muffled cry of "Fuzzies!" came from inside Hikari's bag, which she held shut before craziness could insure.
Claire sat back up and tilted her head, "But it's so soft. I've never had a tail… so this is new to me."
"But still, getting used to a new extremity is one thing, obsessing over how it feels is another."
"But it's just so fluffy," Claire sighed, then looked at Hikari again, finally noticing the difference in her ears and tail, "Your ears and tail are different. What happened to us?
Hikari, after all this time, decided to reach up and touch 'new' ears. "I'm not entirely sure, but it feels similar to form-changing magic taking effect."
"Huh odd...Do you think someone did this to us?" Claire said as she stood up again.
"It's possible" began Hikari, "But I think I would have noticed someone approaching us during the night."
"True… But what else could it be? Do you think this world has some weird effect on us?"
"Well, magical interference is what caused our gummi ship to crash, remember?" asked/stated Hikari while gesturing to the wreck that was their transport.
Claire walked outside of her tent, "Oh yeah. So is that also why your wings are gone?"
"I'd assume so." answered Hikari before asking, "What about yours?
"Oh," Claire said as she closed her eyes for a second and then her wings appeared behind her. She sighed with relief, "I still got my wings."
"Huh...interesting." Hikari began to contemplate before mumbling to herself. "I lost my wings, but you still have yours…"
"Hmm," Claire crossed her arms and thought for a moment before speaking again, "That's probably because my wings are naturally mine, you got your through other means, right?"
"Yeah. That's a fairly reasonable assumption." Hikari stated before heading back to her tent. "By the way Claire, what are you going to wear now with your… newest addition."
Claire sighed heavily, "This means I'll have to cut a hole in my pants…"
Hikari paused before she entered her tent. "Just your pants?"
"You know what I mean." Claire pouted before she walked back into her tent.
"If you want you can borrow a pair of my shorts!" Hikari called out before stepping into her tent to change.
Claire popped her head head out of her tent, "I don't think I'm the same pant sizes as you...plus I don't really wear shorts. But thanks." With that Claire went back into her tent.
After a short bit, Hikari emerged from her tent dressed in basically the same outfit she wore the day before, minus the cape-cloak thing. She glanced around before looking at Claire's tent.
"Claire, are you not ready yet?" asked Hikari.
Hikari could hear Claire sigh, "Just give me a minute… This tail has a lot of fluff…"
A moment later Claire came out in her usual outfit, but now it had a hole in the back of her jeans and her new, fluffy tail was sticking out of it. "So are we going to train or eat something first?"
"I think breakfast first, then some training." Hikari walked over to her bag.
"Alright," Claire said as she also walked over to her bag and opened it, "Let's see what do I want to eat today."
After a quick rummage through her bag, Hikari pulled out a box of cereal, a bowl, and a juice box. She poured herself a bowl before returning the box to the magic bag. From the pouch on her hip she pulled out a spoon and began eating the cereal.
Claire pulled out her mini fridge, opened it, and pulled out an apple. Then she pulled out of the bag of bread and took out a slice. Before she started to eat her food she grabbed one last thing from her mini fridge, a bottle of juice. "So what will we do for a training today?" Asked Claire as she bite into her apple.
Hikari stopped shoveling cereal in her mouth, pausing to think while chewing what she had in her mouth.
"Well, we can start with a light spar, then maybe try using magic to see if we can still cast it in combat." Hikari began rattling off a rough plan.
"Sounds good to me." Claire said as she chewed her apple.
Hikari continued eating her cereal until she decided she was full, leaving a bit of cereal still in the bowl. She went back to her bag, opening up and shouting inside.
"Dawn! Heads up. Leftover cereal coming in!" Hikari just dumped the rest of the cereal in the bag, followed by a happy munching sound.
Claire finished up her apple and quickly ate up her piece of bread. After taking a few sips of her juice she stood up and stretched. "Alright, well I'm ready."
Hikari put away her bowl and spoon away, closing the bag when she was done. She put the bag in her tent and zipped the front flap. When she stepped away from her tent, she turned to face Claire.
"I think it would be better to spar on the beach rather than in the forest, do you agree?"
Claire nodded in agreement as she went to put her bag in her own tent, "Yeah there's more space there. Just hopefully none of those little creatures get in the way when we train."
"Even if they do, I'll try my best to avoid harming them." Hikari then began walking towards the beach they found the day before.
"Same here." Claire said as she followed behind Hikari as they walked back to the beach.
When they stepped onto the sand, the two went to stand some distance apart, facing each other.
"Do you want to start with hand to hand or just go straight to keyblades?" Hikari asked when Claire turned to face her.
Claire thought for a moment before she crackled her knuckles, "Haven't done hand to hand in a while, so let's start with that."
Hikari didn't respond, instead she just crouched down, her left foot in front, pointed at Claire, with her right foot behind, pointed perpendicular to her left. Her right knee was almost on the ground, her right hand beside it, barely touching the sand. Hikari's left arm was horizontal before her, ready to block or deflect incoming attacks. (Idk if this works the way intended to, but her stance is supposed to allow her to be light on her feet and dodge immediately.)
Claire crouched slightly as she placed her right foot behind her while she raised her fists, with her right hand being a little behind the left. Within seconds she dropped her hands and took a jump forward, landing on her right foot as used it to pivot and swing her other to attempt a kick attack at Hikari, aiming for her side.
