Chapter 2: Fall to Disney Castle
A man wearing a brown cloak which revealed his body but left his face hidden in shadow sat alone in a room. He wore futuristic armour and had an old fashioned Keyblade by the side of his throne. The room was dimly lit as the only light came from the moon light which shining through the room's only window as he waited for one of his soldiers he tapped the armrest of his throne. He was looking down at his feet when a portal appeared, out of which came another man. He was like a heartless but he could sense that he had a heart and he had green marking going up his arms. He was wearing black muscle armour with white and green marking over it. He looked more like a solider than the other one.
The solider walked to the man and went down on one knee, the man's hand then came out and a heartless claw was revealed. His claw went over the soldier's head to check his energy. "Raise, Colonel." He moved his hand and the solider stood up.
"Master, our forces have began the invasion on the so called world Disney Castle" explained the Solider, "we will have full control of the world in about an hour's time." The master smirked at the good news. The Master focused on the energy that would be able to tell if the Colonel was telling the truth or not. It seemed that he was but sensed something else. He started to tapping on the armrest again and the solider knew that he was in trouble because this is not a good sound to hear.
"Would you like to inform me about a certain ship heading for the world we are trying to take over," he said angrily, "and since the amount light on it is too much to bear, I'm guessing the Keyblade bearer and his two friends are on that ship!" He stood up and looked at the solider, staring into his pure emerald eyes. The master's eyes however were pure dark yellow, "Get out of here and bring me the king of that world alive, GOT IT?" he ordered. The solider nodded and faded through the portal. The master sat back down and started to tap once again.
BOWBOWBOW
Kairi had just woken up as the journey from Destiny Island to Disney Castle was about sixteen hours long. Poor Sora, he had been driving the gummi for eight hours straight and couldn't get any sleep as he was cheering her up, making Kairi feel guilty. Kairi came in and gave Sora a can of Fanta as it always woke him up when he was being a lazy bum. Sora drank the Fanta but it only gave him a little energy. Sora then yawned. "I'm so tired, but I can't stop now." He said to himself.
"Sora let me take over for you, you need the sleep!" said Kairi. Sora would have said no but knew that Kairi was gonna grab him out of the driving seat anyway and with him being too tired to argue, he put autopilot on, got out of the seat and let Kairi sit.
"Okay" he said tiredly, "You use this to drive and this to change speed." Sora was pointing at certain parts of equipment. Kairi clung onto his every word, tired or not. "If you see any enemies or if we reach Disney Castle then you come wake me up, ok?" Kairi nodded and Sora left the room. He laid down on the sitting couch near the pilot section and went to sleep.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora found himself in the Station of Awakening, where he had first found himself at the beginning of his first adventure. He stood on a stained floor of him with Roxas, Kairi and Naminé. Sora was looking around when he heard the voice that had guided him on his previous visit.
You have done well! This adventure will be your toughest yet. Stairs appeared leading to the next level.
Some darkness will come from light… Sora started to go up the stairs,
…your heart will be the weapon, not your Keyblade. Sora got to the next level and saw Roxas.
Roxas is Sora's Nobody that was created when Sora sacrificed himself to save Kairi. He was part of Organisation XIII before getting captured by Riku and placed back into Sora. Roxas had dirty blonde spiky that seemed shorter then Sora's hair and had the same blue eyes as Sora and the same face. He wore a black, high-collared jacket with a zipper resembling the Nobody symbol. Over this, he wore another jacket, this one unzipped and white, with several black block designs and a grey hem on the end of each sleeve. This jacket's collar was red and pleated and folded back. Roxas also wore two-colored pants; the legs of his pants were light grey with several of what looked like buttons on the hem that appeared to attach the legs to the rest of the cloth, which were dark-colored. Roxas's shoes were colored in shades of grey and black and had red straps in place of laces. Finally, Roxas wore a wrist band with a black-and-white checkerboard pattern on his left wrist, as well as a plain black ring on his left index finger and a plain white ring on his left middle finger.
Roxas nodded and smiled at Sora. They both looked up just in time to see a Darkside and a Twilight Thorn land on the platform.
