Thank-yall for ye comments ^-^ (Yay another reader! ^-^) Here's the next installment - I added a piece of a part to make up for the shortness of the last one. I'll find a balance between length one of these days >_<
Ch. 4.2 We Are Here, They Are There
“This is the impenetrable wall of Jericho, Third Child, take one step over this wall, and you’ll be a dead man,” – Asuka, Neon Genesis Evangelion
“I hope your heartless didn’t rip them up too badly, our Lady likes the Masters to be whole and intact.” A pale, slender, fair maiden with skin, lips, eyes, and hair of pure white slipped out of the shadows draped in a white cloth that covered her skin like a cover over an invisible vase.
“Naw South Light, not my little angels,” replied Nefero cracking his knuckles, “We’ll be back in a few minutes Missus!” Nefero called, then he, and South Light slipped though a mixed vortex of light and dark and disappeared through the borders of the realms, back to Disney Castle.
South Light and Nefero stepped out of the Ship Hanger where those strange markings were still etched. “Wow, yall really did a number with this place,” said South Light walking over the rubble.
“Thank our little chunk of Hell for having such a violent merge with it,” said Nefero, “It totally crippled the Protection around this place–”
“What about the other worlds? Has their protection been downed as well?” South Light asked like an expectant child.
“You read my mind,” said Nefero with a devious smile, “We’ll check that out after we collect the bodies.” Nefero pushed open the doors wide open to the Throne Room.
“What bodies?”–
SMACK! The doors were pushed with such force that they bounced right back after letting the Evils see the invisible triumph, and kloncked Nefero and South Light right on their faces (the castle’s way of saying, “HA!”).
“OW!”
Nefero pushed the doors open again, breaking them off their hinges–
“Nefero where are the bodies?” asked South Light as she held her nose; Nefero bent his nose back in place as he stepped all around the Throne Room like a stupefied idiot, then stopped, right at the place where Sora, Riku, and Kairi disappeared… A look of confused amazement came over Nefero,
“Com’mear South Light,” said Nefero lightly. South Light stepped over, and the same look came over her. “You feel that right? The remnants of a Sovereign Portal. What are the odds of a Worm Hole opening up right under our little fiends’ feet?”
“Pretty good if they had a Sovereign Royalty with them,” said South Light.
“Ah, but notice,” said Nefero as he rubbed his paw over the spot, “The trace of the one that opened it has a quite a curious entity.”
“You think our Lady can open it back up?”
“I bet she could, and it will take us right to where ever those little Imps went to, (sinister giggle) they’re probably stuck in an Inbetwixt Realm!”
“Hmph, yeah wherever those cretins are, you can bet that they’re shivering like lost little lambs–there’s no way they can survive–much less keep their sanity, in an Inbetwixt Realm.”
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-Bebop Ship-
Sora gave a stretch, "When do you think everyone is gonna get up?"
"Dunno, I don't think their gonna arise for a while though, I went to go get some water last night and they were still up, Jet was trimming those trees I told you about, Faye was reading, and Spike was just lulling on some blankets, so, we have the whole ship to ourselves!" Ed's outburst echoed through out the corridors, and it sounded like the ship moaned. Sora looked out the window and the stars of space glided by,
"How can you tell when it's daytime, and nighttime? I mean yall practically live out in space." Said Sora.
"Easy, we sleep at night and are awake during the day!"
"Oh." Sora's tummy rumbled.
"Hungry? Let’s go salvage!" Ed's computer suddenly had an incoming call, and her web came kicked on, "Eh? Who is calling me?" The screen opened a window with a girl with short blue hair and blue eyes in a school girl sailor uniform,
"Hello? Would this ship and its persons identify itself please?"
"HI!" singed Ed and Sora scooted her away.
"Hello? This is Sora - "
"And ED! - Oof -"
"This is the, uh S.S.Bebop."
"Are you the captain of that ship?"
"No m’am, I'm, eh, barley a passenger, can we help you?"
"Yes indeed, we traced a signal from that ship that broke into our database and took a copy of a map."
"T’was me!" Ed singed, and Sora pushed her off him.
"That young child did it? Oh I'm impressed, but may I implore why she did so?"
"Sorry for the trouble, we were just tryin' to find our way around, you see, we, um, just came from some bad spots -" A girl with green eyes and brown hair in a ponytail poked her face in the screen -
"Well that’s no excuse for stealing! -"
“Lita please!" And the blue haired girl pushed her back, but another head, a girl with blue eyes and blonde hair that looked like it was in very long ponytails on the side of her head, (with meatballs on top?) pushed her way through on the opposite side -
"Where yall’s world destroyed?" -
"Serena I was just going to ask that -"
"Yeah," replied Sora sadly, but, wait a minuet; he recognized that voice - the girl from the cat fight on the radio! "Hey, you guys wouldn't happen to be at Tumble-Stop would yall?"
