A/N, ok, here I go with my first Kingdom Hearts fic. I hope that this will be a good attempt at writing a KH fic, but I make no promises right now. Please read and review, and I do appreciate CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, but anyone who flames me will find their name and a response in something that I think every profile page should have, a response to flamers section, and if you have PM available, you will receive my response to you directly as well.
A/N (2) yes, these are back and fully re-mastered. I'm taking care of the little things such as lack of punctuation that plagues the first five chapters of this fic. Please enjoy. Big thanks goes out to Kai Saitou who pointed out the errors, and Kinpaginpa and Dimension Dude who told me about punctuation.
DISCLAIMER I don't own Kingdom Hearts, any of the characters, or any of the worlds, they all belong to their respected owners, trust me though, if I had a hold of the games, they would have a darker story, Sora and Kairi would just tell each other how they felt, and Chain of Memorys wouldn't have used a card battle system, and we would have gotten Final Mix over here too, and for the cherry on top, Birth by Sleep 358/2 days and Coded, wouldn't be the last three games in the series.
It had been six months since the last battle, the final battle against Xemnas. Sora and Riku both made it home just fine. Unfortunately for them, they got home just in time for school to start over again. They both re adapted to island life though pretty quickly, and now that school was out, they were free to do what ever they wanted. Riku had decided to hang out near the Paopu fruit tree, he had just gotten comfortable next to the tree when Sora came up behind him, "nothings changed, has it?" he asked.
"Nope, and nothing ever will" Riku replied.
"Hey Riku, what do you think it was, the door to light?" Sora asked, Riku got up and pointed at Sora's heart.
"This" was all he said.
"This?" Sora asked confused.
"Its always closer then you think" Riku said.
"SORA, RIKU!" A girls voice shouted out as she came running up, her red hair blowing as she ran towards them.
"What's up Kairi?" Sora asked, Kairi was catching her breath as she held a bottle. Inside was a letter, with a mouse head seal on it, "thats the kings seal!" Sora said, he quickly opened the bottle, undid the seal and started reading, soon after he began he noticed a streak of silver hair and a streak of red hair on either side of him reading the letter with him.
Dear Sora, Riku, and Kairi
I'm so sorry, but I need your help again. I can't say what is going on in this letter in case it gets intercepted, but I need you three to come to Disney Castle right away. You should receive this letter about a week after I have sent it, so expect a Gummi Ship in two days. The only thing I can tell you is that we have a lot to discuss. Also, you will need to bring Kairi with you, we will need all the Keybearers we can get.
With many apologies,
King Mickey
P.S. Beware the Rising Dawn and Falling Dusk
All three Keybearers looked at the letter in disbelief, "maaan, just when I could start to relax" Sora said.
"What are you talking about? You've had six months to relax" Kairi said.
"No I haven't, I've had to be in school the last six months. I mean, you compare school to fighting heartless, and I suppose you could call it relaxing, but I still don't still consider the last six months relaxing" Sora said.
"Well maybe if you weren't such a lazy bum and slept during all your classes you would have had time to relax after school" Kairi replied back.
"I have to agree with Kairi on this one Sora" Riku said.
"Oh come on, not you too Riku" Sora said.
"Oh well, we need to go home to pack, then write letters explaining all of this to our parents" Riku said walking off.
"Riku is right, we had better get home, see you later Sora" Kairi said walking off.
AT SORA'S HOUSE
"Ok, I've got some Potions, some food, and also a few Keychains just in case. Anything else you can think of Roxas?" Sora seemed to ask the air. Then a person appeared out of thin air, he had on a white jacket with a black shirt on underneath it. His hair was blond and spiked.
"Nope, nothing else I can think of" Roxas said.
"Alright, we're good to go" Sora said, he then flopped back on his bed. "There's only one thing I don't like about this."
"Let me guess, taking Kairi" Roxas said.
"Yeah, I mean I know that me and Riku have been training her in how to use her Keyblade, and I'll admit that she is pretty good and could handle herself in a fight. Still, I don't want to put her in danger, she's been in danger twice because she knows me, I don't want that to happen again."
"I know how you feel" Roxas said.
"You do?" Sora said.
"Yeah, if Kairi goes then that means that Naminé goes too, and I don't want her to be put into danger either" Roxas said.
"I forgot that Kairi also has a Nobody living inside of her" Sora said.
WITH KAIRI
"Okay, I think that I've got everything I need. Lets see, I've got some Potions and Ethers and both of my Keychains, Perfect Arrangement and Oathkeeper, anything you can think of Naminé?" she asked as a pale blond girl wearing a white sundress appeared in the middle of her room.
