The Legend of the Keyblade
Chapter Nineteen: That's What They All Say
The Keybladers
"What are we going to do with them?" Ivory asks quietly, looking at the still figures lying in the middle of the floor of the Gummi Ship. Jayson shrugs nonplussed.
"No, the question is why they haven't woken up." Eden says.
"They were hit in the back of the head with a very large and heavy wooden plank! They're not just going to bounce back from that, I don't think anyone could." Ivory snaps. Jayson sighs and runs a hand over his face, they were probably going to start arguing in three, two, one..
"How can we possibly know that? They're not real, or even human! You seem to keep forgetting that!" Eden retorts.
"I have not forgotten! I was just stating the obvious!" Ivory replies.
"Why do you care so much anyway? They're the enemy! Why do you show compassion to them when they would use us to destroy the worlds!" Eden says bitterly, she hated the fact that she could be used in such a vile way.
"Because if we show no compassion we are no better than them. Compassion is what makes us human and different from them." Jayson says. Eden stares at him for a moment and Ivory nods in agreement.
"They may not deserve it, but we cannot drop to their level." Ivory says.
"But that still leaves the question of what we're going to do with them." Eden says finally, silently conceding to their point. Eden and Ivory look at Jayson expectantly.
"It doesn't matter. We'll burn that bridge when they wake up, but for now we have more important problems." Jayson says.
"What?" Eden asks.
"Where we're going next, for example." He replies.
Ivory and Eden look at each other before both yelling, "IT'S MY TURN TO CHOOSE!" Jayson shakes his head and drums his fingers on the steering wheel.
"How about Atlantica!" Ivory yells.
"No! Let's go to the Pride Land!" Eden yells.
"How about we go to both." Jayson says.
"Huh?"
"We have to go to all of the worlds anyway so we'll go to both, so Atlantica first." Ivory looks smug and Eden glares.
"Then the Pride Land." He adds quickly, Eden immediately perks up.
"Okay, okay! Let's go!" Eden yells and tries to grab the steering wheel.
The Organization
"Where are Axel and Demyx?" Zexion asks.
"I have no idea." Marluxia says.
"Probably being idiots." Saix says. Zexion and Marluxia glare at him. They might not be fond of the other two, but they rather be stuck with them than the Organization berserker.
"I still don't understand why our plan didn't work. We had all the right cards in play." Luxord says with annoyance as he throws up a set of dice and catches them.
"We cannot depend on the roll of the dice to get these keybladers." Zexion says with annoyance.
"And what should we use? Good planning?" Luxord says mockingly. Zexion glowers at him.
"How did they know about the trap?" Marluxia asks out loud.
"They didn't." Saix snaps.
"No, the girls did." Zexion says slowly. Then a look of understanding comes to his face then to nothing.
"They didn't." He mumbles.
"Who didn't?" Luxord asks curiously.
"Those idiots didn't give us away, even they're not that stupid." He mumbles.
"I wouldn't count on that." Marluxia mumbles.
The Keybladers
"Atlantica is underwater?" Eden says incredulously.
"Brilliant, how the hell are we going to make this work?" Jayson says with a sigh. Ivory smiles and wiggles her fingers at him. He raises an eyebrow.
"Magic of course."
"And when did any of us learn magic?" Jayson asks.
"Well, I've studied a bit and I can get us down there safely." Ivory finally confides.
"If we drown, we have full rights to kill you." Eden says. Jayson nods solemnly.
"Okay! But I won't mess up!" Ivory replies defensively.
"Whatever, lets just do this."
"Righto captain!" Ivory says mockingly.
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"I can't believe it worked!" Eden says as she moves her dolphin fin. Ivory was smiling at them smugly.
"Yeah, yeah we get it, but I'll congratulate you when you turn us back. You will be able to turn us back right?" Jayson asks.
"Yes, yes of course! Why wouldn't I? Have a little faith in me, I mean really!" Ivory says with a small smile.
"This is so cool! I mean we're mermaids and merman!" Eden says she twirls underwater. Jayson looks at the opening of the small grotto.
"We have company." Jayson says as a red haired mermaid a small yellow fish and crab swim towards them.
"Hello!" She says with a smile as she swam around them each once looking at them curiously.
