Sora stood lazily in the opening. “I think we destroyed every Heartless here. We should try to find the Keyhole soon.” As if the words jinxed it, a giant creature darkened the sky. Its projectiles illuminated the horizon. It also shone on three figures running their way, away from the beast.
Sora’s eyes opened wide. “Abandon post! All men run forward!” yelled Sora. As they inched closer and closer, fear bubbled up to a new boiling point quickly.
Suddenly, the creature’s foot came slowly down towards the fleers. Sora burst light from his Keyblade to hurt the creature, and the others followed, except for Donald and Goofy. Donald shot various types of magic at the creature, and Goofy threw his shield powerfully. The monster staggered back, revealing the sign of the Heartless.
It roared (although it was more like a screech), making the fighters cringe. Sora jumped on the beast’s hand as it lowered to clobber them, then Sora walked onto its shoulder making heavy blows to the head. The beast stared at Sora. The memories came to him; he fought this one before. It was an artificial Darkside. Sora felt the tentacles from its face surround him, enclosing him in darkness. He heard Riku and Kairi scream his name in fear of losing him. Suddenly a burst of fire came through the openings, and then an arrow in the yellow eye of the Heartless. The Darkside fell in pain. Shadows began seeping from it to defend it. A young man clothed in green slashed his sword, throwing the Shadows away. In the distance, a burst of ultraviolet light came from where the shadows hit.
“My name is Link,” said the young man. “Keep fighting, will you?” Soon after, a weakened artificial Darkside stood up. The woman who was one of the three running shot a magic ball of fire at the Heartless, making it fly back a little. It didn’t explode. The three Keyblade wielders brought their Keyblades together and ran toward the creature and hit it in its chest (it had become smaller when the Shadows seeped from it). The artificial Darkside stood motionless and a little surprised, then flew back at hundreds of miles an hour, then blowing up in a huge UV explosion.
“I think I got Heartless blood on my Keyblade,” Kairi joked. Her flowery Keyblade didn’t bear a scratch and was still crystal clear.
“Thanks for helping us,” the woman said walking towards the Key Defenders. “My name is Zelda and the little blond boy is Lucas. Link introduced himself already to you in battle. And who are you?”
“Name’s Sora,” said Sora.
“Kairi,” said Kairi cheerfully.
“Donald Duck at your service,” Donald bowed.
“Name’s Goofy,” said Goofy.
“My name is Riku,” said Riku.
“We like to call ourselves the Key Defenders,” said Sora. “Really, we’re trying to free Kingdom Hearts, but Key Defenders has a better ring to it than, like, the Rescuers of Kingdom Hearts or something.”
“Kingdom Hearts?” asked Lucas. “Is it that strange moon in the sky that light goes to? I mean it’s as big as a kingdom and shaped like a heart. It’s a rumor in the Smash World. Is it true?”
Riku looked up. He’d been at the World That Never Was too many times to forget that heart-shaped moon called Kingdom Hearts. “It is,” he said. “That’s what we’re trying to free. But first, we need to unlock every world’s Keyhole. Once that happens, the Heartless can’t feed off people’s hearts in worlds like yours and they are forced to go to Kingdom Hearts. Then we go and destroy them, freeing Kingdom Hearts. Those who had lost their hearts before regain them, and Darkness no longer exists. The way it was before. The Heartless are coming from a source with a heart who longs for Darkness. We need to defeat that source and lock the Keyhole. Then the Heartless will abandon the world.
“But when we seal the Keyhole, the ways back to the worlds are impossible to trace back to. So friends we meet on the way can only exist in hearts and memories.”
Lucas, Link, and Zelda led them back to the place the Key Defenders had reached when they first came. It was peaceful until-
“WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED TO THE WALL!?” Link asked.
“WHERE ON EARTH WERE YOU DEFEATERS-OF-THE-STRANGE-ENEMIES?!” asked the boy in the red cap.
“Who wants to explain?” Sora asked to his team.
Goofy stepped forward and said, “Gawrsh, no need to yell. You see, the Heartless came and blew down the wall, Link. We defeated them, see, and protected the wall until we saved you from the monster Heartless. See, no harm done, folks.”
Everyone seemed relieved- the Key Defenders were relieved because the Smash World wasn’t going to beat the snot out of them, and the Smash World was relieved the Key Defenders saved the snot out of them.
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