BLP 22:
"Sora!" Donald and Goofy shouted, running towards the side of the hole and diving towards it. They leaned the top halves of their bodies over and reached down their arms, but they were too late to grab onto Sora.
"I've got him!" a voice shouted behind them. The two animals reaching down and calling out Sora's name heard the voice and turned to see Goku running between them. The boy dove headfirst into the hole and yelled out, "NIMBUS!" For a second nothing happened, then a yellow cloud flew down from the sky and underneath Goku's feet. The martial artist riding a cloud flew down after Sora and reached out a hand to the panicking teen who was wondering just how far this hole went.
"Thanks!" Sora exclaimed and grabbed onto Goku's hand.
Goku pulled Sora up on his cloud and Sora managed to stay on it which made Goku smile. "Hold on," Goku told his friend and Sora grabbed onto fluffy yellow cloud bits to try and do just that. They flew straight up until they left the hole and then both boys jumped down to the side of the stage where all of their friends were.
"Fwew," Donald sighed in relief. The duck noticed Goofy chuckling at him and he crossed his arms, looking away and pretending like he was not just as worried as he was.
"You guys were pretty amazing," Bulma began as she ran over with their other new friends. "You sure gave that Tien a- a-" Bulma's words caught in her throat and everyone turned towards the stage to see Tien still floating there. The man was no longer covered in darkness, but he was still a force to be reckoned with and Bulma felt less like talking about him while he was within earshot.
They all looked at the man to see what he would do, but he just silently flew over to the side of the stage where Chiaotzu was lying and he picked up his friend. "Hey," Sora called over to him. Tien turned and expected some sort of speech or something from the people he just fought while consumed by darkness, but instead Sora just rose his Keyblade and said, "Cure." A green light shimmered around Chiaotzu and then Sora just nodded once at Tien before turning around.
"Goku," Tien stated in a calm voice, much calmer than it had been all day. Goku was still staring at Tien and the man made eye contact with him, now with all three eyes back to normal. "Tomorrow I will beat you in the finals."
"No. I'm going to win, for Yamcha," Goku replied just as confidently as Tien did.
Sora scratched the back of his head as he listened to them. They're not even considering I might beat Goku. "Wait," Sora mumbled and looked around at all the damage around them. "How are we even going to finish the tournament? The stage is gone!"
"Oh, yeah," Goku mumbled and looked back at the stage himself. He still wanted to fight Tien one on one, and Sora too, but it did not look like that would be happening for a little while.
"Well," a voice spoke up behind the group and they all turned around. They saw Master Roshi walking towards them in a suit with his hands behind his back. "I will have a talk with the monks and see if we can get that announcer back here. The tournament must have a winner after all." Roshi looked over at Tien who glanced back at the old man and then huffed and walked away.
Luffy moaned as he lay on the floor, "That's right, I lost." He remembered getting smashed off the stage by Tien earlier and he frowned, but there was not much he could do about it and just passed out instead of saying anything else.
While everyone started talking about the crazy match and the weirdo Gurgle, Sora felt something behind him and he turned around. The boy walked over to the stage edge and looked down into the hole once again, and his lips pulled up in a smile at the sight of something shimmering down there. Sora lifted up his right hand and allowed a Keyblade to form there, but when he looked at it he was surprised to see a new Keyblade that he had never seen before. It had a green hilt that curved around in a way that made it look like a dragon's body, a long silver shaft leading up to four prongs at the end, and hanging off the hilt at the bottom was a little keychain like his other Keyblades had. The keychain ended with a little orange ball, one with four stars on it. Dragon's Breath.The name of his new Keyblade echoed in his mind and Sora smirked before leaping up in the air, doing a fancy flip over the hole, and shooting a beam of light down into the pit.
A loud click like the sound of something locking clanked out from the bottom of the hole. Everyone confused as to what Sora was doing got even more confused by that last part as it seemed like something responded to that weird movement he did. "Umm, what was that?" Krillin asked as Sora landed back down with them.
"Our work here is done," Sora replied and let his Keyblade vanish. "We should be on our way, huh?" He looked around at his friends and a few of them looked like they agreed with him, especially Donald.
Luffy on the other hand, "No." They all looked towards the pirate laying on his back who apparently woke up for the conversation. "I want to stay for the end of the tournament."
And just like that, the argument started back up over whether or not they would leave. Once it began though, the crew knew that Luffy was not going to be swayed very easily. Donald went on for a while and occasionally Goofy or Sora would chime in agreeing with him, but Luffy was dead-set on staying until the tournament was over. Usopp was talking to Smoker about how the man saved him from Tien's attack, and he ended it by patting Smoker on the shoulder and thanking him, and by saying that it was fine with him if the Marine kept traveling with them.
Rick the announcer showed back up at some point with Master Roshi, and he told the competitors that the monks were setting up another stage nearby for them to have the final matches on. They decided to still have the second semifinal match that same day, and everyone went over to watch the match between Sora and Goku. Not many spectators showed up, which was good for Sora. It made it not as embarrassing to lose, and he lost, he lost badly.
Most of Sora's friends consoled him over the loss, though Donald went on a rant about how if Sora's match was over then they should leave. Luffy considered it for a minute, then said he wanted to see how the tournament ended even though none of them were in it anymore. So they stayed for another night. Tensions were not as high considering Smoker was not really being scrutinized anymore, but Donald was growing restless and kept quacking on about his mission that Luffy kept telling him they could get back to after the tournament.
The final day of the tournament was pretty exciting. Everyone showed up to watch Goku, even Yamcha who left the hospital to come cheer on his friend. Tien still seemed mad at Goku for killing Mercenary Tao, but Master Roshi had said some things to him after his power trip the day before and those things stuck with him into the fight. He no longer wanted to kill Goku, and by the end of the fight he respected the boy who pushed him to his limits. He wound up destroying the new stage in the battle, and though the match was close, a badly beaten Goku landed out of the ring a few seconds before a just-as-injured Tien did, making Tien the victor.
The travelers were all pretty disappointed by the outcome of the fight, but after it was over Tien came over and apologized to them all for the day before. He said that since he did not really defeat Goku, only managing to not fall out of the ring before the younger boy, that half of his winnings were Goku's. Goku did not want the money, so Tien said that instead he would treat them all to dinner. Even Yamcha after hearing this, decided to try and reconcile with the three-eyed man who crushed his leg.
"Alright!" Donald quacked after enough moaning from all his companions. "But after this meal, we leave for sure!" This time, everyone agreed with the duck and they were all looking forward to having this dinner and getting on their way.
They arrived at the restaurant and everyone walked over to a V.I.P. table set up for their entire group of friends. Bulma, Puar, Oolong, Roshi, Yamcha, Turtle, Launch, Tien, Chiaotzu, Nami, Usopp, Robin, Luffy, Smoker, Sora, Donald, and Goofy walked inside the restaurant talking and laughing about the tournament. Goku walked in the door second to last but right as he got there he froze up. "Wait," he had a look of realization on his face. He turned and said, "I forgot my grandpa's Dragon Ball, and my power pole. I left them both back at the stadium. I'll be right back."
Goku took a step for the door but Krillin was standing there and the bald boy wearing a blue suit and fancy hat held up a hand to stop him. "No, stay here and have fun," Krillin told him with a smile on his face. "I'll go get 'em for you. I know where they're at."
"I should go, I'm the one who forgot them," Goku countered.
"Heh heh heh heh don't be silly," Krillin laughed. He turned and started running down the sidewalk as Goku called thanks out to him. "Be right back," Krillin called out and waved to his friend. Some of the others started walking back outside to see what the hold up was with them and they stared down the sidewalk at Krillin who kept laughing and running away.
Suddenly Goku's smile wiped from his face though and he called out, "Wait, Krillin!"
Krillin came to a stop and looked back at Goku, "What is it?" Every person in the doorway was just staring down the sidewalk at the boy standing there laughing their way. They all had the same wary frowns on their faces despite Krillin's jovial face.
"Something's off," Sora whispered under his breath. Goofy looked next to him at the spiky haired teen who continued, "I, feel weird watching him go."
Goku seemed to have the same look on his face, but he smiled and shouted, "See you soon." The rest of them started laughing as they thought Goku would have more to say.
