(An: well I feel SOOOO lost without my author alerts and review alerts….rocks back and forth in a corner Again am big thanks to Lolita…again I love you girl!!! A new reviewer another big thanks goes out to Rika and sora 4 eva for your review!!! I'm glad to see everyone loving this ficcy of mine. Last night I rented Nightmare before Christmas for this fic…you know research. I also rented Animal House for no good reason at all lol. I feel like now I know exactly where I'm going to go with this…I'm just trying to pace myself at doing it. You know I get a good plot idea and I want it out there ASAP but that's boring, so pace I must to keep the interest!!! Enjoy, read and most of all review! Thanks a mill guys! ooo a quick thing to add…yay Emerald31 is BAACK!!! WB sweetie…good to see you are alive and well… I was getting worried lol….no need to worry lol just glad to have you back :P)
As the gang approached the cemetery each felt their heart skip a beat. It was so immense, typical horror movie graveyard, miles upon miles of tombstones. The seemingly endless lines of graves shot their hopes into the dirt. Paine pounded her fist into her palm, obviously frustrated. There was just so much ground to cover, and no one even knew if he was actually in there anyways!
"This is absolutely ridiculous! It could take us days to search this place, and he might not even be here!" Paine shouted loudly. Her patience was now wearing thin. Everyone looked over at her. She was right, of course. No one, however, wanted to admit it though.
"We can't give up yet." Sora said. He then proceeded to split everyone off into smaller groups of 2. "Donald, you take the northern side, Paine and Goofy, the South, Kairi and I will take the Eastern, and then Riku, you and Sakura take the Western. We all meet back here if nothing is found. If anyone finds anything, and I do mean anything, we will need to signal the others, with a whistle, or a scream or something. Make it something obvious! Ok?" everyone nodded their agreement. If people scoured their own part of the graveyard, then the work would be done 4 times faster.
"Agreed." Everyone said, as everyone headed off towards their respected sides.
Axel watched in the distance as they padded through the graveyard. Never once suspecting that Jack was very near, so near that the white haired woman had nearly stepped on him. Oogie certainly had taken care of Jack that was for sure.
"That's right you fools. Fall right into my little trap. None of you will make it out of this alive. I'll make sure of that." Axel said to himself. He could not fail Ansem. If he did he knew the consequences would be dire, he would not live long if his plan fell through.
A shadowy silhouette appeared on the tombstone next to him. Axel smiled deviously. The shadow began to watch with delight the figures move across the cemetery. Almost like a chess players watches his pieces move across the chess board. The excited anticipation could be easily seen on both dark creatures' faces.
"Everything is taken care of Axel. I think your master will be very, very pleased. I've set out some of my best bets against these little idiots. I'll have some fun times tonight. Seven victims, sounds like the odds are in my favor." Oogie Boogie said as he tossed his head up and laughed hollowly.
"Quiet you imbecile. If they find us, no one wins and it will be both our asses! You're sure nothing can fuck up here?" Axel asked. Riku might be a soft hearted emotional fool, but he was no idiot.
"The odds are in our favor Axel. Noting will go wrong!" Oogie said as they both watched from their perch.
"So you're saying she's already gone off to find Sora…Without me?" Yuffie said as she manhandled Wakka. The poor kid was shaking head to toe as Yuffie held her baseball bat only inches from his face.
"Ye….YES!" he screamed. She dropped him down and began to count harshly down from 5. A method Squall had attempted to teach her to cool her nerves.
"FIVE, FOUr, THRee, TWo, One…better. Alright so who did she go with." But by this time Wakka had passed out from excessive fear. Squall merely sat and laughed as Yuffie attempted to revive the boy by shaking hard.
"Yuffie, maybe we could find someone else to tell us where Kairi has gotten to. Wakka probably won't be awake in days, and that mug of yours will be the last thing he'll wanna see." Squall said laughing. Yuffie shot him a hurt glance and picked up her bat, and stalked towards him with a dangerous look in her eyes.
"TAKE THAT BACK!" Yuffie shouted harshly. Squall smirked and shot her a joking glance.
"Yuffie, you don't scare me. But fine I take it back, I was kidding. Besides isn't that Selphie, Kairi's friend?" Squall said. Yuffie turned to see that indeed it was Selphie. She waved her over and then began to talk.
"Selphie, who took Kairi to find Sora!" Yuffie said still a hint of anger in her voice.
"The girls who rent out the Cove cottage, over by the beach. There are four of them. Only two went though. If you head up there, the other two can help you I'm sure." Selphie said smiling, her skipping rope held tightly between her hands. Yuffie smiled and thanked her. She then grabbed Squall by the wrist and pulled him all the way out to the Cove cottage.
"Man even split up this could take hours!" Sakura whined as she and Riku looked all about their Western end of the Cemetery. Riku looked behind him at her and laughed. She looked completely ridiculous. She had been digging around in the brush and now her face was completely covered in dirt.
