The Adventures of Riku and Sora
A Blue Dragon Fic
II
Riku and Sora trekked to Kairi's house under the night sky. Word about Mr. Barzhad going nuts had apparently spread pretty fast and they were already starting to hear rumors from "late-night" people.
The two turned the corner that led down to Kairi's house and groaned as they heard one man whisper to another:
"I hear Mr. Barzhad turned into a wolf man, and Dauragon sent a shrew and a retarded fox to find him!"
"These rumors are starting to get on my nerves." Riku mumbled.
After a few more minutes of walking the two found themselves in front of Kairi's house, and walked up the walkway to the door where Sora knocked twice. About seven seconds later Kairi opened the door and looked surprised.
"Sora! What are you doing here? I wish you would've called first!"
"Nice to see you, too." Sora responded, sounding hurt.
"What's up?" she asked, ignoring Riku as well as Sora's pain.
"My dad ran off into the woods and we need to find him. It might take a while so I came here to get my camping gear and maybe get you and Lisa to help us out."
"Why do you need a couple of girls?"
"If you're under a certain age then you aren't allowed in without at least four people over the age of twelve." Riku explained.
Kairi sighed.
"Lisa and I were enjoying ourselves but . . . wait a minute, did your dad go crazy over husky-pork again?"
"What does it matter?" Sora asked hurriedly.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'! You'll need all the help you can get, Sora!"
Riku laughed and Sora groaned in annoyance. He had always been a little annoyed by everyone's wisecracks about his crazy dad.
"Mind if I make a wisecrack about your crazy dad?" Riku asked half-jokingly.
" . . . Riku, don't start. And by the way, you need to call your dad" he said, handing him his cellular phone.
Riku dialed his number, 666-6666 (area code 666) and Sephiroth answered immediately.
"You have reached the residence of Sephiroth Osterot. I have my Masamune ready for use at all times, this line can be and is being tracked, I have a meteor ready to smash this world to pieces, I will not negotiate with kidnappers, and any businessmen should hang up immediately . . . or else."
"Dad, its me."
"Oh, hello Riku! Back from Sora's so early?"
"Dad, I have to-"
"Don't say a word son. Your mother and I have some . . . things to do. We need you to sleep over. Understood?"
" . . . "
"Good!"
Sephiroth hung up.
Riku sighed at his crazy father, knowing full well what his parents wanted to do, as they did it every night.
Sora smiled mockingly at Riku, knowing full well how crazy his father was, and Riku glared back.
Kairi came back almost immediately after Riku gave Sora back his phone with four sets of camping gear, and Lisa.
"Hello again, Kairi." Sora said.
"And hi . . . "
He decided not to greet Lisa just yet, Riku was hugging her mercilessly to the point that she could barely get air out of her lungs and back in.
"I'm . . . glad to see you too Riku" she said in a pained voice.
" . . . Think you could let go of me?"
"Lisa . . . I missed you so much! It's been an eternity!"
"You saw me a few hours ago!" she said, trying to pry him off.
"And you still smell like . . . " he sniffed her hair.
"Strawberry-Paupu fruit shampoo, reapplied approximately one hour, thirty-eight minutes and fourteen point four nine seven seconds ago, a lovely orange-lemon citrus combo for perfume, and . . . "
He kissed her softly on the lips while she seemed surprised.
"Avon's Kiwi lip gloss! They make your lips so soft!"
He hugged/deathgripped her even longer as she managed to cough out:
"I'm glad to see you too, but I think the situation may arise that you can never see me again . . . ""
"What! Tell me!"
"If you keep SQUEEZING THE LIFE OUT OF ME!"
Riku took the message and let go, toeing the steps with his shoe.
"I understand. If it will make you happy, I'll stay far away from you! As long as you are satisfied."
"No, that's not what I meant, she tried to console."
Sora shook his head in disbelief.
"I can't believe that a guy that was hard as steel has fallen for a girl he's ignored for years! What's up, Riku?"
