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Chapter Eight: Reunion
The Horned King was absolutely bored. It'd only been a day since he came with Riku to Maleficent's castle and already he could tell that the people he was working with were complete imbeciles. He was amazed that they were still able to move their plans forward without screwing up completely. He quickly turned his attention back to the meeting so that at least he wouldn't mess anything up.
"The next order of business is the princess Jasmine." Maleficent said. "Jafar you are already on her trail correct?"
"Yes. She's been able to elude me so far but I'll find her soon. Just give me a few days and I'll have her." He said.
"Good." The witch said.
"Is there anything else we have to go over? I'd like to get back to my ship." Hook complained.
The Horned King was using every ounce of his will power not to strike down the pirate captain. He did nothing but complain and knew nothing about patience.
"There is one more thing we must discuss." Maleficent said, much to Hook's dismay. She turned to the Horned King. "Are there people on your world that you think might be a princess of heart?"
"I'll look into it and see what I can find." The Horned King said, not even sparing a glance at the dark witch.
"Very well. This meeting is adjourned."
With that, nearly everyone went back to their home worlds to carry out their jobs. The Horned King was the only one who stayed behind. He wanted to keep an eye on the witch and make sure that she wouldn't do anything to harm Riku.
"You are free to go about the castle as you like Your Majesty." Maleficent said politely. "My home is your home."
"Thank you." The Horned King said as he walked away from the table. "I'll go check up on Riku."
"Yes, of course."
He left the meeting hall and left the witch to her thoughts.
Maleficent was quite happy. So far her plans were going along smoothly save for the fact that Sora managed to seal the keyholes to a few worlds but it was no big loss. The group now had the Horned King, a fearsome demon, as their ally. She had a feeling that things were about to get a whole lot better.
Boy, was she wrong.
With Riku and Diablo"This isn't going to work." Diablo said.
"I haven't even tried it yet. Have a little faith." Riku said.
"Actually you've tried it twelve times. I don't think it's going to work a thirteenth."
"Oh, come on. This is an awesome spell to try out. I've gotta keep trying or I'll never get it."
Ever since Riku brought the Horned King to Maleficent's castle he'd been trying out some new spells. One of them was bringing his shadow to life. So far he had no success.
"Look, it's not that I don't think you can't get it. I just don't think you can get it now. You haven't had enough experience with magic to do something like this yet." Diablo said.
"Well then I'll learn by trying this out." Riku said. "Now shut up and let me work."
Diablo decided to go along with Riku's suggestion. There was no talking to this kid.
Riku raised his hand and tried to use his magic to make his shadow come to life. It started moving a little; parts of it were rising out from the ground.
Just when he thought he had the spell down his shadow stopped moving and sunk back to the floor.
Riku sighed in frustration. "Damn! This really is difficult to get down."
"Most spells usually are. Though starting with one less complicated usually helps to build up." A voice said.
Riku turned around and smiled. The Horned King had just arrived in the library, hands behind his back.
"How was the meeting?" The swordsman asked.
The Horned King pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'm surprised these people have managed to make it this far. Most of these members are completely incompetent."
"You're telling me. Captain Hook does nothing but complain all day."
"I was thinking that same thing."
Riku and Diablo laughed. If there were two things they had in common it was finding Riku's family and that they didn't like Captain Hook.
"So anyway, what did you mean about this spell?" Riku asked.
The Horned King raised his hand. His, Riku, and Diablo's shadows suddenly started moving before the rose from the ground. They were perfect copies of themselves only dark all over with yellow eyes.
"Whoa! How did you do that so easily?" Riku asked, looking at his shadow doppelganger with admiration.
"Practice." The Horned King replied. "Not to mention I started with smaller spells before working my way up to this one and then on to the ones even more advanced."
"Man, you really are powerful." Riku admired.
"Thank you. Now might I suggest a less complicated spell?" The King said, turning the shadows back to normal.
"Yeah, absolutely." Riku said.
"You might want to do that later actually."
Riku, Diablo, and the Horned King turned around to see Maleficent standing in the doorway. She walked in with her long cloak dragging behind her.
"Do you need something?" Riku asked calmly, his usual cold tone around the sorceress was absent. Having the Horned King as an ally in the castle to keep an eye on her lightened his mood a bit.
"Actually I came to tell you something. It appears that your cousin Sora and his friends are heading to a world called Traverse Town." Maleficent said.
"What's the point in telling me this? He's visited a lot of worlds so far. Why is this one any different?" Riku asked.
