Chapter 8: Deal With Demons
Riku and Kairi looked around nervously at their friends. They saw fear in their eyes, but Riku expressing the most. Riku couldn't beleive that a ghost touched him.
"That...wasn't a ghost.." he whispered. Kairi looked at him, a tear running down her cheek.
"Then what was it, Riku? Imagination? We both saw it! We saw zombies for godssake!" she shouted louder now. "What makes you think there arent ghosts?"
"Kairi shush!" Selphie shouted. Kairi turned to face her and Selphie lowered her voice. "Not too loud...you never know who could be listening."
Kairi nodded. She held her ear against the wall again to hear anything suspicious outside. She heard the wind, the leaves on the trees flapping against it, and some insects. Suddenly, she heard footsteps in the sand, stopping and beginning again.
"Guys, it's still out there." Kairi said to them. When she turned around, the door was open and Riku was gone.
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Sora couldnt beleive it. His own friends betrayed him, and he didnt know why.
He called to Tidus, and Tidus didnt answer. Sora brushed it off as it seemed Tidus was too scared to say anything, so he followed him back to the hut. The door closed. "Why?" he thought. He walked all around the hut, calling for them, and nothing. It's like they couldn't hear him. When he started knocking on the door, no one was coming. He tried to bust it down, shake it, he screamed for them, but nothing.
And finally, the grand finale, when Riku came outside, Sora went running to him and shook him, shouting his name. Riku ran inside the hut and shut the door.
Sora was confused, upset, and scared. With heartless back, zombies roaming around, his parents dead, he didnt have even his friends to lean on. He didnt know why they were acting like this.
"I gotta find those two Heartless..." Sora said. He ran back to the beach and passed the walking, rotting corpses. They ignored Sora. Finding this weird, he had more important things to solve.
When he finally found those two Heartless, he shouted for them and they turned around. Phanta laughed at him.
"Hello Sor-"
"What did you do!?" Sora shouted. Phanta cackled this time and Fotia giggled.
"You realised something a little suspicous, eh Sora?" Phanta asked, grinning. "I knew it wouldnt take long for such a bright boy as you."
"What happened?" he asked once again. Fotia spoke this time.
"Phanta has this really cool power that makes people Phantoms! Ya! And the only people who cans ee you are heartless, cause, like, your sorta like a heartless!" she explained hyperly. Sora felt like something punched his gut.
"What..?" he said sadly. "You mean, my friends cant see me?"
"Nor hear you." Phanta added. Sora sat down on the sad and started to weep and Phanta made a fake pout.
"Aww, is wittle Sora scared?"
"How do I change back!" Sora mumbled. Phanta laughed.
"This is the bestest part!" Fotia giggled. Phanta nodded.
"Indeed." she said. "You see, we need a favor to ask of you. As the Keyblade Master, we need you to help us."
"Help you, no way!" Sora blurted out.
"Tsk Tsk Tsk...you have to Sora. You have to help us, no matter what. Even if it means to hurt your friends a teensy bit."
"Now that draws the line. I'd rather give myself in."
"Sora, let's put it this way. You help us, we change you back to normal and your friends barely get hurt, emotionally and physically. If you dont help us, you dont get changed back and your friends die."
Sora gulped at Phanta's words. He knew he had to do it.
"Your promise?"
"I swear."
Sora nodded and Fotia clapped in joy, sparks flying out once again. Phanta smiled evily and motioned Sora to follow her. Sora wept secretly and moped behind the evil woman.
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Riku had no idea what he was getting himself into by going out there, but he had to figure out what was going on, and find Sora. He sharpened a long pointy stick with a rock and carried it along with him for protection. He then picked up the hammer they used previously, a butcher knife from someone's kitchen scattered on the floor, and Selphie's jump rope. He then ran back to the hut as quick as he could and shut the door.
"Riku, you had us worried sick!" Kairi shouted. "You could of bee-"
"Enough for now, Kairi. We cant stay locked up inside here forever. We got to get out, get explanations, find Sora. I brought weapons for protection." Riku said to them and pointed out the weapons.
"Kairi, you can have the hammer. Tidus, the knife and Selphie your jump rope. I have this sharpened stick as a weapon."
Selphie starred at her weapon blankly.
"What the hell am I going to do with this, play with the zombies?" she said sarcastically. Riku shrugged.
"It's the only thing I could find, but I'll trade if you want." he offered. Selphie paused and then shook her head.