"Haha, save some for me!" Krillin called out, and then he ran off. Everyone else walked back inside the restaurant, but Goku stopped at the door again. Sora was there with him and they both looked at Krillin's back as the boy kept running farther away from them. They both looked put-off, like something was wrong they just didn't know what it was.
Even after Krillin was out of sight, the two boys kept standing there for a while until their friends called them inside. They waited for Krillin for a few minutes, but with all the delicious food in front of them it was pretty hard not to dig in right away. Luffy was already going all out and the others decided to join him. Donald reminded the pirate captain they had to go after the meal and Luffy mumbled agreement between bites. Luffy was still recovering from his fight with Tien, as after going Gear Second the final time his body completely shut down on him. Even with a lot of Cure magic in him he still was not back up to a hundred percent, but this meal was doing that for him.
One person did not start eating with everyone else though, and Sora turned to the boy on his left, "Not gonna eat, Goku?"
"I'm not hungry. I'll wait for Krillin," Goku replied, staring at the empty seat on his other side.
"He probably got distracted and lost track of time," Bulma assured him from across the table.
While the rest of the table continued eating, Goku's facial expression only got darker. His eyebrows creased and Sora was not the only one noticing. Smoker stared down the table at the boy and Tien narrowed his eyes as well as Goku sat there uncomfortable. "What's wrong with you?" Tien questioned, and then Goku's world shattered.
It was like glass shattered in his mind and everyone around him started staring as Goku's face distorted into confusion and fear. Sora felt a pit in his stomach and he jumped out of his seat, spinning towards the door. Goku was already ahead of him though, knocking down chairs and sprinting as fast as he could out the door and then down the sidewalk outside.
"What's going on?!" Oolong shouted and jumped out of his seat.
"I don't know but let's follow them," Nami suggested and they all started running after the teen boys.
Luffy was running with the main group after the two boys and he didn't know why they pulled him from his meal so abruptly. He was still mid-chew while he ran down the sidewalk and held half a pork chop in his right hand that he was munching on. "Wh-at's up, with them?" He mumbled between bites. He finally swallowed a giant gulp and shoved the rest of his food in his mouth right as they turned back into the main gates of the tournament arena.
"There's shouting coming from over there!" Bulma pointed towards the waiting room for the fighters and they all rushed over.
Sora was standing in the doorway, frozen in place, and Goofy ran up to his friend, "Hyuck, Sora why'd you run off so-"
The talking dog stopped mid-sentence and just stared inside the room like Sora, in shock. Goku was sitting there on his knees with Krillin's upper body in his arms, shaking it over and over again. "Krillin! No no no Krillin I'm here, wake up! Krillin!" Krillin's eyes were open and the boy's mouth was wide, but he was not moving a muscle.
Rick the announcer was lying next to Krillin and he lifted up his head a little bit, "It, it was a monster. It came through the window. It took a little ball and a list of names from the tournament. It got away."
Goku was not listening to any of this though, he just kept shaking his friend's body and shouting his name until he finally stopped. "He's gone," Goku realized and said out loud. There was a trail of blood down the left corner of Krillin's mouth as the boy's head tilted to the side without resistance. "It should have been me," Goku said while tears formed in his eyes.
Bulma stood in the doorway with her hands over her mouth, "Krillin, he's gone," she said in horror.
Sora couldn't believe his eyes. One second Krillin was there, laughing and playing like any other day, and now he was dead. The pirates behind him had similar looks on their faces but Luffy had a different one. He looked mad. Luffy's fists were clenching at his sides and his eyebrows were narrowing as he thought about what Rick said when he leaned up.
Goku snapped up too and he brought his fists up in front of him, "Krillin didn't deserve this!" He picked up his power pole, spun, and shouted, "Bulma, do you have the Dragon Radar?"
She nodded her head yes and started to pull it out while Goku charged towards her. Master Roshi yelled, "Goku stop! Wait! Come back! STOP! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Even the order from his martial arts master could not stop Goku from running out the door though with the Dragon Radar in hand.
"Goku!" Yamcha called after him. Goku was gone though, sprinting away with tears splashing off the sides of his face.
"I'm going too!" Luffy called out and started chasing after Goku.
The pirate took off but froze and spun around after a few steps. "NOOO!" Donald shouted at the top of his lungs. Everyone there turned to the duck who marched right up to Luffy and looked up into the pirate's eyes, "We need to leave, now! You said after the meal!"
"They just killed Krillin," Usopp began arguing with the duck.
Luffy was thinking the same thing and wanted to give chase, but another voice shouted this time, "Luffy stop!" They all looked over to Sora who had tears in his eyes but looked at Luffy with such an angry look. "We aren't supposed to meddle. Whatever killed Krillin, it's not our job to stay here and fight it. We have other worlds we need to get to! We have to find your crew, and the King, and Riku and Kairi! And we've spent too much time here already since the ship has been fixed!"
"I'm going," Luffy began.
"Stop!" Sora shouted. "Please Luffy, I'm mad too! Krillin was my friend, but we need to leave right now! There's no time! The Heartless are getting stronger and I want to find my friends before Maleficent destroys everything! We can't just keep doing whatever we want!"
Luffy frowned deeply at this and he looked back down the sidewalk in the direction Goku ran off. He could no longer see the boy but if he started running he figured he could catch up to him. "Luffy, we need to go," Sora said, his voice softer now. "We can't let our feelings stop us from accomplishing our mission. The fate of the worlds is at stake."
"I don't care about any of that-" Luffy began.
"You should," Sora retorted angrily. "I want to save the worlds if I can, and get back my islands. If we have the keys to fixing our world, then I really want to do whatever I can to make it right again. We have to stop the Heartless. We have to beat Maleficent. Come on Luffy, we have to leave."
Luffy started looking around and he saw every one of his friends was staring at him, waiting for him to say something. Master Roshi was inside talking about some note that the monster dropped and how he had seen the symbol on it before, but as much as he wanted to fight this Demon King who Roshi was talking about, Sora's words got to him instead. Sanji, Chopper, Zoro, I'm coming. Luffy nodded his head once, and then he looked back into the waiting room where Krillin's body was resting.
They all looked at Krillin one last time, and then they turned and walked away. Bulma saw the group leaving and she ran outside after them, "You guys, where are-" Bulma stopped talking and watched in awe as they got into the Gummi Ship that Donald uncloaked right in the middle of the stadium grounds. She was not there for the repairs so she did not know what the ship was supposed to look like, but she was amazed at it as the travelers got inside.
"Let's take off before she asks any questions," Nami suggested. The rest of the group nodded and started climbing inside the ship, but Nami turned back when she reached the cockpit. "Since Tien won, I guess that means neither of us won the bet." Bulma's face became surprised that Nami remembered that, but the thought of Krillin lying dead in the building behind her stopped Bulma from making any snide remark about it.
"Yeah, guess so," Bulma replied softly. "See you Nami," she said, and Nami nodded back at her in a sad way, for some reason she had the feeling she would not see her blue haired friend again.
The travelers climbed inside the Gummi Ship and no one argued when Donald took the controls. It was dead silence inside the ship. Smoker was okay with it, but he was annoyed he had to put out his cigar before getting inside the ship. He was also thinking about that bald kid's dead face and how he wanted to deal out justice to whoever did that to him, but also how he agreed with Sora that they needed to go. Tashigi, he thought, and ground his teeth angrily wondering where she was now.
Donald pushed forward the thrusters and their ship flew off into the blackness of space. Obstacles appeared and Heartless ships flew at them, but Donald swerved in and out and fired beams at the incoming enemies. Explosions went off around them and still no one spoke. That was not how they wanted to leave the world they had made so many new friends on.
"Is that the next world we're heading to?" Sora asked quietly, though in the silent ship everyone heard him ask Donald the question. He was looking at a map on the ship's central console and pointed at a white dot not far from where Agrabah was on the map. They went pretty far off course when they crashed, but the navigation gummis seemed to know where they were in space.
"Yeah," Donald replied and he turned the ship a little to adjust course towards that planet.
"Do you think the King will be there?" Sora whispered.
"We sure hope so," Goofy responded this time.
"Yeah, me too," Sora said, and then leaned back in his seat.
