Sahxyel: Oh hey guys! This Chapter is special. It's a half and half! Half Gummi, and half Traverse Town! Which means that I get to kill two birds with one stone!
Danny: Great. You take away good dialogue for the ability to jump ahead in the story. And people say you aren't lazy...
Random Moogle: Yay! Sahxyel the Great and Influential Authoress is trying to set a schedule for her fics. Now she tries to update every weekend! So celebrate!
Disclaimer Guy: Hey. Nothing is owned. Sahxyel doesn't own anything in this fic except herself. Yeah.
Chapter 11: Warp and Drive
"Okay guys, are you all absolutely sure that we can leave?" Sahxyel asked seriously, she was staring at the world with a sense of elation. Which was somewhat understandable.
"Yeah, Until Phil gets the first cup up we can't really do anything!" Riku pointed out, "Besides, we need to get back to Traverse Town!"
Sahxyel scratched her head, "And why do we want to go there?"
"For one, you said something about someone helping us install the Navi-Gummi for our ship." Donald replied blandly.
"Secondly, there're no more worlds we can go to right now." Sora added, he was eyeing the inventory bag that Sahxyel still had.
"Oh yeah, that's right! We need to go back to Traverse Town, lock the Keyhole, and get Cid to install the Gummi!" Sahxyel exclaimed, she grinned, "So, that fast way or short?"
"What do'ya mean by that Sahxyel?" Goofy asked.
Sahxyel's grin grew wider, "Knew you'd ask that. Why don't all of you sit tight for a second?" She spun around to the controls, typing in the coordinates for Traverse Town.
All four sat in their seat, not quite knowing what was going on exactly. Humming another annoying song, Sahxyel strolled down the control panel until she found what she was looking for. A large blue button was flashing constantly, her hand hovering just above it.
"I don't think you should-" Sahxyel slammed her hand down on the button, "press that." Donald groaned.
Sprinting over to her seat, Sahxyel sat down. "Hold on you guys!"
The engines roared to life, but they were moving at all. "Sahxyel, what did that do?" Riku sighed, knowing that the Pondering Writer had to have pressed something wrong.
"It's working! It just needs to charge!" Sahxyel explained, gripping her seat tightly. Donald and Goofy watched Sahxyel with uncertainty, while Sora and Riku looked very skeptical. "It isn't doing anything." Riku muttered, the engines were still revving up.
"Three, two, one!" Sahxyel counted down, she squinted. A loud sound came from the engines, as the Gummi Ship was propelled forward at and incredible rate. The force literally plastered everyone to their respective seats. Flashes of bright lights could only be seen from the front window. Then as almost as fast as it started, it started to slow. Soon, the ship had returned to a slow traveling speed, orbiting the familiar world that was Traverse Town.
Sahxyel was awed, her eyes wide and her curly hair was frizzier than normal, "That was awesome." she croaked. Shakily standing up, she went over to the teleporting module.
The other four were also in a form of awe. "That was...fast." Sora murmured, his eyes focused on Traverse Town.
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"Okay. This is an in and out operation. We go do what we need to do and we leave. Got it?" Sahxyel asked sternly, they were standing at the entrance to Traverse Town, which always seemed to be in perpetual night for some reason. Sahxyel waved her Quill around threateningly. "I don't like the second time we come because of the stupid plot!"
"Sahxyel, what are you talking about?" Riku asked, lightly prodding her with his Lupine Wisdom Keyblade. Sahxyel had been rambling on for almost a half-hour.
"I need to go somewhere, not with you guys." Sahxyel explained, looking cross. "So, I need you to go see Leon. He's in a secret cave by the Hotel. Just break down the grate in the alley and you'll find him."
"How do you propose we do that?" Donald asked, crossing his arms.
"I don't know, whatever comes to your minds!" Sahxyel snapped. She started to walk off towards Third District. "Just ask Leon about the Navi-Gummi!" With that, she pushed the door open and slipped into the Third District, leaving the four without the black-clad reality changer for the first time.
