Starlet: Apparently something bothers people, or at least 1 of my
reviewers, this is just one of those stories
that are really confusing in the beginning then after a while everything
begins to unfold itself. So if you're
wondering what happened to Sora, and others, it'll all be explained. And
if that don't clear things up then
E-mail me please, I like to talk to my readers, I have no life. . . . . . .
. . Lol.
Chapter something, I won't bother counting anymore.
"What the FUCK is that?!?!?!" Tidus yelled as a shadow jumped at him, he stepped to the side as the thing bolted past him. The blonde youth tried to kill it with his wooden rod, but barely made a scratch.
"Move." Riku muttered and swept in smooth as butter. He gave one slash of his sword and the shadow vanished in a puff of black, inky smoke. Tidus sighed and turned around to face a black form wearing a knight's helm, it danced around a bit, then launched itself at Tidus with a spinning kick.
"SHIT!" He yelled and dodged it, the thing went sailing past him and was about to try again when a blast of fire pelted it and it was destroyed. Tidus looked and there was Kairi, she had her hands in a position that suggested she had used a spell to save him. Tidus gave an inward sigh as he stood up.
'Great, I say I'm gonna protect her, and she ends up protecting me!' He thought miserably as Riku came over.
"That was odd." The silver haired youth remarked.
"Heartless don't usually show up here." He said as he pointed all around them, they were in the secret waterway.
"I know." Kairi whispered silently. Tidus frowned
"Heartless?! Is that what you called those freaky things?! Geez, they were evil looking."
"Scared?" Riku asked looking at him. Tidus puffed out his chest in pride.
"Course not."
"Then you're stupid." He muttered quietly. "The heartless are governed by darkness, if you don't keep caution with the heartless and the darkness, then you can lose your heart, or worse. I should know." He looked down. Tidus's face was blank with confusion for a minute, then contorted,
'Of course, when he'd been taken by darkness himself.' Tidus thought feeling uneasy. How could he have not been afraid? Much as Tidus hated to admit it, Riku WAS strong, more strong then anyone he'd met. And he'd been beaten by darkness, and these things?! The idea was frightening. Tidus shuddered and tuned in again to what the others were saying.
". . . . where do we go next?" Riku asked.
"Anywhere we have to, just so long as we can find Sora."
Sora again, that name was getting really old. All Kairi had said about it was that Sora was the key to survival of all worlds, Riku wouldn't give a sliver of information, apparently something still bothered him about Sora, Tidus sighed again and walked to the far side of the wall. There seemed to be an opening and a stairway which led up. Climbing the stairs Tidus found at the top some sort of floating platform. Curious, he touched it. Nothing. Tidus kept prodding it till he got annoyed and jumped on the thing.
"GAH!" He yelled out as the thing sharply rose causing Tidus to fall down. Before he could stop it, he was rising towards a room, and he had no idea where it was.
~~~~~
"Where the hell is Tidus?!" Riku shouted in fury. Kairi sighed.
"Probably wandered off, but I'm worried." Riku stared at her then sighed.
"Fine! Will look for that guy, but only because you want to. Anyone else had asked I would have kicked them so hard in their-" "Riku." Kairi murmured warningly, he grinned.
"Okay, we get the point. Let's go!" He yelled. Kairi nodded and they began to search around the area for anything they might find.
"Hey Kairi!" Riku yelled out a little while later.
"Yes?"
"There's something like a lift right here." He shouted back. She came over.
"Looks just like a piece of floating cement to me." She remarked, after seeing thousands of heartless, a world being born out of a patch of sand, her friend being taken over by an evil spirit, and losing her heart, nothing really surprised her anymore.
"Think the moron went up?" Riku asked, she raised an eyebrow questionably at him. He grinned
"Tidus."
"I know, stop calling him names please? Try to get along okay. For Sora's sake." Riku sighed.
"Sure, sure. Anything for a princess." He bowed mockingly. She gave a smirk and smacked him on the head.
