Magnificent as always, Pinky Rose.
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If you people can't tell, I've been away for about....a week or so. Thank you kindly for the comments, and for keeping what little spirit I have alive. It seems I'm having a hard time figuring out how to connect said story to the Final Mix movie trailer. ((As best as I can, I really am trying...))
I'm also sorry for not posting in a while. I know you're upset.
((At this, the viewers roll their eyes. They don't actually care.))
I'm having a lot of freak problems with life right about now.
But here's a really SHORT section....which I have yet to finish.
>.> whatever.
It almost seemed as though the reality that Kairi had been captured (again) had not settled in as the two remaining heroes walked the beaches, searching for anything to take them away from this place. Neither spoke, but simply continued strolling…there was no thought between them…
“We should have done something,” Sora finally said, quietly.
Riku glanced at him. “If we even could have done anything…Kairi would have been hurt.” His tone reflected thick regret. “It would have been our fault if something had happened to her…”
Sora’s head snapped in his direction. “Something DID happen to her Riku; she’s gone, again!”
The other frowned at him. “I told you not to follow that man…now look what you did. He took Kairi, and it’s your fault. It’s YOUR fault, Sora.”
“MY fault?! You’re the one who was standing right next to her! Why didn’t YOU do something about it?!”
Riku clenched his fists. “You’re the Keyblade Master, why don’t you do something about it? Go on, go save Kairi! Then, you can just live happily ever after, and get me out of your hair!”
“What? I would never want you out of my hair! You’re my best friend! Riku-“
The other snorted. “That’s not what the picture said...”
“What picture?!”
Riku shoved him roughly, turning away to face the ocean.
“The Secret Place, Sora. Don’t play dumb! I saw the picture you did on the wall…I saw what she drew back…”
Sora blinked, as he hit the sand. “W-What? You mean she drew something too?”
Riku nodded, his back still turned. “She gave you a paopu fruit….”
Inside, Sora felt a strange twinge of happiness, even in this dark hour of the island, but still looked at Riku, and sensed a wave of misery.
“Riku…we can all still be friends. And, if you want, you can go save her on your own…”
The eldest shook his head, and as he turned Sora could see the sketched smile on his face.
“Sora…let’s go together……and when we save Kairi…we can find a world that never ever sees Light or Darkness…or anything. Just the three of us.”
The Keyblade Master thought of this, picturing the trio, finally free from all of this…the pains and sufferings of the worlds unknown…
“Yeah, Riku. That’d be great.”
The two smiled, and gazed out into the sea.
“But first, we have to stop this guy…and get Kairi back.”
Riku nodded. “Of course.”
The other sighed. “There’s no way out of here…no ships, no portals…nothing.”
The elder shook his head. “No…there is another way…”
Sora stared at him for a moment, as Riku shut his eyes, and suddenly realized what he was doing in astonishment, and grappled his arm.
“Wait, Riku! I know what you’re thinking…”
He bobbed his head. “Yeah…” Riku shut his eyes again, his hands almost wrestling with an invisible force. “If…I can just get it open…for a little while…”
“Riku…we can find another way…just give it a little more time and-“
“Sora, what time?! Time is something we are running out of! We have got to go now! There is no more time for us here, don’t you see that? I have to use the darkness, just to get us out of here, and I’ll be done with it. I have total control, I promise.”
The Keyblade Master seemed almost unsure if he could handle the darkness…but nodded anyway.
“Then we have to try to get to Hollow- I mean, Radiant Garden, fast. We can find some help there, and get on our feet.”
Riku’s faced twisted into a frown, and with a small gasp, a strange vortex appeared only inches from his fingertips. They both peered into its depths, curiously.
“Does it lead to the Garden?” Sora questioned.
Riku shrugged. “It was…hard enough just to get the doorway here…I don’t know where it leads…”
Sora held out his hand, taking the other’s. “Then we’ll go together.”
And so they did….
And in the underground, far beyond their sight, the stranger who had helped them so much battled Heartless near shore’s end; smiling all the while.
“It has begun…hasn’t it, Xehanort?”
Warmth…it was much warmer now. Sora could feel the sun’s rays caressing him, as his eye adjusted to the lights above him. Somewhere far away, he could hear a rather familiar voice, calling to him.
“Sora? Sora! Wake up! Sora, wake up! Get your lazy rear in gear!”
The boy awoke with a jolt. “W-What?”
Though his eyes had yet become used to the brightness, he could make out the faded images of Cid…and three other people behind him. Sora was outside the Restoration Committee’s building, as far as he could tell, and as a headache pummeled into his mind, he groaned, and sat up.
“For goodness sake, Sora…you could have just taken a ship,” A woman in a bright, rosy outfit said, softly.
“Aerith?”
“Who else? Geeze, Sora, you really did hit that pavement hard…”
“Yuffie!”
The girl grinned from ear to ear. “The one and only! And, if you didn’t see, Tiffa and Leon are here too.”
The young man sat up, rubbing his head in agony as he focused at last on a tall, brunette man with a frown on his face.
“Sora,” Leon asked, helping him to his feet, “How did you get here?”
“It’s…quite a long story.”
