Author's Note: Sorry, Mysterygirl145. I meant to reply to your review in the previous chapter, but I completely forgot. Thanks, by the way, glad you're liking this story so far, and no, I haven't seen POTC 5 yet. As for Jack, I think he'll be the bit of the comic relief in this story, but I will try to make the comic relief out of some of the others including the villians too.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH8: Battle for the Potion.
Ymza was so focused on grinning at where Kronk had fallen that she didn't even notice Pacha had approached her until he snatched the vial out of her hand. When she did, she immediately climbed onto his shoulders and whacked his head, shouting, "Give me that vial!" and he ends up letting go of it.
However, Aqua grabbed it just in time, only for Yzma to grab hold of her wrists and the two of them were struggling in a tug-of-war for the potion until Jack stepped up and grabbed Yzma's arm, making the older woman look up to his disapproved look.
"That's not very nice." The pirate simply said.
Yzma responded by elbowing him in the stomach before kicking Aqua in the stomach as well, forcing the Keyblade Master to let go of the potion. However, the villianess's victory was short-lived as Skuld body-slammed into her in the gut, causing the older woman to grunt while dropping the potion, but once again grabbed it before the young woman could even take hold of it. Now incredibly annoyed, Yzma clapped her hands and a large giant Heartless that looked like a beetle-like Demon llama appeared, fur all black and fuzzy, legs all green and poison-like, teeth sharp as a Jaguar's fangs, and it had...horns?
"Now that's a Demon llama!" Kuzco muttered, scaredly.
"Just focus on getting the potion!" Sora told him and Pacha, summoning his Keyblade as everyone else also brought out their weapons.
Kuzco and Pacha, both worried for their friends, nodded and resumed their potion battle against Yzma, struggling to retrieve it as neither one refused to give it up. The worldly travellers in the meantime, focused their attention on the Heartless who attacked first by spat out a large posion slime right at the group who leaped out of the way just in time, watching it steam and melt the chandelier almost instantly. Knowing that they had to be careful in avoiding it, Sora and his companions responded in fighting it.
"Dance, water, dance!" Myde chanted, playing a tune on his styer and severel clones of himself appeared and attacked the Heartless by the legs while he focused on them to at least weaken it. Unfortunately, the legs were not the weak parts, and the Demon-llama-Heartless raised it's right foot up and stomped the ground hard, causing a small tremor that hit everyone-even Yzma-and destroyed Myde's watery clones in an instant.
Donald and Skuld both chanted Thunderaga at the Heartless's head, zapping it and causing it to stumble back, but it responded by charging and knocked them and some of the others into the wall. Kairi chanted Blizzard at it's face before jumping out of the way when it leaned down and tried to chomp her but missed. This gave her and Sora to whack and slash at it's face with their Keyblades until they moved before it could whack them in return with it's head. It charged again but this time everyone was prepared for it. Terra, being a wielder of physical strength, thrusted his Keyblade at it's side when he had leaped up and done so, before he was unexpectedly knocked back when it kicked him in the stomach.
While Terra crashed onto the ground before he pushed himself up, Riku run underneath it and ran his Keyblade right through it's chest and belly as he went, causing it to roar in agony before he made it out just as it made to squash him flat with it's stomach. He then used his Flowmotion and glowed in a mixture of light purple, leaping up and thrusted out his Keyblade at it's body while he and the others avoided it's attacks of stomping, crunching and poison spitting-acids before it unexpectedly stood up and spun around which knocked them back down, though they noticed that it was at least starting to slow down.
Jack, seeing how he was running rather low on his ammo in his pistol and not having any gun powder, noticed the potions at the table where he was, before picking one up and then with much of his strength tossed it at the Heartless's face. Apparently, it was a poison potion, because the side of it's face was starting to disintigrate. Well, that helped a little. He then slashed at it's right leg with his Keyblade and just as it was about to lift, he kicked it in the shin before running out of the way as it fell forward slightly.
Lea, Roxas, Xion and Isa teamed up and preformed a new skill of Lea thrusting out a large fire-nado from his Keyblade and one of his Chakrams combined, Roxas casting Thunderaga, Xion firing Blizzaraga and Isa thrusting his Claymore of the Wind Spell, all four spells managing to successfully burn part of it's fur off and starting to fade.
