Disclaimer: And now, it's time for everyone's favorite game show, "Be Sora's Date!" where tonight, Sora of Kingdom Hearts fame makes one lucky girls dream come true…what's that? Oh, this is a fan fiction story? Whoops! Pardon me folks, my mistake. Ha, ha, ha! I love opening these author notes with a good joke. In all seriousness, time for another chapter from yours truly. What will happen the night before the children set off on their rafting trip? Let's find out. Enjoy!
Chapter 3: The Beginning of Adventure Part 3
With the launch out of orbit from Looney Tune Land, the spaceship was now flying through space, zooming at a fast pace. Inside the ship, Daffy…or shall we say, Duck Dodgers was relaxing in the main control room. He had his hands behind his head, and put his foot against the panel while resting one leg over his other leg. It was quiet and relaxing for the waterfowl as he rested in his chair with his eyes closed.
"Space cadet, status report if you please," Daffy asked to Porky, nonchalant in a way.
Porky marched over in a blissful sort of way as only the loyal first class cadet would to follow orders (Loony characters equal Loony behavior)
Porky gave a salute and told Daffy, "Everything is all set for our tr-tr-tr…our journey, your hero-ship!"
A screen was flashing with the word "Alert!" on it.
"It must be the doctor!" Daffy thought out loud as he pushed a button, "Dodgers here!"
On screen appeared a man with a long nose and wearing a gray shirt with a light bulb hat on his head. This was Dr. I.Q. High, who briefed Duck Dodgers of his missions.
"Congratulations on a successful launch, Dodgers," the doctor complimented, "Your mission officially starts now. Looney Tune Land cannot stress enough how important it is that Bugs Bunny return home safe."
As the doctor continued to talk, Daffy ran up a flight of stairs to the outside of the ship and onto a stand.
"Our only hope now is…" the doctor began.
Daffy finished while pointing to the sky and making a dramatic pose, "Duck Dodgers in the twenty fourth and a half century!"
Daffy ran back into the ship for his briefing as the doctor continued.
"Our identification readings searched files off all current residents living in Traverse Town," The screen flashed for a second was now showing what Traverse Town looked like as a world, it had houses and buildings all around on a sphere, "They deducted that a man named Squall Leonhart is going by the alias Leon. The same Leon that Bugs Bunny's letter was talking about. The second district is where you need to go."
"So that's Traverse Town, eh?" Daffy asked intrigued, "It's a small world after all."
"Can you do it, Dodgers?" asked Dr. I.Q. High.
Porky saluted while he told him, "Oh, indubidab-b-b-indubidab-b-b…absolutely, sir!"
Daffy ran up the flight of stairs again to the same ramp on the ship as Porky said, "No one knows his way around space like…"
Daffy once again struck the pose with pointing his finger to the sky, "Duck Dodgers in the twenty fourth and a half century!"
The screen went off as Dr. High was done with his briefing. Daffy sat back down in his chair and yawned a bit.
"I'm going to take a few winks," he said tiredly, "Set monitors to wake me up when we get to town."
"Y-y-y-yes sir, I'll set them r-r-right away!" Porky saluted.
Porky went to a machine and did as he was ordered. While he was doing that, an explosion was heard. It was so big that it rocked the whole ship making Porky stumble a bit and make Daffy fall out of his seat. Daffy sprung up in panic.
"Ah! Set up the defenses, Cadet! Or we'll be taken down by Martians!" Daffy ordered.
Penny came into the room with a worried look on her face, "Mr. Duck, I heard some noises coming from one of the rooms."
Daffy calmed down, but now had a confused look, "No Martians? That noise was in a room…of MY ship?"
Penny moved out of the way as Porky came up to the door and yelled out in the halls, "Hey, w-w-what's going on down there? W-w-what's all that racket?"
"I'll just see about this!" Daffy spat as he stomped out into the halls. He said to Porky, "Come on!"
Porky followed his hero-ship out of the room. Down inside the holographic projection room, the setting of it was that of a desert. All the noise was coming from there because the Coyote and the Road Runner that came on board were now there. The Coyote opened up a sewer lid to stick his head out of a manhole. He looked like he was waiting for something.
"Beep, Beep!" a noise rang out.
The Road Runner was running down the road, blissfully unaware of any danger. Once it ran past the manhole, the Coyote jumped out and had springs on his feet. He bounced forward chasing the Road Runner. The Coyote bounced close enough to grab the Road Runner, when the Road Runner came to an intersection and made a left turn. The Coyote looked behind him looking disappointed that he just missed. The next time he bounced, the springs sent him up high into sky many feet above. A jet plane zoomed by and hit the Coyote, with him now caught in front of the plane as it flew.
Later, the Coyote was ready with another plan as he had a tire swing with sticks of dynamite. He struck a match and lit the fuses around. He fanned the flame and prepared the swing for when the Road Runner came.
"Beep, Beep!" made the noise of the bird.
The Coyote gave a hard push of the swing. The Road Runner was so fast; it ran past with a cloud of dust with the tire swing just missing him. Unfortunately for the Coyote, the tire swing swung right back to where he was. It landed with the Coyote now wedged in the tire and had a look of embarrassment until the dynamite exploded leaving him in a smoke cloud!
With the Coyote recovered (fast recovery rate, isn't it?), he prepared another way of catching his speedy adversary. The Coyote was set up on a large red rocket. This would give him the speed he needed to catch his prey faster. The Coyote rubbed his back a little bit until he heard that familiar sound.
"Beep, Beep!" The Road Runner zipped by.
The Coyote lit the fuse with a match and got into position for the ride. The rocket blasted off with Coyote riding, leaving a tail of hot fire as it flew. The rocket chased the Road Runner at incredible speed down the road like a race car. The Road Runner saw a railroad track and ran on it. The Coyote turned the rocket so it would still give chase. The chase continued down a long trail of railroad tracks and ended up inside a tunnel. However, the Coyote quickly came out of it, still on the rocket, with a train right behind him! The train whistle rang out as it was tailgating the rocket. The track came along a bridge, and the Coyote decided it was time to ditch his ride and jumped off. He wiped his head with a sigh of relief, but then looked down to notice something. He was right in midair! The Coyote's eyes enlarged with an "Aooogah!" noise. He took a look at you, the viewers and waved as he went further and further until he was out of sight from a birds eye view and hit the ground with a cloud of dust.
Sometime after, the Coyote now set up another trap. It was a safe, courtesy of the Acme Safe Corporation, with a rope tied to it and on a ledge. The Coyote was on a ledge on the other side holding the rope. Below was the road, and he was going to drop the safe on the Road Runner.
"Beep, Beep!" was heard once again.
The Coyote yanked the rope, but he slipped and swung forward right into the rocky wall! He slid down to the ground with his legs crossed when he hit it. He pushed himself up only for the Road Runner to run over him.
"Beep, Beep!" he cried again as he ran past.
