Meeting Master Guillon
Disclaimer: Same as before.
Standing before the great geosphere that formed the nucleus of EPCOT Center, a swordsman stood mute. He wore more colorful garb than Halb's earthen colored garments, suggestive of a noble house of the Court of Parmas.
"Stop there, swordsman." The stranger said, to the man walking amidst the group of people and the strange creatures accompanying them.
"Who art thou?" Halb asked.
"I am Rezeen of Parmas, state thou business."
"I am Halb of Parmas, it is Master Guillon whom we seek." Halb said.
"Master Guillon has many foes, how canst I be certain thou doth not seek to do him harm." Rezeen said.
Johann cocked his arquebus silently and Halb motioned him to stop with one hand. "Rezeen, I am Master Guillon's student." Halb said.
"Prove it." Rezeen said, drawing an ornate rapier, decorated with the sigil of the House of Moebius, "Defend thyself."
"Son of Moebius," Halb said, "I shall do so."
Halb slowly and calmly extracted his own reversed blade sword. "Surely thou canst be Guillon's student. Thy blade tis reversed."
"I reversed this blade for I vowed I shall never take life again." Halb replied, "Not even yours."
"Defend thyself!" Rezeen said.
Halb blocked several of Rezeen's attacks, which appeared to move slowly but arrived faster than anticipated. The clash of steel against steel resounded as the two swordsmen dueled against one another. Halb and Rezeen were launching blow and counterblow, neither of them landing.
"Thou art skilled, truly." Rezeen said as their locked swords again, Halb began to spin the blade of his weapon, locked against Rezeen's with so much force it sent the young man's sword to the ground.
"Enough! 'Twas only a test, Halb." An older voice sounded. Into the light stepped an old man, his stature bent from age, a sword at his belt. He may have been aged, but he still had the strength and skill to use the blade at his side.
"Thou art truly a student of Master Guillon, Halb son of Manni." Rezeen said.
"How doth thou know my father?" Halb asked.
"I know of him well, for Master Guillon has told me thrice again how the eldest son of Manni was his greatest pupil." Rezeen replied.
"The prophesy I bring is one that is of great importance, Halb." Master Guillon said, "The riddle you must solve. Within the great sphere, after crossing sea and land not yet imagined, after following a distant horizon, regaling the wonders of life, seeing the worlds of energy and traveling distant lands lies the door thou seeks. The door of conflict shall be locked by thee, swordsman of Parmas."
"I shall not fail, Master Guillon." Halb replied.
"I hope for the sake of worlds you do not, for if the Heartless open the doors they will have access to a great and terrible power." Guillon said.
"I only wish that we could have met under less forbidding circumstances." Halb replied.
"I always have regarded you as a son, Halb." Guillon said.
"And you as thou you were a father, Guillon." Halb said, dropping to one knee before his master in a gesture of homage.
"Rise and continue your quest, great swordsman of Parmas." Guillon said.
~ ~ ~ ~
Cobra Bubbles said, "The great sphere could only be the Spaceship Earth pavilion. Johann, David, you two and I will search for the door. Miranda, Bonkers, and Halb, search the Future World area, Nani, you and Dr. Joukiba watch the ship with Pleaky."
"I could be of better help with Halb and the others..." Nani protested.
"That is true, but Lilo and Stitch need to be watched." Cobra replied, "Johann, can you cover the entrance Spaceship Earth from the rooftops. If anything even resembling a Heartless comes too close, shoot it."
"Yes, but I require someone to help me reload my weapons." Johann replied, "In order to fire faster."
"Nani, that's your job. Stay with Johann." Cobra Bubbles said, "Stay in touch on the radios."
The groups split off on their respective search teams. Johann and Nani climbed to the roofs of the smaller buildings surrounding Spaceship Earth and Innoventions Plaza pavilions. Johann had his arquebus in his hands, which could be reloaded faster but was not as accurate as the jaeger rifle across his back. The latter tool was a short barreled weapon with an octagonal barrel that fired a .75 of an inch projectile. It was more accurate but slower to reload. Nani had been familiarized with the latter gun because Dr. Joukiba and Pleaky helped make it for Johann. He also had his sword and dagger and Nani had her force prod and karate skills.
