Here we are—at Re: Kingdom Hearts 2. Despite being here, with the start of this story, I have no idea how I'm going to approach this.
I mean, yeah. We're at Roxas's last seven days before he finally joins with Sora and Sora wakes up. Similarly, to Re: Kingdom Hearts, I intend on using the game as more of a reference, somewhat unlike Re: CoM and Re: 358/2 Days (though that was more heavily based on the game). It will have more of a base on Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix.
And I know what is going to happen at the start too, with all the events.
I'll try to figure out how to work this out. As for Penelope… well, she'll show up. But when Sora wakes up, she's going to be away for a few chapters. As the concerns were expressed, Sora isn't going to forget Penelope, and neither is Donald and Goofy, and she'll have a better role in the plot than she did in Re: Kingdom Hearts up until she started getting more attention.
I will also make sure to balance her out among the other characters with certain events that will occur with the somewhat new OC in this story (who was introduced at the end of Re: 358/2 Days).
Man, have I been wordy. Anyway, let's get to the point, shall we?
Here we go. I own nothing but my OCs like usual.
Now, I present Re: Kingdom Hearts 2. We'll pick up exactly where I left off.
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Chapter 1: The First Days of Summer
On the beach of Destiny Islands, a boy with spiky brown hair and bright blue eyes awoke from a strange dream with a yawn. However, as he rose up, a girl with red hair and violet-blue eyes appeared to stop him, and it appeared to somewhat scratch out, like a TV when the satellite is messed with. "Gimme a break, Kai-" the boy said, only for it to somewhat glitch out again.
It then shifted to a race between the boy and a boy with silver hair and blue-green eyes. "Giving up already?" asked the silver-haired boy to the brown haired bow, who didn't reply. He only continued running. The girl ran after them, only for it to glitch out yet again, as the trio watched the sunset from a tree, the brown-haired boy and the red-haired girl propped up on the tree next to each other while the silver-haired boy supported himself against it.
"If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up in this one?" asked the silver-haired boy. The brunette boy tried to respond, only for it to keep changing, flashing to a rock wall with a drawing of the brown haired boy giving this star-shaped fruit to the girl. As the boy looked at the photo, the voice of a man said, "This world has been connected." However, when the boy turned around, asking "Who's there?", he couldn't find the voice or the person at first until he saw a figure in a black coat.
It glitches out yet again, as the man continued to speak. "Tied to the darkness…" It changed to another scene with the red-haired girl and the brown-haired boy again. The girl stood up, her hands behind her back, requesting, "Sora, don't ever change."
The scene changed to the silver-haired boy holding out his hand, saying, "The door has opened…" as the brown-haired boy, but also a brunette girl came up, and darkness spurt out from him. The boy looked confused, as did the girl. "What?" asked the boy.
Yet again, the scene switched, with the brown-haired boy and the brunette girl facing off against a gigantic creature of darkness. "You understand nothing." said the voice. It changed to the boy and the girl again, with the red-haired girl being present and the auburnette weakly came towards the boy. She appeared to vanish when the boy embraced her, weakly murmuring his name, and the brunette girl expressed joy at this, her words unable to be heard as the dream glitches out again. A powerful wind struck and the two of them flew back.
It then all flashed to white.
XxXxX
The First Day
In his bedroom, a boy with spiky golden blonde hair and blue eyes awoke, sitting up in his pajamas (which consisted of a white and grey t-shirt with a star shaped pattern and black shorts) awoke, sitting up and putting his arm on his right knee. "Another dream about him…" He sighed, before looking out his window, where he saw a town with an eternal sunset, like he 'usually' did. He sat up and opened the window, gazing outside at the sunset.
This place was Twilight Town. In the distance, the boy could hear the bells of the town's clock tower ringing, indicating the morning (though noting how the town was locked into an eternal sunset, it was very hard to tell).
Later in the day, the boy was dressed and was in a place where you could hear the trains rushing nearby. This was the Usual Spot, where he hung out with his friends. Though there were boxes and stuff gathered about, there was some furniture present, though the key thing was a couch.