"After being in darkness, one appreciates the light . . . " Riku said, quickly loosing his poetic tone, never taking his eyes from Lisa's.
Everyone paused.
"That's deep, man" said Sora, finally.
Kairi and Lisa came with Sora and Riku, Riku of course holding on to Lisa the whole way.
Soon they approached the forest, where the paved roads ended and the streetlights became few and far between, making everything eerily dark. The group became disturbed when they found out that the boot for entrance had been destroyed, and the guard was nowhere in sight.
Lisa gulped.
"This doesn't look good . . . you know how crazy Mr. Barzhad can be, I'm scared." Lisa moaned.
Sora growled.
"Stop ripping on my dad!"
"Don't worry, everyone! I'll protect you all from everything and anything that pops up!" Riku said heroically.
A twig snapped.
"Holy crap, Mr. Barzhad'll kill us ALL! LET'S GET THE FUDGE OUTTA HERE!" Riku screamed like a girl and Sora had to hold on to him.
"We're gonna set up camp an look for my dad!" Sora said firmly.
Riku whimpered and the four made their way into the forest. It was dark and they had to use their flashlights to navigate through the labyrinth of trees and into a clearing
"This looks like a good place." Kairi said, setting up two tents with the help of the others.
Sora gathered wood in the middle, surrounded it with rocks, and then used his match to set it aflame. Riku tossed two sleeping bags in each tent, and his backpack into one of the tents.
Lisa and Kairi gathered four big rocks and set them around the campfire as they began to discuss the plan.
"What are we going to do?" asked Riku.
"We're going to split up into groups of four . . . "
"Four!?" screamed Riku.
"Four divided by four is one, Sora! I don't wanna be alone!"
"Come on, Riku! You bench press, don't you!?"
"Yeah, 96 pounds!"
Everyone looked at Riku suspiciously.
"I only can do seventy, no way you can do ninety-six!" accused Sora.
"I did, too! I even have blisters from rotating the weights!"
" . . . Riku, why did you rotate the weights?" Lisa asked.
" . . . to turn them a bit before lifting."
"How much is 'a bit'?"
"Upside down . . . ?"
"Riku! You read the weights upside down!?"
" . . . I won't tell if you won't"
Everyone sighed.
"Geez, Riku, you're really turning into a wimp." Kairi muttered.
"Anyway" Sora continued.
"We're going to go north, south, east, and west, and meet back here every twelve minutes. If you see my dad, scream. But ignore Riku, if he screams, it probably won't be my dad."
"What other things could it be!?" Riku demanded.
"Squirrels, birds, your own shadow to name a few?"
Riku growled.
"Anyway, we'll go on four rounds and then call it a day. You guys all have your flashlights?"
Everyone nodded.
"Okay, move out!" Sora commanded.
Riku shakily went his way, moving slowly and shining the flashlight virtually everywhere. He didn't hear or see a thing, and he hoped that that was how it was to remain. Suddenly, his flashlight went out and it was completely dark. He whimpered to himself.
"I-If anyone's out there I know kung-fu!"
There was a rustle and a snap.
"I can poke eyes out faster than Barney can smoke pot! And that's pretty darn fast!"
There was a rustle very close by, but Riku couldn't tell where it was coming from.
"I-I mean it! I'm more hazardous than an electric toaster at Sea World!"
Riku spotted a pair of red eyes, and was immobilized with fear. He tried to scream but could only let out pitifully whimper.
Riku looked in horror as the figure stepped out from the bush, only to reveal . . . MR. BARZHAD WITH HIS HEAD HELD HIGH, ROARING FOR RIKU'S BLOOD!
"Ah . . . ah . . . " Riku's eyes were wide, and he couldn't scream.
"Hi, Mr. Barzhad, isn't it time to go home now? Heh heh?"
Mr. Barzhad saw Riku, and he went under the delusion that he was a talking loaf of husky-pork with silver hair.
