Disclaimer: Life DEFINATELY not Normal is a story set in an alternate universe of Kingdom Hearts, set immediately after the first season of the previous story Life FAR from Normal and also after the Epilogue of, "The Betrayal of Light", also featuring many characters from Disney and Final Fantasy that haven't made it to Kingdom Hearts games or Manga yet.
Author's Note: Sorry that it's late. Writer's block, been busy with studies, moving furniture, and a lot of things happening for the last almost two weeks. But I'm back!
Now, this episode is...well, it's embarrassing to say, but let's just say that some people have trouble sleeping and others have trouble staying in bed while asleep. These ideas are both from Disney property.
I don't own anything here.
EP 10: Sleeping Goofy.
It was in the middle of the night in Radiant City, and pretty much everyone was sleeping. Well, almost everyone, but at the same time, some people weren't even in bed. Actually, it was just one student what wasn't in bed, but even he didn't know it. In the hallways of the Students courters, Goofy's apartment door opening, and Goofy himself was walking out, night gown, night hat, slippers on, but there was also something else that was a problem on why he was coming out of his room in the middle of the night.
His eyes were closed and he was snoring. Goofy, obviously sleep-walking and unaware of this, held out his arms and began walking through the hallway almost like a hypnotised zombie. Who knows where he was going in his sleep-walking daze.
Meanwhile, Goofy wasn't the only one having sleeping problems. In Ven's room, Ven was thankfully in his bed, but unfortunately for him, he couldn't sleep at all, no matter how he tried. His alarm clock ticked at 1:15 AM in the middle of the night and he was still wide awake, trying to get to sleep. Genie so much went to help him by having shrunk himself into Mary from the Nursery Rhyme and magically made sheep appear, jump over Ven's face while the boy counted and then made them disappear.
But even that wasn't working.
"...1,006...1,007...1,00..." Ven sighed as he counted, before finally giving up and sat up, rubbing his head and grumbled, "I'm not falling asleep, Genie. Isn't there anything else we can try?"
Reverting to his normal size and self, Genie then created a book and read through it with his friend, "Let's see what the Genie's Book of Home Remedies says." flipping through the pages to find the right answer, "Hmm, black goat's bone twice boiled at midnight… Eye of newt, spleen of censor..."
It wasn't until he finally found a seemingly safe one and communtried, "Aha! Most exotic of all forbidden sleep potions. The dark and arcane secret whispered about only among the most powerful sorcerers:" he paused dramatically before concluding, "Warm milk!"
While Ven blinked dumbfoundedly, since everyone pretty much knew that warm milk would help in getting people to sleep if they had trouble, Genie seemed to have forgotten that basic knowlage and instead went out of his way to create a glass of milk on a bunsen burner as it boiled the dairy liquid.
Once it was done, he sticked his pinky finger into it, but no more than a 2.5 seconds later as it was so hot he bright red, his eyes bulge right out, and he starts bouncing all over the room, screaming comically, while Ven shielded himself to avoid in getting squished by Genie's over-dramatic trauma.
Apparently Ven wasn't the only one awake, as Pete came out of his room, but rather in his Pj's, he was wearing full black and was sneaking through into the kitchen, as he approached the fridge and was stealing some of the good food from the cafeteria, when he heard someone behind him and yelped, hiding the food behind his back. He cringed when he saw Goofy walking in.
But when he noticed that Goofy's eyes were still closed and that he was walking like a zombie, Pete realised what this meant and snickered. "Perfect." and went over to grab hold of Goofy before damping the latter's hand in tomato sauce and made a Goofy-hand print on the fridge before washing it and then carried the sleep-walking Goofy back to his room before retreating back to his own room.
Back in Ven's room, Genie lands onto the floor, back to normal and muttered to himself, "Trifle hot." as if his drama-king moment never happened. Turning his hair into a fan to cool off the warm milk a little, he then hands the glass over to Ven who drank it, and sighed, as it seemed to help already.
"Ah, that's better." Ven said, starting to feel drowsy, and layed back down and yawned, "Thanks, Genie." and about ten minutes later, he was out like a light.
Genie was surprised by this, as he cleaned off the empty glass and whispered to himself, "Gee, works better than I thought!" before retreating to the lamp to sleep himself.
Early next morning, around 6:30 AM, Ven was fast asleep peacefully. Until Mushu, who was up bright and early, set the alarm half an hour earlier and it rang loudly, causing the teen to jerk up slightly, tiredly having his vision clear, to see a smiling Mushu on his shoulder.