"Because he's heading there to meet up with his mother."
Riku's eyes widened. His aunt was okay? Better yet, Sora was about to go see her?
"I just thought you might want to go check on them. After all, I agreed to help you find your friends and family." Maleficent said.
Riku wasted no time in opening a portal. He held out his hand and it opened right up. He jumped through, not even sparing a glance at anyone else.
"My, he really is eager." Maleficent said as Diablo flew to her shoulder.
"He hasn't seen his family in weeks. Of course he is." The Horned King said.
"I suppose your right." She agreed as she started to walk out of the room.
Before she exited the room the powerful demon king stopped her. "Why tell him where his family is? There's nothing to gain if you do."
"Why of course there is Your Majesty. I agreed to help him find his family and friends if he helped us with our plans." The dark witch replied, petting Diablo on the head.
"Of course." The Horned King said.
Maleficent walked out of the room with Diablo on her shoulder, leaving the Horned King to his thoughts.
"I'd better report this." He said.
He walked towards the door. Right when he was about to go through it, a red portal opened in front of him. The powerful demon just kept walking and entered the magical gateway.
The only things left in Riku's room was the furniture and the sound of silence.
Traverse Town
Sora rushed into the first district of Traverse Town. He didn't bother waiting up for Donald, Goofy, and Sabor who, unlike Sora, walked calmly. The only thought going through his head was seeing his mother.
"Hurry up you guys!" Sora yelled behind him while he quickened his pace.
"He sure is excited." Donald pointed out, as he started to run after his friend.
"It's not all that surprising. He hasn't seen his mother in weeks." Goofy said.
"I guess you're right."
"Hurry up already! I'm going to leave you behind!" Sora shouted impatiently.
"We're coming!" Donald yelled.
Goofy and Donald started to run with Sabor right beside them. She shook her head and gave a small laugh. "Always the impatient one, aren't you Sora?" She said to herself.
They looked all over the place. The four of them made their way over to Cid's shop to see if they were there but no luck. They rushed into every building and asked people if they had seen Leon and the others but no one had seen any of them all day.
Sora wasn't giving up. He rushed through the entire first and second district without waiting for his friends to catch up with him. When he saw that his mother and Leon's group weren't in either of those places, he ran towards the third district.
He opened the huge doors leading into the next part of town and ran to the other side of them. He stood right in the middle of the small district, the only house being the abandoned one up the stairs.
Donald, Goofy, and Sabor finally managed to catch up with the Keyblade master. The three of them were out of breath, chasing him all over the town.
"S-Sora…slow…down." Donald panted. "We're having a hard time keeping up with you, even Sabor's running out of breath." He pointed to the leopardess lying on the ground.
"I'm sorry you guys." Sora said. "I just really want to see my mom. We haven't been able to find Riku or Kairi and now that I know that my mom's here I want to find her as soon as possible."
"It's alright Sora, we understand." Goofy said.
Sora smiled at his friends. "Thanks guys. Anyway, the only place we haven't checked is that house upstairs. If they aren't there then we'll just wait at Cid's shop."
"Okay." Donald and Goofy said in unison.
"Sounds good to me." Sabor said, picking herself up from the ground.
They headed for the stairs, when two small dark portals opened up to reveal two of the Heartless. Both of them were Soldiers.
"Oh, come on! Not now!" Sora said, as he and his friends got ready to attack.
Just as the Soldiers began their assault, a figure jumped behind them and destroyed them with a sword that looked like a bat wing.
"Whoa." Donald said with wide eyes.
"That guy's good." Goofy said. "Don't ya think Sora?"
Sora didn't answer him. He was to busy staring in disbelief at the person in front of him.
"Hey Sora. Long time no see." The person said.
"Riku?" Sora said, wondering if he was hallucinating.
"What's up cous?" Riku smiled.
"Riku!" Sora shouted in excitement. He went up to the older boy and tugged at his cheeks.
"Hey, knock it off." Riku said, pulling Sora's hands away from his face.
"It's really you right? This isn't a dream?" Sora said.
"I hope not." Riku said as he swept his hand over his hair. "It took forever to find you."
"All right!" Sora said as he hugged his friend.
"Hahahaha!" Riku laughed, hugging back. He then put Sora in a chokehold and gave him a noogie.
"Ow!"
"Just like old times, huh?" Riku asked.
Sora finally got out of his hold and smiled. "Yeah. Wait a minute, did you call me 'cous'?"
