Chapter 6: The Key To Everything

RIKU

I looked up at Sora who had stopped dead in his tracks and yelled, "What wrong up there?"

Sora yelled, "Heartless have over taken Ansem's old castle and they're heading this way. There a lot of them..."

I mutter under my breath, "Dam, they're still here..."

I summoned my keyblade as did Kairi.

The flock fluttered down back to the ground along with Sora.

The heartless began to creep down the alleyway.

Sora summoned his keyblade with the winged key chain that dangled from it.

The flock and all stood back as we began slicing through the heartless.

Max shook her head and said, "I'm not letting you guys do this alone."

Max took off and zoomed ahead. She kicked a few heartless into the air where Kairi sliced through them.

More came rolling in the alley in different shapes and sizes.

I charged in cutting through them over and over.

Sora was slicing through them with incredible speed.

The alley was being flooded with heartless.

I yelled, "Where are they all coming from?!"

Sora looked ahead and said, "There's a gate up ahead, if we can seal it they can't get though."

I looked down the long alley way and barely saw what looked like a gate.

I was going to ask, how he saw that, but then I remembered, he part bird, so he had a bird eye view.

(No joke intended, but feel free to laugh.)

I yelled, "Kairi! We need to lock that gate!"

She nodded and said, "I'll get it done!"

Max flew next to her and said, "Not without me, you need back up."

She nodded and the two girls took off slicing through heartless ( or in Max's case, pounding them.)

They had made it to the gate, where Max slammed the gate doors.

Kairi pointed her keyblade a the lock and a beam of light came out of it. I heard the click of the lock.

I sighed with relief.

Sora landed and said, "That was a lot of heartless..."

Leon nodded and said, "Definitely more than last time, and last time their was an army."

Max and Kairi walked up to us and Kairi said, "The gate's been locked, but I found something near it."

She held up a rolled up piece of paper with a crown shaped wax seal on it.

Merlin looked at it and said, "Let's take it inside, and have a look."

Merlin waved his hand and the table cleared itself.

Nudge bounced up and down and said, "Magic! It a magic house!"

Merlin smiled and said, "Your quite excitable miss Nudge."

Max smiled and said, "Only if you do something exciting."

He rolled out the piece of paper and read it aloud.

"The doors to Kingdom Hearts, can be opened many ways, but this doorway once opened cannot be sealed back in."

"Thirteen keys reside, stranger than the last. Find them in the worlds of new and past."

"A watch of silver, lighting of Greece, ghostly ice, a madding tale, dragon's fire, feathers from a plight, the pearl of the sea, the skeleton key, a pirate's compass, a gem of the sands, the heart of the cards, the orb of four stars, and a person who doesn't exist."

"With the keys gathered by the bladed masters, at the world that started it all, Kingdom Hearts shall open, causing the darkness to fall, and a true king to rise."

"But if those made from the dark find the keys first, The Kingdom will fall, gone to none but the dark and cursed. Kingdom Heart, light or dark, must be opened to repair the worlds torn apart."

He looked up and said, "It's a prophecy."

Kairi nodded and said, "It's not just that, it's telling us how to defeat the heartless for good and open the doors of Kingdom Hearts to everyone."

Sora jumped up and said, "That incredible, so how do we do it?"

Iggy groaned and said, "Weren't you paying attention, we need to find thirteen keys and go to where this all started."

Sora rubbed his head and said, "Sorry..."

I looked at the page and read aloud the center part, "A watch of silver, lighting of Greece, ghostly ice, a madding tale, dragon's fire, feathers from a plight, the pearl of the sea, the skeleton key, a pirate's compass, a gem of the sands, the heart of the cards, the orb of four stars, and a person who doesn't exist. This sounds like things from different worlds."

The gullwings pulled out a map of known worlds and rolled it out on the table.

Max looked at it and said, "That's a lot of worlds..."

Sora nodded and said, "I think I can match a few of these, like a pirate's compass has to be in Port Royal. Jack never sails without it."

He wrote the 'pirate's compass' beneath the picture of Port Royal.

I said, "A madding tale is got to be Wonderland and lighting of Greece is got to be The Colosseum."

Sora wrote the two down quickly.

Kairi smiled and said, "The pearl of the sea is Alanitica, Aragraba for the gem of the sands, dragon's fire is probably in The Land of Dragons, and the skeleton key is in Halloween Town."

He wrote them down too and said, "That leaves, a watch of silver, ghostly ice, feathers from a plight, the heart of the cards, the orb of four stars, and a nobody."

Fang looked at Sora and said, "Isn't that suppose to be a person who doesn't exist?"

I replied, "Nobodies are formed when a person with a really strong heart become a heartless, there bodies walked around without a heart. Nobodies are really not suppose to exist."

Max looked at me and said, "Man that sounds so weird, but hey who am I to judge."

Yuna flew up and said, "I think I know where you can find a watch of silver."

She flew over the map and pointed to a world named, Amestris.

She said, "Magic doesn't exist there, but they have something called alchemy. Some of the alchemist carry silver pocket watches, but they are usually really powerful, so be careful."

Sora nodded and said, "We'll check it out. The other ones, I have no clue about."

Max looked at it and said, "Ah hell..."

I looked at her and asked, "What's the matter?"

Max groaned and said, "Feather's from a plight, it there only one place I know that causes so much pain with feathers..."

Sora eyes widen as he said, "We have to go back to Orbis Terrarium. Back to The School."

Nudge shook her head and said, "No, I'm not going back there! Never again!"

Max held her shoulders and said, "I wouldn't do that to you, I promise."

Nudge sniffed and said, "But how are we suppose to get it then?"

Yuffie smiled and said, "Divide and conquer, you guys split in to groups and individually get the keys."

Max smiled and said, "Not bad idea."

I said, "We'll have two teams of four and one team of three."

Total said, "No there will be a even number, counting me."

Nudge hopped up and down and said, "I want to be with Kairi and Angel!"

Total barked out, "Where Angel goes I go."

Max nodded and said, "Alright that one."

Gazzy said, "I'll stick with Iggy and Fang. Riku, you want in the all guys group?"

I sighed and said, "Why not."

Gazzy smiled and said, "Sweet." S

ora walked up to Max and said, "Guess that leaves you, with me, Donald, and Goofy."

Max smiled and said, "Alright, gives me some time to train you a bit more in your flying techniques, Sora."

I looked at the map and said, "Now that we got our groups let's decide where each of us is going."

Sora pointed on the map and said, "I'll check out this Amestris place first."

Kairi smiled and said, "I'll take the girls to Atlantica."

Angel smiled and said, "Mermaids..."

They are going to have too much fun with Ariel.

Iggy walked up and put his finger on the map. "Where is that?"

I looked at it and said, "Colosseum of Olympus."

Gazzy jumped up and said, "Iggy for the win!"

Sora smiled and said, "You'll have to tell Hercules I said hi."

My wrist beeped.

I pressed a button on my communicator and said, "Your majesty, we have good news and bad news..."