Pyle: You know what? I took a break from writing and actually went outside today!
Tiumi: Prove it.
Pyle: Ask me anything.
Me: What color is the sky?
Pyle: Hmm...give me a hint.
Tiumi: If you went outside, you would know.
Me: We actually have pretty good lives. We go out on airplanes with portable DVD players, laptops, hundreds of Gamepro's, then we head to the largest gaming festival on the planet, also known as E3, then we come home to free sex!
Pyle: Your sex is free?
Me: We are like tiny gods, man.
Pyle: (nods slightly, slapping Me a high five) Sorry, um, but I have turned to PS2. Xbox sucks now.
Me: Oh my god...did I just...(looks at hands in horror) I touched him! AAAAAHHH! Get me some soap!
Tiumi: (tosses him a bottle) here.
Me: (Sprays it in his mouth and on his hands) GGAAAH! This isn't soap!!
Tiumi: Oh, your right! It seems to be Strychnine. My mistake.
Pyle: I hate this place.
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A sharp claw smashed into her back, sending her straight into the snow. The Heartless leaped upwards to stab her again but she rolled out of the way, and it only struck snow.
It stared at her curiously, as though it was inconceivable that Kairi had dodged its attack. After another leap, it landed right in front of Kairi's face, then drew back its huge claw to strike a killing blow…
Kairi shut her eyes tight and turned away, anticipating death. The deathblow didn't seem to come. Why was it whenever you anticipated dying, you would always shut your eyes instead of watching your death?
She opened one of her eyes, and hoped the Heartless had disappeared. With dismay, she saw it was still there, but it was facing another direction, and it seemed sort of nervous. About as nervous as a Heartless could look.
Suddenly a huge gray…something smashed down on the Heartless, crushing it instantly. Kairi gaped upwards. A Heartless enemy wasn't necessarily her friend.
The gray thing lifted back upwards, and she saw what remained of the Heartless. Actually, there wasn't much to look at. Just a pile of crushed limbs and black spikes sticking upwards. It seemed like it had been snapped in half and beaten repeatedly with a hammer.
Kairi, barely able to believe this was happening, raised her head and looked up. Or, more accurately, the huge something looked down at her.
Standing in front of her was a beast of a man. Hunched over he was over seven feet tall. His gigantic head peered down at her, blinking several times. "You…do not smell like…a Heartless" he murmured.
Kairi nearly jumped out of her skin when he reached his arm for her. She tried to scramble away, but his huge hand wrapped around her stomach, lifting her up to meet him. "What…is your name?"
"K-kairi" she choked out. "Please put me down"
To go with her wishes, he set her down. Up until this point, Kairi had not noticed how cold it was. She shivered uncontrollably, despite having this huge beast-man next to her. She was surprised to have his cloak wrap around her shoulders, shielding her from the cold.
"T-thanks" she shivered. He gently picked her up and began lurching forward, walking in that slow pace of his. It was not necessarily slow for him though. Even during just one step, he went almost three feet forward.
"So, who are you?" asked Kairi, counting the steps he took.
He shifted his gaze and looked at her. "We…of the Snow Plains do not…reply on names as…your folk do. You may call me…Akoto for the moment. It seems…strange to call everything…a certain thing, but then again…you are all so different" he replied. "Why have you…come to my lands?"
"I-I didn't mean to. I was put here by Hades" she stammered quickly, not wanting to provoke him.
He unintentionally let out a growl, nearly causing Kairi to jump off her perch. "Hades…he came through here once…and made deals with many of my…friends. They all just…disappeared…and they never came back" he growled.
"Why don't you help us get him?" Kairi asked, waiting for just a chance to suggest it.
Akoto chuckled, then continued walking forward. "You who are young and brave…do not understand…the matters of war. If…I go…who will defend my lands?"
"But Hades'll come for you!" Kairi protested. "He kills everybody and anything in sight. What makes you think he won't come here?"
"I'm sorry…Kairi…but who will come…to help us? This is the Key Bearer's job" he responded.
The Key Bearer. He must have meant Sora. "My friend is the Key Bearer. Sora will help us!"
At this point, he paused and looked towards her. "Even so…this land cannot take any more…destruction. There is no room in my lands…for war or strife" he replied sternly.
He took another huge step, and they came at last to a great valley that stretched outward for miles and miles. Next to his foot, a broken body lay on the ground. Another like him. But it was so horribly disfigured that it was nearly unrecognizable.
A huge battlefield was in front of them. Broken, battered bodies littered the ground for miles around. He stared at in shock with his mouth open for a moment. What had become of his lands? How had such a massacre happened?
He leaned down and picked up another giant person, one like him. It nearly folded in half at his touch, falling to the ground off of his fingers.
"Many of…these ones were my friends!" he said suddenly. "I used to come down…to this clearing and…play with them"
He began to weep, a low sound that came from his huge figure. Kairi suddenly felt a surge of pity for this poor, sad man. She leaned out and gently patted him on the shoulder.
"Hades…" he growled, raising his fists. "Tonight…I shall stain the ground with Hades's blood!"
Then he roared. A horribly loud sound that shook the very walls of the valley they were in. Then he began to march forward, taking much longer strides then before. It was obvious that revenge was on his mind.
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Riku stumbled through the snow, dragging his feet through the white powder. It was endless, and cold. Those were the two words that stayed in his mind. It was very, very cold.
With a slight trip, his foot got caught on a rock which sent him rolling down a hill. He flew down with his limbs flailing until he landed face first into a mound of snow. Gently, very gently, he raised his head until he could see above the snow.
Nothing. Just endless snow.
He let his head drop to the snow again, just waiting to die.
Before he got a chance to, something grabbed him and wrenched him out of the snow. "Leave me alone…" he muttered with his eyes closed. "Just let me die"
"Riku?"
His eyes snapped open. "Kairi? Kairi! Where are you! I can't see"
"I'm right here. Riku, what are you doing here?"
"Where are you, Kairi? I've got snow in my eyes or something…I can't see you" Riku groped at the air, looking for her. Why couldn't he see? Did the snow make him blind?
"Here I am" she reached at her hand and pressed it against his, then nearly drew back from the touch. It felt like a cold snowball, almost like she had put her hand in some freezing water. "It's…my god…Riku your freezing! Quick, come here" she dragged him into Akoto's cloak, shielding him from the snow.
Once he finally realized how cold he actually was, he began to shiver uncontrollably. "Kairi…I can't see anymore. Am I blind?" he opened his eyes and looked right at where he thought she would be.
Kairi saw eyes and gasped. They were glazed and unfocused, they did not look straight ahead. He could not see anymore. "Where am I?" he asked.
"This is Akoto. Akoto, this is Riku" she said, introducing them. Riku looked up, unable to see what she was talking about. "He's carrying us right now Riku"
That was what the slow marching was from. He had wondered why they were still moving even after he had stopped walking. "Where are we going?" he asked.
"Akoto is going to kill Hades" she said.
"Considering how big he is and what's happened to me now, I'm not going to object"
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Pyle: (munches on a candy bar) I bet you all want one of these Snickers bars!
Tiumi: * I knew this commercial thing was a bad idea. If we needed money, we could have just worked at subway*
Me: Hey? Can I have one of those? (Performs acting that the commercial script says)
Pyle: (reads script, then decides to ignore it) Well...no.
Me: Give it here!
(They begin to fight)
Tiumi: * oh great*
Me: Give me one of those or I'll shove it through your godamned eye!
Pyle: Go ahead and try it you sonofa bitch!
Director: Next! You two flunked!
Pyle: (turns and throws the Snickers bar at the director) Blow me! I quit.
Me: We never worked for them...Did we?