Heart of an Alchemist
(A/N)
Disclaimer: I own neither FMA nor KH
Sorry it took so long to update, my internet's been really slow lately. Also I updated the previous chapters,(I can't use the stars for scene changes anymore) but not by much though.
Chapter Four
"Three, two, one, go!" Kairi waved her hand down on go, and Riku and Sora sped off.
They sprinted along a wooden bridge, jumping over a part that had fallen off, and ran to a little tower. The two boys wrestled while climbing the ladder. Sora reached the top just a second before Riku, and grabbed the handle of a zip line, sliding down the cable. Riku didn't hesitate when deciding which route to take next. He immediately turned to his left and jumped onto one of the very tall palm trees. He jumped from one palm tree to the next, making sure not to get any bad footing to where he would fall. Riku reached his destination, which was at the corner of a large wall. A little star-shaped tree – that looked like a short palm tree with a homemade star upon it – was on a tall piece of land. Sora was only a few feet away from the tree, running up a slanted path towards it, when Riku tapped the trunk and jumped down from the tall platform. Sora jumped across a landless space, landing on his hands and knees. He quickly stood up, tapped the tree and jumped down the tall piece of land. Sora sped up to catch up with Riku, who had already made it past the bunch of palm trees. Speeding past the palm trees, Sora was only a foot or two behind Riku. Riku jumped up a small ledge, Sora right on his tail, turned and raced across the bridge they had started from. Riku jumped and landed right beside Kairi.
"Winner!" She declared as Sora ran off the bridge with a sour expression. Both of the boys were short on breath and a bit red in the face.
"Well, I guess it's official," Riku said catching heavy breaths, "We'll call it Highwind." Sora looked at him disappointed.
"One more race, Riku. Come on. Please?" Sora begged.
"Well, I'm up for another race." Sora smiled getting pumped at the thought of beating Riku. "Just not with you." Sora smile faded.
"What do you mean not with me?" Sora put on a pout-face.
"I want to race you." Turning around, Riku pointed at Ed. Ed was a bit surprised at this proposition. "If Ed wins, we'll name it Wind Scar."
"Uh, I don't really think this is--"
"Come on Ed," Sora begged. "Please? Just one race, it'll be the only thing you ever have to do for me. Please?" Ed looked at Sora and his puppy-eyed expression. It kind of reminded him of Winry when she wanted Ed to buy her some expensive mechanic stuff, or when he and Al where kids and he really wanted his big brother to do him a favor. Ed sighed and nodded his head. Sora jumped with excitement, "Yes!"
"Three…" Kairi started as Edward and Riku stood in ready positions. "Two, one, go!" Kairi waved her hand down on go and Riku and Ed sped off across the bridge. The two quickly came to the space where the bridge had a gap. Riku jumped about a foot before the end of the side they were on, and he barely made the landing. Ed wondered why he jumped so soon but had no time because he needed to catch up. Ed's foot reached the edge of the gap and pushed off the boards. As soon as he lifted his other foot, the board crumbled and broke, sending Ed falling. Riku turned around to see Ed jumping up from the sandy ground, giving him a laugh then climbing the ladder of the tower. 'OK, he obviously knew about that.' Ed thought, but didn't have any more time to think about it because Riku was already speeding down the zip line. Ed saw the small ledge where Sora and Riku had returned from on their race. He immediately sped over to it, jumping down the ledge, and lunging forward. He saw Riku running up a slanted path, and ran towards it. Ed got to the beginning of the path, looking up to see Riku tap a star-shaped palm tree.
"Got to tag it," Riku yelled to him jogging back to the finish line. Ed ran to the tree and touched it, quickly running back to the ledge. Riku turned towards the bridge and looked back to see Ed running strait down below the bridge, which helped him catch up to Riku. Ed was right under Riku, until Riku took a long jump, landing beside Kairi once more.
"Winner!" she yelled. Sora gave a depressed sigh. Ed walked up to them, feeling rather upset.
"You almost had me there, Ed. I mean, I expected you to go a lot slower considering your legs are so short and all." Ed snapped at this comment.
"Who are you calling a half-pint, bean sprout, shrimp so small he can't even be seen with a magnifying glass!" Ed yelled flailing his arms.
