Kingdom Hearts: The Trials of Light and Dark
A Light in the Rain production
Neki © Light of Heaven and Kitty Fetish
Reni Concept © Kitty Fetish
Reni © Black Rainy
Kingdom Hearts Characters and Concept © Square Enix and Disney
Final Fantasy Characters © Square Enix
All rights reserved.
Rainy: I GET TO WRITE ABU, KAIRI, AND RIKU!!!!! AGAIN!!!!! like usual...
Light: ...right...now, write.
Rainy: 'kay.
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The Trials of Light and Dark
Chapter 5
Sora sat in a chair near the gummi ship window, staring out of it worriedly. He hadn't found Riku, Kairi, nor Neki, Reni was just plain acting strange, and to top it all off he was the keybearer. Not to mention there was this annoying gut feeling telling him to go to Traverse Town. Something was telling Sora that something or someone would be there.
"Sora! Smile!" Donald scolded the boy from the hallway following Reni into the cockpit. "Do you want us to be stranded out here for forever?! Now, where are we going now?" Donald stared at Sora expectantly.
When no one said anything, Reni spoke up, "How about we go to Traverse Town and stock up? Y'all used up most of our potions fighting Cerberus." Sora shrugged in agreement and Donald took his spot as the driver. Goofy and Sora took the seats winging Donald's, and Reni went back into her room for a small nap.
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"So...you found one of the keyholes?" Leon asked setting his gunblade down. Sora nodded while Reni scrunched her face up from the icky damp smell of Leon's personal training area—that sewer thingeh, remember?
"Yep," Goofy confirmed, clapping a hand on Sora's shoulder. "An' Sora locked it right up!"
"That he did!" Donald piped up, looking rather proud.
Reni shrugged and nodded.
Leon smiled slightly. "Good, good...all I can say is to keep locking keyholes...now go up to Cid, he's got a thing he wants you guys to do." The group nodded and left Leon to train.
Trudging their way out of the training area and into the alley, Sora sighed with anticipation.
"I keep feeling that something's gonna happen..." He explained as they walked out to the Second District's Square. "...I hope it isn't anything bad."
"Well, let's ignore that and go do whatever Cid wanted us to do," Donald stated firmly walking up the stairs with the gang in tow.
"He probably wants us to clean his bathroom," Sora murmured to Reni, and she snorted up giggles.
Meanwhile, up above them, Riku and Neki watched from atop a building.
"Who are they?" Riku asked sharply, glaring at the two animal-like beings traveling with Sora and Reni.
"I think Reni called them 'Donald' and 'Goofy'," The blonde girl responded just as icily. She waited a few seconds and watched as the group below entered the first district. "How about we get down from here before Maleficent comes by?" Riku nodded and the two straightened, jumping lightly off the roof and onto the pathway below.
"So I'm guessing you're angry at Reni again?" Riku sighed as they walked down the stairs.
"Nah," Neki replied waving her hand. "Just a little fed up with her. I'm going to try to talk to her again soon," she looked over at him. "You think that's a good idea?"
Riku shrugged. "I dunno—but Reni's stubborn, she's going to stick to the fact she thinks she's right no matter what." Riku stopped walking and thought for a moment. "Should I try to talk to Sora?"
Neki nodded, smiling, "Why not? You can't tell him anything, though."
"Oh I wouldn't tell him squat even if my life depended on it," Riku sighed, then waved Neki away. "I think they're coming out soon, so if you want to stay hidden, better get out of here." Neki nodded in agreement and easily leapt up the stairs and ran up the side of the wall. Riku rolled his eyes at her flashy-ness and merely walked off to the third district.
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"Oh come on!" Reni whined while Sora burst out snickering. "That's not fair!"
"Hey, you were the one to suggest it," Cid smirked at her.
"Yeah, you were Reni!" Sora nearly fell over.
Reni pouted. "YOU, Sora, said it first! And it wasn't a suggestion, it was a question!" She stamped her foot childishly.
"Yeah, but I heard it outta your mouth," Cid countered for Sora. "Now, the rest of ya go deliver that book for me."
