Please Read Authors Note!!
Hey you guys. I promised that I would be updating more often and I intend to do just that.
I just would like to say that I really need some more reviews. That would make me very happy.
I know I didn't get many reviews for the last chapter but that was pretty much expected. I hadn't updated in over a year. I'm really sorry about that.
But I'm changed. Now you will have more chapters of "Kingdom Hearts: Devil May Cry."
Sora: Yeah! More of me!
Me: Your so self absorbed.
Riku: Demondog666 is right. This story is also about me!
Me: You're no better.
Riku: Aw.
Kairi: This story is also about me.
Me: You people are all unbelievable.
Sora, Riku, and Kairi: What are you going to do about it?
Me: (Brings out Sparda the sword)
Sora: How can you use that? You're human.
Me: It's my story. I can do whatever I want.
Sora, Riku, and Kairi: Aw crap.
Me: Before I cut them up, it's time for the disclaimer. I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Devil May Cry. If I did I would have somehow combined the games to make one totally awesome game. But now that I think about it that probably wouldn't work out. Oh well (Starts swinging Sparda).
Sora, Riku, and Kairi: AUUUUGH!! DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!!
Chapter 4: Deep Jungle and New Powers
Sora sat quietly in the ship. He hadn't talked to Donald or Goofy for a couple of hours. He needed to think about everything that had happened.
We go to one world and things are already falling apart. Not only could we not find the king or my friends, we lost Alice to. Theses thoughts made him slightly depressed. It seemed that they weren't getting anywhere so far.
Goofy noticed Sora's sad face and went over to him.
"What's wrong Sora?" The Royal Knight asked.
"It's just that we seem to be getting nowhere. We haven't found our friends and we lost Alice. It looks like everything's going downhill." The half demon said.
Donald heard his friends and decided to say something.
"Sora, we've only searched one world. Two if you count Traverse Town. But we were looking for you at that time. You can't get your hopes down, even if it seems like we're not getting anywhere." The duck said.
What Donald said made Sora fell better. He was right. He couldn't lose hope. They still had plenty more worlds to search. The king, Riku, or Kairi were bound to be on one of them.
"You're right Donald." He said.
"Yeah Sora. Besides, we did find something. That letter from your father and some information on the mysterious group controlling the Heartless." Goofy said.
"You've got a point there. I just hope we find a bit more at the next world we visit."
"We've got one coming up on our radar now. It's called…the Deep Jungle?" Donald questioned.
When they got close to the world they took a good look at it. It seemed really strange. It didn't really seem the kind of place that most people would live on.
"Do ya think the king's down there?" Goofy asked.
"On that world? I don't think so. Let's go to the next one." Donald said.
"Wait! Riku and Kairi might be down there!" Sora exclaimed.
"Finding the king is the top priority. Besides, I don't think anybody would be on that world."
"It couldn't hurt to check."
"I said no."
"Alright! That's it! Give me those controls!" Sora yelled.
"Back off!" Donald yelled back.
The ship started to twist and turn from all of the fighting.
Goofy was starting to get worried. Then he noticed something.
"Uh…guys?"
"WHAT?!"
The Royal Knight pointed forward. Donald and Sora both turned their heads to the front. They were crashing down straight into the Deep Jungle.
At first all three of them were silent. Then they held onto each other for dear life screaming at the top of their lungs.
"AUGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!" They screamed.
Sora then turned to Donald.
"Donald for the record…I blame you."
"Why you-" before he could finish his sentence they crashed.
Unknown location with the mysterious group
The group was in the same big, dark hallway. They were having a discussion over how to get the Sora over to their side.
"We could just kidnap the duck and the dog then threaten to turn them into Heartless. That might work." The octopus woman said.
"That would never work. The boy is an excellent strategist. He would find a way to get them back. Besides, even if we succeed in kidnapping them both, Riku will be furious." Said the man with the snake staff.
"He's got a point. But I don't even see the need to recruit him anyway. We should kill him so that way we wouldn't have anything to worry about." The man with the hook said.
"You idiot. If we had him on our side than it would be so much easier to take over all of the worlds. Besides, it's much more difficult to kill a descendant of the Dark Knight Sparda than you think. I should know I'm the Lord of the Dead." The man with the blue fire hair said.
"So we can't kill him. We need to turn him over to our side but we don't know how. If things keep going like this I'll never be able to control Halloween Town." Said the man who looked like a giant bag.
The horned woman watched them all bicker about how to get the brown haired half demon on their side. So far they came up with nothing. They needed a plan and fast.
Then it hit her.
"Listen up you fools. There is a way that we could get the boy on our side." She said.
"Well what is it?" Said the man with the hook.
"We'll have Riku get him to join us. Not only are they friends but their cousins as well. It should be quite simple."
"Well let's go get him." Said the octopus woman.
"I'll go get him." The horned woman said.
She walked out of the hallway to find the silver haired boy. As she walked, she thought of how she could get the boy to trust her.
It won't be easy that's for sure. But we need him to trust us in order for this to work. If he turns on us it could be bad. Especially since he gets stronger every day. She thought.
She noticed that her crow was smirking slightly. That meant that he could feel Riku's power.
"He must be working very hard. Don't you think Diablo?" She asked her crow.
The bird nodded its head. He always found it fun to watch the boy display his power, whether it was demonic or from the darkness. Out of all of the group members he liked Riku the most. That was mostly because the boy reminded him of that man (A/N: This will be explained later in the story).
After a few minutes they finally reached the training room. They could hear the sounds of someone slashing away with a sword along with the sounds of blasts.
The horned woman opened the door. Once she opened it all the way she saw Riku slashing at Heartless with the Soul Eater. His moves were perfect. He was destroying each and every one with out fail.
While she was watching him fight, Diablo felt the amount of power flowing through the teenager. It was incredible. He knew that he would become a very powerful being in no time. He may even grow to be more powerful than his master. The very thought excited him.
