ElvenPrincess01: So this is part 2 of the previous chapter that was supposed to be one chapter but I decided to split it up so the chapter wouldn't be super long. This is the final chapter of the Treasure Planet Saga, so Team SRK will be traveling to the next world after this.
Riku: As if that wasn't obvious before.
ElvenPrincess01:...anyways, I just want to say thank you to Sammy who so kindly pointed out a grammatical error that I made in chapter 10. I went back and edited it so it's all good. Though I can't believe I made a grammatical error. I'm like the grammar police, I always notice these things.
Kairi: Well it did seem like you were rushing the editing of that chapter a little bit.
ElvenPrincess01: I will do better in the future then. But if anyone spots any more grammatical errors in my story, please feel free to (politely) point them out. I hate grammatical errors when I read people's work, and I don't want to be one of those people, because I—
Riku: Don't you have a story to be getting to?
ElvenPrincess01: Huh? Oh right. Nearly went off on a rant there. Thanks Riku. Would you and Kairi be so kind as to do the disclaimer?
Riku: ElvenPrincess01 does not own Kingdom Hearts—
Kairi: Disney—
Riku: Or any franchise mentioned in this story.
Kairi: Enjoy!
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Previous Chapter
The 3-D holographic model of the world known as Treasure Planet floats in the air for a moment, then dissolves and scatters into a green line that leads out of the entrance of B.E.N.'s house and out of sight, showing the route to where the treasure laid.
Mr. Silver chuckles in excitement for a few seconds, then scowls at Jim. "Tie him up. And put him with the others."
He makes a noise of surprise when the path to Treasure Planet evaporates abruptly. Jim closed up the sphere.
"You want the map?" He stares unwavering into the cyborg's eyes. "You take me too."
Mr. Silver strokes his chin as he considers Jim's bargain. "Alright," he says finally. "We'll take them all."
Chapter 12: The Treasure Is Yours For The Taking
At Mr. Silver's words, all of us load into a couple sailboats. Jim opens up the path to Treasure Planet, and the vessels follow the green line.
After a while, we land in a dark place with tall reeds towering into the sky, and the green line rapidly pulses a yellow glimmer. Mr. Silver jumps off the boat, chucking to himself, knowing that Treasure Planet is near. The rest of the crewmen follow after their leader.
One of them however stays in the boat with Dr. Doppler and the others with a gun trained on them, ready to fire if one of them tries anything.
I hate to leave them like this, but I have no choice. Jim is going to be surrounded by Mr. Silver's crewmen, and I can't leave him alone with B.E.N.
Morph cuddles with Jim, shivering in fear. Poor guy.
B.E.N. walks up to Jim. "Jim, I don't know about you, but I can see my life flash before my eyes." He grabs his head between both of his hands. "At least, I think it was my life….WAS I EVER DANCING WITH AN ANDROID NAMED LUPE?" He shouts, his eyes flickering crazily.
"B.E.N., calm down." Jim places a hand on the robot's shoulder. He throws a glance at Mr. Silver who's walking ahead. "This isn't over yet."
The yellow glimmer begins pulsing even more now. A gleam on his face, Mr. Silver pulls out a sword from his robotic arm.
"We're getting close now, lads! I spell treasure a-waiting!" The crewmen roar in excitement. One of them claps their hands. The cyborg pulls Jim by his shirt as he continues forward, B.E.N. and I right behind.
Mr. Silver doesn't care much for nature; he carelessly slashes down the tall, thin reeds in his path, the only things between him and his treasure. His face gleams more in barely controlled anticipation with each second.
He cuts down a row of weeds and we all stop, shocked, as a cliff looms ahead of us. It's a dead end.
"Where is it?" Mr. Silver growls.
"I see nothing!" A crew member yells out in a high-pitched voice. "A big, stinking pile of nothing!"
The green line that shows the route to Treasure Planet shrinks back into the spherical map.
"What's going on, Jimbo?" Mr. Silver demands as the brunette frantically pushes buttons on the sphere.
