Chapter IX: Back to the Island of Delfino Part I
It was the next morning aboard the Toad Express. Luigi, Yoshi, and Toadsworth were eating breakfast.
"We should be at Isle Delfino within a half hour." Toadsworth announced. "Eat up boys! We need our energy!"
"Yeah!" Yoshi nodded. "Yoshi need lots of it!" Yoshi tapped Luigi's shoulder with his tail and Luigi turned to his left.
"Huh?" Luigi said turning to his left. Yoshi stuck his tongue out and ate Luigi's sausages. Luigi turned back and looked down noticing his sausages was gone. "Hey!" He then turned to Yoshi shouting. "Yoshi!"
"It not Yoshi!" Yoshi lied. "Honest!"
Luigi mumbled to himself and turned around to take a sip of his coffee. Yoshi snickered and ate a stack of Luigi's pancakes. Luigi turned back and looked down noticing a stack missing.
"Yoshi, do you have to eat my food all the time?" Luigi groaned.
"It not Yoshi!" Yoshi lied again. "Toadsworth eat it!"
"How dare you accuse me of doing something I didn't do!" Toadsworth said to Yoshi offended.
Luigi lowered his eyes and crossed his arms while Yoshi made a nervous look.
"I'm watching you." Luigi said in a eerie voice. He then turned to Sora. "Hey kid!" Sora was looking out the window with a real glum look. "Kid, are you alright?" Yoshi tried to grab the pancake but Luigi also grabbed it. "Aha! Not this time! Lego my Ego!"
"Um, that's a pancake not a waffle." Toadsworth told Luigi.
"Whatever!" Luigi groaned.
The two played tug-a-war with the pancake and it seemed it could have gone on forever, until Yoshi turned his head towards Sora and noticed he was sniffling. He let go of the pancake which sent Luigi flying into a wall. Luigi sat up and groaned.
"A little earlier to be playing with Yoshi, don't you think Master Luigi?" Toadsworth asked Luigi.
"Yeah!" Luigi groaned.
Yoshi walked up to Sora and jumped into his lap. "Sora?" Sora sobbed a very little sob. "Sora's crying."
"I'm not crying." Sora sniffled wiping his eyes. "I've got something in my eye."
"Yeah, tears." Luigi said approaching the two. "What's wrong Sora?"
"I-I miss Riku and Kairi." Sora said still teary. "I...I...feel like I'll never see them a..a..again!"
Sora sobbed out loud and Luigi made a sad look.
"Sorry." Luigi said softly "We're trying the best we can but we don't have any leads yet on where they are."
Yoshi hugged Sora and talked very softly to him. "Let it all out Sora. It okay to cry."
"But..."
"You're saying big boys don't cry!" Luigi laughed. "Everyone cries, even yours truly has squirt a few tears."
"It nothing to be ashamed of." Yoshi said softly still hugging Sora. "Sora just letting bad things out that he hid deep inside of him."
"I-I'm sorry guys." Sora sniffled. "I didn't mean to cause a scene."
"Sora don't need to apologize." Yoshi said warmly pulling away from Sora.
"It's natural kid." Luigi added. "You miss your friends, just like I miss my brother. I always played with my brother when we were just kids. He was like a best friend to me and although he may have gotten most of the glory, I don't know what I would do without him, so I would cry too." Luigi then got a little upset. "Don't you remember what I told you? This ship runs on happy faces! No frowning and no sad faces!"
"So, Sora no be sad." Yoshi said as he wiped Sora's tears away. "Yoshi and Luigi here to help, and make everything all right."
"They're out there somewhere." Luigi said. "You're just doubting yourself that we can't find them. Remember when we faced Cloud, you never gave up even if the odds were against us."
"Yes Master Sora, and remember how determined you were to save Samus even by risking your own life?" Toadsworth added. "And you're doubting and worrying yourself to death. This isn't the Sora we know."
Sora took Yoshi off his lap and stood up.
"You're right Toadsworth." Sora said smiling. "Riku and Kairi are out there somewhere and I won't rest until they're safe."
"Yeah!" Luigi cheered. "That's the spirit kid!"
"You go Sora!" Yoshi cheered.
"Then what do you say we stop this standing around and finish eating." Toadsworth said. "Your food is getting cold and I bet you're starving to death."
"In the words of Yoshi, I hungry." Sora chuckled.
"Then let's eat!"
Yoshi ran back to the table and grabbed Luigi's plate.
