The Darkness Within
Chapter 4: The Heartless attack
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"Where did you send Max? Maybe we can catch up to him." Sora asked standing next to Daisy and Queen Minnie in the Gummi ship garage. Daisy had, kindly, taken the liberty of making him an entirely new out fit, since his other one was so small and tattered.
They were the same style of clothes but instead of bright vibrant colors they were switched to black, gray, and navy. Just so he would still have some color Daisy used yellow and red to contrasted with the black. There were yellow belts around his waist and legs, and small red sacks by his pockets so he could carry more things. She also gave him new black gloves with snap on metal knuckles and some new yellow shoes, a bit smaller than his other ones. He still had on the crown chain necklace, not wanting to leave it out of his ensemble, since he liked it so much. He often found himself playing with it when he got bored.
"We sent him to a world called Skylight City, it's a big world." Daisy warned.
"We can handle it." Donald said with a smile, "But you could have just sent him to Traverse Town like you did with us last time. At least then we would know our way around."
"We did send him there, but he came back just last night saying it wasn't there."
"What?"
"When we found that out we sent him to the second closest world."
"Skylight City?" Sora asked, getting a head nod from the Queen.
"Traverse Town must have already been destroyed by the heartless." Donald frowned as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"It seems like the heartless are already getting to work." Sora said with a heavy sighed. There was a crash in the background and Donald's yelling was heard soon after.
"Can't you two do anything right?" Donald yelled, throwing a tantrum. Chip and Dale looked down at there little feet sheepishly. The gun was on the Gummi ship, that's for sure, but not where it was supposed to be. The gun they were putting on the Gummi ship had slipped out of the giant robot hand, that they used to equip large equipment to Gummi ships, and what a mess it made.
"Donald, don't worry about it. We can fix it." Goofy reassured as he tried to calm down the enraged duck.
"I hope you have another cockpit?" Donald asked, glaring at the two. Sora scratched the back of his head and looked at the broken glass that was scattered across the room.
"Maybe if we're extremely lucky we can catch up to him," Sora laughed nervously as he watched the robotic hand pull the gun out of the cockpit, breaking some more glass off of it.
"Oh dear," Queen Minnie sighed.
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Riku yawned as he slowly shuffled into Jetta's kitchen, loving how he felt after waking up from a long night's sleep. He missed being able to close his eyes and dream, actually being able to reenergize himself instead of an eerie darkness. Upon entering the kitchen a fragrance danced around his nose, it had been so long since he had last eaten.
"Good morning sleepy head," Neron said though a mouth full of food, "Jetta made breakfast but it might be cold by now." Riku turned his sleepy gaze to the counter to find a bowl of eggs, a plate of bacon and sausage, and another plate of toast.
"Where's Jetta?" Riku asked glancing back at Neron.
"She left around fifteen minutes ago, said she had to go to work... forgot where it was," Neron said as he continued to eat. Obviously the subject wasn't important enough to him, "You better grab you a plate Riku. I'm fixing to get thirds."
"Thirds?" Riku asked in amazement, "Where do you put it all?"
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Riku and Neron wandered around the town that, unlike last night, was full of people on the streets, but oddly enough it was still nighttime. The only difference was that the storm had past and the sky was full a sparkling stars that glimmered on the town below. Riku could now see why this city was called "Skylight City"; the view was quite breathtaking. The two boys just found it odd that so many people were out and about, as if it were daytime. Many of the people were shoppers and surprisingly a lot were sellers too. Both boys got stopped several times by people trying to sell something, and Riku turned down each person politely every time.
Both boys wore in the same clothes they had on last night, now dry and smelling fresh, except Riku had refused to put on that black cloak; not wanting to resemble an Unknown. He was in a skintight black tank top tucked into a pair of baggy back paints held at his waist by a belt with a silver buckle, along with several other belts. His pants were tucked into his black boots, pulled back out a little to give them a slight poof, that went about halfway up his lower leg. He had to admit he liked the boots, not only where they comfortable and easy to walk in, but they used several buckles for decoration, which Riku happened to like. Truthfully he found the whole outfit to dark and gloomy, but he didn't really mind much.
Neron was completely opposite from him with his close circling around the color green. His shirt was forest green with a trim of an off white/cream color. Over that he wore a jacket like shirt (much like Sora's) that was the same pasty off white color and just barely reached his hips. The seams of the arms where stitched over with an X-like pattern, and across his back as well. His pants started out in the same forest green color as his shirt, but a little ways before reaching the knees it was cut off. Continuing the pants was a light creamy green material, much looser from the skin, which was stitched onto the forest green part of the pants. He finished off his outfit with black sneakers tided with red laces. Why red, Riku would never know.
