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Rav stamped the ground several times and growled at Kivara, who glared towards the large feline. "Now, now, let's not get rowdy here. I just want to talk and ask some questions." Rav swiped at Kivara and the blue haired teen cringed as she felt Rav's large powerful claws slashed her flesh.
Sora watched as a large pool of blood fell to the floor and the sound of it hitting the ground made him cringe. Opening his mouth to call her name, Sora heard a soft humm.
Healing Magic: Regenerate
Kivara rolled her shoulder and and felt the wounds close and smirk as she heard a surprised gasp come from behind her. "Don't think I forgot about you, Sora. Now that you're healed up, you should find cover, this is going to get rough." Sora weakly stood and tested things out. Kivara was right, he felt better than before and he was pretty sure any internal wounds were gone.
If any indication from the humming Sora heard and slightly felt, those words Kivara spoke were a Healing spell that reached him. Nodding, Sora ran forward towards Kivara, keyblade at the ready. "Well, you must have a screw loose if you think I'm going to leave a friend behind. Especially, when I can fight." Kivara frowned and threw her left hand upwards and pulled it down to reveal a large transparent scythe.
"As much as that Is courageous of you Sora, this is a fight not meant for you. This is between me and Rav, he's like this because of me. So it's only fair that I take him down, plus I don't think a newbie like you can handle a demon of legend." Kivara spoke on deaf ears as Sora was entranced by the transparent scythe that Kivara tightly held in both hands.
It seemed to be made of a pale blue gem and held details of wisps of white. The detailing of white were like the wind escaping into the blue sky. Sora's opened his mouth slightly and he continued to stare at the large weapon. He couldn't shake the feeling that he had seen that scythe before, somewhere.
Kivara looked towards Sora from the corner of her eye and frowned. Seeing a glint enter her vision, Kivara quickly pushed Sora out of the way and raised her Scythe to meet Rav's large claws. Sora watched as Kivara pushed back Rav with ease. Glaring towards Sora, Kivara yelled towards the teen.
"Come on, you're only going to make things worse. I know I sent Rav to protect you but in this state, Rav doesn't recognize anyone and will attack everyone. So I need you to take cover and stand by, I'll call you if I need a hand okay?" Sora gave Kivara a blank stare before nodding and running off towards the cover of a nearby building patio.
Hearing familiar clashes, Sora turned from his little hideout and saw best friends at each other's neck, each holding an intense look in their eye.
"Come on, hit me with all you've got! Prove to me you're worthy to stay by my side, you filthy demon!" Kivara yelled as she moved her Scythe to slice through Rav only for the feline to disappear from sight and reappear on top of the lamp post. Kivara glared at the demon and gripped tighter onto her scythe. Kivara yelled as Rav let out a powerful roar that made the teen girl slide back slightly.
Soon the two launched at each other.
Leon aimlessly ran through the third district trying to find Sora and came short in finding the jumpsuit wearing teen. Groaning, Leon pinched his nose and shook his head. He thought on trying to go and find the teen somewhere else, but he knew that Sora had just arrived at the world and he couldn't possibly know where his friend went. So Leon knew that he had to be in the third district and with that, Leon walked back to the green room.
Once there, he found a small white duck that wore a blue hat with it's end flopping down at it's side, decorated with zippers going in lines across the top. He wore a dark blue vest that was zipped up and held small pouches on the vest from what Leon guessed for magical items, considering the small duck was holding a magical wand with a bent hat at it's top. Orange webbed feet tapped angrily as he stared up at Leon and he just gave him a confused look. Opening his mouth to shout at the teen, Donald felt gloved hands quickly place themselves on his shoulders.
Goofy gave a nervous smile towards Leon and Leon responded with a small nod. Goofy wore a long sleeved turtleneck, with a puffy black vest over it. Yellow pants were tied high on his waist and patches of off set brown at the knee. He wore black shoes that held silver tip and shined under the light. An orange hat, set on his head somewhat in the shape of one side of an heart and a set of goggles were placed on his head.
Soon a jumping cricket came out of the crook of Goofy's neck and wagged his gloved finger at Donald. "Now, Donald just because he accidently hit you doesn't mean you have to go hold a grudge against him. After all he did apologize, though rushed, he apologized." Leon frown and then vaguely remembered hitting someone when he chased after Sora and he pounded his fist in his palm.
"Now I remember you, yeah, sorry about hitting you earlier, I was just trying to catch up to Sora. Anyway, did you need something to tell me?" Leon questioned as he walked over to inspect the broken window from earlier. As Leon inspected the broken window, Goofy came forward and pulled out the same letter that he tried to give to Aerith earlier. "Leon, right? Can you tell us what you know about the General of Janaria, but more importantly, the key of legend?"
Leon placed a hand on his chin in thought and closed his eyes. The name Janaria seemed to tick in his brain and he couldn't figure out why until he opened his eyes to see a red light off in the distance. Snapping his fingers, Leon shouted.
"I remember now, the General of Janaria, a man of brute strength that brought fear into the battlefield. Though his world didn't participate in many battles, his name was well known for being a ruthless killer on the war grounds!" walking over to a nearby bookshelf, Leon pulled out a book and opened to the page he was searching for. After finding the page, he placed it down towards the table and waited for the dog to lean over the table.
"I thought that I had heard that name, Janaria, but I wasn't sure. That is until I saw that red light in the corner that reminded me of the red moon festival that I was reading about that happens on that world. I had some trouble trying to find this book, but it was worth it." Goofy nodded and watched as Leon turned the page and saw a depiction of what the General looked like and frowned.