Riku kept cutting through the Heartless. Once he was done with the shadows a big, fat one appeared. It jumped up in the air and tried to belly flop the boy.
Just before it could it him, the young swordsman jumped back out of the way. When the Heartless got back up it saw that Riku had turned around so that his back was facing him. It ran towards to crush him.
Before it reached him, Riku made a slash in the air with Soul Eater. All of a sudden the Heartless stopped moving.
The young man then sheathed his sword slowly. Once he got down to where the sheath and the handle met he stopped for half a second, and then sheathed it completely. When he did, the top half of the Heartless started to slide off before its body completely disappeared.
After he was done, Riku walked over to the horned woman with his sword in his left hand. He looked at her with cold eyes. Then he looked over to her bird and smiled slightly. He enjoyed Diablo's company. He was most certainly easier to get along with than those weirdoes who were afraid of him.
The crow flew over to him and landed on his shoulder. Riku scratched him on the head. The only person who was allowed to touch him was his master. This showed just how much he and the boy got along.
"I see that you're coming along very well with your training." The horned woman said.
The swordsman turned his head toward her, his eyes cold once again.
"Yes. But I'm not strong enough yet. I need to awaken the devil in me." He said.
"I know. You will be able to soon. You didn't expect to be able to after just a couple of weeks did you? That would have been amazing."
"Yeah, I know. Anyway what do you want? I doubt that you came down here just to compliment me on my swordsmanship."
"Straight to the point huh? Very well. Follow me, we have a plan and we need your help."
He followed her down the hall with Diablo still on his shoulders. The bird secretly hoped that one of the members made the silver haired boy angry so that he would show them how inferior they were.
He remembered the time when Riku first came here. The man with the hook made him angry but was shown his place by being slammed against the wall. That was a fun day.
The woman noticed that the fifteen-year-old hadn't made his sword disappear. He just held it in his hand.
"Why are you holding your sword? Wouldn't it just be easier to have it vanish for a while?" She asked.
"I like having it out sometimes. It feels natural." He said.
She accepted his answer and walked in silence.
They finally arrived at the hallway and joined the others. Diablo flew from Riku's shoulder and onto his master's staff.
"Boy, we need your help with something." Said the hook man.
"Really? I thought we were having a party. I guess that would explain the lack of pizza, music, and dancing." Riku said sarcastically.
"Watch your tongue boy or I'll-"
One glare from the half demon was enough to shut him up. He could see the look in his eyes that said, "Don't mess with me or I'll make sure you have to get a hook for your right hand." The older man immediately decided that he didn't like that look.
"Will you people just tell me what you need me for? I've been training for hours and I want to rest for a little bit."
"Of course. It's about your cousin." The horned woman said.
"Sora? What about him?"
"We need you to get him over on our side. Think about it. If he was with us you both would get that much closer to finding your family." The octopus woman said.
"So what do you say kid?" The giant bag said.
"Absolutely not." He answered.
"What?! Why not?!" The snake staff man said.
"I don't trust you people quite yet. You think I would just bring him here unless I did? You people are bigger idiots than I thought."
"Hey kid! I don't care if we do need you! You have no right to talk to us like that!" Said the giant bag.
"Oh please. What are you going to do about it? I'm stronger than you and you know it. Don't talk a big game if you can't play it." Riku said mockingly.
"Alright. Everyone calm down." The horned woman said. She then turned towards Riku.
"Very well young one. Until you fully trust us we won't try to get him to join our group."
"Good. Now if that's all, I'm going to sit down and rest." He walked over to the wall and sat down.
The horned woman looked at Diablo.
"Go keep him company. We have things to discuss."
The bird nodded. He really didn't want to hear these imbeciles talk anymore. He flew towards Riku and landed on the ground next to him.
"I tell you Diablo, these guys get more annoying the longer I'm here." He said as he scratched the crow's head.
He then looked up at the boy.
"Hm? I know. Your master is the only one out of all of them who can actually think. Where did she pick these losers up anyway?"
Diablo then smirked at him.
"No Diablo. I don't think I can become stronger than all of them…I know I can become stronger than all of them. I've already surpassed most of them. Why? Don't you have any confidence in me?" Riku asked playfully.
The black bird nodded its head.
"Oh, I see. Of course I have confidence in myself."
The crow then made a silent caw sound.
"I'm not sure how much stronger Sora has become. I'm pretty sure that we are both still as strong as the other."
Diablo's eyes widened and he smiled.
"You really want to meet him now huh? When I go see him I'll ask your master if I can take you with me. How does that sound?"
He answered by flapping his wings with excitement.
"Then it's settled. I'll ask her if I can take you with me."
Riku then began to scratch Diablo again as the two of them watched the meeting.
Oh yeah. It will definitely be fun to see Sora again. I can't wait. I hope you're not worrying about me too much cousin. Otherwise you might get sidetracked from training and then I'm going to have to kick your ass. Riku thought as he smiled.
With Sora in the Deep Jungle
Sora woke up from the crash to find himself in some kind of home. It was made of wood. It didn't look like anyone had lived here for years because the furniture was a mess and everything seemed torn apart.
He realized at that moment that Donald and Goofy weren't with him.
"Donald? Goofy? You guys in here?"
There was no reply.
Sighing, he decided to take a look around the house. He went near one of the windows and saw a lot of branches near them. He looked out and realized he was high above the ground.
"This must be a tree house then."
He looked away from the window and saw a door leading out of the tree house.
He started walking over to it. When he was almost to the knob he heard something.
The teenager looked around but didn't see anything. The noise came again. He could hear it coming from the ceiling. He looked up.
What he saw made him pale slightly. It was an adult leopard. Its teeth were showing and Sora guessed that it was probably hungry. It jumped down from one of the beams to the young Keyblade Master's front direction, just a few feet away.
"Nice kitty. Good kitty. It would be really great if you didn't kill me." He said.