Halb, Miranda and Bonkers were starting their search at the Living Seas pavilion. Cobra and David were searching the Spaceship Earth area for any signs of the Heartless. The search began to encounter Heartless almost as soon as it began.
~ ~ ~ ~
"The Living Seas, sounds like a logical place to start." Miranda began, "Master Guillon did say that we would cross land and sea not yet imagined."
"Then why do we have to go across all those places if its in the Spaceship Earth sphere?" Bonkers asked.
"I know not why, but perhaps within lies the answers we seek." Halb replied, opening the door and letting Bonkers and Miranda in, "Milady."
"Halb, you're too kind." Miranda replied.
As they entered the large round room, the door closed and locked behind them. On the large, wrap around screen surrounding them they saw a logo that read, "Seabase Alpha Briefing Room, and 4:00."
"Four minutes until the door opens." Miranda said, "I wonder if we can..."
As she crossed the room a band of Heartless began to appear. "I thought this was too good to be true." Bonkers said, pulling out a water squirting bottle and a swordfish from his shirt.
"Again these mysterious things attack." Halb remarked, and drew, slowly, his reversed blade sword.
Miranda had her gun out and shot the first Heartless that she saw. Bonkers was fighting using his water squirter and his swordfish. Halb was dispatching Heartless cleanly, knocking them out with one or two swings of his reversed blade sword. He clearly did not kill any of the Heartless he struck, for their antennae still twitched and moved, as they lay where they fell. However, they weren't liable to get up anytime soon.
"Miranda! Watch out!" Halb shouted. One of Al Vermin's henchmen, a mosquito, came out of the darkness about to run her thru with a sword.
Halb cleared the distance between himself and Miranda in an instant. He reversed the dial on his sword so the sharp edge now faced outward, towards the henchman. With a swing he slashed the sword of the henchman in half. Using the hilt of the sword, Halb knocked the henchman out. He reversed the dial again, so the cutting edge faced him once more.
"Traitors amongst the land of Memel exist. This blade is of the manufacture of Steinchroe." Halb said, "Prince Terroenza has sided with the Heartless."
"Halb, we've got bigger problems than your world's seventy year long war." Miranda remarked, ducking as a Large Body swung a fist towards her.
"No longer!" Halb shouted, charging the creature and swinging his reversed blade sword, breaking the creature's right arm.
The Large Body bellowed in pain as Halb attacked it's other arm. "Thy shall be incapable of further action, large one. Leave us at peace, I implore thee."
"Halb! The door!" Miranda shouted. The trio ran inside, fighting through more Heartless to get through.
~ ~ ~ ~
"Uh, Johann, we've got trouble." Nani said, as several Heartless began to head straight for Spaceship Earth.
Johann fired his first shot, drilling a Soldier Heartless thru the middle of it's face. He handed the jaeger rifle to Nani who began to reload it. Johann then raised his arquebus and fired a second shot, killing a second Heartless. Nani handed him his jaeger rifle and Johann fired again, killing a third Heartless.
"Cobra, you've got company!" Nani said, over her radio.
"Acknowledged," Cobra replied, "Let Miranda, Halb and Bonkers know there's some kind of strange puzzle lock in Spaceship Earth. There's a riddle on it that reads: 'From the depths of the sea, one part of the lock shall be found.' I presumed it has something to do with Master Guillon's riddle."
"What does it look like?" Nani asked, as she reloaded Johann's arquebus and flinched when Johann fired his jaeger rifle over her head, sending an Air Soldier plummeting towards EPCOT's ground with a hole blown thru it's head.
"It's shaped like a wave." Cobra said.
Nani relayed the message as Johann was fighting off a Shadow Heartless with his short, broad bladed sword. He plunged his blade deep into the creature's midsection, sending a jet of black blood squirting outward.
"We've got to hold this approach, otherwise the others are in big trouble." Nani said, "Johann, if we can kill enough of them Cobra and the others won't have as many Heartless to worry about."
~ ~ ~ ~
"Well this is interesting." Miranda said, "We're looking for a wave shaped crest."
"Take a look at this." Bonkers said.
Halb was closest to the engraved plaque, "In my depths, what ye seeks shall be found."
