Chapter 7
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The dungeon was quiet, small, dark, and cold. Nothing to eat or drink, was he trapped here? Why did Xemnas capture him, why was Xemnas alive.
There was laughing from another hall, Mickey jumped from the center of the cell from which he was standing. Two people in black coats carrying a struggling boy into another cell. His face was clearly visible through the transparent wall, and it seemed that he'd been crying before. Then he saw, another cell, and old enemy or new friend. He was fat wearing many types of fabric in his clothing.
"Mickey, what're you doin' here?" the voice asked.
"I was kidnapped, while visiting an old friend," he replied.
"Why are you here, the last time we saw you, you and Malecifent were fending off millions of heartless," King Mickey say sitting on the cold ground.
"After Xemnas found us, he captured as and brought us to this here cell, but Malecifent with her dark magic escaped leaving me behind," he said as he punched the wall.
"Well, maybe if we partner up we can get out of here together," Mickey suggested. Pete thought about this, but then turned away so he wouldn't have to face Mickey.
"I'm, I'm going to have to have to think about that," he said as he plopped down unto the ground. King Mickey reached for his Keyblade, but noticed there was not a lock anywhere in the cell, there was no door, and no window. Just three walls and a transparent glass about as thick as two brick walls. He was asleep when he was put in here, and didn't see how they got him in there. Hurry Pete, I think I may know what's happening.
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The boy ran around the room tapping all of the walls looking for a way to escape, but the child with red hair just sat down.
"Don't bother, the only way out is the entrance," he said
"Who were those guys, why'd they take us like that," he said pulling at his white hair.
"My memories are faint, but I know I remember being in this castle once, but that's probably just in my dreams or something," the boy with red hair said. He crossed his arms and sat in the far right corner of the room.
"Who are you," the boy with white hair asked.
"I don't think I should tell you that," he replied as he turned around into the corner.
"My name is Nemo," the boy said as he plopped down in a nearby chair. "What do you think they're going to do with us?"
"I don't know," the boy said.
"Well, do you think their ever going to let us go," Nemo asked placing his head into his palms. He was beginning to cry.
"I sure do hope so, I've got a friend on my island waiting for me to come back home," he said as he turned around to face Nemo. "We used to do lot's of stuff together, he was my best friend, and now that I was taken away like this..."
"It's going to be okay, my father was visiting me when I was captured by these people," Nemo said. "We might not have been close, but he was still a pretty cool dad."
"What was his name?" the boy asked.
"His name was... his name was..." the boy gasped, "OH NO I FORGOT!"
"How could you forget your own father's name?" the boy asked Nemo.
"I-I don't know," Nemo replied, "come to think of it his name was never that important to me, I just remember all the important stuff we did together like when he came from work he was tired, but when he had energy he'd help me study so for when we got back to our home world I would excel in school, but I don't know if I'll get around to that now."
Nemo started crying as the door in the front of the room creaked open. Somebody in a black coat stepped in.
"Are you going to kill us?" the boy in the corner asked. There was no answer, just the person removing their glove, and walking closer to him.
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I sat down on the small one person bed. I saw long follicles of silver hair on the bed.
"So who is this Merlin?" I asked.
"He's just an old wizard," Yuffie said as she placed her hands on her hips. "Nothing unusual there."
"Except for the wizard part," Yumi said as she laughed a little to herself. She sat on the chair across from me around a round table.
"So where is he?" I asked.
Yuffie shrugged, "he went out for a while." The beeping of the computer was starting to get on my nerves.
"Can you turn that thing off?" I asked pointing at it. She said no, and that only Cid really knew how to work it. "Wow, that's just great."
"Where'd Leon go?" Yumi asked.
"He just went up to think," Yuffie replied, "he'll be back."
I stood up from the hairy bed, "I'll go talk to him, where is he?"
"If you walk up those stairs, and walk through that door, he might be looking out that window, but watch out for heartless, they're everywhere," Yuffie said.
I nodded my head and walked out the door. Key, it seems Leon might know something of the key. I walked up the stairs and began to think myself. Where is Kazuma anyways, is he okay?
I saw the door and pushed it open. There was nothing, but a bunch of wide windows, but then sitting on the end of the window was Leon. It sounded as if he were sobbing.
"Rinoa, you were the only person to actually understood me, I thought we could actually be together. I really loved you, loved you like a wife, and when I find you, I wish for you to be my wife," he said holding up a picture of a girl in a baby blue dress. I walked up closer to him, but I fell over one of the rocks, and he jumped to his feet with his blade in hand. "Oh, sorry. It's just that you never know who to trust in this town."