"I'm not going to kill you."
Sora's eyes widened. He looked around trying to see where the voice came from.
"Who said that?"
"I did."
Sora looked back at the leopard. It couldn't be…could it?
"Did…did you just talk to me." Sora said.
"Yes. Are you that surprised?"
"But…how can…how can you talk? Or better yet…how do I understand you?"
"You really don't know? Oh wait, you probably just got this power."
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't worry. You'll figure it out."
"Well who are you?"
"My name is Sabor. I take it you are Sora?"
"Yeah. How did you know my name?"
"Your father told me."
Sora's eyes widened. How the heck did this leopard know his father?
Wait. Sora thought. If this giant cat knows my dad…that means he's been here on this world! Which also means we're getting closer to finding him!
"You know my old man?" He asked.
"Yes." Sabor said. "He was here weeks ago."
"Do you know where he went?" Sora asked eagerly.
"Well-"
All of a sudden, something came crashing through the window, surprising both the half demon and Sabor.
Sora saw that it was a man. He had long brown hair that went to his upper back and a spear in his hand.
"The ape man?! Geez. Why can't this guy just leave me alone?" The leopard said.
The so-called "ape man" started trying to stab Sabor with his spear. He kept missing but was very close to hitting each time. The giant cat decided to run away before he did hit her.
"I'll have to talk to you later Sparda. Unfortunately this guy thinks I'm trying to eat you."
"Wait! Where's my father?" Sora yelled.
But it was too late. The predator was out of the tree house and running of into the jungle.
"Son of a…aw man! I was so close!" The swordsman yelled punching the wooden wall, causing his fist to go right through it.
"Whoa. I guess my demonic powers are stronger than I thought."
He looked over at the man with the spear. He was strange that was for sure. The only piece of clothing he had on was a brown cloth.
The man looked over at Sora and walked over to him like a gorilla, using his legs and his knuckles.
"Sabor…danger." He said.
"Actually I was fine." The young boy said.
"Hm?" He grunted.
"Um…never mind."
Sora took a look at the older man in front of him. He looked like he hadn't been anywhere near civilization for months. The only thing he was wearing was a loincloth.
"So…does this tree house belong to you?"
"Hm?"
"Oh boy. Well anyway, have you seen my friends?"
"Friends, friends." He said, as if tasting the word.
"Yeah. The loud-mouthed one is called Dona—" Sora stopped himself. He wasn't sure he really wanted to find Donald at the moment. When the swordsman first met him he said that they would help him find Riku and Kairi. But it looks like the duck didn't want to help him at all. He just wanted to find his king.
"Forget it. I'm looking for two people named Riku and Kairi. Have you seen them?"
The older man was silent for a minute. As he was thinking something moved behind him. Sora looked and saw Kairi.
"Kairi!" Sora said as he ran behind the jungle man and went out to reach her. But before he could she vanished.
"Huh?! What just happened?" Sora asked himself confused.
"Friends…here." The man said.
"What?" The teenager asked as he turned around with wide eyes.
"Friends here." The man said again.
"Great! Can you take me to them?"
The man nodded his head and pointed to himself.
"Tarzan." He said.
"So that's your name? I'm Sora. Please lead me to my friends."
Tarzan grunted a "yes" and went outside the tree house. Sora followed him.
The young boy looked down and saw that they were up pretty high.
"Um…exactly how are we supposed to get down from here?"
Tarzan pointed to a giant tree branch. Sora looked at it wondering how that was going to help.
As he looked at it he noticed the amount of moss on it and thought that it might really slick.
"Wait a minute. Do you want me to slide on that tree?" Sora asked.
Tarzan answered by jumping on the branch and went surfing into the jungle.
"Hey wait up!" Sora yelled as he jumped on the branch.
He was sliding on it really fast and was trying to avoid the branches from above.
"Whoa!" He shouted.
At first it was scary. But then he found his balance.
That's when the party started.
"Alright!! Whoohoo!" He shouted with excitement.
He saw a branch coming up right above him. He grinned and jumped over it. As he did he flipped in the air. The he landed right back on the branch he was surfing on.
"This is awesome! When I find Riku and Kairi I've gotta show them this!"
He continued down the branches, getting deeper into the jungle as he did. He hoped that this Tarzan was leading him to the right place.
Sora could see the branches coming to an end. Tarzan jumped off of the branches and onto the ground. Sora did the same but when he jumped he landed about thirty feet away from the jungle man.
"Whoa. That was amazing. I gotta remember to train a little when I get back to Traverse Town. I need to see what else I can do."
Tarzan came up to him. He seemed a little surprised that Sora was able to jump that far.
The jungle man then led him farther into the clearing. Sora saw that there was a camp sight. He saw huge tents set up. He also saw a bunch of science equipment, notes, and other things set out.
"Whoever's here must be planning to stay for a while. Must be doing some kind of research."
The two of them walked over to one of the tents and went inside.
"Oh Tarzan! You're back!" A female voice said.
Sora looked over to his left and saw a woman standing there. She looked like she was in her early twenties. She had light brown hair. She was wearing a yellow shirt and green pants with some kind of green blanket wrapped them making it look like some kind of dress.
She seemed to notice Sora after greeting Tarzan. She looked surprised.
"Why hello. Are you here studying the gorillas?"
"Um…no. Actually I'm kinda lost. This guy said he could take me to my friends." Sora answered.
"You mean they're in the forest?"
"Well, I'm not sure. I've been looking for them for a while now." Sora said, trying not to give too much away. He knew that he had to keep the fact that he was from another world a secret.
"Well we can help you find them. My name is Jane and you've already met Tarzan." She said, pointing to the ape-man.
"I'm Sora. By the way, I'm also looking for someone else. Have you seen a—" he started but was cut off from someone entering the tent.
He looked at the entrance and saw a tall man wearing a yellow shirt. His hair was cut short and he had a small mustache. He was also holding a shotgun.
