Chapter 9: Fly, Dear Riku! Let Your Dreams Take You To Neverland!
The team decided to get back on the Gummi Ship and look around some more. As they were heading to another world, they were ambushed by a large pirate Ship, the Jolly Roger. The team was captured, and Sora and Riku are separated from Cloud and Squall. As they look around for their friends, they hear a familiar voice.
"I didn't think you'd come," said the voice.
The two gasp and turn around. Shade smiles at them.
"Good to see you again," said Shade.
"Where's our friends?" demanded Sora.
"Are they that important to you?" asks Shade. "Instead of worrying about them, you should be asking...about your other friend."
He steps aside to reveal Kairi who isn't in good shape. Riku gasps.
"Kairi!" exclaimed Riku.
Riku and Sora try to get to Kairi, but Captain Hook blocks them.
"Not so fast," said Captain Hook. "No shenanigans aboard my vessel, boys."
The duo is surrounded by Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, and the Heartless. Riku glares at Shade.
"You won't get away with this!" said Riku.
"Of course I will," said Shade. "The Heartless obey me just like they obeyed my father, Ansem."
"You're wrong," said Sora.
"Oh, really?" asks Shade. "Well, I've picked up a few new tricks. Like this, for instance."
Two Shadows that look like Sora and Riku appear in front of the duo causing the two of them to jump back. Shade grins.
"You two can go see your friends now," said Shade.
An invisible trap door opens, and the two are dropped into the hold. Shade looks back at Captain Hook.
"Let's get under way, already, and keep those two away from the girl until we're ready to land," said Shade.
Shade then left. Captain Hook grumbles about being ordered around by a boy and says that the Heartless down below can keep the team busy, but then Smee says something about that a "you-know-who" was also down below. Hook also starts thinking that he's hearing something and gets nervous.
A bit later, Sora and Riku tell Cloud and Squall about what happened. Cloud looks at the two of them.
"Are you sure it was Kairi?" asks Cloud.
"I'm posistive," said Riku.
"Well, let's go get her," said Leon.
"And get ourselves off of this pirate ship," said Sora.
While they were looking for a way off out of their predictament, they meet up with Peter Pan who is looking for his friend Wendy as well as his pixie friend, Tinker Bell. Tinker Bell had apparently found not only Wendy but Kairi too! Peter introduced himself and said that he would stay with the group until they found Wendy, and they all agreed and headed out of the room they were in only to be ambushed by some Pirate Heartless. The team fought them and continued onward. Peter also has Tinker Bell sprinkle fairy dust on the team allowing them to fly.
Meanwhile, Captain Hook discovers to his dismay that Wendy wasn't one of the "Chosen Ones" that Shade was looking for to open up the portal to the Heartless. They then discover that Riku and the others have escaped from the hold with the help of Peter Pan. Hook tells Smee to bring the hostage to his room.
Meanwhile, Tinker Bell has apparently found Wendy above Riku's group. Wendy was awake and told Peter that the pirates were coming, and Peter told Wendy to hold on. Riku asked if there was another girl in there with Wendy, and she said yes but that she wasn't moving, but when Riku called to her, her fingers moved slightly before she was dragged away. Wendy started to get worried. The team gets up to the room but doesn't find Kairi or Wendy. In the captain's room, Riku and Sora once again find Shade who has Kairi, but before they could even approach, the Shadows of Sora and Riku appeared allowing shade to escape once again. Then the team fought and defeated the two Shadows. They open the hatch to where Wendy was at and find Wendy's unconscious. Peter leaves the group to get wendy to safety. The team heads outside to find Captain Hook.
"Quite a codfish, that Shade - running off with that girl without even saying goodbye," Captain Hook said to Riku's group.
Riku glared at Captain Hook.
"Tell me where Shade took Kairi!" demanded a very ticked-off Riku.
"To the ruins of Hollow Bastion, where he resides," said Captain Hook, "but you won't be getting there."
It was then that Captain Hook brought out a lantern containing Tinker Bell. Sora and Riku gasped. They couldn't leave Tinker Bell, and Sora's Keyblade disappeared. He was then surrounded by the Heartless. Hook looked to Riku, the only one with a Keyblade.
"Hand over the Keyblade and I'll spare your lives. Be glad I'm merciful, unlike the Heartless. So, which will it be? The Keyblade, or the plank?" asked Hook.
Just then, everyone heard a ticking sound, and Captain Hook got scared for he knew what that sound meant. The Crocodile that had taken his other hand for which he now had a hook for had come back apparently for his other hand and the rest of him for that matter. Riku got ready to jump off of the plank into the the Croc's mouth, but then he heard a friendly voice.
"Fly, Riku! Just believe, and you can do it!" said Peter Pan.
Riku looked at the others.
"See you guys in a bit!" said Riku.