“This must be Riku,” Aerith said, dragging the boy past the building.
Sora tilted his head, and looked back at the tiny cottage. “Aren’t we going inside the Head-Quarters?”
Yuffie and Aerith smiled at one another and nodded. “We are,” the girl ninja said, “That isn’t our building anymore; we rented it out to some girl who said she was from another dimension or something…”
“We set up our command post in the Castle, about three months ago;” Leon said, as they passed the Central Hub area, nearing the Castle Grounds. “Since you left, we’ve been able to clear out the Heartless, and fix up the place.”
“Yeah, you should see it,” Yuffie said with a smirk. “The whole place is packed with people…lots of folks are sympathetic with our cause. They’ve been coming from all over the worlds, just to help us defeat the Heartless.”
Leon gently walked Sora up the steps, passing a stout man with a helmet on his head…almost as if he was a child, pretending to be a knight with a bowl as a helm. He saluted him as he passed.
“Squall…Yuffie…Aerith…and…” the man peered at Sora and Riku, his bright red mustache twitching back and forth in confusion. “Who are these two?”
Yuffie grinned. “Hey Don, this is Sora. You know, the Keyblade Master. This is his friend uh…”
“Riku.”
“Right,” the ninja said with a giggle. “Riku.”
Don gaped in astonishment, and his helmet nearly toppled off his head. “T-The Keyblade Master is here?! In Radiant Garden?” At once, he dropped the shortsword he had been wielding, and rushed into the castle hall, his voice echoing across the courtyard.
“I have to tell the others, they’re going to flip their wigs over this!”
Leon sighed, and exchanged looks with Sora.
“You’re pretty popular,” Squall finally said, with a mutter, opening the doors that once lead into the Heartless stronghold and before then, the Palace of Ansem the Wise.
It was true what the Committee had said; when they told Sora they had cleaned the Castle up. The Grand Hall Sora once knew as the very place he had fought Riku all those years ago looked completely different. The Heartless emblem had been torn out of the wall, and the fountain was now gushing out water, almost happy to see them. Several people dressed in leather armor and metal helms were guarding the corners, and saluted to Leon and the others, smiles on their faces. Aerith led Sora up the spiral staircase, into the library, which Sora remembered clearly from his last visit…where he had met Belle and the other princesses. The very place Ansem the Wise and Xehanort once walked upon now was home to a far greater number of people, dressed in white coats, just as the scientists before them had done many years ago.
“Are…all these people scientists?” Sora questioned, glancing at Yuffie.
She shook her head. “No, we found a ton of these coats down in what WAS the barracks, and decided to use them. I mean, why waste something that still has a lot of use?”
Aerith nodded. “A lot of these books belonged to Ansem the Wise…these people are here to learn about the Heartless, and help us stop them.”
Sora smiled, glad that he was no longer alone. “It’s good to see that we’re not the only ones that care about the darkness.”
Leon bowed his head. “Sora, I want to show you something.” The gunman grasped Sora by the wrists, and led him down into the basement…where Sora had last seen Tron in the world within Ansem’s computer. Leon opened the door, and escorted him into a room, where a tall, blonde man and a black-haired boy in nightshade overalls worked on a computer. Sora recognized the blonde right away, but could not get the name of the other male in the room.
“Cid!”
The technician grinned from ear to ear and crushed the boy in a giant bear hug.
“Well, if it ain’t Sora the Keyblade Master! What on earth’re you doing way out all the way here? I thought you went with your little friends back home!”
The boy in the overalls gawked; his soft voice complemented a light British accent, as he voiced his quiet surprise.
“Who…who is that?”
Cid nodded to him. “This here is Arrow; he’s a friend of mine, who I found wanderin around near the Castle Gates. Seems he’s been here since even before Maleficent got around…been liven in the Castle Basement for ‘bout four or five years, haven’t you boy?”
Arrow bobbed his head, slowly, almost in fear of the other male. “’Aye…”
Cid continued. “Arrow knows the waterways like the back of his hand. He knew Ansem’s passwords; he’s the technical one of the bunch…helped us clean out the Castle while you were away too.”
Aerith smiled. “Leon, why don’t you show Sora what Tron found?”
Cid pressed a button, and on the screen appeared Sora’s electronic ally.
“Hey Tron,” Cid asked the computer program, “Could you show Sora the map you uncovered?”
The other looked around, and spotted the boy, waving. “Hello again, Sora. And, of course, I have the map. It’s right here.” He man pressed a knob on his side of the screen, and a large map illustrating many large, round orbs, connected by several lines appeared.
Leon relinquished a fold-up pointer, and positioned it near a circle labeled “Radiant Garden.”
“This is the Garden, Sora. And all this black,” Squall said, motioning at the masses of black, not far from the outer circle of the world, “Are the Heartless.”
“You see, Tron found this old program which Ansem the Wise used to track Heartless,” Cid told the others. “It used some sort of D.N.A sampler, which we matched up with the Heartless of each world. This way, we can find out where the Heartless are attacking, and how many of the bunch there are.”
“Then, we just send a security team to wherever the problem is, and they fix it straight.”
Sora blinked. “Why not install a security program like you do here, instead of putting people in danger?”