"No, I got an awesome idea!" she shouted, slightly jumping. She opened the door and ran quickly to get something.
"Selphie!" Kairi shouted, reaching out for her uselessly. Selphie came running back with a small box of spare nails. She held up her jump rope and stuck the nails through the thin rope, one facing one way and the one on the bottom facing another way, and continued this pattern until the rope was full. Selphie smiled and swung it fast, hitting it against the hut wall as it stuck there and she pulled it off.
"Sweet, no?" she asked. Riku nodded.
"I'm impressed." he said.
"Just dont swing that thing near me..." Kairi said. Selphie nodded.
"Sure thing."
They all slowly got out of the hut, Riku leading them out. Tidus closed the door, as he was last, and they all crept into the mini-jungle. They all could hear the low moans of those creatures with th glowing yellow eyes. Selphie bit her lower lip and Kairi started to tremble, her hammer slightly bobbing. Riku, who seemed fearless but was just as terrified as them, walked cautiously. Tidus looked around frantically until he spotted something.
"Look, over there!" he whispered. They all looked to where he mentioned and there was a "zombie" there, starring at them. They all froze, not knowing what to do. Just then, the zombie-creature swung its head back, almost ripping off, and began to emmit a ear-splitting screech. Kairi reached for her ears and her heart pounded faster then ever before. She heard someone walking behind them, and she quickly turned her head, her shoulder-length red hair swinging to the side. Another zombie, and another, and another.
"Crap.." Tidus whispered. They were surrounded by eight zombies, and they didnt look too happy. They didnt have an expression at all, just ugly, blank faces.
"Outnumbered...by double." Riku said. Just then, one zombie took a step forward. Riku reacted. "We have to fight them, now!"
They all sprung foward as the zombies quickened their pace much faster. Tidus ran, scared because he had to fight close range, but it was his only option at the moment. He swung the knife at the zombie in front of him, he had a name tag on. "Teddy Grisham" it read.
"See ya later, Ted!" Tidus shouted and jammed the knife into the creatures chest, and took it out again. He then brought it up to his throat and cut it, fast. Ted screeched and collapsed onto the floor and lay motionless. Tidus was releived that he had got that over with, but suddenly one of the creatures grabbed him and bit his shoulder. Tidus cried out and stuck the knife right into the creatures forehead and quickly took it out, as the creature fell back and slightly spasmed onto the floor. Tidus felt a brush relief, and also guilt. He grabbed his shoulder in pain and looked back at is friends.
Kairi swung her hammer with her eyes closed, hitting the creatures with strong impact in the face as they spit out blood and teeth. Skin was coming off, as well as flesh as she hit them. Two were ganging up on her, and kicked one of them and hit it over the head with the hammer.
"Eww..." she groaned. Kairi quickly turned around and hit the other zombie thrice as it fell to the floor. She quickly ducked afterwards, cause Riku was backing up a zombie against a tree and he swung his keening stick. He pierced the zombie twice, and then shoved the stick in the creatures neck, nailing it to the tree.It's body slid down the bark slowly and Riku took out the stick and let the head fall.
"That's just nasty." Kairi said. Riku looked away from the gruesome sight, and as he started for another zombie he tripped and fell at its feet. The zombie quickly bent down to attack Riku, but Riku reacted quickly and impaled it through one side of its left leg, it came out the other way, impaled the right leg and it came out again, causing the zombie to lose its balance and fall. Riku took out the stick and impaled the creature one final time in the head.
Selphie swung her spiked jump rope rapidly and hit one zombie, the rope wrapping around its head. When she tugged on it, it came off quickly along with flesh and one of its eyes ripping off. Selphie fought the urge to vomit and swung it around like a lasso quickly. As she threw it back, ready to hit the zombie one more time, she tugged on it but it was caught on something. Another zombie in back of her had it stuck to its face, so she ripped it off and then wrapped the two heads together and killed them both instantly.
After the zombies around them were long gone, they all looked at eachother, Selphie, Tidus and Kairi crying, and Riku tearing.
"This is so scary.." Kairi said. "We are being so violent.."
"It's for survival, we had no other choice! They could of killed us!" Riku said, forceful. Selphie wiped her tears.
"You gotta admit..it was...kinda fun. Mostly gross. Mostly sad, but it had its fun level."
