Chibi: Well, here's chappy 7! Enjoy! I feel I haven't been updating that much, so that's why I updated earlier DON'T KILL ME! (hides)
Fans: Awww, (puts down sharp licorice sticks)
Chibi: o.0 …You have made me paranoid of licorice.
Shiloh: Hi guys! We're back from the candy store!
Sora: I GOT LICORICE!
Chibi: AHHH! GET IT AWAY! (runs away)
Riku: This lollipop's flavor is strawberry XD (eats the lollipop all slow)
Riku Stalkers (RS): (are drooling profusely) Obtain everything strawberry! (tackles Chibi's lipgloss)
Chibii: GET OFF MY LIPGLOSS YOU FOOLS!
Sora: Licorice…
Chibi: WAAAH! (runs away)
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or anything associated with it, but I own Shiloh, and anything associated with her, that's not associated with Kingdom Hearts. (sighs) Well, that was simply put, wasn't it?
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Chapter 7- A Strange Situation
Sora, Shiloh, Donald, and Goofy, entered the doorway in the wall, to walk into a large forest. It was lined with colorful, lotus leaves, beautiful flowers, and cut short tree stumps. Sora heard a loud thumping noise, and turned around to find the source.
Shiloh looked straight ahead, expecting something to happen at any moment. Suddenly, a purple, smiling, head bobbed in midair, right in front of them. Sora stepped back in surprise, while Shiloh let out a startled yelp. It appeared in various places above their heads a couple of times, then it finally landed on one of the tree stumps; the body standing on top of the head.
This place just gets weirder and weirder, thought Shiloh, gazing at the cat. It put its' head back on, and said, "You want to find the evidence? Look high, but low," it said, then disappeared.
"Look high but low?" repeated Shiloh, cocking her head to the side.
"I think this is what he means," said Sora, picking up a small, pink box that was placed to the side. He opened it, to reveal some black footprints, imprinted inside the box.
"It's evidence!" exclaimed Donald.
"Let's look above now," suggested Shiloh. Sora nodded, and the party looked up, towards some high lily pads that were suspended by the trees.
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Hoisting herself up on another lily pad, Shiloh peered down at her comrades. Sora was hanging onto the lily pad, his legs dangling over the edge. So far, this was the gang's second clue to find.
"Sora, let me help you," she said, extending a hand.
"It's okay, I've got it," he replied, struggling to hang on. Regardless, Shiloh grabbed his hand, before he fell off, and pulled him up.
"Shiloh, c'mon!" protested Sora, as she completely helped him up.
"Sora, what are you trying to prove?" she asked.
"That I don't need your help every single time," he said quickly, without thinking.
A surprised look came over Shiloh's face, but she quickly covered it up by looking away. Sora realized what he had said, and how he had said it, and he put his hand on her shoulder.
"Wait, that's not what I meant..," he started.
"No, I understand, I shouldn't be so…" she turned to face him, her face inches from his. "Overprotective,"
Before Sora could reply, she stormed over to the pink box, picked it up, and walked over to the edge without opening it. Sora and she had been having a lot of squabbles lately, but what was the real reason?
Shiloh didn't exactly know why, but she did know, that she didn't want to even speak with Sora, at least until they got on the Gummi ship. As she jumped off, to meet up with Donald and Goofy, Sora sighed, muttering to himself, "What a mess,"
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Once all the viatl evidence was collected, everyone went in front of the queen, to present the evidence.
"We have the evidence," stated Sora.
"Your evidence? Hmm…" the queen said. With a wave of her staff, a card immediately ran over to the two pink boxes on the floor, and added three more to the pile.
"Hey! What are you doing, we got the evidence!" clarified Shiloh.
The queen glared at the young girl, "My evidence will be present as well! You choose the box with the right evidence, and the girl will go free," she said.
Shiloh looked towards Sora, even though she was still a little angry with him. He walked over to the row of boxes, and stared intently at them. Looks like its intensive thinking time again, but I hope he chooses the right one thought Shiloh. He looked from the boxes on the right, to the boxes on the left, and then walked up to the one in the middle.
Shiloh held her breath, as Sora took the lid off of the box. Surprisingly, a heartless jumped out, and ran into the depths of Lotus Forest. Sora looked at the queen, confidence in his eyes. She made what sounded like a low growl, and raised her tiny rod again. This time, all wooden pedestals, but the queen's, disappeared in a puff of smoke.
