It's funny how the pirates in KH2 Pirates of the Caribbean had their guns censored and replaced with crossbows but Clayton keeps his shotgun.
It's a good thing these games aren't rated M or else there would be a very bloody game over for Sora when he dies from a shotgun to the face.
Chapter XV- Deep Jungle (Part 1)
"Come on Donald!" Koga whined.
"No, you can't pilot the ship!"
"But I wanna try again!"
"Not after last time!" Donald growled as he continued operating the ship.
"But I said I was sorry!"
"You almost made us crash into a asteroid!"
Koga pouted. "It was my first time driving give me a break..." Sora and Goofy giggled as they watched them argue. Then the control panel started making a distinct beeping sound as a red light blinked.
"What's that?" Sora asked.
"We're heading to a new world." Donald said flicking a switch turning off the alarm.
"That didn't beep when we got to Olympus Coliseum."
"That's because it was already charted."
"Charted?"
Donald sighed and pressed a button on the side. On the side of the glass dome a image appeared, it had a bunch of circles with smaller circles beneath it like a diagram. "A while back the King went on a journey across several worlds."
"Yeah, he got lost a lot so he tried to make a map of the worlds he visited." Goofy added.
"But it's very old and probably inaccurate." Donald said. "Our friends at home, Chip and Dale, they programmed the ship to chart the worlds as we go and visit them, it helps us find our way around quicker."
"Far out, but how do you work all this mumbo jumbo?" Koga asked not understanding the symbol and meaning of the map. He was more used to a 'dotted line reaching an X' kind of map.
"It's a touchscreen." Koga looked confused but tried to tap the ship's reinforced glass dome. Then the star map came alive as it zoomed in and showed a more simple map of the worlds they visited, even the one they are heading to right now. The world looked mostly green like a jungle, not much civilization on it. Then the map updated and added a name to the world.
"Deep Jungle." Koga read.
"Forget it, there's no way the King is in a backwater world like this!" Donald said.
"The two islanders heard that." Koga said deadpanned.
"Hold on, maybe Riku and Kairi, or maybe even Alice is down there!" Sora said. Koga looked up in interest.
"We are on an important mission we don't have time for that!" Donald argued.
"And we are the Keyblade masters, so you gotta do what we say!" Donald rolled his eyes. "We're landing!" Sora pushed past Donald and steered the wheel. Donald quacked in surprise and tried to shove Sora back. The ship lurched back and forth as they fought over the controls. Goofy and Koga got thrown around. Jiminy fell out of Sora's pocket in the scuffle, he floated down by his umbrella.
"Whoa, easy there fellas!" Jiminy said.
"G-guys, cut it out!" Goofy shouted. He stumbled back and his back hit a button that made the ship stop moving and a different alarm blare out. Sora and Donald looked up from their spot at Goofy.
"That doesn't sound good." Koga said nervously.
"Goofy, did you hit the emergency ejection button?" Donald asked.
"I don't th-"
And they were all thrown out of the ship and into the world.
Koga and Sora had a headache when they woke up. They helped each other up and looked around at their surroundings. They seemed to be in some kind of big tree house with vines and rot covering it. Outside was a vast jungle as far as the eye can see. Based on the two holes in the ceiling they must've fell from up there. There was a constant sound of bugs and animals in the air, wild and free.
"This place kinda reminds me of home." Koga said. He remembers when him and Sora played with Riku and Kairi in that big tree on their Island. Though this place looks much wilder and unkempt than the one at home. It doesn't even have the familiar salty air.
"HELLO! ANYONE HERE!?" Koga was shook out of his thought by Sora shouting to the air. He ran to his brother and pulled his ear.
"Owowowow, cut it out!" Sora cried. Koga let go and crossed his arms at Sora glaring.
"What were you thinking talking to Donald like that!?"
"He wasn't going to let us check and see if Riku and Kairi are here! Don't you want to find them?"
"I do but don't forget that they are the ones with a ship. Now we are stuck here without Donald and Goofy, and without a ship."
"Who needs them, they only care about finding their king! We can find Riku and Kairi ourselves!"