Ven and Aqua preformed a D-Link with each other and while Ven thrusted his Keyblade in the air and spun around hitting the Heartlessin the head while avoiding it's chomping mouth, Aqua expertedly twirled her Keyblade cheer-leader style as she and her weapon glowed in light on the other side of it while hovering in the air, lowering the Heartless' health even further.
Goofy tossed his shield like a frisbee at the Heartless's horns and actually managed to slice one off. To his surprise, it immediately started to severally weaken faster than the other hits it had on it's body while his shield returned to him.
Sora and Mickey both noticed this as well, because the two of them nodded and the two Keyblade Masters raced towards the Heartless who, while slowly losing the fight, still managed to blast another poison slime at them. They dodged it and then leaped up onto it's body while they glowed in a mixture of blue and gold. The King flipped around while holding his Keyblade out, ramming it right at the eye and then slashed at it's face, while Sora, using his flowmotion, sliced at it's remaining horn while spinning around and around and around at it until it sliced off. The sixteen year old along with Mickey leaped into the air and held out their Keyblades where two orbs of light shot out from the weapons, hitting directly at it's back.
The two, along with all of their companions, finished it off with the team work of slashes and spells before Sora and Mickey sliced it at it's chest when it's chest when it's head lifted up while he roared in agony. The direct hit from the two Keyblades finally caused it to collaspe forward onto the ground. A heart appeared from it's back before drifting up, vanishing into the darkness, while the Heartless itself faded away into nothing.
At the same time as the Heartless' defeat, Yzma had landed hard onto Pacha's back, forcing him to let go of the vial he'd managed to retrieve. Though Yzma laughed in victory, Kuzco rammed hard into her back, causing her to fly across the room and drop the vial onto the floor, while Yzma landed in front of the cabinet as a few vials fell. As she noticed this, Yzma gazed at the Cabinet above which, which gave her an idea how to distract her enemies and prevent Kuzco from turning back into a human. When the others saw the vial being dropped, Sora and his companions hurried to help Kuzco and Pacha retrieve it.
To their horror, Yzma stood behind the cabinet and shoved it foward, knocking most of the other vials of animals onto the floor, all around the human vial, and as such none of them had labels, and all looked exactly the same, none of them had any idea which is which.
"Oops! Clumsy me." Yzma smirked, evilly.
"Oh no! Which one is it!?" Mickey cried out, as he and his friends searched fractically to figure out which was the human vial.
"Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, really bad!" Myde panicked.
"Man, I wish these things were labeled!" Lea said, panicking himself.
"Bugger!" Jack cursed.
"Which one, which one?" Yzma mocked, before pulling a string that hang from the ceiling, and the siren blared through out the room while the group searched desperately. "Better hurry. I'm expecting company."
The group looked up to see three doors slide up open and revealing at least six guards, armed with various weapons, and looking very angry.
"Oh no." Donald muttered, eyes wide in panic.
"Kill them! They murdered the Emperor!" Yzma commanded.
The Guards foolishly believed this and charged, bellowing angry yells in every intention to 'avenge' the Emperor, fully unaware that they were about to kill him and would not believe him as Kuzco cried out, desperately, "No, wait! I'm the emperor! It's me-Kuzco!"
When they didn't respond, Kuzco panicked, "They're listening to me!"
"Just take 'em all!" Sora cried out, helping Pacha to scoop up the vials into his poncho, before they all attempted to make a run for it, only for them to be split up when more Heartless appeared, seperating Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Pacha and Kuzco from the rest of the group who ended up being forced to fight them.
During the panic, Goofy accidently got knocked into the table with various potions which all crashed into the six guards, turning into various animals such as an Ostrich, a Gorilla, a Lizard, an Octopus, a Bear and a Cow.
"Guys!" Sora cried out, worriedly.
Lea, slashing one Heartless with a Chakram, looked back briefly and called out hurriedly, "Just go! We'll meet up later!" before blocking another Heartless Attack while being forced into the room where three of the guards had come from along with everyone else in the group.
Despite wanting to go help, Sora nodded hesitatedly and dragged Kairi by the wrist. Even Mickey hesitated, but forced himself to run with Sora, Kairi, Pacha and Kuzco, hoping for the best for their friends.