One of the cards was spinning a metal crank, from a tower that appeared in the middle of the courtyard. They all jumped in unison, at Sora and Shiloh. Donald and Goofy were hastily thrown in one of the cages.
Shiloh swung her Heartscepter, to release a white beam of light, at the cards. Sora was almost buried under a huge pile of spade cards, and she desperately wanted to help him. She was angry with him, but he was still her very close friend.
A red hearts card came gliding out of nowhere, and knocked her to the ground with it's thin body. She cursed at it, and tried to attack again, but was instantly pinned down by another card. Theres no way I'm gonna lose!, thought Shiloh. She didn't want to be a weak link in the team; she had to prove herself.
Managing to flip a card over on its side, with her foot, she narrowly escaped an axe slicing her arm. Once she crawled out of the pile of cards, she jumped up, and bumped headfirst into Sora. Rubbing her head, she pointed to the tower, which was being guarded by cards.
"Let's take them down Shiloh," said Sora, eyeing them.
"Yeah," she agreed.
Sora and she ran into the entourage of cards, and swung their weapons at an equal pace. The cards responded by trying to blockade the tower, so they wouldn't reach it. Shiloh, getting an idea, jumped onto of the cards' heads. Sora caught her drift, and jumped up as well. Getting in a few hits with the Hearscepter, Shiloh's foot got pulled from under her, by one of the cards. Before falling, she yelled "Here Sora!" tossing him the Heartscepter.
He grabbed it, and hit the crank tower with everything he had, with both weapons. Shiloh hit the ground, hard, and remained at the feet of the scrambling cards. Just then, the crank tower disappeared, and the cards expressions were struck with dismay. They quickly ran over to their queen, for protection of sorts. Sora, having defeated the crank tower, kneeled by Shiloh, who was smiling up a storm.
"That was awesome!" she exclaimed, quite excited.
"Yeah, it was!" said Sora, equally amazed.
With the crank tower destroyed, they stood up, and quickly realized that Alice was still trapped in the cage. They rushed over to it, only to see it drop down with no one in it.
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Unfortunately, there would be no trial without a defendant, so Sora and entourage headed towards Lotus Forest to search for the poor girl. Having been separated from Donald and Goofy during the last battle, Sora and Shiloh were in need of a healing spell.
"It's a good thing I'm here," said Donald, proudly, as he cast the green aura of swirling magic over them.
"Yeah, thanks," said Sora, a bit sarcastically.
Shiloh sighed, and crossed her arms. "So, we're to look for Alice right? But, where to look?" she asked.
"Well…" Sora started to say, but just then, the smiling cat made his appearance once more. It stood on his head, much like before, and smiled endlessly at them.
"What riddle do you have for us now?," asked Shiloh. He seemed to appear whenever an ordeal seemed confusing, like a riddle.
"You're looking for Alice? She's not here, she's in the dark, so find the light. Oh, and one more thing, move one thing to get to another," it said, disappearing afterwards.
"What does he mean now?" asked Sora, tiredly.
"Hmm, lights..," said Shiloh, in thought.
Suddenly, A gigantic boulder, in the rear of the forest, moved aside, revealing a hidden exit in the forest.
"Whoa, It's really big," said Goofy.
Shiloh backed up to get a better view of the problem, and instead backed into a scarlet rose, just about her size, behind her. She turned around, thinking it was a heartless, and accidentally scorched it with her light magic from her staff. The plant bobbed lazily in response.
"Oops," squeaked Shiloh.
Sora walked over to her, wondering what she just did.
"Anyway, what should we do? Should we go back to the room after the rabbit hole, and take that potion again?" he asked.
"No, then we wouldn't be able to come back here," responded Shiloh.
"Use your intensive thinking!" yelled Donald to Sora, thoughtfully.
Sora shot him a blank look, and turned to Shiloh. She was leaning close to the rose she just bumped into.
"Um, Shiloh, what are you doing?" Sora asked.
She motioned with her hands for him to come close to her. As he stepped forward, he heard the flower whisper Give me a potion. He stepped back and asked "Did that plant just talk?"
"Yes it did. But hey, it asked for a potion-- let's give it one," suggested Shiloh, as weird as that sounded.
