Author's Note-Bleh. Too much school ish not healthy. But that's beside the point. Anywho, yes, I would like to congratulate DemonSurfer on guessing who Tam's parents are. Her character is the daughter of one of my friends (Akayso) and Kurama from one of our old rpgs. -gives DemonSurfer a shadow heartless plushie- Yeah, maybe if anyone else can guess one of the parents to the other original characters in this fanfic, more plushies might be handed out. Anyways, I don't own Kingdom Hearts, so please read and review!
"The Heartless again, huh? Why should I help them out again? What's in it for me?" the flaming, blue god asked, crossing his arms.
"The power to overthrow Zeus, for one. When used to the full potential, not even the gods themselves can withstand the power of the Heartless, and that includes the mighty Zeus. Not to mention that we're trying to open the gate to a new kingdom that has been closed for centuries. Open the gates and it becomes populated. It becomes populated, people die. People die there, you get to extend your domain. Extending your domain, and you grow in power and I don't care if you're a god or a mortal-naturally I know that you'll desire power." Chaos said with a smirk. "The task is simple: Capture the two keyblade wielders-the one from last year and the double wielder-and just hand them over to us. That is all that you need to do."
"Hm...capture them, huh?" the god said thoughtfully, stroking his chin.
"...Yes..."
"...I suppose I'll see what I can do. But I'll have to think it over..."
"...We'll be anxiously waiting for your reply. Just call or cause chaos when you can supply for us an answer..." Chaos said, grinning. With that, he turned and dissolved into a black mist.
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The dark, smog-filled city reflected morbidly on Yukiro's slightly wide, crystal blue eyes that seemed to stand out in the gray city. "This...is Midgar...?" he asked in disbelief.
Vincent looked down at him. "You're surprised...?" he asked.
"No... Well, I mean, yeah, actually... Midgar...it wasn't like this. What happened to this place...?" Yukiro asked, shaking his head.
"Your father happened, and then your brother. This city had been ravaged by war already, and then when the kingdom was sealed, I assume that Midgar was thrown into complete and utter chaos. At least, that's my theory, considering that I was asleep during the kingdom's final chapter. Don't you remember...?"
Yukiro shook his head again. "No... The last time I actually went to Midgar, I was only nine. That was five-hundred and ten years ago..."
Riku stepped up to stand beside them, his head turning from side to side as if scanning the view of the city. "Well I would add my sentiments, but as you so kindly continue to remind me, I can't really see and be sincere. Sorry." He said with a touch of faint sarcasm. "However, I can tell you all to watch your backs-there's not a lot of light in this city."
"Light...?" Vincent repeated in a faint mutter, looking over at the boy. Light...the Heart's Eye, the power to see the light of people's souls... Only the royals and the knights, both light and dark, had that power. Who is this kid? ...What is he...? he wondered.
"...A wise man once said that if you watch your back, you end up getting attacked from the front, so I recommend we watch both." Yukiro said, not taking any notice in the White Knight's confusion. Vincent and Riku nodded in agreement.
"True enough-none of us want to be mugged, I think." Vincent said quietly. With his normal, right hand, he pointed to a flickering neon sign. "Over there. I believe we'll be able to find another engine in that shop."
The three outsiders made their way to the shop.
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"So which areas of Midgar are we covering, Barret?" Biggs asked, glancing up at the man through obsidian bangs.
Barret Wallace, a big man with a gun for a right arm, stared down at the map, then shook his head and looked up at the girl with reddish-brownish hair that was typing on the computer nearby. "Jessie, where have they become most concentrated in?"
Jessie paused as she pulled up the information, then said, "Sectors Seven, Nine, Eight, Five, and Two. At least, for now." She reported.
"Damn! That means we can't spread out to take those monsters out. There's not enough of us." Barret growled, hitting the table with his left, normal fist.
"You, Biggs, Wedge, Jessie, and myself. Five people, five sectors. That seems to be enough to fight these monsters." The cat said, flicking his flaming tail as he laid in his basket in the corner.
"...Good point, Red. Awright. We each take-" Barret was interrupted by the bell at the door. "Damn. Customers. Hang on..." he sighed, walking out of the back room and up to the counter. He raised an eyebrow at these three suspicious characters. Faintly he noticed Red padding up to the counter behind him.
The customers consisted of three guys, two with white hair, one with black hair. One of the boys was blind, and one of the others had a bladed staff strapped to his back. The black-haired one was eyeing several of the newer models of guns. "What do ya need?" Barret asked.
"A gummi engine." The boy with the longer of the white hair replied away?" Barret asked.
The boy crossed his arms and shook his head. "...No. Stopping a nightmare. An abomination." He said.
Barret studied the boy for a moment, a bit confused by this response, then shrugged. "Awright, sure." He said. He eyed their clothes for a moment. "You from outta town?"
The boy nodded. "Yeah, you could say that."
"Then you know how much it's gonna cost ya, right?"
The boy considered for a moment. "I have a good idea, yeah. Don't worry, we have enough money." He said.
"Awright, anything else?" Barret asked.
Pause. Then the black-haired guy nodded. "One of those guns up there."
