Well, I finally got this chapter done. This one has a lot of OC's, including two characters based off of me and my gf. If you can guess who they are you get a cookie. YAY!!! And some of you might want to kill me for what I do with those OC's. BTW, I am too lazy and tired to describe the keyblades that are from KH. If you forget what Oathkeeper looks like, you aren't a true fan. The OC's are all mine, unless somebody wants to fight me for them. Kingdom Hearts is not mine, despite my best efforts. On with the show… and Remember that the other world versions of the characters had totally different circumstances when it came to relationships. A lot more on that will be revealed next chapter.
Chapter Ten: The Ties that Bind
Through the portal lay what appeared to be a medium sized hangar, made of a grayish white stone that gave the place the sense of a castle. In the middle of the hangar lay what appeared to be a ship made out of multicolored blocks. A couple of smaller ships made of the same material lay around it.
"Looks like something that Sora would make with a bunch of Legos" Kairi dryly remarked, causing Sora to shoot her an et tu, Brute look. Riku, who would usually at least chuckle at the sarcasm of her remarks, didn't say a word. His head was still spinning from the fact that he, or at least a version of him from another world, had a son.
"Well, he kind of did. Another Sora, born on the Destiny Islands, designed and built this ship. It is made out of gummi blocks, the stuff that usually forms the barrier between the worlds." Virgil said, appearing behind them.
"Really? What happened to the other me? I bet he's some sort of celebrity or hero on that world, right?" Sora asked, grinning at the thought.
"He… was a hero. Him, and my… father. They died trying to retake Hollow Bastion, along with the Organization XIII, which was made up of the otherworld versions of you guys, and many others." Virgil responded, his eyes clouding with a bitter sorrow that spoke volumes about how disturbing it must be to meet a younger version of your father from another world on the world where your father died.
"I'm so sorry." Demyx said, and then he gave Virgil a hug.
"Thanks… " Virgil said, blushing.
"Um, hello, isn't this place kind of under attack? Shouldn't we be on the ship right no w, heading towards these Islands of yours?" said Axel, slightly jealous. His words were punctuated by a not so far off explosion.
"Crap… you right. Ok, the boarding ramp is on the right side of the ship." Virgil said, blushing to an even deeper scarlet in embarrassment.
They ran to the boarding ramp and, hearing another explosion in the distance, dived into the ship. Many of them managed to collide in midair, and a tangled mess of humanity lay on the floor of the ship.
"Demyx, I swear to God, if you do not stop drooling on me right now, your ass is dead." Larxene growled her temper already shorter than a dwarf with its knees chopped off from the extreme randomness of the events if today.
"Larxene, that isn't me. I'm stuck over here under Xemnas and Vexen." Demyx quickly said, afraid for his life. His voice was muffled by Xemnas's head, but Larxene still understood what he meant.
"Then who the hell is it… MARLUXIA!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!!" Larxene screamed, pissed as hell.
"Sowwy. Dat ain't drool. Dats my blood. I dink I haf a broken nose." Marluxia said in a voice suggested that he does indeed have a broken nose. Virgil muttered an incantation, and he was healed.
"So you can do magic too?" Xion asked, intrigued.
"How bout we get untangled and get the hell out of here before we die a horrible death in an exploding ball of flaming gummiship?" Xigbar asked as another explosion, this one sounding closer, rocked the ship.
"Ok. Sora, Xigbar, Larxene, Xaldin, and Axel, you take gunnery positions. They are up that corridor to the right. Aim using the reticule and fire with the trigger. There are headsets on the chairs. Just put them on and talk to get the bridge. Saíx, Xemnas, Lexaeus, Goofy, Donald, and … Riku, take those weapons in that locker by the gunnery corridor and be ready to defend against boarders." Virgil took charge, wiping the tears from his eyes. Crying could wait for later. He walked to the cockpit, the others following him.
