Fan Fiction ❯ He Who Opens the Door ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

He Who Opens the Door

Disclaimer-I don't own Kingdom Hearts or the characters

Chapter 1

The young red-headed girl flew out of her home on the islands, pursued by the frantic calls of her mother. But Kairi ignored them and fear opened her eyes wide, the sands crunching under her feet as she ran to no where in particular. She stopped and took a glance at the sky above the angered, ominously dark ocean crashing against the shore. A storm raged the islands but the sand remained stationary and dry, as the livid waves did not pass a certain point, wind whipped and crashed against things, but nothing toppled, no leaves fell from the trees; it was as if the whole island was incased within a bubble. Unfortunately, Kairi knew this couldn't be so, for she was completely vulnerable to the elements and was growing rapidly fatigued as they pushed her around and beat at her.

"Kairi, what on earth are you doing, get back inside her this instant, KAIRI!" Kairi turned at the faint sounds of her mother's voice, swept away not long after hearing them by the wind. Her long silken hair whipped out behind her and her crystal clear blue eyes teared up, there was no way to go back now, it had happened once and now again, but why?

Suddenly, a great black circle appeared on the ground below her, slowly growing in size. Kairi looked up and horror wracked her to her soul, a great rock-like formation hurtled itself to the island, her very location. She knew this was the end, so sudden, rather unexpected. She expected a journey, a quest to fix things again, but this, this was almost unacceptable. However she felt, a sceam tore through her body as she realized this just wasn't the end of her, but the island, her home, her family.

Everything went blacker than night.

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"MOTHER" Kairi grasped at the air in front of her, sitting up quickly, breathing heavily with sweat coating her body under her clothing.

"Nightmare?" A voice of someone so familiar Kairi recalled it instantly spoke from somewhere to her side on this rooftop overlooking a sprawling city below.

She lay down easily trying to calm her wild heart, looking up the cloud-studded azure blue sky, glistening as if it were a gem. "Yeah, not pleasan-" She stopped, again her eyes went wide; rooftop, city, blue sky? Where was she?! "Riku, where are...RIKU!" Kairi was suddenly on her feet and embracing the young man in a bone-crushing hug. "You ARE alive!" Despite how much she'd grown, she still only went to his shoulders; at least her hair was now longer than his. "But, but where are we? What happened to the island....mother?"

Riku took her shoulders and pulled her at arms' length from him, he looked down at her but his eyes were obscured by a grey blindfold, "I'm sorry Kairi, but I don't know. I only had the time to snatch you." Kairi reached up with confusion in her eyes and tried to pull the blindfold away, but Riku shied away, turning to the side, "Don't, not yet. We've got a lot of things to worry about right now."

"Wh-what happened? Where's Sora?" Kairi noticed her other friend as not here and she looked around, "What's going on Riku?" Worry now clouded her eyes.

"Sora's in trouble. Kairi, the world's are connected again. Someone's after him and they've inlisted help. I need you to stay with me for help and just in case they need all of the princesses again. Plus, I can't let you get captured again can I?" Riku smiled turning back to her, offering a little humor in the tense moment.

"In trouble? Where is he?" Kairi clutched his arm.

"I don't know, but they don't just need the keyblade, they need his heart. So, it's our job to find him and do what we didn't do last time."

"Didn't do?" Kairi was shaking from the thought, one of her closest friends losing his heart. It was bad enough to have almost lost Riku, but it appears that he did have a heart. Seeing as he was standing here now.

"Don't you see Kairi, the door to Kingdom Hearts was sealed, but the door to the light was not opened. There is still imbalance. Light still shines, but it must be unleashed." Riku turned his face to the sky.

"The key to defend the heart that will open the door. I sure hope he hasn't forgot!" Kairi whirled around to find a figure cloaked in black. It may have been mysterious, even intimidating, if it weren't for the large circular mouse ears poking out of it's head.

"You're magesty" Riku bowed

Kairi stood shocked for a moment before bowing then standing again, "King Mickey? Sora's told me about you!" She walked over to King Mickey and peeked into the hood, "It's a pleasure."

"Mhmm," he giggled, "pleasure's all mine!" Mickey took her hand and shook it. Riku then rose and stood next to Kairi, seemingly able to see through his blindfold, although Kairi still wanted to take that thing off. "Well Riku," Mickey turned to the silver haired man, "looks like we still gotta' ways ta' go."

"Not much time though." Riku said solemnly.

"So we may as well get started." Kairi held out her hand and Riku and Mickey placed them on top of hers.

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A/N: This isn't exactly in line w/the spoilers for the next game series but, I hope it's interesting. The next chapter will be out soon hopefully!