Note: And I added a one sided Blood/Rose, always wanted to try that where he's still sexually confused and thinks he likes Rose
Story
The light vanished as we fell down from the sky with a loud crash somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
I groaned at the two people on top of me the woman on top and Kleude in between, the woman got up relieving me off back pain, Kleude's pretty light…
"Get up boys!" said the woman.
I sigh as Kleude took himself off my back, I got up rubbing my sore back "Ohhh where are we?" I asked.
We looked around the area, there is an open café nearby, one building next to it, another building above, a stand with a hat on top and two massive doors.
There are some people walking around town, I approached a person passing by "Hey Miss where are?" I asked.
"Huh where are you from?" the girl asked.
"Err I just arrived here I'm from a town named Gunrock."
"Huh? Never heard of that place."
"Oh."
"But you are in Traverse Town mister, the busiest town in the world next to Hollow Bastion but something happened to that town."
"Hollow Bastion?" I cocked my head.
"You never heard of it?"
"Nope."
The girl shrugged skipping past us.
"Well we are in a strange place…" said Kleude.
"I don't remember seeing this place before" said Rose.
"Should we explore this area?" I asked.
"Might as well" said Kleude "Don't wanna get lost."
The woman didn't say anything so I take that as a yes for her, we walked around looking at the outdoor café.
"Hey welcome to the Traverse Café!" said a man "What would you like to eat?"
"Ooohhh" my eyes shone as I looked at the menu, there's pasta, pizza, some cakes, cocktails and salads. I bet Mom would love the mushroom pasta and Erin would like a cocktail and Trey would like pizza if they were around! But I'm not really hungry at the moment, I sigh putting down the menu "Maybe later, I want to walk around first."
"Okay" said the man as we left the café and entered the item shop, there are three ducklings dressed in shirts and caps with one dressed in blue sitting on a counter.
"Welcome to our item shop!" the duck in blue said.
"Whoa whoa whoa are you three talking ducks?" Kleude asked.
"Yep" said the duck in red "Why?"
"I never seen talking ducks in my life" he frowned, tugging his ears "Then again I do have cat ears and tail…"
"Neither do I" I said.
"You two are too spoiled" said the woman "I seen talking crickets before."
"Just like Jiminy Cricket!" said the duck in red.
"Jiminy who?" I asked.
"A cricket who hangs out with Pinocchio before he was called by King Mickey a few days ago to help Donald and Goofy find the King" said the duck in green.
"Oh so who is King Mickey."
"You don't know who the King is!?" all three ducks yelled.
"Nope never ever heard of him."
The ducks looked at me their eyes widening "Oh gees Dewey here's someone who never heard the King" said the duck in red.
"Yeah it's strange" said the duck in blue.
"Do you think we should tell about the King?" the duck in green asked.
"Maybe" said the duck in red.
"This place is strange…" said Kleude "Some King I don't recall hearing about… a town that never appears on the map…"
The ducks gasped "Oh my what is going on?" said the duck in red.
"Do you think we should trust them?" the duck in blue asked.
"Well Great Uncle Scrooge always said we should treat a customer well" said the duck in green.
"So what do you three want?"
"Do you three supply food, a mini stove, a tent and some fire woods?" the woman asked.
"What food do you want each food is a different price? How many fire woods do you want, one wood will cost 10 munny? And the stove and tent will cost 300 munny bundled up."
"Will these count?" the woman got some Tamu out of her pocket.
"Sorry these are not munny, I do not know what these little pellet are."
The woman groaned getting out of the shop.
"So err what does munny look like?" Kleude asked.
"Yellow with pink and light blue stripes" said the duck in blue "Used all over the world."
"Then something is not right…"
"Well if you are not buying anything we'll see you next time when you do."
"Well we don't have this munny thing so I guess we can't buy anything" I said.
"Bye bye, I hope you will come again!"
The three ducks waved to us as we headed out of the shop, they are pretty cute I must admit.
"Hey where's that woman?" Kleude asked, we looked around trying to look for her, we looked into the next shop.
