Chapter 44: A Pirate's Life for Me Pt 3
The Sailfish is going through the warm waters with Sora holding onto the compass to be confused by it. "It doesn't point north," he said as Umiko and Faris looks at it.
"Because it points to what you want most in your heart," Faris said.
"That seems pretty handy," Sora said as the compass points to Kairi looking over the edge of the ship at the water.
"Seems like your heart is pointing somewhere else," Umiko teases him as he has a red glow on his face.
"But that can change on a dime if you don't focus on a certain thing. Now focus on the Keystone and watch," Faris said as Sora shift his focus onto the Keystone. The pointer changes from Kairi to another direction.
"Alright, it changed," Sora said to have a grin on his face.
"Good, Syldra go in that direction. There is a storm coming in soon, better get there before anything else bad happens," Faris said as their ship goes towards that direction.
Elsewhere Yagi is talking with Davy Jones on his ship Flying Dutchman with Beckett standing beside the humanoid dragon. "What is the meaning of this Beckett, my Kraken is dead and now my Locker just vanished out of thin air, explain yourself?" he demanded.
"You see remember those four I told about Umiko, Riku, Sora and Kairi. They managed to kill your Kraken and their master use powerful magic to wipe out your Locker for good," Yagi said as his bony tail twitches from the air of Jone's screams.
"This doesn't benefit me, I am losing all the cards in this deal of yours," Jones said at Beckett for he looks unmoved by Jones' plea.
"If I recall I still have control over your heart Jones. An outburst like that again and I will destroy it on command," Beckett said as Yagi is holding the Dead Man's Chest and pointing his hand ready to destroy it with a magic spell.
Davy Jones looks on but looks defeated. "Fine, I will continue to work you Beckett," Davy Jones said as Beckett has a sly smirk on his face.
"Regardless of the death of your pet and your dimension. The age of Piracy is about to be over; my intel tells me that the pirates are starting to gather their forces. The final battle is almost here," Beckett said as they go off to gather his forces.
The Sailfish is going through the ocean for a storm is coming over them. "Damn it, these seas are getting quite rough," Faris said as Lenna felt the air being strangely very warm as there is a distant cry echoing throughout the air.
"What was that?" Lenna asked to see several ships that were recently destroyed around them floating in the water.
"Is that a Heartless?" Riku wondered as they draw out their weapons readying for the beast to appear.
An even louder shout is heard as the waves getting more chaotic with the beast getting close. "Here it comes," the Umiko shouted as the water erupts with a massive being popping out with the monster finally appearing before them with its head shaped like an arrow and spikes along its back and head with it pulsing with electric energy.
"By the goddess, this Heartless is so big and powerful," Kairi said in awe of its appearance with the giant eel slamming its tail onto the ship knocking it around.
"We have to protect the ship and kill it," Faris said as the six are wielding their weapons. Lenna launches multiple magic missiles to blast it on contact.
The black eel emits a powerful shield of electric energy blocking her attacks as the beast charges up a powerful attack. Kairi is ready to block the attack to lob a magical spear at the monster with the eel firing a lightning beam as the two attacks collide canceling each other out.
The eel roars as its spikes are shooting a spread of mini energy spikes to scatter across the ship for they explode taking out chucks of the ship but it's still afloat taken heavy damage. Both Lenna, Kairi and Umiko combine their magic to create a strong barrier to shield them from the vicious explosions.
"This isn't good," Sora said as they all launch their attacks for the beast is holding out quite well.
"Holy Barrage," Kairi creates multiple halo rings and launches them at the monster pushing it back.
Umiko transforms her Keyblade into a lance launching a barrage of thrusts to strike the monster making it recoil even further with Faris following up with magic spears to do damage to the monster only making it even madder.
Quickly the eel slips into the water hiding from the group's attacks. "Where is it?" Sora asked as he is on the edge of the ship trying to find it.
The creature pops out of the water with Sora using his Mage State releasing a big bubble at the monster with it batting the bubble away with its tail. Riku, Faris and Umiko uses quick yet powerful slashes on its tough hide doing some damage.