"I thought Sahxyel said that Cid would install it." Sora said confusedly, "That's what she said on the Gummi Ship anyway."
"She's just trying to confuse us." Riku sighed, "So to Second District?"
"Where else?"
The song of Traverse Town hovered over in the atmosphere as the four headed up the stairs, walking pass the Accessory Shop. Jiminy poked his head from his place inside the Inventory Bag, writing every so often in his journal.
"What do you think Sahxyel was doing?" Goofy asked suddenly, almost randomly. "She seemed really anxious to leave as soon as we got here!"
Sora looked thoughtful, "Yeah, and why does she keep on disappearing at some of the places that we got to? At Mystic Wilderness and at Olympus Coliseum, she was really jumpy about something."
"Yeah, and remember when we first met her?" Riku added, "She was doing something by herself after that heartless swarm attacked the Hotel."
Donald tugged open the Second District door, "Well, as long as she isn't doing anything stupid!" he quacked offhandedly.
"Maybe we could ask her?" Goofy suggested, he took a quick look around Second District as he pulled out his trusty shield.
Donald snorted as his staff appeared in his hand, "If she won't tell us where the King is, she isn't going to tell us what she does by herself!"
Riku nodded in agreement as they made their way cautiously around to the stairs leading to the Alley. A change of music suddenly filled the sky as Shadows rose from the ground, antennas twitching in anticipation.
Quickly slashing the nearest one, Sora tore through the crowd with Power of Affection in a shine of metal. Riku wasn't really trying to kill them all as fast, but he did impale two on his Keyblade. The two heartless exploded in a dark mist, but were replaced with two more heartless that rose from the floor.
Goofy was trying his Tornado attack, ramming through the small heartless with ease. Four heartless found their way into the air, smashing back into the ground painfully before being dispatched with either Lupine Wisdom or Power of Affection.
Donald hadn't fared so well, trying to freeze a heartless that constantly sunk into the ground. It seemed to be taunting him rather than fighting. Yelling out in frustration, "FIRE!" a large fireball erupted from the Mage's staff, incinerating the heartless in one hit.
With a few more misty explosions, no more Shadows returned.
"Nice to see nothing changed while we've been gone." Sora chuckled, swiping his Keyblade in the air. Riku rolled his eyes, while Donald and Goofy chuckled too.
They approached the door to the Alley, Goofy opening it this time. Donald, Riku, and finally Sora went through. But now the Keybearer looked concerned. "Did Sahxyel still have the inventory bag when she left?"
Riku stopped, frowning. "I think she did."
Donald crossed his arms, "Well, what's wrong with that? We already have our healing Elixirs!" To emphasize, he opened a zippered pocket to show a yellow object that glowed faintly in a gold aura.
If they could have heard from far away, a loud and angry scream broke out.
"I just have a bad feeling about her having the bag." Sora replied, "I-uh-left something in it!"
"So?"
"SO NOTHING! I'M GOING TO HAVE YOUR HEADS!" a familiar and furious voice screeched from the balcony of the Hotel. The four looked upwards to see Sahxyel glaring down at them, her brown eyes blazing with rage. In her left hand was the Strategy Guide, to which she was gripping tightly, possibly imagining the book being someone's neck.
"Oh crud." Sora murmured, eyes widening at the demonic writer. "Run?"
Riku nodded, "Run."
The two Keyblade wielders raced away, frantically trying to reach the end of the Alley. Donald and Goofy looked around warily, "What's goin' on?" Goofy asked.
Sahxyel scribbled something down as soon as the two reached the Dalmatian's home, a shiny hexagonal wall suddenly appeared, flinging the two away from the door. The other exit also was covered with the same hexagonal wall. Swinging around, Sahxyel leapt off of the balcony. She landed on the cobblestone path, flinching. She still was looking demonic.
