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Sora m e e t s Sora
Written by oathk33p3r
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Author's Notes: Sora meets Sora is going to be a lot different from the original one.
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In which they talk to Merlin
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Sora poo landed the gummi ship with a distasteful expression and pulled off his seat belt. Sora was annoying the heck out of him. Honestly, he didn't know what "annoying" was until now.
"-and then, the cookies burneded, so we had to go to the store! You know what a store is, right?" Sora asked Goofy.
"Um, it's where you buy stuff, right?"
"Wow, smart doggy!" Sora giggled as he patted Goofy on the head.
"Anyways, so Riku and I bought the cookie dough, but this old fat man started to chase us with a big stick and said we didn't pay for it. But then, that wasn't probable because we already bougthted it! And then, we realized it was because we gave them sand dollars, not munny." Sora sniffled.
"And then this other time-"
"Um, just so you guys know, we're here," Sora poo grumbled.
"We are?" Sora's sapphire eyes widened.
He peered out of the window and squealed. The small town was flashing with bright and colorful lights. A small pig-like animal was looking up at him, its nose twitching.
"Yay!" he raised his arms and grabbed Goofy by the hand.
"Let's go!"
Sora poo and Donald dragged their feet out of their gummi ship and exchanged weary glances.
"Sora, I hate you," Donald said sadly.
Sora poo nodded, "I hate me too."
"But Goofy seems to like him," Donald commented as Sora grabbed onto Goofy's hand and dragged him towards the moogle.
Sora was saying something to it, which was inaudible to Sora poo and Donald. He was fingering to grab onto the moogle's pom-pom, but Goofy stopped him just in time. The canine hoisted the small brunette onto his shoulders and hyucked his way towards Merlin's study.
"Well, let's hurry up and go to Merlin. I can't wait to get rid of this rascal," Sora poo said as he ran after Goofy.
Donald conjured the spell that performed fire and pointed his staff at the door with a flaming emblem as soon as they got there.
Sora's eyes were wide with interest as the duck was doing this.
"Goofy, is Donald suicidal?" he whispered.
Sora poo glanced at him.
"What?"
"Is he going to burn himself and eat him alive?" he asked, not taking his eyes off Donald.
Sora poo shook his head.
"No, Sora. He is not suicidal and he is not going to eat himself," Sora poo said, exasperated.
The door opened and Sora jumped. He involuntarily grabbed onto Sora poo's hand as the four of them walked through the door.
Sora poo raised a brow as he looked down at his past old self. He was shivering and looking around nervously.
"Are you scared?" Sora poo asked.
Sora shook his head violently.
"I'm not scared, Santa's there for me, Santa's there for me…" Sora chanted with his eyes shut tight.
Sora poo felt a lump rising in his throat, which he quickly swallowed when he accidentally stepped into water.
"Oh yeah, forgot about this," Sora poo mumbled as he took a step back and shook his enormous shoe.
"Do you think Sora can make it to the floating boulders?" Goofy asked as he jumped onto the first one.
Sora poo looked down at Sora.
"You think you can jump that far?"
Sora grinned and nodded. He instantly let go of Sora poo's hand and ran towards Goofy…
…and jumped into the water.
"Ahh!" Sora poked his head up from the small lake and screamed as the cold water pierced his skin.
Sora poo let out a fast sigh and pulled Sora out of the water by the arm.
"You know, it's not that deep, and you live on an island for crying out loud. Don't you know how to swim?" Sora poo asked with an irritated tone.
Sora sniffled and sneezed, crying.
"I'm sorry. I just wanted to show off," Sora said bluntly.
Sora poo raised a brow. Shaking his head in disappointment, he put Sora down on the floor and turned to Donald.
"Hey, can you freeze the water?" Sora poo asked.
"Already on it," Donald quacked.
He waved his staff around a couple of times and mumbled a few words. The water surrounding Merlin's study instantly froze.
"Ok, let's go, Sora."
Sora poo grabbed on to Sora's hand and guided him across the ice. Goofy had to use the bridge made of floating boulders because of his lack of balance.