This guy is probably a hunter then. Sora thought.
"I found these two out in the middle of the jungle. They were lost so I brought them here." The man said.
Two figures came into the front. Sora's eyes widened.
"Donald! Goofy!" He shouted happily. They both smiled as they saw him.
He ran up to give Donald a hug but then paused. Donald was confused but then remembered the ship crashing.
"Hmph!" They both said, turning away from each other. Goofy looked at them with worried eyes.
"These three are imbeciles. Not much use for hunting gorillas." The man said as he left the tent.
"Clayton! We're here to study the gorillas, not hunt them!" Jane shouted.
She turned back around to the trio. She had an apologetic look in her eyes.
"I'm dreadfully sorry. He doesn't mean any offense. You see we've been here for a while trying to find the gorillas but we haven't had any luck. He's just a little upset." She explained.
"Don't worry about it." Sora said. He didn't appreciate the man's rudeness, but he could understand why he would be upset.
"So anyway, about my earlier question. Have you seen either of these men?" Sora held out the photo of his father and uncle to the young women.
"This man in blue I haven't but I think I saw the one in red before." She said.
"Are you serious?" Sora exclaimed happily.
"Yes. Tarzan I saw him walking in the forest. He had a huge sword on his back. He saw both Tarzan, and me but didn't say anything. He put some kind of letter on the ground and then just disappeared." She explained.
"A letter?" Goofy asked.
"Yes. I picked it up after he left. I have it right here." She said walking over to a table.
She picked up an envelope with the words "To: Sora" on it.
"I didn't know who this 'Sora' was until you introduced yourself. I suppose it's meant for you. How do you know that man anyway?" She asked.
"Well you see he's—"
BANG!
Everyone turned around towards the tent's exit.
"What was that?" Donald asked.
"That was Clayton's gun. It sounded pretty close. I better go check it out." She began to walk out until Sora grabbed her by the hand.
"Wait. We'll go with you."
"But there might be something dangerous out there." Jane said. "I'm not about to let you die by some creature in the jungle."
"Hey. We may not look like it but we know how to fight." Sora said as he brought out Ebony and Ivory. "And I know how to shoot."
She was a little surprised that a boy his age had to hand guns. But she still wasn't sure if she should let them go.
"Well let's get going." Sora said as he started walking outside. Tarzan immediately followed him.
"Wait a minute!" The young women yelled.
Goofy turned to her with a smile on his face.
"Don't worry about him. He'll be fine. We all will be. Trust me, we've been in situations way more dangerous than this." He told her.
"Well, I'm still not sure." She said.
"It's too late to decide now. He's already out there." Donald said, rushing out to help the Keyblade Master with Goofy at his side.
"Oh dear." Jane said as she followed them.
As soon as she got out of the tent she saw that Sora was shooting at a bunch of monkeys.
"Wait! Don't kill them! There just-" then she got a closer look.
She saw that these monkeys had some strange heart symbol on all of them with stitches drawn on them to look like an "x." She also noticed that they had no fur on them and that their eyes were all yellow.
"Get back! These aren't monkeys! They're dangerous creatures called Heartless!" Sora yelled.
She was about to do just that when one of the Heartless jumped right at her. She was frozen in fear.
"Ahhhh!" Tarzan yelled as he brought down his spear on the Heartless, destroying it.
"Alright Tarzan!" Sora cheered as he fired at more of the dark creatures.
Jane looked over at Donald and Goofy. She saw Donald freeze the creatures in ice and Goofy cut right through them with his shield.
"This is…this is amazing." She said.
As more Heartless kept coming Sora put Ebony and Ivory away and summoned his Keyblade, which did not go unnoticed by Jane.
"How did you…?" She said.
"I'll tell you later!" He answered.
The young half-demon began slicing through the monkeys, destroying a huge number of them. Three jumped into the air and were about in an attempt to attack him from above. Sora saw them and disappeared from their line of sight. He reappeared right behind them in the air and took them out with one slice.
As he landed on the ground two more tried to attack him from behind. He did a back flip and landed right on them. He used his Keyblade in the ground and used it to push him while he was still standing on the Heartless. He got out his guns and began firing at all of the Heartless that he shot passed.
Once he was done with that he jumped off of the monkeys that he was standing on and fired at them.
He landed on the ground and took a look at the camp. Some of the equipment broke but it was nothing too serious.
"Alright! We so rule!" Sora yelled.
"Pipe down. You're loud voice might attract more of them." Donald said.
"My voice? Look who's talking? Out of the three of us you're the one who's the loudest. I'm surprised that my ears still work." Sora retorted, pointing to his right ear.
"What did you say?" Donald asked, glaring at the teenager.
"You heard me. I mean unless your own yelling has caused you to go deaf." Sora said.
They were both glaring at each other and looked ready to kill. Luckily Goofy stepped in before Donald could cast magic on Sora and before Sora could turn Donald into roasted duck.
"Alright now you guys. This arguing isn't getting us anywhere. Remember, we need to find the keyhole to this world." The knight said.
Both Sora and Donald listed to him and sighed. As much as they were angry at each other Goofy was right, they needed to find the keyhole.
"Fine. I'll put it aside for now." Sora said.
"Me too." Donald said.
The three of them turned to find Jane staring at them in amazement. Her eyes were bigger than dinner plates and her mouth was open in shock. Tarzan was staring at her wondering why she looked so funny.
"How did you three do all of that?" She asked.
"Training. If you were surprised by that you should see what else we could do." Sora said, smiling.
"I still can't believe you were capable of such things."
"Heart." Tarzan said.
Everyone looked at Tarzan as soon as he spoke.
"What does he mean by 'heart'?" Sora asked.
Jane, Donald, and Goofy stared at him. They looked shocked but Sora couldn't figure out why.
"What?"
"How did you understand him?" Jane asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"He was speaking gorilla." She said.
