Disclaimer: Wow! I got eight reviews on my last chapter. That's the most I've gotten so far on this story. Probably the most I've gotten ever for just one chapter in a story I've written. I guess I should be surprised, but then again, I AM writing a good story. May sound like I'm tooting my own horn, but, "Toot, toot!" And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: The chapter where Sora finally meets Daffy and Porky! How will they? When will they? Where will they? Don't be lazy and read the chapter, sillies…relax, I was just kidding. Seriously, go ahead and read on, you'll love the Heartless battles in it. Enjoy!
Chapter 5: Meetings and Revelations
While Leon and Yuffie took the unconscious Sora back to the hotel, the alleyway behind said building also had an occurrence, though not in a ruckus. The alley had several wooden crates and barrels stocked on one side. There was a lamppost on the side with the crates, plus several lamps on the building, which lit up the area. Balconies stuck out on the hotel, which were connected to the rooms, which doors and surrounding walls were designed just as they were on the inside of the hotel. One balcony had a table and chairs. Above the doors were rainbow colored designs. A couple of tanks with shallow water were in the brick ground with wooden caution signs. One tank led to the sewers and on the same end had a doorway that led back to the house that the Smurfs were living. Ropes hung above with several banners advertising various places in the town to shop and eat.
In walked Daffy and Porky, both of whom were still smoking the same cigarettes from earlier. As the doors closed behind them, Porky felt a little spooked out as he called out for anyone who might be there.
"Is anybody home?" Porky could hear his echo ring out in the area, "Anybody home…nybody home…body home…home…"
Daffy put a finger to his beak and shushed his curly tailed friend, "Don't be so loud! People in the hotel could be trying to sleep."
Daffy motioned with his hand to follow him. He and Porky walked down, but Porky couldn't help but feel this place would give anybody goose-bumps.
"Gee, its k-k-k-kind of scary," Porky mentioned.
"These are beautiful designs," Daffy observed while he looked around.
"D-d-do you really think Leon would be down here?" Porky asked unsure.
"Don't know, but if I were being as mysterious as he is, this looks like the kind of place I'd hang out," Daffy explained. Daffy stopped walking causing Porky to stop as well, "Hold on," Daffy looked behind him suspiciously, "I thought I heard something."
Porky looked around along with his friend to see if there was anything that could have made a sound, but didn't see a thing, "I d-d-d-don't see anyone here. Just makes this place creepy and a little dar-dar-dar-, s-s-s-spooky."
"Now this is no time to turn tail and run," Daffy scoffed, "There's nothing to be afraid of," that was until a hand tapped him on his shoulder. The duck all of a sudden got very nervous, "Unless someone's right behind me," and he inhaled a puff from his cigarette so deep, not only did the cigarette turn to ash, but it continued onto Daffy's body and he turned into ash as well, puffing into a pile! Daffy materialized back to normal and jumped up with an ear shattering scream before clamping on to Porky's back. He squeezed the pig so hard, Porky spat out his cigarette and it bounced back all around the end of the alley like a pinball before landing in the water leaving one last smoke cloud.
"Hey! W-w-what's the big idea? G-g-get off! I can't breath!" Porky struggled with his hands swinging wildly. He put his hands on his hips and looked back at Daffy with a dirty look, "D-d-daffy, w-w-what were you saying about not being scared?" All Daffy could do is give a big old grin with his teeth showing. Why a duck would have teeth, no one had any idea.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," a voice behind them apologized.
Daffy got off of Porky's back and turned around, as did Porky. Behind them was a young woman with vivid green eyes and long brown hair tied in a braid with a red ribbon. She wore a neck band tied in a bow, a pink dress that was buttoned down, silver bracelets on her left arm, a purple belt that was tied around her waist, and brown hiking boots. The two animals sighed with relief as it wasn't anything to fret about, but rather someone very sincere.
"Oh," Porky chuckled sheepishly, "Hello."
"Excuse me. Did Bugs Bunny send you?" asked the woman.
Daffy and Porky were surprised that a person unknown to them would know of the very rabbit they're looking for.
"Yes we are as a matt-matt-matter of fact. Why?" Porky asked curious.
"Tremendous!" the woman cheered, "It was important that I find you. Come inside the hotel with me. We need to talk."
"And why's that, gorgeous?" Daffy asked flirtatiously causing the woman to chuckle a bit.
"My name is Aerith and I'm a friend of Leon's," Aerith introduced.
"Leon!?" asked the duo in unison.
Aerith nodded before continuing, "He sent me to look for you thinking you'd be in town by now. Also, you should come into the hotel so I can tell you about the goings on around the districts. It's too dangerous to talk about it here," She motioned with her hand towards the hotel, "Follow me."
Porky and Daffy looked at each other and simply shrugged their shoulders. At this rate, finding a friend of Leon's was better than not finding him at all. Unbeknownst to them was that Leon was in the middle of other matters. Exactly what did happen to Sora after the duel in the first district? He was still unconscious not moving and all he could see was pitch black while his eyes were closed. Silence was broken when he thought he heard a familiar voice.
"Wake up, lazy bum. Come on," the voice said.
Sora quickly opened his eyes and looked around frantically, "What? What happened?" a small pain came to his head and he put a hand on it to ease it, "Oh, my head!" Must have gotten it from the fight he was in. The boy looked around with his vision still a bit blurry to notice he was in an unfamiliar room, "Where am I? How did I get in this room?"
Sora was sitting on a king sized bed with a tan colored bed spread, the wooden cornered end against the wall. A cupboard stood on the wall on the right side of the bed and on the left side stood a side table with a lamp. The room itself had an orange and tan color scheme on the walls as well as an orange yellow carpet on the floor. There was a dresser on the other side of the room and a few paintings most likely as part of the art display. A table with a hair stood in the middle. Tea cups and a tea pot sat on top. There were three doors in the room, one brown with a green exterior design surrounding it, one that led to the balcony, and one red, all with yellow shapes. A green cuckoo clock hung atop the door with the green surroundings, plus a few more lamps. There were also a few windows on the side that had red curtains with yellow tips, plus a couch against the wall, and a few lamps on the ceiling. Sora looked to his left and saw where the voice came from. It was Kairi standing right next to him, knuckles on her hips.
"Feeling any better?" Kairi asked with concern.
Sora couldn't believe it. His best friend was right here, alive and well. She must have checked in just recently.
"A little bit," Sora nodded answering her question.
"You probably have a lot of questions about those creatures that attacked you. They did it because they want their hands on the Keyblade," Kairi explained. Sora lifted his right knee up and rested his hand on it as Kairi continued, "But it's your heart they really want since you're the one wielding the Keyblade."
"Okay. That answers that question," Sora mumbled. He made a smile at his friend knowing she was alright, "As well as the question to where you went. Great to see you're okay, Kairi."
"Who in the world is Kairi? Do you have me mistaken for somebody else?" Kairi asked puzzled. Her voice then changed and sounded grown up, "I happen to be the great ninja Yuffie."
"Huh?" Sora asked wide eyed. He rubbed his eyes, and in a flash of light, in Kairi's place stood Yuffie bent down to Sora's eye level with her hands on her knees. Sora pointed at the stranger and said, "Hey! You're not my best friend!"
"Maybe not now, but I will be if you want to," Yuffie offered in her usual cute and happy-go-lucky demeanor.
Sora rubbed his eyes a little more to make sure he didn't get anymore visions that weren't really there, "I must not be fully woken up. I'm seeing things."
Yuffie put her hand on Sora's forehead and felt different parts around his face, "Hmm…I don't feel a fever. Sure you're okay?"
"Just a little dizzy," Sora reassured.
Yuffie put her hand off of Sora and looked behind her, "That last hit you gave him might have overdone it, Squall."
'Squall' just happened to be Leon, who walked into the room.