Yuffie nodded. “Well, you know this better than anyone, that there are tons of really big Heartless out there that even our teams can’t handle; even with special equipment…”
“Besides,” Cid replied, a frown crossing his face, “We can’t get the program to other worlds, because there’re two problems.”
“One,” Leon said, counting on his fingers, “There’s no receiving area we can send it to.”
“If there isn’t another computer on the other end, then we can’t send it.” Yuffie said.
“Another problem is that there are years and years of protection software Xehanort installed on his portal, so we can’t really-“
“Hold on,” Sora asked, slowly, “You mean you have the portal? The one…”
“The one Xehanort used to get the Heartless into this world.” Leon confirmed, with a nod. “We found his laboratory deep down in the waterway, right below this library.”
“The place was really trashed, but somehow Arrow managed to live down in there, right pal?” Yuffie asked, turning to face the younger.
The youngest boy nodded, slowly, gazing at Sora in amazement. “Aye…”
Sora blinked. “Uh…why does he keep saying that?”
“Well,” Aerith said, quietly, “He hasn’t been around people for a long time…and really, we only found him a few months ago. Arrow does know how to speak, he just hasn’t talked in a while…in fear the Heartless might hear him.”
“The kid talked about you for the longest time and we couldn’t get a word of what he said ‘cause he was mumbling so darn much,” Cid told Sora. “Finally, ‘said his first words, an’ you won’t believe what he told us about all those notes down in the Lowest Point.”
“T-The Lowest Point?”
“It’s what Xehanort and his assistant used to call their laboratory,” Arrow finally said, speaking in full, “T-They…came down there every day, after they finished their work……to fix the portal Ansem the Wise s-started…” There was a long moment of awkward silence before he continued, meekly. “I…I’ve heard you here before…in the castle…I ran away, because you blew a…a hole in my house…”
Sora gaped. “That was the place you were hiding in? That was the elevator from the waterway! Heartless appeared there all the time!”
“Only…only when you made a hole, then they had a way in…you made the elevator turn on, and they knew how to use it…which is why I cut it off…you turned it on, and I had to go to the Lowest Point…” Arrow replied, almost too quiet to be heard, “You….were with a giant Beast…I thought it was a Heartless….and then I saw…I saw…” Slowly, Arrow raised a finger and pointed at the Keyblade. “That…you’re the Keyblade Master. You save people…from them…”
Sora smiled, and nodded. “You’re welcome.”
“You’re…really brave.”
The Keyblade Master stared at the young man, who was about Riku’s age, and pictured his friend. So…withdrawn and meek…Riku had only acted anything like that…after……
“Hey, Arrow?”
The boy turned around. “Y-Yes…Sora?”
He didn’t want to ask Arrow such a personal question, but something inside him felt as if something would go wrong if he didn’t.
“Have…you ever met a man named…Ansem before?”
Leon and Cid exchanged confused looks. “Boy, why are you askin him that?”
Arrow thought for a while, and he nodded. “He…was bad…very bad. I saw him here, once, with another boy. He called up all the Heartless…I…I got scared…and I ran away…down to the Lowest…P-Point…He…didn’t see me…but…he looked at me…and…it was really frightening………”
“It’s okay Arrow,” Yuffie said, coming up beside him. “That guy was just a really big Heartless. Sora got rid of him too, right Sora?”
The other nodded.
“See? No more Heartless. Now, Arrow, why don’t you go off with Aerith while we talk to Sora, okay?”
Arrow bobbed his head, almost too afraid to move. “A-Aye…”
With this, the strange boy stalked off with the woman, into the doorway, and out of sight.
Sora shook his head. “Why didn’t he just try to find a way out?”
Yuffie shrugged. “I guess you’ve never faced the Heartless without your weapons…or magic before. At least, not the big ones, and never on your own. When you’re powerless, and you’re trapped by monsters that could very well end your life, I’m sure you’d sit in the same room for a whole year too.”
Sora nodded, very well understanding how it was…when you saw something you’d never seen before, and it was trying its best to kill you…
“As I was saying before,” Cid said, clearing his throat, “We rebuilt the portal Xehanort was working on, and got it up to tip top shape.”
Leon gave an unusual sigh. “All it needed was about three more volts…they could have just refused the controls to reroute the power, but for some reason, they just didn’t…”
“The whole thing caused a major meltdown, and it caught fire to the whole bottom half of the castle, as well as releasing all the Heartless out into the rest of the world. It caused Radiant Garden to become the place we know as Hollow Bastion.”
“All I had ta’ do was fix a few wires,” Cid said, with a snort, “It’s almost as if Xehanort wanted the thing to explode, ‘s if he knew what would happen if he did.”
Sora thought for a while. “Maybe it was to get Ansem the Wise back for not letting him continue with the experiments…”
“Could have been,” the blonde replied, standing. “But we can’t change the past.”
Leon nodded, and opened the door. “Follow Cid, Sora; he’ll lead you down. Yuffie and I have to go check up on something, and we’ll be right down.”
Sora smiled and
I know what you're thinking.
"Dude, wtf? That wasn't A- short or B- finished!"
See?