"Luxord and Zexion, I want you two to check the calculations that the navi computer is doing for the trip. The numbers should come out to 9. If it doesn't, examine the equations and figure out why. Those are those seats to the right. Demyx, you go and monitor the temperature of the engine. If it gets into the red, let me know. Sit in the seat to the left there. Kairi, you take communications. That's the upper right chair. Marluxia, you get life support. Upper Left. Anything blinks red, tell me. Vexen, you get the shield station, lower left. Same thing for the red. I'll pilot." Virgil said, strapping himself in to the pilots chair and putting on a headset.
"How did you get here in the first place if the ship requires such a large crew? Where there more people with you?" Kairi asked, her interest piqued.
"There are others. Right now, they're fighting a rear guard action against the Heartless. I'll signal them once we have taken off so they know to get the fuck out of here." Virgil said, a hint of worry sneaking into his voice, despite his best attempts to keep it locked within. His girlfriend, Sam, his sister, Stella, and his friends were all there. If they died here, fighting to protect these people, he would never forgive himself, or his passengers.
Kairi, sensing the emotional tension within Virgil, wisely chose to say nothing in response.
"Ok, get ready for lift off in three… two… one… and… here we go." Virgil said as the ship took flight, shooting out into the open air of Hollow Bastion. All except for Vergil got their first view of the outside of Hollow Bastion. Virgil clicked a button on his headset with his hand.
"Gabriel, we are away. Retreat as soon as possible. Get the hell out of there."
Hollow Bastion was quite an oddly beautiful world on the outside. It was a rocky world, with crags and caves dotting the landscape. There was a great amount of crystal jutting out from the sides of cliffs and the ground. The sky was both a steely gray and an orange that words cannot quite do justice to. However their view of the beautiful sight was cut short by the ship being impacted by what appeared to be small beams of electric energy. Call them lasers.
"Those would be Heartless ships firing on us. Gunners, fire on them." Virgil ordered.
"Copy, will do." Responded Sora over the headset. Ruby and emerald bolts of light shot from the turrets towards the Heartless craft, blowing through them like a pen wielded by a bored student through a piece of schoolwork.
"Damn, Xigbar. Nice shot." Axel said, amazed by one of the shots that the eye patched "pirate" had fired.
"What do you expect? After all, I am an expert marksman." Xigbar replied, grinning a cold grin that if the Heartless saw would probably cause them to wet there nonexistent pants in fright.
"Ok… there they are, taking off from the planet now. Good. Ok, were coming up on the wormhole. Gunners, shoot down any asteroids coming our way. They hold power and shield crystals that instantly replenish our shield strength and power levels." Virgil said, wiping the sweat from his brow as he breathed a sigh of relief. Hopefully, there were no injuries. Hopefully
. The ship dived into the wormhole, and the space around the, turned purple. Within a few seconds, asteroids began appearing on the scopes.
"Look at those things explode. Damn, this is fun." Xaldin commented, enjoying himself.
"Virgil, that's the last of them. Whatever button or something you're going to push next to do whatever this ship will do to get us where we are going, you can now do it without us getting our asses blown off by a piece of rock." Sora said.
And suddenly they were clear of the rocks and the wormhole. Before them lay a world covered in water and island chains. The ship headed towards one of the archipelagos near the equator. After about five minutes, they had landed.
They disembarked from the ship and found themselves on an island not unlike their own. It was a sunny, tropical place, with palm trees and small cottages all over the place. The sand was the color of the sand that would be found on the island of Bermuda on Earth, a sort of pinkish gold that is pleasing to the eye, masculine and feminine at the same time.
The water was a shocking green-blue that was clear as glass. The light from the sun, which was a slightly different color then they were used being a few more shades towards yellow than the Earth's, lit up the waves with a sparkling fire.
In front of them stood a rather large coliseum like structure, open to the air and made out of stone the color of the sand on which they now stood.
"Come, this way, into the Amphitheatre." Virgil said, quickly walking into the entrance to the structure. They passed through a titanic marble arch inscribed with an inscription that Kairi couldn't quite make out.