"Leon, I know how you feel, you truly loved her didn't you, but did you get her to love you back?" I asked.
"Yes, we loved each other, and when we came for this world he heart was taken, taken by a heartless, and now I can't find her nor her nobody. I met her nobody once, and her name was Maria, but she left as soon as she found out she wasn't truly human."
"Oh, that's sad," I said placing my hand on his back.
"That's why I tend not to hold anybody to close, but my personality makes me seem selfish, but I don't care. I will never love anybody as much as I loved her," he said wiping his tear. "This might not be very good information, but just to say: don't hold anybody to close, because when you lose them you'll change completely."
I looked down and thought to myself, what if I admit my feelings to Yumi, I'll be shattered if she turns me down, but happy if she accepts, but what if she is taken by a heartless? I'll be changed, so then I'll just have to abandon my feelings for her, but that will be even harder than getting her to fall in love with me ...
"Hello?" I heard a voice call from around the corner of the stone walls. Leon and I walked a little over and then two little boys, one was a duck wearing a wizards outfit. The other was a dog wearing a suit of armor with a steel blade in his hand, and a shield in the other.
"Um is this Traverse Town?" the bigger one asked.
"No," Leon said, "this is Hollow Bastion." The two looked down, as if they were about to cry.
"Now what Max?" asked the duck.
"Wait, I know you, you used to own a store around here," Leon said. "Dewey right?"
"It's Huey," he said putting a frown on his face. "And we can't find Donald or Goofy, the last time we saw them they were with a boy named Sora going towards the third district."
"Says you," said Max. "I saw them in the second district."
Huey looked up at Max and crossed his arm, "and that helps us how?" Max shrugged, and put his sword away.
"Are guys okay?" I asked the two.
"No, I lost my dad," Huey said.
"And I lost my uncle Donald, and my mom," Huey said.
"I know what you mean," I said looking out towards the window, "I lost a dear friend, and I'm off to find him."
"Maybe you should come back to the house with us, maybe Merlin can help you with your problems," Leon suggested. "Maybe we should be getting back anyways." Leon turned around and walked away towards the door, opened it, and left.
"Oh, I didn't introduce myself properly, I'm Ryan," I said sticking out my hand.
"I'm Max," said the boy in the armor.
"And I'm Huey," said the duck.
We smiled at each other as if we were old friends. Suddenly something jumped out from behind me. It landed on my back, and pushed it's hand into my chest.
"Oh no!" Max yelled as he drew his sword. Everything went blurry, and the last thing I saw was black.
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"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Dragan screamed bursting into the room. The girl sat on the bed drawing a picture of a teddy-bear in her sketch-book. "GET BACK TO WORK!"
"But I was only drawing a picture of teddy," she said trying to force a smile.
"GET BACK TO WORK OR I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF!" he shouted as he left the room. She started to cry, but she laid back down in her bed.
"Why do I have to be like this?" she asked herself. "Why do I have to be so alone?"
She stood up from her sleeping position, and walked towards the window of the room. "Don't worry, I'll always be here with you, no matter how far they take you... I'll still love you." Those were the last words she remembered the little boy saying.
"We'll search the ends of the universe to find you!" the older man had said.
She fell on her knees crying, "I wanna go home!"
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The boy woke up from his long slumber. The room was pearly white. He looked down to see he was wearing a black raincoat with a pair of black pants.
"Welcome back, we've missed you," said a deep voice. The man looked up to see another man in a black coat.
"I didn't ask to come back here, I liked my life the way it was," the man said brushing his hair with his hand.
"Oh, but we need you," the man said.
"Why am I the way I am?" the boy asked the man.
"You will know soon enough," the man replied leaving the room.
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The Gummi Ship landed in the dark town. Sora, Donald, and Goofy jumped out. Sora seemed like a vampire with shrunken wings, Goofy looked like a Frankenstien slash zombie crossover, while Donald seemed like a mummy without a stomach.
"Wow, Halloween Town, I haven't been here in a while," Sora said as he looked up at the night sky.
"You think the boy's may be here?" asked Donald.
"Well that girl threw him into that portal thingy, so they're bound to be anywhere," Goofy replied.
Sora nodded his head, "look." He pointed to a dark figure approaching them. The three of them drew their weapons. Could it be Organization XIII? The figure drew closer, and Sora noticed that it was just Jack Skellington. "JACK!" Sora shouted. Donald and Goofy jumped with glee.