I can't even think anymore. There's this hole in my heart that is really bothering me...and preventing me from doing anything creative...it some sort of desire I can't seem to quench.
And what with my classes, you can expect a lot....less of me.
Just Msg me.
Or, you can always contact me on myspace. ((it's the same name as the one here guys, relax.))
Then again.....whatever.
I'm also sorry for not posting in a while. I know you're upset.
((At this, the viewers roll their eyes. They don't actually care.))
I'm having a lot of freak problems with life right about now.
But here's a really SHORT section....which I have yet to finish.
>.> whatever.
It almost seemed as though the reality that Kairi had been captured (again) had not settled in as the two remaining heroes walked the beaches, searching for anything to take them away from this place. Neither spoke, but simply continued strolling…there was no thought between them…
“We should have done something,” Sora finally said, quietly.
Riku glanced at him. “If we even could have done anything…Kairi would have been hurt.” His tone reflected thick regret. “It would have been our fault if something had happened to her…”
Sora’s head snapped in his direction. “Something DID happen to her Riku; she’s gone, again!”
The other frowned at him. “I told you not to follow that man…now look what you did. He took Kairi, and it’s your fault. It’s YOUR fault, Sora.”
“MY fault?! You’re the one who was standing right next to her! Why didn’t YOU do something about it?!”
Riku clenched his fists. “You’re the Keyblade Master, why don’t you do something about it? Go on, go save Kairi! Then, you can just live happily ever after, and get me out of your hair!”
“What? I would never want you out of my hair! You’re my best friend! Riku-“
The other snorted. “That’s not what the picture said...”
“What picture?!”
Riku shoved him roughly, turning away to face the ocean.
“The Secret Place, Sora. Don’t play dumb! I saw the picture you did on the wall…I saw what she drew back…”
Sora blinked, as he hit the sand. “W-What? You mean she drew something too?”
Riku nodded, his back still turned. “She gave you a paopu fruit….”
Inside, Sora felt a strange twinge of happiness, even in this dark hour of the island, but still looked at Riku, and sensed a wave of misery.
“Riku…we can all still be friends. And, if you want, you can go save her on your own…”
The eldest shook his head, and as he turned Sora could see the sketched smile on his face.
“Sora…let’s go together……and when we save Kairi…we can find a world that never ever sees Light or Darkness…or anything. Just the three of us.”
The Keyblade Master thought of this, picturing the trio, finally free from all of this…the pains and sufferings of the worlds unknown…
“Yeah, Riku. That’d be great.”
The two smiled, and gazed out into the sea.
“But first, we have to stop this guy…and get Kairi back.”
Riku nodded. “Of course.”
The other sighed. “There’s no way out of here…no ships, no portals…nothing.”
The elder shook his head. “No…there is another way…”
Sora stared at him for a moment, as Riku shut his eyes, and suddenly realized what he was doing in astonishment, and grappled his arm.
“Wait, Riku! I know what you’re thinking…”
He bobbed his head. “Yeah…” Riku shut his eyes again, his hands almost wrestling with an invisible force. “If…I can just get it open…for a little while…”
“Riku…we can find another way…just give it a little more time and-“
“Sora, what time?! Time is something we are running out of! We have got to go now! There is no more time for us here, don’t you see that? I have to use the darkness, just to get us out of here, and I’ll be done with it. I have total control, I promise.”
The Keyblade Master seemed almost unsure if he could handle the darkness…but nodded anyway.
“Then we have to try to get to Hollow- I mean, Radiant Garden, fast. We can find some help there, and get on our feet.”
Riku’s faced twisted into a frown, and with a small gasp, a strange vortex appeared only inches from his fingertips. They both peered into its depths, curiously.
“Does it lead to the Garden?” Sora questioned.
Riku shrugged. “It was…hard enough just to get the doorway here…I don’t know where it leads…”
Sora held out his hand, taking the other’s. “Then we’ll go together.”
And so they did….
And in the underground, far beyond their sight, the stranger who had helped them so much battled Heartless near shore’s end; smiling all the while.
“It has begun…hasn’t it, Xehanort?”
Warmth…it was much warmer now. Sora could feel the sun’s rays caressing him, as his eye adjusted to the lights above him. Somewhere far away, he could hear a rather familiar voice, calling to him.
“Sora? Sora! Wake up! Sora, wake up! Get your lazy rear in gear!”
The boy awoke with a jolt. “W-What?”
Though his eyes had yet become used to the brightness, he could make out the faded images of Cid…and three other people behind him. Sora was outside the Restoration Committee’s building, as far as he could tell, and as a headache pummeled into his mind, he groaned, and sat up.
“For goodness sake, Sora…you could have just taken a ship,” A woman in a bright, rosy outfit said, softly.
“Aerith?”
“Who else? Geeze, Sora, you really did hit that pavement hard…”
“Yuffie!”
The girl grinned from ear to ear. “The one and only! And, if you didn’t see, Tiffa and Leon are here too.”
The young man sat up, rubbing his head in agony as he focused at last on a tall, brunette man with a frown on his face.
“Sora,” Leon asked, helping him to his feet, “How did you get here?”
“It’s…quite a long story.”
“This must be Riku,” Aerith said, dragging the boy past the building.
