Kingdom cure: Ahhh. I'm glad we finally talked it out. That little misunderstanding.
Xion: When I found out that you were thinking how funny it is for Mr. 2 to be me, I could've sworn you meant to put in up in this story.
Kingdom cure: Well, now you know.
Aki: I'm glad that you two made up.
Kingdom cure and Xion: Us too.
Kingdom cure: Happy, if you would please.
Happy: Aye! Kingdom cure doesn't own One Piece or Kingdom Hearts. And partial credit of this story goes to her beta reader, EvanderAdvent. Oh, and she also put up a song in this chapter.
Xion: That's right. You all should know what it is, even though it's a different version from the original.
Kingdom cure: Yep.
Last time:
"Just great. Out of all times, a meteorite has to come now," Lexaeus said. "I don't care what happens to Crocodile or anyone else, but I don't want to die here. Not when my target was right in my hands." He raised his weapon, preparing to cut the meteor in half. Surprisingly, as he swung down his weapon, the big meteor was actually cut in two. The moment it was cut in half, though...
"What?!" he gasped at the unexpected sight before him.
Xion and Terra emerged from the top of the meteorite, the former's hand on the latter. "Link Style: Rockbreaker!" Both glowed brown and the Dream Eater fused with the Keyblade wielder. The fusion was completed and Xion was equipped bigger version of Burning Brotherhood in shape of a cannon. "It's over! Ultima Cannon!" As she fell, she fired her weapon at him. With no time to react, Lexeaus was hit by all the shots. She then ended it with swinging Burning Brotherhood downward, cutting Lexeaus in half.
"Why would you do this to us? To Roxas...?" Lexeaus breathed his last words. The moment he asked that, Xion's head suddenly began to hurt again. Adding the exhaustion from her battle, she collapsed.
*FLASHBACK**XION'S P.O.V*
I was on a mission in a scary-looking world. I don't remember the name, but there are so many creepy things here. I remember one of the things were the pumpkins. They're not creepy, but they do explode in this world, which gives me an advantage when facing a swarm of Heartless. My mission was to get rid of a Pureblood Heartless called Orcus.
"If I remember, it was last seen here," I muttered to myself, as I walked into the world's graveyard. I looked at my surroundings, trying to find my target. I heard something behind me and turned to see that it was my target. I got my Keyblade out and engaged battle with it. Surprisingly, for a Heartless, this one uses its brain and has fast reflexes. Despite that, I managed to weaken it, somehow. Just when I was about to give the final blow, a flash of light appeared, but wasn't enough to stop me. That is... until...
"STOP!" Axel suddenly came out of nowhere and stopped the battle. That's not all, instead of the Orcus, Roxas was there. But, how can that be possible?!
"Roxas?" I spoke. "But... that Heartless I was fighting... It was you?"
"This mission is a set up," Axel corrected. This information about the mission shocked us. "It was made to have you both fight each other."
"But, why would they do that?" Roxas asked.
'I... almost killed Roxas,' I thought. 'I was close to killing him... I almost killed my friend...'
'Why would you do this to Roxas?' a familiar voice asked. I turned and, instead of seeing the owner, I saw me, standing in front of Roxas with... a Keyblade stabbed at where his heart is to be...
'What?' I mentally asked. 'D-Did Roxas commit suicide? It has to be that... It has to be that! There's no way I could just kill my friend with having a good reason to do it! I couldn't have killed him... That's not me! That Keyblade... I admit it might be mine due to the design, but it's the same as Roxas's Keyblade! It couldn't be me! Then again, it couldn't be Roxas either! There's no way he'd end his life like this! This can't be a memory... It has to be a nightmare. It has to!'
'... up...' came a kind voice. 'Wake up...'
"Please wake up!" I woke up to the feeling of someone shaking me. Opening my eyes, it turned out of be Vivi who was shaking me.
"Vivi? What's wrong?" I asked, getting up.
"Good, you're finally awake. You have to help us! Crocodile set up a bomb somewhere in this city!"
"Say what?! Now he's gone too far!" I snarled, getting on my feet. "Have any clue where it might be?!"
"No. All he said is that it's destructive enough to destroy Alubarna! That and it'll set off at 4:30!"
"And he doesn't care about any of his members. The monster! How much time do we have?!"
