Those who have been following this story from the beginning during Birth By Sleep's story line I added the Final Fantasy 4 characters. They are not in Kingdom Hearts at all, but I decided to add them cuz why not? :D
For the Final Fantasy 4 crew, I'm using most of their After Years look. That's right Ceodore is making an appearance in this fic :D
If you need a refresher on who made an appearance read Unbreakable Connection chapter 17 to get you up to speed and then come back and read this chapter!
Onto the shenanigans!
Chapter 11 – Hollow Bastion Team Assemble!
"You've gotta keep smiling!" Chip instructed.
"Don't let the corners of your mouth droop!" Dale told the new passengers of the gummi ship.
"This ship runs on happy faces!" Chip chimed grinning.
"Are you serious?" Lira frowned crossing her arms over her chest.
"My cheeks are getting numb from all this smiling." Sora smiled from ear to ear grinning like the Cheshire Cat in Wonderland.
"Amateur." Donald teased while smiling big.
Levina noticed the fuel gauge on the screen. "We're running out of fuel!" She cried out while keeping a smile on her face. The fuel gauge was slowly teetering towards empty fuel.
"Lira you have to smile!" Donald quacked.
"You've got to be kidding me," Lira continued to sulk. "It can't be because I'm not smiling that the ship is running out of fuel."
"Just do it!" Donald screamed at her.
"Just think of something happy, Lira, A-yuck!" Goofy told her with a bright smile.
Lira thought of something happy. It was someone who she had gotten close to while training in Feymarch with Rydia. She pursed her lips together smiling as an image of a knight in dark, dragoon armor flashed in her head.
"That's the spirit!" Chip beamed.
"She's finally smilin', Donald!" Goofy told his friend.
"Can't you see I'm trying to fly the ship?" Donald replied and then was suddenly shoved off the cock-pit by Sora.
"Then let me fly the ship!" Sora beamed eagerly.
"I don't think that's such a good idea –" Donald was cut off by Sora saying, "Oh don't worry."
"Sora, the last time you flew the gummi ship you crashed it!" Donald squawked watching dreadfully as Sora grabbed the controls causing the ship to plummet between worlds.
"Wak!" Donald yelled." STOP IT WE'RE GOING TO CRASH!" He screamed at the top of his lungs while trying to keep a smile on his face.
"Oh no!" Sora yelled pulling up on the control stick of the ship.
"That's enough!" Donald yelled. "Give me back the control stick!" The duck huffed while getting back on the center control of the gummi ship.
"Aw come on I was just getting warmed up." Sora said.
"Yeah you gave us all whip lash you little pest." Lira scoffed.
"He wasn't that bad." Levina said while rubbing the back of her head.
Donald looked at Chip and Dale asking, "What's the first world?"
"Let's see," Chip indicated on the map. "The only gate that's open leads to Hollow Bastion."
"That's where Leon lives!" Sora, Donald, and Goofy said in unison happily.
"Leon? Is he a friend of yours?" Levina asked.
Sora nodded. "Yeah, we've got a lot of friends in different worlds!"
Hollow Bastion formerly known as Radiant Garden was under siege by the Heartless. They were still trying to take over this world and plunge it into darkness enforcing Maleficent's orders and power.
"Someone help!" A woman screamed as Shadow Heartless lunged at her.
"Man," Yuffie sighed wielding her 4-point shrunken. "They just keep on coming." A year had passed since the events of what took place in Hollow Bastion. This world was her and her friends home. She stared hard at the Shadow Heartless with her violet eyes. Her outfit was swapped from her original forehead guard for a regular black headband with white lining. She was wearing an unzipped, dark grey combat vest with a black strap dangling from the right pocket overtop a navy blue tank top with white floral designs. She also wore a white wristband on her right wrist and a grey, fingerless glove on her left arm. Her shorts are slightly darker and have another black strap dangling from the left side. She also wears black, knee-high socks with white stripes at the top underneath dark tan boots that are slightly shorter than her socks.
