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Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

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Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

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Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

So, where's everyone else on their next post?

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Dotty seemed entirely caught up in Tarzan and Jane's awkward interactions. Luckily for everyone involved, just as she yelled "TARZAN AND JANE ARE GONNA HAVE PUPPIES!!!" was the exact moment that Kerchak ripped the tent a new door in his search of Turk, rendering his outburst rather inaudible.

Kerchak stared at the scene. Men, creatures not of this land, not one of them. Here, within his domain. 2 larger, more dominant looking ones. Possibly an alpha and a beta, a smaller one, possibly female, probably mother to the smaller one and here they were with Turk and Tarzan... Rearing up, he beat his chest and roared loudly to impose his dominance. Turk immediately threw down the fruit. "KERCHAK! IT'S SO..." Her brain went a mile a minute trying to think up a reasonable explanation about why she and Tarzan were here. But Kerchak gave her a look that would turn the bones of anyone to ice, the message was clear, he wanted the truth... Well, the truth actually wasn't the worst thing in the world this time. "Weird evil monkeys tried to eat me and Tarzan and that other weirdo saved me!" She said, pointing to Taivas.

Kerchak continued to look at them, all the while, Jane was currently stuck in a lack of clear direction. On the one hand, a dominant Alpha Gorilla was right here, in front of her, never studied by human eyes before, everyone back in London would be giving their false teeth for this opportunity... On the otherhand, this was a dominant Alpha Gorilla right in front of her and she was on his terf... With any luck Tarzan would be able to talk him down.

Tarzan also was like the veritable deer in the headlights. Technically he had done nothing wrong, but when had little details like "Having done nothing wrong" ever stopped his father from punishing him? Whatever he said, he knew Kerchak would berate him when they returned to the nest. He slowly started to crawl along the ground, head down, moving with Turk as Kerchak stood tall. Right now, the only way he could protect Jane would be to go with him and hope that a show of submissiveness was enough to stay Kerchak's anger.

Clayton, on the otherhand was thinking how best to take advantage of the situation. Of course, this was a 350kg Silverback. He'd be worth at least £200 if brought in alive... But he doubted any of the cages back on the ship would actually hold it. But stuffed... Yes, he knew a good Taxidermist, could get at least £70 which was more than the living ones. Still not bad for a few weeks work.

As the troop of 3 Gorilla's slowly moved towards the treeline, Tarzan giving a few cautious looks back at his new friends and Jane, suddenly he stopped, as did Kerchak. Their eyes scanned the treeline. Out of the tree's the great Leopard, Sabor leaped straight at Turk, clearly looking to pick off the smallest of the group. With another mighty roar, Kerchak backhanded the leopard straight out of the air and into the tree-line, beating his chest, he gave chase. That leopard had made its last mistake in this jungle. Tarzan immediately gave chase, all the while Turk simply screamed while jumping up and down, clearly calling for more aid.

Clayton grabbed his gun and ran through the treeline after them. This might prove a good time to get rid of the big brute that would give him the most trouble. 'I'm dreadfully sorry, old bean, i tried to save the big one and deal with that evil leopard, but after a tussle, the gun just went off.' He smiled to himself as he ran, seeing the shadows of the tree's slowly fill with those glowing yellow eyes. Oh yes and his new friends would be of invaluable help in this. Maybe distract the monkey man long enough for this to work. As Clayton was alone, a glowing green flame would appear before him.

"Do not think in such small terms, Mr Clayton... That ape is strong and his heart equally so... It would be very useful to us..." The green flame whispered in that distractingly seductive tone.

"But... How? I'm not one for all of this voodoo poppycock." He sighed.

"You will know... When the time is right..." It responded a little more sternly this time.

"But ho-" As he asked again, this time, a continuous bolt of green lightning blasted through the flames and straight into his eyes, the depraved and despicable knowledges of the heartless pouring into his very soul. He dropped the gun as he tried to process this. As the lightning stopped and the portal disappeared, he quickly felt himself over, making sure he wasn't damaged at all... Then smiled a cruel smile.