"I've never seen you here before! Are you from another world like Sora?" She asks excitedly.
"Yeah." Jayson says.
"I'm Ariel by the way! I'm visiting my father, otherwise I'm normally human!" She explains with a smile.
"I'm Ivory!" Ivory says with a smile.
"And I'm Eden!" Eden swims over and shakes Ariel's hand.
"Jayson, would you happen to know if there are any Heartless or Nobodies around here?" He asks.
"Oh, no! There haven't been any of those! I guess there don't think it's very interesting, besides daddy has a horrible temper and doesn't like evil things in his ocean." Ariel explained.
"That's good to hear!" Ivory says with a sigh.
"You guys are really interesting. Who are you really?" Ariel asks.
"We're the Keyblade Masters." Jayson says.
"Really? Where is Sora?"
"Six feet under." Eden answers when Jayson didn't say anything.
"How sad, I'll miss his visits, he was a really big help you know. He helped get rid of Ursula." Ariel says.
"So everything here is all peachy keen?" Eden asks.
"Definitely." Ariel replied.
"Well we should probably go now then." Ivory says.
"Hey would you like to join in our musical?" Ariel asks suddenly. Ivory beams.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean the more the merrier." Eden smiles at this and they all look at Jayson.
"You want me to sing don't you?" He asks with a little sigh.
"Of course!" They all chime.
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"I don't know why you don't like to sing! You have a wonderful voice!" Ivory says as they all step onto the Gummi Ship.
"Because I don't and I don't have a good voice." Jayson replies with a shake of his head.
"How can you say that? You have a wonderful baritone! It gave me chills when you sang!" Eden says. Jayson shrugs.
"Well I'm not going to argue with you about." He says. Eden and Ivory shrug and give up on the subject.
"So are we going to the Pride Lands now?"
"Yes." Jayson says with a little shake of his head.
"Sweet!" Eden says.
"Hey! I think they're waking up!" Ivory says. They all look back at the two Organization members.
"It's not nice to hit people in the head with large wooden objects." Demyx moans as he clutches his head. Axel looked less than amused.
"I'm surprised you're still here." Jayson comments.
"Yeah well we can leave whenever we want!" Axel snaps.
"Fine then leave, see if we care." Jayson replies. Axel and Demyx gape at him.
"Well what if we don't want to leave." Demyx says as he crosses his arms over his chest. Jayson shrugs nonchalantly.
"How can you not care?" Demyx whines.
"Look, we all got jobs to do so let's make this easy for all of us. Tell us what you are doing here still and why you gave yourselves away to us." Eden says.
"Well, we haven't left because we don't want to." Demyx says.
"And we gave ourselves away because we knew that they would fail anyway and decided that we were tired of following orders for the time being, they get really tedious sometimes." Axel finishes.
"That's what they all say!" Eden says.
"They do not!" Demyx yells.
"How do you know?!" Eden yells back.
"Who is 'they'?" Jayson breaks in.
Demyx and Eden look at him and yell, "THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT!" Jayson raises his hands in surrender and backs off.
"This is going no where." Jayson comments, and shakes his head as Axel joins in on the argument.
"I feel like I'm surrounded by children." Ivory mumbles.
"WE HEARD THAT!" Eden, Demyx, ands Axel yell.
"Of course you did1 But no one cares." Jayson says with annoyance.
"Hey!" Eden says as she crosses her arms.
"No then, we can't have Organization scum wandering around the ship." Jayson starts.
"Hey! I resent that!" Axel mumbles.
"Now then, you guys can either leave willingly, give us information that we can use or get removed from the ship." Jayson cocks an eyebrow at them, "So what's it going to be?"
"You know you could get rid of us, but we could just come back." Axel points out.
"Not if you're dead." Jayson says in a low voice.
"You wouldn't!" Demyx says. Eden and Ivory looked at Jayson their own shock on their faces.
"I'm no Sora, and I have put up with a lot of shit, you would be surprised with what I would and wouldn't do, so don't push me. Because I will make sure there isn't enough of you left to come back a third time."
"I think he's serious Axel." Demyx whispers. Axel hits him in the back of the head.
"Okay, what do you want to know?" Axel says slowly.