A/N: The way I reacted to Xever when he was gonna to sell Chantal to sexists is exactly how I would react. That's how I feel about those dirty animals, makes my blood boil with rage. Makes me wish I could do something about all those morons who keep on messaging me to do their Rated M requests, especially the guests. One of them even already asked if I could do some bunnysuit bondage story of Chantal.
KNOCK IT OFF!
I need some information about the mysterious women and the blind man, who are going around worlds kidnapping the Darkeri, and now Sky of Twilight Town.
I'm now traveling around worlds with Chantal, a shy citizen of Twilight Town who wants to help out her friend, who she is crushing on of course. I am surprise by the girl, for someone who is shy, she's brave to be traveling around worlds with a shady guy like me.
We arrive in the world Arendelle. Chantal is handling riding a Hoverbike a lot better then on her first try. The girl was still scared, but didn't scream, let alone freezing like a statue.
However, I am not here to greet some old friends, Elsa and Anna. We instead travel into the northern mountains.
I have made a deal with Xever. If I could get him a Crystallite, he'll give me the information I need.
I'm wearing my winter get up, even though it's just a black mantle cloak and fadora. Chantal, however, isn't really prepared for a snowy travel. The poor girl is slowly following me from behind, shivering.
"Ah-choo! It's cold." She says.
I stop to look back. Chantal stops shortly after I did. "You didn't think to bring any extra clothing?" I ask.
Chantal could barely look at me. "It's summer and I didn't think where we are going is all ice and snow."
Now the girl is freezing. I can understand her feeling, I myself can't stand the cold. No matter how prepared I might be, I'm always freezing. Even now, I can still feel the cold, all though I've been so use to enduring the cold, I hardly show my shivers.
You could say I'm cold-blooded.
I let out a sigh, unclasp my cape then toss it to Chantal. The second it touches her, she's caught by surprise. The girl moves it out of the face. "Don't you need this?"
I straighten the collar on my trench coat. "I am always cold, so I have no use for it." I continue to move forward.
Chantal stays behind putting on the cape. "You're a weird guy, you know that?" Chantal stays behind watching me walk, then feels something. "Huh?" She can feel the cold withering away. She wraps her self in her arms. "It's warm..."
Chantal look at me. I just told her that I'm never warm. That I'm always cold. But to her, the cape I was just wearing has some warmth. She suddenly remembers something. On a cold day, she and Sky were hanging out. The girl was cold so he offered her his jacket. One of the closest ways of her being close with Sky in a relationship.
Chantal can feel her cheeks warming up, then pats them to hide the blushing. Chantal jogs to catch up, then walks once she's close.
"The Crystallite should be at the end of this trail. At the top of the mountain." I say.
"You sure know your way around here." Chantal says.
"I've been to this world before." I say. "I...had a lot of travels."
"Good to know. I don't see why he's making us do this deal first." Chantal says.
"Xever's a very...thorough man." I say. "He always makes sure he gets what he wants so that nobody cheats him."
"What happens when they do?" Chantal asks, worried about what my answer is going to be.
"Let's just say they're swimming with the fishes." I say.
"They KILLED HIM?!" Chantal shouts. She shouts so loud it echoes through the mountains. Luckily it didn't cause an avalanche.
I look at Chantal disturbed. "Geez girl, no. They put a curse on him and now he's a mermaid. He's literally swimming with the fishes." I say.
Now Chantal feels ridiculous. "Oh...of course."
As we wonder, we have encountered some Heartless. Nothing challenging, just Shadows and Soldiers. The second they appear, Chantal is screaming in fear. I stay serious as I walk ahead, summoning my Keyblade. The Soldiers charges towards me.
I strike down the first two, then give a swipe strike on the three that was coming at me at once. The Shadows crawls towards us. I channel lightning energy then unleash a Thundaga, by shooting a lightning out of my Keyblade into the air, then massive lightning bolts strikes down.
Countless Shadows still remains. "We're doom!" Chantal says, cowering.
"Don't bet your Munnies on that." I say.
All the countless Shadows leaps towards us. My Keyblade vanishes, then I take out the Hexicon. The pages flip when once the book opens, then I raise my hand to chant a powerful water and frost spell.
"Seah maka. Shoka ohla. Hama azua. Delta! Om-ma! Deama!"
