Chapter 11 Rescue the Crazy Nymph
Sora just walked through the streets of the town. Mom had told him that Riku wanted to see him when the whole thing was over. Sora thought about heading to the Island to check but Riku had called him and not to bother him. What a turn around! Mr. Personality says he wishes for you to bask in his energy then it's 'go away.' The worlds had turned upside down again.
He felt so utterly useless. Sora needed to go back to Radiant Garden or at least Twilight Town. He had to wait until Riku would meet him so they could get out of here. All this sitting with two madmen running around didn't do well for his stomach. He hadn't eaten anything today other very, very little cereal. His normal breakfast was like those pictures you saw on TV 'as part of a complete breakfast.' Pancakes, cereal, fruit bowl . . . That was more like it.
The sun was almost beginning to go down. It wasn't yet dusk so he had some time before he needed to head home.
The glee of laughter found it way into his ears. Sora turned to see a family playing a game of badminton in part of the park. The parents each had a toddler on their shoulder with a teen girl next her dad who had a pretty good left hook and the mom had a preteen boy who was shouting something indiscernible.
Sora smiled. That's what Destiny Island was. Care free life with the people you love doing the things they love. Family spending time together with no evil witch or crackpot organization of element wielding weirdoes trying to kill you. Of course, except for the bad guys at the end, it all sounded rather sappy. But who cares!
A tune began to play around him. A bunch of electronic beeps in the form of a tune rising from his pocket. Sora pulled out his phone. It was mom? She never called him while he was out unless . . . !
"Mom? He answered with uncertainty filtering through his spiky head.
Tears filtered through speaker to his ear. Sora felt his heart stop. "I'm at the hospital. Your father was attacked."
Sora almost could feel his veins turn to ice. His whole body was stuck to the spot. He couldn't reply from just pure shock. "Sora? Are you still there?"
He shook he his to get his senses back, his veteran of many battle taking over at this point. "Yeah, mom, I'm here. Is Dad all right? Did he say who did it?"
"The doctors say he should be here for a few weeks. He said that you would know who did it. The rainbow and the steel. Do you get that, honey?"
The ice melted. Anger burned through him. They were here. They had attacked his father! They had come here to taunt him! No they would pay. They would pay with all that they had. Including their very lives. "Mom," he said through clenched teeth, "stay with dad. Don't go anywhere. I'm sorry but I can't stay."
A shrill ran through the phone. "NO! Don't go after the men that did this. "You'll just get hurt." He wished he could listen her but he couldn't, and truly, he wouldn't.
"Mother," he said with a bit of an edge to his voice, "I'm not a kid anymore. I can handle them. I know who they are. They can't run from me. I'll find them, mom. And they'll regret this day." Before his mother could scream another refusal, he flipped his phone shut. He reached into himself for the power. The Keyblade appeared in his hands. Its power flooded through him.
Xosnaj had wanted his attention. He got it. And it would cost him a war.
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The gummi ship flew through the skies of the worlds with reckless abandon. Sora piloted the craft with expert ease. Riku had to try to consol the rather terrified Selphie. He couldn't leaver her back at her house all alone, so a quick note to her parents and he took her with them. Sora had barley spoken throughout the journey other than an explanation to him and a radio out to Leon.
This was going to be a long day.
"You're telling me that our little town in only a small world in all this big ocean and we're going to some place called Radiant Garden to meet with some guy named Leon, right?" Selphie repeated.
Riku nodded. He had to admit. It was all a bit overwhelming. "Leon had a few people who can help us and he has contact to King Mickey."
"You mean that big talking mouse that can around the Islands that one time?" she squealed.
Grimacing from the high pitch, he nodded.
Another squeal.
Sora paid the scene behind him no head. He was nearing the first entrance of Radiant Garden. Once eh got his hands on them. Nothing would be able stop him.
Kairi squeezed his hand from the other chair. She had let him have his silence and his was grateful. He would make all this torture up to her somehow later, but first things came first. She just sat there staring at him with her eyes fixed in worry.
Yeah, he would defiantly make it up to her.
When this was all over
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Commodore Norrington felt he was an able commander, and able fight and able trustee of the governor. He had sent of a few patrols throughout the fort with a few extra men tonight. The sightings of the white and black creatures had increased, and he didn't was to take any chances.