"Unless you can turn your Keyblade into a ship we aren't going anywhere! Now we are going to find Donald and Goofy and you are apologizing!" He noticed Sora looked distracted by something. "Are you even listening!? Hey!" Sora still didn't respond. Koga sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Look Sora, I know you are the older brother by a few minutes but I just don't want you acting reckless. Please just listen to me, without Donald and Goofy we are not going to be able to find Riku and Kairi." Sora continued staring on with wide eyes. "Sora?"
Suddenly he heard a growl behind him and it made the hairs on his neck stand up. He slowly turned and saw the eyes of a big leopard stare back at him. It's white fangs sticking out as it snarled at them. Koga's eyes widened realizing how close it was.
It then pounced at them. Suddenly there was a blur of brown and tan as someone jumped between them and intercepted the attack. The stranger pushed the leopard back with it's spear and the leopard made a hasty retreat through a broken window.
Koga and Sora snapped out of their shock to get a better look at their savior. It was a tanned and very muscled man. He wore only a brown loincloth and had long brown dreadlocks on his head. He was hunched over and looking at them with curious blue eyes.
"Sabor. Danger." The man said.
"Um, thank you for the help." Sora said.
"Thank. you." The man replied though he sounded like he didn't know what he was saying. Koga arched an eyebrow.
"Um, do you know what is this place?" Sora asked.
"This place. This place." The man said circling them slowly, observing them.
"Look, can you help us find our friends, we got separated?" Koga said. He put his hand to his chest, right over his heart. "Frieeends!"
The man did the same gesture. "Friends."
Sora grinned. "Yeah, friends. They are Riku, Kairi, Goofy and Do..." Sora trailed off and awkwardly looked to the side.
He looked around and saw something moving in the edge of the room, Koga caught it to. It was hard to see what it was but it looked like K-
"Friends... here."
The twins snapped their attention back to the man. "Really?! Where!" They said in excitement.
"*&&X%"
They looked at him confused. It just sounded like he made weird sounds.
"What?"
"*&&X%... Friends... here." The man repeated slowly.
"Uhhhh..." They had no idea how to respond to that. The two then huddled together and spoke quietly.
"I don't think this guy knows what we are saying." Sora said.
"He does seem to know some English, he must've learned it from somewhere."
"Or someone."
They both nodded and turned back to the man. "Can you take us to 'friend'?"
The man then gestured to himself. "Tarzan... Tarzan go."
"Oh, you're name is Tarzan!" Koga surmised. He then gestured to himself. "Koga."
"Sora" His brother repeated.
Tarzan looked between them. "Koga... Sora..."
"Right. Tarzan take Koga, Sora to friends?" Koga said trying not to use big words.
Tarzan nodded and gestured for him to follow. The twins looked at each other and followed along.
"Gawrsh I wonder where we are?" Goofy said. He and Donald were in the center of a bamboo thicket. Donald was resting on a rock while Goofy looked around worried. "I hope Koga and Sora are okay." He worried that they might be lost on their own without them. Jiminy also fell along side them.
"Aw, who needs Sora. We can find the King without him! We will just wait for the Gummi ship to cool down and we'll take Koga with us." Donald said angrily.
"I don't think Koga will like to be separated from his brother." Jiminy said sternly.
"He's has to if Sora wants to get in our way! We have a mission." He then felt someone tugging on his coat. "Huh?" He looked and was face to face with a gorilla. They both screamed loudly. The gorilla dropped something as it scampered away into the thick foliage.
Jiminy hopped closer to the thing the gorilla dropped. "Is that what it think it is?"
Suddenly there was a loud bang in the distance. The group gulped nervously as they saw a stranger approach.
"I hate this!" Koga cried out. Tarzan led the two to a long stretch of tree trunks and showed them to surf it like a slide. Sora seemed to be having fun but Koga unfortunately got hit several times by tree branches. He got twigs and leaves stuck in his hair.
"You gotta just go with the flow bro?"
"Easy for you to- OOF!" Koga slipped off the trunk and fell down. Fortunately they were already at the end of the trail and landed in a clearing. It was a campsite with large supplies and tents covering the area. Tarzan and Sora landed on their feet while Koga face planted into the dirt.
They followed Tarzan into a tent, Koga grumbling trying to get the stuff out of his hair.
"Jane." Tarzan said.
The duo looked and saw a woman with long brown hair, wearing a sleeveless white blouse and a brown dress. She turned to them and smiled.
