Here is the official first Chapter of Elementals: Book I. Read and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, or anything except any OCs I might make.
6/19: Some small revisions were made in this chapter, such as correcting grammatical errors, typos, and plot holes that I noticed when rereading.
-ELEMENTALS-
Chapter I
In a dark secluded world, inside a large castle at the heart of the Dark City, a group of dark robed, hooded Elementals were having some form of meeting in a large spacious room. The room itself was round in shape, with grey coloured walls, floor, and ceiling. The most strangest thing about this room were the 12 thrones, each of varying heights, and the large, translucent, blue symbol on the wall, which resembles an upside-down cross with points on its ends with the bottom end shaped like a large heart. This symbol was on the floor too.
"So, Master Cidolfus is dead?" asked one of them, a particularly tall and muscular Elemental asks in his deep voice.
"Yes. And with two keyblade wielders dead, two new wielders of the keyblade shall rise," said the apparent leader of this group. "We must act quickly, and find these wielders before they do."
Each of the hooded Elementals glanced at each other, before one spoke up.
"So, guess we're leaving right now, huh?" The Elemental who spoke appeared to be tall as well, but incredibly thin, with his sleeves tight against his skinny arms.
"Of course we are, you buffoon. Anything else, Superior?" asked the Elemental sitting on the second highest throne.
"Nothing important to note. Remember that the Keyblade goes to Elementals not yet awakened. Now go! Find them!" the Superior commanded in his deep, monotone, yet authority-filled voice.
One by one, each member left, disappearing in a swirl of their respective element.
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School had finally just ended for the summer. No more rude awakenings, no more tests, and no more homework. So naturally, Riku could expect for Sora to still be asleep in bed at 3:24pm. So, being a loving best friend, Riku went to the tool shed in Sora's backyard, grabbed a bucket, filled it with water, and with approval from Sora's mother, dumped the freezing contents of the bucket onto Sora's sleeping form. And like any other person, Sora instantly jumped out of his bed, shivering like crazy. He heard the sound of someone laughing and turned around to see Riku laughing his ass off.
"Hey! That was really cold! What was that for anyway?" Sora screamed at Riku.
At that moment, Kairi chose to climb into Sora's room through the window. "Did you finally wake him up Riku?" she asked their silver-haired best friend, who was still rolling on the floor laughing. And then she noticed Sora shivering and screaming at Riku for dumping a gallon of freezing water on him. "Hey, Sora! Finally awake?"
"Kairi! Hug me! I need someone's body heat!" Sora exclaimed.
"Why don't you ask Riku?" Kairi asked, giggling at Sora's demand.
As soon as those words came out Kairi's mouth, Riku stopped laughing and, with a straight face, told her, "Yeeeaaah, no. I don't swing that way."
"Yeah! Besides, he's the reason I'm freezing!" Sora said while changing into a different pair of clothes.
"Whoa! Hey, can't that wait until I'm out the room?! I mean, I get that you're putting on a show for Kairi, but damn Sora! I don't swing that way!" Riku cried when he noticed Sora removing his pajamas. Sora and Kairi both blushed when Riku said that. The part about Sora putting on a show for Kairi, of course.
You see, Sora and Riku had been best friends since diapers. When Sora was 4 and Riku 5, Kairi came to Destiny Islands from the world Radiant Garden. The three of them instantly bonded and had been best friends ever since. And we all know the rule about childhood friends. In this case, Sora and Kairi liked each other. A lot. Everyone knew that, except them. You know, typical setup. But that's not important. What's important is that Riku doesn't want to see Sora in the buff.
"Riku, Kairi, get out!" Sora barked at his two best friends. Riku left through the door, chuckling. Kairi was giggling, but was also secretly wishing she could watch Sora change. She blushed, ignoring her bad thoughts and left through the window.
