Author's note: Here's the final part of Mickey's current journey and fair warning, I think this one will end up being shorter than the previous chapters, since I suck at coming up with ideas and ect.
I'll tell you who's next in the ending note once this chapter's done.
Enjoy reading and remember, I only own Diminias in this story. Everything else here I don't own belong to Toei, DreamWorks, CLAMP, Disney, Nintendo, 20th Century Fox and Square Enix.
Let's go as the final chapter of our favorite mouse begins.
Chapter Seven: The Courage of a Mouse part three/final.
Mickey's eyes widened as he saw who was standing next to him in an glittering ghostly image, the beautiful human woman who told him and his friend and fellow warriors to find the crystals, defeat Chaos and Bahamut and save the world.
"Oh my gosh! Cosmos!" he exclaimed, surprised to see the Goddess of Light and Harmony close to him, even if this was only an image of the goddess herself.
Cosmos nodded, before saying, "I felt the fear in Sakura's heart. She is in pain. Pete has taken hold of her."
Crushed by these words, Mickey looked away in guilt, muttering, "It's all my fault."
"Yes." Cosmos nodded, but wasn't angry. "Because you were overconfident of your powers."
"Cosmos," Mickey began, turning towards the beautiful goddess, "I wanna save Sakura. Do ya know a way that she can be rescued?"
The woman nodded, and answered, "You must defeat Pete."
If Mickey was expecting an answer, this wasn't what he had in mind. "Gee, he's smarter than I am..." he admitted, before he realised something, and exclaimed, "Wait! The Crystal! I can save Sakura if I can get my Crystal! It has the power to save the world, right? Then I won't have to fight anybody! Please, just tell me where I should go find the crystal!"
"Avoiding conflict is certainly a choice. Few would say it is wrong. But is that truly what is in your heart?" Cosmos replied and questioned.
"What's in my heart...?" asked the young mouse.
"The crystal lights the way to what you seek. It is yours if you look inside your heart and follow what is most important to you." Cosmos explained. She then looked at Mickey in saddness and said, "I'm afraid that is all I can tell you."
With that, the Goddess vanishes and the light that imaged her disappeared, and Mickey was alone again...well, not completely alone.
"Such a shame." another voice spoke behind him.
Mickey turned around and saw a pirate, about in his forties, his clothes black and navy blue, with a feathered hat and dirty-blonde hair and scarrgly beard, but while looked dangerous seemed safe for now, but Mickey knew he couldn't let his guard down. He somehow knew that this was Captain Barbossa.
"One of Bahamut's goons, huh?" Mickey asked, glaring at the warrior of Chaos.
"Sakura was the girl's name?" Barbossa questioned, before stating wisely, "Curses are the worst thing anyone would have. Your friend is placed under a curse by your own nemise. Unless he is defeated, Sakura will only live to fight for him."
Despite being shocked at the news, Mickey remained supicious, as he asked, "And you're telling this because...?"
The pirate looked at him and explained, "When at last her strength fails her, she will fall to some faceless foe. You cannot defeat Pete. You'd show wisdom in choosing to avoid him. Why do you hesitate? You do not trust what your mind knows to be true?"
Mickey was speechless. For a warrior of chaos, the pirate was speaking words Cosmos said to him earlier, which, Mickey had to admit, was very strange considering how both of them were enemies. Then again, he learned that not every bad guy are evil in the heart, but were simply following orders until the time was right for them to look into the right path.
Barbossa then added, "If not to reason, then listen to your heart."
With that, the Pirate teleported away, leaving Mickey confused. Then he realised that, even if he liked it or not, Cosmos and Barbossa were both right. He had to listen to what he wanted to do, and be brave. It wasn't his mind that got him to rescue others in the past and defeat tough enemies before, but his heart, which pounded like a proud lion, despite his body thinking otherwise, but the body listened to him, and he listened to his heart.
Nodding, Mickey said to himself with determination, "I know what I gotta do!" slapping his balled fist into his opened palm, before marching off on a serious rescue mission. Sakura was his friend and he wasn't going to fail her again.
In the area that resembled to the Castle of illusions, Pete stood over the unconscious form of Sakura who just layed on the floor, not waking up yet, and he was getting seriously annoyed with the girl's form.
"D'ooooh! Unconscious already?" Pete grumbled, "I knew this brat would be a waste of time!"
Suddenly he heard a weird sound of a mixture of brooms and marching? He turned and blinked in confusion and to his shock, enchanted brooms marched up to him, looking angry despite being smaller than him. They surrounded him and with ease, they lifted him up in the air, despite his protests, which were, "What? Hey, let go! Let go! Nonono! Let go! Hey, easy! Ow!"
"Thanks, fellas! A real big help!" a familiar voice spoke up.
Blinking, Pete looked and to his horror, Mickey and a couple of enchanted brooms had managed to Sakura's unconscious form away and now the girl was resting against a wall far away from Pete who then knocks away the rest of the brooms, but landed on the ground hard, before he stood up and glared at his enemy.
"YOU!?" Pete growled at Mickey who now stands protectively in front of Sakura, and said, "I won't let you hurt any more of my friends!"
Pete wasn't impressed. "Yeah, yeah. Enjoy your small victory while you can. 'Cause when I'm through with ya, nobody will ever KNOW you were here!"
"I was foolish not to listen to my heart." Mickey stated, "Pete, I'll protect everyone as best as I can! That's what's important to me! Don't get me wrong-I still won't fight against anyone I can't beat. But I've decided in my heart to fight. That's why I'm going to beat you!"
"Gimme a break! You won't beat me!" Pete declared, before he teleported away.
