Author's Note: Well, just found out today that we won't get anymore info on KH3 until next year...which means that it won't appear in anymore gaming events this year. Either way, let's continue on with this story, shall we?
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH6: Trouble with Trust.
The Keyblade Graveyard was more horrifying now than Kairi had ever imagined. She had no idea what was going on, but all around her were scattered Keyblades, and not only that...to her horror and despair, were dead bodies of many warriors...including those of her friends; Riku, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Aqua, Terra, Ven, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion, even the allies from other worlds, and six other Princesses of Heart...and more horrifyingly, Sora who layed flat on his back, his Keyblade layed next to him, covered in fatal wounds and his eyes closed.
No...not them...especially not him. Tears welling up, Kairi raced towards Sora's body before falling onto her knees and gently picked him up by the head and shoulders, shaking him and pleading him to wake up, but he didn't respond. Still, she kept trying, even summoning her Keyblade and casted as Cure as strongly as she could...but he remained lifeless.
"No...no please, no...!" Kairi whispered, cradling Sora's head to her chest as she sobbed. "Sora...Sora, don't leave me!"
As Kairi cried and pleaded her friend to not leave her, suddenly a large menacing shadow loomed over her and Sora's body, and the sudden feeling of evil crept up that suddenly started to make her feel drained of energy. Twisting her body to look behind her, Kairi gasped as to her shock, was Master Xehanort and his Keyblade in hand, Chaos glowing bright red, and behind them, was a sillhotte of a giant figure, light glowing behind it, but Kairi could tell sharp teeth as the figure opened it's mouth a little, either sighing or looking at her hungrily.
Either way, Kairi quickly became frightened at the sudden appearences and hugged Sora's head tighter as though attempting to protect him despite that he was gone. To her horror, Xehanort and Chaos both suddenly disappeared and were then absorbed and merged right into the shadowy figure who suddenly grew larger to the size of a Titan, turning into a menacing hybrid monster.
"Your heart is nothing more than a broken fragment of the X-Blade. Your body is nothing more than clay and a vessel. Your soul is poisoned with emotions." The figure bellowed, sounding chorused and monsterous as though it also adopted the voices of Xehanort and Chaos.
Kairi was speechless and terrified, helpless as she was alone. She gasped as the figure then reached out it's massive hand to grab her and Sora. She quickly turned away while hugging him tighter, her eyes squeezed shut as she braced herself to be captured...
Kairi gasped as she shook rather violently the moment her eyes opened, feeling disorintated and terrified as she tried to figure out where she was, until someone's arms that was holding her shook her to get her out of her dazed state.
"Kairi! Are you alright?"
Gazing up and to her relief, was a very alive but very worried Sora who looked as though he just woke up and was now looking at her with concern. It took Kairi a moment to remember and realise where she was, as everyone else were still asleep, well, except for Riku who took apparently took Lea's place to keep an eye out for danger at some point, as both the redhead and Isa were asleep. Apparently a little while earlier or so, Pacha had given his poncho to Kuzo to keep him warm, though what neither of them had noticed that Kuzo had woken up and had been quite surprised by the act of kindness before having fallen back asleep himself.
It took her another moment to realise that she'd been having a nightmare and tried her best to will her heart to calm down even though the rawness of the intensed fear was still grasping her almost as though she was still trapped within the grasp of the Rock Titan.
Still, she couldn't help but snuggle herself more into Sora's arms, almost too afraid to leave him and Kairi soon found herself wrapping her arms around his waist, resting her head onto his chest, shivering, not by the cold as Xion's coat and Sora's embrace did keep her warm, but by the terror of her dream.
"I-I'm okay." Kairi eventually answered. "Just had an awful dream."
"Oh..." Sora muttered, before hugging his friend closer to him, and rubbed her arms soothly to calm her down. It wasn't fair that she went through so much in the last near month and couple of years. And in just the last few days, Kairi went through a lot that nearly made him lose her. Xehanort, Chaos, the Kracken, the Rock Titan, and now nightmares. When he suddenly noticed that she was sniffling and saw the slight signs of tears, it ached his heart in guilt.
"Shh...Kairi, it was just a dream. Everything's okay." He whispered as comfortingly as he could.
Kairi willed herself to calm down, though Sora's words made her feel better. He was right. It was just a dream, though she feared that it was a future prediction. But no, it couldn't be. Xehanort is gone, and although they have Chaos and possibly Bhunivelze to worry about, things were relatively calm. She nodded, and sighed. "I'm sorry I woke you, Sora."