"Yes, that’s where we are," Serena blinked sliding herself in and the blue girl out -
"Oof! Serena -!"
"Since yall’s world is gone, why don't yall come here?” asked Serena, "Tumble-Stop is a refuge for people misplaced from thier worlds."
"We're on our way!" Ed singed.
"Oh good, well let Amy just register your ship, so when you get here, you won't be zapped by security."
"So your name is Serena?" asked Sora.
"Yep -"
"And I'm Amy -"
"I'm Lita -"
"I'm Raye -"
"And I'm Mina -
"And together -”
"We're the Sailor Scouts!"
"And in the name of the moon, we will pun - oh -" Serena blushed and laughed at herself, "That is just so built into me!" she giggled; the others sighed.
"When you get to Tumble-Stop," said Amy, "You'll see a tall tower sticking up from the ground, that’s called the Lookout Tower; go straight there so I can register yall into our Tag database."
"No prob’," said Sora as Amy started typing something,
"Well, yall have a decent sized ship, how many people are aboard?" she asked.
"Um, five."
"Five?"
"That’s it?"
"That ship could house more -" as if a light bulb popped into the girl's head's at once, they drew in a quick huddle, and then jumped out, "Hey how would yall like a job?," Raye asked, her purple eyes turning all puppy dog like flicking her long black hair.
"Raye you can't just shepherd people into it like that - "
"Yeah this is dangerous work."
"Sora can handle it!" said Ed, "He's the Keyblade Master!" All the girls gasped and blinked.
"A-are you really a Keyblade Master?" breathed Raye.
"Yep, and my name is Sora," Sora held out his hand and the keyblade appeared.
"So all the masters weren't killed," Lita breathed -
"KILLED?!" Sora yelled, "Wh-what do you mean killed?! There are other Masters?!"
The girls gave Sora a funny look, "You’re a Keyblade Master of this system, and you don't know of the others? I thought Keyblade Masters were like this - " and Serena morphed her hands into a pretzel, which she couldn't get out...
"Me? Oh no no no, no, I'm not even from this system, well," Sora slightly remembered what Riku and the chipmunks were talking about, world merges, linking worlds, was he a part of this system? "At least I think I'm not..."
“Look at his clothes,” Mina whispered, “He’s got to be from our system, Ragiel wore something similar to that.”
“He did not Mina, have you forgotten what they looked like already?” Raye hissed.
“Have you?” Mina hissed back.
“Guys please,” Amy sighed, “Sora, what world are you from?”
“Destiny Islands.”
Amy did some typing, “Mh, Destiny Islands…”
"Hmmmmmh, you’re really not from around here are you?" asked a defeated Mina looking at the screen.
"No I'm not, I think, I'm from a linking world,” said Sora.
"Oh, that’s right, the merges silence the links," said Serena.
"But then he should've been sent into remission too -"
"How the heck did you get here?"
"I, don't know," Sora stuttered.
“My database shows that the world ‘Destiny Islands’ exist, but…it doesn’t say much else after that, in fact there are contradicting statements on its whereabouts and existence,” said Amy as she scrolled through her data, “Here’s one that says it was a Linking World for the Disney System, but after some inner turmoil it was destroyed, and here’s another one that says it exists in the system of Dream Works, and one that says it’s nothing more than a ghost world, a shadow with imaginary people–”
“That’s not true! The place is real, it was my home, it’s still there, I’m living proof of it since I’m from Destiny Islands from the Disney System! It exists!”……But it wasn’t there anymore……That’s right, it’s gone again…
“Okay Sora, it exists,” said Amy with an apologetic look.
All the girls looked apologetic, “Sorry,” said Serena, “I guess we’ve kinda got de-sensitized to people losing their…well everything.”
“You kinda get used to it after a while,” Raye stated emotionless.
“Yeah, our job can get rather depressing,” said Lita sadly.
But before Sora could ask what it was they did–
"Scouts! The Searchers are back with thier survivors!," came a strong slightly raspy voice from the background breaking the difficult moment.
"Coming!" called Raye.
"When yall get here, just wait at the Lookout Tower if we're not there, "said Serena.
"Okay," said Sora in a ‘okay, drop me like newborn giraffe’ tone.
"Bye!" the girls waved.
"Bye -"
"BYE!" Ed yelled, and the transmission ended.
Desensitized? Hardly. Suppression was more like it, an emotion tucked away into the gut of the soul, dragging it into a horrible sick feeling. It finally hit the girls as Serena bolted around the corner and grabbed onto who reported the arrival of the survivors, at first she couldn’t speak ‘cause the emotion swelled like a painful wave hurting her throat and burning her eyes, a large sob escaped her, and she burst out crying, “Vincent the Keyblade Masters are back! They’re back! They’re back!” and she cried her happiness.
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