"Barely." Tidus remarked. "Maybe with that nailed lasso of yours. I have a freaken knife."
Riku starred at them, seeing fear. Seeing confusion, sadness. They looked mournful, and their faces apologetic. He didnt seem this right, but they've never done anything like this before.
"We have to find Sora. We will have to do this more often." Kairi said, fighting back tears. She streched out her arm to the center of them. "We have to be a team, and fight together. To find out what's going on, and to find Sora. There is no backing out, and many things will be very hard. Everyone is with me, right?"
Riku looked at Kairi, proud. He felt a tug at his heart. Was he...having some sort of feelings for Kairi? This was no time to think of this now. He streched out his arm and joined Kairi's hand. Kairi smiled.
"Yes." Tidus mumbled and streched out his arm as well, followed by Selphie.
"No backing out." she said. They all nodded, a held eachothers hands tightly, and then parted them.
"Let's get going." Riku said and turned around to walk towards the beach.
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Sora woke up only to find himself in some sort of castle. He was on a large bed with purple sheets and a black canopy. The walls were purple and has gold lining. He looked at the curtains and saw that they were black. It felt sophisticated, yet evil. He stepped onto the purple, marble floor and his shoes hitting it made an echo in the large room.
"Where am I?" he said out loud. He walked around the unfamiliar room and stopped at a medium-sized, purple wooden drawer with yellow knobs. He opened the first drawer and saw a Journal, neatly placed at the corner of the drawer. He picked it up and opened it, looking at the back of the front cover and back cover for a name. Nothing. He opened to the first page and saw the script handwriting.
"July 6th
This is the beginning of a journey, I know that for sure. Everyone here thinks I'm useless. They think I serve no purpose, just a mere servant of the King. No one dares say it to my face, because they will never hear the end of it.
The bubbly one and her team-mates have a job to do, sometime next month. Something big. I hardly have anything to do with it. I do small tasks, but nothing more. The King always picks them to do his dirty work. I'm just here. Just watch, wait and see."
Sora finished reading the first entry, and by the date, assuming it was this year as the book looked brand new, was kept only for more then a month. The bubbly one was probably the fire heartless Sora saw earlier. He couldnt imagine a heartless more bubbly then that. It leaves her out, but it wouldnt seem like her anyway because the writing was too well written for her.
The door opened behind him and Sora quickly closed the book and turned around, seeing Phanta in the doorway.
"Like the room?" she said, grinning. "It's quite a copy of mine, only my walls are more lavender then this. Lavendar, yellow, black. My three favorite colors." Phanta noticed the Journal Sora held in his hand.
"Oh. Whose is that?" she said, quickly grabbing it from him. Sora looked at her with anger.
"Where am I? What am I doing here?" he shouted, demanding answers. Phanta grabbed the Journal and held it against her.
"You are in the guest room in King Heartless's Castle. Your going to help us, remember? And you have to cooperate. Now follow me, I'm going to introduce you to your team-mates..."
"They arent my team-mates." Sora growled. Phanta glared at him.
"They are for now, and if you keep having that tone your friends will be dead quicker then you could say it."
"You wouldnt dare."
"I dare."
Phanta walked down the halls with Sora behind her, ready to strangle her to death. She opened two huge doors into a room, three times the size of the guest room he was in.
"Come, meet them." she said and went up to the first guy. He had baby blue, short hair and his skin was that black tone heartless's have. His eye's were yellow and he had strong, muscle toned arms. He had a blue muscle shirt on and the end of his arms had frozen water at the top. From the waist down, water was pouring down taking place of his legs. Strangely, the water didnt splash anywhere or wet the floor. On his head was a head band with a big rain drop shape strapped onto it.
"I'd like you to meet Neero, heartless of water." Phanta said. Sora and Neero glared at eachother.
"Hey." he said. Sora nodded.
"He commands the water, that's why nothing is getting wet, if that's what your wondering." Phanta said and continued to walk to the next person. He had light brown, short hair and cap made out of brown rocks. He was shirtless and had small rock-spikes coming out of his abdomen. His eyes were yellow and skin heartless black, as all of them, and he had dark brown pants on. His pants had holes for three spikes were coming out of each leg. The end of the pants were torn.
"This is Yee, heartless of earth." she said. Sora and Yee exchanged glances and they continued over to the next person. It was a heartless woman this time. She had two big buns of hair on her head and her hair was a pale white. She had a long, light gray gown and her feet werent visible. Air seemed to be coming out of the bottom of the gown, blowing the torn edges slightly. She also had bangs, hanging over her face like bells hanging on towers.