"I'm the one who's sorry." Sora unexpectedly replied.
"Huh?"
"You put yourself in danger, all because of me. I couldn't even protect you the last time. What kind of a Keyblade Master ends up defeated and then gets one of his best friends captured by a giant monster like that?"
"It's not your fault." Kairi pointed out, especially when she realised that Sora blamed himself for the previous incident that had her grabbed by the giant Titan. "I couldn't live without you if that thing killed you. I-I don't want to lose you again."
Sora sighed, in guilt, but forced himself to admit that she was right. Still, he responded almost silently, but loud enough for her to hear, "I don't want to lose you again either, Kairi." before suggesting, "It's still pretty late. Try and get some sleep. Okay?"
"Okay." Kairi muttered, the anderline of fear finally fading and closed her eyes once she realised she was feeling sleepy again. Just talking to Sora, and knowing that he was there to keep her safe, knowing that he didn't want to lose her just as she didn't want to lose him gave her comfort.
Sora layed down with Kairi pillowed on his chest, but didn't dare to fall asleep again himself. Instead, he sighed softly and wrapped the makeshift blanket a bit higher to keep her warm. He couldn't live without Kairi or any of his friends either...for some reason, especially Kairi. He liked her the moment the two and Riku met when they were children, the day after she arrived in their home world from Radiant Garden due to Xehanort and Maleficent. He'd do anything to keep her safe, now more than ever.
Little did the two know, Riku had just returned from his turn as he promised to wake Terra up since the latter voulenteered to take the next turn to keep an eye out, when he had heard what just happened, but stayed by the tree and when he noticed his two best friends talking, he decided not to interfere. He couldn't help but feel proud of Sora making Kairi feel better after a nightmare that seemed pretty bad. Sure Riku rescued Kairi a bit better than Sora, but he knew deep down, it was Sora who kept Kairi's heart safe ever since their adventures began. Not only that, Kairi pretty much regarded Riku an older brother.
With Sora...Riku smirked as he shook his head knowing how Kairi saw their spiky haired friend. The two of them had been closer to each other than anyone else, and it was becoming plainly obvious despite that Sora and Kairi denied it out of embarrassment. He still couldn't help but most of times feel...a little jealous. He always liked Kairi and would've done anything to keep her safe, but in the end, ever since her memory of him was restored when Sora's memories returned to normal, Riku knew that he'd never win her heart. It always belonged to Sora, one way or another.
'I hope you and Kairi admit your feelings soon, Sora.' Riku thought to himself. 'Because if anything happened before that...you might not get the chance.'
The next morning, everyone slowly woke up at the sound of birds chirping, bats returning to their caves after a night of meal hunting for fruit or insects, and the sun rising. Pacha was by a pond and splasing his face with the water to wake himself up even more.
"Uh, hey." Kuzco's voice spoke up, and when the villager looked up, the emperor-turned-llama approached, carrying the poncho in his mouth. The younger native of this world sat down beside him, dropped the poncho into his hoove and handed it back to Pacha, "Thanks."
"Oh. No problem." Pacha replied, carefully taking the Poncho.
After a short silence.
"Feels like Wool." Kuzco admitted.
"Yeah." Pacha agreed.
"Alpaca?"
"Oh, yeah, it is."
"I thought so. Feels nice."
"My wife made it."
"Oh, she knits?"
"Crochets."
"Crochets? Nice."
"Thanks."
The two were left in an awkward silence, while a frog croaked in a short distance while it sat on a lilypad. It was then that Kuzco began speaking again, nervously, "So...so, I was thinking that when I got back to the city, we'd, uh...I mean, there's lots of hilltops, and maybe I might, you know...I - I might..."
"Are you saying...you've changed your mind?" Pacha asked, not believing it.
"Oh, well, I-I..."
"Because you know that means you're doing something nice for someone else."
"No, I know that. I know."
"And you're okay with that?" Terra asked from behind them, causing the two of them turn to see him and the rest of the group standing there, shocked and slightly suspicious on what Kuzco just said.
"Yes." Kuzco answered. Pacha in response gave him a suspicious look, before holding out his hand to the emperor, before quickly saying, "Don't shake, unless you mean it."