"Hey!" Luigi cried at Yoshi. "Come back here with my pancakes!"
Sora and Toadsworth broke into laughter as Luigi chased Yoshi around the plane. For the next half hour Sora and the group finished eating. The Toad Express began descending into the airport of Isle Delfino. The pilot picked up a walkie talky and talked into it.
"This is the Toad Express, request landing on Delfino Runway." The pilot said into the speaker.
Over the radio a voice could be heard. "Roger, you are clear for landing...Wait! There's graffiti down here! That's a negative, turn the plane around!"
"We can't!" The pilot disagreed. "I'm ten seconds from landing and I can't switch now. Attention passengers!"
Sora and the others looked up at the loudspeaker.
"I wonder what the pilot wants." Sora asked Toadsworth.
"Please sit in your seats and fasten your seatbelts!" The pilot announced. "We will becoming in for a rough landing!"
"I don't like the sound of that!" Luigi gulped.
"Aw, relax Luigi. I'm sure it's nothing bad." Sora said assuring Luigi
Just then the Toad Express landed on the runway and quickly stopped just in time before they hit the newly bigger version of the graffiti seen last time. The halt was so hard that Luigi, Sora, Yoshi, and Toadsworth went flying out of their seats and landed on the ground. The pilot looked out the window and saw he just stopped before he hit the graffiti. He sat back in his seat and sighed.
"I should've been a dentist." The Pilot thought. "I'm getting too old for this."
Yoshi weakly groaned and looked up. He saw that all the plates were on the ground and broken from the landing.
"We crash." Yoshi said. "At least Yoshi no hurt."
Yoshi looked down to notice he was sitting on Luigi, Toadsworth, and Sora.
"Yeah, we're glad that you're safe." Luigi groaned sarcastically. "Now, how about getting off?"
"Oops, sorry." Yoshi giggled sheepishly. Yoshi jumped off everyone and they all stood up.
"What happened?" Sora exclaimed. "Why did we come in so fast?"
The pilot then walked out and turned to the group.
"Mr. Pilot, what happened?" Toadsworth asked the pilot.
"I'm afraid there was too much graffiti on the runway." the pilot explained. "I had to make a hard landing."
"It hasn't gone away yet?" Luigi gasped. The pilot nodded. "I bet my brother is still being framed."
"Don't worry Luigi." Sora said. "We'll find out who the real culprit is, but first let's find Leon."
"Good idea!" Yoshi nodded.
"I shall go find the princess and meet up with you three later." Toadsworth announced.
"Alright, let's get going!"
The four exited the ship and arrived outside the runway. One of the islanders greeted them.
"Good morning gentlemen." The islander said. "Welcome to Isle Delfino, a tropical paradise." He then looked around seeing the graffiti. "Well, it used to be until Mario ruined it."
"It wasn't my brother!" Luigi protested. "I'm telling you, he's being framed. He would never hurt anyone and try to ruin the ways of life."
"Sure he wouldn't." The islander said sarcastically. "Look, many people have given the same description and that describes your brother so I say deal with it! Your brother is a criminal!"
"Why you!"
Luigi tried to attack the islander but Sora and Yoshi held him back. "Easy boy! Easy!"
The islander ran for it as fast as he could. Toadsworth runs over to the group.
"Goodness!" Toadsworth cried running up to the trio. "Master Luigi! Calm down!"
"Take it easy man!" Sora shouted to Luigi. "I believe that your brother isn't the culprit. I've seen him too, up close in person. We're here to help you and we need you to calm down."
Luigi calmed down and sighed. "Sorry kid. I'm just so mad at the fact that my brother did it. I just want to believe he didn't do it. Maybe the islanders were right, my brother did cause this mess."
Yoshi took Luigi's hand and licked his face. "Aw, Yoshi believe Luigi."
"I believe you too, Master Luigi." Toadsworth said.
"Thanks everyone." Luigi smiled.
"We're in this together! Nothing can stop us" Sora said putting his hand on Luigi's hand. "All for one..."
Yoshi put his tail on top of Sora's hand.
"And all for dinner." Yoshi giggled.
Sora and Luigi both started laughing and even Toadsworth chortled.
"Thanks guys!" Luigi smiled. "I needed that! Together we'll find out who is really causing all this."
"Then what do you say we get over to the island then and find Leon?" Sora announced.
The four headed over to the docking bay and boarded the boat. As they sat down they got greeted by an old friend.
"Hey Sora!" Kapp'n excitedly said. "Long time no see!"