"Where are we going again?" Neron asked as he fallowed Riku through the crowd.
"A weapon shop, I know I saw one last night."
"Oh yeah, you don't have anything to fight with do you?" Neron remembered, "Myself I don't think you need anything, you're really good with your fists, besides, do you even have the munny?" Riku stopped causing Neron to slam into his back. Riku didn't budge, but Neron was thrown off his balance and onto the ground with a thump.
"Shit!" Riku cursed, "I forgot."
"You don't have any munny, do you?" Neron asked as he stood back up.
"Do you think if I help around the shop they'll give one to me?" Neron simply shrugged his shoulders.
"You can try."
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"Must not get many customers," Neron commented as they entered the empty weapon shop. Riku walked up to the counter and started to ring a little bell, but nobody came. Neron plopped down onto the couch, set out for loungers, as he glanced around the room. Never in his life had he seen so many weapons in just one place.
"Hello! Anyone here?" Riku yelled as he rang the bell again.
"I heard you the first time!" A female voice shouted as she walked in through a door behind the front desk carrying a large box. She sat it down on the counter making the contents rattle inside.
"I need a weapon."
"Well, you came to the..." She trailed off, as if thinking of something, then pushed the box to the side, "Riku?"
"Jetta?" Riku asked, not sure if it was really her or not. She had her red hair pulled back into a messy bun. Some strands that had strayed from her hair bow were dangling in her face, but she seemed like she didn't care. She wore a bright lime green shirt that looked a little old since the sleeves were a little tattered. The collar to the shirt was large and it slipped down her right shoulder, but underneath the shirt was another one. It seemed to be a black tank top. Riku noticed that she had at least three pockets on that one shirt. They where sewn on in odd places and were all different, non-matching, colors. The same went for he loose blue jean pants.
"Hey Riku!" Jetta said with a smile. Forcing Riku to advert his gaze from her clothes to her face.
"So this is where you said you worked," Neron mumbled to himself.
"You mean you forgot?" Jetta asked, slightly annoyed. Neron smiled as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
"Jetta, I have a problem," Riku said.
"What's wrong?"
"I need a weapon, but I don't have any munny," Riku said, "If you want I can work for-"
"That's okay Riku," Jetta smiled, "You don't have to work, just go ahead at take one. Once you get the munny you can pay me back later."
"Okay..."
"So what do you want? I've got swords, axes, daggers, and these really cool-"
"I'll take a sword," Riku said as he cut her off.
"All the swords are on the wall behind you," Jetta said as she pointed to the wall, "Pick whichever one you like the best." Riku was looking through the swords when a lady's scream was heard from out side, stopping him rather quickly. Jetta hopped over the counter and ran out of the store, fallowed by a worried Neron. Riku grabbed the first sword he could get his hands on, felling that he might need it, and ran out as well.
"Where is every one?" Riku asked finding the once crowded market area completely empty.
"I don't like the looks of this," Jetta said as she glanced all around her as if she was being watched.
"Jetta! Look out!" Riku shouted as he started to run towards Jetta, but he didn't get to her in time. A fireball, shot out of an alleyway, knocking Jetta flat on her back. Riku stopped and looked over at the new type of heartless that had come out of the alleyway.
This heartless had on what seemed like a red dress with the heartless symbol on it. Its torso seemed to float in the air since it's feet and claws weren't attached to it. The black claws floated near its torso with a fireball ready to shoot off at anything that moved. Behind it were several more with fireballs ready to shoot off as well. More heartless began to come out of the other alleyways and soon the three of them were trapped.
"Jetta are you okay?" Neron asked as he ran over to her.
"I'm fine," Jetta said sitting up holding her head at the place where it collided with the ground, "What kind of heartless is that?"
"It's a red nocturne," Riku answered standing in the path of it so it couldn't get to the others, but that didn't stop the other heartless around them from attacking. Riku glared at the nocturne and noticed it had changed over the year, almost like it evolved into a bigger better version of itself.
"Let me take care of it," Neron said as his two Keyblades appeared and he ran past Riku. He was doing well at destroying the heartless until a fireball struck him down. The Nocturne's red eyes looked from Neron to Riku before it charged forward with both claws lit of fire. Riku crouched down into a fighting stance and held his sheathed sword at his side but Jetta went running in front of him, getting in his line of attack.