"HUSKY-PORK!" Mr. Barzhad roared, attempting to jump on Riku.
"AAAAAAIEEEEEEE!" Riku finally screamed with all his might and ran blindly back to the campsite, Mr. Barzhad roaring behind him. He found Sora, Lisa, and Kairi in the middle, eyes wide when they saw him running.
"Up the tree!" Kairi yelled. Everyone but Riku made it up the tree.
Riku felt Mr. Barzhad getting closer as he ran and did the one thing that he could do. Turned around and kicked him in the groin as hard as he could.
"RRROOOAAAR!" Mr. Barzhad fell to the ground clutching his aching groin.
The other three dropped down.
"I beat him!" yelled Riku, pumping his fists up and down.
"I'll say, you kicked my dad in the nuts!" yelled Sora in anger.
"He was trying to eat me! He probably though I was husky-pork!"
Lisa cam a bit closer to the moaning Barzhad and the man abruptly stood up, growled, and disappeared into the night.
"Crap, he's gone!" yelled Sora.
"No use spending the night, lets call it a day!" Riku said nervously.
"For once, I'm with Riku. When you're dad realizes that there isn't any husky-pork in the wild, he'll come back home" Kairi said.
Sora groaned.
" I guess . . . you're right. Lets just go home, for now."
"I'm sure you'll find you're father in a few days, Sora. Lets just pack up." Lisa said as she put out the fire and began folding the tents.
Riku was happy to sleep indoors that day, even if it was on the floor next to Sora's bed. For the first time in a while, he might enjoy going to school on Saturday. Little did he know that Mr. Barzhad's craziness was just the beginning of his problems. He had a lot of trouble ahead of him . . .
AN: Well, my hard drive was deleted and I had to type this chapter all over again . . . and I couldn't put it in for a while because fanfiction.net was down, but oh well! In the next one, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Lulu, and Tidus are stuck in school through the night. (Lisa, Wakka, and Selphie don't go to the school. You haven't been eating your cheese, have you? I warned you!
A Blue Dragon Fic
II
Riku and Sora trekked to Kairi's house under the night sky. Word about Mr. Barzhad going nuts had apparently spread pretty fast and they were already starting to hear rumors from "late-night" people.
The two turned the corner that led down to Kairi's house and groaned as they heard one man whisper to another:
"I hear Mr. Barzhad turned into a wolf man, and Dauragon sent a shrew and a retarded fox to find him!"
"These rumors are starting to get on my nerves." Riku mumbled.
After a few more minutes of walking the two found themselves in front of Kairi's house, and walked up the walkway to the door where Sora knocked twice. About seven seconds later Kairi opened the door and looked surprised.
"Sora! What are you doing here? I wish you would've called first!"
"Nice to see you, too." Sora responded, sounding hurt.
"What's up?" she asked, ignoring Riku as well as Sora's pain.
"My dad ran off into the woods and we need to find him. It might take a while so I came here to get my camping gear and maybe get you and Lisa to help us out."
"Why do you need a couple of girls?"
"If you're under a certain age then you aren't allowed in without at least four people over the age of twelve." Riku explained.
Kairi sighed.
"Lisa and I were enjoying ourselves but . . . wait a minute, did your dad go crazy over husky-pork again?"
"What does it matter?" Sora asked hurriedly.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'! You'll need all the help you can get, Sora!"
Riku laughed and Sora groaned in annoyance. He had always been a little annoyed by everyone's wisecracks about his crazy dad.
"Mind if I make a wisecrack about your crazy dad?" Riku asked half-jokingly.
" . . . Riku, don't start. And by the way, you need to call your dad" he said, handing him his cellular phone.
Riku dialed his number, 666-6666 (area code 666) and Sephiroth answered immediately.
"You have reached the residence of Sephiroth Osterot. I have my Masamune ready for use at all times, this line can be and is being tracked, I have a meteor ready to smash this world to pieces, I will not negotiate with kidnappers, and any businessmen should hang up immediately . . . or else."