She obviously didn't usually talk to flowers, but she'd gotten used the strange antics of this world. Sora shrugged, and dug in his pocket for the few potions Leon had given him, before he left Traverse town.
He pulled one out, and pulled the cork on the top, to see the green swirling magic descend upon the flower. Thanks, It replied. Shiloh felt a little bad that she had zapped the plant, but really, it was just a plant. Suddenly, Sora began to grow larger, back to the size he was before he drank the potion.
"Well, this is…strange," said Sora, looking at himself.
"This place is the DEFINITION of strange," said Shiloh.
"Didn't he say, move one thing to get to another?" asked Goofy.
"Oh yeah!" remembered Shiloh.
"I'm on it," said Sora, pushing the boulder into the pond.
"And you pushed it into the pond,because…?" asked Shiloh.
Once again, he pointed to his head, and said "Sora intuition,"
As a result of him pushing the boulder, two lily pads appeared up top in the trees', which lead to another exit.
"Okay, I've done that, but how do I shrink back?" asked Sora.
Shiloh sighed, and crossed her arms once more. This place was really making her think more than usual.
"How bout' you try eatin' that there acorn?" suggested Goofy, pointing to a brown object on one of the lily pads.
"An acorn?" Sora asked, making his way over to the lily pad.
"Just try it, It just might work," said Donald.
Sora picked up the acorn, popped it in his mouth, and instantly shrank back down to tiny size.
"Wow, you're just full of ideas today Goofy," said Donald.
"Yeah, good job!" complemented Shiloh, as Goofy beamed.
"OK, so now, let's go through that back exit," said Sora, as he pointed to it.
"And where will that take us?," asked Donald.
"How do we know its safe?," asked Goofy.
Sora began to make his, intuition speech again, but Shiloh quickly cut him off. "Oh no, not that again," she said, while dragging him over towards their destination.
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The characters emerged from Lotus Forest, onto the wall of the strange room they'd come into, or the Bizarre Room. There was a fireplace beneath the wall, and a small gush of water poured into a gold bucket on the floor.
"Oh my gosh," said Shiloh, feeling dizzy.
"What is it?" asked Sora, grabbing her arm.
"We're so high up!"
"Are you afraid of heights?,"
"Well, yeah," she admitted.
Heights didn't really appeal to her that much; they made her feel dizzy, and uncomfortable. What didn't help was that several hordes of heartless now began to appear.
"Oh great," Shiloh complained, backing up. She was thinking about just jumping off; that would solve the problem, but she'd have to pray she wouldn't break anything. Before she could really decide though, Sora backed up in front of her, pinning her against the wall.
It was actually kind of awkward being in this position, with Sora's back on her chest.
"W-what are you doing?" she asked.
"Just stay like that, If you try to fight, you'll surely fall off, am I right?," he asked, while giving a small swing of the Keyblade to on coming heartless.
"Probably…But, that's not fair to you," she said, starting to blush a little.
Sora didn't really respond to this, he simply turned around, and wrapped his arms around her waist. Apparently, a heartless had knocked the Keyblade out of his hand. An oncoming heartless leapt at the chance of his enemy being defenseless.
"Sora! What are you doing?!" she yelled, as the heartless continued to charge. Oh crap, now Sora's going to get hurt because of my stupid phobia, she thought, becoming scared for her friend. Suddenly, a jolt of thunder obliterated the heartless coming for Sora.
They looked toward the source of the blast, whom was Donald, and watched as he destroyed even more heartless.
Donald and Goofy where now fighting the rest of the remaining heartless. Sora let go of Shiloh briefly to ask her "Are you alright?".
Normally, she would have gotten angry again, but right now, she was just glad that Sora didn't lose his heart. She drew in a sharp breath, then wrapped her arms around him.
"I'm sorry, just please don't do anything like that again," she said.
Sora, surprised, just stared at her, then finally, returned the embrace. "Well, I'm sorry too,"
They stayed like this for a good five minutes, until Donald and Goofy spoke up.
"Um, guys, I hate to break it to yah, but-," Donald began.
Realizing that they still had a mission to accomplish, Sora and Shiloh quickly parted, their cheeks flushed from blushing.
"Right, right, sorry guys," said Sora, summoning his Keyblade back.
Suddenly, the cat appeared once more, standing on the wall as well. It was still grinning, like always, just like a Cheshire….