"What are you doing?" Riku asked as he watched Jetta knock both claws out of the way without seeming to care that her forearms just grazed across burning hot flames. She then formed her hand into what resembled a gun and pointed her index finger at its head. The red nocturne disappeared in a puff of red smoke after a small ball of fire shot out of her finger tip and through the heartless's head. Several more shots escaped from her fingers, destroying the rest of the heartless with precise aim.
Riku straitened up as he looked on with amazement. She had defeated more than half of the creatures by just pointing her finger at them. Riku was a little disappointed that he didn't get to fight as he held the sword at his side, still sheathed. Neron turned his gaze to the girl with his mouth slightly agape in shock, or amazement, Riku couldn't tell which one it was.
"Why didn't you do that last night when your life was on the line?" Neron practically yelled.
"Fire doesn't work in the rain Neron," Jetta spat. Neron simply glared at her before he turned his gaze to Riku.
"Do you think that's what everyone ran from?" Neron asked.
"I'd say so," Riku said.
"I'd say so too since we're talking about normal people here. Anything that shoots fire balls and tries to kill you is considered scary," Jetta spat. Neron was about to smart off to her but the ground began to shake, throwing Jetta off her balance right away.
"What's happening?" Neron asked as he tried to keep his balance. The buildings surrounding them began to shake and rattle and soon bits and pieces began to fall off of them. The rumbling began to get out of control making the ground look like a disturbed waterbed throwing Riku and Neron on their backs instantly.
"This is crazy!" Jetta shouted as the ground started to crack in random places. A moment later the earth stopped shaking and the three were left stunned and confused. Debris and rubble blocked all of the exits out of the marketplace leaving the three trapped, unless they wanted to take the time to climb over the rubble.
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A teenaged boy that resembled Goofy sat on the roof of a building slightly surprised. He slowly stood and dusted off his baggy blue jeae pants along with his arms. He wore a red shirt with a long sleeve white shirt underneath and in his right hand he carried a red, slightly crooked metal wand with a clear crystal ball on the end. All he was doing was trying to get to the roof on the old hotel to look down at what the racket was from above, since he didn't want to get involved, but as soon as he got there this had to happen.
"I knew leaving the castle was a bad idea, but did Queen Minnie or Daisy listen to me? Of course not! Why would they listen to me when all they're going by is a disappearing star," The boy complained as he ran his fingers through his wild untamed shaggy hair. He was going to continue more on his ranting but a puddle of dark ooze formed just a few feet in front of him. Out of it climbed around five or so heatless just ready to take his heart away.
"Don't you things give up?" He asked, even though he knew he wouldn't get an answer from them. The heartless didn't seem threatened as they advance on him, more showing up behind them.
"I wouldn't come any closer if I were you," the boy stated as the heartless backed him up to the edge of the building. When the heartless continued to advance on him he hesitated and fumbled with his red wand before he held it out in front of him with both hands. He closed his eyes and looked away, getting ready to strike the heartless with a spell.
"Fire!" He shouted out, but instead of a fireball shooting off at the heatless it shot out at him, knocking him off of the building.
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"Anybody care to explain what happened?" Jetta asked as she looked around at the destruction, still sitting on the ground.
"And earthquake is all I can think-" Neron stopped his analogy after hearing a shout from above. All three looked up to find a boy falling from, luckily, a short building. At the end of his plummet he smashed through a canopy and landed in a fruit stand, breaking the stand and flattening any fruit he had landed on. Jetta could only gasp as she stared in shock at what had just happened.
"Are you okay?" Riku asked as he walked up to the mess and watched as this strange boy cursed at himself as he pulled an orange off of his shirt.
"Never close your eyes during an attack. I've been told that over and over and look at what I just did," The boy muttered as he pulled himself out of the mess he had created, "I'm so stupid."
"...You okay?" Riku asked again.
"...Yeah, I'm fine," He finally answered with a heavy sigh.
"That was one nasty fall," Neron commented.
"Your telling me," The teen said as he pulled several stuck grapes from off his hind end before he let out another sigh, "I guess this is what happens when I don't pay attention during a magic lesson. I knew I should have listened to that crazy duck." Riku continued to stare at the strange teenaged boy, finding something oddly familiar about him, yet he had never seen him in his life.
"What happened to you?" Riku finally asked.
"Oh... I was fighting off those crazy creatures, and well..." He trailed off and blushed slightly as he looked down at his feet, "I... um... kinda... held my wand the wrong way. Shot a magic attack at myself."
"Are you like some kind of wizard?" Jetta asked.
"I wouldn't really call me that."