Running her fingers through her short hair, the ninja looked at the woman being assaulted by the Heartless. "Get down!" She instructed.
The woman being chased by the Shadows ducked as Yuffie threw her shrunken at the dark creatures. The Shadow heartless disappeared into a puff of black smoke as the ninja's weapon came into contact.
"There we go!" Yuffie said in relief.
"Yuffie!" The ninja turned around seeing Leon.
"Everything's clear over here!" Yuffie said.
"Good," Leon replied trying to fight off a group of Shadow Heartless trying to damage one of the many shops that were recently put up. "Then how about helping me over here!"
Using his signature gunblade, Leon swung at the Heartless with his sword. "This isn't working, there's too many of them." He growled in frustration.
Two twin staves suddenly spit out fire at the Shadows. It was Palom and Porom. Palom's hair has grown longer and he wears it in a braid with a hair ornament. He still has his costume, which worn under a blue coat with a shoulder pad and a white scarf with green stripes. His sister Porom, now has pink hair, along with an ensemble of a mini-dress, striped stockings and a cloak.
"It's Ansem the Wise's mages!" Yuffie exclaimed.
"We figured you could use our help." Palom said.
Porom nodded. "We'll protect our home too until Ansem the Wise returns."
"Thanks for the help!" Yuffie smiled and looked at Leon. "Isn't it great? It's good to have an extra hand or two." She said optimistically. "Wonder if Ansem the Wise has his knights are running around here too?"
Leon on the other hand wasn't used to receiving help. "I could've handled those Heartless."
"Then why'd you ask for help before?" Yuffie asked cheekily grinning.
"I was just making sure you were up for the challenge." Leon retorted.
"Uh huh," Yuffie rolled her eyes. "Just admit it, you needed help!"
Leon was about to retort a reply when more Shadow heartless emerged.
"Told you we needed more help!" Yuffie yelled.
Palom and Porom quickly leaped in the air landing in front of the two civilians who were trying to defend the broken city.
"These are too many." Palom said.
"Our magic can't hold off all these creatures." Porom added.
The mages suddenly looked relieved at the Heartless surrounding them suddenly vanished.
"Cecil!" Palom said happily.
"Kain's with him too!" Porom added smiling brightly.
Cecil was now wearing a suit of white armor, but with dark spikes on the knees and pauldrons, and a brown cloak with blue stripes around the neck. Kain was still wearing his signature dragoon armor.
"Are you alright?" Cecil asked.
"We're fine." Yuffie answered for the group.
"Cecil, you should return to Rosa and your son Ceodore." Kain told his friend tightly gripping his spear. "I'll lay waste to these dark creatures invading our home."
"Our liege left me in charge if anything were to happen to him or this kingdom," Cecil replied to his friend. "I won't just idly sit by and watch the Heartless destroy everything we've worked so hard to rebuild."
"Besides I don't think you have to worry about your son." Yuffie pointed nearby and everyone saw a young boy about the age of fifteen. The boy's short, spiky blond hair was flowing in the wind as he fought off more Shadows. His light blue eyes steely glaring at the strange creatures invading his home. He was wearing a blue suit of armor with a red and white scarf around his neck.
Ceodore panted hard gripping his sword tightly. The boy had only begun training to be a knight like his father.
"Ceodore!" Cecil yelled. "I thought I told you to stay with your mother."
Ceodore only replied by swinging his sword at the last Shadow heartless. "I won't learn anything by staying home, father." He replied. "I want to be brave and strong like you. I want to help the people here."
"The kid's definitely brave for coming out here." Yuffie smiled.
"I've even go to give the kid credit." Leon added.
"He has your heart, Cecil." Kain said to his friend.
Cecil let out a defeated sigh. "You can stay and fight, but not for too long." He instructed his son.
The boy meekly smiled hearing praise from the townspeople.
"Thank you so much!" One civilian said.
"What a fine young lad." Another civilian said.
"We'll bill you later." Yuffie grinned.
"Yuffie…" Leon said in a disappointed tone.
