Half-Heartless
Chapter Fifteen
"Wait, are you talking about Kairi?" questions Sora, shock in his eyes. The silver-haired form standing on the platform overhead looks at the brown- haired Keyblade master accusingly, then starts to walk away.
"What do you care about her?" hisses Riku, Pinnochio dangling lifelessly from his arms. "You even have Heartless following you around. As allies! Some Keyblade master YOU turned out to be."
Those words sting. I don't think he's even aware that even if we ARE Heartless, we still have feelings. We're allies because we're good guys, but obviously his opinion of the Heartless is set in stone. To Riku, we're all Heartless, brainless, emotionless creatures that took this 'Kairi' girl's heart. I want to scream out to him that we're not all that way, but he's already vanished into the upper chamber.
"Please, get Pinnochio back. He's only a little boy!" pleads Geppetto. The old man takes out a chest and opens it. He rustles around in it for a moment, ten comes out of the chest, a glowing purple crystal in his hand. Geppeto gives the crystal to Sora. "It's an ability. It allows you to jump higher than usual."
(AN: This is MY theory on how Cloud simply handed Sonic Blade to Sora.)
The Keyblade master nods and allows the ability to float into the air. The glow strengthens, nearly blinding us all, and when the light subsides, all of us are glowing violet. The light eventually wears off. Grinning, Sora runs to the bow of the ship and jumps off. But instead of jumping like he usually does, the Keybearer pushes off of the ground and does a flip in the air, allowing him to jump higher, just as Geppeto told us.
Mel and Kristina simply fly to the ledge and wait for the rest of us as we leap from platform to platform. After a lot of falling and figuring out a route, we finally reach the upper tunnel. After checking that no one had fallen off, we resume our journey and procede deeper into Monstro's body (Ick).
As soon as all of us arrive, Air Soldiers and Search Ghosts appear to keep us from ascending upward on the pink platforms. Donald takes care of most of them with Fira, and after a few moments of fighting, the Heartless are all gone. The group of us begin climbing - If I only know one thing, then it would be that High Jump is being put to good use.
I watch everyone else get sucked into the "ceiling" with uncertainty. A bad feeling forms in the pit of my stomach, and I don't want to go. Yet when I look down, the dizzying height that I'm at keeps me from descending. Suddenly, a voice startles me. It's my own voice, yet at the same time, it's not.
[You'd better hurry. He's coming to get you.]
The image of Fate flashes through my mind and I shake my head before allowing myself to be taken by the wind.
I look around to see that Sora and his "friend" Riku are discussing something.
"Where were you?" Maria asks me.
"I was nervous." I whisper to her. "I stopped to think about it before getting sucked into the ceiling. The creepy voice of my dark side told me to go on." I pause to watch Sora and Riku bicker for a moment, then I turn back to my friend. "Maria, I'm scared."
She crosses her arms and nods. "I'm scared for you. But after you told me about that dream... I seems like she's helping you more than hurting you. Of course, it MAY be a trick, but that's overprotective me talking."
"I don't know. You've loosened up a little bit." I point out.
"I ha-" she begins, but then this large, round purple... THING... drops from the ceiling. Pinnochio runs past us (back to Geppeto, I assume) in a panic, and Riku disappears into an oddly familiar purple-and-black portal.
Sora jumps back as the thing starts siwnging its tentacles. "The Parasite Cage!"
This "Parasite Cage" plants its tentacles into the ground and swings itself right at us. Maria, Sora, and donald manage to get away, but I'm crushed across the floor (?), along with Goofy. The Keyblade master points his weapon at the creature on the cage's head. "FIRE!" He fires Fira at it continuously, badly scorching the creature.
The tip of the Keyblade stops glowing with flame and Sora cringes. He throws a clear liquid into the air and the flame comes back; he resumes blasting away at the enraged parasite. Suddenly, the left tentacle flies up and crashes right into the Keybearer, flinging him onto the exposed lime green. Emerald flame engulfs him and he yelps in pain, then staggers to his feet and runs behind the Parasite Cage.