The picture in the book depicted a tall and muscular tan man who had many scars detailing his body. The most prominent one being the one jagged lighting looking scar going straight down his chest. Goofy stared at the long red hair that was tied into a low ponytail that went over his left shoulder. His wore armour that was similar to his own and Goofy knew that Janaria was also a place still running with knights and honor.
Goofy shook his head, confused, as he pulled his eyes away from the dark colored ones that were drawn in the book. "Thank you for your help, but now we're still in the dark about their whereabouts. Though, that's not what we're looking for now, what can you tell us about the key of legend?"
Leon gave a small smile as he closed his eyes. "The key of legend, huh? Well, sorry to tell you, you just missed him and I have no idea where to find him. I do however know that he's in the third district, considering he's new and all. He couldn't have gone that far, so if we wait and-"
Yuffie climbed in through the broken window and called for Leon. "Yo Leo, that kid is in the first district, but that's not all, we got a full on heartless attack happening!" Leon paused and closed his mouth. Meanwhile, Goofy and the gang gave him a questioning gaze. Feeling the heated stare, Leon nodded towards Yuffie and climbed after her through the window. "What I meant to say is, that he's in the first district. Also, if you could help with the heartless attack, that would be great."
Donald shook his head and took off running through the door, that lead outside. Goofy looked out the broken window and nodded before taking off after his friend.
While the group left, Aerith calmly walked in with a tray holding glasses filled with iced tea, eyes closed she smiled. "Alright, I got drinks." Hearing no response, Aerith opened her eyes to find an empty room.
Deadpanning, Aerith let out a breath. "Again guys? Really?" With that, Aerith dejectedly walked out the room to put away the iced teas.
Leon ran down the pathways of the second district and followed Yuffie. The self proclaimed Ninja, seemed to be giving him a run for his money as he struggled to keep up. As much as he was physically fit, this girl was a monster with her speed and endurance. Calling after the short haired girl, Leon huffed.
He thought himself to be in shape but Yuffie always reminded him that maybe a couple more trips around the districts couldn't hurt. After finally complying with his wishes, Yuffie stopped running but instead settled for running in place. "Come on Leo, if we're gonna catch that heartless and save that girl, then we need to hurry! She could be in huge trouble!" Leon glared at her as he leaned forward trying to catch his breath. "For the hundredth, the name's Leon and don't forget the ones that are actually seeking the key of legend for his majesty!"
Yuffie looked over Leon and saw Goofy and Donald off in the very distance. "Who are they?" Yuffie wondered and a large roar came from the first district. She looked towards Leon and back towards the gate to the First district. Weighing the pros and cons, Yuffie decided it was best that she went to the first district.
"Yuffie, wait up!" Leon caught a glimpse of Donald and them a few days behind and opted to wait rather than chase after Yuffie. He just really hoped that He wouldn't regret it.
Kivara huffed and felt the burning sensation spread throughout her lungs and greedily took in air to try and calm her body. She had just gotten pinned by the large feline, who was currently hiding from her and she barely escaped him. Kivara felt the pain slowly dissipate and she was able to breath calmly. She closed her eyes and gripped onto her large scythe. She needed to focus and make sure that she could still focus on Rav's wave length.
The longer Rav was in his feral state, the worse the after effects would be once he returned back to normal. She needed to hurry this up and move on.
Sora watched as Kivara stood there from what he assumed to be contemplating her next move. Busy with her thoughts, Kivara didn't notice Rav reappear behind her and Sora panicked. He ran forward but stopped when he heard a familiar voice.
"Hey, you walking marshmallow! Take this!" Yuffie yelled as she landed on a nearby brick wall. She held two pairs of shuriken in each hand and there them towards Rav. This had gained the attention of Kivara and she panicked. She gripped her weapon and ran in front of Rav who turned his attention to Yuffie.
Sora noticed this and quickly did the same to protect her. "Kivara, watch out!" As soon as Kivara had stood in place, scythe ready to block the shuriken, Sora jumped in last minute in front of her to block the shuriken with his body.
Kivara determined the distance from the flying objects and a determined faced was set. As Sora stood, ready to face the weapons, Kivara quickly hooked her foot around Sora's ankle so she was able to swing herself around. Kivara was now facing her back to the flying projectiles and quickly casted a barrier spell.
Crystal Ice: Shield
A thin layer of light red crystal grew from the ground and covered them both. The two shuriken embedded themselves into the crystal. Wide eyed, Sora watched Kivara's blue golden eyes scan past the crystal. Yuffie yelled at her confused, while Kivara's shoulders hung in relief.
Facing towards the reckless teen, Kivara began tossing angry shouts.
"What the hell! If I told you to stay out of this, what made you think that you should do something like that!" Sora, still shell shocked, only gaped towards Kivara. Shaking her head at the shocked teen, Kivara pushed Sora away and cast the same spell before but making sure it encased Sora this time.
Nodding at her work, Kivara turned to face her main problem and was met with large, strong in pain, Kivara felt as Rav's large jaws closed in on her right side. Kivara heard the muffled shouts of Sora, as he banged his fists against the glass. The clatter of her scythe dropping to the floor resounded through the area.
Yuffie jumped off her ledge and it was then that Leon came into the picture with the rest following.
"Yuffie, what did you do!" Leon yelled as he assessed the situation of everyone. So far he saw a large silver heartless with Orange gold eyes glaring and biting onto a girl with chin length blue hair. As well as Sora trapped in a Crystal dome.