"HEY!" He yelled out rubbing his abused body part. She grinned and climbed on, it lifted up as predicted.
"Coming?"
"Wait for me!" He yelled out and jumped on. She snickered.
~~~~~~
"Where the hell am I?!" Tidus screamed, he was sitting in a circular room, it was completely empty and dark. He stared around thinking.
'This is just not my day, wouldn't you know it? I get lost in some frickin shit ass place.' He grumbled something about moronic tricks, then stood up. Looking at his surroundings he saw a form covered up beneath a blanket. It rested in the middle on some sort of circular rise. He stared, the form is covered was sort of lumpy.
"Weird." Tidus muttered. Suddenly a thought struck him and he panicked.
"Please tell me I'm not in a mad scientists laboratory!" he yelled out.
"Hardly, if you were, I'd put a brain into your head." A voice drawled. Tidus spun around to find Kairi who looked happy to see him, and a very, VERY pissed Riku who didn't look so happy to see him. The green eyed youth blanched.
"Why the hell did you run off?!" He screamed. Kairi sighed.
"Well. . . . . . . . . I . . . . ." He trailed off and Riku looked even more crazed. If possible that is.
"Riku." Kairi said silently. "You're not helping." Riku stared.
"God Tidus, you are SO lucky Kairi likes you so much, elsewise you'd be stuck in a hospital.
"Sure. I think my major problem is that I can't fight with this thing!" He yelled out showing them his wooden rod. Riku nodded, and Kairi told him the same thing.
"Tidus is right, my magic is useful, but I can't rely on it completely." Riku nodded.
"Thought so. You know, I was wondering why that guy gave me these." He said and pulled the cloth off the lumpy form. It revealed a staff of some sorts. It was long, almost 5 feet long. At the top is had a golden circlet attached to it, and in the circle was a golden star, but the star was made only of 5 lines that cris-crossed over each other. The outside was outlined by three jagged points. He picked it up and handed it to Kairi. She took and smiled.
"This works." Riku then picked up the sword and tossed it to Tidus. He fumbled to catch it. Lifting the sword he gaped. It was long, almost as tall as him, and Tidus was VERY tall. The hilt was black and wrapped around with a silver cloth. The blade was protruding out of a piece at the bottom of the hilt which looked like a curved 'x' only the ends curved and were more closer together. The blade was a shimmering silvery blue, it looked like it was almost alive.
"T-thanks Riku." He murmured. For the first time ever, Riku smiled and Tidus. Kairi noticed this and smiled herself.
~~~~~
"You know what to do." Ansem said to a black dressed Sora. Sora now wore a pair of black jeans, which helped make him look more cool, those old red pants weren't really that great after his last growth spurt. With his black jeans he also wore a white shirt, but the sleeves looked like someone has hacked them into strips with a knife, now, some of them were wrapped around his arms, and the rest of the fabric hung loosely to the wind. By his side he carried his keyblade, it wasn't the oathkeeper, as he usually liked to keep it on. But the Ultima blade. A gift from Ansem. On his wrists were black wrist bands, and he had a golden spiraling circlet on his arm above his elbow on the right. His hair had become less levitated and more droopy. Sora's eyes were hollow, almost dead. The youth smiled and nodded, he walked away.
"Follow him and do what I said." Ansem directed to a small group of heartless, they were wyverns. Fast and deadly. He would've like to use shadows, but that would have been hard to believe that the keyblade master was defeated by the lowliest of heartless. Oh well, anything to get that youth. That one person who could help him unlock the final gate that wretched king had put up.
~~~~~
"So who gave you these weapons anyway Riku?" Tidus wanted to know.
"Mickey, he said I'd need them to find Sora." The youth told them.
"How'd you get out? And if he knew this was coming, then that's a big coincidence." Kairi muttered. Riku stopped and stared straight ahead.
"Nothing is coincidence, there is only fate, and the inevitable." He murmured calmly, the other two stared at him. Tidus caught Kairi's eyes, she caught his, they both stared at each other in confusion. The Tidus shrugged and walked on. Kairi sighed. They were walking till they heard sounds of fighting.