"Yeah. You're not gonna believe this Sora but I found out that we're cousins. Our dads are twin brothers!" Riku explained, excitement etched in his voice.
"I found that out too." Sora said, eyes glowing.
"You did?"
"Yeah. Some of the guys that live on this world told me that they knew our parents. Before I left to find you and Kairi they told me that my mom was going to be here."
"Sweet! Let's go find her." Riku said eagerly.
"We're looking for her right now." Sora said. "Hey, did you find Kairi?"
"You mean she's not with you?" Riku asked. "After the islands were destroyed I blacked out. I woke up on a different world and no one was around. I called out for you and Kairi but neither of you were there."
"Oh, I see." Sora said glumly.
"Hey, don't worry man." Riku said, putting a hand on Sora's shoulder as he tried to cheer him up. "I'll bet she got off the islands and she's out there somewhere looking for us right now."
Sora's mood brightened a little. Riku was right. If the two of them managed to make it off of the island than maybe Kairi did to. He had to believe that.
"Kairi's a tough girl. She'll be fine. We'll all be together again soon." Riku said, not noticing the Shadow Heartless creeping up behind him. "Just leave everything to me. I know how to—"
He stopped talking when he noticed that Sora had disappeared. He heard the sound of a sword slicing something and he turned around to see a Heartless vanish from sight. Sora had a weapon out in an offensive stance so he knew that he had been the one to kill it.
"Sora…you…did that?" Riku asked, amazed.
"Leave it to whom?" Sora asked smugly. "I haven't been slacking off these past few weeks Riku."
"Yeah. Sora here is the chosen warrior of the Keyblade." Goofy said.
"He's taken down a lot of powerful enemies." Donald added.
Riku continued to stare at Sora. There was no emotion on his face.
"Riku?" Sora said.
"So this is called a Keyblade?" Riku asked, the weapon suddenly in his hands. He looked at the blade up and down, admiring the design.
"Hey, give it back!" Sora said.
"Here, catch." Riku tossed the Keyblade back to Sora. "I knew I had nothing to worry about. It's great to see that you've gotten stronger Sora. We're going to have to have another spar." He smiled.
Sora grinned at his cousin. "Totally. But first, let's find my mom."
The group of five then walked up the stairs to the abandoned house. As they got closer Sora and Riku became excited. They were finally going to see Trish after so many weeks of worrying if she was all right. Not to mention she was probably worried whether or not if they were okay too.
They finally made it to the door and turned the knob. They walked inside and saw Yuffie in the corner annoying Leon, who seemed to be reaching for his gunblade. Cid was tinkering with some weird invention on a table near the window. Aerith and Trish were sitting on a bed talking to each other.
When the door opened they all turned their attention towards Sora, Riku, and the others.
"Mom!" Sora exclaimed.
"Aunt Trish!" Riku shouted.
"Sora! Riku!" Trish yelled, running towards the boys.
Before they knew it, Sora and Riku were trapped in one of Trish's famous bear hugs. Normally they would be embarrassed when she did this but after not seeing her for weeks they returned it with just as much affection.
"I was so worried about you two. Oh, I've missed you." She said with tears.
"We missed you too Mom." Sora said, not wanting to let go of the blonde woman.
"Your not going to believe the stuff we've seen." Riku said excitedly.
"I'd love to hear all about it. But for know, let's all just relax. I'm sure the two of you are very tired. Are you hungry? I made pizza for you." Trish said.
"Yes!" Sora and Riku yelled.
Trish chuckled at their enthusiasm. If there's one thing that would never change about these two it would be their love for pizza.
"Um…Sora? Mind introducing us?" Donald asked, making his presence known.
"Oh, yeah! Mom, this is Donald and Goofy. They've been fighting with me while we've been traveling." Sora said.
"It's nice to meet you two. Thank you for taking care of my son." Trish said as she went over to shake their hands.
"It was no problem at all. Sora's a really great fighter." Goofy complimented.
"Though a little troubling to deal with too." Donald added.
"Shut up Donald!" Sora said before realizing that Sabor wasn't in the room. "I can't believe I forgot about her. Mom there's also someone else you need to meet. She's been helping me fight too."
"Who is it? I don't see anybody else with you." Trish said, looking around.
"Hold on." The boy said. "Sabor? Are you there? Come on in my mom wants to meet you."
Trish's eyes widened and she held her breath. She turned slowly to her son and asked, "Sora? Did you say 'Sabor'?"
"Yeah. Why?"
She was about to answer him but was interrupted when the leopardess walked into the room. She had her head down in a shy manner and made her way over to Sora's side.