"What do we do now?" Sora asked cautiously as Sahxyel withdrew her Golden Quill, glaring angrily.
"Erm-" Riku looked around frantically. Sahxyel was blocking the other way out, the Dalmatian household was for some reason not enterable. There was only one option, a grate in the small water stream that went through the Alley. She DID say it could break down easily...
Swinging around with Lupine Wisdom, Riku lodged the Keyblade into the grate, prying it from the wall with relative ease. The metal bars clanged to the ground, mysteriously disappearing for some reason. The echo of the clang sounded out loudly from the tunnel inside. Without hesitation, the silver-haired teenager ran inside.
Sora was looking bewildered, "Wow, even I wouldn't of thought of that." He muttered before also running inside. Donald and Goofy charged in afterwards, leaving a steaming, but mildly surprised insertion in the Alley.
"So they did read it?" a voice said from behind Sahxyel. Still irked, she flung the Quill straight at the wall directly on top of the tunnel. It glanced off, landing in the aqueous stream.
"I don't know. They must have at least looked at it though." Sahxyel grumbled, her grip on the Strategy Guide grew slightly weaker, allowing some pages to fall out. "Darn it!"
She quickly collected the pages off of the ground, her face was still red from either anger or embarrassment. "Okay, one, two, three-where's the Valor and Wisdom page?" Sahxyel growled, shoving the remaining pages back into the Strategy Guide.
"You know what this means...too bad, this time around it looked like progress."
Sahxyel swung around, glaring at the other black cloaked person standing behind her. "Oh shut up! I know I screwed up okay? Lay off!" she scanned the street, "Besides, there's still a small chance they didn't see anything too damaging-"
"You realize that there is a large chance that the Keyblade Bearer did see anything pertaining to the Organization." the member said blandly.
"Well, let me find out then!" Sahxyel snapped, yanking her Quill from the waterway. "If they did see anything with Roxas or the-" she gulped, "Villains section, then-"
"You will be harshly taken care of." the black cloaked man stated coldly, before disappearing in a portal. Sahxyel just moaned, kicking a brick wall at the same time. She took a deep shuddering breath before walking into the gaping hole.
And then she instantly fell into waist-deep water.
"One, two, three-" Sahxyel started as she proceeded down the watery passage, gritting her teeth. "four, five, six, seven-" The water was getting deeper, and her soaked cloak was three times heavier. "eight, nine, ten."
The opening was right ahead, with some hushed voices speaking quickly, sounding fearful. Grinning like the ever-loved Cheshire Cat, Sahxyel murmured, "Eleven, twelve, thirteen." She swam quietly closer, listening in on the conversation.
"Okay guys, calm down. I don't think that Sahxyel would kill you two." Leon's calm voice came. "All you did was skim through the first pages, so she shouldn't get angry over that."
"You didn't see her." Sora's voice replied, sounding shaky. "Oh man, it was really creepy."
"Yeah, after seeing her always happy and random, that seriousness and anger was really-erm..." Riku added, before stopping and leaving an awkward silence.
"Uncharacteristic?" Donald's voice ventured.
"Well, what exactly did you two see?" Arieth's voice asked kindly. Sahxyel grinned again, her voice in Kingdom Hearts was awesome compared to Kingdom Hearts 2. She could see a faint light ahead in the tunnel, and swam closer.
"Only some pictures of Sora in some new clothes. He looked sorta older." Riku replied, another sound came from the tunnel, like paper being unwrinkled. "See, I kept one of the pages."
Sahxyel's eyes narrowed, but inwardly she was leaping with joy. The had only skimmed the beginning of the book! Hopefully, they didn't read the synopsis for the two previous games. And if not, then that was stupidly lucky for the Pondering Writer.
"Interesting." Leon's voice murmured, echoing faintly in the cave. "Valor and Wisdom? Forms? This stuff sounds very interesting..."
"Yeah! I wanted to ask Sahxyel how I get these Forms, but if I did-"
"Then she'd tear you out for finding out." Leon finished.
