Chapter 2 Revelation of the events
I'M BACK!!
Sora enjoyed being back home. Scratch that. That's a complete understatement. He was overwhelmed to home. He loved being able to go back to his own room instead of having to camp out in the wild or be in some
strange building. But everything was flowing with honey and milk. He had gotten one of the worst chew outs in the history of chew outs from his parents, more so his mom. When he had come back from the battle with Xemnas with Riku and had reunited with everyone from the battle, he went back to his house to find a headquarters of people trying to find him, Riku and Kairi. Everybody stopped when they saw the three teenagers enter the house. Right up until a same woman yelling "MY BABY!" and wrapped herself tight around Sora. It took Riku and Kairi a grand total of half an hour to get Sora's mom off of him. Then the bad part began. After her very emotional embrace of having her son retune home, she got extremely mad at him. The list went on and on. 'Where have you been for the past year? Where did you get those weird cloths? Were you kidnapped and if so who were they? Where did you get those cuts and bruises? Blah blah blah. She wouldn't stop. She even asked what they were doing. Oh, yeah that was gonna be a tough one to answer. He couldn't exactly answer by saying "Hey, Mom, we went across the sea of the worlds and fought creatures of Darkness called Heartless and evil maniacs in a group called Organization XIII. So where is the pizza?" Oh yeah, that would not be the best thing to say. Especially while half the islands were in his living room.
After he and Riku got everyone except his mom, dad and Kairi out of the house, they decided to tell their tale from the beginning. They told about how Riku had opened the door in the Secret Place on the play island. How the islands were destroyed by the Heartless in the dark storm. How Sora got a mysterious key-like weapon and he had proof for that one. How Sora ended up in Traverse Town; looked for Riku and Kairi and met Leon, Cid, Yuffie, Aerith, Merlin, Donald and Goofy. About his adventures across the world and meeting the inhabitants. How he had fought against Xehanort's Heartless. How they fought against the Organization. And so on and so. When their memory failed them they brought out Jiminy's journal to refresh their memories. Every few minutes, mom or dad who ask a question or two. They were a very good audience. They had only two problems with the whole story was when Sora became a Heartless to save Kairi, ("Son, you could have been killed," his mother exclaimed.) and what Sora had been doing before had went to sleep and awoken in the mansion in Twilight town. ("A most peculiar puzzle," dad had mumbled to himself). Of course Sora couldn't answer that. He didn't know himself. But he knew that Ansem the wise had something to do with it. Of course it could have been something to make him stronger for all Sora knew.
But all that wasn't the only thing Sora didn't like. There was one more major problem: school. Yep. Now that he was back home he had to go back to school. Eventually, he had to tell everyone about his adventures. How could he not? Could you? Not that any of his teachers believed him, at least not until King Mickey had come for a visit while Sora and Kairi were in Biology. That was a shock. A little mouse with a giant gold key walking around talking to you, that's bound to raise some eyebrows. But Mickey couldn't save Sora from the dreads of education. He had 2 years of work to catch up on to be up with everyone else. Kairi had less to do because she came back for a while. But since they were missing, they were given everything was given to them slowly.
But know now school was out and now all he had to worry about was when to take a swim. At least that's how it was planned. Thanks to the Gummi ship, he had friends from all over coming to the Islands to see him. For instance, Kairi had invited Olette to spend a couple of days with them.
That meant showing her around the islands and showing here the best cuisine in the islands: popu fruit cake. That was the Sea-Salt ice cream of Destiny Islands. No one could get enough of it.
Now, he was basically part of a transit system between the worlds. He, Donald and Goofy would take people from different world to where they needed to go, mostly Radiant Garden. Cid would sometimes help too but he had enough duties working the Reconstruction Committee computer system by himself.
Today Sora was enjoying himself by walking hand-in-hand with Kairi along the beach. Today it was too hot to wear his normal black Drive suit so he wore swim trunks and Kairi in a two-piece pink bikini. They talked about anything really as they walked. He wanted to know what had happened to her during their time apart. While Kairi was just the opposite. She wanted to know what happened to him. So he consented and told her about all the friends he had met in his adventures.
". . . turns out that Luxord of Organization XIII," Sora told her with much enthusiasm as he could muster, "had taken the cursed medallions and Captain Jack--."
Sora's story was cut short by the sound of two boys screaming for their lives. They looked to where the screaming was coming from. They ran down the beach and were past by Tidus and Wakka who were screaming their heads off. "SHE"S CRAZY!" they screamed as they passed by. Sora turned his head expecting to see Selphie chasing them with her new numcukes.
