Hiya! Time for another update…or updart, depending on who you are XP
Phase 3: Stormy Forecast
"You can't catch me! NAH NAH NA NAH NAH!" Sora taunted as he flew through Neverland's forest.
"Oh yeah?" Peter Pan teased back, closely following him. The two of then did fancy maneuvers to avoid running into tree branches and roots sticking way up out of the ground.
As Sora sliced through a vine that happened to be in his way, he shouted back at Peter "You can't catch me! You can't catch me! You can't-"
…As he ever-so-gracefully he tripped over a vine, lost his concentration, and fell into a pond. He sat up and spit out some water.
Peter laughed, tapping him on the shoulder. "Tag!" he yelled before he shot off through the trees.
Sora stood up, shook the water off of him, and went rushing after him.
As he emerged from the canopy, he saw a clouded sky, but no Peter. Then he noticed a silhouette that looked remarkably like the redhead lurking in a small cloud.
Sora smirked as he pointed his Keyblade at the cloud. "I see you," he announced as he released a small spark from the tip of his Keyblade.
"Ow!" Peter exclaimed as the spark found his hiding place. He poked his head out of the cloud. "Hey, that hurt, you know!" he added, a slightly annoyed look on his face.
Sora stuck out his tongue. "Tag! You're it!" he taunted and zipped off.
Peter chased after him, exiting the cloud so fast that it lost its shape.
Donald and Goofy were floating around lazily and chatting about how they finally had some time to relax. Sora rushed past them and sent Donald twirling like a top.
"Hey! Watch it!" Donald snapped once he stopped spinning, but Sora was already long gone. The fowl was just taking his bouncy fighting stance when Peter shot by, sending Donald spinning again.
Sora glanced behind him and smirked, then sped up. Peter slowly fell farther and farther behind as Sora went faster and faster. Eventually Sora rushed up into the thick layer of clouds, vanishing from sight. When Peter followed and surfaced on the other side, Sora was nowhere to be found.
"Sora! Hey Sora!" Peter cried out as he darted around aimlessly to see if he could find any sign of the Keyblade Master. "Sooooooora!" He dived into a cloud, then stuck his head out. "Sooooooooora!" Peter swam through the clouds like a dolphin. Finally, with a frustrated look on his face, he dived into the cloud once more, this time not coming back up.
Sora eased his head through the clouds. With a sly smile, he eased his way back to the surface, under the sky full of stars, so clear.
Sora made himself comfortable on the clouds, admiring all the stars and all the worlds. "Well, let's see... that makes two for him and three for me," he thought, thinking about Peter's challenge.
"I can lose you any day, but you'll never shake me." That was his challenge.
"Well, I guess I better go back down," Sora said to himself as he prepared to reenter the clouds below.
Suddenly, a black shackle with a matching chain came out of nowhere and clamped onto his wrist.
"Wha!" he exclaimed. Another shackle grabbed onto his other wrist. He summoned his Keyblade to his hand, but it too was snatched away by a chain. Then he looked behind him and saw the problem.
The shackles were part of a huge pirate ship that loomed over him. The sails matched the starry sky above, and the ship itself was painted a stark white that easily blended into the clouds below.
More shackles came from the ship and went straight for Sora, slithering and curving through the air like serpents. Two attached themselves to his ankles, and an especially large one closed around his neck. No matter how much he struggled and twisted, he couldn't break free of the shackles. As much as he resisted, Sora gradually got reeled in by the ship.
As Sora fought the pull, he heard a familiar laugh coming from the ship.
"Who would've thought that fishing for brats would be so much fun?" Captain Hook taunted as he watched Sora's strength wane.
Then everything seemed to give way and Sora went limp, panting for air as the ship continued to reel him in without struggle.
"Damn it..." Sora muttered as he was brought onto the ship by the chains. He was forced onto his knees before Hook.
"Welcome to my humble ship," Captain Hook said in a mocking tone, bowing to the chained Sora.
Sora glared daggers at Hook. He was yanked at more by the chains, forcing him to walk along with Hook. He saw that the chains were actually part of a Heartless he had never seen before. It had the appearance of a black dog with green eyes, but right above the shoulder blade of each leg was the beginning of the chain, with the tail being the biggest one.
"What do you think of my new pet?" Hook asked. "Created him myself. Far more useful than any crewman I ever had."