Sora and the other worldly travellers waited eagerly for Kuzo's response, until the emperor and Pacha shook hands, which had the latter's suspicious look become replaced with a warm smile.
"Welp, let's getcha back to the Palace, Kuzco." Mickey smiled, happily. Everyone then began to walk out of the jungle.
"Oh, by the way, thanks." Pacha said to Kuzco, pulling his poncho back on.
Unaware to everyone, Kuzco smirked smugly, saying, "No...thank you." before following the group.
A few hours and some fights against the Heartless later, Pacha led everyone out of the jungle and the sun was high. Still, Sora couldn't help but notice something odd with Kuzco, which made him feel like he wasn't completely honest with his 'change of heart' he had hours ago.
Apparently he wasn't the only one.
"Is it just me, or do you find Kuzo's behavior suspicious?" Isa whispered to Pacha.
Pacha shook his head and replied, "I'm sure it's nothing. Kuzco just needed time to realise that what he was about to do was wrong, and I think he managed to do that last night."
'If only you knew what the other worlds were like...or my time as Saix.' Isa thought to himself, mentally still guilty over his actions, but he didn't speak out these thoughts. No, Pacha was wrong. Not everyone was that heartless, but there are still many heartless people or monsters out there; Xehanort was the most heartless man alive and he had payed for being cruel to the Realm of Light.
The villager then turned to everyone and told them as they began to cross the old wooden bridge over the large canyon to the other side where a large golden palace stood in the far distance on more hills, "Okay, everyone. Once we cross this bridge, it's only an hour to the palace."
"Cool place, Kuzco." Lea commented, admiring the palace.
"I'm really glad that we're getting you home, Kuzco." Xion said, smiling warmly at the llama.
"Me too." Kuzco replied, "Because believe or not, I need a bath."
"Not as much as Jack, though." Terra chuckled.
"That's true." Kuzco quickly agreed, crinkling his nose at Jack in disgust.
Jack looked a bit hurt, pouting as he came up with an excuse, "That's trifles you're smelling." which only made his worldly travelling companions roll their eyes.
"Could've fooled me." Roxas said dryly.
All of the sudden, one single board underneath Pacha gave away which caused him to tumble through the hole and get caught by vines under the bridge.
"Pacha!" Everyone except Kuzco exclaimed.
"You okay?" Ven asked, worriedly as he and his team rushed to his aid.
"Yeah...at the moment." Pacha replied.
"Don't worry, Pacha. We'll save ya'!" Mickey called out, as he, Terra and Riku grabbed hold of Pacha's shoulders and tried to pull him up. Sora, Aqua and Donald tried using their magnet spells to work even though they were drained from last night's fight against the Heartless. Kairi, Xion and Skuld tried to pull at the ropes to help pull him back up. Lea, Isa, Roxas and Ven were holding Goofy over the edge so that he might reach him. And Jack tried to reach out to him with his hand without falling down himself. Unfortunately, Pacha was far too down for any of their methods to work. The only one who wasn't worried at all was Kuzco.
"Kuzco!" Ven called out as he and the others pulled Goofy back up.
"Yeah?" The emperor asked, lazily.
"Help us out get Pacha up!" Ven requested. To his and everyone else's shock, Kuzco just push past them and hopped over the hole where Pacha was.
"No, I don't think I will."
"You're going to leave me here?" Pacha asked.
"Well, I was going to imprison you for life, but I kinda like this better." Kuzco replied as he smirked while turning to face everyone again.
"I thought you had a change of heart!" Sora growled, angrily.
"Oh come on, I had to say something to get you guys to make me back to the city."
"So you lied to us?" Aqua demanded, furious.
"Well, yeah. Uh, no wait." Kuzco paused, thinking for a moment as he paused, then remembered and said smugly, "Oh yeah, yeah. It was all a lie. Toodles!" turning away and was about to began walking down the bridge again when he stopped at Pacha's voice.
"WE SHOOK HANDS ON IT!" Pacha yelled furiously, as his voice echoed through out the canyon.
Kuzco turned back while grinning sarcastically, pointing out the obvious to everyone, "You know, the funny thing about shaking hands is...you need hands!" showing off his hooves, which made everyone even more furious, before he chuckled and turned to leave again, "Okay. Buh-bye!"
Only to end up falling through the bridge himself and found himself tangled up in vines in a more awkward position at the same level as Pacha was at the moment.
