Traverse Town
A city existing between the worlds. A realm granting refuge for those who lost their home world or have it not available for some reason. It has several districts, each of them unique. The place was the first world that Sora visited on his first travel to save the worlds from Darkness.
Sora and Fugeo reached the first district by now and as they walked down the stairs, Sora mumbled suddenly, "Odd"
"What is it?" asked Fugeo but since he still doesn't have his final touch on his new body he stumbled and rolled forward down the stairs and crashed over the stone railing and fell head first into a hole next to the postbox.
Sora rushed after and leans over the railing and called into the hole, "I found it odd that the postbox isn't on its original place and when I look at it, I don't recall that there is a hole!"
However no answer came from the Ryu dragon and Sora jumped into the hole, worried about his new friend.
During his fall to the ground of the hole he saw Fugeo groaning on his back and… realized too late that his feet were aiming at his stomach.
Fugeo's eyes widened by the suddenly weight on his abdomen and could only cough weakly while rolling in due the pain after Sora jumped off from his stomach.
"Sorry Fu! Didn't saw you as I jumped!" told the brown haired boy. Fugeo on the other hand wonders right now if this boy not only lacks intelligence but also common sense!
It took a while until Fugeo could move again without constantly feeling pain and he growled, "Next time climb down or wait for a response!"
"Got that!" told Sora
They followed now the corridor that was in front of them and they reached a yellow colored rail. Tilting his head Fugeo wondered "Why should anybody color a rail yellow?"
"No clue! But it looks cool!" told Sora and jumped on the rail and slide away on it. Sighing Fugeo looked on the walls besides the rail and noticed that they are too narrow for flying. He has to be happy that he would even fit thought it by his current size. Carefully he balanced on the rail and once he was through the narrow passage he spread his wings and made his first attempts to fly.
First he fell, but soon he caught himself in mid-air and was gliding through the hall. At least his instinct about flying doesn't fail him. He looked around and notices that several rails in different colors exist and here and then big boxes are standing around.
Then he found Sora on the way to a sort of elevator and flew down to him and asked "Where are you going?"
"Looking for the rail that brings us to the other exit! And so far I can tell only this green one seems to lead outside of the hall!" was the boy's answer.
Fugeo looked around and could only spot one tail besides the yellow one that disappears into the wall. "Then why don't you ask me to fly you above this rail so you can jump?"
"Didn't think of it!" smirks Sora "And I thought you weren't used to the body yet!"
"I was able to fly without crash landing!" countered Fugeo
"True!" told Sora but suddenly creatures appeared around him. Fugeo could tell they are not normal animals or other species he saw before.
"Nightmares!" exclaimed Sora and got into his knees and in a flash a weapon appeared. The dragon saw never a weapon like this! It looked like a big grey key with a golden handle. Also he notices a Keychain in the form of three circles forming a head or so. Fugeo lowered his body for an attacking position and eyes the surrounding enemies.
The ones in the air resemble him on a sort of bat. While one of the others on the ground are looking more like a bear and the rest… are they based on dogs or cats?
Fugeo had no time to wonder since they charged. He slashed his claws at him and moved his tail to hit some of them.
Sora jumped and slashed one of the bat like nightmares with his strange weapon but held it in front of him in a protective matter as a second bat shot sound waves at him. Fugeo saw that the bear got behind Sora and shot a fireball into the lower half of the nightmares back and it jumped high as the flames touched the butt.
Sora looked surprised by this but jumped to not gotten hit. They finished off the rest of the attackers and as they panted, Fugeo asked, "So… this was the opposite version of dream eaters?"
"That is right Fu!" answered Sora
"Very well! Looks like we have a hand full of work if they can appear everywhere!" told Fugeo and adds "Now climb on my back so we can fly you up to the rails!"
Sora didn't need to be told twice. Once the boy was on Fugeo's back, he began to spread his wings and flap them while running until he was able to take off. He flew a big in circles to gain height and speed before gliding over the green rail.