The Coyote got up and clenched his fists in anger at his 'breakfast'. He saw the rope coming down as well as a shadow forming above him. He looked to realize something was going to fall on top of him and pulled out a little umbrella to open as he braced himself. The umbrella did little good, as the safe crushed him with a loud clang.
The Road Runner continued its running down the road going, "Beep, Beep!"
The Coyote, now fully recovered from his last incident, was chasing him with a blowgun in his hands. He took a deep breath, put the blowgun to his face and blew to shoot out a dart. The dart flew and gained up right above the Road Runners body but not close enough to reach his neck.
The Road Runner looked behind him at the dart, stuck his tongue out and went, "Beep, Beep!" Before zipping and to the left as the road continued that way.
The dart continued to fly off, but the Coyote came to a screeching halt as he looked down the road. The dart eventually came to a cactus. A branch of the cactus bent backwards as the dart hit it, and threw it right back to where it came from. The dart was now pointed the other way as it flew in the other direction. The Coyote was scratching his head trying to think about what to do next when the point of the dart got in his tail. The Coyote screamed out in pain and jumped high up in the air. He went so high that his head hit a rocky ledge and went right through it. The rest of his body was now dangling in the air.
After he got his head unstuck, the Coyote set up some TNT under a bridge and had a fuse box attached the wiring, ready to pull it down when the Road Runner showed up.
"Beep, Beep!" the Coyote heard.
That was the signal, and he pushed down on the lever. The unexpected happened as the fuse box blew up instead! The Coyote was left looking at you, the viewers, with a look of humiliation and his fur black from the ashes. The Road Runner stopped to take a look at the Coyote and his situation before sticking out its tongue.
"Beep, Beep!" it went before running off.
The Coyote, now with his fur back to normal, was in-between two rock ledges, so he could hide yet still keep the road in sight. He stuck a round shiny bomb into an arrow. He took out a match and lit the fuse. After fanning the flame, he picked up the bow and bent it backwards ready to shoot the projectile. Too bad he bent the wire too far back because it snapped in half. The Coyote looked back at the still lit bomb and gave a worried look to you, the viewers before it exploded. When the smoke cloud cleared, the Coyote was now pacing back and forth trying to think up his next move. He stopped and put his finger in the air. The finger wiggling a bit and the Coyote got a big smile on his face.
Out of another hiding place, the Coyote tiptoed to the middle of the road and poured out two things. First he poured a can of steel shots into a pile. One ball was rolling away, so he had to push it back. Then he poured some bird seed over it to cover it up. He went back into his hiding place and awaited the Road Runner for his arrival.
"Beep, Beep!" came out of a dust cloud.
The Road Runner stopped when he saw the bird seed. He bent his head down and pecked at the bird seed until he was finished. He smacked his lips of the tasty treat and swallowed with a lump going down his long neck.
"Beep, Beep!" he said again as he hopped in the air clapping his feet together and then continuing his running.
The Coyote came out of the alley pushing a giant magnet attached to some controls. He pulled on a lever to activate the magnet and then went out in front of it ready to catch the steel filled bird. What he didn't see coming was an army tank coming his way. The Coyote jumped up in alarm and tried to run away, but the tank ran right over him from the force of the magnet. The Coyote was now flat as a pancake on the road and blinked two times before holding up a sing for you, the viewers to read
"Tanks a lot!" was what the sign said.
Sometime later, the Coyote had set up a gadget of his own to get catch the Road Runner. He looked over some blue prints that had a picture of a giant hammer. It had a list of steps on it.
The steps read, "1. Pull string. 2. Hammer gets released. 3: Road Runner runs up. 4. Smash! 5: Road Runner pancake."
The Coyote set down the blue prints as he heard the Road Runner coming.
"Beep, Beep!" was heard once more.
The Coyote pulled on the string as the bird ran by and pulled on it. He looked on to witness his prayers being answered of a road runner surprise. His smile quickly turned into a frown as nothing happened. He looked up at the giant hammer and put his hands on his hips in disappointment. He shook the hammer to try and make it go. He put his back against it and tried pulling it up to no avail. He jumped up on the wooden handle and jumped up and down like crazy to try and make it go. He even banged on it with its fist a few times. He jumped on the hammer part several times. Bad move since it spring into action and hit the road with the Coyote still on the part that hit the road! A loud metal noise was heard. The Coyote walked back in frustration and his body going up and down like an accordion and sounding like one. He took one look at you, the viewers and looked back as he walked.
The Coyote wasn't out of ideas yet. Once he was back to normal, he set up a trap under another bridge. He set up a rocket under the bridge and was ready for the bird once again.
"Beep, Beep!" came from above.
The Coyote took out a match and lit the fuse and the rocket set off into the air. The Coyote put his hands up to his face and was on one foot hoping to shield himself. Up above, the Road Runner stopped before he crossed the bridge. The rocket hit the bridge and blew it to smithereens. The Coyote looked up at his handy work with a smile only for concrete pieces to fall on top of him in a pile.
Out of the pile, the Coyote had yet another trick up his sleeve. A box nearby said, "One (1) Acme Hang Glider".
The Coyote already had the hang glider set up and was waiting patiently.
"Beep, Beep!" the Coyote smiled as he knew what that noise meant.
The Road Runner ran past and the Coyote ran to gain a little speed and jumped off the rock platform her was on. The Coyote glided off the ground in the air. He noticed the cloud of dust on the road and eyed his prey with a stuck out tongue at the delicious dinner he was about to have. The road had ended abruptly and the Road Runner made a right turn, while the Coyote flew off a cliff. The Coyote looked back and snapped his fingers at the sight of his meal getting away again. Up in the sky, a black cloud struck lighting. The lightning bolt hit the hang glider and fried it to cinders. There was just one problem however; the Coyote was still in the air! The Coyote watched the burned up pieces fall down. He took a glance at you, the viewers with a sad look and waved goodbye before falling. His neck stretched a bit before his head followed as did his arm before falling. His arm stretched back up to hold up a sign.
"Goodbye again!" the sign said.
The Coyote continued to fall again until he hit the ground leaving a cloud of dust.
Daffy and Porky finally arrived into the holographic projection room and took a look around.
"Okay, who's the wise guy that turned on this room?" Daffy asked impatiently while tapping his foot. He then got a grin on his face, "When it could have been set to look like a party! Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo!"
Daffy hopped around with Porky trying to get his attention.
"D-d-daffy, we need to find who's responsible. D-daffy! D-daffy!" Porky tried to point out. He pulled out a megaphone and said into it, "D-daffy!"
Daffy stopped in front of Porky and said in a butler type voice, "Yeeeeeeees?"
"I th-th-thought we were here to find out what the noise was," Porky brought up.
"Good thinking, Cadet! You go search over there, while I go search over here!" Daffy instructed.
Porky and Daffy walked in different directions. Porky continued along until he saw a box on the ground.
"W-w-what's this now?" Porky asked himself. He bent over to pick up the box and opened it up to see what was inside, "Uh oh, s-s-someone left a box of odd looking eggs here."