"You know, we should probably stop by Cid's shop back in Traverse Town," Usopp brought up, trying to lighten up everyone's moods. The group turned to the sharpshooter sitting in the middle back row of the ship and he continued, "I mean, I'm out of potions and we've really gathered quite a lot of Munny on these… on these…" Usopp's bottom lips dropped and everyone stared at him confusedly until they heard Donald's panicked quacking at the sticks.
"What is it?" Nami asked and spun to look out the windshield herself. When she did, her own jaw dropped and she just stared outside with a look of total awe on her face. "No, freaking, way," she said and had to rub her eyes a few times as if she was imagining it.
"Whoa!" Sora leaned forward in his seat and pushed his face close to the window. He wasn't the only one though, and Luffy shot up to the front and pressed his face up against the glass too.
"Do not make us crash again!" Donald yelled at the two on his right side. The duck was sweating pretty badly though and he looked outside almost as shocked as the pirates and others in the ship who actually recognized what they were looking at. "What's going on out there?" Donald muttered like he was seeing something crazy.
"Gawrsh, it's a couple of pirate ships," Goofy pointed out.
"I can see that ya big nincompoop," Donald quacked at him. "But what are- wait," he stopped and stared more closely at the sail of one of them. His eyes went wide and he snapped his head to Luffy who had an enormous smile on his face.
"MERRY!" Luffy, Usopp, and Nami all shouted together at the sight of their ship with the lamb figurehead on it.
"What's your ship doing in space Luffy?" Sora asked, right before realizing that that was a pretty stupid question considering he had been with Luffy since his islands got destroyed.
The pirate captain shook his head in confusion but kept smiling, happy to see her there. His smile started to fade though as they flew after the Going Merry through space. One reason his smile faded was because the other pirate ship flying side by side with it was firing cannons into Merry's side. The second reason, was that there were a lot of people on his ship.
"Who's flying the Merry?" Usopp asked, his own eyes narrowing at the ship he liked to consider his own home, and his nakama.
"Wait a second," Nami whispered, and she leaned closer to the window and looked out towards their ship. "All the people on our ship look like kids," she mumbled in utter confusion. "There are no adults there."
"Fly over to Merry," Luffy ordered the duck in the pilot's chair.
Donald muttered under his breath in annoyance at being told what to do but he did push the sticks forward and dropped the Gummi Ship towards the Going Merry. When they were right over the middle of the deck, someone came running out of the cabin, someone taller than the rest. He had a black pirate's hat on his head and an eyepatch over his right eye. And he was covered head to toe in fur.
Luffy could not wait a single extra second and he threw open the cockpit's glass door. "CHOPPER!" He shouted at the top of his lungs and dove off the ship.
The furry pirate down below him looked up and Heavy Point Chopper's eyes turned into saucers at the sight of the figure dropping towards him with outstretched arms. Chopper's eyes filled with tears and he shouted, "LUFFY!" Then the pirate fell on top of him and they both crashed into the floor.
"Captain! We're still taking heavy fire!" a young boy's voice shouted from not far away.
Luffy and Chopper snapped their heads up and then the rubberman looked down at his doctor, "Captain? You became the captain?"
"Only because you weren't here Luffy," Chopper said quickly and then pulled himself out from under Luffy. He looked to his right over the side of the Merry into space and at the ship on the other side of them. "Captain Hook's got Wendy," Chopper said while Luffy stared at his furry crewmate in shock. "We've got to go save her!"
"That's right!" the Lost Boys around Chopper shouted.
"Wait, Chopper!" Luffy exclaimed and he grabbed the furry doctor by the shoulders. "How long has it been for you?"
"How long?" Chopper questioned and tilted his head to the side. "I don't know, a few weeks? Why?"
Luffy sighed a deep breath of relief at the sound of that, really glad Chopper was not gone for years like some of his crew members. He chuckled and looked up in the air, "You'll see when you see Usopp."
"Usopp's here too?!" Chopper exclaimed with delight, falling back out of his pirate captain's persona.
"Yep, and Nami, and Robin, and Sora," Luffy continued. "Oh and Smokey!"
"Smoker? The Marine Captain is here?!" Chopper exclaimed in panic.
Said Marine Captain slammed down into the deck at Luffy's side and he glared off the side at the ship across from him. "Finally, some pirates I can fight," he said, not hiding at all how much he was going to enjoy this.
"Donald, just put the ship down anywhere!" Sora shouted at the duck who had to keep swerving around things in space while people jumped out of their moving spaceship at their leisure. "I want to go down there and fight with the others!" Sora complained and he watched as Heartless pirates started appearing on the Going Merry and swinging over from Captain Hook's ship. They were wearing gold jewelry and had red bandannas on their heads while swinging cutlasses around.
"I'll put her down over there," Donald said as he spotted a much more open place to land on top of the other pirate ship. He started flying over, but a piece of space debris flew out of nowhere and slammed into their ship. The top of the ship was still open and the rest of the inhabitants either fell out or just barely grabbed onto their seats.
Robin fell out of the ship but she crossed her arms and called out, "Cien Fleur. Wings!" Out from her back sprouted a hundred hands that formed into two large wings that slowed her descent. She flapped her wings a few times and though she had a short time limit, she managed to make it onto the Going Merry. Goofy, Donald, and Sora however, fell spinning through the air on the other side of the gap in space between the ships, landing somewhere on the deck of Captain Hook's ship.
"Usopp grab the controls!" Nami shouted at the long-nosed man who was also dangling from a seat while their Gummi Ship went spinning out.
"I got it!" Usopp exclaimed, and he grabbed the sticks and turned them upright again. He and Nami took deep breaths of relief and Usopp turned the ship to get ready to land.
"I can't wait to see Usopp," Chopper said gleefully as Luffy finished off the last of the Heartless on the Merry's deck. He looked up at the Gummi Ship descending from the sky and he could almost see inside the cockpit. He saw the tops of Nami and Usopp's heads and opened his mouth to shout at them. Luffy did as well to call out at them to look at Chopper, and then both the captain and the doctor dropped their jaws to the floor.
Smashing straight through a wall of space debris, came a massive space whale ten times the size of the pirate ships. "It's Monstro!" One of the Lost Boys shouted in panic and pointed up at the whale. The whale swam forward through space with its mouth open, and the Gummi Ship just above the pirate ships' masts got swallowed up in one bite. Luffy and Chopper's jaws were already on the floor so they couldn't get any lower, but the panic on their faces intensified a lot.
Smoker also panicked as his ride through space got eaten, but the pirates were much more panicked at the sight of their friends getting chomped. Monstro continued to swim off through space perpendicular to the Going Merry, and it swam out of sight in only a few seconds. "What just, happened?" Chopper whispered, his mind finding it hard to comprehend what he just saw.
"Nami, Usopp," Luffy whispered, blinking his eyes a few times in disbelief.
"Don't worry," one of the Lost Boys near them spoke up. They looked over and saw it was a chubby kid with big cheeks talking and the kid continued, "Monstro's stomach is huugggeeee!"
"Yeah, I heard there's actually a guy living in its stomach," another boy chimed in.
Luffy started nodding his head and after a few seconds he smiled, "Alright! They're okay, we'll get them later!"
"Luffy!" Chopper exclaimed, still panicking.
"I said it will be okay, so it's okay," Luffy said with perfect confidence. "Usopp wouldn't be beaten that easily," he said, smiling as he thought about how much stronger his nakama was now. "Now," he punched a fist into his open palm and glared at the enemy pirate ship that kept firing on them. "Let's go kick their asses."
Sora rubbed his head as he walked around the deck of the ship he landed on. He walked right up to the bow and looked off into the space ahead of him, then looked back and forth around him. Suddenly he felt something and he turned around fast, and heard the voice right after. "I didn't think you'd come, Sora."
"Ah," Sora took in a deep breath at the person he saw on the deck just above his, looking down on him. There was something off though about his appearance. "Wh-Where are Donald and Goofy?" Sora asked the silver haired teen in a yellow tank top.
Riku glared down with his icy teal eyes and said, "Are they that important to you? More important than old friends?" The older teen frowned and continued, "Instead of worrying about them, you should be asking…" he took a step to the left and revealed someone sitting right behind him. "About her," Riku finished.
