Kingdom Hearts is a joint Disney/Square venture, and
they own full copyrights. (Aside from Tarzan, which
hasn't QUITE slipped into public domain yet, which is
why Disney actually had to PAY for the rights to one
of their derivative musicals... but I digress.)



KINGDOM HEARTS EXTRA-

The Hall of Lost Heroes 
Prologue

by Aaron Bergman.



Sometimes, when traveling in the ether between the
varied and wondrous worlds that make up what we
laughingly call 'reality', one can catch glimpses of
worlds _in potentia_; that is, worlds not yet cemented
enough to have any unique existence in and of
themselves. 

My only sorrow upon thinking on this subject is that,
with the Heartless swarming like dark locusts,
consuming all that they touch, these worlds will never
gain enough strength to stand against the shadow.

"Move over, Goofy! You're hoggin' up the cockpit!"

I replied absently, "Shore thing, Sora!" In response
to Sora's rather impatient request, I shifted my legs
up closer to my body, absorbed in my rather morose
thoughts.

It isn't so much that these worlds have no means of
existing. Current theories state that a world's
essence is much like that of a god's; i.e., belief is
the sustainer of its existance. If it lacks belief, or
that belief is 'leeched' away, then it no longer
exists.

With every fresh world that I glimpsed from the corner
of my eyes, I wonder... is it the ghost of some faded
dream, an empty husk from which there is no return, or
is it a shimmer pregnant with hope for a new future?

"Shucks, guessin' there's some things no one c'n
know," I mutter to myself.

"Did yhou say something, Ghoofy?" Donald tapped me on
the shoulder to punctuate his question, and I glanced
back at him before shaking my head once. 

Suddenly, the gummi ship changed direction almost
imperceptibly. Ordinarily I wouldn't have given it any
mind, but there was something about the expression of
Sora's face as I turned my head away from Donald and
glanced at the young lad who had, somehow, managed to
slide easily into the position of our leader. 

It was as if he was hypnotized, staring blankly into
the void that surrounded our ship. I reached over and
poked his arm, concerned to the core of my being.
"Sora li'l buddy, where're we goin' now?"

For a long moment, silence hung over the cockpit, then
Sora shook his head slowly, sluggishly. "Huh?" He
looked over at me, his eyes glazed over, and I
realized...

I realized that we were in trouble.

Donald sputtered, "Sora! Phay attention!" 

The lad turned back to the controls and wrenched at
the control stick. The gummi ship shuddered violently
but didn't change course a mere fraction from our new
heading. "What's goin' on!" 

I glimped from the corner of my eye one of those
ghost-worlds, and instinctively I turned my head to
look at it. It didn't vanish when I confronted it full
on, however, and I shouted, "Garsh, we're gonna crash
right inta it!"

And crash we did. After the third bounce, I blacked
out, though not without giving a thankful blessing to
whomever installed seatbelts and crash cages into
every gummi cockpit.

When I came to, hours later, I was in a soft bed. A
young woman with fine green hair was looking down at
me, equal measures of concern and sorrow on her
esquisitely-formed features. 

"Where am I?"

She tried to smile as she said, "Welcome to the Hall
of Lost Heroes."





-END prologue

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