Chapter 16
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"Why are you always causing trouble?" Yuffie asked. "Your going to get somebody hurt someday."
"Well, actually if those guys Dewy, and Louie don't count as being hurt when I snapped their arms did it?" Rune asked giving off a loud laugh. He sat on the bed not caring what trouble he was in.
"Look Rune, you may be my cousin, and all, but it doesn't give you immunity to getting in trouble," said Leon as he paced the room.
Rune looked at his older cousin's feet pacing back, and forth. "Cool off cuz, Blizzara!" Leon's feet froze. He couldn't move.
"Okay, that's not funny," Leon said. "Fira." The ice melted, giving himself mobility again.
"To me it was," said Rune giving off another laugh. He brushed his hand through his blonde hair, and rubbed his light blue eyes. He wore a pair of tan pants with a white shirt. "Hey cuz, I've got to go, see you around okay?"
Leon placed a hand on his younger cousin's shoulder. "Just try to stay out of trouble."
"Fine" Rune said as he opened the door, and left the small home. "Okay, time to cause some trouble." The twelve year old boy looked around, and saw some guy in a black rain coat. "I'll hit him, and he won't even see me because of that stupid hood covering his face. The man turned around the corner, and Rune chased after him. "Hey, where'd he go?"
"Looking for me?" asked a low energetic voice from behind the boy. Rune turned around to see the man in the black coat. He felt something on his face, and then... nothing.
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I, Max, Huey, and Yumi all sat around the table. I now wore some of Dark's clothes. A purple Jacket, black shirt, and a pair of purple shorts. The shoes were black, and white which were just my style. Yumi wore a black top, and a pair of skin tight blue jeans. Max, and Huey wore the same clothes they had worn before.
"Thank you for letting us stay for dinner," I said. "But I think we've overstayed our welcome, and we must be on our way."
Yumi nodded her head yes, and picked up her purse. "I think so too, we were just looking for somebody, and it doesn't seem that that he's here or going to be here anytime soon."
Max shrugged his shoulders. "Hey, don't look at me."
"Yeah, we go where they go," Huey said. Everybody around the table laughed.
"Well, I'm glad I met you, and I hope you come to visit," Daisuke said. Don't worry we will. I thought to myself as I gave off a huge smile.
Yumi stared at me. "Really, I can't wait!"
"Um, what're you talking about?" I asked.
"Didn't you just say, don't worry we will?" she asked.
I looked at Yumi with a pale face. "No." She shrugged, and stood up from the table and walked towards the front door.
"Well, you see we really must be going," Yumi said opening the door. Max, and Huey stood up, and stood beside her.
I stood behind, and smiled at the three remaining people sitting at the table. "Thank you guys... for everything."
"Oh no problem, you rid us of Sephiroth, and his brother Krad. We should actually be thanking you," Daisuke said.
Mrs. Niwa stood up, and bowed. "Come back soon, okay."
All of us nodded our heads, and walked out the front door. It wasn't a long walk to the school since it was only down the block.
When we got in the ship, and sat in our seats, the first question I asked was, "are we there yet?"
"What, we didn't even leave yet, where are we going anyways?" asked Yumi.
Max shrugged, "maybe we should go back to Hallow Bastion or something." I looked out of the window of the Gummi Ship.
"Maybe Cid's back, hopefully he could give us a bigger Gummi Ship than this," Huey said. He pushed the button that said launch, and we were ready to take off. The ship made a loud noise, and the next thing you know, we were in the air. We were in the vacuum of space.
"Okay, let's o back to Hallow Bastion," Max said punching in a bunch of buttons. I could pilot this thing if I had the manual.
Yumi looked at me, and laughed. "I'm sure you could." I raised my left eyebrow, and gawked.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
Yumi raised her eyebrow too. "But you just said that you could pilot this thing if you had the manual."
Max jumped int the conversation. "To be honest Yumi, I didn't hear him say anything."
"But, I was sure, I heard his voice," she said. "I- I'm gonna go lay down for a while, and relax my thoughts." She stood up, and walked towards the bedroom. Just as I did last time, I closed my eyes, and fell asleep in my seat.
I woke up about ten minutes later. "YO WAKE UP!" Max shouted. I jumped out of my seat, and fell backwards. The door behind me opened causing me to crash into the wall.
"My goodness, what do you people have against me!" I shouted. Yumi ran to the control panel.
"What's going on?" She asked.
Huey twisted knobs, and pushed buttons. "Everything is responding, but it could be since this ship was constructed of magic." I stood up, and stood besides Yumi. Our hands touched, and we both jolted away, I blushed.
"Let me guess, we're going to crash," I said calmly.
"If we don't land soon, yeah," Max said trying to control the steering wheel. A world appeared up ahead. It was Hallow Bastion.
