Wow look at this! DeadGirlRisen has really gotten into a KH groove! So here we are with another chapter!
Now we know we said before we aren't going to cover each world they visit, but there are a few like Olympus Coliseum that need a bit of touch on for certain reasons. And this next world is one of them. So we hope you enjoy!
Ch.28
Once Sora, Donald, and Goofy were back in the gummi ship, they took off to find the next world. But it was still a bit of time in between the worlds so Sora knew he could relax until that time came. He leaned back in his chair as he glanced out to the side, staring out at the stars passing by.
"How many worlds do you think we will visit that you guys have also been to?"
'I don't know. I'm not sure how many worlds I have even been to, I have only been to a few, I believe? Or have I visited many worlds? I just don't know… still can't remember a lot from back then.'
'I think it is more likely to come across a world Ventus has been to than me. I know enough to know that I haven't seen as many worlds as him.'
"I hope we can see more worlds that you guys know! It will probably help you remember more!"
'Yeah, it would be nice to be able to remember everything… including my friends,' Ventus said softly, remembering a blue haired woman, and a brown haired man.
Vanitas gave a snort, 'I'm better off not remembering personally. What I know now is enough.'
"Wait, you don't want to remember anything?" Sora questioned. "Why not?"
'Before I met you, I was different. I'm actually happy now, and that is what matters. Not whatever memories I may have had back then,' Vanitas spoke plainly.
"Oh, okay. Well I am glad to hear you are happy, Vani!" Sora chimed happily.
'Yeah, it's quite nice to see you all soft and nice now,' Ventus added teasingly.
'Only toward Sora, idiot. I still hate you,' Vanitas retorted hissing. Here he was being open with Sora, and Ventus had to come and ruin it with his infernal teasing.
'Sure thing Vani-boy,' Ventus replied before laughing.
Vanitas growled in response. Both Ventus and Sora laughed, though Sora did his best to not laugh out loud. He didn't need to draw any attention to himself for seemingly laughing to himself.
'Hmpf, I see how it is, I'm not allowed to be mean, but Ventus is,' Vanitas said with a dramatic sniff.
"But teasing isn't being mean, you know we just like to joke around Vani," Sora replied.
Vanitas sighed, 'I was messing around with you. Could you not tell?'
'Looks like you still have a lot to learn about teasing and messing around with us,' Ventus said before laughing again.
'It's not my fault that you have an underdeveloped sense of humor.'
Ventus huffed, but gave no other response. It seemed that for once he didn't have anything good to retort back to Vanitas.
It remained quiet for a few minutes in which no one said anything. Sora continued to stare out the window, but now focused more on the stars. In the distance he saw a planet slowly coming closer and closer. Sora leaned forward in his chair as he looked to see the upcoming world better. He glanced over at the scanner to see the name: Deep Jungle.
The gummi ship started to slow as they approached the world. Goofy now looked the scanner then over to Donald, who was currently the one piloting the ship. "Hey, Donald, maybe King Mickey's down there."
"In a backwater place like that? No way! Let's move on," Donald grumbled.
"No wait, we should check," Sora said, jumping from his seat. "If Goofy thinks that your king is down there, maybe Riku could be there too." He then remembered that Donald and Goofy didn't know that he discovered where Kairi was. "And Kairi too! We really should check it out."
"Forget it! We're on an important mission!"
"But what if there are Heartless?" Sora asked, trying to think of any reason he could to get Donald to go and set the landing quadrants for the word.
'Jeez, what's got his feathers ruffled?'
"No, we just gotta move on," Donald said.
"Aw come on Donald, surely we can take a peek," Goofy replied.
"Yeah, come on. Let's try and land," Sora said as he reached for the controls of the ship.
'Yeah, we never know what we might discover!'
Donald grumbled as he started to fight over the controls of the ship. "But, I said no."
"And both Goofy and I agree we should land and check it out!" Sora exclaimed before he tried to get control of the ship.
"This planet is useless though! It's just some lame backwater planet, no way would the King be here!"
"You keep saying the King, but what about my friends? Riku or Kairi could be down there!" Sora responded.
"We can check another time then," Donald said as he tried to push the controls of the ship to move it forward.
Sora huffed, why wasn't Donald listening? "We're here now, we should just check it since we're here."
"We should be focusing on finding the king first, then we can look for your friends," Donald responded as they continued to struggle for the controls. Then his eyes widened, "Don't touch that! Noo!"
The ship started to shake and began a decent. It was far faster than expected and everyone held onto something as the ship came closer, and closer to the world. Everything started to be spun around as the ship lose complete balance and spun as they entered into the world's atmosphere. With being tossed around in the cockpit of the ship, it wasn't long before Sora ended up hitting his head and blacking out.
'Well… this isn't good.'
'Yeah… we don't even know where we are or if Sora is in a safe location,'
'Should we try and… I dunno, possess him?' Feeling Ventus's suspicion Vanitas huffed as he muttered, 'At least until we make sure he is safe…'
'I don't know… It seems wrong to try and do that to Sora. You know like taking control of him without his consent… it doesn't seem right.'
'We don't know if he's safe though, this planet is called Deep Jungle, there is probably some dangerous wildlife. I only think we should get him somewhere safe!'
'Yeah… I guess…' Ventus said. He couldn't explain it, but there was something about hearing the idea of possessing Sora that left him uneasy. Maybe it was something from the past… he wasn't sure. But he was starting to guess it probably was.
'Look, if you don't trust me to do it after all these years, then you can do it. I just don't want Sora to get hurt.'
