Chapter 24: Here there be Monsters

Riku woke up suddenly in his bed, taking deep breaths. He silently swore to himself. That dream. It was so real. He had been at the crossroad back when he and the King had left Castle Oblivion a year ago. Diz, or Ansem, asked them about which road they were taking, as he chooses the Road to Dawn. Than in the dream, the memory took a twist. He had suddenly turned to see a dark figure walking down another path: the path to darkness. Everything had gone dark, and he woke up.

Riku slowly got of the bed he was in and showered and put back on his freshly cleaned clothes and headed to the cockpit of the gummi ship. Roxas was sitting in the captain's chair, but the Gummi was still on auto pilot. "What are you doing?" Riku asked.

Roxas jumped slightly, but relaxed. "You scarred me there."

Riku sat in a chair next to him. "You know, it's kind of weird when you think about it."

"What, us being on the same side?"

"Exactly. Go back a few weeks we were fighting each other with the keyblades."

"Well, I guess Sora is the one can blame for us being on the same side. Not to mention I was really fighting with you two against Xemnas. Not physically, but I was fighting with Sora. Know what I mean?"

Riku nodded. "I once had a nobody, I think."

"What do you mean you think?" Roxas asked.

"You wouldn't know. This was back at Oblivion. I clone of me they said, but I actually think he was my nobody. It's hard to say, but he was so real to be a copy."

Roxas gave a humph thinking to himself. Before either one of them could say anything more, the King came into the cockpit. "Good morning fellas!"

"You majesty," they both said as King Mickey looked at the controls of the ship.

"So, how close are we to this world?" the King asked.

"We should be there in about five minutes actually. It'll be night there though," Roxas said looking at one screen on a control panel.

Riku looked at another one showing inhabitants of the world. "Uh…Mickey? There's no humans in this world.

Mickey looked at the screen Riku was looking at and thought. "Welp, we're going to have to depend on that good old transformation magic."

"You mean those things Sora went through when he went to certain worlds?" Roxas asked.

The King nodded. "Exactly. I won't have to change that much guessing by the looks of it, but the changes you two go under might be a little…strange."

"Great. This should be interesting," Riku said leaning back in his chair as the world came into view.

As their decent began, King Mickey moved his hands around as sparks flew from his hands and hit the three of them. Riku began to feel a tingling feeling all along his body that was oddly enough ticklish as they entered through the atmosphere and prepared to land.

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The night was dark lit up by the moon and light posts, as well as some odd shaped cars headlights that passed by. The three slowly walked out of the alleyway that they had hidden the Gummi Ship as the stepped into the edge of the light. "Seriously, this is freaky an almost unrecognizable Riku said.

The only things that stayed the same about Riku was his eyes and his silver hair, although it seemed a bit shorter on him. Other than that, his skin had become a dark blue lizard skin. He only had three fingers and his opposable thumbs, but claws rather than fingernails. He also had a short tail that reached the ground. "What am I? A freak gecko?"

Roxas felt a little odd too. If anything, he had become a walking red fox, tail and all, his hands similar to Riku's losing a finger. He still had his spiky blonde hair, but seemed to a tint of orange too. The problem he was having with his muzzle. "Itz kinda hard to talk with this," he said moving his much larger tongue around trying to speak.

The King hadn't changed that much. His eyes seemed to be a bit smaller along with his ears as they seemed more pointed than round. It looked like he had also had more hair on his arms, legs, and tail giving him a fatter appearance. Thankfully, they still all had their clothes though, all slightly modified to fit their new forms. "Welp, we're going to have to get used to them fast to fit in here."

"Where exactly are we anyways," Roxas asked.

The King pointed to a large billboard across from the street that said in bold letters "WELCOME TO MONSTROPOLIS!" "Monstropolis, huh?" Roxas said.

"So, we're supposed to look like monsters?" Riku asked rubbing his left arm.

The King nodded. "I think it's safe to keep our names here fellas, but you must refer to me as Mickey no matter what. No one must know of my royalty here."

Riku and Roxas nodded as they walked through the city with Mickey walking behind them. After a few minutes, they could hear sirens sounding off. "That can't be good," Riku said running now.

The three than saw a restaurant, several vans pulling up, and the letters CDA printed on the side of them. Several beings in biohazard suits than came out and started to contain the building as several monster began running out, trying to escape. "What is going on?" Mickey asked a running monster.

"Run! Before they get to you!" he yelled as Roxas noticed two monsters running holding an odd package that seemed to move.

"Hey! Look at those two," Roxas said pointing out the large blue monster, a smaller green on next to it.

"All of you! Halt!" said a voice over a megaphone, most likely a CDA agent.

"Uh-oh, I think we don't want a welcoming party," Riku said running away from the restaurant.

"Let's follow those two. Seems like they know something that's going on," Roxas said as he first began to follow the two, Riku and Mickey quick on his tail, literally.

Yes, this is based off of Monsters Inc. by Disney's Pixar. Now that Disney owns them, it's fair game. Hopefully soon I will have a sketch of the transofrmed trio on my DA account within a week, hopefully soon. My DA account link is on my profile, so check it out there. If anyone has any suggestion for this world, drop me a review with your comments and ideas. And have a Happy Holiday season!

Dezblade