I concentrate for a moment and the halberd I obtained on the Gummi Ship materializes in my hand. Pushing myself off the ground, I shift the weapon so that the sharp part is pointed at the creature's head. Just as I anticipated, the halberd sinks into the head's skin, and I hang onto the handle. The Parasite Cage's tentacle wraps around my body and throws me onto the gorund, then plucks the halberd out of it and throws the sharp part right as me. I jump out of the way right as the weapon gets stuck in the ground.
The parasite roars with anger and places its attachments into the lime green part, then makes a motions as if it's sucking something out of it. The creature opens its large mouth and blows out a green, foggy substance. Maria shoves me out of the way. "It's poison gas! Look out!"
"Maria!" I grab her arm to keep her from falling over. The Bouncywild slowly sinks down and sits. "Maria?" I try again, poking he rin the head. "Maria, are you okay?"
"Ham and eggs and buttered toast." she declares before falling asleep against me.[1]
Goofy half-walks, half-stumbles over. "I'll take care of 'er. You juss go out an' help the others fight."
"Great." I huff, picking up my halberd and catapulting myself at the monster again. This time, it sees me coming and whips me away. Donald loosely picks me back up before going back to blast the enemy with his magic.
After awhile, the Parasite Cage seems to be getting tired. Maria and Goofy are back in the fight. We leap out of the way just as it spews out more poison gas, but I look back to see Sora stumbling, his eyes glazed over. I whack him in the head with my halberd and he regains his consicousness, then launches himself at the parasite. The Keyblade master strikes the creature and lands on the other side of it, on a platform. He turns around to watch the thing collapse.
It glows for a moment, then a giant heart rises out of it and the Parasite Cage disappears.
Everything begins shaking. I fall off my perch and jump up just in time to avoid getting burned. Most of us run out of the whale's stomach, but Sora's still looking for something. "Riku?" he calls. "Riku!"
I tug on his jacket, but the Keybearer ignores me and resumes calling for the silver-haired traitor. [2] Monstro bellows and moans, then water rises around us and carries us out of the area. I attempt to stay on the surface, but the current takes me under. It takes me into a hole, where I am ejected from the whale's body and thrown off somewhere.
***
"Destiny?" I wake up to Kristina poking me repeatedly in the shoulder while repeating my name over and over. "Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Desti-"
"Okay, okay, okay, I'm awake!" I growl.
We're obviously back in Agrabah. Aladdin's not in his house, but we are. Maria hands me a glass of ice water. "You'll need it. This place is HOT today."
"Thanks. So, Maria, how are you feeling?"
"Huh?"
"The poison gas."
"Oh! Right. I'm fine. I had this dream where I was flying thorugh interspace, too..."
"Maria, that really happened."
"It did?"
"Yes. Are you sure that the poison gas didn't effect your brain?"
[Author's Note]
[1] Don't ask me where that came from.
[2] *hides from the angry Riku fangirls*
Maji: Fairly short chapter, but hey, at least it's a chapter! *squeals in delight* I prolly woulda finished it sooner if I hadn't gone on vaction.
Gypsy: I know you're thinkin' "Vacation in AUGUST?" Yeah, it's true.
Chibi Leon: *cough*
Maji: Oh yah! For all who don't know, meet Chibi Leon.
Chibi Leon: Hey.
Gypsy: *whimperbeg* School starts in a week. NUUU! @#^%*&^*^(^%(^&(&%*(*&$#%$#@$!$^^&(*&(*&(*&*%$#!$!##@$@!@#!@$%%$&*&^())*^%$& $#@!$#@!#@~!!
All the Muses and Maji: Oo
Maji: GYPSY! We aren't supposed to say those words!
Gypsy: But aren't they true? About school?
Maji: Yeah...
[Disclaimer]
I OWN EVERYTHING! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH- *cough cough gag cough* (I really did that last night. I cracked up laughing, but ended up in a coughing fit!)
