Here is the next chapter! :D By the way, thank you mochiandmilktea reviewing for my story. :)
Just thought I'd give a heads up, but the layout of the song will be a bit different than the movie's. I was a bit sad that no one had put up a Kingdom Hearts AMV for "Fixer-Upper", but if I were to make it, this would be how it would go.
Anyway, enjoy! :)
Chapter 11 Sora's Family
Inside the ice castle, Namine was pacing back and forth, trying to keep her powers under control. "Get it together. Control it," she said to herself, breathing heavily. It was like being confined in her room all over again. "Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't feel!" Things didn't seem to be going Namine's way as the walls around her darkened and ice spiked started to form.
Meanwhile, Sora and Kairi were walking to go see Sora's friends while Donald rode on Goofy's back. "Look Goofy, the sky's awake," the snow duck said as he watched the aurora borealis light up the night sky.
Sora then noticed Kairi was shivering and asked worryingly, "Are you cold?"
"A little," Kairi replied. Sora was about to put his arm around her, but he hesitated and mentally slapped himself for even thinking of doing that. He saw a slow smoking geyser and brought the red-head over to it. Once she touched the smoke, Kairi felt a lot warmer.
"So about my friends," Sora started to explain as they kept walking, "well, actually, they're more like family. When I was a kid, it was just me and Goofy till they took us in."
"They did?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah," he replied, then said nervously, "I want to warn you though, they can be a little inappropriate…and…loud. Very loud. They're also stubborn at times and a little overbearing. And heavy, really heavy believe me. I mean, you'll get it. They mean well, and-"
"Sora," Kairi interrupted, touching his shoulder, "they sound wonderful."
"Okay then," Sora said, showing them a yard full of boulders, "Meet my family!" The brunette then started talking to the rocks. "Hey guys! Long time no see!"
"They're…rocks," Kairi said awkwardly. She definitely wasn't expecting this.
"He's crazy," Donald whispered to the stunned red head, "I'll distract him while you run." HE then started pretending to talk to the rocks just so Sora wouldn't be offended, saying loudly, "Hi Goofy's family! It's nice to meet you!" Donald then whispered to Kairi, "Because I love you Kairi, I insist you run." He then went back to talking to the rocks. "I understand that you're love experts!" The snow duck noticed that Kairi still hadn't moved. "Why aren't you running?"
"Uh…okay, I'm gonna go now," Kairi said, starting to walk away. Suddenly the boulders started to move. "Sora?" Kairi jumped over a few of the boulders and Donald chased them as the rocks rolled towards Sora.
Then the boulders turned into trolls and one named Yuffie exclaimed, "Sora's home!" All the trolls were excited to see Sora and they all crowded around him.
"Sora's home!" Donald said excitedly, but then looked at Sora with a puzzled look, "Wait, Sora?"
"It's great to see you all. But where's Yen Sid?" Sora asked, despite being happy to see his family.
"He's napping, but look I grew a mushroom," said a troll kid, showing the small mushroom on his back.
"I earned a fire crystal," another troll kid said, holding up the crystal in her hand.
"I passed a kidney stone," an older troll said flatly while showing a small stone.
"Sora, pick me up!" Another troll kid jumped into Sora's arms and the brunette carried him.
"Trolls," Kairi said, recognizing Sora's family, "They're trolls!"
All the trolls then turned around and looked at Kairi. "He's brought a girl!" Yuffie squealed happily.
"A girl!" the trolls cheered. They grabbed Kairi carried over to Sora.
"What's going on?" Kairi asked.
Sora shrugged and said sheepishly, "I've learned to just roll with it."
"Let me see." Yuffie went up to the confused red head and looked at her. "Bright eyes, working nose, strong teeth. Oh, she'll do nicely for our Sora!"
Kairi started to blush while Sora covered his face in embarrassment. "What? No no no."
"You've got the wrong idea. That's not why I brought her here," Sora said, his face looking a little red.
"Right," Kairi stuttered, "I'm not–we're not-"
"What's the issue dear? Why are you holding back from such a man?" Yuffie asked.
Yuffie: Is it the clumpy way he walks?
Joshua: Or the grumpy way he talks?
Selphie: Or the pear-shaped, square-shaped weirdness of his feet?
Demyx: And though we know he washes well,
He always ends up sort of smelly.
Yuffie: But you'll never meet a fellow
Yuffie and Joshua: Who's as sensitive and sweet.
"That's nice but-" Kairi started to say, but the trolls kept on singing as they tossed Sora around a little.
All Trolls: So he's a bit of a fixer-upper
So he's got a few flaws
Xion: Like his peculiar brain dear
Roxas: His thing with the reindeer
Xion and Roxas: That's a little outside of nature's laws.