"All right, rise and shine, Sleeping Beauty! C'mon, hup, hup, hup!" Mushu said, tapping Ven's head before jumping off when Ven curled back into bed, only for the small dragon pulled the blanket off completely, leaving the blond no choice but to get up and he stretched tiredly.
"Get your clothes on, get ready! Got breakfast ready." Mushu said happily, going up to his friend again, and holding up a bowl to the student. "Look, you get porridge! And it's happy to see you!"
When Ven looked at the porridge, and he quirked an eyebrow, still half-asleep. The porridge had two eggs that acted as eyes and a bacon that was curled up into a smile, making a happy face.
Suddenly, Genie, who had turned himself into a beatle, popped out of the porridge, smiling, until Mushu, quite annoyed, used chopsticks to pick up Genie and threw him out, shooing, "Go on, get out of there! You're gonna make people sick!" before stuffing Ven's mouth with the porridge, eggs and bacon.
Let's just hope Ven doesn't get sick this morning.
About two hours later, our heroes had gathered in history class, as their teacher, Miss Vanille had just walked in to adress the class, before saying, "Alright, so everyone is here except for Goofy, yes?"
Just seconds after she said this, Goofy himself barged in, before tripping against a bucket near a mop and slid too fast to the other side of the room, screaming his trademark scream, "YAH-HOO-HOO-HOOEEE!" before crashing right into the wall, and the other students, including Ven, Mickey, Donald, Lea, Isa, and a young fifteen year old girl with raven hair with matching eyes and clothes in almost complete black all cringed, some of the students muttering in sympathy, "Oooh/Ow."
But as usual, Goofy was fine, as he sat next to Ven, shrugging as he apologuised to everyone in the entire room, "Sorry. Slept through my alarm clock."
"That's perfectly alright, Goofy." Vanille giggled. "Now then, let's begin class."
However, just as the class were about to begin, the intercom crackled to life, and a voice could be heard, as Headmaster Ansem spoke through the speakers, "Attention, students; Goofy Goof, I want you in my office now."
Everyone's eyes widened in confusion, as most of them eyed Goofy who looked nervous, before shrugging, muttuering, "I don't know what I did." before standing up and made his way out of the room to head over to the headmaster's office.
"Wonder why Goofy is being called to headmaster Ansem's office?" Mickey asked, more to himself than to the rest of his friends. As far as he knew, Goofy rarely got himself into trouble in being called into the office. It was mainly Pete that got into trouble pretty much all the time, and once probably every three or four weeks, Lea, Reno, Isa and Terra would end up being in trouble as well.
"Maybe he accidently killed the headmaster's goldfish." Lea jokingly grinned.
"Gimme a break, Lea." Isa sighed, "The headmaster doesn't have any fish."
"Something's up, and I wish I knew what it was." Ven thought.
It was morning tea when the students had their break and Ven and the others haven't seen Goofy yet since the near beginning of history class, and were beginning to worry, though they suspected that whatever happened, as Lea had theoried, poor Goofy was in the, as he and Reno would call it, "Xehanort's torture chamber of lectures", for whatever reason. Iago and Mushu had joined them since they were hungry.
Reno then came seconds later and sat down with the others, which propted Lea to ask his cousin, "Yo, Reno. You've seen Goofy this morning?"
"Wha?" Reno held a somewhat surprised expression, "You guys don't know?"
"Know what?" Ven asked, confused, as were the others.
"Apparently Goof' snuck into the kitchen and snatched some of the cafeteria food last night." Reno explained.
The others were shocked, as Mickey cried out, "What!?"
"Yeah. It happened around 1:AM last night, and to prove it, they discovered his hand print on the refridgerator in ketchup." said the redhead.
"Never knew Goofy would do that." Isa thought. "That explains why he slept through his alarm clock this morning."
"I can't believe Goofy would do this." Ven thought, troubled. "I mean, I had trouble sleeping last night, so I guess Goofy must've been hungry and tired."
"I can't believe it. How could he do this?" Donald thought, clearly disappointed in his clumsy friend.
Mickey on the other hand, thought something wasn't right with the story, and frowned. "Wait a minute. Goofy said he always has a good night sleep, and he only remembers dreams the next morning, not when he wakes up. This is the first time this sort of thing has happened."
All of his friends with him at the moment thought about it and realised he was right. Goofy was a good sleeper, not once having trouble actually getting to sleep, because he was, well, goofy.
