Chapter Ten: Next Journey
"Wh-what is this?" Amy stuttered, looking at the interior of the room.
"It can't be…" Jason muttered.
"I thought as much…" I finished. The interior of the room looked exactly like Sora's Pod Room. It was the same… but the pod's glass was shattered, and the background wasn't pure white… it was more of a grey. The small markings around the pod were also of a different color; instead of plant-green, they were blood-red.
"This is… a memory pod?" Amy asked.
"So it would seem," I answered. "But the major question is: who was in the pod?"
"I don't know, but whoever it was, they sure didn't seem to like it," Riku said.
"Well, yeah…" I muttered, then jumped around in surprise. Somehow, Riku and Sora had managed to follow us down here! Busted!
"Just who are you three?" Sora asked us, quite brazenly.
"Roy," I answered simply.
"Amy," well… Amy said.
"Me? Uh… I'm Jason!" he said.
"Well, could you tell us what you three are doing down here?" Riku asked us.
"We found these papers… somewhere else, and wanted to know what they mean," I told him, showing the papers we got off of the White Witch.
"Hm…" they muttered while reading the papers. I knew they wouldn't get far due to the papers' damage and illegibility. Even so, they spent a good few minutes reading the papers before handing them back to me.
"This says something about a Keyblade war and these pods. Is that why you came here?" Sora asked us.
"Of course! Why else would we venture down into the depths of darkness?" Jason asked him (though it was a rhetorical question).
"Well, from the looks of things, whoever was in this pod certainly didn't like it," I said, while we all turned around to look at the thing. It was shattered…
"Well, we aren't going to figure out anything else by staying here. Let's go," Sora said, turning around. He walked off, disappearing into the darkness.
"What's with him?" I asked Riku.
"Well… some woman came to our home and kidnapped Kairi, his girlfriend. She seems to be mentally torturing him somehow…" he started. "Wait, why am I telling you this? You don't even know my name!"
"Uh… sorry. What is your name?" Amy asked him.
"Riku. And that's Sora," he replied, motioning toward the dark-filled hallway. "And like he said, we really should go. Maybe we can find some more of those papers," he said, then walked off into the dark hallway. Amy and Jason followed close behind, but I stayed for a moment.
I thought I heard something in that room, but I'm not sure… was I hearing things, or did someone really say 'Everything is going as I planned…'?
Doubting myself, I walked out into the dark hallway. We all returned to our respective Gummi Ships, then sailed off to find another world. After a terrific space battle, we found…
Port Royal.