"This is Era, heartless of wind." Phanta said.
"How do you do." Era said in an unpolite tone. Sora walked over to the next one.
"Fotia, heartless of fire whom you already met." Phanta said. Fotia giggled.
"Is that it?" Sora asked impatiently. Phanta shook her head.
"Calm yourself. Now, the King awaits."
Sora followed Phanta down the hall, not knowing what he's getting himself into.
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It was getting darker in the evening at Destiny Isles with barely any light. Riku, Selphie, Tidus and Kairi finally reached the beach. More corpses were swarming all over, and instead of fighting, they had a different option as to run past them. As quickly as they did, though, the zombies surprised them all by a jog like run.
"Riku! I think they're running!" Kairi shouted. Riku looked back and his eyes widened. They were running after them.
"Let's run into our other secret hideout on the other side, and if any zombies are smart enough to find us there, we fight. Hopefully there wont be too many." Riku shouted back. What is he saying? Zombies? They certainly werent zombies, and Riku came to a conclusion. The yellow eyes, the screeching. Heartless. Could it be possible that heartless could possess bodies? Those heartless sure liked surprising them.
They finally reached the hideout and only two possessed bodies made it. One hid behind the trees and another reached for them. Riku impaled it and ended it with a quick kill and ran inside the hideout.
"I'll handle the next one, get in guys!" Selphie shouted as her friends got in the secret hideout. She swung her spiked rope around and the corpse came out of hiding and ran towards her. Selphie's eyes widened and her swinging of her rope lost speed.
"M-m-om..." Selphie murmured. She stopped swinging as her mother's possessed body ran to her, ready to kill Selphie as she froze. Selphie couldnt attack her own mother, it felt wrong then it already was. As she closed her eyes, ready to experience death, Tidus jumped out and swung at her mother's slightly attached head as it hung atop her chest. He cut it and stabbed it until it fell to the ground. Selphie started to cry as Tidus walked her inside. They didnt want to do that again, ever.
Something like that would be hard for everyone, but as the mysteries unfold, no one knew what to expect.
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Riku and Kairi looked around nervously at their friends. They saw fear in their eyes, but Riku expressing the most. Riku couldn't beleive that a ghost touched him.
"That...wasn't a ghost.." he whispered. Kairi looked at him, a tear running down her cheek.
"Then what was it, Riku? Imagination? We both saw it! We saw zombies for godssake!" she shouted louder now. "What makes you think there arent ghosts?"
"Kairi shush!" Selphie shouted. Kairi turned to face her and Selphie lowered her voice. "Not too loud...you never know who could be listening."
Kairi nodded. She held her ear against the wall again to hear anything suspicious outside. She heard the wind, the leaves on the trees flapping against it, and some insects. Suddenly, she heard footsteps in the sand, stopping and beginning again.
"Guys, it's still out there." Kairi said to them. When she turned around, the door was open and Riku was gone.
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Sora couldnt beleive it. His own friends betrayed him, and he didnt know why.
He called to Tidus, and Tidus didnt answer. Sora brushed it off as it seemed Tidus was too scared to say anything, so he followed him back to the hut. The door closed. "Why?" he thought. He walked all around the hut, calling for them, and nothing. It's like they couldn't hear him. When he started knocking on the door, no one was coming. He tried to bust it down, shake it, he screamed for them, but nothing.
And finally, the grand finale, when Riku came outside, Sora went running to him and shook him, shouting his name. Riku ran inside the hut and shut the door.
Sora was confused, upset, and scared. With heartless back, zombies roaming around, his parents dead, he didnt have even his friends to lean on. He didnt know why they were acting like this.
"I gotta find those two Heartless..." Sora said. He ran back to the beach and passed the walking, rotting corpses. They ignored Sora. Finding this weird, he had more important things to solve.
When he finally found those two Heartless, he shouted for them and they turned around. Phanta laughed at him.
"Hello Sor-"
"What did you do!?" Sora shouted. Phanta cackled this time and Fotia giggled.
"You realised something a little suspicous, eh Sora?" Phanta asked, grinning. "I knew it wouldnt take long for such a bright boy as you."
"What happened?" he asked once again. Fotia spoke this time.
