This chapter follows Kairi and Namine as they get ready to search for the male Lightbearer.
Chapter 24
Having Trouble
Kairi walked hesitantly towards her new Gummi Ship. Naminé was standing by the automatic door folding her arms and tapping her foot against the marbled floor.
"Are you coming?" she asked. "I want to get going!"
Kairi noticed her anxiety; she suddenly became upset.
"Why are you in such a rush?" she asked. "Aren't you sad that we won't be seeing Sora or Riku again for a long time?"
Naminé walked over to her side and wiped the tear from her left eye.
"Of course I'm sad we're leaving…who wouldn't?" She gave Kairi a light hug. "Let's just get going."
"I just want to see him," Naminé thought to herself.
"Well…go on in," Kairi said.
"I can't without the keys!" Naminé responded pointing to Kairi's left hand.
Kairi opened her palm to reveal the silver key. It made her think of Sora. It was almost identical to his first Keyblade, the Kingdom Key.
She dangled the key in her hand for a few seconds before realizing that she was really annoying Naminé.
"Three! Two! One! Blast off!" yelled Chip and Dale over the loudspeaker.
Kairi and Naminé turned to see that Sora's and Riku's Gummi Ship had started its takeoff. The force of the wind made Kairi's and Naminé's hair fly violently around their shoulders.
"Goodbye…Sora…" Kairi cried.
"Kairi! Open the door!" Naminé yelled.
"Sorry," Kairi said as she wiped away a tear forming in her eye.
She twiddled the keys between her fingers before walking over to the Gummi door and placing the key into the lock and gently turned it clockwise.
With a little click and after Kairi pulled the key out, the door opened mechanically.
They both took two steps inside, just enough for the door not to close on them.
Their mouths dropped in amazement. They looked around at the intricately decorated room.
The entire Gummi Ship was pink…and nothing but that. The seats were pink, the walls were pink, the decorations were pink, and even the windows were pink tinted.
"I love this ship," Kairi said standing still in place.
"It's okay…I like the classic white room a little better though," Naminé commented. Kairi gave her a look as if she was joking and let out a light laugh.
"Ok…I love it too!" Naminé said and embraced Kairi in a hug.
They looked around the ship for a while before they each took a seat in their own pilot seat. Panic suddenly overcame them.
"Kairi?"
"Yeah?
"Do you know what you're doing?"
"I have absolutely no idea, Naminé."
"Oh my God! We're gonna die!" Naminé shrieked. "We don't know what we're doing! We're gonna crash!"
"Naminé!" Kairi yelled grabbing a hold of her flailing arms. "We didn't even take off yet.
"Kairi! Naminé!" Chip's voice said. "Are you ready to take off?"
The two girls looked around for where his voice came from. Chip and Dale were obviously not in the ship so they had to be communicating with them by some sort of device.
"Push the big blue button and tell us!" Chip said.
"Found it," Kairi said. She pushed down the button and she answered, "Yeah…we're ready."
Naminé gave a look of complete and utter shock. She flew to the control panel, pushed the button, and yelled "No we aren't! We don't even know what we're doing!"
"Yeah…we kind of guessed at that," Dale's voice responded.
"Sora told us," Chip added.
"Great! Now tell us how we are supposed to fly this thing if we don't know what we're doing!" Naminé ordered.
"Naminé…relax. Chip and Dale will tell us what to do," Kairi said. "You will tell us what to do, right?"
"Of course!" Chip responded.
"It's easy!" Dale added.
"Are you sure you'll be able to?" Naminé asked.
"I'm positive!" Chip said.
"Don't worry; we'll fly you through it!" Dale added.
"Fly through what?" Naminé asked suspiciously.
"The controls of course!"
Naminé sat back into her seat taking a deep breath and releasing it as she slouched back into her seat. Her face fell into her opened palms.
"I don't want to do this anymore," she cried.
Kairi looked at her panicked friend. She saw her shoulders begin to shake. Kairi pressed the blue button, but paused to speak.
"Chip and Dale…will you give us two minutes?"
"Sure!" they responded.
Kairi knelt before Naminé and put her hands upon Naminé's knees.
Naminé took her face out of her hands. Her eyes were red and puffy and her cheeks were wet from her tears.
"Naminé…we can do this," Kairi said.
"I know…I'm just scared."
"Relax Naminé. We're not going to crash."
"It's not just that, Kairi!" Naminé stammered. She stood up and walked to the rear of the ship. She turned to look at Kairi and wiped a hand through her hair and added, "I'm scared for us, I'm scared for Sora and Riku, I'm scared for King Mickey, I'm scared for her…and him…I'm just scared."
"Naminé…" Kairi said worriedly.
"What's going to happen to us?" Naminé asked.
Kairi paused before she said, "I don't know."
"Why don't you know?… You always know!" Naminé cried hysterically.
"I don't know everything," Kairi said as she hugged Naminé and let her cry on her shoulder.
Written by Matt