"Can't argue there," Neron spat with a smile.
"Be nice to the stranger!" Jetta shouted as she glared at him.
"It's okay," the guy said with a slight chuckle, "He's right after all."
"So what's your name Mr. Wizard in training?" Jetta asked.
"Max, and you are?"
"Jetta!" She said as she shook Max's hand with a warm smile. Just when they were thinking all of the commotion had ended the ground began to rumble again, but this time it was far worse. Every one fell to the ground as the earth began to split in several places and buildings started to crumble once again. A large crack formed in the ground and began to spit apart and as it got larger two claws rose out of the gash in the ground and began to separate it much faster.
Once the split in the ground was wide enough an enormous creature climbed it's way out of the earth with a fierce glow in its eyes. Its yellow eyes, illuminated from its metal helmet like lanterns in the darkest of nights, scanning the area, looking on at the destruction it had caused. The gigantic creature's left arm was covered in a silvery metal leaving none of its black skin showing, unlike the other arm which was completely bare. Its chest armor covered over the right side of its chest and seemed to dip down from its collarbone to the left side of it's waist, leaving half of it's chest bare. Its legs were the same way but with the right side covered in metal instead of the left. Every one knew it was a heartless because it bore the symbol on its chest armor and helmet.
"You guys okay?" Riku yelled. The rip in the earth had separated the four, along with the marketplace, leaving Riku and Max on one side and Neron and Jetta on the other.
"I'm fine... I think," Jetta moaned as she held the back of her head. Once again her head had come in contact with the ground giving her one bad headache, "I don't think my head can take much more of this."
"You'll be okay. I'm sure there's nothing to hurt in there anyway," Neron commented.
"Ass!" Jetta yelled as she smacked him upside the head. Neron was about to yell at her but the heartless's fist slammed into the ground just a few inches in front of them. The shock wave sent them skidding backwards several feet, but they were okay. A crater in the ground was left from the impact it made, and they all knew this heartless was only giving them just a little taste of what it had to offer for them. With a hole that size, nobody wanted to be on the receiving end, that's for sure.
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Disclaimer (Cause I forgot to last chapter): I don't own Daisy, Queen Minnie, Donald, Goofy, or Max. All of those characters belong to Disney. ^-^ Glade I got that over with.
Author: I'm sure by now everyone has seen Sora's new dudes. I first saw him on a show called x-play during a trailer for the next game, same goes for Neron. If anybody hasn't seen his clothes, which I doubt that, or wants to find a pic of him I suggest going to my fav KH site of all time, also the one that talks about the "Chain of Memories"-
Sora: www. kingdomhearts2.net *Demon smiles at Sora*
Riku: I can't believe you let her use you like that.
Sora: Well, you didn't want to.
Author: That website has a lot of neat stuff too, like a Manga! You need to see that if you go. It's funny! *Grins* Anyway, I thank every single one of you wonderful reviewers for the reviews. It made me so happy that I wrote you guys little notes, cool huh?
Inuyasha's apprentice's note: Thank you very much for the reviews, and don't worry about criticizing me. *Grins* I need all the criticizing I can get. That way I'll get better at my spelling. If you don't mind, could you tell me if I improve over the chapters, I'd like to know if I'm doing better or worse. ^-^ It'd help a lot. Thanks for the reviews and I love your stories!
Riku: *Snorts* You get better at spelling. *Chuckles* That's a good one. *Gets hit by a pillow and Sora laughs*
Mizutaka's note: Your correcting my spelling too. This is great! Like I told Inuyasha's apprentice, I need all the criticizing I can get. ^-^ I'll have to go back and correct the things you two have pointed out to me. Anyway, thanks for reviewing me again. You're so nice. I didn't really like the movies with Max either; it was kinda a spur of the moment thing to add him in. *Grins*
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Riku: Your going to regret saying that. *Glares*
Author: We'll see. *Grins as she starts to click the magical writer's pen* So what can I do to you next? *Ponders*
Sora: Pretty pen. Can I click it?
Author: Sure thing. *Gives Sora the pen* Anyway, now that that's over with you can feel free to review me you wonderful people. ^-^
Sora: *Continuously clicking the pen with a big grin on his face*
Riku: *Eye twitching* That's REALLY annoying Sora.
Author: Hope to see you people next chapter! Have a great day! ^-^
Chapter 4: The Heartless attack
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"Where did you send Max? Maybe we can catch up to him." Sora asked standing next to Daisy and Queen Minnie in the Gummi ship garage. Daisy had, kindly, taken the liberty of making him an entirely new out fit, since his other one was so small and tattered.
