I'm so sorrrrry~! It's been like a week since I updated, which actually isn't a long time..but I felt bad! School started this week for me, and I've been completely exhausted because I had to force my sleep schedule to change in like, one night. I've been basically been coming home, falling asleep from 5 - 8, waking up, eating supper, and then going back to bed until the next morning XD I've been worried about homework too..because I'm taking AP Gov/Politics this semester..Luckily I have two art classes too and they don't alot of homework. OKAY! Once again, sorry. (Gonna stop talking now) Oh wait, before I forget, I keep forgetting to do this..
AlpacasRule: Thankyou for reviewing so much XD You have no idea how happy it makes me to see your reviews. But yeah, I plan to do some unique worlds not original to the actual game. It'll be interesting, that's for sure XD
Also thankyou to M, Riiot, Shadowman-DDT, and Mizu-Matters :3 Seriously guys, thankyou! OwO Disclaimer: I do not own Pocahontas or Kingdom Hearts.
Leaves rustled as the many Natives crept through the bushes and trees. Some held spears, some held bows, others were prepared to fight with sharpened rocks if need be. Symbols made with war paint adorned their faces, and determination filled their eyes with courage. The Chief, Pocahontas's father, lead the group, and Pocahontas was close behind, followed by Kei and the many others.
Kei was a bit worried about Kairi, she had left her body with Grandmother Willow, and as much as she trusted the old tree she couldn't help but feel anxious about it. Anything could happen. She decided that, as soon as this was all over, she would make sure to go back and check on Kairi. She had some questions for Grandmother Willow as well, questions about what had caused the start of this adventure and if she had a purpose on this journey. She stepped on a prickly piece of acorn.
She flinched, 'Hopefully we'll finish this up quickly. And if I'm lucky I won't run into Riku, if he really is even there.'
Up ahead she noticed that Pocahontas had sped up to talk with her father. Kei moved a bit faster to see if she could catch up enough to be able to hear their conversation.
"Father, what will we do with the man who has caused all of this when we capture him?"
Her father said something, but she had moved behind again so she couldn't hear what he said.
Frustrated, Kei moved up quicker again.
Pocahontas gasped, "Kill him?! Father, no! Killing has never helped anyone! If you must kill him, then kill me instead!"
Kei could not see the Chief's face as he looked ahead, but heard the stern tone in his voice, "Stand back Pocahontas, and let us do what we must."
Pocahontas wore an expression of betrayal and helplessness and rushed off into the woods. Kei wasn't sure what to think, should she go after her? But before she had time to contemplate the decision, a large amount of Heartless appeared before the Chief.
The Chief signaled for his men to spread out, and hide within the plant-life to prepare for an attack. She hadn't even realized it, but the camp of the greedy man she had heard about was right ahead. Smoke billowed into the air, and farther off where the ocean was she could see large ships. A disgusting stench suddenly hit her nose, but she was unsure of the source.
Wrinkling her nose she crouched behind a bush as the Chief stood tall before the Heartless. A man walked out of the camp and stood behind the Heartless. By his expensive looking purple outfit and neatly done hair, she assumed this was the man the Natives loathed so much. She didn't blame them; he didn't look like the type of guy she'd like to come across.
Kei noticed some movement behind the man, and when she looked over she saw the person she wanted to see the least, Riku.
'Greattttt. Now introducing, the Old Man!' She rolled her eyes. Maybe if she was lucky and smooth enough, she could stay out of his sight.
The chief spoke, "I ask of you to leave this land immediately. You are not welcome here, and if you refuse then we will take desperate measures."
The purple-man scoffed, "Me? Leave this land? When it is just filled with treasure? Blasphemy!"
"Governor Ratcliffe," Kei jumped when she heard Riku speak, "allow me to take care of them."
The greedy man, otherwise known as Governor Ratcliffe, rolled his eyes and nodded while walking back to the camp, "Yes yes, do whatever my boy."
Kei stiffened when Riku stepped forward and crossed his arms, "Have you seen two girls named Kei and Kairi?"
"No."
A look flashed across Riku's face, he knew the Chief was lying, "Fine, I'll let them take care of you then." He nodded towards the Heartless, turned around, and walked back to the camp.
'You lousy jerk!'
The Chief signaled for the others to begin moving towards the camp while a few more rushed out to meet the Heartless head-on with him. Kei wasn't sure which way to go, but she assumed the Chief could take care of himself so she moved towards the camp with the rest of the men.
Her plan was to avoid Riku at all costs, and to go for Governor Ratcliffe just because she didn't like the type of purple he wore. What? It was an annoying purple. And she figured since she lured the Heartless and Riku here it was the least she could do.