"Yes, that brute will be useful to us..." He snickered under his breath before picking up the shotgun, it crackled with green energies for a second, before he set off at a run through the underbrush. Finally finding where the showdown was occuring. A large crater created from when one of the largest tree's in the jungle had fallen over due to its excessive weight. In the veritable caldera of dirt, the Leopard and Gorilla King faced off against each other. Tarzan and Turk stood next to Dotty and Taivas who had followed him. Dammit, they'd gotten here first... He looked around for a way to distract them...

Dotty swung the mask around to her hands. "HEROIC SPIRIT OF POODLEWOL-" Tarzan stopped her though. "HEY!" She called at the wildman.

"Kerchak's fight..." Behind them, the spirit of Zen-Aku watched, seeing the 2 warriors facing down.

"That Leopard has killed someone close to him... Someone very special..." The wolf spirit growled. Dotty reslung the mask.

"Just like Canine the Barkbarian's showdown against Colisla Dachshund" She whispered adopting a stoic pose to watch the fight go down.

Sabor leapt through the air, the great fists of Kerchak swung, but the leopard was quicker, twisting in the air out of the way of the almighty mits, before landing its claws straight in Kerchaks chest, rending a great gash in it and spraying a little blood. Kerchak let out a roar of great pain, before bringing his fists into a bear-hug on the leopard, it continued to claw at him, but one great throw and the Leopard smashed into the walls. Kerchak moved to keep up the momentum, grabbing it's hind leg and smashing it into another great root, once, twice, thrice, before the leopard was able to wriggle free. Clayton watched the situation. This wasn't good, it looked like the brute was going to win... Unless he were the one to tip the balance. He looked at one of his Heartless Monkeys and silently ordered it to give Kerchak the assistance he needed. Diving into the ground, the shadow of the Heartless slipped down into the crater.

Meanwhile, Sabor was moving to get distance between itself and the gorilla, using her own speed and the Gorilla's lack thereof as the hopefully deciding factor in this fight. Sabor gave a great hiss at the Gorilla, who roared, before charging, Sabor dived out of the way, hoping to land and using this momentum to flank the gorilla, but instead, it landed paws first into a puddle of the Heartless goop. The goop ran up her legs and covered her, before she stared at Kerchak, her eyes glowing golden as her fur darkened. Kerchak didn't care what colour Sabor was, she killed his only son and today, she was going to pay.Letting out another roar, he ran forward on all fours, but in a flash of literal lightning, the Leopard had rushed behind and dug all of her claws into his back, rending more flesh.

Tarzan looked confused as he looked to Taivas for assistance. He had helped before... But this was still his fathers fight... No, it was his job to protect his family, even if that family didn't like him too much. "Help me!" He called to Taivas, grabbing the spear. At that point a gunshot rang out, Sabor was knocked off of Kerchaks back by the bullet. As they looked to see Clayton stood weapon aimed.

"DON'T YOU DARE HARM THAT MAGNIFICENT BEAST!!!" He called in his most heroic battle cry he could muster.

"Clayton!" Tarzan jumped for joy at his friends assistance. Sabor backed off a few paces, before rushing again, clocking another gunshot and going back a pace. Clayton jumped into the crater and advanced, gun still trained on it. He subtly gave a command to the heartless influencing Sabor and it managed to pull Sabor to run out of the crater and aim its attention at the gang. Dotty grabbed the mask and didn't hesitate this time.

HEROIC SPIRIT OF POODLEWOLF, FILL ME WITH ABSOLUTE POWER!!!" She called, the dark energies swirling around her and Zen-Aku taking form. He struck his wolf-warrior pose at the Leopard.