"Gorilla?"
"Yes. You see. As you might have figured out, Tarzan was raised here in the jungle. He grew up with the gorillas here as his family." She explained.
"I see. So then are you teaching him how to speak English?" Sora asked.
"Yes I have. But I still don't understand how you are able to know what he said when he spoke in gorilla?"
"I'm not sure either. I was speaking to a leopard earlier. I don't know how did." Sora answered.
As he thought about it he remembered something that leopard Sabor said to him.
You probably just got this power.
Maybe this is another one of my demonic abilities. That's the only explanation for it. He thought.
"So you said that Tarzan said 'heart'?" Goofy asked.
"Yes." Sora said.
Donald looked at them both and whispered, "Maybe he's talking about the heart of the world?"
"Makes sense. Maybe we could ask him to lead us to it?" Sora said.
"Wait. Before we start talking about that there's something I'm wondering." Goofy said.
"What is it?" Donald asked.
"Where's that Clayton guy?"
Sora's gasped.
"Shoot! That's right! Before we started battling the Heartless we heard his gun. You don't think he's…gone do you?" He asked.
BANG!
Everyone turned toward the forest. They saw a flock of birds fly away from the trees.
"That must be where he is. There might be more Heartless. We have to go help him." Donald said.
Sora and Goofy nodded. As soon as the turned to go Tarzan ran passed them with his spear in hand.
"Tarzan wait!" Jane yelled.
"We have to follow him. Jane, come with us. If more Heartless show up here we may not get back in time to help you." Sora said.
She nodded and followed after them. They all ran into the jungle as quickly as possible. They jumped over every rock and branch that was lying on their path.
Eventually they saw Tarzan up ahead running and then coming to a stop. They all did the same as soon as they reached him.
"Don't worry Clayton. We're here to help." Sora said. But as soon as he finished he took a good look at what was going on.
There weren't any Heartless at all. Clayton was trying to kill the gorillas.
He was aiming at one that head brown fur. It stood there in fear.
"Clayton! No!" Sora yelled.
Before the older man could fire, a leopard jumped out of the trees and swiped at his back.
"Augggh!" Clayton yelled. He fell to the ground in pain. The leopard left a huge, bleeding claw wound on his back.
Sora looked at the leopard and wondered if it was Sabor. It looked back at him.
"Better watch out for this one Sora Sparda. If you're not careful he could succeed in killing one of them next time."
"Thank you." Sora said. He then looked at Tarzan and saw that he was glaring at Sabor.
"Tarzan. It's all right. She helped us. She's not here to hurt us." Sora said. Tarzan looked at him with curious eyes. He didn't trust Sabor but it was true that she had helped them.
The ape-man looked back at the leopard. They both just stared at each other. Finally, Tarzan nodded to her, his own way of saying that he was grateful to her for saving his family.
This is the first time I've been around him that he hasn't tried killing me. That's a relief. Well I better get going. With that, she ran back into the jungle.
As soon as she left Sora turned his attention to the hunter. He was getting up off of the ground. He turned around with his face full of pain. The wound was obviously hurting him more than he wanted it to.
Sora walked up to him with anger. He was grinding his teeth and just the tiniest bit of electricity was flowing in his hands. He wasn't going to shock Clayton. It just felt good to let some energy flow since he was angry.
Clayton noticed him walking towards him. When he looked into the young man's eyes he felt fear. For a minute he thought he could see a monster walking towards him.
Soon Sora was close enough to the older man that he grabbed him by the shirt and slammed his back into a boulder. The hunter cried out in pain because of the extra damage being added to his wound.
"You wanna tell me why it was that you were trying to kill Tarzan's family?" Sora asked.
"Now…w-wait a …m-moment. Please…I …can …e-e-explain." Clayton stuttered.
"Then explain! Why were you trying to kill the gorillas? According to Jane you're here to study them, not hunt them." Sora was getting angrier by the second. Donald and Goofy could see that his red, demonic energy was beginning to surround him.
"Sora. Calm down. You're beginning to lose control." Donald said.
"There's no need to hurt him Sora." Goofy said.
Sora was grinding his teeth. He really wanted to hurt this guy but Donald and Goofy were right. He didn't want to lose control. He closed his eyes and began to calm down as his demonic aura began to disappear.
He opened his eyes and looked at Clayton. He was still really angry and the hunter knew it.
"Alright, here's how it's going to be. You're going to stay away from the gorillas. If I catch you near them again, then I'm going to do a lot more damage than just a claw mark. Do you understand?" Sora said through his teeth.
Clayton nodded quickly. This kid…this teenaged boy was terrifying him. He had never felt such fear in his whole life. He kept nodding until Sora finally let go of his shirt and walked away.
Jane looked at the spiky haired boy. He looked angry beyond belief. Then again she was really angry too. She couldn't believe that Clayton had betrayed her and Tarzan like this. She looked towards him, the frustration now clear on her face.
"Clayton. Get back to the camp now." She said, her voice leaving no room for argument.
He complied by running towards the campsite. He wanted to get away as far from Sora as possible.
The said boy looked at Tarzan with sad eyes. He knew that Tarzan had trusted Clayton and seeing him trying to hunt his family really hurt him.
"I'm really sorry about this Tarzan." Sora said.
The ape-man looked at him and then looked behind the half demon. Sora was confused, so he turned around to see what he was looking at. He saw that some of the apes were still there. He saw the brown one from before that Clayton almost shot.
"Mother." Tarzan said, now speaking ape. Sora was a little surprised. He wasn't surprised at the fact that this was Tarzan's mother since apes raised him. He was surprised at how close she came to getting killed.
"What's he saying?" Donald asked.
"That's his mother." Sora said.
"Isn't she the one who almost got shot?" Goofy asked.
"Yeah. Let's be quiet for a minute. Tarzan's trying to say something to her."
"Mother, are you alright?" Tarzan asked.