Porky was being naïve as he didn't realize the 'weird looking eggs' were really hand grenades! One exploded and soon the others exploded one by one. When the cloud of smoke appeared, Porky was now covered in black ash and in a dazed and confused look.
"Some way to hatch an egg!" Porky said in a high pitched voice.
The Coyote walked over to where Porky was and looked around confused to see that the box of grenades he was going to use were nowhere in sight. He looked all around and even lifted Porky up too see if he was under the pig. The Coyote scratched his head with the biggest thought of confusion. He looked at you, the viewers, gave a shrug and walked off to think up a new plan.
"Hey, Porky, I thought I heard a noise over…" Daffy was saying walking up. Porky had fainted from the explosions and Daffy put his hands on his hips disappointed, "Oh, sleeping on the job, huh? Well, open your eyes, slacker, because we got to find whatever's…"
As Daffy bent down to pick up Porky, the Road Runner stopped behind him.
"Beep, Beep!" the noise scared Daffy making him jump.
The Road Runner ran away again, and Daffy saw a cloud of smoke left in the wake.
"Hey! Stop!" Daffy demanded as he gave chase.
The Road Runner ran under something that was set up in the road. When Daffy ran under after him, a guillotine dropped down and sliced off some of the back of his clothing and feathers.
"Wow wees!" Daffy exclaimed. He looked behind him at his back to see a long trail of tan skin exposed. Daffy walked down the streets in deep thought.
"If I didn't know any better," Daffy murmured to himself, tapping his finger on his beak as he walked, "I'd say that this whole place was booby trapped."
Daffy didn't know how right he was. He stepped on a piece of wire unknowingly, which made a cannon come out a manhole and had its aim right at Daffy. Daffy stopped, wondering if something was behind him. When he looked back, he saw the cannon and looked at you, the viewers with a look of fear.
"Mother!" Daffy said in a childish voice.
The cannon shot right at Daffy. When the smoke cleared, the top of his out fit had been ripped off and his feathers blown off, leaving his skin exposed. Daffy laughed nervously.
Meanwhile back outside
"Mr. Duck and Mr. Pig have been gone for a while," Penny said to herself. She was walking down the hallways with as bit of worry since Daffy and Porky haven't been back for a while. She thought they must have searched the entire rocket. She came to a room and read the print on the door, "Holographic projection room?" She opened her computer book and pushed a few keys, "Let's see…"
Back in the desert projection, the Coyote was loading a cannonball and packing it down good. He stopped packing when he saw Daffy and Porky, back to normal on the other side. Porky was leaning on the cannon with his elbow and resting his hand on his chin, putting his weight on one leg with the other crossed and his other hand on his hip. Daffy was on top of the cannon lying on his stomach with his arms crossed in front of him and his legs up.
"And j-j-just what were you planning on shooting this cannon at?" Porky asked slyly.
The Coyote made a nervous grin as he put down the patter. Daffy revealed he had a string in his hand. It was the trigger for the cannon. They Coyote knew what he was about to do and shook his head no with a smile and waving his finger. Daffy just nodded indicating he'll do it. The Coyote continued to shake his head while Daffy still nodded his head. The Coyote got on his knees and begged that Daffy wouldn't do it. All Daffy did was continue to have a mischievous smile and move his eyebrows up and down.
Back outside, Penny made her discovery. A few blips appeared on the radar of the screen in her book.
"That must be them, but what are these other two?" Penny pondered as there were four blips instead of just two. An explosion was heard on the other side of the door making her gasp.
"Wowsers!" Penny exclaimed.
The door opened to reveal a peeved Porky marching out with dazed and stumbling Coyote, "Th-th-this is unbelievable!"
"Who is that?" Penny asked about the Coyote.
"I'll tell you who it is! It's a stowaw-it's a stowaw-it's someone who's not supposed to be on board!" Porky explained furiously. He took the Coyote's hand and dragged him down the hall with Penny following, "He must've snuck ab-ab-aboard before the l-l-launch while we weren't looking."
Daffy came out with the biggest stumped look while scratching his head and said, "I can't understand how we could've missed that."
The Road Runner ran out in front of the duck and went, "Beep, Beep!"
Daffy jumped back and the Road Runner zoomed down the hallway. Daffy blinked twice before looking at you, the viewers. He pointed at the speedy bird with his thumb and pulled out a sign.
"Fast, isn't he," was written on the sign. Daffy pulled out a second sign that read "?!"
Back in the control room Porky marched right up to the pilots seat and sat down, "I'm g-g-going to turn this around and d-d-drop these two back home!"
Daffy turned the chair around so that Porky would face him. He had a stern look on his face, "Oh no! The last thing we need to be is behind schedule. We're staying on course until we get to town and that is that!"
"B-b-but Duck Dodgers, sir," Porky tried explaining.
"Attention!" Daffy shouted like a general. Porky got out the chair and into a soldier stance, "Space Cadet First Class Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny gave a direct order for us to go search for a 'key'. We cannot waste time worrying about minor setbacks such as stowaways. Since they're already here on the ship, we might as well let them tag along, so go put them in another room and we'll figure out what to do with them. That's an order!"
"Y-y-yes, sir, you're hero-ship, uh, sir!" Porky saluted. Porky left the room to carry out his orders.
"Whew!" Daffy sighed with relief, "Well, that saved us a roundabout trip."
"So we could get to Traverse Town faster?" Penny asked.
"Are you kidding? I only said that so that Porky would follow orders," Daffy revealed, "You know how much rocket fuel costs? And besides that if I don't show my face at home without Bugs, no praise, no prize money, no recognition!" Daffy counted on his fingers at the last part.
Penny crossed her arms with a disgusted look at Daffy's reasons, "So you're just in it for the glory? You had everyone going thinking you wanted to save everyone."
"Daffy Duck is always in it for profit," Daffy reminded her. He then yawned and sat back in his chair, "Better add journal entries for our stowaways while you're filling up pages."
Penny just shook her head with the thought that Daffy was in this for the wrong reasons. She tried to take her mind off it by continuing her journal.
Meanwhile, evening had now fallen over the Destiny Islands. The sky was dark and sparkling with beautiful stars. Crickets chirped in the grass playing their music of the night. Frogs were croaking softly in the distance. Owls would hoot as they flew through the horizon. The waves of the water, as it would every night and day, could be heard as the pushed near the shore. All of the residents of the main island were in their houses eating dinner and doing other nightly activities. Riku was outside on the front porch of his house, carving chips off a block of wood with a pocket knife. A chilling gust of wind blew through the air making him put his hands to his arms while shivering.
"Brrr. My house isn't even near the beach and it feels like I'm right near the water where it's cooler," Riku put his knife and woodblock in to his pockets and got up to go inside, "I better put on a warm jacket if I decide to stay out here," Riku heard some thunder rumble and began to have second thoughts about staying outside, "Uh oh, sounds like a storm is coming. I better get in before it rains."
"Come. Come," an eerie voice chanted in the air.