Chapter Fifteen
"Wait, are you talking about Kairi?" questions Sora, shock in his eyes. The silver-haired form standing on the platform overhead looks at the brown- haired Keyblade master accusingly, then starts to walk away.
"What do you care about her?" hisses Riku, Pinnochio dangling lifelessly from his arms. "You even have Heartless following you around. As allies! Some Keyblade master YOU turned out to be."
Those words sting. I don't think he's even aware that even if we ARE Heartless, we still have feelings. We're allies because we're good guys, but obviously his opinion of the Heartless is set in stone. To Riku, we're all Heartless, brainless, emotionless creatures that took this 'Kairi' girl's heart. I want to scream out to him that we're not all that way, but he's already vanished into the upper chamber.
"Please, get Pinnochio back. He's only a little boy!" pleads Geppetto. The old man takes out a chest and opens it. He rustles around in it for a moment, ten comes out of the chest, a glowing purple crystal in his hand. Geppeto gives the crystal to Sora. "It's an ability. It allows you to jump higher than usual."
(AN: This is MY theory on how Cloud simply handed Sonic Blade to Sora.)
The Keyblade master nods and allows the ability to float into the air. The glow strengthens, nearly blinding us all, and when the light subsides, all of us are glowing violet. The light eventually wears off. Grinning, Sora runs to the bow of the ship and jumps off. But instead of jumping like he usually does, the Keybearer pushes off of the ground and does a flip in the air, allowing him to jump higher, just as Geppeto told us.
Mel and Kristina simply fly to the ledge and wait for the rest of us as we leap from platform to platform. After a lot of falling and figuring out a route, we finally reach the upper tunnel. After checking that no one had fallen off, we resume our journey and procede deeper into Monstro's body (Ick).
As soon as all of us arrive, Air Soldiers and Search Ghosts appear to keep us from ascending upward on the pink platforms. Donald takes care of most of them with Fira, and after a few moments of fighting, the Heartless are all gone. The group of us begin climbing - If I only know one thing, then it would be that High Jump is being put to good use.
I watch everyone else get sucked into the "ceiling" with uncertainty. A bad feeling forms in the pit of my stomach, and I don't want to go. Yet when I look down, the dizzying height that I'm at keeps me from descending. Suddenly, a voice startles me. It's my own voice, yet at the same time, it's not.
[You'd better hurry. He's coming to get you.]
The image of Fate flashes through my mind and I shake my head before allowing myself to be taken by the wind.
I look around to see that Sora and his "friend" Riku are discussing something.
"Where were you?" Maria asks me.
"I was nervous." I whisper to her. "I stopped to think about it before getting sucked into the ceiling. The creepy voice of my dark side told me to go on." I pause to watch Sora and Riku bicker for a moment, then I turn back to my friend. "Maria, I'm scared."
She crosses her arms and nods. "I'm scared for you. But after you told me about that dream... I seems like she's helping you more than hurting you. Of course, it MAY be a trick, but that's overprotective me talking."
"I don't know. You've loosened up a little bit." I point out.
"I ha-" she begins, but then this large, round purple... THING... drops from the ceiling. Pinnochio runs past us (back to Geppeto, I assume) in a panic, and Riku disappears into an oddly familiar purple-and-black portal.
Sora jumps back as the thing starts siwnging its tentacles. "The Parasite Cage!"
This "Parasite Cage" plants its tentacles into the ground and swings itself right at us. Maria, Sora, and donald manage to get away, but I'm crushed across the floor (?), along with Goofy. The Keyblade master points his weapon at the creature on the cage's head. "FIRE!" He fires Fira at it continuously, badly scorching the creature.
The tip of the Keyblade stops glowing with flame and Sora cringes. He throws a clear liquid into the air and the flame comes back; he resumes blasting away at the enraged parasite. Suddenly, the left tentacle flies up and crashes right into the Keybearer, flinging him onto the exposed lime green. Emerald flame engulfs him and he yelps in pain, then staggers to his feet and runs behind the Parasite Cage.