Garbed in his finest, Norrington made out the report to Governor Swann. A ship had been stolen in the middle of the night with the crew completely missing along with several months' worth of provisions and ammo. Along with that, Will Turner's forge, that supplied much of the iron from the cannon balls, had been raided, not a scrap of iron left. None of the already made items had been left. That was just the start of it. Iron was becoming scarce all over the fort with one day a crate with iron items ready to be melted into ammo, the next it vanish along with the tools to create more weapons if they had the iron. The Governor wasn't happy, and quite frankly, neither was Norrington.
Things were so much simpler when he was still just a captain of a ship and could go about and scour the seas from the pirate ilk, not search the harbor for an iron monopoly. Of course, to even begin a search for pirates, he would need the iron. Once this was settled, he was going to relax his nerves with a pirate hunt. That would set all his ducks back in a row again.
The report never got to be finished.
And explosion rocked the Commodore's office. The British sea-men were knocked from his chair to sprawled out on the floor. "What the Devil!" he spat. Rising to his feet, Norrington ran up to the window and looked to see what the commotion was.
Out in the distance, he could see a ship, but it didn't look like any merchant ship or any man-of-war he ever seen. Not even an East Indian Men vessel looked like this. From his position he saw that the mast was gone and in its place was a huge rotating canon. The ship looked darker than any ship he had seen, at least in coloration. It looked like a dark grey, not like any seagoing wood he had ever seen.
The huge cannon opened fire releasing a huge girt of flame. Red and orange ripped through the sky lighting through the dusk blending in with the red of the sun like a celestial dance. Norrington watched as the escapee from the canon flew though the air with amazing speed. It was like no other cannon ball he had seen. It was elongated with a point on it like a rounded spear. It shone through the carnage with a terrible brilliance.
The light ended quickly as the missile met its mark: another of the ships waiting in the harbor. The ship exploded that one shot. The flames erupted all up to the sky. The missile must have hit the storeroom where the power was, Norrington concluded. But his theory was short lived as he realized the ship had been assaulted on the back end. The captain's quarters. That missile must have been like a power keg. A bomb flying through the air.
More such kegs flew again. The Commodore watched in utter horror as the dock and other ships began to be set ablaze with ease. Screams managed to claw their way to him. Screams of the dying, of the burning, of the mourning.
He could take it no longer. Rushing from the window, the pirate hunter grabbed his sword and ripped open the door.
Someone stood before him. A rather skinny man in a black cloak with—was that rainbow hair and eyes?—a sneer and a rather angry look in his eyes. "Look, I'm pissed, you're pissed, let's get this over withand have a nice day." A fanged grin began to spread across the man's face. The newcomer pushed Norrington back against the wall. After he licked his lips the colorful man, out of pure anger, kicked to the side, knocking the door right of its hinges!
Norrington drew his saber. "Stand aside, sir!" He commanded. "The port is under attack!"
The lanky man gave him a 'duh' expression. He picked the door back and with superhuman strength hurled it straight through the stone wall! Norrington gazed in awe and fear as the door sailed through the air. Thankfully, it never hit anyone but made a rather loud splash as it broke the water.
The sound of popping echoed through the room. The powdered-wigged commodore reverted his gaze back to the man. Light shone around him and he popped his neck and crystals began to form in his hands in the form of a large claymore. The man held it with ease, much like one would hold a rapier! That's impossible! The drawback of using such a large weapon was that you couldn't use it like a small sword, especially not a rapier! What is this man? Or is even a man?
Boxcly approached him, sword in hand, blood boiling, and growled. "Introductions are wasted on the living."
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Sora couldn't believe his eyes at what he was seeing. They were back! While he had been sitting on his hands back in the Islands, the Enemy had been preparing. Villain's Vale, abandoned for so long was crawling with specks of white that were barely visible in all the black. Heartless in the thousands! Nobodies in the hundreds!
Leon stared in horror along with his younger friend. None of the scanners or sensors had picked any of this up. Cid's new computer along with the use of Old Ansem's supercomputer had been completely blind to all of this. An entire army amassed in Kingdom knows how long. They could have been sitting here since the fall of Xemnas!
Leon picked up a little rock from the ground and through it into the huge mass. He never saw it through the dark blob.
Axel scowled at what he was seeing. It would take more than just two Nobodies to open up this many Heartless this fast. Xosnaj and Boxcly simply didn't have the strength to do it. Maybe with a little help they could pull it off. It was obviously their doing but the question was 'how'?
Axel wished he still retained the power of command over the Heartless. It was one thing he had lost when he had regained his precious heart. Only one of the Realm of Darkness or who had become attuned to the dark monsters could control them.