He was with two other boys and a girl. One of the boys had dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes wearing a grey vest and a black tank top with green, camo patterned capris and somewhat matching sneakers; the other had black hair that stuck up and he also had a headband, dark brown eyes, and wore a long red, white and black shirt with a pattern that said "DOG STREET on it, and wore blue pants and these whitish grey sneakers. The boys appeared to be conversing amongst each other. The girl, who had brown hair that went past her shoulders, inquisitive green eyes, an orange tank top with a white flower pattern, cream colored capris, orange socks (that went past her ankles but far from reaching her knees) and creamish white shoes.
The golden blonde-haired boy heeded no attention to them at the moment, his mind focused on the odd dream he had before coming to the Usual Spot to meet up with his friends. The girl focused on him a moment, though he still wasn't paying attention as he pondered on something.
When the boy finally tuned in, by the sounds of it, the dirty-blonde haired boy appeared to be ranting about something, stating that, "Man, doesn't that tick you off?" The black-haired boy nodded in agreement. "Yeah, that's just wrong."
The girl went back to paying attention to them, leaning closer, and revealing the topic somewhat. "Seifer's gone too far this time." She stated. Then, all of them looked at the third boy to see if he had agreed, and he finally paid attention. He only nodded, and the dirty-blonde haired boy stood up, crossing his arms.
"I mean; it's true stuff's been stolen around town. And we've got a score to settle with Seifer and everything," he began, walking around somewhat proudly. "So if he wants to think we did it, I can't really blame him. See… that's not what really bugs me. What REALLY bugs me is that he's been goin' around tellin' everyone we're the thieves!"
His friends watched him as he seemed to go around in a circle, talking to nobody in particular. "Now, the whole town and their mothers are treating us like the Klepto Club! Have you ever been this ticked off before in your life?" He asked, turning towards the golden blonde-haired boy and his friends, waving his hands to emphasize his point. "'Cause I haven't. Nuh-uh, NEVER."
He pounded his hands together, looking away. "Now…what to do."
The girl looked down worriedly before looking at the golden blonde-haired boy, who appeared to somewhat be spacing out. He stopped and looked up, seeing the girl's worried face and then looked down, trying to think of something to say to his angered friend. "Uh, well…" Pondering on what to say a moment, the blue-eyed boy finally came up with something. "We could find the real thieves. That would set the record straight."
The black-haired boy stood up, agreeing with the suggested idea. Facing his friends now, the dirty blonde haired boy faced his friends as the black-haired boy left and the golden blonde-haired boy stood up. "Well, what about Seifer?" He asked, crossing his arms yet again.
"First, we gotta clear our names," explained the other boy present. "Once we find the real culprit, everyone will get off our backs."
The black haired boy panicked, staring into a camera. "Oh no! They're gone! Our - are gone!" The boy touched his throat in confusion when he found that the word he was trying to say didn't come out?
"All our -, gone?" asked the dirty-blonde haired boy. He confusedly touched his throat.
"You can't say - why not?" asked the girl.
"But you do understand what I'm saying, right? Our - are gone!" He exclaimed.
Sheesh. By the sound of it, it seemed that even the word in specific was stolen. What, were the synonyms too?
The blue-eyes boy nodded and looked at his friends. "Stolen… and not just the -. The word -! They stole it, too!"
"What kind of thief is that? Seifer could never have pulled that off." The golden blonde-haired boy, or rather, Roxas, as we should be calling him, nodded in agreement. "All right, time for some recon!" Roxas' three friends ran out, and though he tried to join him, suddenly, all went blurry, and he fell over, all going black.
"His heart is returning. Doubtless, he'll awaken very soon."
Roxas found himself sprawled out on the floor when he came to. Roxas was confused where he was, only for the girl (Olette) to come in. "Roxas, c'mon." she told him, guiding him out to the marketplace plaza of town. Olette went over to the Armor Shop, joining the dirty-blonde haired boy (Hayner) and the black-haired boy (Pence). Roxas went over to meet up with them in order to start setting things straight.
They me up with each other, with Pence speaking to start the search. "Let's get this investigation underway."