"Deal with that Feline miscreant!" Clayton called "I'll take care of the Gorilla!!!" Tarzan nodded to Clayton before turning his full attention to Sabor. Clayton turned to look at the wounded gorilla. "Oh yes, i'll take VERY good care indeed of this one..." He whispered as the green energy in his eyes began to glow.

@Eviledd1984

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

As Launchpad continued to think of his next daring quip (As all great heroes need a follow up one after their initial, it's in the "Darkwings Do's And Don'ts of Daring Do Vol 3" only $39.99 at all good retailers) suddenly, the waifish girl seemed to twirl around him and blow a bunch of them away, straight into the blaster fire of Leon and the shuriken of the other scantily clad girl. Launchpad listened as the girl told him what to do. Leon simply saluted as he switched to the Plasma Cannon, checking if it worked, before sighing, putting it away and simply drawing the Photon Bazooka and blasting a couple more to clear the path as ordered. "Of course, ma'am. We're on a secret mission from StUGHT-!" He was cut off as Leon jumped up and grabbed his beak, before cartoonishly tying it in a bow to keep him from saying anything else. As he landed, he looked up at Aerith

"Talking should be done by those with brains larger than a grape." He said to her."Whatever needs doing, we will do." He said, letting his Star Command training take over.

"Mubwgawbmuvuveebigwr?" Launchpad asked. Leon grabbed Launchpads shirt and pulled him down so he could untie his lips with a single pull. "But what about Hoshi and her Keyblade?" He asked.

"We can do as you ask, but only if you 2 Clavats can guarentee us her safety. If not, we're going after her." He demanded, staring up at Aerith, but then again, he was only 3ft tall, so he stared up at everyone except Moogles and other Lilties. To illustrate his point, he slung the bazooka over his shoulder and shot at a Knight that had just dived for him without looking, the shreded remains of the knight hit him, letting off an intimidating effect of the shadows pouring off of him for a second as the Knight faded from existance. An intimidation that was slightly muted by the giant Duck man with a big, friendly smile stood next to the short gunner.

@IAmTheIsland

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

That was excrutiating. Took a couple of rewrites and nearly accidentally deleted the entire post at one point, but i did it. My other options for songs would be Belle Notte or Kiss the Girl.

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Dotty had managed to find the projector at the back of the tent and was flicking through slides. "This is the worst TV ever. No streaming or anything." Terk sat watching the slides with a small basket full of local fruit that Jane had collected to draw, hooping a little with amusement. Jane at this point, was on her 4th page of sketches of the ape. Her enthusiasm still making her giddy as a child on christmas morning. She wans't even questioning the references to technologies she had no concept of. The tent parted and Clayton strode in with his confident smile, like the preverbal cat that caught the canary. First thing he noticed was the young girl. An eyebrow raised.

"Another wild child, Ms Porter?" He asked. Dotty turned and looked at Clayton.

"Hey, you're used to having thumbs. You know how to hook the HDMI up on this thing. Jane's too bothered with the monkey." Immediately Claytons head spun around like an antilope that heard a stick break.

"AT LAST!" He screamed, finally, his patience had paid off. £50 a head, plus these new minions of his, was him walking on easy street. The exclaimation seemed to startle Turk and she darted to the other side of the tent. "MS PORTER, DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY!" He yelled, one of the Heartless outside of the tent lifted up the corner, but Clayton shooed it away, he couldn't put his cards on the table yet. He needed the whole flock or herd or whatever you called enough to buy him that country manor he always wanted. Jane immediately dived on Claytons arms to put them down.

"Mr Clayton, you're only frightening her." Clayton tried to wrestle his arms away from Janes, but soon heard the tent flap again, he turned to try and shoe the Heartless again, only to see Taivas and Tarzan stood there. He quickly put on his best game face.

