A.N. Yay new update and to Captain Cranch I finally included some of Sora's past in this chapter but not much, I will include more sometime later but hopefully thus will tide you over till then, and I know I don't say this as much as I should, but thank you all for talking the time to read and thank you even more for those who take even more time to leave a review, everyone of those little notes makes me happy and every time I see a new one it feels like christmas. So again thanks to all. ^~^
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Chapter 9
Sora stretched as Ruel started a discussion about Iop philosophy. Donald and Goofy added in a few things along with Yugo and Percedal. Sora gave one of his lazy trade mark smiles as Amalia pointed to something along the edge of the forest.
"Look guys a village!" The Sadida Princess exclaimed while Evangelyn gaze turned into that of a glare.
"Yeah but it won't be long before this area is effected by Ogrest chaos." Ruel gave out a laugh asking if Eva truly believed in that old myth, but what Eva said caught Sora's attention. Then Ruel continued.
"But if that ever comes to pass then the villagers will turn toward thievery, leaving old Ruel to come in and collect the bounty." Donald's greed showed at the word bounty but like many times before he quickly hid it. With nothing else said the group made their way to the village.
"Stop there are monsters here. I can taste it." The group stopped behind Percedal allowing the Iop his moment of stupidity. The the sound of something falling caught the attention of the group. When they looked the group watched as a plump red api rolled across the group, coming to a stop at Percedal's feet.
Yugo began spouting how the api could be a monster or poisonous, and how a Iop was never afraid of anything. Percedal just shrugged it off and no one noticed Az flying towards a large container of apis.
The only way they noticed was when Az's pained chirp broke through the discussion between Percedal and Yugo. In a hurry Yugo ran to his tofu and with gentle hands.
"Come on little buddy, chirp something." Yugo almost whispered as he watched Az's eyes suit and slowly open, Yugo cheered as Az's eyes grew wide and a happy chirp escaped the yellow birds beak.
While the rest of the group made there way to Yugo and his tofu, Sora and his friends decided to look around the village. It wasn't hard to see that the houses in the village were far smaller then a normal house, and a part of his told his that he had seen a house like this before but no matter how hard Sora tried to remember he couldn't, so for the time being he just left it and continued.
Once the rest of the group was out of ear shot Goofy and Donald stopped, so caught up to them and noticed that something was up.
"Why did you guys stop?" Sora asked as he came to a stop next to his friends. Donald and Goofy exchanged glances, then turned back to Sora.
"Sora you do remember the one rule when we started this journey right?" Sora could only roll his eyes, how could he forget that one rule.
"Course I remember the rule, when in a new world we can't reveal anything about where we are from." Sora recited as he turned back and looked at the way they had come. In his head he was thinking about all the times when they tried to hide it but people of the world just seemed to figure it out themselves.
"The only reason we bring this up is cause Evangelyn has been suspicious of us and doesn't quite seem to believe our story. So just be careful when she asks stuff." Donald explained as he crossed his arms. Before Sora could reply in anyway a shout from where the rest of the group was.
The three of them easily turned and ran back through the small village and saw what had caused the yell. In the clearing where they had left the group were large Minotaur like beasts that Hercules had talked about last time they visited the Olympus Colluseum.
The beasts were running around practically smashing and or crashing into anything and everything. After the group had finally managed to chase off the large muscled Taurs, the small jelly like inhabitants of the village made their way put cheering for the heroes that saved their food and the majority of the village that was true for all but one.
"You fools!" Cried out the puddly chief as the cheering came to a stop. "Now the Taurs will come back and destroy whatever remains!" He called out his body his body wavering as he appeared to cry.
Percedal saw this as a moment to play the hero. "Fear not puddlies, for I, Sir Percedal shall teach you the ways of battle."
Eva instantly groaned and countered what Percedal said. "There's no time for that, what we have to do is set up defenses around the village before the Taurs return."
The rest of the group watched silently as the two argued, Sora couldn't help but compare the two to an old married couple as he smirked. Then Eva and Dally split up each taking groups of the puddlies with them. Yugo decided to go with Percedal and Ruel said that he would 'keep watch'.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy all decided that they would split up and help each group, Sora left after Eva and Amalia, Donald went after Percedal and Yugo, while Goofy went after Ruel (giving Peace of mind to his two friends now that someone was actually watching for the Taurs).
Sora and the girls were placing down one of the large nests they planned on surrounding the village with when Sora looked up to see how the training was going with Percedal.
As Sora watched he saw two puddlies off slightly from the rest mock fighting, when one hit the other. The one that had gotten hit placed it's hands were it had gotten struck and looked about ready to cry.
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"Riku that was dirty!" Cried Sora as he clutched his shin with one hand , knowing that with the force that hit it that it would most likely bruise. His other hand was rubbing at his eye trying to get it free of sand. Riku didnt seem to care as he simply dropped to the ground and sat on the sand his feet sitting just were the lapping waves couldn't reach.
"Well it wouldn't be a dirty shot if you weren't such a wimp." Riku stated as he leaned back and cast an upside down glance to his friend. Sora stood and slightly limped to his friends side dropping onto the sand laying on his back, looking up, trying to come up with a comeback. For a long time Sora tried to come up with a comeback but in the end he came up empty handed so the two just sat in companionable silence.
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"Hello earth to Sora." Sora was called back from the memory as a caramel brown hand waved itself in front of his face.
"Right sorry, what were you saying?" Sora asked as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. He could see from the corner of his eye, Eva crossing her arms and rolling her eyes.