She heard the bowmen pull back the strings on their bows, and then the attack began. Battle cries were thrown up to the heavens as men rushed into the camp. Arrows and spears caused the Heartless to dissipate, only for more to take their place; but the men were undaunted, courageous, and kept moving forward, even if it was a centimeter at a time.
These people had Kei's respect, if anything. She took a deep breath, stood up, and ran towards the fighting. She lashed out with her spear and managed to cut down a few of the Heartless. More took their place, but like the men around her, she kept taking steps forward.
'Never give up, right?'
She noticed a flash of silver from the corner of her eyes and assuming it was Riku, she ninja-rolled behind a white tent. Peeping out, she discovered it was indeed Riku. One of the natives had engaged in battle with him, and using this as her chance, she slipped by the both of them and ran towards the tent that looked bigger and more extravagant than all the others. If Mr. Greedy was anywhere, it was there.
Along the way a few Heartless appeared, but most of them were back fighting the natives, so she didn't have much trouble. Though she was losing energy, and fast. Darn her lack of endurance! She reached the tent, though a bit out of breath. Breathing heavily, she peeked inside and saw the man she was looking for. It looked like...like…he was bragging about himself in a gold-rimmed mirror.
'This guy has some major problems…' Kei sweatdropped.
She slipped inside and began tip-toeing towards him, unfortunately though, she kicked the side of a couch by accident. Kei froze as well as the Governor. He whooshed around and glared at her.
"Well well well, what do we have here! A little insect it seems!"
Kei glared at him, "Well at least I'm not an oversized plum."
His face turned the deepest shade of red she had ever seen, and he quickly drew a sword from its sheath on his belt, "What did you say?!"
"Plum plum, Mr. Plum. Oversized plum, dried up plum. A plum full of nothing but greed for treasure that doesn't exist! Plum plum! Mr. Plum!"
She wasn't sure if it was possible, but somehow his face turned even redder. He took a step towards her and raised his sword. Kei widened her eyes and tried jumping out of the way. The sword still nicked her on her arm though. She flinched at the stinging of the small cut. But now she had the man figured out, his weakness was his temper. It only took that one strike to understand that his temper controlled his actions. She looked around to see if there was anything in the tent she could use to her advantage.
'No, no, no, nope, nu uh, n - ooh! Perfect~!'
"PLUM! MR. PLUM!" Then she turned around and ran just as his sword came down and ripped the cushions on the couch she was just beside.
'Whoops, that was close..'
"Plum~!" She heard a mirror crash behind her. 'This guy should learn to take care of his things..'
She reached the edge of the tent and turned around, breathing heavily once again. He stopped as well and glared at her.
Kei smiled sweetly, "Plum."
Governor Ratcliffe yelled out in rage and swung his sword down. Kei ducked, grabbed the frying pain on the table near her, and moved to his right side. And then she whacked him, right in his face. He dropped his sword and looked like he was trying to gather himself, as he was stumbling around dizzily. She whacked him again, and then he was out cold on the ground.
Kei chuckled, "SUCKER!" She stuck her tongue out at his unconscious body.
'Now…rope, rope. Where are you rope?' She spotted the item of her current interest hanging from a hook attached to one of the supports holding the tent up. She skipped over and pulled it off its hook and then skipped back to Mr. Greedy Plum.
'Hmmm..' She wrapped the rope around him and the leg of one of his couches and tied it as tight as she could. Kei never really had learned to do good knots. She just randomly stuck the end of the rope into openings. 'Perfect.'
Kei looked at the sword he had dropped. She crouched down and grabbed the gold handle of the sword and picked it up. The weight was too much for her though, and she dropped it and tore a hole in the wall of the tent.
"Oops." Shrugging, she decided she would stick to her frying pan.
She trotted out of the tent and saw the Chief in battle with one of the bigger Heartless. She noticed one coming up from behind him and rushed forward to intercept. She whacked it in the face with the frying pan just as she had done with the Governor.
The Chief turned around, "I thank you for your help."
Kei looked him in the eye, "I'll tell you where I have the Governor tied up if you promise me you won't hurt him in any fashion."
A small bit of anger crossed his face. He thought for a moment, "I will have to agree. We need that man out of here at all costs."
"He's in the big tent back behind me, you'll know it's the right one when you see a huge tear in the tent."
The Chief nodded and signaled for a few men to follow him, while the others stayed behind and fought the Heartless.
'Speaking of Heartless, where is the Old Ma-' A hand grabbed her collar and pulled her backwards. She landed on her back with a grunt of pain.
'That's one more bruise for the list. And speak of the Oldies and they shall come.'
She looked up at a glaring Riku. His arms were crossed in front of him as if he were waiting for her to say something to him, "Where's Kairi?"
Kei glared back, "Old men should mind their own business."
A dark look crossed his face and he reached down and picked her up by her collar, "Why do you keep calling me that?"