Riku started to get Goosebumps from hearing that voice. It was like something out of a scary movie, and he didn't like it.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Riku asked feeling a little scared. He called inside the house, "Hey, dad, did you hear anything?" but no one answered, "Sora? Kairi? Was that you guys? If this is a joke, it isn't funny!"
"To the island. Come to the island," the voice called.
Riku began to walk down to the streets like he was in some sort of trance. It was like he had no control over his will. The voice needed to be obeyed. Riku walked like a wondering zombie to the ends of the shore so he could take his rowboat. On the way he passed Kairi's house. Kairi was inside watching television. She was watching a rerun of an 80's sitcom.
"I can't believe it," said Uncle Jessie on the TV.
"I know. That's the way it could be the rest of our lives," Danny Tanner sighed sadly.
"No, not that! My hair!" Uncle Jessie pointed out.
Kairi laughed along with the laugh track at the joke. It was one of many gags about Jessie's hair.
"That one never gets old," Kairi chuckled.
A strike of lightning flashed causing her to look outside, "Huh?" a few seconds later, thunder crackled through the sky, "A lightning storm? I better close the window!" Kairi said as she got out of the couch. She walked over to the window near the front door and pulled it down to close it. Before she could turn away, she saw Riku still in his trance walking down the street.
"Riku? What is he doing outside?" Kairi pondered, "I'll go out and ask him."
Kairi turned off the television before she went outside. She called out to Riku while on her porch.
"Riku? What are you doing out here? Where are you going?" Kairi shouted.
Riku just kept walking, not even turning his head to acknowledge Kairi.
"I guess he didn't hear me," Kairi said to herself.
She decided to go to the streets and follow Riku, wherever he was going. Riku made it to the docks, untied the rope to his rowboat and took it to the island. Kairi ran up to try and catch him before he could get too far away.
"Riku! Why are you going to the island?" Kairi shouted. She stopped running before her shoes hit the water, "Riku! Riku!"
It was no use. Riku still wouldn't answer her. Kairi was starting to get worried. Why wasn't Riku answering her? What was the deal with him going to the island? There was only one way to find out, take her rowboat and follow him to the island, which she did.
Meanwhile, Sora was up in his bedroom lying on his bed. His room was rather regular. All it had was a wooden desk and a closet plus an oval shaped carpet on the floor. A lamp was over his desk, which provided him with some light. Some of his clothes were on the floor. Sora lay there with his hands behind his head, resting his left leg against his right leg. He looked up at a wooden toy boat hanging above on the ceiling with two dolls on it. The dolls reminded him of himself and Kairi and got him thinking about the adventure they were going to have starting tomorrow.
"I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great," said Kairi's voice ringing through Sora's head.
"Yeah, it will be great," Sora said quietly. Thunder again rumbled through the sky with Sora looking out the window, seeing lightning strikes, "A storm? I don't remember hearing anything about rain during the whether report," Sora suddenly sprang up from his bed alarmed as he realized something, "Oh no! The raft! I better check to make sure nothing got damaged!"
Sora's mother could be heard on the other side of Sora's bedroom door, "Sora! Dinner's ready, dear! Come on down! I fixed your favorite. Sora?" but there was no one in the room to answer her. The windows were open with the curtains blowing in the wind, which meant Sora had snuck out to check on the raft.
Sora arrived to island a few minutes later on his rowboat, rowing as fast as he could. Surprisingly, the current seemed unusually calm, so the storm wasn't that sever. As he reached the dock and tied a rope around it to park his boat, he looked up to notice giant ball in the sky, glowing with some sort of dark energy.
"What in the world is that?" Sora exclaimed as he's never seen such a thing.
He climbed up to the dock and was about to head off, but noticed two other boats were parked at the dock, "Wait a minute. That's Riku's boat, and Kairi's is right next to it! I knew they took it with them when they went home earlier. What are they doing back here?"
Sora thought he heard a noise and turned around with a look of suspicion on his face. At first he thought it might have been Riku or Kairi, but it wasn't. In fact, it was something bad. Shadow creatures, ones with glowing yellow eyes rose up from the ground making their presence known. Sora gasped in shock at the sight of them. He couldn't believe it. The exact same creatures from his dream were here on the island. Only this time, it wasn't a dream. It was for real!
"This can't be! Those are the same creatures I saw in my dream! What are they doing here?" Sora asked baffled.
Then Sora remembered that in his dream, he fought them off with a sword. He quickly took out his wooden sword and looked at it for a minute. A sly smile came across the young boy's face as he looked back at the creatures.
"You want me?" Sora dared the creatures. He got into a fighting stance and said, "Come get me!"
One shadow creature jumped and brought down a claw on Sora. Sora jumped out of the way and gave a hard swing of his sword. To his surprise, when he hit the creature, nothing happened.
"Huh?" Sora asked with wide eyes.
He hit the creature two more times, but the sword swipes did nothing to effect it. Sora got worried that his attacks weren't working and even more so when the creature slashed the sword with its claws, knocking it out of Sora's hand.
This alarmed Sora, "Oh no!"
Another shadow creature gave a head-butt to Sora's stomach, making him stumble back. Sora nearly fell off the edge of the dock and into the water, but he swung his arms around to keep his balance. The shadows just kept appearing in numbers, and it looked like Sora was trapped. Sora did the only thing he could do, jump over the group in front of him and start running. He ran across the dock and onto the beach as fast as he could. More and more shadows appeared and what started as two shadows turned into five, then ten, then twenty. It was a shadow army invasion across the island. Sora kept running while several shadows chased him like a stampede. He spotted the old shack and went inside, slamming the door behind him. Sora breathed heavily from running so fast combined with the many shadow creatures appearing.
Sora whipped the sweat off his forehead and thought, "I don't get it! How can the same creatures from my dreams be here?" Just then Sora got a terrible thought, "They might try to harm Riku and Kairi! I've got to find them!"
Sora ran up the stairs and up to where the bridge that connected to the island with the bent over palm tree was. Sora looked thought he saw something on the smaller island and saw a glimpse of silver. It was none other than Riku, who was standing there. Sora smiled that he found his friend unharmed. He ran as fast as he could across the bridge. Riku meanwhile stood where he was with his eyes closed not even looking behind him as Sora ran up to him and stopped.
"Riku am I glad to see you! What's going on here?" Sora asked in a panic, "And for that matter, where's Kairi? I thought you two stuck together since both of you were here."
"It's the door. The door has opened…" Riku whispered tilting his head slightly down and up.
"What?" Sora asked not hearing what he said, "Say that again, I couldn't hear you."
Riku looked behind him to eye Sora, "That's what's going on here, Sora. The door has opened! Now we can go out into the outside world! Our prayers to go and see what's out there have finally been answered! It's a dream come true!"
"To boldly go where no man has gone before," Sora mockingly and sarcastically toned in his voice. He then snapped, "What on earth are you talking about? Quit fooling around!"
Riku snapped back at his friend, "I could say the same thing to you with that tone of yours!"