"Ah, Tarzan, good man. Look at this lovely turn of events. Jane has made friends with one of your friends." He said with his best dashing smile. "And you've brought one of your other Wild Man friends? A brother perhaps?" He asked. Tarzan hopped over to Turk and quickly calmed her down. Although Turk still seemed apprehensive. Tarzan lead her over to Jan and held up her hand for Jane to touch. Turk seemed a little displeased by this, but didn't resist at all, she may not trust the humans, but she did trust Tarzan.

"HAN YOU'RE BACK!!!" Taivas would hear before being tackled around the neck by Dotty, swinging one full circle around his body, before hanging off his shoulder and dropping back to the floor. "I made friends with Jane and that's Monkey and that's... I'm sorry, Mr, you are?" Clayton was momentarily distracted by his visions of wealth when he was addressed, he looked at the pair of them, before taking Taivas' hand in a firm yet not aggressive handshake.

"Clayton, dear boy. William Cecil Clayton of the Greystoke Claytons. Charmed, i'm sure." He said in his most upper-class, yet still rather friendly demeenor he could muster. Meanwhile, he looked down at Dotty. "Your daughter i presume, Mr Han was it... Prussian i presume?" Dotty laughed.

"NO!" Dotty screamed, realizing she gave away the real name and had to use the fake one instead. She then coughed. "Achem. No, this is Taivas and he's my... Big Brother..." She smiled. Claytons eyes darted between them for a second. He had white hair, almost like an Albino, but with no red eyes. Meanwhile she had brown hair and looked nothing like him.

"Naturally..." He replied slowly. "Well, it would be rude not to offer you a drop of something, and why not some of the good stuff as it is a VERY special occasion." He laughed, grabbing a large decanter of cognac from the stand nearby and swiftly pouring a small glass and shoving it into Taivas' hands. "Our expedition here is finally bearing fruit. We're a Scientific expedition you see, to come and study these... Magnificent specimens." He said, pointing to Turk who's face was now slathered with the juices of various fruits. Dotty watched Jane telling Tarzan about what happened and showing him the drawings she had taken in her books. It was obvious to everyone that Tarzan didn't really understand what she was saying, but was happy that she was happy. Dotty slowly sidled over to Clayton and Taivas.

"Ooooooooooh" She giggled. Clayton looked down at her, mildly confused. She pointed to Jane and Tarzan. He stared for a second before looking back at Dotty, slightly confused by what she was seeing.

You already know what's happening

"I can see what's happening." Clayton looked at her as one of her ears turned into that of a dogs.

"Um..."

"And they don't have a clue." Her other ear also changed.

"What's going-"

"They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line, their trio's down to 2." She pointed at Clayton and shook her head with pity. At this point, Zen-Aku became visible to them all. Clayton immediately grabbed for his gun as the Werewolf appeared, but couldn't find it as the tent seemed to fade into nothingness.

"Just bare with and don't think too hard about it" Zen-Aku sighed.

"The sweet caress of twilight! There's magic everywhere" The sun started to fall and suddenly Tarzan and Jane found themselves in a romantic lagoon while Terk floated over next to the rest who were left to watch this unfold. And with all this romantic atmosphere... She threw her arms wide. "DISASTER'S IN THE AIR!!!" Finally, she poofed back into her puppy form. Meanwhile, Zen-Aku took out his flute knife and began to play along with the insanity. "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MULTI-AWARD WINNING MUSICIAN, ELTON JOHN!!!" As the tree's parted, the bright and sparkling musician appeared on his piano with Dotty stood atop it.

"Can you feel the love tonight!"
I was laid to rest."
It's enough to make Kings and Vagabonds
Believe the very best..."

As Tarzan and Jane explored the lagoon, Tarzan climbed and grabbed her some more fruit, bringing it down and presenting it too her, Jane took a cautious bite out of it, before offering it to Tarzan, who simply finished it with one single bite. She giggled at this barbaric act, clearly amused by it. Zen-Aku couldn't help but find this oddly familiar, as if he had done the same with a woman from his past that continued to elude him.

"And can you feel the love tonight
(Tonight)
The peace the evening brings!
The world for once, in perfect harmony
With all it's living things!"