"My name is no longer Squall. It's Leon," Corrected Leon to Yuffie.
"It's you!" Sora pointed accusingly, "Come to pick another fight with me, pal!?"
Yuffie put her hands up and waved them in a 'calm down' motion at Sora, "No, wait! We can explain everything!"
Sora noticed his weapon leaning against the exterior surrounding the door Leon just walked in from, "The Keyblade…"
Yuffie walked with her back towards Sora with her fist on her hip and her finger up, "Yeah, about that. The reason we wanted to get it away from was so we could get those creatures of your back," Yuffie then faced Sora and put her other fist on her other hip before continuing, "Turned out to be the reason they could track you down."
Leon crossed his arms and picked up where Yuffie left off, "I apologize that it had to come to taking it by force to get it away from you, but taking it was only to conceal your heart from those things. Sadly, it won't work much longer."
Sora put his legs over the bed so he was in a better seating position to face Leon and Yuffie, "When you put it that way, maybe I should have gave it to you in the first place," Sora put his head down a bit guilty.
"Don't worry about it. Since I didn't tell you right away, I blame myself for it leading to that squabble we had," Leon explained. Sora lifted his head up feeling less guilty as Leon spoke more, "I still find it hard to believe out of all the people it could have gone to that you are the chosen one," Leon picked up the Keyblade and held it up to his side, after which, it disappeared and reappeared in Sora's hands, causing him to gasp in surprise. The teenager still wasn't used to that happening. Leon walked back towards Sora, "Well, you know what they say; beggars can't be choosers."
"I've had enough of all this small talk!" Sora demanded, getting impatient, "How's about telling me what's going on here?"
In the room next door, Aerith had just arrived with Daffy and Porky. The room itself had a white and red design all over the walls. A brown door with yellow shapes led to the outside balcony and next to it was a table with what looked like a gold jewelry box and a flower in a blue vase, plus a window next to it. There was a banner with writing on each side of the bed. A red door led to the hotel lobby and there were a few more paintings on the walls due to the art exhibit. Large lamps stood on the corners of the ceiling. A few cupboards were on the walls and a table stood with a blue jar on it. A shelf with various pots stood against the door that led to the room Sora was in right now. Next to the bed was a side table with another flower in a vase. The bed itself had poles on it to hang bed curtains. Aerith sat on the end of the bed while the Looney Tunes stood in front of her.
"Okay, now where do I begin?" Aerith asked herself thinking of a good place to start explaining, "First of all, what are your names?"
"Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, ma'am," Daffy introduced, "Now that we all know each other, what did you want to tell us?"
"Well Daffy, it's like this," Aerith began, "You must be familiar that there are more worlds out there besides your home and this town, right?"
"Of course," Daffy nodded.
Porky put his hands up to his mouth and spoke in a muffle, "B-b-b-but I heard they were kept secret."
"The reason they've been secret was since they were never connected before. Until now, that is," Aerith told the pig, "All of that changed once the Heartless entered the picture," Aerith closed her eyes in sorrow over the thought of it.
Back in the other room, Leon and Yuffie were telling the same things to Sora.
"Who are the Heartless?" Sora asked intrigued.
Yuffie sat next to Sora on the bed putting her weight on her arms and hands with one foot over the other, "Those black beings that kept attacking you, remember?"
Sora wished he hadn't and he spoke with some dry wit and sarcasm at Yuffie's question, "Um, how could I forget?"
Yuffie rubbed Sora's hair and giggled, "Come on, now. Don't get touchy about it," Sora smiled as he brushed her hand away.
"As the name suggests, they are beings that have no hearts," Leon pointed out.
"What attracts them is the darkness in people's hearts," Yuffie explained.
"And believe me when I say there is darkness within every heart," Leon said grimly.
"Even yours and mine have it?" Sora asked a bit uneasy.
"Every heart," Leon reiterated. Sora certainly didn't like the sound of that.
"By the way," Yuffie began as she turned her head to Sora, "Have you heard of somebody by the name of Ansem?"
The same question was told to Daffy and Porky in the other room.
"Ansem?" pondered Porky with his finger against his chin, "I don't seem to recal-cal-cal-doesn't ring a bell."
"He researched and studied the Heartless as well as their behavior," described Aerith. Daffy crossed his arms and tapped his foot thinking while Aerith talked, "All of his data and findings were kept in a report. Not to mention it was very detailed."
Porky held out his hand towards her, "W-w-where is it? Let's see it."
Aerith shook her head, "I don't have it with me. The pages are scattered all over."
"Scattered over where exactly?" Daffy asked while he uncrossed his arms and his foot stopped taping.
"There are too many worlds to think of where they could have gone to," Aerith responded.
Porky balled up a fist and put it in his hand. A thought had come to his head, "I'll b-b-bet Bugs left to go look for the p-p-papers," Daffy nodded in agreement at his friends theory.
"That is just what I was thinking," Aerith agreed.
"Th-th-then what are we waiting for? Let's go find him!" Porky said almost frantic.
"Hey, just one tarred and feathered minute," Daffy halted. The little black duck looked to notice the focus wasn't on him and whispered, "Psst, Porky, the webcam is out of focus."
"St-st-stand over here then while I g-g-go to your side," Porky whispered back. When they did so, the "camera" moved with Porky. The two Looney Tunes were confused, but went back to their original spots. The "camera", unfortunately started to trail off until Porky grabbed it with annoyance, "Hold still!" He moved the camera to a better position so it was focused on Daffy, but before continuing, Porky told you, the readers, "D-d-do not adjust your computer screen. It's alright n-n-now," he signaled to Daffy, "On with the story."
"We need that "key" first before we do anything else," Daffy reminded him.
"The Keyblade. That's right," Aerith said indicating she knew about the oddly shaped weapon.
Sora in the other room looked over his weapon with a new understanding of it, "So you're saying that this is the key?"
"Correct!" Yuffie nodded.
"The Heartless all have a great amount of fear of the Keyblade since it's a weapon that can destroy them all easily. I'm sure you know that already," Leon said walking away from Sora and Yuffie, "You should also know that it's the reason they'll keep trying to get you no matter what happens."
"Not like I asked for this or anything," Sora protested, "The Keyblade appeared in my hands out of thin air."
"The Keyblade has such magical power that it won't trust just anyone to be its master," Yuffie told Sora while keeping her head towards him, "It chose you like it or not."
"That's a tough break, kid," Leon said as he leaned against the door, crossing his arms and legs so all his weight was put on his right leg, "Learn to love it and learn to live with it."
Sora scratched his head trying to put all the pieces together, "There should be a reasonable explanation for how all this happened. First I remember being in my room…" Sora then gasped in fear when he remembered all that happened on back at his world "Hold it! What happened to my home world and island?" Sora looked around in a panic at what could have transpired, "For that matter, where are my friends Riku and Kairi?"
"You're asking the wrong people. I don't have a clue to what happened," Leon told him in sorrow with his eyes closed.
Sora put his head down and fell backwards on the bed arms stretched out above him, "Aw man! Now I know how a runaway feels like," he put his free hand over his face and started rubbing it, "Now what do I do? My friends are heaven knows where, my home is heaven knows what, this is NOT what I asked for when I planned to visit other worlds!" Sora put his hand back down and sniffled a bit, "Leon, Yuffie, I just feel like crying."
Yuffie lay back on the bed next to Sora and looked at him, patting his arm for comfort, "Aw, don't look at it that way. You'll just get glummer. Forget about being separated from home for now and think of yourself as on an adventure. Can you do that for me?"
Sora looked back at Yuffie's cheerful face and thought about what she said. It was something he certainly needed to hear. She seemed like the kind of girl to always make someone happy even when times were tough, and Sora was in a tough spot right now.
"Sorry, Yuffie, I guess I'm just a little scared. I've never been this far away from home before," Sora told the ninja.