"Right now..." Vivi looks at the clock tower, which says 4:26. "Four minutes! That's all we have left!"
"You gotta be kidding me! That amount is so little in a city as big as this!"
"I know. But if we sit here-!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know! Summon: Everyone!" All my Dream Eaters were out of their cards. As each one got out, I was feeling weaker for some reason. "Guys! There's a bomb in the city that will kill everyone here! Find it, signal us where it is, and try your best to deactivate it until we get there!"
"They also need to get rid of the bombers!" Vivi added.
"And try to fight off the bombers, too!" They all nodded and split up. "Us too!" I told Vivi. As I got on my feet, though, I suddenly got on my knees and coughed out some blood.
"Xion, are you okay?!" she asked in a worried tone.
"I guess calling the Dream Eaters does take up magic energy. And in this case, it's my own health," I muttered, loud enough for her to hear.
"What?! Then you should rest!"
"No time for rest! Between my life and the life of many others, I'd rather lose my own life!" I stood up with every bit of strength I have left in me. "Everyone else is helping out, and there's no doubt most of them were beat up from fighting against the elites, so who says I can't do the same?!" Vivi seemed to be amazed that I'd go this far for others. "Now let's go!" With that, I took off at a random direction.
"Xion!"
"No time to chat, Vivi!" I told her, looking behind me. "And why are you just standing there?!"
"But, you're going to crash into-!" I crashed into someone. "-someone..."
"Ow. Who put a wall there?" I asked, taking few steps back.
"Hmm?" The thing, or person, I bumped into turned around. "Who are you? You look pretty familiar. Have we met before?"
"That first question was my question," I said, summoning Burning Brotherhood. "Who are you? If I recall, all citizens know about the war taking place here in this city, yet you're just here wandering around. Are you a friend or a foe?!"
The guy seemed to have ignored me, for he had a thinking look on his face. "Hmm. I know I've seen that face somewhere."
"Xion!" I heard Vivi called.
"Vivi, you go and keep searching for the bomb! I'll handle this!" I told the princess.
It was then, the blue guy looked at me with a suspicious look on his face. Yes, the guy is blue. "Oh. Now I remember." I got into battle stance, preparing myself for whatever is coming. "HOW ARE YOU, MY FRIEND?! It's been centuries since we last met! I was really worried about you when you and your friend suddenly disappeared on me like that! Why would you do that to a friend? Was it a game that you guys started to play with me?! You should've said so!" he suddenly shouted, hugging me and spinning me around, making me dizzy. And that, I wasn't prepared for.
"Wait! Stop spinning me!" I yelled. The blue man put me down, and it was hard for me to stay on my feet after all that spinning. "Look, it's nice to see you and all, but I don't have time for this!"
"Huh? Why not?"
"There's a bomb that's going to set off at 4:30!" Vivi began to explain. "Unless if we find it and deactivate it, everone's going to die!"
"WHAT?! Who would do such a thing?!"
"Now that you know, please get out of the way!" I exclaimed, going around him, only to get pulled back, dramatically.
"WAIT! I can't let you go!" Is this guy trying to get on my nerves?!
"And why can't you?!" I snapped.
"If you just go around, like a chicken without a head, how can you possibly find a bomb?" Well, he had a point there.
"Then what do you suggest we should do?"
"Just stay here!"
"WHY YOU-! ARE YOU TELLING US TO JUST LET PEOPLE DIE?!"
"Nope!" Huh?
"Then what? And you better answer fast, we have minutes left!"
"Just leave it to good old Genie, formerly-of-the-lamp!" The blue guy, who I assume is Genie, then took out what seems to be a divining rod.
'What's a divining rod going to do to help us?!' I mentally shouted, but decided to trust Genie. He pointed it everywhere around him and seemed to have a reaction when he pointed it to the clock tower.
"There! That's where the bomb is!" he declared with such confidence.
"You serious?!"
"Yes! And just leave it to me to deactivate it!" That said, he took off like a rocket and... seemed to have crashed inside the tower.
"If that's true, we have to get everyone back here!" Vivi told me.
"Yeah. That guy might need some help," I agreed, firing my magic up in the sky to signal everyone over here as well as calling back my Dream Eaters.
While waiting, my magic also gathered around some of the Baroque Works members, which my Dream Eaters took care of. Once they, or most of them, were gathered up, Vivi and I explained the situaiton to them.
