*I don't own Kingdom Hearts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or any of their characters, though Heavyn is mine.
"We've done it, Esmeralda! We've beaten them back, come and see!" cried Quasimodo triumphantly as he burst into his bedroom. Hearing no response, he looked closer at the Gypsy lying in his bed.
"Esmeralda, wake up. You're safe now!" he said, walking towards her. Seeing no response from her, he laid a hand on her cheek. When she continued to make no response, his eyes widened.
"Oh, no…" he breathed, tears starting to form in his eyes. Falling to his knees, he started to weep with sorrow. As he cried, Frollo suddenly appeared in the doorway. He walked over and laid a hand on Quasimodo's back.
"You killed her," whispered Quasimodo, not looking at his master.
"It was my duty, horrible as it was," replied Frollo with false remorse. "I hope you will forgive me." As Quasimodo continued to cry, he pulled out a dagger from behind his back and continued, "There, there, Quasimodo… I know it hurts. But now, the time has come to end your suffering… for-"
"Quasimodo, I'm he- LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" cried out Heavyn, arriving at the scene just in time. Quasimodo turned, and gasped at the dagger clutched in his foster father's hand. He grabbed Frollo's arm as it lowered to sink the dagger in his flesh. They struggled for a moment, then Quasimodo wrenched the dagger from Frollo's hand and threw him across the room.
"Quasimodo, now listen to me..." said Frollo, eyes widening in fear at the sight of Quasimodo advancing towards him with the dagger.
"No, YOU listen!" interrupted Quasimodo, throwing the dagger aside as he finally stood up to the man that had raised him. "All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now, I finally see that the only thing that's dark and cruel about it is people like you!"
"Quasimodo?" Esmeralda suddenly called out weakly, finally waking up.
Quasimodo briefly stiffened in shock, then rushed over. "Esmeralda… you're okay," he breathed in relief.
Frollo's eyes narrowed as he reached for the sword hanging from a hidden sheath. "She lives…" he growled, unsheathing it.
"I don't think so!" exclaimed Heavyn, summoning the X-blade and standing between the judge and the two outcasts. She turned towards her friends as she said, "Run! I'll hold him off!"
As they ran, Frollo sneered, "You realize that I have the power of God behind me, witch."
"Yeah, yeah, so I'm going to die by the end of your sword, and blah, blah, blah. Don't you have ANY creative responses toward me? I mean, seriously!" Heavyn taunted back. She raised her free hand and performed a flawless 'come get me' gesture and continued, "Well, come on, Judge Creeper! Aren't you going to shut me up with your 'holy sword'?" She suddenly made a face. "Eww, just gave myself a bad mental image…," she muttered, fighting off the intense urge to channel a certain blue-collar comedian.
"What are you talking about?" asked the X-blade silently, for luckily it had not picked up that image.
"Trust me, you don't WANT to know," she thought back. At that moment, Frollo finally decided to attack, and she used it as a welcome distraction from the image of Frollo's 'holy sword' that was currently making her wish that she had a whole gallon of mental bleach at hand.
"Sora, use Blizzaga!" shouted Riku as he dodged the Heat Saber's slide attack.
Sora nodded, then promptly used said spell. The spell hit the Heartless dead on, making it stagger.
"Kairi, now!" cried Sora, knowing that the Heartless was close to its end.
Kairi ran up to the Heartless and slashed three times. At the end of the third slash, the Heartless suddenly convulsed. The trio watched as the captured heart finally left the Heartless, signifying that it was defeated.
"Thank goodness Organization XIII isn't around to steal hearts anymore," remarked Sora as he watched the heart float up into the sky.
"You said it!" agreed Kairi.
"Where's Frollo?" asked Phoebus as he came running up to the trio.
Riku's eyes widened as he looked towards the entrance to the cathedral. "Shoot! Frollo's inside!"
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go!" cried the former Captain, running for the doors.
"Right behind you!" said Sora as the trio followed him.
As the four of them ran into the church, they looked around.
"Alright, where's the pervert?" muttered Kairi.
Suddenly, they heard a groan. Looking over, they noticed an older man collapsed near the stairs.
"Archbishop!" cried Phoebus as the four of them rushed over. "Father, are you alright?"
Upon hearing no response, Sora quickly performed a Curaga spell to heal the poor man. As the Archbishop slowly opened his eyes, Sora breathed a sigh of relief, for that spell won't work on a dead man.
"Archbishop, who did this to you?" asked Riku.
"Frollo… he's going to kill Quasimodo, I'm sure of it," replied the Archbishop.
"What? What makes you say that?" exclaimed Kairi.
"He told me as he threw me aside that he had some unfinished business with Quasimodo, and that this time I won't interfere," came the answer.
"So… how does that translate into Frollo killing Quasimodo?" asked Phoebus.
"According to Clopin's story, Frollo would've killed Quasimodo twenty years ago if it hadn't been for the Archbishop," explained Riku.
"Then we've gotta get up there!" shouted Sora, running up the stairs only to be blocked by the locked door. Before he could use his Keyblade, however, there was a commotion outside.
"Look up there!" came various cries.
"What's going on out there?" queried Phoebus.
"Let me check," Kairi replied as she dashed outside. Moments later, she came rushing back in. "Frollo's fighting Heavyn, and Quasimodo and Esmeralda are trying to escape him!" she reported.
