A/N: Aiyaa, a lot of stuff to fit into this chapter. This is gonna be really long, if I can even remember all the stuff. Time to start! -
Chapter 14
The gummi ship landed on a chunk of floating ice. More chunks of floating ice formed a sorts of stairway: a disconnected one at that. They all led up to an ever bigger chunk of ice, which had a stairway leading to a giant castle; well, let's rephrase that, a giant disfigured metal box in the semblance of a castle. Kind of.
"Hey, Donald?" Ed asked. "Why the hell did you land at the bottom of this stairway, when you could have landed us at the castle entrance?"
"Screw you," Donald replied.
"Where are we, anyway?" Sora asked, looking around. The entire ice stairway was surrounded by circular waterfall . . . but the water was going up instead of down.
"Hollow Bastien, hyuk," Goofy answered. "If you look over that way, you'll see a small town which no one seems to notice until the second game."
"Like the Nobodies!" Ed shouted out, excited.
They all jumped up to the next chunk of floating ice . . . only to slip off and fall into the freezing water below. They tried again . . . and still failed. "Damnit, this is aggravating!" Ed yelled. In frustration, he clapped his hands onto the ice and they transformed into one connected stairway, with rugged stepping places, so as to not slip.
"Whoa, Ed!" Sora screamed. "You haven't done that since a couple chapters ago!"
"Yeah! I've been remembering more stuff, too!" Ed turned to Sora. "About my life, that is. Well, there's this black-haired guy who makes fire and REALLY PISSES ME OFF!! I don't know his name, though. I just know he pisses me off." Ed stopped. "You listenin'?"
They nodded.
"Well, as I was saying, ther- . . . oh, that's all I can remember. Let's go!" Ed started running up the ice steps, everyone else chuckled. As they reached the top of the staircase . . .
"No . . ." Sora stared. He couldn't believe it. On the giant chunk of ice they all stood on was Riku. Along with him was Al and an . . . animal-thing laying on the floor. But Riku had changed. His clothes were dark and so was his overall "aura." He stood there, staring at Sora with a smirk on his face.
"Riku!" Sora cried. "Wha . . ." his voice drifted off as he wimpered.
"Ed!" Al screamed. "You bastard!" (A/N: Omg al cursed omg no it cant be happening omg)
(omg)
"Yeah, do I know you?" Ed replied, coldly.
"Brother! You're the one who implanted all those lies into my armor! I'm not real, just fake! And you're the one that created me!"
"I did, did I?" Ed asked nonchalantly, checking his nails.
"And now I'm going to get Winry's heart back, even though I apparently believe that I never actually knew her and all those memories were lies, but I'm going to save her anyway!" panted Al.
"Winry's heart?" Ed suddenly seemed to care. "What happened to her?"
"You don't know the tale of the seven princesses, do you?" Riku smirked. "Let me enlighten you. In this world, there are seven princesses of heart, all holding the power to unlock the key to the door of the world: Kingdom Hearts. If we capture them all, we'll use their hearts to open the door, after which their hearts will return to them. When Kingdom Hearts is opened, we'll gain power over it and its darkness! We'll be able to rule all the worlds!"
"What do Kairi and Winry have to do with this?" Sora asked. "They're not . . . princesses . . ."
"Well, Winry's not a princess. We just needed a human body to hold all the hearts to complete the door. As for Kairi, that's an unanswered question to be left to the sequel!" Riku pointed out. "Even though they don't answer it in that either!"
"Hey! Why does Winry have to be the sacrifice?" Ed asked angrily.
"She was unconcious when she and Al came through 'the gate.'" Riku answered. "And so we figured that if we stuff a bunch of hearts in her body, then use them to open a gate to darkness, hold the power of darkness in her body (basically using her body like a trash basket), that she'll return to normal."
" . . . And how the hell does that make any sense at all?" Ed asked.
"Talking about keyblades-" Riku started.
"We weren't talking about keyblades." Sora interrupted.
"Well now that we are, Ed, I believe you have something that belongs to me." Riku reached out his hand. Suddenly, the keyblade disappeared from Ed's hand in a flash of light. It reappeared in Riku's grip. "Ha!" Riku admired his new weapon. "Here Ed," he tossed a wooden toy sword at him. "Go play hero with this."