"Haha, okay, you have FUN Reni!" Sora snickered heading out the door. Reni stuck her tongue out at him.
"Yeah! It's TONS of fun cleaning Cid's toilet! JUST OODLES!" The angry girl screamed at him sarcastically. Sora merely smiled back, and kept walking with Donald and Goofy in tow.
Sora decided to be nice to a certain author and took the shorter route to the Third District: the nice big door to the right in the First District. Thank you Sora. In fact, I'll give you a little surprise for being nice to me!
Here ya go, here's RIKU!
Reni pouted before Cid, trying to look cute to get out of cleaning his toilet. Cid just stared at her.
"What?" He asked.
"I am cute, cute people don't clean toilets, toilets are for ugly people," Reni began to chant as if trying to brainwash him.
Cid arched an eyebrow. "Ya do know I'm not goin' to make you do anythin', righ?" Reni blinked in response. "Go outside an' take a day off from killin' heartless or something. Give those three a day off from your errotic-ness." Cid bent down to arrange something behind his counter, and Reni continued to blink.
"So, like, just...run around...?" Reni asked, uncertain of what to do.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever..." Cid replied.
Reni blinked again, and then slowly walked out of the shop. Once outside, she looked around. There was nothing she could think of to do.
"Ugh," Reni trudged down the stairs unhappily. "Everything's so much funner when there's someone else with you..." ...Like Neki. She could make a game out of pine cones, coat hangers, and Sora's big yellow shoe...that was a REALLY fun game, and I beat her at it!
Reni smiled at the fact she had once beat Neki at her own game, and decided to reminisce a little bit while walking to perk up her mood...possibly.
Turning around, she walked back up all the stairs, making her way towards the Second District, remembering that one time when she and Neki put applesauce in Riku's shampoo. Boy that was fun! He had come out in his bathrobe yelling at them and they had to run halfway across the town and then swim to the play island! Reni couldn't remember if Riku had been chasing them at that point, but all she could remember was their giggling and cries of "OMG RUN HE'LL GET US".
Entering the Second District and walking along the building's walls, Reni remembered that one time where she and Neki had climbed some palm trees, sat on the tops of them, and threw water balloons at the kids going past. After they threw, they would try to hide themselves as best as they could, but were always caught, and yelled at. There were occasional Blitzball attacks where one would get hit and go flying off the tree, but they always fell laughing.
Deciding to be all monkey-ninja-like, Reni jumped from the buildings' sidewalk to a small ledge up ahead. Stumbling at her landing, she tripped and fell on her face.
"Owwww..." Reni whined, rubbing her forehead and crawling over to the wall. She sat leaning against it pouting at the soreness in her face.
"Yeah, you're supposed to put your arms out in front of you first, Reni," a familiar voice giggled above the girl. Reni blinked and looked up to see a grinning Neki standing on a ledge that projected out from the building.
Reni, who thought about snapping back for a moment, looked back at the view in front of her, ignoring Neki for the time being. She heard a large sigh, and then a thwump as Neki landed beside her. The older girl sat and leaned against the wall to Reni's left.
"You okay?" Neki asked looking over at her friend.
"Yeah. Face just stings." Reni replied curtly. They sat in silence for a while after that, and trust me, it wasn't a comfortable silence, either.
Neki broke the silence.
"Did you read my letter?"
Reni nodded.
"...are you mad?"
Reni paused and Neki held her breath.
"I don't know," Reni finally said.
Neki blinked. "Can you hurry up and decide so I don't have be worried?"
Reni sighed deeply. "Well, the mission..."
"Yes, I know, I promised King Mickey I would stay with 'him' but he also said to follow our hearts," Neki whined, completely interrupting Reni. "And mine said to follow Riku!"
"We're supposed to follow our hearts if we believe it will lead us in the right direction!" Reni protested turning and staring at Neki, looking a little ticked. "Tell me, does joining the dark seem like the right choice? Look, I'm glad you have enough commitment to follow Riku no matter what but you need to straighten out your priorities!"
"Priorities? My priority, my one and only priority, is my heart!"