"I don't know!" He replies.
The crewmen aren't happy with this answer, starting to verbally protest now.
"We never should have trusted this boy!" A female crew member cries out before she pushes him forward onto the ground, Jim falling onto his knees.
"I suggest you get thing working again, Jimbo, if you know what's good for you," Mr. Silver warns with a hidden tone of malice in his voice.
The voices of the crewmen get louder as they wave their weapons through the air, their faces blazing with anger. Someone suggests throwing Jim off the cliff. This is not good.
I glance over to Jim, who's still on his knees. He takes a curious look at the sphere before he deposits it into a sphere-shaped mound on the ground.
The second he does that, a green circular-shaped light flashes from the sphere across the ground. The crewmen take a few steps back in apprehension.
A three-dimensional green-colored model with hundreds of dots on it rises slowly from the ground where Jim placed the sphere at.
Five green-yellowish lines shoot across the ground from the valley opposite us and merge together to shoot skyward into a tall green line that splits into a triangular-shaped portal.
Within the portal, I can see dozens of stars and a wispy blue-colored substance in the air.
"I don't believe it," Jim breaths in awe. "That's the Lagoon Nebula."
"But that's halfway across the galaxy!" Mr. Silver says.
Jim presses buttons on the model. Each time he does so, a new world is shown to us. "A big door…opening and closing…"
His face alights as he presses a button that opens up to Montressor. "Montressor Spaceport," he smiles. "So that's how Captain Flint did it. He used this portal to roam the worlds, stealing treasure."
"But where'd he stash it all?" Mr. Silver pushes Jim out of the way, impatient. He pushes random buttons frantically as he searches for Treasure Planet.
"Where's. That. Blasted. Treasure?!"
"Treasure!" B.E.N. grabs his head again. "It's buried in the…in the…"
"Centroid of the mechanism," Jim and I finish at the same time.
I stroke my chin, thinking. "What if the whole planet is the mechanism? And the treasure is buried in the center of this planet?"
"And how in the blue blazes are we supposed to get there?!" Mr. Silver roars. His patience is wearing thin now.
"We just have to open the right door," Jim calmly replies, and he presses a button on the model. The portal reveals a peculiar-looking world, with large open brass-colored pipes dangling from above.
Jim takes a tentative step forward, reaching out a hand into the portal, his hand glowing green when it enters inside. When he sees it's safe to enter, he moves his entire body inside.
Mr. Silver is right behind him, grabbing onto his shoulder. After seeing their successful entries, the rest of us tread inside as well. We only have to take several steps once we're inside. And that's when we saw it. The crewmen gasp in amazement.
Laid out before us are piles upon piles upon piles of treasure. All I could see is treasure. Gold, gems, jewels, you name it. It was everywhere, piled high. It's like a dragon's hoard.
The crew members waste no time, cheering loudly before rushing forward, eager to claim their share of the famed treasure.
"The loot of a thousand worlds," Mr. Silver murmurs as he gazes all around the place. From the way he was acting earlier, I'm a little surprised he wasn't the first one hurrying to the treasure.
"We're going to need a bigger boat!" Someone yells out in delight.
"This all seems…very familiar…" B.E.N. muses as he regards the area. "I…I can't remember why…"
"Kairi, B.E.N., come on." Jim nods his head in the direction of a boat. "We're getting out of here, and we're not leaving empty-handed."
Jim easily hops into the boat with one hand and pulls me up into it. He leans over the boat to help B.E.N. up.
"You know, Jimmy, I can't tell you how frustrating this is. It's like there's something nagging in the back of my mind—aah!" The android cries out as he tumbles to the ground.
While Jim helps the clumsy android up, my eyes are on a skeletal corpse wearing a black captain's hat, sitting against the mast.
"Is this…Captain Flint?" I point.
"Captain Flint?" Jim's eyes widen.
"In the flesh!" B.E.N. gasps. "Well, sort of, except for…skin and organs…and anything that-that-that resembles flesh…all that stuff."