"You alright?" Jack asked, sounding as though he was suddenly concerned.
"Yeah...yeah I think I'm alright." Kuzco answered while he was gazing at the sky. Well, that was unexpected.
"Good!" Pacha responded before punching him right his right fist that sent him spinning, untangling him in moments and glared at him angrily, "That's for going back on your promise!"
"And you deserved that!" Jack added, twice as angry. Normally this sort of thing with those rich people never bothered him, but the way how Kuzo acted drove him completely mad. He was starting to accept the facts that the emperor was no better than Beckett.
Kuzco quickly retaliated now that he was free to move by kicking Pacha hard and sending him flying, while he used the vines as a swing, before relenting to him and everyone else, "Yeah, well that's for kidnapping me and taking me to your village-which I'm still gonna destroy, by the way and also imprison the rest of these guys too." laughing before quickly regretting it as Pacha came zooming back towards him.
"No touchy..." Kuzo muttered, only for Pacha to smash him with his own legs, causing the emperor to smash right into the wall on the cliff behind him. Despite their fury at him, twelve of the worldly travellers winched in slight sympathy at both of them smacking each other like that.
"He had that comin'." Lea deadpanned about Kuzco. Isa, Jack and Donald all nodded in agreement.
None the less, everyone else were just as angry, before Kairi yelled down at Kuzco, hurt by the betrayal, "I can't believe I even convinced everyone to go and save you! Now I'm ever so sorry that I was even worried!"
"How could you do this us, especially to Pacha!?" Sora added, glaring at the emperor.
"It's even a wonder I even bothered in saving your bloody animal skin that you're currently trapped inside in." Jack added, equally annoyed, "That's almost as worse as my bad choices."
Pacha, who had steadied himself at the opposite cliff, yelling at Kuzco furiously, "They're right! I never should've led them to save you! I was always taught that there's some good in everyone, but oh, you proved me wrong."
Neither of these insults affected Kuzco at all, as he just battered his eyelashes as he mocked the guilt in sarcasm, "Oh, boo-hoo! Now I feel really bad. Bad llama." which just angered everyone else even further.
"I could've let you die out there in that jungle, and then Sora and his friends wouldn't have gotten involved and all of my problems would be over!" Pacha carried on.
"Well, that makes all of the girls here gullible, and the rest of you guys ugly and stupid." Kuzco smirked.
"Oh, that little-!" Lea grunted, only to be held back to Xion and Roxas before he could end up doing something incredibly stupid. Too bad no one else could even stop what was about to happen below them.
"Let's end this!" Pacha growled as he gritted his teeth.
"Ladies first!" Kuzco uttered, just as willing.
"This is gonna be bad." Mickey muttered, now worriedly.
(Cue to the battle-bell!; DING!)
On cue, Pacha and Kuzco both swung straight towards each other in, yelling away to prepare for battle. Colliding into each other in the middle, their scuffle started in the matter of seconds as both of them kicked, punched, bited, shoved, pulled, face-bashed and shoved hard echoed in the air, and all the while, Sora and his team winched, flinched and cringed at the rather ridiculous but painful fight below them.
"This is complete madness!" Aqua exclaimed.
"This is men-fighting." Jack corrected, knowingly.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think they're gonna be at it for a while." Lea muttered, placing his hands on his hips.
"Maybe we should stop them before things get worse." Goofy suggested, suddenly sensing that something bad was about to happen in the next 2.5 seconds.
"I think you're right, Goofy." Sora agreed. Sure he was still angry with Kuzo, but he wasn't completely heartless in just letting the emperor get stuck like that forever, and he definitely wanted to help Pacha.
Unfortunately, before the group could stop Pacha and Kuzo from fighting, a new dreaded noise filled their ears and the air, causing all eighteen of them to suddenly freeze on the spot. A huge cracking caused those on the bridge and the two hanging below it to look as it suddenly splintered and coming apart, the ropes and pieces of wood flying and falling everywhere until the entire bridge collasped.
"Uh-oh..." Mickey muttered, comically terrified as he, Donald, Goofy and Myde broke the fourth wall by staring at the readers/viewers, dumbfounded, while Sora and most of the others glanced at each other in terror once they registered this slowly.
"Bugger..." Jack muttered.
They then all plummeted down into the abyss of the canyon, screaming hysterically in panic, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!" and waving their arms like mad, with Goofy screaming his trade-mark, "YAA-HOO-HOO-HOOEEE!"