"Well, I'm worried with all of this!" Sora explained with his closed fists, "Those weird creatures appearing, that huge black ball in the sky causing the storm, and we still need to go find Kairi!"
"Kairi's coming with us when all is said and done!" Riku urged in reassurance.
Sora was taken back by that, but quickly grew suspicious, "So what will happen to us?"
Riku looked up at the dark sphere in the sky and pointed to it, "Simple. I told you that we could go to the outside world, but I should warn you, once we step through and make it out of here, we might not be able to come back to island. I know that it means we may never see our friends or our parents again," Riku then gained a look of confidence, "We can't turn back now because this might be our only chance to experience what we've always dreamed of doing. None of us should be scared, otherwise, fear will stop us," Riku blinked and boomed, "Darkness doesn't make me afraid! Sora, don't let it make you afraid either," Riku held out his hand for Sora to take, "Take my hand and together our journey will start."
Sora was very unsure about this. If what Riku said was true, that means the start of their quest to see what's out there will finally become a reality. Unfortunately, Sora felt nervous and concerned about the strange goings on and how his friend was acting right now. If he took Riku's hand now, he'd leave everything behind. Did he really want to do risk not seeing his family again? He had to tell Riku his feelings now.
"Riku, I…" Sora began to say with a sincere look in his eyes.
Before he could finish, a dark wave suddenly appeared right below where Riku was standing. It looked like a puddle of black and purple liquid. Strands of the darkness wrapped around Riku's body like branches starting to engulf him. Sora gasped at the thought of Riku disappearing and started to run to him. He soon stopped as another dark wave came around and strands of darkness wrapped around his body as well. Riku still held out his hand for Sora to grab, paying no mind to the dark pool around him. Sora looked around frantically as he got caught by darkness, and put his hand out to reach Riku's hand. He struggled as hard as he could and the hand was just out of reach.
The darkness covered up Sora completely. He closed his eyes as the waves surrounded his entire body. He started to lose all his senses. He couldn't see, hear, feel, or smell anything. Sora couldn't breath or move, stuck in paralysis, no way out. All seemed lost until a bright light appeared out of nowhere. The light was so beautiful and in a flash, it lit up all the darkness around Sora. Sora felt himself able to move around again and opened his eyes to see himself still on the island. There was just one problem; Riku was gone from where he previously stood.
Sora gasped that his friend was nowhere to be found, "Riku! Riku, where did you go?" he shouted to no answer. Sora thought, "He just disappeared!" Sora felt something in his right hand and was surprised to see what he was now holding.
"Where did this come from?" Sora asked in curiosity while observing the object.
The object itself looked like a key, but it was large enough to be held like a sword. The yellow bow had a handle within it that Sora held. The blade part was silver and the cut notches resembled the shape of a crown. The bow also had a keychain on it with the end shaped like the head of a rabbit.
Sora thought he heard voices saying "Keyblade…Keyblade."
He had no time to react to the voices, as the shadow creatures once again, made an appearance creeping up to Sora.
"Not you freaks again! Stay away from me!" Sora yelled at the creatures.
He pointed the Keyblade at them and they backed away at the sight of the weapon. Sora wondered. Were they scared now that he had a weapon?
"If they're afraid of me pointing this thing at them…then it must be a weapon I can use to fight these things!" Sora thought in revelation.
A shadow jumped to attack Sora. Sora gave a hard thrust of his new weapon and knocked the creature down. While it was down, Sora stuck the blade into the creature, making it vanish in a poof of darkness. Sora looked at his new weapon in astonishment.
"Wow! This thing has the power to harm these things!" Sora gained a confident smirk on his face as he got into a fighting stance, "Time to show you guys that if you mess with my island, you mess with me!"
Several shadows appeared out of the ground and one lunged at Sora. Sora jumped up to avoid it and brought the Keyblade down on another shadow, slicing it to bits. He gave a downward strike to one shadow, a horizontal slash to another, and stuck his blade tip point right into a third one. Then with one big one hundred and eighty degree turn, he slashed all three in a row, destroying them. The impact sent a couple creatures backwards, some hitting the trees on the little island and some falling off. Sora threw the Keyblade at the ones who hit the tree. The blade went right through them eliminating them and when it hit the tree, the blade did something surprising, it disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared back into Sora's hand.
"Wow!" Sora yelped thinking that was cool.
While he was distracted by the power the Keyblade had just shown, a shadow snuck up to Sora while it was in the ground and when it formed back up out of the ground, it lifted its claws, scratching Sora right in the face.
"Ouch!" Sora screamed in pain.
Sora put a hand on his face at the feeling of the sharp claws against his skin. He rubbed his left cheek and felt some scratch marks. He then got kicked in the back making him fall forward, hitting the ground hard. Sora clenched his fists in anger at these creatures attacking him while he was down.
"Okay, you asked for it!" Sora growled.
Sora rolled back up and held the Keyblade tight with both hands ready to fight the shadows. He charged at one shadow and did a vertical slash, which the shadow jumped away from. Sora did a horizontal slash at the next shadow, but it jumped away as well. Sora quickly spun around with the Keyblade out and slashed the two to pieces. He charged at another shadow. The shadow went into the ground just as Sora tried an attack. As it crawled around the ground like a real shadow, Sora tried poking at it with the Keyblade, but to no effect. These shadows couldn't be harmed while they materialized into ground.
"I guess I can't do anything while they're in the ground like that," Sora assumed in thought.
Once the shadow reappeared out of the ground, Sora lifted the Keyblade up, only to be interrupted when it jumped onto his head. It pulled on Sora's hair making the boy cringe. He punched the shadow in the face repeatedly trying to get it off his head. The shadow just kept pulling back on Sora's hair in response. Sora started to get tears in his eyes from feeling his hair get pulled so hard. To make things worse, there were more shadows creeping up to Sora. Sora thought of a way to get the shadow off his head. He put his head forward and ran as fast as he could like a football player across the bridge. Shadows appeared on the bridge only to be slashed apart by Sora swinging the Keyblade as he ran. When he got to the other side, Sora bashed the shadow on his head right up against a palm tree. The shadow finally fell off of Sora's head and onto the ground.
"Don't mess with the spiky hair," Sora told the creature in a tough guy voice, before slashing it with the Keyblade, obliterating it.
Shadows continued to appear. Two shadows leaped at Sora. Sora dodged them and went behind one of the trees. The shadows were confused until Sora appeared from the other side of the tree with a spin, holding the Keyblade out in front of him and the swing took out the two shadows. Sora hid behind another tree to try that ambush attack again. What he didn't realize was three shadows went into the ground and crawled up to behind Sora materializing and raking his back making him yelp. He looked behind him to see the shadows and climbed the tree. The shadows tried getting Sora with their claws, leaving scratch marks on the tree as he climbed up. As the shadows made a leap for it, Sora pushed his foot against the bark and leaped off of the tree, doing a back flip sticking out the Keyblade to slice the shadows in a row as he came down and landed on the ground.