Let me see how you are with old enemies. Sora took on the Darkside while Roxas battled with the Twilight Thorn. It only took about ten seconds for Sora and Roxas to defeat them, then three stands appeared with a sword, a staff, and a shield. Roxas disappeared back into Sora's body. The objects look more futuristic than any other weapons Sora had ever seen. Sora then approached the sword,
The path of the warrior.
Strength to defeat certain foes.
Wisdom for different problems.
Protection for love ones.
Is this the path your wish to pick? Sora nodded and picked up the sword which then transformed into his Keyblade. The Kingdom Key now had a light blue line going down it.
A ray of light appeared leading to the next platform, Sora went into the light and was taken to the next platform. The floor had three knights, each holding a Keyblade, Sora was looking at the floor when dark creatures appeared; but they were not Heartless. The creatures were dark blue and had blood red eyes. Sora turned and tried to summon his Keyblade, but nothing happened.
Like I said, your heart will be your weapon, not your Keyblade…. The creature jumped on Sora, sucking him into the darkness,
….you do remember what I said about the heart before, don't you? As Sora desperately tried to get out of the darkness, he thought about everything which represented light in his heart. He thought about the worlds, his friends and Kairi. Light then shined from Sora and found himself on the platform, with no enemies.
Remember, your heart is the strongest weapon of them all. Sora then took the energy from the Keyblade and put it in his gloves and boots, for hand to hand combat. As he did so, enemies of the same kind as those who had just vanished appeared but this time Sora defeats them.
Sometimes, the Keyblade won't be there to save you or anyone else. As your soul, I will guide you through the whole way. Sora nodded then looked up as he heard his name being called by Riku.
BOWBOWBOW
Riku was shaking Sora trying to get him to wake up, mainly because he wanted to yell at him for letting Kairi drive. "Sora? Sora! Time to get up! Sora, wake up!" Riku said repeatedly while slapping Sora lightly on the face. Riku then got an idea, "Sora WAKE UP! Someone is kidnapping Kairi!!!" Upon hearing this, Sora jumped up, Keyblade at the ready.
"What! Where's Kairi?" asked Sora, panic and alarm in his voice
"Kairi is for some reason driving" answered Riku, and by the tone of his voice, Sora knew he was about to get yelled at. "WHY IS KAIRI DRIVING?!" asked Riku who shouting now, it was so loud that they didn't notice the 'autopilot on' voice.
"I was tired and Kairi offered to drive" explained Sora, Riku and Sora didn't notice that Kairi was eavesdropping, mainly because Riku was yelling so loud.
"WHAT happened to the word 'NO'!!" yelled Riku
"Well I was gonna say it but…."
"But you looked into Kairi's eyes and you couldn't say no." Kairi blushed and went back to the pilot section. Kairi saw something shocking, she grabbed the speaker so that it would make the other two think that she was driving, NOT eavesdropping.
"Eh…Riku?Sora? I think the king needs our help badly!" Sora then came into the pilot section, follow by Riku. Then they saw what she meant immediately, Disney Castle was half covered in darkness. Sora took over for Kairi and turned it to manual pilot.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora flew the gummi into the atmosphere of Disney Castle only to see the worst from under the dark clouds. Disney Castle had creatures crawling up the walls of the kingdom as well as parts of the villages that surround the castle was getting set on fire. Sora tried to fly into the gummi port only to find that the invaders have placed huge sentry guns at the entrance and began to shoot at the ship. Riku tried to shoot the guns but it seemed that the guns were protected by some barrier. Kairi looked on the scanner of the gummi and told Sora to land on the far side of the village, it was far from the castle but the only safe place.
The trio got out of the Gummi and looked around them. Suddenly, a huge dog wielding a huge shield with King Mickey's symbol came around the corner accompanied by other knights and citizens. "Goofy!" shouted Sora. Goofy ordered the knights to protect the citizens near the Gummi ship after noticing Sora, Kairi and Riku's arrival. Goofy checked that his men were in place before running over to the trio.
"Gawrsh, Sora. I wish we could catch up but we've got to leave." Goofy caught his breath from fighting. The armour that Goofy was wearing was either broken or covered with soot from the fires.