"Yo, Roxas." said someone, and the group turned around to see one of the shopkeepers. Right away, he was already pinning the blame on them. "Never thought you'd do such a rotten thing…"
"We didn't steal anything, all right?" Roxas replied. The shopkeeper guy showed disbelief in response. "I'd like to believe you, but… Who else would steal that stuff?"
"What stuff?" Roxas asked, the lack of specificity from the guy annoying him a little.
Deciding to be a butt, the guy didn't tell him. And he also acted fairly rude when making his point. "As if you didn't know. Hey, I'm not gonna tell you. Go ask at the accessory shop." He answered, turning away.
Roxas and his friends turned the Accessory Shop, which was across the street. The way the guy said that rubbed off the wrong was (and probably was meant to). Walking over there, Hayner motioned Roxas to speak. "Go on, Roxas. Ask her."
The said boy went and talked to the blonde-haired girl who ran the accessory shop. "Oh, it's you, Roxas… Please don't let me down." She sighed. "You used to be one of my favorite customers."
"I'm not a thief!" exclaimed Roxas. The girl smiled rather hopefully, accepting his word very easily…
…Unlike the other guy who was a jerk. That's the best way to give a bad start to someone else's morning.
"It's no fun having everyone suspecting me, ya know." explained Roxas.
"You've got to find a way to clear your name." explained the girl. "The woman at the candy shop is pretty disappointed, too." They turned to the candy shop…
…Which was yet again, right across the street from the Accessory Shop. They went over, with the older woman who ran the shop asking, "Oh, Roxas. Have you seen my cat around?"
Roxas frowned before looking up to the sign and seeing the cat up there. It mewed at him, and Roxas found very quickly that he had to get the cat down. He was able to do so, giving the woman back her not-very-lost cat, and she thanked him graciously. Concerned, Roxas asked, "Did they steal something from you too?"
"Oh, my, yes."
"Just so you know, we didn't do it." said Roxas. Though he didn't necessarily pick the best wording for the matter, the older woman, like the girl, believed him. "Thank you, ma'am. Though… What exactly did they steal from you?" He asked.
"My -. My precious -." She answered.
Hayner, from the back, pointed the obvious. "Looks like the culprit is going around stealing -, but the word -, too." He said.
"This isn't your average thief." Pence added.
"I wonder if Seifer would know anything about this." Olette stated, coming to that conclusion upon pondering it.
Well, any information from the guy who started this chaos would probably be helpful at this time. So, Roxas took Olette's advice. He turned to face his friends. "We gotta go talk to him. C'mon, to the sandlot!"
Promptly afterwards, the four friends ran to the sandlot to face Seifer and his group.
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In Seifer's group, there was three other people. There was Fuu, a girl with purplish-silver hair, and part of it covered one of her red eyes; Rai, a tall, fairly beefy guy with somewhat spiky dark brown hair and eyes and tanned skin; and Vivi, the shortest figure in the group with a tall, wizard-like had, and a shadowy face with golden yellow eyes gleaming from beneath it. They acknowledged the four, rather unimpressed to see them.
And man, were they quick; like that one shopkeeper; to pin the blame on them. "Thieves." Fuu hissed single-wordedly.
"That was low, y'know!" accused Rai.
Vivi adjusted his hat. Hayner shook his head and yelled, "Oh yeah?"
Then, the ringleader- Seifer- came into the scene. "Nice comeback there, blondie." taunted Seifer. Hayner frowned, stomping his foot and balling his fists. "What'd you say!?"
Seifer's piercing blue eyes stared at the four. "You can give us back the - now."
"Yeah! You're the only ones who would take it, y'know!" agreed Rai, like he usually did.
Seifer circled around them, pointing at them. "That was undeniable proof we totally owned you lamers."
Roxas gave him the glare that looked like he was going to kill Seifer as he continued talking. "So what did you do? Burn it? Ha, not that we need some - to prove that you're losers."
"Replay." Fuu said single-wordedly in her somewhat monotone, making Seifer laugh in agreement. With a smirk at the four, he said, "Now you're talking."