"Kairi!" Sora stepped forward and shouted at the sight of the girl sitting there behind Riku. Her legs were sprawled to either side, and she sat in a strange position staring down at the floor without moving.
"That's right," Riku called down in a holier-than-thou tone. "While you were off goofing around, I finally found her."
Sora started running forward, but out of nowhere Captain Hook stepped around the corner and held his hook hand out in front of Sora. "Not so fast. No shenanigans aboard my vessel, boy." Mr. Smee walked up next to the captain and five Heartless pirates appeared around them.
"Riku!" Sora shouted up a deck at his friend. "Why are you siding with the Heartless?"
"The Heartless obey me now, Sora. Now I have nothing to fear." Riku smirked and two Heartless appeared on either side of him.
"You're stupid!" Sora shouted at his friend. "Sooner or later they're going to swallow your heart!"
"Not a chance," Riku replied confidently. "My heart's too strong. I've picked up a few other tricks as well," he continued, and he held up a palm in front of him, "like this for instance." Out from the floor in front of Sora rose a shadow that looked just like him except entirely black. Sora stumbled backwards at the appearance of the same monster Maleficent attacked him with back in Traverse Town. Just the sight of it had Sora frozen in place, and Riku smirked as he said, "You can go see your friends now."
Sora wondered what that meant for the total of one second before the floorboards beneath his feet opened up and he fell into a trap door. Riku watched as the trap door closed behind Sora. He frowned and kept staring down at it, but he spoke up, "What do you want?"
The person standing behind Riku did not really know what to say. He stood there with a straw hat on his head and his red shirt open down the middle. Luffy leapt across onto the other pirate ship with the others who were off fighting Heartless soldiers right now, but he was here all alone with Riku. "Your friends aren't here, go look somewhere else," Riku said. He turned and walked towards Luffy but called out to Captain Hook far behind him, "Let's get under way."
Riku pushed right past Luffy and then walked into the cabin behind him. Captain Hook walked up the stairs to the higher deck that Riku was on while mumbling under his breath, "Brat can't tell me what to do. This is my ship!"
"This is your ship?" Luffy asked, narrowing his eyes at the captain with a hook hand.
Captain Hook spotted the pirate standing near his cabin, and his eyes locked onto the straw hat. He snapped his head left and looked across the gap in the void where the smaller Going Merry was still sailing side by side his own ship, and he looked at the sail with the same straw hat on it. "Ahh yes, the pirate captain. To think the Keyblade would choose such a strange wielder, it is beyond me. Mr. Smee!" Hook shouted.
"Right here captain!" the pudgy man who was already right behind the taller man in a red coat spoke up.
"Take care of this buffoon for me. I will put the ship on course for Hollow Bastion," he started marching off towards his cabin while Heartless soldiers appeared around him to fight Luffy.
Before Hook could reach his cabin though, Luffy stepped in his way and rose a fist. "You hurt Merry," Luffy said and grabbed his own bicep. "I'm gonna kick your ass!" He pulled back his arm and then threw it forward, "Gum Gum Pistol!"
Hook rose his sword and blocked Luffy's fist with the side of it, but the force was too much and made the captain skid back on the wooden boards. "Smee!" Hook shouted for he looked around though, Mr. Smee and the Heartless soldiers were all locked in combat with Lost Boys jumping onto their ship. The boys were not faring very well, but a pillar of smoke dropped from the sky and started flattening the Heartless monsters.
Two Heartless Pirates lifted up their swords to swing down at the man appearing inside the smoke, but a dozen arms appeared on each of their bodies and bent them backwards until they snapped. Robin walked forward casually with her arms crossed in front of her, destroying the Heartless as fast as they appeared, while Luffy gattling gunned down another few himself. A furry creature dropped down on top of another one that just appeared behind Luffy and he pounded his hooves down on its head.
The four Devil Fruit eaters fighting together on the deck destroyed the Heartless fighters in under a minute. The Lost Boys were looking around amazed at the fighting skills of the pirates and the Marine. Mr. Smee and Captain Hook ran off during the fight with the Heartless, but almost as soon as the Pirate Heartless were defeated, Smee came back, only this time he was in a smaller version of the pirate ship, and it was flying around with engines on it. Flying Pirate Heartless started appearing in the air with him, these ones wearing purple bandannas unlike the others' red ones.
Smee's ship fired cannons down at the fighters down below who all lifted up their arms and got ready for another fight. Luffy jumped up in the air and shouted, "Let's go!"
"You don't say?" Goofy asked.
"Yeah, it was definitely Kairi," Sora nodded as he spoke. "I finally found her."
"All right! Hyuck, then let's go up and talk to her," Goofy suggested.
"Yeah!" Sora agreed.
"Sounds great," Donald began. "Okay, but first…" Donald lifted his bill and quacked loudly, "How about getting off?!"
"Oh, haha, sorry," Sora fell through the trap door and landed right on top of his friends. He was too excited to get off right away though and told them how he just saw Kairi up on the deck. Sora hopped off the three-person pile and Goofy and Donald got up after him. The three of them were in the very bottom of the ship and they looked around the dark, empty hull for a way out.
While they looked around, Heartless Pirates and Shadows started appearing around them. Donald backed away from three black pirates swinging cutlasses around and he bumped into a barrel behind him. When he turned around though, he jumped up in surprise as eight pink legs broke out of the bottom of the barrel turning it into a Barrel Spider.
"Let's take care of these guys first!" Sora shouted. The three of them started running around the room, bashing and zapping every Heartless that appeared in front of them. The creatures were swarming all over the place so while they attacked them, they were also making their ways over to one of the walls where there was a ladder.
Sora climbed up first and started fighting the next squad of Heartless that appeared at the top of the ladder. He was in a small hallway with doors on either side and at the end of the hall, but he chose the one on his left first. Sora pushed his way inside and Donald and Goofy ran in after him. Donald slammed the door shut behind them right in the face of three charging Heartless. Thud thud thud. The creatures slammed into the other side of the doorway but they couldn't break through. A second later though, they heard a click and when Sora tried pushing on the door he found they were locked inside.
The three travelers turned from the door and looked inside the mostly dark room they had entered. "Where are we now?" Sora wondered aloud as he stepped forward.
"Ahem," someone cleared their throat on the right side of the room. The three of them turned and listened as someone asked, "How you doing there? Looking for a way out?" They watched as a figure leapt out from behind some barrels and did a flip in midair. He landed in front of them and they looked him up and down. The figure was a half a foot taller than Sora and wore a green hat with an orange feather sticking out to make him look even taller. He had orange hair that matched his feather and an all green costume that was lighter on his shirt and darker on his pants. At his side there was a small dagger in a sheath and the teenage boy had a mischievous smirk on his face.
"Who are you?" Goofy asked the strange boy.
"I'm the answer to your prayers," the teen said in a cocky tone.
Donald tapped his webbed foot on the floor unimpressed. "Huhh?" Donald quacked as if they did not need any help in the first place.
"Okay then, fine," the ginger boy wearing green replied. "Have it your way."
Sora was not against letting the boy help, but he really didn't see how. "But you're stuck in here too, aren't you?" Sora asked.
"Heh," the older boy scoffed. "No, I'm just waiting for someone."
"Who?" Sora asked, and as soon as he did a yellow light came flying into the room.
The light was a small yellow ball, but inside the light they could see what looked like a little person with wings. She had blond hair in a ponytail and a green dress on. She did a few twirls around Sora and then stopped in front of the person in front of them. "Tinker Bell, what took you so long?" The boy with orange hair asked.
The little fairy did not speak but made head movements and hand motions that her friend understood. "Great job, so you found Wendy?" The teen asked. "Hold on, there was another girl there too?" At the sound of this, Sora's ears perked up and Donald and Goofy shared a look with each other.
The fairy surrounded in a yellow glow folded her arms over her chest and stomped her foot down in the air. "Are you crazy?! There is no way I'm gonna leave Wendy there," the boy told the fairy who supposedly did not want him saving her.
Donald smirked wide and laughed, "Aha! She must be pretty jealous, hahaha!"
