Love Across Worlds – Chappie 10: Not Fade Away
Disclaimer: If owned all mentioned in the fic other then the plot, there'd be happy couples all around! I don't even own the chappie title this chapter!
Glor: Let me get straight to the point, here is one of my challenges...
Category: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Couple: Tara/Willow
Song: When Somebody Loved Me by Sarah McLachlan from the Toy Story 2 movie.
Lyrics:
When somebody loved me
Everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together
Lives within my heart
And when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
And when she was happy
So was I
When she loved me
Through the summer and the fall
We had each other that was all
Just she and I together
Like it was meant to be
And when she was lonely
I was there to comfort her
And I knew that she loved me
So the years went
By I stayed the same
But she began to drift away
I was left alone
But still I waited for the day
When she'd say:
"I will always love you"
Lonely and forgotten
Never thought she'd look my way
When she smiled at me
And held me
Just like she used to do
Like she loved me
When she loved me
When somebody loved me
Everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together
Lives within my heart
When she loved me
Can be happy or sad ending and other characters may be included.
Ghost Girl: Well, that's just one challenge.
Glor: If anyone does respond to this challenge, please contact me so I can read and review it, thank...
Ghost Girl: (coughs)
Glor: Oh yeah! The chappie name is in honor of the last episode of Angel: the Series, which was shown at 9:00PM U.S. Eastern Time Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 on the WB. We AtS and BtVS fans will never let AtS or BtVS fade away... Now, with all that obsessive sentimental crap from me said and done, on with Chappie 10: Not Fade Away.
The moonlight from the full moon glistened across the water as the four teens walked along the shore of the shimmering waters. A light breeze blew against the foursome as they searched for the elusive keyhole.
"Ugh!" Amaya groaned as she kicked the sand in front of her, "We're getting no where! How are we supposed to find the keyhole? Search the whole damned world!?"
At her outburst Riku raised an eyebrow, Kairi giggled, and Sora shrugged, "Guess we're not leaving tomorrow then," Sora stated as he kept walking, followed by Riku and Kairi.
Amaya sighed and an idea popped into her head, "I got it!" Amaya had said it loud enough that it had startled the others, "I can summon an Aeon or a Guardian Force as they're called in this world!"
"What element are you going to use?" Kairi asked as her sister pulled out the stone.
Amaya shrugs, "Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll be like Valefor but bigger?" she said innocently and smiled cutely.
Amaya chose a spell and cast it with one word, "Revive,"
The sky darkened with thunderclouds as a circle symbol glowed in the sky and a huge aeon comes swooping down. The aeon comes crashing down on all fours, dislodging pieces of the ground in the process. Amaya, in a sort of trance, walked over to the creature.
"Bahamut..." she whispered in the trance but was soon out of it and turned to the others, "See? I got lucky!"
Riku rolled his eyes and walked passed Amaya, "Good work," he whispered to her as he climbed onto Bahamut's back.
Amaya smiled at Riku's compliment as she, Kairi, and Sora climbed on and Bahamut took off into the night sky.
Leiko stretched out on the couch and closed her eyes, "Why are you following me around, spiky? 'Cause it's gettin' me pissed off," she stated as Cloud came into the cabin.
"The name's Cloud and I'm just keeping you out of trouble," Cloud replied as he rested his sword against the wall next to where Leiko had previously placed her katana.
Leiko jumped up, "You're not my keeper!" she yelled at him in his face.
"Touchy..." he said as sat on the couch and lied down, "Goodnight, princess,"
Leiko growled at the princess comment and Cloud chuckled inwardly, 'Oh these next few months will be fun...' he thought as he drifted into sleep and Leiko lied back down.
Gunshots echoed through the catacombs of the fallen Hellmouth. Screams from the little black creatures as they dissipated into nothingness once more filled the ears of the longhaired woman and dark skinned man with a gun as an arm. The duo ran through the dark halls only stopping to fight the black vampiric creatures. At the end of the hall, after all the creatures were defeated, the woman took out a pair of keys and unlocked the barred cell in front of them.
"Marlene?" the man asked as her ran into the cell.
"Papa!" Marlene answered as she ran into the man's arms, "You came!"
"'Course I came, you thought I wouldn't?"
"No! Never!"
Red cleared his throat, "Sorry to interrupt the touching reunion, but we should get going before they find out you're here,"
Tifa nodded in agreement, "We should get outta here fast... There's a shortcut in the catacombs," she as she looked at Red and Cait Sith and noticed an extra person among them, "Who is she?"
"My name is Amarante... Call me Amara..." Amara said as she bowed slightly to Tifa as a greeting.
Tifa hesitated and bowed as well, "I'm Tifa and this guy's Barret. Why are you in here anyway?"
"I have visions... Visions of what's to come... Mostly of what The First and Ansem will do if they succeed... So if I were to tell the only one's with power to stop them, how to stop them... It would put a dent in their plans, would it not?"
