A.N. another update in two days? Something must be wrong with me, but truly I am posting this chapter due to so many people asking for the drive forms and those who didn't review are probably wanting the same thing, so finally a drive form will be introduced. Hopefully it will be enough to tide you people down till the next time.
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Chapter 7
Eva had already explained in the pub where it was that she planned on going next so as the group left town, they began making their way towards the market that Eva had mentioned. As they neared it Sora decided that it didn't look much like a market, especially compared to the one found in Agraba. Sora gave a quiet laugh at the thought of the shenanigans that Aladin and Abu would pull in the large bazaar.
The group walked down to the small market. "Okay guys first order of business is to find a map." Eva said as she walked towards one of the vendors. Ruel rolled his eyes. "Sorry but you are going to have to buy it yourself." Eva turned towards the Enutrof with a scowl. Ruel then continued completely ignoring the scowl that was directed at him. "My purse is as bare as a carrot field on Wabbit Island."
Amalia let out a laugh. "Spent all your kamas on that wonderful outfit of yours, did you?" Amalia's laugh got louder as she laughed at her own joke. Then her laugh took on the characteristics of an old throaty cackle. Yugo turned from what he was looking at and stared at the Sadida princess.
"Heh Amalia you sound like a bwork." Amalia threw her hands down in a fit.
"That. Was not. Me!" Amalia yelled out in anger. Then as if to prove her point the laugh sounded again bringing everyone's attention to the sky. The Enutrof vendor behind them yelled out in horror.
"It's the Black Crow!" The group ran off behind a large rock for cover, Eva and Percidal stood ready for the fight Yugo left, leaving Az in Ruel's care. Then Sora, Donald, and Goofy raced out after them planning on getting as many vendors away from their shops and to them the black crow sat on his mount having already destroyed some of the shops.
Sora turned and watched as the black crow pointed to one of the vendors and large group of crows much like smaller versions of the black crow mount flew down towards one of the shops and took the entire thing down in seconds.
In the end Sora and his friends had rescued most of the merchants while Eva, Yugo and Dally had missed their shot at the black crow due to Percidal's inability to count. Everyone went to check on one of the vendors and asked about where they would be able to find a map.
The vendor almost reluctantly told the group about Kabrock's shop, stating that the black crow hasn't attacked the shop due to it being built under ground. The group followed the man's directions and soon found themselves surrounded by signs directing them all towards the underground shop.
In front of the door stood a strange device that was probably used to alert the shop owners of visitors. Yugo probably suspected this and grabbed a hold of the device yelling into it.
"Hello! Anyone home!" A voice replied and the door to the side opened, slowly the group entered and the door shut behind them. An Ecaflip female walked into the room with a friendly smile that was clearly fake. Yelling throughout the building she called for her husband. Slowly a slouched over, blue skinned Osamodas entered the room. As the conversation continued the Ecaflip, Miranda, whistled and a strange creature quickly made its way up to the woman's hand.
"But to avoid kama-less people wasting our time we put all our potential costumers through a little test." With that she let the creature she had called a Shnuffle go and it quickly began making its way to the group, making quick work of sniffing for kamas on Yugo, Percidal, and Amalia, each of them received and angry scowl from the Shnuffle as none of them contained a single kama. It then made its way to Eva, smelling a few kamas on the Cra.
With the first four people done it turned to Ruel who had fallen into a barrel at the sight of the creature. "The Shnuffle isn't going to smell Ruel is it?" The small creature answered Amalia's question as it made quick work of Ruel, ringing the bell wildly signaling that it had located a great source of kamas. Miranda smiled. Then turned to Sora and his friends.
"Oh Shnuffle don't forget those three." She called in a sing song voice. The Shnuffle quickly turned towards the three that it's master just indicated and made its way from the Enutrof who smelled of kamas to them.
The Shnuffle sniffed at the feet of Donald and Goofy neither of them gave off the scent of kamas then the little blue haired creature went to Sora. It sniffed at his feet the stared wide eyed at nothing, it's tail went limp and it pawed at his nose. Everyone looked at the creature in shock then Sora looked back to Miranda.
"Um, I think I broke your pet."
Sora claimed as he scratched the back of his head. Miranda stomped over to where the male stood. She picked up the completely disoriented pet glaring at Sora as she stood up again.
"Empty out your pockets." She all but growled. Sora reached into his pockets and grabbed pulled out the pouch that King Mickey had given him when the three were in twilight town. If anything, the Munny inside was what caused the Shnuffle to act the way it was. Unless it was the potions and ethers that he had on stock.