Tinker Bell spun around angrily. She flew over to Donald who was hunched over laughing too hard, and she kicked him right up under the bill. His head snapped back and his eyes rolled around in his head for a few seconds while he moaned. The fairy did another twirl around the room and then flew up in the air and out a hole above the door. "Come on Tink, open up the door!" The boy in green called after her.
The fairy did no such thing and Donald continued tapping his foot as if waiting for their new "friend" to admit he was wrong. "Hmm," the teen began and frowned. He pointed a thumb at himself, "I'm Peter Pan."
The boy stuck his hand forward and Sora did the same, "I'm Sora."
Before Sora's hand could touch Pan's, the taller boy pulled his hand back immaturely and turned sideways with a humph. "Okay, we're in this together but only 'til we find Wendy." Peter Pan put his hands on his hips and waited for a reply but Sora just shrugged and smiled at him. They turned and ran to the other side of the room and after looking under some barrels they found a hidden key.
The group ran back over to the door, except for Peter who was mysteriously flying after them. His body was covered in yellow sparkles just like that fairy Tinker Bell was before. Pan kept looking at Sora cautiously, and he asked as they were opening back up the other door, "You don't seem all that surprised I can fly?"
"We've seen if before," Sora replied in a smug tone back to the other teen.
"Hyuck, you mean Tien and Chiaotzu?" Goofy asked his shorter friend.
Sora nodded at him and then looked back at Peter Pan, "So you must be really strong if you can fly, huh?"
"Well I am really strong," Peter Pan agreed. "But that doesn't have anything to do with flying." He would have continued with his thought if a bunch of Heartless wearing pirate clothing and red bandannas did not just appear in the room. One other figure appeared with them that had Sora frowning deeply and his new Dragon's Breath Keyblade appearing in his hands.
The black shadow that Riku created that looked just like Sora came out of the floorboards in front of the group of four. Shadow Sora had a wide glowing smile on his face and Sora ran forward to bash it. When he swung though, the creature leapt up in the air and started flying around. Unlike Pan though, it was surrounded with black and purple dots, not bright sparkles.
The group fought the Heartless together and Peter was not joking when he said he was strong. He flew around slashing at the Heartless with his dagger and then flying back before they could hit him. When only the shadow of Sora remained, Sora swung one more time into the side of it and the creature exploded into a bunch of green orbs that sucked into Sora's body and made him feel a little better as he had been hit a few times during the fight.
The four of them started exploring the different rooms fighting Heartless and Sora's shadow that kept reappearing in every room despite Sora's best efforts to defeat it for good. They returned down to the bottom hold and found another ladder leading into a different hall than they first went into. They walked down the hallway at the top of the staircase with Peter Pan in the lead, and Goofy asked, "So uh, how come can you fly?"
"Anyone can fly, you wanna try?" Pan asked. He turned around and the other three stopped in a line in front of him. Peter Pan put two fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly. A few seconds later, Tinker Bell came flying down through a hole in the ceiling but when she stopped she had her hands on her hips. "Aw, haven't you cooled off yet, Tink?" Pan asked her.
He grabbed her by the tiny wings and although she was small, she was able to lift him off the ground easily. At least it looked that way for a second before they realized Pan was probably flying too to help her out. The two of them flew over the line of Sora, Donald, and Goofy and Pan stated, "Just a little bit of Pixie dust." All the yellow sparkles dropped down on top of them and Pan stopped again, "There, now you can fly."
Donald jumped up in the air and started flapping his feathered arms. The duck lifted one foot, two feet, then fell flat on his stomach. Tinker Bell flew down in front of his face and started laughing her head off while Donald tapped the ground impatiently. It did not seem like it was going to work so Peter Pan just told them to keep going and led the way.
He flew and they ran down the hall together all the way to a door at the end. The four ran inside and looked around, but they didn't see either of the girls they were looking for. Tinker Bell flew in behind them and then flew up to the ceiling and through some netting on the floor that led up to a room upstairs. "See anything Tink?" Peter called up.
"Peter? Peter Pan?" a young woman's voice questioned. A teenage girl in a blue dress ran across the room she was being kept prisoner in and she dropped down to her knees over the net.
Peter flew up so their faces were only a little bit apart. "Wendy," he said in relief, glad to see her okay.
"Please hurry, the pirates are coming," Wendy told him.
"What?!" Peter exclaimed. "I'll be right up there. Just hold on!"
"Wendy?" Sora interrupted and the girl looked down below Peter to the floor where Sora was standing.
"Yes?" she replied.
"Is, is there another girl in there with you?" Sora asked nervously.
Wendy lifted up her head and looked across the net she was leaning over. Sitting right on the other side was a smaller girl with auburn hair. "Oh, why yes," Wendy answered. "But, she seems to be asleep. She hasn't budged an inch!"
"Kairi? Kairi!" Sora called up. A hand fell over the top of the net with its fingers uncurled and Sora reached up his hand towards it. His eyes were full of worry and he did not know what to do, but as he looked at the hands he saw the fingers twitch. His mouth curled into a huge smile, and then it wiped from his face completely as a loud bang sounded above them. Someone started dragging Kairi over the net and they heard Wendy scream up above.
"Wendy!" Pan exclaimed. "Hey, let's get up there!" He looked down at Sora and the boy nodded, agreeing they needed to get up somehow
They could not find a way up in the room they were in so they ran outside, hoping they would be able to find a way up, before it was too late.
"How do we stop him?!" Chopper exclaimed and pointed his cutlass up over the side of the ship. He pointed it at the battleship flying around too fast for them to hit with long-ranged attacks, but too high in the air for them to hit straight on. Mr. Smee sent more of his Flying Heartless Pirates to dive down and attack the Lost Boys and their friends on the deck of Hook's ship, and it was getting tiring fighting wave after wave of these enemies.
"They're a lot stronger than the ones in Agrabah huh?" Luffy wondered aloud as he Gum Gum Gattling Gunned the flying ones only for them to push right past his fists and claw at him. He had to pull back his arms and form his black and white Keyblade in his hands. He swung it at the Heartless and even with the weapon they still survived multiple combos before exploding.
"Clutch," Robin said. Chopper turned to the woman with long black hair who had her arms crossed in front of her body with her hands pointed up. He followed her gaze up to the battleship above and heard Mr. Smee yell out in pain as a few dozen arms cracked his body backwards and a loud snap rang out.
As soon as Smee was defeated, a pillar of smoke flew up in the air and surrounded the flying ship that had puffs of smoke coming out of its back engines. The ship started coming down as Smoker destroyed its propulsion system, and Luffy bit down on his right thumb as it fell towards him. "Gear Third: Bone Balloon! Giganto-" he pulled back his giant fist that blew up when he puffed air into his bones. He threw his arm forward and yelled, "Pistol!"
His fist smashed the smaller ship apart and the two Heartless flying next to the falling thing were thrown backwards as well. Smoker dropped out of the sky and all the smoke around him reformed making his body. He stood there next to Nico Robin who lowered her arms and Tony Tony Chopper who transformed back into his small point now that the fighting was over. The tiny reindeer in a red hat with a blue medical backpack on his back ran over to one of the Lost Boys near him. "Cubby are you alright?" Chopper asked the pudgy little boy wearing a brown bear costume.
Chopper started taking out his medical supplies but Luffy spoke up first, "It's alright Chopper." The reindeer doctor turned around in confusion, and watched as Luffy lifted up his Keyblade. "Cure!" He called out. A green light shimmered off the weapon and fell down on top of the Lost Boy named Cubby.
"Wow, I feel much better!" the fat kid jumped back on his feet and looked at his arm where he got cut by one of the Heartless. The scratch was gone. "Awesome! Now let's go find Peter and Wendy!"
"Yeah!" The other Lost Boys agreed loudly.
"Hey Luffy," Chopper began and took a step towards his captain. "What's that thing in your hand?"
Luffy looked at the weapon and then back at his crewmate. "It's a Keyblade. Sora and I got them back on his islands."
"I've seen it before," Chopper said.
Smoker and Robin both perked up at this and spun to face the smaller creature with them. The furry little reindeer saw their surprised looks and Luffy tilted his head confusedly, "You sure?"
"Uh huh," Chopper replied and nodded. "I was on Merry when I got sucked into the darkness," he began, and Luffy and the others leaned in closer to listen to the reindeer's story. "We got pulled around through space and I was so scared! Nobody was there except for me. I got on the ship and I couldn't steer her because, well there was no water. Then Monstro attacked, and I thought Merry was going to get eaten!"