"Get them!" Yzma ordered the guards, deciding that she'll worry about turning them back into humans later as long as Kuzco didn't turn back and Sora and his friends were taken care off.
However, the Cow-Guard spoke up as he realised the situation he was in, "Hey, I've been turned into a cow. Can I go home?"
"You're excused." Yzma offered, gesturing the guard to leave. Plus, what could can a Cow do anyway? She then asked the other animals, asking in slight annoyance, "Anyone else?"
"No, we're good." The other guards responded, deciding to worry about turning back into humans later, much to Yzma's relief.
"GET THEM!" Yzma repeated her order.
As Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Kuzco and Pacha ran quickly down the long stairways as the guards chased after them while worry for the safety of Riku, Donald, Goofy, Ven, Skuld, Terra, Aqua, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion and Jack who could be anywhere by now in the Palace either fighting the Heartless or probably the Guards due to them being intruders, while desperately trying not to break the vials.
"We gotta change Kuzco back!" Mickey cried out, hurriedly.
"Try giving him the vials!" Kairi suggested.
"I vote for that!" Sora replied, randomly grabbing one, flicking the cork off and shoved the bottle in Kuzco's mouth, saying, "Try this one!"
There was a sudden explosion of pink smoke and red light the bellowed everywhere. The other four heard tapping before they heard Kuzco softly call out, panicking, "Uh, Sora? Guys? A little help!"
Then they turned, their eyes widened as the vial Sora shoved into Kuzco's mouth turned the Emperor into a turtle, and the Guards were quickly catching up. Kairi quickly scooped the turtle-emperor up in her arms and hurried back to the others as they continued to run. The group paused at the long stairway below descending into the darkness and hesitated. But they quickly made up their minds and jumped, sliding down on it's banisters in high speed while narrowly missing the swords, and axes the Octopus-Guard had been wielding. As the two teenagers and two young rulers were screaming, though at some point the group were using Kuzco's shell as a make-shift skateboard, at the bottom to their horror were the guards. How they managed to get there quickly, none of them will know.
"Look out!" Mickey cried out, horrified.
Pacha then had another idea and pulled out another vial, silently pleading, "Oh, please be something with wings!" flipping the cork and shoved it into Kuzco's mouth once more.
As the pink and red smoke exploded around them, the five of them were sent flying into the air and avoiding the guards' weapons. Now in the air in his new transformation, Kuzco cheered proudly, "Yeah! We're flyin'!"
Unfortunately, this was short-lived as what he turned into wasn't a giant eagle, but instead, and tiny red bird with small wings, and Sora, Kairi and Mickey were clinging onto Pacha who held onto Kuzco's feathers. They all then plummeted to the ground. Fortunately, Sora casted Aero of wind below them to slow their descend and all landed softly and safely onto the ground. They then immediately ran once more, across a stone bridge over a large lake of water that was about a hundred feet down.
"I don't think we're getting anywhere with this!" Kairi stated as she and her friends ran.
"At least not with these guys picking the vials!" Kuzco added in annoyance, "I'm picking the next one!"
"Fine by us!" Sora and Pacha both chorused.
"Uh, I don't think that's such a good idea!" Mickey protested, uncertain. He had a terrible feeling what was about to happen next, and he was about to happen in the next 2.5 seconds.
"Give me that one!" Kuzco told the others, ignoring Mickey's protest. As soon as Pacha shoved the vial into his mouth, the smoke covered everything again, and as soon as it cleared, Pacha, Sora, Kairi and Mickey stood leaning against Kuzco who now turned into a large red and pink whale with a massive mouth.
As the bridge began to slowly crack due to Kuzco's Whale-weight, he glared at the other four, muttering, "Don't any of you say a word."
"Not plannin' to." Sora blinked.
The bridge then finally gave way crumbling and soon all five of them fell screaming and landed into the water below just as Yzma and the guards came down via the stairs at the indoor lake. Her impatience in wanting to kill the heroes getting the better of her, she ordered to the guards, "Quick! Drain the canals!"
Sora and his friends resurfaced, the four of them coughing and spluttering water while Kuzco sighed in relief. Kairi then sighed, having enough as she asked Pacha, "Can I have vial, please?"
"Uh, sure." Pacha replied, randomly giving one to the teenaged girl.
