DISCLAMER: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Fire Emblem. Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix and Fire Emblem belongs to Nintendo.
Chapter 2: Shepherds and Rediscovering.
Sora felt a... Weird... But familiar sensation.
He opened his eyes to see that he was floating in... nothingness, a black void as far as he could see.
"This place..." he thought, "i've been here before, but... never like this".
"Why?".
"Because you are incomplete" said the familiar voice from before, suprising Sora, "your memories are scattered, lost to the whims of fate".
Sora wondered what the voice said...
Then he felt pain in his heart, he cleached is chest, wondering why.
"Your heart hurts" said the voice, "but you have no recolection of the memories".
"So tell me, why does it hurt?".
"Because my heart still remembers" said Sora without hesitation, "the memories of the past, of those i met, the places i've seen, the experiences i felt, it never truly left me".
"But since i can't remember anything myself, my heart hurts, and if it does, it can only mean one thing...".
"The memories are important" said the voice, "those you met, the places, the fellings... There all important to you".
"But are they trully nessesary?" asked the voice, "you could just discart them, all of it. And make a new life for yourself".
"Would that not be bet-".
"It would not!" yelled Sora, "the memories... If they were not important, they would not hurt so much".
"So long as i have this hurt, i refuse to forget it, forget them".
Sora paused for a moment, and said, "tell me, how can i remember?".
"Is it trully what you want?" said the voice, "would you carry such a burden with you wherever you go?".
"Can you trully handle the hurt in your heart?".
"I will" said Sora with his hand close to his heart, "i will carry the hurt with me, till the day i see them again, i will never leave it behind".
There was silence for a moment, then...
"I expected no less from you, child" said the voice, "if that is what you want, then i will gladly help you in your endevor".
A blinding flash happened, forcing Sora to cover his eyes, and as he removed his hands, multiple sparkels were in front of him.
On closer inspection, the sparks were actually glass shards, floating all around him.
"These fragments are your memories" said the voice, "at the moment, they are shattered, without form".
"It is up to you to make them whole again, and in the prosses, recover your precious memories".
"Can you aling the pieces together?".
Sora looked around for a bit, then he heard a voice.
"When we grow up, let's get off this island" said a young voice, likely belonging to i child, "we'll go on real adventures, not this kid stuff".
Sora looked at the direction of the voice, and saw a larger fragment of glass than the others, he floted towards it and grabbed it.
When he did, the memories came back to him,
"His name is... Riku" said Sora, "we've been friends since forever, we've always competed against each other, always pushed each other to be better than the other".
"But on that day...".
"The day your world fell around you" said the voice, "on that day, he changed, came to believe that he was smarter, that he could control the darkness. Yet he fell against it all the same".
"After all that he had done, what did you do?".
"I forgave him" said Sora, "Once he realised what he had done, he fought with all his heart to correct his mistake, he was willing to sacrifice himself to shut the door of Kingdom Hearts from within to stop the darkness from consuming the worlds".
"He felt ashamed about what he had done for power, so much so that he couldn't show his face to me, but even after all he had done..."
The fragment began to glow, then it became a mirror, showing both Sora and Riku at the beach during the time they were traped in the realm of darkness.
"He was, in is still, my friend".
"In the end, he proved himself worthy of the Keyblade, were ast the begining, he fell into darkness, and the Keyblade became forever your's" said the voice, "tell me then, do you really have no grievences against him?".
Sora thought for a moment, and said... "i just wished that he stopped making fun of me! I mean come on, he's not that much taller then me! And where the same age two, so why does he act like he's so much older then me?".
There was silence, then... "Hehe... You trully are unique, child" said the voice, "it's no wonder you became the person you are now".
"Well, it's not like i don't have my own problems" said Sora, "but i live like i've always done".
"Anyway, i remember Riku, but some of the memorys surronding me and him still has holes in them, why's that?".
"What you just saw are the memories of a person you cherish" said the voice, "one aspect of your life, but as you can see, there is so much more that you don't know about yourself".
