The Utensil Society

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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Sora kept holding onto Goofy's hand, but it was no use. The portal kept pulling him in.

"No! Sora!"

Donald cried out in fear. But there was nothing he could do. He just stood there, frozen in shock, wondering what he should do.

Just then, a mysterious voice began to call out to the trio.

"Release us..." The voice sounded like a girl's voice, as indicated by its softness.

Sora's eyes widened, and the hairs on the back of his neck began to stand up.

"Release us from the darkness that breaks us, and bring unto us the light that shall free us..."

Soon, the force pulling Sora became stronger. It became so powerful that Goofy could barely keep his feet on the ground, let alone pull Sora to safety.

"Hold on, Sora! We'll save you!" Donald cried. But it was all in vain. In just a few seconds, the portal began to pull Goofy in as well!

"No you won't!" Donald screamed angrily. "Not him too!" Brandishing his wand, Donald uttered a spell.

"GATHER!"

At once, Magnera was cast and began to pull the trio away from harm and into safety. Slowly, Sora and Goofy hovered away from the portal and into Donald's Magnera...

However, at that instant, a blue beam of light emerged from the portal and destroyed Donald's spell, undoing the gravitational pull it had on Sora and Goofy.

At this point, Sora swore he must have been hallucinating. For no sooner was the Magnera destroyed did he hear a growling noise come from the portal, almost like it was alive.

It almost reminded him of a beast.

The portal increased in strength once more, pulling Donald inside as well. Eventually, all three of the junior heroes were pulled into the portal, beginning to lose consciousness in the process.

Before his eyes closed completely, Sora thought back to how all this had happened, how his stupidity had gotten them into danger of epic proportions.

Again.

Flashback

Sora, Donald and Goofy were walking along the streets of Hollow Bastion. It had been three weeks since they defeated Ansem and stopped the massive Heartless invasion. In that time, they lost contact with Riku and the King, who they had last seen behind the door of darkness. Now they were searching the worlds in order to find their friends, no matter how long it took.

Their travels eventually brought them here, to Hollow Bastion, hoping to ask their friends for help.

Sora eventually spotted Leon. He was just standing next to the water fountain having a drink.

"Hey! Leon!" He called out to the swordsman.

Leon glanced over to the trio. Turning off the water fountain, he motioned for them to walk over to him. When they were in front of him, he greeted them.

"Hey. Long time no see."

Sora smiled and nodded. They hadn't seen him since they had closed the Keyhole in Hollow Bastion. It was nice to see him again.

"It's good to know you're alright!" Sora clenched his fist and looked down. "At least... you're safe."

Raising an eyebrow, Leon put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "What's the matter?"

"N..Nothing! I'm fine." Sora looked away, faking happiness.

Leon chuckled and shook his head. "You're a bad liar, Sora."

Motioning for Donald and Goofy to come as well, Leon took Sora's hand and led him to the one place he always went to in order to feel better about himself...

The bar

After two drinks, Sora was already wasted. Barely awake, he spoke with a slurred voice, and his eyes were in a deep glaze.

"Er den Kywee started cwying! But I praamised her that Er'd come baack to er es soon as I found Weeku!"

"The next day, I swore to Goofy that Sora had a crush on her. But Sora refused to accept it!" Donald added. He hadn't drinken anything. Not since that incident on New Year's Eve involving Goofy's underwear and a pack of baloons...

"And then we were both laughing on the ground, and Sora's face got red." Goofy hadn't had anything either, also because of the aforementioned incident.

Continuing, he added, "But then Sora punched Donald in the arm! Then I punched Sora in the face. Or at least I tried to; I punched Donald in the face instead. Then Donald kicked me in the leg. Then Sora hit both of us on the head with his Keyblade. And then I-"

"All right, I got it!" Leon held up his hand and motioned them all to shut up. "So you're been trying to find Riku since then?"

Sora was too hung over to answer the question, so Donald answered for him. "Not just Riku! The King got lost back there too!"

"Yeah, you kept mentioning that part. Along with defeating Ansem and Goofy peeing his pants."

Goofy blushed a deep red and waved his arms in surprise. "Whaaaa! When did ya tell him that part?"

"Wen u left to go to der baddroom!" The barely conscious Sora managed to spit out.

Leon nodded. "I see." With a hint of sadness in his eyes, he looked over to the brooding teenager next to him. "It must have been hard, knowing he was right there in front of you, and there was nothing you could do to save him."

Grimacing, Sora clenched his fists and didn't say anything. But Leon know what he was thinking. He had been down that road before.

Putting a hand on his shoulder, Leon continued. "I know what it's like to lose someone you care about. It can destroy even the best of people..."