"Sounds simple enough." Miranda replied, "All we have to do is get through the hydrolators and find the crest."
Miranda was speaking about the movie that was playing in the Living Seas movie theater. "Tis that invention thy spoke of earlier, the movable picture." Halb said.
"It's called a movie, actually, Halb, but yeah." Miranda replied.
~ ~ ~ ~
"Johann, Nani. Good job on reducing the number of Heartless that come through here. We're managing them alright." Cobra said as he beat up another Heartless with his force prod.
David was doing the same thing with his own force prod, fighting off a Soldier Heartless. Each time the Heartless attacked in waves. Each time they'd lose approximately half or more of their number before coming anywhere near Spaceship Earth thanks to Johann's marksmanship.
"They're still too many Heartless." David said, "We need some reinforcements."
He was wrestling with a Shadow Heartless as he spoke and barely managed to bash it's head against some rocks to kill it. Cobra used his massive frame to block the entrance temporarily as they fought off the Heartless that came in from the ride. They were at the end of the attraction, where the mysterious door was located.
~ ~ ~ ~
As they left they Hydrolators for the Seacabs, Miranda, Halb and Bonkers noticed that several Heartless were on their tails. "These things never give up, do they?" Miranda said.
"It would appear that they do not." Halb replied, drawing out the reversed blade sword. As the seacabs moved slowly through the Coral Reef area, Halb fought off a pair of Bandit Heartless with his reversed blade sword.
Bonkers used his mallet on a third Bandit and Miranda aimed her gun at a fourth. "No! Don't shoot, you'll flood this area!" a voice shouted.
An older man with gray hair and wearing a futuristic blue jumpsuit was hiding in the seacab. "Who are you?" Miranda asked.
"Commander Fulton, Seabase Alpha."
"Officer Miranda Wright, LAPD."
"We'll have more time for introductions later, but first I have something very important to tell you three in my office." Fulton said as they entered Seabase Alpha.
As they entered the place, they found a war zone in full swing. Several blue uniformed guards of Seabase Alpha were dueling with the Heartless, using laser weapons of some sort. "Come this way." Fulton said, leading them into an office.
~ ~ ~ ~
TBC
Disclaimer: Same as before.
Standing before the great geosphere that formed the nucleus of EPCOT Center, a swordsman stood mute. He wore more colorful garb than Halb's earthen colored garments, suggestive of a noble house of the Court of Parmas.
"Stop there, swordsman." The stranger said, to the man walking amidst the group of people and the strange creatures accompanying them.
"Who art thou?" Halb asked.
"I am Rezeen of Parmas, state thou business."
"I am Halb of Parmas, it is Master Guillon whom we seek." Halb said.
"Master Guillon has many foes, how canst I be certain thou doth not seek to do him harm." Rezeen said.
Johann cocked his arquebus silently and Halb motioned him to stop with one hand. "Rezeen, I am Master Guillon's student." Halb said.
"Prove it." Rezeen said, drawing an ornate rapier, decorated with the sigil of the House of Moebius, "Defend thyself."
"Son of Moebius," Halb said, "I shall do so."
Halb slowly and calmly extracted his own reversed blade sword. "Surely thou canst be Guillon's student. Thy blade tis reversed."
"I reversed this blade for I vowed I shall never take life again." Halb replied, "Not even yours."
"Defend thyself!" Rezeen said.
Halb blocked several of Rezeen's attacks, which appeared to move slowly but arrived faster than anticipated. The clash of steel against steel resounded as the two swordsmen dueled against one another. Halb and Rezeen were launching blow and counterblow, neither of them landing.
"Thou art skilled, truly." Rezeen said as their locked swords again, Halb began to spin the blade of his weapon, locked against Rezeen's with so much force it sent the young man's sword to the ground.
"Enough! 'Twas only a test, Halb." An older voice sounded. Into the light stepped an old man, his stature bent from age, a sword at his belt. He may have been aged, but he still had the strength and skill to use the blade at his side.
"Thou art truly a student of Master Guillon, Halb son of Manni." Rezeen said.
"How doth thou know my father?" Halb asked.
"I know of him well, for Master Guillon has told me thrice again how the eldest son of Manni was his greatest pupil." Rezeen replied.