"Unless Goofy's starting to pick up on Iago's mid-night treasure habits." Mushu supiciously thought, jerking a thumb at the said bird who was eating grapes, but when Mushu mentioned about him, Iago spat out the food in shock, then glared at the miniture dragon.
"What? And have him have trouble sleeping at night?" Iago asked sarcastically, before he imitated Goofy's voice, saying, "Gawrsh, I couldn't sleep last night." then returned to his normal voice, and rolled his eyes, "Please. Cry me a river."
Reno rolled his eyes and sighed, "Come on, be serious. I'm not saying that I believe this myself. I just find it weird on how or why Goofy would've done this. I snuck into the kitchen earlier to talk to him since he's been punished to wash the dishes for two weeks and take Xehanort's lecture classes for a week, and he honestly told me that he didn't even remember doing anything like that. All he remembered was going to bed last night and fell asleep."
He then looked around before adding, "I even looked into his eyes and I saw that he was tellin' the truth."
"Hmm...well, Goofy never lied." Mickey agreed.
"'Course he didn't." Lea pointed out, "No offence, but Goofy's lies stink."
"Then I guess there's only one thing to do." Ven decided, as he stood up with determination. "We'll guard the kitchen tonight and see whether Goofy has anything to do with this."
"Good idea, Ven." Mickey said, happily.
"What!? I'm not gonna do any night-guarding!" Donald exclaimed, holding up his hands in defense.
"Count me in. Besides, Turks do some night-guarding too. Good practice." Reno agreed with a smirk.
"Sign us up. I love staying up in the middle of the night. Besides, tomorrow's Saturday." Lea said happily.
"Don't I get a say in this?" Isa groaned.
"Nope. Beside, you agreed with this already." Lea cheekily said.
"C'mon, Donald. We have to do this." Ven said.
"Yeah, it's the only way." Mickey added.
"No, no, no!" Donald stubbornly said, but his hopes were to be dashed.
At this, while a sad Goofy was washing the dishes with an angry chef watching him like a hawk through the first half of his punishment, Pete took a peak through the door and snickered evilly at himself, before tip-toeing away.
"This is just perfect." Pete whispered to himself, "I can keep stealing the food all to myself, and Sleeping Goof-Brain will always be in trouble." before heading towards the next class.
Though he and Goofy were both unaware that they were about to be dished out.
So when Ven, Lea, Isa, Reno, Mickey, Donald, and even Iago, Mushu and Genie snuck out of their rooms and were just outside the kitchen door, it was just one minute to midnight. Everyone else were asleep, and unfortunately for the semi-student night guards, exhaustion was taking it's toll on them.
"This is exasperating." Donald grumbled, before stretching his arms up and yawned loudly, much to the dismay of the others.
"Don't do that, or we'll..." Mickey began, before he ended up copying his friend's movements and yawned himself, then gazed at him annoyingly, "See?"
Iago, who was unusually craving for a mid-night snack, could only stare through the round window that the kitchen was on the other side of the door, and whined in despair, "So close...and yet so far away." before collasping to the floor and slumped against the wall.
Genie hovered over, as the clock ding-donged, and he then announced, "Midnight and all is well..." before yawning as he trailled off.
"Stop that. You'll make me..." Ven began before he too yawned and sighed in irritation.
Lea was dozing and softly snoring while leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, only to have Isa, who was standing next to him, clap his hands in front of his face, startling the redhead awake as he blinked before realising what happened.
"Wha-what...Oh," Lea tried to supress another yawn, and rubbed his eyes, muttering, "I was only resting my eyes for a little bit."
Reno looked ready to pass out in exhaustion himself, but he was stubborn and told himself to stay awake, so he opted to walk back and forth while keeping his head clear. Mushu did the same, but unlike the redhead, the small dragon looked ready to drop in the next 2.5 seconds, while carrying the key to the kitchen as it was easily found in one the vases only the chefs would use, though some of the students around the times of Radiant Academy had found it, but so far, no one would dare to enter...until last night.
As Mushu passed him, Iago noticed the key and exclaimed, "Hey!" before leaped over and stood in front of the dragon, and casually said, "Shift's over, dragon. Gimme the key." while secretly deciding to sneak in to have something to eat himself.
But Mushu saw through him, now alarmingly awake, and said, "Nuh-uh, no way! Forget it, polly!" and then ran off.