The eel is firing a beam of electricity to hit the ocean with explosions rocking up the vessel. Everyone brace for the creature to unleash its next attack. It fires an electric beam again for it tears into the ocean making a big wave to knock the Sailfish around with Sora nowhere to be found.
"Syldra, dislodge from the ship and attack the Heartless," Faris ordered as the sea dragon goes in to headbutt the monster to be able to fight back against the strong monster.
"Sora," Kairi shouted for she tries to find Sora with no luck. "Sora," she screamed feeling very worried about him seeing no sign of him on the ship.
She sees him in the water close by as she goes by the edge to see Sora out in the ocean floating unconscious.
"Oh no, I'm coming," Kairi jumps down into the water to swim towards him as the beast is ready to retreat from the more powerful sea dragon.
"Oh shit, here it comes again," Riku said as the Heartless charges up its attack. The eel fires a massive orb of electricity to miss Syldra and the ship unleashing a large blast. Kairi reaches for Sora but they both get push back by the large waves caused from the explosion.
"Kairi, Sora," Lenna looks around with the fierce winds and heavy rain making seeing very hard to do.
"Sora and Kairi, where are you," Riku said as he check the deck to see no sign of them to begin getting worried. "We got to look for them," Riku urged for Faris shakes her head to see Syldra manage to tear off the Heartless's head with her large fangs destroying it.
"This storm is quite fierce; we need to go to calmer waters and make repairs. Sailfish is in no shape for a rescue mission," Faris said as Riku looks stressed by this.
"I get it," Riku said as Umiko places her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, those two will keep themselves alive out there. They can use a spell like Flare to signal where they are," Umiko said as they begin to leave the area.
"Sora and Kairi, don't die out there," Riku said as the storm rages on leaving behind a large mist.
Kairi is holding onto Sora against the waves to see debris around them from the graveyard of ships. She swims to a big piece of broken hull from one of the ships for both to be on it with the mist still around them as she can't see anything around. "Oh no, everyone else is gone now and the beast is gone too," she said as she sees Sora is badly beaten up.
"Okay, he is fine now. He just need rest, time to fly," she thought as she tries to transform but she is too weak to use her Divine State. She uses a wind spell to propel the piece of debris in the water going forward at a steady pace.
"I need an island to head for or we'll die of hypothermia," she said as they brave through the mist with her feeling cold from her wet clothes.
Within an hour the storm has passed, Kairi keeps going with her belly growling. "Oh no, more problems," she said as she sees Sora is still breathing. "At least he is okay," she thought.
Soon enough Kairi sees a mysterious island in the distance. "Yes, my prayers had been answered," Kairi said as she moves her makeshift boat towards the island.
Within a few moments, Kairi's makeshift boat lands onto the island she saw before. "Thank goodness," she said feeling deep relief.
She tries to get Sora off the piece of debris as she carries him into the jungle. Kairi carries the sleeping Sora away to see a nearby cave entrance.
"Perfect," she thought as she takes him into the cavern to see a vast open area for them to rest in. She places him against the wall, "Okay I'll be right back. I'm going to get some wood and flint to use." she goes off to grab some wood to use and two flints to make a fire.
Soon she gathers the wood she needs to put them in position and bring up the flint shards. She rubs them together with sparks flying out setting the wood on fire setting up a bon fire.
"Alright, we have fire. Now we need to get out of these wet clothes for them to dry outside," she thought to begin strip out of her clothes.
She takes off her pink sailor dress along with her underwear. She goes outside to hang them on branches with her coming back inside with her boyfriend sleeping soundly with no trouble.
"Okay time to take your clothing off," Kairi said as she helps the sleeping Sora get out of his wet clothing. His clothes is taken off leaving him in his green underwear which Kairi finds cute. "I like the little clouds on them," she remarked as she pulls his undies to see his penis with the redhead blushing from the pleasant sight with her having a nosebleed.
"Oh, it's not as big as before. It's so cute," Kairi thought as she stares at the sex organ with naughty thoughts popping in her mind as she shakes her head. "I have to get Sora warm, not look at his penis," she thought to put his hands onto his privates to cover them up.
