Akurei-Shinzo: Hello! Notice the plot thickens? I hope you are enjoying this fic! It's getting pretty dark. I don't own Kingdom Hearts or a few of the anime I put in here. Please R&R!
Chapter 16: The Mystery Deepens…
"Maybe there's someone in the weapons shop that can help us with the book!" said Zeero leading them into the back of the weapon's shop with the two doors. (You didn't think I'd forget about them did you? Or did you guys already forget?) "Let's open this one!"
As soon as Zeero opened the door a cloud of steam filled the hallway. They heard tons of squeaking and after the smoke screen cleared they saw a bunch of black fuzz balls hopping up and down before them.
"Yipe!" screamed Zeero. "Save me!"
"Zeero," said Riku. "They're only an inch tall…"
"But they're staring at me…"muttered Zeero still cowering behind Yami.
"You soot balls get back to work!" yelled a voice. The guys looked inside and saw.
"It's spider-man!" screeched Zeero. "Literally…"
"Who're you calling spider man?" asked an old man with six arms. He crawled over to them with his long arms and looked at them with his beady eyes. "You're the Keyblade Master aren't you?"
"Yes," answered Riku.
"My name is Kamaji, if you ever want anything synthesized you're welcome to come here. If you bring me the right items I can create a powerful weapon for you."
"Thanks."
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"Let's open this door!" said Zeero.
"Knowing you it'll be some sort of monster ready to devour us," said Yami. Zeero didn't listen and opened the door.
"Ack!" screamed Zeero leaping behind Riku. An old woman with an extremely big nose was sitting in from of a fire with an incredibly large baby! (Hard delivery is all I can say)
"Who are you?" demanded the old woman.
"I'm Riku," stuttered Riku after a few minutes.
"So," said the woman. "You're the Keybearer everyone's talking about. Well come on in, what can I do to help? My name is Yubaba."
"Can you fix this?" asked Riku handing her the book. Yubaba took a look as it, waved her hand over it and the book's seal was broken.
"There you go," said Yubaba. "It's a really interesting book, you should read it. But some of its pages are missing, they're probably scattered among the worlds."
"Thank you."
"Lin, come here," called Yubaba. A young woman with long brown hair came out.
"What is it?" she snapped.
"Bring him the item," said Yubaba. Lin took a good look at Riku, Yami, and Zeero (who was still cowering behind Riku) and went into the back room. She came back a few seconds later with a bright gem that glowed a bright amber light.
"Here you go," said Lin. "Take good care of him."
"Him?" asked Yami.
"His name is Haku, Kohaku to be exact," explained Yubaba. "His heart was nearly devoured when he tried to save this young girl named Chihiro."
"I see…" said Riku.
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"Let's see what's in this book!" said Zeero. When he opened it a blinding red flash filled the room and then darkness fell…
"Uh…Where are we?" asked Riku as he woke up. Yami and Zeero were on the ground beside him and appeared to be fine.
"Are you alright?" asked a voice. A young woman wearing a red priestess outfit stood over them with worry in her eyes.
"Yeah, I think…" said Riku.
"My name is Miaka," said the girl. "Have you seen them?"
"Who?"
"Oh, you aren't from around here, they're my friends but they disappeared right before we were about to summon Suzaku. I hope they're alright…"
"I see…"
"I wonder if I'll disappear as well, but if I do who will help Yui?"
Riku watched Miaka walk into a building and turned to Zeero and Yami, who were now getting up.
"I guess this world needs help too," said Yami.
"But you heard Yubaba," said Zeero. "Some of this book's pages are missing, so I say we find them!"
A blinding red flash of light appeared again and the three found themselves once again in Yubaba's room.
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"I'll meet up with you guys later," said Zeero as he rushed off. The group had decided to get some supplies before heading off again.
Zeero rushed down an alleyway, sniffing the ground as if he was looking for something or someone.
"Are you still being a lapdog to that half-breed?" asked a bored voice. Zeero looked up and there were the two fox demons Zen and Sin. Both demons leapt down from the building and landed besides Zeero.
"Why are you still following that half-breed's orders?" asked Sin.
"Because they need our help!" said Zeero.
"It wouldn't effect us if the Heartless won," said Zen. "After all our world is…"
"Quiet!" panicked Zeero looking around.
"The only reason me and Sin are keeping Sonraku's secret quiet is because if they now the truth about Shin City we won't be able to beat up the Heartless!"
"I must admit they are pretty good fighters," said Sin.
"But, but," stammered Zeero.
"Look stupid," said Zen. "We don't care what happens, if it doesn't effect us then why bother worrying about it?"