"What?" Yuffie asked. "We need all the munny we can get to restore our defense system. Cid's been working on it all day at Merlin's place. There's not a lot he can do without the right materials."
"Ceodore there you are!" Rosa ran over to her son tightly hugging him. She was wearing a long-sleeved and floor-length white gown with small horned pauldrons and a silver belt around her waist. She wore fingerless gloves, gray sandals, and a decorated pink and purple cape. Her hair is still styled as a half updo, but it is mostly concealed by her cape and she now has longer bangs framing her face.
"M-Mother I am fine…," Ceodore stammered trying to get away from his mother's embrace. "I was just helping."
Rosa smiled at her son. "Next time just tell me where you're going." She gestured towards a semi-large yellow bird frantically searching for Ceodore. The friendly creature nuzzled its short beak against Ceodore affectionately.
"Sky, stop that." Ceodore pushed the friendly chocobo away.
"You know how anxious he gets when you forget to feed him." Rosa told her son.
"I know, I know…" Ceodore said pulling out green leaves called gyshai greens from his pocket feeding the large bird.
Everyone looked at the castle in the distance that was taken over by Maleficent and Pete. They continued to hear praises from the townspeople of how hard they were working to keep the town safe.
"Protecting the town, huh?" Yuffie mused.
"If only we could make it peaceful here." Rosa sighed.
"Then no one would have to live in fear," Leon looked at his gunblade gripping it tightly. "We wouldn't have to use these weapons."
"One day this world will retain its peace again." Cecil reassured everyone.
"Look!" Porom cried out as more Heartless resurfaced attacking the town again.
"Aw man…," Yuffie groaned. "Not again."
"I'll go take care of it." Leon told her.
"No you won't be able to stop them by yourself." Kain told the lone warrior.
"We will help you too." Palom said.
Leon slowly nodded. There was no way he was going to argue with Ansem the Wise's finest warriors.
"Looks like we've still got a long way to go." Yuffie said.
'Yeah, a really long, long way to go.' Leon thought heading off to fight again.
"Pete!" Maleficent bellowed from the halls of the castle. "Where are you?!"
"Yeah, Yeah, I'm commin'!" Pete yelled back while stirring a pot of stew to eat. He quickly rushed over to the wicked fairy and almost fell over as Maleficent appeared in front of him.
"You will address me with respect!" Maleficent seethed at her underling.
"Yes ma'am!" Pete saluted.
The dark fairy used her powers to fling the pot that Pete was using and threw it at him. "Look at this dust!" She growled. "Do it right!" She gazed out the window looking at castle which was now refuge for the civilians of Hollow Bastion. That's where Leon and the others were building a new town. "I think I'll move back into the castle, once those fools are finished with the renovations. It was mine to begin with."
"So didja get kicked out?" Pete asked picking up the pot off his head. "Was it true they beat ya?"
Maleficent glared at Pete being reminded of how Riku had betrayed her after she had given the powers of darkness and how Sora, Donald, and Goofy had defeated her. "I had an ungrateful pet," She told him referring to Riku. "He bit me before I could take over." She suddenly came up to Pete's face menacingly staring at him. "I trust you will not betray me?!"
"No course not!" Pete shrieked. "I owe ya! I'd never betray you!"
"I appreciate your devotion." Maleficent replied calmly patting the terrified dog.
'If I ever thought of betrayin' her, I'd be dead meat.' Pete thought fearfully as he cleaned up.
"You've done enough cleaning," Maleficent said swaying her hand making a dark corridor appear. "I want you to travel to other worlds and gather heartless for our army."
Staring at the dark manifestation in front of him Pete quivered. "Usin' those corridors of darkness make me queasy!" He confessed.
"Such complaints…" Maleficent growled.
Pete gulped expecting to be hit again, but instead received a protective spell against the dark corridor.
"There this spell will protect you." Maleficent reassured him.
"But why do we need so many heartless anyways?" Pete asked. "There's already a bunch of heartless crawlin' around here."
"Imbecile!" Maleficent scoffed. "Don't you understand what it means to conquer the worlds?!"