"Where are Donald and the King?" asked Sora.
"Gee, they're trapped in the Castle." Goofy looked back at the castle before looking at Sora again. "I tried to get in but my shield has no effect on the enemy." Sora summoned his keyblade and thought about that strange dream that he had. After looking at kingdom key with thought, Sora looked at Riku and Kairi.
"You guys have to help the knights protect this area" instructed Sora. Kairi nodded, acting confident as she summoned her Keyblade while Riku didn't like the sound of the plan. He wanted to see if his friend was safe and sound.
"I coming too!" said Riku,
Sora looked back at Riku with a serious expression. "Riku, I need you to help Kairi defend the ship." Riku looked back at the ship, "We can't all go and we don't know about this enemy." Riku sighed in defeat before agreeing to Sora's crazy plan. As Riku took his place next to Kairi, Goofy began to lead Sora to the castle.
Sora and Goofy started to head towards the castle when one of the unknown creatures from the Station of Awakening appeared and stood in their path. Sora tried to attack it with the Keyblade but it didn't even make a scratch. Sora was even vibrating because of the strength that the blue creature was producing. He tried magic and… it worked but only with his strongest spells. Sora cleared the area using magic and got to the gates of the castle. Sora ran towards the gates when he was stopped by a solider-like creature. Sora tried magic on it but it had no effect; the solider grabbed Sora and Goofy and threw them against the gate. Sora tried to get up but was held down by the solider creature. Sora shielded himself with his Keyblade, only to see a blank of white then to see that the solider creature is gone.
Sora got up and saw a white-cloaked person with old fashioned armour. Sora helped Goofy up and tried to see who it was. "Who are you?" asked Sora, The white-cloaked person took out the rest of the creatures that were blocking the way into Disney Castle with a staff, and then turned to look at Sora.
"If you want to find out more about these mysterious creatures" said the white-cloaked person, "then you might want to visit this man-made world." The person gave Sora a white business card which said:
Daniel Devon
Leader and Creator
Little Devon
The password is a friend and neighbour to Devon only bigger.
Combine the answer then go to the town with a transportation spell.
Sora looked up only to see that the person had disappeared. He put the card in his pocket and went with Goofy into Disney Castle. Sora and Goofy got into the Castle and were shocked by what they saw. What was once pure white and bright was scratched, burned, crumbled and shattered in every form that it can be looked at. The garden, where the gummi port was, was heavily guarded by the same soldiers that the white solider took out. Sora and Goofy quickly hid behind the pillars as a patrol rushed by to head into battle. Sora feared that they were heading towards Riku and Kairi."Goofy. Where's the last place you saw Donald and the king?" asked Sora with a serious look.
"They were heading to the tower." answered Goofy and pointed to the highest tower. Seeing the tower, Sora groaned and looked at Goofy.
"Okay. Let's go!" Sora and Goofy headed to the far end of the castle to the stairs. When Sora and Goofy got to the stairs, they saw more of the shadowed creatures again. Sora looked at his keyblade again before he disposed of his weapon, this confused Goofy greatly.
"Sora? What you doing?" asked Goofy in a worried tone of voice.
"I'm gonna try using my heart instead of my Keyblade," answered Sora while tugging his gloves and stamping his feet. His gloves and boots glowed bright blue, then without warning he attacked the strange creatures and each disappeared as it was defeated. Goofy was surprised and stayed behind Sora while they headed up the stairs. When they reached the top of the tower, Goofy had to use his potions on Sora because using his heart to fight had done a good deal of damage to his body since he didn't know how to handle his new power.
They ran into a room and found a medium sized duck unconscious on the floor and heard the sounds of a medium sized mouse, fighting in the other room. Goofy ran to Donald as he noticed that Donald started to stir "Donald, are you ok?" asked Goofy, Sora came towards the two and kneeled next to Goofy.
Donald fluttered his eyes weakly and looked at the burred versions of Sora and Goofy. "Goofy? Sora? The king needs help" Donald said, and then fell unconscious again.
