Chapter 9
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I mopped the art room floor, but stared at the clock frequently. What's happening at eleven?
Yumi posted a few posters along the walls along with Daisuke, and Satoshi wiped off the chalkboard.
"We really appreciate the help guys, I wonder where all those other volunteers didn't show up," Daisuke said. "Don't you think it's pretty rude that they didn't come?"
"No, not really," Satoshi replied. "I was hoping to be alone with you Niwa, but I guess that won't be happening."
"Are you mad that we came?" Yumi asked.
"Oh no, not at all. I just wanted to try to get to know Daisuke better," he said.
"Well I've got an idea," I said as I leaned on the mop. "How about we all go get a sip of tea, I'll buy if you two show me the way."
"That would be fun," Yumi said.
"I wouldn't mind getting out some time, I need some time to myself anyways," Daisuke said, "what do you say Satoshi?"
"Hm, I guess it would be nice to get out sometimes," he said. "Alright, I guess I'll go along."
"Okay, I'd say we're about done here, let's go now," Daisuke said. "How about we go now?"
I went to the closet and threw my mop inside, "finally!" I said. The others laughed at me, as the put their equipment away. All laughed except for Satoshi.
"Are you guys ready?" Daisuke asked.
"Yeah, but we still don't know the place we're headed for," Yumi said. We all walked out of the room and shut the door behind us.
"I know a good place, they make great tea I'm sure you'll all like it," Satoshi said as he started walking ahead of us.
"I'm with Satoshi," I said as I reached for my wallet. "Okay how much munny is this gonna cost me?"
"No more than two fifty I assure you," he said walking down the stairs.
"Okay, Yumi how about we go get the other two, I'm sure they could use some tea," I said pointing towards the ship.
"Oh yeah, oh guys could you wait for us, we're gonna get Max, and Huey," she said as she ran along the hallways with me.
"Okay! We'll be waiting by the front door!" Daisuke called back.
We ran up the stairs to the roof of the school building. There the Gummi Ship stood, tall and proud. We stepped on board, but nobody was there. I looked in the back room, but nobody was on the Gummi Ship, but me and Yumi.
"Hey, I think you should see this," she called me from the cockpit. I ran into the cockpit, and saw she was holding a letter.
It read: Hello Reader,
I've written this letter to inform you why your friends are missing. Well the truth is, I kidnapped them. It was pretty easy since they were sleeping, but that isn't the point. I'll meet you at the west museum tonight at eleven thirty, I just want to talk, so you don't have to be prepared to fight, but I wouldn't be annoyed or anything if you decided to bring, your Keyblade.
Signed;
The Seventh
"No way, they captured Max, and Huey!" I yelled as I threw the note into the back seat. "Let's go to get the tea so we don't let them know something is wrong, but we'll go to the west museum as soon as that clock strikes ten thirty, okay?" She agreed with me. We both left the ship, and walked towards the front of the building. There the two stood.
"Okay we're ready," I said.
"Where are the other two?" Satoshi asked.
"They don't want to come," Yumi said as she opened the door for us. I couldn't help, but frown.
"You okay?" asked Daisuke.
I looked up, and forced a smile, "yeah, I'm okay." We walked into the city, so large, and so comfortable. It reminded me of Moonlit, I felt right at home. I stuck my hands into my pocket and looked at all the large signs and skyscrapers. I was so excited yet I wasn't.
We made our way to the train station, and Satoshi bought the train tickets.
"Four for West Wing City please," he said placing his munny on the counter. He picked up the tickets and handed each of us our tickets. I handed my ticket to the attendant, and sat in the back of the train car. Yumi sat along with me, as the other two sat in seats in front of us.
"First Kazuma, and now this," she said starting to cry.
"It's okay, we'll find them, all of them," I said giving her a small hug. I drew back and stared to the front of the train.
"Sora, how could you?" I asked. I held the bloody man up in my hands tears forming in my eyes. "I thought we were friends."
"I guess you thought wrong," he said as he lifting his Keyblade into the air. He brought it down unto me, but I used the Keyblade to block him.
"Such a young child you, able to wield the Keyblade?" He said pulling his Keyblade back.
"Kingdom Hearts, I've traveled to Kingdom Hearts, and I got the Keyblade, have you gone into Kingdom Hearts, Sora?" I asked as I slashed his leg with my Keyblade.
"No, and you never will!" Sora brought his Keyblade down upon me, but I used my Keyblade to block. He started bashing his Keyblade with mines over and over again. I couldn't block anymore so I fell to the ground. He was about to stab me, but then, then...
"Ryan," her voice startled me. I looked at her, my heart was racing. "We're here." She said standing up. I stood up, my legs were weak.