"It's great to see you again!" Sora said shaking Kapp'n's hand
"Who's the turtle kid?" Luigi asked Sora.
"Oh, Kapp'n, I want you to meet my friends. These are Luigi, Yoshi, and Toadsworth." Sora said introducing his friends.
"Nice to meet you all." Kapp'n said with a smile. "Any friends of Sora, is a friend of mine."
"Say, you're that turtle who rows that boat." Toadsworth pointed out. "Don't you usually do that?"
"Got tired of rowing today." Kapp'n responded. "Luckily, this boat goes back forth and it doesn't cost a thing. So I just cruse along and enjoy the view. By the way, rumor has it that you four have been heading off into other worlds. Tell me about."
"Sure, it all started with..." Sora began. Luigi then grabbed Sora's arm and pulled him down and whispered in his ear.
"Kid! We can't tell him about any of the worlds we visited or else we'd be disrupting the world order." Luigi whispered angrily.
"Oh, right." Sora whispered back. He then sat up and turned to Kapp'n. "Sorry, I can't really..."
"That's okay Sora." Kapp'n smiled warmly. "It would just mess things up if you told me, but I'm sure you got your hands full with all of this."
About ten minutes later, the boat pulled into the dock and Sora and his friends got ready to leave.
"We're off!" Sora announced. "Nice seeing you again Kapp'n. We have to find our friends."
"Good luck to you all and be careful out there." Kapp'n said. "That graffiti has gotten worse and many people have gotten hurt. And if you see Tom Nook, tell him I said hi."
"Okay." Yoshi nodded.
The four got off the boat and began to walk into to town. As they walked in, Sora noticed many of the citizens giving them dirty looks.
"Something tells me this isn't a good welcome wagon." Sora said nervously.
"They're probably just tired." Luigi assumed.
The group quickly walked off to the harbor to get away from the crowd. As they arrived at the harbor Sora stopped and realized something.
"Hey guys, I just remembered that we have to get the Pikmin to Louie and Captain Olimar!" Sora said taking the box out of his pocket. "If we don't find them all, they will die."
"Then we better hurry!" Luigi said.
"I'll go and find the princess and meet up with you three later." Toadsworth said heading off in another direction.
"Bye, bye!" Yoshi said waving to Toadsworth.
Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi headed off to the harbor. However, as they left the heartless showed up.
"They're back!" Sora cried.
Sora swiped at a few of the heartless and rolled pass a few of them. He kicked one aside and jumped over another one. Luigi shot ice spells at a few of them freezing them up and Yoshi threw a few eggs at the heartless destroying them. After they defeated all of them, the group headed off towards the harbor.
Meanwhile, at the harbor, Olimar was pacing around back and forth while Louie sat on a box.
"Louie, I think I'm going to have a panic attack." Olimar said. "What if our young friend can't find the Pikmin in time?"
"Calm down sir!" Louie calmly said. "We have to trust our young friend. He seemed pretty confident in finding the Pikmin."
"But what if he's too late by time he even finds one?" "Olimar panicked. "We'll die Louie! We'll die Louie!" Louie grabbed Olimar suit by the collar and shook him.
"Sir, snap out of it!" Louie yelled at Olimar. "You've lost your mind!"
Sora's group showed up seeing Louie shaking Olimar and Luigi backed up. "Maybe this isn't a good time!"
"No! We have to get it done!" Sora snapped at Luigi. "Captain Olimar!"
The two stopped and turned to see Sora's group. They both quickly ran over to greet them.
"Sora!" Olimar cried. "Thank goodness you're back!"
"We interrupted anything?" Yoshi asked.
"Oh, no nothing." Olimar chuckled nervously. "Louie was just showing me some wrestling moves from our home planet. Right, Louie?"
"Oh, yes! Right, sir!" Louie nodded.
"We've found a group of the Pikmin!" Sora said holding up the box.
"You did?" Olimar asked excitedly.
Sora released the box and a group of Pikmin came flying out. They landed all over the place and looked around curiously. They then saw Olimar and Louie's ship and they all jumped over to it and began fixing it.
"Louie! This is amazing!" Olimar exclaimed. "The Pikmin are actually fixing our ship."
"But sir, we still need all 99 of them." Louie pointed out.
"You're right Louie, so that's were Sora comes in." Olimar said turning to Sora. "Sora, we can't thank you enough. We're on our way to getting off this world and going home! However, we still need more Pikmin and I'm depending on you and your friends to find them all."