"Yes but Tarzan you must get those four away from here. Kerchak is very angry." She said. Sora was confused. Who the hell was Kerchak?
"But I must speak with him. These people need our help."
"Tarzan-" she began but was interrupted by a loud roar. Everyone, including the apes, turned their heads to a huge gorilla with black fur coming towards the front. When he stopped next to Tarzan's mother he could see an angry expression on his face as he stared at him and Tarzan.
"How dare you bring them here!?" He said very loudly. Sora could tell that this was going to be an ugly conversation.
"Please Kerchak. They need our help." Tarzan pleaded.
"Absolutely not! Did they not just try to kill us?!"
"I know that the other one tried to. But these four are not like that. They aren't here to kill anyone."
"You said that none of them would bother us but you were wrong! How can you say that now?"
Tarzan lowered his head. He knew that Kerchak wasn't going to listen to him. But he had to keep trying for his new friends.
This isn't going to work. I can already tell that this guy is really stubborn. Sora thought. He was trying to see if there was anything he could do.
"What are they talking about?" Donald asked.
"Shh. I'm trying to think." Sora said. Then all of a sudden he had an idea. It was as if a light bulb had just flashed over his head.
"Um…excuse me?" Sora said, now speaking gorilla.
Everyone turned to him. They all had surprise etched on their faces. Even the gorillas were surprised he was able to understand them.
"I'm Sora. I know that you guys probably don't trust me. I don't blame you for that. But I'm not trying to kill you."
"Why should we believe you?" Kerchak asked.
Sora wasn't sure how to answer that. It was going to be really hard to convince this guy. He was going to mention how he tried to stop Clayton when he sensed something from behind them.
He turned around and saw that there was a bunch of Heartless coming towards them. He got out his guns and jumped in the air and landed in front of Jane. He began firing at all of them. Donald, Goofy, and Tarzan started fighting them as well.
As he kept shooting he shouted "Kerchak! Get your family out of here! We'll take care of them! But please take our friend Jane with you too! She'll be in trouble if she stays!"
Kerchak seemed a little reluctant to take her with them but since the boy was holding of these strange, dark creatures he figured he could trust him.
"Very well! Let us know when you have defeated them!" He shouted.
"Thank you!" Sora yelled. He turned towards Jane and said "The gorillas are willing to take you with them for now. Get going. We can handle this."
She nodded and said "Alright. But be careful." She then ran towards the gorillas and they all left for safety.
Sora turned his attention back towards the Heartless. More kept appearing as more were destroyed. Sora smirked.
"So you guys wanna play huh? Alright then." He got put his guns away and summoned the Keyblade. He rushed towards them and sliced them down. He slammed one down with his foot and impaled it. Then he used his lightning ability to strike down three that were coming behind him.
He jumped behind Tarzan and took a defensive stance as he faced one way while Tarzan face the other.
"Tarzan, how are you holding up?" He asked.
"I'll be fine. Why do these creatures keep coming?" Tarzan asked.
"They want to destroy your world. I think they're after the heart that you mentioned about earlier."
"Then we can't let them get to it no matter what."
"I know. Don't worry." Sora said as he threw his Keyblade and cut some Heartless and half as it returned to him like a boomerang.
"Well this just won't do." A voice called.
The four of them turned their heads towards the sound of the voice. They Clayton walking towards him with his shotgun in his hands.
"Clayton! I told you to stay away from here!" Sora yelled.
"Yeah! Didn't you learn your lesson the first time?!" Donald shouted.
"Oh your message was quite clear. But these fellows seemed like they really wanted to help me out. So I figured why not. If it gives me a chance to get rid of you so I can hunt those gorillas than fine." The hunter said. He had an arrogant smirk on his face.
"You know what? You've really pissed me off. First you think you can just kill Tarzan's family, and now you're using Heartless so you can get us out of the way. So now I'm going to carry through with my threat." Sora said.
"I'd like to see you try boy. You see these aren't the only friends I've made." Clayton said.
"What are you talking about?" Goofy asked.
Clayton just smirked at them. Suddenly he was being lifted in the air by an invisible force. Soon the older man appeared to be sitting on something but they couldn't see what.
"So you've got a giant invisible Heartless. Big deal. I've taken down giant ones before. It won't be much different." Sora said.
"We'll see." Clayton said as he fired his gun at him.
Sora jumped out of the way and towards Clayton, bringing his sword down. He made it a few feet from the hunter's face when something grabbed him and threw him towards a small cliff.
"Son of a-" Sora didn't get the chance to finish his sentence because then a boulder was thrown at him.
"Sora!" Donald, Goofy, and even Tarzan shouted.
"Well that takes care of him. Now for you three." Clayton said, turning towards them. The smirk was still present.
"You…you're going to pay for that!" Donald shouted. "THUNDER!!!" He yelled.
Clayton felt himself being electrocuted. He screamed out in pain as he fell off of the Heartless and onto the ground.
"Uh…well played. But that won't save you."
"Then how about this?" Goofy asked as he ran towards him and hit him in the face with his shield.
"OW! You're starting to get on my nerves." Clayton stated.
Tarzan then rushed towards him and kicked him in the face sending him stumbling towards the boulder that hit Sora. He shook his head to get rid of the dizziness. He then started to get up when he felt something grab his leg. He looked behind him to see what it was and was shocked by what he saw.
"Hey Clayton." Sora said. His face was dripping with blood from the boulder slamming onto him. "How's life?" He said with a smirk
"No. How did you survive that?" The man said. He didn't get how this boy could have survived that.
"Well, let's just say that biologically I'm not one hundred percent human." Sora said. He then lifted Clayton by his legs and spun him around once. He then threw him in the air. He was about to hit a tree when the invisible Heartless caught him.
Clayton shook his head once again to get rid of his dizziness and laughed. "You see now boy. You don't stand a chance." He then noticed that Sora was smirking.