They were the same style of clothes but instead of bright vibrant colors they were switched to black, gray, and navy. Just so he would still have some color Daisy used yellow and red to contrasted with the black. There were yellow belts around his waist and legs, and small red sacks by his pockets so he could carry more things. She also gave him new black gloves with snap on metal knuckles and some new yellow shoes, a bit smaller than his other ones. He still had on the crown chain necklace, not wanting to leave it out of his ensemble, since he liked it so much. He often found himself playing with it when he got bored.
"We sent him to a world called Skylight City, it's a big world." Daisy warned.
"We can handle it." Donald said with a smile, "But you could have just sent him to Traverse Town like you did with us last time. At least then we would know our way around."
"We did send him there, but he came back just last night saying it wasn't there."
"What?"
"When we found that out we sent him to the second closest world."
"Skylight City?" Sora asked, getting a head nod from the Queen.
"Traverse Town must have already been destroyed by the heartless." Donald frowned as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"It seems like the heartless are already getting to work." Sora said with a heavy sighed. There was a crash in the background and Donald's yelling was heard soon after.
"Can't you two do anything right?" Donald yelled, throwing a tantrum. Chip and Dale looked down at there little feet sheepishly. The gun was on the Gummi ship, that's for sure, but not where it was supposed to be. The gun they were putting on the Gummi ship had slipped out of the giant robot hand, that they used to equip large equipment to Gummi ships, and what a mess it made.
"Donald, don't worry about it. We can fix it." Goofy reassured as he tried to calm down the enraged duck.
"I hope you have another cockpit?" Donald asked, glaring at the two. Sora scratched the back of his head and looked at the broken glass that was scattered across the room.
"Maybe if we're extremely lucky we can catch up to him," Sora laughed nervously as he watched the robotic hand pull the gun out of the cockpit, breaking some more glass off of it.
"Oh dear," Queen Minnie sighed.
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Riku yawned as he slowly shuffled into Jetta's kitchen, loving how he felt after waking up from a long night's sleep. He missed being able to close his eyes and dream, actually being able to reenergize himself instead of an eerie darkness. Upon entering the kitchen a fragrance danced around his nose, it had been so long since he had last eaten.
"Good morning sleepy head," Neron said though a mouth full of food, "Jetta made breakfast but it might be cold by now." Riku turned his sleepy gaze to the counter to find a bowl of eggs, a plate of bacon and sausage, and another plate of toast.
"Where's Jetta?" Riku asked glancing back at Neron.
"She left around fifteen minutes ago, said she had to go to work... forgot where it was," Neron said as he continued to eat. Obviously the subject wasn't important enough to him, "You better grab you a plate Riku. I'm fixing to get thirds."
"Thirds?" Riku asked in amazement, "Where do you put it all?"
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Riku and Neron wandered around the town that, unlike last night, was full of people on the streets, but oddly enough it was still nighttime. The only difference was that the storm had past and the sky was full a sparkling stars that glimmered on the town below. Riku could now see why this city was called "Skylight City"; the view was quite breathtaking. The two boys just found it odd that so many people were out and about, as if it were daytime. Many of the people were shoppers and surprisingly a lot were sellers too. Both boys got stopped several times by people trying to sell something, and Riku turned down each person politely every time.
Both boys wore in the same clothes they had on last night, now dry and smelling fresh, except Riku had refused to put on that black cloak; not wanting to resemble an Unknown. He was in a skintight black tank top tucked into a pair of baggy back paints held at his waist by a belt with a silver buckle, along with several other belts. His pants were tucked into his black boots, pulled back out a little to give them a slight poof, that went about halfway up his lower leg. He had to admit he liked the boots, not only where they comfortable and easy to walk in, but they used several buckles for decoration, which Riku happened to like. Truthfully he found the whole outfit to dark and gloomy, but he didn't really mind much.
Neron was completely opposite from him with his close circling around the color green. His shirt was forest green with a trim of an off white/cream color. Over that he wore a jacket like shirt (much like Sora's) that was the same pasty off white color and just barely reached his hips. The seams of the arms where stitched over with an X-like pattern, and across his back as well. His pants started out in the same forest green color as his shirt, but a little ways before reaching the knees it was cut off. Continuing the pants was a light creamy green material, much looser from the skin, which was stitched onto the forest green part of the pants. He finished off his outfit with black sneakers tided with red laces. Why red, Riku would never know.
"Where are we going again?" Neron asked as he fallowed Riku through the crowd.