Zeero frowned at the two demons, no wonder they were upgraded to devil-class when they gained eight tails. They are like devils! (In Youkai Shinzo a fox-demon's pride is his tail. 3 tails = normal; 5 tail = very-powerful; 8 tails = devil. So basically the more tails you have the more powerful you are.)
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Riku wondered around the streets of Shin City looking hopelessly lost, he was reflecting back on what he had thought about Sora a year ago. When he thought Sora had abandoned him and Kairi for Donald and Goofy, now what was he doing? Replacing Sora and Kairi with Yami and Zeero? What if he hadn't gone with the darkness? What if he given the situation a little more thought? What if…
"So… you're the Keyblade Master everyone's talking about," said a voice from above. Riku looked up and saw a fifteen-year old boy staring down at him with crimson red eyes. The boy leapt down and stood in front of Riku, this guy had the ears of a dragon and a dragon's tail! His gray hair was blown carelessly around in the wind and he sort of resembled Shiro and Kuro in a way…
"Who are you?" asked Riku making the Keyblades appear.
"Ryu," said the dragon-boy. "I'm sure you've heard of me."
"You're the one Arisu's been talking about…"
"Yup! And I'm sure you've met my brother Shiro and Kuro right?"
"What? You're their brother? How can you be related to them!?"
"Sure, everyone picks on me cause I'm not half cat-demon like them! So what if I'm half dragon-demon?!"
"Uh…nothing!"
Ryu glared at Riku for a while and then leapt into the shadows of the night.
"Don't worry about Ryu," said Shiro as he came out of the darkness.
"You really have to stop doing that," said Riku who almost had a heart attack.
"Sorry."
"Shiro…by any chance do you know where my friends Sora and Kairi might be?"
"…Kairi I'm not so sure of, but Sora and the King are trapped within the Heartless Realm."
"The Heartless Realm! Can you show me how to get there?"
"To be honest, you can't get there, not now anyways. You'll have to find someone to install this into Sieg."
Shiro handed Riku a small emerald-green disk.
"Can't Washu or someone from Planet Zi install it?" asked Riku.
"I'm afraid not, they don't understand how to use it. Perhaps you'll find someone in a world you visit that can help you install it…"
With that Shiro once again vanished into the shadows, Riku tried to follow him but Shiro wasn't anywhere in sight. Why did Shiro keep helping him anyways? What were his intentions? How did he know all of this information?
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Yami wandered around the alleyways of Shin City, it seemed like everyone was trying to do everything they could to stop the Heartless. He saw the guy named Kai use a top to defeat several Heartless, there was the boy Ikki and his robot named Medabee, and there was the girl Ceres, and lots more. He wondered it maybe…
"Don't worry," said a small voice behind him. Yami turned around to see a ten-year old boy with silver hair and emerald green eyes staring at him. "You'll find him."
"What…How do you know?" asked Yami. Upon closer inspection of the boy, Yami noticed that he had the same silver cat ears and tail that Katsuo had.
"Don't give up hope," said the boy. "And if you do, then you'll never find him."
"Your… Katsu, aren't you?"
"Please don't tell my brother you've seen me," said Katsu. "He'd be real mad at you."
A blinding flash of light appeared and Yami held up his arm to shield his eyes from the light. When the light faded no one was there, the street was empty. How did that little kid know?
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Riku began to walk towards the door of Shin City, but something just wouldn't leave him mind. The survivors from the world, Sonraku, just didn't seem to fit into place. Unlike the other survivors from other worlds their hearts had a different feeling around them… he didn't quite know how to explain it, but the hearts from Sonraku didn't seem to be affected much by the Heartless, in fact, their hearts didn't seem to be affected at all.
"I wonder," muttered Riku. "Is it possible…"
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Takashi and Amano were on top of a roof on a nearby building watching over Riku. Amano, having the ability to read minds, read Riku's thoughts.
"He could be right…" mumbled Amano.
"About what?" asked Takashi.
"Sonraku, that world is a complete mystery… I wonder if it is possible that there is some connection between… never mind…"
"Continue…"
"Is it possible that…."
Suddenly the buildings of Shin City began to fade, like an old television screen's image. The ground started to shake and the winds picked up enormous speeds.
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"What's happening?" asked Riku he saw the place fading away. "What's going on?"
Then Riku saw strange ancient buildings take the place of the city, this place… it felt… familiar… Had he been here before?
After a few minutes, Shin City returned to normal, but what had just happened?
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"Whew," sighed Zeero. "That was close! They almost figured it out…"
Remember this advice Keybearer. Sometimes to find the light, you must look within the deepest part of the darkness…
Akurei-Shinzo: Sorry I didn't update in a while. High school is no walk in a park, it's more like a hike through the mountains, especially since I'm carrying a backpack with at least a ton of books and I have to climb up several flights of stairs!