OOOh, we got a flashback in this chapter! You know what that mean...
Little kid Koga!
And also some subtle lore. Hope you like it. ;)
Chapter XXVI- Monstro (Part 1)
Koga gave out a big yawn. It was late at night, he thinks, it's hard to tell when in the gummi ship. Donald and Goofy was busy working the ship while Jiminy was writing in his journal. Sora decided to lay by his brother's side and tried to keep him company while he decided to 'study' the books Merlin left him. That lasted half an hour before he fell asleep and lay his head on Koga's shoulder. Koga didn't mind, too busy looking through his stuff to push him off.
When he felt like he was done he put his book away and let out a sigh. He pulled out the papers Aladdin gave them. It said it was from someone called Ansem, he thinks he Leon and the other's mention him back when they were in Traverse Town. It sounded like he was some big scientist. He noticed that the papers were out of order and missing some other reports. He looked through the papers he did have, number 1 and 11.
Ansem Report 1. Much of my life has been dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. That knowledge has guarded this world well. Not a soul doubts that. I am blessed with people's smiles and respect. But though I am called a sage, there are things I do not understand. I believe darkness sleeps in every heart, no matter how pure. Given the chance, the smallest drop can spread and swallow the heart. I have witnessed it many times. Darkness...Darkness of the heart. How is it born? How does it come to affect us so? As ruler of this world, I must find the answers. I must find them before the world is lost to those taken by the darkness.
Ansem Report 11. \\ening the door to a world's heart causes its wa\ls to crumbl\. These fragments are seen as shooting stars. This explains why these "\\\\\\ b\o\ks" can travel freely to other worlds. I know the catalyst of this collapse—the appearance of the Hear\\ess. However, it will take time search out the worlds' doors and to retrieve each heart. Furthermore, \he doors can be locked using a Keyblade, making the heart forever unattainable. I must take action before the wielder of the key appears in this world. If the pri\\\\\\ and the K\\blad\ are con\\ted, \hey should resonate. I'v\ ch\\\\\-
The notes of the last report was a smudged mess, completely unreadable. Koga blinked looking back at the notes. It sound like this Ansem guy was really interested in studying the hearts. There's not really much to go on until he finds the other's.
Koga snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the blaring of the Gummi ship. Sora woke up with a startle and he threw his fist into Koga's nose. Koga fell back and rubbed his injured nose.
"What the heck is going on?" Sora asked leaning over the controls.
"Ma noose!" Koga cried sitting up to him. Sora looked at him apologetically.
"The radar detected something big coming towards us!" Donald said.
Other's looked out and saw some big grey blob in the distance blocking their way.
"What is that?" Koga asked eyes wide.
Suddenly the ball moved, turning to the side revealing how big the body was. It was so huge it could even be called it's own world.
"Uh oh! It's a giant whale!" Goofy said.
"Space whales, I thought that was just a myth." Sora said.
"That isn't just any whale!" Jiminy gasped terrified. "That's Monstro!"
"You know it Jiminy?" Koga asked.
"Yep, he's from my world." Jiminy nodded. "Yes, he's a whale of a whale, and vicious besides!"
"What is a whale doing flying in outer space?" Sora asked.
"It probably ended up out here when my world vanished."
Monstro flew past them, the ship shaking upon it's enormous body. Then it came around to face them.
"Get us out of here!" Sora said. The whale was getting closer.
"It's too late, brace for impact!" Donald said as Monstro mouth agape. Everyone screamed as he closed his mouth and then everything went dark.
Koga was laying on the beach. He was wearing a small sleeveless navy blue shirt with a star on it's center and black shorts. He got a band-aid on his cheek and lost one of his baby teeth.
Him, his twin brother Sora, and their best friend Riku were all hanging out tonight to get a look at the shooting stars. They laid on a big towel so they don't get sand on them.
"Wow, look at that one!" Koga pointed at a large pink streak that flew through the sky before crashing into the water.
"That one was so close, I could almost touch it!" Sora giggled.
"Hey, Riku, what if they were actually hi-" Koga looked and saw Riku wasn't paying attention and using a stick to draw in the sand. The five year old noticed that it was the shape of a ship.
Koga looked at Sora who was too busy looking at the stars. He scooted his butt over to him and poked his side. Riku jolted at the sudden sensation and snapped his head over at the kid.
"What?"
Koga smiled. "Why are you being such a frowny face?" Sora turned his head to listen to the commotion. "if it's about your dad, don't worry. He's safe with our papa and TÍdus's dad."
"You know it's Tidus right? He hates it when you call him that." Sora said.
Koga ignored his brother. "So don't cry. He'll be back from his fishing trip soon."
Riku blinked and pouted. "I wasn't crying!"
"You were gonna cry you cryba- HEY!" He complained when Riku messed up his hair.
"You're the only crybaby here! Let's not forget that tantrum over that blue haired woman from last year."
"I will marry her one day!" Koga fumed. Riku laughed, seeming to be in a better mood. The boy crossed his arms and looked the other way with a pout. He looked to the crashing waves of the beach and as it receded it looked like it left something on the sand. It look like a human, a child it looks like. They were face down in the sand and not moving.
"Hey, there's someone in the water!" Koga jumped and rushed to the shore despite the protest of the others. He turned them over and froze when he realized it was a girl, she had cherry red hair and wore a white dress, she looked like the same age as himself. It looked like she was unconscious. His face flushed red.
Koga snapped out of his trance when the girl coughed up some seawater. His brother and Riku knelt down by his side.
"A girl?" Sora asked.
"She's not from here." Riku commented.
"Riku, get our parents, fast! She doesn't look too good." Koga said. Riku nodded and ran off leaving the twins to watch over her. She opened her eyes revealing a violet/blue hue in her eyes. She looked at them in confusion.