Riku and the others were thunderstruck. Never had any of them seen or heard anyone get that mad or yell that loud in their entire lives. "Hey, wait a second, he didn't say anything like that," Kairi argued.
"Well he was thinking it!" Ed yelled, still temperamental about the comment. Not everyone in the world was a beanstalk!
"O-K, uh… could you guys help me with something? If were going to leave tomorrow then were going to need some supplies you know. So will you help me?" Riku and Sora nodded to Kairi, Ed seemed to calm down a bit and she took that as a yes. She gave them each a list of things she wanted them to get, then Sora asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to finish up on the raft."
"That's Highwind, Kairi," Riku said, rubbing Sora and Edward's defeat in their faces.
"Right, I'm going to finish up on Highwind," she said with a giggle in her voice. The four split up to do their chores. Riku was catching some fish, Sora was gathering some extra supplies and mushrooms, and Ed was getting some coconuts.
"Hey, Ed. Do you think you could help me carry these logs?" Sora asked him. He was getting some extra wood for Kairi and was having a little trouble holding them all.
"Yeah, no problem," he answered. Ed had finished getting all the coconuts that they needed and had already given them to Kairi.
"Thanks," Sora said, relieved to have some of the weight taken off his arms. They started walking back towards the raft and Sora became curious. "Hey Ed, are you going to come with us to see new worlds? I mean you never really told us you wanted to come and we didn't really ask. So do you want to?" Sora didn't want to leave his new friend on some island he hardly been on for a day, he wanted Ed to be able to see new worlds too. Ed stopped walking at this question. "Come on Ed. It'd be really great if you came with us and their's plenty of room on the raft for you. What do you say?"
Ed thought a moment. "I'm not sure. I just want to go home, and sailing across an ocean doesn't sound like the most promising of things. And besides I have to find my brother. We were in the same room when that strange thing happened and I got sent here."
"Hmm, well maybe he got sent to a different world. We could find that world and you'd get to see him again. Come on, please say you'll come."
Ed didn't know what to say. It sounded like a good plan, considering he seemed to be nowhere on this island, so he probably got sent to another world. But then again Alphonse could have died in that transmutation. His armor did collapse and wasn't moving at all. But Edward wouldn't accept that. His little brother was not dead.
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"Hey guys guess what!" Sora exclaimed running up to Riku and Kairi, with Ed close behind. "Ed's going to come with us!"
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"This is going to be great," Sora said leading Ed through his house. It had gotten late and Kairi said it was best that they get a good night sleep before going on their journey, and Ed chose to stay with Sora for the night. Sora led him to a messy room with clothes and books and toys all over the floor. "Sorry it's so messy. We don't have a guest room and I wasn't expecting anybody, you know." Ed nodded. Sora had wanted him to sleep on the couch, but Ed didn't want any questions from Sora's parents. So he said that a blanket in his room would do fine. Sora laid out a sleeping bag on a bare space on the floor. "There you go."
"Thanks," Ed said giving a yawn. He laid down on the sleeping bag; tired from all the work they had to do. Sora plopped down on his bed, not feeling the least bit tired. He was too excited about the thought of going to new worlds.
"Hey Ed."
"Yeah?"
Sora sat up in his bed, "What's your world like? You never told us."
Ed sat up; he wasn't exactly sure how he should answer that. "Well, it's a lot different than here. We've got lot's more technology and such. And there aren't any islands that I'm too familiar with. There are a lot of big cities and towns and countries."
"Cool, sounds like it'd be real fun to explore."
"It can get pretty exciting, I guess."
"What about your brother, what's his name?"
"It's Alphonse, Al for short."
"Any other friends?"
"Well, there's one girl named Winry, kind of sensitive. Now she's a real machine freak! She loves technology. When we were kids Al and I would always hang out with her."
"Don't you guys see each other still?"
"Not as much, since Al and I travel around a lot. But we meet up every once in a while." Ed answered, remembering his friend's face.
Sora looked over the edge of his bed. "You really miss 'em, don't you?" Edward nodded. "Hah! No problem, Ed. We'll find you friends, I promise!"
This cheered Edward up. "Thanks, Sora. Anyway, we should get some sleep." Ed lay back down and turned on his side.
Sora leaned back down. "Hey Ed, earlier you said before you ended up here a 'strange thing' happened. What was it?"
