Why are little sisters so evil? My sis (know on here as Miley Cyrus Fan) is ALWAYS hogging the computer with the finished chapter 8 of Shalla's Legacy! Grr! Well, I guess I'm stuck working on this.
Due to some certain events in this chapter and others, this story has now been rated T for Teen.
Also, I am freakin' stuck on the last Riku Replicabattle in Riku's story. Why is he so hard to beat? (mutters)
Sorry this one took so long to get up, by the way. Fanfiction has been having heavy traffic lately.
crystalfeathers: Hiya! Thanks for reviewing! And thanks for the quick-ref chart! I'll need it for later.
Rike-sama! Where in the name of Lilac's ribbon are you?
Chapter 7 - A Monkey's MysteryCherry and I looked up to see a monkey-like Heartless holding up a slingshot with one hand and holding about seven rocks in the other. I could only blink. Was she an Imperfect?
"Take that, you no good, dirty, rotten, poison-suckin' Imperfect Hunter!" the Bouncywild shrieked, stomping her foot.
That answered my question.
"Gah!" Midnight growled. He had obviously taken a rock to the head, because he was rubbing his purple cranium. "You… I thought you were dead!"
"So did I." The Bouncywild loaded another rock into her slingshot and took aim. "You two okay?" she asked, turning toward us.
"Yeah, we're…" I cut myself off with a gasp. When I got a good look at the front of her brown shirt, I saw no Heartless symbol. I could only back away with Cherry, who must have noticed the absence, too.
"What, is it my shirt?" the Bouncywild asked. "Yeah, I rubbed the symbol out when I found out that I actually had a heart."
Wait a second… I thought, scratching my head, a Bouncywild that has a heart… who thought she was dead? "Coral?" I gasped, my eyes nearly popping out of my head.
"Yep," Coral replied, jumping into the air and firing another rock at Midnight. She did a flip in the air for effect and landed perfectly on her feet.
I was in pure shock. Coral, the Bouncywild that had been discovered by Midnight, was actually alive? No time to dwell on that, I thought as Midnight shrunk down and prepared to shoot out poison. My first instinct was to shiver and wrap my arms around my self. Naturally, Firaga was cast once I completed my sequence. Midnight dodged the attack, only to slip on a banana peel that Coral had cleverly placed right in his path.
"You are stupid, aren't you?" Coral laughed, shaking her head. "You didn't even know that I've been alive all this time!"
"Anyone would have assumed that you were dead after seeing what I did to you that day!" Midnight growled. "How did you even escape alive, anyway?"
"How am I supposed to know that?" Coral asked.
Cherry blinked. "If you don't even know, then how did you…?"
I looked over to see Midnight charging up what appeared to be another poison attack. "Oh, no you don't!" I shouted, floating into the air. A ball of darkness fell down on Midnight, altering the gravity around him and mashing him into the ground.
"Now to get you out of our way!" Coral shouted, moving in front of me again and aiming her slingshot at Midnight. I quickly did the calculations in my head. The hole in the wall (where did that come from?) was only a few inches to the left of Midnight. I looked at the rock in the loaded slingshot and saw that it was aimed in just the right direction to send Midnight backwards into the hole. Perfect.
Midnight did not seem to notice the hole behind him. Either that or he just did not see that Coral was going to send him through it. Nonetheless, the shot was fired at him, sending him tumbling backwards toward the trap. He gasped and looked behind him to see the water ominously moving beneath him. He looked over at us, and our eyes met. Something felt strange inside me. Midnight muttered something in the language of darkness before tipping backwards into the water.
I was shaken with what I could not identify as fear or relief. I was glad that Midnight was gone and out of my cap (I would say hair, but that is one of the many things I lack), but I was afraid that Midnight had muttered a curse or something in darkness. Sadly, darkness was not one of the many languages I spoke very well. If he had spoke Heartless, I would have been able to understand it.
"Lilac?" Cherry whispered. "Are you okay?"
I shook my head as Coral bounced over to us. "I don't think so," I whimpered. "Do either of you speak darkness?"
"Sorry, but no," Cherry replied, shaking her head.
"Me, neither," Coral answered. "Why?"