"I don't blame you," Yuffie knew how it felt, "It's easy to get scared, but sooner or later you have to conquer your fears. Know what I mean?"
"Is that what you did when you came here?" Sora asked curiously. Yuffie nodded a bit and Sora made a joke, "You just saved yourself one wet bed pillow."
Yuffie laughed at the joke, "By the way, the Keyblade isn't just used for fighting. It can open all sorts of things. If you ever find a chest or a lock, try it out."
"Oh really?" Sora asked admiring his weapon again, "I could have some fun with this."
"Maybe, but be warned," Leon told Sora as the boy stood up on his feet, "The Heartless are bound to find you at any time. My suggestion would be to prepare yourself."
"Prepare myself for what?" asked Sora.
"To fight for your life. The Heartless and anyone who can control them will stop at nothing to destroy you, so use the Keyblade wisely," Leon advised, "Are you ready?"
Sora didn't have to think twice about it. No way was he going to let these Heartless take his heart and leave him for dead.
"Dude, I was born ready!" Sora declared.
Leon gave a small smile at him, "Now that's good to here," he got off the door and uncrossed his arms, "Yuffie, we should go join Aerith now. Wouldn't surprise me if she was with the other visitors right now."
Other visitors? This caught Sora's attention, but before he could say anything, Yuffie got to her feet and pointed.
"Leon!" She shrieked.
A Heartless wearing a helmet and knights armor appeared from a dark portal. This one was a common one known as a Soldier.
"Run, Yuffie! Get out of here!" Leon ordered taking charge of the situation.
"Hate to run out like this. What was your name anyway?" Yuffie asked quickly to Sora.
"Sora's my name!" Sora answered quickly.
"Bye, Sora!" after that, Yuffie quickly ran for the door.
Daffy on the other side heard all the noise and went up to the door, "Hey! What's all that racket?" The only answer he got was the door slamming in his face causing him to groan and send feathers flying.
Yuffie ran past with Aerith looking on concerned for her friend, "Yuffie, what's going on?" she asked going after her.
Sora gripped the handles of his Keyblade as Leon drew his Gunblade, "Guess you were right in them finding me."
"Let's go, Sora! It's show time!" Leon then gave a hard swing at the Soldier, making it crash threw the window into the alleyway. He then ran to the balcony, put his hand on the end of it and leaped off to the lower level.
"Wait for me!" Sora called as he ran out after Leon.
Porky meanwhile looked on at the door that smashed against his duckbilled companion, "D-d-daffy! Speak to me!"
The door opened to reveal Daffy flattened against the wall. Porky put his hands on Daffy and ripped him off the walls. The duck was flat as a piece of paper flapping in the wind. Speaking of which, Porky flapped Daffy like a rug and he snapped back to his full form before getting back on his webbed feet.
"Alright, where's the wise guy?" asked Daffy as he looked around in annoyance.
Porky pointed to the door that Yuffie and Aerith went out of, "Th-th-they went that-a-way!"
Daffy jumped up and ran in mid air for about two seconds before zooming off in a flash. Porky's feet ran in a cycle motion for the same length of time before zooming off following Daffy.
Outside, Leon and Sora had Soldiers surrounding them.
"I don't suppose you know why they're here," Sora assumed.
"Leave the small fry's alone. Find wherever the leader Heartless is and stop it. That should stop them for a good amount of time. I'll be in the first district making sure it's clear. Check the second and third districts. Let's move!" and with that, Leon put his sword over his shoulder and ran for it.
Sora still had the four Soldiers to deal with and practically dared them to come near him, "You want the Keyblade, freak shows? Don't sing it," he made a 'come here' gesture with his hand, "Bring it!"
The Soldiers all ran up to Sora. Sora clashed with each one of their claws with the Keyblade as they aimed to scratch. One tried punching at Sora, to which the boy jerked his stomach away from, but another dashed at him and smacked him down. Instead of hitting the ground, Sora somersaulted backwards and rolled up to his feet. Sora rubbed his chest from the blow, and charged at the Heartless. The Keyblade holder swung at one who jumped away. What it didn't count on was Sora using his weapon as if he was pole-vaulting. Sora did this by putting on the ground and lunging himself to kick the Heartless into the water making a splash. One of the other Soldiers sent a wheel kick that Sora dodged, then another dashed at him, who he jumped away from, but the last one did a spin kick and got Sora in the chin.
Sora twisted his body going down so he was facing the ground. When his hands landed on the floor, he pushed himself back up to his feet. After that, Sora elbowed the Heartless behind him, gave it a back-kick to the chest, and horizontally slashed it away. Using his free hand, he punched a second Soldier in the jaw and vertically slashed it down. A third Heartless dashed at Sora, who was one step ahead and did a flip in the air, slashing the Soldier in the back which made it hit the ground hard. Coming down with split legs, Sora slashed the fourth one and landed on his feet, finishing with a diagonal slash at the Soldier to knock it down. While it was on the ground, Sora slashed that Heartless and it was defeated, sending a heart into the air.
"One down, three to go!" Sora noticed the other Soldiers getting up.
The first Soldier tried to dash at Sora, but Sora slashed it to stop the attack. Then the other two did a spin kick each. Sora swung the Keyblade at one and the impact made it crash into the other, sending one to the ground and the other one against the wall. Sora stuck the Keyblade into the chest of the one on the ground, getting rid of it, put his feet up against the hotel, jumped off aiming for the one against the wall, stuck the Keyblade into that one to finish it off, and jumped off that wall up to the ropes with all the banners. Sora hung onto the rope, threw the Keyblade down like a spear at the final Heartless. The Soldier looked up in the air, got the Keyblade stuck right in its face causing it to roar in agony. Sora let go of the rope, landed on the ground, and when he grabbed the Keyblade, he slashed the Soldier in half, finishing the battle.
Sora put his guard down and thought quietly to himself, "Don't deal with anymore lesser Heartless. Got to find that leader Leon mentioned. I know! I haven't been to the third district yet! I'll check there!"
Sora ran over to the door to the second district, noticing more Soldiers appearing.
"Sorry, I can't bother with you right now," Sora taunted sticking out his tongue.
Sora quickly opened the door and slammed it in the face of a Soldier that tried to attack him. Three more appeared before the young man. Sora jumped up on the top of one of the bell signs of the fountain, leaped over to the second one, and then the third one, jumped off, started running on the railing up. When he got to the top, he got off it and landed in the trail between two buildings. That was the way to lead him to the third district. Sora ran down and made a sharp right, seeing a door at the end. A Soldier and four Shadows appeared right in front of him. When the Soldier made a leap at Sora, Sora continued running and did a baseball slide right under it. Getting between the four Shadows, he did a cartwheel and ran right to the door and went through it.
"That wasn't so hard," Sora smiled with pride. He drew his Keyblade out, "Now to find that leader!"
The third district had various blends of colors and had probably the most neon lights of all three of the districts. Lights, much like the first district were hung like Christmas lights. More buildings and houses with windows you'd see in a church were around as well. On the lower level, there were several lampposts with red banners hanging on them. A pipe with a broken circuit stood behind barriers and had a sign with lights in the shape of lighting bolts on the wall above it. A large neon lit star was on the wall next to it. Two large wooden doors stood in the middle, no doubt the ones that led to the first district. The doors had a small keyhole on the wall that would most likely unlock it. There was even a green and yellow lit picture of a moon and stars on the wall. There was also another walk way, and on the corner of it on the lower level was a golden plated fountain with a statue of a Moose and Squirrel. The text read, "Rocky and Bullwinkle".
While Sora ran off to the bottom level, Porky and Daffy were on a rooftop above. Porky looked down below impressed, "Gosh! What a nice v-v-vie-you can see the whole district from up here."
"My point exactly, we could find the Keyblade much faster this way," Daffy mentioned, "Now keep looking!"