Luffy gasped and the Lost Boys who also started listening in to story time did as well. Chopper continued, "But right before Monstro was going to eat me, he appeared! He sent that whale running and used some magic to make the Going Merry able to fly through the void! And he did it all, using one of those Keyblades."
"Who was he?" Luffy asked.
"I don't know," Chopper replied. "He had on this black cloak so I couldn't see what he looked like, but I know he was as tall as me and had these two round ears, like this," Chopper put his hands up over his head to make in the shape of big circles. Luffy looked at the other two behind him but neither Smoker nor Robin knew who he was talking about.
"Black cloak huh?" Smoker muttered. He could think of a certain black cloaked figure, but it definitely was not one as tall as the two foot tall reindeer, and he did not have big round ears.
"He had a Keyblade though?" Luffy wondered out loud. He scratched his chin thinking back on what Leon told them about being so special and such. Doesn't seem all that impressive now, he thought now that there were three people who could use it. He let his Keyblade disappear and then he and the others all turned their gazes to the cabin.
Inside the cabin, Captain Hook was having a very angry conversation with Riku, though the boy looked like he could care less about the captain's anger. "What?! Wendy's not one of the chosen ones?"
"Maleficent says that Wendy isn't one of the seven," Riku responded. He turned his back to the pirate captain with a hooked hand, "Hoist anchor as soon as possible. Leave all the dead weight behind, including her."
"After all the trouble of capturing her?! And why those seven? What is Maleficent planning anyway?!" Hook shouted.
"Who knows?" Riku said. "As long as it means getting Kairi her heart back, I couldn't care less."
"Hah, you're wasting your time," Hook told him. "The Heartless have devoured that girl's heart. I'll stake me other hand it's lost forever."
"I will find it, no matter-"
Riku was interrupted by the door to the cabin smashing into pieces. He spun around and Hook turned as well, though closer to the doorway. "You again?!" Captain Hook exclaimed at the sight of Luffy standing there with his fist risen and an angry scowl on his face.
"I hear you've been attacking my nakama," Luffy told the man. Chopper just let him in on how he had gotten to know the Lost Boys and their leader over the last few weeks and Luffy also heard Hook had been attacking Chopper almost that entire time. Luffy pulled his fist to his side and grabbed his bicep, "I'm gonna kick your ass."
The door on the other side of the cabin opened up and some Heartless came running into the room. One of them was carrying Wendy over its shoulder and another had Kairi in its arms. Riku turned to the door next to him that the Heartless ran through and he reached down and grabbed Kairi, picking her up gently and holding her in his arms.
He lifted up his head and looked to the other side of the door. Running towards him was Sora, with Peter Pan flying over his head and Donald and Goofy running on either side of him. "Riku wait!" Sora called out.
Riku stepped back into Hook's cabin farther and a black circle of darkness appeared on the floor in front of him. Luffy and the others in the doorway on the other side of the room looked over and opened their eyes wide at the sight of a Shadow Sora jumping up through the dark circle and floating in front of the real version by only a few inches. Instantly, Sora could feel this version was stronger than the ones he had been fighting downstairs, but he tried to ignore it and look past to Riku.
"Riku please, don't go," he told his friend. "We can save Kairi together. You don't need to use the darkness!"
Riku closed his eyes for a second, and then he snapped them open and glared past his Heartless creation and into Sora's eyes. "Only I can save Kairi's heart." A portal of darkness opened up behind him and Riku stepped into it, Kairi still in his arms.
"Riku no!" Sora reached forward, but the Shadow Sora dove at him and swiped its claws at his chest. Sora got hit and knocked backwards, so Donald rose his wand and called down lightning magic. The shadow version of his friend dropped down to the floor and flattened himself against it though. He slid across the ground and popped up behind Donald, swinging its claws down and knocking the duck away.
Goofy ran over and smashed his shield into the creature, but as his shield collided the Heartless split into three and the one he hit turned out not to be the real one as it just fizzled away into dark bubbles. The other two sped over to Goofy's sides and each attacked him, while Peter Pan flew over all of their heads and attacked the Heartless pirates who were holding Wendy hostage.
"Wendy!" a voice shouted on the other side of the room. Peter and Wendy looked over for a second and saw Chopper running into the room behind Luffy who charged at Captain Hook.
"Blast that Riku, leaving without even saying goodbye," the pirate with a handlebar mustache complained. "And after all I did for him, what a brat," he swung his sword down and Luffy leapt backwards to avoid it. He grabbed onto the wall behind him and threw his body far outside the door he just came through, while keeping his hand on the door frame. His arm extended out, and then he snapped himself right back into Hook's quarters where he crashed into the captain and sent them both tumbling across the room into the Shadow Sora clones.
The room was madness for a minute as Heartless appeared all over the place and started fighting the Straw Hats and their comrades. Captain Hook rubbed his head as he leaned against the back wall, and he shook it a few times to regain his composure. "Rrrgh, blasted scallywags," the tall man in a red coat jumped up to his feet and looked around the room. He watched as the Heartless swarmed in from every door, but the enemies he was facing were too much for the Heartless to stop. Robin's arms immobilized and disarmed them, while Luffy, Sora, Donald, and Goofy were taking them all down with powerful attacks.
Hook saw two figures in particular heading farther into the room and he looked at where they were going. Hook's mouth curled up into a large smile and he started running across the room as well. Captain Smoker slammed a fist into a Heartless Pirate's face in front of him and smashed the creature to pieces as his Haki had worked this time. He knew he was getting better at it, but he was not really focused on his improvement at the moment as he was glaring across the room at a pirate he would actually get to stop for once.
Smoker saw where Hook was running and his eyes opened wide. "Oi! Tanuki!" He shouted over at Chopper.
Chopper was already halfway across the cabin and he spun around angrily, "I'm not a tanuki! I'm a reindeer!" Chopper stopped yelling as he saw what Smoker was warning him about, and he jumped in front of the man charging his way. Chopper slammed both his hooves forward, but Hook jumped up over the reindeer and slashed down at his head as he passed by. Chopper felt the blade touching the top of his head and he quickly transformed into his small point, but had to spin around as Hook got behind him.
Luffy and Sora started noticing all the Heartless were running by them and they spun to see where they were going. "Oh no," Sora gasped. "Peter!" He called to his new friend. The Lost Boys shouted his name too and Chopper yelled it out loudest.
Peter Pan was battling two Heartless and standing right behind them was the girl he came to save. He heard his name being shouted though and turned his head, to see Hook mid-jab with his sword. Peter Pan flew up in the air to dodge it but he saw Hook smirk as he dodged and realized Hook did not really care about stabbing him at all. "Wendy!" Pan called out.
"Nobody move!" Captain Hook shouted, and a dozen people in his cabin froze at once.
Smoker and Luffy ground their teeth furiously while Peter and Chopper had worried looks on their faces. Hook stood there behind his Heartless that gathered in a more organized formation now that they were not being attacked. He stood with a hook holding Wendy and his other hand holding a sword to the girl's neck. "Unless you want to see poor Wendy's demise, you will drop your weapons."
Sora shook in place for a few seconds, and then his Keyblade vanished from his hands. Donald and Goofy lowered their weapons too, but Luffy stood there with a fist clenched still. He could see how scared Wendy was, but all he had to do was hit Hook before the man-
"Luffy, stop," Sora called over to the pirate captain who he could tell what he was thinking. "Just calm down for a second."
Luffy looked at Sora and Hook started laughing and saying how Luffy should listen to the 'boy.' Luffy opened his mouth to argue, but Sora's left eye closed real fast while he was looking straight into Luffy's eyes. Sora has a plan, I think, Luffy thought, and he finally lowered his fists down to his sides.
Robin glanced at Sora who she also saw wink at her captain and she decided not to raise her arms, to see what the interesting boy had in mind. Smoker frowned at the pirate's demands but he couldn't put a civilian's life at risk just to get that punch in he so desperately wanted.
"Everyone outside!" Hook demanded, keeping his sword against Wendy's neck and pressing harder into her shoulder with his hook hand so that she noticeably winced.