After he got dressed, the three of them went to the beach to visit the small island of the coast of Destin Island. The Destiny Islands were made up of several islands of varying sizes. The largest was Destin Island, where the capitol Destiny City was located. There was Nevaeh Island, a popular vacation destination for visitors from other worlds and the second largest island. The third island was known as Kilika Island, and people there were obsessed with Blitzball. The fourth island was known as the Destin Ruins and was unpopulated, since it was mainly ruins of a city called Zanarkand. The fifth island was unnamed and was mainly for agriculture. The smallest island, which Sora, Riku, and Kairi were heading to, was simply known as Play Island, where children could be found playing during the day, and teens partying at night. Our three main heroes, however, had no intention to party. At least not today.
"So, what do you think we should do today?" Kairi questioned her friends. She honestly had no clue why she was even going there today, it's just that they always went, everyday.
"Why don't we just sleep the day away? There's a really nice breeze, and the sun is shining bright!" suggested Sora, already drowsy at the thought of taking a relaxing nap on the beach.
To say Riku and Kairi were shocked was an overstatement. They had almost expected Sora to say that. After all, he was Sora.
"Dude, is sleeping all you can think about? You just woke up a few minutes ago! What're Kairi and I gonna do with you?" Riku said to his lazy friend.
"Sora, you're such a lazy bum," said Kairi, using Sora's special nickname.
"Yeah, but I'm your lazy bum, aren't I?" Sora teased. Kairi blushed at his tease.
"I g-g-guess…," I wish you were mine.
"Enough flirting you two. I see Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie at the island. Maybe we could play some blitzball," said Riku.
"Hey, I wasn't flirting! And yeah, blitzball sounds fun! Race ya!" and like a little kid on a sugar rush, Sora ran towards the three teens on the shore of the small island, with Riku and Kairi giving chase.
"Hey Kairi, Sora! And hel-lo Riku!" Selphie, the bouncy, energetic brunette greeted. She had long brunette hair that curled up at the ends, green eyes, somewhat tanned complexion, and was wearing a bright yellow tanktop with jean short-shorts. Selphie was Kairi's best girlfriend, and was a stereotypical girly-girl. You know, shoes, cute boys, shopping, cute boys, etc. She also had a slight crush on Riku, but then again, so did every girl in Destiny Islands except Kairi.
"Hey guys! What took ya so long? Were Sora and Kairi finally doing the dance with no pants?" Tidus was from Besaid on Kilika Island. He had dirty blond hair that spiked at the end, blue eyes, and wore an open shirt revealing his toned chest, as well as shorts with one leg longer than the other. He was obsessed with Blitzball, being from Kilika.
"Ya, how's it going, mon? We've been waiting for ages!" Wakka was Tidus's best friend and even more obsessed with blitzball than him. He even carried a ball around all the time. He was wearing a sleeveless beige top with puffy matching shorts, and a blue bandanna around his massive broom-like spike of orange hair. He spoke in a thick Kilikan accent.
Selphie smacked Tidus at the back of his head. "Watch what you're saying, you idiot!"
"Okay, enough. Shouldn't we be playing some blitzball? Sora and I are captains." Riku said.
"Yeah! Yeah! I call first pick! Kairi!" Sora shouted. Everyone except Kairi snickered.
"Of course Sora would pick Kairi first," Riku sneered. Sora's face turned red at Riku's comment.
Riku chose Wakka. Sora got Tidus, and Riku got Selphie. The two teams jumped into the water immediately and began playing, unaware that someone was watching them.
Standing atop one of the tall trees on the play island was a black-robed, hooded figure. His eyes were mainly focused on Sora. He could feel strong waves of power coming from him. He smirked to himself. He found the new Keyblade's chosen. It was time to test him.
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Now, we find ourselves in Twilight Town. Roxas was heading home from his summer job at the ice cream shop. It was already dark out, and Roxas didn't want to get mugged or anything. Fortunately for him, he wasn't going to get mugged. Unfortunately for him, the couple across the street were. Damn it, thought Roxas. I could ignore them...oh damn it all to hell! Roxas raced towards the victims and the mugger.
