Kingdom Hearts: Warriors of Light
Shark Attack -Chapter 18
"I can't believe Ursula is missing," Sora said. "Where would she be if she's not here in her own world?"
"She could be working with the villains," Donald mentioned. "They could be anywhere. They are looking for the princesses remember? They must be taking them somewhere."
"Come on, let's pick up the pace!" King Triton shouted from up ahead. Ti-Day, Sora, Riku, Hercules, Donald and Goofy swam as fast as their fins would carry them to keep up. Soon enough the palace was in sight and the group of guys made their way back to the throne room unaware of what had happened.
"Kita! Ni-Ne!" Ti-Day shouted as he spotted the two unconscious girls on the sea floor. He was now swimming faster than he ever had before. Riku and Sora finally saw them too and hurried in as well. Ti-Day immediately swam to Ni-Ne's side. "Ni-Ne, wake up!" He gently took her limp body into his arms and lifted her up to see if she would snap out of it.
Sora and Riku landed themselves next to Kita. She was laying on her back with her key blade next to her, just out of reach of her hand. "They must have been attacked," Sora concluded. "Where's Ariel?"
"Ariel!" King Triton shouted. He was swimming nervously around the throne room looking in every nook and cranny for Ariel. "I have to search the palace. She may be hiding somewhere. At least I hope that's the case." Donald, Goofy and Hercules offered to help while the rest of the group stayed with the girls.
Ti-Day noticed a little pink ball lying under the throne. "Oh no Pom-Pom, not you too." He continued to hold Ni-Ne close to him.
"We won't know what happened until they wake up," Riku said. "That is if they even remember." Riku was looking at Ti-Day who was holding Ni-Ne so lovingly in his arms. Then he looked down to Kita who was still flat on the floor. He cautiously scooted towards her torso as though he was trying to be sly without Sora noticing. He reached down under her shoulder to pick her up and one of his tentacles touched her stomach.
"Ouch!" Kita shouted as she suddenly sat up and scared everyone to death. She narrowly missed head bunting Riku on her way up. All the boys were staring at Kita now. "Something just stung me."
"I'm sorry," Riku said. "It was an accident. But you are awake now."
Before Kita had the chance to start complaining Ti-Day swam over to her with Ni-Ne still in his arms. "Kita! What happened?"
"Err, heartless just came out of no where," Kita said trying hard to remember. "And then Ursula showed up."
"Ursula?" Sora shouted. "That's why we couldn't find her. She was here! What about Ariel?"
Kita dropped her head in shame. "She got her."
King Triton made a sudden re-entry with the others. "I can't find her anywhere."
"King Triton, she was kidnapped by Ursula," Ti-Day said. "They were attacked and Ariel was taken."
"No..." King Triton said. "This is all my fault. I shouldn't have left her here with only the two girls. Kita was looking a little hurt by the comment. She was already mad enough she had been left behind because she was a girl, and now this.
"It's not their fault!" Riku spoke up suddenly. "They tried really hard to protect Ariel. If you'd ever seen these girls fight you'd know they're not weak. Don't blame them for their best efforts!" Kita just stared open mouthed at Riku unable to believe he was capable of saying such a nice thing.
"Well it doesn't matter now," King Triton said. "What matters is getting Ariel back before that sea witch hurts my daughter."
"Umm, hello," Ti-Day said. "Ni-Ne and Pom-Pom are still unconscious here..."
"Oh right," King Triton said. He held up his triton and pointed it at Ni-Ne and Pom-Pom. There was a bright gold glow and when the light had dimmed, Ni-Ne opened her eyes.
"You're ok!" Ti-Day said squeezing Ni-Ne tightly. This time she was able to embrace him in return.
"I'm so glad you're here," Ni-Ne said. "I thought we were goners."
"Yeah, Kita told us," Ti-Day said smiling. "I'll never leave your side again." The two were nuzzling happily just to be safely together again. Sora was beginning to feel a little lonely inside.
"I really miss Kairi," he said. "Why haven't we found her yet?"
"Don't worry Sora," Kita said. "I know she's out there. She's probably thinking about you right now."
Sora smiled. "I can't wait to tell her that I got to be a dolphin."
"I promise, if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to help you find Kairi," Kita said. She held out her pinky. Sora joined his pinky to hers and they shook in agreement. "Besides, I'd love to meet her. Sounds like you have a thing for her."
"Well, maybe," Sora said scratching his head looking nervous.
"You sure do!" Riku said. He turned to Kita to tell the tale. "He was always blushing around her and stuff. I told him to share a Papua fruit with her too. They were quite the flirtatious ones." BANG Sora's Key Blade made contact with Riku's head. "What the heck? Not you too," Riku said rubbing his head.
Sora laughed. "Kita's really rubbing off on me, what can I say?" Kita laughed so hard she doubled up and rolled around on the sea floor turning pink. Riku, even though he was the one being laughed at, had a little smile on his face. He'd never seen Kita look so gosh darn happy. He just thought to himself that she was so cute when she smiled.