"We were saying that we are heading to the next spot." Stated the cra in a Matter-of-fact kind of tone. Amalia gave Sora a curious smile.
"So what got you so distracted all of a sudden?" Amalia asked. Sora thought back to the discussion he and his friends had but decided if he kept it brief and didn't mention to much, that it would be fine.
"Nothing much, I was just watching two of the puddlies and they kinda reminded me of a friend I had, and how we would fight like that all the time." Sora stated as he got a sad smile, thinking about Riku and Kairi, or if he'd ever see them again.
"Wait you and a friend would fight? With swords!?" Amalia asked as she glanced at Eva knowing that she and her guard have fought before but never with blades. Sora let out a laugh.
"We didn't actually fight Amalia, it was all just for fun really." Sora saw the look on the princesses face and continued. "They weren't even real blades, just cut out of wood, I mean sure the still hurt when you got hit," Sora shrugged "but it was never life threatening."
Amalia and Eva both listened as Sora revealed that little bit about himself to them, Amalia, enjoying the chance to learn about him, while Eva tucked the information away hoping that it would fit into a puzzle about him and his two friends later.
The three were putting down the next net in silence when the earth beneath them started to shake, Sora looked up and saw a thick cloud of dust approaching as a group of Taurs stampede toward the puddly village. The three puddlies who were holding the rope that kept the net grounded gave into their fear and ran off, letting the rope leave their hands, Eva and Amalia who were setting up the next got caught within the ropes and quickly found themselves in a tangle suspended in the air.
While the puddlies hid and the net rose with the girls Sora watched was the Taurs charged through an area not yet set up with traps and from the net Eva grumbled.
"Yeah great security Ruel." Sora looked in the direction of the village and saw Goofy there most likely warning those in the village before he came to warn those on the edge. So Sora didn't really have any problem, since those in the village at least had a warning. Then a yell form Amalia brought the teen back to the matter at hand.
"Sora, just get us out of here already." Sora let out a laugh as he turned back to the suspended girls.
"Right I'll get you out."Sora said as he made his way toward the taunt rope. He grabbed a hold on the knot and could see that it was tied in such a way that just pulling on a loose end the entire thing would come undone. Within minutes the girls were no longer a tangled mess in the air, but a tangled, grumbling, mess on the ground.
"Yeah thanks a lot Sora." both girls grumbled as they untangled themselves from each other. Sora smiled and walked over offering both girls a hand up. Eva looked at it then pulled herself up almost as though Sora had never offered. Amalia on the other hand grabbed a hold of Sora's outstretched hand and smiled as Sora helped her pull herself off the ground.
Amalia mumbled a thanks and then the three raced off to help in the village. Once the three rejoined the rest of the group they saw that Yugo was fighting what appeared to be the Leader of the Taurs and Ruel was collecting bets for the fight. Many of the puddlies bet against Yugo but a majority were betting for him.
Sora watched the two fight and couldn't help but think about when the journey with Donald and Goofy first started, how much larger those Heartless were compared to the large Taur, and if Yugo was a anything like Sora when it came to taking on larger opponents it was easy to tell that Yugo would come out victorious.
While Yugo fought the group watched with mixed feelings. Eva and Percedal watched ready to jump in at a more to notice, Ruel was watching and rooting for the one that would earn him the most kamas and Amalia watched with an expression of worry as Yugo was launched up in the air. Amalia cast a glance at Sora and noticed a small smile on the teens face as he watched the battle.
"What are you smiling about Sora? Yugo could easily get hurt!" Amalia exclaimed as she crossed her arms, when Sora let out a light laugh Amalia froze. Didn't Sora care?
"Don't worry Amalia, Yugo will win and if there is a chance that he won't he's got great friends that will jump in and help him." The Sadida took in Sora's statement and then almost to prove it right cheering sounded from the puddlies as the Taur was pushed back and slammed into the pillar that stood with a statue of a puddly. At the crash the hammer which the statue held came loose and fell onto the Taurs head.
The rest of the Taurs left and a loud cheer from the puddlies sounded.
"Yay the Taurs are gone!" Were what mist of the cheers were that or something along those lines. Then one of the puddlies looked up to Percedal.
"Dally please stay, the Taurs may come back again." Percedal looked away, acting like a conflicted hero.
"As much as I would love to stay, I must continue on the journey I am on." The puddly looked down and sad while the girls muttered in Unison Iop Brain. Then the puddly looked up to Percedal again
"But what if the Taurs return and start attacking again?" This time it was Ruel who answered.
"Well that is simply just come to an agreement with then."Ruel began while crossing his arms. "Just say that if they protect you, then in return you share some of your harvest with them." The puddlies seemed to like the idea and then Ruel continued.
"Although we will be needing some supplies before we leave on our journey."
How Ruel did that no one in the group knew it but they didn't bother asking because as the turned their backs to the village Ruel's bag was full of food and supplies.
A.N. So sorry for not bringing this up in the beginning of the chapter but to Ani89 I like the idea of the munny and will have to find out somewhere within the upcoming chapters to place it, and as for the keyblade names I like the "Elioblade" and will definitely use it for the one I have yet to name cause it just fits with the design(Which I may tweak in the future). The pictures for the keyblades and any other pictures I may draw for this fic can be found somewhere in my DeviantArt which is under the same name I go by one here.
Now it is 9:35 pm and I have a headache so I am calling it a night
Until Next time Peace, Love, and Virtual Hugs ^.^