"Sora, Donald, and Goofy!" Jack shouted as he jumped with glee, "Happy Halloween!"
"How's it going Jack?" Donald asked.
"This Halloween is going great, it's the best yet. Nothings gone wrong...yet, Sally thinks something bad's gonna happen.
"You never know, Sally's been right many times. So I guess we'll stay until something turns up," Sora said.
"Thanks for that Sora," a voice said. Not far behind Jack was Sally. The girl stood beside jack with a smile on her face.
"Hey there Sally," Goofy said.
"Hey guys," she said. "Nothing bad has happened yet, but would you mind coming to the doctors lab, and assist me, assist him. He's really stubborn, and I think I would need some help keeping him under control."
Sora, and the others nodded.
"Okay guys lets head for the lab," Jack said taking Sally's hand and walking off. Sora and the others followed.
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I opened my eyes, and I was laying on a nice warm bed. It was the bed I had been lying on before. A man with a long beard and a light blue clothing hovered over me.
"Greetings child," he said. He adjusted his circular reading glasses. "Are you okay child?"
"Yes, but what happened, and who are you?" I asked as I stood up. The man's beard moved upwards and I could tell that he was smiling.
"If it weren't for Max you'd be dead right now," he said.
"His heart was visible," Max said as he walked up to Merlin. "Huey casted stop, and I finished em off."
I stood up and looked through the room. There was somebody new in the room who he hadn't seen the first time. He had blonde hair with a black coat, with a large blade covered with something like tape on his back.
"Are you Cid?" I asked. He nodded his head no. "Then where is he?"
"He's visiting his son in Traverse Town," Merlin said. "But I may be of assistance to you." He walked over to a chair that was around a table. "I can easily create a Gummi Ship for you with my magic."
"Really!" Yumi cheered. I hadn't noticed her before because she was on the other side of the room.
"Do you even know what a Gummi Ship is?" I asked.
"Yeah, Yuffie explained it to me," she said as pulled out a metal wand out of her light blue purse.
"Well, then what is it?" I asked rubbing my head.
"It's a ship that allows you to travel from world to world, it's not that hard to figure out. All of the explanation is in the ship part. The Gummi Ship is built from Gummi blocks. That's where the Gummi part came from," I nodded my head as I listened to her words. Following every one.
Merlin waved his wand around a little as he looked at a piece of paper.
"Okay, I'm ready now," Merlin said walking towards the front door. Cloud stood steadfast in the corner with his arms crossed.
"What's wrong with you," I asked as I passed him.
"To be honest I don't get a good vibe from you," he said as he turned away. I walked outside with a confused look on my face.
"Okay, stand back everyone," he said waving his wand in the air. He closed his eyes, and then a bright blue light caused me to close my eyes.
"Woah," Max said.
"Cool," said Huey. "I wish my magic was as good." I smiled as I stared at the light. Soon it faded being completely replaced by a strange ship. It was blocky and weird.
"What the hell is that thing?" I asked staring at it.
Yuffie laughed, "thats a Gummi Ship."
"That's your ticket out of here," said Leon.
"C'mon, let's go silly," Yumi said pulling on my hand. My cheeks burned, and I knew I was blushing because Leon started laughing, and Yuffie winked at me.
"But, Yumi," I said as we sat down in the two back seats. "There are four seats and we don't know how to drive this thing."
"Well obviously you don't know about our pilots," she said laughing. I loved her laugh. I stared at her, and smiled, but once she calmed down I turned away.
"Leon, and Yuffie?" I asked.
"Nope," she said.
Max, and Huey walked on to the ship. The two sat in the two front pilot seats, and looked back at us, "Max, and Huey reporting for duty."
"What?" I asked. "Are you two even old enough to drive?"
"Well, no," said Max. "But we can fly, I'm the head knight of Disney castle. My father taught me how to drive one of these things, so you've got no worries."
"Yeah, you just sit back," Huey said. The door of the fairly large Gummi Ship closed. It started lifting into the air. I looked out the window, and waved to the others.
"Bye..." I muttered under my breath. I felt a tear on my cheek, I felt as if I had known them all my life, but I had only known the for a few hours. "Hey Yumi?" I asked turning to look at her, "how long was I asleep?"
"No more then an hour," she said smiling. "Now you guys know the game plan right?"
"We help you find Kazuma, you help us find Uncle Donald and Goofy," replied Huey.
The ship launched from the world, I saw nothing but stars in the vacuum of space. Wow, I thought to myself, this is so amazing. I fell asleep about two minutes later.