I concentrate for a moment and the halberd I obtained on the Gummi Ship materializes in my hand. Pushing myself off the ground, I shift the weapon so that the sharp part is pointed at the creature's head. Just as I anticipated, the halberd sinks into the head's skin, and I hang onto the handle. The Parasite Cage's tentacle wraps around my body and throws me onto the gorund, then plucks the halberd out of it and throws the sharp part right as me. I jump out of the way right as the weapon gets stuck in the ground.
The parasite roars with anger and places its attachments into the lime green part, then makes a motions as if it's sucking something out of it. The creature opens its large mouth and blows out a green, foggy substance. Maria shoves me out of the way. "It's poison gas! Look out!"
"Maria!" I grab her arm to keep her from falling over. The Bouncywild slowly sinks down and sits. "Maria?" I try again, poking he rin the head. "Maria, are you okay?"
"Ham and eggs and buttered toast." she declares before falling asleep against me.[1]
Goofy half-walks, half-stumbles over. "I'll take care of 'er. You juss go out an' help the others fight."
"Great." I huff, picking up my halberd and catapulting myself at the monster again. This time, it sees me coming and whips me away. Donald loosely picks me back up before going back to blast the enemy with his magic.
After awhile, the Parasite Cage seems to be getting tired. Maria and Goofy are back in the fight. We leap out of the way just as it spews out more poison gas, but I look back to see Sora stumbling, his eyes glazed over. I whack him in the head with my halberd and he regains his consicousness, then launches himself at the parasite. The Keyblade master strikes the creature and lands on the other side of it, on a platform. He turns around to watch the thing collapse.
It glows for a moment, then a giant heart rises out of it and the Parasite Cage disappears.
Everything begins shaking. I fall off my perch and jump up just in time to avoid getting burned. Most of us run out of the whale's stomach, but Sora's still looking for something. "Riku?" he calls. "Riku!"
I tug on his jacket, but the Keybearer ignores me and resumes calling for the silver-haired traitor. [2] Monstro bellows and moans, then water rises around us and carries us out of the area. I attempt to stay on the surface, but the current takes me under. It takes me into a hole, where I am ejected from the whale's body and thrown off somewhere.
***
"Destiny?" I wake up to Kristina poking me repeatedly in the shoulder while repeating my name over and over. "Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Destiny? Desti-"
"Okay, okay, okay, I'm awake!" I growl.
We're obviously back in Agrabah. Aladdin's not in his house, but we are. Maria hands me a glass of ice water. "You'll need it. This place is HOT today."
"Thanks. So, Maria, how are you feeling?"
"Huh?"
"The poison gas."
"Oh! Right. I'm fine. I had this dream where I was flying thorugh interspace, too..."
"Maria, that really happened."
"It did?"
"Yes. Are you sure that the poison gas didn't effect your brain?"
[Author's Note]
[1] Don't ask me where that came from.
[2] *hides from the angry Riku fangirls*
Maji: Fairly short chapter, but hey, at least it's a chapter! *squeals in delight* I prolly woulda finished it sooner if I hadn't gone on vaction.
Gypsy: I know you're thinkin' "Vacation in AUGUST?" Yeah, it's true.
Chibi Leon: *cough*
Maji: Oh yah! For all who don't know, meet Chibi Leon.
Chibi Leon: Hey.
Gypsy: *whimperbeg* School starts in a week. NUUU! @#^%*&^*^(^%(^&(&%*(*&$#%$#@$!$^^&(*&(*&(*&*%$#!$!##@$@!@#!@$%%$&*&^())*^%$& $#@!$#@!#@~!!
All the Muses and Maji: Oo
Maji: GYPSY! We aren't supposed to say those words!
Gypsy: But aren't they true? About school?
Maji: Yeah...
[Disclaimer]
I OWN EVERYTHING! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH- *cough cough gag cough* (I really did that last night. I cracked up laughing, but ended up in a coughing fit!)