"But if it's a Heartless.... "Then it should obey me. After all...I do rule the darkness now."
His stomach turned with the mere thought of him accepting his fate.
He shook his head. "No no No! It doesn't have to be like this! I won't give in! I won't give in!"
"What's the matter, brat?" Hook sneered as they walked into the prisoner bay below. "You scared now that you can't use that Keyblade of yours?" They stopped in the middle of the hostage room.
"So, what are you gonna do to me?" Sora growled.
"Well, I'm going to bring you to the others," Hook explained. "Then we shall witness the fall of the Master of Light."
"Huh?" Sora asked, genuinely surprised. "Doesn't he know?"
"Certainly you're not that dense boy," Hook replied. "You've been a major pain in our side, Master of Light. Once the ruler of light is extinguished, darkness will rule all!"
Sora chuckled.
"He really doesn't know."
It was Hook's turn to glare daggers at Sora. "What's do you find so amusing about your demise, brat?"
Sora looked back up at Hook with a sly grin on his face. "Well, haven't you heard?"
"Heard what?" Hook questioned.
He closed his eyes. Dark sparks and black shadows danced around Sora, blowing out tiny holes in random places of the ship. The Heartless quickly released him in a panic. The darkness around him attached to his back, and the onyx seraph wings were created once again, soon smothered in their dark vapor. When Sora opened his eyes again, they were not deep blue but stark yellow with slits.
"I'm not the Master of Light," Sora replied. "I'm the Master of Darkness."
Hook stood flabbergasted. "B-b-b-ut h-how! You---your Keyblade- is-was destined for-"
"The Master of Light. Yeah, I know," Sora interrupted, examining his Keyblade, which had been returned to him by the Heartless. It was now engulfed in a dark blue and black aura. "But when Riku went to darkness-the side he was not meant to be on- it automatically went to the only other person who could weald its power--me. Later on Riku got the Keyblade I was supposed to have, since I had already tainted his a long while ago without even knowing it."
He looked back up at Hook. "But just because we're both on the side of darkness doesn't mean I have to like you."
And with that he thrusted his Keyblade up into the air as if he was stabbing an invisible creature hovering just above his head. A giant bolt of black electricity surged through the ship, causing it to tremble. An ungodly noise came from the ship itself. 'But I must say I like your ship. I think I'll just customize it a little."
Hook stared in horror as his pirate ship transformed before his eyes. The room in which they stood grew fleshier by the minute, as veins popped up out of nowhere and the room's color was changing from pure white to a deep maroon. Hook rushed outside of the room to the deck, Sora casually following behind. That's where Hook saw the most definite evidence of evolution.
The helm of the ship now bore a dragon's head. Not some wooden carving, a LIVING dragon's head that matched the ship's white body. With silver fangs and a proud crest of spikes adorned on its temple with a few more on the side of its cheeks, it sluggishly looked behind it to glare at Hook with its crimson eyes. Petrified, he managed to turn around just enough to see the starry sails going through the metamorphosis from mere pieces of cloth to three majestic sets of black wings with a few sparkles on them for a finishing touch. They tore themselves from the mast and reattached themselves on the sides of the ship.
"W-what are you doing!" Hook squeaked as he watched the ship sprout three pairs of legs.
"Well, I thought it'd be more useful if the ship could...well ya know, think," Sora answered, shrugging naively.
About to lose his mind, Hook looked at Sora, then at the ship mutating under his feet, then at the clouds below. Deciding that he had the best some chance of survival if he took the plunge, he leaped off the ship, disappearing into the cloud layer.
Sora stared for a few moments while the ship completed its metamorphosis, creating a protective coral-tinted bubble over the deck to make sure no unwanted guests could get on board. "Well now what should I call you?" he said aloud to the ship. The ship moaned something in response, which only Sora seemed to understand. 'Fine," he responded. "Black HeartBlood" it is."
Suddenly he heard his friends calling for him. "You just go hide yourself somewhere for now," he told the ship, returning to normal. Flying up to where the bubble was, a small hole formed, allowing him to rush outside to greet his friends so he could make up some spectacular story on how he had saved a world...again
Okay, four down and two to go….I think. Actually, maybe just one, if I decide to combine the two. Either way, not much longer til this is done.
Cya!