"A weapon shop, I know I saw one last night."
"Oh yeah, you don't have anything to fight with do you?" Neron remembered, "Myself I don't think you need anything, you're really good with your fists, besides, do you even have the munny?" Riku stopped causing Neron to slam into his back. Riku didn't budge, but Neron was thrown off his balance and onto the ground with a thump.
"Shit!" Riku cursed, "I forgot."
"You don't have any munny, do you?" Neron asked as he stood back up.
"Do you think if I help around the shop they'll give one to me?" Neron simply shrugged his shoulders.
"You can try."
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"Must not get many customers," Neron commented as they entered the empty weapon shop. Riku walked up to the counter and started to ring a little bell, but nobody came. Neron plopped down onto the couch, set out for loungers, as he glanced around the room. Never in his life had he seen so many weapons in just one place.
"Hello! Anyone here?" Riku yelled as he rang the bell again.
"I heard you the first time!" A female voice shouted as she walked in through a door behind the front desk carrying a large box. She sat it down on the counter making the contents rattle inside.
"I need a weapon."
"Well, you came to the..." She trailed off, as if thinking of something, then pushed the box to the side, "Riku?"
"Jetta?" Riku asked, not sure if it was really her or not. She had her red hair pulled back into a messy bun. Some strands that had strayed from her hair bow were dangling in her face, but she seemed like she didn't care. She wore a bright lime green shirt that looked a little old since the sleeves were a little tattered. The collar to the shirt was large and it slipped down her right shoulder, but underneath the shirt was another one. It seemed to be a black tank top. Riku noticed that she had at least three pockets on that one shirt. They where sewn on in odd places and were all different, non-matching, colors. The same went for he loose blue jean pants.
"Hey Riku!" Jetta said with a smile. Forcing Riku to advert his gaze from her clothes to her face.
"So this is where you said you worked," Neron mumbled to himself.
"You mean you forgot?" Jetta asked, slightly annoyed. Neron smiled as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
"Jetta, I have a problem," Riku said.
"What's wrong?"
"I need a weapon, but I don't have any munny," Riku said, "If you want I can work for-"
"That's okay Riku," Jetta smiled, "You don't have to work, just go ahead at take one. Once you get the munny you can pay me back later."
"Okay..."
"So what do you want? I've got swords, axes, daggers, and these really cool-"
"I'll take a sword," Riku said as he cut her off.
"All the swords are on the wall behind you," Jetta said as she pointed to the wall, "Pick whichever one you like the best." Riku was looking through the swords when a lady's scream was heard from out side, stopping him rather quickly. Jetta hopped over the counter and ran out of the store, fallowed by a worried Neron. Riku grabbed the first sword he could get his hands on, felling that he might need it, and ran out as well.
"Where is every one?" Riku asked finding the once crowded market area completely empty.
"I don't like the looks of this," Jetta said as she glanced all around her as if she was being watched.
"Jetta! Look out!" Riku shouted as he started to run towards Jetta, but he didn't get to her in time. A fireball, shot out of an alleyway, knocking Jetta flat on her back. Riku stopped and looked over at the new type of heartless that had come out of the alleyway.
This heartless had on what seemed like a red dress with the heartless symbol on it. Its torso seemed to float in the air since it's feet and claws weren't attached to it. The black claws floated near its torso with a fireball ready to shoot off at anything that moved. Behind it were several more with fireballs ready to shoot off as well. More heartless began to come out of the other alleyways and soon the three of them were trapped.
"Jetta are you okay?" Neron asked as he ran over to her.
"I'm fine," Jetta said sitting up holding her head at the place where it collided with the ground, "What kind of heartless is that?"
"It's a red nocturne," Riku answered standing in the path of it so it couldn't get to the others, but that didn't stop the other heartless around them from attacking. Riku glared at the nocturne and noticed it had changed over the year, almost like it evolved into a bigger better version of itself.
"Let me take care of it," Neron said as his two Keyblades appeared and he ran past Riku. He was doing well at destroying the heartless until a fireball struck him down. The Nocturne's red eyes looked from Neron to Riku before it charged forward with both claws lit of fire. Riku crouched down into a fighting stance and held his sheathed sword at his side but Jetta went running in front of him, getting in his line of attack.
"What are you doing?" Riku asked as he watched Jetta knock both claws out of the way without seeming to care that her forearms just grazed across burning hot flames. She then formed her hand into what resembled a gun and pointed her index finger at its head. The red nocturne disappeared in a puff of red smoke after a small ball of fire shot out of her finger tip and through the heartless's head. Several more shots escaped from her fingers, destroying the rest of the heartless with precise aim.