"Don't worry, you can count on Luigi." Luigi chuckled.
"So take this as a thanks!"
Louie threw a bag to Sora who caught it. The group opened the bag and saw equipment for the Toad Express.
"Hey, this stuff could come in handy for us later." Luigi said observing the items. "I'll hang on to it."
"Sora, we're running out of time, we need those Pikmin as soon as possible." Olimar said.
"Yoshi keep eye open!" Yoshi said cupping his hand around one of his eyes.
"Don't worry sir. We won't rest until we find all of them." Sora said with confidence.
Olimar shook Sora's hand. "Thank you so much. You truly are such a nice boy and our fate is in your hands."
"Come on, kid! Let's go find Leon!" Luigi said impatiently. "We'll worry about the Pikmin later."
"Okay, we'll see you two again then." Sora said waving to the space men. The group walked off in search of Leon.
"Louie, that kid is our ray of hope." Olimar said. He then noticed his face was red. "Oh, Louie, I do believe I am getting burned by the sun." Olimar ran around screaming.
Louie just rolled his eyes. Meanwhile, Sora and the other reached the market place and to their left Sora saw Yuffie.
"Yuffie!" Sora cried happily.
"Hey, guys! Nice to see you again." Yuffie said walking up to the group. "How's the quest going?"
"Good." Yoshi nodded Yoshi then pretended to fight. "Yoshi fight bad guys, giving them a kick, boom, Yah!" He then punched Luigi in the face.
"Ow!" Luigi then falls over. "Hey!"
"Oops, sorry Luigi." Yoshi gulped.
"Yuffie, do you know where we can find Leon?" Sora asked Yuffie. "We really need to speak with him!"
"Hm, last I checked he went over to his secret training area." Yuffie pondered. "He has to stay in shape ya know."
"How do we get there?" Luigi asked.
"Go to the center of town and find a blue panel on the ground." Yuffie explained. "Go through it and take a right, you should find an underwater passageway that leads to the training ground."
"W-water?" Yoshi asked nervously. "Yoshi no like water."
"You don't?"
"It's so hard to give this kid a bath." Luigi groaned.
"Don't worry Yoshi." Sora said warmly taking Yoshi's hand. "We'll help you."
"Thanks Sora." Yoshi smiled.
"I have to go see Cid, so I'll see you around." Yuffie said. "Just be careful, the heartless are terrorizing the island and some of them are coming from that graffiti."
"We'll be careful!" Sora nodded.
The trio said good-bye and headed off. On the way the group encountered heartless from not only this world, but the space pirate heartless from Zebes. Sora attacked with his keyblade, but they dodged the attack and all rammed him into a wall. Luigi shot a thunder spell knocking the heartless away from Sora. Sora slashed the green pirates before they could recover their allies. Yoshi ate one of the pirates and shot it at a few like a bowling ball hitting pins. Luigi took off the P 3000 and used his Luigi Tornado by spinning his body and punched a group of heartless aside. Sora threw his keyblade at a group of heartless knocking them down. Taking the chance, the trio quickly made a run for it. They ran through the group of heartless, knocking any away that were in their path. They got to the center of town where they encountered more heartless. Sora kicked a few away and Luigi burned a few.
"They don't seem to stop!" Luigi yelled.
"Forget about them, the panel is just ahead so keep running!" Sora shouted.
Sora and the gang made it to the panel and Sora stomped on the panel. Sora and Yoshi jumped in while Luigi held the heartless off. There were heartless surrounding him from all corners.
"This is the end for me." Luigi said nervously. He then covered his eyes. "Farewell cruel world!" Sora and Yoshi's hands came out and grabbed Luigi's legs pulling him in. "Mama-mia!"
The trio fell through the panel screaming. They then landed in the water on the ground causing a splash. The trio stood up in the water and groaned.
"Phew!" Sora sighed wiping his forehead. "We lost them!"
"That good." Yoshi sighed.
"Thanks Sora, thanks Yoshi." Luigi said with a smile. "You two saved my life."
"No prob!" Sora chuckled. "Follow me, we're almost to Leon."
The trio took a right and saw a pathway filled with water. Yoshi gulped upon seeing it and cowered behind Luigi.
"Yoshi can't go in there!" Yoshi cried. "Yoshi no like water! Yoshi stay here and wait for Sora and Luigi!"
Sora made a disappointed look. "But we're a team, we need to stick together...
"So you really don't want to go in kid?" Luigi interrupted.
"No!" Yoshi said stubbornly.
