I wonder if talking to the characters is worth the time.
Sora: Why wouldn't it be?
Well I'd rather be using this time to welcome the FanFiction readers to the chapter.
Sora: You could just welcome them on the first chapter. Come on I wanna fly.
Ok fine.
Universal Dreams
Chapter 12
The Heart of the Island
All 7 of them flew off through the jungle. It was a brilliant feeling. Sora could feel the wind through his spikes and the fairy dust tingling on his skin. All that was about to change. Before he knew it, a Yellow Mustard flew up right in front of him and knocked him off course.
"Sora!" Kairi swerved off after him slashing the Unversed as she flew past. Namine also followed who was closely followed by Roxas. Sora had hit the ground and bounced up into a tree.
"Oh man. How did I end up here?" he asked himself.
"Sora. You alright?" asked Roxas who had flown up to see the stuck Sora.
"Yeah just break the tree arms," he said. Roxas did as he was told and hacked at the tree. For some reason, his weapon just bounced off of the bark.
"Just try and pull him out," yelled Kairi who was waiting halfway up the trunk.
"Umm guys. Have you noticed how big the clearing is?" said Namine. She was right. The tree Sora had landed in was surrounded by nothing but a large patch of grass in a 50 metre circle. Kairi then turned around towards the tree trunk. It started to open up into a mouth. The trunk started to thicken and a red pattern started to wrap itself around the tree. The pattern started to resemble eyes. The 4 large roots started to grow 3 large, red spikes each. Underneath the mouth was the Unversed insignia. Sora started to panic. Slowly, Red-hot Chillies, Blue Sea-salts and Yellow Mustards started to appear in the leaves. The tree creature was called a Mad Treant. The Mad Treant then threw Sora out of its arms and launched him into a tree knocking him unconscious. The others got into battle stances and prepared for battle.
Meanwhile, Riku and Ven had followed Peter the whole way somehow not realising the others had gone. Peter turned round raised his arms.
"This is the main base of the lost boys," said Peter. It was amazing. There were tons of giant trees that all had tree houses in it. Each tree was connected to one another by wooden bridges. Nets hung from the top and a wooden slide was wrapped around the largest tree. This could have easily been the home of children. Peter then flew up to the top of the largest tree and called into his hands. It sounded like some sort of bird call. 2 other children then appeared out of the tree houses and ran over to the slide. They slid down and ran over to Riku and Ven who had decided to land.
"Slightly, Cubby. Where are the others?" asked Peter.
"Some guy took them," said Cubby.
"Yeah a huge guy. He made a giant hole and they flew through it. We don't know where they are now," said a panicked Slightly.
"Don't worry," said Peter flying down to Slightly's height. "We know that guy and we'll find our friends…" he turned to Riku, "…right? Huh…" he looked behind Riku and Ven. "…where are the others?"
Riku also looked backwards. "Huh. Ok I'm gonna fly back and find them."
"Wait, I'll come with you," said Ven. As the 2 of them started to fly off, they heard 3 screams. They flew back and hid behind trees. They saw that Cubby and Slightly had been captured by Mawlix who had appeared after they had left. He didn't seem to have noticed them.
"Hey give them back!" yelled Peter.
"Oh yeah," laughed Mawlix. "Come and get them." Peter leapt up and flew at him with his dagger. Mawlix drew a spear from his weaponry vault and slashed at Peter. Peter however flew up and over while stabbing at Mawlix. He fell down clutching his stomach.
"Damn, good move for a kid," said Mawlix.
"Get up, I'll show you what I can really do," Peter said doing a thumbs up sign behind his back. He obviously saw Riku and Ven turn back. Riku and Ven took the sign and drew their weapons. "I'll show you my thunder attack," he yelled as he held up his dagger. Ven took that as a sign and cast Thundaja. Mawlix was flung across the area and hit the largest tree. He pulled himself up and ran at Peter spear raised. "Fire!" yelled Peter holding his dagger forwards. Riku cast Firaga over Peter. Something was weird though. It was a dark blue in colour instead of orange. It hit Mawlix in the face and fell over clutching it in pain. Dark smoke emitted through his fingers.