Others of their group had taken a pit of a more 'forward' approach to just sit there and let the Heartless breed like that. Larxene had wanted to jump in the middle of the Vale guns blazing. Thankfully, before she could jump off the cliff and charge into the canyon alone, Axel and Leon grabbed her by the arms and put her back. Then had sent her back with Cloud sulking. He saw her trying to start a conversation with the stoic. Very unlikely.
"Leon?" Sora asked seriously, "What's the plan?"
Lionhert sighed. "I don't know. We have plans for advancements of Heartless but nothing on this scale."
Sora turned to look at his friends as if he had grown an extra head. "You mean you're just going to let them sit their still they get hungry and peal out your heart?"
Leon didn't know how to respond. Or at least he really didn't have time to respond from the explosion!
Lightning crashed down into the gorge like an angry bull, eyes like coals and steam from its nostrils barely containing its fury. The spectators didn't need a higher form of math to come up with the answer of why there was a giant blast in a giant black and white mass of monsters.
Larxene herself was having a ball. She had managed to convince Cloud to accompany her on a little free for all. Her knives dove into the black flesh of a Heartless, electricity surging up through her form. The Neoshadow dissipated into black nothingness. With the flick of her other hand, she slashed through two other Neoshadows on her right who had through about giving her a surprise. She sliced through them with ease. Two more shadows attack from her front and with the electric pulses she had sent through the magnetic ore in the ground, she could feel another Neo shadow began to creep through the shadows to attack her. Faster than a human could blink, the Savage nymph made a turn with her knives and then proceeded to charge through her newest prey.
Larxene's newest partner in crime was not to be disappointment. Cloud, using his massive sword, sliced through the Heartless like a very hot knife through butter. He let his years of training express themselves in the best imaginable. The enigmatic blond sliced to his left searing through several Heartless who just had the misfortune of just being there.
Cloud knew that this was going to be an overwhelming fight so the SOLDIER did the most unexpected thing for the spectators watching above. Cloud clicked a switch on the guard of the sword causing another sword to pop out of the former which he caught with excellent reaction speed. In short time it took to get the new sword; the Heartless had replaced their fellows. Cloud swept all around him in a turn with his words like a drill. The Heartless never stood a chance.
"Are they crazy?" screamed a rather flustered duck as he fired spells into the fray.
Axel couldn't help but smirk at the duck. "Personally," he said conjuring his chakrams, "this is one of her better ideas and I'm in! Bye guys!" Throwing caution to a rather bloody wind, Axel jumped off the cliff, magically conjured fire dancing around him, burning the very air that they resided in.
Leon laughed himself. Sora gripped the handle of the Keyblade. The kid was barely able to keep himself from jumping off and joining his friends. "Go," he said to the clump of spikes next to him, "beat some heartless and get them out of there." Leon shot a blast from his gunblade into the mass. "I'll head back and get the others in case. Remember; don't do too many stupid things."
And with that, the Head of the Radiant Garden Restoration Committee was off like a shot to inform the others of their guest rash actions.
Sora didn't need to be told twice. He leaped off the cliff summoning the power from the Keyblade to lessen the fall, much like Axel had done. Whilst falling, he cast a number of fire and lightning spells devastating the legion of dark beings below him.
When he hit the ground, he swung the Keyblade to his left, ramming it through several Heartless stretching his hand forward and with the cry of the incantation, Sora blast another larger fire spell, incinerating the unfortunate who were in firing range.
Sora swung his blade back around behind his back, slicing through the enemy. Keyblade in front of him, Sora charged forward. Three Neoshadows jumped in the air at him, ready to claw his face off. He threw the blade at them like a boomerang. The spinning blade rang through them, cutting them in two.
With no weapon, Sora was defenseless as another Neoshadow slashed its claws against the back of his head while another of its comrades found that Sora's leg made an excellent scratching post.
Hissing in pain, Sora called upon his magical energies within him. With a quick gravity spell, the dark orb came down crushing the two Neoshadows. Sora called back the Keyblade and continued to charge into the battle.
The veteran had come back to the war.
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Oni Nixel felt like he was about to burst with pride. That's my girl! The young man known as Leon had come into the castle to say that his you Ele-Larxene had gone right into a hoard with only one other person as back up and began to tear through enemies.
While the large burly man was beside himself with fatherly pride and a bit of humor, her mother felt her heart all but stop. She hated when Oni got into these sorts of situations but now her daughter had taken after the old bear and said what the hell. She wished sometimes she had listened to her mother and married into a normal family, but of course what's done is done.