"What? A big blue guy appeared out of nowhere and agreed to help stop the bomb?" Sanji repeated the first part.
"And he took out a divining rod and located it?" Chopper-kun repeated the second part.
"And he just took off afterwards to stop it?" Nami repeated the final part.
"That's right! And we don't know the difference in strength between him and the bombers! We have to hurry on over there and help him!" Vivi added.
"It sounds a bit crazy," a pale man, named Pell, stated.
"Are you sure you two weren't imagining the same thing? I mean, there's no such thing as a blue human or a divining rod that locates a bomb," Usopp said.
"Then explain what happened to the clock tower?!" I shouted, irritated at the amount of time we have left as I pointed at the building. The clock has a noticable hole on it, which is proof enough that Vivi and I weren't seeing things. "Anyway, there's no time for just chitchat! We have to hurry on over there, now!" That said, with Vivi and I got on Wyvern, Fang got a hold of Nami, Chopper-kun on Torpedo, Usopp on Hiluluk, Sanji on Ace, and Pell in his Falcon form, we all took off to the clock tower. The girls, Chopper-kun, Pell and I by air, Sanji by Ace's fast ice sliding, and Usopp with bouncing from building to building, which scared the sniper to a great extent, him thinking that he'll fall off and die. Surprisingly, Hiluluk didn't mind the screaming.
"Ah! I almost forgot!" Vivi suddenly shouted. "Did any of you face a Baroque Works member that summoned that meteorite?!"
"Now that you mentioned it, which one of you fought them?!" Nami also shouted. "And you, Vivi, why didn't you tell us about there being a Meteor man in his group?!"
"I don't remember ever seeing any one like that when I was infiltrating the group!"
"Oh, the meteor thing was me, actually," I calmly answered.
"WHAT?!" my nakamas yelled.
"D-D-D-D-Don't lie to us, Xion!" Usopp stuttered.
"I'm not. Besides, I thought it's normal for this crew to do the impossible."
"NOT AS IMPOSSIBLE AS SUMMONING A METEOR!"
"Besides, were you trying to kill all of us?!" Pell demanded. "To summon such a thing, I thought Vivi-sama asked you to help stop the war from happening and defeat Crocodile and his group!"
"Except that my Dual Link: Comet can only hurt my opponent," I added. Cue the moment of shocked silence. "What? You didn't think I'd kill my own nakamas with my own attack, did you?"
"SO WE WERE ALL PANICKING FOR NO REASON AT THAT TIME!?" What's with them and shouting?!
When we arrive at the tower, two weird people, whom, according to Vivi, were the bombers, were tied up at the base and were beaten. Not only that, the clock of the tower was opened.
"What happened here?" Usopp asked.
"My guess, this Genie happened," Pell replied.
"Okay, but where is the blue man?" Sanji asked.
"I'm~... right~... HEEEEEEEEERRRRRREEEEEE~!" sang a loud, familiar voice. We all looked up and saw the guy with a big bomb in his hand. "Delivery~!"
"Please tell me you deactivated it," I begged.
"Yes, ma'am! Indeed I have!"
"AHHHHHHH! It really is a blue man!" Usopp freaked out.
"What's wrong with you?! Are you sick or something?!" Chopper-kun freaked, being a doctor he is.
"WHAT?! You mean you don't know me?!" Genie dramatically asked.
"If we do, we wouldn't be asking," Nami pointed out.
"True that. In that case, it's GENIE'S INTRODUCTION TIME!" All of a sudden, time somehow stopped. We were the only ones moving. The next thing you know, everything somehow went dark and we were suddenly in seats.
"The hell? Where'd these seats come from?!" Sanji asked.
"And when did we sit in them?!" Usopp freaked, fearing for the worst, as usual. Light came and shone upon Genie. "WHERE'D HIS LEGS GO?!"
"AHHHH!" Chopper-kun freaked, until we all saw that Genie purposely 'lose' his legs. By that, I mean they became somewhat ghost-like.
"Now, before I introduce myself, I would like to know the names of my lovely audience," he said, his 'legs' acting like a microphone now. "Come on, don't be shy, what are your names?" He faces me. "That includes you too. I don't think we introduced each other when we first met."
