Kingdom Hearts drabbles set 1 (Kingdom Hearts, G)
All written for the weekly challenges at kh_drabble
Challenge: [214] Cakewalk
Title: A Simple Plan
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Ever notice how in KHII, up until that final battle, Luxord actually accomplishes all his goals? Man's craftier than you think. **winning entry**
Things go easiest when you make your enemy’s goal your own.
For example:
If your enemy wants to protect the people and you want a monster destroyed, you redirect the monster towards the town. Simple.
For example:
If your enemy has a nasty habit of breaking the odds and you must delay him, don’t fight- give him an inconsequential game to win. Simple.
For example:
If you want to survive, you don’t hope the shadows pass your world unnoticed.
You open your door.
You learn from the dark cloaks.
You grab the shadows so part of you may live.
Simple.
Challenge: [216] Once Upon a Time
Title: The Lonely Memory and the Jumping Heart
Wordcount: 500
Notes: No spoilers. Based on The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, so apologies to Shel Silverstein. This is actually my second attempt at this challenge, since my first one has now passed 1000 words. -_- The characters in this story are a Dusk, a Rhapsody, a Large Body, a Heartless, and a Mushroom, in order of appearance.
Once upon a time there was a little silver memory who wanted a heart. There were others like him, without hearts, and there were hearts wandering about without memories, and he wondered if he could find a heart of his own.
He came across a tiny heart in a pointy hat. It flitted about his head, and the memory asked, "Are you my heart?"
The tiny heart said, "I'm sorry, but I'm so small, if I were your heart, I would get lost!" And it flitted away.
The memory came across a large, round heart with a turban on its head. The memory asked, "Are you my heart?"
The large heart said, "I'm sorry, but I'm so big, if I were your heart I think you'd break!" And it trundled away.
The memory came across a spindly heart with copper coin eyes. The memory asked, "Are you my heart?"
The heart cocked its head this way and that, thinking as hard as a heart could, and said, "I don't know, but I think we might fit."
The two held hands and were joined, and were very happy until many weeks later, when the heart said, "Ouch! What are you doing?"
"What is the matter?" the memory asked.
"The space in here is getting smaller!" the heart cried.
"I'm sorry," the memory said, and tried to make more room, but the more the memory worried, the smaller the space for the heart became.
"Ouch!" said the heart, and the memory worried. "Ow!" said the heart, and the memory was sad. "Oh no!" the heart said, and popped out. "I can't stay if you can't make room for me!" the heart said, and used its spindly legs to run away.
The memory was very sad. He wandered the world, but he stopped looking for his missing heart. He wandered and wandered until one day he met a funny heart in a funny hat who was jumping up and down.
"Do you need help?" the memory asked politely.
"Don't need help," the jumping heart said.
"Are you looking for your memories?" the memory asked.
"Don't need them," the jumping heart said.
"But aren't you lonely without them?" the memory asked.
The heart stopped jumping and looked at the memory. "Can make my own. You should try." And the heart jumped away.
And the silver memory thought about this, and he thought about the jumping heart, and then he jumped, and he jumped, and he jumped so high he grew dizzy from the height, and when he hit the ground the little memory without a heart laughed and laughed and laughed, harder than he had ever done when he had had a heart.
terrible epilogue: three days later, Sora thwacked an odd little Dusk with his keyblade. He got ten munny and a health thing.
Challenge [217]: Letting Go
Title: Treed
Word Count: 295
Characters: Seifer and Vivi
Notes: Mildest of spoilers for KHII, perhaps
Seifer's first impression was that a hat had gotten stuck in the tree, until he noticed that a kid was still attached and clinging desperately to a branch.
"Nice night," Seifer drawled.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, it's nice," the kid said, and he sounded even younger than he looked.
"Haven't seen you around before."
"I just moved in with my grandpa. My name's Vivi," the kid said, trying and failing to wriggle into a more comfortable position.
"I'm--"
"Seifer," Vivi finished for him, and awkwardly added, "Everyone knows who you are."
That was quite possibly the best thing Seifer'd heard all week.
"Um, if you wouldn't mind, could you--"
"My policy's always been: 'don't climb up a tree you can't climb down,'" Seifer said, and folded his arms.
"Oh. That's smart." Vivi tried and failed to swing his leg up again. "Is the kitty okay?"
Seifer looked at the base of the tree, where a tuxedo cat was carelessly cleaning a paw. "It's fine."
"Good. I'm still not that great at using Float, so..."
Seifer waited for a while, enjoying the cool night air and Vivi's persistent struggles.
"Why'd you help the cat if you knew you'd get stuck?" Seifer asked at last.
Vivi paused. "I dunno."
Seifer gave him a look.
"My friend said you don't need a reason to help someone," Vivi said simply.
"Huh." Seifer turned to walk away, pausing when he was right under Vivi. "Well, kid, when you get out of that tree, hurry to the sandlot."
"How come?" Vivi asked.
Seifer gave a smirk that turned out more like a grin. "Because Rai and Fuu will want to meet the newest member of the Committee."