Three out of the four got ready to fight, while Hayner and Roxas somewhat were too. However, the two separate groups stood still, waiting for the next move of their opponents. Seifer, being the way he was here, simply wouldn't shut it and kept taunting the four. "I guess if you get on your knees and beg, MAYBE I'll let it slide."
Despite basically being really bad at being some kind of bully figure already, Roxas approached and went down on his knees, much to Hayner and his other friends' dismay. However, he wasn't doing it just so he could have mercy. He looked on the ground to see three bats. He picked the middle one to face off against Seifer.
So, the three of them began to hit each other with bats, and Roxas avoided the strikes, attacking skillfully. The other six in the separate parties watched. Despite Seifer kept taunting and taunting Roxas, Roxas showed him who was boss and kicked his butt. Seifer groaned in pain, falling to his knees and dropping his bat.
Fuu and Rai quickly rushed to their buddy's defense. "Seifer's not feelin' so hot, y'know!" exclaimed Rai, somewhat worriedly. "Tournament decides." added Fuu.
When Pence decided to take a picture to commemorate the victory, however, with Roxas smiling in the photo, as soon as he took a photo, a strange white creature swirled around him and stole his camera! It rushed off, confusing Roxas's three friends, and they went after it upon guessing it might've been the true thief.
Roxas did the same, his search leading into the forest of Twilight Town. Despite it's strange movements and mannerisms, Roxas kept going. Hayner, Pence and Olette hadn't caught up with him, leaving Roxas alone in the pursuit. He rushed after it, eventually getting to the gate of the mysterious Old Mansion of Twilight Town, where the creature awaited Roxas.
Roxas attempted to try and capture it, only for Roxas to hear a strange voice. "We have come for you, my liege." It seemed to say, surprising Roxas. It pulsed with a bluish light along the sides and Roxas went to attacking. However, using the bat didn't seem to harm it in the slightest, much to Roxas's dismay. "It's no use…It isn't working…" said Roxas.
In a flash of data, however, his bat changed into a strange key-like sword and it pulled Roxas towards the white creature. He didn't understand what it was, his blue eyes flashing in confusion and alarm. "What… what is this thing?" He asked. Despite not understanding why is showed up, Roxas decided to deal with the change, getting into a fighting stance.
Roxas managed to take down the enemy. When it was defeated, photos fluttered down and the key-like sword vanished. Roxas gathered up the photos and took his findings back to the Usual Spot.
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The four friends curiously looked through the photos, with Hayner asking about the thief. Unfortunately, Roxas wasn't able to give much of an answer, and was only really able to mention how the photos were simply just lying around. Though he didn't say anything else about the occurrence, like how that key-like sword appeared in his hands, Pence found something to be odd—mainly considering something that all of the photos that were stolen had in common (also noting that they were now permitted to say the word "photo" again).
For some strange reason, all of these stolen photos included Roxas in them. They couldn't exactly figure out why such was the case, but they figured that since Roxas was present in all of these photos, it was why everyone assumed they were the thieves.
Of course, as it was just proven, they weren't, but that isn't really the point.
So, Seifer wasn't just accusing them just to be a jerk after all. Roxas furrowed his eyebrows together. "Are they really all of me?" He asked.
His friends nodded, showing him the evidence. Roxas found that weird, unsure why all of those photos included him.
"Wouldn't it be weird if the thief wanted to steal the real Roxas or something?" joked Pence to the rest of the group.
Hayner, putting a hand on his hips, grinned. "C'mon, get serious. Why would anyone want to steal a bonehead like Roxas?"
"Oh thanks!" said Roxas back with a huge hint of sarcasm, and then, the four friends laughed it off together. However, they were quickly cut off when they heard the sounds of a train going by somewhere above or nearby them. Hayner, Pence and Olette went out before him, and Roxas stayed back a moment before deciding to go and meet up with his friends. The sun was incredibly bright when Roxas went back outside, and he covered his eyes.
When it went black, he was unsure where he was in the darkness. "Where am I?" Roxas asked himself, only to feel another presence. "Who's there?"
Roxas heard another voice of another boy, but he couldn't find where it was coming from. "Who are you?" They asked him back.