"Okay, we don't have to walk much farther," Satoshi said. We walked up the stairs of a large building, and then took the elevator the rest of the way up. When the door opened the resteraunt reminded me of the Twilight Diner, a resteraunt me, Yumi, and Kazuma used to eat at all the time. The tables were spread out, the counter stood out the front. Out the window had a beautiful view, and right next to us was the West Museum. And a crowd was starting to form around it.
"What's going on down there?" I asked walking towards the window.
"Tonight, at eleven something big is going to happen, they say the Phantom Thief Dark will return, and steal the sacred maiden statue," said Satoshi.
"Sounds dangerous," Yumi said.
"So that's what Takeshi was talking about," Daisuke said.
Yumi gave me her, are you thinking what I'm thinking look and I began to think, could That Dark guy, have kidnapped Max and Huey, but why would he do that.
We grabbed a table right beside the window, Yumi sat across from me and next to Daisuke, white I sat next to Satoshi. The waitress walked to our table, she wore a black dress with a white apron.
"Hey kids may I take your orders?" she asked.
"I'll have green tea," said Satoshi.
"Me too," said Yumi.
"Lemme get some of that stuff too," I said.
"I'll also have some too, thank you," said Daisuke.
"Okay four orders of green tea, it'll be ready in a few minutes," she said walking away.
"Hey guy's what time is it?" I asked.
Daisuke looked at his watch, "it's ten, we stayed at school pretty late. I only have time for about two rounds of tea, but I'll stay safe and drink one."
"Same here, we've got to go see what's going on down at the museum," I said. Yumi just nodded.
"I've got to run an errand for my father," Satoshi said pulling out a small black notebook. "Isn't it strange how we all have to leave at the same time?" He wrote something, closed the book, and stuck it back in his pocket.
"I'll say," I said.
"Pretty weird," Daisuke said as the tea came. She laid the tea on the table and held out her hand.
"That'll be two hundred munny," she said. I pulled out my wallet and dropped the small balls of marble like money into her palms. "Thank you." She walked away leaving us here with the tea. I picked my cup and and took a small sip, while Satoshi took longer sips. Yumi took one sip, and blew. Daisuke just took one big gulp.
"So Daisuke this may be more of a personal question, but do you like Risa?"I asked staring directly into his eyes.
"Well, sort of," he replied.
"Would you say that, you love her?" I asked.
"Well, I don't really know," he said as he stood up to stretch.
"Risa's pretty," Satoshi said. "I found this picture of her in the yearbook." He took out hi small black notebook again, and opened it to a page. He showed it to Daisuke and suddenly, he started changing color. His hair looked a little different.
"Daisuke you alright man?" I asked.
"Yeah," he ran out of the rester aunt.
"Maybe he was allergic to something in the tea," Satoshi said as he took another sip. "He did drink it all too fast."
I looked up at a nearby clock and saw that it was ten twenty five. I stood up, and so did Yumi.
"Okay we've got to go," I said to Satoshi.
"See you later," Yumi said.
"Good bye," Satoshi said. We went down the elevator.
She placed her palm against my face, she stood in front of me. "Tell me, how would you feel if I kissed him right in front of you tomorrow?" my heart was racing. "Tell me, how would you feel if I kissed you?"
I shook my head trying to forget what happened in the elevator.
"I hope they're alright," she said to me.
"Me too," I reached for my key chain ready for a fight. We walked out of the elevator and ran down the stairs. There was a crowd covering the entrance of the museum so it wasn't going to be easy to get in. I looked up at the giant clock tower, and saw it was now eleven.
"Look!" somebody yelled. "In the sky... WINGS!"
"It's dark he's here," somebody else yelled.
"Aha! The infamous Phantom Thief Dark finally shows himself!" yelled some other guy.
Yumi and I looked up at the sky and saw the wings in the sky. They were in the moonlight's path.
"It's incredible! After forty years, the Phantom Thief is really back!" said a news anchorwoman. I looked up into the sky to see what I thought I was seeing.
"Where'd he go!" Yumi shrieked.
"He's Vanished," said the anchorwoman, "Right before our very eyes, Dark has vanished!"
"C'mon Yumi!" I yelled grabbing her hand, "we're going to find that Dark and get our friends back!"
As we got closer to the entrance we saw that police were everywhere. They stood fast, and they weren't moving any time soon. We tried to walk passed them, but the chief just pushed us back.
"The Saint of Tears, it's gone!" somebody yelled. The guards scattered.
"C'mon, we've got to get in there or he might leave without giving us Max and Huey," Yumi yelled as we pushed in passed all of the guards. Nobody noticed us to try and stop us, so we waltzed right in there.