"Wait," Goofy pointed out. "If Riku has the keyblade now, doesn't that mean that we have to follow him?"
"Yeah," agreed Donald. "The king said we had to follow the one with the key." Donald and Goofy ran off to Al and Riku's side, leaving Sora and Ed with the animal-man-thing laying on the floor wounded.
Goofy looked back at the two sadly as he walked off with the new key bearer.
"How could he get the keyblade?" Sora asked.
"He had the stronger heart," the animal-man-thing managed to say.
Ed jumped back in fear. "Wh-who are you?"
The creature stood up. "I'm the Beast. I'm here to find Belle; she's one of the princesses and my friend. They were trying to stop me," he replied. "Let's work together to save the people we care about," the Beast demanded as he hunched about six feet over Ed.
"Screw you!" cried Ed. "My mommy says I'm special, even if I'm short!"
Sora sighed as he and the Beast headed off for the castle.
Ed had a hard time fighting Heartless with the wooden sword. For some reason, Ed was the only one who couldn't hurt the Heartless without the keyblade. They say the keyblade is the only weapon that can kill the Heartless, but why can all these Disney characters, and Sora of course, kill them without the keyblade perfectly fine? Methinks Ed's just incompetent.
They finally reached the entrance of the castle and entered. There, in the center of the entrance hall, stood Riku along with Donald and Goofy.
"So you didn't go home crying?" Riku laughed. "I'd've thought you'd be scared senseless now that I have the keyblade."
"Leave us alone, Ed!" Al screamed. "You're a horrible person; you forgot your own brother!"
"You're my brother? Then who was that guy in the suit of armor?" Ed asked, confused.
"Um . . . that was me . . ." Al answered back. "Are you on crack, brother?"
"N-n-no!" Ed suddenly stopped sniffing something and stuck it suspiciously in his shirt pocket. "I have amnesia! Don't blame me for forgetting!"
"W-w-what? You have amnesia?" Al asked, in a happier tone then was to be expected. "That's why you don't remember me?"
"Uh, yeah, I guess."
"Yeah!" Al ran over to Ed and glomped him. "Brother!"
"Got off me, you freak!!" he yelled as he shoved Al off him. Al just chuckled.
"Al!" Riku screamed. "You treacherous bastard! At least I still got you guys, right?" Donald and Goofy had run over to Ed.
"You smell bad!" Donald stuck out his tongue.
"But I took a bath last month!" Riku pretended to yawn and smelt his armpits discreetly. 'I don't smell thaaat bad," he groaned/thought. "And anyway, I have the keyblade! Are you gonna betray your king for Ed?"
"Well, not for Ed," Donald started. "But I'll do it for Sora. He's pretty nice."
"Yeah! I don't need a stupid keyblade!" Ed yelled at Riku. " I have all my friends!"
"Whoa, is my disease contagious?" Sora wondered.
"And there's strength in numbers!" Ed boasted. "The more of me, the more likely were gonna kick yer ass!"
"And I thought you changed for the better . . ." Sora sighed.
"What's the chances of you beating us?" Ed bragged. "There's four of us-"
"Five."
"I meant five of us and only one of you!" Ed continued. "We're gonna kill you like crazy!!!!"
Nothing happened.
"Um . . ." Sora interrupted. "He means we're gonna kill you like crazy . . . . using the power of friendship!"
When Sora said this, the keyblade disappeared from Riku's hands and appeared in Ed's. "All right!" Ed smiled. "Forget what I said about friendship, all I really need is the keyblade!" When Ed said that, the keyblade went directly back to Riku. "Just kidding! I love friendship!" Ed said desperately. It then went back to Ed.
"No! The keyblade!" Riku sobbed. "Now you've made me angry! You won't like me when I'm angry!"
"No! Not the Hulk!" Ed screamed.
Suddenly, Riku transformed into a tall, dark skinned, long, purple haired, yellow-eyed man.
"Okay, not a hulk, but a pedophile. Not much difference!" Ed pointed out.
THE END
A/N: Yes, I'm making them two parts. Call me lazy. XP Hopefully it won't be three parts like Atlantica was. By the way, my birthday still hasn't happened yet! If you wanted to know!