"Stop laughing, you old goat!" she snapped at her husband. "She could be in serious danger!"
Her rebuke of him caused Oni to only laugh even harder. "She's a true Nixel! She can handle herself and if I remember, she's got some help."
Leon couldn't help but grin as he watched the married couple and of course id didn't help matters that Cid was trying to find his old spear in all the junk he pilled around here. Yuffie took a whet stone and sharpened her huge shuriken. A mischievous grin was plastered on her face. She had something planned, he knew it. Something she wasn't telling them.
Aerith and Tifa raced down the stairs. But before Tifa could scream for them to hurry up, the door opened up reveal a man that many had not seen in many years.
"Somebody call for an exterminator?" spoke Vincent Valentine.
He strode into the room, his ripped red cloak fluttering in the air as through air was being gently blow from the ground below him. Blackened leather pants glowed with an almost ethereal dark glow with a long three-barreled pistol hanging from a holster on them. Black untamed hair hung on him with a long strand of the dark mass hiding his right eye. His skin was like that of a vampire, pale like that of the dead.
"I got a call," he said in a monotone bringing up a cell phone in his golden glove clawed hand. A few in the room could help but chuckle. Vincent had been made fun of for a while of being technologically behind in the times. Of course, even when he got the phone, he preferred that you never-ever-call him.
Yuffie jumped up from her seat leaving her shuriken behind with a cry of "Vincent!" She ran up to him and gave him a big hug much to the shock of the Restoration Committee but Vincent seemed completely unfazed.
Without saying a word, the enigmatic Valentine took his un-clawed hand and pattered her head. She released him and he pulled his rather impressive pistol, Cerberus, and coked it. "You all going to just sit there?"
They didn't need to be told twice.
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Boxcly wished he could prowl the city streets of Port Royal. There were some many people here! Some many chance to spill blood, but Norrington wasn't his only target for the night. Xosnaj and his literal ironclad had blockaded the harbor along with devastating all the ships. He had to admit though, when Xosnaj let him kill the crew of the ship so he could remove all the iron from blood, he had slightly forgiven him for not slaughtering Ikari, but he was still sore on that.
He wanted off this world as soon as possible. It stunk, he got seasick, and he hated sailing. Xosnaj on the other hand was having a ball. He almost saw the Fallen Steel smile when he directed the ironclad warship to open fire on the 'primitive naval base' as he called it.
Boxcly approached the governor's mansion with a sinister smirk and as he passed a lewd wind to a maid that was running form the place before he got there.
Oh yeah, this was going to be fun!
He ripped through the gates with crystalline claws. They fell to the ground with a clank. He gave a brief whistle. The place was nice, if it wasn't for the sea being so close he might ask Xosnaj if he could have the place when it was all over. After all even psychotic murderers need a place to lay their heads every now and then.
"Halt!" A man stood at the doorway of the mansion. He was young maybe early twenties; dark neatly cut hair and a goatee. Common cloths of this place with tanned breeches and a puffy shirt. A very fine sword in his hand was held at the ready. These people really know how to roll out the welcome wagon.
Boxcly grinned again. Another of his targets and this one had come on a silver platter to him oh he defiantly led a charmed life. Will Turner wouldn't stand a chance.
Yo! Everyone, I returned with another chapter! You may never believe this but I did this entire chapter whilst recovering from my surgery. I was placed under anesthesia and then cut open to take out several gall stones along with the gall bladder itself and my appendix which there was nothing really wrong with it. I officially hate hospital rooms now. There were 48 ceiling tiles in my room! I couldn't type while being in their bed and really with the pain, I couldn't sleep. Ever played a movie over in your head? It's really weird.
Well, personally I can understand that there weren't that many reviews on the last chapter. I can admit that it really was filler but never fear for a real chapter has arrived. I will answer the only review and I encourage you all to review because every time you read but don't review, Boxcly goes around killing little puppies and kittens. Review because YOU can help.
Flowergirl220-I'm glad that you liked the last chapter and Oni and Tenshi did deserve that. They are a very rich family and more of their past will be revealed later but I can tell you that they are from the same world as Xosnaj and Boxcly and you'll meet some more of the people from their soon enough. Though you may not know them but I am sure that many of our other readers will. Here's a hint. "A good son would have known."
Well I hope you all like this chapter. Be prepared as over the Thanksgiving Holiday I plan to right a good bit, much more than I did over the summer. And soon enough all you people have been loyal from the very beginning will soon be graced with (drum roll please!) Return of an Empire! YAY!