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(Old Mansion- Computer Room)
There was a sound of white noise from the computer, as it said, "Restoration at 12%". DiZ, who was at his computer, monitored the progress on the recovery of Sora's memory carefully, and a figure in black came up behind them. "Organization miscreants… they found us." hissed DiZ at his computer. It annoyed him that they found them and now, they were out to ruin their progress yet again. DiZ didn't want that.
"But… why would the Nobodies steal photographs?" asked the taller figure in black.
"Both are nothing but data to them. The fools could never tell the difference." replied DiZ. "We are running out of time. Naminé must make haste."
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The Second Day
The brown-haired boy and the brunette girl were knocked out in an alley of a town, with the girl's head on his shoulder. A dog sat there, licking them to wake them up. When they did, the girl smacked him across the face when she realized that she was next to him and her head had previously been on his shoulder. It seemed to glitch and scratch out again as the girl spoke, her voice and her words not heard.
"Don't you 'what's wrong' me. Anyway, we need to find out where we are." she advised the boy, as they stood up. It glitched again, and the pair appeared to show up elsewhere. They were unsure where they were, and it changed the scene again.
"Who are you?" asked the boy. The girl only watched.
"They'll keep on coming at you as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade." said another voice, which sounded like it belonged to a man.
The scene scratched out, going to one where a duck and a dog in clothes were launched into the air at the boy and the girl, but the girl sidestepped and allowed the boy to take the impact as he tried to run away, but he couldn't, and then there was somewhat of a dog pile.
"Hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel." suggested the dog with a change of the scene yet again.
"Penelope, Sora, go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends." said the one man, looking away, with a girl with short black hair and brown eyes at his side, agreeing with him.
The scene flashed again, and the dog, the duck and the boy introduced each other to on another, the girl hesitantly doing the same. It flashed, with the man talking about the key-shaped sword called the Keyblade, and a woman doing the same. Then the Keyholes were talked about, showing the boy and the girl appearing to lock one up in a cave underground.
XxXxX
Roxas suddenly awoke, sitting up and holding out his hand. "A key…blade?" He asked himself, gripping his hand. Later on, after getting ready to go meet with his friends, he mumbled the word again. "A Keyblade…" That was it. That must've been the strange key-like sword he held in his hand yesterday before fighting that strange white creature. When he turned, he noticed a stick up against a wall, and tapped it against his hand, seeing if it would turn into the same sword.
He shook his head, upon it refusing to work. "What was that about?" He asked himself before throwing the stick back. Roxas then unintentionally hit a guy in a black coat with it, who then turned around and walked off. "Sorry… about that." apologized Roxas after him.
Afterwards, Roxas met up with his friends in the Usual Spot. They were all eating sea salt ice cream, like usual, and gave Roxas a bar, which he graciously took. As they sat down and talked, Pence suddenly said something weird. "Do you guys think we'll always be together like this?" asked Pence.
"I sure hope so." replied Olette as she looked at Pence.
"Huh? Where did that come from?" asked Hayner.
"Oh, well, you know. Just thinking out loud." Pence said back, looking at Hayner.
Hayner shrugged. "Well, I doubt we can be together forever. But isn't that what growing up's all about? What's important isn't how often we see each other. Right?"
"Did you get that off of a fortune cookie?" joked Pence.
Hayner shook his head, looking at his friend. "That's it. No more ice cream for you! Man, today's turning out to be a drag." He grumbled.
"Maybe it's because of yesterday's memory thief." suggested Olette. However, that couldn't be it. In fact, it definitely wasn't it, as then said by Hayner as he refuted the suggestion.
"Nuh-uh, that's not it. We don't want summer vacation to be over. That's all!" exclaimed he. Pence turned Olette and shrugged. Then, the idea of going to the beach was brought up to spend the day (since they hadn't done so all summer), but they had to save up some munny so they could go. However, Hayner, Pence and Olette then left, making Roxas have to follow.