"Kairi, what're you doing?" Sora asked, wide-eyed.
The Princess didn't answer as she swam up to Kuzco before telling him, "Okay, open wide!"
Kuzco did as he was requested, before to his and everyone else's shock, Kairi climbed up onto Kuzco's bottom lip, hurriedly pulled off the cork and then poured the potion into the whale's mouth before jumping off just as red and pink smoke exploded all over the place once more.
As the smoke distupated, Kuzco emerged from the water, once again a llama, patting the water happily, "Yay, I'm a llama again!" before realising what happened, "Wait..."
"Sorry." Kairi shrugged, apologetically.
However, before anyone else could say anything else, the water suddenly surged and soon Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Kuzco and Pacha were all drained down into a whirlpool underneath them, screaming as they were sucked into the abyss. As all of the water was drained out from the nose of the Palace that made huge waterfalls down the steps, the five of them managed to grab onto the rim of the hole they'd emerged from.
"We gotta climb up to safety!" Mickey informed his friends.
"Right!" Sora nodded, while holding out a hand to Kairi, "Kairi, grab my hand!"
Kairi hesitated, terrified in losing her grip if she let go with one hand, before finally did so and grabbed her friend's wrist as he grabbed onto hers, slowly and hurriedly making her way towards him, knowing that he was going to help her climb up.
Back inside the palace, Yzma saw her five enemies hurriedly trying to escape, before turning to the guards, commanding, "There they go! After them!"
"Come on, men! Nobody lives forever!" The Lizard-Guard commanded. "Charge!"
All of the guards soon jumped, but since the empty pool was still wet, they all slid down and since Sora and his friends were already climbing up to the safety ledge on the face of the Palace outside, the guards all fell to their deaths, some of them screaming like women. Yzma saw this and gapped, before growling in fury, darkness starting to become visible on her body before fading. In desperation, she yanked the curtains nearby off, tied them together as a make-shift rope and tied it onto the pillar. She then bungy-jumped down while hanging on. Amazingly, she gave out a crazed-maniac yell while running up and over, above the unaware group who panted, who were down to two potions.
"Okay, only two left." Mickey told the others, "It's gotta be one of these!"
Suddenly, Yzma appeared and kicked surprisingly the five of them away into opposite directions, causing Mickey to drop the vials that bounced before landing into the ledge. Kuzco saw this and leaped to grab the two vials, though Yzma leaped as well to grab them first. This caused the two to collide into one another and spun in the air before falling...with Yzma landing on top of one of the vials.
"No!" Sora cried out, but it was too late. The moment Yzma's butt crushed the vial, it exploded and causing a massive cloud of dark hue of red, mushroom form and forcing everyone else to look away and shield themselves with their arms.
In the darkness of the clouds, a sinister face laughed manically as dark red eyes leered, worrying Sora and the others. What could have Yzma turned into? The question was answered as the smoke faded, revealing...a small white, cute, fluffy kitten? She mewed softly. It was adorable, but extremely awkward since it was really Yzma.
"Okay...?" Sora blinked, his expression blank, as were everyone else's.
"I'll take that." Kuzco grinned at Yzma, taking the remaining vial that he and everyone else now knew it was the human vial, and before Yzma could do anything else, Kairi, sensing that the villian-turned kitten was still trouble, quickly grabbed hold of her and wrapped her firmly in her arms, pinnning the cat's arms to her sides.
"Don't even think about it. Bad kitty!" Kairi scolded, as Yzma struggled to free herself from the teenager's arms.
"Unhand me, you little brat!" Yzma squeeled in fury, only to pause incredulously when she realised that her voice sounded like she sucked in balloon helium, coughing as though trying to regain it, but it didn't seem to help. "Is that my voice? *Cough!* Is that my voice?"
Everyone else sighed in relief, as Pacha then pulled the cork off for Kuzco who nodded, smiling his thanks to his friends. The emperor than drank it as his body sparkled before a small explosion of pink exploded before it faded. In the llama's place, was a young eighteen year old man with short smooth black hair, round tortoise earrings, short red and gold robes, and sandles.
"Does it feel good to be me again." The young man in Kuzco's voice sighed in relief.
"So this is what you look like." Sora smiled in realization.
"Yup!" Kuzco nodded.