Hook's enemies could not say anything to stop him from doing this and they all marched back towards the door to the cabin. Sora walked over to the pirates and walked through the door first, and Luffy leaned down to his younger friend, "What are you doing? I could have taken him."
"Just wait, Hook is going to help me," Sora told the pirate.
Before Luffy could ask what that meant, Hook shouted, "Keep yer traps shut! Now all of ye' get to the main deck." Hook marched to the door of his cabin and grinned down at the group in front of him. They kept glaring back over their shoulders at him but he sent his Heartless to lead them down the stairs to the wooden deck below. Hook grinned as they walked away and he turned to one of the Heartless next to him, "Set a course for Neverland. No point in heading to Hollow Bastion now with that brat gone." The Heartless Pirate nodded its head and then ran off to change the ship's course.
"Hook!" Sora called up to the man at the top of the stairs. They were all gathered down on the main deck now with Heartless Pirates on all sides of them. The creepy figures wearing red bandannas over the tops of their heads and holding up black swords bounced from one foot to the other showing how nimble they were. More of them kept showing up but Sora ignored them to yell at the man at the top of the steps, "You said Riku left, where did he go?!"
"To the Ruins of Hollow Bastion, where Maleficent resides," Hook replied in a dark tone. His voice took a more cheerful attitude as he continued, "But, you won't be going there." He started walking down the stairs and removed the sword from in front of Wendy's neck, but he kept his hook hand around her with the point aimed at her throat. "Unless you plan to leave your little friend behind?"
The man in a red hat who had a mustache pointing out to either side laughed at Sora's scared look while he moved his hook hand closer to Wendy's neck. "What do you want?" Sora asked, his head pointed down.
Hook laughed and leaned towards the group, "Give me the Keyblade and I'll spare your lives! Be glad I'm merciful, unlike the Heartless." Everyone looked around at the Heartless who were barely being kept at bay, ready to attack Hook at any moment. "So what will it be?" Hook called out. "The Keyblade, or the plank?!"
Sora turned his head and looked at the side of the ship where the plank was hovering over nothing but empty space. They were on the opposite side of the ship as the Going Merry and they were completely surrounded. Hook was far enough away that Luffy did not even know if he could hit the man before Hook would kill Wendy, making him more nervous now than before when they were in the cramped cabin.
Sora started walking, surprising everyone the direction he was going. "Sora!" Luffy shouted as the boy hopped up on top of the wooden plank. Some Heartless followed after him and pointed their swords at his back to prevent him from coming back.
"A foolish choice!" Hook shouted down to the boy. "Go ahead, jump! I can always get the Keyblade from the other Keybearer," he turned his attention to Luffy who snarled up at him, and then they both looked back at the plank as Sora walked further to the edge of it.
"Sora-san," Robin began hesitantly.
"Hey kid," Smoker started.
Sora looked back at everyone and kept walking backwards until his feet were halfway off the plank. He stared back at them all with their worried looks and confused expressions, and he smiled at them. Fly, Sora! Just believe, and you can do it! Peter Pan's voice came into his mind as if the boy was right in front of him speaking out loud. Sora closed his eyes, and then he jumped backwards off the plank.
"Sora!" Luffy shouted and reached out for his friend.
Everyone ran to the edge of the ship, including a stunned Hook who was surprised the boy actually jumped without having to be pushed. Sora fell about ten feet, and then right when he reached the bottom of the ship's hull, his body surrounded in yellow sparkles and he shot back up in the air. He flew up head-first and then flew horizontally back along the ship's edge.
"He's flying," Robin said in amazement.
"How did he-" Smoker began in shock, then spotted something in the corner of his eye and spun around.
"Got you!" Peter exclaimed.
Hook was so shocked by Sora's flight that he loosened his grip on Wendy, and in that moment everyone else was looking off the edge of the ship, Peter Pan flew off the ground and snagged her right from his arms. "Peter!" Wendy gasped out as the boy held her bridal style and flew up in the air with her.
"Thank goodness you're okay," he told the girl. He flew the two of them back towards the stern of the ship and landed, right as Sora landed down next to him.
Sora turned to the boy in all green next to him, "Thanks Peter."
"Hey, don't mention it. You didn't think I'd leave Wendy and you behind, did you?" Peter replied with a smile.
"Wendy!" Chopper and the Lost Boys shouted seeing that the girl was okay. They ran over without worrying about any hostages, while three others just turned towards an angry Captain Hook.
"I'm ready to kick this guy's ass now," Luffy growled.
"Not if I have something to say about it," Smoker snarled, going to be the first one to do that.
"Cien Fleur," Robin called out.
The men on either side of Robin looked in at the black haired woman. Robin had her arms crossed in front of her and four arms sprouted out of every one of the Heartless's shoulders and necks, while twenty to thirty arms emerged from Hook's body. Hook started panicking and trying to move but his entire body was restricted. "Clutch!" Robin yelled.
"Eeeyayaya!" Hook screamed as Robin's arms snapped his fingers, arms, legs, and finally brought his neck back and a loud crack came out as she even bent his body backwards too. Hook wheezed and collapsed to the floor while the Heartless all over his ship were disappearing into bubbles. Robin kept her arms crossed and the man who collapsed was grabbed by arms sprouting out of the ground now. They made a line to the edge of the ship and started passing Hook's moaning body towards the railing, then lifted him up to the ledge, and tossed him promptly off the ship and into the void.
Every person on the ship just gawked with a dropped jaw as Hook's screaming voice faded into the night. "I despise vile men," Robin said, finally lowering her arms and returning a smile to her face that had a dark expression on it for a few moments there.
"Aww Robin, I wanted to fight him," Luffy complained.
Smoker suddenly found he was reminding himself that his body was made of smoke. He frowned as he realized why he would be thinking that and shook his head around a few times, telling himself that he was not scared of Nico Robin, though she did unnerve him. He thought back to her actions in Agrabah and now to these ones, though Hook was a pirate, he added, trying to keep an open mind about these pirates so as not to make another mistake like on the last world.
"Well," Peter began once he got over the brutal crushing of their enemy. He spun to the Lost Boys and threw his hands up in the air, "The ship is ours boys! Plunder away and let's get back to the Merry!"
"Aye aye!" the boys all dressed in animal costumes shouted and saluted at their leader.
Luffy turned and stared at Peter Pan harshly for a second. He did not meet the boy downstairs and fight a bunch of Heartless with him, so he really only just met Pan a few minutes ago. Having this strange person say to plunder and bring goods back to his ship, felt strange and unpleasant to him. Chopper saw Luffy's gaze and he ran up in front of his captain. "Luffy, Peter and the boys are all really good people. They helped me sail the Merry after Wendy when Hook kidnapped her!"
"Hmm," Luffy hummed. He watched the flying teen zip around and saw him start talking to Sora who laughed and then jumped up in the air and flew away with Pan. He thought about how Peter saved Wendy too and he smiled, agreeing that he was probably a good guy. "Hey!" Luffy called out and started running after Sora and Peter, "how are you flying Sora?! I want to fly too!"
"Peter!" a voice shouted from inside the ship.
Cubby and the other Lost Boys ran outside and it was the tallest one in a fox costume, Slighty, who called out, "The ship's course has been changed and the steering mechanism is all busted up!"
Peter flew up to his second-in-command, and he flew inside to Hook's cabin. The other Lost Boys were backing away from a couple of stray Heartless who were still on the ship. Sora came flying in after him and the two of them battled the creatures, destroying them in only a few seconds.
As Sora was finishing up his last combo though, Luffy finally caught up and looked inside the cabin. Luffy's eyes grew and he shouted, "Sora! Behind you!"
Sora started turning around and shock filled his expression as out of the ground appeared the Shadow that Riku left behind. The version of Sora was less black than before, the distinctions of his clothing more visible and even a lighter shade. His face was not completely black and had more of Sora's characteristics, but his mouth and eyes were still glowing white.
Sora tried to raise his Keyblade, but the Shadow Sora slashed forward first and knocked him back across the room. He slammed into Hook's table and knocked the thing backwards while doing a flip over it. Donald and Goofy came running into the room and they called out Sora's name, but he was sitting on the floor with a dazed expression on his face.