"Max, take it down there!" shouted Huey.
"Everybody, hold on!" Max shouted. I hopped back into my seat, and buckled my seat belt. "It's going to be a bumpy landing!"
The ship went hurdling down towards the world at high speed.
"We can't slow down, we're gonna crash, Hold on!" Huey shouted.
Yumi pulled her wand out of her bag. "Huey, I've got an Idea, maybe if we cast stop at the same time we could stop the Gummi Ship from crashing!"
"It's worth a shot Huey, go for it!" Max shouted pulling the steering wheel. C'mon, you guys could do it.
"STOPRAGA!" the two shouted at the same time. The ship stopped in its tracks, we were in the world, but about fifty feet in the air.
My heart was racing, and I'm sure everybody else's heart was too. "Okay, let's get out of here." I stood up, and spread my wings. "Who's going down first."
Max stood up, "you guy's have got to stay, and keep casting stop on the ship." I nodded my head, and picked Max up. I opened the door of the Gummi Ship, and jumped. I flapped my wings slowly, and came closer to the ground. I placed Max on the ground, and flew back up to the ship. I grabbed Yumi, and Huey, but just as I picked them up, the ship started falling again. As I moved closer to the door the powerful winds of the outside pushed against my body. We drew closer, and closer to the ground, but I jumped out, and flapped my wings as hard as I could. I looked down, and heard a loud crash. Then a fire. That could've been us.
"I'll say," said Yumi. I looked at Yumi as I descended closer to the ground. I placed her and Huey down so they could walk on their own. "Now to put out this fire, BLIZZARD!" The whole place was covered in ice, and then. CRASH! It all shattered. There was no fire, just the remains of what used to be.
"Maybe Merlin could give us a new ship," Max suggested.
All of us stared at Max, and shouted, "NO!"
"Okay guys, now we've got no ship so there's nowhere to go," said Yumi. "But, we might be able to get a ship around here somewhere."
"Like where?" Huey asked putting his staff away.
"Hey, maybe Cid's back," I suggested. Everyone shrugged, but agreed to look anyways. We were around the corner of Merlin's house so there wasn't much walking. My wings vanished like they had once done before allowing me to walk on balanced again.
We knocked on the door of the house, and waited for a while. It slowly creaked open, there was a man with blonde hair. We had never seen him before, he opened the door revealing him wearing pilot's goggles, with a plain white shirt, and blue pants. For some reason he carried a spear. He noticed me staring, and gave me a 'what the hell are you staring at look.'
Huey cleared his throat. "Hi, is Merlin home, we need another Gummi ship because our old one sort of... blew up!"
I leaned over to Huey's height. "I told you, we're not getting a ship from Merlin!"
"Merlin, hah. That guy tried to give you a ship!" the man asked.
Yumi giggled. "Well, he made us one from magic, but on it's second take off it crashed."
The man laughed. "That man couldn't get anything that has to do with technology right." The man stuck out his hand to me. "I'm Cid, you must be Ryan, Merlin, and Kairi told me a lot about you guys."
I froze. "Kairi's here!"
Yumi tapped me on the shoulder. "Why is Kairi so special to you?"
Max rolled his eyes. "Isn't it obvious, she's his girlfriend."
"She's my cousin."I looked at Cid as he shook Yumi's hand. "Cid, where is Kairi?"
He pointed up towards the stairs. "She's at the Baily with Leon."
I nodded. "I'll see you guys later!" I ran off towards the stairs, leaving the others behind.
When I reached the Bailey there was a girl trying to walk in through the door of the Bastion.
"Kairi?" I muttered. The girl whipped her head around, and showed me the face that I hadn't seen for three years.
"Ryan!" she shouted as she ran towards me. I ran towards her, and embraced each other in our arms. "I've missed you so much."
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Sora woke up in a small bed. He stood up and opened the door of the room, and stepped out into the main room of the Gummi Ship.
Donald was at the wheel. "So your finally awake?"
Sora rubbed his eyes. "Where are we going?"
"Hallow Bastion," said Goofy. "We're gonna go say hi to Leon, and the others. Maybe ask around if anybody seen that Xemnas guy."
"Good idea you guys," Sora said as he plopped into the seat behind Donald. "We got a call from Chip, and Dale. We're heading there right after we come from Hallow Bastion."
"What's up at Disney Castle?" asked Sora.
"Nothing, they just want to see you again," Donald said laughing.
"Yeah, everybody's countin' on us to find the King," said Goofy.
Sora placed his head, in his hands. "Where is Jack, did you see him before we left?"
"No, after the call we were sort of in a rush to leave Halloween Town," Donald said. Could Jack be alive, I'm so mad right now.
