TheKeysUnlocked: Okay it's up finally, the third Chapter :D READ AND REVIEW!!


Chapter 3

Kaela definitely regretting this wish. She tried to pretend that she had never been instructed to bring this girl back. Did she really need to?

Well there were of course reasons why.

Kaede had no intention of coming with her.

She was being incredibly hard headed about it

That she had enough magic, so that she could pretty much do whatever she wanted, that included killing Kaela.

Or at least that how Kaela saw it.

Kaede was sitting up on the ground now briefly ignoring her, like she was an annoying fly.

By the lack of speech exhibiting from her, Kaela could tell she was concentrating.

So taking a risk, she peered over her shoulder.

Kaede was sitting in front of an intricate puzzle. Its stone pieces rooted to the ground, they were spread apart from each other, but looked as though they were meant to be together. The design craved into them, met each other separated piece perfectly. But those ivory stones were solidly and immovably stuck.

Kaede gently pressed her finger to the small crack that was the tiny space which wove through the pieces, and was their separation. A racing blue glow staring from her finger tip, shot through it flying vibrantly through the crack. It bright so close to white but not pale was hard to identify until it stopped. The light pulled the stones together, like glue, its form no longer flashy but completely solid, as the stones drug across the ground.

But the design that was supposed to match up altered its engraved symbols changing. Before Kaela could see it though, Kaede pushed her away.

"Get out of here!" Her voice was stern, but concerned, so Kaela did what she was told.

That isn't always the best for everyone else.

She stayed hidden, shaking, listening to the sonic boom, and muffled screams. She watched the shadows of the flashing lights, from wherever Kaede was.

She was sure of it Kaede was gone, killed, dead, just gone, she was sure. But just about as she was going to run and find Cloud, Kaede came back.

She was stumbling, though no injuries were visible, except she was gripping her left arm tightly. Kaede removed her hand only once, when she thought she wasn't in view of Kaela.

A blue sticky thing stuck to her elbow, some stretching out and sticking to her hand when she removed it, before snapping back.

Even though it had a goopy Jell-O like top half, the bottom, which was attached to her arm, left a red singe. It looked like a burn the way it was craved into her, but it was slowly spreading up her arm, the burn only. It was spreading fire that was slowly giving that red wound to Kaede.

Kaela stepped back her eyes wide " Kae-Kaede," was all she could manage even though it was only a whisper. But Kaede noticed her stare and elegantly threw the dark cloak over her shoulders, covering the wound.

"We're not going to tell cloud 'kay?" She smiled a bit too friendly that it was hard to refuse.

But her looks of utter pain as they walked back was forcing Kaela to think twice.

Everything was completely normal when they returned, except Cloud was obviously giving Kaede the silent treatment for disappearing. Hercules and Phil were thanking Kaela, and talking about how she will like Meg.

But Kaela wasn't listening.

What she was listening to was Cloud and Kaede. They had gone off away from Phil and everyone, to talk privately to each other, but still in eavesdropping distance.

Cloud looked absolutely furious, until Kaede pouted. Her eyes big and sad like a desolate puppy left in a box on a raining corner.

He seemed to not only verbally back track, but almost psychically backed up.

"Its fine," was his very mumbled, and unhappy reply.

Kaede smiled, brightly, and Cloud's grumpiness increased.

"Just stop going out there, it…dangerous." Kaela though that was the longest she had ever heard him talk.

Though Kaede was now the frustrated one, she put her hands on her hips ready for a back argument.

But that action made the cloak fall off, revealing the now very large burn centered at the blue thing on Kaede's elbow.

Cloud was shocked and then tightened into one of the angriest faces Kaela had seen in her life. If she thought she had been receiving his death look before, this was surely the you'll be painfully-murder-by-1000 swords- look.

He examined her arm, despite Kaede protesting and then dragged her by her un-injured arm into the coliseum.

And Kaela being the sneaky little one that she was she tried to follow.

"I think I have to go, I'll see you guys around." She moved to make her run, but a large muscular hand grabbed the back collar of her shirt.

"Stay," it was the firmest command Herc had given her.

Cloud had dragged Kaede all the way to the entrance to the underworld, where He stopped as Kaede pried her arm away from him.

"What do you think you're going to do Cloud? You can't work for Hades again!"

Cloud stared at her arm, and in a much calmer voice, "If it gets that." He shot a disgusted look a blue thing. "Off of you, I don't care."

Kaede looked stared at him infuriated. "I can handle this on my own, I know that spell!"

"Like you handle your plan to find them?" His sarcasm was cruel. He gestured to her arm. "That's working out real well."

Kaede's eyes blotted with tears, and her straightened up height, trying impossibly to match Cloud's hunched over.

"You don't know what's it's like to lose them all!" And she disappeared in a shot of magic.

Cloud's stunned face, showed that he hadn't expected that, and it quickly was overwhelmed what seemed like a mixture of anger, guilt, and depression.

"God, Kaede, When will you understand?" But of course than he ran off to find her.

Kaela was trying to get away from the now annoying Disney characters, who had dragged her all over Olympus. She knew they were trying o keep her distracted so that she wouldn't find Kaede, and Cloud.

She wasn't sure why they were trying to stop her. She heard bout couples needing 'alone time' to work things out, but she was pretty sure that would end up in someone dying.

Though she wouldn't have to look hard for Kaede, because here she came running towards Kaela.

But instead of explaining or anything helpful, she grabbed her hand and in another flash of magic they were both gone.

And then when very angry and confused spiky blonde that appeared on the scene later, and no one had known where she had gone. That's when he was really angry. People were starting to worry for Kaede's life.

Course they were all misinterpreting that anger.

Worry, comes with Love.

Kaela found herself once again staring at the familiar stone arrangement. It was back in place as if the blue magic had never happened.

Kaede turned around, looking like she was deep in though, than asked

"What's your favorite color?"

A random totally off-beat question for the time, but Kaela was quick to answer. Her favorite color changed daily but currently it was,

"Turquoise."

Kaede jumped up in down with the biggest grin on her face.

"I knew it!! I knew I was close!!"

She continued the same action as before, gently pressing her finger into the crack between the stones, but this time, a greenish blue light shot out, turquoise.

Kaede smiled, as the stones began shifting, they linked together. The carved patterns matching up perfectly.

The ivory stones' carving was...a keyhole.

Kaede turned back to Kaela.

"Go ahead touch the Keyhole, the Gummi ship will come and we can go to the next world."

WE?! Kaela thought, but only aloud did she say,

"What about Cloud, Isn't he going to be worried?"

Kaede looked down eyes dark and sad.

"All Cloud cares about is keeping me here, like a caged animal, I've got things that are important to me that he won't even recognize."

With that final statement Kaela touched the Keyhole. She just pressed the palm of her hand against it, and light shot out, from the engraving. They were both standing on the ivory stones, and it felt like the Key hole was sucking them both in.

Cloud came running just before they disappeared into the white light, course he was too late to stop them, but he did see Kaede turn around with a strange confused torn look in her eyes.

All he saw last was that look, and her little wave.

"Bye Cloud."


TKU: Don't kill me Noble!!!! What world should they go to next?

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