"Yeah..."
"See? We better get going then!" Cait Sith exclaimed worriedly, "Don't want you stayin' in the hands of evil!" he added as he rushed out of the room.
Red rolled his eyes, "He was playing it cool before but once he can escape, he runs like a frightened mouse," he muttered as he followed Cait Sith out.
Candle lights flickered in the dark crypt like room. There were seven dark figures hidden in the shadows were conversing. Two of the figures when bathed in the light, cast no shadow although it was clear they were there.
"Where's Sephy?" the First asked in the form of Glory the hell god, "'Cause he's wastin' time for my sweet, sweet revenge on the blondie duo!"
"Calm down... He is on his way..." A blue haired man replied in his calming tone of voice, "and you are not the only one who is hoping for their revenge,"
A mirror glimmered behind the First and the form of a dark haired woman in a long flowing dress with curls in her hair and three crescent moons insignia on her forehead, "Yes... I'll get those bratty Sailor Soldiers..."
The other woman in the room scoffed, "From what I've heard, you did a great job of it the last time you tried..." she said sarcastically as the man sitting at her side raised an arm to his ladylove.
"Yumi..." he said quietly to her.
"Yes, Lord Shishio?"
"No quarreling, save it for the Battousai and his lackeys," Shishio said as he took a sip from the wine he had been swirling a bit in his glass.
"Of course, Lord Shishio," Yumi said with adoration.
"Ahem," a figure coughed as her entered the room.
Everyone turned to the man in the doorway, "What is it, Houji?" Shishio asked the man.
"Lord Sephiroth has arrived..." Houji said trailing off.
"And...?" Yumi asked impatiently.
"And the prisoners from my world have escaped with the seer in tow," Sephiroth replied stepping out of the shadows behind Houji.
"No!" Ansem growled, "She was to be under out watch at ALL times!"
"Well, Lord Ansem... It seems that those bringers had put the queen in the same cell as three of the AVALANCHE prisoners... And the other two had freed them," Houji explained from what he had found out, "They may be long gone from here by now,"
"And whose fault is that?" Ansem said as accusingly looked at the curly haired blonde.
The First raised its manicured hands up in defense, "Hey don't look at me! I may have slipped up a bit when I first created those harbringers but I never said to let THEM watch the seer! I thought you'd figure out that they need to be told word for word what to do or they might as well be dirt under our feet," it said in a matter of fact tone.
Silence... "Well, Sephy, what'd you find out 'bout the keybearers and those 'pure of soul' girls," the First asked with air quotes when it said pure of soul.
"They're looking for the keyhole... They won't find it tonight but I will guard it... And when they come, I shall slay the keybearers but keep the girl alive and bring them here..." Sephiroth said with maniacal grin as he took off back to Garden.
Ansem shakes his head, "Fool... He believes he can slay the keybearers so easily..."
"At the moment, they're not our main concern," the last of the dark figures yet to be revealed said as he stepped into the light, "Our main concern is the seer,"
The First switched into the form a broody dark haired vampire with too much hair gel, "Naraku... You're right... Can't have a seer running around spouting about her visions to the goodie-goodies," The First responded in Angelus' Irish accent.
Ansem looked towards him, "Yes, the shape-shifter is right... You'll bring her back?"
"Of course..." the man in the monkey guise replied as he disappeared as The First muttered about being degraded to work with such fools that can't even call him by his proper title.
The flight had been calming. But Amaya was still a little on edge and had no idea why. Just like she couldn't understand why Riku's whispered praise of her summoning left her stomach tied in knots.
"Hey! Let's go there!" Sora's excited yell interrupted Amaya's musings as he pointed to the city by the sea.
"Do you really think the Keyhole is there or do you just want carouse around the city, Sora?" Kairi asked jokingly and with a small giggle.
Sora pouted, "Hey, it could be there..." he said dejectedly.
Amaya smiled a little, "Okay, Bahamut! Land at the entrance of..." she trails off as she flips through the book fairy godmother gave her, "Deling City!"
Sora smiled in triumphant, "Ha!"
Riku shook his head at Sora's childishness then let the evening breeze blow through his silver locks of hair. Amaya watched as the wind blew through Riku's hair and she noticed how handsome he was. As her thoughts drifted to thoughts of Riku, Bahamut made a rough landing catching Amaya off guarded and sending her and everyone else toppling off the aeon.
All four teens landed on the ground with a thud but something had cushioned Amaya's fall. She blinked then looked down to see a pair of piercing blue-green eyes looking at her. She looked away to hide her blush as she rolled off Riku.
"Sorry..." she muttered as she got up and dusted herself off, "I mustn't have been paying attention and Bahamut decided to throw us off..."