Then, they were in the center of the amphitheatre. A semicircle of short, long stones faced them, 31 in all. 18 of these stones contained a weapon on top of them.
The crunch of boots in the sand sounded behind them. They turned around, and before them stood a group of eight people, armed with some of the strangest weapons any of them have ever seen.
"These would be my friends." Virgil said, smiling.
A girl of medium height with tanned skin, shoulder length brown hair, and dark blue eyes stepped forward. She wore a dark cloak similar in appearance to Virgil's. In her hand she held a giant key. The hilt of the key was black and the guard was dark green, while the blade of it was a lighter, forest green. Darker green wiring twisted up the blade, almost like veins. The occasional thorn jutted out from the wiring. The teeth of the key were blood red and ivory and shaped like rose petals. From the handle dangled a stylized Tudor rose on a chain. It was called Wild Rose.
"My name is Sam." She said in a cheerful voice. She walked up to Vergil and wrapped her arm around him, pulling him close enough to kiss him.
When they were done, Sora inquired," So, tell us, what other world versions of us are your parents? How about all of you tell us when you introduce yourselves, to make things go a bit faster?"
Virgil, blushing from the kiss, quickly turned pale and said,"Are you sure you want to know? Are you sure it won't tear what some of you already have apart?"
"Aye, we are sure." Kairi said.
"As you wish. I am the son of this world's Riku… and Kairi." Virgil said, a nervous expression on his face.
"And I am the daughter of this worlds Sora and Naminé." Sam said as she grinned a gentle grin.
There was the sound of three bodies dropping to the sand as Riku, Sora, and Kairi fainted. A couple of seconds later, Kairi was the first to come to, though Sora and Riku woke up a few seconds after her.
"What the hell!! Me and Naminé are sisters!! So you two would be first cousins!!! So that is just plain disgusting!!" Kairi shouted, shocked.
"Me and Kairi!!! What the hell!!! No way would I ever be with her!!! She is completely insane and scares the crap out of me!! Like the time she snuck into my house to find out if I die my hair, then decided it would be funny to draw a Hitler mustache on my face! I and that crazy bitch will always remain friends, nothing more!! Actually, why am I even her friend!!!! SHE'S SCARY!!!" Riku screamed a horrified expression on his face.
At that, Kairi turned and ran, crying. Sora looked at her and wanted to go after her, but decided against it for some reason.
Sora was quiet for a moment,and then walked up to one of the pedestals in the center of the circle as everybody watched him. He grabbed the weapon on it.
"That would be Oathkeeper, one of the keyblades. That was actually the one meant for you in the first place…"Virgil said in a quiet, scared voice.
"So this is a keyblade. Feels nice in my hand." Sora commented, and then grinned a cruel grin that struck fear into the hearts of those that knew him. The last time Sora had had that grin on his face was when Kairi had gotten ambushed and met Riku, and so everybody knows how this will probably turn out.
"Naminé with me? Well, she is a very nice person, but I cannot see that happening. If that happened, my brother or Zexy here would have killed me. And I would guess that Naminé isn't Kairi's sister in this world. Am I right?" He said as he slowly walked towards Riku.
Virgil, scared stiff, nodded.
Suddenly, Sora started sprinting. Riku tried to run away, but a couple of people stuck their feet out and he went flying through the air, coming to a skidding halt on the sand. Sora ran to him and picked him up from the sand by the neck of his shirt, the keyblade at his throat.
"If you ever, ever do that to Kairi again, I swear that I will kill you. Got that? I don't care that you're my best friend; Kairi means more to me than anything. I would give my life for her." Sora said in a very cold, very angry voice. He threw Riku to the ground and ran after Kairi.
"What the hell just happened?" said Xigbar, his face a priceless combination of confusion, fear of Sora, and pity for Riku.