Ed sighed tiredly. "I'll tell you another time; right now we need to get some sleep." Sora lay once again on his pillow with his hands behind his head, still not tired. Dreaming of the worlds to come.
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"Ed wake up, wake up!" Sora yelled shaking him awake.
"What is it?" Ed sat up rubbing his eyes.
"There's a storm outside!"
Ed was wide awake now, "The raft!"
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Sora and Ed rowed their small canoe as fast as they could. Ed jumped onto the docks as Sora tied up the boat. "Hey, aren't these the same boats Riku and Kairi left on?" Ed asked pointing to two other canoes that were tied near Sora's.
"They must have come back like we did." Sora jumped onto the docks, grabbed Ed's left hand and started running. "We have to find them!" Ed and Sora ran towards the old shack and took a look inside. Neither Kairi nor Riku were inside. The two boys were about to leave the shack when it started to rain heavily. Ed and Sora rushed inside.
"That sure came fast," Ed said wiping some water off of his coat.
"Yeah," Sora said rustling his hair, "No kidding." The two boys sat for a moment as the raindrops pounded against the walls. After waiting a minute or two, the rain stopped. "OK, the weather's sure acting weird. Come on, we need to see if the raft's all right." Sora reached for the handle and was about to open it, but stopped when he heard a clawing at the other side of the door. The clawing halted and Sora opened the door to find no one. He and Ed walked out of the shack and still saw no sign of anyone.
"What's that!" Sora yelled pointing to a short black creature.
"It looks like some kind of bug," Ed said. It had a large round head with a little body. It had long creeping fingers, antennas and huge yellow eyes. It moved strangely, like a nervous or frightened person and kept moving its head around like it were looking for something. Apparently it hadn't seen Sora or Ed. "Hey, let's get away from that thing." Sora gave a nod in agreement and the two slowly backed away from it.
"Ah!" Sora screamed. Ed turned around to see what was wrong. Sora was surrounded by a whole group of the creatures. They were huddled around him making it look like a giant black puddle with eyes everywhere.
Ed ran forward and reached out his hand but was stopped when the creatures jumped at him, slashing at him with their long fingers and tearing up his coat. Ed tried to reach Sora but there were too many of them. Ed knew he'd never reach Sora like this and ran around to the shack to see if he could climb the stairs and jumped down from above. The little black creatures lost interest in Sora and jumped after Ed. Sora ran after them and saw that the creatures had surrounded Ed far from the shack.
"Ed!" Sora took a step forward.
"No! Get out of here, I'll be fine!"
Sora was hesitant, but took off into the shack and climbed the stairs.
'Well, looks like I've got no other choice.' Ed clapped his hands and put his palms on the ground. Suddenly, the sand around him flew up and engulfed the heartless, drowning them in the soft sand. Sora reached the top of the stairs just in time to see the sand settle from Ed's transmutation. He gave a sigh of relief not giving any thought to how Ed did it. He looked up and saw Riku across the bridge on the small piece of land with the paopu tree. Sora ran forward to him.
"Riku, let's go we need to find Kairi!"
"Don't worry about that right now Sora, she's fine."
"What?" Sora turned around and saw a dark hole appearing under Riku's feet. "Riku!"
Riku held out his hand as his feet sank into the hole. "Are you afraid, Sora?"
"Riku!" Sora ran towards Riku, as a new dark hole appeared right under his feet, pulling him in like quicksand. He thrust out his hand grabbing for Riku's, but something dark was blinding him. "Riku!"
"I'm not afraid of the darkness!" Sora heard him say. Sora flailed his hand blindly but still couldn't reach his friend's.
"Riku!" Suddenly a blinding white light shot in Sora's eyes. He closed them, completely oblivious to what was going on.
"What's that?" Ed looked up to see a light surrounding Sora, but another light distracted him. It was coming from the Secret Place, as they had called it, and it made Ed feel uneasy. Ed walked into the cave and saw a large figure in a brown trench coat. "And just who the hell are you?" Ed demanded. His hands were held up, ready to clap if the person did something tricky. All the person did was give a deep chuckle and disappeared in a dark cloud.