Sora tilted his head, and looked back at the tiny cottage. “Aren’t we going inside the Head-Quarters?”
Yuffie and Aerith smiled at one another and nodded. “We are,” the girl ninja said, “That isn’t our building anymore; we rented it out to some girl who said she was from another dimension or something…”
“We set up our command post in the Castle, about three months ago;” Leon said, as they passed the Central Hub area, nearing the Castle Grounds. “Since you left, we’ve been able to clear out the Heartless, and fix up the place.”
“Yeah, you should see it,” Yuffie said with a smirk. “The whole place is packed with people…lots of folks are sympathetic with our cause. They’ve been coming from all over the worlds, just to help us defeat the Heartless.”
Leon gently walked Sora up the steps, passing a stout man with a helmet on his head…almost as if he was a child, pretending to be a knight with a bowl as a helm. He saluted him as he passed.
“Squall…Yuffie…Aerith…and…” the man peered at Sora and Riku, his bright red mustache twitching back and forth in confusion. “Who are these two?”
Yuffie grinned. “Hey Don, this is Sora. You know, the Keyblade Master. This is his friend uh…”
“Riku.”
“Right,” the ninja said with a giggle. “Riku.”
Don gaped in astonishment, and his helmet nearly toppled off his head. “T-The Keyblade Master is here?! In Radiant Garden?” At once, he dropped the shortsword he had been wielding, and rushed into the castle hall, his voice echoing across the courtyard.
“I have to tell the others, they’re going to flip their wigs over this!”
Leon sighed, and exchanged looks with Sora.
“You’re pretty popular,” Squall finally said, with a mutter, opening the doors that once lead into the Heartless stronghold and before then, the Palace of Ansem the Wise.
It was true what the Committee had said; when they told Sora they had cleaned the Castle up. The Grand Hall Sora once knew as the very place he had fought Riku all those years ago looked completely different. The Heartless emblem had been torn out of the wall, and the fountain was now gushing out water, almost happy to see them. Several people dressed in leather armor and metal helms were guarding the corners, and saluted to Leon and the others, smiles on their faces. Aerith led Sora up the spiral staircase, into the library, which Sora remembered clearly from his last visit…where he had met Belle and the other princesses. The very place Ansem the Wise and Xehanort once walked upon now was home to a far greater number of people, dressed in white coats, just as the scientists before them had done many years ago.
“Are…all these people scientists?” Sora questioned, glancing at Yuffie.
She shook her head. “No, we found a ton of these coats down in what WAS the barracks, and decided to use them. I mean, why waste something that still has a lot of use?”
Aerith nodded. “A lot of these books belonged to Ansem the Wise…these people are here to learn about the Heartless, and help us stop them.”
Sora smiled, glad that he was no longer alone. “It’s good to see that we’re not the only ones that care about the darkness.”
Leon bowed his head. “Sora, I want to show you something.” The gunman grasped Sora by the wrists, and led him down into the basement…where Sora had last seen Tron in the world within Ansem’s computer. Leon opened the door, and escorted him into a room, where a tall, blonde man and a black-haired boy in nightshade overalls worked on a computer. Sora recognized the blonde right away, but could not get the name of the other male in the room.
“Cid!”
The technician grinned from ear to ear and crushed the boy in a giant bear hug.
“Well, if it ain’t Sora the Keyblade Master! What on earth’re you doing way out all the way here? I thought you went with your little friends back home!”
The boy in the overalls gawked; his soft voice complemented a light British accent, as he voiced his quiet surprise.
“Who…who is that?”
Cid nodded to him. “This here is Arrow; he’s a friend of mine, who I found wanderin around near the Castle Gates. Seems he’s been here since even before Maleficent got around…been liven in the Castle Basement for ‘bout four or five years, haven’t you boy?”
Arrow bobbed his head, slowly, almost in fear of the other male. “’Aye…”
Cid continued. “Arrow knows the waterways like the back of his hand. He knew Ansem’s passwords; he’s the technical one of the bunch…helped us clean out the Castle while you were away too.”
Aerith smiled. “Leon, why don’t you show Sora what Tron found?”
Cid pressed a button, and on the screen appeared Sora’s electronic ally.
“Hey Tron,” Cid asked the computer program, “Could you show Sora the map you uncovered?”
The other looked around, and spotted the boy, waving. “Hello again, Sora. And, of course, I have the map. It’s right here.” He man pressed a knob on his side of the screen, and a large map illustrating many large, round orbs, connected by several lines appeared.
Leon relinquished a fold-up pointer, and positioned it near a circle labeled “Radiant Garden.”
“This is the Garden, Sora. And all this black,” Squall said, motioning at the masses of black, not far from the outer circle of the world, “Are the Heartless.”
“You see, Tron found this old program which Ansem the Wise used to track Heartless,” Cid told the others. “It used some sort of D.N.A sampler, which we matched up with the Heartless of each world. This way, we can find out where the Heartless are attacking, and how many of the bunch there are.”
“Then, we just send a security team to wherever the problem is, and they fix it straight.”
Sora blinked. “Why not install a security program like you do here, instead of putting people in danger?”