"Sanji."
"Nami."
"I'm Chopper."
"I'm the Great CAPTAAAAIIIIN USOPP!"
"I'm Vivi."
"I'm Pell."
"And I'm Xion."
"Wow! Such lovely names you all have! Let me see if I got them right. Sanji, Nami, Chopper, Great Captain Usopp, Vivi, Pell and Xion. Hey, mind if I just call you Captain, Great Captain Usopp? Or can I call you GCU for short?"
'He actually believe that?!' I thought in shock.
"He actually believe that?!" Nami spoke out my thoughts.
"Well, of course you can!" Usopp approved.
"Hm? Hey, I didn't know smoking is allowed here, after what's going on," Genie said, noticing Sanji smoking his cigarrte. And when did he do that? "Mind if I do?" He suddenly poofed into smoke, bringing a new meaning to smoking. Seconds later, he became his old self again, getting applauds from Usopp and Chopper-kun.
"Anyway... Who exactly are you?" Nami went straight to the point.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I was going to do my intro. Well, if you really want to know..." Copies of Genie appeared. "I am GENIE! FORMERLY OF THE LAAAAAAAMP~!" The copies of him clapped and applauded for his intro.
"Genie?! You mean the wishing man that grants three wishes for their master kind of Genie?!" Usopp asked.
"The one that makes their master rich?!" Nami also asked, belli signs in her eyes.
"The one that helps their master attracts lots of womans?!" Sanji added, hearts in his eyes.
"Yes, yes, and YES! All of the above! However, note that it is all in the past for me. Why? Because my former master, also known as my last master, also known as my best friend, FREED ME FROM MY FATE~! Just when he could've used his third and last wish to make him prince and get the heart of the woman he loves, he instead used it to set me free! And I can't tell you how happy I am that he would use it for something so selfless, for someone like me~!"
That was enough to let down the three's hopes about being the bravest man of the sea, being extremely rich, and getting the hearts of many woman. And I'm glad Genie did for the last one.
"I don't think I can find such words to describe you..." Pell said.
"So wait, you can't grant wishes anymore?" Chopper-kun asked.
"Nope. But! As you can see, I still have my magic. Oh! What am I saying? Of course I have my magic! I am Genie after all!" Mr. Formerly-of-the-Lamp said. "And because I have reunited with a good friend, I'll make an exception here and grant only one wish!" And there goes the hopes again. "But note! I said only one! So choose wisely!"
"Let's use it to make us rich," Nami instantly declared.
"No fair! That's what you want!" Usopp argued.
"At least it's more reasonable than being the bravest man of the sea and getting hearts of a different gender!"
"Hold up. We should use it to prevent Luffy from being so hungry. We do that, than we won't have to worry about food," Sanji reasoned. The three argued about what wish should be granted.
"One wish, huh? It's hard to decide," Chopper-kun said.
"It is. And there can be no substitutions, so think wisely," Genie added oil to the fire.
Eventually, I had it with them. "ENOUGH!" They instantly quiet down. "Now look, what you guys want to use the wish for is reasonable and all, but is that really going to help us now?"
"What are you saying, Xion?!" Nami asked.
"This isn't a wish, but more of a favor: mind getting time going?" I asked Genie.
"What are you doing?! You just wasted a wish!" Usopp yelled.
"Well, when you put it that way, it's actually a loophole to the wish," the blue man corrected, ending the little light show and had time to continue. Just when he did, the Rebels and the Castle Guards were still fighting.
"Now you see what I mean?" I asked them. "Even though those wishes you came up with will help us in the future, it's not going to help one of us." I faced Vivi. "I say we waste it on Vivi."
"Wait? Me?" the princess asked.
"You are the one who's been suffering the most from this, so why not?"
"She's right about that," Sanji agreed.
"All right then, but you own me B100,000 for this," Nami told me.
"I suppose I will, when you put it that way," Usopp agreed.
"Go on, Vivi. Use the wish for your country's sake," Chopper-kun encouraged.
"Also for the people's sake, Vivi-sama," the falcon man added.
"Guys... Thank you," Vivi thanked, facing Genie.
"And we have a volunteer! So go on! What do you want right now?!" he asked.
"... Before I tell you my wish, can you really grant it? It's an impossible wish," she told him.