Oh shit! What am I gonna fight with?
"Hey, kid! What the hell are you doin' here?! Back off, ya nosy brat!" the mugger yelled pointing his knife at them.
"Hey, you guys run off. I might be able to hold him while you call the cops! Go! Now!" Roxas ordered the couple.
"Thanks, kid. Let's go!" the man said to his girlfriend. As soon as they were gone, Roxas faced the mugger.
"How ya gonna fight me, eh? Bare-handed? HAHAHAHA!" the mugger taunted. "Gonna punch me huh? Well, guess what kid? I got a knife! Now I'll kill you for-" A pillar of light slammed into him mid gloat, sending him into the wall behind him.
"Guess what? I got light," Roxas taunted back.
"Y-y-y-ou're an Elemental?! I'm outta here! Just leave me alone, ya freak!" The mugger tried running away, but Roxas slammed another light pillar into him, knocking him out.
A few minutes later, police came to take him away. When the mugger woke up, he saw Roxas near him and started yelling, "Freak! Freak!" all the way to the cop car. The officers thanked Roxas, and Roxas headed home.
That's exactly why I don't like using my powers. Everyone gets so judgemental. I bet if my friends and family knew, they'd probably abandon me. Roxas was suddenly broken out of his thoughts when he heard a noise behind him. He turned around and saw a tall, skinny man wearing a black robe with the hood up obscuring his face. He was clapping.
"Great job handling that human. Though if you ask me, I probably would've done a bit more. Hospitalize him, probably." he said.
"Um, who are you?" Roxas was a little creeped out by the strange guy.
"Not important, got it memorized? All ya need to know is I'm offering you a place to be with others of your kind. Make some friends, control your powers better, yada yada."
Roxas was somewhat put off by what he said. "What do you mean, 'others of your kind'? Are you an Elemental?" he asked the strange guy.
"Yep. So is everyone else in the Organization," the guy responded.
"Prove it."
The strange man held up a hand in front of his face. The hand suddenly burst into flames.
"See? Just like you. Here, take this." The man handed Roxas a card. Roxas took it and asked, "What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Use it to contact me once you make up your mind. Later, kid." In a burst of flames, the man disappeared.
Roxas looked down at the card in his hand. In large, bold red letters read AXEL. So that's his name, I guess. Wait, how am I supposed to call him?! There's no number on here! The whole card's blank except for the name! It was true. The only thing on the card was Axel's name. The back was blank. Roxas slipped the card into his pocket and started heading home, muttering to himself about what a waste of time that whole thing had been.
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After their game of blitzball (which ended in a tie, since they chose not to do the extra round for a tiebreaker), Sora decided that the sun was getting a little too hot for him and retreated to the small cave near the waterfall, the one he, Kairi and Riku called the Secret Place. It was nice and cool in there, and the soft dirt on the ground was incredibly comfortable to lie on. The walls of the Secret Place were covered in doodles, drawn by the three of them when they were younger. One of Sora's favorite doodles was the one he and Kairi drew of each other when they were 6. Sora had made another addition to it last year, when they were working on that silly raft. He was giving a paopu to Kairi. Little did he know that Kairi had added to it and drew herself giving Sora a paopu too.
Sora was about to lie down and sleep when someone spoke.
"You are one of the chosen."
The voice was quiet and soft, oddly making Sora feel somewhat calm. "Who is that? Riku, is that you?"
"I can sense strong light in you."
"Who are you? And what are you saying?"
"Your friends as well. I sense strong light from the girl, and powerful waves of light and darkness from the boy."
Sora was getting really creeped out by now, so he slowly backed away from the cave. "Whatever, man. You're insane!" And he bolted. Unfortunately, he never got to hear what the voice said next.
"Beware the Organization. They are coming."
As Sora was running out the cave, he failed to notice a white creature slither away into a portal nearby.
