Hey once again! I'm sorry it took a bit longer than I had originally planned to get this out, but here it is.
Chapter 2: Kairi's Turning Into a…
"I'm right here you bumbling idi-! Err… I mean I'm present and very thankful to you for rescuing me," said Ansem as he peeked out from behind the twin seats.
Sora and Riku both sighed in relief.
"Ummm…sorry about the whole 'forgetting you thing'…" apologized Sora. The rest of the trip passed in silence and then they landed in Twilight Town with the battered gummi ship.
A small cluster of people gathered at their arrival, including a couple of the other Jedi Masters, a few Senators, and Kairi. They were greeted with enthusiasm and everyone was relieved that the Jedi warriors had been successful, although Sora and Riku neglected to tell them about the incident where they had failed to remember the Chancellor even though the whole reason they traveled through hyperspace in the first place was to rescue him…
Anyway, the group moved onward locked in animate conversation, leaving Riku and Kairi alone together. Somehow the background changed to a meadow, and flowers flew around everywhere as they raced towards each other. Heart felt music began playing as well. As they neared each other, young love was visible in their eyes and they picked up their pace.
The sound of a broken record was heard as Riku tripped, and the magical scene disintegrated; leaving hard concrete for him to fall on.
"Ow!" he exclaimed as he landed with a loud thud. Kairi rushed to his side and knelt down by him.
"That was graceful…" she said jokingly. "Are you okay?"
Riku pushed himself up with a throbbing ache surging over his body.
"Yeah, I'll be okay…I think," he said as he grinned.
"Did everything go okay on your mission?" she inquired.
"Uh…pretty much…yeah."
"'Pretty much' doesn't mean yes," she pointed out.
"Let's just say it went perfectly except for the fact McDonald is still out there…heh…" he said nervously, hoping she wouldn't push for more details.
They continued talking and had a lengthy conversation that lasted until the sun dropped like a rock beneath the horizon.
"Well, we better get some sleep. Good night, Riku!" she smiled as she began to walk off.
"'Night Kairi." Riku headed to his room and when he arrived he found a group of five Furbies playing poker on the bed that had been prepared for him.
"Uh…what are you doing in my room?"
"What does it look like we're doing, Bub?"
"It looks like you're trespassing in my room."
"And your point…?"
"Will you please get out?"
"No."
Riku sighed and walked over to the nightstand. "Eye of the Tiger" began playing as he reached into a basket that had been set out for him, and pulled out a cup of Starbucks coffee.
The Furbies on the bed paused their game of cards and began singing, "Riku…Riku, Riku, Riku…Riku, Riku, Riku…"
Then a spotlight formed and a brown spotted Furby went solo, "Riku's the dude goin' to Jedi School! He's got his broken light saber and a cup of coffee! He knows one day he will become…a Jedi Master!" His "prize-winning" performance received a weak applause as cards fluttered around him. Riku's eyebrows raised as he put the cup aside and continued to rummage through the basket. The Furbies began playing 52 Card Pick-Up. His hands pulled out a bottle of Herbal Essence shampoo and suddenly the Furbies halted their game and looked at him as bubbles began pouring down from the ceiling.
A Furby with white hair/fur began singing as the other Furbies echoed, "He'll be in the shower, for another half an hour! He's got the urge; natural something that starts with a p! He's got the urge to Herbal!" Somehow during that time Riku had been set up on a chair as a Furby washed his hair with Herbal Essence before he was completely aware of what was going on.
"STOP IT!" He leaped up from the chair, and his hair instantly dried. "Is this some kind of joke? Why do you keep breaking out into song?" Empty gazes and the sound of crickets chirping made up the reply he received.
Riku sighed began looking through the basket again. He randomly grabbed something and pulled it up. It just so happened to be some 7Up scented cologne.
A brown spotted Furby with a fake cigar in its mouth spoke up, "I wouldn't use that if I were you…"
"Is there a reason?"
"Don't you know what TAG branded cologne causes to happen?"
"No…why?"
"Well, when you spray the normal stuff you will find yourself tackled by human females."
"Is that really so bad?"
"BUT 7Up scented TAG causes something slightly different to happen…"
"And I should listen to you because…?"