No time for celebration as more shadows appeared. Sora jumped up another tree and using his free hand, did a swing around. As he swung, he held out the Keyblade with his other hand, and sliced the shadows apart as he spun all in a row. He stopped swinging, so he cold put his feet on the tree and jump off throwing the Keyblade at one more shadow to finish it off. Sora landed on his feet and saw that the Keyblade now stood in the ground like if you put a shovel in hard dirt. He remembered that it could return to his hand, so he held out his right hand and the Keyblade disappeared and reappeared in his hand.
He got surrounded by more shadows where he was. Sora gripped his hands tightly around his weapon and charged. Sora slid down the sand and stuck his sword right out, sticking it in the chest of one shadow, making it vanish. He tried a diagonal swing at another shadow, which went into the ground so it wouldn't be harmed. Sora did a sweep swing at one shadow, but it jumped out of the way. The shadow that avoided the first swing crawled over behind Sora and formed solid. Sora took this chance to do a sweep swing at the shadow in front of him as it landed, and continue the sweep behind him to slash away the shadow behind him. One shadow jumped up in the air and Sora took it out by swinging the Keyblade upward. Three more jumped at him and Sora swung above him not once, not twice, but three times back and forth to take out each shadow with each swing.
More shadows appeared as Sora made a run for it. He jumped up and put the notch of the key on the bridge so he could swing forward. Two shadows jumped to try an ambush only for Sora to kick them away as he swung. Sora put his feet on the bottom of the bridge and using his momentum, he swung the Keyblade down and it moved like a pendulum in a clock, taking out any shadows on the sand. He put the notches on the bridge again, this time on the other side, so he could swing again, kicking away two shadows that made a leap at him. Sora swung himself up landing on the bridge and while the two shadows he kicked were recovering leaped off the bridge with a four hundred and fifty degree spin and slashed the two with the Keyblade when he landed.
When more shadows appeared on the beach, they all made a leap at Sora. Sora jumped and while he was in the air, he kicked one shadow, did one kick behind him at another shadow and turned to kick away a third shadow, and then, he did a diagonal spin around with his sword out to slash a shadow behind him and a shadow in front of him, brought the Keyblade up and stuck in a shadow above him, did a three hundred and sixty degree spin with the sword out to slash shadows all around him and finally, stuck his sword below him like a spear and when he landed on one knee, the Keyblade slashed a shadow that was on the ground. He then jumped up and did a back flip onto the dock where three shadows leaped up after him. Sora swung his Keyblade up slicing one shadow as he jumped into the air, slashed a shadow in the air with a downward swing of the blade and finished the combination by slashing a third shadow as he landed on the dock.
"All these creatures just keep on coming. Good thing I have this Keyblade with me, or I'd have been mincemeat," Sora thought in his mind. He wiped the sweat off his face and took a few deep breaths. All this fighting really gave him an adrenaline rush. Sora gasped with a terrible thought as her remembered something, "Wait! I still haven't found Kairi yet in all the commotion!" Sora saw the latter that led up to the hut, "Maybe she's up there."
Sora ran up to the latter and climbed it until he made it to the top, on the wooden ramp. Unfortunately for him, more shadows appeared up top. Sora snarled in annoyance at these things popping up and not leaving him alone. One shadow leaped at Sora and tried to scratch him. Sora put the Keyblade up to a horizontal base and the claw of the shadow clashed with the weapon making a loud clang sound. Sora swung at the shadow, only for the shadow to go into the ground, avoiding it. It crawled around in different directions almost confusing Sora until it came back up. Sora did a split-legged jump over the shadow, but before he could do anything else, another shadow appeared and tried to claw him. Sora jerked his body away from the attack, but started losing his balance from being on the edge of the ramp. The two shadows jumped at Sora, who while surprised, slipped and fell off the ramp letting out a scream of worry. He managed to hold on the edge with his left hand.
Sora looked down and gasped in surprise to see it was a long way down to the ground. He could see his feet dangling in midair as he hung on. If he wasn't careful, he could seriously hurt himself, or worse! One of the shadows on top stuck its claws right into Sora's hand, making the boy cringe from the sharpness digging through his glove and into his skin. Sora had to find a way to get back up as his current position gave him the best chance to fall. Thinking fast, Sora threw the Keyblade up in the air so that his right hand was free and punched the shadow right in the face, getting its claws off his hand in the process. He put his hand down on the ledge and swung himself up to give the second shadow a kick to the jaw, knocking it into the first shadow. He caught the Keyblade in his right hand and horizontally slashed the two shadows into nothingness.
Sora ran into the hut and looked in all four corners to see if Kairi was inside. To his disappointment, all he found were four more shadows. He was surrounded as he stayed in his fighting stance to await their attacks. The four of them all went into the ground. Sora stood his ground, ready to strike the first shadow that appeared back out. Once one of them did, Sora attacked with the Keyblade. However, the shadow jumped away, and another shadow came back up in its place clawing Sora in the stomach. Sora groaned as he keeled over, leaving himself open for a third shadow to kick him in the jaw. Sora hit the wall hard in the corner. His head bounced off the wall on the exposed wood. Sora hoped he didn't get a concussion. The fourth shadow leaped right at Sora while he was down. The boy saw this and ducked his head. The shadow stuck its claws right into the wall and was now on it like a bug.
Sora rolled himself up into the second corner, and ducked another shadow leaping at him. That shadow was now clawed into the wall. Sora was in the third corner and ducked from the next shadow, leaving it stuck on the wall. In the last corner, he ducked the last shadow and the results were the same, stuck to the wall. Sora looked around him to see all four shadows stuck in the wall. He smirked now that all of them were wide open for him to attack. Sora slashed at the first shadow with a crisscross down its back to get rid of it, then put his feet on the wall to jump to the opposite corner and slashed the next shadow, next, he did a cartwheel on the wall to the third corner. After slashing that shadow, he jumped to the ceiling, pushed his hands against it, pushed himself off, stuck the Keyblade into the final shadow to defeat it, and flipped over to land on his feet.
"Thank goodness for fast reflexes," thought Sora as he smiled in victory. That smile quickly turned into a frown as he didn't find Kairi, "Well, she's not in here. I know! I'll try the secret place! That's probably the best place she could hide from these shadow freaks."
Sora exited the hut and to make sure he was right, went to the wooden rooftop. No sign of Kairi, just more shadows. Sora did a three hundred and sixty degree spin with the Keyblade out, which slashed each shadow back to where they came from. Sora then went back to the latter and climbed down to the lower level. He ran into more shadows along the way. He ducked one that made a leap for him, jumped over another one spun away from a third, and was almost to the secret place when he tripped over one shadow he didn't see and stumbled into the spring. His impact made a splash in the water. Sora tried to get up, but shadows started to pile on top of him one after the other. Sora struggled to try to get up, but the weight of the piling shadows was starting to become too much to the point where he had trouble keeping his head above the water. He took a deep breath as he went under and tried to think of a strategy. If he didn't soon, he would run out of air and drown.