"Oh hello Tarzan, you're here early." She then looked at the two boys. "Oh, and who are your friends?"
"I'm Sora, and this blushing guy is my brother Koga." Sora grinned elbowing his red-faced brother.
"Oh, you speak English?" Jane said surprised. "Then I guess you aren't related to Tarzan. Are you here to study the gorillas?"
"Uh... no. We were passing by and we lost our friends."
"Would these two be who you are referring to?" said a deep and gruff voice said. They turned and saw a tall man with a shotgun walking in with Donald and Goofy.
"Donald, Goofy!" Koga and Sora said.
"Sora, Koga!" Goofy and Jiminy said, both happy so see each other. Donald grunted in acknowledgement. Sora's smile dropped into a irritated glare, remembering they aren't in good terms right now.
"Just a bunch of clowns." The man said, clearly not amused by the sight. "Not useful at all for hunting gorillas." He said as he walked out of the tent to smoke a pipe.
"Mr Clayton, we are here to study the gorillas not hunt them! This is research." Jane scolded on his way out. She sighed as she turned back to the others. "Oh well, the more the merrier. You are free to make yourself at home if you would like."
"I'm staying."
"I'm staying." Sora and Donald said at the same time. Sora looked at Donald in confusion. "Huh?"
"Oh right, we found this on a gorilla that ran from us." Jiminy said. Goofy held out something in his hand. It was a small block that looked similar to that one they found in Wonderland.
"It's a gummi block. The same material we use to build our ships."
Sora tilted his head."So that means..."
"That there's a chance the king might be here!" Donald said.
"Well it looks like we have to keep working together to find who we are looking for, RIGHT?" Koga asked looking between his brother and Donald.
The two looked at each other and reluctantly nodded.
"I can keep working with him, for now." Donald said.
"Likewise." Sora said. He then turned to Jane who was working on a projector as she let the group discuss together. "Excuse me."
Jane turned to them. "Yes, do you have a question?"
"Tarzan said that he knew where our friends are but we can't understand him."
"Yeah, something about *&&X% but I don't know what that is."
"Oh, well you see Tarzan was raised by gorillas so he doesn't know much English. I've been teaching him but he still has a long way to go."
"Is there a way to get him to point us in the right direction?" Koga asked.
"Hmm, oh I know!" She pulled out some slides for the projector. "I will use these images to see if Tarzan can recognize where your friends are."
Sora shrugged. "Alright, lets give it a try."
Jane started up the projector. It showed a series of images. There was a couple, a gorilla, a ship, and other random scenes.
There was one image that got the twin's attention. It was a majestic looking castle, not like the ones in storybooks. It was a mix of machine and architecture standing high in the sky. Many flowers decorate all over the castle. Sora and Koga felt twinge of nostalgia yet they don't remember seeing that castle before. They thought it was nothing and didn't bring it up to the group.
When the slideshow was done they all turned to Tarzan who was staring with a thoughtful expression.
"Well?" Sora asked. Tarzan shook his head without even looking at them.
The group sighed, they were back to square one.
"Well if none of those places are where your comrades are then there is only one place left to look." Clayton said as he entered back into the tent.
"Where?" Koga asked excitedly jumping
Clayton asked. "Quit that childish act boy! Now as I was saying, we have been exploring this jungle for quite some time and we've seen every corner of the place. Everywhere except where the gorillas are but Tarzan won't take us to them. I'd wager they are there."
Sora turned to Goofy. "That gummi, you said that came off a gorilla. The king might be where the gorillas are."
"And maybe Riku and Kairi are with them!" Koga added.
"Really Mr Clayton. Tarzan wouldn't hide..."
Clayton ignored Jane and walked towards Tarzan.
"Then take us there! Take us to the gorillas! GO-RIL-LA!"
Tarzan narrowed his eyes and then turned his head to Sora and Koga. It looked like he was trying to read them. They looked back at Tarzan with pleading eyes. He turned back to Clayton and nodded.
"Tarzan are you sure?" Jane asked gently putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Tarzan go see Kerchak." He said.
"Ah he must be the leader." Clayton said.
"We'll go with you." Sora said gesturing to his chest. Tarzan nodded understanding what they said.
"I'll go along to as an escort." Clayton declared. "After all, the jungle is a dangerous place." He said hiding a slightly sinister smile.
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