"Very good, I noticed the two of you had been fighting, ever since you came. Now that you've stopped, there's no one to blame. And now that you earned it well, and is acting very nice, I shall grant you the power of ice!" said the Cheshire cat, motioning to Sora every now and then.
A blue beam of light shone upon the cat's fingertip, and slowly descended to Sora's level. With that, it disappeared once more.
"Good job Keyblade master! You learned the Blizzard spell!" congratulated Donald.
"Thanks," replied Sora, happily. "But how do I use it?"
Shiloh smiled, So the cat must've been testing Sora and I's friendship ever since we came she thought.
Sora looked around the room, and instructed "Okay, Let's solve this riddle! Shiloh, can you please turn bigger, to search above ground?"
"Sure," she replied.
"Good, we'll search down here," he said.
Shiloh nodded, and ran over to the edge. Gripping the side, she slowly slid down, and ran towards the table. Sora started to scan the room for anything that would solve the riddle. He figured they could start by just moving random things, or adjusting them, in order to find a clue. He walked over to the tiny waterfall, falling into the pot.
He set his eyes on the faucet above it. Running and jumping next to it, he grabbed the faucet, and turned it. At the same time, he heard a small poof, from the other side of the room. He turned to see Shiloh point to another small opening. He sighed, and made his way over with Donald and Goofy; when would it ever end?
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The friends entered the new room with caution, only to find a long table, lined with teacups.
"A tea party?" asked Shiloh, picking up one of the tea cups in her hand.
"Strange," said Sora. "But we can't stay, we need to solve the riddle,"
"Yeah, Alice must be really scared," said Shiloh.
So, they exited the house that was next to the tea party setup.
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As they entered the new side of the Bizarre room, the Cheshire cat appeared once more.
"Light the lamps," it ordered, and disappeared.
"Short and sweet this time," said Shiloh, as Sora peered over at the unlit lamps.
"I'll take the one on the left, Donald, take the one on the right," said Sora.
Donald nodded, and immediately aimed his staff at the lamps. Sora ran near the other one, and stayed just the right distance for him to fire. At the same time, both of them fired the fire spells, hitting the lamps and igniting them instantly.
"Got it!" exclaimed Sora.
Shiloh turned to the side of her to see a gray latch. Curiously, she pulled the latch to reveal even another door.
"Uh, guys, I found another door," said Shiloh.
They turned, to see the new pathway emerge, and ran through it.
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This time, the group appeared in the courtyard once more, except this time, they stood on a high, hidden ledge.
"Maybe we should go back to the Bizzare room," suggested Goofy.
"Yeah, there's not much to do here," Shiloh said.
"I have a feeling another heartless fight's coming up! Be prepared guys!" instructed Sora.
Shiloh looked at him, and was about to ask how he had that feeling, and his eyes met with hers.
"Sora intuition?" asked Shiloh, smiling, and running toward the Bizzare room.
"Sora intuition," he clarified, doing the same.
When they reached the room, It was actually perfectly placed. No upside down walls, or items; just the Chesire cat, sitting on top of the table, and grinning. They made their way up towards it, then it stopped when it stated,
"Are you prepared? Well, you best prepare for the worst!", while motioning to something rising up behind him.
A Heartless with about 5 stacked heads, a skinny, paper body, and juggling sticks in each hand, did somersaults across the room. As it flew over them, Sora and Shiloh looked on in awe at their new heartless boss.
It finally landed a little distance from them, completely straightening out, and facing them. Sora grabbed Shiloh's hand, and briefly whispered, "Hey Shiloh, make sure you be careful,"
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Chibi: So, yes that's chapter seven, I'm sorry I had to end it this way. I'm currently typing chapter 8, because it's my favorite! Also, thanks for the reviews! You guys are great! Oh, and happy St. Patrick's Day to anyone! (hands out shamrock shaped cookies)
Shiloh: (snore)
Chibi: o.o Why are you sleeping? Shouldn't you be listening to me?
Sora: (is chewing on licorice)
Chibi:…Do you live to terrorize me Sora?
Sora: (mouth is stuffed with licorice) Waah?
Shiloh: (snores loudly again)
Riku: (Is still eating lollipop)
Chibi: You know what? I just can't deal with you people, I'M LEAVIN! (leaves)
Shiloh: Is she gone? YAY! DANCE PARTY!
(confetti pours from the ceiling as random people dance to 'Caramell Dansen')