Sora giggled as he cautiously stepped across the ice, firmly holding onto Sora poo's hand.
"I wish Merlin can make this place brighter," Sora poo mumbled to Donald.
The duck nodded in agreement and stepped onto the small island.
"Ok, we're here. Let's go to Merlin now," Sora poo said as he walked towards the door of the strange looking house.
Sora followed Sora poo with the rest of the gang.
Sora poo pushed open the small wooden door and stepped inside. The small invisible ice starting to cling to his skin instantly melted away as the warm fire of Merlin's fireplace greeted him.
"Why, hello there." Merlin smiled through his long beard.
"Hey, we're here because we ran into some kind of…problem," Sora poo said hesitantly.
"Ask away, my lad," the magician said.
"It's about a time portal," Donald joined in the conversation.
The magician looked down at Donald a frowned.
"A time portal?" He repeated.
"Yeah," Goofy hyucked.
"Hmm," Merlin nodded thoughtfully.
He turned to Sora and smiled.
"Is this the little problem?"
The three of them nodded as Sora stared back at Merlin.
Merlin pulled out a wand from his purple robe and gave it a wave. A thick, leather book landed into his arms and turned to a certain page; it was stained and yellow, but the words were still legible.
"Ah," Merlin said as he read through the passage.
He closed the book and it vanished. Sora only continued to stare at Merlin quietly.
"It looks like this little fellow ran into a common transportation portal that had some kind of defect. It was supposed to lead to another part of the world he was in, but it led him to another time instead. And he was in your gummi ship because Sora was like a magnet to the little lad," Merlin said slowly and carefully.
"So, Sora's soul was trying to get to me? Because he was most familiar to himself in a time period he wasn't familiar with?" Sora poo asked.
"Precisely." Merlin nodded.
"How would we return him then?" Sora poo asked.
"It's nearly impossible."
"What?" they all exclaimed in unison.
"You'll have to find the person who built that portal. I know Cid made most of the portals around here in Traverse Town, but I'm not familiar with the other worlds out there," Merlin said sadly.
"But, how would we do that? Don't you know how to recognize who the maker of the portal is?" Sora poo asked.
Merlin shook his head.
"Only spell makers can do that, my lad. And I only know one of them. She goes by the name 'Ursula' and lives deep under Traverse Town.
"Deep under Traverse Town," he nodded thoughtfully.
"We'll find her!" Sora poo said passionately after a while.
Goofy and Donald exchanged worried glances.
Merlin merely nodded and started to shift uncomfortably as he glanced at Sora.
Sora has been staring at the old magician as soon as he had stepped him. He liked the way the old man's beard swung back and forth when he talked.
"Sir? May I take your beard?" Sora finally asked.
Merlin stared at Sora.
"My beard? Why do you want that?"
"My mommy said I can grow a beard but it never growed. So I want to you have yours." Sora smiled.
Sora poo slapped his face.
"What an idiot," he mumbled.
The brunette grabbed his past self by the hand and started for the door.
"Ignore him," he mouthed to Merlin.
Merlin nodded and said good bye.
"Now, off to find this Ursula," Sora grumbled.
The four stepped out of Merlin's study and was enveloped in darkness again. The ice had returned back to calm, murky water. Sora poo didn't even know where to start.
"So, Ursula lives under Traverse Town…" Sora said to himself.
Sora poo looked down at Sora, surprised. He was paying attention after all.
"Yeah, and we don't know where."
Sora looked up at Sora poo.
"Don't Ursulas live under water?" Sora asked.
"Ursulas? Isn't Ursula a name?" Sora poo asked. Come to think of it, he had defeated a mutated octopus a year ago.
"It's a name and a speeshees," Sora said. "They live under water," he added.
"Hyuck, we're floating on water right now," Goofy pointed out.
Sora poo's eyes lighted up.
"That's it!" he exclaimed. "Donald, we have to go down there," Sora said as he pointed towards the dark waters surrounding them.
"Are you sure?"
Sora poo nodded vigorously.
"Of course."