"What? But what if they fall over the edge?" demanded Riku.
"Then we'll just have to catch them. Now follow me!" answered Phoebus as he dashed off down a side passage. The three Keyblade Wielders followed him.
"Hey, concentrate on me, you pervy old judge!" hollered Heavyn as Frollo once again went after Quasimodo and Esmeralda. Quasimodo had taken to swinging on the carved rain spouts just to escape his foster father, who alternated between fighting Heavyn and chasing down the others.
As Frollo ignored her in favor of chasing down Quasimodo, Heavyn growled, "Okay, don't say I didn't warn you…" She promptly aimed a fireball at his butt.
Frollo yelped, then turned to her with a glare. In the few seconds it took for him to do this, Heavyn had combined her features to create the perfect face of innocence (only Angela's face could top hers… but then again, she WAS the youngest so Heavyn only had mild complaints). As Frollo charged, Heavyn maneuvered herself so that she was between him and her friends.
"Hey, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, did you see what I did? I took advantage of the opening Frollo foolishly gave me when he tried to go after you. I had even warned him, and he foolishly ignored it," remarked Heavyn, her voice taking on the tone of a mentor teaching a lesson as she parried Frollo's attack. Esmeralda smothered a giggle at Heavyn's antics while Frollo growled at her words.
"Now is NOT the time to be fooling around, you stupid girl!" Frollo snarled, the witch wielding that strange blade now claiming the top spot of things he hates (replacing those infernal Gypsies).
"Oh, yeah? What're you going to do about it, Ye Olde Judgy Pervert?" taunted Heavyn.
Frollo looked around and noticed that during the fight, he and Heavyn had proceed quite a few steps ahead of the Gypsy girl and his unwanted charge. He smirked as he replied, "This!" He promptly used his cloak to blind her, then shoved her over the edge of the building while grabbing his cloak back.
"Frickin' A!" Heavyn shouted as she felt herself fall. She quickly released the X-blade and grabbed onto one of the carved rainspouts, scrabbling to get a better grip when she felt herself slipping.
Frollo chuckled lowly and evilly as he watched her struggle for a moment, then turned back to his original targets. His smile grew as he noticed that the hunchback had placed himself between the Gypsy girl and the man who threatened them.
"I should've known that you'd risk your life trying to save that Gypsy wench and the witch," Frollo sneered at his charge, "Just as your own mother died trying to save you."
"W-What?" said a shocked Quasimodo, his entire world shifting in that moment. His mother had died trying to save him? She hadn't left him behind?
"That's right, Quasi! Frollo lied about your mother so that he could manipulate you! HE'S the one that killed your mother in the first place!" came the X-blade's voice inside his head.
"And now," continued Frollo, unaware of what the X-blade had just told Quasimodo, "I'm going to do to you what I should have done twenty years ago!" He then pulled the same trick that had tricked Heavyn on Quasimodo. Only this time, there was a hitch in the plan.
"Whoa!" he shouted as Quasimodo swung around to the side, effectively pulling Frollo down with him. He glared as he clutched the cloak that was held in Quasimodo's hands, knowing that all Quasimodo had to do was let go in order for Frollo to die.
As Quasimodo started to slip, Esmeralda suddenly grabbed the hand that was closest to her. Frollo took advantage of the hunchback's distraction by swinging himself like a pendulum toward the empty rainspout that was next to the three of them. Once he was close enough, he grabbed the rainspout and pulled himself up.
"That's not fair! How can he pull himself up so easily?" grumped Heavyn as she still struggled to get on her own rainspout.
"Maybe his arm muscles are stronger than yours," supplied the X-blade helpfully, unaware of the innuendo in that statement.
Heavyn snorted with silent laughter. "X-blade, when I'm not in danger of dying, I'm going to tell you just how WRONG that statement was," she promised. She watched as Quasimodo finally let go of Frollo's cloak, then her eyes widened as Frollo started to laugh.
"'And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!'" he quoted, holding the sword that he had managed to hold on to high. At this, Heavyn felt a rush of anger. She released her left hand and summoned the X-blade, feeling a rush of energy start to pool into the blade
"Indeed He shall!" she shouted as she pointed her weapon at the rainspout Frollo stood on. Suddenly, a ball of light shot out from the X-blade and hit the intended target. Frollo slipped as the rainspout cracked, his face aligning that with the carved stone one.
"Holy Sea-Salt Ice Cream… did I just perform a Shotlock?" wondered Heavyn as she glanced at the X-blade. Hearing Frollo start to scream, she glanced back up as the rainspout lost the battle to gravity, plunging Frollo into the very flames that had been meant for Heavyn and Esmeralda. Suddenly, she panicked as she felt herself slipping again.
"Crap!" she shouted as she fell. She could vaguely hear Esmeralda shouting, and turned to see that Quasimodo had fallen, too. She realized in that moment that she might actually die.
"I… I don't want to die! I still have to save Repliku!" she thought as she fell. Realizing that this was the first time since the accident that she actually didn't accept the possibility of death, she closed her eyes and summoned the X-blade. Before she could turn it into a glider, however, she felt someone catch her. She opened her eyes, then widened in surprise as she saw who had been her savior.
"Gotcha," remarked Riku, giving her a grin.