Regaining his composure, Sora turned to face Leon, tears dripping from his face. "What do you do, when your path has been blurred by darkness?"

Smiling, Leon answered, "Find a light to show you the way."

Outstretching his hand to the boy, he said, "And maybe your light is right here..."

Wiping the tears from his eyes, Sora sniffled. Then, without hesitation, he held his head up high.

"Yeah. Maybe it is..."

He grabbed Leon's hand, eager to see what destiny had in store for him today...

Leon, Sora, Donald and Goofy were now walking towards the Boroughs, where many of the residents lived. It was also the base of the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee, a group of which Leon was a part of. In the time since Sora and Leon last met, the latter had teamed up with some other friends the trio had met in their journey, such as: Yuffie, Cid, Aerith, and even the wizard Merlin. Though Sora's efforts to rescue the world from Maleficent and Ansem's clutches were successful, there was still a lot of work to be done.

Leon explained all of this to Sora as they were walking along.

"It hasn't been easy. The Heartless captured a lot of hearts, so most of the people are still gone. And the ones that are here are struggling to put their lives back together."

"I can't imagine it's easy." Sora was better now, but still had a massive headache. Putting a hand to his forehead, he asked, "So how long has this been going on?"

"Three weeks. Ever since you defeated Ansem." Leon looked at some of the villagers attempting to clean up a house which had been destroyed by the Heartless. "But morale hasn't been too high here recently. I don't really know what we can do at this point..."

"Aw, shucks, we'll help ya fix things!" Goofy chiped in.

"Yeah, we'd love to help you!" Sora added, giving one of his usual cheerful smiles. "It's important to get them back on their feet, isn't it?"

"No, no, no!" Donald interrupted. "We have to find Riku and the King first, remember?"

Sora's smile soon vanished, and his head dropped to the ground. "Oh. Right."

Looking up at the sky, he thought silently to himself. "I wonder what they're both doing right now..."

Eventually, the four of them reached Merlin's house. As Sora, Donald and Goofy prepared to go inside, Sora asked, "Aren't you coming, Leon?"

Leon shook his hand. "Can't busy. Got a world to fix." He looked up at the Castle miles ahead of them. "That Castle used to represent of a world shrouded by darkness. Now it's a symbol of our fight to restore this land to its former glory."

As he turned and walked away, the swordsman turned back to face Sora and co. "Good luck, you guys. And P.S.: Do NOT touch anything in Merlin's house until he comes back!"

As Leon left to find the others, Sora raised an eyebrow in puzzlement. "Why does he always say that?"

Goofy agreed. "Yeah, what does he take us for? Idiots?"

3 minutes later

"OH GOD, MY ASS IS STINGING! GET IT OFF ME!"

The floating broom kept kicking Sora's bottom, chasing him around Merlin's study. Eventually, the broom hit his butt so hard that it pushed him into the bookshelves. At once, all of the books came crashing down on Sora's petite and well-defined body, crushing him under their weight.

Donald gulped "Maybe using an advanced cleaning spell wasn't such a good idea!"

"YA THINK?" Goofy's feet were stuck in enchanted buckets. Slowly, he walked over to free Sora from the bookshelves While he was doing that, water spilled out of the buckets, causing Goofy to trip over it. "WHAAAAAOOOO!" Waving his arms up and down, Goofy tried to prevent himself from crashing into the wall. But it happened anyway. The buckets broke in pieces, and Goofy fell to the floor.

"Well that's just great!" Donald muttered. "Thanks, guys! Now Merlin's gonna kill us for wrecking his study!"

Sora cursed angrily as he made his way out of the mountainous pile of books. "Well, maybe if you guys hadn't broken all those vases in the first place, we wouldn't even need brooms!"

"Not so fast!" Donald retorted. "We only broke them 'cause we were trying to get that book about the Realm of Darkness on the high shelve. The book that YOU wanted!"

"That's not my fault! YOU were too lazy to find a chair or stool to stand on!"

"He's a WIZARD! Where's a WIZARD going to keep his chairs and stools in a magic study?"

"Don't try to use my stupidity to confuse me!"

"Don't accuse me of trying to use your stupidity to confuse you!"

"Don't accuse Sora of trying to accuse you of trying to use his stupidity to confuse him!" Goofy chimed in.

"Don't accuse me of trying to accuse Sora of trying to accuse me of trying to use his stupidity to confuse him!"

"Don't accuse me of trying to accuse you of trying to accuse Sora of of trying to accuse you of trying to use his stupidity to confuse him!"

