Okay, Chillwilly, you got me. i could have tried to play it off, but you are right, and I am wrong. Moogles it is.
And also, to all. I have started another fanfiction along with continuing this one. i shall work on both at the same time, and in no way is this story over, so don't worry. However, this is my first time running two stories at once, so anyone with helpful tips would be appreciated, but I think I'll do alright.
"Where've you been?" Kairi asked as BHK walked through the hotel door. "Exploring." BHK replied. He felt no immediate need to relay the conversation with Namine to Kairi. "Well, then I'm ready to check out. I think we should get going."
Beside her, Yuna yawned and stretched. "But why? We just got here." Yuna asked. "It's our turn to do a little exploring. Maybe BHK can take us for a tour." BHK grinned, but in the end declined. "I'm no tour guide." He said.
"Look," Kairi said, dropping her voice down to a whisper, "I'm starting to get a really weird vibe from this place okay? I'd rather we just leave now."
BHK sighed. "Fine, fine. In a few hours okay? Then we'll go. I promise. In the mean time, we have food we have to gather and stock, do a check of the gummi ship…all that jazz. After that, we'll go."
BHK walked up to the front desk and lazily rang the bell. "We're ready to check out!" He called. He leaned against the desk and watched Yuna and Kairi having a discussion about something or another. BHK didn't really care, he'd end up hearing enough of their giggling when they were back in space anyway.
He impatiently rang the bell again. 'What could be taking these people so long?' He wondered, becoming bored. 'Whatever happened to customer service?' "You know what, let's just go." He finally decided. "We'll pay them on the way back. Go grab your stuff, we'll stow it in the Gummi Ship."
When they walked out, Yuna and Kairi were still talking amongst themselves. "BHK" said Yuna, drawing him into the conversation like he knew they would. "We think that the Gummi Ship should have a name."
"You mean the computer should have a name."
"So….?"
BHK rolled his eyes. "Look the computer is not a person, giving it a name won't change anything. In fact, it'll only encourage it. But…if I say fine, would you lay off my back?" Yuna and Kairi nodded vigorously. BHK sighed again. "Fine then. What did you have in mind?"
"Well, Yuna here," Kairi said, "wanted it to be Morgan. But I think it should be Sarah."
BHK kept walking. "They're both stupid. But I don't really care that much anyway." He paused to think. Trying to ignore the buzzing in the back of his head. "How 'bout Anna-belle?" Kairi and Yuna stared at him. "What? I like that name!"
Yuna started giggling, but Kairi came up with the solution. "Sarah Anna-belle Morgan."
"Oh God…. You gave it a full name?"
"Why not?" Kairi asked. "I like it" Yuna seconded. BHK shook his head. "Fine whatever. But I'm not giving her the name."
BHK quietly scanned the area as they continued their walk. Something was nagging him, telling him that something was wrong. Then it finally hit him, 'There are no people out here.' BHK checked his watch. 8:05. 'No pedestrians, no bikes, no cars…. Nobody.'
"…." BHK pressed the Gummi signal on his watch. "Computer, fly by for pick-up. We're ready to go." There was no reply. "Computer, acknowledge command." Still nothing. "Computer, status report."
There was static, which was strange as it was a direct link to the onboard computer, but the computer's voice finally reached him. "Sorry, boss. No-can-do…."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean!" BHK yelled back. "There was an attack while I was in shut-down. Originally seemed to be a group of kids, all in costume, but they used razor-sharp weapons, cut deep into the hull, damaged the engine. Currently in recovery. 65 complete."
"Damn!" BHK cursed under his breath. Whatever Namine had warned him of was obviously getting closer. He looked to Kairi and Yuna. "We need to get off the streets. I don't think its safe here anymore."
"Too right you are, Dual-wielder." The three looked up to see Axel striding toward them. BHK instinctively summoned Oathkeeper and Oblivion. "What? You lookin' for seconds?" BHK asked.
"Me?" Axel asked, touching his chest, "I came to watch the show." BHK was about to ask the obvious question, but Yuna beat him to it. "What show?" BHK suddenly scanned the area. He sensed something, movement, driven by ill-will.
"The chase and inevitable death, of the Dual-Wielder, the summoner, and the Princess." The unseen creatures were beginning to surround them. BHK sheathed the Keyblades and grabbed the girls by the hands. "Run!"
BHK sprinted off, still holding tightly to the girls, who had a little trouble keeping up. Axel's cackling followed them down the streets. "Run, run! Give me a good chase!" From out of the shadows leapt one of the things he had sensed. They skidded to a halt. The creature was sheet-white, with a strange symbol on its head which resembled a cross.
Its arms and legs ended in points, and its mouth was filled with small, jagged teeth. The creature screeched and ran at them. BHK shoved the girls behind him, then swinging his arms back, summoned his Keyblades he smashed the creature with Oblivion, which sent it bouncing along the street and into a wall.
BHK knew well that most Heartless would have been obliterated by a blow like that. But there was no denying the fact that this creature was already back on its feet, and merely shook itself as if the blow had meant nothing.