As Jane sat down next to the lagoon and filled a tea-pot from the waters, before putting it to boil over a nearby fire she had made, Tarzab watcher her.

"So many things to tell her"
but how to make her see.
The truth about my mother, impossible
She'd turn away from me."

He sighed and went back to gathering fruit. Meanwhile, Jane turned to watch Tarzan as he swung around.

"He's holding back, he's hiding.
But what, i can't decide
Why won't he be the man i know he is
the man i see inside!"

As they sat down and Jane poured Tarzan tea, he took a sip, rather taken aback at first by the fact that this drink was hot, he wasn't used to that. Jane once again giggled by his absurd reaction to the drink. She picked up her own cup and took a sip to show him how to. Tarzan tentatively gave the drink another go, although his hands were far more shakey than hers, not used to such dainty crockery.

"There's a time for everyone.
If they only learned
That the twisting collidoscope
Moves us all in turn"

As they finshed, Tarzan took Janes hand and carried her up into the jungle cannopy to look at the stars in the sky, Jane flabbergasted by their sheer beauty, before Jane started to tell Tarzan all about the constellations and the other planets.

There's a rhyme and reason
To the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager
Beats in time with yours!"

Soon, the pair were climbing down from the canopy, but Jane slipped and fell, tumbling down, Tarzan jumping to grab her and falling with her, until they both landed, Tarzan on his back with Jane atop him.

"And can you feel the love tonight!"
(Tonight)
"You needn't look too far
Steeling through the night's uncertainties
Love is where we are

as Jane seemed to lean in to Tarzan, the group watched with bated breath, before everything began to fade back to the tent.

"And if he falls in love tonight." Claytons eyes practically popped out of their sockets in shock. Everything else was a bit weird, but now the Gorilla was singing in perfect english and this was a little too much for him. Tantaur appeared behind her and put a trunk on her shoulder.
"It can be assumed And now the Elephant was also singing... This little girl had powers he had never even dreamt of.
"His carfree days with us are history." Dotty jumped in and sat on Turks other shoulder.
In short our pal is dooooooooooooomed They all then started crying with each other as everything then faded back into the tent, Elton John waving goodbye as he faded as well and Turk was sat crying while embracing with Dotty now in human form again. She realized that everything was back to normal and immediately the waterworks turned off and she shoved Dotty, who tumbled a few times before landing on her bum in the corner, before giving the others the thumbs up

Clayton stood entirely dumbfounded and looked at the glass of Cognac in his hand, before reaching outside of the tent and pouring it on the ground. "I must apologize for that-" He thumped his chest once. "Must have been a bad lot." He eyed the girl and the gorilla. This could definitely be turned to his advantage...

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

@King Kindred generally, the way I used Star Wars characters was that the characters are mostly just "Those who also travel the space between" No grand explanation, they were just there, because they fit a narrative need. Again, like the Final Fantasy characters. One of the ones I did was a bunch of the Bounty Hunters like Bossk, IG-88 and Greedo as well as Rocket and Groot showing up to Snow White world when Grimhilde put the hit out on Snow White.

Jedi were "Another order of Heartless Slayers that Maleficent killed off decades ago by tricking one of their order into killing the rest" Vader was an implied force rather than ever actively appearing. (Primarily because one of the characters in the campaign was essentially playing the Roxas to Anakins Sora.)

Also, yes, I agree with the Princess Hearts needing to be pure, but that doesn't mean they can't grow dull. There was a whole plot point where one of the Nobodies managed to capture Queen Brahne's heart after she was killed (It was corrupted, but still monstrously powerful and afterwards the gang had to let it go because it wasn't any good for the Kingdom Hearts project)

One of the other ones I did for Atlantis was that The Heart of Atlantis is essentially an imperfect Kingdom Hearts. A load of Princess Hearts cobbled together, but with a few darker ones also spoiling the mix. Again, more powerful than you could possibly imagine, but nothing compared to the real one. There was also a whole thing about Star Butterflys Heart being an "Almost Princess Heart" like, she was so close, but it could still go either way. They have to be earned, not born with.

