Disclaimer: Do you people have amnesia or something? I cant believe I have to repeat myself again I. Don't. Own. Anything.
I hope you guys like this chappie, I spent alot of time on it. After all this is the first time my story greatly differs form Jen's. Oh by the way please review! even if all you say is 'update', so I know my story is liked.
Chapter 4: What Freaky Dark Portal Thingy?
"And now…" Jen paused while she looked at where the FCP apparently was. "we go through the Freaky Dark Portal Thingy."
"What Freaky Dark Portal Thingy?" we asked. She pointed at a dark portal that had apparently just appeared, 'cause it was not there before. "Oh that." I wasn't entirely sure about just walking through random dark portals, and I think the others felt the same, but Jen, on the other hand, had no doubts, since she walked straight through and disappeared into the portal. Honestly, she's almost as bad as Sora sometimes. Riku jumped in immediately after her, followed by Sora, then Veena, Heather, Sarah, and me.
I landed on my feet just in time to hear Riku shouting, "Don't EVER do that again! YOU SCARED THE LIVING HELL OUTTA ME!" He was on top of Jenny, because he apparently landed on her when he leapt through the portal. I looked down and noticed we were on one of those weird stained glass platform thingymahoozals with the image of a town. There was a door across from where we had all landed.
"Riku, get off her." said Sora. Hee hee! Jenny's blushing! Seconds later Jenny smacked him.
"You HAD to fall on me, didn't you?" She asked Riku as him got off her.
"Like I had a choice." He replied dryly.
"Whatever."
"FOCUS PEOPLE!" shouted Veena. Wait, what?. Did Veena just…shout? Too weird.
"Where are we?" asked Heather. Jen replied, "I dunno, but that door leads to Traverse Town."
"How do you know that?"
"…I don't…" Weird, I was expecting her to say because she played the video game…maybe she doesn't want to go through the whole explanation of how this is a video game in our world. In that case, I don't know either.
"Huh?"
"Yeah, that's what going through my head too…"
"Well, come on!" said Sora, walking up to the door and opening it. We all walked in, and, of course, were immediately ambushed by Heartless. What wonderful timing.
I looked over at Jenny and saw she had gotten a cool whip thing. No fair, now I'm like the only one without an actual physical weapon. Veena brought out her fans, Heather readied her bow and arrows, Sarah brought out her mic whip, Sora and Riku brought out their keyblades, and I readied myself to cast my magic. The Heartless attacked and we attacked right back. I could see Jenny laughing maniacally as she swung at the Heartless. We all made quick work of the Heartless, and after the last one faded into wisps of smoke I found myself, and everyone else staring at Jenny. She was acting a bit of a maniac during the fight, so it was understandable.
"So, what we gonna do now?" She asked when she noticed our stares. "There's no boss in this town so we're only here to train ourselves."
"And you know this, how?" asked Sarah. As an answer Jenny stared at her blankly. "Oh right, you don't know." Sarah answered her own question.
"Let's split up and go get some more Heartless." suggested Sora. "Sarah, Jill, you come with me. Veena, Heather, you go together and Jen and Riku can go together." Hey, maybe Sora isn't as naïve as we all thought.
"Why are you putting me with her?" whispered Riku.
"Cause I know you want to spend some alone time with her." He whispered back. You tell 'em Sora! No, I'm not eavesdropping, they just happen to be whispering right next to me. Okay, maybe I was eavesdropping a little, but that's beside the point!
"I do not!"
"Yes, you do! You never stop staring at her!"
"Shut up." Riku snarled at Sora's retreating back as me, Sarah, and him walked away.
After we were out of sight from the others Sarah and I lagged slightly behind Sora as I told Sarah what had happened between the two boys since she had been talking with Heather and Veena at the time, and had not fully heard the conversation. We giggled at the fact that Jenny's dream guy liked her, and at the fact that the boys were oblivious to the fact that me, Sarah, and Jenny had overheard the conversation.
"So, do you think we should tell Sora?" I asked, referring to the fact that we had overheard him and Riku.
"Tell me what?" Sora unexpectedly asked.
"Eavesdropper!" I immediately yelled.
Sarah raised her eyebrow as if to say "And you aren't?"
I sighed. "Alright, you got me, but you still never answered my question."
"Well, I'd guess we have to tell him, seeing as he'll probably bother us to no end if we don't."
"Yeah, you're probably right," I turned to Sora, who was standing there expectantly, "alright, what we were discussing was that both us and Jenny heard your little whispered conversation with Riku back there." Sora paled a little. "Y-you did?"