"What's that?" Tidus murmured. Kairi felt weird, she had this warmth in her heart, like it was burning. Not the painful type, but more like the feeling of sitting next to a warm fire. Then she knew. She raced past Riku and Tidus with a painful look of hope plastered to her face.
"Kairi!?" Riku yelled out running after her.
"The hell does she think she's doing?!" Tidus demanded as he dashed ahead. They both followed Kairi as she burst through the doors to the first district. She looked wildly around and gasped. Tidus stopped next to her and bent over, hands on knees.
"God, I'm winded." He remarked. Riku stopped to her side and stared at her.
"What was so important that you HAD to. . . . . . . run. . . . . . . . off . . . . . ?" he trailed away as he suddenly saw who she was gaping at.
"It can't be. . . . ." He whispered.
"It is! I know it is!" She shouted out. Tidus stared at them both as if they were crazy.
"What are you two TALKING about?!" he demanded. They ignored him.
"Sora!" Kairi yelled, she was about to rush forward when she noticed something. His arms were bleeding, his face was torn and scratched. It still looked that same, but more stern, mature and serious. Fatigue had made him look weary.
"Tidus! Either help or move!" Riku yelled out and ran towards Sora with his keyblade drawn. Sora was fighting the heartless with ragged wings off one by one. Without realizing it a wyvern raised above his head and plummeted heading straight for him. Sora looked up just in time to see, but far too late to dodge.
"Shit!" Riku hissed as he gave a powerful jump and flew right into the wyvern causing it to barrel over. Sora stared at Riku in confusion, he was about to say something when a wyvern skimmed his arm.
"Damn, they just won't stop coming!" The brown haired youth yelled out. Riku nodded.
"With us that should even the score." Together the duo fought off the attacks, Kairi stood by, when she saw that they were having trouble she stepped in. Using her magic and staff she fended off the heartless's attacks from her and the others. Tidus saw this and stiffened.
"No more hiding." He whispered to himself and dove in. Striking left right and center he took out three of the weird things easily. Sora smiled.
"Finally!" Riku yelled out. "You're making yourself useful!" Tidus scowled. After about 10 minutes of fighting Riku knew they wouldn't hold out much longer.
"If these guys don't stop showing up, then we won't make it out alive." The silver haired youth declared. Tidus and Kairi gaped.
'I have to protect Kairi!' Tidus thought worried.
"Oh no they won't!" She yelled out. She felt small tears of anger begin to build in her eyes. Then she felt a burst of energy. A flash of light took the area and everyone was blinded.
~~~~~
"What the HELL was that?!" Tidus screamed out. He felt like the life had been kicked out of him. All he remember was Kairi screaming 'Oh no they won't' then that flash of energy, and the next thing he knew, all those things were gone and Kairi was shivering on the cobblestones.
"Kairi?" He murmured to her in worry. She looked up and gave a feeble smile.
"I'm okay." He nodded and tried to stand up. His legs however felt like pudding at that moment. Worse then when he'd fought Riku.
"Whatever that was, it was a major burst of energy." Sora remarked. Everyone looked at him. Riku smiled.
"What were you doing playing with those things? You should have been back to the Destiny Islands by now." Sora frowned, he looked confused.
"Sora! I'm so glad you're okay!" Kairi said hugging him. He didn't hug back just took a step back looking confused.
"So you're Sora, I can tell why these guys were looking for you. You look like one hell of a fighter." Tidus told the brown haired youth. He stared at them in confusion.
"What are you talking about? My name's Dalland." Everyone stared.
"What?" Kairi whispered in disbelief, she let go and backed up a bit to get a better look at him. It was definitely Sora, there was no mistake. He even had the keyblade, it HAD to be Sora.
"What did you say your name was?" Riku murmured.
"Dalland, full name's Dalland Corona. Now I have a question for you." He said sternly.