Yuffie shook her head and yelled back. "Oh no, I didn't do it this time. Okay, maybe I did throw the shuriken but I didn't do all this!" Yuffie motioned towards the scene in front of them and Leon sighed. Jumping over the ledge that Yuffie was previously on, Leon made it so that he could help the girl stick in the heartless jaws, when said girl's hand rose.
Glaring over to Leon, Kivara struggled to speak. Blood flowed from her wounds and she cough,which in the end caused the teeth piercing her skin to sink in further. Kivara grunted in pain as she felt Rav growl in warning, when she moved.
"Leave him so me, this is my partner, my brother and I need to be the one who brings him back. Usually I would tell you to help me, but please kindly take your crap and stand back!" Kivara grunted as she was lifted off the ground. Leon hesitated before backing off and Yuffie just stared at him and Sora yelled at him from his imprisonment. Sora, frustrated, summoned his keyblade and began to whack at the crystal. Which in the end did nothing but he still continued to work at it.
Donald and Goofy watched as Kivara was being held by the large heartless. They felt their stomachs lurch as they watched the girl helplessly hang from the mouth of the large heartless. Goofy couldn't just stand there and watch, he had to go and help. Raising his shield, Goofy got ready to jump down when Leon stopped him. Slowly shaking his head in denial, Leon explained why.
"She needs to do this herself, I don't know what's between the two but she needs to do this. I think Yuffie was wrong when she said it was heartless. I really think that this is someone close to her and doing this will help build their relationship. The after effects though, those are undecided." Goofy assessed the scene in front of him and duly nodded.
Kivara coughed as Rav lifted her off the ground, smiling, she laughed. Kivara let out a dry breath, blood began to drip on the stone floor. Raising a trembling hand, Kivara patted Rav's snout.
"Is that better now? Will you finally be able to come back?" Kivara was met with growls and sinking canines, she responded by hissing in pain. Moving past the pain, Kivara continued to pet Rav's snout. "I'm sorry I left you, but I'm here now, I'm here and we can go back to the way things were. All you have to do is relax and remember, I'm here and I love you."
Everyone was silent, even the muffled shouts of Sora stopped and Kivara smiled towards Rav. Her eyelids felt heavy as she started to feel her body ever so slightly go heavy. As Kivara saw her vision fade around the edges, she heard soft noises.
Slowly, large teeth retracted and a dull pain was released in Kivara's body. She moaned in pain and softly patted her wounds. The longer she assessed her wounds, the louder the noises got. She paid no mind to that matter now, she has a mission and she needed to get it done before too late.
She casted the same healing spell again and felt relieved to feel her wounds disappear but for some reason scars were left behind. Shaking her head, she felt any other wounds patch themselves up. Finally she opened her eyes to gaze towards a cowering silver fur ball in front of her, making such anxious noises. Grinning, Kivara walked over and picked up the small fluff ball, while at the same time grabbing a new collar from her space pocket.
Wrapping it around her partner's neck, she waited for him to calm down and placed him over the shoulder he had just bitten. Smiling she patted his fur and began to walk over to everyone else, after releasing Sora of course.
However, in hindsight she should've talked to everyone else before releasing the sentimental teen first.
Falling in the floor, Kivara was tackled by none other than Sora himself, and the teen began yelling. "What the hell? What was that? You tell me it's 'Dangerous' and 'I could get hurt?' but what about you! What was that? Do you know how scared I was! Why did you stop me!" Kivara sighed and patted Sora's back. "Listen, Sora, I did what I needed to and the reason I kept you out of this is because you are inexperienced. I am more trained in my skill, you have no training or experience fighting. So excuse me if I wanted to protect the only person that is capable of helping in the fight against the darkness."
Sora duly noted as he raised himself from Kivara and began to dust himself off. Sora looked down at his friend and spoke in a soft voice. "What would you have done if I wasn't the chosen one? Would you have left me and pretend I wasn't even there? Would you still have cast that spell to protect me?"
Kivara shot Sora a worried glance and raised Rav high up her shoulder as she stood on her own. When she knew he wasn't going to look her in the eye, Kivara let out a tired breath. "You're acting as if you already know of the troubles of being the chosen one, the different treatment that comes with have that title and it's funny." Sora crossed his arms and looked over to the side, still adamant of not looking Kivara. "And I suppose you know of the difference of treatment?"
Kivara gave a sad smile and Sora looked forward and saw something that he never saw in the female teen. What he saw in her eyes sent shivers down his spine. He saw years of wisdom and pain and most of all a tiredness. Not the physical kind, but rather the emotional kind. The one that drove you to the point of insanity when too much. The longer the he stared into her eyes, the more of the sensation of just wanting to fall on the ground and just let out a frustrated and tired scream became eminent.
Sora had to look away from his friend and shake the feeling away. Kivara breathed out a laugh as she moved some hair away from her eyes. "I guess you could say that." Beginning to walk away towards where her gates of light stood, Kivara paused in her steps and raised a hand in goodbye.
"Answering your question from before, I would. I would have still casted that spell to protect you, because no matter what you think,I'll always think of you as my friend and you always protect your friends." Sora looked towards the teen in surprise and watched as she removed the gates from their place since they long disappeared and summoned a pink portal.
Waving goodbye, Kivara shot a smile over her shoulder to Sora. "See you later, tell your new friends that I still have some cleaning up to do and I'll join you guys later." Nodding, Sora had to verbally say so, since Kivara had began walking towards the portal she had created. Disappearing into the portal, Sora watched as she left but had rubbed at his eyes when he thought he saw something quickly run in after her.
He lost a lot of blood today, maybe he just needed to lay down and rest, speaking of resting, Sora liked the idea of taking a nap right then and there.