She goes outside to put his clothing on a tree branch with her back inside to see the fire glowing against the wall with Sora getting the warmth he needs. She sits beside her lover with her fully exposed.
"That was so close, you always seem to be in death defying situations but I'm always here making you feel better," she said tenderly as she puts the sleeping head of Sora on her shoulder taking in his familiar scent putting her at ease.
"Kairi," he muttered in his sleep making Kairi smile as she plants a kiss on his lips.
"Don't worry I'm here to care of you until you wake up," Kairi said to put her hand in his brown spiky hair with a little smile on her lightly colored face.
Kairi is deep in her thoughts remembering the happy times she spent with Sora. "I was always there for you picking you up when you need it and in return you do the same as when I am in trouble or seek your guidance. You were there to comfort me when I need you most," she said as she places his head on her right breast to feel her heartbeat. "You mean so much to me Sora; life wouldn't be the same without you," she whispered in his ear with him still asleep.
Soon enough Sora awakened from his slumber with him fully recovered. "Wow, what happened," Sora said looking dazed. "Last thing I remember was on the ship and that big eel but where is this?" he wondered to see he is only in his underwear. "Wait a minute, where are my clothes?" he asked.
"Well they are still pretty damp, so they are hanging on the branch," Kairi's voice is heard with her looming over him with his eyes gaining full vision to witness a beautiful sight.
"Kairi, why are you half naked?" Sora asked with blood coming out of his nose.
"Well my clothes are wet as well but only our underwear got dry enough to wear," she said.
"You look very hot in that," Sora said bluntly with his face flush red as Kairi wearing a pink sport bra and her matching pink panties fitting her curvaceous figure with her undies looking good against her perfectly pale white skin.
"Thanks, you look cute too," Kairi said blushing as well seeing him wearing green briefs with little clouds on them with her looking at his slim frame with glee. "Cute is an understatement," she thought with her shaking her head ridding of her perverted thoughts.
Sora can't help but stare at her large soft melons trapped in her bra waiting to be play with. "Those are amazing," Sora thought as he shakes off his lust for Kairi's body to regain his composure. "So, how did we get here?" he asked.
"We fallen out of the ship within the storm and I manage to get you on a piece of wreckage getting you to this island to dry us off," she said to sit beside him with the fire still in front of them.
"Thank you, Kairi for saving me," Sora said to put his arm around her waist.
"Always a pleasure," she said with a big smile on her face along with a blush.
"Kairi, after our clothing dry off. We should explore the island and see if anyone or anything is friendly here," he said.
"Good idea, I was thinking about that too," Kairi said as they cozy up by the fire and wait for their clothing to dry off.
Soon enough the couple got their clothing on seeing that they are now dry as they get out of the cavern.
"We better walk," Kairi said.
"Hey, I want you to throw your spell in the air. We don't have a flare to use to signal ships or ships passing by. So, the bright flashes and sound of your attack will draw attention," Sora said.
"Good thinking Sora," Kairi said praising him with Sora feeling humbled by his words.
"Don't mention it," Sora said sounding modest as Kairi throwa the magic ball into the air high above the island. The spell explodes letting out an echoing sound to spread across the ocean. "That should get someone's attention. Come on, let's explore this island," she said.
"Alright," Sora said as they enter the jungle of the island with the sun high in the sky and wind brushing against the foliage.
"I don't see anything people, just animals," she said as she senses no humans around the environment with them both being wary of dangerous animals.
"You would think there could be dinosaurs here?" Sora asked.
"That's silly Sora, those have been gone for a very long time," she said.
"I know, it would be cool though like out of a movie," he said.
"It would," Kairi said as they go through the jungle.
Soon enough Kairi and Sora are going through the mountainous terrain as they overlook the forest down below and can even see the coastline of the island. "Wow, what a view," Sora said.
"Yes, it is," Kairi said as Sora looked upon Kairi with her long dark red hair dancing against the wind for Sora she looked too perfect like a painting coming to life right in front of him.