Riku straitened up as he looked on with amazement. She had defeated more than half of the creatures by just pointing her finger at them. Riku was a little disappointed that he didn't get to fight as he held the sword at his side, still sheathed. Neron turned his gaze to the girl with his mouth slightly agape in shock, or amazement, Riku couldn't tell which one it was.
"Why didn't you do that last night when your life was on the line?" Neron practically yelled.
"Fire doesn't work in the rain Neron," Jetta spat. Neron simply glared at her before he turned his gaze to Riku.
"Do you think that's what everyone ran from?" Neron asked.
"I'd say so," Riku said.
"I'd say so too since we're talking about normal people here. Anything that shoots fire balls and tries to kill you is considered scary," Jetta spat. Neron was about to smart off to her but the ground began to shake, throwing Jetta off her balance right away.
"What's happening?" Neron asked as he tried to keep his balance. The buildings surrounding them began to shake and rattle and soon bits and pieces began to fall off of them. The rumbling began to get out of control making the ground look like a disturbed waterbed throwing Riku and Neron on their backs instantly.
"This is crazy!" Jetta shouted as the ground started to crack in random places. A moment later the earth stopped shaking and the three were left stunned and confused. Debris and rubble blocked all of the exits out of the marketplace leaving the three trapped, unless they wanted to take the time to climb over the rubble.
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A teenaged boy that resembled Goofy sat on the roof of a building slightly surprised. He slowly stood and dusted off his baggy blue jeae pants along with his arms. He wore a red shirt with a long sleeve white shirt underneath and in his right hand he carried a red, slightly crooked metal wand with a clear crystal ball on the end. All he was doing was trying to get to the roof on the old hotel to look down at what the racket was from above, since he didn't want to get involved, but as soon as he got there this had to happen.
"I knew leaving the castle was a bad idea, but did Queen Minnie or Daisy listen to me? Of course not! Why would they listen to me when all they're going by is a disappearing star," The boy complained as he ran his fingers through his wild untamed shaggy hair. He was going to continue more on his ranting but a puddle of dark ooze formed just a few feet in front of him. Out of it climbed around five or so heatless just ready to take his heart away.
"Don't you things give up?" He asked, even though he knew he wouldn't get an answer from them. The heartless didn't seem threatened as they advance on him, more showing up behind them.
"I wouldn't come any closer if I were you," the boy stated as the heartless backed him up to the edge of the building. When the heartless continued to advance on him he hesitated and fumbled with his red wand before he held it out in front of him with both hands. He closed his eyes and looked away, getting ready to strike the heartless with a spell.
"Fire!" He shouted out, but instead of a fireball shooting off at the heatless it shot out at him, knocking him off of the building.
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"Anybody care to explain what happened?" Jetta asked as she looked around at the destruction, still sitting on the ground.
"And earthquake is all I can think-" Neron stopped his analogy after hearing a shout from above. All three looked up to find a boy falling from, luckily, a short building. At the end of his plummet he smashed through a canopy and landed in a fruit stand, breaking the stand and flattening any fruit he had landed on. Jetta could only gasp as she stared in shock at what had just happened.
"Are you okay?" Riku asked as he walked up to the mess and watched as this strange boy cursed at himself as he pulled an orange off of his shirt.
"Never close your eyes during an attack. I've been told that over and over and look at what I just did," The boy muttered as he pulled himself out of the mess he had created, "I'm so stupid."
"...You okay?" Riku asked again.
"...Yeah, I'm fine," He finally answered with a heavy sigh.
"That was one nasty fall," Neron commented.
"Your telling me," The teen said as he pulled several stuck grapes from off his hind end before he let out another sigh, "I guess this is what happens when I don't pay attention during a magic lesson. I knew I should have listened to that crazy duck." Riku continued to stare at the strange teenaged boy, finding something oddly familiar about him, yet he had never seen him in his life.
"What happened to you?" Riku finally asked.
"Oh... I was fighting off those crazy creatures, and well..." He trailed off and blushed slightly as he looked down at his feet, "I... um... kinda... held my wand the wrong way. Shot a magic attack at myself."
"Are you like some kind of wizard?" Jetta asked.
"I wouldn't really call me that."
"Can't argue there," Neron spat with a smile.
"Be nice to the stranger!" Jetta shouted as she glared at him.
"It's okay," the guy said with a slight chuckle, "He's right after all."
"So what's your name Mr. Wizard in training?" Jetta asked.
"Max, and you are?"