It's pretty cosy with a fireplace and some couches, a blonde man chewing on a wheat is on the counter.
"So whadaya boys want?" he asked, he has a low voice with a thick accent.
"Have you seen a woman with dark skin and dark green hair around?" I asked.
"Nope."
"Okay" I looked at the display cases, there are some jewelries inside, I bet Erin would love them, I grimace, Erin… how does she feel when I rejected her, she's my best friend but I'm not sure if I want to date her.
"So do you want to buy anything?"
"Nah we just want to find where she went off to."
"Okay whatever, goodbye for now."
Kleude and I waved to him before leaving the shop.
"Gees this woman she's such a bother…" said Kleude.
"Well she gotta be around here somewhere" I said.
"…" he cocked his head, I grinned continuing walking around town when we stopped by another door behind the last building we went to however there's a closed sign, the only other area is a huge empty place with a safe and a huge door.
Strangely the area past the door looks a lot less rustic looking.
"Gees it's like we went 40 years into the future-" said Kleude, I let out a loud shriek "Whoa you are loud."
"She's here!" I said, rushing to where the woman is.
"Hey wait up!" Kleude yelled following me.
"Hey Miss!"
"What!?" she stopped walking, turning to face me with a scowl.
"Are you really going to walk alone in this town?"
"I have to find out more about this place, something is not right about this place, everything is so foreign next to the areas I've been."
"…"
"We must be in another galaxy or something."
"What's your name? I'm Blood-" she walked away before I can finish my sentence "Hey wait!"
She stopped when a melodious voice passed by "What is that!?"
"Nice voice…" said Kleude.
"Should we follow where the voice is?" I asked.
"I don't know it might be dangerous" said the woman.
"Well we'll never know unless we see for ourselves" I headed to where that voice is, heading to a door near a fountain.
The room stinks of wet socks, I groaned, blocking my nose from the strong pungent smell.
"Oh cripes it smells like a dead rat!" said Kleude.
"You two boys are such wimps" said the woman.
"And you are the kindest woman in the world" Kleude scowled at her.
"Whatever pretty boy."
Kleude stuck his tongue out as she passed by him.
"She sure has a strong tolerance for smells…" I said.
"…" he's squinting at the woman.
"What's the matter?"
"Oh nothing."
I shrugged my shoulders as we walked around the area, I realize from the drains we must be on a sewer or something.
I gasped when there smell started to fade, I sniffed my nose, nope it's not stuck.
"Hey the smell is gone" said Kleude.
We stopped when we saw the woman standing in front of us, we shifted to the side to see what is in front of her, my eyes widened approaching what is now in front of our eyes.
A slim pale girl is sitting near one of the drains singing, she has long blue hair in a ponytail although there are some short strands on the back, a tiny nose and a long white and blue dress showing off how skinny she is.
The girl suddenly stopped singing and turned to look at us, she has large dark purple eyes with long eyelashes, she gasped when she saw us "Ah! W-who are you three!?" her voice is gentle and surprisingly low.
"You have a nice singing voice" I said.
"T-thank you… do you know w-where am I?"
"Sorry I don't."
"…"
"What's a girl like you doing here?" Rose asked.
"I don't know… One minute I was in my palace and next there were strange black creatures attacking the place when all of a sudden a white light appear and I ended up in some town."
"Sounds like what happened to us" I said.
"This can't be a coincidence" said Kleude "First us, now a princess…"
I nodded "So what do we do now?"
"We got to find out more about this."
"Okay."
"Well with how whiny you two brats are, you two are not going to help much" said the woman.
"But if we can work together I'm sure we can find out about this!"
"Not when all of you are so bothersome. It will just worsen things."
"Great then scuttle away if you hate us so much" said Kleude.
"Whatever" she huffed walking away.
I looked at her before turning to the blue haired girl "So shall we get out of the sewer?"
"Okay" she said nodding her head.
We have to follow the woman though since the door nearby is locked.