"Not as good of a view I have in front of me," he said to grab her hand tenderly. Kairi's heart felt like it was about to burst out of her bosom from how nice he has been to her ever since they first meet as kids.
"You are such a sweetheart," she said to kiss him on the cheek.
"Anything for you my Princess," he said to playfully take a bow making her laugh.
They traverse further up the mountain for they noticed a ship coming onto the beach. "Look a ship," Kairi said as they quickly realize it was shipwrecked and looked very old sitting on the beach for who knows how long.
"I wonder who drives that ship," Sora said with his curiosity peaked.
"It could be pirates, it's not uncommon for them to appear in places like these," Kairi said as she noticed something in the distance. "Sora, I see people down there," Kairi pointed to a camp within the jungle.
Sora pulls out the compass from before to focus his thoughts on the Keystone for the pointer goes towards the camp. "Good, that is where the Keystone is located," Sora said.
"Cool, let's go check it out," Kairi said as they go down the mountain to head for the camp below.
Elsewhere Marlene is practice with Sazh who is supervising her training. "Stay focus kid, you got the talent for it," Sazh said as he is sitting on a chair with them at a firing range. "Okay time to show me your stuff," Sazh said as Marlene is in a large area to be filled with holographic target dummies armed with stun weapons within the training area.
"No problem, I got this," Marlene grabs the dual pistols to cock the weapons.
"Ready to go kid?" Sazh asked.
"Okay, here I go," Marlene said as the test dummies fire their pistols with the teenager rolling out of their line of fire to fire her handguns with rapid bursts to easily tear through the test robots. She brings up her pistol to lob out a magic bomb to blast apart groups of bots with her switching to semi-auto to pick off enemies from far away.
"Wow she is quite good. Indeed, she will be a fine assist to our team," Sazh said sounding impressed as Marlene jumps on top of a crate to fire her handgun blasting away several test dummies. She goes to her semi auto mode to fire the last few bots in the distance to finish her run.
"Excellent, you have done pretty well," Sazh said.
"Thank you, Sazh," Marlene said as his dark brown face is brightened by his fatherly smile.
"Hey kid, you did a great job. I will treat you to ice cream, its all on me," Sazh said as the little teenager jumps for joy.
"Thank you Sazh," Marlene said.
"No problem, Dajh we are going to get ice cream," he said to his son who was watching Marlene.
"Okay dad, hey Marlene that was cool. You were shooting those dummies like a pro," the little boy said as Marlene pats his little afro.
"Thanks, Dajh," Marlene said as the trio go onto the streets to head for the ice cream shop which has an arcade inside.
"What do you two want?" Sazh asked.
"Strawberry," Marlene said.
"Rocky Road," Sazh's son said.
"Strawberry. Rocky Road and Orange Sorbet for me," Sazh said as the store clerk gives them three cones with one scoop each.
"Thanks," Dajh said for them to sit in a booth enjoying the food.
"Hey, did you know my daddy?" Marlene asked Sazh.
"Oh Barret, yeah I know him. He is a good friend of my. Why?" Sazh asked.
"I miss him," Marlene sounding quite sad at this.
"Yeah I do too," Sazh said to lick his ice cream.
"Where did you guys met?" he asked.
"In the defense forces in Radiant Garden. We were war buddies, helping defend the city from the onslaught of Heartless when Drake invaded the world over a decade ago," Sazh said.
"Really? Were you two close?" she asked.
"Yep, thick and thin. We bonded through combat, life and family," Sazh said to put his arm around his son's shoulders. "He is a very passionate man with him going full blast on anything he does. Barret Wallace was a brash and gruff man but he did everything for you Marlene," Sazh said as Marlene grabs his jacket for she starts to cry onto it.
"But Sephiroth took him away from me, he took daddy away," Marlene wept for Sazh comforts the young girl.
"Hey, your dad fought against Sephiroth because he wanted to secure a better future for you even at the cost of his life. I would do the same thing he did," Sazh said.
"Thank Sazh," Marlene said to give him a tight hug.