"Guess this take a while, huh?" said Sora, then he began searching again, and just like before, he heard a voice... in fact, two different voices!
"But i'm not gonna betray Sora, either, 'cause he's become one of my best buddies after all we've through together!".
"Well, you know... All for one and one for all".
Sora touched the fragment, and like before, he rembembered.
"They are... Donald and Goofy".
"When i left my world, i met the two of them, at first, i only went with them to find my Riku and... And...".
Sora thought for a moment, but couldn't remember who else he was looking for "why can't i..."
"Their someone who is just as important to you as them" said the voice, "their memory is separate from the two of them".
Sora huffed for a moment, but decided to push that aside for the moment, "well anyway, i only went with them for my own sake, and even butted heads with Donald on more than one occasion, but...".
"Even through all of the problems, you bonded with them" said the voice, "you only shared a goal at first, but over time the three of you found common ground and ever since, you've united against everything that was thrown against you".
"Hehe... You say the three of us, but honestly, Goofy was the one that was there to protect me when it mattered most, Donald followed behind just as quickly" said Sora, "But after everything we've been through together...".
Once again, the fragment turned into a mirror with showed the three of them when they first met, and then when they but their hands in the middle.
"Their irreplacesable to me, no matter what we've been through, we've faced it together as a team, and as friends".
"Such friendship borned of a chance meeting" said the voice, "or perhaps it was fate, we may never know".
"Who knows really" said Sora, "but one thing is always apperent, and that is...".
"All for one and one for all, i'll never forget that".
"Such is the bond the three of you have for each other" said the voice, "you never gave up on each other, and in the end, you've faced the danger together".
"Yeah... I hope the two of them are alright" said Sora, "they might be desparate, looking for me, i wish i could tell them i'm alright".
Sora then felt a tremor, and when he looked down, he saw a platform appear out of thin air.
It was a glass mural that showed him sleeping on the right side, with the keyblade in hand.
Sora began to fall towards it, and when he touched the ground, the windows involving him, Riku, Donald and Goofy were circulating aroung him.
"what's this all about?" he asked.
"Your heart is finally finding it's place, and so too are you" said the voice.
"Well, if this is all i have to do to get my memories back, then it will easy" said Sora.
"Not quite..." said the voice, "over the years you have foght the darkness for so long, that it has found a place in your heart, so too, have your enemies".
Sora looked around, and saw multiple creatures begin to come out of the ground, they were all black with yellow eyes.
"Do you remember these abominations?" said the voice.
"These are... The Heartless!" said Sora as he summoned the Keyblade, "but, what are...".
"The darkness in your heart" said the voice, "when you lost your memories, you also lost your powers, and so, lost control".
"But do not worry, for you are capable of dispaching them".
Sora recognised these heartless as shadows and Neoshadows, as he got ready to fight some of them went into the ground and re-appered behind him, but as they were going to attack, Sora quickly blocked them and counterattacked by jumping and slamming the keyblade down, dispaching them in the prosses.
Sora then prepared to use his magic, he began by using Aero to gather the heartless, then used thunder on them.
As he finished, some of the Neoshadows got the jump on him, hit him, and sent him fliying to the other side, but Sora quickly recovered from it, and prosseded to use gravity on them, squishing them.
The heartless were beginning to thin out, and so Sora took the opertunity to cast cure on himself, but depleting his magic reserves.
The heartless attacked, but Sora dodged out of the way, and attacked them.
And so, they were all gone.
"Well, that wasn't so bad" said Sora.
He then looked up, and saw another fragment flouting down, but as he went to touch it, a giant arm came and grabbed it.
The rest of the body began to come out of the darkness, reveling it to be a Darkside.
The Darkside shuved his hand into a pool of darkness and pulled out an dark orb, he threw it up and it exploded, releasing smaller ones, Sora dodged them and jumped up to its face, and began to slash it, it then pulled it's arm back in an attempt to hit Sora, but Sora blocked it with the Keyblade, making it fall on it's face.