"Hey!" Iago cried out, angrily saying, "Union rules, godzilla!" dashing after his rival, leaving behind a couple of feathers as he went, and the two chased each other while the teens witnessed this in annoyance and all sighed at the fact that the two back from the dead acted more like small very misbehaved children.
The two then accidently push Genie's turban that was he was wearing over his eyes, causing Genie, who had also dozed off, to snap awake and panic, though was still half-asleep and couldn't see, as he cried out, "Where is he? Unhand the cafeteria food!"
Ven went over and pulled the turban off his friend's face, while saying tiredly, as he was very close in falling asleep. First last night he had trouble getting to sleep, now he was having trouble trying not to sleep. He couldn't win. "Nobody's here, Genie. But we have to...to...stay awake."
As Iago and Mushu were fighting over the key, a sound of bongo drums caused them to stop and they and the others looked to see that Genie has turned into beatniks and starts playing the bongo drums, while two duplicates of himself are listening and snapping their fingers with the beat.
"Genie is one cool cat." said the first duplicate.
"Man, that swings!" said the other.
"Genie! Stop that!" Reno cried out, snatching the sunglasses from Genie, causing the other two genies to disappear, and Genie becomes sheepish at the comedy moment. The redhead sighed, "Seriously, man. You'll wake the entire academy and we'll end up in trouble."
Returning to normal, Genie agreed, "Right! We mustn't wake them from their soothing slumber in their big, soft, comfy beds." though as he was saying this, tiredness finally overcame him and the others who all slowly slid to the ground, and all dozed off, too tired to stay awake any further.
In the meantime, Goofy was in bed himself, snoring away. But once again, the power of sleep-walking overcame his body, as he unknowingly climbed out of bed while he continued to sleep, before heading towards his door and then walked out, once again walking through the hallway, arms stretched out ahead of him as he walked like a zombie.
On the other hand, Pete, who once again was in his nasty ways, snuck out of his room, once again dressed in black and began to sneak right to the kitchen in a plot to steal while framing the sleep-walking Goofy for the rest of the latter's student days.
"This is a lot easier than I thought." Pete said to himself, snickering away.
Back to Ven and the others, they were sleeping and snoring away, with Reno, Lea, Mickey and Donald snoring the loudest. However, Iago was still away, and once he knew that the others were asleep enough not to wake up so easily, he tip-toed towards the sleeping Mushu for the kitchen keys.
"~Hush little Mushu, don't say a word. Iago's gonna be a happy...fed bird!" Iago grunted at the last two words greedly as he took hold of the keys, only for the keys to be snatched away by Reno who apparently was awake himself and hid the keys in his pockets.
"Nice try." The redhead muttered tiredly, stretching a bit as his back was starting to kill him from being such an awkward and uncomfortable position.
In annoyed defeat, Iago slumped his shouldered childishly and grumbled while folding his wings, "Nuts."
Mickey then yawned, waking himself up, muttering tiredly, "Gosh, it's hard to keep my eyes open." as the others were trying to wake up and keep themselves awake.
"Tell us about it!" said Genie as two miniture genies were keeping his eye-lids shut.
"You're tellin' me." Lea yawned, "I'm losin' to sleep." as he rubbed his eyes once again.
Ven suddenly snapped away and told his friends, "No, we have a job to do. We gotta figure out if Goofy really is guilty in stealing the food or not."
"Think it'll be easier than that, 'cuz someone's coming." Isa pointed out, looking at the darkness of the hallway, causing the others to look, as coming from the halls that leads to their dorms, the group could make out a figure coming towards them.
"Hide, quick!" Reno whispered, which he and the others did so by hiding behind around the corner, before peaking carefully without being seen. As the group kept their eye on the figure, they quickly realised it wasn't Goofy who was approaching the kitchen door, but an unfortunately familiar tubby figure, though in black clothes, he blended in the night almost easily, and he was searching the vase for something while snickering away.
"Pete!?" The group whispered, before hiding again and all groaned.
"Ah, not Pete again. Doesn't that guy ever learn his lesson?" Lea whispered while doing his best to keep his voice down.
"Nope." Mickey and Donald both whispered in soft unison.
"But the question is, how is Goofy involved with this?" Ven whispered, confused.
"I think we're about to find out." Mushu mumbled, having peaked again, making the others peak again themselves, to find that Pete was now looking annoyed as he seemed to not being able to find something he was looking for. He then looked to see someone coming and to his delight and the others surprise, it was Goofy, who was approaching towards Pete.
