One Wrong Turn Turned Right
Author's Note: You should know by now that I don't own Kingdom Hearts. If I did, Axel would make a return in KH3, and Roxas will be able to leave Sora's body at will (mainly in fight scenes with Oathkeeper and Oblivion)
Chapter 26: Escape and Return
When the two girls screamed, Wendy turned around first to see two Shadows. However, there were many other Heartless around as well, appearing seconds before everyone else turned around.
"Heartless!" Wendy shouted as everyone turned around.
In a shower of sparks, three keyblades sparked to life in the hands of the three aliens. Cody had taken on a Large Body that appeared with the rest, while Wendy single-handedly went against a standard Wyvern heartess, which was about half the size of Okari. Char went after the shadow that scared the crap out of her with her two blades…well, half blades.
Donald and Goofy also joined the fight, targeting a second Large Body, of three, and a small group of shadows that were further back than the original two. The Shadow that scared Kairi, ran to the other side of a column. Cody's Large Body was destroyed quickly, so he went over to the other Large Body, attacking it before it had a chance to do damage. Wendy wasn't as good as Cody, but her Wyvern was manageable, as it usually attacked with its tail instead of its claws.
Char was having the toughest problem with her Shadow. Every time she had swung her Keyblade halves, the Shadow either ducked over them, slunked into the floor to dodge, or jump over the blades with arcane skill. A normal Shadow would have been a pile of dust by now, but this one wasn't ordinary. The only two heartless that were left happened to be the one hanging out behind the post, and the one Char was battling. Eventually she gave up as Donald walked up to the other heartless.
The other heartless had come out once the last heartless was defeated, which happened to be the Wyvern. Donald, who was frustrated with all the attacking, walked up to the Shadow and hit it twice on the head with his staff. The shadow rubbed his head as if to say "OW!"
"Confounded Heartless," Donald said. "GET LOST, WILL YA'?!"
But the Shadow had looked at Kairi, while Char's nodded at her when she finished fighting.
"Sora? Is that you?" Kairi asked. Sure enough, the Shadow to give Kairi a "Heartless Hug," as Wendy put it.
"Then the other one has gotta be Blaster!" Wendy suggested.
"How do you know that?" Char asked.
"How else do you think a simple Shadow could dodge every single attack you threw at it?" Cody pointed out.
The Shadow identified as Blaster looked at Cody, clapping his clawed hands. The enthusiasm of finding their "fallen" friends quickly subsided when more heartless appeared. MUCH more than last time.
"This time, I'll protect you," Kairi said to the Sora Shadow. Everyone else had gone to fight, while Blaster Shadow had gone over to Sora as if to say "What are we going to do now?"
Blaster Shadow's eyes would have bulged when he found that the group was surrounded by other Shadows. Turning to Sora as if to say "This is a problem," Blaster couldn't help but notice Kairi in a fighting pose, looking as if she was going to use martial arts on the Shadows as they closed the circle around the trio. Kairi stood her ground until, as one, the Shadows jumped at her, Sora Shadow, and Blaster Shadow. Instinctively, Kairi grabbed the two closest things to her, Blaster Shadow and Sora Shadow.
Char, who was making dust out of other Heartless looked as Kairi suddenly was at the bottom of a Heartless dog-pile. Cody had polished off another Wyvern in time to see the dogpile as well. Wendy, also saw the pile form, being the one to point it out to Donald and Goofy.
"Kairi!" Goofy shouted. Kairi could barely be seen under all the Heartless, causing Cody and Char to run over, blades ready to slice the Heartless away. They didn't get to it though.
The reason that the two didn't have the chance to start destroying the heartless was because the Shadows were suddenly engulfed in a column of light. Originally at the bottom of a Heartless-pile, Kairi was now standing upright, with Sora in one arm and Blaster in the other.
"Thanks Kairi," Sora said, as Blaster moved away so that the two could embrace each other. His time alone was short lived when a certain female with brown hair came from nowhere and tackled him.
"Blaster," Char said, her arms wrapped around her friend, both of them lying on the ground, with Char on top of Blaster. "Don't do that again!"
"I won't," Blaster said, barely able to get his words out. Struggling to get out of his friend's grasp, he added, "Do you mind getting off me so I can breathe?"
"OH!" Char exclaimed, letting go of Blaster and getting up off the ground. "Sorry."
"It's okay," Blaster said, getting up off the ground with the help of Char. "I just didn't expect getting nailed seconds after turning back from a Heartless."
"Blaster!" Wendy and Cody shouted as their friend and Captain got up.
"I'm fine guys," Blaster said. However Donald gave a quack of surprise as more Heartless appeared out of nowhere. "Well, at least I was until these guys came out of nowhere."
Showers of sparks meant that five Keyblades had appeared, Blaster's Thirteen Order Crystal, Sora's Metal Chocobo, Char's double version of the Kingdom Key, Cody's version of the "Mysterious Abyss" "Gun"blade, and Wendy's version of the Oblivion "Gun"blade. The group was once again surrounded, but the first wave was destroyed by lighting as Donald shouted "Thunder!"
"So, round two?" Blaster asked, up against three more Wyvern heartless. They didn't seem to want to die. Cody, Char, and Wendy nodded.
Aiming their Keyblades at the Wyverns, Blaster felt the power building in five keyblades, but Blaster didn't know that Sora now knew the Blasting Spell so quickly. As if cued by some unknown conductor, all three of them shouted "BLAST ARROW!" Five shots of light erupted out of the keyblades and pelted the Wyverns, destroying them on contact. Blaster closed his eyes and flinched a bit as the shots broke through the roof, shattering all the glass in the room from the force of the explosion.
Just as more Heartless appeared, a mighty roar erupted from the hallway. Beast returned and swiped at a Shadow, causing it to dissolve into dust.
"GO!" Beast shouted. "NOW!"
"Come with us," Sora invited. Beast just growled.
"I told you before," Beast said. "I'm not leaving without Belle! Now, GO! The Heartless are coming!"
"All in favor for a hasty retreat?" Blaster asked. Everyone in the area excluding Beast raised their hands. "Vote is 8 to 1. Beast, take care of yourself."
Beast nodded as Blaster and Sora led the group out of the building. Before they went very far, Char grabbed Blaster's shoulder and handed him his wristband. Blaster took it and put it on, feeling the needle incorporated with it digging into his skin, back to where Blaster wanted it.
"Bellerophon," Blaster said at long last, speaking into the Wristband. "Please teleport 8 humans to the bridge."
"Captain Clarkson!" The ship replied through the speaker. "You're alive!"
"Takes more than being turned into a Heartless to kill me," Blaster said before he and the others were surrounded by white light. The Highwind V2.0, the upgraded version of Sora's Gummi Ship, was attached to the Bellerophon seconds later via tractor beam. On the bridge, Sora and co. finally found out what the interior of Blaster's ship looked like.
Blaster showed his ship off before taking off, indicating what each of the five console stations did. Before Blaster could say a word, however, Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy were thrown back as the ship activated "Hyper-launch," taking the crew back to Traverse Town. However, Blaster was sure that they would have to try again, especially since the body of the Pegasus was still on the surface, and because he knew that the keyhole was not sealed.
They'd be back!
Another chapter down! Couldn't really resist putting in a Terminator reference in there. I couldn't figure out what to call Blaster and Sora while they were heartless (shadows), so I decided on the Sora Shadow and Blaster Shadow (which there wasn't much difference anyway). R&R plz, and, remember, flames are going to be forwarded to Axel.