[Rowdy Rumble-Kingdom Hearts 2]Mickey quickly looked around, before noticing Pete approaching him from the stairs from the castle of illusion, but the mouse then quickly leaped into the air and bounced onto the startled Pete's head before jumping out of the way from Pete's smack attack. The two glared at each other, before continuing their fight.
"Get out of my way!" Pete exclaimed, but was smacked in the face by a box Mickey magically created in his magician form, before countering back by grabbing him, but Mickey escaped and created a snow sledar and expected Pete to do the same, which was right and the comically raced each other all over the area, neither willing to lose the match and continued on fighting.
Pete's sledar then broke, causing him to jump onto Mickey's and the two continued fighting, first with Mickey lifting him up, then the two facing a dance off, then Mickey dressing up as Santa Claus and whipping at Pete who was dressed as a reindeer, then Mickey tied Pete up and drilled him with a dentest tool, before wrestling again, then Mickey leaped out of the way as Pete ran over the edge of the sledar, before the progress were repeated and Mickey just jumped off, before looking around incase his enemy attacked again.
Then he thought of another idea and climbed up onto a balcony, and Mickey waited as Pete followed him and growled. [Pause Rowdy Rumble] Just as Pete was about to say something, Mickey smiled and pulled out a camera, saying, "Hold it, I'll take your picture."
Unexpecting this, though seemed delighted, Pete smiled, "Oh...okay." then stood proudly, before Mickey instructed, "Take a step back." which Pete did, but Mickey added, "Little further." which Pete did, but unexpectly, a boxing glove came out of the lenses and punched Pete off the balcony comically as he fell.
"Say 'Going down'!" Mickey called as he took a picture of Pete's stupid crash-landing form.
[Resume Rowdy Rumble]Mickey then leaped down and as Pete got up, the two of them continued on their battle, with comical results, with Mickey ending up winning so far since he was determinded to save Sakura and find his crystal, and Pete ending up losing because, despite that size difference, he underestimated his short enemy who was just as smart as he was.
Finally, Mickey comes up with an idea that will defeat his arch enemy once and for all, as he ties a rope around a tree, making the famous rope trap, and as he dodged out of the way, Pete fell for it, as his foot got caught by it and he was shot up right into the air, yelling comically.
"Goin' up!" Mickey laughed as he waved a good bye to his enemy.
Pete on the other hand, looked down and yelled down, "You'll pay for this, Mickey Mouse!" before he disappeared into the sky(Team Rocket style).[End of Rowdy Rumble]
Once he knew that Pete's dealt with for now, Mickey immediately rushed back to Sakura's unconscious form to see if she was alright. "Sakura! Are you alright?"
"She's merely asleep." Barbossa says as he approached the two warriors of Cosmos, adding, "Her powers have not yet fully awakened and has drained her mental energy, but is still alive."
Mickey glared at the pirate once he saw him coming and said, "You again...you're not gonna go anywhere near Sakura, pal!"
But Barbossa just stood there, smiling, "I admire your resolve. A heart such as yours has no right to become a Pirate. You should protect her."
"What?" Mickey asked, puzzled, but still keeping his guard up.
"She fears to be magical. You must be her shield, her pillar of support." says Barbossa.
Mickey crossed his arms and pointed out, "I don't need a Pirate to tell me something I already know!"
The Pirate captain shrugged, "I suppose not. You know the path that lies before you. And the crystal lights the way to that which you seek."
As if magically drawn from the pirates words, in front of Mickey, a light shined before dimming and glittering an object that resembled to his own head, which including the mouse ears, and it held a glass look. Mickey suddenly realised what it was and his eyes widened in disbelief. "This is the crystal..."
He held out his hands underneath the glittering crystal, letting it absorb into his body, his search for his own crystal having come to an end, but he knew that the journey was far from over. Once this was done, he turned to look at Barbossa again, but to his surprise and confusion, the pirate was gone. Mickey scratched his head in confusion, wondering if Barbossa was up to something or not.
"Hmm, strange warrior of Chaos." Mickey thought to himself. He expected that all warriors of Chaos to be cruel, just like Chaos and Bahamut.
Just then, he heard a soft groan and when Mickey looked, to his relief, Sakura was waking up, and she seemed tired and puzzled.
"Where are we...?" she asked tiredly, as Mickey approached her and smiled softly.
"Sakura...don't worry, everything is alright. I'll be right here, so you can rest." Mickey said and advised.
Relieved and sleepy, Sakura dozed off into a peaceful slumber, as Mickey sat down next to his friend, whispering, "Because I'm your friend, and I'll protect you." and as long as he lived, he will continue to protect her. That he promised himself this. He also promised himself not to mention anything about what happened to her so that she wouldn't feel scared anymore.
With this resolve, Mickey's crystal quest was over, but the real journey lies ahead of him and his other companions and now he will travel to help Sakura find her own crystal.
Meanwhile, Eli walked by himself before witnessing Pete crash landing comically into the ground, making a ditch and was half-conscious, seeing stars circle around his head. Eli shook his own head in disappointment at the pathetic sight.
"I knew I shouldn't have trusted that big lump of fool. What made Bahamut chose him as his warrior among us is beyond me." He thought to himself. "No matter. Next time, I'll handle her myself."
The light and height has banished the darkness and misjudgement,
and a momentary calm has returned to the world.
The crystal shines like the light of dawn
and softly envelops the pair's peaceful slumber.
Mickey's story is now over! Next time, we cross travels with Cardcaptor Sakura, and the two will meet up with another Warrior of Cosmos who just gained his own Crystal himself.
Okay, I underestimated myself and this chapter is probably a bit longer than the last one, but no matter.
Look out for Sakura's journey in the next chapter!
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