Haaaaay thar everyone~ It's a slightly chilly summer Friday today...sadly, but whatever. Anyways, yep, I finally decided to update.
it's Disney Town! Yay! This has always been one of my favorite worlds, although, you can't really do much here. I just like the funky styles and colours. The minigames aren't that bad to boot either.
Boooo...summer school sucks man. I hate doing any kind of work over the summer. I hate homework. yeah, just wanted to put that out there.
Disclaimer: I don't own BBS. D;
[Osculate]
Hold me once again.
"Who're you?"
Rise jolted awake and her head shot straight up, hitting something hard. She heard a bonk from her head to the object, causing a short headache to occur and her head to slam back down onto the ground.
"Ow!" Both her and something…or someone both shouted in unison.
"Watch it!" She heard something grunt angrily, making her realize she didn't recognize the voice. Reopening her eyes, she was in the presence of some fairly large…creature? Oh! Experiment 626! Wasn't she with the critter earlier? Ignoring the figure in front of her, she searched her head forwards and backwards, looking for the blue critter. It was nowhere to be seen.
That's when she realized she was no longer in space.
It was bright…really bright.
There were cute buildings all around her, mailboxes…a whole lot of things. The area looked childish, as if she stepped into a comic book or some cartoon. Streamers of all colours were hung up from building to building, neon balloons were tied onto almost every object…it was as if there was a party about to go on. The place looked pretty cheerful. It made Rise herself feel kinda happy, pretty good actually. She had almost pretty much forgotten that masked guy from earlier…
Speaking of which, where was he? All she could remember was diving after the guy into that black portal that he conjured up. Wait…if she dove into the same portal as him…shouldn't that mean he was here also? Where could he be?
Rise searched around again, her eyes looking all around her. There wasn't a single person in sight. This caused her to frown for a moment until the….animal? from earlier barged into her view.
"Hello? Are you forgetting about me?" For someone she didn't know…he was awfully loud. She was kinda avoiding the guy too…he looked pretty darn fishy after all…
Honestly, look at the guy! He was up in some white jumpsuit like clothing with red zig-zags, black shoes with a similar red design, and a red cape. What was he doing? Acting like a superhero? More like superzero. He looked more stupid than heroic, for a first impression at least. The guy being awfully loud didn't exactly help out either.
"Um…who're you?" Rise's voice shook softly as she raised an eyebrow to stare at the figure in her front sceptically. He was at least three times her body size…maybe a little more. She scratched her head curiously as she poked her head around a few times.
The figure began to grin as he hoisted his body up and spun a few times. "Wearin' the mask of peace and hope, comes the fearless defender and hero of this town! It is me—Captain Justice!"
She laughed.
Rise knew it was rude, but it was difficult not to. Look at him! He looked like such a geek…it was rather funny. She found herself shunning her eyes away so she would stop laughing at his pose.
"Hey! What's so funny?" He folded his arms and stomped his legs on the ground angrily, his face puffing up. "If it's me your laughing at…oh! You're gonna get it!"
Rise pulled her face straight. "Uh…no…not you. I just remembered something funny." She lied. Maybe she shouldn't be picking a fight with him after all. It seemed pretty evident that this guy could easily flatten her into a pancake any day. It was probably better to leave things instead of invoking anything more. Speaking up, she asked him. "Hey umm…not to be rude or whatever…but who're you? Like…who are you really?"
Captain 'Justice' seemed to want to turn around once more about to do his pose again before Rise stopped him. "No…not that. I mean…a name?"
He scratched his head. "Oh…why didn't you say so earlier? I'm Pete. What's up."
"I'm Rise." She introduced herself back. "Um…can I ask…why're you in such a get up anyways?"
Pete widened his eyes. "You don't know?" Rise shook her head. "That explains why you don't look like you're from around here at least." He whispered to himself, almost mumbling the line. "Okay, so you see…what I want is the Million Dreams award."
"Million Dreams award?"
"Precisely." Pete placed both hands on his hips. "I'm going to be a hero! That award is mine."
Rise cocked her head to the side. "And how do you get this award anyways?" She asked, hearing about it peaking her interest slightly.
"Captain Justice is going to help people! Oh! Help people. Why am I blabbering on with a pipsqueak like you? I have people to help. See ya around Rise! It's Justice time!" And with that…his large body pounded against the ground as he took long strides to run across to the other side of town, going down an alleyway nearby. He was soon out of sight and Rise found herself puffing her lips up in confusion. What was she supposed to do now? For a festival about to go on…the town was awfully deserted for one.
Where was she anyways?
She began to walk around…studying the town placed in front of her. It was cute little town really…quite a bit different from the places she's visited so far. If she had to say which one was her favourite…this one takes the cake, even if it seems a little lonesome at the moment. If she had a notebook with her...Rise would've added this to the list of places she'd need to go to with her friends. After all, this place was almost like a theme park, lacking only in people. Maybe they were all elsewhere?
