Chapter 13
Neverland
As our three heroes traveled to the next world a blip appeared on the radar once again. Donald examined it and hoped it wasn't Monstro again.
"I don't think it's Monstro," Goofy said as he pointed ahead. Coming straight toward them was a large pirate ship.
"You think we can fight it?" Donald asked.
"Sure," Sora said. "We never lose."
"We lost," Sora said as he stood on the front of the ship. Donald and Goofy had been taken away when they were brought aboard.
"Well hello Sora," Said a very familiar voice from behind Sora.
"Hello Riku," Sora said before even turning around. Sure enough there stood Riku on a higher level of the ship. "Where's Donald and Goofy?"
"Are you still worried about them?" Riku asked in disgust. "You ask about them when you should be asking about her." Riku moved to reveal the motionless Kairi.
"Kairi!" Sora yelled and reached out for her but two Soldiers appeared and held him back.
"While you were out playing games I found her," Riku said. A Soldier delivered a powerful blow to the back of Sora's neck and Sora fell unconscious.
"Very nice my boy!" Captain Hook walked up to him.
"Place Sora somewhere. Take Kairi and leave her with that other girl," Riku told him and walked away.
"That little brat! Giving me orders on my ship!" Hook yelled. "Smee!" A small fat man came running up to him.
"Yes Captain?" Smee asked.
"Put the boy in the hold," Hook said as he noticed Sora starting to wake up.
"But Captain, you know who is also down there."
"I know that! Take him to the hold!" Hook shouted and stormed off. He grabbed Kairi and took her to her room with their other female captive.
"Are you sure it was her?" Goofy asked. Both Donald and Goofy had been down in the hold where Sora was thrown.
"Yeah! It was Kairi!" Sora said in excitement.
"That's great!" Donald said. "So how about getting off!" Donald shouted indicating that when Sora was thrown in he had landed on Donald and Goofy and Donald had ended up on the bottom.
"Oh, sorry," Sora laughed as he stood up and helped the others up.
"Who's there?" came a voice from the shadows of the room that made the three of them jump.
"What?" Sora tried to see whom it was.
"Who are you?" a person jumped out from the shadows and stood before them. He was about Sora's height with red hair, and green feathered cap, and a green outfit.
"My name's Sora. This is Donald and Goofy," Sora said.
"The name's Peter. Peter Pan," he said. "I'm here to find a friend of mine named Wendy. I tried to sneak out but I got caught and put here."
"I'm trying to get to a friend as well," Sora said.
"Well I guess we're working together," Peter put his hand out but as Sora went to shake it Peter pulled it away. "But only till we find Wendy." Before Sora could say anything a small ball of light flew into the room. On closer inspection Sora saw it was a tiny woman. A fairy it seemed.
"What's that Tink?" he asked the fairy. "You found Wendy?" Tink as he called her seemed to jingle and Peter nodded. "Guys, this is Tinker Bell."
"Hello," Sora gave a small wave but Tink turned back to Peter and jingled again.
"Forget about her?" Peter asked in disbelief. "We have to rescue her Tink!" Tink huffed and turned away,
"Looks like someone is jealous!" Donald laughed. Tink flew up to Donald and landed a swift kick to Donald's beak.
"Let's go!" Peter said as he suddenly raised himself into the air.
"You can fly?" Goofy asked.
"Yeah! Anybody can fly! You just need a little pixie dust and think a happy thought!" Peter said and blew some pixie dust on the three of them. Donald tried to fly but even as a duck he couldn't do it.
"I guess it takes a little practice," Sora laughed. Peter shrugged and Tink unlocked the door from the outside and they walked out.
They had tried to sneak around the ship but a Heartless had caught them. Now many were coming for them. It was a new kind that looked like a Bandit but instead of a turban and a vest they were dressed like pirates. They were called Pirates.
Sora ducked a strike from a pirate when another kind of Heartless appeared. It looked like a Pirate but had wings. It was an Air Pirate. He dodged a strike from a Pirate and Air Pirate at the same time and was able to cut the Air Pirate down.
Peter flew forward with great speed and cut down the Air Pirates with his small dagger that he had. As he got to the wall of the room he flipped around and kicked off of the wall launching himself straight through an Air Pirate. Two Pirates jumped at him but he did a split kick and knocked them away.
