Kingdom Hearts 2: Vanessa's adventure
Chapter 11: Mother and third time lucky?
At that moment, I knew that you could not escape the hands of death. He was getting ready to do whatever to me, maybe slaughter me in front of my friends and deep inside I said farewell and goodbye to everyone who I loved, knowing that I may never see them again…
Shockingly, the grip loosened and he let go. I fell to the ground on my knees and breathed in and out, taking some valuable oxygen. As I panted with my hands on the cold snow I felt tears falling down my cheeks.
"I am giving you another chance in life. Consider yourself lucky." The captain talked to me like dirt and I couldn't look up.
I heard him turn around and take a few stops until he stopped. I looked up and saw Sora staring at me with tears brimming in his eyes frozen like a statue. The captain glared at him and asked, "Did you know that she was a woman?" He asked through his teeth. Sora was going to answer and I knew he was going to tell the truth.
I couldn't let this happen, Sora would possibly be kicked out of the army or even worse; dead if he tells the truth. "No! He didn't know I was a woman." I shouted. The captain was quiet as he walked off. Sora stared at me with a sympathetic look but I shook my head as if begging and mouthed the words 'Go.'
Sora, Donald and Goofy sighed sadly and turned around. They started to walk away and I just hugged myself, feeling so depressed, I nearly died twice that day.
Mulan kneeled down next to me and touched my shoulder. "I'm extremely sorry about all this. It's my fault." I shook my head and turned to her with a woeful smile as the tears fell down my cheeks.
"No, it's not your fault Mulan. It was my destiny so I should learn to accept it." I got up and so did Mulan.
"Thank you so much Vanessa." She thanked and I shook my head.
"No, you don't have to thank me. I followed my heart and so did you. I wanted to help you. So what are you gonna do now?" I asked and she took off her hairband whilst sighing.
"Go back home." Mushu jumped out onto the snow and shook his head.
"Your daddy's gonna be so angry he'll be steaming like a chicken dumpling." He said.
"Hey, I'll come along with you. I'll tell him that it was my entire fault, so don't worry." I giggled.
"Thank you Vanessa, you're such a good friend." I smiled at this as another tear fell down my tinted pink cheek. I remembered when Riku used to always say that to me.
"Are you okay Vanessa?" Mulan asked and I looked up at her with the widest of grins.
"Just thinking about someone who used to say that to me. I really miss that person a lot." Mushu jumped onto my shoulder and patted my face.
"Don't worry you'll meet him again." I sighed at this and beamed. I may have lost a bit of hope, but I was still positive about meeting him again.
"Hey Mulan can you do me a favour?" I asked.
"I am so indebted to you, I'll do anything." She said.
"Can you plait my hair?" Mulan smiled at this and nodded. She started to plait my hair and I remembered how Aqua used to do my hair when I was younger. Then a question popped up in my mind and made me think; who was my mother?
Mother, my mother, who was she? Did I even have one? Apparently according to Master Eraqus my father died before I was born and my mother died through childbirth with me. But why did I think that's not the truth? If they're alive, then where are they?
"Done." I was snapped out of daze and opened my eyes as I brushed the thought off.
"Thanks." We started to walk and something didn't feel right. I could feel something odd in the air, as if, as if Shan-Yu wasn't dead. I heard that eagle again and looked up with large eyes.
"Mulan, that's Shan-Yu's eagle." I pointed and she gasped. We ran to the edge of a slope. We saw a hand pop out of the snow and the hand was clenched into a fist. The eagle sat on top of the hand and our worst nightmare pulled himself out of the snow; Shan-Yu.
Me and Mulan's eyes widened as we gasped. "Shan-Yu." I whispered with fear evidently lurking in my voice. Shan-Yu stood up and was looking at the Imperial city with a small army of heartless behind him.
"He's alive. He is going to head for the Imperial city!" Mulan said quietly.
"We have to do something or else people's lives will be in danger." I mumbled and Mushu's jaw hit the ground.
"Did you see those Huns? They popped out the snow, LIKE DAISIES!" He panicked.
"Oh come on Mushu. Are you scared?" I taunted and he looked away with his arms crossed.
"What do you think?" He asked sarcastically and I smirked, a smirk like Riku's.
"But I thought you were such a brave, heroic and all mighty dragon. Looks like me and Mulan will go on without you." Me and Mulan stood up. Mulan got onto her horse and I threw my shooting star into the sky. I hopped onto starry drift and looked at Mushu. "So what's it going to be Mushu?" I asked.