"I know you're all glad to be ok and all, but please, Ariel is still out there," King Triton said interrupting everyone. Kita stopped laughing and everyone's head turned to face him. "I don't know where she could be, and I don't have this ability to travel to other worlds, but there's a chance that if what you said is true about the villains, Ariel may be far from here by now."
"He's right," Ti-Day said. "We have to get going. I know if it were Ni-Ne out there I wouldn't be sitting here like this, I'd be half way around the universe by now." Ni-Ne blushed to here such lovely things about herself. Ti-Day truly was one of kind and with each passing day she loved him more for who he was and how much his love for her shined. As she stared at him admiring he's headstrong personality, she noticed something behind him up in the corner of the throne room.
"Heartless!" Ni-Ne shouted pointing to the intruders.
"I'll take care of them, please hurry!" King Triton said blocking the heartless from reaching everyone. They all quickly got a move on and left the palace.
"Wait a minute," Hercules said. "Maybe you'd better focus on sealing this world so the heartless will stop coming. We don't want anything to happen to King Triton too while we're gone."
"Ah, he's got a point," Sora said. "But where could the keyhole be?"
"Come on, we have to hurry up and find it!" Donald shouted.
"Uhhh, shark?" Ti-Day said slowing down and looking up.
"Yeah yeah Ti-Day, we know you're a shark," Kita said staying focused.
"No, SHARK!" Ti-Day said stopping and pointing up at the biggest shark he had ever seen. The shark stopped swimming around and made a noise dive at the group who had stopped swimming.
"RUN, I mean, SWIM!" Goofy shouted. Everyone split up into different directions and swam outwards to escape the shark's jaws. The shark crashed head first into the sea floor, but it wasn't enough to stop him as he then shook the sand out of his face and started chasing Hercules.
"Ahh! Why me?" Hercules said. "Stupid eel fin." Hercules was struggling to swim and he wasn't swimming fast enough to get away from the shark. Sora turned and saw that Hercules was in trouble. "Super Dolphin Sora will save you!" He swam full speed at the shark and held his Key Blade out ready to stab it. He hit it directly as his Key Blade went right into the shark's skin. He went to pull away and strike again, but the blade had sunk so far into the shark that he was having difficulty pulling it out. When he finally did, blood came pouring out and polluting the water. Sora backed away. "Hmm, not a heartless. What a mess."
The shark turned its head towards Sora and started pursuing him instead of Hercules. "Sora, watch out!" Riku shouted now going his way. Sora swam away from the shark, but quite literally, it was on his tail. Kita saw what was going on and she too started swimming Sora's way joined by Ni-Ne and Ti-Day.
"FREEZE!" Ni-Ne shouted. A block of ice formed around the shark, but in mere seconds it was busted by the sharks brute strength. "STOP!" she shouted next holding the shark in time.
"Good one babe!" Ti-Day shouted. "Now it's my turn! FIRE!" Ti-Day pointed his staff towards the shark but only a little puff of smoke and some bubbles came out of his staff.
"We're under water!" Donald shouted. "You can't use fire under water!"
"Oops," Ti-Day said. "In that case… LIGHTNING!" A huge bolt of lightening came down directly above the shark. It seemed to have burned right through the shark's skin leaving a big brown spot on it's back. But the time spell had apparently been broken as the shark's head started to move. "All together now!" Ti-Day commanded.
Ti-Day, Ni-Ne, Sora and Donald shouted together. "THUNDER!" And instantly the shark was fried to a crisp.
"Good one guys," Sora said. "I thought I was a goner there."
"Are you kidding? You know we've always got your back," Ti-Day said with a goofy smile on his face.
"Sora, look," Ni-Ne said pointing behind him. On a tall cone shaped rock, a keyhole began to appear. Sora held up his Key Blade and a beam of light connected the Key Blade and the keyhole. From it came the sound of a door locking.
"That takes care of that," Hercules said. "Now we should get going."
"Donald, where did you put our Gummi Ships?" Kita asked.
"Up on the surface," Donald said. "We better head up quickly." The group swam up together ready to head out and find Ariel.
"I'm gonna miss being a dolphin," Sora said sadly.
"Think of it this way," Kita said. "Maybe someday your magic will be as strong as Donald's and you can change into a dolphin whenever you want. Heck, make Kairi and Riku into dolphins too and you guys can all go swimming together." Sora smiled. It did sound like a good idea to him.
Kita swam over to her ship and discovered she was unable to get in with the huge whale fin dragging behind her. "Hold on, Donald said coming over. Hey targeted everyone who was riding in Kita's ship at the same time. Kita reached for the ship again. Her hands were wet and caused her to slip.