Yuffie nodded. “Well, you know this better than anyone, that there are tons of really big Heartless out there that even our teams can’t handle; even with special equipment…”
“Besides,” Cid replied, a frown crossing his face, “We can’t get the program to other worlds, because there’re two problems.”
“One,” Leon said, counting on his fingers, “There’s no receiving area we can send it to.”
“If there isn’t another computer on the other end, then we can’t send it.” Yuffie said.
“Another problem is that there are years and years of protection software Xehanort installed on his portal, so we can’t really-“
“Hold on,” Sora asked, slowly, “You mean you have the portal? The one…”
“The one Xehanort used to get the Heartless into this world.” Leon confirmed, with a nod. “We found his laboratory deep down in the waterway, right below this library.”
“The place was really trashed, but somehow Arrow managed to live down in there, right pal?” Yuffie asked, turning to face the younger.
The youngest boy nodded, slowly, gazing at Sora in amazement. “Aye…”
Sora blinked. “Uh…why does he keep saying that?”
“Well,” Aerith said, quietly, “He hasn’t been around people for a long time…and really, we only found him a few months ago. Arrow does know how to speak, he just hasn’t talked in a while…in fear the Heartless might hear him.”
“The kid talked about you for the longest time and we couldn’t get a word of what he said ‘cause he was mumbling so darn much,” Cid told Sora. “Finally, ‘said his first words, an’ you won’t believe what he told us about all those notes down in the Lowest Point.”
“T-The Lowest Point?”
“It’s what Xehanort and his assistant used to call their laboratory,” Arrow finally said, speaking in full, “T-They…came down there every day, after they finished their work……to fix the portal Ansem the Wise s-started…” There was a long moment of awkward silence before he continued, meekly. “I…I’ve heard you here before…in the castle…I ran away, because you blew a…a hole in my house…”
Sora gaped. “That was the place you were hiding in? That was the elevator from the waterway! Heartless appeared there all the time!”
“Only…only when you made a hole, then they had a way in…you made the elevator turn on, and they knew how to use it…which is why I cut it off…you turned it on, and I had to go to the Lowest Point…” Arrow replied, almost too quiet to be heard, “You….were with a giant Beast…I thought it was a Heartless….and then I saw…I saw…” Slowly, Arrow raised a finger and pointed at the Keyblade. “That…you’re the Keyblade Master. You save people…from them…”
Sora smiled, and nodded. “You’re welcome.”
“You’re…really brave.”
The Keyblade Master stared at the young man, who was about Riku’s age, and pictured his friend. So…withdrawn and meek…Riku had only acted anything like that…after……
“Hey, Arrow?”
The boy turned around. “Y-Yes…Sora?”
He didn’t want to ask Arrow such a personal question, but something inside him felt as if something would go wrong if he didn’t.
“Have…you ever met a man named…Ansem before?”
Leon and Cid exchanged confused looks. “Boy, why are you askin him that?”
Arrow thought for a while, and he nodded. “He…was bad…very bad. I saw him here, once, with another boy. He called up all the Heartless…I…I got scared…and I ran away…down to the Lowest…P-Point…He…didn’t see me…but…he looked at me…and…it was really frightening………”
“It’s okay Arrow,” Yuffie said, coming up beside him. “That guy was just a really big Heartless. Sora got rid of him too, right Sora?”
The other nodded.
“See? No more Heartless. Now, Arrow, why don’t you go off with Aerith while we talk to Sora, okay?”
Arrow bobbed his head, almost too afraid to move. “A-Aye…”
With this, the strange boy stalked off with the woman, into the doorway, and out of sight.
Sora shook his head. “Why didn’t he just try to find a way out?”
Yuffie shrugged. “I guess you’ve never faced the Heartless without your weapons…or magic before. At least, not the big ones, and never on your own. When you’re powerless, and you’re trapped by monsters that could very well end your life, I’m sure you’d sit in the same room for a whole year too.”
Sora nodded, very well understanding how it was…when you saw something you’d never seen before, and it was trying its best to kill you…
“As I was saying before,” Cid said, clearing his throat, “We rebuilt the portal Xehanort was working on, and got it up to tip top shape.”
Leon gave an unusual sigh. “All it needed was about three more volts…they could have just refused the controls to reroute the power, but for some reason, they just didn’t…”
“The whole thing caused a major meltdown, and it caught fire to the whole bottom half of the castle, as well as releasing all the Heartless out into the rest of the world. It caused Radiant Garden to become the place we know as Hollow Bastion.”
“All I had ta’ do was fix a few wires,” Cid said, with a snort, “It’s almost as if Xehanort wanted the thing to explode, ‘s if he knew what would happen if he did.”
Sora thought for a while. “Maybe it was to get Ansem the Wise back for not letting him continue with the experiments…”
“Could have been,” the blonde replied, standing. “But we can’t change the past.”
Leon nodded, and opened the door. “Follow Cid, Sora; he’ll lead you down. Yuffie and I have to go check up on something, and we’ll be right down.”
Sora smiled and
I know what you're thinking.
"Dude, wtf? That wasn't A- short or B- finished!"
See?