Goofy bashed away at a rather stubborn Pirate that wouldn't be killed. He crouched down to avoid an attack and then ran forward and hit the Pirate with his shield and then crushed the Pirate in between his shield and the wall. An Air Pirate flew straight at him. Goofy stepped to the side and the Air Pirate crashed into the wall by himself and fell to the ground in a heap.
Donald was going trigger happy with Firas and was blasting many of the Heartless away and killed many of them.
"Donald!" Sora stopped him.
"What?"
"May I remind you we are in inter world space and on a wooden boat. Please do not use Fira in close quarters!" Donald looked around and saw a place where he almost set the entire ship on fire.
"Sorry," he said. Sora whipped around and cut through the final Pirate as it tried to jump him.
"That's all right," Sora said as they walked on.
The four of them got to what must have been Hook's room as it was the best on the entire ship. Outside the door they would find Hook.
"Hello again Sora," Riku hopped down from a part of the ceiling.
"What do you think you're doing Riku? It's wrong and you know it!" Sora shouted at him.
"I'm going to stop you Sora. I won't have you ruining my plan for saving Kairi!" Riku shouted back. Riku waved his hand in front of him and a pool of darkness appeared. Out of the pool came a familiar shape. It was Sora! Except this Sora was completely black. Clothes, skin, and everything. Even a black Kingdom Key.
"What is that?" Donald asked.
"Meet my greatest creation!" Riku laughed. "I call it the Antisora!" Riku walked backwards and created a dark portal behind him and stepped through. Sora ran toward him but Antisora stepped in front of him.
They both held their Keyblades level. Sora struck first but Antisora blocked it almost instantly. Antisora went for an attack but Sora dodged it and struck back. Antisora was able to block once again. The two Keyblades smashed against each other again and again as they were both able to instantly tell where the other was going. It was like fighting against yourself.
Luckily for Sora, Antisora's Keyblade was not real so it did not have as much power as his did. However Antisora was way to knowledgeable of Sora's attack style and they continued to block each other's strikes. Sora thought of how he would be able to trick himself but was drawing a blank.
Both of them jumped back and shot Blizarra at each other. The attacks were cancelled out and the two were in close range once again. Sora jumped up and tried to strike Antisora's head but Antisora jumped back and brought his Keyblade up to meet Sora's.
"Sonic Blade!" they both yelled and they both became blurs that rushed pass each other. They both stopped and continued staring away from each other. They stood there with Keyblades level back to back.
Antisora's face suddenly twisted in pain and he dropped to his knees. Sora brought the Pumpkinhead up and then brought it down straight through Antisora's back and he was killed.
"How'd you do that?" Goofy asked.
"Well, when we both shouted Sonic Blade and started running I quickly switched to a Strike Raid and while he was stunned I finished up the Sonic Blade," Sora explained to them.
"Not bad!" came a voice similar to Sora's but with a darker edge to it. They looked up to see that Antisora was still alive. "To bad I thought ahead as well. While you were switching to Strike Raid I created a copy of myself and jumped up here."
"No way!" Peter yelled.
"Every attack you throw I counter!" Antisora laughed. "I also know the fighting ways of Donald and Goofy, even you Peter. I am made from a part of Sora you know."
"I'm going to get you!" Sora yelled as he jumped after his dark self. The two crossed Keyblades once again and stood in a stalemate.
"Don't you see Sora?" Antisora laughed. "I am everything you could be! If you let your darkness grow! I know you can! I am a part of you!"
"Oh yeah? What if I do something new?" Sora asked.
"You have nothing new!" Antisora laughed. Sora jumped back and pointed his Pumpkinhead at Antisora.
"Stopra!" Sora shouted out the second level Stop spell. Antisora was hit with the spell and couldn't move.
"I should be to strong for this!" Antisora yelled.
"You're forgetting," Sora said. "You're a part of me. You know everything about me so in turn I know everything about you. Like I know how I'm not very resistant to magic attacks." Sora took the Pumpkinhead and slammed it through Antisora's chest and killed him for good.
"Let's get going Sora," Donald said as he started walking toward the door. They stood there as Donald turned the doorknob. The floor suddenly gave way as a trap door opened. They all fell in and the door closed before Peter could fly out.
"Open up!" Peter slammed his fists into the door.
"Peter!" came a female voice.
"Wendy!" Peter noticed the metal grating on the other side of the ceiling and he could see Wendy in the room above them. "I'm going to get you out Wendy."