"Thanks for showing me where he was." The Keyblade master said as he built up electricity in his left hand and fired at Clayton.
The older man was shouting in pain but Sora began to see the Heartless beginning to appear. It was too distracted from the pain to stay invisible. Soon enough everyone saw what it looked like.
"Man. That thing is ugly." Sora said.
It was a giant chameleon Heartless. It had green skin and big yellow eyes popping out of its head. Its tail was curled up like a spiral. It had the usual Heartless emblem right on its chest.
"Sora! Are you alright?" Goofy asked. Sora turned his head towards his friends and smiled.
"Don't worry. I'm fine. I can heal remember?"
All three of them looked relieved to see that he was fine. They all turned their attention back towards the Heartless. It was trying to keep itself balanced from the huge electric shock. Once it did, it turned its attention towards the four of them.
The giant Heartless then proceeded to run at them as its huge eyes began to glow white. It shot two dark energy blasts at them. Sora sliced through one of them and Goofy blocked the other with his shield.
"Fire!" Donald said. He shot his spell right at the Heartless. It did damage but not enough to make it stop. It tried to sweep them up with its tail. Sora, Goofy, and Tarzan managed to dodge it but Donald got caught.
"Help me!" He shouted as the Chameleon began to crush him with its tail. Tarzan threw his spear and pierced the tail with deadly accuracy. The Chameleon let go of Donald as the pain hit it.
"Donald are you good?" Sora asked.
"Yeah. I'll be okay. Let's take down that Heartless." The duck said as he got up and smirked.
As soon as they saw that he was fine Goofy threw his shield to cut off the part of the tail that had Tarzan's spear. It came right off and the ape-man managed to grab his weapon and then stab the creature in the legs.
Sora covered his Keyblade in demonic lightning as he rushed at the dark creature and began slashing at its chest. Goofy ran on top of its back and began hitting it on the head. Donald started casting fire spells at it.
Sora was about to take off one of the hands when heard a gunshot…and felt one.
He winced in pain and saw that Clayton had gotten up. The hunter was about to fire another bullet when he felt himself being pushed aside. Sabor had come to their rescue once again.
"I heard the commotion and thought you could use some help." She said.
"Thanks." Sora said.
The leopard then surprised everyone by rushing forward at speeds amazing even for his species and brought his claws down on one of the Chameleon's arms.
"Whoa! You can move that fast?" Sora asked.
"You thought that was cool? Watch this." Sabor then opened her mouth and breathed a fireball, aiming right at the monster. It got hit right in one of its eyes and started staggering.
"That was cool! How are you able to use magic?" Sora asked.
"I'll tell you later. Right now it appears I may have burned one of your friends a little." The giant cat said as she saw Donald trying to put out his tail feathers.
When they were out, he shouted "Sora! Tell your friend to watch where she's aiming!"
"What did he say? I can't understand him when he talks like that." Sabor said.
"He said to watch where you're aiming." Sora told her.
"Noted."
'Tarzan, Goofy, and Donald then came up to them. The jungle man looked at Sabor.
"Thank you." He said.
"No problem." The leopardess responded.
"That's it! I've had it!" Clayton yelled. They turned towards him and saw him huffing. A few strands of his hair fell across his forehead. He was gritting his teeth.
"I'm going to kill you! Then those gorillas!" He said as he pointed his gun at them. Sora was quicker and brought out Ivory. He fired a lightning bullet. It ran right past Clayton.
"Hah! You missed!" Clayton mocked with glee.
"I'm wasn't aiming for you jackass. I was aiming at your friend." Sora said.
The man turned around and saw the Chameleon. It had been fired at right through the chest. Clayton could tell that it was defeated.
"Well I've still got the other Heartless." He said towards the group.
"Not anymore." Sora said. He pointed behind Clayton.
The hunter turned around and saw that the Chameleon was falling down on top of him.
"NOOO!" Clayton yelled. He was silenced as the Heartless crushed him. It soon disappeared in a bright light. A hearts went up into the air as it did. Soon it disappeared as well.
They walked towards Clayton's dead body. Sora kicked him to make sure that he was dead. The man didn't move.
"Glad that's over. Let's get back to the gorillas and tell them everything's alright now." Sora said.
"Sounds good to me." Donald said.
"Now maybe they'll help us. A-hyuk." Goofy said.
Sora turned to Tarzan and said "Can you lead us to your family?"
"Yes. I'll explain to Kerchak how you helped us. I'm not sure if Sabor will be able to come though." He said as he looked at the leopard.
"Yeah. I'm not exactly a friend of theirs. They kinda hate me."
"We'll explain to Kerchak that you helped us. I think he'll listen to us now." Sora said.
"Very well. This way." Tarzan said.
5 minutes later
Soon the group found themselves at the nesting grounds for the gorillas. It was beautiful. For the first time since they got here they finally had the chance to appreciate how wonderful this world looked.
They looked and found the gorillas sitting in a big area. They ran towards them.
Tarzan's mother looked up and saw her son. She was filled with absolute joy seeing her son safe.
"Tarzan!" She shouted. All of the gorillas turned their heads and saw the jungle man with his friends. They also noticed Sabor.
"Tarzan. Why is Sabor here?" His mother asked.
"Sabor helped us fight off the creatures and the bad man from earlier." He said. He saw Kerchak come forward.
"Have you defeated those creature?" He asked.
"Yes." Sora answered.
"Good. But why is that leopard here? She is a menace to this family."
"Sabor just helped us protect your family. She helped us fight against those creatures." Sora said.
"That does not make up for what she did to my son." Kerchak said.
Sora was confused. He looked at Sabor and saw that her head was down. He walked next to Tarzan and looked at Kerchak.
"I know that you hate me for what I did. I know I've been a menace to your family for years. I know I took the family of Tarzan. The things I've done are terrible. But I want to stop being that way. I swear that I will never intentionally harm your family again. I hope that one day you can forgive me for everything." Sabor said. She looked at all of the apes with sadness in her eyes.