"Yup! But don't worry! Jenny probably won't mention it, and besides, she'll be ecstatic that the guy of her dreams likes her back."
Sora nodded. "That's a relief, I –wait a minute. Could you repeat that?"
"Slow, isn't he?" Sarah remarked. "She said 'she'll be ecstatic that the guy of her dreams likes her back.'"
Sora pondered this for a minute and then grinned. I raised my eyebrow at him. "This is great then, since Riku's not exactly a people person, so this way he'll have no trouble. As long as he doesn't do something incredibly stupid." He answered my unspoken question.
"Nah, even if he does do something incredibly stupid, Jen'll still be crazy about him." Sarah stated.
"What's sad is that it's true, Riku would have to do something really really bad to get Jen to not like him and stuff. And even then, she'll still like him deep down." I added.
"Well, that's good. Hey, could I ask you guys a question?" Sora seemed a little hesitant to ask us as we meandered around the Third District. Weird, Sora's not usually hesitant about things.
"You already asked one, but go ahead." Heehee, I've always wanted to say that.
"Well, I was kinda wondering if you guys could, you know, tell me more about that Harry Potter guy?" Sora rubbed the back of his head nervously.
I looked at Sarah and Sarah was looking back at me. We stared at each other for a second, and then burst out laughing hysterically. I was seriously having trouble breathing I was laughing so much. I dunno, something about this was just so incredibly hilarious.
"It's not funny!" Sora yelled, but he was blushing, making me and Sarah laugh all the harder.
"Fine you two stay here and laugh at my expense, I'll just continue on my own." Sora huffed and turned to walk away.
Sarah and I laughed for a couple more seconds before we composed ourselves and ran to catch up with Sora.
"Hey, Sora we're sorry we laughed at you," I apologized as I put a hand on his shoulder.
"We didn't mean to offend you or anything," Sarah said as she came up on his other side.
"We just found it extremely funny for some reason." We finished together. I looked over at Sarah and saw that she was looking over at me too. Wow, I feel like Fred and George.
Sora smiled, "Yeah, I guess I shouldn't be so offended, I know you guys too well already to have expected you to not do something like that."
"That's the spirit!" I laughed.
"So, you want to know more about Harry Potter, eh?" Sarah grinned at him.
"Yes."
"Well, it just so happens that you came to the right two girls! We are Harry Potter experts, and really Jenny is the only one so far who knows more than we do." Sarah exclaimed.
"So let the tutoring begin!" I said grandly, and Sarah and I began to explain the basics of Harry Potter to Sora. We talked like this for a little while, still wandering around the Third District. But of course, a bid group of Heartless had to come and ruin our little conversation, and we were having so much fun explaining a concept we both understood and loved to Sora! Oh well, all good things must come to an end, I suppose.
"DIE, HEARTLESS, DIE!!" I yelled as I sent wave after wave of magic spells at them. Sora was slicing through them like butter, and Sarah was swinging her mic whip around, killing off the Heartless in chunks. After a relatively short fight (it was a bunch of the weaker Heartless), I suggested that we look around the Third District to see if there was anymore Heartless and then head towards the Hotel where we were meeting up. They agreed and we wandered around in silence, concentrating on ridding this district of the Heartless. We finally destroyed the last group of Heartless and started our way back towards the Hotel in Second District. When we arrived at the Hotel, we found Veena and Heather talking animatedly against the wall between the two entrances to the Hotel. We waved hi to them, and then Sarah and I continued Sora's lesson in the world of Harry Potter. When Jenny and Riku finally showed up (holding hands, no less!), I heard Jenny communicating with me in my head.
"OMG I KISSED RIKU! AND HE KISSED ME!" she shouted. Luckily, since it was only in my mind, my ears didn't ring afterwards. Thank goodness. I smiled and gave her a thumbs up. I noticed Sarah, Veena, and Heather doing the same thing. Seems we all got the same message at the same time. Hmm…didn't know Jen could do that.
We all decided to stay in the hotel for the night. Sarah, Jenny, and I were sharing a room, Heather and Veena got the room next to ours , and Riku and Sora took the one across the hall. The instant we were alone in the room, Sarah and I spun to face Jenny. "Did you really kiss him?" We asked in unison. Wow, now I feel even more like Fred and George. Honestly, I really do think at some times me and Sarah were twins separated at birth.
"Yep." Jenny coolly replied.
"Seriously?" Again, me and Sarah with the unison thing.