"Yeah, I would've." Sahxyel said loudly as she swam up to the unsuspecting group. Sora and Riku jumped instantly, looking surprised. Everyone else just looked warily at the Pondering Writer.
Clambering from the water, sopping wet, Sahxyel looked to the two teens. "Okay. One, I'm not going to kill you two now. And two, do you really want a Form Sora?" She asked, smiling slightly.
"Uhh..." Sora stared at Sahxyel, looking somewhat confused. "You're not going to kill us after finding the Strategy Guide?"
"Nah. Just as long as you two didn't read the beginning page."
"Well, I didn't. I just looked at the Forms and the Heartless pages in the back." Sora said, shrugging. "I didn't read alot."
"Okay then, I am as happy as a potato." Sahxyel grinned. "Ha-ha! I can stay!"
Opening her Booklet, Sahxyel stroked the cream-colored pages with her Quill. The words once again shined in ink, before fading away again. Again, it felt like she was dried in the warm sun like before in Traverse Town. Reaching into her pocket, Sahxyel withdrew a small orb with some strange golden light emanating from it.
"This is a special orb. It kind of replicates the ability to use Master Form from Kingdom Hearts 2." Sahxyel explained. "It'll change the color of your clothes to gold and black and give the ability to use two Keyblades instead of one."
Sora eyed the orb, which glowed brightly. "Master Form?"
"Yeah, you know, there're four Forms that you can use later on. Like REALLY later on." Sahxyel sniffed as she chucked the orb to Sora. "Valor, Wisdom, Anti, and Final."
"So, he's getting the ability to use two Keyblades?" Riku asked, raising an eyebrow. The orb the Sora was holding suddenly disappeared.
"Neat. Uhh..." Sora frowned, "How exactly do I use a Form?"
"Well, that's simple! You just-uhh...err..." Sahxyel stopped. "I honestly don't know."
"Very helpful Sahxyel." Riku said sarcastically.
"Anyway, we got stuff to do." Sahxyel yawned. She turned to Leon, "Eh, you know that lucky charm? It's a summon gem. Kind of powerful and helpful." She insinuated, emphasizing helpful. She also pulled out her Booklet, writing something down.
An old book suddenly appeared in Sora's hands. It looked really shabby, and some pages seemed to be missing. Everyone looked to Sahxyel.
"Just saving time." Sahxyel shrugged. "So Leon, can we have the gem huh?"
Leon withdrew the Gem from his pocket, giving Sahxyel a skeptical look. "A summon?"
"Yeah. It's the spirit of a creature that had its world enveloped by darkness. But its heart was like super strong, so it turned into a Gem." Sahxyel yawned again, "The Fairy Godmother should be able to sort it out."
Leon gave another look at the red stone, before tossing it to Riku. "Take care of it."
The red stone shined faintly in Riku's hand, "Thanks."
"Okay! We have the Earthshine Summon, and we need to just deliver that old book to Merlin and get the Fairy Godmother to poof that Summon Gem to a form of normal!" Sahxyel cheered, "And I also think we need to seal the Keyhole here too."
"Where'd that book come from anyway?" Goofy asked.
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Cid looked around his shop, but he just couldn't find it! Chewing his toothpick angrily, he slammed a fist onto the counter.
Man, that old geezer was going to be mad...
Stinking thieves.
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"Hey Merlin!" Sahxyel chirped as the floor rose into the wizard's abode. "We got some stuff for you!"
"Oh, hello!" Merlin greeted, coming down from the pedestal-like platform in the middle of the room. "It's great to see that you five have returned safely!"
"Yeah, yeah." Sahxyel replied, smiling, "Anyway, we brought some things for you."
Sora gave Merlin the tattered book. "Oh! It's that peculiar book I found! My, how did you know that it was ready to come back?"
Sahxyel coughed.