When he found his friends again, the three of them were looking at a poster advertising for the Struggle Tournament that was coming up soon. Roxas joined his friends at the poster. "Just two days to go." said Hayner, with a smile on his face. He looked at Roxas. "You and I have to make the finals! That way, no matter who wins, the four of us split the prize!"
"Ok, you're on." Roxas smiled as he accepted the challenge. Pence moved to the side and added rather enthusiastically, "You two are gonna clean up!"
"Go get em'!" added Olette to Pence's comment.
With a fist bump, the two friends then made a promise to do so. Then, they got down to business, doing the math and figuring out what to do. In order to raise munny for their trip, the four friends spent the rest of their day doing various odd jobs to get the rest of the required munny for the trip. The work took them the rest of the day until they met up again, and they had all the required money. Even more than that, in fact.
Once they had their munny gathered up and all counted together, they had 5000 munny, which was over what they initially wanted, but that was all good. Hayner, Pence and Olette went to get tickets, leaving Roxas behind. However, out of the blue, Roxas fell and tripped over… a stick? It looked like the same one that Roxas threw earlier…
The same figure pulled him up and grabbed him, confusing Roxas. "Roxas! C'mon!" yelled Hayner. When Roxas turned, the figure was gone. Hayner, Pence and Olette didn't seem to see him.
When they went up to pay for the tickets, Roxas didn't have the munny, much to his confusion as he did before. And when he realized that he didn't have it, connecting it to the guy, Roxas soon found that they hadn't seen the guy, but he did. Unfortunately, though, the train left, but Roxas was still really confused.
Though it turned out to be all for nothing, they still had sea salt ice cream on the clock tower.
Roxas's friends told him not to worry about it. But he recalled something weird that the strange man said to him.
"Do you feel Sora?"
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(Old Mansion- Computer Room)
"Restoration at 28%," said the computer. The recovery of Sora's memory was going well and going faster, which was fortunate.
However, DiZ remained impatient. This whole memory recovery process had been going on for long enough. "Naminé, hurry." Grumbled DiZ as he sat at the Computer.
Today, there were two figures present in the room. One of them was the guy who had taken all that munny from Roxas, but there was also a shorter figure, and their build seemed slimmer and curvier, as well as more feminine, so it could be guessed it was a girl. The guy beside her messed with the bag, tossing it up and down into the air. The girl could hear the munny clicking. It annoyed her, but she refused to utter a word.
"Is it really that hard to make a beach?" asked the guy, who continued messing with the bag.
"We'd be giving the enemy another entry point." DiZ replied. Stopping with the annoying motion, he held the bag in his hand. "And this?"
DiZ turned around in his chair to look at it, as did the other figure. "We can always buy some sea salt ice cream." Answered DiZ.
"Ah, because that's the way to spend stolen, digital munny. Just blow it on ice cream, it'll be fine." The girl growled under her breath. DiZ shook his head, only laughing and turning back to his chair.
"Objects from that town must be kept out of the real world. You can delete that." stated DiZ.
"Or, we could stop antagonizing Roxas and just give him the Munny back. Why steal it if we have no use for it?" asked the girl.
Nobody answered her, and she sighed. "Tch. There's no point wasting my time talking to you, especially with what the both of you pulled. I'm going to my room." The girl then quietly left, opening the door and slamming it behind her.
"Stubborn girl. All she's been doing is interfering." said DiZ after she left. "But we need not worry about her. Naminé needs to finish restoring Sora's memory, and then, he can awaken."
For now, that was their greatest concern. And soon, hopefully soon, after nearly a year of slumber, Sora would finally wake.
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And with that, we have the first chapter of Re: Kingdom Hearts 2. If it was a bit lengthy, I apologize. I want to try and crank out at least 2 days of Roxas' vacation before Roxas wakes up per chapter except for the last day, but that just depends what happens. If such is the case, it will be about 3-4 chapters of this segment, but that just depends what happens. We can't just stick at the tutorial forever, can we?
As I've already said enough already, as for what happens next… well, we'll have to see in the next chapter.
Please review if you'd like, please try to refrain from flaming, and please tell me how I can improve. I'm going to try my best to get better with descriptions and dialogue in this story.
I will see you all in the next chapter.
Ciao!