A wall of water raises in front of me and it runs forward like a wave. Whenever the Shadows pass through the water they are trapped inside a bubble, floating in place. Chantal slowly looks to see what's happening, then calms to see the Heartless are contained.
The bubbles slowly freezes until the Shadows are frozen, then I snap my fingers and the frozen bubbles explodes, all at once. Chantal is amazed at the power I unleashed to defeat the Heartless. Without saying a word, I close the book then continue onward, then Chantal follows me without any question.
We travel uphill in this frozen tundra. I haven't felt this cold since Elsa once lost control of her powers when she was 16, and I had help cool her down...or is it warm her down? Maybe up? Either way, she needed help.
We arrive at the high point of the mountains. The entire field is coated with ice crystals. The only clear spot is the path which leads to the large Crystallite up ahead.
Chantal looks at the ice crystals, gasping with excitement. "It's beautiful!" She sounds really impressed.
I just set my eyes on the Crystallite up ahead. I admit there's beauty here but that doesn't change my suspicions. Chantal starts to run ahead to look around, but I stop her by grabbing her by the hood of the cloak.
"What are you doing?" Chantal asks, a bit upset I'm interrupting her moment.
"If there's one thing I've learned, nothing is ever as it seems." I say. Chantal is confused by what I mean. To enlighten her, I pick up a piece of crystal. "Watch and learn, sister."
Looking ahead I toss the piece of crystal. It lands right in front of the Crystallite. For the moment nothing happens, then a large crystal arm bursts out of the snow. Chantal gasps, horrified at the sudden surprise.
"Stand back." I warn her.
Chantal does what I say and hides behind one of the large crystals. A large Heartless raises right out of the snow. It's not just any Heartless, it's the one I encountered back in Land of Dragons. The Midnight Flight. "Still alive, aren't yea?" I say to myself.
Chantal peeps her head out to watch the fight. The Midnight Flight starts off by taking a deep breath. Chantal can tell what's gonna happen seeing frost energy gathering in the monsters mouth.
"Look out!" She tries to warm me, but the monster unleashes it's breath. I'm prepared for this, I ready my Keyblade then unleash a swing by the time the blast hits me, then unleashes a blast wave.
Chantal resists the force of winds blowing against her. She's worried that I'm dead, but to her surprise, I'm still alive, untouched by the monsters breath. "He...avoided that attack?" I charge towards the Midnight Flight. "All with just that one sword? Who in the world is he?"
I delivery brutal strikes against the Heartless. Midnight Flight roars in agony at my attacks. I stand on the monsters forearm, evading its biting attacks. On it's final bite, I summon my second Keyblade, the Unbreakable Connection, and jam it in the Heartless's mouth.
I perform Ragnarok, deliverying swift strikes on the Heartless at first, then I jump back unleashing dozens of lasers. The Heartless endures the pain from the exploding lasers.
"Come on! Finish it already!" Chantal shouts coming out of hiding.
"You idiot!" I say disappointed. "Stay out of sight!"
The second I shout, the heartless notices Chantal then focuses on her. Uh-oh. This isn't good. Chantal notices the Heartless focusing on her then runs away screaming, but that doesn't stop the beast. It gives its wings a hard, heavy flip, sending a strong force of wind and snow directly at the girl like an avalanche.
The whole thing engulfs her. "Chantal!" I landed right on one of the large crystals then leap towards her direction.
The snowy haze clears. Chantal thought she is now safe, but she is sadly mistaken. The force of winds have forced her over a cliff, and begins to scream as she falls with the cold winds slamming against her face.
I see the girl in trouble as I reach to the end of the cliff. "Eck. Skete. Aftor. El." My Keyblade becomes enhanced with arcane energy. I plant it on the wall of the cliff as I fall, grabbing hold of the arcane line connected to the blade.
I dive ahead to reach Chantal faster. At the bottom of the cliffs, all that's meeting the girl, is a bunch of jagged ice rocks. Chantal shields her eyes as she screams, knowing death is coming, but that comes to a halt when I reach and grab her by the foot, and at the same time I reach the end of my rope.
Chantal looks to see she's pretty much hanging inches from the rocks. I pull the girl up so she's holding to me from behind.
"Hang on tight!" I tell her.
I get my feet on the cliff wall then start running towards the side, eventually going upwards as I reach the edge of my spells length. Chantal tightens her hold on me and screams. Once we're close to the top, I jump high, letting go of the arcane rope.