"The prophesy I bring is one that is of great importance, Halb." Master Guillon said, "The riddle you must solve. Within the great sphere, after crossing sea and land not yet imagined, after following a distant horizon, regaling the wonders of life, seeing the worlds of energy and traveling distant lands lies the door thou seeks. The door of conflict shall be locked by thee, swordsman of Parmas."
"I shall not fail, Master Guillon." Halb replied.
"I hope for the sake of worlds you do not, for if the Heartless open the doors they will have access to a great and terrible power." Guillon said.
"I only wish that we could have met under less forbidding circumstances." Halb replied.
"I always have regarded you as a son, Halb." Guillon said.
"And you as thou you were a father, Guillon." Halb said, dropping to one knee before his master in a gesture of homage.
"Rise and continue your quest, great swordsman of Parmas." Guillon said.
~ ~ ~ ~
Cobra Bubbles said, "The great sphere could only be the Spaceship Earth pavilion. Johann, David, you two and I will search for the door. Miranda, Bonkers, and Halb, search the Future World area, Nani, you and Dr. Joukiba watch the ship with Pleaky."
"I could be of better help with Halb and the others..." Nani protested.
"That is true, but Lilo and Stitch need to be watched." Cobra replied, "Johann, can you cover the entrance Spaceship Earth from the rooftops. If anything even resembling a Heartless comes too close, shoot it."
"Yes, but I require someone to help me reload my weapons." Johann replied, "In order to fire faster."
"Nani, that's your job. Stay with Johann." Cobra Bubbles said, "Stay in touch on the radios."
The groups split off on their respective search teams. Johann and Nani climbed to the roofs of the smaller buildings surrounding Spaceship Earth and Innoventions Plaza pavilions. Johann had his arquebus in his hands, which could be reloaded faster but was not as accurate as the jaeger rifle across his back. The latter tool was a short barreled weapon with an octagonal barrel that fired a .75 of an inch projectile. It was more accurate but slower to reload. Nani had been familiarized with the latter gun because Dr. Joukiba and Pleaky helped make it for Johann. He also had his sword and dagger and Nani had her force prod and karate skills.
Halb, Miranda and Bonkers were starting their search at the Living Seas pavilion. Cobra and David were searching the Spaceship Earth area for any signs of the Heartless. The search began to encounter Heartless almost as soon as it began.
~ ~ ~ ~
"The Living Seas, sounds like a logical place to start." Miranda began, "Master Guillon did say that we would cross land and sea not yet imagined."
"Then why do we have to go across all those places if its in the Spaceship Earth sphere?" Bonkers asked.
"I know not why, but perhaps within lies the answers we seek." Halb replied, opening the door and letting Bonkers and Miranda in, "Milady."
"Halb, you're too kind." Miranda replied.
As they entered the large round room, the door closed and locked behind them. On the large, wrap around screen surrounding them they saw a logo that read, "Seabase Alpha Briefing Room, and 4:00."
"Four minutes until the door opens." Miranda said, "I wonder if we can..."
As she crossed the room a band of Heartless began to appear. "I thought this was too good to be true." Bonkers said, pulling out a water squirting bottle and a swordfish from his shirt.
"Again these mysterious things attack." Halb remarked, and drew, slowly, his reversed blade sword.
Miranda had her gun out and shot the first Heartless that she saw. Bonkers was fighting using his water squirter and his swordfish. Halb was dispatching Heartless cleanly, knocking them out with one or two swings of his reversed blade sword. He clearly did not kill any of the Heartless he struck, for their antennae still twitched and moved, as they lay where they fell. However, they weren't liable to get up anytime soon.
"Miranda! Watch out!" Halb shouted. One of Al Vermin's henchmen, a mosquito, came out of the darkness about to run her thru with a sword.
Halb cleared the distance between himself and Miranda in an instant. He reversed the dial on his sword so the sharp edge now faced outward, towards the henchman. With a swing he slashed the sword of the henchman in half. Using the hilt of the sword, Halb knocked the henchman out. He reversed the dial again, so the cutting edge faced him once more.
"Traitors amongst the land of Memel exist. This blade is of the manufacture of Steinchroe." Halb said, "Prince Terroenza has sided with the Heartless."