"Suit yourself." Luigi shrugged with a sigh. "Come on, Sora."
"But.."
Luigi whispered into Sora's ear. "I have a plan, just do as I do." Sora just nodded. Luigi then talked in a singy-songy voice. "Okay Yoshi, we'll leave you here, all by your lonesome self, in the dark."
Sora and Luigi began walking into the water. Yoshi looked around the dark area whimpering. He could hear whistling sounds from the wind but he didn't know that.
"Ooh, what that?" Yoshi whimpered.
Luigi and Sora were at chest level in the water and Luigi put his hand up pointing 3 fingers out and counted down quietly to Sora.
"3...2...1.." Luigi whispered.
Yoshi ran into the water shouting. "Wait! Luigi and Sora no leave Yoshi!"
"What can I say, he never wants to be alone. I always do that to him." Luigi chuckled.
"That's understandable." Sora nodded.
The trio dived into the water and swam through a path. The tunnel wasn't very long so they were able to get through pretty quickly. They then saw the water getting lower and saw a ramp going up. They got out of the water and gasped for air.
"Yoshi never do that again." Yoshi groaned.
"Too bad kid. This is our only way out." Luigi said.
"Aw!" Yoshi moaned.
Sora walked up the ramp and looks around. The cave was green with giant stones in the ground. Sora noticed a weird panel with a sun and a moon. Sora then noticed a dry part of the cave that was a little above the two inches of water they stood on. He could see Leon swinging his gunblade around and next to him was Arieth watching.
"Hey Leon!" Sora called out.
Leon stopped swinging and looked to see Sora's group and smiled. "Well, nice to see you again. You look like you've goten a lot stronger since we last met!"
"Yep!" Luigi laughed. "We've been kicking butt and killing heartless left and right!"
"Yeah, while you've been cowering behind a tree!" Sora joked. Sora and Yoshi started laughing.
"Hey!" Luigi shouted at Sora.
"Just kidding!" Sora laughed.
Leon walked over to his gym back and pulled out a towel and wiped his face.
"So, what brings you three by?" Leon asked our heros.
For the next hour Sora went on talking about the worlds they have visited. Mentioning the people they've met, including Cloud which caught Arieth's attention.
"Cloud is alive?" She asked in surprise.
"Arieth know Cloud?" Yoshi asked.
"It's a long story." Leon said. "It's not something we should talk about at the moment. But what we can tell you is that Cloud came from our own world."
"Sora, if you see him again could you tell him to be careful?" Arieth pleaded.
"Don't worry, we will." Sora nodded. "So anyways..." Sora continued on and then he mentioned the keyhole. "And then it sealed it and locked automatically. And I don't know why. Do you know what it means?"
"Is it bad?" Luigi gulped.
"Actually, I was hoping that would happen." Leon said. "The keyhole is in all worlds, the heartless enter it and they begin eating away at the heart of the world."
"Heart of the world?" Sora asked in confusion.
"Stated in one of Ansem's reports was that when a keyhole was found, inside of it rests the heart of that world and the heartless eat away at it." Leon explained.
"So what happens to it?" Sora wondered.
"The world is shattered and destroyed." Arieth sighed sadly.
Sora and his friends gasped in horror. "What?"
"That terrible!" Yoshi exclaimed.
"That's why my island was destroyed!" Sora thought in horror. He then put his head down and sighed sadly. "If I only knew sooner, I could have saved my world, Riku and Kairi."
Yoshi put his arm around Sora. "Aw, it okay Sora. Yoshi here for Sora." Yoshi licked Sora's face and he looked up and smiled.
"Don't worry kid." Luigi smirked. "We're going to do everything we can to help."
"Now you understand why you're the only one who can save us." Leon said. "As the chosen one of the key, you are the only one to complete that task."
"I don't know..."
"Trust me, seeing other worlds will serve you well." Leon chuckled
"He's right kid." Luigi agreed.
"Yoshi, Luigi, and Sora need to find Mario and Sora's friends." Yoshi added.
Sora looked at his keyblade for a few seconds and then smiled. He stood up with a confident look and held the keyblade up in the air.
"Alright! I'll do it!" Sora cried.
"Yeah!"
"That's the Spirit kid!"
Leon stood up and began to walk away.
"I have confidence in you Sora, I know you will be the one to stop the darkness." Leon said.
Luigi elbowed Sora causing him to gasp and he then pulled out the pieces of the Toad Express.