He jumped off of the plank. Sora, Cloud, and Squall were shocked.
"Riku!" said Sora.
He couldn't believe what Riku had done, but Riku wasn't gone. Just before Crocodile could grab Riku, he jumped into the air and started to fly. Sora cheered for his friend, and the other two smirked.
"Next time, Riku," said Squall, "warn us before you do some sort of crazy stunt like that."
Riku chuckled.
"Come on, you guys!" said Riku. "If I can do it, so can you!"
The other three nodded and jumped into the air. Peter dove down, grabbed the lantern that Captain Hook had dropped, and freed Tinker Bell. Riku looked at Peter Pan.
"Thanks, Peter," said Riku.
"Hey, don't mention it," said Peter. "You didn't think I'd leave you and Tink behind, did you?"
The others smiled as well. Smee ran off, and the group's Cura got upgraded to Curaga. The team using their new flying skills, fought Air Pirates and Battleships in the air and Pirates on the ground. Once the Heartless where defeated, Peter Pan knocked on the door Captain Hook ran into and decided to play a trick on the scared Hook. Putting his finger to his lips, Peter motioned for the others to be quiet even though it was hard to do. Just then, they all heard Captain Hook's scared voice.
"Is that you, Smee?" asked a frightened Captain Hook. "Did you finish them off?"
Peter does an exact copy of Mr. Smee's voice.
"Aye, Captain," said Peter. "They walked the plank, every last one of them."
Riku and Sora were having a hard time trying to keep from laughing. Captain Hook timidly comes out of his cabin and looks around. Peter sneaks around and stabs Hook in the rear with his dagger. Captain Hook whirls around and is furious.
"P-Peter Pa-blast you!" said Hook.
"Ready to make a splash, you codfish? Now it's your turn to walk the plank!" said Peter.
The team then fights Captain Hook. They discovered that if they got him close to the edge of the ship and knocked him off, Captain Hook would nearly get bitten in the rear before he jumped back on the ship. They also gave him a hot foot using their Fire magic. Soon, Captain Hook was thrown off of his ship and into the water to be chased by the Crocodile. He frantically started swimming away with the Crocodile right on his tail.
"Smee! Smee! Come help me!" yelled Hook.
The others laughed, and Riku and Sora couldn't believe they flew and couldn't wait to tell Kairi about it... once they found her, that is. The two were also worried for their friend. Could they have been too late and Kairi had lost her heart to the Heartless? Before the two could ponder this, Tinker Bell came to talk to Peter once again.
"What's that, Tink? What about the clock tower? You say there's something there?" asked Peter.
Sometime later, Riku's group flew to the clock tower to fix the clock face that wasn't at 12:00 midnight. When they did so, a Keyhole appeared, and Sora and Riku locked it. They also gained a Navi-G Piece. After that, Sora gained the ablity to summon Tinker Bell and got the Fairy's Harp Keychain, and they learned how to Glide to get to far off places that couldn't be reached with a normal jump. With the Navi-G Piece in hand, the team headed back to Besaid Island to see if Cid knew anything about the piece.
At Besaid Island, Cid installed the finished Navi-G Gummi into place on the Gummi Ship. Riku and Sora were getting worried for their friend, but Cloud and Squall told them that as long as they believed in themselves, they would find Kairi. Then they both heard Kairi's voice, and a bright light eveloped the two. They soon found themeselves in a dream world library where where a young Kairi and her grandmother are at. Sora and Riku look around.
"Where are we?" asked Sora.
"I don't know..." said Riku.
Kairi's grandmother told the young Kairi, as well as Riku and Sora, about the light and the darkness.
"Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light. Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it. They wanted to keep it for themselves, and darkness was born in their hearts. The darkness spread, swallowing the
light and many people's hearts. It covered everything, and the world disappeared, but small fragments of light survived...in the hearts of children. With these fragments of light, children rebuilt the lost world. It's the world we live in now. But the true light sleeps, deep within the darkness. That's why the worlds are still scattered, divided from each other. But someday, a door to the innermost darkness will open. And the true light will return. So, listen, child. Even in the deepest darkness, there will always be a light to guide you. Believe in the light, and the darkness will never defeat you. Your heart will shine with its power and push the darkness away. Do you understand, Kairi?" asks Kairi's grandmother.
The two Key bearers blinked and tried to get the young Kairi's attention, but it didn't work. The light faded, and Squall and Cloud looked at them.
"What's the matter, you two?" asked Cloud.
"It's nothing," said Riku. -Kairi, were you calling us?-
Cid returned and warned them about Hollow Bastion which was overflowing with Heartless once again. The others were startled at this, considering that Riku had sealed the Keyhole once before, but if they were going to stop Shade and save Kairi, they had to go back to Hollow Bastion. Thanking Cid, the team boards the Gummi Ship and heads to Hollow Bastion once again.