"Phanta has this really cool power that makes people Phantoms! Ya! And the only people who cans ee you are heartless, cause, like, your sorta like a heartless!" she explained hyperly. Sora felt like something punched his gut.
"What..?" he said sadly. "You mean, my friends cant see me?"
"Nor hear you." Phanta added. Sora sat down on the sad and started to weep and Phanta made a fake pout.
"Aww, is wittle Sora scared?"
"How do I change back!" Sora mumbled. Phanta laughed.
"This is the bestest part!" Fotia giggled. Phanta nodded.
"Indeed." she said. "You see, we need a favor to ask of you. As the Keyblade Master, we need you to help us."
"Help you, no way!" Sora blurted out.
"Tsk Tsk Tsk...you have to Sora. You have to help us, no matter what. Even if it means to hurt your friends a teensy bit."
"Now that draws the line. I'd rather give myself in."
"Sora, let's put it this way. You help us, we change you back to normal and your friends barely get hurt, emotionally and physically. If you dont help us, you dont get changed back and your friends die."
Sora gulped at Phanta's words. He knew he had to do it.
"Your promise?"
"I swear."
Sora nodded and Fotia clapped in joy, sparks flying out once again. Phanta smiled evily and motioned Sora to follow her. Sora wept secretly and moped behind the evil woman.
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Riku had no idea what he was getting himself into by going out there, but he had to figure out what was going on, and find Sora. He sharpened a long pointy stick with a rock and carried it along with him for protection. He then picked up the hammer they used previously, a butcher knife from someone's kitchen scattered on the floor, and Selphie's jump rope. He then ran back to the hut as quick as he could and shut the door.
"Riku, you had us worried sick!" Kairi shouted. "You could of bee-"
"Enough for now, Kairi. We cant stay locked up inside here forever. We got to get out, get explanations, find Sora. I brought weapons for protection." Riku said to them and pointed out the weapons.
"Kairi, you can have the hammer. Tidus, the knife and Selphie your jump rope. I have this sharpened stick as a weapon."
Selphie starred at her weapon blankly.
"What the hell am I going to do with this, play with the zombies?" she said sarcastically. Riku shrugged.
"It's the only thing I could find, but I'll trade if you want." he offered. Selphie paused and then shook her head.
"No, I got an awesome idea!" she shouted, slightly jumping. She opened the door and ran quickly to get something.
"Selphie!" Kairi shouted, reaching out for her uselessly. Selphie came running back with a small box of spare nails. She held up her jump rope and stuck the nails through the thin rope, one facing one way and the one on the bottom facing another way, and continued this pattern until the rope was full. Selphie smiled and swung it fast, hitting it against the hut wall as it stuck there and she pulled it off.
"Sweet, no?" she asked. Riku nodded.
"I'm impressed." he said.
"Just dont swing that thing near me..." Kairi said. Selphie nodded.
"Sure thing."
They all slowly got out of the hut, Riku leading them out. Tidus closed the door, as he was last, and they all crept into the mini-jungle. They all could hear the low moans of those creatures with th glowing yellow eyes. Selphie bit her lower lip and Kairi started to tremble, her hammer slightly bobbing. Riku, who seemed fearless but was just as terrified as them, walked cautiously. Tidus looked around frantically until he spotted something.
"Look, over there!" he whispered. They all looked to where he mentioned and there was a "zombie" there, starring at them. They all froze, not knowing what to do. Just then, the zombie-creature swung its head back, almost ripping off, and began to emmit a ear-splitting screech. Kairi reached for her ears and her heart pounded faster then ever before. She heard someone walking behind them, and she quickly turned her head, her shoulder-length red hair swinging to the side. Another zombie, and another, and another.
"Crap.." Tidus whispered. They were surrounded by eight zombies, and they didnt look too happy. They didnt have an expression at all, just ugly, blank faces.
"Outnumbered...by double." Riku said. Just then, one zombie took a step forward. Riku reacted. "We have to fight them, now!"
They all sprung foward as the zombies quickened their pace much faster. Tidus ran, scared because he had to fight close range, but it was his only option at the moment. He swung the knife at the zombie in front of him, he had a name tag on. "Teddy Grisham" it read.