When the group were about to crash onto the ledge just above the river, Terra, Skuld and Aqua reacted quickly by summoning their Keyblades and chanted gravita spells that slowed everyone's descent and then land slowly and safely onto it, but not before both Myde and Kuzco collided the back of their heads painfully, "Ow! Ow!"
Everyone panted slightly at the close call, checking one another to see if they were okay, especially how Sora was panically making sure Kairi was alright which she replied that she was fine, much to his relief.
Jack glanced up from where they originally were, before stating sourly, "That's the second time I've fallen into the abyss of a canyon."
"When was your first; when we were on that Isle of Dead Meat?" Lea grumbled sarcastically.
"Actually, yes." Jack smirked, before frowning sheepishly, "When I was tied up to a pole and had fruit stuck on, thanks to two cannibal women."
"Gee thanks for tellin' me." Lea groaned, shuddering.
"Uh...speaking of Dead Meat..." Roxas muttered, scaredly. "I think we're in major trouble."
When everyone else stared at the teenager questionly, the former nobody just pointed down urgently below the ledge at the huge expanse of water, and on top of that, a flock of alligators swimming towards them underneath the cliff-ledge, ready and waiting to eat all of them like delicacies. It didn't help that a swam of flying Heartless began to appear and were heading straight towards them, making everyone back away. Most of them had Kairi, Pacha and the now panicking Kuzo behind them while summoning their weapons.
"What're we gonna do? Ah!" Kuzco trembled in fear, and whined, "What're we gonna do? We're gonna die! We're gonna die! That's it for me!"
"Why do we always get end up in this situation?" Donald groaned, exasperated.
As the flock of bat-like Heartless swarmed in, Sora and his worldly companions quickly took action in fighting the monsters while avoiding in getting themselves, Pacha and Kuzo killed by either having their hearts devoured or falling off the ledge and then getting devoured by the alligators. Mickey and Riku leaped up at three of the flying Heartless and the two of them shot out the combinations of Light and Firaga that blasted the Heartless, before landing back on the ledge while leaping out of the way to avoid the knife-like wings. Skuld and Ven tossed their Keyblades at five more flying Heartless before catching their weapons when they returned to their owners. Jack shot one with his pistol, then slashed at another with his Keyblade-the Pirate Codex he decided to call it-only to end up hit by a poison dart from another. Thankfully, after Donald froze a few Heartless with a Blizzaraga, he quickly used Curaga to cure the pirate from the poison. Myde focused on creating a moving river-water that was sent flying that knocked back two Heartless.
Aqua and Terra used their combined elements of power and magic by first thrusting and clashing their Keyblades at several other Heartless before the latter gave the former a boost, sending her gracefully up as she then smacked another Heartless down right into the water where it was disturbingly eaten by a couple of alligators. Isa and Xion stood back to back before they held hands and the former spun the latter around while she used her Keyblade to attack their enemies. Lea and Goofy both tossed the Chakrams and Shield at the Heartless they were facing which were thrown like frisbees that hit them head on before reclaiming their weapons. Sora and Roxas did a twin attack-combo of sending out Orbs of Light at the Heartless before the two joined hands on Sora's Kingdom Key and thrusted it out at a surprisingly slightly larger Bat-Heartless. Sora then raced forward and leaped into the air while glowing brightly blue and ran along the wall before flipping backwards and twirled his Keyblade at ten other Heartless while midair before desending back onto the ledge.
When some of the Heartless managed to sneak past the group and head towards Kairi, Kuzco and Pacha, the former summoned her Keyblade and whacked and slashed at the Heartless, before she held out her weapon and a beam of light suddenly appeared, which came from her heart when she refused to give in and wanting to protect and help her friends. A beautiful glittering Orb of Light of white and pink was shot out and engulfed two Heartless which then vanished. Pacha actually managed to grab hold of a small log near them and tossed it at another Heartless, sending it backwards and losing it's balance, falling into the water where it drowned. Kuzco, in panic, turned around and unconsciously kicked it in the face with his hind-legs, knocking it down unconscious. Realising what he just did when he saw that he was still alive, Kuzco then saw the knocked out Heartless, and then in panic, trampled onto it until it disappeared, much to his surprise.