"Ahem, sorry to interrupt..." a mysterious voice apologized from the gates of Deling City causing the group to turn to the strange human-like creature, "We must hurry, before the heartless emerge,"
Riku spoke up, "And why should we follow you?"
"I will lead you to the keyhole. Now, hurry, before the heartless emerge," he said as he walked through the gates entering the city.
Amaya examined the man as they began to follow him. He was strangely dressed in some time of robes and puffed out pants. His bluish gray hair was stuck up and slicked back and his face was framed by two pointed elf-like ears. But the strangest thing about him was his abnormally sized hands with long slender fingers.
"What are you?" Amaya asked the man then noticed how rude it sounded, "I mean... If you don't mind me asking..."
"A Guado," he answered as he kept walking, "I serve my Maester and he wants you to make it safely to the keyhole here so you can come to our world and save it from these creatures of darkness plaguing Spira and many other worlds,"
"Okay," Amaya accepted, "We'll be happy to. As soon we lock this world,"
Amaya smiled, 'This is too easy,' Riku thought suspiciously, 'I'm watching him; he's up to no good,'
"Riku! C'mon, you're holding us up!" Sora exclaimed naively as he, Kairi, and Amaya were a ways away from Riku with the Guado.
Riku nodded and followed the rest of the group silently as they followed the Guado through the shopping district and towards Galbadia Hotel. They entered to see that is was empty, not a soul, not even the clerk.
"Down this way, the keyhole is on the stage in the bar," the Guado stated as he descended the stairs followed by the teens who were admiring the beautiful hotel, all but Riku.
The Guado walked upon the stage and spread his arms out, "Here it is. You can lock this world now,"
Riku let out a sigh and took out his keyblade, as did Sora. They both pointed they're keyblades towards the stage, at the piano and the keyhole appeared in front of the piano. Soon there was locking sound and the keyhole dispersed, never to be seen again.
Sora grinned goofily and held up his hand with V for victory sign to Kairi who smiled. Riku rolled his eyes as he put his keyblade away. He then began to walk up the stairs to leave the bar.
"Sir?" the Guado questioned which made Riku turn to look to the Guado who held out a piece of paper out to him, "It's the coordinates to Spira,"
Riku looked over the paper that the Guado passed to him, "Tell you're 'Maester' that he's not calling the shots. And if he tries to stop us from locking any worlds, he's no better the Heartless. And I can tell you this, if he does interfere, his fate is just as fortunate as any Heartless that cross my path," Riku threatened as he struck terror into the heart of the Guado.
The Guado gulped and nodded, "N-no interfering..." he stuttered as he ran out of the hotel.
"He sure left quickly," Amaya's voice broke through to Riku who turned to her with a small smile.
He shrugged, "He said he had a prior engagement to attend and ran out," he answered as he gestured to the group downstairs, "Let's go,"
As soon as they reached the city limits, Amaya once again summoned Bahamut. They all climbed aboard and set off for the flower field. Kairi yawned and her eyes began to droop. Sora wrapped his arms tentively around Kairi and she leaned into his embrace, soon falling asleep with the night air wafting through her hair.
Amaya smiled at the cute scene in front of her as Riku nudged her to get her attention and when he did, he gave her the paper the Guado gave him, "What's this?" she asked.
"The coordinates to Spira," he answered as he breathed in the cool night air, "I think this my be a trap, so we should watch ourselves,"
Amaya nodded, "Okay, we'll follow your lead," she said sincerely.
Riku's eyes widened then he turned to Amaya to see she was smiling. Soon he smiled as well.
Glor: Sorry! I know this is uber-short but I didn't want to ruin the uber-cute chapter ending... (grins) Sorry for all the Angel and Buffy obsessing that got thrown in... I'm just weird and get a new obsession every week... ;;
Ghost Girl: This week's obsession: Detective Conan in Japan A.K.A. Case Closed in America. Last week's obsession: Fruits Basket. The week before: Any manga she could get her hands on in Italy.
Glor: (sweatdrop) I can't believe I haven't updated this fic since they stripped the wave lines and asterisks from the fanfics... Damn. Well, there will be more updating... But then school's right around the corner again... (sniff) I don't wanna go back! Well, next world is obviously Spira! From Final Fantasy X and X-2. There will be spoilers for those who haven't played FFX-2 'cause I think I'll be having the KH gang coming in after FFX-2 is over...
Ghost Girl: Announcement! Gloria now has a deviantArt account. And guess what the first picture she posted is...
Glor: Riku! Not colored 'cause I have no idea how to do that with photoImpression but it fixed a bit with the computer so you can see it. The website is: http:[insert double slash]VampireAnimeDeviant[insert period]deviantArt[insert period]com
Ghost Girl: And she's gotten ideas to draw the outfits from FFX-2 and drawing in the Buffy and Angel characters... And she's also drawn Leiko, which will be posted as soon as she has time.
Glor: Please review! Bye-e!