"Uh…well…yeah!" Pete replied.
"We will place every last heartless from every world under our command," Maleficent told him. "When we do, everything in every world will be ours!"
Hearing this Pete grinned with joy. "Not sure if I understand ya, but I'll do it!" He said eagerly.
"Don't disappoint me." Maleficent said threateningly as she watched Pete leave through the dark corridor. "Everything will be mine! I will not fail again."
"We finally made it!" Donald said in relief.
"I'll say my cheeks were killing me from all that smiling." Sora added.
"Gawrsh it's sure been a long time since we've been here." Goofy said observantly as everyone stepped out of the gummi ship.
Levina looked around. She hadn't been to this world in such a long time. She missed the waterfall fountain and flowers in the town square. "Everything sure has changed."
"The last time we came here it was infested with heartless," Donald said. "No one could live here."
"A-hyuck! They even added shops!" Goofy eagerly walked over.
"Wonder if I can buy something here." Lira picked up a mace in her hand.
Donald picked up a spiky helmet and placed it over how do I look?" He asked his friends.
"Over there!" Sora suddenly yelled.
Everyone followed Sora's finger to where he was pointing. They all saw Shadows on top of the store.
"Heartless!" Levina gasped.
Sora was the first to react he made his keyblade appear in his hand and jumped up on the roof of the store.
"Wow, he's like a ninja." Donald said. "When did he learn to do that?" The duck wondered puzzled.
"Sora, get down here!" Lira screamed.
"But I'm the only one who can stop them!" Sora told her swinging his keyblade at the Shadow heartless. He jumped back as a small pillar of light appeared on the ground out of nowhere. "Whoa!" He yelled moving back. "That almost scared me." He saw the small pillars of light destroying the heartless. "What is this?" He wondered.
"Sora!" Yuffie yelled. She waved at the boy. "It's really you!" She smiled. "Long time no see!"
"Yuffie!" Sora beamed.
Yuffie waved at Donald and Goofy who quickly introduced her to Lira and Levina.
"I can't believe it's been a whole year…" Yuffie said to her friends as they reunited. They walked around town getting reacquainted. "We're fixing up the castle too." She reassured her friends as they saw the castle in the distance.
"Looks like you've got a lot of patching up to do." Sora said.
"But it's our home…" Yuffie told the boy. "I want to make it peaceful no matter how long it takes. Ansem the Wise's royal knights and mages are even helping us out. Even Cecil's kid is giving us a helping hand."
"Ansem the Wise's knights?" Lira questioned. She angrily balled her fists. 'That means he's been here the entire time!' She thought bitterly. 'Kain you no good lousy dragoon! Why didn't you tell me you were here?!'
Levina looked at Lira seeing her fuming. "What's the matter?" She asked.
"It's nothing…" Lira growled under her breath.
"Is there anything we can do to help?" Sora asked.
"Yeah we've been having a lot of trouble with the heartless," Yuffie explained. "Leon'll be happy to heart that keyblade wielder's finally here."
Everyone suddenly saw Dusks roaming the area with every Shadow heartless that fell.
"It's a Nobody!" Sora exclaimed.
"Yeah, that's one of our problems." Yuffie said.
"Oh!" Sora came to a realization. "Have you seen the king or Riku?" He asked.
Yuffie shook her head. "Nope," She answered. "Haven't you found them yet?"
"Nu-uh!" Donald and Goofy told her.
The small pillars of light suddenly appeared as a Shadow heartless was creeping up on them.
"What is that?" Sora asked.
"Our town's defense mechanism, Cid calls it Claymore," Yuffie explained. "It keeps the heartless away. We're still a long way from having a peaceful town." The ninja ushered them down an alley. "C'mon I'll show you our secret hideout!"
The secret hideout wasn't exactly secret. They all used Merlin's house as a refuge. The wise magician offered the citizens who were willing to fight a place to stay and plan to keep the darkness away.
"Where are Ansem's knights?" Leon asked.
"Those do-gooders couldn't make it," Cid said. "You know them, they're always trying to finish as fight instead of planning ahead." He told Leon.