"By the way Leon, we found this odd looking piece part for the Toad Express when we sealed the keyhole." Sora said showing Leon the piece. "Have an idea on how to use it?"
Leon looked at the piece with confusion and sighed. "I'm afraid I don't have too much knowledge on these things, so I can't help you there."
"But I'm sure Cid could figure it out." Arieth said giving the group hope.
"Then we'll go see him!" Luigi cried.
"Oh, and take this too!" Leon called out to Sora as he began to leave.
Leon threw Sora a gem with a red color. Sora catches it and looks at it.
"What's this?"
"It's called a PSI gem, it has been my good luck charm and now I pass it onto you to hold onto." Leon smiled. "I heard that it has amazing power and I'm not sure how it works, but I'm sure you can figure it out."
"Right." Sora nodded. He then turned to his friends. "Come, on, guys! We have no time to waste!"
The trio headed out through the underwater passage again. Deciding not to waste anytime Luigi forced Yoshi through the water. As they arrived back outside from the panel more heartless attacked. Sora did a round house kick knocking a few back. Yoshi ate up one and turned it into an egg and shot it at another one. Luigi shot thunder spells at a few of them knocking them back. Sora jumped on one's head and another attacked causing Sora to jump and the heartless killed the other heartless that he jumped off. After the trio finished off the remaining heartless, they headed into town and walked into the Accessory shop. As they entered they saw Cid taking a sip of his coffee and reading his newspaper. He heard the bell on the door ring when they opened the door and he put his paper down as he saw them.
"Hey, long time no see kid." Cid greeted the trio.
"How are things Cid?" Sora asked.
"Ah, business is a slow as ever." Cid groaned. "And I envy Nook because he's been making so much dough from his item shop that his store got extend to as big as a CVS!"
Just then the sound of a motorcycle could be heard. "What the heck was that?"
Cid looked at the door and saw a person on a motorcycle driving straight at the door. "Look out!"
Sora and his group quickly jumped out of the way as the person on the motorcycle pushed through the door and stopped at the front desk. The rider wore a blue and white striped jumpsuit and had a white helmet.
"Hey, man! Can I get some speed rings for my cycle?" The motorist asked. "I need it fast, I'm in the middle of a race!"
"What do I look like? A drive-through?" Cid growled. "You Excitebike riders never get off your butts off for one second. If you drive this thing through here again, I'm going to take that bike and give you the worse bruise you've ever seen!"
"Um, I'll try to remember that." The Biker gulped nervously. "Could I get my stuff please?"
Cid went through his inventory and pulled out a white bag and handed it to the biker. The biker then payed Cid and got the bag.
"Ooh, Yoshi love motorcycle!" Yoshi said excitedly admiring the bike. "Can Yoshi ride one Luigi?"
"We'll talk about it when you're older." Luigi chuckled.
"Aw!" Yoshi whined.
"Thanks again old man!" The Biker said starting up his engine.
"JUST GET OUT AND DON"T COME BACK WITH THAT HUNK OF JUNK!" Cid shouted angrily.
The biker's cycle took off and he drove out of the building. Cid groaned and Sora approached the desk.
"You okay Cid?" Sora asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Cid groaned. "No more red wine before bed. So, kid what brings you by?" Sora pulled out the Toad Express piece and handed it to Cid. "Well, if it isn't a Toad Express piece!" Cid examined the piece for a few seconds. "Hm, well I'll be! These are rare navigation ones."
"What does that kind do?" Luigi asked.
Cid then started laughing. "What are you kidding me? You three are flying around in a giant airplane made of special material and you don't know what this thing does? Amateurs! Pinheads! This ain't no toy!"
"Listen, we can't understand everything!" Sora said angrily at Cid. "So, what? We have to use the Toad Express, there's no other option!"
"Whoa, calm down kid! I didn't know!" Cid cried nervously. "Sorry. Guess I can lend you hand and install this thing!"
"That's great!" Sora cheered. "You rock Cid!"
"But first..."
"Why is there a catch for everything?" Luigi whined.
"Listen! How would you like to make over three-hundred shipments a day?" Cid yelled at Luigi. "Don't mess with me, you don't want to see me in my really angry mood!"
Luigi jumped into Yoshi's arms.
"Cid, take it easy!" Sora cried. "He was kidding! Um, what's the problem?"
"You see we need to discuss your payment." Cid said. "But since you're doing this to save our butts, I'll let you run an errand for me."
"Sure, I used to do it on my island." Sora chuckled. "You could call me errand boy."