"It's good to have ya back to normal, Kuzco." Mickey said happily.
"I just hope Riku and the others are alright." Kairi spoke up, while the struggling Yzma was horrified that her only chance to return to normal was now dashed and so the villan slumped and scowled in defeat.
"Oh, right..." Sora muttered, as he and the others lowered their heads in sadness. Anything could've happened to their friends. What if something horrible happened to them?
"Hey, fellers!" Goofy's voice called up from above them.
Stunned, Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Kuzco and Pacha glanced up and to their relief and more to Yzma's annoyance, up on a ledge above them, were Goofy, Donald, Xion, Ven, Roxas, Skuld, Riku, Lea, Isa, Terra, Aqua, Jack and even Kronk as they all emerged from the trap door.
"You're okay!" Sora called out, happily.
"Aw, thank goodness!" Mickey added with relief.
Lea shrugged, "Hey, did'cha guys really think those Heartless would finish us off?" before asking, "Uh, and Kairi, where'd that cat come from and where're Kuzco and Yzma?"
Kairi giggled, answering, "Well, in that sort of order, the cat is Yzma when she accidently crushed the cat vial. Kuzco was right here, by the way." gesturing at the human-emperor who waved happily at the group.
"Oh, so that's what Kuzco looks like." Ven muttered, amazed.
"That explains what he said a few days ago at Pacha's village." Myde shrugged, remembering how Kuzco called his own face beautiful.
"Okay, now what are the odds of that trap door leading us out here?" Kronk spoke up, both confused and amazed.
A day later, everything returned to normal for this world...well, almost everything. Sora and his companions along with Pacha were offered to stay for the night at the palace as Kuzco's graditude for helping him and taking care of Yzma. They were even pardoned after Kuzco explained to everyone most of what happened and even apologuised for his behavior, much to the entire kingdom's surprise in the sudden change in him.
Sora and the others watched as Kuzco was making his apology to an old man he had one of the guards throw out of the window days earlier, the two becoming friends as the old man left for home.
"I'm glad to see that Kuzco changed his attitude." Aqua said with a warm smile. "I'm really proud of him."
"Well, first time adventures can do that sometimes." Sora said, placing his hands behind his head, smiling. "You learn a lotta things along the way."
"That's true." Riku nodded in agreement, his arms folded to his chest. "I'm just relieved that Kuzco knows better."
"So, Klunk," Jack spoke up to Kronk while getting his name wrong. "What do you intend to do now that your former superior is...a cat?"
"It's Kronk, and uh...I have no idea." Kronk shrugged while correcting the pirate, gazing down at the trapped Yzma who was in a cat cage, grumbling. "Personally, I'm just upset that she never liked my Spinich Puffs. Guess I'll have look for a new job."
Hearing this, and remembering the disgusting 'meal' at the Mudka's earlier, Lea suggested, "You could always go work at the Mudka Resturant, if ya' love cooking." and the rest of the wordly companions nodded in agreement.
"Besides, you're a good person, Kronk. I think you'll fit perfectly there." Skuld added.
"Aye, and also to add that..." Jack began, pausing for a moment before commenting, "...It desperately needs a new chef."
"Good idea." Kronk nodded after thinking about it grabbing Yzma's cage and waving goodbye to the group, "And I'll take her with me to join a Junior Chipmunk camp along the way!" before taking his leave out of the palace.
"Junior Chipmunk camp?" Roxas asked, confused. He glanced at his friends who all shrugged in confusion, none of them having any idea what that guy was talking about.
"I'm surprised you even agreed to the idea for Kronk, Jack." Xion said to the pirate who smirked.
"I happen to like Spinich Puffs." Jack replied, "But I couldn't say that, because otherwise we'd be taking him along with us which would be a terrible idea. Savvy?"
"That makes sense." Myde grinned.
"Are you okay, Pacha?" Kairi suddenly asked, as the villager sitting on a chair in front of the miniture display of his village, gazing at the one paticular object in his hand in sadness. When everyone else noticed this, they all became sorrowed in sympathy for their friend. On top of the hill was a display of a statue that hogged the entire hill.
Apparently, so did Kuzco in sensing this, and he felt guilty for it. He knew immediately what to do now that he learned the most important thing of life. So, the younger man approached the villager whom he'd come to accept as a friend and spoke up, "So, you lied to me."