Hikari's left arm moved to block Claire's kick. At the same time, she used the momentum from her arm to spin on her left foot and bring her right foot out to sweep at Claire's right leg.
Claire managed to jump back just before Hikari's foot would have collided with hers. Claire took a few steps back before charging at Hikari (who was now upright, her knees bent slightly) again, but this time swinging her left fist towards Hikari's chest. Hikari does a back-handspring into a handstand, timing it so that she catches Claire's wrist between her knees. Hikari then immediately spins on her hands, twisting Claire's arm around while the momentum carries them forward (technically backwards for Hikari). She maneuvers around Claire, causing her to fall forward, Hikari landing so that she's kneeling on Claire's back with her arm pinned.
"Alright…" Claire sighed, "You beat me. I'll get you next time though," Claire chuckled.
Hikari got up off of Claire with a slight laugh.
"You've said that the last five times."
"Well… My luck is just off then. It will come back, I know it." Claire said as she stood up and brushed the sand off her.
"After that brief warm-up, how about we try summoning our keyblades and using magic?"
"Sounds good to me." Claire said as she stretched her arm out and closed her eyes, a second later a flash of light appeared and in Claire's hand was her keyblade. Her keyblade was a reddish color, with the teeth resembling fire and the guard resembling red dragon wings. The keychain at the end was a emerald orb on a bronze plate.
Hikari just held her right hand out, and in a flash of light, a keyblade with a pale yellow star in a lavender heart for the teeth and a pair of angel wings for the handguard appeared. In the shadows of the trees nearby, globs of darkness with yellow eyes started to appear. Hikari's ears twitched as she turned slightly towards the forest.
Claire turned towards the forest and squinted, "Heartless…" She muttered.
"It seems to be just shadows," Hikari paused for a second before narrowing her eyes towards the masses of darkness, "and maybe possessors, I'm not entirely sure."
"Well...this is what we get for bringing out our keyblades. Let's go get rid of them." Claire said as she got into more of an attack position.
Hikari started walking towards the heartless. "We should probably search for the keyhole in this world as well, but first things first...magic practice on actual targets."
Claire aimed her keyblade in the direction of the Heartless. In the blink of an eye, several balls of fire went towards the heartless, while also hitting a few of the surrounding trees, catching them on fire. Some of the Heartless disappeared while the flames grew on the trees.
"Oops…" Claire said as she scratched the back of her head. "Heh, sorry about that. Do you think you could fix that? You know my other magic isn't as strong…"
Hikari sighed before standing with her keyblade held out to her side, her left foot forward, before spinning on her foot, water collecting in the air behind where the edge of her keyblade swung through the air, not noticing the ocean water gather in a large wave near the shore, before using her keyblade to launch it all at the burning trees. The initial water put out a good portion of the fire before a large tidal wave came crashing down on them, having reached the edge of the forest, destroying the rest of the heartless, and extinguishing the remaining fire.
Hikari started to shake the water out of her hair, mumbling something about not supposed to happen.
Claire stood there frozen for a moment, as the water dripped from her. A moment she let out an angry huff of air, as well smoke spewing out of her mouth. She turned and glared at Hikari "What was that for!?" She shouted.
Hikari stopped indulging her instincts for a moment before replying. "There was only supposed to be the water I gathered at the edge of my keyblade. I don't know why the ocean water responded to the spell from so far away."
"It must be something about this world." Claire said as she wrung out her hair. She then shivered, "And now I'm soaking wet...which is not something I like to be." Claire exhaled before engulfing herself in flames, seconds later, her clothes and herself were all dry.
Hikari just dismissed her keyblade before starting to ring out her hair.
"Well, seeing as we can use our keyblades and magic still… to some extent… I think we should head back to camp. Kingdom Hearts knows I need a change in clothes."
"Alright, let's go." Claire said as she stretched her arms as she started walking back towards where their camp was.
The two girls return to camp in short order, Hikari immediately going to her bag and digging for a change of clothes. Claire laid on the ground to relax and stared at the nearly cloudless sky. Hikari glances at Claire only to roll her eyes and head into her tent to change. In a short amount of time, Hikari left her tent, tying the sash of her new outfit behind her back. She paused while tightening the bow, having heard a faint cross between static and what sounded like yelling from aboard the gummi ship. Cautiously entering the wreckage and approaching the communications system, Hikari examined the circuits, she was able to distinguish that there were two voices coming through, though it sounded like they were arguing. After a brief period of trying to understand the two while tinkering with the controls to establish a two way connection, the console started emitting a loud screech. Hikari's ears flattened against her head while her hands moved to protect them from the noise while the circuits began to spark, eventually causing a small explosion that startled her.
Seconds later Claire pops her head into the gummi ship, "Hikari! There's another gummi ship out there! But it looked like it was going to crash into the ocean!"
And that was chapter 4!
The girls are now half Pokemon, betcha didn't expect that!
What will happen next? Who could possibly be in the crashing gummi ship? XD
Find out next week!
Also as I said above, I am going on vacation so I might not be able to post exactly on time next week. But I will try. And I also am going to try my very best to try to write my other stories.
Thanks for reading!