Suddenly there was a huge ear piercing noise.
"YOU IDIOTS, YOU'VE SET OF ALL THE ALARMS!" The chief shouted. We noticed one of the guards stood still, and didn't move.
"chief, I'll go look for Dark, you just concentrate on the alarms," he said saluting the chief. The chief shook his head and ran in the opposite direction.
"Let's follow him maybe he'll lead us to Dark," I said to Yumi as we chased after the strange officer. He ran down a dark passage that was just empty except for us. He turned into a room, looked around to see if anybody was watching. We hid behind the corner so he wouldn't see us.
"Yes, that was easy enoguh," he said. Yumi and I looked around the corner, and saw the man removing his uniform. Underneath it was a black suit. We heard footsteps down the hall, and then a strange figure.
"I told him the defenses weren't good enough," said a familiar voice. He was coming in from another entrance. "To tell you the truth, I'd hoped it would turn out like this. I was afraid, my generation wouldn't get a chance to meet you."
"What's Satoshi doing here?" asked Yumi.
"Who's there?" asked Satoshi.
I summoned my Keyblade and stepped from the darkness.
"It's us," I said as Yumi stepped out with me.
"What are you guys doing here?"asked Satoshi.
"We came to see Dark. You've got something we need, now give us back our friends you heartless bastard!"
"What're you talking about?" asked Dark.
"You kidnapped Max, and Huey you jerk!" yelled Yumi.
"I could understand paintings, and works of art dark, but who are you to kidnap children?"
"Honest to god, I don't know what they are talking about," Dark said. "To be honest I've never even..."Dark was punched by Satoshi in the gut knocking the wind out of him. He was then thrown to the ground, and handcuffed to Satoshi.
"For me, nothing else matters," Satoshi said. His knees pinned Dark's legs to the ground. He moved his face closer to Dark's and it seemed as if he were about to kiss him.
"N...No..." Dark muttered. Then there was a flash of bright white light. The ground glowed with power, and then. Darkness. "Wiz! Come here." His voice seemed different, than before. A pair of wings flew towards me and Yumi. Then, a Dark duplicate. "Now, I have a question... Which Dark... is the real Dark?"
Both Dark stared at Satoshi with hate in their eyes, and murder in their smile. "Two of them!" Satoshi said startled.
Just then I jumped in, slashing one of the Darks with my Keyblade. He fell to the ground, and tried to punch me, but I jumped away. He did a ground sweep with my leg tripping him once again.
"Why don't you too just bug off?" Dark asked.
"Not until we get our friends," Yumi said pulling out her wand. "Stop!" Dark froze, but we were still unsure which one was real.
"I'll help out," said Satoshi balling his hands into fists. I attacked the Dark that was able to move. He fell back into a wall, but surprisingly he didn't say anything. Instead he was replaced by a pair of shady purple wings. I jumped back towards the frozen dark, but he was able to move now. I rose my Keyblade above my head and swung my blade at him many times missing every blow.
Satoshi jumped up from behind him, and tied his hands behind his back with a pair of handcuffs.
"Get these things, OFF ME!" he yelled. I slashed him with my Keyblade knocking him into the base of the statue.
"Stop!" Yumi yelled. She ran towards the statue to put it back to where it belonged.
"Give us our friends back!" I yelled again. He turned around causing me to slash the handcuffs in half. "Darn!" I yelled showing I was frustrated. Dark punched me in the stomach just as Satoshi had did to him before. I landed on my knees and held my gut.
"You okay?" asked Satoshi. I shook my head yes. C'mon Ryan you given up already, I thought you were stronger than that, Riku from, Destiny islands. We used to be best friends, then Sora came along and took him away from me. I remembered the time Kairi kissed me on the cheek, about six years ago, exactly one year before I got the Keyblade for the first time. "I am stronger," I said standing to my feet, still holding my gut. "I am, and I always will be."
I ran up to Dark with my Keyblade in hand, ignoring the pain in my gut. I slashed him knocking him out of a nearby window. I jumped out after him, and continued to fight him. I bashed my Keyblade into his head, and he went flying back.
"WIZ!" he shouted. The pair of wings came out of the window followed by Satoshi, and Yumi. Satoshi punched Dark over and over in the face giving him a bloody nose, I followed up by throwing my Keyblade at him, and Yumi finished him up with a fire spell. "You guys... you guys are pretty good, but until we meet again." He flew off with his dark wings. Satoshi, Yumi, and I went back in through the window. The first thing we noticed was the missing statue.