"Sorry, but I'll have to see some sort of ID and a permit. I don't just hand out guns to minors-the crime rate around here is bad enough, you know?"
"..." The guy reached up to hold up the pendant that hung around his neck. It was a platinum crown, which snapped open with some sort of profile ID and permit, revealing that he was in fact twenty-seven (A/N: As for the necklace mainly the crown thingy, think Sora's necklace, only platinum.) "I've got my own money for it..." Vincent-for that was apparently his name-dropped some money on the counter. Barret frowned.
"What is it?" he asked, picking up a coin and studying it.
"...Is there a problem? It's gil..." Vincent replied, raising an eyebrow.
"...Never heard of it..." Barret started.
"...I have." Red replied, getting up onto his hind legs to lean against the glass counter and study the money. "It's an archaic currency." He explained. He nodded-a very human gesture done by a great, big, red cat. "It is genuine gil. How you got your hands on it, I do not know, but gil went out of use three hundred years ago. We currently use munny instead."
"Munny..." Vincent repeated with a frown. "Then you won't take this? If it's been out of use for three hundred years though, the antiquity must be high of value in itself."
"Well... That is true, I suppose. Sell it to a collector around here and one coin should rank around 1,500 munny." Red considered. "Gil is nearly as rare as gold itself, these days.And this is genuine. Hm..."
"You kids ain't from Midgar, are you? Cosmo Canyon?" Barret asked.
Vincent and the boy with the longer silver hair seemed to exchange glances, then shrug. "Sure, why not?" the silver-haired boy asked. The blind boy was turned away from them, almost as if he were keeping watch, as impossible for a blind boy to keep watch was.
The cat looked up at the big man. "Well? What do you think, Barret?"
"Well..." Barret considered, then nodded. "Awright, sure. It's a de-"
"They're here." The blind boy said suddenly, getting into fighting stance.
"Shit!" the boy with the longer, white hair (who Barret and Red assumed was probably their leader) exclaimed, unstrapping the bladed staff from his back and positioning it threateningly in front of him. Barret and Red took this as warning as well, Red getting into fighting stance and Barret tossing one of the newer gun models to Vincent, who loaded it with his own bullets, twirled it, and pointed at the door, a grim look set upon his face. Barret raised his gun arm at the door as well.
Darkness had already begun to seep under the door like a black mist, flowing and curling in some parts like smoke. A head passed by the window outside.
Suddenly the door flew open!
...And all hell broke loose...
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Tam sighed as they trudged through the foliage. They had lost the bunch of monkeys at least twenty minutes ago and since then, had been wandering around a bit aimlessly, no idea where to go next.
"Stupid monkeys..." Tam said, sighing and wiping the sweat off her brow.
Taro glanced over at her. "Yeah..." He said as he looked back up into the canopy. "If you see any monkeys this time, just holler." He said.
"AKA if they pick me up and start tossing me through the trees between them as if I were a piece of fruit? Oh, don't worry, Taro. I'll probably be sure to do a hell of a lot more than that." Tam said, raising an eyebrow. Taro shook his head and sighed.
"Hopefully. Sora wasn't able to do anything and he defeated Ansem, or at least, supposedly he did..." he said.
"Exactly. Supposedly. Don't base a person's strength on a supposedly did, Taro, because that only means that they didn't do it." Tam said. Taro sighed again and shrugged. "Hey, cheer up. I think I can see the trees ending just up ahead, which is probably a good thing." Tam said, hiking just up ahead of him.
Taro frowned as he noticed some leaves flutter to the ground from the trees, but shrugged it off and followed.
Eventually the two teens made it to the top of a large hill. There was a bit of a field before them, and then the forest started once more, this time going downhill. They were quite high up, for they got a good view of the forest and where it ended. And rising in the middle of their view, a large, decorated formation of stone. It looked like the ruins of a building but it was hard to be sure from where they were.
"...I'm thinking we should try avoiding that..." Tam said. Taro looked over at her.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because...I just do." Tam said a bit uneasily.
Taro smiled slightly and even chuckled a bit, despite the heat and the current situation that they were in. Tam glared over at him.
"What's so funny?! What are you laughing at?!" she demanded.
"Tam... Don't tell me that you're afraid of ghosts and stuff." Taro snickered.
"Hey, hey! Don't get me started on ghosts. Ghosts are very real. But that's beside the point. That's not what I'm getting at. I'm thinking something more...physical. Living. Like headhunters or something."
"Headhunters? There's not going to be any headhunters living there." Taro assured her.
"Well, you never know." Tam shot back.
"Yeah? Well I have feeling that Sora's there. Alive, with his head. So let's go." Taro said, starting off.
"Taro..." Tam whined, starting after the blonde. She sighed. "Note to self. No, note I should remember, because I already made that note to myself a long time ago: Never travel with boys." She muttered. But she continued on with minor complaint anyways, hoping that nothing would appear to take their heads.
Or their hearts.
Author's Note-Meh... Sorry about the wait. Nine weeks exams are coming up and those who are in highschool should know how much fun that is. -rolls eyes- Anywho, um...I don't have anything really much to say for the time being, so please just review. Ja ne!