"Oh, yes, that's right." Merlin nodded as he placed the book on a weird sort of drawer. "So tell me, any more you'd like to present?"
Riku showed Merlin Earthshine. "What do we do about this?"
"Oh! That field, I believe, falls under the Fairy Godmother's knowledge. You should probably ask her what to do."
Five minutes later of cheap theatrics and the Summon Gem bursted into life. "Now remember, he will come when he is called to aid you in battles." the Fairy Godmother reminded as the Gem went back to a faint glow.
"Yay! We have Simba! Thanks!" Sahxyel cheered happily as she put the stone into the Inventory Bag. She started to hum something again, walking back over to the book that Merlin had put down. "Merlin! Can we take a look at this?"
"Yes, but there are pages missing so it might not be quite finished in the book." Merlin replied cheerfully. "Still, it doesn't hurt to look now does it?"
Sahxyel nodded, while gesturing for everyone else to come and look at the book too. "This is my most favorite book." She grinned, "You all might like it." And with that, she opened the book.
It flipped open slowly, revealing a picture of some woods. Trees that were significant were shown, but some places seemed to be rubbed out with an eraser. Sahxyel was grinning, while Riku and Sora peered closely at the book. Donald shrugged and Goofy towered above them looking at the picture with a sort of detached interest.
Suddenly, a bright light erupted from the book. Making three of the five disappear inside.
Goofy jumped back, shocked, while Donald ran up to the book. Both gasped. Three tiny figures appeared on the map of the woods. And a loud voice from one of the figures shouted out gleefully. "Yes!"
Donald scowled, "Hey! She knew that'd happen!"
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Sahxyel: Hooray! I completed half of Traverse Town and started the Hundred Acre Woods!
Danny: Wow. Surprise, surprise.
Random Moogle: Shut up Danny! Here are the Review Replies!
Review Replies:
Lyemi: Ah, PS2. You must. I'm actually surprised that someone can live on just CoM. Yay! My favorite Org. Member is on that game! Splee! The price for a PS2 will go down considerably when PS3 comes out though.
SSAHC: Wow. Thanks for the Gummi Worms! I gave them to Disclaimer Guy since he likes them.
DG: Thanks. (eats more Gummi Worms)
hanyou-samurai: Yeah. That's because Sahxyel can't run very fast. But considering, yeah that was impressive. Yeah, thanks, NOW I know. I just replayed Kingdom Hearts, and got through the Coliseum. Very understandable about some Org. Members huh?
Mi167: The Jason thing? I'll explain that on the bottom. Your idea is kind of close, but no potato.
Guavi: Huh. Thanks. I'm really trying to not be like the certain kinds of people who just don't try. Take Those Lacking Spines into consideration. I live by the guidelines, not ultra crackiness, but still appropriate.
Haphazardous Inspiration: Yeah. Glomps of the horrible kind. Wow, thanks for the compliment of the, err, Originalness? Yes, that is my name. As proven in the fic called: You only think its Cosplay. The Jason thing is going to be answered shortly!
EverD: Only a suggestion, but if you want to emphasize Doom, you might want to write it as DOOM. Dom isn't quite as creepy. ;)
Chocolate14: Hey Choco! Yeah, that's random. 0-0. And if any other reviewers are wondering, I read a FFVII Walkthrough. So that joke is...yeah.
I LOVE SORA AND DANNY: Thanks! Here's more!
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Sahxyel: Okay, the reason that I called Cloud Jason is because of a show that Cloud's voice actor acts on. The show is conveniently owned by ABC, which is owned by Disney consequently. The show's called General Hospital and is a Soap Opera. The character that Steve Burton plays is named Jason Morgan. And he is as angsty as Cloud is. Hehehe...
Danny: Wow.
Random Moogle: Okay everyone, there is Chapter 11! We hope you all enjoyed it and are willing to read more Sahxyel: Altering Kingdom Hearts!
DG: (eats more Gummi Worms) Review. Thanks.