"Who are you?" He asked and pointed to Kairi.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Oh!!! Don't you hate me for leaving cliffhangers?! Hehehehe, oh well. Spent hours trying to figure out how to break that out and not make it seem like some cheesy joke or twist. Buh bye!
Chapter something, I won't bother counting anymore.
"What the FUCK is that?!?!?!" Tidus yelled as a shadow jumped at him, he stepped to the side as the thing bolted past him. The blonde youth tried to kill it with his wooden rod, but barely made a scratch.
"Move." Riku muttered and swept in smooth as butter. He gave one slash of his sword and the shadow vanished in a puff of black, inky smoke. Tidus sighed and turned around to face a black form wearing a knight's helm, it danced around a bit, then launched itself at Tidus with a spinning kick.
"SHIT!" He yelled and dodged it, the thing went sailing past him and was about to try again when a blast of fire pelted it and it was destroyed. Tidus looked and there was Kairi, she had her hands in a position that suggested she had used a spell to save him. Tidus gave an inward sigh as he stood up.
'Great, I say I'm gonna protect her, and she ends up protecting me!' He thought miserably as Riku came over.
"That was odd." The silver haired youth remarked.
"Heartless don't usually show up here." He said as he pointed all around them, they were in the secret waterway.
"I know." Kairi whispered silently. Tidus frowned
"Heartless?! Is that what you called those freaky things?! Geez, they were evil looking."
"Scared?" Riku asked looking at him. Tidus puffed out his chest in pride.
"Course not."
"Then you're stupid." He muttered quietly. "The heartless are governed by darkness, if you don't keep caution with the heartless and the darkness, then you can lose your heart, or worse. I should know." He looked down. Tidus's face was blank with confusion for a minute, then contorted,
'Of course, when he'd been taken by darkness himself.' Tidus thought feeling uneasy. How could he have not been afraid? Much as Tidus hated to admit it, Riku WAS strong, more strong then anyone he'd met. And he'd been beaten by darkness, and these things?! The idea was frightening. Tidus shuddered and tuned in again to what the others were saying.
". . . . where do we go next?" Riku asked.
"Anywhere we have to, just so long as we can find Sora."
Sora again, that name was getting really old. All Kairi had said about it was that Sora was the key to survival of all worlds, Riku wouldn't give a sliver of information, apparently something still bothered him about Sora, Tidus sighed again and walked to the far side of the wall. There seemed to be an opening and a stairway which led up. Climbing the stairs Tidus found at the top some sort of floating platform. Curious, he touched it. Nothing. Tidus kept prodding it till he got annoyed and jumped on the thing.
"GAH!" He yelled out as the thing sharply rose causing Tidus to fall down. Before he could stop it, he was rising towards a room, and he had no idea where it was.
~~~~~
"Where the hell is Tidus?!" Riku shouted in fury. Kairi sighed.
"Probably wandered off, but I'm worried." Riku stared at her then sighed.
"Fine! Will look for that guy, but only because you want to. Anyone else had asked I would have kicked them so hard in their-" "Riku." Kairi murmured warningly, he grinned.
"Okay, we get the point. Let's go!" He yelled. Kairi nodded and they began to search around the area for anything they might find.
"Hey Kairi!" Riku yelled out a little while later.
"Yes?"
"There's something like a lift right here." He shouted back. She came over.
"Looks just like a piece of floating cement to me." She remarked, after seeing thousands of heartless, a world being born out of a patch of sand, her friend being taken over by an evil spirit, and losing her heart, nothing really surprised her anymore.
"Think the moron went up?" Riku asked, she raised an eyebrow questionably at him. He grinned
"Tidus."
"I know, stop calling him names please? Try to get along okay. For Sora's sake." Riku sighed.
"Sure, sure. Anything for a princess." He bowed mockingly. She gave a smirk and smacked him on the head.
"HEY!" He yelled out rubbing his abused body part. She grinned and climbed on, it lifted up as predicted.
"Coming?"
"Wait for me!" He yelled out and jumped on. She snickered.