Sora then tapped into his power, remembering it to be his second form, and began to attack it, but as he did, the heartless got up, and as he did, multiple shadows began to surge from the ground.
Felling that his magic was back, he began to lauch multiple thunder bolts around him, dodging when nessesary, when he finished with the shadows, the Darkside was going to attack him, But Sora wasn't intimidated.
"Take this!" he said while focusing the magic, and when he did, multiple giant streems of lightning began to pour down, and when all of them made contact, a blast of electricity came, massivly damaging the Darkside.
For his final move, he perfomed Ars Arcanum, delivering multiple fast attacks, and ending with a great bash to the heartless.
The heartless began to dissipate, it fell into the ground and vanished, and when it did, the fragment apeared from where it was.
"And that's that" said Sora, and so he touched the fragment.
And when he did, the memories of the worlds he went to came back to him.
But... Only a small part of it, at some point, it stops, like the memories just cut off, and even then, some of them have holes and gaps in them, they just stop making sence sometimes.
"Huh?" said Sora, "what's going on? Why are...".
"The fragment was incomplete" said the voice, "you have seen and experienced so many things, for more that just a fragment could contain".
"Well, that's a bummer" said Sora, but he quickly got over it, "but that's okay, i'll just keep looking until i remember it all!".
But as he said that, he heard a bell toll, like one from a church.
"Unfortinately, now is not the time to continue" said the voice, "i believe it's time for you to wake and face the challenges this world has in store for you".
As it said that, the platform that Sora was on began to dissapear.
"Hey wait!" said Sora, but nothing stopped, "can you at least tell me your name?".
"...All within due time, child" said the voice, "just remember, i'll always be there waching over you".
The platform dissapered, and Sora began to drift into sleep again...
"Yo- Keybl-(bzzy)" "I need yo-r help,my wor—fa-(bzzy)" "Re-y? W—l don- wor-(bzzy)" "But i- -u ace-t my plea f—h-lp, i ha- to take a- yo-r m-(bzzy)" "T—bu-d—y-o ca- wou— g-(bzzy)" "I'm sor-, but i ha— n- ch—i—bu- to take y—(bzzy)" "It's oka-, i unde- wh- you ha- to t-(bzzy)" "I hope i get to s—y—a-g-, Na-(BZZZYYYYY).
Sora woke up to the wind in his face and the sun in his eyes, he got up and yawwned while streacing his arms.
"What a dream" said Sora.
That is, then he realised that he still remembers everything from the dream, that it did really happen, he heard the same voice, and got a few of his momeries back, and foght of some heartless, or rather, a part of his darkness that got out of control.
"Fells like i still don't see the entire picture" said Sora, "but at least, it fells good to remember some things" he thought as he put a hand to his heart.
"I miss you guys, and i hope you're alright" he thought, "i'm doing okay at least".
"Still, i wonder why-".
He came back to reality when he heard a nock on his door, "coming" he said.
He got out of bed, grabbed the key to the door, and unlocked it, when he opened it he saw Robin.
"Good morning Sora" said Robin.
"Good morning Robin" said Sora.
"So, you just got up?" asked Robin, "you do know that we're leaving in a few hours, right?".
Sora thought, and remembered that they are marching in the morning to Regna Ferox, "Oh yeah, right" he said.
"(Hmm) everything all right Sora?" asked Robin.
"Yeah, i'm alright, just thinking about a dream i had last night" said Sora.
"A dream huh..." said Robin, "well, anyway, i came to tell you that were leaving after breakfast, and that you're responsible for making that rations for the journey".
"Ah, okay then, just let me get dressed up" said Sora.
He closed the door, went to the wardrope, and put on his normal clothes, put his sleepwear back into it, and closed it.
"Now, shall he get going?" said Sora as he closed his door and began to walk down the corridor with Robin.
And so the day began.
Hey everyone, back with another one.
Yup, it was a dive into the heart, thought now would be appropriate.
Now Sora remembers a little bit about himself, but for now, he has places to be.
Anyway, see you next time.