He held out the thee beaded pouch, for Miranda and everyone else to see the pouch received curious looks and such finally Sora removed the contents of the pouch. Everyone looked at the Munny in Sora's hand.
"What is that?" Miranda asked, Eva walked over and inspected the pieces that Sora held, "This is Munny." He stated as he placed the pieces back into the pouch. Eva reached into a pouch of her own and removed a Kama holding it out for Sora to see.
"I don't know where you're from but this is money." Eva said. "And it isn't called money but Kamas." Donald eyed the gold coin held in the Cra's hand. Sora and Goofy all ready seeing the grey side of their companion showing in his eyes.
Sora shifted on his feet. Well while you guys do that we are going back to see of we can't help at the market. Donald and Goofy both cast Sora the same confused expression, but soon dropped it when they saw the look in his eyes.
"Yeah, we'll meet you guys there." Donald and Goofy both said. The three exited as the rest of the group tree remained asking for different items that they wanted.
As the three walked they discussed theater of telling the others the truth, in the end they decided that they would wait till the right moment, or till it was absolutely necessary, which ever came first.
After they made it to the field they were able to help repair three of the stalls before the others showed up. They explained the situation and it took no more than five minutes before Ruel's stall had been set up.
Within moments of Eva threatening Ruel je began ringing his bell and yelling out his chant that Eva told him to say, the Black Crow appeared. The group emerged from behind the stall, and just as the Black Crow started his chant, Yugo interupted.
"Wait I just have one question." The Black Crow stopped mod sentence and stared down at the young boy. "Why do you call yourself the black crow?"
"Because it stresses my evil side and invokes fear on all who hear the name, much like the black knight." After the black crow said that he began once again where he left off, once again he was interrupted as Yugo and the others began listing off a bunch of different names that the mounted evil could use instead of the name that he was using at the moment.
As the others continued Sora was aware of the Black Crows growing anger and dodged as the mounted person extended his weapon out catching Ruel by the back of his shirt. "You are coming with me!" The Black Crow yelled as he flew off with Ruel as his captive.
Sora looked to the others, "Uh was that part of your plan?" His question went unnoticed as Eva ran a few steps after the Black Crow. "We have to go get him back." Eva stated in a whisper Amalia replied. "Do we really want to go save him?"
Yugo seemed to have an idea as he raced off in the direction of Kabrock's shop. Everyone else got to the door as Yugo once again yelled into the device next to the door, after awhile he entered and it wasn't long before he came back out with Miranda's Shnuffle on his head. The blue fired elephant like creature sat still until Yugo brought up a Kama and held the golden coin before the creatures face asking the Shnuffle to help the group find Ruel.
In a mad dash the Shnuffle instantly ran off toward it's favorite scent and the group running close behind it. Behind them Miranda burst through the door yelling then going back in and complaining about the pet and her husband.
As they were running Sora was debating whether or not to use a drive form, it always put a lot of strain on his friends and they weren't able to fight when he did so, but he had to use one if they were going to fight their enemy and have a chance at winning. In front of the group the Shnuffle bale gas making its climb up the slope of a mountain, luckily their was a worn down path for easy traveling as in the end the group went all the way to the top just above the low hanging clouds.
In front of them stood Ruel, who was very much safe, and next to him stood Kabrock, wearing an outfit like the Black Crows. Sora was able to put the pieces together while Yugo and his friends were not.
"Ruel, Kabrock! Where's the Black Crow?" Yugo asked. In answer Ruel quickly explained, and proved Sora's hunch right. Kabrock them explained it in his own words , placed his mask back on his head, then got on his mount and jumped off the edge of the cliff side, flying above the group.
"If you want this map you are going to have to defeat me for it." The masked Kabrock yelled down from his position in the air. At this point Sora knew that he was going to have to use one of the Drive forms.
Looking around the battle field for Goofy, he spotted the Ecaflip throwing his shield, much like a Frisbee in the direction of their opponent. "Goofy!" Sora called out as he ran to his friend.
Goofy understanding caught his shield and met Sora half way. "Valor right?" Goofy asked looking to down to Sora's eyes. Sora nodded and could feel as strength from Goofy went into him, giving him the energy needed to hold onto the form that he wanted.
A bright flash enveloped the battle blinding out if not all who were fighting and when it subsided, everyone looked to the source and saw Sora standing over his friend, who was kneeling due to the loss of strength, holding not one but two keyblades, one of which Sora and his two companions have never seen before.
Sora's outfit changed much like it always did when he used a drive form only this time it changed more to match the outfit that Goofy was given. It held its usual red and black color scheme only resembled more of an Ecaflip then a cra.