Porky thought he heard something behind him, but it wasn't Daffy. It was something dark. The pig looked behind him to see two Soldiers appear in front of him and his fine feathered friend. Daffy and Porky both drew out weapons to defend themselves. Daffy had a bow along with a supply of arrows hanging in a container strapped to his back while Porky had a quarter staff, but more used for defense rather than attacking.
"I have a feel-feel-feel-a hunch that these are the Heartless," Porky assumed gripping his staff.
"Obviously, so let's get 'em, Porky!" Daffy shouted with determination.
Daffy pulled an arrow out and readied it in the bow, pulling the string back to shoot the projectile right at his targets. Unfortunately, when the arrow was shot and hit the Heartless, an explosion occurred that sent both him and Porky screaming off the roof. They recovered quickly in time enough for them to notice they were in midair. Daffy took a quick glance at you, the readers before falling.
"IEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Daffy screeched as gravity caught up with him.
Porky also shot a glance at you, the readers before his body feel, stretched his neck a bit, and his head fell with it. Sora was now in the middle of the district keeping his eye out for that leader when he heard someone yelling.
"What's that sound?" Sora asked himself.
When he looked up, he saw two figures falling from the sky. Sora panicked and started to run away, but it was no use. Daffy and Porky fell right on top of Sora and they hit the ground hard on their stomachs.
"Oof!" they all said in unison.
Sora groaned and gritted his teeth at the sheer weight of Daffy and Porky falling on him like that. Daffy squished his eyes shut moaning. Stars were spinning around his head with little bubbles popping. Porky was so dazed that his pupils were spinning around in his eyes in different directions from each other, and also had stars spinning above his head with bubble pops. Daffy and Porky blinked a few times to get their focus back and their eyes widened at a discovery.
"The key!" Both said when they saw the Keyblade in Sora's hand, stuck out of the pile.
Sora looked on both sides of him to see who landed on him, "What hit me?" he quickly moved his head quickly back and forth to make sure he wasn't seeing things again. Two animals fell right on top of him, "You know I've heard of it raining cats and dogs, but never pigs and ducks."
"Hated to drop in on you like that, kid," Daffy apologized.
Sora gasped. This was the third time in the evening he's met talking creatures other than humans, "You can talk!"
"J-j-just be thankful I don't have wings," Porky joked. Then he glared at Daffy, "Speaking of w-w-which, how come you didn't remember you can f-f-fly?"
Daffy's eyes glared back in annoyance, "Yoo-hoo! I'm wearing long sleeves! It's covering up a good amount of the feathers in my wings!" Sora winced at Daffy's saliva splashing on his face. Daffy took notice and quickly wiped it off with his hand, "Oops. Sorry."
Rumbling was starting to be heard and the whole district started to shake causing the three to move their heads up to get a better view.
"What is this, an earthquake?" Sora asked.
As soon as he said that, rectangular pillars started to rise from the ground, blocking any way the three could get out. It was a trap! Heartless Soldiers appeared on top of the pillars and six surrounded Sora, Daffy and Porky.
Daffy jumped up to his feet in alarm, "It's an ambush! IT'S AN AMBUSH!"
Sora and Porky also got to their feet and all three drew their weapons.
"Limbo anybody?" Porky jokingly said at the Soldiers. Then he hit one with his staff, "Have a nice t-t-trip," and the Soldier fell to the ground, "See you n-n-next fall."
Daffy put an arrow in his bow and aimed it at the Heartless, "Shot through the heart! Oh, that's right. You don't have any to shoot!" he taunted. Next he shot the arrow, which materialized into a fireball. The Heartless ran so it would miss them, "Play with fire and you're bound to get burned!"
"Uh, excuse me?" Sora asked trying to get Daffy and Porky's attention.
"I've seen b-b-better…" Porky didn't get the chance to finish the joke since Sora interrupted.
"Excuse me!" Sora yelped.
"What!?" Daffy snapped with a groan.
"I don't know what's worse, the fact that we're trapped or you guys doing puns," Sora scoffed.
"We're c-c-comedians," Porky mentioned.
"I don't see you coming up with any witty banter," Daffy accused. As he was about to shoot another arrow, Sora interrupted again.
"Wait a minute!" this caused Daffy's hand to let go of the bow instead, and the wooden part collided in his face. The impact caused the ducks beak to bend back in an upward position. Sora tried his hardest to compress his laughter at the stranger's situation.
Daffy put both his hands on his beak and pushed it down to straighten it back, "Don't break my concentration while I'm concentrating. Now what is it?"
Sora still got a giggle in as he tried to talk, "Sorry. I was just wondering how that arrow turned into a fireball."
Daffy turned around so his back was facing Sora and pointed at the label on the arrow container, "Acme element materializing arrows. Just aim, shoot and it turns into an elemental projectile as if by magic. Only by Acme, for fifty years, the revolutionary force in handy gadgets and devices."
"Wow!" Sora said impressed.
"A little help here!" Porky shouted worried. He was being chased by all six Soldiers while Sora and Daffy were talking. Porky had his staff out in front of him while he was walking, but kept looking back at the Heartless gaining on them, not realizing that he was about to run right into the wall. The staff got to the wall first and as Porky started running forward, it bent like it was made out of a stretchy material instead of wood. The reflex effect finally caught up, causing it to bend back straight, sending Porky flying backwards and colliding with the Heartless. The Heartless fell like bowling pins, even sounded like pins as they got hit.
Sora and Daffy witnessed it all. Sora looked at Daffy to ask, "Is that staff made out of wood or rubber?"
"Haven't you ever heard of a rubber tree?" Daffy asked back. A sound of a drum and cymbal rim shot echoed after the joke.
Sora rolled his eyes, "Forget I asked."
Porky got up and dusted himself off, and all three got into fighting stances being as they were surrounded by Heartless.
"Since we all want to get rid of the Heartless, let's work together," Sora told the two animals, studying the Heartless carefully to figure out the best scenario, "Split up and take a group of two. Move now!"
Sora, Daffy and Porky charged at the enemy. Daffy took his bow in one hand and arrow in another as he stared down at two Soldiers. They tried to scratch the duck with their claws. Daffy blocked one with the bow, and the other with the arrow. Next, he jumped, put one foot on each Soldier, and leaped away to get a good distance. The first Soldier caught up with him when it dashed at Daffy, and wheel kicked him in the back making him stumble. The second Soldier tried the spin kick move, but Daffy spun away to avoid and gave the Heartless a kick of his own. While the Soldier was down, Daffy readied his bow and was about to shoot the arrow at close range until the other Soldier dashed and scratched Daffy in the back, causing him to yelp. Turning around, Daffy stuck the arrow head in the Soldiers face. He pulled the arrow out and tripped the Heartless with his bow.
"I need more distance to shoot my arrows or keep one of them down long enough," Daffy thought in his mind.
He set the bow on the ground and then put his feet against the string and his hands both on the wood part. Once he stretched long enough, Daffy launched himself, taking the bow with him. He tackled down one Soldier, and then he flipped over on his feet, readied the arrow at the other Heartless and shot it. With the arrow turning into a fireball, the second Soldier jumped away, but the one getting up wasn't so lucky and got hit, burning to smithereens. Daffy took out another arrow, and the Soldier was about to dash again. When it did, Daffy bent backwards, kicked the Heartless into the air with both feet, got to his feet and shot the arrow into the air. Another fireball formed and it hit the Heartless making the creature vanish in defeat.