Instead he saw a totally unfamiliar girl, about 18 or nineteen, with electric blond hair that had these two stripes of the hair rising up and then flowing back above the hair like insect antennae. She was very skinny and it showed in her skinny blue jeans, a yellow t-shirt that was overlapped by a tan, tasseled vest. Her face might have been beautiful if not for the red head next to Sora, and the fact her face was full of fury and rage. She was running with kunai knives between her fingers with ninja like grace. "You think you can throw your idiotic ball at my head and not get feel my knives up your--" She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Sora and Kairi. Her face went from blind rage to utmost distaste. Her upper lip began to curl and her blue eyes narrowed down to small dots. "Oh great it's the Keyblade brat," she said as cold as steel. "Why can't you leave your victims of your blade alone? You think that just because you beat and Marluxia that I'll let you walk all over me? HA!" She pulled her knives into fighting position with her arms crossed. Sora and Kairi looked at this woman in utter confusion. Who was she? And who was this 'Marluxia' she was talking about?
Sora and Kairi summoned their Keyblades and waited for the woman to attack. She smiled at their looks of confusion. "So," she said in playful voice, "it seems Naminé re arranged your memories so not to remember Marluxia, Vexen, Axel, Castle Oblivion, or good young Larxene."
Sora didn't know any of those names except Axel. "Who are you?" he said. "Are you a member of Organization XIII? I know Axel. He kidnapped Kairi but then sacrificed himself to allow us to defeat Xemnas. But all those other people you mentioned I don't know." Sora held his Keyblade out. He didn't know if this woman would attack them or not.
He got his answer when the kunai disappeared beams of lightning. "It wouldn't be as fun getting back at you for killing me if you don't remember. Especially not when you're on a date." Her eyes flashed over Kairi. "You shouldn't have your dates on a day when I can get you back for making me fade back into darkness."
For there on there was a new mean girl added to the islands: Larxene. She was nice in nature but when you got her mad (which Tidus and Wakka learned never to do) she was fierce and sadistic warrior. Of course, Riku meet her. But unlike Sora, he did recognize her.
"SORA!" Riku yelled when Sora and Kairi brought Larxene down to the Playground Island. "WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR A BRAIN? A ROCK?" As you probably can tell he is not happy. "YOU BROUGT A MEMBER OF ORGANIZATION XIII DOWN TO WHERE WE HANG OUT? US! THE KILLERS OF ORGANIZATION XIII! YOU KILLED HER BACK IN CASTLE OBLIVION!"
Riku was yelling to the top of his lungs but Larxene didn't seem to notice him. She was more interested in the popu fruit that grew from the long ways tree. She took one of the fruit off the tree and put it in her pocket. "You know this fruit would make good Sunday," she said more to herself than to them. She looked at Riku with a smirk. "Hey aren't you that dark kid that the Heartless took over? You really need a haircut. You look like Vexen got to you." Her smiled grew wider, "And that you all people should know who that is."
Riku clenched his fist. Sora still had no idea of what she was talking about. "You're," Sora said his voice showing his confusion, "a member of Organization XIII?"
She brought her finger up in a mocking reproach. "Was. I was a member of the Organization. As you probably can tell, I have true emotions because I have heart. Somehow, I got my heart after you made me fade back into darkness. I don't know how but I'm here and I'm going to see who the strongest person in these islands is." The Kunai reappeared in her hands. "Let's see who fare against me now that were out of Castle Oblivion."
Sora and Riku summoned their Keyblades and readied themselves for her attack.
"Hey, Sora, Riku!" yelled a very squawk like voice. "We're here!"
Sora looked across the bay to see a small boat carrying three passengers. At the head was a dog about 5ft tall wearing a green zipper long-sleeve shirt, a black vest over it; and next to him was a duck about 3ft in stature, he wore blue zipper wizard robes. And doing the steering was a mouse a little taller than the duck, he wore a blue and red zipper cloths as well with little yellow pockets. "Hello, everybody," the little mouse said in a extremely squeaky voice.
The King, Donald and Goofy landed on the shore of the Island and immediately rushed to their meet their comrades. Donald and Goofy tackled Sora to the ground which left Kairi in a furious state of giggles. Mickey ran to Riku, but instead of running and doing that twist thing they did when they arrived last time. Riku and the King shook hands. Nothing to exciting. Just like formal business.
"You can introduce me to your friends, bra—Sora."
The reunited group turned around to see Larxene, hanging from a palm tree. "I don't like being left in the dark," she added with a wink and a smirk, "especially around the defeaters of my Organization."
The King, Donald and Goofy had the normal reaction to hearing that. They pulled out their weapons (or in Mickey's case summoned) and stood defensively against her. She jumped down from the tree but did not show any preparation of
violence. Donald let his guard down and looked at her perplexed. "I don't get it," he pondered, "If she a member of the Organization, why doesn't she attack us.'
Larxene's smirk grew wider and wider as she watched Goofy and King Mickey fall to the same confusion. "I am no longer a Nobody. I am fully human and I have a heart. But I can still kick your if I wanted to. Now let's talk more about how you guys got here."