"I could get you a part-time job here if you want." Cid said.
"Um, that's alright, I think I'll pass. So, what needs to be delivered?"
Cid went through his storage closet and pulled out an old book. It had a green hard cover but had no name. Yoshi looked at the book funny.
"Yoshi feel like he seen book before." Yoshi thought
"Just this old book. It's real old. When the guy brought it in, it was practically falling apart. Too beat up to restore it to the way it was." Cid explained. "But overall, I did a decent job puttin' it back together. Anyway's take this for me and that will count as your payment. I'm not as cheap as Nook is, so be thankful."
"Okay, so where do we take it?" Sora asked while taking the book.
"You'll need to go Pinna park for that." Cid explained. "There's an old house on the edge of the beach part. In there is where the book can go and I'm sure someone should be there. At least I think. And while you're doing that I'll get to work on the Toad Express."
"Thanks!" Luigi said. "Let's a go!"
The trio headed off to Pinna Park. On the way they encountered more heartless but our heros made quick work of them. Luigi and Yoshi showed Sora the cannon they used to get to Pinna Park last time. (Since Sora was riding waves with Ryota) Luigi payed the clerk at the entry desk and the trio jumped in and blasted off to the island at super fast speed. About a minute later the trio landed in the water right towards Pinna Park. They came up on shore and to their left noticed a Japanese looking house with a symbol in front.
"Wow, that's something you don't see everyday." Luigi said commenting on the house.
"Why that house funny Sora?" Yoshi asked.
"That's the kind of houses Japanese people live in." Sora explained. "I wonder who lives there?"
"Let's go find out!" Luigi said.
The trio ran over to the house. As luck would have it, no heartless were in sight but they were still alert just in case. Sora knocked on the door but no one answered. All of a sudden the door creaked open.
"A ghost!" Yoshi exclaimed. He jumped into Luigi's arms and they fell over. Sora just chuckled.
"Hey, be careful! I have a bad back!" Luigi said angrily at Yoshi.
"Sorry, Luigi."
"Don't worry Yoshi." Sora chuckled. "It was just the wind. Come on, let's go in!"
"We can't do that!" Luigi pointed out. "We'd be freeloading!"
"Listen, we walk in minding our own business, put the book down, leave a note and hightail it out of here!" Sora said. Sora walked into the house and Yoshi followed.
"That kid is going to be the destruction of me." Luigi muttered under his breath.
The trio walked into the house and noticed a wooden empty space and a table in the middle.
"Wow! Some one needs to do some redecorating, huh?" Sora commented on the inside of the house.
"There isn't even any furniture in here." Luigi said observing the room.
Luigi and Yoshi walked off while Sora looked around on his own. All of a sudden he heard a very familiar voice.
"There's something about this empty, musty, place that reminds me of home." said a female voice. Sora turned to see Kairi standing in front of him with her hands behind her lower back. "It reminds me of the secret place where we would scribble on the walls. Boy, the three of us sure had some fun. You didn't forget did you?"
"K-Kairi?" Sora asked in confusion. "Is that you?"
"Sora?"
Sora turned to notice Yoshi and Luigi looking at him funny.
"Sora, you okay kid?" Luigi asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine but..." Sora turned back to where Kairi was but to his surprise saw no one. "What's wrong with me? Have I lost it? I could have sworn that was Kairi, or maybe I miss her so much I can't get her out of my head."
"Sora?" Yoshi asked again with concern.
"Don't worry! I'm fine!" Sora assured Yoshi.
"Ho! Ho! Ho!" A voice chortled. "You've arrived earlier then I expected!"
"Who there?" Yoshi whimpered.
Everyone turned to see an old man with white hair, white eyebrows, and a white beard. He wore a red and blue shirt with a light blue leather shirt, light blue pants, and giant wooden sandals. His eyes looked like they were always closed.
"Great, I told you kid we would get it!" Luigi said angrily at Sora.
"Oh, no, I was expecting you three here but not this earlier." The man chortled
"What? Y-you knew we were coming?" Sora exclaimed.
"Oh, but of course." The man said.
"Are you a heartless then?" Sora asked suspiciously.
"How are you sure, he doesn't look like one?" Luigi countered Sora's comment.
"Good heavens, I'm no heartless." The man chortled. "My name is Wiseman, a scientist and martial arts trainer. I'm usually at home working on my next big fighting robot but..."
"Wiseman make giant robots!" Yoshi cried in surprise.