But when Ven and his friends squinted their eyes, they blinked in dumbfoundedment, confusion and realisation, as Goofy's eyes were still closed and he was snoring, but walking at the same time.
"It's Goofy." Mickey whispered.
"What is he doing?" Mushu asked.
Iago was the first to realise as it hit him like a brick and he groaned, "Ugh, great. We've been friends with a guy who has problems with Sleep-Walking."
Indeed, Goofy was sleep-walking. Even worse, Pete had been waiting for him as the latter said, "All I need to do now is find the key and steal as many food as I like and have Goof-Master all the blame."
"That explains why we had all the crappy cafeteria food all day." Reno softly groaned, as he and everyone else had to be stuck with disgusting slop for food all day. Ven had been lucky that Mushu went out of his way to make porridge with eggs and bacon.
"We have to stop him and clear Goofy's name." Ven declared and the others all noded in firm agreement.
So the group got ready to strike. Pete was still looking for the keys while having an eye on Goofy who by now was doing his alphabet in his sleep.
Literally.
"Ooooh! Where is that key?" Pete grumbled in frustraion.
"Lookin' for somethin'?" A cocky but very unimpressed voice spoke, startling Pete who looked and was shocked to see the key he was looking for was now held in Reno's hand, as the redhead glared at him coldly. Ven, Lea, Isa, Mickey, Donald, Mushu, Genie and Iago were not gathering around Pete, with Goofy still sleep-walking, or in this case now, sleep-talking.
"You used Goofy in his sleep to take advantage in stealing the food, didn't ya?" Mickey asked angrily.
"This is getting way beyond the joke, man." Lea added, with Isa nodding in agreement.
"You're lucky that we haven't decided to call the Turks to arrest you." Ven added, glaring right into the larger student's eyes, "But if you're not careful, you'll end up being kicked out of the academy."
Pete babbled and tried to explain, only to have Genie magically tie him up in rope, and realising that he was once again in defeat, grumbled, "Aw, nuts."
"Now that settled, let's get Goofy back to bed. In the morning, we'll have him checked up to see what's causin' him to sleep-walk." Mickey surmised as he gently took hold of his sleeping friend's hand and guided him back to the dorms.
"...G...H...I...J...K..." Goofy continued to sleep-talk his alphabet as Mickey led him back to his room. The others chuckled at this and shook their heads.
"That's our Goofy." Ven smiled.
The next day, while Ven and the others had Pete confess that he used Goofy to steal the food and once again the nasty student was put into Xehanort's lecture classes and taking over Goofy's dish washing punishments, Ven and the others, who were advised not to stay up in the middle of the night again, had taken Goofy to Dr. Shalua to check him up on why he was sleep walking.
"Hmm..." Shalua began, then nodded and told the students, "Well, due to high-lights around this time of year due to the upcoming festival, it triggers sleep-walking within Goofy. But don't worry, he'll be just fine as long as he stays in his room. This will only happen until the festival is over."
"That's good to hear." Ven smiled.
"Gawrsh, fellas. I didn't even know that I was sleep-walkin'." Goofy sighed.
Mickey smiled at his best friend and patted his knee comfortly, "Aw, cheer up, Goofy. At least we got your name cleared."
"I wish I could get my hands on that Pete!" Aqua, who along with Terra and the rest of their friends, growled.
"I wouldn't be so hard on him." Genie grinned, causing the others to look at him as he explained, "He put into motion to never do that sort of thing again and even went to dig further in his punishment by cleaning up the men's rooms."
The others rised eyebrows skeptically at their blue friend's claims, and Terra asked, "He volunteered to do this?"
Suddenly turned sheepish, Genie admitted, "Well...not exactly." while twingling his fingers.
Pete in question was having problems as he was accidently causing more mess than actually cleaning up the men's rooms by causing one of them to flood and he had to cling onto the pipe-drains to keep his head up, and he was furious.
"You, your friends and that Genie will pay for this, Mickey Mouse!" Pete growled, though he knew that Mickey wouldn't hear him.
Yep, he was getting another torture of punishment all right.
To be Continued...
A/N: Sorry that it's late, as I said from above. I'm not sure if you know already, but Square Enix is shutting down Kingdom Hearts X(Chi) PC game in September this year, but at the same time, concluding the game's story(both Agrabah and main).
Thanks so much for the reviews and please do continue them. I will see you in the next chapter as soon as possible.