Soon, Sora felt himself begin to feel drowsy and sleep finally caught up with him and everything went black.
Leon shook his head and jumped the brick wall once more to head towards Sora, who had fallen unconscious. It's not that he blamed the kid, he had just been through so much in one day. The loss of his home and friends, several beatings, some on his account. Though he already apologized, it didn't change the fact that it happened.
Everyone watched as Leon carefully lifted Sora off the ground and onto his back. Walking past the group, Leon called for Yuffie. "Make sure to get some potions ready Yuffie, after what this kid's been through, he's gonna need it." Yuffie nodded and ran up one the buildings to get to her destination quicker.
Looking back to Donald and everyone else, Leon spoke in a serious tone. "Get ready, because at this point Aerith saw the broken window and when she sees that Sora is knocked again, she won't be in the happiest mood." Leon shivered before he continued walking and the rest of the group couldn't help but wonder what a nice young woman could really do?
They were wrong, they were oh so very wrong. Donald and them knew that now as stood in the doorway watching everything go down. It first began with a warm welcome from the kind teen and they thought everything was fine and dandy. That was until Leon placed Sora down on the couch and they walked into a new room.
It first began with a firm scolding the escalated to full on yelling then if that wasn't enough, Aerith began to toss everything in sight. All the while, Leon stood stiffly in the middle of the room and tried his best not to make a peep, knowing from experience that if he were to cause a disturbance in Aerith's rampage would be the end of him.
Now from far away, it would seem that Leon was not affected by seeing Aerith acting as such rather than her usual kind person. However, this wasn't necessarily the case, if you were to pay attention, you could see the fear and panic in Leon's eyes as he watched Aerith continue with what she was doing.
Once she had finished with her little fit, Aerith let out a tired breath and fixed her dress. Patting down a few strays that popped up from her fit. Finally done with straightening herself, Aerith huffed and made her way towards the doorway to which Goofy stepped back and the others followed in suit. Once she was gone, everyone let out a breath of relief. One that they hadn't realized they were holding.
Slowly walking into the room, everyone had taken notice that the room itself resembled one that was hit by a tornado, a tornado called Aerith. Leon still frozen in place, watched as everyone piled on the room and waited for the click of the door closing before he let out a heavy breath. Jiminy hopped down from his place on Goofy's shoulder and onto the round table at the center of the room. His umbrella unfurled to slow his descent. Once reaching the table, Jiminy straightened himself out.
"So does she do this often, considering the fact that you already have a set routine on what to do?" the small cricket questioned as he tried to sort out the mess of paper on the table. Leon paused in his cleaning and glanced at the small cricket. Looking towards the closed door, the only separation between him and that fury that is Aerith, the teen spoke in a low voice.
"She doesn't necessarily do it often, but when she does, you learn to watch your back. Once when she had her scene, another one of our friends was dumb enough to go and reason with her." Leon paused to feel an involuntary shiver go down his spine. "Let's just say he needed more than a couple of potions to heal himself up."
The whole room felt a wave of fear fall upon them when they heard the door behind them slowly creak open. Light clunks of heavy boots resounded through the dead silent room as Aerith walked in with a tray of freshly made ice tea and snacks. Quietly she placed them next to Jiminy who had moved out of the way and smiled as she passed him a tall glass of tea with a straw. Reaching into her pocket, Aerith produced a small miniature stool to aid Jiminy reaching his drink. Nodding in thanks, the small cricket removed in hat.
Aerith smiled kindly and walked towards the door as everyone watched carefully. Aerith spoke in a calm tone as she walked out of the room. "We're out of potions, after what happened today, I have a feeling we're going to need more. So I'm going to head to the shop and get some more." Leon nodded and watched the door close.
Simultaneously, everyone let out sighs of relief before laughing.
"I don't know why I thought that would go bad?" Goofy said as he laughed, everyone agrees save for Leon who only looked off to the side to where Yuffie hid. Hearing her voice spring out from the closet, Jiminy jumped in surprise and held onto his small chair chest. "Is she gone?" Leon assured Yuffie that Aerith had left and the self proclaimed ninja hopped out of the closet.
"Man, to think I came back in the middle of one of her fits! I feel sorry you had to take the brunt end of it my friend." Yuffie chirped and watch Leon shake his head. Yuffie laughed all the same before getting down to business. "Anyway, look what I was I able to snag! I got some information on this cool new place! Maybe we find some coordinates in this thing!"
Everyone watched as Yuffie pulled out a large black leather bound journal from her a bag she was carrying. Placing it the table, everyone crowded around the black haired ninja.
Kivara smiled as she watched Rav light up in the small moon pool. She had created this room a long time ago, should something like before ever happen. It had it's uses, such as healing the spiritual mind and heart, however this room only ever brought her terrible memories, because she knew that every time Kivara stepped into this room, something bad had happened.
Shaking it off, Kivara walked down a set of stairs from her podium and walked towards Rav who lay in a small fountain, soaking in the water from the pool and the light of the moon that shined overhead from an skylight. She smiled as she heard soft whimpers and mewls come from the demon cat in her arms.
Gently, Kivara ran her fingers through Rav's fur and watch as he struggled to wake up. However, it wasn't long until he did so and bright, shining golden blue eyes were the first thing Rav saw. Letting out a happy sound, something similar to a small meow, Rav wiggled in Kivara's arms and moved to lay against the girl.