"This is not about me!" Sora protested as the troll kids played around with Goofy and Donald.
All: So he's a bit of a fixer-upper
But this we're certain of,
You can fix this fixer-upper up with a little bit of love!
"Can we please just stop talking about this? We've got a real, actual problem here," Sora said, getting embarrassed from his friends' antics.
"I'll say," Yuffie smirked amusingly, "So tell me dear."
Yuffie: Is it the way he runs scared?
Ventus: Or that he's socially impaired?
Vivi: Or that he only likes to tinkle in the woods?
"I do not need to know that," Kairi said awkwardly as Sora smiled sheepishly.
Riku: Are you holding back your fondness
Due to his unruly brownness?
Yuna, Rikku, and Paine: Or the way he covers up that he's the honest goods?
All: He's just a bit of a fixer-upper
So he's got a couple of bugs
"No I don't!" Sora retorted after scratching a terrible itch.
His isolation is a confirmation
Of his desperation for healing hugs.
So he's a bit of a fixer-upper,
But we know what to do.
The way to fix up this fixer-upper if to fix him up with you!
The trolls lassoed Kairi and Sora with vines and they separated them, the females taking Kairi while the males took Sora. "Stop it. Stop it. Enough!" he yelled, "She's engaged to someone else okay?!" The males looked at him confusingly and they then got into a huddle.
Zack: So she's a bit of a fixer-upper.
Rai: That's a minor thing.
Wakka: Her quote 'engagement' is a flex arrangement.
Tidus: And by the way, I don't see no ring.
The male trolls then turned back to Sora and continue to persuade him.
Males: So she's a bit of a fixer-upper
Her brain's a bit betwixed
Get the fiancé out of the way
And the whole thing will be fixed
Sora groaned and face palmed, knowing that they weren't going to drop the subject. Meanwhile, the female trolls knew about Kairi's engagement as well and they try to help her out.
Yuffie: We're not saying you can change him cause people don't really change.
Shiki: We're only saying that love's a force that's powerful and strange.
Tifa: People make bad choice when they're sad, or scared, or stressed.
Yuffie: Throw a little love their way
Yuna, Rikku, and Paine: Throw a little love their way
Shiki: And you'll bring out their best!
Females: True love brings out their best!
The trolls dressed Sora and Kairi with cloaks and crowns made of moss and crystals. Sora sighed at how pretty Kairi looked while Kairi giggled at Sora's outfit, earning a nervous shrug from him.
All: Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper
That's what it's all about
Seifer: Father!
Rhyme: Sister!
Beat: Brother!
Seifer, Rhyme, and Beat: We need each other to raise us up and round us out
All: Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper
But when push comes to shove
Donald: The only fixer-upper fixer that can fix a fixer-upper is
All: True, true, true, true, true
Love!
The trolls then dug a hole in the ground and placed Kairi and Sora inside it as they made an arch over them. Donald stood right by the hole as a troll with short bluish-grey hair holding up a book went up to the couple inside and said, "Do you, Kairi, take Sora to be your troll-fully wedded-?"
Kairi was confused and asked, "Wait, what?"
"You're getting married," the troll priest said.
Kairi then felt a tremor in her heart and collapsed. "She's as cold as ice!" Sora said as he held her.
An elder troll with a long grey beard and a blue hat with stars on it rolled from the crowd and stopped in front of Sora. "There is strange magic here."
"Yen Sid!"
"Come, come. Bring her to me." Sora brought Kairi over to Yen Sid and the elder troll took her hands. "Kairi, your life is in danger. There is ice in your heart put there by your sister. If not removed, to solid ice you will freeze forever."
"What?" Kairi gasped, "No..."
"But you can remove it right?" Sora asked hopefully.
"I cannot. I'm so sorry Sora." Yen Sid apologized, "If it was her head, it would be easy. But only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart."
"An act of true love?" Kairi said softly.
"A true love's kiss perhaps?" Yuffie suggested and the trolls gave each other a kiss to demonstrate.
Kairi shivered as more streaks of white appeared in her hair. Sora looked at her and not matter how much it pained him to do it, the brunette knew what had to be done."Kairi, we've got to get you back to Axel," he said.
"Axel…" Kairi agreed, her voice now at a whisper.
"Pull us out Goofy." Goofy pulled Sora and Kairi out of the pit and the brunette got on the reindeer's back with Kairi in his arms. "Donald, come on!"
"I'm coming!" Donald proclaimed as he jumped onto Goofy's back and the reindeer galloped as fast as he could back to Radiant Garden. "Let's go kiss Axel! Who is this Axel?"
I had a lot of fun working on this chapter. I admit had had some trouble spots with the song, but I really like how it turned out. I just hope you guys like it too. :)
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