With an understanding nod, Sora jumped from Fugeo's back and landed perfectly on the rail beginning to glide. Once Sora slid through the wall, he flew at it and rolled his body so he could fly thought the narrow passage with his wings spread. After passing the corridor, he laid the wings on and used the remaining speed and remaining centrifugal force to bring his body into the right position and his feet hit the wall, preventing him to crash on it. He jumped off, making a double spin around his axis before making three salto forward piked and with a final back flip he lands with his hind legs on the ground. He stands for a moment with the front legs spread out and the left front leg was moved before his chest before bowing down and went up again. (One could wonder how he managed to stay in mid-air so long without using his wings)
Sora just let out an amazed "Whoa!" before clapping and holding up a shield with a ten written on it. Two Dream Eaters hold up shields as well one with a ten as well while the other had a six on it.
"Only 26 of 30 points?" asked Fugeo disappointed. Then the one with the six looked at his shield and turned it around so it is a nine now. A smirk crossed Fugeo before wondering "Where these two coming from?"
"They have been here already!" told Sora before one suddenly disappears and only the one that reminds Fugeo of a ball of purple fur blue colored feet and with white, green and blue color variation tail and ears while having yellow eyes.
"Seems you adapted well to your new body Burning Heart!" told this creature and Fugeo asked "What do you mean?"
Sora looked confused "I didn't say anything!"
"Not you! This guy!" told Fugeo and faced back this fur ball. However no answer came from this fellow. Sora however quirked in "You can understand the Dream eaters?"
"Why surprised? I am right now one of them myself so understanding them shouldn't be surprising if you would use your common sense!" told Fugeo
Sora nods "You have a point here! But why I can understand you and the others not?"
"I think this has simply to do with the fact that normally I am a dragon who speaks with a lot of other dragons and animals… I figure that here is a language that is spoken through all worlds so we can communicate with each other," replied Fugeo and Sora nods, understanding this part.
And since standing around would bring nothing they decided to walk on. They left the building through the door and were greeted by nightmares in the outside. During the battle Fugeo got surprised that this newcomer spirit was good at fighting and caught off guard as it suddenly turned in red color and grew in size, making himself a more dangerous opponent towards the nightmares.
After the battle admits Fugeo that he was impressed by the spirit but got again no answer from it. They moved forward and the two whistled as they stood in front of an impressive fountain. They circled around it once and stared at it for a while. Then Fugeo looked down on the drain they stood on and Sora asked, "Something wrong?"
"Just having the feeling that we might have trouble from this thing one day…" told Fugeo
"I think you worry too much Fu!" was the lazy reply from Sora
The dragon nods and heads to the door behind the fountain. Once they passed it, something lifted drain and a large head looked around before disappearing into the canalization again.
On the other side of the door Fugeo and Sora made their way downstairs and fought a series of the nightmares. On the end of the stairs, exclaimed Sora, "Wow! Never has been this way before!"
"Seriously?" asked Fugeo
"Yeah!" told Sora and looks forward "Oh! What's that?"
Fugeo looked forward to see what Sora means and suddenly saw the brown haired boy dashing off "Sora! Wait!"
Following him, Fugeo noticed that he slow down as he neared a girl from behind who stood in front of a creature he never saw before. As he came closer, he heard from Sora "Hey… uhm… any chance that you are Neku's partner?"
The girl turned around and a "Huh?" came from her
She lifts her head up and put her finger to the chin "Uhm… Not really sure. All I know is that my name is Rhyme."
"You mean, you lost your memory?" wondered Sora
"Yep!" was the reply and Sora told "Oh. Sorry…"
"Ohhh. Is not big deal," waved the Rhyme. "You know they always say: Sometimes memories needs a little help for getting out!"
"Yeah… that's true!" agreed Sora while the girl game agreeing noise
"Huh… A little help," began Sora and Fugeo could guess where this is going to lead.
"I know!" told Sora "Maybe Neku can jog your memory!" then he turned around "Come Rhyme! Let's go find him!"
"Great!" answered Rhyme and Fugeo sighs, "Can I have a word in this matter?"
"Who are you?" wondered Rhyme and realized something, turning to Sora "And I didn't catch your name as well"
"I am Sora! And this is Fugeo!" told Sora
"Hello Rhyme!" told Fugeo, cannot help but smile to the girl.
"Hello Fugeo and Sora! I am glad you are helping me!" told Rhyme
"No problem!" told Fugeo and turns around. The trio heads of to find this Neku. Fugeo remembered he should ask Sora to tell more about him… at least what the brown haired boy knows about him.