The team decided to get back on the Gummi Ship and look around some more. As they were heading to another world, they were ambushed by a large pirate Ship, the Jolly Roger. The team was captured, and Sora and Riku are separated from Cloud and Squall. As they look around for their friends, they hear a familiar voice.
"I didn't think you'd come," said the voice.
The two gasp and turn around. Shade smiles at them.
"Good to see you again," said Shade.
"Where's our friends?" demanded Sora.
"Are they that important to you?" asks Shade. "Instead of worrying about them, you should be asking...about your other friend."
He steps aside to reveal Kairi who isn't in good shape. Riku gasps.
"Kairi!" exclaimed Riku.
Riku and Sora try to get to Kairi, but Captain Hook blocks them.
"Not so fast," said Captain Hook. "No shenanigans aboard my vessel, boys."
The duo is surrounded by Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, and the Heartless. Riku glares at Shade.
"You won't get away with this!" said Riku.
"Of course I will," said Shade. "The Heartless obey me just like they obeyed my father, Ansem."
"You're wrong," said Sora.
"Oh, really?" asks Shade. "Well, I've picked up a few new tricks. Like this, for instance."
Two Shadows that look like Sora and Riku appear in front of the duo causing the two of them to jump back. Shade grins.
"You two can go see your friends now," said Shade.
An invisible trap door opens, and the two are dropped into the hold. Shade looks back at Captain Hook.
"Let's get under way, already, and keep those two away from the girl until we're ready to land," said Shade.
Shade then left. Captain Hook grumbles about being ordered around by a boy and says that the Heartless down below can keep the team busy, but then Smee says something about that a "you-know-who" was also down below. Hook also starts thinking that he's hearing something and gets nervous.
A bit later, Sora and Riku tell Cloud and Squall about what happened. Cloud looks at the two of them.
"Are you sure it was Kairi?" asks Cloud.
"I'm posistive," said Riku.
"Well, let's go get her," said Leon.
"And get ourselves off of this pirate ship," said Sora.
While they were looking for a way off out of their predictament, they meet up with Peter Pan who is looking for his friend Wendy as well as his pixie friend, Tinker Bell. Tinker Bell had apparently found not only Wendy but Kairi too! Peter introduced himself and said that he would stay with the group until they found Wendy, and they all agreed and headed out of the room they were in only to be ambushed by some Pirate Heartless. The team fought them and continued onward. Peter also has Tinker Bell sprinkle fairy dust on the team allowing them to fly.
Meanwhile, Captain Hook discovers to his dismay that Wendy wasn't one of the "Chosen Ones" that Shade was looking for to open up the portal to the Heartless. They then discover that Riku and the others have escaped from the hold with the help of Peter Pan. Hook tells Smee to bring the hostage to his room.
Meanwhile, Tinker Bell has apparently found Wendy above Riku's group. Wendy was awake and told Peter that the pirates were coming, and Peter told Wendy to hold on. Riku asked if there was another girl in there with Wendy, and she said yes but that she wasn't moving, but when Riku called to her, her fingers moved slightly before she was dragged away. Wendy started to get worried. The team gets up to the room but doesn't find Kairi or Wendy. In the captain's room, Riku and Sora once again find Shade who has Kairi, but before they could even approach, the Shadows of Sora and Riku appeared allowing shade to escape once again. Then the team fought and defeated the two Shadows. They open the hatch to where Wendy was at and find Wendy's unconscious. Peter leaves the group to get wendy to safety. The team heads outside to find Captain Hook.
"Quite a codfish, that Shade - running off with that girl without even saying goodbye," Captain Hook said to Riku's group.
Riku glared at Captain Hook.
"Tell me where Shade took Kairi!" demanded a very ticked-off Riku.
"To the ruins of Hollow Bastion, where he resides," said Captain Hook, "but you won't be getting there."
It was then that Captain Hook brought out a lantern containing Tinker Bell. Sora and Riku gasped. They couldn't leave Tinker Bell, and Sora's Keyblade disappeared. He was then surrounded by the Heartless. Hook looked to Riku, the only one with a Keyblade.
"Hand over the Keyblade and I'll spare your lives. Be glad I'm merciful, unlike the Heartless. So, which will it be? The Keyblade, or the plank?" asked Hook.
Just then, everyone heard a ticking sound, and Captain Hook got scared for he knew what that sound meant. The Crocodile that had taken his other hand for which he now had a hook for had come back apparently for his other hand and the rest of him for that matter. Riku got ready to jump off of the plank into the the Croc's mouth, but then he heard a friendly voice.
"Fly, Riku! Just believe, and you can do it!" said Peter Pan.
Riku looked at the others.
"See you guys in a bit!" said Riku.
He jumped off of the plank. Sora, Cloud, and Squall were shocked.