"Well, this will be a problem. We can't finish introductions without Sora and Kairi. They are too important in the scheme of things to be without this vital knowledge." said a boy with purple hair and glasses on over his brown eyes that gleamed with intelligence. In his hand was another keyblade, this one with a red hilt and golden guard. The blade itself was gold as well, and the teeth were made seemingly out of a book. Above the teeth, the blade was topped by what appeared to be crystallized flame, almost as a candle. The charm attached to this key was a miniature book. The keyblade was known as Candlelight. His parents were Zexion and Xion.
"What about their emotions? I mean, how would you feel if something similar to this had happened to you, Chaucer? Hell, I'm beginning to think you're a Nobody." A girl with short cut blonde hair that was streaked with dashes of brown said. Her warm brown eyes and soft smile belied an inner resolve that could melt ice. On her hip she wore the Sleeping Lion keyblade. Her father was Leon, her mother was Lightning.
"Oh my sweet zombie Jesus, this is awkward as hell. Knowing them, there probably getting it on somewhere. Damn it, Virgil, why didn't you just say no? Now we have to send somebody after them who will be scarred for life. Great." said a girl with spiky blonde hair and two differently colored eyes, one a chocolate brown, one a piercing blue. Slung across her back was the Metal Chocobo keyblade. She was Aerith and Cloud's daughter.
"Let them have their fun. We can wait, Clair." Said a girl with shoulder length black hair and cerulean eyes. In her hand she held a keyblade with a silver guard and hilt. The blade of the key was almost an actual blade, and the key was formed by the Japanese character for star, hoshi. The keychain was a stylized starburst attached to a silver chain. The keyblade was called Rigel. She was Virgil's sister, the daughter of Riku and Kairi.
"Stella's right. We bought ourselves some time with that raid on Hollow Bastion, so let them have their time in the sand. After this, they might never get that chance again." Said a man with shoulder length dark hair and sky blue eyes. One of his keyblades was the Wind Waker, which was an all white slender keyblade with teeth made out of musical notes and the keychain being a stylized crown. The other one was the Ocean Wave, which had a blue hilt, a green guard and blade which led to teeth in the shape of a wave. The keychain for this one was a small sandal. He was Sora and Naminé's son.
"Wait, Gabriel, here they come now" said a boy with really messy brown hair and brown eyes. On his back he wore the keyblade Save the Queen, which had a fleur de lis for teeth, a silver blade that was basically a sword, and a hilt that was silver with a black guard. The keychain was a miniature throwing knife. He was the son of Locke and Celes.
"SHHH, you guys. Lets get all quiet and just stare at them until they blush, then we start laughing at them. That includes you too, Raine, so shut up." said a girl with brown eyes and shoulder length brown hair. Her two key blades were Comedy and Tragedy. Comedy was gold and white, with little difference from the Kingdom Key until the teeth, which were formed from ticket stubs from comedic plays. The keychain was the comedy drama mask. Tragedy was a silver and black pallet swap, with the teeth made out of tragedy ticket stubs and the tragedy mask forming the keychain. She was the daughter of Terra and Edgar.
"Fine, Maske, I'm shutting up." Said Raine, blushing.
Sora and Kairi approached the group. Sora had his arm wrapped around Kairi, who was bleary eyed and looked like she wanted to wrap her hands around something and throttle it. Their clothes didn't look to be in a state of disarray, much to the disappointment of everybody except Riku, who was to unconscious to care.
"Kay, now that we are all here, Xion, go wake up Riku, Let us begin, shall we?" said Virgil, smiling.
Yah, this chapter was weird. Don't judge me. I was away for four days with my two friends who are at best considered semi sane, got food poisoning, and got yelled at by a protester who claimed Scientologists ran the White House. My brain is fried. Anyway, please review. I have a feeling that many of you are going to be pissed about my antics with Naminé and relationships, so… um… heres a plate of cookies while I cleverly escape!! Till next chapter!!! Review Please!! Oh, and Lightning is the one from FFXIII, Locke, Celes, Edgar, and Terra are from FFVI, and everybody else I just made up.