"How did you manage to keep the scent away?" I asked "This place stinks but when we got closer to you it vanished!"
"I have to perform the dance of aroma to get rid of bad smelling stuff around me" said the girl.
"Cool! I wish I can do that!"
"Sorry but I cannot teach you how to do that."
"Awww…"
"You have a cute pout" said Kleude.
"Is that a compliment?"
"…"
"You are pretty cute" I said to the girl.
She suddenly turned her face away, I cocked my head, what did I say wrong?
"What is with that face cat boy when that shorty said she's cute? It looks stupid" said the woman, I hissed to myself when she said 'shorty' I hope I will grow up big and strong like Dad.
"Nothing…" said Kleude.
"So what's your name?" I asked the girl "I'm Blood Maverick."
"A-Ariel Vermillion…" she said.
"Kleude Fleming."
"What about the lady?"
The woman turned her head for a moment scowling before turning away.
When we left the sewer I gasp in relief at the fresh air, finally no more stinky sewers at least of now.
"So what shall we do now?" Ariel asked.
"I would like to go shop for presents for Erin but…" my voice faded.
"Who is Erin?" Kleude asked.
"A friend of mine she-" my voice faded again thinking about what happened, if only I said yes then she would be alive by now!
"What's the matter?"
"E-Erin… I-I…" I shook my head "It's none of your business!"
"Is she that blonde girl in the braids and glasses?"
I nodded.
"I'm sorry Blood…"
"I'm sorry too" said Ariel "It must be terrible to lose your friend."
"Thanks you too…" I put my arms around Ariel first then Kleude but he rejected me, shaking a little.
"Sorry but I don't being touched like that" he said.
"Sorry…"
"…" he turned away with his hair hiding his face in a yellow mass.
"Kids…" said the woman.
She stopped suddenly turning around, there are black creatures in this place as well!
"Oh crap not them again" she said.
"What are we gonna do!?" said Ariel.
"We have to run away like before" said Kleude.
"Okay" I said before we sprinted off the opposite direction to another path leading to another large door, I quickly opened the door leading us to another even more modern looking area with bright lights.
"This place is bizarre" said Kleude.
"So many bright lights…" said Ariel "This takes me back to memories of Adina…"
"Cool you live in Adina?" I said, she nodded "I always wanted to see what Adina is like! Can I visit this place when we get find out more about this place and find out way back?"
"Sure…"
"You two can have a casual talk while we are being chased by strange black creatures!?" the woman yelled.
I shrugged my shoulders as we continued to run away from the black creatures however suddenly below the stairs were more creatures that surrounds us, they are not black with glowing yellow eyes, they looked more like bats, very large bats almost as big as our heads.
"I punched the bat when I managed to get close enough, I can actually feel it but it doesn't seem to be affected by my punch in fact the bat is about to bit me, I gasped running past the bats, heading left, the others also dodged the bat, we tried to open the red door only it turns out we can't open it, we turned to the stairs nearby running all the way only there were some large mice, we have to dodge them as well.
We tried the large door but it was locked as well though there is a humongous keypad next to it.
"Think it needs a key?" I asked.
"Well do they come in a size ten?" said Kleude.
"I dunno but one thing I do know I don't have a key that big."
"Neither do I"
"So what do we do?" Ariel asked.
"Run you little airheads!" the woman yelled, she's already pretty ahead of us.
"This woman is so…" Kleude hissed.
"She's so interesting…" I said.
"H-huh?"
"I mean look at her, such a mysterious woman, we don't even know her name and she's so cold and she's so… so… pretty with her dark skin and long shapely legs…" I sigh taking in the beautiful woman, I wish I can know more about her.
"Okay then…"
We followed the woman as we got back to the previous area and try to find a safe place.
However we are continuously chased by the black creatures, the bats and the mice even when we head back to the area we appeared in after Gunrock was attacked.
It's strangely empty for some reason except for one man wandering around, it was too far to make out what he looks like but he has brown hair and black clothes.
We had to approach him since we are being chased by the monsters.
