Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Born of Royalty ❯ Chapter 2

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Story: Born of Royalty
Author: Vash/BBC7Fan/PrettySephy/Ryoko-Riku
Disclaimer: I own no one in Kingdom Hearts.
Summary: Several years after the events in
Kingdom Hearts II, King Sora and Queen Kairi
await a blessed event.
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-Chapter 2-

"Donald and I heard you and Queen Kairi got some
good news recently," Goofy told Sora as they sipped
strawberry sodas on the lakeshore in the middle of
the palace grounds.

Sora smiled. "We're expecting a prince or princess."
He told them.

"So," Goofy began. But Donald hushed him. "Oh, right.
It's a secret."

"What's a secret?" Sora asked.

"That's something we can't tell ya," Goofy grinned.

Sora laughed and decided not to push it. He would find out
in due time.

"You know," he told them. "There's been a lot less stray
Heartless around these past few weeks. You think it has
anything to do with the baby?"

"Of course," Donald told them cheerfully.

"Babies make people happy," Goofy explained.

"And when you're happy," Sora finished, "the Heartless have
no power."

"That's right," King Mickey told them as he joined the three
friends. "That's why there's less and less every day. We've
already cleaned up most of the worlds we've visited. Once this
world and Disney are cleaned up, the Heartless will be gone."

"And the world will be safe for the new prince or princess."
Goofy concluded.

"Your majesty," Sora told King Mickey, "thanks for everything.
I mean it. You've really helped us out a lot since then."

King Mickey nodded, a solemn undertone to his smile. He knew
what it was that Sora was not speaking of. Riku's death had hit
them all very hard. He'd done his best to see to it that the
brave young man got the hero's funeral he deserved.

Phil, who had waited for aeons for a true hero to come along,
refused to back down until Riku was immortalized with a new
constellation. He then took to sulking in his arena. For the
next hundred or so years, most likely, people who came to see
Hercules would hear Phil bemoaning the fact that he'd never got
to train Riku.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save him." Mickey said, after a long
silence.

"You did your best," Sora told him.