"You look fabulous." He joked. She gave him a warning glance as he came towards her; he wiped her face off on his shirt and laughed.
"Wow, sorry I thought you were kidding. Anyways, we've been at it for an hour and nothing, we're no where near finished are we?" She said softly. He nodded. She sighed thoughtfully. "If only there was a way to look faster for some….what the hell?!" Sakura screamed suddenly.
Riku turned at once. What he came face to face to would be a something to haunt his dreams for years to come. "Holy shit!" he screamed as the darkness sucked him into it.
"Two down, five to go." Axel said mercilessly. He and Oogie Boogie simply laughed as they watched how the others supposed heroes progressed.
One by one each party Sora had made vanished from the part of the graveyard they had been searching. Little by little Axels plan began to come together. Sora and Kairi were the final group standing, completely oblivious to the chaos that was ensuing around them.
"Why did you come looking for me Kairi?" Sora asked as they searched between a row of tombstones. She smiled shyly.
"Because after three years of waiting, I thought you might have forgotten your promise to me. I thought that maybe if we found you, I could remind you." Kairi said softly. Sora smiled and gave her a small peck on the lips.
"I missed you so much. I was tempted to knock Donald and Goofy unconscious and head back to Destiny Islands just to tell you I would be later then we thought. I missed you that much Kairi." Sora said honestly. Kairi's smile grew as he spoke.
"I missed you too. I had been so depressed lately that when Sakura and Rikku bumped into me asking why…I spilled my heart out to them. They were in tears…it was bad. This was all Rikku's idea, she couldn't come though, she caught the flu. But none of that matters now that we have found one another again." Kairi said as she pulled Sora closer to her. He held her tightly in his arms.
"I won't ever let you go again Kairi." He said. A twig snapped off to his right. He pulled Kairi behind him and took out his keyblade. Looking around the darkness crept below him. Kairi let out an exasperated scream and had vanished before Sora had the chance to turn around. Only seconds later, the darkness had swallowed him up too.
"Looks like they're all there waiting for you Boogie. Better head over." Axel said. He opened a dark portal and returned to Ansem to tell him of their plot.
"Oogie Boogie is gonna have some good time playing with his seven new toys." Oogie said as he headed back down to his newly renovated lair.
"So you think that Oogie Boogie can finish them off? A very nice plan Axel saves you the trouble of getting your hands dirty. Very nice. This calls for a reward. You'll receive it once you return." Ansem said smiling.
"Thank you master. You are far too kind to me." Axel said as he bowed low to Ansem. He then proceeded to head out the great oak doors, only to crash right into a dark hooded figure. "Watch where you're going jackass!" he screamed. The hooded figure tossed back his hood.
"Sorry Axel. It's not fault I tried to avoid looking at a creature as disgusting as you look right now." The blonde haired man said. Axel let out a great growl.
"Sure pretty boy, o is that designer lip gloss you're wearing, Tidus, or is it just the look of the lips of a fag?" Axel spat. Tidus merely gave him a bored look.
"Axel Ansem has asked for me so I best be going in. Have fun zombie boy, try not to…fall to pieces." Tidus said as he brushed past Axel with a hard knock with his shoulder.
"Bastard. First Riku will pay, and then him. Damn pretty boy." Axel mumbled as he headed back to Halloween Town via a dark portal.
"You called for me master?" Tidus asked. Ansem nodded.
"Have you any recollection of your past Tidus?" Ansem asked. Tidus shook his head. He remembered a face, only one face. A girl with mismatched irises and short brown hair, who she was and what she meant to him, was a blur. But this was not worth telling his master. Other then that face, nothing but darkness existed in his memories.
"No master, nothing but darkness." He said. Ansem smiled evilly.
"Excellent. I have a task for you then. You are to go to Destiny Islands and destroy it. Be sure you destroy a small cottage on the Coast, the two girls residing there must parish, understood." Ansem said. Tidus nodded. "Excellent, be gone now and make me proud. You will be greatly rewarded for your success." And with that Tidus vanished through, yet another, dark portal.
"All seems to be falling together quite nicely, quite nicely indeed." Ansem said.
"G...guys?" Donald said, as he struggled with the bonds that held him. Looking to his sides he noticed that he was not the only bonded in chains. All of his six comrades had been bound as well.
"It's no use, we've already tried that." Sora said tiredly. He and Riku had been trying to break the bonds for several long and hard minutes.
"This is odd, there's no one holding us, or at least no one I can see." Paine said. She looked around and again noticed no one. A groan was heard towards the right and everyone looked over. There, in the centre of a roulette wheel, sat Jack Skellington, bruised, battered and looking worse then hell itself.
"JACK!" Kairi cried happily. They had found him. Sally would be so happy.
"Lotta good it does us. We're bound to these playing cards, with no way to get out." Sakura said sadly. She had struggled so much with the bonds that her wrists were now raw. Looking down they all realized that they were each bound to a specific playing card. Riku the suicide king (king of hearts.), Paine the ace of spades, Donald the jack of clubs, Goofy the jack of diamonds, Sora the king of clubs, Sakura the queen of hearts and Kairi the queen of clubs.