Kei smiled a sweet smile for the second time that day, "Because you have silver hair and you're grouchy. Therefore, you are old, Old Man."
He scowled, "Tell me where Kairi is!"
"Why? So you can stupidly hand her over to that evil Sorceress that you think is trying to help you?"
"Don't question my decision! I'm only trying to help Kairi!"
"Too bad, I don't believe what you're doing is correct. So I'm saving her myself. By the way, I don't think I ever introduced myself. My name is Kei; it's so very not nice to meet you." Kei took a swipe at his face with the frying pan.
Caught off guard, he dropped her and took a clumsy step back. He quickly recovered, though, and lunged for her, and she rolled to the right. She jumped up and started running towards the entrance to the camp. She looked back to see Pocahontas intercepting Riku.
"I heard what about the deal you made with my father Kei! I thank you, now please go! Grandmother Willow wants to help you escape! It's the least I could do!"
Kei stopped and stared, her mouth hanging open, "But -"
"RUN!"
Snapping out of her dazed state she turned and ran towards the forest. She was worried, her endurance was already extremely low, and she wasn't sure if she could make it back to the old tree without passing out. Then she remembered the canoe, she didn't know how to swim nor could she use a canoe! She never learned how! Kei figured she'd have to figure it out when she got there.
She couldn't believe Pocahontas was risking herself for her, it wasn't worth it. But she couldn't complain, because she knew there was no time. So she ran. She swore she'd get stronger, and then be able to defend herself and Kairi better. She wasn't sure why she had ended up back there on that ship, and didn't know why all these things were happening, but she did know that Kairi was in danger, so she'd do her best to protect her.
Dark shapes appeared on the ground, and were chasing her on all sides. She jumped over the shadows as they became solid forms. Unfortunately, one of the Heartless managed to scratch her ankle with its claws. Another took advantage of her clumsy steps and tripped her. She fell to the floor with a hard thud. The little breath she had was knocked out of her and she gasped, trying to gain it back.
Two feet appeared in front of her and she looked up to see Riku.
"Why don't you figure out that what you're doing is wrong?" she gasped out.
He remained silent as he grabbed her shoulders and pulled her up. He locked her in a tough grip as she struggled.
"I won't let the likes of you stop me!" Kei elbowed him in the gut, and he grunted in pain. His grip loosened, so she tore out of it and began running towards the upcoming river. She looked at the canoe then the water.
'How am I going to get back to Grandmother Willow?'
More Heartless appeared behind her and she began backing up. Riku started stepping closer to her, and she backed up more, accidently going over the side of the land. Shocked, her body began falling towards the water underneath it; but instead of landing in the dark, cold substance, she landed on something soft. She felt whatever she landed on begin to move down the river, and she stared at Riku as he stared back with a shocked face.
Kei looked down to see brown, brown fur. And tails. Otters? The otters used themselves to create a raft for her?
She couldn't help but chuckle at the strange act of kindness, "Thank you."
One of them chattered, then saluted her and began propelling itself forward with the rest of the group. Luckily, the trip from the shore to the next wasn't too long, and she could see the tall branches of Grandmother Willow in the distance. She sighed and leaned back to catch her breath.
She heard the chattering of the otters and sat back up. They were floating next to the shore, so she stepped off carefully. She nodded to them in thanks again and began walking up to the old tree.
A ripple of wind shifted through the leaves, "Child, you are here! Thank goodness you are alright."
Kei nodded at the old face on the tree. She blinked when she looked around and couldn't find Kairi, "Where's Kairi?"
"Oh! Yes, yes! Here you are child," a vine of leaves reached out and held a bracelet made out of one of the vines of the tree, and it had a leaf attached to it as well. On the leaf a 'K' was inscripted in it, "I figured it would be a lot of trouble towing her body around with you, so I sealed it in this leaf. You can still hear her as well! Make sure to never lose this bracelet."
'Kairi?'
Oh! Kei! Grandmother Willow explained to me what had happened, and that she sealed my body in the bracelet. Anyways, are you okay?'Yup, somehow.'
Kei heard the footsteps behind her, and she turned around to see a hand reaching out to her. Gasping, she stepped back. A vine from the tree whipped out and hit Riku in the stomach, and he flew back. Water soaked his clothes, skin, and hair. He glared.
Kei slipped on the bracelet, "What's wrong Old man? Don't like baths?"
A warm chuckle passed through the roots of the tree, "Now child, while I have him under control, hurry to the next world!"
A distorted crack like the one she saw on the pirate ship appeared in the air behind her, "Thank you!"
Kei ran into the portal, and she heard the parting words of Grandmother Willow, "Listen to your heart, you will understand~"
And then the portal closed.
Let's see..we've done Bonbons, cookies, and macaroons. Ooh, have some pixelated Dangos then :D And thanks for reading this far!