Kivara giggled at the feline and felt hot tears hit her shoulder. "I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry. Words can't even begin to describe how sorry I am!" Rav's hoarse voice croaked out as he leaned on his best friend. His golden yellow eyes shut tightly as he nuzzled into Kivara's neck. Kivara shushed her friend and rubbed her cheek against the soft cloud that was Rav's fur. "If anything, I'm sorry for leaving you like. I knew the risks and I still let you go. You probably felt my presence disappear when I was passing through portals to this world. So all of this is my fault, I'm sorry. Could you find it in your heart to ever forgive me?" Kivara mumbled as he stroked the soft fur.
Pushing himself back using his paws, Rav leaned back to look into Kivara's eyes and used his paws to squish her cheeks together. "Forgive you!? If anything I should be apologizing to you!" Rav exclaimed, surprised and he shook his head look down in shame.
The small feline was quiet for sometime, especially when he saw the faint scars from where his teeth pierced his skin. Rav felt an angry from deep inside himself as he stared at said scars. Sensing said anger, Kivara nuzzled the cat's forehead and Rav welcomed the attention. "Don't hate yourself for these scars, I love them, because it proves just how much stronger our bond will be after this." Kivara reveled in the shocked look of her partner and smiled brightly.
She watched as the feline's body started to shake and watched as the small animal began to wail once again. Laughing, Kivara let Rav vent out his emotions and she waited patiently. When he was done, Kivara watched as Rav shrunk in size from a medium sized cat to the size of a chipmunk. She heard the soft snores of her companion and she chuckled, placing him on her head to rest, confident he wouldn't fall. "Goodnight Rav, see you soon."
Kivara summoned her portal again and walked into it, disappearing from the area. As soon as she was gone, a shadowy figure stumbled out of the darkness, panting. He was severely wounded, as he seemed to be severely burned. He held onto his left shoulder in pain and blew dark hair out of his emerald eyes.
"I swear next time I will have him and I'll make sure that I finally take you down, dearest sister." The figure spat out with such venom as a dark portal of black and purple swirls appeared behind him. Walking into it, the figure glared towards the pure light energy that was pouring in through the skylight and glared as it was amplified by the type of glass that was used.
Placing two fingers to his star constellation belt, the figure called onto the Gemini constellation and it appeared in his hands in the form of two orbs of darkness. Spitting out a spell with such hatred, the figure walked into the portal, not caring to see the damage he caused.
"Dark arts: Ruination"
Aerith walked the streets of the second district, irritation gnawing at her. She carried a bag full of potions and another full of groceries. Pushing past the doors to the second district, Aerith let out a huff of breath. Twice today that poor kid had fallen due to his injuries, some due to her reckless friend and she couldn't help but growl in thought.
Pushing her hair up, Aerith let out a fro breath and let it go, what was important is that Sora was in bed, resting. Aerith nodded to herself as she looked down to the potions and elixirs she carried. They had run out of them earlier and she wasn't able to fully heal Sora completely, which made Aerith grew slightly annoyed at the memory.
However thinking back to It, Aerith noticed that he didn't seemed to be as fatigued or hurt as she saw him earlier. She wondered as to why that was? Did someone cast a spell on him or hand him a potion from before? Shaking her head of those thoughts, Aerith made her way down the stairs to the center of the second district. Emerald eyes scanning the nearby shops as she walked.
Aerith paused as she walked, feeling the area around her to be eerily quiet. Sensing a slight shift of energy around, Aerith cursed as she realized she didn't have her spear on her. She just prayed that her suspicions were wrong and continued on walking. However, nothing was ever that easy, as a group of heartless block her path from heading back towards the hotel.
Quickly jumping backward, to create some distant between her and the heartless, she noticed that two large bodies, a couple of soldiers and heartless showed up. Quickly, Aerith stashed her belongings under a nearby bench and raised her fists, ready to try and fight her way back to the hotel.
Not liking her situation, Aerith shrugged,beggars can't be choosers, so she had to get past these guys if she ever planned on getting back. It was going to be a little harder without her weapon, but Aerith was sure she was able to create an opening for her escape. Enough with stalling, Aerith races forward, attack the soldiers first, since they were the ones known to cause more damage with their swiftness. However, this might have not been the best idea since her bare fist collided with the cool, hard metal that was the soldier's helmet.
Shaking her hand from the pain, Aerith had to quickly jump to avoid a swift punch from one of the large bodies. She watched as red eyes stared into her own soullessly. Frowning, she had to sidestep a swipe from the heartless and watched as it phased to back to the ground to become two dimensional. As she had her attention on the heartless circling underneath her, Aerith lost track of the other heartless around her.
Open and defenseless, the soldiers ran forward, armour clanking around them and some raised their claws for a simple slash, while the others jumped up to give her a slash kick. Aerith barely had enough time to raise her hands to defend herself, and winced when she felt some claws slash at her skin.
It was then while Aerith was licking her wounds, the two Large bodies waddled forward and one of them pounded their hands on the ground. This caused Aerith to be tossed in the air and gained damaged from the shockwave, rocks slicing her skin. The second large bodies took this chance to then slam his hand against Aerith's body, effectively tossing her across the second district to slam into the bottom portion of the gizmo building.
The loud sound of breaking bones was heard and Aerith let out a pained shout as she slammed against the wall. Gravity increasing on her, Aerith fell to the ground in a heap and she fell face forward. Not having the strength to break her fall, Aerith merely awaited her body to impact the hard, cold stone floor. When that didn't happen, clouded green eyes opened to stare into golden blue ones. A blue that hint of purple and bursts of aqua green, surrounded by a halo of gold around the iris.
Kivara smiled down towards the woman she held in her arms. Carefully, she raised her hand upwards and allowed Aerith to watch as her hand began to glow a pale purple. Clicks could be heard as Rav landed in front of the two woman and growled to the charging heartless.