"ALL RIGHT! EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Sora summoned his Keyblade and shot a few magic bullets in the ceiling to shut them up. However, as soon as he did that, a fountain of milk poured over the boy's head, ruining his hair and washing out the enormous amount of hair gel he put on this morning. Now he looked like a kid version Leon after he had been bathed by mermaids.

Male mermaids.

Goofy looked up at the hole above Sora, wondering where that milk came from. "I guess Merlin's one of those people who keeps his fridge on the second floor instead of the first..."

Donald snickered and took a picture of the defiled boy before him. "This is going straight in my-"

"Sora? Donald? Goofy? Are you three in here?"

At once, the junior heroes shuddered in fear. That was Merlin's voice! He was home! And when he saw what those three had done to his beloved house-

"OMG! Run for your lives!" Sora exclaimed. With no time to waste, the trio rushed upstairs to the kitchen that for some odd reason existed next to Merlin's bedroom...

"Sora, where are you? Leon said- My Goodness! What did you do to my STUDY? When I get my hands on you, I'll-"

Sora shut the door immediately. He gulped and yelled at Donald. "What's taking so long with that fridge?"

"I'm trying, but I can't seem to find the right spell to plug up these holes!" While Donald was skimming his spell book for the right spell, Goofy was inside the fridge, sitting on one of the holes that Sora had blasted into the fridge while plugging up the other hole with his nose.

"Hurry up, Donald. I can't hold up for much longer!"

Sora sank to the ground, shocked by how hectic this day had become. One minute, he was breaking the law by drinking in a bar; the next, he was stuck in the kitchen on the SECOND FLOOR of a sweet old's man house, which they had trashed just moments ago.

Putting a hand to his forehead, he asked himself: "Could this day get any worse?"

All of a sudden, he saw an eerie, purple glow coming from the pantry area. Getting up, Sora walked over to where the glow was coming from.

Seeing the door open for barging, Donald rushed over to the door and took Sora's place. "What are you doing? Get back here, Sora!"

But Sora ignored Donald. Walking closer to the pantry area, he looked around. There were big shelves and long shelves and tall shelves and small shelves. There was an uneaten pastry next to the sink, a bunch of potions and elixers next to the knifes. But he did not not see any purple glow.

Until he looked down.

There were four drawers under the sink. Between the second and third drawers, a mysterious fifth drawer emerged. It was completely encased in purple light so bright that Sora had to squint his eyes to look at it. Putting a hand to his face, Sora gazed in awe at this strange phenomenon.

However, Merlin's sharp cries forced the boy back into reality. "Goofy, I can see your butt in the ceiling! I'm coming up there!"

Without thinking, Sora ran over to where the kitchen drawer was and started to pull it. But it was stuck! No matter how hard he pulled, the drawer would not open.

"Would you forget about that stupid drawer and help me with this door?" Donald was in a furious rage now, his face now turning tomato red.

"I'll be right there!" With no options left, Sora was in a fix. He just HAD to know what was in that drawer. He didn't know why; he just did. You would think it was because that drawer might have a clue as to where Riku and Mickey were. Or maybe it had a gift he could give to Kairi when he finally asked her out. But the real reason... it felt like something was compelling him to open that drawer, like the universe depended on it or something.

Sora knew what he had to do.

He summoned his Keyblade, which was in the form of Ultima Weapon. Aiming for the middle of the drawer, Sora emiited a faint beam of light from the Keyblade. Within seconds, the purple glow of the drawer disappeared, and the door slowly began to creak open. By using the power of the Keyblade, Sora had finally opened the magic drawer!

It was a decision he could soon come to regret.

When Sora walked over to peek inside the drawer, a burst of light thrust him back into the door, crushing Donald in the process.

"SQUAAK!" Donald was suffocating under Sora's butt, gasping and coughing for breath. "When's the last time you washed under here!"

"SHUT UP, DONALD!" Sora screamed as his eyes widened in fear. "We've got bigger problems to worry about right now?"

"Really? Like what?" Goofy said in a nasally voice, due to his nose stuck in the hole.

"Like that!" Sora pointed at the drawer with his Keyblade. At once, a beam of white light shot out of the drawer and through the ceiling. Eventually, it went so far as to rise out of Merlin's house and into the sky above them, where everyone could see it.

Yuffie was relaxing in the park eating ice cream when she saw the beam of light. "Huh? What the hell is that?" She squinted and saw where the light was coming from. "Oh man! Sora's in there! I gotta find Leon!" With the speed of a ninja, Yuffie disappeared in the blink of an eye, off to find her friend.

Or, if things turned out nicely, her boyfriend...

In Merlin's kitchen, Sora, Donald and Goofy were stricken with fear. They had no idea what to do; all they did was sit there and watch the light grow bigger and bigger.