"Kairi, Yuna. We are heading for the clock-tower. No matter what happens to me, don't stop. Got it?" BHK told them quietly.
"But-"
"But, nothing. Just go on my mark. 1-2" The creature screeched again, and leapt at BHK. "3!" Yuna and Kairi ran off down a shortcut that would take them through the Town Square. BHK rolled under the white thing and ended in a crouched position. "Thunder!"
A bolt of lightning came down from the clear skies and blasted the….thing. It turned black and faded away, spreading Munny balls as it went. BHK sprinted after the girls. It didn't take him long to catch up.
They were pinned down by three more of the white creatures. "Thunder!" BHK shouted. Another bolt hit a creature, the electricity seemed to lock up its joints so it fell back, but did not fry like the other one did. BHK supposed that first blow had in fact done some damage, even though it hadn't looked like it.
The other two were still approaching. They were fenced in. Two in front, and BHK could hear more coming from behind, a wall on the left and a gate connected to a two-story high fence to the right. Axel walked behind the two approaching and the shocked one was beginning to rise.
"We call them the Flailers. They are equivalent to the Shadow and soldier heartless." BHK understood these terms when comparing the creatures, the Flailers, to heartless. Shadows and solidiers were basically the grunt work for the Heartless. But if these Flailers were the grunts, he'd hate to see the more powerful versions.
"Oh don't worry about it though, the Neo's don't vary much, un-like the Heartless." Axel told him as though reading his mind. "But they are still more than enough to handle you."
BHK grinned, hiding his worry behind a reckless mask. "Alrighty," He said, twirling his blades, "let's rock then!" But at that moment, the gate next to him burst open, and Namine was motioning for them to go through. "Hurry! This way!" BHK pushed Kairi and Yuna through, before rushing through the gate himself. Namine closed and locked it, and together they set off at a quick jog to the clocktower.
Axel looked bored. "Enough, kill them." He ordered. BHK looked over his shoulder to see the Flailers following after them. Most of the creatures had simply leapt over the tall gate, extending their legs so much they could practically step over it.
"Faster, guys, faster!" BHK stressed. They zigzagged through a collection of back-alleys and cobblestone roads, the Neo's (as Axel had called them) were right on their tail.
Eventually, they reached the clock-tower, and BHK moved to a defensive stance, readying himself to fight of the Neo's as the other three made it under the hole in the wall.
As Kairi was halfway through, following Namine, the Flailers were upon them. BHK could feel his magic slipping away from him again, leaving him with only the Keyblade strikes as defense.
BHK ducked under the first attack aimed for him; a piercing stab from one of the Flailers. He knocked that one away with the Oblivion, at the same time, parrying with Oathkeeper. A few attacks broke through his defense, one grazed against his forearm, another tore at his leg, missing a major blow to flesh, but ripping his left pant leg.
Yuna's head and shoulders were through, just a few seconds more, and he could rejoin the group. "Aagh!" One of those needle-point "hands" of theirs had pierced through his shoulder.
Yuna was through! Quickly losing strength in the one arm, BHK summoned what was left of his energy and bellowed, "AERO!" A heavy wind wrapped around him as he dove under the hole in the wall, protecting him from more damage. After he got through, he saw Namine already leading Yuna and Kairi through the clock-tower.
BHK forced himself up, and ran after them, knowing that in a moment, the Neo's would be leaping over that wall. They entered the clock-tower and rushed up the stairs, the Flailers not far behind.
They made it to the door at the top of the stairs, pushed it open, and slammed it shut when everyone was on the other side. "Quickly!" Namine shouted to BHK, "bar the door with the Keyblade!" BHK hadn't noticed the old locking method of bar through the handle before, but now he shoved the Keyblades through it just as there was an answering slam from the inside of the tower.
Panting, BHK slid down the door, eye closed, his shoulder throbbing. He scrunched up his face in pain, and groaned as a particular sharp jolt ran through his arm. 'Why oh why is it always my damn shoulder!' He asked himself bitterly.
He felt a tug on his torn pant leg, and heard a long ripping sound. He slid open an eye and saw Yuna tying the strips of his former pant leg around his wounded shoulder. His leg tingled. From the knee down, it was bare, and it was getting chilly at that altitude.
"There," Yuna said, finished with her work, "That should keep pressure on it for now to slow the bleeding." BHK glanced again at his shoulder. Indeed, that area of his shirt was soaked in blood. "Where'd you learn how to do that?" BHK asked.
"I used to be the Healer in my village." Yuna said, "I bet they miss me now…." BHK didn't like the way that conversation would follow so he gratefully thanked her and turned to Namine.
"Those…things were moving for us even before Axel showed up." BHK pointed out to her. "Why?"
"Because, they want what you have so much of." She said. "The people of this town are illusions, and desperately live a shadow of their former lives. They are driven by their memories of life, for that is what they wish to have."
"I don't understand"
"Maybe this can explain better than I can." Namine walked over to him and passed him a paper. Yuna and Kairi read over his shoulder. It was the 13th page of Ansem's report.
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