Vivi fell out of the tree, but Seifer was there to catch him.
Challenge: [214] Cakewalk
Title: A Simple Plan
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Ever notice how in KHII, up until that final battle, Luxord actually accomplishes all his goals? Man's craftier than you think. **winning entry**
Things go easiest when you make your enemy’s goal your own.
For example:
If your enemy wants to protect the people and you want a monster destroyed, you redirect the monster towards the town. Simple.
For example:
If your enemy has a nasty habit of breaking the odds and you must delay him, don’t fight- give him an inconsequential game to win. Simple.
For example:
If you want to survive, you don’t hope the shadows pass your world unnoticed.
You open your door.
You learn from the dark cloaks.
You grab the shadows so part of you may live.
Simple.
Challenge: [216] Once Upon a Time
Title: The Lonely Memory and the Jumping Heart
Wordcount: 500
Notes: No spoilers. Based on The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, so apologies to Shel Silverstein. This is actually my second attempt at this challenge, since my first one has now passed 1000 words. -_- The characters in this story are a Dusk, a Rhapsody, a Large Body, a Heartless, and a Mushroom, in order of appearance.
Once upon a time there was a little silver memory who wanted a heart. There were others like him, without hearts, and there were hearts wandering about without memories, and he wondered if he could find a heart of his own.
He came across a tiny heart in a pointy hat. It flitted about his head, and the memory asked, "Are you my heart?"
The tiny heart said, "I'm sorry, but I'm so small, if I were your heart, I would get lost!" And it flitted away.
The memory came across a large, round heart with a turban on its head. The memory asked, "Are you my heart?"
The large heart said, "I'm sorry, but I'm so big, if I were your heart I think you'd break!" And it trundled away.
The memory came across a spindly heart with copper coin eyes. The memory asked, "Are you my heart?"
The heart cocked its head this way and that, thinking as hard as a heart could, and said, "I don't know, but I think we might fit."
The two held hands and were joined, and were very happy until many weeks later, when the heart said, "Ouch! What are you doing?"
"What is the matter?" the memory asked.
"The space in here is getting smaller!" the heart cried.
"I'm sorry," the memory said, and tried to make more room, but the more the memory worried, the smaller the space for the heart became.
"Ouch!" said the heart, and the memory worried. "Ow!" said the heart, and the memory was sad. "Oh no!" the heart said, and popped out. "I can't stay if you can't make room for me!" the heart said, and used its spindly legs to run away.
The memory was very sad. He wandered the world, but he stopped looking for his missing heart. He wandered and wandered until one day he met a funny heart in a funny hat who was jumping up and down.
"Do you need help?" the memory asked politely.
"Don't need help," the jumping heart said.
"Are you looking for your memories?" the memory asked.
"Don't need them," the jumping heart said.
"But aren't you lonely without them?" the memory asked.
The heart stopped jumping and looked at the memory. "Can make my own. You should try." And the heart jumped away.
And the silver memory thought about this, and he thought about the jumping heart, and then he jumped, and he jumped, and he jumped so high he grew dizzy from the height, and when he hit the ground the little memory without a heart laughed and laughed and laughed, harder than he had ever done when he had had a heart.
terrible epilogue: three days later, Sora thwacked an odd little Dusk with his keyblade. He got ten munny and a health thing.
Challenge [217]: Letting Go
Title: Treed
Word Count: 295
Characters: Seifer and Vivi
Notes: Mildest of spoilers for KHII, perhaps
Seifer's first impression was that a hat had gotten stuck in the tree, until he noticed that a kid was still attached and clinging desperately to a branch.
"Nice night," Seifer drawled.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, it's nice," the kid said, and he sounded even younger than he looked.
"Haven't seen you around before."
"I just moved in with my grandpa. My name's Vivi," the kid said, trying and failing to wriggle into a more comfortable position.
"I'm--"
"Seifer," Vivi finished for him, and awkwardly added, "Everyone knows who you are."
That was quite possibly the best thing Seifer'd heard all week.
"Um, if you wouldn't mind, could you--"
"My policy's always been: 'don't climb up a tree you can't climb down,'" Seifer said, and folded his arms.
"Oh. That's smart." Vivi tried and failed to swing his leg up again. "Is the kitty okay?"
Seifer looked at the base of the tree, where a tuxedo cat was carelessly cleaning a paw. "It's fine."
"Good. I'm still not that great at using Float, so..."
Seifer waited for a while, enjoying the cool night air and Vivi's persistent struggles.
"Why'd you help the cat if you knew you'd get stuck?" Seifer asked at last.
Vivi paused. "I dunno."
Seifer gave him a look.
"My friend said you don't need a reason to help someone," Vivi said simply.
"Huh." Seifer turned to walk away, pausing when he was right under Vivi. "Well, kid, when you get out of that tree, hurry to the sandlot."
"How come?" Vivi asked.
Seifer gave a smirk that turned out more like a grin. "Because Rai and Fuu will want to meet the newest member of the Committee."
Vivi fell out of the tree, but Seifer was there to catch him.