Thinking the question strange, Pacha and the others gazed at the emperor, the villager asking in confusion, "I did?"
"Yeah. You said when the sun hits this ridge just right these hills sing." Kuzco explained, demostrating at the hill display, before adding, "Well, pal, I was dragged all over those hills, and I did not hear any singing."
Sora and everyone else suddenly realised what Kuzco was doing and all smiled, while the emperor took the golden statue off the hill, concluding to Pacha, "So...I'll be building my summer home on a more magical hill. Thank you."
Pacha smiled, handing the hut he was holding to Kuzco when the younger man held out a hand for it, before asking, "Couldn't pull the wool over your eyes, huh?"
"No, no, I'm sharp, I'm on it. Looks like you and your family are stuck up on that tuneless hilltop forever, pal." Kuzco replied, placing the hut back where it belonged with a smile.
"Wow...that was nice of you, your majesty." Donald said to Kuzco, in which Mickey, Goofy and everyone else nodded in agreement.
"Gotta start fresh, right?" Kuzco shrugged, before adding as he gazed at his other friends, "You guys are welcome to come and visit, though."
"We'll be looking forward to that." Lea chuckled, smiling warmly.
Just then, the display then began to glow in light, and Sora's Keyblade suddenly appeared. Quickly realising what this meant, the Keyblade wielder held out his weapon, the crown shape appearing underneath him as the world's Keyhole appeared via a beam of light shooting out from the display model. Sora then thrusted the Kingdom Key upward and via another beam of light, he locked up the world's keyhole, protecting it from the darkness before things returned to normal.
Kuzco whistled an impressed whistle. "Now that was a cool light show."
"Well, I guess we'd better get going." Sora said, dismissing his Keyblade.
"You're welcome to visit the village too." Pacha offered, a little sad that they had to leave. "I have so much to tell my kids."
"Hey, Pacha. That's kind of embarrassing." Riku chuckled.
"Thanks for everything, guys." Kuzco waved, before winking at both Sora and Kairi, adding teasingly, "You two play nice."
"Wha-hey!" Sora blushed furiously, as did Kairi, while everyone else in the room chuckled at the display of the two slightly embarrassed teenagers.
After that, Sora and his companions said their goodbyes to Kuzco and Pacha, and once they walked down the dirt path outside of the Kingdom, the sixteen beams of light returnde the group to the gummiship where they flew off to their next destination.
{Kuzco-Topia}
Meanwhile, in a dark, stone brick chamber dungeon, Yen Sid, without his hat, was sitting slumped against the wall, his arms held up as the cuffs were clampsed around his wrists. His head was slumped forward as he was unconscious. For how long, not even the powerful Sorcerer knew. Finally, after what seemed like weeks, his eyes finally drifted open, groaning as he then gazed around his surroundings.
After a few seconds of disorientation, it didn't take long for Yen Sid to realise where he was and remember what had happened. The fact that his wrists were cuffed and chained to the wall and for the first time in decades, rendering him powerless to free himself, only confirmed his suspicions as memories of what happened returned to his mind, causing him to close his eyes again in self-disgust. It's been years since he failed miserbly in a fight.
He could only hope that Mickey and everyone else were alright. None of them would likely know where he was or what had happened, though Yen Sid had no illusions that they wouldn't figure it out. His former apprentince's protective streak and friendship streak are what made him to be trained in the first place, and Mickey would've no doubt been devastated to discover his mentor just...gone. The young mouse may have been reckless years earlier, but his personality never changed, and has respected the sorcerer, even to this day when he was no longer an apprentince.
In retrospect, Yen Sid did not regret in training Mickey Mouse. Despite the latter not being human, he was human at heart and was also a young friend...and somewhat like a son.
Maybe that was why he wasn't surprised at Sora's personality when he first met the boy a year ago. The teenager's was just like Mickey's, only unlike Mickey, Sora had learned self-taught on his first journey as a wielder and grew mature in that year. None the less, the two had a lot in common.