"The king's knights and mages are trying very hard to keep the heartless away." Merlin said.
"Anyway let's get down to business, what do we do about all the heartless crawling around?" Leon asked.
"For now all we can really do is enhance the security around town," Cid said. "I'll take another look at the Claymore's programming." He lightly groaned. "Looks like it's gonna be a another all-nighter."
"Sorry Cid." Leon said noticing how exhausted Cid looked.
"Eh it's my job." Cid replied staring at the computer screen in front of him and then turned to Leon. "You can just make up for it by pulling an all-nighter patrolling the streets."
"Alright…," Leon agreed dismissively. "But we can't fend them off forever. We need to find a way to cut them off at the source."
"We don't have enough firepower to wipe 'em all out at once." Cid said leaning back against the chair.
Leon sighed. "So what are we going to do?"
"We'll just have to do it the old fashioned way and take care of the heartless a few at a time." Aerith said.
Aerith walked over with glasses of iced tea. She was wearing a carmine pink and white top held up by a string that wraps around her neck. Underneath this top was a pink dress with a horizontal white stripe near the bottom. She wears yet another dress underneath the first one, this dress being white and slightly longer than the first along with long knee-high boots.
"Here have some iced tea." Aerith offered kindly.
"But for everyone we get rid of another sward takes its place." Cid said.
"I have an idea!" Merlin finally spoke. The old magician was quiet the entire time. They all suddenly heard Cid spit out his iced tea.
"Aerith, I told you not to put so much sugar in my tea!" Cid coughed.
Merlin continued with his idea. "We could prepare some poisoned bait. The heartless find it and take it back to their nest," He said whimsically. "The other heartless will eat the poison and we get them all in one fell swoop."
"Poisoned bait?" Cid asked flabbergasted.
"Where did you come up with that?" Leon asked.
"Hey Merlin!" Cid yelled. "We're not talking about roaches here! These are heartless!" He groaned in defeat. "If only we had some type of bomb to blow them all away…"
Aerith suddenly saw Yuffie coming back with Sora and the others. "Oh, Yuffie's back!"
Yuffie barged in through the door. "Hey everyone!" She smiled. "Sora and his friends are here!" She ushered them inside. "Meet the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee!"
"Hey everyone did you miss us?" Sora asked brightly.
"Heh," Cid grinned. "Perfect timing kid.
"Looks like we found our 'bomb'." Leon said.
Leon took Sora and the others through the remains of Hollow Bastion.
"So what can we do to help?" Sora asked breaking the awkward silence with Leon.
"We want to restore Hollow Bastion to what it used to be," Leon explained. "Who knows? Maybe even something better."
"Restore it to what it was?" Levina repeated.
"There's still a lot to do," Leon told them. "I'm sure we can handle everything except that…" He pointed towards a hollow hole in the wall. They saw the old musty make-shift castle where Maleficent and Pete were using as a base.
"What's that?" Sora asked.
"That's where Maleficent decided to call her own." Leon answered.
"Maleficent?!" Donald and Goofy gasped.
"I thought we got rid of her for good!" Sora exclaimed.
"You can't get rid of someone like Maleficent," Lira told them. "If there's darkness anywhere, that dark fairy will resurface."
"That's not the problem," Leon said. "It's under that castle."
Everyone's jaw almost dropped as they saw a giant crater on the ground. Inside the ginormous crater were thousands and thousands of Shadow heartless.
"Yikes!" Donald and Goofy jumped back.
"How many of them are there?!" Sora exclaimed.
"I don't know." Leon said.
"Yuck they all look like disgusting bugs all hunched over like that!" Levina shrieked. "I'm getting goose bumps just staring at them."
Leon rubbed the back of his head awkwardly. "I hate to ask this but," He began slowly. "We were hoping you guys could get rid of them for us."
"Of course!" Sora beamed at the chance to help his friends.
"Just like that?" Leon asked.
"Sora, you're crazy!" Donald quacked.
"There's millions of them!" Goofy panicked.