Porky had two shadows on each side of him. Both tried to claw him, and Porky took the chance to put his staff horizontal, so both ends got caught in the Heartless' claws. Like a gymnast, Porky jumped and flipped over while still holding the staff, and when he landed on his feet, he did a sweep kick to knock one Soldier down, and then spun the staff at the other to trip it. The Soldier that got knocked down came back up with an upwards back rake at Porky, causing him to wince. The other Soldier spin kicked Porky in the face causing him to spin to the ground hard. Porky got up to his knees, put the tip of his staff on the ground so it was vertical, spun up while still holding on, and finished with putting the staff between the legs of one Soldier, lifting it up and sending it bumping into the other.
Porky wiped his forehead, "Whew! W-w-what a challenge."
The challenge continued as both Heartless got back to their feet. One did a dash, to which Porky put his staff vertical again and jumped away from. The other Heartless tried to get Porky has he came back down, but when Porky fell to the ground, he did a split legged landing, where one leg was in front and another leg was behind him, to duck from the attack. Porky twirled back up to face the Soldiers again. The staff clashed with the claws of one Soldier, and Porky slid his body under the staff and kicked the other one. While it was off the ground Porky stuck the staff right into its face to defeat it and when he got back up, tripped the other Soldier with the staff and stuck the staff into the Soldiers chest, defeating that one as well.
Sora stood his ground against the two Soldiers he had to face. A dash attack from the first one caused Sora to jump away to the second Soldier and block its dash attack with the Keyblade. While the Soldier was stunned, Sora hit a diagonal slash, his Keyblade making crackling noises when he hit the armor. The first Soldier wrapped its arms around Sora from behind and Sora struggled to get free. The second Soldier looked for a free shot in and tried a kick. Sora just fell to the ground and not only avoided the kick, but also landed hard on the Soldier holding him, causing it to let go. When Sora got back up, he slashed the second Soldier vertically. Trying to charge at it some more, Sora's legs got grabbed by the first Soldier, which caused him to trip and fall on his stomach. Sora turned around and struggled with his feet to get free. He made the Soldier leg to by holding on to the notch part of the Keyblade and hitting the Soldier in the face with the bow.
"And stay off!" Sora spat.
Sora got back to his feet again. The first Soldiers claws clashed with Sora's weapon. The second Soldier was coming for the boy, but Sora was a step ahead and swung the Keyblade around clockwise to slash it. While it was open, Sora put his left hand on the notch and held the blade like a sledgehammer before thrusting the notch into the Soldiers face. The Soldier fell on the ground as a result. Swinging the Keyblade up, he turned around and hit the other Soldier in the shoulder causing it to fall down, too. Sora put his Keyblade up in a stance and looked like he was waiting for them to get back up.
"Wait for it…Wait for it…" Sora kept saying to himself. The Heartless slowly got back to their feet, but once they did, "Now!"
Sora gave a spin and one hard swing finished both Soldiers off. Sora, Daffy and Porky regrouped and looked around to see if anymore wanted to stand up to them. Once the coast was clear, they withdrew their weapons.
"You two really have some skills," Sora complimented.
"W-w-we're not surprised by your skill. You are the K-k-keyblade master after all," Porky said.
"Hold on, the Keyblade Master is a kid? I'm out of here!" Daffy threw his bow to the ground and stomped off.
"Hey, c-c-come back here!" Porky ordered, trying to stop Daffy.
"What's wrong with me being a kid?" Sora asked, feeling a little hurt by that comment.
Daffy came back with a piece of paper in his hands, "My twenty year contract that I renewed several years ago states that I will no longer work with children!"
Daffy put the contract in front of Sora for him to read, "The party known as Daffy do herby claim that…" Sora started reading quietly to himself until he found something in the paragraph, "But it says here that it's only for motion pictures."
This caused Daffy to slap his forehead frustrated, "Must all contracts have their loopholes?"
The mention of motion pictures caught Sora's attention, "Motion pictures? Do you guys make movies?"
Porky and Daffy gave Sora blank looks. After a blinking a few times, Porky spoke first, "You've never heard of us? We're part of the world famous L-L-Looney Tunes."
Daffy started to act like his arrogant side, "You should consider it an honor to have two celebrities in your mist."
While the thought having celebrities in front of him did make Sora excited, he had to contain that excitement for now until he finds what he was looking for, "As much as I'd like to, I'm trying to find the leader of all the Heartless in this town."
Sora started walked over to the middle of the district, and Daffy walked closer with curiosity, "Any idea what it may look like?"
Sora and Daffy looked up at the sky and noticed something was falling down. They were purple colored metal body parts. A torso, two hands and two feet that hit the ground, bounced up and spun around until the hands and feet somewhat attached to the body and stood on the ground. The gang noticed there was an emblem on its chest, it was a Heartless alright. A helmet came down and finished what was known as Guard Armor.
Porky's knees started to shake at the site of the large monstrosity, "I think he m-m-might be it!"
Daffy took out a ruler and did a comparison to how tall he was compared to the much larger Guard Armor. After thinking about it for a second, he pulled out a bag and said, "So along, sucker!" before putting it over the helmet.
"Hoo-hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo!" Daffy said in his Looney hopping up and down routine. Dashing away from the Heartless, he now had a large pile of suitcases in his hands and Porky and Sora placed on top of the pile. Unfortunately, he ran into one of the barriers, the collision made him shake with a cymbal sound, "Whoops! Forgot about being trapped in here."
The collision also made him leg go of the suitcases, which dropped to the ground followed by Porky landing on his chest and Sora landing on Porky!
"At least I landed on something soft," Sora said with relief.
"Are you implying something?" Porky asked thinking it was another pig joke.
Guard Armor pulled the bag off its head before it walked closer to the three ready to attack. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. What were our heroes to do? Sora felt nervous as he got off of Porky. Another giant monster was going to attempt to kill him, but with the Keyblade and two new allies, his chances were probably greater than they would be if he was alone.
"We don't have a choice in the matter. Come on, let's take this freak out!" Sora said bravely.
Porky (who got up) and Daffy stood with their weapons drawn, realizing they were left with no other option. Guard Armor started its assault by backing its hands up.
"Duck!" Sora said dropping down.
"I'm right here," Daffy said thinking Sora was referring to him.
"No, I meant drop!" Sora corrected.
Daffy and Porky both did as Sora said. Guard Armor spun its hands around at a fast speed. The three could feel the wind of the hands, the claws just barely missing their backs. Once that was over, the heroes stood back up. Daffy put another arrow in his bow and shot it, and it resulted in a fireball to its right foot. Porky jumped up and hit the right hand with his staff, while Sora did two Arial slashes to the left hand then finished the combo with a slash to the left foot. Guard Armor jumped up and twirled until it collided with the ground. A shockwave formed and knocked the heroes back, the three hitting the ground a few times before stopping. Its hands detached and started floating in the air. Making two fists, the hands tried to punch the heroes. Porky ducked, Daffy jumped away and Sora dodged then knocked the right hand with the Keyblade.
The hand fell on the ground, to which the other hand had to tap on it to get its attention, and it got up just before Sora could slash it. Daffy readied another fire arrow as the hands flew counter clockwise in the air, but missed the shot. Fists balled up again, they went for a punch each, both of which Porky deflected with his staff. The next one-two punch was blocked by Sora bringing up his Keyblade. The second fist and Sora got into a struggle with Sora pushing back with both his hands on each side of his weapon. Sora saw Daffy with another fire arrow ready, and backed out of the struggle so Daffy had a clear shot. The fireball hit the hand dead on.
"Nice shot!" Sora smiled.
"Yeah, I had pretty big target," Daffy said confident.
The hands tried another punch attempt. Daffy and Porky jumped to avoid, and then grabbed onto the hands as they got back in the air. As the two Looney Tunes went for a ride, Sora saw the feet had also detached and was stomping right to him. Sora ran as the feet got closer. Stuck in a corner, Sora turned to see the feet right in front of him. The left foot went for a stomp, but Sora jumped away and grabbed onto the right foot. The right foot did a football kick shaking Sora off and sending the boy flying. Sora noticed the fountain up ahead and stuck his feet out to land on top. Seeing the feet walk over to him, Sora hopped down, stuck the notch of the Keyblade on a lower bar, so he would be hanging, then swung off to grab a pole and slide down. With the feet right in front of him, he landed on one foot and slashed it down, while he blocked the other foot trying to stomp him and knocked that one down as well.