"How the hell do you know dark Firaga?" yelled Mawlix through his hands.
"Dark Firaga? Whats that?" Peter asked.
"You don't know what it is?" said Mawlix confused. He then looked behind Peter and he saw 2 figures fly through the forest into the dark shadows. With that he disappeared into a dark portal leaving Cubby and Slightly behind.
Back at the clearing, Roxas and Namine were busy fighting the Mad Treant while Kairi was trying to wake up Sora who was still unconscious.
Sora had gone to the station of awakening and was awaiting the voice. The floor now depicted Sora in a green version of his clothes and flying. Behind him was a clock tower. Little silhouettes were on top of the tower but Sora couldn't see who they were. While waiting for the voice, Sora decided to draw his weapon to see it had changed. It had. It had actually shrunk to over a 1/5 of its size. It was basically a silver dagger much like Peter's. This one however had 4 extra parts added on. Each of these parts was smaller versions of the keyblade head. They were arranged in and 'X' shape around the tip. The voice then spoke.
"Hello Sora. I see you have discovered the Keyger. Like the Scimikey and the Keydent, this weapon is powered by emotion. You have faced greed and jealousy. Now you will face joy. Joy can fill the heart with light and make you feel like you can fly. This weapon however allows you to do so in reality. Using this weapon allows you to fly and gives you immense agility during flight. I will send forth Gambler Nobodies and you use you're acrobatic skills to defeat them."
Gamblers then rose up from the sides of the platform and attacked with playing cards. Sora rose up and flew at one of them. He was able to spin in mid air and use a drill attack on the enemy. He then spun in mid air and shot towards the next Gambler. This time he slashed at the enemy with immense speed with the arm. Eventually all the enemies were defeated and the voice returned.
"Very well done Sora. I can see that you are better suited to joy rather than the negative energy of jealousy and greed. 7 more weapons will be at you're disposal. I will speak to you next time you are asleep. Farewell."
"Sora! come on Sora wake up," yelled a panicked Kairi. "Namine and Roxas need help." When Sora came to he saw Kairi leaning over him. Yet again he couldn't remember the events with the voice or the new weapon. Kairi smiled as she saw Sora's eyes open. Her gaze turned to shock as she was pulled away from him by the Mad Treant by her ankles. Sora jumped up and flew towards the Mad Treant. He raised his fairy harp weapon and swung. His weapon did some damage but still bounced off as if it were rubber. Namine and Roxas were now also held up by their ankles. Namine then swung towards the tree. She placed her hand on the branch and electrified it. The tree then dropped Roxas and Kairi in rage and threw Namine. Roxas got up and ran towards her. Before she hit the tree, Roxas flung himself in between them both and cushioned her fall. Roxas got the most damage and fell unconscious.
"Roxas? Roxas are you alright?" she asked. She cast Curaga on Roxas. The healing seemed to have woke him up but not healed him.
"Hey Namine," he said with a smile.
"Oh Roxas," she said as she gave him a warm hug. Kairi and Sora were then forced to fight the Mad Treant on their own. Sora cast Firaga onto the roots the wood set alight. The Mad Treant started to leap about in pain. Kairi then cast Blizzaga followed by Waterga. The Blizzaga froze in place with a red crystal while the Waterga gave it a glistening shine. Sora then cast Thundaga. This created a light that held the enemy in place. This gave Sora and Kairi the opportunity to finish it off. They flew up at it and started to hack and slash at it. The light disappeared and Sora decided to finish it off. He flew up and grabbed one of the branches and flew through the middle of the others. He then grabbed another branch and did the same. Eventually he had tied all the braches together. In confusion, the tree fell over and shrivelled up as if it was dying. It eventually shrivelled up and disappeared in a puff of black smoke. [1].