Sora put both hands on the Keyblade, turned it around so the notch was facing the ground and stuck it right into the surface. Sora stuck his hands out of the water and grabbed the handle with both of them. Sora got his head out of the water and gasped for air. He slowly pulled himself towards the Keyblade trying to slide out of the pile of shadows on top of him. He put both hands on top of the bow and pushed himself straight up. The sudden movement knocked the shadows off. Sora then got the Keyblade loose and slashed each shadow, which resulted in some splashing when the Keyblade hit the water. With the last shadow defeated Sora got out of the spring and shook himself wildly since he was all wet. He looked over to his right to look at the secret place, and gave a double look to see something strange. It was a door! The same door he saw in his dream.
"I don't remember this door being here! If it's trying to keep me out, it won't work! I need to find Kairi!" Sora thought determined.
Sora put both hands on the handles and pulled the door open. Once inside, he ran down the long tunnel to the secret place and he finally found who he was looking for.
"Kairi!" he called, "There you are! I've been looking all over for you!"
Sora was relieved to find Kairi alright and unharmed…or so he thought. Kairi slowly turned around to look at Sora with droopy eyes and looked weak and pale.
"Sora…" was all she could say.
Sora looked with a concerned face, "Kairi, are you okay?"
Kairi put up her hand and looked like she was reaching out to Sora. All of a sudden, the wooden door burst wide open and let in a very strong gust of wind. The wind knocked Kairi into the air and she was flying straight towards Sora. Sora put his hands out to catch her when she got towards him, but, to his surprise, Kairi's body went right through him and vanished. Sora was left with a stunned look at what just transpired.
"I felt like I just saw a ghost," Sora thought in his mind.
The gust of wind got strong enough that he sent him flying through the tunnel he came in from.
"Ouch!" Sora cried as he landed on his stomach, "Huh?" Sora wasn't sure where he was at first, but upon further inspection, he realized he wasn't on his island anymore, but what's left of it, "Whoa!" it was a platform high up in the sky with scattered wood and plants from the apparent destruction. The dark sphere was right there above, with energy sparking out. Sora didn't have time do think about what happened to his island, because he sensed something right behind him. He gasped in shock at what he saw. It was Darkside, the same black monster from his dream!
"What the…what are you doing here?" Sora asked the monster, pointing to it.
Darkside simply looked down at the boy. The same glowing yellow eyes, same wavy hair, and the same sinister look on his face. Sora was now in the same spot he was in his strange dream, only this time, it was real.
Sora looked to the left and right of him to make sure if there was any way out. Sadly, there wasn't.
"Were you the one that trapped me here?" Sora asked nervously.
Darkside slowly moved forward. All it had on its mind was one thing, and that was the boy. Having no choice in the matter, Sora got into a fighting stance and drew the Keyblade into his hands.
"I guess you want to fight me for real? Well, I'm not in the best moods right now since I have no idea what's happening," Sora told Darkside, standing bravely, "But I know who I can take it out on!"
The battle was on! Sora against Darkside, for real!
Sora charged at Darkside's hand. He remembered that in his dream, Darkside would be harmed by striking the hands. Sora was ready to swing, when Darkside brought up its hand out of Sora's reach. The only thing Sora struck at was air. He almost tripped, but regained his balance. Darkside bent down and collected energy in the form of a dark sphere. Sora knew what this attack was, and charged right at his hand as Darkside slammed its fist into the ground, making a dark pool. Sora jumped over the initial shockwave, and was about to strike, when a shadow came out of the pool and tried to scratch him.
Sora brought up the Keyblade, clashing with its claw, and gave it the old one-two crisscross attack. He slashed another shadow in his way, and did a diagonally slashed it to make it disappear. Then he did a slash across to defeat two more shadows. He got knocked down by a shadow that jumped and landed on his back. He pushed himself up, only for a second shadow to knock his head face first into the sand. Sora spit out the sand out of his mouth and pushed himself up. The two shadows leaped to him and Sora jumped at them. He did an upward slash with his one hand at the first shadow, and hit a downward slash at the second shadow. While Sora was still in the air, he threw the Keyblade like a dart and it made quick work of the two shadows. Sora landed on his feet took the Keyblade into his hands.
Darkside got on its knees and after crossing its arms in an X like shape, bent backwards to stick its chest out, exposing its heart shaped cut on its chest. Sora knew what this move was, too, and stood his ground. The heart shape glowed and shot out a beam that homed in on Sora. Sora knocked it away with a swing of his Keyblade. Darkside shot out a second beam, which Sora knocked right back at Darkside's face, making the monster scream in pain. It shot out three beams at Sora, knowing at least one of them would hit. Sora had other plans, however. He jumped up to avoid the first two beams, and swing the Keyblade to knock away the third beam. After that, he charged at Darkside's hand and attacked it with nine strikes. Darkside picked up its hand and held it in hurt.
"If he's supposed to hit me with the same moves like he did in my dreams, this will be a piece of cake," Sora thought with confidence.
But then, Darkside bent down its knees again, and put its right hand on the ground.
"Hey! What's he doing?" Sora thought in confusion.
Darkside stuck its left arm deep into the ground. It looked like it was reaching for something. When it pulled its arm out of the ground, he now had a giant sphere and stood back up. Darkside slapped the sphere with its free hand and it got thrown up into the air. Now it was raining little blobs of energy.
"Well, that's new," Sora said surprised.
Sora was distracted looking at the rain of blobs come down that one energy blob landed on him and made him cry out at how much it hurt. Sora kneeled over to one knee and tried to shake off the bad feeling from the blob. He panted and looked up to see another blob coming down towards him. Sora got up and ran away as the blobs kept falling around. Sora almost got one in front of him, and ran the other direction. He gave a swing of the Keyblade and one, causing it to disappear. He jumped and slashed away another blob, and when he landed on his feet, he spun away from a third blob. Sora stopped and saw that no more blobs were falling. Darkside stuck out its right hand and collected more dark energy, ready to slam its fist down into the ground. Sora snapped his fingers as he thought of another way to attack its head.
Darkside slammed its fist, and while it was in the ground, Sora jumped up onto Darkside's arm and ran up towards its face. This gave him easy access to slash it, which he did. Sora slashed it again, and again, and a fourth time. Each time, dark dust and particles would tear off. Darkside put its free hand to its face to tend its wounds. It stood back up, causing Sora nearly to lose his balance. He quickly got up on Darkside's shoulder and held on tight. When Darkside stopped, Sora looked down and gasped at how high he was.
"I must be crazy! I could get killed if I fall from this high up!" Sora exclaimed in his thoughts.