B.E.N. continues gazing as Jim and I pore over the skeletal remains of the space pirate. "I remember there was something terrible that Captain Flint didn't want anyone to know, but I can't remember what it was."
A curious look flashes across Jim's eyes as he eyes a piece of machinery in the hand of Captain Flint. He rips it out from his bony hand and examines it.
"Oh, a mind is a terrible thing to lose!" B.E.N. laments loudly with a hand to his forehead.
Jim looks at the machinery in his hand, then back at B.E.N, and I can see the gears moving in his mind as he puts two and two together.
"Hang on, B.E.N. I think I just found your mind." Jim holds the piece he found up to the back of B.E.N.'s head, and as soon as the piece of machinery nears the exposed wires on the android's head, it immediately fuses to them. When they fuse together, B.E.N. suddenly stands ramrod straight, like a jolt ran through him.
"Whoa!" His eyes flicker a few times. "Hello." He looks around. "You know, Jimmy, I was just thinking…thinking…" He lets out a shocked gasp, beaming. "I remember now! All my memories! They're coming back to me!" B.E.N. does a little jump in the air, ecstatic.
"Right up until the moment Captain Flint pulled out my memory circuit so no one could know about the booby trap!"
"Wait, what?" I ask. "What booby trap?"
Deafening screams screech from behind us and we all turn in astonishment to see a rather large Heartless standing on a pile of treasure, some of the crewmen running away from it for their dear lives. The Heartless is on league with a Guard Armor Heartless in terms of size, but a little wider.
Much like the Guard Armor, it wears armor, except this one wears dazzling gold armor and dozens of silver and gold necklaces around its neck and wrapped around its body. Gems are embedded in the golden gloves it wears on his massive hands and two little horns stick out from its pitch-black head.
Jim peers closely at the creature. "Is that a...?"
"Heartless." My voice is flat. I have to stare high up at the Heartless in order to see its yellow eyes, and, to be completely honest, I'm a bit intimidated by the giant. I'm not even sure how I'm supposed to approach it. It's the biggest Heartless that I've ever faced; well at least the biggest Heartless I can remember facing.
"Right!" B.E.N. snaps his fingers. "Captain Flint stuck one of these Heartless thingies in here to attack anyone who would come here attempting to steal his treasure!"
"And you couldn't have told us that earlier?" Jim questions as he sizes up the foe.
The Heartless detaches both of its fists from its body and sends them up above. One of the fists knocks down a large pipe from up above. The ground shakes beneath our feet as the pipe crashes into the treasure and sinks down slowly.
The other of the Heartless' hands strikes another pipe, but when it does, the pipe shudders and fires down a wide purple laser beam. The pipe begins to move forward in a straight line, creating a gaping hole that nearby treasure falls into.
I watch in horror as crewmen either get disintegrated by the laser or fall into the hole as they attempt to run away and carry their bundles of treasure along with them.
"Run! Run for your lives!" B.E.N. grabs onto Jim's shoulder.
"We can't just leave that thing here," I say as I point at the Heartless.
"Yeeeaaah," B.E.N. says slowly. "I don't know if you know this or not, but I'm not much of a fighter."
"I'll take care of it," I find myself saying.
"B.E.N., you go back and find the others," Jim orders the robot as he slides underneath the longboat. "If I'm not back in five minutes…leave without me." That means I have to defeat this Heartless in less than five minutes. Great.
And before the urge to change my mind can really settle in, I force my feet to move in the direction of the Heartless.
"I am not leaving my best buddy Jimmy behind!" I can hear B.E.N. protest from behind me. Then a few seconds later, "Unless he looks at me like that…Bye Jim!"
Luckily for me, the Heartless has moved on and is nowhere near the gaping hole that is pulling the majority of the hoard in like a vacuum cleaner, which means I won't have to worry about accidentally tumbling in. As soon as I near the foe, it redirects its attention from the pipes to me, sensing a target to eliminate. It's fists return back to their owner.