"See ya later, Ted!" Tidus shouted and jammed the knife into the creatures chest, and took it out again. He then brought it up to his throat and cut it, fast. Ted screeched and collapsed onto the floor and lay motionless. Tidus was releived that he had got that over with, but suddenly one of the creatures grabbed him and bit his shoulder. Tidus cried out and stuck the knife right into the creatures forehead and quickly took it out, as the creature fell back and slightly spasmed onto the floor. Tidus felt a brush relief, and also guilt. He grabbed his shoulder in pain and looked back at is friends.
Kairi swung her hammer with her eyes closed, hitting the creatures with strong impact in the face as they spit out blood and teeth. Skin was coming off, as well as flesh as she hit them. Two were ganging up on her, and kicked one of them and hit it over the head with the hammer.
"Eww..." she groaned. Kairi quickly turned around and hit the other zombie thrice as it fell to the floor. She quickly ducked afterwards, cause Riku was backing up a zombie against a tree and he swung his keening stick. He pierced the zombie twice, and then shoved the stick in the creatures neck, nailing it to the tree.It's body slid down the bark slowly and Riku took out the stick and let the head fall.
"That's just nasty." Kairi said. Riku looked away from the gruesome sight, and as he started for another zombie he tripped and fell at its feet. The zombie quickly bent down to attack Riku, but Riku reacted quickly and impaled it through one side of its left leg, it came out the other way, impaled the right leg and it came out again, causing the zombie to lose its balance and fall. Riku took out the stick and impaled the creature one final time in the head.
Selphie swung her spiked jump rope rapidly and hit one zombie, the rope wrapping around its head. When she tugged on it, it came off quickly along with flesh and one of its eyes ripping off. Selphie fought the urge to vomit and swung it around like a lasso quickly. As she threw it back, ready to hit the zombie one more time, she tugged on it but it was caught on something. Another zombie in back of her had it stuck to its face, so she ripped it off and then wrapped the two heads together and killed them both instantly.
After the zombies around them were long gone, they all looked at eachother, Selphie, Tidus and Kairi crying, and Riku tearing.
"This is so scary.." Kairi said. "We are being so violent.."
"It's for survival, we had no other choice! They could of killed us!" Riku said, forceful. Selphie wiped her tears.
"You gotta admit..it was...kinda fun. Mostly gross. Mostly sad, but it had its fun level."
"Barely." Tidus remarked. "Maybe with that nailed lasso of yours. I have a freaken knife."
Riku starred at them, seeing fear. Seeing confusion, sadness. They looked mournful, and their faces apologetic. He didnt seem this right, but they've never done anything like this before.
"We have to find Sora. We will have to do this more often." Kairi said, fighting back tears. She streched out her arm to the center of them. "We have to be a team, and fight together. To find out what's going on, and to find Sora. There is no backing out, and many things will be very hard. Everyone is with me, right?"
Riku looked at Kairi, proud. He felt a tug at his heart. Was he...having some sort of feelings for Kairi? This was no time to think of this now. He streched out his arm and joined Kairi's hand. Kairi smiled.
"Yes." Tidus mumbled and streched out his arm as well, followed by Selphie.
"No backing out." she said. They all nodded, a held eachothers hands tightly, and then parted them.
"Let's get going." Riku said and turned around to walk towards the beach.
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Sora woke up only to find himself in some sort of castle. He was on a large bed with purple sheets and a black canopy. The walls were purple and has gold lining. He looked at the curtains and saw that they were black. It felt sophisticated, yet evil. He stepped onto the purple, marble floor and his shoes hitting it made an echo in the large room.
"Where am I?" he said out loud. He walked around the unfamiliar room and stopped at a medium-sized, purple wooden drawer with yellow knobs. He opened the first drawer and saw a Journal, neatly placed at the corner of the drawer. He picked it up and opened it, looking at the back of the front cover and back cover for a name. Nothing. He opened to the first page and saw the script handwriting.
"July 6th
This is the beginning of a journey, I know that for sure. Everyone here thinks I'm useless. They think I serve no purpose, just a mere servant of the King. No one dares say it to my face, because they will never hear the end of it.
The bubbly one and her team-mates have a job to do, sometime next month. Something big. I hardly have anything to do with it. I do small tasks, but nothing more. The King always picks them to do his dirty work. I'm just here. Just watch, wait and see."
Sora finished reading the first entry, and by the date, assuming it was this year as the book looked brand new, was kept only for more then a month. The bubbly one was probably the fire heartless Sora saw earlier. He couldnt imagine a heartless more bubbly then that. It leaves her out, but it wouldnt seem like her anyway because the writing was too well written for her.