Luckily we landed on the edge of the cliff. But the second we land, we are still not safe for we are greeted by the Midnight Flight. "Look out!" Chantal warns me.
I duck just the second the large Heartless was close to hitting us, it ends up flying right over us. The Midnight Flight is out in the open. This is where I finish it.
I take out the Hexicon, flip the pages to the level seven spells. Then I begin channeling Meteor Shower.
"Haska Oma fa-ka! Fel-sha-zul-na! Omega moreta!" A magic circle appears beneath my feet.
The Midnight Flight turns and come towards us. "It's coming back!"
"Kika mosoaki! Manach sheek-thrish. Leishe ashea masha!"
Midnight Flight stops twenty yards away from us. It begins charging up its breath attack.
"Oh-deah maka zuko!"
The spell is finish and large meteors rain down on the Heartless. The Heartless roars in agony and the meteors causes it to fall. The Heartless dies by being impaled by the ice rocks down below. All that raises back from the abyssal trench is a released heart.
Behind one of the crystals stands the mysterious figure is watching the whole thing. "He's very skilled...wields a Keyblade. He must be the one."
We immediately return to Traverses Town once we defeated the Heartless and grabbed the Crystallite.
Right now, we're at the bar in the Fourth Distract, with Xever in the back room. He is examining the material very closely. If there's one thing Xever is known for is being very thorough, just to make his costumer dealers are not cheating or ripping him off.
Chantal and I sit on the chairs in front of the desk waiting for his review. Right now, he's just giving a close look with some jewel lens, then puts his ear on the crystal while giving gentle bangs with a small hammer, then he licks it.
Chantal feels a bit disgusted seeing that. "Eww."
I lean to the girl and whisper. "Trust me, that's the least gross thing he ever does on his examinations."
He is now still, going over the results of his tests. Xever is sufficed. "Dah! Crystallite! I make big fortune vith dis!"
That's a relief. "All right. We've done your job, now it's time for you to uphold your end of the bargain."
Xever puts on a serious face as he puts away the Crystallite. "Very vell. Deal is deal and I am man of honor. So...vhat is you vant?"
Chantal looks at me, wondering. Then I speak. "I've been hearing how the Darkeri have been disappearing. By a blind man and some mysterious figure. And everytime they disappear, the calling of the Leishen is written in their place. Do you know anything about this?"
"Hmm...Dah. I know dem!" Xever answers. "Veeks ago, dey came! I don't know names, but dey asked for location of Darkeri. I give dem information and locations."
"What are they planning to do with them?" I ask.
"I vonder same ding. I asked but vomen gets in face and hisses." Xever says.
Chantal and I are surprise to hear that. "Really? ...That's surprising." I say.
"But wait...what does this have to do with Sky?" Chantal asks.
"That's a mystery to me as well." I say. "They also kidnapped a citizen of Twilight Town. Did they say anything about that?"
"Unless he's Darkeri, I know nothing." Xever says.
"Hmm..." I look at Chantal. "Chantal. You know Sky, is he by any chance a Darkeri?"
"I don't even know what that is." Chantal says.
"They are powerful demons, forged by the seven negatives: Anger, Fear, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sorrow and Vengeance." I explain. Chantal feels uneased. "Well, he couldn't be any of the five: Anger, Fear, Sorrow, Lust or Pride. They were all taken before Sky was the target."
"Um...he's not technically a...Darkeri." Chantal says. I look at Chantal, I can tell she's hiding something.
"Chantal..." She looks at me a bit worried. "What...is he?"
"Okay...Sky is actually half human half demon." Chantal says.
Now I'm caught by surprise. "A human who's half demon? ...I didn't even think that's possible." I say.
"Dat is strangest ding I ever heard. And I heard many strange dings." Xever says.
"Whatever they want with Sky might be related to the Darkeri somehow." I say. "We need to find a Darkeri before they do. Xever, can you give us a location of one?"
"Dah! I know one nearby!" Xever answers.
Chantal and I spend the night here at the inn in the second distract. It's late at night and we need the rest to travel to Midgar.
The information Xever gave us is about the Darkeri of Greed. He is living in Midgar, the world that belongs to half of my friends in Radiant Garden. I've only been there once and it's not exactly a world for amateurs. I can only imagine how Chantal is gonna handle it.
Before going to bed Chantal takes a long hot shower in the bathroom, mostly to wash away the chills from the world Arendelle. I wouldn't blame her, that's what I always do, mainly before bed.