"Dad, its me."
"Oh, hello Riku! Back from Sora's so early?"
"Dad, I have to-"
"Don't say a word son. Your mother and I have some . . . things to do. We need you to sleep over. Understood?"
" . . . "
"Good!"
Sephiroth hung up.
Riku sighed at his crazy father, knowing full well what his parents wanted to do, as they did it every night.
Sora smiled mockingly at Riku, knowing full well how crazy his father was, and Riku glared back.
Kairi came back almost immediately after Riku gave Sora back his phone with four sets of camping gear, and Lisa.
"Hello again, Kairi." Sora said.
"And hi . . . "
He decided not to greet Lisa just yet, Riku was hugging her mercilessly to the point that she could barely get air out of her lungs and back in.
"I'm . . . glad to see you too Riku" she said in a pained voice.
" . . . Think you could let go of me?"
"Lisa . . . I missed you so much! It's been an eternity!"
"You saw me a few hours ago!" she said, trying to pry him off.
"And you still smell like . . . " he sniffed her hair.
"Strawberry-Paupu fruit shampoo, reapplied approximately one hour, thirty-eight minutes and fourteen point four nine seven seconds ago, a lovely orange-lemon citrus combo for perfume, and . . . "
He kissed her softly on the lips while she seemed surprised.
"Avon's Kiwi lip gloss! They make your lips so soft!"
He hugged/deathgripped her even longer as she managed to cough out:
"I'm glad to see you too, but I think the situation may arise that you can never see me again . . . ""
"What! Tell me!"
"If you keep SQUEEZING THE LIFE OUT OF ME!"
Riku took the message and let go, toeing the steps with his shoe.
"I understand. If it will make you happy, I'll stay far away from you! As long as you are satisfied."
"No, that's not what I meant, she tried to console."
Sora shook his head in disbelief.
"I can't believe that a guy that was hard as steel has fallen for a girl he's ignored for years! What's up, Riku?"
"After being in darkness, one appreciates the light . . . " Riku said, quickly loosing his poetic tone, never taking his eyes from Lisa's.
Everyone paused.
"That's deep, man" said Sora, finally.
Kairi and Lisa came with Sora and Riku, Riku of course holding on to Lisa the whole way.
Soon they approached the forest, where the paved roads ended and the streetlights became few and far between, making everything eerily dark. The group became disturbed when they found out that the boot for entrance had been destroyed, and the guard was nowhere in sight.
Lisa gulped.
"This doesn't look good . . . you know how crazy Mr. Barzhad can be, I'm scared." Lisa moaned.
Sora growled.
"Stop ripping on my dad!"
"Don't worry, everyone! I'll protect you all from everything and anything that pops up!" Riku said heroically.
A twig snapped.
"Holy crap, Mr. Barzhad'll kill us ALL! LET'S GET THE FUDGE OUTTA HERE!" Riku screamed like a girl and Sora had to hold on to him.
"We're gonna set up camp an look for my dad!" Sora said firmly.
Riku whimpered and the four made their way into the forest. It was dark and they had to use their flashlights to navigate through the labyrinth of trees and into a clearing
"This looks like a good place." Kairi said, setting up two tents with the help of the others.
Sora gathered wood in the middle, surrounded it with rocks, and then used his match to set it aflame. Riku tossed two sleeping bags in each tent, and his backpack into one of the tents.
Lisa and Kairi gathered four big rocks and set them around the campfire as they began to discuss the plan.
"What are we going to do?" asked Riku.
"We're going to split up into groups of four . . . "
"Four!?" screamed Riku.
"Four divided by four is one, Sora! I don't wanna be alone!"
"Come on, Riku! You bench press, don't you!?"
"Yeah, 96 pounds!"
Everyone looked at Riku suspiciously.
"I only can do seventy, no way you can do ninety-six!" accused Sora.
"I did, too! I even have blisters from rotating the weights!"