Just as she was about to set herself down onto a bench to take a short break, she suddenly jumped hearing the sound of someone scream.
"GYAAAAAA!"
The voice was booming, echoing on for seconds as it refused to drone off. It sounded awfully like that Pete she just talked to. His voice was pretty loud after all.
Rise shook her head, and sighed, knowing she'd have to help out with whatever mess he got into. She wasn't trying to be mean or anything, but Pete radiated an aura of troublemaker rather than superhero. For one, there was that silly getup. For another, there was the fact he lacked that 'star' quality in him.
She heaved another sigh before running off into the direction of the scream, down the same alleyway Pete disappeared off into earlier.
"Pete?" She turned a couple of corners, hearing the yells and scream of someone.
"Oh oh oh…what am I going to do? Oh oh oh… I'll never win the award like this!" That was most definitely Pete, no doubt about it. Finally out of the alleyway, she found herself in a large open space, Pete standing smack dab in the middle. He was walked forwards and backwards from the spot as his face appeared worried. "Oh oh oh…what to do, what to do?"
"Is something the matter?" Rise approached Pete from behind, causing him to jump up and fall down, rumbling the ground for a moment.
"Gyaa! Don't scare me like that girlie!" Pete picked himself off the ground and stood up, facing her.
"I heard you scream. What's the matter?"
"Oh oh oh! I made a big mistake! Look in the water!"
Poking her head from the railing, she peered down the cliff onto the water, seeing little white balls floating on top of the water. "What're those?" She turned her face back to Pete.
"Those are part of the festival! I've got to retrieve them before her Majesty finds out I dropped them by accident. She's supposed to be here any moment! Oh oh oh…if anyone finds out… they'll have my head for this." Pete seemed whimper slightly, his face downcast.
Feeling bad for the guy, Rise sighed.
"When is she arriving here?"
"Any minute now. I was supposed to safe-keep them, but I tripped and dropped them. How am I supposed to retrieve them at this rate?"
Rise ran her hand through her hair. "How about this…I'll help you retrieve them, given you help me up when I gather them all."
Pete gasped in surprised. "What do you mean? Are you helping me?"
"Yeah. I'll do it. Hmm…let's use that rope over there." Rise toddled her way to a long piece of rope beside a streetlight. It should be okay to use…it was just sitting there anyways. Rise only planned to borrow it for a bit anyways. Next, she reached for a bag near Pete's feet. That was probably the bag those white balls were supposed to be in. "Okay, so Pete, I want you to hold onto this rope. Don't you dare let go, or else you won't be getting those things back!"
"Got it."
Rise nodded her head. "I'm gonna jump into the water, gather them all up and when I give the okay, pull me back up from the water. Can you do that?"
"Alrighty."
She clutched onto the bag as she breathed in, and dove down the cliff. She collided with the water surface with a loud splash, water exploded everywhere. Rise pushed her legs and arms to reach the surface of the water to get some oxygen. Shaking her head, Rise used her hands to get the water out of her eyes as she scanned around her for the white balls.
"I'll be up here watching for her Majesty!" It was Pete's voice.
"Okay!"
Rise began to propel her body around, grabbing all the white balls into the bag. It was actually a lot more difficult than she thought, collecting them. Some of them already drifted quite a bit away from the rest of the pack, meaning she had to hurry up, swim, and retrieve them all. Rise was on a time-limit after all.
Rise began to collect each white ball, swimming back and forth getting each and every one, being careful not to miss any. Her legs were starting to get sore from all the swimming. The water was rather harder to move around than in air, of course. She should also make a note to go swimming more often from this moment on. It wouldn't hurt to do a little improving on her swimming skills.
She grabbed one from beside her.
And another.
And another.
She picked two more from around her and shoved them into her bag. The bag was getting pretty full already.
Scanning around her once again, she found one more floating off in the distance. "Hurry up!" She could hear Pete's eager voice hurrying her. If only she could have a little more time. That would make things so much easier…ugh…if only Pete wasn't such a troublemaker.
Although she didn't really want to help out Pete, but, honestly, she felt kinda bad for the guy. He looked pretty helpless after all. Sure he was like, three times her size, his voice was much louder than hers, and he didn't look like the type to have a good temper. Maybe she really sound hurry it up a little, she was probably running out of time now.
"One last one….!" She reached her arms out as far as she could to reach the final last ball. "Come on…almost there." She winced and bit her lip as her fingers flicked the white ball. Reaching out further, she managed to grab the last one, and it was over. She managed to swim her way back and grasped the rope as tightly as she could, Pete beginning to pull the rope up.
"Gaaaaah" Pete gave a quick yelp as he continued to pull her up. Soon, she was finally up above the railing as Rise gave a heavy pant over and over, her body cold and shivering.