Sora gave a vertical, diagonal, horizontal slash combo to both feet before the feet hopped back up. The feet and hands reattached themselves to the torso. Daffy jumped off of the hand he rode and got on top of the head. From there, he put the string part of the bow in front of it and pulled it back. This caused Guard Armor to shake around.
"Drip Along Daffy rides again! Yee-haw!" Daffy chanted like he was riding a mechanical bull.
Porky leaped off the hand and started running around the torso. Daffy's distraction caused the armor to move up and down so Porky didn't have to worry about falling. He hit the left hand with his staff and then ran and hit the right hand with the staff, following up by sticking the staff into the left foot coming down, landing, and finally, hitting the right foot. Daffy's distraction didn't last any longer for the head sling shot the duck off sending him flying right into Sora. The two rolled on the ground, and Porky joined them as he got hit by another hand spin attack. The three were slow to get up and Daffy and Porky each took out a potion to drink, and even gave one to Sora. Finished with their drinking, they looked back at Guard Armor.
The feet went right on top of Daffy and Porky, keeping them down. The hands meanwhile grabbed a hold of Sora and brought him up to the helmeted head, which gave the boy a head-butt. Sora hit the ground hard and slid on his back. Porky grabbed hold of his staff and stuck it under the foot and tried to lift it up. Tried he did with all his might until it got up just enough for him to squirm out and then remove his staff for the foot to drop down. Daffy took his bow and stuck under the foot keeping him down and stood the bow upright on the ground, which made the foot balance on it. Daffy grabbed the string part and bent it back as he ran out from underneath. The bow started slide against the foot and got out of it, flying back into Daffy's hands. A loud clang sounded as the foot hit the ground, as usual. The two animals ran over to Sora to see if he's alright.
"It's okay, I'm fine," Sora reassured dusting himself off.
"Good thing we gave you that p-p-potion or you'd be out cold," said Porky.
The hands detached and tried various boxing moves at the group. The left one tried an uppercut that the group rolled away from. The right hand tried a cross that Sora jumped over, followed by a left hook that Sora ducked under. The hand punched the wall instead, Sora jumped on top of the hand, and then jumped again as the other hand tried to scratch with its nails. Sora landed on that hand, and then the left hand tried to slam Sora. Sora avoided this by hopping down, sticking the notch of the Keyblade on the smaller end of the hand, swinging upwards and landing on top again. The hands flew back to the torso and Sora took this opportunity to jump up and hit the head with the Keyblade. Sora's feet landed on the ground and moved out of the way before one of the hands could pound him.
Daffy and Porky had similar trouble with the feet. The right foot tried a football kick at Porky, and he pole-vaulted away with his staff.
"Q-q-quit treating me like a pig skin!" Porky shouted waving his fist.
Daffy jumped up as a foot tried a side-kick. While in the air Daffy stuck an arrow into the wall, and climbed up. He continued this process as the feet kept trying to slam him against the wall. Once he reached the top, he hopped down onto a lower arrow, pulled the arrow on top of him out of the wall, and shot it at the feet. He repeated this process going down and sending fireballs at the feet, and about half of them hit by the time Daffy got back on the ground.
"Ta da!" Daffy said in a pose, until the right foot gave him a roundhouse kick sending him to the wall.
Porky made a run for it as the feet walked to him. Porky stuck his staff on the wall, leaped up, put his feet against the wall and lunged himself into the air. He gave a mighty swing of his staff and it collided with the foot that was in the air, knocking it down. When he got the other side, he repeated this process, but when he hit the other foot, the force sent him backwards until he slammed on the ground. Porky sat up and looked on in horror at the foot about squish him like a bug. Fortunately for him, Daffy came in and kicked the foot down. The parts all attached back to Guard Armor and Sora, Daffy and Porky regrouped to think of another strategy.
"Hey, I know! A simple process of elimination. This battle could be easier if we take out the other body parts first!" Sora suggested.
"Okay, we'll each put all our attacks on one body part, then move on to the next one," Daffy planned out, "Charge!"
All three charged at the Heartless head on. When the Heartless tried another spin attack with its hands, Sora swung the Keyblade and deflected the attack, causing the hands to go up. Porky put the staff onto the ground so it stood up; Sora jumped up, put a foot on top of the staff, leaped off and slashed the right hand, breaking it to pieces. Porky then got on one end of the staff and stuck up the other end where Daffy jumped on and catapulted the pig into the air. Staff still in hand, Porky twirled around at a fast pace and cut right through the other hand, breaking it. Daffy set up the string part of the arrow against the top part of the left leg and bent it back all the way with an arrow inside, until he let go resulting in the foot burning to ashes, though his bow was resistant to the elements. Guard Armor hopped down on the one foot it had left. Sora jumped up in the air and brought his Keyblade down on the foot, cutting it in half and eliminating it. Guard Armor fell to the ground in a daze. No body parts left but the torso.
"G-g-get it while it's down!" Porky called.
Sora, Daffy and Porky all got to the torso and attacked it relentlessly. Sora slashed it in a combo, Daffy hit it with his bow, jumped back and hit it again, and Porky ran all around whacking it with his staff. The torso got up and went high into the air. The three fighters jumped as high as they can to attack, but didn't touch Guard Armor with their weapons.
"We can't reach!" Sora sighed.
Guard Armor went back down to their level, but not without a plan of attack, for the torso spun around fast like its hands did until it dashed right at the heroes and hit them, sending them colliding against the wall. Sora, Daffy and Porky all moaned and rubbed their wounds. Just as the torso was going to go for another shockwave, the three got up and jumped. Sora grabbed onto the torso and held on as it went through the air. Guard Armor spun the body around at a fast pace to get Sora off. Sora felt the wind blow in his face as he held on for dear life with his eyes closed until he finally got sent flying. Just as he was about to hit the wall, Daffy and Porky caught the boy on each side and got him safely on the ground.
"Thanks a bunch," Sora thanked.
"You owe us, pal," Daffy said trying to get something out of it.
"N-n-never mind that. What do we do?" Porky asked getting back to the subject at hand. An idea popped in his head and whispered it to Sora who liked the plan and gave him the thumbs up.
Porky stuck the staff under the torso and stood it up with Guard Armor on top of it. Sora ran up and gave a hard hit of the Keyblade, sending Guard Armor spinning. While that happened Sora stuck his Keyblade out and let scrape against the torso. Electricity sparked from the scrapping and a loud scratching noise occurred causing Daffy and Porky cover their ears. It sounded like nails against a chalkboard. Sora let go when the spinning slowed down and the monster roared in anguish and pain. Guard Armor let the torso fall to the ground and it began to roll towards the heroes. Sora quickly made a run for it with the torso closing in on him. Sora saw the wall up ahead and had to time this move just right if it was going to work. Once he close enough, Sora jumped up, put his foot against the wall and leaped over the torso as it slammed against the wall.
Sora leaped all the way to the other side to the fountain. When he got there, he grabbed onto one of the polls, spun around, put his feet against it and jumped back towards Guard Armor. One mighty hit with the Keyblade sent Guard Armor into the wall. Dust and debris flew and formed into a cloud. Guard Armor dropped down to the ground once more and started to roll. Porky leaped up and got on top of the torso, running as it kept rolling. Porky took his staff and put against the armor, causing the same effect that Sora did with the Keyblade. Porky leaped off before Guard Armor hit the wall.