Sora, not wanting to waste time admiring his new outfit, like he did the first time at Yen Sid's turned his attention back to the battle, aware of Donald running g to Goofy's side till the Drive Forms time ran out.
"Yugo, Amalia, Eva you guys need to get the black crow on the ground so that Percidal, Ruel and I can attack him and his mount." Sora demanded of the group that was staring at the teen, as the supposed Cra just changed from one race to a completely different one. Eva decided that at this point she would demand of the three to tell her and the others where they had come from but that would have to wait till after the battle.
Heeding Sora's demand Yugo opened portal to give Eva's arrows and Amalia's doll more directions to hit from quickly knocking the mounted rider from the sky, with his new form Sora's speed had been increased and he was the first one to begin attacking the enemy. He decided to go for the mount first for once that was gone Kabrock would be grounded. With the help of the two keyblades Sora was able to send an onslaught of attacks down onto the mount, taking out one of the wings as Ruel and Percy took out the other.
Quickly Kabrock stood and sent an onslaught of small crows towards his many attackers, but due to the severity of his situation, the merchant was rushed, so he missed many of the shots. Kabrock put two of his fingers to his mouth and whistled, at first the group was unaware as to what the whistle did but, it had caused a strange energy to flow into Kabrock's mount. The mount was quickly over come by shadow like flames that quickly died down.
Taking advantage of the shock Kabrock was once again able to mount his ride and once again take to the sky. The group let out an angry grunt together as all their teamwork to get the mountain to and it's rider down were rendered pointless. Sora knew the drive form didn't have much longer as he felt the subtle decrease in the added strength that Goofy had supplied him with. Once again Eva, Yugo and Amalia began working together to get the rider and mount down, when Sora got an idea. He looked to the two portals that Yugo had created the up to the merchant in the air.
"Yugo!" Sora called to the young boy, who in turn directed his attention away from the fight to the strange teen. "Can you get me up there?"
Yugo thought over the teens request then nodded, taking down the two current portals he set up two new ones, making it so that Sora could get to where he wanted to go. Taking the first portal at a run, Sora quickly found himself falling directly above the mounted merchant. Keyblade held at the ready Sora angled himself not at the rider but at the right wing.
Grabbing hold of the strange feather substance that made up the wing over the metal frame, Sora citing ed falling, now in a spiral motion as the mount tried to stay air borne. Kabrock as a last defense against the inevitable plummet and his weapon at Sora, ready to blast the teen from his mounts wing. Before he could though an arrow pierced through the sky and knocked the weapon off course as the small crow missiles were launched. Just as they were about to hit the ground Sora released his grip on the wing and pushed off rolling away as the mount and rider crashed to the stones.
Just a bit of the strength given to him by Goofy remained as Sora stood and made his way to the merchant. Looking down on the prone form of the man Sora pointed the tip of the new keyblade at him.
"We'll be taking that map now." Sora said as Kabrock brought the map from where he had kept it. Kabrock held out the map. "Well a deal is a deal, and you beat fair and square" Eva took the map from the extending hand, and unsteady Kabrock made his way to rocks that sat close to the cliff edge.
The group turned and began heading down the mountain all except Yugo who turned back to Kabrock and made his way over to the defeated merchant. The two held a private conversation and one the way down the rest of the group ran into Miranda who was making her way up the mountain, probably to her husband.
After Miranda made it up to the top it didn't take long for Yugo to catch up with the rest of the group. At this point Sora had already reverted back to his normal self and was no examining his newly acquired keyblade.
"Looks like it uses elements of a Cra's bow." Amalia stated as she looked at the strangely shaped blade. Sora thought about what the Sadida said then nodded. In front of them Percidal was trying to make the newly acquired map tell them how to get to Oma, but Sora didn't really care about that.
As they continued Sora was mulling over possible names for the blade. "It's Cra's Blade." Sora said to no one in particular after having decided on the name for the new keyblade.
A.N. So yeah again fights not my favorite thing to type but after receiving 4 different reviews asking for a drive form I couldn't post this chapter without typing a fight with the drive form. Now don't expect me to put a drive form for every fight because I am using how I fight in KH2 as a stepping point so to say, and in the game I hardly ever use the drive forms. I only do if it is absolutely necessary, but for the purpose of this fanfic I will try to include the drive forms more okay? As for how they work.
I think it would be weird if Donald or Goofy disappeared when Sora uses a drive form so instead I made it so that Sora needs extra strength in order to use said drive form and depending on who he gets the extra strength from that is the drive form he uses. Hope that isn't to confusing.
And that is all for this chapter
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