Her upper body have a quick shake as she felt a chill on her spine. "Fire" she quickly casted in front of her, a small flame floating in the middle of the air. "Aerora" She casted once more, blowing the warm air around her to try and dry herself quickly. The warmth wisped around her body, hugging her. It started to dry her clothing, her clothing starting to slowly unstuck itself from her body. The spell ended a moment later and Rise stood up and shook her body quickly. She was more or less dry.
Should probably make a note to take a shower somewhere though.
Rise brushed her skirt around to make sure it wasn't wrinkling unnecessarily. Rise gave another grin to herself as she turned to face Pete.
…Only problem is…where was Pete?
"Pete?" Rise called out in her loudest voice. No response followed as echoes rang in the distance. How did Pete just suddenly disappear so suddenly…without her noticing too? Rise took a quick scan around the area. No one was in sight…but, the bag of those white balls were still on the ground. She felt herself raising an eyebrow in suspicion. "What're these still doing here?"
Rise picked it up with her right hand and swung it around. Just as she was about to peek into the bag and take a good look at the white balls, she felt her body jump up as she heard a female voice speaking.
"Hello!"
Turning around one-eighty degrees, Rise found herself staring into the large eyes of someone less than half her size. She had huge ears, kinda like a mouse, was wearing an elegant pink dress, and to top things off, a crown at that. Was she the queen Pete talked about earlier.
Deciding not to be rude, Rise gave a quick bow. "Hello, are you the queen?"
The figure nodded her head. "Why yes! But please! Call me Minnie." The Queen gave a friendly smile before she tilted her head aside to stare at the bag in Rise's hands. "Aren't those the things I asked Pete to hold for me? Where is he? Do you know miss…."
"Rise, my name's Rise your majesty. And umm…I honestly have no idea where he is…I swear he was here a minute ago." Rise scratched her head and frowned. Minnie (unfortunately for Rise) managed to catch onto her frown and found herself inquiring what happened.
"Did something happen?"
Rise gulped once. Should she say? Rise knew Pete wanted her to keep quiet, but, it'd be strange not to say why Pete wasn't the one giving these to the Queen rather than her. It was supposed to be Pete's job anyways…maybe she'll give in this time. Its Pete's own fault for disappearing to who-knows where. Rise took a deep breath as she began to tell her side of the story.
"Okay, so you see, I ran into Pete earlier. He had a dilemma and somehow managed to drop all these thing into the water there you see." Rise side-stepped and pointed past the cliff's edge. "He told me if he couldn't retrieve these things," Rise lifted up the white bag, "then your Majesty was going to give him a real beating or something. So I felt a little bad and offered to help pick them all up. I jumped into the water, picked them up, Pete helped lift me back up, and when I was drying myself, he was nowhere to be seen." Rise gasped as all that took the breath out of her. "That's basically it all summarized.
.The Queen's face suddenly frowned. "Oh that Pete! Always getting into trouble! He better be prepared to get a real scolding." Her body was turned to an alleyway as she stomped her feet against the ground angrily. Turning back around to face Rise, she thanked her. "Thank you Rise, you were a real help. These are part of our festival, if we were to lose them, we'd have a hard time getting them back. So really, thank you for cleaning up after Pete's mess. That Pete is always messing things up! Oh!"
"It's no biggie, I'm glad I could help." Rise chuckled and bowed her head again towards Minnie, still smiling.
"I sure wish I had some way to repay you…Oh! I know! Here!" From somewhere behind the Queen, she managed to pull something out. It looked like a keychain of sorts. "Here! Take this! I'm sure this will be useful to you in some way. Also, take this pass. This will grant you unlimited passes to any of our attractions, so come by anytime you want."
Rise took both the card and the keychain. The Keychain was pretty cute, ice cream's stacked on top of one another, and a sundae at the bottom to finish it. Could this be another keychain she could connect to her Keyblade? She'd be sure to try it out someday.
"Thank you!"
The Queen shook her head. "No, thank you. That was the least I could do for someone like you."
Rise nodded and smiled, her eyes captured by the ice-cream keychain. She summoned up her Keyblade with her right hand, and began to unfix her old Keychain for the new…
So thus concludes chapter 7.
Pete really seems like a douche doesn't he? Never liked the guy. :/
Yes yes, i know, there's not enough Ven in this right? I'M SORRY. I didn't really wanna make Rise following Ven around everywhere...i mean, what kinda story would that be then? Sure, okay, maybe a lot of fluff but if she was real, she'd have a real storyline right? But whatever, this ends the first part of this. 3 worlds are completed, so...next up...acutally, take a guess. If you played BBS, what do you do after the 3rd world? Yeah, i'll leave my hinting at that.
Well, if you guys were waiting for a little Rise and Ven action, be prepared for some in the chapters to come. :)
I'm pretty excited for that...kinda. WHY CAN'T I JUST HAVE SOMEONE ELSE TYPING IT FOR ME AND I CAN JUST SAY IT. My finger's are too lazy. 'nuff said.
Now, R&R? (Yes, very repetitive, but every author loves some feedback/compliments. :D)