"Fire!" Luffy yelled as the Shadow Sora descended on Sora. The fireball flew out of his Keyblade, smashed into the Heartless, and then it kept running forward and slammed into Sora anyway. The boy yelled out in pain and Luffy's eyes went wide.
"Wawawa!" Donald shouted and rose up his wand. A few lightning bolts came down and this time the Shadow actually took some damage, making it turn and go after Donald who backed up and let Goofy run in front to slam his shield into it.
Luffy frowned but he turned and shouted, "Cure!" After the green light shimmered out of his Keyblade and went over to Sora, he let his Keyblade vanish and went after Shadow Sora with his fists.
Peter Pan flew down and slashed at the creature with his knife, but Shadow Sora split apart into three versions and two of them knocked back Peter and Goofy. Another one sank down into the floor and slid across the wooden planks so that it reappeared behind Donald who was only mid-turn when it clawed him in the back. Immediately following, a rubber fist slammed into the Heartless and made it explode into black bubbles, but it turned out to not be the real body and the other two sank down into the floor and started sliding around.
Sora got cured by Luffy's Keyblade and he jumped back up to his feet. He pulled out his own Keyblade and used Cure on himself to make himself feel even stronger. It used up a lot of magic so after he used it he charged at the Shadow version of himself to attack from up close. "Guess we should have finished you earlier!" Sora shouted. He brought down his Keyblade and his Shadow version blocked then swung back itself. Sora rose his Keyblade to block and when he parried he knocked back his opponent with the force of the block, and then shot off towards him right away and slashed up, then down, and to the right, then finished with a hard uppercut diagonally to the left.
His shadow self got thrown backwards and Sora chased after it to keep taking its health down. Luffy ran forward as well and he jumped up over the Heartless monster, slamming both of his feet down and yelling, "Gum Gum Spear!" His feet slammed down into the floorboards as Sora's Shadow sank into the floor and started sliding around as a black circle just like the little dog Shadows sometimes do.
"I don't get it," Luffy grumbled as he landed down next to Sora.
"What is it?" the boy asked his older friend.
"How come my magic isn't as strong as yours?" Luffy asked.
"Well," Sora began. "Next time we head back to Traverse Town, I'll bring you to this wizard named Merlin." Luffy looked at Sora funny for a second and Sora added in a sheepish tone, "We kinda met him when you were still passed out after the Deep Jungle, and he helped me and Donald with our magic, and taught me how to use Drive Form."
"So that's how!" Luffy exclaimed, having wondered how Sora learned that new magic back in Traverse Town.
"Yeah," Sora admitted. Aw man, the one thing I had over Luffy and now he's going to get it too.
"Huh, well then after this let's go back! I want to get some new clothes too!" Luffy said excitedly, and Sora sweatdropped as the cool appearance of Valor and Wisdom Forms really wasn't the best part of the transformations. Though it's definitely a plus, Sora thought with a grin. He and Luffy prepared themselves as Sora's Shadow came charging back at them, and Donald and Goofy started fighting along with them.
"Everyone get back on the Merry!"
"Quickly!"
"Straw Hat get out here!" Smoker's voice sounded a little, panicked? Luffy and Sora glanced at each other with wide eyes and then looked towards the door, where Shadow Sora suddenly popped out of the ground and made his two clones reappear.
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Donald quacked nervously.
"I'll go check it out," Pan said, and he flew up in the air and swerved around Shadow Sora's attacks to make it out of the cabin.
Meanwhile, Sora and Luffy had enough playing around. Sora's body lit up bright and when it vanished he was wearing all blue clothes. Luffy pushed down on his knees once and his legs pumped, making his entire body turn red and start steaming. Wisdom Form and Gear Second sent Sora and Luffy flying at their opponent much faster than it could dodge.
"Gum Gum- Keyblade Gattling Gun!" Luffy swung his fists forward over and over again with his Keyblade out in his right. The damage he was doing intensified and Sora fired dozens of beams of white light after Luffy's fists. Fists and beams slammed Shadow Sora back and back until he was out the door of the cabin and back against the railing that he smashed straight through. He flew backwards in the air and his glowing smile curled down into a frown, right before his body opened up and dissolved into a sludge of black ooze that became more gaseous every second until it was gone.
"We did it!" Sora yelled and pumped a fist up in the air. He was still in Wisdom Form but since the enemies were all gone he decided he could go back to normal. Just like that, his Drive Form vanished and he smiled at the fact that he could revert easily and hopefully save some of his Drive Gauge for later if he so needed it.
"LUFFY!"
Chopper's voice carried across the void and back to Captain Hook's ship. Luffy and the others celebrating inside the cabin looked outside and gulped at the sound of Chopper's scared tone. They did not gulp because Chopper sounded scared, but because he sounded scared for them. They sprinted outside right as Peter Pan was flying back towards the cabin door, and the boy in a green hat and clothes exclaimed, "We need to get back to the Merry now!"
"What's happening?" Sora asked in a hurry.
"Gawrsh, doesn't that world look like it's getting closer awfully fast?" Goofy asked. Donald, Luffy, and Sora all turned right to where Goofy was leaning off the ship and looking forward. The three of them ran to the edge and looked off for themselves, making all of their eyes turn huge.
"Come on!" Pan shouted back at them, and they turned to see the boy already flying back across Hook's ship to the other side where the Merry was flying down, but easing up on the steepness of its descent.
"Run!" Sora yelled. He started sprinting the other way, and he jumped up, going back into a glide that flew him up in the air with little yellow sparkles emitting around his body.
"No fair!" Donald yelled up at Sora.
"You can do it too!" Sora yelled back as he flew farther past his friends. "Just believe!"
He kept flying and Donald and Goofy both closed their eyes. The two animal creatures jumped up in the air after a second and Luffy dropped his jaw as they went flying over his head.
"If they can do it," he muttered to himself. Luffy stopped running and he took a deep breath, then jumped up in the air and shouted, "Fly!" He stopped at the top of his arc and his eyes opened wide as for a second he thought he was flying. Then gravity took over and he fell back to the deck of the ship right on his stomach. "Aww, what gives?"
"Why couldn't Luffy fly?" Goofy asked as he looked back at the pirate. He himself was just about to fly off the side of Hook's ship and the others were all just in front of him.
Pan looked back, "Tink never sprinkled pixie dust on him like she did for you three, so-" Pan stopped as he spotted something out the corner of his eyes.
"Luffy hurry up!" Chopper yelled at his captain who was getting back up to his feet.
"It's too late Chopper, we have to pull up!" Slighty called out of the Merry's cabin. He and the other Lost Boys all piled on top of the rudder and pulled it together, while Wendy held onto the wall tight. Robin and Smoker looked off the side of the Merry for Luffy, calling out Luffy's name, or "Straw Hat." Luffy ran towards them and the four flying figures in front of him landed on the edge of the Merry only to look back and shout that he had to hurry up.
Luffy threw his arms forward and grabbed onto the railing, "Gum Gum-" The ship he was on jolted as it crashed down into the water. It skid across the waves for a few seconds, bouncing over and over, but the nose was dipped too far down and the back of the ship came pulling above the rest of it. Luffy's extended arms snapped him forward but he didn't yell out 'Rocket,' as he was too busy screaming while Captain Hook's ship did cartwheels over the ocean.
The Going Merry pulled up hard and only touched down on the water once it was horizontal, but everyone on the ship was looking out in horror as Hook's ship cartwheeled over and over again on the waves. Sails ripped and the hull shattered. The cabin broke apart and pieces of wood went flying everywhere as the mast snapped. And through it all, they saw Luffy's body go flying through the air, and crash down into the water.
"LUFFY!"
A/N No Luffy! Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the chapter! The WMAT ends pretty quickly as there was no real point in writing out Goku and Tien's fight, and writing out Sora losing to Goku wouldn't have added much either. Mentioning Donald yelling at them all the time hasn't been for nothing as finally they decide to leave the DBZ world, only to run into Riku on his way to Hollow Bastion with Kairi. In the game this happened much later, so things may not go as smoothly now that so much time has been wasted by the tourney... Anyway, next chapter we get the end of Neverland which they just landed on, and then the crew will set off for a new world! "Aren't we forgetting something?" ... "Usopp! Nami!" XD