"You really doubt me, do you? Well, maybe I can give you a little more sample of my magic?" All of a sudden, Genie became big! "I don't think you understand what a Genie can do, Princess. So how about a little show-and-tell from yours' truly?"
Well, Mini Vivi had them hundred killers,
Scheherazade had a thousand tales.
But madam you're in luck, 'cause up your sleeves
You've got a brand of magic never fails
You've got a bit of power in your corner now!
Some heavy ammunition in your camp!
You got some punch, pizzaz, yahoo and how.
Used to, all you gotta do is rub my lamp, and I'll say:
"Ms. Vivi, ma'am, what will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, jot it down?"
You ain't never had friend like me
Life is your restaurant and I'm your maitre'd
Come on whisper what it is you want;
You ain't never had friend like me!
Yes ma'am, we pride ourselves on service.
You're the boss, the queen, the shahzadi.
Say what you wish; it's yours, true dish.
How 'bout a little more baklava?
Have some of column A try All of column B,
I'm in the mood to help you, girl.
You ain't never had friend like me
But not anymore!
Because I had a kind master who set me free from all that!
Though that don't mean that I lost my powers, No no!
Just because I'm free doesn't really mean I'm out of business now!
Oh my. No no. My my my.
So can your friends do this?
Can your friends do that?
Can your friends pull this out their little hat?
Can your friends go poof?
Well looky here.
Can your friends go abracadabra, let 'em rip,
And then make those sucker disappear?
So don't just sit there slack-jawed, buggy-eyed,
I'm here to answer all your mid-day prayers,
You've got me bona fide certified;
You've got a genie for charge d'affaires.
I've got a powerful urge to help you out,
So what you wish?
I really wanna know,
You've got a list that's miles long, no doubt,
Well all you've gotta do is say what you want, and oh -
Ms. Vivi, ma'am, have a wish granted now.
I'm on the job you cutie girl!
You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend,
You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend,
You ain't never had a friiiieeeend liiiiiike meeeeeee~!
You ain't never had a friend like me.
'Well, isn't he specific in that show-and-tell of his?' I thought, for he summoned and begone what he summoned as he was singing. Not to mention he was making more of his copies as he sang. Usopp and Chopper-kun applauded at the show.
"So, Madam Vivi? Your wish please?" Genie asked.
"I wish... I wish for rain to fall on Arabasta like it used to, before Crocodile came!" Vivi declared.
"Granted~!" With that, Vivi's wish was granted. Rain clouds started gathering above Alubarna. Then it went farther, far enough to cover all of Arabasta. Slowly, it began to rain again. "Don't worry. It's not from that Dance Powder stuff. And you'll be having this yearly rain like used to so... You're welcome," he added.
All of us were amazed that Genie really can grant wishes. As rain fell, the fighting ceased.
"You should hurry up and take this chance to open their eyes, Vivi," I told her.
"Right," she agreed.
"Leave it to me," Genie insisted, taking Vivi to the clock tower, so people could hear her voice and see her better.
"What happened here?" a familiar voice from a familiar swordsman asked.
"Where were you this whole time?!" Sanji demanded.
"What else? Looking for the bomb."
"Then why didn't you meet up with the rest of us?!"
"It's Xion's own fault for using some kind of illusion magic!"
"Like hell it is!"
"And there they go again," I muttered.
"And Zoro just got here," Chopper-kun added.
Just before Vivi can say anything, something was shot out of the ground. Or rather, someone. We all looked up and saw a guy with a golden hook and a black coat shot out sky high. Instantly, we all knew who he is.
"CROCODILE!" we all identified.
"No sure how he got blasted all the way over there..." Sanji spoke after a moment of silence.
"HOW ELSE?!" Usopp questioned. "I never had a doubt in my mind! But now..."
We all smiled in realization of what had happened. "HE WON!"
'Luffy, you idiot... What took you so long to beat him?' I thought in relief. 'Well, all it matters now is that everything is finally over...' It was raining harder, since Crocodile was defeated. Thanks to that, all the rain that he took has been released from his grasp.
"PLEASE STOP THIS FIGHTING!" Vivi shouted, having all her people to look at her. Most of them, mainly the Rebels, had shocked looks on their faces to see her. "This rain, just as it is falling... Just as it always have, will finally fall. The nightmare... has finally ended."