The man suddenly turned around "The Heartless!" he yelled.
"Heartless?" I said, stopping.
"All of you must evacuate to the accessory shop right now before they possess you."
"Is there any way to stop them!?"
"Only the chosen one who wields a Keyblade must be around before anyone can stop those creatures."
"What's a Keyblade?"
"I will explain later but all of you must go the accessory shop immediately."
We nodded following the man to the shop in the middle of this area.
Inside the shop.
"Oh it's you boys again" said the shop keeper "And you two got girlfriends huh? Although that woman looks a bit old for you two" he pointed to the woman.
"Cid can you keep these four inside? We need to wait until the two servants of the King arrives and try to find the Keyblade master."
"Yeah yeah whatever Leon."
"Hey you have the same name as my father" I perked up to Leon.
"Whatever" said Leon leaving the shop, I pouted as he exited the shop "We should look up about those oversized animals as well while we are at it."
"So we are stuck in here while some people from some castle finds someone wielding this Keyblade this right?" said the woman.
"Correct" said Cid.
"What's a Keyblade anyway?" Kleude asked.
"According to the books it's a large key that defeats the darkness of the heartless, well that's what Aerith says."
"Who can use those anyway?" the woman asked.
"No idea but we can tell even when the person doesn't call it for battles."
"Can I be a Keyblade master?" I asked.
"Judging by how you don't have one when you got attacked nope."
"Aww…"
"But you four won't leave until then and I will not leave the shop either."
"What!?" the woman yelled "But it's pointless if we stay all the time, where are we anyway!?"
"Traverse Town-"
"We know that but why is our currency different?" she took out her money "Everything feels different here."
"Never seen those before."
"Sir Cid have you heard of Adina?" Ariel asked.
"Adina?"
"It's my hometown."
"Wait a minute… I need to alert Aerith about this… She knows about this stuff pretty well" Cid exited the shop however there was a locking sound on the door.
"Crap he really does mean what he says…" said the woman.
"Well might as well get to know each other" I said.
"Why should I? We are not going to see each other forever."
"Who know how long we will see each other though."
She scowled turning away "You do not need to know me at all young man."
I pouted turning to the other two.
"So Kleude and Ariel what do you two like to do?"
"Reading is fun" said Kleude.
"Same here" said Ariel "But I think tea making, chess and hangman is fun as well."
"I like to walk around and play soccer" I said.
"Not too fond of sports" said Kleude.
"That's okay" I grinned "What shall we do now?"
"How about Hangman?" Ariel asked.
"Sure!"
We managed to find some papers(I hope Cid doesn't mind too much) and pencils to start the game.
We spent quality time trying to guess what the others have intended, Ariel and Kleude are pretty sharp guessing pretty quickly so I tried to keep up with them.
I wanted the woman to join in but she refuses everytime.
After about ten papers used we stopped when Cid and a woman with brown hair in a pink dress appeared, she must be that Aerith woman she mentioned.
Ariel approached Cid bowing to him "Whoa whoa what's with the bow?" Cid asked.
"We are sorry Sir Cid, we used up some of your papers to play games when you were gone!"
"Eh a few papers doesn't mean much to me…"
"We will pay if we can get the money!"
"You don't have to little girl, just don't get out of this place or mess up with the goods."
"So are these the four people you mentioned about Cid?" Aerith asked.
"Yep."
She smiled at us "Hello I'm Aerith, nice to meet all of you" she stuck her hand out.
"Hello Miss Aerith" I said shaking her hand.
"Greetings Lady Aerith" said Ariel bowing as she shook her hand.
"Hello Miss Aerith" said Kleude.
"You don't want to shake hands?" Aerith asked.
"…"
"Are you shy?"
"…" he looked away.
"It's okay if you don't want to."
"So these people seem to be from another area, think you know something about it?" Cid asked.
"Hmm Mom used to talk about other universe" said Aerith "But most of the other worlds are not too different from this town using the same currencies but I don't think I ever heard of Adina before."