"You've been warned." The Furby turned away from Riku and refocused on a new game of cards. "Got any 3s?" The Jedi apprentice shrugged his shoulders and sprayed himself with the sweet smelling cologne. He stood there for a few minutes, waiting to see if anything bad would happen. However, nothing did and he began to move towards the single long window located in the room.
Suddenly from out of no where, fifty female Furbies leaped on him and tackled him to the ground. As he fell his head was bashed against the nightstand.
Before his mind sank into unconsciousness, he heard the card playing Furbies all exclaim, "You were warned!"
At least they didn't break out into song…
At first his dreams consisted of random things like penguins and McDonalds, but then Kairi made an appearance. She smiled sweetly at him, and he waved back as he began to stroll towards her. Slowly she began to morph into something that was definitely not Kairi. Finally, she became a-…
"Riku…Riku, wake up!" Sora's voice echoed through his mind.
"Huh?" Riku's eyes fluttered open. The weight of the Furbies was no longer there and he lay in his bed. "What happened?"
"That's a good question that you're gonna have to answer yourself. Anyway, there's a meeting with the Jedi Council in about ten minutes so you might wanna get ready. I'll see you then." Riku groggily hopped out of bed and noticed the pleasant sunlight that streamed in through the windows. He fixed his hair and then headed out the door.
Once he arrived in the circular room he took a seat on a bean bag next to a lava lamp.
"Ah…Riku, nice of you to join us; it is," greeted the old Jedi Master, Oompa Loompa. He was also greeted by the other Jedi Masters: Cloud, Selphie, Aerith, and Leon.
"Yeah, uh…hey!" exclaimed Riku.
Suddenly, "Mission Impossible" music began blaring throughout the room, and a penguin dressed in a brown trench coat dropped in on a bungee-cord rope. He plopped down onto a tye-dye bean bag and proceeded to shield his eyes with sun glasses and take out a notepad and pen. For some reason, no one really seemed to pay him much attention; well, except for Riku and Sora.
"Uh…shouldn't we kick the bird out?" asked Riku.
He received shrugs from everyone in the room.
Sora broke the silence, "Does anyone in here know the whereabouts of McDonald?" The penguin raised its hand but suddenly a ceiling tile opened up and another penguin slid down, pushed the penguin's wing down, and then ascended back into the ceiling.
"He's at Hollow Bastion…well, that's at least where there's a big neon sign that says he's there and it's also the home of Furby HQ," said Cloud. Sora glanced at the penguin, who was in fact sitting next to him, to find that the bird was vigorously taking notes of some sort. He tried to see more but the penguin caught a glimpse of the Jedi Master's wandering eyes and moved his wing to cover the page he was working on. Sora shrugged and turned his eyes back towards the meeting.
"I'll go," volunteered Sora. "And Riku could come to."
"All right then. That's perfectly fine with me. Does anyone disagree?" asked Selphie. Crickets chirped in the background and a dust ball rolled across the room as shootout music whistled through the air.
"Settled, it is. Sora Kenobi and Riku Skywalker, go you will," said Oompa Loompa in his Yoda-style speech. "Dismissed, this meeting is." Everyone exited the room with the exception of Riku and Yoda.
"Troubled you feel?"
"Yes…I've been having this dream lately, and it's about Kairi turning into a…"
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WAIT! Before you (meaning SoraxKairi fans &/or anti-RikuxKairi peeps) grab your torches and pitchforks because of the slight RikuxKairi thing goin' on, please hear me out! The only reason that it's that pairing is cuz it fits better. What you saw in this chapter is probably as "romantic" as it's gonna get and MAYBE (it's a big maybe…) there might be a hug.
Anywhoo…This chapter is more of a filler/get-from-one-thing-to-another chapter, so it's definitely not gonna be the best out of the entire fic.
Thank you reviewers: ) I really appreciate y'all! Everyone please drop off a review for this chapter on your way out: ) Hopefully, I'll have an update ready within no more than a week.
God bless you and Jesus loves you!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, McDonalds, Furbies, Starbucks, "Eye of the Tiger" (whoever that's by owns it…), Herbal Essence and the lil song thing, TAG cologne, Oompa Loompas, the 'forgetting you thing' which is based off of a phrase from the "Cave of Cheesebwogers" (I think that's how you spell it…), and anything else I obviously don't own that I forgot to mention.