~~~~~~
"Where the hell am I?!" Tidus screamed, he was sitting in a circular room, it was completely empty and dark. He stared around thinking.
'This is just not my day, wouldn't you know it? I get lost in some frickin shit ass place.' He grumbled something about moronic tricks, then stood up. Looking at his surroundings he saw a form covered up beneath a blanket. It rested in the middle on some sort of circular rise. He stared, the form is covered was sort of lumpy.
"Weird." Tidus muttered. Suddenly a thought struck him and he panicked.
"Please tell me I'm not in a mad scientists laboratory!" he yelled out.
"Hardly, if you were, I'd put a brain into your head." A voice drawled. Tidus spun around to find Kairi who looked happy to see him, and a very, VERY pissed Riku who didn't look so happy to see him. The green eyed youth blanched.
"Why the hell did you run off?!" He screamed. Kairi sighed.
"Well. . . . . . . . . I . . . . ." He trailed off and Riku looked even more crazed. If possible that is.
"Riku." Kairi said silently. "You're not helping." Riku stared.
"God Tidus, you are SO lucky Kairi likes you so much, elsewise you'd be stuck in a hospital.
"Sure. I think my major problem is that I can't fight with this thing!" He yelled out showing them his wooden rod. Riku nodded, and Kairi told him the same thing.
"Tidus is right, my magic is useful, but I can't rely on it completely." Riku nodded.
"Thought so. You know, I was wondering why that guy gave me these." He said and pulled the cloth off the lumpy form. It revealed a staff of some sorts. It was long, almost 5 feet long. At the top is had a golden circlet attached to it, and in the circle was a golden star, but the star was made only of 5 lines that cris-crossed over each other. The outside was outlined by three jagged points. He picked it up and handed it to Kairi. She took and smiled.
"This works." Riku then picked up the sword and tossed it to Tidus. He fumbled to catch it. Lifting the sword he gaped. It was long, almost as tall as him, and Tidus was VERY tall. The hilt was black and wrapped around with a silver cloth. The blade was protruding out of a piece at the bottom of the hilt which looked like a curved 'x' only the ends curved and were more closer together. The blade was a shimmering silvery blue, it looked like it was almost alive.
"T-thanks Riku." He murmured. For the first time ever, Riku smiled and Tidus. Kairi noticed this and smiled herself.
~~~~~
"You know what to do." Ansem said to a black dressed Sora. Sora now wore a pair of black jeans, which helped make him look more cool, those old red pants weren't really that great after his last growth spurt. With his black jeans he also wore a white shirt, but the sleeves looked like someone has hacked them into strips with a knife, now, some of them were wrapped around his arms, and the rest of the fabric hung loosely to the wind. By his side he carried his keyblade, it wasn't the oathkeeper, as he usually liked to keep it on. But the Ultima blade. A gift from Ansem. On his wrists were black wrist bands, and he had a golden spiraling circlet on his arm above his elbow on the right. His hair had become less levitated and more droopy. Sora's eyes were hollow, almost dead. The youth smiled and nodded, he walked away.
"Follow him and do what I said." Ansem directed to a small group of heartless, they were wyverns. Fast and deadly. He would've like to use shadows, but that would have been hard to believe that the keyblade master was defeated by the lowliest of heartless. Oh well, anything to get that youth. That one person who could help him unlock the final gate that wretched king had put up.
~~~~~
"So who gave you these weapons anyway Riku?" Tidus wanted to know.
"Mickey, he said I'd need them to find Sora." The youth told them.
"How'd you get out? And if he knew this was coming, then that's a big coincidence." Kairi muttered. Riku stopped and stared straight ahead.
"Nothing is coincidence, there is only fate, and the inevitable." He murmured calmly, the other two stared at him. Tidus caught Kairi's eyes, she caught his, they both stared at each other in confusion. The Tidus shrugged and walked on. Kairi sighed. They were walking till they heard sounds of fighting.
