Kingdom Hack
Chapter 9
Valerie was throwing a fit. It wasn't because of being dragged into this stupid chase for this presence, but rather the fact that she was riding on the back of one of the giant birds Ascot had summoned. They were on their way up to the floating island in the sky once they decided to head up there to investigate, but they overlooked some minor details.
"Valerie, take a deep breath and relax; everything's going to be okay." Trish said, trying her best to calm the frantic Valerie.
Valerie had a rather frantic fear of heights ever since she was a young girl. She had only ridden rollercoasters on the occasion of peer pressure, but aside from that, she very seldom liked to look at the ground from more than four stories up. However, Valerie clenched the giant bird for dear life, as they continued to soar into the sky.
Valerie glared at Trish, "Calm down? How can I be calm when were up this damn high?!"
Kite looked over at Valerie and sighed, "What's her problem?"
Chelsie chuckled, "She hates heights. Although that time we went onto Invertigo in Great America; that was priceless."
Before either Valerie could call Chelsie a few choice words, or Kite could ask what either "Invertigo" or "Great America" were, all the birds made another slight lurch as they started to level out toward flying to the fixture in the sky. The mountain was now visible; it towered into the sky in a green crystalline form that looked as if it had just been growing there for ages. Some crystals had simply grown in this spot and had been left undisturbed, while other pieces had broken off and floated in what seemed to be an orbit around the main growth.
"We're almost there." Fuu called out.
She was on the lead bird with Lafarga, Maranda, Ellouise, Ascot, and Umi. The second bird was carrying Hikaru, Chelsie, Valerie, Trish, Kite, and Damion. The giant birds continued to fly closer and closer toward the fixture in the sky. Once they got closer it was then apparent that there was a temple built there, and it was becoming more and more visible. Landing was rough, but manageable. They all looked around a bit, the non native group gaping at the sight before them.
"Come on this way." Lafarga said with a stern tone.
He seemed as if he didn't trust the new group of people who had joined their little group. However everyone just followed him in silence. Ascot waved his hands and his giant companions disappeared. Kite and Maranda stretched a bit while Valerie was relieved to finally plant her feet onto something solid.
"Don't worry, he's like that all the time." Umi whispered.
They continued to walk until there was a tremendous chill in the air. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks.
"What a huge source of negative energy." Ascot said in shock.
Damion instinctively ran forward, he had felt this before and knew that there was trouble brewing. However before he could get very far, Lafarga stopped him. The two were caught engaged in a leer when there was a large tremor which almost caused everyone else to lose their balance. Hikaru pushed Lafarga aside and he seemed to abide by her intuition.
Umi ran forward, "Come on, it's coming from inside."
Everyone came into the room with awe, besides Chelsie, Ellouise, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu.
Damion and Kite were off to the back.
"Do you think it's here?" Kite asked Damion.
"I don't know." He answered quietly.
Suddenly there was another tremor that caused everything to shake harder than before. There was an emanating wind that whipped through the structure. They proceeded further into what appeared to be the doors to the grand chamber. The chamber was that of the shrine of Windam, the Rune god of wind.
Chelsie walked cautiously toward the door; gently reaching out to touch the door's handle. As soon as her fingertips made contact a shockwave of dark energy boomed from it. Chelsie drew back her hand quickly and became quickly alert.
"That's never happened before." Fuu said as her eyes closely examined it.
The door started to move open. The shadows started to spew from the cracks of the door like water. The door slowly cracked open to reveal what was behind. There in the site before them was another dark chaos gate erupting dark shadows. Also standing there was a hooded stranger. The person wore a long black cloak with a negatorie symbol on the back. The person's hands were emitting a black aura. The figure started to laugh; it was a girl.
"So the stage is set and all the actors have assembled. Now let's see how you'll handle this predicament key blade masters."
Everyone just stood there motionless as they stared at this girl. The hooded girl still didn't turn to face the group that had now entered the room. Her gaze was focused on that of the spinning chaos gate.
"Who, are you?" Trish said in puzzlement.