Sora opened his eyes. He had fallen on his rear and was lying on the ground. He sat up and looked at his hands. There was a strange object in his hand. It was shaped like a key but it looked as hard as a sword. And it wasn't pocket sized, it was huge. It had to be about half as tall as him. It was silver except on the handle, which was golden. It also had a short key chain on the end; it was silver with three circles that looked like-to Sora- a mouse head. A word suddenly popped into his head. "Keyblade." 'So this is a Keyblade,' he thought.
Ed ran out of the Secret Place. He saw Sora standing on the island with the paopu tree. He was holding a large object but Ed couldn't tell what it was from that far away. "Hey Sora, you all right?" he called.
"I'm doing great," Sora called back facing Ed.
"Great, I'll be up in a second."
"OK."
Ed walked to the shack and pulled the handle, noticing something pop up behind Sora. Ed ran into the shack and up the stairs. Sora saw him run out of the shack and began to run along the bridge. "Sora! Move! Get out of there!" Sora looked at him confused. "Move!" he heard him say again. Sora turned around to find a huge black monster. It was as tall as two houses and it had large muscles. Sora suddenly got into a fighting stance, holding his weapon with two hands. The dark monster pulled its fist up. Ed came up behind Sora with his hands close together. The monster swung its hand down and smashed it against the ground, creating a dark hole around it. The little bug-like creatures the two boys had seen before sprung from the hole, flailing their long slinky fingers at Sora and Ed. Ed kicked and punched the creatures with his Automail. Sora swung at them with his new weapon.
"Ed, how are we going to beat it?" Sora asked hitting each of the little creatures that came near him.
"I've got an idea but I'm not sure it will work."
"Let's try it." Sora insisted. Ed nodded. He ran over to the paopu tree, knocking the little creatures in the head.
"You ready?" Ed called as the large monster stood up. Sora nodded as the monster swung its hand up then down. "Now!" Ed clapped his hands and touched the tree. The tree suddenly came to life and grew. It swung up and around, blocking the monsters fist only a foot before it hit Sora. Sora stared at the tree open mouthed. Ed made the tree swing around the monster and tighten. It stopped the monster from moving and also made it lean down. Sora was in awe as he looked at the tree. "Sora, hit its head!" Sora snapped out of his trance.
"Uh, right." He ran forward and started slashing at the monsters head. Every time Sora hit it, it struggled more and more to get out of the vines. Ed made the tree squeeze tighter on the monster, he knew it wouldn't last much longer; the monster would break the tree soon. The monster gave one last thrust with its elbows, crushing the trunk of the tree. It began to stand up strait again. Sora jumped onto its shoulder and kept slashing at its head.
"Sora!"
"I'll be fine, just distract it," Sora called back slashing at the monsters head still. Ed nodded to Sora, figuring this was the best thing to do right now. Ed clapped his hands and took his right glove off his Automail turning it into a blade. He ran forward slashing at the monsters feet. It waved its arms trying to hit Edward, but he was jumping quickly out of its reach. The monster finally gave up on Ed and grabbed at his shoulder, throwing Sora off. Sora flew to the ground. Ed clapped his hands; touched the ground and the sand under Sora flew up. Sora fell on it as it lowered slowly.
"You OK?" Ed asked helping Sora up. Sora nodded looking at Ed's Automail arm. "All right we need to kill that damn thing now."
"Could you do something like you did with the tree?"
Edward's eyes darted around. "Yeah, go distract it." Sora ran towards the monster and began throwing rocks and slashing at it's feet.
"Hey, ugly. Come and get me," Sora yelled. The monster turned its head and stared at Sora with its beady yellow eyes. It raised its fist and swung down. Sora looked behind it to see Ed clap and put his hands on a couple of rocks. The rocks burst into large spikes, Ed clapped again touching the sandy ground. The sand burst up sending the spikes flying. The spikes hit the monster, striking its head and stomach. The monster stopped moving and fell to its knees. Sora and Ed didn't lower their guard. The monster raised its hand, which seemed to do nothing. Then a strong wind came carrying the monster up into the sky. Sora and Edward clung to a nearby rock.
"I can't hold on Ed," Sora said as his hands slipped off the rock. Ed grabbed his hand while holding the rock with his Automail.
"We're…going to make it," Ed said gripping the rock tighter and tighter. The wind gusts strengthened and Ed's hands slipped, sending Sora and himself into the sky.
(A/N)
Yay! We're leavin' Desiny Islands, even if it is a nice place.
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