"What's that?" Tidus murmured. Kairi felt weird, she had this warmth in her heart, like it was burning. Not the painful type, but more like the feeling of sitting next to a warm fire. Then she knew. She raced past Riku and Tidus with a painful look of hope plastered to her face.
"Kairi!?" Riku yelled out running after her.
"The hell does she think she's doing?!" Tidus demanded as he dashed ahead. They both followed Kairi as she burst through the doors to the first district. She looked wildly around and gasped. Tidus stopped next to her and bent over, hands on knees.
"God, I'm winded." He remarked. Riku stopped to her side and stared at her.
"What was so important that you HAD to. . . . . . . run. . . . . . . . off . . . . . ?" he trailed away as he suddenly saw who she was gaping at.
"It can't be. . . . ." He whispered.
"It is! I know it is!" She shouted out. Tidus stared at them both as if they were crazy.
"What are you two TALKING about?!" he demanded. They ignored him.
"Sora!" Kairi yelled, she was about to rush forward when she noticed something. His arms were bleeding, his face was torn and scratched. It still looked that same, but more stern, mature and serious. Fatigue had made him look weary.
"Tidus! Either help or move!" Riku yelled out and ran towards Sora with his keyblade drawn. Sora was fighting the heartless with ragged wings off one by one. Without realizing it a wyvern raised above his head and plummeted heading straight for him. Sora looked up just in time to see, but far too late to dodge.
"Shit!" Riku hissed as he gave a powerful jump and flew right into the wyvern causing it to barrel over. Sora stared at Riku in confusion, he was about to say something when a wyvern skimmed his arm.
"Damn, they just won't stop coming!" The brown haired youth yelled out. Riku nodded.
"With us that should even the score." Together the duo fought off the attacks, Kairi stood by, when she saw that they were having trouble she stepped in. Using her magic and staff she fended off the heartless's attacks from her and the others. Tidus saw this and stiffened.
"No more hiding." He whispered to himself and dove in. Striking left right and center he took out three of the weird things easily. Sora smiled.
"Finally!" Riku yelled out. "You're making yourself useful!" Tidus scowled. After about 10 minutes of fighting Riku knew they wouldn't hold out much longer.
"If these guys don't stop showing up, then we won't make it out alive." The silver haired youth declared. Tidus and Kairi gaped.
'I have to protect Kairi!' Tidus thought worried.
"Oh no they won't!" She yelled out. She felt small tears of anger begin to build in her eyes. Then she felt a burst of energy. A flash of light took the area and everyone was blinded.
~~~~~
"What the HELL was that?!" Tidus screamed out. He felt like the life had been kicked out of him. All he remember was Kairi screaming 'Oh no they won't' then that flash of energy, and the next thing he knew, all those things were gone and Kairi was shivering on the cobblestones.
"Kairi?" He murmured to her in worry. She looked up and gave a feeble smile.
"I'm okay." He nodded and tried to stand up. His legs however felt like pudding at that moment. Worse then when he'd fought Riku.
"Whatever that was, it was a major burst of energy." Sora remarked. Everyone looked at him. Riku smiled.
"What were you doing playing with those things? You should have been back to the Destiny Islands by now." Sora frowned, he looked confused.
"Sora! I'm so glad you're okay!" Kairi said hugging him. He didn't hug back just took a step back looking confused.
"So you're Sora, I can tell why these guys were looking for you. You look like one hell of a fighter." Tidus told the brown haired youth. He stared at them in confusion.
"What are you talking about? My name's Dalland." Everyone stared.
"What?" Kairi whispered in disbelief, she let go and backed up a bit to get a better look at him. It was definitely Sora, there was no mistake. He even had the keyblade, it HAD to be Sora.
"What did you say your name was?" Riku murmured.
"Dalland, full name's Dalland Corona. Now I have a question for you." He said sternly.
"Who are you?" He asked and pointed to Kairi.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Oh!!! Don't you hate me for leaving cliffhangers?! Hehehehe, oh well. Spent hours trying to figure out how to break that out and not make it seem like some cheesy joke or twist. Buh bye!