"Yeah and did you know about our key blades?" Ellouise said strongly.
The mysterious girl started to laugh, "You pathetic fools. I should have expected that only the underlings would survive. Heh. To actually think that people would follow their incomprehensible sense of justice. Your blade has slain him and I'm here to avenge his death. With my army, with my negatories I'll vanquish thee."
Everyone had puzzled looks on their faces still. However they could sense that this was not going to end well.
"Why would you harm us if we haven't done anything?" Kite demanded, trying his best to hold his ground.
The mysterious girl didn't immediately respond, but her attitude tensed.
"Because," she waved her causing the doors to slam shut. "You killed my father."
A bunch of bird-like negatories appeared out of nowhere and started charging everyone. The cloaked girl turned around and stared at the girl with her golden colored eyes which glowed from under her hood. It was apparent that her skin was a dark cocoa color, but it seemed to be pale from no exposure to the sun.
The group seemed startled at the summoning of negatories, however without hesitation everyone killed the negatories that charged them. They dissipated with ease into nothing as they hit the floor after receiving slashes from various blades.
"Hey where's Maranda and the others?" Kite asked once he did a head count.
Only Kite, Chelsie, Valerie, Damion, Ellouise, and Trish were inside the room facing this new female threat. The girl seemed to chuckle from under her cloak lowly.
"They must be locked outside." Valerie said in a low voice.
Chelsie and Ellouise were just staring at this girl with disgusted looks on their faces. The hooded girl seemed to be amused by this, while stretching her fingers. She was thinking of another, better way, of disposing of them.
"That doesn't answer our question, who in the hell are you and what do you mean by 'just like the ones who killed your father'?" Trish stammered, taking a defensive stance with her keyblade in both hands.
Though the girl still had her hood on, anyone could sense that she was becoming mad. Her hands were clenched into fists.
"You surly aren't a very right bunch. Although a key blade master was quite lucky enough to beat my father, you won't be so lucky. To clear up who I am, let this jog your memory."
The girl removed her hood. Chelsie was the only one who reacted in shock. The girl had vibrant golden eyes and shoulder length silver hair with some black bangs. She had an evil smirk on her face; a smile that resembled one other.
"She looks just like...no way." Chelsie said shaking her head.
Damion, Kite, Ellouise, and Trish were clueless to what Chelsie was talking about while Valerie had an idea. Valerie looked over at Chelsie sternly, "Do you mean to say that she's..."
The girl started to laugh, which caused everyone to look at her.
"Just because I show you my face you remember. So let it be known that I Armagone, daughter of Ansem, have defeated the remaining keyblade masters."
She waved her hand and a huge bird-like negatorie formed. This one had ling black wings and blood red eyes. It also had a very sharp beak and long razor sharp talons. The mysterious girl, Armagone, chuckled and then disappeared into the shadows.
Chelsie looked up, "She's...gone."
The fact that she disappeared wasn't everyone's primary concern, their main concern was this new threat. The negatorie thrust its beak into the ground, causing the floor to crack. Ellouise ran forward.
"I've got this."
She held her hand up as flames started to form in it, "Crimson flames."
A huge fireball blasted out of her hand and straight at the negatorie. The fireball made contact, but didn't seem to affect it. It shook the flames from its feathers as if it were water. The negatorie screeched and started to pull back its head.
Damion immediately knew what was to come and held out his hand and emitted his wind magic from it.
The negatorie used a flamethrower attack, but the shield created a flame resistant barrier.
"Damn it's fire resistant." Kite said through grinding teeth.
"Here let me try." Chelsie said calling forth her magic and pouring it into her key blade.
She swung the blade causing wind blades to erupt from it. The negatorie quickly moved out of the way and swung its talons at Chelsie. She barely dodged it.
"Damn that thing's fast." Valerie mumbled watching it take another swipe at Chelsie.
"I guess we'll just have to attack it normally." Kite said readying his twin blades.
Both Valerie and Damion charged the negatorie with Kite.