"No problem, kid," Sazh said to pat her head.
"Oh man, that was so touching. Hits you right here," a guy said as Marlene and Sazh turn around to see blond haired young man sitting in the booth behind him
"Prompto, what did I tell you about barging into people's business," a calm cultured voice said.
"Gee Ignis, you are such a buzzkill," Prompto said.
"Who are you guys," Marlene said to calm herself down to meet with the four young men sitting in a booth eating ice cream.
"Oh, I am Prompto. The guy with the glasses is Ignis, the big guy is Gladiolus and the moody prince here is Noctis," Prompto joked as the dark haired young man made a face.
"Who says I am moody," Noctis protested.
"I did chief," Prompto joked
"You seem to be down these days," Gladio said.
"Its nothing, I am got stuff on my mind," Noctis said to hold his fingers to his forehead.
"Come to think of it, you are looking a bit down these days," a woman's soothing voice said as Noctis looks up to see his girlfriend Lunafreya holding her own ice cream cone to sit beside him.
"Its tough dealing with these Heartless and all the crap they been doing lately," Noctis said.
"We can't give up hope, we need to push forward," Luna said to pat him tenderly on the back.
"She is too good for you Noct," Gladiolus joked.
"Sure," Noctis said dryly as they all share a laugh together.
"Hey kid, you want to play at that shooting gallery. I can give you some pointers," Prompto said as Marlene nods her head.
"Sure," Marlene said feeling comfortable around them as Sazh watches this to see her having fun with Prompto in the arcade. "Barret, you would be so proud of her," Sazh thought to enjoy his time with his own son eating ice cream.
Elsewhere Riku noticed a large ball of energy in the distance. "Hey Faris, a spell was over an island in the distance," Riku said.
"Good, we manage to repair the ship. We can head off now," Faris said as Syldra pulls them ahead to the island.
Umiko pats him on the back. "See, what did I tell you. Nothing to worry about," Umiko said as they go towards the island. "I am going ahead," Riku said as he creates a makeshift raft made of ice in the water and casting Aeroga to push him forward.
"At least he is creative," Lenna said as they get closer to the island.
Riku manage to get onto the beach to leap to the sands with his Way of the Dawn Keyblade in hand to see Heartless appearing before him. "Great," he said dryly to see Powerwilds and Sniperwilds coming at him to block a punch from the monkey like Heartless.
Riku tear through several Powerwilds with sword slashes as he dodges incoming projectile from the female monkey's slingshot. "Stopga," Riku freezes multiple Heartless in place as he uses Strike Raid to cut down several targets until it reaches back his hand.
Riku looks over to a camp to see a bunch of crates with the ETIC logo on it. "They seem to be everywhere huh?" he questioned.
"Of course," a young boy said as Riku turns around to see a young pale faced teenage body with dragon horns on either side of his head, a long bony tail above his rear and patches of scales all over his body. He is wearing a white robe covering his body along with him using a magical staff.
"Who are you?" Riku demanded as the young Au Ra man has a smirk on his face.
"I am Yagi, one of Drake's agents. You must be the guy Terra has a crush on," Yagi said.
"Why do you know Terra?" Riku questioned him.
"I was the one did all those experiments on her body," Yagi said as he got the respond he wanted as Riku looks deeply upset by this.
"You did those cruel experiments on her?" Riku gets into combat stance for Yagi uses his magic to float into the air.
"Oh yes, she had the cutest little yelps when she took probes into her body, it was a delightful sight," Yagi said as he got him to rush at him.
"You bastard,!" Riku to slash at Yagi but his magical barrier block him from harm. Riku backs away to blast at the evil wizard with dark fireballs.
"Tornado," Yagi creates three twisters to fly at Riku as he summons a dark barrier to protect himself from the magic onslaught. The Au Ra wizard scatters Riku's barrier with his big lightning bolt as he fires a concessive beam to aim a Riku.
Riku evades the beam as he swings his weapon to release several dark energy crescents to strike the barrier unable to break it.