Daffy looked at the arrow in his hand, "Hmm…one last arrow," as he readied his bow, he knew he had to make this one count, "This one will go straight to its head!" Daffy waited until Guard Armor got close enough and then shot the arrow, resulting in fire knocking the head back.
Sora used this as the time to finish this and leaped up into the air, digging the Keyblade right into the torso, sliding down and cutting it in half with a loud screech of cracked metal. Guard Armor started to shake violently. Clanging noises were made as the head fell off. A heart appeared out of the torso and floated away, and then Guard Armor disappeared in defeat, leaving behind a Brave Warrior accessory that landed in Sora's hands. Sora looked at it and decided to pocket it for later.
"That was c-c-c-close," Porky sighed with relief.
"You can say that again, brother," Daffy agreed.
"Thanks for all your help," said Sora grateful, "All three of us worked pretty good as a team."
"Aw shucks," Porky put his hands behind his back and rubbed his foot in the ground feeling humble, "T-t-t-'t weren't nothing."
Sora put his finger and thumb up to his chin curiously, "By any chance were you two looking for me?" He remembered them being excited that they found the Keyblade.
"Uh-huh!" The two animals nodded.
"A friend of ours named Aerith told us they were seeking the wielder of the Keyblade like we were," said a voice from behind.
Sora turned to notice Leon right behind him, arms crossed. Yuffie was there, too, knuckles on her hips as usual. Sora smiled to see the two, "Leon! Yuffie! Glad to see you're alright."
"Right back at ya!" Yuffie winked.
"Leon? Hey! We looked everywhere for you!" Daffy pointed.
Porky shot a glance at Yuffie thinking there was something familiar about her. That was it! She was the one she saw earlier, "That's her! She's the one who s-s-s-slammed the door on you when we were in the hotel room!"
"The girl?" Daffy shot a glare at Yuffie and started marching to her, "She's dead meat!"
Sora held Daffy back before he could do anything over this misunderstanding, "No, no, hold on! It was an accident. I was in the room when it happened. A Heartless got into the hotel and Leon told her to run for it. Not her fault!"
Daffy just sighed and shook his head, waving his arms up in defeat as he walked back to Porky who asked, "Now that we found you, why don't y-y-y-y-you come with us out of this town? We can all head to other worlds on our r-r-rock-on our space vessel."
Porky said the magic words to get Sora all excited, "You mean it!? Oh boy!" sadly, the excitement died down with Sora looking down to the ground unhappy, "I wonder if it's possible to find Riku and Kairi while I'm out there?" Leon closed his eyes feeling sorry for the boy.
"Can't see why not," what Daffy said made Sora look up with hope.
Porky whispered to Daffy so no one else would here, "What are the chances of us r-r-r-really finding them?"
Daffy whispered in Porky's ear, putting his finger and thumb on the tip of it "About as much chance of us finding Bugs, which is pretty slim," Daffy pointed to Sora with his thumb, "Either way, we'll have a greater chance at finding anything if he's with us."
Leon put his arms back to his sides and took a step forward, "Sora, my advice would be to go with the two of them. Especially since you're set on finding both of your friends."
Sora sighed with another unhappy look, "Guess you're right, Leon. I got nowhere else to go."
Daffy got annoyed at Sora's unhappy demeanor and waved his index finger, "No way are we going to allow you to come tagging along if that's the expression you'll have on this trip," Porky looked at Daffy wondering where he was going with this as the duck continued, "No frowning," Daffy put his hands on his hips with a frown to show what he meant, and then put on a sad look, "Or sad faces," and put on a regular expression, "That's lesson one."
Porky put his face in Daffy's way to further try and help with a funny look on his face, "Yep. You have to be f-f-funny, or Looney, or w-w-w-whimsical like we are."
Daffy pushed Porky's face out of the way, "Step a side, slim. You bother me!" and turned back to Sora with a grin, "Looney Tunes run on two things, laughter and happy faces."
"Happy?" Sora asked unimpressed.
As everyone looked on, Sora stuck his head out and made a big smile. Actually, it was kind of scary looking. Sora looked back at Daffy and Porky and stopped smiling at the blank looks the two were giving him. Daffy and Porky looked at each other a brief moment and laughed hysterically. Daffy slapped his knee and Porky held onto his gut. Daffy even pulled out an empty soup can that read 'canned laughter' on the label and opened it to add more laughing.
"F-f-funniest face I've seen in years!" Porky managed to get out between laughs.
Leon and Yuffie laughed quietly to themselves at the whole situation. Laughter was always a good thing to break the tension.
Sora now feeling better took his new friends up on the offer, "How could I say no after something like that? Okay, I'll go with you guys. What are your names?"
"Daffy Duck," Daffy introduced holding his hand out.
"Name's P-P-Porky Pig," Porky saying the same and putting his hand on top of Daffy's.
"Pleased to meet you. I'm Sora," Sora did as they did and put his hand on top of the pile.
"From here on it's all for o-o-one and one for all," Porky declared. Daffy and Sora nodded in agreement.
Unbeknownst to anyone in Traverse Town, in a dark room in another world, they were all being watched on a hologram projection. A group with a handful of different people and creatures gathered around as they observed the images. The first in the group was a being with an aura and look of a ghost. He had black hair that stood on end with a streak of grey in the middle, while his face had pointy ears, bluish white skin, black eyebrows, a black beard and red eyes. His clothing was a white suit, a black belt, black gloves, black boots and a cape that was red on the inside, all wrapped around his neck with a large collar.
"So he's the one who defeated that Heartless?" the ghost asked in disbelief. He looked to the person next to him, "But he's only a child."
The next person had a black color scheme to his clothes, which had silver body armor on his shoulders, upper arms, wrists and hands, upper and lower legs, and feet, plus a strap over his shoulder and a belt around his waste with several pockets. A mask covered up his face with holes at the mouth part so he can breathe, but the left part of the mask, which was a red orange copper like color, had only one eye.
"The boy didn't do it by himself. The Keyblade gave him the power to take it down," the armored man pointed out.
The next creature in the group was a robot with the appearance of a queen be or a wasp. She had green eyes and metallic skin, no hair, wings in the back of her, a black shape on her forehead as well as a golden sphere, teeth that looked razor sharp, and had green and yellow stripes all over her body with the exception of her hands, upper arms, waist and upper legs down to her feet, which were black.
"I say we turn the human into a Heartless, or better yet just make him a slave to the Cluster!" the robot chuckled with evil glee, "That should solve it in a snap of a finger."
The fourth person in the group looked like that of a samurai. The armor he wore included blade covered metal plaques on his shoulders, forearms, hands and shins, and had black pants and a grey robe of a simple fabric and a belt, plus a purple cape. In addition, he wore a metal helmet on his head with a trident shaped ornament on top and a metal masked that covered all of his face except for the eyes.
"Not mention the brat's friends are the workmates of that rabbit!" the ninja said disgusted, "You can tell they're demented just by looking at them."
The creature next to him looked like an anthropomorphic cross between a dog, rat and weasel. Goggles were on his face, magnifying his menacing eyes. The rest of his clothes were a yellow jump suit and sky blue gloves and boots. His hat looked like a plug, a large battery was strapped to his back, and a large socket was on his chest.
"I bet you see that everyday looking in the mirror!" The weasel laughed at his own joke.
The ninja however didn't find it very amusing and threatened the animal, "Shut up, Sparky!"
The weasel got mad and started to spark with electricity. He hated being called that, "DON'T CALL ME SPARKY!"
"That's enough!" A voice rang in the room. All five figures in the shadows turned to see the Green Goblin, who just got back from finding Riku earlier, walk in the room, "Like it or not, the Keyblade chose the young man. Now the question remains of he beating the darkness, or the darkness taking full control of him," the Goblin then made an evil smile, "Nevertheless, he can be of some use to us."