Just then, the door to his prison opened, causing the old sorcerer to glance up, closing his eyes briefly to avoid in becoming blind, before his sight adjusted to the light from outside of...wherever he was held at. The sillhotte of the person became more clear, giving his visitor the appearence of a young woman, with short blonde hair, her fringe looking like ant antennas, her sharp blue eyes and sinister smirk gazing down at the captive. She wore a white top with a black vest that had pockets, short jean-like shorts, long leather boots that went up to her knees, and black fingerless gloves.
"Well, lookie here." The woman grinned. "Mr. Tough and Powerful is awake. Sure took you're sweet time, old man. I'd honestly thought you landed in a coma, which is understandable for old people."
"As anyone ever taught you manners, young lady?" Yen Sid questioned firmly in return. Being a sorcerer, he knew who this woman was. Another one of those who recently regained their hearts.
"What do I look like, a princess?" The woman rolled her eyes, "In case you haven't noticed, you're the prisoner. Couldn't even take on my new boss. All those rumors about you being the supposedly 'Powerful Sorcerer' is all a bunch of false news, if you ask me."
"I will pretend I didn't hear that." Yen Sid grumbled, turning his head away to avoid in gazing at her.
This only made the woman smirk, as she leaned down and mockingly cooed, "Awww, what's the matter? Did I hit the nerve, grandpa? You must be losing your touch."
Yen Sid just rolled his eyes. He then decided to change the subject and quired, "I assume that you will not tell me where I am nor will you say why you are working for this Aced."
"Ding-dong! You got it right!" The woman cackled as she leaned up. "You're a lot smarter than I thought, old man."
"I am a Sorcerer. I have years of experience."
"Whatever. It's too bad it won't help you now."
Yen Sid narrowed his eyes, "If you wish to eliminate me, I am rendered powerless as of this moment."
The woman grinned evilly, "Well, I could do that." Before scowling, "Only problem is, boss wants to keep you, and the other prisoners alive, so I'm not allowed to kill you...much to my severe annoyance."
"And should you disobey Master Aced because of your temper, Arlene, you'll be severely punished." A new voice spoke behind the woman, causing her to turn around as she and Yen Sid noticed a young man with pink short hair that touched his shoulders, blue eyes and wearing a silver coat that resembled to the black coats. One would mistake the pink-haired man as a woman, especially how there were pink flower petals fluttering all over the place.
"Are you trying to act like Vexen and ruin my fun, Lamuria?" The woman, Arlene, formally known as Larxene of Organization XIII, asked the man who was named Lamuria, the Nobody of Marluxia. She then waved off the petals away and grumbled, "And can't you flutter those petals somewhere else without me around? They're annoying!"
"Are you trying to act like Axel and ruin my fun, Arlene?" Lamuria mocked with a grin, causing his co-worker to snobbishly pout and look away from him.
"Please don't ever mention that jerk." Arlene growled. "I still don't forgive him what he did with Namine back at Castle Oblivion. It makes it worse that now he's with the good guys, along with Saix, Roxas and that stupid replica who "got her own heart and made human"." she quoted the sentence Xion with two fingers on each hand.
Lamuria smirked, before changing the subject and said, "In which case, the Master wishes you to join us in an important assignment. Then later, he would like to meet our prisoners and chat with them."
The blonde-haired sighed, "Alright, alright. I'm comin'." before turning and smirked at Yen Sid who glared at both of them. "Well, looks like we'll have to catch up later, old man. Toodles."
With that Arlene and Lamuria left, locking the door behind them as they went and left Yen Sid once again on his own. Just as he feared; Aced is aware that Sora and the others were already on the move to try and sort things out once more. He could only hope that Bhuniveze would not awaken or else things would just make things more dangerous and catastropic.
Meanwhile, back in the gummiship, Sora and his friends took that time to somewhat relax a little while keeping an eye out for any signs of danger and also to spot out any up coming new worlds thanks to the new way of traversing through out the Lanes Between. Some of them were chatting, some where relaxing into their thoughts, and in Myde's case, he'd fallen asleep in his chair, snoring.
Though his snoring did catch their attention which made everyone stop what they were doing and just gazed at Myde's sleeping form which was an awkward position. But the young man didn't seem to care, being far too deep into dream land.
"As you were, lad." Jack muttered, deciding not to bother the younger man sleeping.
"How could anyone sleep like that?" Skuld asked, softly so that Myde wouldn't awake. "It's awkward."