"Heart! Heart! Heart, heart, heart!" Reni interrupted icily. "That's all I've ever been hearing about for ten straight years! Follow your heart! Listen to your heart! I've never listened OR followed my heart because I was listening and following you! How am I even sure I have a heart?! I could be a stickin' heartless and not know it!" the girl continued icily slumping further and crossing her arms. "That's all I ever do is follow you, and when I finally stop, we hate each other. So I dunno, this fight between us could all be because of me or something."
Neki stared for a second, "We don't hate each other."
"We sure seem to," Reni looked back.
Neki put on a lopsided grin and said, "No we don't! I can prove it! Tell Sora to go ahead and do whatever. I'll tell Riku the same thing. Then we'll spend the rest of the day together!"
Reni contemplated this for a while, worried about her mission. Then a loud little voice in her head yelled, "SPEND THE DAY WITH HER. SORA WILL BE FINE."
"Okay, let's go," Reni said simply while standing up. She held out a hand to help Neki up. The other girl took it graciously and beamed as she was pulled upwards.
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"Man, Reni...you're really missing out on things when you're not with us!" Sora frowned. "I mean, you missed RIKU." Reni rolled her eyes.
"I've seen enough of Riku, trust me," She crossed her arms and sat on the couch in the accessory shop. "and I feel sick, so I'm not fit for travel...you'll be fine and so will I!"
"Fine..." Sora, Donald, and Goofy all turned to leave. Sora turned around quickly and opened his mouth but Reni interrupted him.
"Yes, there's leftover food in the fridge, now go."
He smiled and left.
Reni sprung up, ran to the fireplace, climbed up it and banged on the ceiling a little bit. The trapdoor over by the ladder sprung open and two skinny arms shot out. Reni took a running leap, grabbed onto the arms' wrists, and was pulled up by, who else, Neki.
Once they were up and out of the synthesizer placey thing, they ran to the Second District, holding little bags of munny and grinning happily.
Shopping sprees are always the best way to reconnect with friends...the female ones...boys don't like that stuff...
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"Hrmmm...Sora's going to ask why I got so many clothes when I should've been resting..." Reni pouted at her bag full of a few shirts, skirts, and a dress.
"Oh here, I'll take them to the room Riku and I share and keep them until you guys get to Hollow Bastion," Neki planned while taking the bag from the smaller girl. "and when you get there, I'll sneak them to you and you can sneak them onto your ship thing, and then you can keep them there."
"Really? Thanks!" Reni smiled at Neki. Then she held her arms out. "Hug?"
"Duh!" Neki scoffed as she hopped forward and squeezed the younger girl around the neck. "Oh I can't wait until we can do this again!" she exclaimed when they pulled away.
"Me neither!" Reni squealed being shortly followed by Neki in the squealing process.
Neki gave Reni an impish grin. "I told you we didn't hate each other!"
Reni smiled and rolled her eyes, "I'm sorry I ever doubted you. Now let's get back to where we belong and keep in touch!" Reni gave Neki a high five and began to jog off.
Neki blinked, turned and called out to her, "If I keep doing bad guy stuff, will you get pissed?"
The other girl paused and looked back at her with a strange look on her face. "I...really don't know. I might get ticked, possibly...can you deal with that?"
Neki smiled, "As long as it's not 'grr I will kill you' ticked! See you later Ren!"
"Bye!"
Meanwhile, a boy, a duck, and a dog all exited a gummi ship and entered Traverse Town, looking for a certain blonde girl who was 'ill'.
Funny how time flies, huh?
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Rainy: OH MY GOSH...that took forever...
Light: You didn't even get all who you said you were going to get in here.
Rainy: I know, but this NEEDS to be posted ASAP.
Light: ...you just LOVE making things difficult, don't you?
Rainy::nod:: 8333
Up next to write:
Light of Heaven!
PLEASE review...seriously...they taste GOOD and I'm starving right now cuz I don't eat breakfast and we had an icky English muffin for lunch where the egg didn't even look like egg. Aka: I haven't had breakfast, a full lunch, NOR dinner...i'm such a weirdo. (haven't even had dinner yet)