"Hey Sora, where'd ya get the new duds?" asked Goofy.
Sora looked down at his clothes, and saw the Organization type clothing. "Riku gave it to me."
Goofy looked at Sora with a confused stare. "Riku?"
Donald continued driving. "Are you sure it was Riku?"
Sora crossed his legs. "I'm sure, his voice was a little different, but I just knew it was him."Sora fell asleep in his chair right after what he had said.
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Cid lead us to a large room where a Gummi ship stood. As good as new, and as bigs as Memory's Skyscraper.
"I call it, the Sulpher Bottom," Cid said smiling at the giant Hotel sized ship.
"Why?" I asked.
"I don't know, it's the only thing that came to mind," he said as he laughed a little.
"So... um, how much is it," Kairi asked.
"Oh, it's pretty cheep with all the expencive Gummi pieces I put into it," he said as he placed his fist over his mouth. "Cough... fifty...cough... thousand."
I jumped back, and started laughing. "Your kidding right?"
"I don't think this guy is the one to kid Ryan," said Yumi.
"If you can't afford it," Cid threw a key into Max's hands. He opened the doors. Max, and Huey dashed inside.
"No, I'll do anything, just name your price!" I shouted.
Cid rubbed his chin a little, and looked at us. "Well, you kids look nice, so I guess I'll let you pay off the debt so here's the deal, you have to let my nephew pilot the ship and it's yours, he's been practicing and I think he's about ready."
We all looked at each other. "Okay Cid, who's thins kid of yours?"
"LAN!" he shouted. A boy that looked about my age came from behind the Gummi ship. He wore a pair of blue shorts with, a white long sleeve shirt, a vest was worn unzipped over it. He also wore a blue headband, and carried a strange item in his pocket.. "He ain't my kid neither, he's my nephew, get it right."
Yumi laughed. "It's okay Cid, and thanks for the ship."
"You should actually be thanking Kairi over here, when we came back she had lot's to talk about you, I thought you was a nice kid so I gave this to you as a gift, just as long as my nephew pilot's the ship."
"You got it!" Kairi shouted. Yumi, and I smiled. I yawned.
"Okay, we'll continue our search first thing tomorrow, I'm tired right now," Yumi said. I yawned too, and nodded my head yes.
"Don't worry, Me, and the co-pilots will get you guys to another world while you slumber," Lan said. He pulled out a blue object from his pocket, and a voice came from it.
"Don't you mean, Megaman, and I, Lan?" the voice asked.
"What?" Yumi yelled startled.
"Sorry, I forgot to introduce you to Megaman," Lan said as he brought the device closer to our faces. On the small screen was a man wearing a suit of blue armor.
"Hey guys, I'm Megaman," the man said. He looked just like Lan.
"Hi... Megaman," said Yumi. Kairi giggled, she had obviously met him before.
"Hi again Megaman, this is my cousin Ryan, the one I talked to you about before," she said. Lan held the device up to my face, I saw Megaman. He seemed so cheerful.
"Hello, Ryan," Megaman said.
"H- hi Megaman," I said as I rubbed the back of my neck. I yawned again, my eyes were feeling heavy. "Well, I'm going to be now."
We walked unto the Gummi Ship. It was even bigger on the inside. Cid walked after us. "Well there's a bed room for each of you so that makes about seven bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen loaded with food, that'll give you enough for about a month There's also a drop ship in the engine room if there are any problems."
"Wow, thanks Cid," Kairi said. "You really worked your butt off building this ship huh?"
Cid blushed. "Well, anyways you guys better get your rest, you're growing kids, and you need your energy to fight no matter what." Cid started sniffling.
I walked over to him as he rubbed his eyes. I knew he was starting to cry. "Cid, what's wrong?"
"What, nothing. You guy's better be on your way," he said as he left the ship. I wonder what was wrong with him.
"I don't know, he might have lost something dear to him," said Yumi. You know, I'm getting used to this.
Me too, but how'd we get this power?
Maybe our hearts got connected somehow.
Maybe, just maybe.
"Well guys, I'm getting to bed," I said heading towards the bedroom. "Goodnight."
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"I... I can't believe this," she said as Dragan sat on the bed beside her.
"Do you wish to become the way you used to be?" Dragan asked. She nodded her head yes weakly. He stood up off the bed, and a staff of pure white appeared in his hands. "Keeper of the Ages." The girl's body was wrapped in nothing, but light. She started to hover over the bed. The light faded, and what replaced the little girl that sat on the bed was a grown woman with blonde hair. She had green eyes, and wore a white rain coat. "So, are you going to leave?"
"If I let... you guys would be completely lost," the woman said as she stood to her two feet. "I must become whole again. I have a purpose just like you."