The sinister group, whatever they were planning, certainly had evil intentions. Back at Traverse Town, Leon and Yuffie led Sora and the Looney Tunes back to the first district (Sora had used the Keyblade on the lock that was near the double doors in the third district to unlock the doors). Leon told Daffy and Porky to wait while they had a talk with Sora. Sora also met Aerith who joined them.
"So you're the Keyblade master," Aerith observed Sora, "My name's Aerith."
"I'm Sora," Sora introduced, "I see you already met Daffy and Porky."
"Before you decide to leave, you should prepare yourself for your journey. We're not quite sure how far the Heartless have spread, so watch yourself out there," Leon explained.
"There are so many shops around here to choose from," Yuffie added, "You're sure to find something really neat."
Aerith took out a bag filled with one hundred munny and handed it to Sora, "This is a little present from us for you to spend however you want."
Sora admired the bag he got, "Wow! Thanks!"
Aerith also handed him an Elixir, "This is from Leon to show there's no hard feelings from the encounter you two had."
Leon looked away not trying to show anything for it. He did have a reputation to think about.
"Um, is there anything else?" Sora asked.
"Nope, that's it," Yuffie said shaking her head, "We wish you the best of luck."
"I was told you were looking for your friends. Good luck finding them, too," Aerith added.
"From here, Porky, Daffy and you are on your own. Look out for each other and keep your spirits up. It'll help you guys in the long run and could prove each other to be good allies," Leon finished up.
"Yeah, I hear you. Thanks for the heads up," Sora said grateful.
"Don't mention it," Leon acknowledged.
After the three adults and Sora said their goodbyes, Sora walked over to Daffy and Porky who wanted to talk to him as well. He noticed there was a young girl with them he hadn't seen before.
"This is him, Penny. The Keyblade holder," Daffy pointed.
"You must be Sora. My name is Penny," Penny and Sora shook hands, "I've been asked to keep a recorded track of all the happenings on this trip."
"Awesome," Sora gestured. He looked to Daffy and Porky, "So what's up?"
Daffy motioned over to the double doors behind him, "You see that gate? Our space freighter is right outside."
"You'll feel just like a space-space-space-you'll fell just like an astronaut!" Porky added, trying to raise Sora's excitement.
"But before that, we have a few things for you, Sora," Daffy handed him one of his arrow heads, "There should be a slot somewhere in the Keyblade for you to put that in. Once you do, you'll be able to use magic."
"Does that mean I can shoot fire like you?" Sora asked with hope. Daffy nodded, "Sweet!"
Daffy looked at Porky, "Okay, Porky. Show him the other thing."
Porky looked at Daffy confused until he remembered what the other thing was, "Oh. The blueprints I had!" Porky handed Sora a piece of paper. Sora looked at the paper and it looked like instructions to perform a dodge roll, "These will show you how to do all sorts of cool abilities. You and I should see if we can find more like them."
"Great! If that's all you had for me, let's get a move on!" Sora said anxious.
"Not before I get some more arrows and Porky gets a new staff," Daffy pointed out. He showed off his container and moved it up and down with the opening on the bottom to indicate it was empty. Porky looked at his staff and realized the last move he did on Guard Armor reduced it to a toothpick.
Penny opened her computer book and started adding a few entries and said to herself, "I can tell these three are going to have quite an adventure or two. Better make sure it's all up to date in my journal."
A little later, Sora, Daffy and Porky went to the item shop. Daffy was surprised to see who was there, "Is that Speedy Gonzales?"
"Senior duck, what are you doing here?" Speedy asked equally surprised to see a familiar face.
"Well, if it ain't, I say, if it ain't farmer pig himself," Foghorn greeted Porky glad to see him.
"Hello, Mr. Leghorn," Porky greeted back.
"This may be pointing out the obvious, but I take it you know each other," Sora blurted out.
"W-w-we come from the same world," Porky told Sora, "D-d-didn't expect to run into them though."
"Sora, are you here because you got's more munny to buy things?" Speedy remembered Sora said he'd come back when he had more cash.
Sora nodded, catching Pepe's attention behind the counter, "Fabulous! What shall it be?"
Daffy held his nostrils at Pepe's scent, "Nose plugs will be nice."
Sora looked at what they had for sale and pointed to each item they wanted, "We'll take five potions, five ethers, plus some new arrows and a new staff."
"Coming right up, messieurs," Pepe walked to the shelves and got everything Sora asked for, put them on the counter and rang up the register, "That will be fifty munny."
Sora took out his pouch and handed fifty munny to the skunk. Pepe then put the munny in the register and put all the supplies in the bag, "Thank you for shopping. Come back anytime."
Porky took the bag with a smile, "Th-th-thanks a lot."
Saying goodbye to their friends, they left the item shop and went into the accessory shop next to be greeted by Cid.
"Hi, Sora," Cid waved. He noticed Daffy and Porky behind Sora, "Who are these fellers?"
"This is Daffy," Sora pointed to Daffy and then Porky, "and Porky. New friends I met. Guys, this is Cid."
"So you're the infamous Daffy Duck and Porky Pig the guys in the item shop keep talking about," Cid observed.
"So y-y-you've heard of us?" Porky asked.
"Are you kidding? You have to be the nuttiest, hair-brained characters I've ever heard of," Cid chuckled.
Daffy didn't know how to take that and just said, "But you have heard of us."
"Isn't that what I just said!?" Cid snapped.
"Yikes!" Daffy squeaked in a high voice.
"Yikes!" Porky stated same.
They both ran to the door, but it wouldn't open, so Daffy was left with his beak stuck in the door. He pulled himself out, detaching his beak in the process. Porky got on one foot with his hands up in an almost cowering motion at the sight of Daffy's beakless face. Pulling his beak out of the door, Daffy readjusted it back on his face.
"I guess the rooster, skunk, and mouse didn't tell you about my short fuse," Cid assumed.
"Don't mind Cid, guys. Just try not to make him mad," Sora reassured.
Porky crossed his arms in disbelief, "How hard could that b-b-be?" he asked sarcastically, earning him an elbow by Daffy, "Ouch!"
"Anyway, mind if we buy a few things?" Sora asked politely to Cid.
"Help yourselves," Cid answered.
They looked at all the jewelry that was in the store. Daffy especially got interested as he loved anything valuable he could get his hands on, nearly losing control of his urges. A few rings and wrist jewels looked good for defense and they made their purchase.
Cid rang up the register, "That'll be thirty munny," Sora took thirty money out of his pouch and gave it to Cid. After that, he put the accessories in a bag, "Enjoy!"
Daffy took the bag, "Thanks."
When the gang stepped out the door, Porky could hear his stomach growl, "Daffy, I'm g-g-getting hungry."
"Hmm, come to think of it, I didn't have dinner yet," Sora remembered.
"It is getting late," Daffy brought up, "Let's get something at the coffee shop and then head back to the hotel for some sleep. We'll leave for our journey in the morning."
Sora smiled knowing that this could end up being the greatest adventure of his young life. What lies ahead for the young man? What will be of the Heartless and Ansem's reports? Are Riku and Kairi close by? Did Bugs Bunny take a wrong turn?
Porky covered his ears, "STOP IT! One more q-q-question and I'll go c-c-craze-b-b-berserk!"
Well, I won't bother Porky or my faithful readers with anymore questions. I've been working on this chapter for several days and now that Daffy and Porky have met Sora, the real fun can begin. I'm going to visit some awesome cartoon worlds. That'll about do it for now. I'll be taking a break from this story to get back to a story I started some time ago that I didn't really follow up on, which is my Kingdom Hearts/Sailor Moon crossover, "A Silver Key Millennium". Also, I've been working with a friend of mine on another Kingdom Hearts project that has Sora and his friends visit the world of one of my friends fan fiction stories, so stay tuned for that. It'll be action packed, I assure you. Until then, I hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll see you next time right here on Fan Fiction dot net.