"At least he's not sleeping while standing up." Lea shrugged as he relaxed in his chair. "Seen that too many times when the five of us were in the old Organization." referring to himself, Roxas, Xion, Isa and Myde.
"I don't think I wanna know." Riku said.
"You know how long and boring Xemnas' speeches usually are?"
"Now I know that I don't wanna know."
Aqua rolled her eyes, saying in a lecture tone to the redhead, "If you pay attention to classes at school, you would know more about things of life."
Lea shook his head, "Are you kiddin'? Xemnas would only rant on about 'Kingdom Hearts', 'Nobodies', 'Keyblade', 'Hearts', same old song and dance and it didn't change much at all."
"No wonder Myde would just fall asleep like that." Donald commented.
"Well, we still have time before we reach the next world. Let him sleep." Terra suggested, "Because none of us have any idea when we'll get to relax once we reach the next world."
"He has a point." Ven agreed.
Sora was about to join in the conversation when he noticed that Mickey had been staring out at the stars that surrounded them as they flew. In the king's arms, much to the teenager's surprise, was Yen Sid's hat that was left behind when they discovered that the sorcerer had been kidnapped by Aced along with Angeal and Genesis. Mickey shifted his gaze to old teacher's hat once more and that's when Sora realised that he was sad as thoughts of finding the sorcerer just...gone was still too fresh on his mind.
It didn't take a scientest to figure out that Mickey had been paticularly close to Yen Sid, given their history together and Mickey's amazing power of light within his heart. In fact, Yen Sid was Mickey's first friend outside of the latter's home world.
So, being the boy that he was, Sora stood from his seat and approached the sad king, asking softly, "You okay, your majesty?"
Slightly startled out of his thoughts, Mickey gazed up at the young man, before replying, "I-I'm okay, Sora. I'm just really worried about Master Yen Sid." before sighing and gazed at the hat once more. "I just wish I'd been there in time to save him."
"I know how you feel." Sora sighed with sympathy. "We'll find him. Plus, I'm sure he already has a fair idea what we're doing anywhere, and as far as know, he doesn't go that that easily. Especially since how he trained you to be so cool."
"Gee, I guess you're right." Mickey smiled a little. "Master Yen Sid went through a lotta things through his entire life as a Sorcerer. Hah, even training me when I was a trouble-maker of an apprentince."
"I have trouble picturing you in causing trouble." Sora smirked.
The king shrugged, "Well, I was really young and foolish. I acted far too rashly and never really payed much attention to the lessons until the last minute."
'That explains why the tower was flooded.' Sora thought to himself, thinking back of his Mark of Mastery when he entered a sleeping world of the tower in the past where he met past-dream self of Mickey.
"I don't really deny it. I guess I was kind of a nightmare back then." Mickey continued, chuckling in slight embarrassment. "Still, he saw a lotta potential in me and taught me so much. I really wanna repay him for that, and...and to make sure that he's okay."
"I know." Sora nodded in agreement, placing a comforting hand on the mouse's shoulder. "You're not in this alone, your majesty. We're all in this together."
Mickey smiled somewhat emotionally, "Aw, you're a swell pal, Sora."
The Gummiship's rader than blared, getting everyone's attentions. The noise also awoke and nearly scared Myde out of his skin as he tumbled before falling off his seat and crashed onto the floor, grunting, "Ow!"
"Looks like another world's come up." Isa commented.
"Isn't that obvious?" Jack asked, sarcastically.
"Gawrsh, I wonder what kind of world it is." Goofy thought aloud.
Mickey gazed at the rader as Donald was flying this time. "Welp, we're about to find out. Better prepare ourselves for our next stop, fellas." He told the group.
"Already?" Myde yawned, disappointed, "I was having a nice dream of chocolate pudding with ice cream." rubbing his eyes tiredly.
"You can go back to sleep." Xion told him, rolling her eyes. "Right now, we're going into the next world."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm up, I'm up." Myde groaned as he stood up.
So much for a good decent sleep.
A/N: Haven't made up my mind on what the next world will be, so it'll take a while. So far on my list of worlds for this story are Atlantis, the Jungle Book, Agrabah, Tangled, and Port Royal. I might add Frozen into this, but I'm not certain yet.
See you in the next chapter, and sorry for the delay and that it's shorter than the last chapter.