WHITE LAKE, ANYONE?
Hey guys. My parents have done something really cool. With help from my aunt and uncle, we have bought a lake house. We've been going down every weekend since, for the past two weeks, and I doubt that trend is gonna change. So, most of my writing will be updated slower.
But, on a good note, I track out before October begins (year round school), so then I'll be able to write more. Compromise, people, compromise!
Today is gonna be a great day for writing. No homework, no distractions… for NOW at least. Ah well.
Transformers fans! Go read Roseprincess1's work. I love her work, and yes, I am a transformers geek. Come on! Classic story, funny characters, Optimus Prime love. Worship it, people!
Ok, no more blabber from Ms Sulhadahne. ONWARD TO STORY!
"Let's win this!"
Alucard cackled as the group soared high above Spira, the legendary One Winged Angel now behind them instead of ahead. Sora scooted as far up on the bike as he could in vain attempts to avoid Sephiroth as much as possible.
That's when something odd happened.
Cloud leapt off the bike.
"Cloud? What are you doing?" Sora demanded as he zoomed off on Alucard's bike. Cloud didn't say a thing. He raised his blade to the sky, pointed at the Angel before him. Sephiroth cackled, shoulders shaking.
"I should have known!" He ceased laughing and grinned down to Cloud smugly. Racers sped past them, still in the race. One sped right into them; in a flash, Cloud flipped up into the air, to fast for the blind eye. The bike skidded, landing in a heap at the curve in the track, and tipped only for a moment before plummeting off the side with a screech. The rider snarled before being teleported away.
"You didn't care about the race." Sephiroth accused. "You only cared about me." Cloud, in mid spin high in the air, brought his sword around to clash against Sephiroth. The silver haired man raised his blade and blocked it simply, and both men were flung back. They both landed on their feet.
"Tonight, only one of us will cross the finish line!" Cloud declared, yelling and racing towards his arch nemesis.
Sora grimaced when he realized Cloud was sacrificing his chance in the race to protect him and Roxas. With a sigh, he took one last look back, and then concentrated on the race before him.
"Playing the hero." Roxas sighed. He was down too.
Alucard revved the bike.
"People tend to do that when they find something or someone worth protecting." Alucard muttered. For the first time since Sora had met him, he seemed reverent, as if he was thinking back on something.
The light changed worlds again as the boys left Spira and leapt into…
The Shadow Realm
Roxas gawked. It was the world they had vacationed on! The stands were filled to the brim, and were cheering just as loudly as the people from Monde Race. Roxas quickly scanned the crowd.
"Sora! This is the place Yuffie dragged us off to! Demyx aught to be here!" Sora grinned, scanning the crowd by standing on the bike. The wind was killing his ears, but he didn't care.
Demyx, in the crowd, grinned when he saw Sora, Roxas, and someone he didn't know come into view behind the leaders. Leaping up, Demyx cheered.
"Guys! That's them! Sora and Roxas!" Mokuba leapt up, and so did everyone but Seto. He stood gracefully, scowling as usual. In his mind, Demyx had given him a nickname: Saix wannabe.
"Who's that third guy?" Yuugi asked. Demyx shrugged, looking him over as he chewed on his popcorn and watched them whiz by.
"No idea." He sighed.
Sora sat back down as he prepared for the rest of the race, hoping Demyx had seen him. With a grin, he looked ahead.
The race now had obstacles.
Ahead of them, the track zigzagged and had walls jutting out here and there. Roxas and Alucard did well at blocking them, though Sora got a good scare out of Alucard's last minute defying death movements.
All of a sudden, something flew down from the sky. It was a fireball of some sort. Sora gawked as millions, maybe trillions flew towards them.
"Where'd the fire come from?" Roxas complained. Alucard scoffed.
"That's not fire!" He proclaimed loudly over the loud noises. "Those are meteors! We're in outer space!"
Sora and Roxas screeched as one headed their way.
Alucard pressed down hard on the brake, immediately ceasing his movement. Roxas, though did not think as fast, and ended up headed straight towards the fireball.
Sora put his foot on Alucard's shoulder, lurching forward with strain, clasping Roxas' shoulder hard and pulling him back. The boy flew backward as his bike exploded in a fury of color. All three riders were flown backward.
Scowling, Alucard sat up with a grimace.
"That hasn't happened in a while." Sora gawked.
Alucard had taken the brunt of the blow, and the flames had sent glass into his face. There was a large shard in his neck, and many on his face. He was bleeding terribly, but he acted as if it was nothing. And then, the glass was being pushed out of his face, and once the shards fell to the ground with a clang, his face healed. Sora almost gagged. Roxas didn't see since he was sort of out of it.