"You got to do better than that," Yagi said as Riku gathers wind energy into his blade and swing it like a fan to unleash a big gust of wind to knock him back into a tree.
Riku tosses his Keyblade to go pass Yagi to slice through multiple trees to fall. "Firaga Burst," Riku conjures an orb of fire to spit out smaller fireballs. Riku leaps at Yagi for he floats out of his way while he is blocking the incoming fireballs with his magical shield.
Riku is beside the fallen logs as he is using wind magic to blow them into the evil wizard's direction. The logs slam into the shield to make Yagi recoil backwards into the floating flaming orb. Yagi crashes into the orb to scatter his magic barrier to make it fall onto the ground.
Riku lunges at him to slash him a few times to kick Yagi into a tree as he stabs at him. Yagi uses mini barriers to deflect the incoming thrusts to emit a blast of magic from his body to knock Riku away.
"So annoying, I guess Terra likes weaklings," Yagi said as he summons down lightning bolts with Riku trying to dodge them but gets hit several times. "Silencega," Yagi emits a blast of energy to slam into Riku for his ability to use magic is disabled.
"Damn it," Riku said as he gets blasted with lightning bolts to severely weakened him. Then he gets hit by an energy beam to knock him onto the beach. Riku taps into Diabolos' power from his Magicite to go into his armored state to dispel the Silencega.
Riku blast him with Abyss to overwhelm his defenses as he toss his Soul Eater in the air and kick the hilt to launch the sword at Yagi. "Graviga," Riku cast a dome of gravity to hold Yagi down as he gets impale by the Soul Eater in the chest, The impact made him fly into a tree nearby.
Yagi magically removes the blade out of his wounded chest to cast Curaga to heal his wounds completely. He gets out of the tree to block incoming dark spells with Yagi casting Stonega as spears of rocks jet out of the sands.
Riku is dodging and slashing down rocks with him kicking them towards the dragon boy. Riku fires an Abyss spell but Yagi blocks it with his energy barrier with him putting more magic into it.
"You got to do better that that Riku," Yagi said as suddenly Syldra pops out of the water for she unleash a ray of lightning from her mouth to aim right at the dragon humanoid. Her attack manage to break through his shield and vaporize his right arm making him drop his staff.
"Now its my chance," Riku leaps in as he draws both his Soul Eater and Way of the Dawn into his chest with warm blood splashing onto his simple white robe. "That was for Terra," Riku crave out a chunk of flesh from his chest as Yagi fell into his own pool of blood.
"Well you won; did you feel better?" Yagi asked sounding like he doesn't care that he loss.
"Yeah I do, don't know why you are so smug about it," Riku looks at the dying young man.
"You are a real dumbass; you know that right. We are both part of this crazy game Umiko and Drake have been playing for over a hundred years. You are not the only one who got fed into her grind fest," Yagi said.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
"Aqua, Terra, Ventus, Lea, Isa, Skuld, Strelitzia, Elrena, and Lauriam. Remember these names well, these Keyblade wielders suffered under this game from Umiko's side. You and your two friends are next in line," Yagi said like a warning to die on the spot.
"More Keyblade wielders like us," Riku said as he noticed Sora and Kairi coming at him.
"Riku, you came for us," Sora said as Riku shakes off his suspicions for now to playfully rub Sora's spiky hair.
"Oh; come on, without me. You two will get into trouble quite fast," Riku joked for both pout at this.
"What does that mean?" Sora asked as Riku laughs at this.
"Hey, we found the Keystone in one of the crates in the camp," Kairi shows Riku the Keystone in her hand. "The compass was quite handy in finding it," Kairi said.
"Oh good, now we can get out of here and meet up with the pirates," Riku said as they go back to the ship with Riku sensing some truth within Yagi's last words. "What the hell is going here? Even more Keyblade Wielders beside us, I need to talk with Umiko about this and get to the bottom of this," Riku thought as they begin to go to the meeting place of the Pirate HQ with the final battle for the world is about to begin.
A/N: Noctis, Ignis, Prompto, Gladiolus and Lunafreya are characters from FF15.