Though just when they thought they could relax, ten more flying Heartless appeared and swooped right underneath them and surprisingly lifted all eighteen of them up and right into the air, sending them flying and somersaulting and were about to get hit by the ten remaining Heartless had Sora, Mickey, Aqua, Skuld and Ven shot out orbs of light that finished the Heartless off. The next thing they and everyone else knew, they all landed right at the other side of the canyon, back to where they started before they even had crossed the bridge in such a standing stance it was as though the previous endevour never happened.
Everyone glanced at each other in surprise, especially since the Heartless had unexpectedly helped them get back to soild ground and to safety, leaving them chuckling nervously and dumbfounded at something completel absurd. But at that moment, the ground underneath Pacha gave way. Reacting quickly, Kuzco grabbed him by the poncho and pulled him back away from the edge just as the fallen pieces of earth fell into the abyss.
"Whoo! Yeah!" Kuzco cheered, "Oh, look at me and my bad self. I snatched you right out of the air!" before he looked down at the abyss and did some sort of prayer, "'Oh, I'm a crumbling canyon wall and I'm taking you with me'." before returning to normal and smirked smugly, "Well, not today, pal! Uh-huh! Uh-huh, uh-huh. Uh-huh." as he went into some kind of a weird dance moves.
As he was doing this, Kuzco was unaware that everyone else was staring at him in complete shock and astonishment of what just happened. "You just saved my life." Pacha gapped, in utter disbelief.
"Huh?" Kuzco asked, before realising that the villager was right. He then looked uninterested, "So?" as though his actions didn't happen.
"I knew it." Pacha smirked.
"Knew what?" Kuzco demanded.
"That there is some good in you after all."
"Oh, no!"
"Admit it!"
"Wrong!"
"Yes, there is."
"Nuh-uh!"
"I think there is."
"Nuh-uh!"
"You could've always let him fall, mate." Jack joined him, smirking.
"Come on, what's the big deal? Nobody's that heartless!" Kuzco cried out in annoyance, before biting his lips when he realised he blurted it out without thinking. When everyone else held slightly smug expressions that said, 'Told you', he quickly returned to his smug self, saying with a smirk to Pacha, "Don't read too much into it. It was a one-time thing."
Pacha only smiled. "Right, sure. Well, we better get going. With that bridge out, it's a four-day walk to the palace." as he began to walk back up-hill.
This statement made Kuzo surprised, walking up to Pacha and asked, "What? You mean you're still taking me back?"
"I shook on it, didn't I?"
"Well, yeah, uh, but I hope you realize that doesn't change a thing. I'm still building Kuzcotopia when I get back."
"Well, four days is a long time." Aqua pointed out, "Who knows? Maybe you'll change your mind."
"You guys are still coming too?" Kuzco blinked, surprised once more, in which the worldly travellers nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, and with the Heartless around, it'll be too dangerous for both of you." Skuld replied.
"Anf if you do have a change of heart, I wanna be there to see it." Kairi smiled as she and her friends followed Pacha up the hill and down the dirt path leading away from the jungle.
"Uh-huh." Kuzco rolled his eyes sarcastically. "Four days...what are the chances of either of you carrying me?"
"Not good." Terra grumbled.
Meanwhile, in deep part of the jungle, Yzma had been searching for the last couple of days trying to locate Kuzo as well as waiting for the Heartless to show up with him. So far, no luck, and she doubted that he was dead at all. Given Maleficent's warning of a boy with this so called Keyblade, Yzma had a feeling that that brat was already here.
"No! NO! NO!" Yzma said in irritation as she squibbled each of the surrounding villages with black ink to scratch out the locations with her quill. "We've searched every village surrounding the palace and I've sent more Heartless than I can count to find him and still no sign of Kuzco!" She sat back in her chair, getting more and more frustrated. "Where is he!?"
Getting irritated for sitting for so long, she then pulled down a mouthpiece and spoke to it, "Kronk!"
Outside of the blue tent Kronk was carrying as he replied, "Kronk here!"
"I'm getting tired! Pull over!" Yzma ordered from inside.
"Sure thing. Kronk out." Kronk replied before he stopped and crouched down as a makeshift staircase.
Having stopped, Yzma opened the curtains of her tent looking angry and irritated. She stomped onto Kronk who grunted in pain, "OH! AH!" before she she stepped onto his hand, "AH!" he squealled, then rubbed his sore hand while Yzma walked off.