The door opened behind him and Sora quickly closed the book and turned around, seeing Phanta in the doorway.
"Like the room?" she said, grinning. "It's quite a copy of mine, only my walls are more lavender then this. Lavendar, yellow, black. My three favorite colors." Phanta noticed the Journal Sora held in his hand.
"Oh. Whose is that?" she said, quickly grabbing it from him. Sora looked at her with anger.
"Where am I? What am I doing here?" he shouted, demanding answers. Phanta grabbed the Journal and held it against her.
"You are in the guest room in King Heartless's Castle. Your going to help us, remember? And you have to cooperate. Now follow me, I'm going to introduce you to your team-mates..."
"They arent my team-mates." Sora growled. Phanta glared at him.
"They are for now, and if you keep having that tone your friends will be dead quicker then you could say it."
"You wouldnt dare."
"I dare."
Phanta walked down the halls with Sora behind her, ready to strangle her to death. She opened two huge doors into a room, three times the size of the guest room he was in.
"Come, meet them." she said and went up to the first guy. He had baby blue, short hair and his skin was that black tone heartless's have. His eye's were yellow and he had strong, muscle toned arms. He had a blue muscle shirt on and the end of his arms had frozen water at the top. From the waist down, water was pouring down taking place of his legs. Strangely, the water didnt splash anywhere or wet the floor. On his head was a head band with a big rain drop shape strapped onto it.
"I'd like you to meet Neero, heartless of water." Phanta said. Sora and Neero glared at eachother.
"Hey." he said. Sora nodded.
"He commands the water, that's why nothing is getting wet, if that's what your wondering." Phanta said and continued to walk to the next person. He had light brown, short hair and cap made out of brown rocks. He was shirtless and had small rock-spikes coming out of his abdomen. His eyes were yellow and skin heartless black, as all of them, and he had dark brown pants on. His pants had holes for three spikes were coming out of each leg. The end of the pants were torn.
"This is Yee, heartless of earth." she said. Sora and Yee exchanged glances and they continued over to the next person. It was a heartless woman this time. She had two big buns of hair on her head and her hair was a pale white. She had a long, light gray gown and her feet werent visible. Air seemed to be coming out of the bottom of the gown, blowing the torn edges slightly. She also had bangs, hanging over her face like bells hanging on towers.
"This is Era, heartless of wind." Phanta said.
"How do you do." Era said in an unpolite tone. Sora walked over to the next one.
"Fotia, heartless of fire whom you already met." Phanta said. Fotia giggled.
"Is that it?" Sora asked impatiently. Phanta shook her head.
"Calm yourself. Now, the King awaits."
Sora followed Phanta down the hall, not knowing what he's getting himself into.
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It was getting darker in the evening at Destiny Isles with barely any light. Riku, Selphie, Tidus and Kairi finally reached the beach. More corpses were swarming all over, and instead of fighting, they had a different option as to run past them. As quickly as they did, though, the zombies surprised them all by a jog like run.
"Riku! I think they're running!" Kairi shouted. Riku looked back and his eyes widened. They were running after them.
"Let's run into our other secret hideout on the other side, and if any zombies are smart enough to find us there, we fight. Hopefully there wont be too many." Riku shouted back. What is he saying? Zombies? They certainly werent zombies, and Riku came to a conclusion. The yellow eyes, the screeching. Heartless. Could it be possible that heartless could possess bodies? Those heartless sure liked surprising them.
They finally reached the hideout and only two possessed bodies made it. One hid behind the trees and another reached for them. Riku impaled it and ended it with a quick kill and ran inside the hideout.
"I'll handle the next one, get in guys!" Selphie shouted as her friends got in the secret hideout. She swung her spiked rope around and the corpse came out of hiding and ran towards her. Selphie's eyes widened and her swinging of her rope lost speed.
"M-m-om..." Selphie murmured. She stopped swinging as her mother's possessed body ran to her, ready to kill Selphie as she froze. Selphie couldnt attack her own mother, it felt wrong then it already was. As she closed her eyes, ready to experience death, Tidus jumped out and swung at her mother's slightly attached head as it hung atop her chest. He cut it and stabbed it until it fell to the ground. Selphie started to cry as Tidus walked her inside. They didnt want to do that again, ever.
Something like that would be hard for everyone, but as the mysteries unfold, no one knew what to expect.
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