One Wrong Turn Turned Right
One Wrong Turn Turned Right
Author's Note: Disclaimer same as the previous 13 or so. And, here's…
Chapter 14: Ursula, the Sea Witch
Just as Blaster swam away from the hole in the sea wall leading towards the underwater palace, he was struck in the arm by some falling rock that had become dislodged in the explosion. The source was just nearby: Ursula, the sea witch. She immediately targeted Sora, Donald, Goofy, Cody, and Wendy with her finger before Blaster swam back up with a dislocated shoulder.
"Ya know, that really hurt!" Blaster said swimming up to an edge in the wall. With a quick twist of his upper body, Blaster hit his left shoulder against the rock hard enough for the shoulder to pop back in place. Turning to Ursula, Blaster noticed a diamond keychain hanging from the shell necklace.
"Ursula!" Ariel said, preparing to attack. "What are you doing here?!"
"I'm doing this!" Ursula said with a chuckle. In what seemed like a flash, she disappeared for a few seconds reappearing with the trident King Triton had. "And now, I say good bye."
Blaster narrowly avoided getting hit by a blast from the golden trident, but Wendy got it full in the chest. This caused her to double over in pain, and also caused Sora to go after Ursula with his Keyblade. However the sea witch disappeared in a flash of light. Blaster quickly swam to the aid of his friend, who had a giant black mark on her chest and she floated for a few seconds before she began to fall. Blaster went to catch her, but she also disappeared in a flash of light.
"What was that?" Ariel said as Cody swam over.
"Ursula has the keychain to a special version of my blade that I made called the Thirteen Order Crystal," Blaster said. "However, I was in the process of making the Keychain fit the Keyblade design after a failed attempt at another Keyblade, the Twelve Order Crystal. There was way too much power in it, so I decided that I would make it so I could control how much power it was given."
"What was it's status?" Cody asked.
"When she took it out, it was only 75 finished with the entire thing," Blaster replied. "It was finished with the design and was working on the power regulator that would be incorporated in the handle." Blaster paused for a second before continuing. "That's why she was able to teleport so fast. The Keychain has a special setting that causes the person holding it to teleport anywhere…and I was going to get rid of it for the Thirteenth version of my Order Crystal Keyblade."
"You made your own Keyblade?" Sora asked.
"Yes, but, more importantly, I need that chain back," Blaster said.
"Why?" Sora asked as he threw his keyblade in the Strike Raid, slicing a few of the heartless that had just appeared.
"Whoever holds the keychain will have access to that power, and it may be enough to destroy a world if it is in the wrong hands," Cody said. "That is why we need to get it back."
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?!" Char demanded as Wendy's limp body was brought into the room, back in her human form. "I swear that, if you killed her…"
"She took a sunning blast to the gut," Maleficent said after ordering the heartless to lay Wendy's apparently lifeless body on the table in the room. However, when Drackenor walked into the room, the Witch moved Wendy to a bed on the other side of the room. "Drackenor, have you been able to get the heart extractor working yet?" she asked after making sure Wendy was not able to get up and escape due to cuffs of darkness.
"He asked me to help," Char said. "I refused, so I am still here, tied to a post and a giant generator in front of me ready to take my heart, if it works more than once. I told him not to use one of those dollar-store capacitors. It hasn't worked since you nearly lost your heart. The only person he should test that thing on is himself."
"I could have removed your heart in a heartbeat, if you will pardon any pun," Maleficent said. "Unfortunately, I have tried this on several occasions while you were unconscious, and I couldn't get through some sort of supernova barrier."
"Yeah, sorry about that," Char said. "I am part alien, and that might be what is causing the problems."
"I think I got it," Drackenor said, closing the lid to the machine he had been working on. Once Maleficent was out of the way, Char began to squirm in her bonds again, still unable to reach the knot of the rope that held her wrists to the post where she was tied.
Once again the three purple bolts met at a single tip, and fired a slightly larger bolt at Char. The bolt hit her full in the chest, but didn't burn like it did to Maleficent. Instead, it pulled out a pure white orb. This caused Char's eyes to gloss over, and make it look as if she was staring off into the distance. The bolts brought the orb inside the machine, which powered down seconds later.
"It works!" Drackenor said seconds after the heart container was removed.
"Well done," Maleficent said. "Prepare to use it on her friend."
Seconds later, the machine "exploded" causing black smoke to billow out of the top.
"NO!" Drackenor screamed. "The capacitor blew again, and it took out the manual targeting regulator. And, to add insult to injury, the machine is locked in the off position."
"Then get it working again, you useless imbecile!" Maleficent said before taking the heart container out of the room, leaving Drackenor to untie Char.
"By my readings, the keychain should be right about here," Blaster said, reading off his monitor and pointing down as if to say that they were there. It was a dark spot close to where the battle tank was.
"We are right on top of it, but where is it?" Sora asked.
"One guess," Cody said before beginning to swim backwards. Blaster and Sora followed suit, but Donald, Goofy, and Ariel didn't and nearly got caught by Ursula, who dropped down from above.
"Well, if it isn't the sea witch herself," Blaster mocked. "How about you hand over that Keychain and MAY not kill you."
"I think not," Ursula said, teleporting right behind Blaster with the Trident in his back.
"Are you going to kill me while my back is turned?" Blaster said as the Trident began to glow. Just as she was about to take the Trident and shove it through Blaster's back when he did something she didn't expect: He teleported behind her and had his Keyblade at the base of her neck. "Now, give me the Keychain before I turn you into a shish kabob."
Ursula was quick in trying to escape, but not fast enough for Blaster to cut through the string holding her necklace, causing the keychain to fall off. Ursula went to grab it, but Cody was there to catch it, his Key/gunblade at the sea witches neck. The sea witch suddenly grew in size, with a golden crown on her head and the Trident still in her hand.
"Oh crap!" Sora said.
"This is not good!" Blaster said, preparing for battle. However, Donald was right behind the giant sea witch, and, counting down he signaled for every magic user to use fire at the same time.
"FIRE!" Sora, Donald, Blaster and Cody shouted. Four fireballs erupted from the ends of the keyblades and the end of Donald's staff like four horses just let out of the gate. They all impacted with the force of a bomb, causing everyone to be blasted back. Ursula took the full force and began to fall, slowly dropping into a black cloud much like her black lair.
"Well…that worked," Blaster said, looking around and noticing that everyone was OK.
The Trident glowed and began to float away. Blaster instinctively latched onto it, followed by the rest of the crew. The trident guided them to a trident shaped slot in Ariel's Grotto. When the two aligned perfectly, after Sora and co. let go, the world's keyhole appeared. Cody was the one who took his keyblade to the keyhole, sealing the world from darkness. However, the keyhole did not spit out a gummi block.
Just then, Blaster's wristband went off.
"Now what?!" Blaster exclaimed looking at his wristband.
What caused the wristband to go off? What will happen to Wendy? And the questions will continue as we come past the midway point of the story. This will all come together as soon as I actually finish this game…which I am almost done with. Anyway…Please R & R as always.