I can't even think anymore. There's this hole in my heart that is really bothering me...and preventing me from doing anything creative...it some sort of desire I can't seem to quench.
And what with my classes, you can expect a lot....less of me.
Just Msg me.
Or, you can always contact me on myspace. ((it's the same name as the one here guys, relax.))
Then again.....whatever.
Nice chappy!
If you don't feel like writing, you don't have to, you know? All you can do is try your best!
If you don't feel like writing, you don't have to, you know? All you can do is try your best!
Hooray for Pinky Rose!!! Nice chapter, and I hope you can finish it soon. Sorry about the hecticity (copyrighted 2007 Davy Jones enterprises.)
Good chapter, don't worry about not posting in a week, I seen people not update fanfiction for a year or two.
o_0
Dude, and I thought I was in a pickle!
Well, my writer's........emo-mood is gone. After totally maming Dr. Cid, and obtaining the Esper Adremelech (whoa....what a freakin mouthful,) I got into a much better mood.
((For those of us who do not own FF XII, Dr. Cid is a bad dude, and the guy with the freaky long name is a Thunder-Elemental Summon....who killed me about seventeen times in a row.))
But....I still have some major writer's block. I WANT to get Sora and Riku with Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey, but I dunno what to dooooooooooooooooo!
I was thinking about these seriously evil new dudes, but with frequent appearences and the black coats, they would remind people WAAAAAAAY too much of Org. XIII. So, I have to stick with a plan B......which I do not have.
Krap.
If.....((Q-Q)) you have any ideas....**sob sniffle sob** MSG me????? PLEASE?!?!?!
Dude, and I thought I was in a pickle!
Well, my writer's........emo-mood is gone. After totally maming Dr. Cid, and obtaining the Esper Adremelech (whoa....what a freakin mouthful,) I got into a much better mood.
((For those of us who do not own FF XII, Dr. Cid is a bad dude, and the guy with the freaky long name is a Thunder-Elemental Summon....who killed me about seventeen times in a row.))
But....I still have some major writer's block. I WANT to get Sora and Riku with Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey, but I dunno what to dooooooooooooooooo!
I was thinking about these seriously evil new dudes, but with frequent appearences and the black coats, they would remind people WAAAAAAAY too much of Org. XIII. So, I have to stick with a plan B......which I do not have.
Krap.
If.....((Q-Q)) you have any ideas....**sob sniffle sob** MSG me????? PLEASE?!?!?!
Sorry... I have a bit of I writers block at the moment too...
Ask Herr crash/Davy for advice, he's a writer.
Ja! Herr H0g is right. And, I have a creepy Dutch accent, ja!
Not really, but if you need help, sendeth me thine message of thy private persuasion... pm...
Not really, but if you need help, sendeth me thine message of thy private persuasion... pm...
You're Dutch? Or are you only talking with it's accent?
No, no, no. Not Dutch. Though it would be kinda fun...
I am Dutch!!!
Zie je, ik praat nederlands!!!
Now guess what that meant!
Zie je, ik praat nederlands!!!
Now guess what that meant!
It says "See you, I talk Dutch"
Yep, though 'look' is a better translation of what 'zie je' means in this context!
And how did you know? Are you dutch?
And how did you know? Are you dutch?
Herr H0g's lingustic skills most likely came from a translator. (I know him personally, and I don't think he speaks Dutch!)
Ahh, yes Davy knows me too well. Unfortunately, I don't speak Dutch, I used an online translater.
I thought so...
I would have done the same!
I would have done the same!
Hooooooray!
Just who got out of her writer's blockity?!
Yus.
HEEEEEEEEEERE WEEEEE GOOOOOO!
And so they traveled to the library, taking heed to enter through the secret passage which led down to the lower levels of the Castle...parts Sora had never seen before. Paint peeled from the walls, as if trying to escape from the metal barriers, and doors hung loosely on hinges of rusted iron. It was when Cid turned a certain corner that Sora had another flashback, of the girl from before....
"Serenity?"
Cid turned around, a puzzled look on his face. "What'd you say son?"
The Keyblade Master shook his head. "N-Nothing...come on....let's keep going."
And so they made way into the office, the ravenged walls and papers joined countless books, wires, and unthinkable metal objects, twisted by fire and electric current. There, on the ground beside a tall circular arch, lay a gold chain and a small, charred box...Sora examined the object and sighed, shaking his head.
Cid glanced at the box. "It looked like a ring box to Yuffie, but she's just being silly. There's no evidence of any other scientists who were female working on the portal with Xehanort..."
Sora didn't answer. Somehow, he felt...almost a connection to the girl from before...and how hurt she had been, when she had been betrayed.
"Sora?"
The boy looked up at once. Cid, Yuffie, and Aerith gave him troubled looks, as he set the container down onto a burned table.
"Are you alright, Sora? You...really haven't said anything since you got here...to the Lowest Point." Aerith questioned, also examining the box.
The other shook his head. "It's just funny....how we're walking right in his footsteps...this was the place where all the Heartless came from...and now, there's nothing here..."
Yuffie kicked a piece of metal on the floor. "What was he thinking? Going against what Ansem the Wise said and all? Didn't he think there was a reason? The King told Ansem to stop, because-"
Sora jerked up, remembering Donald and Goofy. "The King!" Spinning in nearly the opposite direction in his excitement, the boy turned to his friends.