"Jetta!" She said as she shook Max's hand with a warm smile. Just when they were thinking all of the commotion had ended the ground began to rumble again, but this time it was far worse. Every one fell to the ground as the earth began to split in several places and buildings started to crumble once again. A large crack formed in the ground and began to spit apart and as it got larger two claws rose out of the gash in the ground and began to separate it much faster.
Once the split in the ground was wide enough an enormous creature climbed it's way out of the earth with a fierce glow in its eyes. Its yellow eyes, illuminated from its metal helmet like lanterns in the darkest of nights, scanning the area, looking on at the destruction it had caused. The gigantic creature's left arm was covered in a silvery metal leaving none of its black skin showing, unlike the other arm which was completely bare. Its chest armor covered over the right side of its chest and seemed to dip down from its collarbone to the left side of it's waist, leaving half of it's chest bare. Its legs were the same way but with the right side covered in metal instead of the left. Every one knew it was a heartless because it bore the symbol on its chest armor and helmet.
"You guys okay?" Riku yelled. The rip in the earth had separated the four, along with the marketplace, leaving Riku and Max on one side and Neron and Jetta on the other.
"I'm fine... I think," Jetta moaned as she held the back of her head. Once again her head had come in contact with the ground giving her one bad headache, "I don't think my head can take much more of this."
"You'll be okay. I'm sure there's nothing to hurt in there anyway," Neron commented.
"Ass!" Jetta yelled as she smacked him upside the head. Neron was about to yell at her but the heartless's fist slammed into the ground just a few inches in front of them. The shock wave sent them skidding backwards several feet, but they were okay. A crater in the ground was left from the impact it made, and they all knew this heartless was only giving them just a little taste of what it had to offer for them. With a hole that size, nobody wanted to be on the receiving end, that's for sure.
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Disclaimer (Cause I forgot to last chapter): I don't own Daisy, Queen Minnie, Donald, Goofy, or Max. All of those characters belong to Disney. ^-^ Glade I got that over with.
Author: I'm sure by now everyone has seen Sora's new dudes. I first saw him on a show called x-play during a trailer for the next game, same goes for Neron. If anybody hasn't seen his clothes, which I doubt that, or wants to find a pic of him I suggest going to my fav KH site of all time, also the one that talks about the "Chain of Memories"-
Sora: www. kingdomhearts2.net *Demon smiles at Sora*
Riku: I can't believe you let her use you like that.
Sora: Well, you didn't want to.
Author: That website has a lot of neat stuff too, like a Manga! You need to see that if you go. It's funny! *Grins* Anyway, I thank every single one of you wonderful reviewers for the reviews. It made me so happy that I wrote you guys little notes, cool huh?
Inuyasha's apprentice's note: Thank you very much for the reviews, and don't worry about criticizing me. *Grins* I need all the criticizing I can get. That way I'll get better at my spelling. If you don't mind, could you tell me if I improve over the chapters, I'd like to know if I'm doing better or worse. ^-^ It'd help a lot. Thanks for the reviews and I love your stories!
Riku: *Snorts* You get better at spelling. *Chuckles* That's a good one. *Gets hit by a pillow and Sora laughs*
Mizutaka's note: Your correcting my spelling too. This is great! Like I told Inuyasha's apprentice, I need all the criticizing I can get. ^-^ I'll have to go back and correct the things you two have pointed out to me. Anyway, thanks for reviewing me again. You're so nice. I didn't really like the movies with Max either; it was kinda a spur of the moment thing to add him in. *Grins*
animefreak321654's note: You reviewed again as well. Yippee! I feel so loved. Thanks for the reviews! It sucks that your computer crashed. I would have liked to read your story. I love reading other people's stories. ^-^ Thanks again!
Rurouni Saiyan's note: Hello new reviewer. I'm super glad you took time out of you life to stop by and check out my story. *Grins* I feel even more loved now. I'm also glade you liked it. Scratch that, I'm really glad you liked it. ^-^ And yes, I agree, it is fun to torture Riku.
Riku: Your going to regret saying that. *Glares*
Author: We'll see. *Grins as she starts to click the magical writer's pen* So what can I do to you next? *Ponders*
Sora: Pretty pen. Can I click it?
Author: Sure thing. *Gives Sora the pen* Anyway, now that that's over with you can feel free to review me you wonderful people. ^-^
Sora: *Continuously clicking the pen with a big grin on his face*
Riku: *Eye twitching* That's REALLY annoying Sora.
Author: Hope to see you people next chapter! Have a great day! ^-^