"Oh no, we haven't gotten our friends, plus he got the statue," I said. I looked around the rooms, paintings were on the ground, and little drops of blood stained the floor. There was a huge dent in the wall.
"You are late," said a strange and creepy voice.
"Who's there!" asked Satoshi.
"The Keyblade, has chosen you since birth," the man said stepping from the darkness.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm the seventh," the man said.
"I meant your name," I said.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm the seventh," the man said.
"I meant your name," I said.
"My name is of no importance," the man said resting his hand upon my shoulder. "The boy, Sora. You have memories of him?"
I placed my key chain on my belt, "yes, he hated me. He took Riku, and Kairi away from me."
"He forced you off the islands once he came back with the Keyblade didn't he?" the man asked.
"Y-yes, after my mother was taken away, I ran, ran to Moonlit, that's where I met all my new friends."
"Hmm, do you wish to do away with Sora?" asked the man.
"Yes, I mean no, I mean... I DON'T KNOW!" I was so confused.
"It's okay if you don't know yet, but the answer will come soon, don't worry," the man said. Suddenly I heard snoring, I looked down and saw them, Max, and Huey. They were still sleeping.
"You didn't hurt them did you?" I asked.
"No, they actually slept the entire time," he said. The man vanished leaving the five behind.
The man vanished leaving the five behind.
Suddenly guards rushed into the room, they surrounded all of us, "COMMANDER THE THIEF, THE PHANTOM THIEF DARK GOT AWAY!" one of the guards yelled.
"Why did you leave this room?" Satoshi asked. Satoshi is the commander?
"Huh, but the statue was gone, what was the point of staying?" the officer said.
"Ah, well. This just makes it more fun... Dark, the battle is on," he said as he walked towards the exit of the room. "You guys need a place to stay?" he asked, "I'll rent you out a hotel room, for you and you sleeping friends."
"Sure," Yumi said as she stretched. "I'm so tired.
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She woke up, and yawned. She looked around the white room, nothing had changed since the last time she went back to sleep.
"Dragan!" she yelled.
"WHAT!" he yelled bursting into the room, "THIS BETTER BE GOOD!"
"I'm hungry," she said. "Can I have pancakes?"
"NO, I'M NOT GOING TO BUY YOU PANCAKES!" she yelled.
"Please I can't sleep without something in my stomach," she whined.
"Fine," he said as he left the room. The girl walked towards the window of the room. She opened up the curtains, and looked out into the darkness.
"I've always hated it here," she said as she shut the curtains. "I should've never come around here, I wish I could go back home, back home at Balamb.
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Sora, Sally, and Donald walked up the stairs to the doctors lab. Sora pushed the door opened and was immediately greeted by Dr. Finkelstein.
"Did you bring me my ingredients?" he asked turning towards them.
"Don't play Mr. Happy with us doctor, we know you've been helping Oogie Boogie!" Sora yelled as a reply.
"My, whatever are you talking about?" he asked in a surprising voice.
"Be quiet, you, you... impostor!"yelled Sally.
"What!" Yelled the doctor.
"Don't play dumb with us, we knew there was something strange about you since we arrived, your not the doctor, your his heartless."
"Very smart Sora, how did you figure it out?" he asked.
"When I first came here I noticed that you were acting a little strange," Sora said, "and once we found you were working with Oogie, everything just tied together."
"Very very smart," the doctor said, "but not smart enough, Oogie now!" he shouted. Suddenly there was a white light, then the size of everything got maxed by over a hundred.
"Sora they made the place... huge," Donald said.
"No, I don't think they made it huge Donald," Sally said. Oogie and the doctor stood over them almost one hundred feet tall. "I think we shrank!"
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The hotel was in the east part of city located close to the school. It was huge, two queen sized mattresses, one big screen television. Satoshi had left about ten minutes ago leaving us four alone.
"Wow, this place is huge!"I shouted.
"Pretty much," Max followed up with.
"Okay guys, I'm ready to hit the hay," said Yumi. She stretched and headed towards the bed near the window, and plopped down on it.
"Hey, I wanted to sleep next to the window," I said.
She opened the window and asked, "do you snore?"
"No," I replied.
"Okay, you can sleep beside me," she said as she drew the covers over her.
"Well, I've got to go take a shower," I went into the living room closing the room door behind me. I went into the bathroom from there, and grabbed a towel noticing there was a pair of underwear on the sink along with a toothbrush.
I took my clothes off and opened the door to the shower. I stepped inside, and placed the water on warm. The water was so warm as it pelted against my small body. I picked up a rag that was hanging over the door to the shower, I rubbed soap in it and rubbed my body gently, and then began to think. I wonder when those new students are gonna show up. I thought as I stood in the shower.