"Yep."
"How was it?" Argh! Why do we keep talking at the same time!
"It was heaven on Earth, baby."
"No duh, Sherlock." Sarah retorted. (Finally we're not talking in unison anymore!)
"I'm going for a walk." Jen said suddenly.
"NO YOU'RE NOT! YOU ARE STAYING RIGHT HERE AND TELLING US WHAT HAPPENED!" Both Sarah and I yelled. At the same time.(the curse that had been broken has been reborn…and we can't even read each others minds.)
"No, I think I'm going for a walk. See ya." Jenny said, walking out the door. I started to follow her, Sarah right behind me, but we I heard Jen talking with someone on the other side of the door. I froze and a huge grin spread across my face. I could tell Sarah was grinning too, even though I couldn't see her. I tiptoed to the door listened in to their conversation, Sarah listening besides me. Okay, maybe I'm picking up a habit of eavesdropping, I don't care. Unfortunately our eavesdropping attempts were in vain since all Jen did was ask Riku if he wanted to take a walk with her, and Riku replied "I would love to." And since we can't see through doors and walls, we had no clue what else had happened, except the fact that they left the hallway.
Sarah sighed. "That went well, don't cha think?" she asked me sarcastically.
"It depends on the meaning of 'that,'" I grinned. "Since I would say that Riku's attempt to ask Jen out was successful, yet if you are referring to our attempt on prying the details out of her, than, yes it went very well." I answered, adding extra sarcasm to the 'very'.
Sarah ginned. "Truthfully, I don't even know which way I meant it."
"That's sad, very, very sad."
"I know." Sarah agreed. We stared at each other for about a total of three seconds before bursting out in uncontrollable laughter, for no apparent reason. We just find things funny, and more than half the time, we don't even know WHY it's funny. It's one of those 'just is' moments. After a couple of minutes we calmed down, and silence enveloped us. We then made the mistake of looking at each other again. Once again we burst out laughing, for no reason what so ever this time. Honestly, you'd think we were sugar high or something(which we weren't it would be much worse if we were sugar high, believe me.).
"Hey, I've got an idea!" I said during a moment of calm.
"What?"
"How bout we go spy on Jenny and Riku! I've always wanted to spy on someone!" I said excitedly, getting up from where we were sitting on the floor.
"You're weird, ya know that?" Sarah asked me as she stood up as well.
"Yup, I know! Now come on, let's go!" I didn't even have to ask whether or not she wanted to come, I could tell by the way she was grinning.
"You do realize that 1) we have no idea where Jen is and 2) if she catches us we're dead meat, right?" Sarah said as we walked out into the cool night air.
I paused for a moment. "Now that you mention it, no."
Sarah looked at me for a second. "Noodle head."
I shrugged and began walking again, Sarah following close behind.
"Soooo, where we gonna start?" She broke the silence that had fallen between us, due to our need to be sneaky.
"Ummm," I thought for a moment, before snapping my fingers as an idea came to me, "How bout the alleyway! It would be the perfect place!"
"And where would that be?" Remember, Sarah doesn't play Kingdom Hearts, therefore she is excused from knowing these kinds of things.
"Just come on!" I hopped over the railing and landed in the square below. I ran over to the door in the corner that lead to the alleyway. Sarah came up behind me a second later.
I grinned and put a finger to my lips, letting her know we had to be quiet now. She grinned back as we slowly pushed open the door a crack. We tiptoed in and let the door close softly behind us. We peeked around the edge of a building and saw Jen and Riku together. Kissing. Oh god how I wanted so laugh so hard right now. I dunno why, but I usually have an uncontrollable urge to laugh, giggle, snicker, etc. during these kinds of situations. I knew my face is probably turning red from not laughing, and I don't know how much longer I can go without making noise. I would have lasted longer but when Sarah whispered, "Aww! They're so cute! They remind me of a couple in a romantic novel I read! But then she slapped him and they broke up." She had said it so matter-of-factly, and it was so…so...random that I knew I wouldn't be able to last any longer than the few seconds it took to get out the door. Before it became too much to bare; I grabbed Sarah's hand and dragged her out the door, just barely managing to stay quiet. As soon as the door was securely shut behind us, I completely lost it. I laughed so hard I had to sit on the ground to keep from losing my balance. I wanted to say something about the line Sarah just said, but I was too far lost in a laughing fit to say anything at all.