"Well it's a hobby actually." Wiseman chuckled with a blush. "So anyways I've come back to my home. Home sweet home to help you Luigi, Yoshi."
"Wait, Gramps, how do you know our names?" Luigi asked in shock.
"Your brother requested my help." Wiseman responded.
"Mario?" Yoshi said.
"But of course and you young man, who might you be?"
"My name is Sora."
"Excellent, you found the key bearer." Wiseman said noticing Sora holding the keyblade.
"So what Mario ask Wiseman to do?" Yoshi wondered.
"I'll tell you that after I make this a little more like a home." Wiseman said. "Impact!"
Just then the roof opened up and everyone looked up to see the face of a giant robot with a big smile.
"What the heck is that?" Sora exclaimed.
"That's my giant robot Impact." Wiseman chortled again. "He should get the job done. Would you three mind moving out of the way?"
Everyone looked up to see Impact dropping furniture in. The trio screamed and ram out of the way. While they ran a cute little kitten doll managed to hit Luigi in the head.
"Ow!"
Furniture and books dropped down from the sky and landed perfectly in place. Lamps landed on hooks, and books landed on book shelves. In minutes the empty room look like a Japanese home.
"Thank you, Impact! That looks much better." Wiseman thanked his robot. "You three can come back now." Sora's group re-entered with stunned looks but then came to remembering what they needed to do. "Surprised my friends? You should be, because that's not the only thing Impact can do."
"Man, I wish I had one of those to clean up my room." Sora chuckled. "So why did Mario request your help?"
"Simple, I'm here to increase your skills in the art of magic." Wiseman explained. "Anytime you like, I can teach your how to hone in on your skills. Just let me know when you would like to start." Just then knocking could be heard at the door. "Oh yes, the other help has just arrived."
"What other help?"" Sora asked.
The door opened and a witch doctor looking person enters with a bag. He had a skull mask, feathers on the top of his head, pink legs, and a straw skirt.
"Who you?" Yoshi asked the man.
"Me, Mumbo Jumbo." The Witch Doctor responded. "Me here to offer help to boy, dinosaur, and plumber. If you need Mumbo, me be at Witch Doctor chair."
"Great, another guy to talk in the third person." Luigi groaned under his breath.
"He can be a bit annoying, but he is here to help you kids out." Wiseman said. "If you need me, I shall be at my desk. I'll do whatever I can to help."
Sora then remembered the book Cid gave him. "By the way the reason we're here is because Cid had a book that needed to be delivered to you."
Sora hands Wiseman the book and Wiseman smiles.
"Oh, thank you! I've been wondering when Cid would be finished with this." Wiseman said. "I bet your wondering what this book is or about, aren't you?" The trio nodded. "Well I don't know what it is either. It mysteriously showed up in my bag while I was traveling, so it's not mine. It was such a curious book, so I asked Cid to repair it for me. I'll put it over on my desk." He walked over to his desk and put it down. "You three are welcomed to look at it. This book holds a great secret. I heard that the missing pages will unlock it. Give Cid my regards for fixing it up."
"By the way, Leon gave us this weird gem." Sora said holding up the gem. "Have any idea what it does?"
"Mumbo Jumbo can answer that question." Called Mumbo Jumbo. Sora's group walked over to Mumbo and Sora handed him the Gem. "Poor thing, trapped in here."
"Someone actually in there." Yoshi gasped.
"He turn into a summon gem." Mumbo Jumbo said.
"What's a summon gem?"
"Person live in a world that was destroyed by darkness." Mumbo Jumbo explained. "Although. world destroyed, person's heart strong enough to survive. So it turned into a gem."
"Can it regain itself?" Luigi asked.
"Only spirit, now observe!" Mumbo Cried. He raised his staff and tapped the gem and it glowed red.
"What happened?" Yoshi asked curiously.
"His spirit revived, and you can call him to help you. But only for a short time. If you find any more, bring them to Mumbo. When their world restored, they will return to world. Please find them, Sora."
"Don't worry, I assure you we'll find them." Sora said. He then turned to Wiseman. "We'll return later. We have to get going."
"Go see Cid before doing anything else. I just got a call from him." Wiseman said. "He just went over to a small house by Pinna Park. Just go inside Pinna park and look around for a small house. You should see it."
"Alright then and thanks again." Luigi waved to Wiseman as they left.
"Good kids." Wiseman said. "Although, I wish the boy could wear something a little more decent."
Sora's group headed over to Pinna Park unaware of the turn of events that were about to happen.
To be Continued...