Now let's see…how should I-
The Heartless lets out a deafening roar and charges at me, not willing to give me a chance to make the first move.
My whole body is frozen in place, and, to my utter disbelief, I realize I've forgotten to do the most important thing.
I forgot to summon my Keyblade.
Move, you dummy! My brain shouts at me, but I can't move a muscle. It's like my body has turned into a statue, and the only thing I can do is stand helplessly on the precipice of doom as my fate rushes to meet me.
"Back off!"
The Kingdom Key Keyblade hurtles like a boomerang towards the Heartless' head and strikes it on the head. The creature comes to a stop and whips its head in the direction the weapon came from, roaring.
I turn my head to the left to see the Keyblade return back to Sora's hand, and I let out a breath of relief as I see when I see Riku right behind him.
Five more seconds, and I would have been a goner. Good thing Sora and Riku showed up when they did. How'd they get past the crewman that was standing watch over them though?
The Heartless decides to attack Sora and Riku now and swipes a hand at them, but they easily dodge the attack and sprint over to join up with me.
"Kairi, you ok?" Sora asks, somewhat out of breath. The two of them must have run straight here from the boat without taking a break.
"I'm fine. How'd you guys get here?"
"While we were stuck on the boat, Dr. Doppler was lamenting how useless he felt, and how he felt he couldn't do anything, so he put his head in his hands, and that was when we noticed—"
"Uh, perhaps we should continue this story another time?" Riku interrupts. Sora and I snap our heads toward the Heartless, who lets out a booming roar. He means business this time.
It detaches all its limbs from its body. The fists group together and the feet grouping together, while the head and the torso stay together. All the appendages zoom toward us.
I get the hands, Riku gets the feet, and Sora goes after the head and torso. I wish I had gotten the feet like Riku did. They pretty much stay on the ground. To fight the fists, I have to constantly jump into the air just to reach them, and it doesn't help that they constantly flit around, forcing me to turn around before I can strike them nearly every time. It's like they're taunting me.
I use a combination of strikes using my Keyblade and Fire spells to defeat the fists of the giant Heartless. When the last of the fists disappears into thin air, I notice that Riku has already finished defeating his share and is lending a hand to Sora to defeat the rest of the Heartless.
I'm in the midst of running over to assist when the two of them unleash a ferocious round of combo strikes on the head and torso. The Heartless roars as it dissipates into darkness.
Defeating the Heartless was much easier than I thought it would be. I have Sora and Riku to thank for that. I'm glad they showed up when they did.
All of us jump at an earsplitting explosion. The laser beam has hit a longboat, and it's sending fiery embers raining down.
"We have to get out of here!" Riku shouts over the din of the explosion.
I look left and right. "Where's Jim?!"
"He's over there!" Sora points. Jim, and Mr. Silver, are running side-by-side towards the portal.
Not eager to be left behind, the three of us dash towards the exit as if we're running a marathon. We run outside the green portal to see Jim and Mr. Silver doubled over, taking in huge, deep breaths.
Jim recovers first. "Silver…you gave up all that treasure to save me?"
Mr. Silver huffs, a slight grin rising up on his face. "It's a lifelong obsession, I'll get over it." Morph flies over to cuddle with the cyborg. I guess Mr. Silver redeemed himself at the end.
"Aloha!"
The sound of engines flaring tears through the air and we look up to see the Legacy lowering to hover next to us. B.E.N. leans over the edge.
"Hurry people! We've got exactly 2 minutes and 34 seconds to planet's destruction!"
The ship wobbles before it bangs against the platform we're standing on, causing us to stumble back.
"I said gently!" Captain Amelia sounds very frustrated. Dr. Doppler must be the one driving then.
Once we hurry onto the ship, the ship rises into the air and accelerates forward. Numerous laser beams shoot up out of the ground, forcing Dr. Doppler to maneuver around them.