"The King's message said he was here, fighting the Heartless! I have to find him, so we can save Kairi! She's...being held hosage, and I have to have a ship...to go look for her!"
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Okay, I didn't type this on MW....but you know, I didn't want you guys to be so alones....
So....we're going to continue Sora and Riku's journey....
What about those freaky guys, who are something of a copywrite of Org XIII?
And that one dude, who was reading Davey Jones's book?
And Kairi!? Lord only knows what's going down with her....
And...and.....and the girl who keeps popping up in Sora's dreams??
Oooooooh......I'm so smart! I got it ALL planned out!
And, instead of breaking my fingers ((I have classes, can't have that,)) I will write a summary about the disney worlds as you "fight" through them on the "game" format. ((zomg...if only I was smart enough to be a game designer.....best kh eva!)) You'll still see a peek at the boss fights im planning out, and all the neato things going on in the other worlds, including (ta da da dum!) Maleficent's EVIL REVENGE! LOLZ.....
enough ranting! I'm begining to sound like Xemnas!
~Pinky Rose
PS: I gots Kingdom Hearts and FF role playing forums for yaz...I own the FF one, but my friend Zexion owns the Kingdom Hearts one. I'm in charge of recruiting peoplez, lolz. You'll know who i am when you see me, the name of the game never EVER changes for me....
Kingdom Hearts :: Index
Final Fantasy World :: Index
^^^Oh, please join us! We have pie....and Kingdom Hearts! And Final Fantasy!
Just who got out of her writer's blockity?!
Yus.
HEEEEEEEEEERE WEEEEE GOOOOOO!
And so they traveled to the library, taking heed to enter through the secret passage which led down to the lower levels of the Castle...parts Sora had never seen before. Paint peeled from the walls, as if trying to escape from the metal barriers, and doors hung loosely on hinges of rusted iron. It was when Cid turned a certain corner that Sora had another flashback, of the girl from before....
"Serenity?"
Cid turned around, a puzzled look on his face. "What'd you say son?"
The Keyblade Master shook his head. "N-Nothing...come on....let's keep going."
And so they made way into the office, the ravenged walls and papers joined countless books, wires, and unthinkable metal objects, twisted by fire and electric current. There, on the ground beside a tall circular arch, lay a gold chain and a small, charred box...Sora examined the object and sighed, shaking his head.
Cid glanced at the box. "It looked like a ring box to Yuffie, but she's just being silly. There's no evidence of any other scientists who were female working on the portal with Xehanort..."
Sora didn't answer. Somehow, he felt...almost a connection to the girl from before...and how hurt she had been, when she had been betrayed.
"Sora?"
The boy looked up at once. Cid, Yuffie, and Aerith gave him troubled looks, as he set the container down onto a burned table.
"Are you alright, Sora? You...really haven't said anything since you got here...to the Lowest Point." Aerith questioned, also examining the box.
The other shook his head. "It's just funny....how we're walking right in his footsteps...this was the place where all the Heartless came from...and now, there's nothing here..."
Yuffie kicked a piece of metal on the floor. "What was he thinking? Going against what Ansem the Wise said and all? Didn't he think there was a reason? The King told Ansem to stop, because-"
Sora jerked up, remembering Donald and Goofy. "The King!" Spinning in nearly the opposite direction in his excitement, the boy turned to his friends.
"The King's message said he was here, fighting the Heartless! I have to find him, so we can save Kairi! She's...being held hosage, and I have to have a ship...to go look for her!"
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Okay, I didn't type this on MW....but you know, I didn't want you guys to be so alones....
So....we're going to continue Sora and Riku's journey....
What about those freaky guys, who are something of a copywrite of Org XIII?
And that one dude, who was reading Davey Jones's book?
And Kairi!? Lord only knows what's going down with her....
And...and.....and the girl who keeps popping up in Sora's dreams??
Oooooooh......I'm so smart! I got it ALL planned out!
And, instead of breaking my fingers ((I have classes, can't have that,)) I will write a summary about the disney worlds as you "fight" through them on the "game" format. ((zomg...if only I was smart enough to be a game designer.....best kh eva!)) You'll still see a peek at the boss fights im planning out, and all the neato things going on in the other worlds, including (ta da da dum!) Maleficent's EVIL REVENGE! LOLZ.....
enough ranting! I'm begining to sound like Xemnas!
~Pinky Rose
PS: I gots Kingdom Hearts and FF role playing forums for yaz...I own the FF one, but my friend Zexion owns the Kingdom Hearts one. I'm in charge of recruiting peoplez, lolz. You'll know who i am when you see me, the name of the game never EVER changes for me....
Kingdom Hearts :: Index
Final Fantasy World :: Index
^^^Oh, please join us! We have pie....and Kingdom Hearts! And Final Fantasy!
Yay! No more writer's block for you! If only I could say the same....
It was a little short and very little happened. But at least you know what will happen, so I'll be waiting for the next update!
It was a little short and very little happened. But at least you know what will happen, so I'll be waiting for the next update!
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