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Roxas was still think about what the man named Axel had said earlier that night. He was beginning to consider joining that "Organization." After all, based on what he heard of in the news, Elementals weren't exactly at the top of everyone's favs list. Maybe at the top of people's fav to kill list probably. It didn't help that he was afraid of how his friends and family would react if they knew. He remembered a girl that used to go to his school. She was an Elemental, and she ended up disappearing after the weeks of discrimination. Roxas was trying to remember her name. It was something like Shiko. No, Shino. No, Shio. Well, something like that.
Roxas decided he would join the Organization. He wrote a note to his parents, then brought out the card Axel gave him and stared at it. Wait, what is that? Was that there before? Roxas thought. He examined the card and noticed fine print saying, "Read my name out loud."
"Okay, here goes. Axel," Roxas said to himself.
"That's my name, got it memorized?"
Roxas jumped at the voice. "How'd you—forget it. Take me to the Organization. I'll join."
Axel was surprised. He hadn't expected the kid to join so quickly. Then again, that depressing new girl was from around here, so maybe Twilight Town had issues with Elementals. Who knows? "Alright, let's go. Don't worry about your stuff, I'll take care of it. Let's go." And with a snap of his fingers, Axel and Roxas diappeared.
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The hooded man watching Sora, Riku, and Kairi earlier was standing on top of a building in Destiny City. Of course, no one could see him. His powers prevented that. As he stood watching our trio make their way to an ice cream stand, he snapped his fingers, summoning dozens of strange white creatures he created, dubbed "Nobodies". God, he loved his powers.
Suddenly, from the inside of the hooded man's ear, a faint buzz could be heard before someone started speaking.
"Superior. This is Axel. I found a Keyblade wielder." BZZT.
This was surprising. More than one new wielders? It didn't matter, as long as the Organization had one. The man decided to leave, but chose to let his Nobodies linger, as a test for this wielder. One he hoped the boy would fail.
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Riku was lagging behind his two friends, watching how they were acting. Sora and Kairi were maintaining a fairly respectable distance from each other, but based on their body language, they clearly wanted to be closer to the other. But of course, Riku knew that the two of them liked each other, but were convinced the feelings weren't mutual. What a bunch of idiots.
As the three of them continued onto the ice cream stand, around them dozens of strange, deformed-looking white...things appeared from weird portals. And every single one was surrounding the three of them.
"What the hell is this?!" Riku screamed in shock and slight fear.
Kairi looked frightened, and Sora looked ready to fight them, though he was still showing signs of fear also.
The creatures continued to close in on them, our trio squeezing closer and closer together. The three were wondering where all the civilians had gone, and why none of the Destiny Islands Defense Force officers were here.
They had no idea that the hooded figure who summoned the creatures had also manipulated the surroundings, using his somewhat weak illusion powers to disguise Sora, Riku, and Kairi.
"Guys, what're we gonna do?" asked Kairi.
"I don't—wait, Sora, NO!" Riku shouted, but Sora already ran up and tried to punch one of the creatures...and failed. His fist practically just went through.
"Dammit, Sora! Don't rush into things without thinking!" Riku scolded harshly.
"What'll we do now?" Kairi asked Riku. It was clear that Riku was the go to guy to figure out what to do, since he was the oldest after all.
"I don't know." And with that statement, the creatures attacked them. The three of them tried to fight them off, but because their fists couldn't damage them, they were easily overpowered. The creatures piled on top of the three of them, cutting off their air supply and slowly suffocating them.
Sora began hoping for a way to fight off the creatures, a way to defend himself, a way to defend his friends. As his thoughts became much stronger, almost like a mantra, a powerful light suddenly burst through the white monsters. This light dimmed down, revealing Sora standing upright, with a gleaming, silver, key-shaped sword in his hand.
The Keyblade.
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And that's the first chapter, done! Feel free to share your thoughts in a review, and please don't flame. Give me some constructive criticism, what I can improve, or what you like. Thanks for reading, and hope to see you next chapter!