"Captain," Mr. Silver grins at Captain Amelia, "you dropped from the sky just in time to—"
"Save your clap-trap for the judge, Silver," the feline cuts in brusquely. Mr. Silver laughs nervously, pulling on his collar.
Something strikes one of the ship's solar sails and knocks it clean off. The mast falls on one of the laser cannons and smashes it in. The ship sinks down slightly as a result.
"Thrusters are at only 30% capacity!" B.E.N. shouts out.
Dr. Doppler is aghast. "But that means…we'll never clear the explosion in time…"
More laser beams sprout up all around us, blowing up the ground.
"We have to turn around," Jim says.
"What?!" Dr. Doppler shouts.
"There's a portal back there." Jim runs over to the damaged laser cannon. "It can get us out of here."
"Excuse me Jim, but doesn't that portal open up into a RAGING INFERNO?!"
"Yes," Jim grunts as he rips a piece off the laser cannon. "But I'm going to change that; I'm going to open a different door."
"Captain, I really don't see how this is going to—"
"Listen to the boy!" Mr. Silver barks as he hobbles down the stairs over to Jim.
"I minute and 29 seconds to planet's destruction!" B.E.N. calls out.
Mr. Silver produces a blowtorch from his robotic arm and fuses the engine of the laser cannon to the piece of the cannon Jim just pulled of, which resembles a board.
He helps Jim get his makeshift vehicle up onto the edge of the ship and the teenager jumps on it.
"Now no matter what, keep the ship heading straight towards the portal. Alright?" We all agree.
"58 seconds!"
On that note, Jim fires up the engine on his board and zips off into the air.
Mr. Silver wheels around to face Mr. Doppler. "Well you heard him! Get this blasted heap turned around!"
Captain Amelia commands Dr. Doppler to turn the vessel around, which he reluctantly does. Our fate now lies on Jim's shoulders. The only thing we can do now is just hope he can make it to the portal in time.
Jim told me before that he was good with riding a solar vehicle, but I didn't think he was this good. His reflexes are sharp and his skill is commendable. He expertly maneuvers himself around falling pieces of the planet that drop around him and evades falling objects on the turn of a dime.
"Narrow on the right, THE RIGHT!" Captain Amelia nags at the doctor.
"I know, I know! Will you just let me drive?!" The doctor nearly explodes in frustration.
"25 seconds!"
The engine on Jim's board dies out, and I can only watch helplessly as Jim begins to descend into a gaping hole in the ground, thanks to the planet's destruction.
"Come on, come on…"I chant under my breath nervously.
In a last-ditch effort, Jim rams his board against a large piece of the planet as he drives the engine against it. The friction is all he needs to get the engine up and running again, and a few seconds later, my fears are assuaged as Jim ascends into the air and sails towards the portal with not a second to lose.
"Seven...six...five…!" B.E.N. begins to count off and I unconsciously hold my breath, the tension building with each passing moment.
"Four…three…two!" Right when B.E.N. calls out "two", Jim presses a button on the map projection. The portal opens up to reveal dark blue skies and the crescent-shaped Montressor Spaceport. We made it.
A rousing cheer goes up on the ship (including from the crewmen tied up below deck, from what I can guess from the shouts coming from below) as Jim circles around the ship once before landing on deck. Dr. Doppler and Captain Amelia share a hug, but they quickly pull away from each other a second later, blushing slightly.
Sora, Riku, and I give varying remarks of approval as Dr. Doppler helps the captain down the stairs and over to Jim, an impressed look on her face.
"Unorthodox, but ludicrously…effective. I'd be proud to recommend you to the Interstellar Academy. They can use a man like you."
"Oh, Jim!" Dr. Doppler claps him on the back. "Wait to your mother hears about this! We should probably leave out the life-threatening details though…"
"Jimmy, that was unforgettable!" B.E.N. grins widely. "I know you don't like touching but…get ready for a hug, cause I gotta hug ya!" He laughs when he embraces Jim, and is surprised when Jim hugs him back, spinning him around.
