Crowned Hearts Chapter
Fourteen
By
Blue Dragon
"Now, since this baby hasn't ever been to
Gaia, we're going to have to fly there ourselves. That simple"
"What
if we run into enemy ships!" Riku and Sora asked
simultaneously.
Old man sat down in his seat in the back left
of the cockpit.
"Well, there aren't any other ships
within a million miles of here, and we're in a MIR class Gummis ship.
Nothing can go wrong"
Riku and Sora relaxed, but Riku
more as Sora was still expecting an explanation.
"Hey
Riku?" he asked walking over to his friend at the wall.
"Yeah?"
Riku asked turning away from the windows.
"How long will
we be gone?"
"Maybe for a few days."
"WHAT!"
Sora leapt a good five feet into the air.
"Relax man,
only a few minutes will pass. Remember Chuckis' dog? After all that
time we were gone he wasn't even hungry. Time compresses when you
travel further away from a world.
"No it doesn't"
Riku
cocked his head at him.
"Yes it does"
"No,
you see we learned in science class. As you travel away from a
planet, the rate at which it's spinning continuously gets faster and
faster because you're distant. Therefore, if we were ten million
miles away, then the time back home would go almost twice as fast
compared to here!"
"You made that up"
"No!
Remember Hades? And how he would rotate around and around with fire
coming out of his hands? It seemed to be a lot slower when you were
actually right next to him, but it went WAY faster when you were far
away. The further away you are from something spinning, the faster it
seems to go."
"Huh?"
"Think about
me holding a rope, and you were right in front of me. Then if I
started spinning, you could keep up easily. Then, if you were a mile
away and you were holding a stick connected to me, you'd have a hard
time. It would take me a few seconds to make a 360 degree turn, and
the other end would have to go a few miles in just that
time!"
"Oh.well you still forgot one
thing?"
"What?" Sora asked with a skeptical
look.
"Our home isn't a planet. It's a world. And worlds
aren't usually round."
"Oh yeah.never mind
then"
Riku slapped his head on his forehead, regretting
his stupidity for having argued with Sora about something scientific
for two minutes.
"Hey you two!"
Riku and Sora
turned to Old man.
"There's a bandit closing at
twelve!"
"What?" asked Sora, the second 'what'
of a few minutes.
"A bandit is an enemy ship, twelve is
right in front of us!"
Sure enough, filling the screen
was a large fleet of Alexander modeled ships. And they looked just
like heartless ships.
"You said there wouldn't be any
more of them!" shouted Riku.
"I didn't count on it,
honest! We'll just have to fly past 'em"
Riku immediately
grabbed the controls before Sora could touch them. He jabbed some
buttons and four rapid-fire Meteor-G's and two Ultima-G's began to
blast away uncontrollably. As the blue and purple beams lanced across
space, the Akujiki began to speed up at the same time the Alexander
models began to slow in space, attempt to evade, and then fly towards
the Akujiki leaving trails of fire in the blue space.
"Ahhhh!"
Sora screamed.
"Ahhhh!" Riku agreed.
Just as
the first seven converged on the temporarily defenseless ship, the
two Ultima lasers circled back around and bounced wildly across the
battlefield, decimating the mechs. The sixteen Meteor lasers that had
then been fired slammed into ten more Alexanders, and finally the
remaining two decided that they were smart enough to motor out of the
battlefield.
Riku sat back in his chair and let out a wicked
laugh.
"Lets see those Heartless mess with us!" he
said.
"Nice goin' Riku" commented Sora. "Donald
would have gone crazy if he had to fight all those."
"It
was nothin'. This is a nice ship you got here, old man" Riku
said looking at him.
"You think so? This is the first
time I've seen her in action. Its not bad a 'tall"
"I
have got to get one of these.are we there yet?" Sora looked at
the large window.
"Well." Old man looked at some
sort of computer screen and his eyes became bright.
"Gaia's
just up ahead. That's where we'll find the first link to the world of
spirits"
"The world of spirits?" Sora
asked.
"You see, we have to find links to other worlds
layer by layer. We go to Gaia, then another world, then through that
another, then through that one more, and then through there we go to
a world of spirits. We're sure to find Riku's lost friend"
Sora
looked at Riku skeptically.
"What about this lost friend?
I don't remember her at all. Are you sure she existed?"
"Yes!
Yes okay?! Nothing could feel that real and be fake. She told me you
wouldn't remember her at all, but you once knew her. Just a few days
ago!"
"If you say so." It was obvious in his
voice that Sora was still skeptical.
Soon, Gaia was visible in
the midst of the blue. It started out small speck and didn't even
look like a planet. After a while it got bigger. And bigger. And
bigger still until Sora and Riku couldn't believe that an eighth of a
planet could fill up the whole screen.
"That thing is
huge!" yelled Riku.
"Pipe down. We're just in
atmosphere right now. The Akujiki says that when we land we should be
right over the spot where we have to be"
"Where will
take the Akujiki?" Sora didn't remove his eyes from the
screen.
"Well, we'll have to park him in a safe
place."
"Him?" Sora gave Old man a skeptical
look. "Shouldn't you say 'her'"
"That's for
fools and rabbits. Any real man calls a ship a 'him'"
Sora
took two good steps in the opposite direction.
In a few
minutes the Akujiki settled on the top of a large stone
structure.
"Perfect! I'll never find Lisa if we can't
even get down to where we're supposed to! This big castle is in the
way!"
"Pipe down! We'll just leave this baby on the
top and keep going straight down. All we have to do is find stairs
and."
Riku stepped out of the cockpit and held his
keyblade high into the air. He jumped twenty feet into the air, did a
double back flip, aimed his keyblade downwards, and
yelled:
"Ultima!"
Black and purple lights
momentarily replaced the sky and dark plumes of energy spewed out of
the keyblade, converging on the stone top of the structure and
crashing down through one.two.three.four.five.six.seven floors of
marble, stone, granite, wood, sheetrock, steel, and some unsuspecting
fool's cap. Riku landed at the bottom and tucked his keyblade back
into the makeshift sheath on his waders. Sora and Old man were shaken
by the blast, and struggled to keep their balance on the cracked
stone. Before they had regained their balance, the stone gave out and
they fell down, slammed their heads on the marble, were toppled when
their legs hit the stone, smashed their ankles again on the granite,
broke their heads right through the wood, were poked in the backside
by some sheetrock, smashed their groins on the steel, and fell right
through the spot where a man's cap once was. They landed in a bruised
heap next to Riku.
"Riku!"
"Sonny
Jim!"
They both yelled their personal ways to address the
silver haired son-of-a- swordsman.
"You guys should have
kept your balance. But I'm glad you're here now."
Old man
stood up with pride.
".Sora. Now I can use your
keyblade."
Sora gave Riku a dirty look and stood up,
brushing off the dirt from his clothes and looking around. The place
had large gray brick walls, no lighting, and a dirt ground. It must
have been the dungeon of whatever place this was.
A black hole
appeared in front of Riku.
"Awesome! Let's go to the next
layer!"
"Uh, Riku?" Sora pointed to the
hole.
Heartless of all kinds started spewing out.
"I
think we have company"
Riku pulled out his keyblade
slowly.
"Well noted"
