Kingdom Hearts 2 Chapter 4 - Central City

OK, here's Chapter 4, Chapter 5's coming soon!

Falling. Falling. I look down, there's no bottom. Falling. Falling into darkness.

"Ahhh!" screamed Sora. He had just wakened up from this horrible dream. As he swept the sweat away from his face, he heard someone knock on his door. "Come in," he called.

Donald and Goofy opened the door. "Hey, Sora," called Donald, waving, "Hurry up and get ready, we're about to leave." Goofy nodded.

"'Kay," smiled Sora. He went into the bathroom, brushed his teeth, got changed into clean clothes, and went outside to meet Donald and Goofy.

"Well, what took ya so long?" asked Goofy.

Sora laughed, "I'm here, so who cares? Anyway, is the gummi ship ready?"

"Yep," added Donald, "And Chip and Dale are already on board with Jiminy."

"Jiminy is coming again?" asked Sora.

Donald nodded. As Sora and Company were about to board, King Mickey came running from the castle. "Wait!" he panted, "Sora, please take this before you go."

*Sora obtained 'Mysterious Amulet'*

"Thanks," smiled Sora, "But what is it for?"

Mickey smiled. "You'll see soon enough."

"What does that mean?" called Sora. But it was too late. The gummi ship had already left and Mickey was soon out of sight.

Sora sat down next to Donald, who was driving the ship. He took out his amulet and showed it to Donald. "Do you know what this is?" he asked.

"Ah, leave me alone," squeaked Donald, "I dunno, ask Goofy."

Sora frowned and stood up. He walked over to Goofy, who was sitting on a bench out of the cockpit, and sat down next to him. "Hey, Goofy," he said, "D' you know what this is?"

Goofy took a pair a spectacles from his pocket, put them on, and muttered, "Oh yeah, I don't need glasses." Then, he took them off, picked up the amulet, and examined it. After about forty seconds, he turned to Sora and excitedly said, "Hey, I know what this is! It's one of the seven Amulets of Asiroth!"

"What?" asked Sora, confused?

"Well," continued Goofy, "When the seven Amulets of Asiroth are put together, the one who obtains all seven will have magnificent magic powers. The seven amulets were scattered everywhere about three centuries ago, and since then, never put together."

"Wow, cool!" said Sora, "Magnificent magic powers."

~*~*~

Maleficent and Osario were spying on Sora from the crystal ball again. Maleficent seemed aggravated. "The Seven Amulets of Astiroth!" she screamed, then, she raised her hand, summoning a blonde fairy with an orange skirt, "Alithia, go and alert everyone that the meddling Sora-brat is aware of the amulets. Go!"

"Yes, your Highness," she nodded as she flew away.

"Maleficent, my dear," added Osario, "We need not to worry about him, for you and I possess great powers."

"Yes, I know," weakly smiled Maleficent, "But he must not be underestimated."

~*~*~

The gummi ship docked on the edge of Central City. Central City was actually a city; it was more like Traverse Town. Instead of Districts, Central City had four neighborhoods. Sora and company had just docked on Evergreen Neighborhood.

"Wow," said Donald, amazed, "So this is Central City."

"Yep," said Goofy, "So let's get goin'."

Evergreen Neighborhood was the largest and safest of the four neighborhoods. It was free from the Mega-Heartless, and had several different shops, including the Post Office and the Magic Shoppe. It was also the mostly filled with people who had lost their world to the Mega- Heartless, just like the First District in Traverse Town.

As Sora, Donald, and Goofy approached the triangular center of Evergreen Neighborhood, a fox wearing clothes and a small, shy cat following him stopped them. The fox held out his hand and said, "Hiya there, the name's Honest John and I just love to help people. Oh yeah, this is Gideon." He added, pointing to the cat, who was pulling on his coat.

"My name's Sora," introduced Sora, "And that's Donald and Goofy."

"Yep," chuckled Goofy, "Hi!"

Suddenly, a small boy peaked out from behind Honest John and yelled, "Hi Sora!"

"Pinocchio!" smiled Sora, "How have you been?"

"Good," said Pinocchio, "I'm having fun with Honest John."

"Where's Gepetto?" asked Donald, as though he didn't approve of Pinocchio being with a stranger.

Honest John looked nervous. "Well," he said, tensely, "Uh, Gepetto asked me to take care of Pinocchio, here, while he goes away, isn't that right, Pinocchio?"