"Because… When he was about to fall, he spoke in that language. I could tell by the way he accented some of the vowels."
"What do you think he said?" the monkey-like Heartless asked, putting a hand on my shoulder.
I sighed and hung my head, then quickly stood straight up before Thundaga could be cast. "I don't know. That's why I asked."
"So, you're the Coral?" Cherry asked, sitting down on the end of my bed. "The first Imperfect to be executed after being caught by Midnight?"
"Uh, that's halfway correct." Coral chuckled nervously and climbed up the walls to the ceiling.
"Oh, right," Cherry muttered, turning away. "Sorry."
"But I still don't understand," I stated. "I saw you being zapped."
"And my mom did, too," Cherry piped. (Cherry herself was on duty during Coral's execution.)
"How are you still alive?"
Coral wrapped her feet around a ceiling fan blade and hung upside-down, looking directly into my eyes. "Like I said back in the battle, I'm not sure. All I know is…"
(Coral's POV):
"I hereby sentence her to death!" Maleficent boomed, much to the joy of the audience. I did not see how they could be cheering as I tugged at the collar around my neck. What was so exciting about death, especially if it was happening to me?
I whipped out my slingshot and aimed at Maleficent, but the Black Fungus who had captured me, Midnight, smacked it out of my head, threw it on the ground, and smashed it to bits with his skull. I shrieked as I was forced onto a platform directly under an open-ended tube. As soon as my feet touched the metal, steel bounds wrapped around them, trapping me to the bottom of the platform. I yelled in fear and tried to use the inside of the tube to paw my way up and wiggle out of the bounds, but I was stuck tight.
"LET ME GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I shouted, pounding on the glass."Destroy her!" Maleficent commanded, pointing at Midnight. The Black Fungus snickered and turned to a control panel. I whimpered and looked up to see mass amounts of electricity charging up above me.
"No…" I whispered as Midnight reached for a lever. He looked me in the eye and seemed to be whispering something. The last thing I remember was the lightning striking me before I blacked out.
I will never know how, but I woke up what seemed like moments later. I groaned and held my aching head while scanning my surroundings. I seemed to be lying in a tree located in the backside of the castle. What the… I thought, clutching the thick branch beneath me. I looked down to see several Wizards patrolling the area below me.
How in Walt's name did I get here? I thought, hiding myself deeper within the leaves of the tree. I am alive, right? My hand found its way to my chest. Well, my heart's still beating, so I must be alive. But… how is it possible?
"I've been pondering that same question for all this time," Coral concluded, releasing her feet from the fan blade and flipping onto my bed.
"You said something about Midnight seeming to say something before he 'killed' you," I stated, putting quote marks in the air with the tips of my arms. "Do you think that has anything to do with it?"
"It seems logical," Coral replied, scratching her head. "But why would he try to save me and later try and kill me again?"
I fell headfirst onto my pillow. "That's the question of the year, Coral."
"And there's no answer," Cherry sighed, shaking her head. "It's all so confusing. Midnight could be the bad guy or the good guy."
My mind instantly snapped back to the words that started the whole Midnight debate. I took a deep breath and turned to the two Imperfects. "Guys," I began, sitting up, "Cherry already knows this, but… Midnight kissed me for the sake of Dark Love the other night. It's just a mind trick, but… after he kissed me, he said, 'I don't just kiss any Imperfect.' Do you think…?"
Nobody was sure exactly what I thought they were thinking. Not even I was sure what to think. Was he still playing mind games with me? Was he an Imperfect? Most of all… what was his reason for kissing me: Dark Love… or true love?
To be continued…And the mystery resumes! What side is Midnight really on? Was it him who saved Coral's life the day she was to die? Will he ever confess his purpose? Why am I asking YOU all these questions? … Maybe I should just shut up now.
Stay tuned for the next chapter as the plot begins to unfold even more. Hopefully we'll find out who's on what side.
By the way (I know, I'm talking too much), I rented Final Fantasy X-2 today and will be pretty occupied with that for a while... Well, at least until Monday night when I have to bring it back.I've never played ANY Final Fantasy game before this, and I'm impressed. I'm thinking of buying either FF7 (my friend's favorite)or FFX instead of KH2. What do y'all think?