Sora looked at the direction where he could hear the king fighting, wondering who he could be fighting. Sora quickly stood up before looking at his dog-humanoid friend. "Goofy. You try and bring Donald back to reality while I'll help the king." he told him.
Goofy looked up at Sora, "Be careful Sora" said the worried Goofy. Sora nodded and smiled at Goofy before running into the next room.
Sora saw King Mickey fighting with one of the solider-like creatures. This one however, unlike the others, had green markings, different armour and no helmet. Sora could see that the enemy had green hair and eyes, both the same colour as its armour markings. King Mickey was wearing some sort of black outfit that was similar to what Sora was wearing now. (KH BBS outfit). Sora rushed forward to try and help the king but was stopped by a barrier that the solider must have put up. Sora started to hit the barrier with his Keyblade which caused King Mickey to look away from his opponent and glance around trying to find the source of the noise.
"Sora! Get out of here now" he shouted, but his momentary lapse in concentration gave the mysterious soldier an opening which he seized. Grabbing the king by the head, the solider slammed him to the floor several times, knocking him out.
"Your majesty! Your majesty!" Sora called out, still trying to get through the barrier. All Sora could do was watch as the solider picked up the fallen royal mouse and threw in on his shoulder as he created a dark green solider turned to notice Sora and smirked at him as he pointed at him and then drew his finger across his own throat Sora stared at his face and memorized it so that he would be sure to recognize him the next time they met. As Sora started to make the barrier break, the solider went through the portal with King Mickey over his shoulder and the barrier disappeared. Sora tried to get to the portal but he reached it too late.
The king was gone.
The tower started to shake as Sora ran back to Donald and Goofy. Donald was awake now but he couldn't walk and he couldn't remember how to use any of his spells other than basic fire. It was starting to get hard for Sora to run across the room without worrying about his balance as the vibrations of the tower became worse.
When Sora reached them, Donald looked at him weakly, "Where's the king?" Donald asked weakly.
"He was taken by that green solider guy" Sora replied sadly.
The tower began to shake to the side, acting as if it was going to fall over. Sora quickly looked out of the smashed window to see that a number of the creatures were striking at the tower, trying to make it collapse. Sora knew that there was no time to escape and he didn't have enough energy to use a drive thanks to using the strength of his heart. Sora quickly skidded over to Donald and Goofy, who had fell over from the vibrations, and slammed his Keyblade into the ground. "Grab on to the keyblade." Sora told Goofy. Goofy quickly grabbed the top part of the blade of Kingdom Key while holding Donald in his other arm. The tower suddenly jumped as it started to tilt in the direction that Sora, Donald and Goofy was facing. As the tower started to tilt, it made it harder for Sora and Goofy to hold on to the Keyblade. The tower lost it's balance and started to race towards the ground, "This is gonna hurt." Sora said before all three of them yelled from the speed of the fall.
'SMASH'
The highest tower fell in front of the castle's gates, destroying the creatures that send it falling. Sora emerged from the wreckage holding Donald in his arms and Goofy followed behind them holding his head. They rubbed their heads and started to run back towards the gummi ship before more of the creatures could come.
When they got to the ship, Riku and Kairi were fighting the strange creatures as well, like Sora feared. Sora ran towards Riku and Kairi, yelling at them to get on the ship while going towards the weaker ones and struck them with his fist, using the strength of his heart. Everyone got on the gummi ship and Sora quickly rushed on the ship. He shut the ship's door shut, preventing the creatures to board, before jumping into the driver seat. Riku looked around to notice that King Mickey wasn't on the ship, Kairi seemed to notice this too and when over to Sora. "Sora, Where's the king?" asked Kairi.
"I'll tell you all the information later" Sora said sadly, he quickly set the controls up as the creatures began to surround the ship. Sora turned the thrusters up to full blast, blowing the enemy away and up to the sky. While leaving the world, the sentry guns from earlier blasted the gummi at the side of the ship. The ship started to jumped from the attack, Sora quickly restored to error and escaped the fallen world. Everyone apart from Sora looked back at the world once known as Disney Castle as it became eclipsed in total darkness.
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