"There's no way we can defeat all of them!" Levina protested.
"We're going to need a plan first." Lira said.
"Me, Donald and Goofy defeated Ansem!" Sora boasted. "He was the leader of the Heartless!"
"Y-Yeah but…" Donald and Goofy stammered.
"Besides…," Sora made his keyblade appear. "One sweep of this keyblade and they'll all be history!"
"I knew I could count on you, Sora." Leon said.
"Hey you're not the only one with a keyblade, Sora," Levina said to him. "I still don't think it's a good idea to take on that many heartless."
"Don't worry Levina," Sora reassured her. "They're all bunch of boiled seaweed!"
"Easy to say from back here." Donald retorted.
"Where do you get all that boundless optimism?" A voice spoke. "Perhaps it is to be expected from the keyblade's chosen one." Five out of the six remaining members of Organization 13 appeared hovering over the giant cliff where Maleficent's base was. All the members faces were cloaked with their hoods.
"What? Who are they?" Leon asked.
"Organization 13!" Sora glared tightly holding his keyblade.
Saix snapped his fingers and a group of Dusks surrounded everyone.
"But many have lost their lives through overconfidence in their abilities." Xemnas said waving his hand heaving an unconscious Cecil, Rosa, Kain, Palom, Porom, and Ceodore to the ground near Sora and the others. Ceodore's pet chocobo was anxiously by the boy's side pressing its face against the boy's head letting out a sad squawk.
"Ansem the Wise's royal knights!" Leon gritted his teeth squeezing his fist.
Lira saw Kain unconscious on the ground. She edged forward to see if he was alright, but the Dusks weren't allowing her to get any closer. 'Serves you right, you jerk for leaving me and not telling me!' She thought with a light glare.
"Why don't you pick on someone who knows they can whip your sorry butts!" Sora taunted arrogantly.
"Our hero grows arrogant," Xemnas said with a grin. "We will have to teach him a little lesson."
Sora immediately swung his Kingdom Key keyblade at the Dusks as they lunged forward instantly destroying them with ease.
"Not bad." Saix noted.
"How's that for ability?!" Sora sneered at them.
Saix simply snapped his fingers making more Dusks appear.
"Wak!" Donald quaked holding up his staff. "There's more!"
Everyone fought off the Dusks to the best of their ability, but it was Sora who was still standing as more Dusks continued to emerge from thin air.
"C'mon kid you can do it!" Demyx egged the boy on.
Sora huffed catching his breath finishing off the last few Dusks on his own. Lira, Donald, Goofy, Leon and Levina were on the ground exhausted from fighting so many Dusks at once.
"So?! Who's next?!" Sora boasted.
Saix was about to summon more Dusks to teach Sora a lesson, but Xigbar stopped him.
"Kid, I feel sorry for the keyblade," Xigbar taunted. "Seeing it being used like that."
Sora glared hatefully at Xigbar. "Huh?!" He tightly held onto the keyblade. The look in his eyes completely resembled Roxas. "Shut up!" He yelled. "Come down here, you're next!"
"Me? As if," Xigbar scoffed coldly. "Let me give you a tip. The keyblade has far more potential than you're capable of drawing out as you are now."
"What?!" Sora yelled at them.
The members of Organization 13 just laughed cruelly. Demyx was suddenly hurled off the cliff by Cid's Claymore system. The pillar of light had heaved the sitar water wielding musician off the cliff.
Saix growled bitterly as the pillar of light hit his hand. "Impudent little…"
"Clear out." Xemnas ordered and the members of Organization 13 disappeared.
"Phew that was a close one," Demyx said climbing back up the cliff. "Hey they left without me!" He pouted realizing that his comrades had abandoned him.
"Yeah you better run!" Sora yelled and jumped back as Xigbar appeared in front of him.
"You'd better get better with that keyblade," Xigbar told the boy. "Or he'll have disappeared for nothing." He said referring to Roxas and disappeared through a dark corridor."
"Wait!" Sora growled in frustration and quickly raced over to his friends. "Hey are you guys ok?"