"So you can't help us?" Ariel asked.
"My only guess is this, could all of you be from yet another universe we never heard of?"
"Huh another universe?" Kleude asked.
"That's right, one that might be separate from the ones we know that is very different from this one, it's just a guess of course but maybe that's why nobody knows where all of you come from and why your currencies are different."
"So what shall we do Miss?" Blood asked.
"Cid you should make a Gummi ship for them" she turned to Cid.
"Gees whatever…" he said chewing on his wheat.
"How long does it take to build a Gummi ship?" I asked.
"About a day."
"Oh."
"All of you need to do something for the rest of the day until then."
"What are we supposed to do?" said the woman.
"You four can go upstairs and help the moogles with their synthesizing, anything as long as you don't get out."
"Why should we?"
"Well all of you can earn some munny…"
"Deal."
So all of us have to head upstairs to help some moogles or what Cid calls some white creatures with a huge red nose, huge red antennas and bat wings are called.
All of us have to unload crates since we don't have material for stuff for them to make.
Ariel is struggling with some of the crates, I approached her "Need some help?"
"Oof these crates are heavy" she said "Maybe you can take a few loads off.
I grinned taking two crates for her.
"Isn't that a little too much?"
"No way!" although it does feel rather heavy actually… I tried to look like it was nothing as I took the crates to the store room dropping them in relief.
"Thank you Blood" said Ariel bowing.
"No problem" I said.
Outside the store house the woman has passed by Kleude who is just standing still for some reason.
"Hey Mr Kitten ears are you spacing out or something?" she asked.
"O-oh sorry" he said "I was just thinking about something.
She sigh as she approached the store house "Hey Kleude" I waved to him.
"O-oh hi Blood!" his ears are perked up, it's rather cute.
"What were you think about?"
"N-nothing for you to be concerned about!" he went passed me dragging the crates.
"Do you need some help?"
"No it's just a burden for you!"
"It's not a burden I can help you-"
"Sorry but I don't need help" he's groaning as he carried the crates though…
After we managed to get all the crates on the storeroom.
"Great job kupo!" said a Moogle "It's nice to have help kupo."
"Yeah whatever" said Rose "So the fee?"
"Here your munny" the moogle handed a bag "Come back tomorrow kupo we would love it if you do!"
"I'll think about it…"
We looked at the purse with the yellow balls with pink and blue stripes "Well we should get some food with this, it's been hours since I last ate" said Kleude.
We went downstairs handing the money to Aerith.
"Meal for four please" said Ariel.
Aerith smiled at us before heading off.
It took ten minutes before she returned with four bags of food.
"I bought cheesecake, milk tea and boiled potatoes for all of you" she said "I hope you don't mind."
We shook our heads, grabbing the bags to eat.
"Your ears are cute…" said Aerith, I looked up to see who she was talking to, Kleude is squinting at her.
"Err thanks…" he said.
"Do you mind if I touch them?"
"No."
"You are pretty cute for a guy…"
"I'm surprised Cid, Leon and you don't think I'm a girl."
"I seen a lot of very cute boys before."
"Oh…"
"But I bet you will look nice in a dress…"
"H-huh?"
"Would you like to wear a dress? I'm sure you will look lovely in one just like my friend Cloud did."
"Is he around town?" I asked.
"No he seemed to have disappeared…"
"Oh…"
"But how about we spend some time getting something nice for you to try Mister Kitty ears?"
"O-okay…"
Her eyes widened "I'm surprised you agreed! Cloud was a bit reluctant at first!"
"Actually I tried a dress once as a dare with my brother before…"
"Oh you wait and see Mr Kitty ears!"
She headed out of the shop as we finished up our meal.
"Really you wore a dress before?" said the woman.
"I like it, it's more comfy than denim, you got a problem with that?" Kleude scowled.
"Wow to think you cannot get anymore girlier…"
He stuck his tongue out at her, Ariel and I looked at each other it's gonna be one pretty interesting experience for all of us…
To be continued