Laughter's Hearts
Chapter 2: Surprises
Previous ChapterNext ChapterSora groaned as he woke up only to be knocked over “You’re awake. We met a new friend, I baked a cake and everything!”
Sora opened his eyes to see Pinkie bouncing around the room “What happened?”
Diane frowned “After you lost consciousness from your fight with Leon we brought you here to rest. Pinkie immediately threw a party when she met Yuffie over there which you slept through.”
Laughter giggled “You were quite sleepy, you didn’t even notice the cannon go off.”
Sora saw his keyblade resting against the wall. Laughter looked at the key “The Heartless seem naturally drawn to that key.”
Leon frowned “The Heartless have great fear of the keyblade. As long as you have it they will keep coming after you no matter what.”
Pinkie asked “So why do they attack others?”
Yuffie added “The darkness in people hearts, that’s what attracts them”
Leon then added “There is darkness in every heart?” He then trunks to Diane “Her behaviour is exceptional for a Heartless and I have no explanation for it.”
Diane frowned “Well we must get moving?”
Before another word could be spoken three small armoured heartless materialised in the room. Leon commanded “Yuffie. Go.” Pinkie, Diane jumped out of the window knocking the heartless out of the room alongside Leon while Laughter and Sora headed out of the room.As they arrived together, five shadowy bipeds with claws appeared and started shooting fireballs.
Pinkie’s muscles tensed “Why do those look like Imps?”
Leon gritted his teeth “Those are Shadow Imps but to see five of them in one place. They are far tougher than most Heartless. I can only really take on one.”
Sora eyed one of the other ones, Pinkie nodded “We take one each.” Sora darted around his striking while gaps in it’s defenses opened, Leon clashed with his blow for blow, Diane suplexed hers into the ground, Laughter weaved around the creature disorienting it severely while Pinkie obliterated hers with a banana.
After clearing out the five Shadow Imps, Pinkie frowned “Leon, get your friends out of here. We’ll find our way to the source.”
Leon nodded “Very well.” Sora joined Pinkie, Diane and Laughter and they cleared their way through Heartless. Soon they made their way to the Third District, Diane heard a voice before an explosion and pulled Sora out of the way as a large bipedal dog and shorter bipedal duck landed in front of them.
The two exclaimed “The key!” Before any further discussion a bunch of Heartless attacked, after quickly clearing them out, a huge armoured Heartless fell from the sky at the same time a huge Demonic Heartless that towered even over the armoured Heartless emerged. As it did a golden glow formed over Sora, and the two new additions to their group.
Pinkie glared at the larger Heartless “I’ll handle this one.” The group of five quickly dispatched the armoured Heartless they called the Guard Armour. Pinkie meanwhile pushed against the hulking Heartless, it roared trying to swing at her. It seemed almost angry at her existence. Soon she took the hulking creature down.
The six of them regrouped, Sora asked the two guests “You were looking for me?”
Leon who had joined them “They, too, have been seeking the wielder of the keyblade.”
The taller of the duo added “Why don’t you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel.”
Sora paused for a moment “I wonder if I could find Riku and Kairi.”
The shorter of the duo responded “Of course.”
Leon stepped forward “Sora, Diane, Pinkie and Laughter, you will have a better chance of finding what you are looking for ahead if you go with them.”
Pinkie giggled “Well if we are to be going anywhere, we need to know their names.”
The taller one put his hand forward “Name’s Goofy.”
The smaller one put his hand forward “Donald Duck.”
Sora put his hand in the centre “Sora.”
Pinkie, Diane and Laughter also put their hands as Goofy said “All for One. One for All.” As they threw their hands in the air, they were all smiling with Pinkie’s being the largest.
After they head to the Gummi Garage and board the Gummi Ship, they head off to another world. Diane ruffles Sora’s hair “Now let’s go find your friends, Captain.”
Sora groaned “Stop that.” He then focused “Yes.”
As Sora piloted the ship, Donald frowned at Diane, Pinkie and Laughter “Why should I trust you. How do we know you are not leading Sora down the wrong path?”
Goofy joined them “That’s not fair Donald, they have been nothing but helpful.”
Donald then pointed to Diane “She’s a Heartless, they are our enemies and she’s one of them! Not to mention we have no idea what those other two are!”
Goofy shook his head “We don’t judge someone by what they are but by who they are. Maybe they are an exception to the rule. Come on Donald.”
Soon they arrived at a strange looking world with heart marks on the side of it. The Gummi Ship teleported them into a room where they all floated one and landed on the floor except goofy who hit the floor with a thud. Then a strange looking rabbit in a coat carrying a watch ran by “Oh, my fur and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I'm here, I should be there.”
Pinkie giggled as Diane raised an eyebrow. Sora, Donald and Goofy stared blankly ahead. Laughter interjected “Um is that normal?”
The rabbit continued down the hall shouting “I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!” The Queen, she’ll have my head for sure!”
Diane frowned “I don’t know if that’s normal but I don’t like the sound of this Queen already.” As they headed forward through this strange new world, Pinkie saw an indigo hand stretching out from a wall behind them. She then turned forward noting the odd occurrence.
Author's Note
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and some of the additions I made.
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