Pretty much, "Not every Princess has a Princess Heart, but all Princess Hearts belong to someone who is a princess in some way" like, one of the princess' was Marie from Aristocats. Mostly because O'Malley and her brothers kept jokingly calling her "Princess"

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

@King Kindred I don't like the idea of Terk being a princess. Then again, i've always been a fan of the idea that "Princess Heart" is just a special heart that appears at least once in every world. It's just some are much easier to find than others and there would be little clues here and there. So, Princess & The Frog world, Tiana would have a Princess Heart, but this wouldn't become obvious until after she married Naveen.

Ultimately, they only need 7, but bad guys are going after the Princess' that they know of already. Aurora would also be a Princess, but Maleficent prefers to leave her in this perpetual state for her own amusement and may drag her out if push comes to shove, but right now she can have her cake and eat it, so no need to upset that.

That being said, if we are going with "Only 7" My recommendations are:

*Star Butterfly (Would like to go to Star Vs world at some point)
*Megura (In the original mythology, her father was the King of Thebes, and if the endgame takes place on her world, it makes sense)
*Mira Nova (Ties in with Launchpad and Leon's Star Command backstory)
*Rapunzel (Recently rewatched the Tangled series, it's pretty good, i recommend it.)
*Dotty (She would be descended from Cadpig, who, in the original 101 Dalmatians book sequel "The Starlight Barking" was the Prime Minister of all dogs, close enough to royal blood.)
*Cadpig (For the above stated reason)
*Princess Shayla (Tying into Zen-Aku's backstory of him trying to find her, despite having no idea who she is.)
*Dolly Dalmatian (Her major love interest in the series is Prince Corgi, Plenty of other Princess' only got there via marriage.)
*Princess Garnet (Being that i've tied Karre's backstory into FFIX, it would be an interesting dynamic)
*Webbigail Vanderquack (Either version, although thanks to that stupid fucking twist at the end of the remake, i suppose remake Webby makes more sense.)
*Fox Xanatos (Her Mother is Queen of the Fae)
*Kim Possible (If Bonnie hadn't have cheated, she would have become "Homecoming Queen" And that's close enough for the powers that be.)
*Princess Eilonwy (No specific reason, i just like her as a character)
*Kiara (Again, no specific reason, i just like her)
*Mirabel Madrigal (The reason The Miracle can't grant her power is she already has too much. Speaking of, i kinda like the idea that The Miracle itself is a disembodied Royal Authority, which is how it grants powers. The Authority inhabits the candle, but the being the Royal Authority comes from now inhabits Casita. I'd let you decide on who it used to be, but it's an idea.)
*Fa Mulan (Another "No specific reason, i just like her" But she is actually an official member of the Disney Princess range... Also i may have a mildly unhealthy infatuation with Ming Na Wen)
*Princess Leia (Yet another "No reason, i just like her" Although i still say that Star Wars and Marvel should play a role more like Final Fantasy within Kingdom Hearts, in the sense of "These characters don't have a specific world, but they are used to fill in logical roles in other worlds" like how Zack was from Hercules World and Setzer and Vivi are from Traverse Town.)

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

@Eviledd1984 Way i see it, at the end of Sleeping Beauty world, i can see Maleficent in Dragon form looking at the party and going "So, the 2 dark warriors, more than easy to destroy... Plus you 3 pathetic fairies? Still very much easily destoyed... Plus Philip with that magic sword... Again, very easy win... Plus the now released Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Still an easy win for me... Plus Aurora with that Floral Fallal form...? Hmmm... Kinda makes the fight a little too even for my liking... Fine, i'm going to go finish my plans for the Heartless and just come back and restore the rightful balance of my victory later."