Trish was thinking things over. 'It's not fair, everyone's better at this kind of stuff. For once I just want to be on an equal playing field. Everyone knows magic, well besides Maranda, I'll never learn. I really want to help.' Trish then noticed something, she hadn't noticed before, but now she did. There were little glowing spots on the ground. Obviously no one else had noticed.
'What, is that?' Trish thought, 'it's as if I can feel it.'
Suddenly Trish felt a crisp chill, feeling. 'It is calling out to me, could this be my magic?' Trish focused her concentration on the little glowing specks. 'Please do something to help us.' the ground started to shake.
"What the..." Valerie said looking around.
Suddenly thorny vines wrapped around the negatorie. The thorns caused blood to squirt out of every puncture as it wrapped around the negatorie and started to constrict it. Chelsie did her sword blade move again, this time causing a fatal blow. Before anyone it the negatorie was dead and its corps was leading nourishment to the vines.
"Nice work Trish," Chelsie said calling back he keyblade and turning to face Trish, "Trish?"
Trish started to wobble and then fell to her knees.
"So...very...tired." Trish mumbled before totally clasping.
Kite hoisted her up so she was on his back.
"Alright let's get out of here." Kite said with a cheerful smile.
Both Valerie and Chelsie opened the huge doors. Maranda was passed out on the floor once they opened the doors, and the others were nowhere to be found. She looked as if she was just regaining consciousness, as she looked up at them wearily.
"Unh, what happened? All I remember was the doors slamming in my face… and the smoke surrounding me like a fog then…" Maranda said weakly.
Damion and Kite's expression totally changed from neutral to shock. Valerie ran to help Maranda up. Maranda smiled weakly as she tried her best to stay on her feet.
Ellouise sighed and turned around. Chelsie looked at Maranda with a concerned expression while she was helping Kite keep his grip on the unconscious Trish.
Damion turned around, "No wait Ellouise, don't."
Ellouise had raised her hand and shot a fireball at the dark chaos gate. This caused the gate to dissipate, but it imploded. When it imploded it caused a dark void to start pulling them in.
"Ack, what the hell happened? This didn't happen the last time." Ellouise yelled as she and everyone else grabbed onto a spot on the now stationary vines.
Damion somewhat glared, "That's because it wasn't activated."
The void started to suck them in even further. Suddenly the vines that everyone was holding onto snapped.
"Oh just freaking great!" Chelsie blurted out sarcastically as they got sucked into the void.
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Within the void, it was a swirling black. It was both intense and hypnotizing. Everyone was somewhat disoriented by the negative pulses of energy that was being emitted by the void. Again another pulse was released, but this one caused everyone to become knocked out. Then a gust of wind caused everyone to move to different parts of the void. They ventured into different parts of the void away from each other. Suddenly five exit portholes formed and everyone's unconscious bodies fell through one of them. They were transported to another world, not knowing that it was happening or where they would end up.
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Valerie's eyes slowly started to open.
'Ugh, that was weird, there was a dark void, we entered it and...'
Valerie looked around with a puzzled look on her face.
'Where is everyone, where am I?'
Valerie got up from the ground and brushed herself off. She was on what appeared to be an alley of a giant city. Valerie then started to freak out a little.
'Don't tell me that I'm back in Chagate Town.' Valerie looked about her surroundings a little more carefully.
She then noticed something that wasn't familiar in Chagate, but where they lived. It was a familiar sound, a sound that wasn't there in Chagate town.
Valerie looked up, 'A plane?'
Her eyes carefully observed the sky. What she saw wasn't a plane. It was much too small to be a plane, and much too close to the ground in a city.
'A flying car? What the hell...is this the future?'
The car went over the opening above the alley and went out of site, Valerie noticed something about it. There was a symbol, a logo, on it that was a C inside a C.
'Wait this is....'
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Disclaimer: I do not own Magic Knight Rayearth or the current world, nor do I claim to own Kite, keyblades, or Ansem. However I do own Damion, Maranda, Chelsie, Ellouise, Trish, Valerie, Armagone, and negatories. Please do not use without my permission or post this story anywhere else without my permission.