"Guys wake up there's a world up ahead," Max said shaking Yumi and I awake. I obviously fell asleep before her.
"Look," Huey said pointing at a large city. At first it looked like Moonlit, but then I saw it had been daylight. It had never been that way in Moonlit. Our Ship pulled in for a soft landing on top of a small building. It reminded me a lot of Moonlit, but it was very different. The ship pulled in for a landing, Max opened the door, and the four of us walked out.
"So, what is this place?" I asked covering my face with my hands from the immensely bright sun. A boy stood on the edge of the building just as I used to when I lived in Moonlit. He had bright red hair, and red hair. He turned around and stared at us, surprisingly he didn't see our Gummi Ship.
"Um, hi," he said as he walked towards us. "Judging by your outfits, I predict your the new students here?" I looked down at my clothes, I was wearing a button up shirt with a pair of tan pants. My shoes were still black. I looked over at Huey, and Max. They wore the same clothing as me, but Yumi was wearing a white button up shirt with a black short skirt, and a pair of black sandals.
"Excuse me," Max said. "But would you mind telling us where we are?"
The boy looked at the four of us, "Oh, I'm Daisuke Niwa, and this... this is Wing City!"
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Sora pulled the door open and walked into the strange lab. The doctor rolled around the room in his wheelchair. He didn't notice the five walk in.
"Doctor?" asked Jack as he stepped up to him, "look who's back." He immediately stopped working and looked up at us.
"Don't remember them, and how did you get in here?" he asked, " I thought I locked the door, oh well I'll invent a security system later. Right now I'm busy, busy, busy."
"Um, doctor Ficklstien, what's wrong, what are you working on?" Sora asked while he walked into the lab.
"My newest creation, the anti heart, a new type of heartless, that will destroy any heartless within range.
"Wow, unless we expect some good from this invention...hopefully," Donald whispered into Goofy's ear. He chuckled a little.
"You there, if you can't control your wild laugher get out of my lab!" he yelled. Goofy immediately ceased his quiet, but joyful laughter.
"Doctor are you okay?" Sora asked.
"Of course not, many of my ingredients were stolen by those forsaken heartless. They knew what I was working on, barged into the lab while I was napping, and stole them.
"Did you see the heartless do this Doctor?" asked Jack.
"No, but who else would steal ingredients to my anti heart, nobody, but a darn dirty heartless," he said.
Jack looked back at Sally and frowned, but soon smiled, "Doctor, I think your invention may be a bummer. I don't think we can find your ingredients this time."
"What!" he yelled. "But you were always the fantastic foursome I counted on, WHY WON'T YOU HELP ME!"
Everybody jumped back and stared at the doctor.
"Doctor, what's wrong with ya?" asked Goofy.
"Nothing, nothing, it's just that, I've been under much pressure lately, and I'm in a hurry to build this so it will scare off all the heartless from Halloween Town so the town residence isn't scared off by their appearance during the festival," he said.
"Um, doctor why don't we just go outside and take out any of those heartless that may hold the ingredients to your invention," Sora said motioning towards the door signaling everybody to follow him, " now what exactly are we looking for?" The others left the room, while Sora stood still and listened.
"An eye of a newt, the tail, and wing of a dragon, a mouses tail, and don't forget the skin of a toad, without that ingredient the anti heart will act as a normal heartless, not only that, but it will posses the power to multiply."
Sora shook his head and left the room in a hurry. Goofy, Donald, Jack, and Sally were all waiting for him.
"Okay guys, there is seriously something wrong with the doctor, but it's strange because it seems he's been working on this invention forever," Sora said.
"Well I have the ingredients, and I won't be giving them to him anytime soon," Sally said as she pulled them out and quickly tucked them in her pocket.
"What's wrong?" Sora asked. He saw she put them in her pocket so quickly and nervously.
"I thought I saw the doctor looking out the window, but it must've just been my imagination," she said.
"Okay we've got to put these things somewhere safe, any suggestions?" Donald asked.
"In the sewers?" Goofy said.
"Nah, he'll be all over the sewers," Sora said.
"The graveyard?" Jack asked.
"Nah, heartless are crawling all over the graveyard," Sora said again.
"Christmas Town!" Sally said as she jumped with glee. "The Doctor would never go to Christmas Town no matter how much his invention matters to him."
"Okay, Sora, Sally, and Goofy will go to Christmas Town. Donald and I will stay here and make sure the doctor doesn't try and send anything after you.
"Deal," Sora said as he summoned his Keyblade ready for danger. "Let's go."