"Hey Wendy!" Sora shouted. "Is there another girl up there with you?"
"Why yes," Wendy said, "But she must be sleeping for she has not moved an inch since she got here."
"Kairi!" Sora shouted. Unseen by all Kairi's hand moved from her lap and fell to the floor.
"What?" Captain Hook yelled. "You mean to say that Wendy is not one of the chosen ones!"
"There are seven," Riku told him, "And Maleficent says she isn't one."
"Well then what do I do?" Hook asked.
"Do whatever you want. I'm taking Kairi and getting out of here," Riku said as he walked away from Hook.
Peter and Wendy were thinking of way they could get Wendy and Kairi out when the door burst opened. Riku stepped in and grabbed Kairi and stared Sora down before he left. Smee came in and grabbed Wendy and took her outside.
"We're going in!" Sora yelled. "Goofy can you bust through the metal?"
"Rocket!" Goofy yelled and the force of the attack caused him to go through it like a knife through butter. The rest of them climbed up and head outside as well. There stood Hook with Wendy but Riku and Kairi were gone.
"Quite a codfish that Riku," Hook smirked. "Running off without even saying goodbye to you."
"Where is he?" Sora demanded.
"To the ruins of Hallow Bastion of course. Where Maleficent resides," Hook said.
"Hallow Bastion?" Sora asked. He had heard that before.
"Wendy!" Peter reached for her and Hook just let her go.
"She is of no more use to me," Hook told them.
"Sora, I'm going to get Wendy out of here!" Peter said as he scooped her up and flew off. "I'll be back!"
"Come now Heartless!" Hook yelled and several Pirates appeared. Donald and Goofy were prepared to fight but Sora was suddenly lost in a current of emotion. Riku's betrayal finally set in fully, Kairi losing her heart, and so many other things. One of the other things he always thought of. Where were his other friends from home? Where was his mom when Destiny Islands was destroyed?
"Sora, what's wrong?" Goofy asked. Sora couldn't answer. The Keyblade that shimmered so brightly before lost its luster and it disappeared. Sora's heart wasn't strong enough to wield it now.
"Now you'll walk the plank!" Hook laughed and pushed Sora out there first. Below Sora a large crocodile circled the waters. "No! It's the croc that took me hand! Finish them off for me Smee!" Hook ran back to his room.
"You heard the Captain!" Smee told the nearest Pirate. The Pirate nodded and walked up to Sora with one more push Sora was off the plank and headed straight for the croc below him.
'Fly Sora!' Peter's voice echoed in his head. 'Just believe! You can do it!' Sora shook back into reality and thought of his happy thought. Being at home with Riku and Kairi and life was peaceful again. Sora stopped right before he reached the croc and flew back up, the Keyblade appearing in his hands once again.
Donald and Goofy shouted in approval and broke free of their captors. Sora flew down and cut through his enemies. They turned to Smee.
"I got him!" Peter flew down and grabbed Smee. He took the man up to the crow's nest and applied pressure to a certain point of his neck to put him to sleep.
"Peter!" Sora said as he flew up to join him. Donald and Goofy looked at each other and both thought the same thought, finding King Mickey. The two were slowly lifted into the air and joined the others.
"Watch this!" Peter said as he flew down to Hook's door and tapped on it.
"Is that you Smee?" came Hook's voice from the other side.
"Aye Captain!" Peter said in a voice that sounded just like Smee. "They walked the plank, every last one of them!" The door burst open and Hook ran out and looked around. Peter snuck up behind him and poked him in the butt with his dagger making the captain jump high into the air.
"What?" Hook turned to see them. "I'll get you!" Hook pulled his sword from his waist and a bunch of Heartless appeared behind him. Even a kind that floated in the air and looked like a ship called a Battleship.
Hook attacked with his sword but Sora parried the blow. Sora had to duck as Hook sliced above him. When Hook went for an uppercut with the blade Sora flipped upwards and hung in the air. He flew back down and swiped at Hook but his attack was blocked and the two swordsmen continued to battle.
Donald flew into the air and shot one of the Battleships with a Fira but it wasn't very effective. Goofy went flying towards it at amazing speed and slammed into it but only made a dent. Donald spun his staff around and then pointed it at the Battleship as it glowed with dark energy.
"Gravira!" Donald used the second level Gravity spell. The battleship was crushed underneath them and into the water. Donald and Goofy nodded to each other and went to help Sora when the Battleship burst from the water.