"Riku!" said Sora.
He couldn't believe what Riku had done, but Riku wasn't gone. Just before Crocodile could grab Riku, he jumped into the air and started to fly. Sora cheered for his friend, and the other two smirked.
"Next time, Riku," said Squall, "warn us before you do some sort of crazy stunt like that."
Riku chuckled.
"Come on, you guys!" said Riku. "If I can do it, so can you!"
The other three nodded and jumped into the air. Peter dove down, grabbed the lantern that Captain Hook had dropped, and freed Tinker Bell. Riku looked at Peter Pan.
"Thanks, Peter," said Riku.
"Hey, don't mention it," said Peter. "You didn't think I'd leave you and Tink behind, did you?"
The others smiled as well. Smee ran off, and the group's Cura got upgraded to Curaga. The team using their new flying skills, fought Air Pirates and Battleships in the air and Pirates on the ground. Once the Heartless where defeated, Peter Pan knocked on the door Captain Hook ran into and decided to play a trick on the scared Hook. Putting his finger to his lips, Peter motioned for the others to be quiet even though it was hard to do. Just then, they all heard Captain Hook's scared voice.
"Is that you, Smee?" asked a frightened Captain Hook. "Did you finish them off?"
Peter does an exact copy of Mr. Smee's voice.
"Aye, Captain," said Peter. "They walked the plank, every last one of them."
Riku and Sora were having a hard time trying to keep from laughing. Captain Hook timidly comes out of his cabin and looks around. Peter sneaks around and stabs Hook in the rear with his dagger. Captain Hook whirls around and is furious.
"P-Peter Pa-blast you!" said Hook.
"Ready to make a splash, you codfish? Now it's your turn to walk the plank!" said Peter.
The team then fights Captain Hook. They discovered that if they got him close to the edge of the ship and knocked him off, Captain Hook would nearly get bitten in the rear before he jumped back on the ship. They also gave him a hot foot using their Fire magic. Soon, Captain Hook was thrown off of his ship and into the water to be chased by the Crocodile. He frantically started swimming away with the Crocodile right on his tail.
"Smee! Smee! Come help me!" yelled Hook.
The others laughed, and Riku and Sora couldn't believe they flew and couldn't wait to tell Kairi about it... once they found her, that is. The two were also worried for their friend. Could they have been too late and Kairi had lost her heart to the Heartless? Before the two could ponder this, Tinker Bell came to talk to Peter once again.
"What's that, Tink? What about the clock tower? You say there's something there?" asked Peter.
Sometime later, Riku's group flew to the clock tower to fix the clock face that wasn't at 12:00 midnight. When they did so, a Keyhole appeared, and Sora and Riku locked it. They also gained a Navi-G Piece. After that, Sora gained the ablity to summon Tinker Bell and got the Fairy's Harp Keychain, and they learned how to Glide to get to far off places that couldn't be reached with a normal jump. With the Navi-G Piece in hand, the team headed back to Besaid Island to see if Cid knew anything about the piece.
At Besaid Island, Cid installed the finished Navi-G Gummi into place on the Gummi Ship. Riku and Sora were getting worried for their friend, but Cloud and Squall told them that as long as they believed in themselves, they would find Kairi. Then they both heard Kairi's voice, and a bright light eveloped the two. They soon found themeselves in a dream world library where where a young Kairi and her grandmother are at. Sora and Riku look around.
"Where are we?" asked Sora.
"I don't know..." said Riku.
Kairi's grandmother told the young Kairi, as well as Riku and Sora, about the light and the darkness.
"Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light. Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it. They wanted to keep it for themselves, and darkness was born in their hearts. The darkness spread, swallowing the
light and many people's hearts. It covered everything, and the world disappeared, but small fragments of light survived...in the hearts of children. With these fragments of light, children rebuilt the lost world. It's the world we live in now. But the true light sleeps, deep within the darkness. That's why the worlds are still scattered, divided from each other. But someday, a door to the innermost darkness will open. And the true light will return. So, listen, child. Even in the deepest darkness, there will always be a light to guide you. Believe in the light, and the darkness will never defeat you. Your heart will shine with its power and push the darkness away. Do you understand, Kairi?" asks Kairi's grandmother.
The two Key bearers blinked and tried to get the young Kairi's attention, but it didn't work. The light faded, and Squall and Cloud looked at them.
"What's the matter, you two?" asked Cloud.
"It's nothing," said Riku. -Kairi, were you calling us?-
Cid returned and warned them about Hollow Bastion which was overflowing with Heartless once again. The others were startled at this, considering that Riku had sealed the Keyhole once before, but if they were going to stop Shade and save Kairi, they had to go back to Hollow Bastion. Thanking Cid, the team boards the Gummi Ship and heads to Hollow Bastion once again.