"Rav, you know what to do, I need to attend towards the injured." Kivara called as she placed her palm above Aerith's chest.
Rav turned around to face Aerith, giving her a fanged grin. "Well, looks like you're the one being treated this time, Miss Aerith!"
With that Rav nodded towards Kivara and ran forwards, his feet shining in a white light. Rav had increased his size once more and was the size of a lion.
Slashing at the weaker heartless, Rav quickly disposed of them. It was when it came to the Large bodies, did Rav grow somewhat nervous. He watched with anxious eyes as the two heartless came waddling forward towards him, surprisingly fast for their size. However, looking back to the broken and battered woman in Kivara's arms, a steely resolve set in his mind.
Bounding forward, Rav picked up speed and launched him upwards using the large belly of the heartless in front of him. The two heartless stared as Rav sailed in the air. Feeling the chill air pass through his fur, Rav shivered but grinned all the same.
"Heads up!" Rav shouted.
Kivara flinched as she her partner flip himself in the air, Kivara quickly popped out a two pairs of earplugs from her pockets. "Here, trust me, you don't want to hear this."
Placing the plugs in Aerith's ear canal, she quickly did the same for her and gave Rav the signal. Rav let out a mischievous laugh and opened his mouth, mentally shouting his spell.
"BLINDING SHOCKWAVE!"
Both teens watched as Rav roared and his sound waves were visible. The waves shot towards the two Large bodies and seemed to be made of pure white light. Aerith watched, shock filling up her being. As soon as the first wave hit the two heartless, Aerith saw then freeze and the rest of the waves caused them to disappear.
Kivara laughed as she watched her partner gracefully land. Carefully stepping over Aerith, Kivara ran towards her partner. "Woah, you good you little furball? Because you seemed like a different person out there! Like you finally decided to let loose!" Kivara then circled around Rav inspecting the large feline as if he grew two heads. Rav grew annoyed and barked at the teen.
"Like your one to talk, little miss 'I no show emotions for two years!'. Rav huffed and padded over to Aerith, who still laid on the ground, shocked.
Looking back to Kivara, Rav shouted once more. "You did remember to heal Aerith, right?"
Kivara frowned, crossing her arms, as she walked over to them and glared at her companion. "Yeah, what do you take me for, an amateur? I know what I'm doing." Rav watched as the girl looked a bit proud of herself and shook his head, turning back to Aerith.
Gently nudging the woman, Rav helped her to her feet, to which Aerith noticed that all previous pain was gone. Aerith looked up towards the blue haired woman in front of her and took in what she was wearing. Kivara was wearing her original purple corset with gold trimmed purple arm sleeves from when she was back on Janaria. Aerith noticed as the light reflected off the corset, the ruby at the base of the woman's stomach glowed and she could've sworn she felt a heat radiate off of it.
A strong wind passed by them and Aerith watched as Kivara's aqua blue green skirt fluttered, revealing edges of the black shorts that she wore. Raking her green eyes downwards, Aerith took noticed of black painted, exposed toes, as Kivara wore nothing on her feet. Aerith also took notice of the silver anklet that Kivara wore, as two gems, ruby and sapphire hung from it by strings.
Kivara smiled and extended a warm and gentle hand towards Aerith's face, to wipe off some blood from her cheek. Sure, Kivara casted a healing spell on Aerith but that didn't mean she mended clothes or clean up any blood that appeared. Smirking, Kivara let out a small laugh at Aerith's exposed and ragged clothes.
"Don't you feel a breeze, Miss Aerith?" Kivara snickered behind her purple sleeve and Rav chastised her by hitting her with his big and fluffy tail. Confused, Aerith looked down to herself and saw that a good portion of her pink dress had been ripped, exposing view of what lay underneath here and there, especially towards her chest, where some of the jumping soldiers hit her.
Face as red as the bright ruby on Kivara's stomach, Aerith let out a small squeak and quickly moved to cover herself. Unable to contain her laughter, Kivara busted out in a fit of giggles. Aerith frowned towards her savior and let out an annoyed huff as she walked towards where she left her things.
Kivara wiped at her eyes of the tears that escaped and Rav rolled his eyes towards his partner. Finally, composing herself, Kivara ran forward to catch up with Aerith. As she finally caught up with the brunette, Kivara smiled apologetically.
"Look, Aerith I'm sorry, it's just that squeak was too adorable back there! Here, as apology, take this!" Producing a large red cloak from one of her space pockets, Kivara handed it towards the exposed female as a truce.
Aerith warily stared at the piece of clothing before looking back at herself and nodded. Grasping onto the cloak, Aerith quickly clasped it around herself and smiled as everything was now covered. Looking towards, Kivara, Aerith stuck her hand past the cloak and smiled.
"I'm sorry, you seem to know my name, yet I don't know yours." Aerith smiled and her eyes glanced towards Rav who smiled brightly from his spot next to Kivara. Kivara smiled and shook hands with the older female. "The name's Kivara Slav, don't worry the only reason I know your name is because of this light bulb here." Aerith nodded as she suspected such.
Bending over, Aerith grabbed her bags and began to walk back to the hotel with Kivara and Rav following. They walked in silence before Kivara spoke up.
"Hey, Aerith, you wouldn't by chance have seen a boy about yay big, brown spiky hair?" Kivara raised her hand to her eyes and Aerith smiled down at Kivara, nodding her head to follow.