"Hey, you hugged me back!"
The excitement dies down gradually, and I'm talking with the others before I realize that Mr. Silver managed to slink off and is nowhere to be found on the deck. And Jim seems to have slipped out as well.
Stealthily slinking away, I head towards the stairs that lead down to the hull of the ship. I keep walking until I find who I'm looking for. I hide when Mr. Silver and Jim come into view, in the room with the longboats. Jim pulls down the lever to open up the door on the floor, and then he unties the rope securing a sailboat.
"How about you ship out with us, lad?" Mr. Silver tries to persuade Jim as Morph flies around him. "Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Silver!" The cyborg throws his arms up in the air in grand fashion. "Full of ourselves and with no ties to anyone!"
Jim chuckles as Morph turns into a captain's hat and places himself on top of Jim's head. "You know…when I first got on the ship…I would have taken you up on that offer in a heartbeat." He removes Morph from his head, and the adorable little guy returns back to his natural state.
"But…" Jim stares out into the sky. "I met this old cyborg"—Mr. Silver smiles at that —"who said that I could chart my own path. My own destiny. I have a future now."
Mr. Silver beams at his protégé, chuckling to himself. "Look at ya, glowing like a solar fire. You're something special, Jim. You're going to rattle the stars." Jim's face shines in happiness. He blinks a couple times, most likely blinking back tears, and he steps forward and wraps his arms around Mr. Silver. The pirate reciprocates the hug, his massive arms enveloping Jim's frame tightly.
It's like a father-son moment. I hadn't even realized it but Mr. Silver had become Jim's father figure. I think he turned Jim's life around. Jim came on this adventure to find treasure to rebuild his mother's inn, but I think he found something else.
Mr. Silver coughed and the two broke apart. "Just a little bit of grease in this cyborg's eye." He wiped his eye. "I best be off now."
Morph immediately dissolves into a pool of tears, literally, into Jim's cupped hands.
"Don't be like that, Morph," Jim smiles. "I'll see you around." Morph sniffs and flies over to Mr. Silver.
Mr. Silver glances at the pink creature that's resting on his finger, then back at Jim.
"Morph…I need you to do something for me…I need you to watch over this pup." Mr. Silver eyes Jim. "Can you do it?" Morph salutes him and gives him one last cuddle on his cheek before flying happily over to Jim.
Mr. Silver chuckles before his eyes flash in my direction.
"Don't think I can't see you out there, lassie!" Mr. Silver calls out. I flinch reflexively at being caught. I guess I wasn't being as ninja-like as I thought.
With the cat out of the bag now, I sheepishly walk over. "Sorry. I didn't mean to eavesdrop."
"It's fine. It wasn't like we were discussing trade secrets or anything." Mr. Silver winks at me and I can't help but giggle.
A question then pops into my head, something that I was previously thinking about when Riku and I were discussing the cyborg's loyalties, but hadn't in a while since so much had happened since then. "Wait, Mr. Silver! You were the one who attacked the Benbow Inn when you were looking for the map to Treasure Planet, right?"
"Not something I'd like to admit, but yes, it was me."
"How come you commanded the Heartless there but you never used them again?"
"Heartless?" Mr. Silver appears confused. "What in the world are you talking about?"
"You know, those…piratey-looking creatures that were in the inn right before it burned down."
It's a couple moments before Mr. Silver remembers what I'm talking about. "Oh, you mean those things! I wasn't commanding them! They were already there when I got there. I had me men take care of them after they tried to attack us."
So since Mr. Silver didn't command the Heartless, then that meant they came of their accord, and Mr. Silver just happened to be coincidentally attacking the inn at the same time.
The King did say that Keyblade wielders were susceptible to random Heartless attacks. And if Mr. Silver's fellow mutineers fought the Heartless there, it would explain why when the Heartless attacked the ship en route to Treasure Planet, the crew members knew immediately what to do.