"Could you take the sketchbook please?" she asked.
"Oh yeah, I'm sorry," Kairi said quickly as she grabbed a sketchbook off of her nightstand.
"Its okay" Naminé said.
"I still can't believe that Sora is letting me go without any objections though" Kairi said.
"He may not have said anything, but I could tell by looking into his eyes that the second he read that part of the letter that he objected to it" Naminé pointed out.
"Yeah, I suppose he would. But this time, I'll prove to him that I'm not some damsel in distress that always needs saving. This time I'll protect myself" Kairi said as she got into bed. "good night Naminé" she said as she fell asleep.
"Good night Kairi" Naminé said as she vanished from the room.
WITH RIKU
"Okay, I've got everything that I need" Riku said as he sat on his bed, thinking about the last two adventures. "This will be the first time that all of us have been on an adventure and not been looking for one another" he said, "now we just need to protect each other."
ON A GUMMI SHIP, LOCATION UNKNOWN
"Come on your Majesty, did you really need to say beware?" a person asked. He looked to be around sixteen years old and had semi long brown hair. He had on a black vest, and on the left side of the jacket was the white part of the ying-yang symbol and the black part was on the other side.
"Well, I couldn't really say 'this person isn't coming to kill you, just to test you' they wouldn't give it their all if I did" a mouse replied.
"Okay okay, I understand your reasoning, but now they're going to think that I'm there to destroy their world again" he replied
"Don't worry Matt, it should be fine" Mickey said as he disconnected
"Yeah, fine, I'm going to fight three Keybladers who got a note to beware me. Yeah, everything should be fine" Matt said as he reclined back. "Now to just get there."
BACK AT DESTINY ISLANDS
Sora was asleep on the beach, "HEY SORA, WAKE UP!" a voice yelled at him. He immediately shot up, the Ultima Weapon Keyblade in his hand and ready to fight whatever came at him. "Whoa there Sora, it's just me" Kairi said putting her hands up in the air, Sora immediately relaxed.
"Don't do that Kairi" Sora said laying back down.
"That was priceless though. The Keyblade master asleep on the beach with no guard up. You truly are a lazy bum" she said sitting down next to him. "so what you doing besides sleeping?"
"Thinking" Sora replied simply.
"What were you thinking about?" Kairi asked.
"About how I just got home less then a year ago and now have to leave again. Thinking about how King Mickey asked for you to come, and I really don't want to put you through even half of what I had to go through" Sora said.
"Don't worry about me Sora, I'll be fine" Kairi said.
"I know you will, but that doesn't mean that I can't worry, right?" he asked.
"I suppose" Kairi said.
"Hey guys, a Gummi ship just landed" Riku said.
"I thought it wasn't supposed to be here until tomorrow" Kairi said.
"Yeah, lets go and check it out" Sora said running off.
"Thats just like Sora, running off without any info" Riku said.
"What do you mean?" Kairi asked.
"A person came out and was holding two Keyblades" Riku said.
"WHAT?" Kairi asked yelling, she then ran off in the same direction as Sora.
"And than she goes off and does the same thing. I suppose I had better get over there soon before Sora does something stupid" Riku said out loud, taking off in the same direction as Sora and Kairi. He arrived at the beach on the other side of the beach and saw Sora and Kairi staring at someone with somewhat long brown hair and a black jacket. On both sides was half the symbol of Ying and Yang and also had on a pair of blue jeans. In both of his hands was nearly identical Keyblades, one was pure white with a sun near the top, the only difference between them was that the other was black
"You three must be Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Its very nice to meet you, my name is Mattius, but you can just call me Matt" he introduced himself.
"What do you want?" Sora asked.
"Well, I came on behalf of the king to pick you guys up, but also to test you. These are my Keyblades the Rising Dawn and Falling Dusk" he said. All three of their faces seemed to light up in understanding.
"So that's what the king meant" Sora said.
"Must be" Kairi said.
"Wait, you said you were here to test us, but the King told us to beware you, what was he talking about?" Riku asked.
"I'll explain everything soon enough. Now though is not the time for talk, now is the time for battle" he said, both his Keyblades at his sides and ready to fight.
"Okay, lets do this" Sora said summoning Ultima Weapon, Kairi summoning Oathkeeper, and Riku summoning Way to the Dawn.
A/N so far I actually have a really good feeling about this story, but this is only the first chapter, so who knows how it will be later on. Please review and leave constructive criticism if needed. I'll try to get the next chapter up later on today, but I can't promise anything, and if its not up today, it may be up tomorrow.