"Are you an angel?" Koga asked, eyes sparkling.
Sora elbowed his brother. "Not know bro." He lifted Kairi so she sat up straight. "Are you okay?" Kairi silently nodded. "What's your name?
"...Kairi."
Koga groaned as he opened his eyes. He felt something wet drip on his face. He sat up and saw himself in the gummi ship though the power was out. Everyone else was knocked out. The place smelled oddly like rotting fish. He stepped out of the ship and saw it landed on some big red cavern covered in ship wreckage everywhere sticking out of the large pool of water. He turned around and saw a wall of big sharp teeth.
He quickly rushed back in and shook everyone awake.
"Guys, wake up!"
"Ugh, what happened?" Goofy asked rubbing his head.
"And why are we covered in water?" Donald asked whipping his feathers.
"I think we are inside Monstro." Koga said.
Sora's eyes widened. "We're in a whale?"
"Wait!" Donald jumped up and worked on the controls. "The ship is alright, no real damage to it."
*Thunk*
Everyone heard something clang against the cockpit. Everyone scrambled out and saw a piece of gummi that didn't belong to the ship. Suddenly another fell down from above. Everyone looked up and saw someone tossing gummi pieces over a wooden foundation.
"Hey, who's throwing that?" Donald called.
A head peeked out from the edge. "It's me Pinocchio!" The person waved. It was a boy with a yellow hat and black hair.
"Pinocchio?" Jiminy hopped on Sora's shoulders to get a better look. He looked at the boy with a stunned expression. The boy picked up what looked like a large gummi piece and wandered away. "Hey, where ya going Pinocch?" Jiminy called but Pinocchio did not hear him. He turned to the others. "We gotta go after him quick!"
"Uh you know him?" Goofy asked.
"You betcha, I'm his conscience."
"What?" Sora tilted his head.
"We don't have time to talk about this, we need to find him quick!"
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Koga said as he jumped into the water, which he is incredibly glad is actually water. The others followed him and they swam across the water till they reached a wooden sailboat that still had some lights coming from it. They began climbing it and saw Pinocchio speaking to an old man with a friendly face. Next to him was a small black kitten and a goldfish in a fishbowl. Upon closer inspection they realize that Pinocchio was actually a wooden puppet. They would be more surprised if they weren't attacked by an army made of playing cards several worlds ago.
"What have you got there Pinocchio?" The man said.
"With this we can get out of here, Father." Pinocchio said putting the gummi piece on the floor of the deck.
"Really?" The man asked looking at it curiously. "With this big block?"
"He's right." Sora said jumping out in the open. The two looked at the stranger, the other's jumping up and revealing themselves as well. "So how did you all get here?"
"Pinocchio!" Jiminy said jumping up and hopping in front of the boy.
"Jiminy!" Pinocchio said with a smile. "Boy am I glad to see you!"
"Oh my, so you all found yourselves eaten by the whale as well?" The man asked. "My name is Geppetto and this here is my cat Figaro and my fish, Cleo. And this boy here is my son Pinocchio."
"You're son?" Koga asked.
"Ah, I understand the confusion." Geppetto laughed. "I was just as surprised as you. When I built him I wished that he was a real boy and then one day my wish was granted. He has been on quite the journey to, one day he went missing and I searched all over for him. Then I ended up swallowed by that cursed whale. I've been stuck here for who know's how long."
"We were looking for you to Mr. Geppetto." Jiminy said. "But we got separated when the whale ate Pinocchio as well." Jiminy thought of something. "Hey, didn't Pinocchio have donkey ears and a tail when you found him?"
Geppetto nodded. "Yes he did my cricket friend. But shortly after I found him there was this large rumbling going on outside, the entire whale shook and groaned in protest, then when it stopped I looked at the boy and he was back to his old self again."
"Hmm, I guess the curse of Pleasure Island doesn't work off world." Jiminy mumbled. "Anyway, don't worry Geppetto, me and my new friends can help you get out of here."
"Really?" the man asked with a hopeful expression.
"Yep, our ship isn't too badly damaged. We can ride on out of here!"
Donald narrowed his eyes. "Bu-"
"One word out of you saying no then I'll pluck your feathers." Koga said with a threatening smile.
Donald sweated nervously. "There is one problem. The mouth is shut."
Geppetto nodded. "I agree, until it opens it's mouth we can't escape and even if we make it out the whale will just suck us back in. But Pinocchio did come up with an idea of his. Pinocch, what was it a-"
They looked and noticed that Pinocchio wasn't there with them anymore.
Geppetto began panicking and looking around for him. "Pinocchio?"
"Where did he go?" Goofy asked.
"Over there!" Koga said, pointed deeper into the whale to show the wooden boy running into the deeper part of the whale.
"C'mon, let's catch him!" Sora said.
"Are you sure, I wouldn't want to trouble you?" Geppetto said.
"It's no problem, let's go guys!" Sora and the other jumped off the boat and followed the puppet deeper into the whale.
Koga is quite the ladies man. ;)
I had half a mind having Kairi literally fall from the sky as a screaming fireball but yeah that's a little too crazy.
For those not caught up in the Kh lore, Pinocchio's world was destroyed shortly after he got eaten by Monstro, although the first game contradicts that by having Pinocchio end up in Traverse Town first then end up in Monstro. Also he didn't have the Donkey ears and tail he got from Pleasure Island, (which later games confirm he had) so I had to come up with an excuse.
Weird how there's a whale floating in space, no oxygen or proper food to eat, but cartoon logic I guess.
Next chapter we see how Kingdom hearts completely messes up whale anatomy.
See you guys later...
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