" . . . Riku, why did you rotate the weights?" Lisa asked.
" . . . to turn them a bit before lifting."
"How much is 'a bit'?"
"Upside down . . . ?"
"Riku! You read the weights upside down!?"
" . . . I won't tell if you won't"
Everyone sighed.
"Geez, Riku, you're really turning into a wimp." Kairi muttered.
"Anyway" Sora continued.
"We're going to go north, south, east, and west, and meet back here every twelve minutes. If you see my dad, scream. But ignore Riku, if he screams, it probably won't be my dad."
"What other things could it be!?" Riku demanded.
"Squirrels, birds, your own shadow to name a few?"
Riku growled.
"Anyway, we'll go on four rounds and then call it a day. You guys all have your flashlights?"
Everyone nodded.
"Okay, move out!" Sora commanded.
Riku shakily went his way, moving slowly and shining the flashlight virtually everywhere. He didn't hear or see a thing, and he hoped that that was how it was to remain. Suddenly, his flashlight went out and it was completely dark. He whimpered to himself.
"I-If anyone's out there I know kung-fu!"
There was a rustle and a snap.
"I can poke eyes out faster than Barney can smoke pot! And that's pretty darn fast!"
There was a rustle very close by, but Riku couldn't tell where it was coming from.
"I-I mean it! I'm more hazardous than an electric toaster at Sea World!"
Riku spotted a pair of red eyes, and was immobilized with fear. He tried to scream but could only let out pitifully whimper.
Riku looked in horror as the figure stepped out from the bush, only to reveal . . . MR. BARZHAD WITH HIS HEAD HELD HIGH, ROARING FOR RIKU'S BLOOD!
"Ah . . . ah . . . " Riku's eyes were wide, and he couldn't scream.
"Hi, Mr. Barzhad, isn't it time to go home now? Heh heh?"
Mr. Barzhad saw Riku, and he went under the delusion that he was a talking loaf of husky-pork with silver hair.
"HUSKY-PORK!" Mr. Barzhad roared, attempting to jump on Riku.
"AAAAAAIEEEEEEE!" Riku finally screamed with all his might and ran blindly back to the campsite, Mr. Barzhad roaring behind him. He found Sora, Lisa, and Kairi in the middle, eyes wide when they saw him running.
"Up the tree!" Kairi yelled. Everyone but Riku made it up the tree.
Riku felt Mr. Barzhad getting closer as he ran and did the one thing that he could do. Turned around and kicked him in the groin as hard as he could.
"RRROOOAAAR!" Mr. Barzhad fell to the ground clutching his aching groin.
The other three dropped down.
"I beat him!" yelled Riku, pumping his fists up and down.
"I'll say, you kicked my dad in the nuts!" yelled Sora in anger.
"He was trying to eat me! He probably though I was husky-pork!"
Lisa cam a bit closer to the moaning Barzhad and the man abruptly stood up, growled, and disappeared into the night.
"Crap, he's gone!" yelled Sora.
"No use spending the night, lets call it a day!" Riku said nervously.
"For once, I'm with Riku. When you're dad realizes that there isn't any husky-pork in the wild, he'll come back home" Kairi said.
Sora groaned.
" I guess . . . you're right. Lets just go home, for now."
"I'm sure you'll find you're father in a few days, Sora. Lets just pack up." Lisa said as she put out the fire and began folding the tents.
Riku was happy to sleep indoors that day, even if it was on the floor next to Sora's bed. For the first time in a while, he might enjoy going to school on Saturday. Little did he know that Mr. Barzhad's craziness was just the beginning of his problems. He had a lot of trouble ahead of him . . .
AN: Well, my hard drive was deleted and I had to type this chapter all over again . . . and I couldn't put it in for a while because fanfiction.net was down, but oh well! In the next one, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Lulu, and Tidus are stuck in school through the night. (Lisa, Wakka, and Selphie don't go to the school. You haven't been eating your cheese, have you? I warned you!