Kingdom Hearts 2: Vanessa's adventure
Chapter 29: Hollow Bastion
Good news, I feel a bit better now. I had to wear this really long bandage on my head which was wrapped like a million times, yet the ends reached my waist; I looked like a mental warrior! Bad news, there was something odd about Hollow Bastion. "Do you think…?" Goofy trailed off and I sighed.
"There's more heartless…" they disappeared and dusks flew away too, "…and dusks as well."
"Let's go check in on everyone." Sora suggested.
"Oh, Cloud." We ran into a blonde spiky haired man with blue eyes; Cloud. He was leaning against the wall with that emotionless look like Leon's.
"Whatcha doing?" Donald asked.
"I'll get him." He mumbled murderously. "This time we settle it. Me and the one who embodies all the darkness in me."
"I thought you looked kinda different now Cloud." Donald said.
"If I do, it's his fault." This guy wasn't making any sense, whatsoever!
"Whose?" Sora questioned.
"Sephiroth." Cloud answered. "Tell me if you see him."
"What does he look like?" Goofy asked.
"Silver hair…" I looked down and furrowed my eyebrows together. I felt my eyes brim with tears; Riku. Sora's arms wrapped around my shoulders and he began to hush me quietly. I breathed in and out trying to control my emotions so that what happened in Twilight Town doesn't repeat. Cloud looked up at me and asked, "What's wrong?"
"She's not well at the moment." Sora mumbled.
"Hope you get better Vanessa." I looked up with a weak smile and nodded.
"Thank you Cloud."
"Anyways, Sephiroth carries a long sword." He walked up to me with a hard stare.
"Be careful Vanessa, he messes with your head makes you think that the darkness is the only way." I shook my head.
"I'm not the same anymore Cloud, I've changed and matured. I've already used the darkness, only once. So don't worry. We'll be seeing you then Cloud."
"Is something wrong?" I heard Aerith's lovely voice again from behind us.
"Uhhhh…" Sora crossed his arms and I followed Aerith with my eyes.
"It's nothing." I smirked at this; same old Cloud.
Aerith leaned closer and took a better look at Cloud's face. "I don't want you involved." Cloud muttered.
"You mean you don't want me there when you go away again?" Same question I asked Terra when he was going away.
"I just, listen; even if I go far away I'll come back."
"Do you mean it?" This was definitely like déjà vu!
"Well okay, I understand go get things settled." Cloud raised an eyebrow.
"No matter how far away you are…once you find your light. I'm sure it will lead you back here. Right?" Yup, the tears started falling again. That was what I said to Riku. I felt my knees buckle and Sora ran quickly.
"Vanessa!" I closed my eyes and I kneeled on the ground. I started to sob in my hands and Aerith placed her hand on my head. "Hey stop crying Vanessa." I looked up and the tears kept on dripping onto the floor. "Everyone will start crying so stop." I smiled at Cloud's little comment and wiped my tears. Sora helped me get up with whispers of 'Careful.'
We watched Cloud leaved and Aerith mumbled, "Wonder if he'll be okay?"
"He'll be just fine; we all have faith in him." I replied.
"I'm sure there's some light in him somewhere." Sora said.
"There's light in everyone's hearts." I ended. So we got to Merlin's house and apparently there was good news; they found the computer Ansem was using. It could've contained all kinds of info on the heartless and the Organisation XIII, Cid said. We had to head to Leon's, in the computer room to find out the rest.
Whilst on the way I heard a girl's voice from behind me. "Excuse me? Are you from the Restoration Committee?" When I turned around I thought I was gonna die again. My face turned pale and my eyes widened.
"SORA!" I yelled and the said boy came running to my side.
"What's wrong?" He asked then he eyed out three fairies. "Calm down, just breathe in and out, they're not going to hurt you." I did as I was told and they looked a bit shocked.
"Sorry." I mumbled.
"What's Leon's gang up to?" The one with the fairy like girl with black wings asked.
"They've got stuff to do over by the castle postern." Sora said and they pumped a fist in the air.
"Scoot." The blonde haired fairy like girl exclaimed; how cute!
"Let's report."
"To who?" Donald asked.
The one with brown hair turned around. "Our leader of course!"
"Yeah you know, Male-" The cute one's mouth was covered by the girl who had black wings. My eyebrows furrowed together, this felt fishy.