Chantal lays on her side in bed, with the cloak in her hands. She's in a long white T-shirt with a song note logo on the front. She is focused on the cloak, she can still feel the warmth it was given the second she put it on.
"When I was cold, he gave me this cloak...He's weird, but a gentleman..." Chantal holds the cloak closer to her face. "He reminds me so much of Sky."
There's a knock on the door, which startles Chantal a little. "Chantal? You still awake?" Chantal looks over her shoulder at the door. "And more importantly, are you decent?"
Chantal sits up. "Patrick?"
I await on the other side of the door, in the hallway. "I wanted to go over the plan of Midgar. But if you want, we can pull it off until tomorrow."
Chantal stands up from the bed. "Oh, no. No. I'm okay to do it now."
"Well, okay then." I open the door and walk right in. Once I'm in, I stop to notice my cloak in her hands. "I see you still have the cloak."
"Oh yeah..." Chantal hands it over. "Here."
I accept the cloak. "Thanks..."
I rest the cloak on the chair. I grab the table and move it to the center. Chantal looks down, a bit nervous. "Um..." I look at her once I set the table. "Thank you for saving me...back there."
"It's a bit early to be thanking me." I say as I take out the Hexicon. "We haven't even gotten to the hard part."
I place the book on the center of the table, opened. Chantal looks at the book curiously. "That's a very interesting book you have there."
Chantal reaches to touch the book, but I grab her wrist before she could. "Hey, don't touch my book."
Chantal smiles innocently, chuckling nervously. "Sorry."
I sit down on the chair, hovering my hands over the book then slowly circling them around as I begin the world map spell. "Oma-fu-cka. La zuk mokko. Kirel Narak!"
The pages glows from the spell. A small golden star soars out from between the pages. Chantal is interested, focuses her eyes on the golden star. Once it's four feet from the table, twilight energy beams out of the star to the book, and opens a dome of the world.
Chantal gasps in amusement. "It's so pretty!"
Indeed it is, a small dome of millions of stars in the darkness of space. "Here is the world, Midgar." I tap my finger on the world and the image changes to the world of Midgar, which is a desert land with gray clouded skies. I zoom in until we get a sighting of a large metal city, divided into eight sectors and with a large building in the middle. "This here is the city where Xever says the Darkeri is at."
"How will we find him?" Chantal asks.
"He's the Darkeri of Greed. We look for anyone who's only greedy. A gambler, cheapskate, stealing items, selling stuff at high prices. Anything Munny related." I say. "So, we'll begin searching in Sector seven and then..."
The second I pause my plan, I look cautious and serious, setting my eyes over my shoulder. Chantal is concern about my sudden change of expression. "Patrick-"
I instantly shush Chantal then bolted to the door, bursting it open. "WHO'S THERE?!"
I only felt it for a second, so I turn to the end of the hallway. The window is open, the wind breezing the curtains ever so slightly. I didn't hear anyone, but I felt a presence. It would soulless: Cold and dark. Just like Rasputin.
Chantal walks out of the room, by the door next to me. "What's the matter?" Chantal asks, in a mix of concern and worry.
"Someone was eavesdropping on us." I say.
"But, I didn't hear anything." Chantal says.
We both walk back into the room, I close the door behind us. "It wasn't what I heard. I felt a presence; it was cold and dark."
"But...who would spy on us?" Chantal asks.
I look back at the door, wondering. Chantal's right, who would want to listen in on our plan? I have a feeling it could be the ones who are kidnapping the Darkeri. I close the Hexicon then pick it up. "Better get some rest." Is all I say then I leave the room.
I just stand out of the hallway, then I make my way to the end by the window. Whoever was listening to us much have jumped out of the window. Question is, how could they have gotten here and out and run far enough for me to lose their presence feeling in such a short time?
On the floor, I spot something. A small badge. Kneeling down I pick it up. Once I get a look at it, I'm horrified.
The badge is the logo: A purple moon with a Y in the middle made out of the symbols of the Unversed, Nobodies and Heartless. Nobody symbol on the left top line, Heartless symbol on the right top line and an Unversed symbol on the bottom line.
"It can't be them...can it?" I ask.
My hand starts shaking, growing stronger up to the point where I drop the badge, then I drop to my knees, panting and sweating in anxiety. My worst fears have come true.
The Shadowmoon are back.