Peter helped Sora as best he could but it always went back to Sora and Hook in a swashbuckling showdown. Sora flew forward at Hook and did a front flip in the air to put more weight behind his blow. The Pumpkinhead smashed into Hook's blade and Hook faltered a little. Hook regained himself and thrust toward Sora's stomach but Sora jumped to the right and came back with an attack of his own.
Goofy bent backwards to avoid a rush attack from the Battleship. It was a little more banged up from the Gravira but was still in fighting shape. The cannons and the side of the Battleship pointed at them and were fired. Both Donald and Goofy were hit and went flying back until they dropped back down onto the ship.
The sound like a crowing rooster caught their attention and they looked up to see Peter rush past them and fly straight toward the Battleship. The Battleship fired more rockets but Peter was much better at flying than Donald or Goofy and was able to dodge them. With a powerful strike from his dagger Peter cleaved the front of the Battleship in half and it was finally destroyed.
Sora tried to think of an attack that would end the fight. No telling what would happen if he used Sonic Blade now that there was not that much room to run. He could use the Strike Raid but Hook was definitely too skilled with the blade to let the attack hit him. Sora needed a new attack and he had it. He had been working on this attack.
"Ars Arcanum!" Sora yelled. He ran forward and used his magic to speed up his arms. Soon the Pumpkinhead was a blurring vision of metal and it was to fast for Hook to keep up. The Pumpkinhead continued to be just a blur as Sora struck all over the evil captain's body and cuts appeared all over. For that last blow he used the Pumpkinhead like a baseball bat and Hook went flying over the side of the ship and into the water.
"Why you little!" Hook shouted from the water. He was about to climb up into the ship when he heard something swimming in the water. The large crocodile came up from the water and with a loud and kind of girlish scream, Hook swam off into the night with the croc right behind him.
"We did it!" Peter cheered. "You guys want to come with me to go say bye to Wendy. I kind of left her on the clock tower in London."
"We'll be there in a minute," Sora said. Peter nodded and took off. Sora walked over to the side of the side of the ship and allowed the sea wind to whip his hair around his face as he stood in deep thought.
"Well Kairi didn't move so maybe she really lost her…" Goofy was cut off as Donald elbowed him in the stomach.
"Kairi," Sora muttered. Donald and Goofy looked on but remained quiet. "I can't believe…I actually flew! Kairi won't believe it!"
"Yeah," Donald said as he breathed a sigh of relief. "You'll just have to bring her here sometime."
"Yeah," Sora said. "Let's catch up with Peter." Sora said as they flew up into the air. Sora had a new look of determination on his face. It was no longer a question on if he was going to save Kairi. It was how.
"Peter!" Goofy yelled down as they landed on the clock tower. The lights of London nightlife shown below them.
"Hey guys! This is Wendy!" he said as he motioned to the girl. Sora nodded to her and suddenly felt the Pumpkinhead pulling at him. He summoned it to his side and flew down to one of the sides of the clock tower. This one clock had a different time than the others. He quickly fixed it and a small Keyhole appeared where the large minute hand had been before.
"I guess I'm done here," Sora said as he flew back up to Peter and Wendy. Tinker Bell was flying between them.
"Sora, I need you to do me a favor," Peter said. "I know you'll be leaving soon and I want you to take Tink with you." Tinker Bell flew around in shock and was spraying dust everywhere.
"Why?" Donald asked.
"I need you to trust me on this," Peter said. "Will you go with them Tink? For me at least?" Tinker Bell seemed to flatly refuse but she soon gave in and nodded. The little fairy suddenly changed into a Summon Gem and Sora placed her into the blade.
"I want you to have this as a thanks," Wendy said and handed over a Keychain. Sora took off the Pumpkinhead and put on the new one. The new Keyblade was smaller than the rest but still seemed to fit into Sora's hand like it was made for him. The key part looked kind of like a harp.
"I'll call this one the Fairy Harp," Sora said. He placed the Pumpkinhead in his pocket with the other Keychains.
"Hook dropped this, maybe you need it," Peter gave Sora a piece of paper. Sora already knew it must have been part of Ansem's Report. He was right, it was Ansem's Report 9. They said their goodbyes and headed back to the ship.
"You guys there? Hello?" the voice of Hercules came from the Gummi Ship. "I wanted to invite you guys to a new tournament. I like to call it the Hercules Cup."