Kerchak was surprised. He hadn't expected the leopard to ever help them. But he still wasn't sure. He looked at his wife, Tarzan's mother. She looked back at him.
"I think it's time to forgive her Kerchak. What happened was a long time ago. We can't stay angry forever." She said.
"But Kala it's not just that. She's been hurting this family for years. That's not something we can just let go."
"Maybe we should try to."
Kerchak looked back at Sabor. Then he looked at Tarzan and Sora. He was trying to decide whether or not he could trust the leopard.
"Tarzan. You have done so much for this family. I think you're mother is right. It's time to try and let go."
Sora, Tarzan, and Sabor all smiled. Though Jane, Goofy, and Donald were confused.
"What just happened?" Donald asked.
"I'll explain later." Sora said.
"What is your name boy?" Kerchak asked.
"I'm Sora." He answered.
"You have done a great deal for us today Sora. For that, we will help you."
"Great." He looked at Tarzan and said "Take me to the heart."
"Alright. Follow me." Tarzan said.
Elsewhere with the Mystery Group
Riku walked down the halls of the castle. He was bored beyond belief and he needed to get to his cousin.
I wonder if this witch is even going to help me? He thought. Then again it's not like I can get much done on my own.
He soon found himself at the entrance for where the idiots he was helping had their meetings. He opened the door and entered. They were all gathered around the table discussing something. They noticed him as soon as he walked in. Diablo flew over to him and landed on his shoulder.
"What's up Diablo?" Riku said in animal.
"Another boring meeting. I wish I could go on one of your missions with you. I do get tired of hearing these people complain." The bird said.
"I'll see if you can." Riku told him as he began to scratch his head. It was nice being able to talk to Diablo in animal. Sure, the crow understood human language but since the group in front had their attention on him he preferred to speak in animal. He felt more comfortable that way.
"Boy! Quit talking to that bird and get over here!" The man with the hook said.
"Shut up Hook." Riku said. He didn't even look at them man, he just kept scratching Diablo's head.
"Why you little brat!"
"Now, now. We didn't come here to have a fight." The horned woman said.
Riku looked towards her with no expression on his face and asked "You wanted to see me about something Maleficent?"
"Yes. The Heartless have located someone that we want to add to our group." She told him. "Look at the hologram." She pointed to the table.
Riku looked at the table and saw a projection of someone wearing a hooded red cloak. There were horns coming out at the top of his head putting holes in the hood. His hands looked gruesome and his fingers were long. His nails were sharp like claws. Riku then took a look at his face and what he saw surprised him. It was almost like a skeleton but with skin.
Soon the creature's eyes glowed red and the hologram disappeared.
"He knows that we are watching him. I doubt we'll be able to watch his world from here anymore." Maleficent said.
"So you want me to recruit this guy?" Riku asked.
"Yes. You see his power is tremendous. He's much more powerful than me." She said.
"But aren't you the leader? What if this guy doesn't want to follow you?" The boy asked.
"Than we'll leave him alone. We're not going to force anyone to join us. We simply thought that he would be an excellent member."
"That's not what I meant. What if this guy wants to join, but he decides to kill you and take over the group?"
"He won't bother trying to. He would find it a waste of time." The witch told him.
"Fine. Who is he and what's his home world?" Riku asked.
"We don't know his true name. He's called the Horned King. He lives in the world of Prydain." She said.
"I'll leave immediately. Do you mind if I take Diablo with me? He's getting kind of bored and wants to have a little fun." Riku told her.
The crow looked at his master with excitement. She looked towards her familiar and smirked.
"I don't see why not. You may go ahead Diablo. Riku, make sure you report back to me." She said.
"I know. Ready Diablo?" He said as he opened up a portal of darkness. They walked through it and the portal vanished.
"That kid is starting to get on my nerves." Said Hook.
"Oh stop it. You're petty squabbles with the boy are becoming rather tiresome." Said the man with the snake staff.
"Shut up Jafar!"
"Both of you calm down. We need to get to work and find if anymore people will join us." Maleficent said. She was getting tired of all this bickering.
Jafar looked at her and said, "Something's been bothering me. What if Riku finds out about her?"
"Don't worry about it. I've made sure to hide her very carefully. He doesn't know about her anyway." The witch answered.
"But he will as soon as he goes to meet Sora and Trish. Not to mention his own mother." The octopus woman said.
"We will be fine Ursula. Remember, everyone thinks she's dead. Even if he finds out about her we will still be safe."
"What if he does find her though?" The giant bag said.
"He won't Oogie. I'll make sure of that." Maleficent smirked at them evilly. Everything would be fine. Soon Riku would awaken his powers. Then their plan would go ahead of schedule.
"Is it wise to recruit the Horned King? I mean he was friends with-"
"I know Hades. That's why I sent Riku. He'll listen to him." She said.
Everyone left the meeting hall and took off to their home worlds.
I'm finally done! I'm sorry that took so long but as I said I'm going to do my best to make sure that my chapters are updated a lot quicker. Hopefully it will be every couple of weeks.
In the next chapter I've got a treat for all of you. Sora and the others are going to finish up in the Deep Jungle. Then you get a chapter that centers around Riku.
Riku: Finally. A chapter where I'm the star.
Demondog666: I'm doing this to add a few of my own ideas into the story. So why not put it where Riku is gathering the other princesses?
Sora: So my part's not going to be that big next chapter?
Demondog666: I'm afraid not.
Sora: Aw man.
Kairi: Don't complain. I don't have a huge part in this story at the moment, in case you didn't notice.
Demondog666: Don't worry Kairi. You'll get a big part later on.
Kairi: Good.
Demondog666: Oh, I almost forgot. Review, review, review, review. I need reviews.
Sora, Riku, and Kairi: If you don't review, you'll make us all sad.
Demondog666: So don't forget to review. See ya.