What happened next came as a shock. Sora assumed he was hallucinating, for what he was witnessing could not be real. Real, actual spoons and forks were flying out of the drawer, with wings attached to their bodies. They were accompanied by knives, who were equipped with small turbine engines attached to their thin bodies. The spoons and forks were attacking the knives by striking at their engines, and the knives were busy cutting the spoons and forks in half. Soon, the entire ground was littered with broken spoons and forks, detached wings, and dead knives killed by their exploding engines.

What's worse, they were multiplying in droves. First there were ten, then twenty, then a hundred, then five hundred! And it didn't stop there. Eventually, the whole room was flooded with flying kitchen utensils, so much that Sora could barely see Donald and Goofy anywhere.

"Donald? Goofy? Where are you?" Sora cursed himself; this was all his fault. If he hadn't opened that stupid drawer, none of this would have happened.

And then he saw them. Donald and Goofy had been captured by the knives and were now hanging on the ceiling above them. There were four pairs of scissors floating below them, getting ready to cut their necks and feet.

"Sora! Save us!" Donald started crying. Goofy, as usual, was filling his pants with urine, though neither Sora nor Donald would come to know of this just yet, at least not until one month later, when they would take refuge with a band of unusual rebels. But that is a story for later on...

This drove Sora insane, and he threw his Keyblade at both of them. "FIRE!" As soon as he said this, Ultima Weapon caught on fire, and as soon as it made contact with each pair of scissors, they each caught on fire and burnt into ashes. When that was finished, Ultima Weapon returned to Sora's hand

"Get away from my friends, you ugly floating eating utensils that somehow have the ability to think and fly!"

"That's not all we can do, little man!" One of the bigger knives, a steak knife, bellowed at Sora. "We are capable of so much more!"

Sora gasped. "You- You can talk?"

"Yeah, we're pretty good at that!" Another knife, a cleaver, retorted. "But I'll tell you what we can do better than you can?"

Sora growled. "Yeah, what's that?" He said angrily.

"CUTTING THINGS IN HALF!" The cleaver ordered his troops to fall into position, so they ceased fighting the spoons and forks. "After him, troops! Don't let him get outside!"

At once, the knives activated their turbo drive on their engines and proceeded to attack Sora. There was no time for Sora to defend himself; they would get him before he could move his Keyblade into defending position. Sora closed his eyes, preparing for the worst...

...All of a sudden, the door came bursting open, and Cloud and Merlin emerged in the doorway.

"Didn't your Mommy ever tell you it was rude to trash other people's homes?" Cloud bellowed.

Growling, the cleaver flew over to Cloud, aiming for his neck. But Cloud was too fast; he swiped his sword with immeasurable speed, and the knife fell to the ground in seconds, its body cut into many pieces.

"No, Craig! Get that blonde-haired freak!" The steak knife ordered every other knife, even the ones keeping Donald and Goofy on the ceiling, to attack Cloud and Merlin. The former two dropped to the ground, landing on their butts and yelping in pain.

The spoons and forks watched what was going on, and would not stand for it. "Not on our watch!" A salad fork with green coloring bellowed. The few spoons and forks that were left flew as fast as they could until they were in front of the swordsman and the magician.

"We'll hold them off. Blue-robe guy! Close that portal immediately!"

Merlin nodded. "Of course!"

Without hesitation, the steak knife cut the salad fork in half, killing him instantly. At once, the knives charged forward, killing almost all of the surviving spoons and forks, only for Cloud to kill most of them as well. Only the steak knife and two butter knives survived.

Raising his wand high above his head, he murmured a complicated spell in a foreign language. Sora could have sworn it was Latin, but he couldn't really tell. At once, a blue burst of energy emerged from Merlin's wand and flew into the portal. At once, the drawer began to close, and the portal started to decrease in size. Sora almost breathed a sigh of relief, letting go of his Keyblade for an instant

However, the minute he did so, something terrible happened. The moment he let go of the Keyblade, the portal start sucking it in.

"The Keyblade!" Sora tried to grab onto it, but the suction was too powerful. In no time flat, the Keyblade had disappeared into the closing vortex.

"Come back!" Acting primarily on impulse, Sora jumped into the portal to save the one thing he knew would help him find his friend. Making one last heroic jump, Sora outstreched his hand and reached into the closing drawer...

"Sora, stop!" Goofy grabbed Sora's hand and tried to pull him back...

End Flashback

It was over. They were gone. Cloud had gone off to fight the remaining knives. Merlin sank to the ground, tears in his eyes, bearing clenched fists.

"So," he slowly began, "it begins once more

To be continued