"Don't mind her. We assure you, we come in peace." She said and the cute girl nodded enthusiastically.
"You're kidding." The brown haired girl sighed.
"Problem?" The girl with black wings let go. "Okay fine, you do the talking." And she glowed and disappeared. I started to twitch.
The one with brown hair turned to us and bowed. "So sorry about this." She disappeared in a similar fashion to the other one and I blinked.
The other one posed and giggled. How sweet…until she disappeared too and I rubbed my eyes. Am I seeing things?
We met up with Aerith and she told is that the King was with them. For a moment I had my hoped high. "Is Riku with them?" I asked with my eyes sparkling. She shook her head and I sighed. Sora patted my shoulder and I smiled softly. "We can ask the King about Riku." My brown haired friend mumbled.
Fighting heartless, we roamed around the hall in search of the computer room. When we found it, everything was messy, books out of place and on the floor. God, people these days. I walked up to a picture of young Ansem and touched it. "Ansem…" Sora trailed off and for a moment, this guy looked familiar, like a face from the past.
"Hey you." I was snapped out of daze and we looked up at a girl by the door, she was tall, had creamy skin with dark eyes and dark long hair; she was really pretty. "I'm looking for somebody. Have any of you seen a guy with spiky hair?"
I pointed at Sora and asked, "This guy?"
"Heh, spikier." She said and we shook our heads and shrugged.
"I'll just take a look around." She walked in and kept on looking around in the room. Even behind the picture and knocked on the wall, I sweat dropped at this. She gave up and kicked the wall hardly which everyone flinched at this. I felt it pound in my head and hissed with pain. "Ouch…" I touched my forehead.
"Oh sorry to bother you!" The girl said and I nodded.
"No bother ma'am!" The others stomped and saluted. I looked my friends with a shocked look. What? They never called me ma'am before! I was offended. She left the room and they sighed.
"So you made it." We heard a familiar voice say and we turned around; Leon!
"Leon!" Sora shouted excitedly and he walked up to me.
"What happened to you?" He asked and I touched my bandage.
"Long story." I answered and he nodded.
"Isn't the King with you?" Sora asked and Leon hushed.
"You'll see him soon enough." He answered.
"Hey!" Donald exclaimed.
"Here, this ought to tide you over." Leon placed his hand on the wall behind him and it glowed for a second and there appeared a secret passage. "Ansem's computer room." He mumbled. We followed him through the dark passage into the computer room.
Sora started to tap the computer aggressively and asked where Kairi and Riku were. I stood next to Leon and huffed at Sora's behaviour. "Easy, you wanna break it?" Leon asked rhetorically.
"Oh sorry, I guess I got a little carried away." Sora rubbed the back of his head nervously. Then all of sudden something jumped onto me and I fell flat like a pancake. The thing hopped off me and got onto the computer. "Vanessa!" Sora shouted and my head started to hurt at the little impact. I groaned in pain and rubbed my head.
"Ouch…again!" I mumbled and Leon helped me stand up.
"Get off that!" Donald shouted at the little blue monster on the computer. Donald jumped onto the computer and that fur ball got off just before Donald could get him. Then he stood up and started walking on the computer's keyboard. I placed my hand on my head and shook it; stupid!
"Attention current user. This is a warning. Further misuse of this terminal will result in immediate defensive action. I am the Master Control Program. I oversee this system." If that wasn't bad enough, when Donald stepped onto another key, my head was killing me! I covered my face and shook my head. "Make it stop, make it stop, MAKE IT STOP!" I yelled.
"Decision gate reached. You are now under arrest." The computer said.
"Arrest?" Sora asked and Donald jumped into his arms.
"Run!" Leon said and my eyes widened. In just a minute my friends disappeared!
"What happened?" I asked.
"They went into another world." I gasped at this and looked up into Leon's eyes.
"I need to save them." I shook him and he shook his head.
"You need to rest; it's going to be too much for you, especially in this condition." I couldn't believe he was actually saying this to me.
"But-" Argh, damn it! My head was killing me as I raised my voice and my blood pressure escalated. I placed my hand on my forehead again and Leon pointed at me. "See." He declared.
"I'm fine." I looked up at him and held a staring competition….
Aw, poor Vanessa!
~Parisa01