"What the hell does this mean?" Riku asked.
"What it means is that your odds might get better, or they might not." A voice boomed from out of the shadows. "Oogie Boogie's the name, chance is my game. Any of you seven gamblers?" He asked. Paine made a deep growling noise.
"Shut the hell up and let us go you bastard! Fight like the spook you are!" she growled. He simply laughed.
"A fair fight? Hmm now those are odds I like in my favor. Seven tiny mortals against me. You're on." Oogie said as he released the bonds. Paine smiled. If there was one thing she had learned on her adventures, it was that big powerful men have big powerful egos, offer them something to make them feel threatened and they mold to your very will.
"Alright guys, why don't we show him what were made of?" Donald said. The next few moments were all out pandemonium. Spells, swords and arrows flying about. In less then 5 minutes Oogie Boogie was no more then a pile of old rotting rags and millions of dieing bugs on the floor.
"That was easy enough." Sakura said. She rubbed her aw wrists and let out a gasp of pain. One of Oogie's bugs had landed in her wounds. She screamed as it wriggled around. "GET IT OFF!"
Riku was at her side in an instant knocking the bug out of her wound and crushing it with his foot. "Alright there?" he asked concern written all over his face. She nodded and he looked at her wrists. Blood was trickling out of them with a slow, but steady flow. "Those don't look too good." He said. She simply nodded.
"We should get Jack and then get the hell out of here; I'm not too fond of this place." Sora said. Everyone nodded their agreement. Goofy and Donald picked up Jack and all of the companions headed back up to the surface.
"Thank goodness that that's over." Kairi said as she leaned against Sora for support.
Axel watched from atop his darkened hiding spot. He had been foiled by seven regular people. How had they defeated Oogie Boogie? He was the Boogie man for Christ's sakes! Now another thought stirred in Axel's mind. Who would take the wrap for this? Oogie was dead, so the fault landed on him. Ansem would kill him for a fuck up like this. He had to get himself out of this whole. He had to save his ass.
"Is this the place Squall?" Yuffie asked. Squall looked up at the cove cottage. This was the place Selphie had told them about, no doubt.
"Yup, should we jus knock then?" he asked. She nodded excitedly. She wanted to meet these people that had beaten her to getting Sora and Kairi back together. A few moments after Squall had knocked on the door, a dark haired, blue/green eyes woman answered the door.
"Hey how can I help you guys?" she asked politely.
"My name is Squall this is Yuffie, were here to speak with you about Kairi and this little voyage she is on." Squall said.
"O hey, you must be friends of hers and Sora's right? My name is Yuna, please come inside." She said. Yuffie and Squall stepped inside the tiny cottage as Yuna shut the door. "Rikku, visitors!" Yuna said. Seconds later a tiny blonde rushed from a room at the end of the hall way. As she bounded down she nearly tripped over at least six different items in her rush.
"OO HEY! I'm Rikku! So what can we do for you guys?" Rikku asked hyperly. Both parties stared at her with wonder. She laughed. "Well can I at least get some names?" She asked.
"Squall and I'm Yuffie." Yuffie said still in a bit of shock. This girl was very…interesting.
"Hey, so what did you want?" Rikku asked again.
"We wanted to talk to you guys about Kairi." Squall said.
Looking in on the cottage from outside, Tidus could feel his heart race. His mystery girl sat only inches away from the window, her beautiful mismatched eyes staring blankly at him, without really seeing him, for he was hiding. But her gaze seemed fixed on him. Who was she! He had to know. Why did she take his breath away, what did she mean to him? Why was she the only thing he could remember?
"Yunie, are you even listening to this YUNIE!" Rikku screamed. Yuna had been staring outside for what seemed like hours. Not looking at anything in particular, just staring at nothing.
"I'm sorry, I just feel….a familiar presence here." She said softly. She felt HIM again. This happened sometimes, but never like this. She actually FELT him like he was actually just outside her window. The feeling got stronger and Yuna felt her heart race, she could take this no more. She hopped up from her seat and dashed to the door, slamming it shut behind her she scampered over to the bushes by the window she had been staring out of.
"Ti…Tidus?" she asked as she looked down at the leg protruding from the bush. A blonde head with a set of blue eyes popped up, sending Yuna into tears instantly. The man could not understand why she would be crying. She seemed happy to see him. But who was she! "TIDUS!" she cried as she fell into his arms. It was then that a great light descended upon them. "You've finally come home to me."
(Ok another chapter done…next one soon but after exams…I really really gotta study! Hope you all enjoyed this….thanks again to my reviewers you all kick some massive butt! I had to bring Yuna and Rikku back into this…I love em…and Tidus…rawwr lol. Things get weirder soon, rape soon, surprises too. ALL SOON! Lol. Bye guys until next I update)