Journal Entry One:
Arriving here was hectic, but we finally made it. Me and the others looked in awe as we saw the majestic world in front of our eyes. It's pink and orange skies,floating islands and waters, brought us to our knees. Stepping out of our ship, we were immediately blasted with a sense of warmth and peace. Everything about this place seemed to scream peace. One of my partners noticed that the earth of this place seemed to be overflowing with such energy that it was possible that this place was untouched by man. I noticed that an abundance of different flora and fauna seemed to roam and rake the land and I felt myself smile and laugh.
This place was to be our new home, something that made me burst with joy. This world was wonderful, that words cannot seem to describe it. But one things for sure, this place was going to be the start of something great for us.
Everyone looked at Yuffie as she frowned at the text in the book. It didn't seem to be in english, so Yuffie decided it was best to skip over those and read the ones she could understand.
Journal Entry Nine:
It's been two weeks since we've landed here. I wanna say things have been great, but I would be lying. This morning, one of my friends past away, it was said to he in his sleep. At least it was a peaceful ending, unlike the others.
But aside from that, the rest of us have been trying to figure out a name for this place. As days went by, we noticed the three moons that appear in the night, as well as a certain star. This star was a beacon back on our previous home, however to see it on this planet, even closer, shoots a sense of hope in our bleak lives.
We have yet to name this beautiful planet, but I know we will one day. They say we will be looking for the world's center tomorrow and I can't help but be wary. I don't know if that is for the best, but maybe it is?
Once again, Yuffie found some entries unreadable, however this was due to the fact that they seemed to be smudged or sloppy. Eyebrows knitting together, Yuffie flipped past a few more pages and nodded.
Journal Entry 15:
We did it, we found the center. To say it was amazing was an understatement, it was like a bee hive. Every type of animal that lay upon this earth seemed to walk in and out of here. They each coexisted here and no one seemed to be afraid of each other. However what was the best part was the very center of the world's center.
The head center.
It was a large globe that sat on this pedestal carved out of what seemed to be ebony. Vines and ivy surround it and at the very ceiling was this hole that seemed to be filled with this pulsing object. It looked as if it was alive, however that wasn't the case as a part of it drooled down and fell inside the globe.
We all watched in amazement as the piece of the pulsing object, purple in color, floated in the orb, before it began to spin and spin at a rapid pace. Slowly the piece began to separate into two portions, red and blue. As the spinning stopped, the blue portion began to sink towards the bottom of the orb and sink into what we assumed was the earth itself.
Once completely gone, merged with the earth, everyone felt a strong pulse of pure, good natured, energy hit us. That's when it hit us, literally, this world, this world was advanced enough to have it's own filtration system. Proving our theory, the red portion of the pulsing object began to spin again before it disappeared completely. We all watched in amazement, because from this new information in our hands, we realized something.
This world is devoid of all darkness.
"Where did you get that book?"
Everyone jumped towards the new voice and faced behind them, towards the open doorway. There stood Kivara, twirling a lock of shoulder length blue hair between her fingers. Hearing no response, Kivara looked up and saw shocked faces stare at her and she rolled her eyes and walked towards Yuffie. Sticking out her hand, she silently asked for Yuffie to hand her the book.
Onyx eyes stared at the hand presented to her and she shook her head vigorously. Kivara clicked her tongue annoyed. "That book was never meant to be seen by your eyes, so I ask kindly, please give me the book."
Yuffie closed the book and kept it close to her chest. "I found this book by myself, it's only fair that I keep it!" Yuffie reasoned and Kivara sent a glare her way. "Well, that book, contains information to my world,that is none of your concern. So it's only fair that you hand it back over to it's original owner."
Kivara gave a sickly sweet smile and re-emphasized the outstretched hand before her. Yuffie stared at the out stretched appendage and stepped back, when Leon placed a hand on her shoulder. "Yuffie, I think we should hand over the book, if we truly want information on this world, why don't we ask the main source,rather than skipping through an old journal?"
Yuffie stared at the ground for a bit before relenting and handing over the black leather bound book. Kivara nodded graciously her golden blue eyes flipped through the book before she tossed it to the side where it disappeared. Everyone gasped and Yuffie ran forward, angered.
"What the hell? What did you do that for, I mean you acted as if it was something precious and then you toss it away like trash, destroying it!" Yuffie growled and Kivara gave her a bored look, opting to look elsewhere, angering Yuffie more.
Kivara clicked her tongue and reached behind Yuffie and produced the same book. "Relax, I didn't destroy the book, I just sent it to where it belongs for now, inside a space pocket of mine."
Swatting the space between Yuffie and her and stepped back. Meeting the girl's glare, Kivara frowned and crossed her arms. "Though I don't see how that's any concern of yours." Yuffie growled and Aerith stepped into the room, a sickly smile on her face. "Yuffie, I hope you aren't picking a fight with one of our guests, hmm?"
The teen froze at the sound of Aerith's sickly sweet voice filling her ears. Whipping her head towards the woman and saw her carry in a plate of cookies and another glass of tea. Kivara accepted the drink and took a sip, raising a delicate blue eyebrow to Yuffie. The ninja clicked her tongue walking away from the teen, Kivara smirking after her.
Leon stepped forward and looked into Kivara's with a questioning gaze. Kivara did the same but it was when Goofy stepped forward looking hopeful.
"Uh, excuse me miss, you seem 'ta be close to the key and I was wondering if you had any information on the general of Janaria?" Leon nodded with Goofy and Kivara looked towards the dog skeptically before extending her hand.
"Nice to meet you, what do you need?" Waiting for a response Kivara waited for the anthropomorphic dog to shake her hand. When she received none, Kivara brought her hand back and awkwardly looked around the room.