"Halb, we've got bigger problems than your world's seventy year long war." Miranda remarked, ducking as a Large Body swung a fist towards her.
"No longer!" Halb shouted, charging the creature and swinging his reversed blade sword, breaking the creature's right arm.
The Large Body bellowed in pain as Halb attacked it's other arm. "Thy shall be incapable of further action, large one. Leave us at peace, I implore thee."
"Halb! The door!" Miranda shouted. The trio ran inside, fighting through more Heartless to get through.
~ ~ ~ ~
"Uh, Johann, we've got trouble." Nani said, as several Heartless began to head straight for Spaceship Earth.
Johann fired his first shot, drilling a Soldier Heartless thru the middle of it's face. He handed the jaeger rifle to Nani who began to reload it. Johann then raised his arquebus and fired a second shot, killing a second Heartless. Nani handed him his jaeger rifle and Johann fired again, killing a third Heartless.
"Cobra, you've got company!" Nani said, over her radio.
"Acknowledged," Cobra replied, "Let Miranda, Halb and Bonkers know there's some kind of strange puzzle lock in Spaceship Earth. There's a riddle on it that reads: 'From the depths of the sea, one part of the lock shall be found.' I presumed it has something to do with Master Guillon's riddle."
"What does it look like?" Nani asked, as she reloaded Johann's arquebus and flinched when Johann fired his jaeger rifle over her head, sending an Air Soldier plummeting towards EPCOT's ground with a hole blown thru it's head.
"It's shaped like a wave." Cobra said.
Nani relayed the message as Johann was fighting off a Shadow Heartless with his short, broad bladed sword. He plunged his blade deep into the creature's midsection, sending a jet of black blood squirting outward.
"We've got to hold this approach, otherwise the others are in big trouble." Nani said, "Johann, if we can kill enough of them Cobra and the others won't have as many Heartless to worry about."
~ ~ ~ ~
"Well this is interesting." Miranda said, "We're looking for a wave shaped crest."
"Take a look at this." Bonkers said.
Halb was closest to the engraved plaque, "In my depths, what ye seeks shall be found."
"Sounds simple enough." Miranda replied, "All we have to do is get through the hydrolators and find the crest."
Miranda was speaking about the movie that was playing in the Living Seas movie theater. "Tis that invention thy spoke of earlier, the movable picture." Halb said.
"It's called a movie, actually, Halb, but yeah." Miranda replied.
~ ~ ~ ~
"Johann, Nani. Good job on reducing the number of Heartless that come through here. We're managing them alright." Cobra said as he beat up another Heartless with his force prod.
David was doing the same thing with his own force prod, fighting off a Soldier Heartless. Each time the Heartless attacked in waves. Each time they'd lose approximately half or more of their number before coming anywhere near Spaceship Earth thanks to Johann's marksmanship.
"They're still too many Heartless." David said, "We need some reinforcements."
He was wrestling with a Shadow Heartless as he spoke and barely managed to bash it's head against some rocks to kill it. Cobra used his massive frame to block the entrance temporarily as they fought off the Heartless that came in from the ride. They were at the end of the attraction, where the mysterious door was located.
~ ~ ~ ~
As they left they Hydrolators for the Seacabs, Miranda, Halb and Bonkers noticed that several Heartless were on their tails. "These things never give up, do they?" Miranda said.
"It would appear that they do not." Halb replied, drawing out the reversed blade sword. As the seacabs moved slowly through the Coral Reef area, Halb fought off a pair of Bandit Heartless with his reversed blade sword.
Bonkers used his mallet on a third Bandit and Miranda aimed her gun at a fourth. "No! Don't shoot, you'll flood this area!" a voice shouted.
An older man with gray hair and wearing a futuristic blue jumpsuit was hiding in the seacab. "Who are you?" Miranda asked.
"Commander Fulton, Seabase Alpha."
"Officer Miranda Wright, LAPD."
"We'll have more time for introductions later, but first I have something very important to tell you three in my office." Fulton said as they entered Seabase Alpha.
As they entered the place, they found a war zone in full swing. Several blue uniformed guards of Seabase Alpha were dueling with the Heartless, using laser weapons of some sort. "Come this way." Fulton said, leading them into an office.
~ ~ ~ ~
TBC