"I think so…" Donald quacked holding his head.
Cecil slowly started coming around. "What…? Happened…?" He quickly rushed over to Rosa and Ceodore seeing his wife and son unconscious." Rosa! Ceodore!" He called to them urgently.
Rosa groaned lightly looking up smiling seeing her lover's face. "Cecil…" She whispered embracing him.
Ceodore wobbled as he got up. "That was really painful."
"I should have been able to stop them." Kain balled his fists.
"Not even our magic stood a chance against them." Porom frowned.
"We'll just have to get stronger." Palom said.
"Gawrsh are you fellas alright?" Goofy asked curiously walking over to them.
"Yes we are fine…," Cecil replied. "You are King Mickey's friends?"
"That's right!" Donald beamed with pride. "How do you know that?" He asked.
"Our king, Ansem the Wise, is very good friends with your king," Rosa explained. "He spoke of you all the time."
"Hey stop that!" Levina yelled and then laughed as Sky nibbled against her clips.
"Huh?" Ceodore looked over seeing his pet nuzzling against Levina's hair. "Sky, don't do that!" He quickly rushed over pushing his pet chocobo aside. "You never sniff a maiden's hair. That is rude."
Sky gave a playful squawk as Ceodore turned to the girl. He bowed politely and winced holding his shoulder still reeling from the attack by the Organization. "My name is Ceodore."
"I'm Levina," Levina's cheeks turned pink. "Y-You're awfully polite." She blushed as she saw the boy kneel taking her hand gently kissing it. 'W-Wow, no boy has ever done that to me before, not even Ven.' she thought as Ceodore gently let go of her hand and stood up beside his chocobo.
"You have to treat every maiden with respect." Ceodore told his chocobo stroking its feathers affectionately trying to prove a point to his pet.
"I taught him that." Palom grinned cheekily.
"Oh stop that!" Porom thwacked her twin brother in the back of the head with her hand.
'Who does that kid think he is?' Sora thought bitterly as he looked at Ceodore for a brief moment and then blinked confused. 'Huh? Why am I getting so worked up over this?' He thought completely unsure of his emotions.
"We should head back to Merlin's and heal up," Leon told everyone and looked at Cecil and the others. "This is Sora. He's the keyblade's chosen one."
Sora sheepishly smiled as he introduced Cecil and the others to his friends, but when he introduced Lira.
"An introduction isn't necessary," Kain replied. "We've met."
Lira said nothing and sneered at the dragoon knight crossing her arms and walking off.
"Gawrsh, I wonder what happened between them?" Goofy wondered.
"What are you talking about Goofy?" Donald asked.
"Well dontcha remember all those letters we got from Lira when she was trainin'?" Goofy asked the confused duck. "She wrote about a guy named, Kain. I think that's him."
Donald looked at Lira and then back at Kain, who was keeping his distance from Lira. "Wak!" He squawked in disbelief. "No, no, no! Absolutely not!" He seethed remembering all the letters Lira had written them during her training in Feymarch with Rydia. She often wrote about how she had feelings for Kain and that they had shared a passionate moment a long time ago. Everyone slowly trudged back to Merlin to figure out how to stop the heartless and Organization 13.
Smh... Ceodore, just look at you and then at your parents and then back to you. WHY AREN'T YOU SEXY AS HELL lol. That always bugged me when I played the After Years rofl. Cecil and Rosa are gorgeous parents and then it's like you play as Ceodore and it's like :( Aw I guess he's still reaching puberty. All fangirling aside, the kid is pretty handsome :)
Ok, if you guys want to know the drama that happened between Lira and Kain stay tuned for a one-shot that will be posted up soon. It won't be on my page, it will be located on my good friend Kiyamasho fanfic page. She's the one inspiring me to keep this fic fresh and awesome :D
Also, tell me if I should have Ceodore and Levina together or should they just stay really good friends. As of right now, I don't whether to have these two characters together, but Sora is gonna be hella jealous for obvious reasons lol. Let the awesome shippyness commence :D
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