Jiminy walked forward and hopped towards the book that Leon had showed them from before, flipping towards the page of the General.
"While, I speak for all of us that it's very nice to meet you Miss Kivara, we were wondering if you could help us find the General." Jiminy hopped on top of the book as emphasis. Kivara felt her eyes shift over to the book and saw her previous commander staring back her in all his glory.
"What do you need of Commander Tiren?" Kivara questioned as she read the small paragraph next to the image of her mentor. She laughed when reading the part of the paragraph saying that he had taken down three mountains with just a shout.
Leon nodded over towards Goofy and spoke up. "Goofy over here said that he has a letter for the General or the Commander as you put it, that was traveling with the Key of legend That was written by Queen Minnie herself."
Kivara took in the information before sticking out her hand once more, waiting for the note to be presented to her. Everyone in the room stared at her, confused before Kivara clicked her tongue. "Well, what's the hold up? You wanted to hand me the letter didn't you?"
Silence rang through the room and Kivara watched as everyone's faces morphed into that of shock comically. Jaws dropped and eyes wide, Kivara had to restrain herself from laughing out loud.
Leon hurriedly grabbed the book on the table, careful of Jiminy who stood on it and pointed to the page depicting the image of Tiren. "You can't be the General, because it says so here that he is the General, commander, you said so yourself! Besides you're a small kid!"
Kivara felt her eye twitch at the kid comment before running a hand through her hair, that she noticed now reached her shoulders. Glancing over at Leon, Kivara gave him a curious stare, as to what kind of book he was reading.
"Tell me, who wrote that book? What year?" Kivara watched Leon fumble with the leather bound book and waited patiently, and watched as blue eyes stared at the spine of the book. "There doesn't seem to be a year but it's by someone called, Octavius Florinir." Kivara sighed and rubbed at her temples.
"Of course you have one of his books, that idiot spread them all over the damn worlds I bet you." Everyone gave her a confused gaze and Kivara straightened herself out before kneeling on her left knee and her hands rested on her right knee that was placed at a 90ยบ angle.
Bowing her head, Kivara began to introduce herself.
"Greetings, nice to meet all of you, my name is Kivara Slav, General of the royal army of Janaria, safe haven to the worlds. Caretaker of the key, official ambassador for my world."
Everyone gasped at her introduction and Kivara stood, patting at her skirt. Looking towards Goofy and Donald, Kivara outstretched her hand and smiled.
"Nice to meet you, you must be in the King's Royal court, guessing by the fact you have something from the Queen." Donald nodded proudly and shook her hand, followed by Goofy. Lowering herself to Jiminy, Kivara extended her pinky to the small cricket and smiled.
Goofy handed her the letter and Kivara took it gently before opening said letter. Eyes taking over the contents of the letter, Kivara's smile turned serious before speaking once more. Hands behind her back, the teen held a strong gaze. "My mission was given to me by King Mickey himself, seeing as you are open with this three, it's safe to assume that they have been in contact with his majesty?" Kivara asked Donald and the rest of them.
Donald nodded and received a calculated gaze from Kivara before she stepped into the middle of the room, placing down her silver moon crystal. Tapping it's its surface once, a holographic keyboard appeared and Kivara set to work typing in various codes, explaining everything. Soon images and documents appeared.
"As you may already know, obviously considering your situation, is that worlds are dissapearing, lost to the darkness, correct?" Kivara didn't wait for a response as she continued talking, seeing as everyone was currently to shocked to answer.
"King Mickey came to my home in seek of help roughly two years ago when I was, let's see in your time would be about thirteen. Anyway, he sought help in our world to monitor the others, sent by an old friend of my King. From there I sent of finding the source of any abnormalities or rise in the dark forces."
Kivara pressed enter and several pictures of King Mickey speaking with Klaris and Xavier appeared, along with a document of a peace treaty. They were followed by pictures of various world's that showed things such as a mysterious mist or large keyholes.
Kivara continued and went work typing in more codes.
"Now you see, after I had found things to be stable and non malicious, I had reported back to his majesty, King Mickey to report of my findings. However, it was then did he assign me to look over the potential keyboard wielders." Kivara pointed to a picture that appeared of Sora, Kairi and Riku.
Soon other images arrived of the trio and Kivara along with them and their adventures. However they always seemed to either be afar or really up close.
"It was a simple mission, be on guard for the key of legend and make sure it grows, easy enough. I had stayed on that island with the three and blended in to try and gain Intel, surprisingly they accepted me to their group with all the kindness in the world." Kivara paused in her typing, smiling at the memory slightly before she quickly shook it off and went back to work.
"Now the problem however, was finding this supposed key. Without any clues or details from King Mickey, I had to figure it out who was this chosen one. It seemed to be bound to these three teens, as easy as it sounded it was difficult to find, it wasn't until the island itself was in danger did said key reveal itself." Kivara announced as a holographic image of Sora being captured in a ball of darkness and Kivara saving him appeared, soon followed by the keyblade's appearance.
"Questions?"
Everyone took in the information and Kivara moved away from her keyboard. Arms crossed behind her, Kivara waited for questions, when she received none, only comically wide eyes and gaping mouths, Kivara set off to remove her data from view.
That is until a croaky voice spoke.
"I have one, Miss General." Kivara froze and felt impending doom hit her.
"Was our friendship just a ploy to your little Mission?"
Kivara groaned and smacked her forehead.
'Oh shit!'
So that's that!
Really sorry If I have mistakes, I read this a hundred time over with a help from a friend!
Thanks and see you next time!