The cyborg gets onto the sailboat as it begins to descend. "Oh! Speaking of which!" He reaches deep into his jacket pocket and tosses Jim several gold coins and gems. "It's for your dear mother. To rebuild that inn of hers."
Jim smiles gratefully down at him. "Stay out of trouble…old scalawag," he speaks quietly.
Mr. Silver chortles as the solar sail on his longboat flares out and the boat drops into the air. "Now Jimbo! When you have known me to do otherwise?"
The engine fire flares out and Mr. Silver disappears from sight, his warm laughter fading off into the distance.
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"Found it!" Sora's voice carries over to Riku and I. We stop searching underneath the rocks lining the Benbow Inn and hurry over to our bushy-haired friend.
On the ground in front of him is the shape of a Keyhole, roughly the size of a shoe.
Once we got back to Montressor and met up with Mrs. Hawkins at the spaceport, Jim, Sora, Riku, and I went back to the scorched remains of the inn to see for ourselves what remained of it, and, surprise, surprise, there was another Heartless attack. More of them attacked us than the first day we were here. As if there wasn't enough damage to the area already.
Riku had surmised that the Keyhole must be around here, since the Heartless seemed to be very fond of the area. So he, Sora and I started moving the rocks around near the inn to see if Riku's theory was correct. It was.
"Hmm…" Riku crosses his arms over his chest. "As I figured, it's on the ground. Haven't seen one of these since Olympus Coliseum."
I glance at him. "How do we seal it then?"
"Simple," he says with a shrug. "Sora?"
"On it!" Sora commands his Keyblade to his hand and holds it in front of him. A second later, the tip of his Keyblade shines a blue light and a single beam of light shoots out from it. It strikes the Keyhole, causing it to light up for a moment. After the Keyhole's glow fades away, the tip of Sora's Keyblade stops shining.
He de-summons the Keyblade. "Okay. Keyhole sealed."
Frowning, I look between the Keyhole and Sora. "That's it?" Just a flash of light and the Keyhole is sealed? I thought there'd be a more complicated process than this, like sticking the Keyblade into the hole and, I don't know, chanting some incantations or something.
"That's it," Sora says simply. "Now that the Keyhole is sealed, we can move on to the next world."
"You guys are leaving?" The three of us turn around to see Jim standing there, Morph hovering next to him. "Already?"
I smile apologetically. "Yeah…Sorry, but we've got to go. Duty calls."
"The adventure was fun though," Sora remarks. "Though I didn't get to see much of the treasure…"
Riku shakes his head in amusement. "It was nice meeting you, Jim. Say goodbye to the others for us, will you?"
Jim nods his head. "No problem." A grin jumps onto his face. "Come back soon. Thanks to the treasure Mr. Silver gave me, my mom and I can rebuild the inn, and we're going to have it decked out. You should come back and see it sometime."
"Can't wait," I grin back at him. Morph flies a few times around Sora, Riku and I, causing us all to laugh.
We wave goodbye to Jim and Morph as we board the waiting Gummi ship. I plop down into the seat, my shoulders deflating as I sink into the leathery chair. It's nice to have a chance to relax after everything that I've been through.
Riku sits down in the driver's seat before Sora can claim it. "My turn."
Once Chip and Dale give him the go-ahead, he lifts the ship high into the air, leaving Jim, Morph, and the remnants of the Benbow Inn down below, and we rocket off back into space, journeying to a new world with new people to meet.
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ElvenPrincess01: Ok! The Treasure Planet Saga is over! Though I'm going to miss this world a little. I love the Treasure Planet movie, and it was fun writing about it. But all good things must come to an end, and I couldn't keep Team SRK here forever.
Riku: You seem to like using Team SRK.
ElvenPrincess01: Well it beats writing out Sora, Riku and Kairi all the time.
Riku: Good point.
ElvenPrincess01: Thanks for reading! And I would appreciate any reviews you guys want to leave me. But no flames, please. That's Axel's forte.
Sora: Is Axel going to appear in the story? Cause if so, that would be—
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