"Yeah!" nodded Pinocchio.

Then, Honest John shifted the conversation toward Sora. "Now, uh, Sora, was it?" he said. Sora nodded. "Okay, I know you want to find Pete. I can help you with that," smiled Honest John.

Sora felt suspicious. "How did you know?" he asked.

"Well," said Honest John, "I just know these things, and like I said, I love to help other people."

"Ok," said Goofy, "Where's Pete?"

Honest John looked pleased with himself. "Follow me," he added.

Honest John led everyone through Evergreen Neighborhood and into a gate with a sign above it saying Melbrook Neighborhood. He then led them down a small cave into a cavern. "This way is longer, but we won't need to worry about the Mega-Heartless," he muttered.

Honest John then led them through a labyrinth of twisted passageways and dead-ends. Finally, he brought them into another cavern, but this one was much larger than the first. "Pinocchio," said Honest John, "Come here."

"Okay!" said Pinocchio naively. Before he knew it, Honest John swept up Pinocchio and put him in a bag. "Help!" screamed Pinocchio.

"Pinocchio!" yelled Sora. It was too late. Honest John was ready to exit through a small hole.

"Gideon!" he yelled, "You know what to do!"

Gideon stood up and stared at Sora. Sora was too busy looking at him to notice that Honest John had escaped. Suddenly, Gideon jumped on a platform as it rose from the center of the room, and step on a button to make fire spit out from the sides.

** Boss I - Gideon** ** HP - 200 EXP - 80**

The platform suddenly branched off into four smaller platforms with different colored buttons on each. There was a red one, a blue one, a black one, a gray one and an orange one.

First, Gideon jumped on the red one. Some large cannons came out of the middle platform and began to spit flames. Sora was didn't get hurt because he was in between two cannons, but Donald and Goofy weren't so lucky.

Next, Gideon jumped on a gray one. All of the platforms suddenly dropped, and Gideon was liable for attack! Sora unleashed a few combos on him, which drained most of his HP.

Then, Gideon jumped on the blue button. The cannons came out again, but this time shooting gusts of ice. Only Goofy avoided the attack, and Donald got knocked out (like he does all the time.).

Next, Gideon jumped on an orange button. The ground suddenly turned to lava with a few stones to step on. Donald woke up, but then died again.

The next button Gideon jumped on was the black one. Everything turned dark and a few shadow Mega-Heartless attacked Sora and Goofy, but they managed to defeat them without taking any major damage.

Finally, Gideon leaped on the gray button. After Sora launched a few combos at him, he died. He dropped a Cat's Paw accessory for Sora and turned to ashes.

"Well, gawrsh," said Goofy, "Those Mega-Heartless are sure strong." Sora nodded, and Donald finally woke up again.

"Wha. What happened?" he shuddered.

"That stupid cat's gone," said Sora, "For good."

Suddenly, they heard applause. They turned around and saw a tall man with long blonde hair and jeans with a white t-shirt. "Good job," he said, "You're better than I expected."

"Who are you?" glared Donald.

The man walked up to them and smiled, "I'm your worst nightmare."

"No, no, I'm just joking," he quickly added, looking at the worried expressions on their faces, "Actually, I'm Pete. The king sent you, right?"

"Oh, yeah," sighed Sora, relieved.

"Come on, and follow me," he said, pointing to a bronze door. They walked through and entered a small room with blue wallpaper and orange beanbag chairs. "This is our lair," said Pete, "Do you like it?"

Sora looked at the two girls who were standing in the corners. Sora walked up to one and said, "Yuffie?"

"Yuffie?" said the girl, surprised. Actually, she looked like Yuffie except she had red hair, "Yuffie? I'm the great Samaria, Yammie!"

"Oh, and my name's Eithra," said the other girl. She had long, black hair and resembled Aerith.

Suddenly, Pete froze. "Sh! Listen!" he whispered.

Everyone stood still and didn't make a peep. They could hear voices from behind the wall. "Let's bash the toy!" called a voice that Sora didn't here before.

"NO!" shouted a familiar voice - it was Honest John! "This is Gepetto's, uh, son. He might know some information."

"Please, don't hurt me!" whimpered Pinocchio.

That was enough for Sora. "Come on, let's go!" he called to Donald and Goofy. Sora, Donald, and Goofy ran down the to the maze again and headed for Honest John.

"Well, I hope they get out of this mess OK," sighed Yammie.

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