'I know… it isn't that I don't trust you. It just feels wrong to do it… But if you think it would be best to make sure Sora is safe… then go ahead.'
'Right. Let's do this,' Vanitas spoke and then concentrated.
He had given thought on how to take over Sora's body if there was ever a need, so he was fairly confident he could do this. He concentrated on pushing his will, his heart to the front. He thought deeply as he sensed his way around Sora's heart, trying to get a feel to move through it and gain control over it. He kept feeling and moving through Sora's heart, trying to get in tune to it. If he could get in sync with it, then he could try to get into the rest of the body, hopefully.
Ba-bump ba-bump.
The first sign that he had succeeded was he could feel his heart beating, his blood rushing, and his head pounding.
"Ugh, my head hurts," Vanitas complained out loud as he sat up slowly, then blinked in shock.
'I take it that your possession worked?' Ventus questioned a hint of worry in his voice.
'Yeah, it did. It's kinda weird to be using a body again after all these years. Let's find someplace safe,' Vanitas thought-spoke before looking around to see where they were at.
It seemed they had landed in some run down wooden building. Plants were sprouting up between the cracks on the ground and there were broken pieces of wood scattered about. As Vanitas stood up and took a step forward the wood creaked ominously below him. Looking up, he saw a few vines hanging across the roof area.
Towards the back of the wooden building stairs and ladders led up to a couple small platforms and there seemed to be a tree growing out the side of the building at an angle. Carefully walking around he looked around to see if there was anything useful, or if there was anything dangerous.
'I wonder where Donald and Goofy are?'
'Those two? It's that ducks fault that were here!' Vanitas retorted angry that Donald hadn't listened to Sora and let him look for Riku.
Ventus winced at that. 'Donald was just being difficult,' He tried to defend the duck.
'Difficult! He openly said that he didn't care about looking for Sora's friends!'
'That's not what he said! He was just wanting to find their king first.'
'And what do you think would happen once they find their king? They would leave Sora! Stop being so dense Ventus! Was what just happened not proof enough? Do they need to betray us again for you to understand that they only care about Sora because he's a keyblade wielder?!' Vanitas shouted at his lighter half angrily.
'I just… I don't…'
'How can you continue to try and defend those two after what they just did?'
'Goofy didn't do anything! He was wanting to check as well!'
Vanitas grumbled, 'Yeah the mutts in the clear, but that doesn't let the duck off the hook!'
Ventus remained quiet and Vanitas huffed. Pausing he glanced around, something felt off. He looked up just in time to see a leopard pouncing towards him. Vanitas narrowed his eyes and summoned his keyblade and raised it up to block.
The keyblade that answered him was Void Gear, eliciting a smug grin. It felt good to have his Keyblade respond to his call. He gripped the red handle and he slashed the keyblade at the leopard, the end of his keyblade gear like head damaging the leopard. The leopard growled at him it's tails swishing and Vanitas chuckled.
"Come at me you big fur ball," He taunted.
The leopard lept at him and Vanitas shot of a dark firga at it. The leopard yowled in pain as it crumpled to the floor, part of its body burned.
'Vanitas!' Ventus shouted angrily.
'What? I'm taking care of the creature.' Vanitas spoke as he walked closer to the wounded cat intent on finishing it off.
As he walked closer though he noticed that only the fur seemed burned and he quickly lept back as the leopard pounced towards him. Vanitas raised Void Gear to block the attack, but someone was suddenly in front of him blocking the Leopard with what looked like a spear.
Whoever it was sent the creature flying back and then the leopard made it's escape as it leapt out of the glass. The man put his spear away and turned towards Vanitas who eyed him wearily. The man had long brown dreadlocks and was naked except for a loincloth. The man was crouched low to the ground, his knuckles dragging along the ground.
"Sabor, danger."
Vanitas nodded. "Yeah, I figured that," He told the man keeping an eye on the stranger and ignoring Ventus's sigh.
'At least try to act like Sora.'
'... I'll try, no promises though,' Vanitas reluctantly agreed.
"What is this place?" Vanitas questioned.
The strange man tried to move closer, but Vanitas backed away.
"This place, this place."
Vanitas huffed at the useless answer. "I'm looking for some… friends. A boy around my age, Riku. An annoyingly loud Duck, Donald. And a tall one that goes by Goofy."
The man looked confused.
'Great, seems we got saved by a simpleton.'
"I'm looking for some friends," Vanitas said slowly trying to get the strange man to understand. If the man didn't get it after this he was just going to leave. This man couldn't be useful.
"Friends?" The man questioned.
"Yes, do you know of any other new people are?" Vanitas growled out.
"Friends here."
Vanitas blinked, surprised, surely this man didn't actually know where any of Sora's friends were located. "Really?" He drawled out.
The man said something in a strange tongue that Vanitas didn't recognize.
"Care to say that in English?" Vanitas questioned.
"Friends here."
"Just take me to the location," Vanitas grumbled annoyed.
'You could try to be a bit more polite like Sora.'
'I haven't attacked the man yet, have I? I think I am doing a fairly good job.'
Ventus just shoved his annoyed feelings at him and Vanitas scoffed.
The idiotic man pointed to himself. "Tarzan. Tarzan go."
"Alright. I'll follow you then," Vanitas said, neglecting to return a name.
Tarzan opened the door and they walked out of the tree house. Neither Ventus nor Vanitas knew where they were heading in this strange jungle world, but they could only hope to find some answers. And on top of that hope that Sora recovered eventually, but for the time being Vanitas was in control… and Ventus could only hope that Vanitas did a good enough job to pass as him.
So now Vanitas is in control! Oh dear, what could happen with that haha.