Once he was back to normal, Alucard sauntered up to his bike and got on, dusting off his shoulder were Sora had stood. He grinned playfully. Regaining his sanity, Sora laughed, shrugging. Alucard looked back to Roxas, who was sitting on the ground. Alucard nodded towards the bike.
"Get on."
The two boys grinned and leapt onto the bike, eager to catch up to the winners. Unknown to them, they were only four behind the lead.
The bike revved and sped across the glass shards and fire, dodging the flames and meteors. Then, finally, the light guided them to a new world.
Cloud gasped as Sephiroth's blade seared his back in one fell swoop, but he grimaced and took the pain as he turned and thrust his own blade towards the man. Sephiroth did not dodge, but didn't make a sound as the blade tore through his torso.
Both men were bleeding profusely, and both seemed very cold to one another.
"Why?" Cloud begged. "Why?"
"You want to know why you came to me. You trying to convince yourself you're still bent on revenge?" Sephiroth laughed painfully.
"Ever since you met that boy, you've changed. You changed him; he changed you." Sephiroth shook his head chuckling. Cloud fell to one knee. "You are afraid. Afraid to trust to fate again. The last time you found happiness, it was ripped away from you. Leon found you in despair, and offered you a second chance. You left; you went looking for her, Aerith. Now you've found her." Cloud sighed, looking to the ground.
"And I am afraid." Cloud muttered. Sephiroth looked slightly amused.
"There was a time pride would not have let you admit that". Sephiroth laughed, clutching his shoulder. "You came to me because, once more, I almost shattered the little peace you had. I killed Xemnas. And while you had known him longest as your enemy, and very little as an ally, for some reason, you felt despair. And you came to me. You always will; I am your darkness and you will always need me." Cloud looked up with pain filled eyes.
"But do I… need me?" He wondered with brooding.
"You came here to defend the children from me. You came…" Sephiroth smile was pained. "To defend the children from you."
Sora looked around as the new world came into view. Roxas held on to his arm as Sora held on tight to Alucard's coat, and they both looked at the new world.
Neverland
"What is this place?" Roxas asked. It was beautiful; it was night over a grand city with a huge tower clock. Sora laughed.
"You wouldn't remember, would you?" Sora implored, smiling. This world was a place that had good memories for him; memories of his first flights.
On the tower, Sora saw a small group of spectators; Peter Pan was one of them!
Sora grinned, stood up, and waved. He didn't know how, but Peter saw, and the boy flipped in the air and waved profusely.
The bikes turned the bend, went through a loop, and almost threw the boys off. Sora almost choked Alucard by holding on so tightly. After the loop, the bike immediately dived towards the ocean.
And it didn't turn up; it went straight into and through the water.
Sora screamed with Roxas as the bike plunged underwater.
To his surprise, Sora found he could breath. Roxas could as well, and he looked to Sora with a shrug.
Of course, they didn't know what was happening on Monde Race.
"Hold on!" Leon cheered. Donald growled, holding fast to his staff. Behind him, Yuffie clutched his back, and then Demyx held Yuffie, and so on. They were trying to keep Donald from going headfirst into a huge hole in the ground. It was a spell portal; Donald was casting a spell to allow his friends the ability to breath under water!
"Sora owes me big time!" Donald complained in his duck voice.
Anyway, the bike went deeper under the water, and Alucard grinned.
There were huge fish under the water. Fish with fangs. Sora gawked, bubbles coming from his mouth as a huge fish snarled with him.
Bubbles erupting behind them, Alucard sped ahead as two fish lunged towards them. Sora was taken by surprise, and twisted off the bike, floating around in the water with bubbles streaming from his mouth.
With a yelp, Sora began doing breaststroke, or "frog style", to escape the large carnivores, and soon enough he was swimming for his life. His two friends were far ahead, and he was losing them.
'I'm gonna be fish food!' Sora cried in his mind. One large fish snapped at his heels and he screamed bubbles.
Suddenly, someone took hold of him from behind and began swimming with long, fast, strong strokes, speeding through the water like a bullet. But also, this person was bleeding; badly.
Finally, the two burst out of the water, and were on a beach; on a new world.
Obsidian
Sora gasped for air, glad to breath like a human instead of like a fish. He looked up to his rescuer.
It was Cloud.
"So you decided to catch up?" Sora asked, smiling. Cloud smiled genuinely, laughing a little.
"I decided to not be afraid anymore." Sora looked confused.
"I didn't think you were ever afraid." Cloud laughed as he ran up towards the track, were Alucard and Roxas were waiting.
"I didn't think you could think." Sora gawked. He stood there for a second, before waking up.
"Hey! Wait for me!"