"Well that was certainly a weird enemy," sighed Sora.
"Yeah I guess they could have turned anything into a bad guy," Kairi said.
"By the way, do you think those two over there are alright?"
"I'm sure their fine." Roxas and Namine were still in their tight embrace. Namine then tried to use Curaga again. This time it seemed to work and Roxas was back to normal.
"Are you alright now?" asked Namine to Roxas.
"Yeah I'll be fine," he replied.
"You know that was very brave of you to do that."
"Well I was only doing what needed to be done."
"But you could have used Magnera to stop me from hitting the tree."
"Yeah but that would have hurt you."
"Not as much as the tree."
"Yeah well I didn't want you to be hurt at all." At that moment Namine grabbed onto him and gave him another hug.
"Hmm, I think we've given them enough space," said Sora as he walked over to them. He then grabbed them both by the collar and dragged them into the woods. Kairi was about to follow but she felt a cold breeze behind her. When she turned round, she swore she saw a small creature zoom through the trees. She decided to ignore it and followed the others.
Eventually she found them on the beach. Riku and Ven were also there looking pretty panicked.
"Eventually he asked us to use Fire but there was a problem. I cast the attack but it came out all dark and evil. As soon as I cast it, I was drained of so much energy."
"No kidding," said Ven. "I had to carry you most of the way."
"Sorry."
"Hey guys!" Peter appeared out of the jungle followed by Cubby and Slightly. "You're leaving?"
"Yeah we have to get to other worlds and stop those men," said Sora.
"And we have to figure out what's wrong with Riku," said Ven.
"Alright," sighed Peter. "Just please try and bring back my friends."
"Yeah sure," Sora replied. His keyblade then drew itself and had returned to its original state. "Oh hang on." He then appeared in the orange storm place. A giant feather appeared in front of him which then turned into a silhouette which only left a white keyhole. Sora jumped back and shot the light into the centre of it. The lock sounded and he returned to reality.
After a while everyone had said their farewells and had returned to the ship to turn in for the night. This was another story for Sora. As he fell asleep, he dreamt of the station of awakening. The mural on the floor was a bit odd. It came in two parts. The top half was blue and showed Roxas and Sora asleep and back to back. The bottom half was red and showed Kairi and Namine also asleep and back to back. After a couple of minutes, Roxas, Namine and Kairi also appeared.
"Huh," said a confused Kairi. "Where are we?"
"Station of awakening," said Sora. "This is the station of awakening."
"How do you know that?" asked Roxas.
"Yeah and how come we're all here in the same dream?" asked Namine.
"You are all here for a challenge," said the voice. "If you complete you're specific challenge, you will gain a power that you will be able to use. Unfortunately, I will not tell you what that power is and you will not be allowed to use it yet. It will be given to you when it is most needed. Now for you're challenge. Sora, you have gained the ability to use 3 new Keyblade weapons. As you already know, there are 7 more but for now these 3 will do for you're challenge. You are to try and harness the power of each weapon with out it becoming any weaker. This means maintaining one emotion and one emotion only."
"That sounds fair," he replied.
"Kairi. You won't remember this but you and Namine have pure light inside you're hearts. You're challenge is to try and use that light to empower Sora. Try and sustain that light for most of the night and you will have passed. Namine. You are to try and do the same for Roxas."
"Ok sure," said Kairi
"I'm sure that will be no problem," smiled Namine.
"Roxas. You are able to use you're light as a power. You are also able to manipulate the darkness without being consumed by it. This gives you the power of the Twilight. You are to try and use the twilight in many ways. Remember, the twilight can also be used as defence as well as attack."
"You couldn't have given me an easier challenge," said Roxas.
"You all seem so cocky. Well I can guarantee that these tasks will be harder than they seem. You may all begin."
[1] Worst. Fight. EVER.
Not my best chapter I admit but a lot of the information is important. Umm chapter 13 might not be done for a while because I'm getting really bad mental block. Umm so yeah, see ya.