"No, wait for me!" He exclaimed and jumped onto my shoulder. I laughed dryly at this and warned.
"Well you better hold on tight, it's going to be a really fast ride." I heard his mumble something along the lines of,
"Say what?" but ignored it as we all made our way to the Imperial city.
As we got to the gates of the Imperial City I decided to walk on foot with Mushu on my shoulder. The red dragon held his head and muttered, "That starry drift of yours is crazy!" I giggled at this and shook my head.
"No, without it I would have been dead."
"Don't say that, I get chills running down my tail when you talk about that!" Mushu said.
We reached the courtyard of the Emperor's palace and ran past the soldiers. "Shang!" Mulan called out. He stopped walking but didn't face her. I hissed under my breath at his ignorance, I swear if he wasn't captain, my fist would have broken his jaw!
"Shang, Shan-Yu is still alive! He's headed this way." She informed.
"Why should I believe you this time?" I growled at what he said and shouted.
"Oh so you believe Ping but not Mulan. She's telling the truth even I saw it with my eyes!"
Donald noticed something and pointed to the roof. We followed the fingers direction and gasped. It was Shan-Yu on the roof, looking as if he was ready to kill. I grinded my teeth together; this guy was gonna get his ass kicked by me!
"Guard the palace! Don't let the emperor get hurt by the enemy." Those three jerks and some others ran towards the palace. Out of nowhere some other soldiers turned into heartless and I gasped. Me, Mulan and Sora stood in front of the captain with weapons in our hands.
"Captain, we'll secure the courtyard from those enemies, go and save the emperor!" I barked and the captain stood there gaping like a fish. I turned my head to him and glared. "That's an order so GO!" Almost instantly he nodded and ran into the palace.
"Let's do this!" Sora said enthusiastically. He turned to me and smiled. "It's good to have you back Vanessa." I smiled at this.
"Missed me that much?" I asked and he snorted.
"You sound more like Riku every day!" I was caught off guard there and gasped as my cheeks turned red.
"Are we going to stand here and chat or are we gonna defeat some heartless?" Donald asked and we engaged in battle.
After defeating those heartless we ran into further into the courtyard where he entrance was. We saw Shan-Yu with a sword in his hand and the emperor. The sword was against the Emperor's neck as he hissed, "You will bow down before me."
"No matter how strong the wind blows, the mountain will never bow to it." The emperor spoke wisely.
Out of nowhere the captain jumped in and punched Shan-Yu straight in the face. The evil Hun skidded to the ground and the captain took the emperor into the palace. Two soldiers closed the towering gates and I thought I saw the captain look back at Mulan with a worried look. Internally I smirked, someone's in love!
Shan-Yu got up and ran towards the doors, but me, Mulan, Sora, Donald and Goofy acted fast. I stood in front of my friends with a look like Ven's; that serious look. "You're going to have to get through my friends if you want to kill the emperor, but you have to get through me first." I spoke murderously like poison dripping from each word that came out of my mouth.
He started to laugh evilly as the darkness surrounded him. I smirked at this, idiot; he doesn't even know what he's dealing with. It was five against one for crying out loud!
I screamed and charged at him, whilst the others took care of the heartless and the gates of the castle. We engaged in battle, and this darkness within him, it was extremely hard to deal with, like…when I fought with Riku a year ago. I wasn't concentrating and his sword gashed the left side of my chest; where my heart was. I rolled on the ground and groaned in agonising pain. Shan-Yu walked in front of me and smirked.
"Looks like your time is over little girl…" was all I heard.
My eyes were getting watery, this was so painful. It felt like there were salts which rubbed in my vital wound. My vision was becoming blurry and all funny. I kept on blinking my eyes as they closed. I sighed; this is getting worse for me.
I felt totally weak now like at the avalanche. Well actually it was a bit of both situations, I felt like dirt when I was falling to my doom and going to be slaughtered alive. I asked, why me? It's been the third time now and I'm now getting scared of that saying; third time lucky. Yeah third time dying is lucky right?
I closed my eyes; it was a dangerous journey, especially me. I was now awaiting death for the third time. I was awaiting Shan-Yu's sword to kill me as the tears fell endlessly down my face. There were only two people, people whom I loved and cherished the most; Ventus and Riku…
Phew! That took long! Vanessa…is she really going to die now?
~Parisa01