"You truly are a noodle head." Even though she had spoken seriously, I could tell she was ginning, and within moments would be laughing just as hard as me. I was right and Sarah sat down next to me as we laughed our heads off over something that wasn't even funny. Eventually we calmed down, and headed back to the Hotel.
"So wadda ya wanna do now that our little spying escapade thing-a-micjiger is over?" Sarah asked as we entered the Hotel.
"I dunno." I answered.
"Hey, how bout we go visit Veena and Heather?" Sarah suggested.
"Yeah, lets go do that!" I grinned, "I'll race ya!"
Sarah grinned as well, "You're on! On your marks, Get set, GO!" We sprinted down the hallway and crashed into Heather's and Veena's door. SOMEHOW Sarah managed to beat me there by half a second, even though I had started out in front of her. We have races a lot; everyday after school, either one of our mothers would pick us up so we didn't have to ride the bus. And everyday we would race to the car, and everyday Sarah would beat me. Some day I will beat her. Just apparently not today.
"Why do you always win, Sarah!" I whined
"It's 'cause I'm special!" At this point Heather came to her door. "Is there any reason for you people to be crashing into our door?"
"Not really!" I said cheerfully.
"Can we come in? We're bored cause spying on Jenny took less time than we thought." Sarah asked.
Heather's eyes widened slightly. "You guys were spying on Jen? You didn't by any chance get caught, did you?"
"Nope! But it was a close call cause noodle head over here," Sarah pointed over her shoulder at me, and I stuck my tongue out at her back. "Almost burst out laughing while we were spying, and nearly blowing our cover."
"It's not my fault! You said that line, and it was so…so…random! I couldn't help it! And I can't control when I have uncontrollable bursts of laughter!" I said in my defense.
"Hence the name uncontrollable bursts of laughter." Heather commented.
"I know that!" I exclaimed.
"Sure ya do." Sarah said as she walking into the room.
"You're all mean." I pouted as I followed Sarah and Heather into the room. "HI Veena!" I brightened as I saw Veena sitting on what I am assuming is her bed.
"Oh, Hi!" She replied.
"So you said you were spying on Jenny, right? Did you see anything?" Heather curiously asked.
Sarah and I grinned (we're doing a lot of that lately, huh) and proceeded to tell them everything that had happened after we had gone into our rooms. We had just finished our tale and were wondering what to do now (and laughing over Sarah's romantic novel line), when we all got a message that made us all pale slightly. Jenny had just screamed into our minds, "GET OVER HERE! RIKU'S GONNA GET HIMSELF KILLED!" Heather scrambled to the door and began fumbling with the door knob. Finally she got it open, and Sarah shot out the door closely followed by me, Veena, and lastly Heather. We flew down the hallway, flung open the door and leapt over the railing. We raced over to the door to the alley way and rushed inside to see Riku holding Jen bridal style.
"OH MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED??" Wow, who knew four people could all shout the same thing at the same time unintentionally.
"Axel tried to kill us!" Jenny weakly replied. Weird, why did Axel randomly attack Jen and Riku.
"HE WHAT???" Again, what is with the whole in unison thing!
"Yeah, but Riku beat the crap outta him and saved my life."
"REALLY?" AUGH! I give up, there's no stopping the curse of unanimous-ness.
"Uh huh. And Riku, you can put me down now. I can walk." Jenny said to him. He blushed and put her down.
"Thanks." She replied, then turned to us. "I don't know why but Axel wants me for some reason, okay? I just got beaten up and I'm really," She started to sway as if she would collapse any moment and I stared at her with concern, "really tired." Then , apparently, she fell over, asleep. Riku caught her before she hit the ground and started carrying her back to the hotel, muttering, "Sure ya can walk."
The rest of us trailed slightly behind, unusually quiet.
"So does anyone have any reason why Axel just randomly attacked Jen and Riku?" I broke the uneasy silence. Seriously, I have a problem with silence in general. I can't stand to be in silence for long periods of time, I just like to have some kind of sound, otherwise I get all nervous. No one answered and after a few seconds I said, rolling my eyes, "Well don't everyone answer at once."
"Well, I really have no idea, it seems like a bizarre random attack, but there must be SOME reason behind it!" Sarah burst out, exasperated.
"How 'bout we not worry about the reason why right now, and go see if Riku needs any help with Jen?" Veena suggested.
"Yeah, this thing with Axel is making my brain hurt." I said, rubbing my head. It was true, I was getting a slight headache from puzzling over what Axel might want.
"Come on, let's go check up on Jen and Riku." Heather said as we speed up a little bit and made our way to the Hotel.