Darkside was able to see Sora out of the corner of its eye. It brought its left hand up and swatted at Sora like he was a bug. Sora quickly jumped up and all the hand swatted was the shoulder. Sora landed on the hand and grinned at the big mistake Darkside just made. Sora swung the Keyblade down like a golf club, slicing the hand. Darkside let out a monstrous roar from the punishment. It took its hand off the shoulder quickly as it roared, which caused Sora to jump and stay on the shoulder since he didn't want to slip by the movement. It tried to swat Sora with its other hand, but Sora jumped away again. Darkside was about to swat at Sora again. Sora saw one of Darkside's large hair strands and got an idea. When Darkside swatted again, Sora dove off the right shoulder and grabbed on to the hair. He swung across the back of Darkside's head by using the hair like a rope swing and landed on the left shoulder.
"Wait a minute," Sora thought out loud, "If I can do that from the back of its head…" Sora got a big grin on his face, "Time to rub it in this monsters face!"
Sora dove off the shoulder and grabbed on to a long strand of hair again, only this time, he was swinging in front of Darkside's face. He swung back and forth to build up a little steam and stuck the Keyblade out with his right hand. When he came back down, he slashed Darkside's face while he swung forward. Sora came back, swinging backward now, and swung the Keyblade behind him with another slash at the monsters face. Sora turned around to swing backward in the other direction, but this time, held out the Keyblade with his left hand and slashed the face. Sora swung forward again, slashing it the face once more. Darkside put both its hands on its face, grieving from all the chunks of darkness slashed off from the Keyblade. Sora stopped swinging and while still hanging on, joked in the face of his dangerous foe.
"Aw, what's-a-matter, big bad monster got a boo-boo face?" Sora asked in a mocking baby talk tone.
Darkside didn't find it very humorous as he took his hands off his face to reveal an emotionless glare at Sora for what he did. Sora's laughing at the monsters expense stopped, instead having an alarmed look while wondering what the giant was about to do. Darkside rolled its head around and around, picking up speed, which caused Sora to spin at a fast pace while still hanging on to the hair. Sora held on for dear life as he spun faster and faster like he was on a swing ride at the carnival. The boy was starting to feel dizzy and his facial skin was almost flapping from the fast wind. Darkside moved its head back causing Sora and the hair to go back a ways. Darkside then swung its head forward very hard. The hair Sora was on flung with Sora screaming along the way. Darkside snapped its head back and the whiplash effect caused the hair to slip out of Sora's hands.
"Yikes!" Sora screamed out.
He started to fall down to the sandy platform. He had to think fast to get out of this one. Seeing the Keyblade still in his hand, he decided to take a chance. Sora threw the Keyblade down, which made the blade stick right into the ground with its handle upward. Sora stuck out his feet with the hope that they would absorb the impact. Sora's feet landed on the top of the Keyblade and Sora squatted down, putting his hand on the bar that he held onto when he had the object in his hands. Sora whipped the sweat off his forehead and sighed.
"Scratch acrobat off of the list of things I could be when I grow up," Sora muttered to himself.
Sora was about to get up, but ducked a shadow leaping at him. Sora forgot about the shadows that appeared from the dark pool during the last time Darkside slammed its fist. Sora looked around and saw he was surrounded by shadows. Sora gripped the top of the Keyblade with both hands and flipped at a shadow to kick it. The shadow went into the ground to avoid Sora's foot. It went around to the other side and formed solid again, only for Sora to spin around and kick it down. Sora moved his hands around the Keyblade as he swung. He dropkicked one shadow, then put his feet on another, thrust himself off to spin kick a fourth shadow, then finished the combination by putting his feet back on the Keyblade, jumping off it and hitting the last shadow with a flying kick.
The shadows were slow to get up, but they managed to and started stalking Sora. Sora took the Keyblade out of the ground and went into a fighting stance. Three of them went into the ground scattered. Sora focused on the other two while they were still solid. He changed at on of them and swung his blade, only the shadow jumped away. Sora brought his weapon over his head to strike, but the shadow got to him first, scratching Sora's cheek with its claws. Sora cringed now with both sides of his face with scratch marks. The three shadows from the ground were solid again. Two of them scratched Sora's legs and the other scratched Sora's arm. Sora gritted his teeth and had tears coming down his eyes. He angrily glared at the shadows and in a fit of rage slashed each of them, wildly swinging the Keyblade.
With the shadows gone for the moment, Sora panted heavily from being in quite a battle. He thought he heard a noise and looked behind him. He gasped with worry seeing a beam heading toward him. He dodged it and looked at Darkside. It was on its knees sticking out the heart cut on its chest. It shot out three beams, which dove away from. He weakly started to get up, only to be knocked down by three more beams that hit him. Sora moaned as he fell. Darkside bent down and picked up Sora by the shirt and brought him up to his eye level. It looked like his work was done and Sora was easy pickings. Sora slowly opened his eyes, his vision blurry as he saw Darkside in front of him. Sora was running out of energy, so he did the only thing he could do.
He put his hand into his pocket, and pulled out one of the potions Kairi gave him. He put the top to his mouth and pulled off the cap with his teeth, spit out the cap and drank the liquid. He had used up the last bit of energy drinking the potion and when he was finished, his arm drooped down and the bottle fell out of his hand, breaking when it hit the ground. Sora could feel the inside of him recover, his energy coming back, and the scratch marks he got on his skin from fighting all the shadows disappear as if they were never there. He looked up at the monster with his famous grin now that he was at one hundred percent again.
"See ya!" was all he said before throwing the Keyblade at Darkside's face.
The Keyblade hit Darkside between the eyes causing it to let go of Sora. Since he wasn't that high up, he landed on his feet without too much worry. Darkside gutted through the pain with the Keyblade in its face as it bent down further to reach deep into the ground. Sora walked over to Darkside's face and took the Keyblade out.
"I'll take that, thank you," Sora politely acted.
Darkside pulled its arm out and had another sphere in its hand. Sora remembered what happened earlier and was now ready for the attack. The sphere was thrown up into the sky and blobs rained down. Sora ran around in a figure eight as they fell, so not to get hit again. He took this chance to charge to Darkside's hand. Sora let out a battle cry really loud with the Keyblade over his head until he slashed it hard. That did it, the final blow. Darkside felt its whole body go numb and wouldn't move. It just let the strong wind suck itself in to the sphere above. The winds got stronger and stronger with force. Sora was holding on to a wooden plank with his whole body floating getting blown away. Sora couldn't hold on much longer and his fingers slipped, letting go of the plank.
"Ah!" Sora cried out as he flew right into the abyss. Where was it going to take him? He was about to find out.
Man oh man! That was some action, eh, readers? And the Coyote stuff was funny, too, I bet. The reason I separated the shadow invasion into a separate chapter was because I wanted to extend it into a big action sequence and do some interesting things with Sora fighting with the Keyblade. While the fighting ended up kind of short, if I had added that on to the last chapter, I feel it would have been too long. I try to find a balance of making a chapter at least twenty pages long, so it wouldn't bee to short, but not so long as it would be too long. With that said, I decided to fill up a few pages with some more Looney Tunes scenes. Think of it as a "short subject" before the main presentation. That's all for now, I'll see you again with another chapter very soon.