"I gotcha," Riku said catching her before she plummeted back under water again. Kita started to blush again uncontrollably with Riku holding her. She stared to squirm trying frantically to get away. The second attempt to get back in the ship was a success. Riku followed and then Ti-Day helped Ni-Ne and Pom-Pom in before jumping in himself.
Before they could even sit down something huge bumped the bottom of the Gummi ship. "What was that?" Kita asked. But before anyone could answer, the ship was hit again. This time everyone was shoved into one corner of the ship as they fell to the ground and slid in the direction the ship had tilted. Ti-Day managed to land at the bottom of the pile.
"Owe," he moaned as everyone was thrown against him. Kita, despite the fact she was having trouble moving, still attempted to crawl towards the controls in hopes to get the ship in the air. She looked out the front window and to her horror saw a shark fin circling them.
"That thing didn't die!" Kita yelled in shock.
"Or there's two of them," Riku said catching up to the front controls. Again the ship was hit by the shark. Kita fell right into Riku and they toppled to the floor.
"I can't take much more of this," Ni-Ne said sounding irritated. "STOP!" she shouted causing the shark to freeze in time. "Ok, now we can leave."
"Go," said the mysterious voice from Ni-Ne's mouth. Instantly the shark began moving again and continued to thrash the Gummi Ship.
"No way," Ti-Day said looking at Ni-Ne whose eyes were burning yellow again. "Snap out of it Ni-Ne! STOP!" Ti-Day shouted loudly. The shark stopped again. "Come on Kita, before it happens again!" Kita untangled herself from Riku and ran for the controls. She turned the power on and flipped all the controls in record speed. She sat down in the driver's seat and kicked into gear. The ship was suddenly shooting across the water at the speed of sound. Only a few second's passed before they finally got some air and rose off the surface of the ocean water.
"Ni-Ne! You can beat her!" Ti-Day shouted. He was shaking Ni-Ne's shoulders in hope she would hear him. "Ni-Ne!"
"Shut up you fool," the strange voice said. Kita turned her head and looked at Ni-Ne in fear. She had met the mysterious woman in Wonderland and she was terrified that she was coming back. In the middle of space, trapped inside of the Gummi Ship, there would be nowhere to run.
Ti-Day grabbed Ni-Ne's shoulders firmly and looked deep into her bright yellow eyes. "Listen woman, I may not know who you are or what you want, but you are getting on my nerves! Leave my girl friend alone!"
"Come now. I saved your life once Ti-Day. Don't you remember?" the woman said. "Do you really think you can get rid of me?" She let out a chilling laugh that sent shivers down everyone's spine. Pom-Pom was starting to look angry. He puffed up and leapt onto Ni-Ne's face. He wrapped his tail around her neck for stability and screwed his eyes into an angry expression and hissed loudly at her. "Uh!" the woman said trying to shake him off.
"Get her Pom-Pom!" Ti-Day cheered watching the woman struggle. She seemed to have a strange fear of him.
"Err, fine, I'm going. But don't thing that you've seen the last of me," the woman said before releasing Ni-Ne's mind. Her eyes flickered back to their normal color and Ni-Ne fell forward.
"Ni-Ne," Ti-Day said catching her just before she slammed into the floor and broker her nose. "Ni-Ne, are you ok?"
"Yeah," Ni-Ne said sounding very weak. "She just came so suddenly I couldn't hold her back."
"Don't worry," Ti-Day said "It's not your fault. Actually Pom-Pom here was the one who scared her away." Pom-Pom had returned to his normal bubbly self as he then nuzzled Ni-Ne.
"Thanks Pom-Pom," Ni-Ne said giving him a big squeeze. Ni-Ne, Ti-Day and Pom-Pom looked over to see Kita and Riku. They were both still glued to the dashboard as white as ghosts. "You guys alright?" Ni-Ne asked looking confused.
"Yeah, I'm good," Kita said shaking as she tried to move. She sat down looking forwards out the window to avoid eye contact with everyone. Se was still frightened that the thing inside of Ni-Ne was coming to get her. Riku also managed to regain composure. He had chosen to sit at the controls with Kita for this flight. When Kita realized this she rolled her eyes unknowingly, but she kept her head turned pretending that she didn't know he was there.
"You look really scared," Riku said speaking to Kita. "And you don't look scared very often."
"Yeah well, if you got trapped all alone with no escape in a room with that woman, I'm sure you'd feel the same way," Kita explained.
"You never told me about that," Riku said looking left out of the loop.
"Well, there's a lot of things I don't tell you," Kita said.
"So you do have a secret crush on me!" Riku said jokingly. Kita didn't see it as much of a joke.
"WHAT!" Kita shouted. She picked up her key blade and bashed Riku upside the head with it.
"Is that all you got? I think you're starting to go soft on me," Riku laughed. "It didn't even hurt that time."
"Oh? How's THIS!" Kita shouted now standing up to put full force into her swing. Ti-Day and Ni-Ne just laughed at them.