Ymza, trying to get through the jungle, unfortunately she was walking through the mud, making her even more displeased as she was struggling against the gooey mess. She tried to pull out of the horrible mess, but it was futile. This made her growl as she pulled out from her now ruined shoes, "Perfect! These are my best shoes!"
Growling, she then flipped her scarf around her neck as she grumbled softly, "I hate this jungle." while it smacked her in the face, the bottom part of it wed with mud.
Apparently, the jungle's feelings were mutual, because seconds later, a swarm of flies swarmed all over her and began attacking her. She then ran around screaming like a banshee, madly waving her arms as the flies chased after her back and forth...all the while Kronk was studying a small yellow pudgy bird which made a strange chirping noise that was burble, and not noticing the commotion that was happening behind him.
While she was still running away from the flies and wondering furious why her idiot of a henchman wasn't helping, Yzma wasn't looking where she was going and tripped against a tree-root, falling forward face first into the mud..
She pulled herself up, gasping for air as if she nearly drowned. Just then, she noticed a small squirrel who was looking up at her with a smile on his furry features on another tree root in front of her, as he reached up a small acorn to her as he spoke to her in squirrel gibberish.
After a pause, Yzma shrieked, "Get away from me!" which scared the Squirrel in a matter of seconds and he ran up to Kronk and shivered in fear, before the small animal shook an angry fist at her as he spoke on. But then Kronk said, "Yeah, tell me about it."
Then he saw the squirrel was gesturing at himself while speaking squirrel gibberish, Kronk somehow understood what the little guy was saying, and replied, "No, no, it's not you. She's not the easiest person to get close to. There's a wall there. Trust me."
Yzma looked at him in annoyed disbelief as she asked, "Are you talking to that squirrel?" while she cleaned off the mud off her.
Kronk nodded and he explained, "I was a junior chipmunk. I had to be versed in all the woodland creatures." then turned to his new little friend, "Please continue."
With that the squirrel did just that. Yzma just facepalmed herself as she was surrounded by idiocy, pleading to the sky above her, "Ugh! Why me? Why me?" This was not her week.
Kronk, seeing Yzma walk away, stated, "Hey, it doesn't always have to be you. This poor little guy has had it rough. Seems a talking llama gave him a hard time the other day."
Suddenly Yzma returned after hearing this and grabbed Kronk's arm making the squirrel jump in moments as it scurried all over him before ending up behind his neck as she said, "Ah! Oh! A talking llama? Do tell."
But the Squirrel whispered something in Kronks ear, so the tall man explained to the others, "Uh, he really doesn't wanna talk to you guys."
"Well, then you ask him." Yzma ordered, annoyed.
Kronk sighed in annoyance and mumbled, "Hate being in the middle." before he and the squirrel began the conversation, and the smaller male explained to Kronk about what happened, demostrating. "Scary looking Jaguars? And a bunch of kids and other guys fighting them with large key-like swords? No kidding. Brutal."
As Yzma tried to listen into the conversation while leaning in close to the two, in which her earlier prediction was proved right; key-like swords and children meant Keyblades, and that meant that boy Sora and his friends were here, obviously now with Kuzco. However, before the squirrel could continue, he noticed Yzma and stopped, looking away in annoyance, which Kronk noticed and knew what to do.
Kronk asked, "Uh, could you all give us a little room please?"
At this her smile still there looking a little awkward Yzma apologized as she said, "Oh? Sorry."
But the Squirrel waved off the woman, making Kronk request, "Um, a little bit more please?"
Yzma was obviously irritated as she then made a huge stride between all three of them about a metre away. "How's this?" She asked, clearly annoyed.
The little squirrel uttered in his ear as Kronk told her, "Yeah that's good."
Yzma then shouted out to him, getting more and more impatient. "Now ask him which way the brats with the key-swords and the talking llama went!"
Right on track, Kronk asked to the squirrel about the llama, and the small little guy pointed in the direction the llama, Sora and his friends went.
With that, the two villians set off once more, Yzma eagerly to not only kill Kuzco, but to also get rid of Sora and his friends at the same time so that she wouldn't have to worry about them ruining her plans. Not only that, she would also be on Maleficent's good book by doing her a favor.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter was shorter than the last one, but I didn't want the third/last part of Kuzco-Topia shorter in the next chapter.(Just hope the real KH3 story won't be so dark that it'll end up in a cliff-hanger, because I hate cliff-hangers).
See you in the next chapter!