"This is Sabor. She's really strong and a great fighter. When we went to her world I gained an ability to talk to animals and I was able to understand her. She says she knows Dad." Sora said. He looked up at his mother and saw her surprised expression.
"Well, this certainly is a surprise." Leon finally spoke up. "I never thought I'd see Sabor again."
Sora, Riku, Donald, and Goofy grew confused. They looked around the room at everyone else. They all seemed shocked but they also looked like they knew the leopardess.
Donald finally asked the question that he and his friends wanted to ask. "Okay, wait a minute. Are you guys saying that you know Sabor?"
"Know her? You guys, Sabor here was Dante's familiar." Trish said, leaning down towards her.
"What?" They exclaimed.
Sora looked at Sabor and asked, "Why didn't you tell me this?"
She looked back at him. "Your father wanted it to be a surprise. I have no idea why but that's what he said."
After she finished answering Sora's question, she found herself caught in a hug from Trish and Aerith. She rubbed her head affectionately against them and purred.
"Oh Sabor, it's so good to see you again." Aerith said, smiling.
"I can't believe that Sora found you so soon. I was planning on taking him to your world once he got back here. This is so wonderful." Trish said happily.
"It's great to see all of you again too." Sabor said.
Trish kept hugging Sabor but raised her head and looked at her with a happy expression. "By the way, we have a surprise for you."
"A surprise?" Sabor questioned.
Trish nodded and turned to Cid, who was still tinkering with the device. "Cid, is it done yet?"
"Hold on." Said the mechanic. He picked up a few more tools and worked out some of the bugs in the device. Finally, he finished it and showed it to Trish. It was a black collar with a tiny mechanism attached to it. There was a red tag on it that read "Sabor". "Here it is, one translator collar."
"Translator collar?" Goofy questioned.
"This is what's going to let Sabor communicate with everyone else. Once we put this around her neck, she'll be able to speak English as easily as we do. It's only a prototype but I'm sure it'll work." Cid said confidently.
He handed over the device to Trish. She put it around Sabor's neck and linked it together. The device started making strange beeping noises for a few seconds, which started to worry Sora.
"What's that noise it's making?" He asked nervously.
"Don't worry. That's just the translator activating." Cid answered.
Soon enough the beeping stopped and the translator was active. Everyone in the room was silent, waiting for Sabor to try it out.
At first, Sabor was hesitant. She wanted to speak English so badly. To be able to talk the way that human's talk was something she wanted to do ever since she met Dante. But she was afraid that the translator wouldn't work and crush her hopes of ever speaking.
Sora saw the worry in Sabor's eyes and walked over to her. He crouched down so he was at eye level with her. "Listen Sabor," he said, "It'll be all right. Even if the translator doesn't work Cid can always make another one. And we can travel to other worlds to see if there's a spell that will allow you to speak. So don't worry." He gave her one of his big smiles that showed his pearly white teeth.
The leopardess was soothed by his words. She looked up confidently and nodded.
"All right!" Sora said. "So what are your first words going to be?"
"Thank you, Sora." Sabor said.
As soon as the words came out, she stood still in shock. Everyone in the room was silent. Sora, Riku, and Trish had huge smiles on their faces.
Cid was the first one to break the silence. "Told ya it'd work. Never doubt my inventions." He said in a teasing manner with a smirk on his face.
Sabor walked over to Cid and stood on her hind legs. She leaned over and wrapped her arms over the mechanic's back, giving him a hug.
"Thank you so much Cid." The leopardess told him.
"No problem Sabor." He said back.
"This rocks! I'm reunited with my cousin and mom and Sabor can speak English now!" Sora said, pumping his fist in the air.
"Calm down Sora." Riku said. "You're gonna hurt yourself."
The brown haired teenager childishly stuck out his tongue. "Shut up. I am not."
"Right. Just like you didn't the last time you got excited. I think I remember you running into a wall and getting a concussion." Riku said smartly.
"Oh, that is not what happened. I never got a concussion." Sora said. Then he realized his mistake. "Damn it, Riku! You tricked me!"
"It is so easy to get you to admit things." The silver haired boy laughed, clutching his stomach.
"You are so dead." Sora said, summoning the Keyblade. He dropped into his defensive stance.
"Bring it on cousin. I'll kick your ass." Riku said. He summoned Soul Eater and got into his offensive stance.
Just as they were about to fight, they felt themselves get whacked upside the head.
"OUCH!" They both shouted. They turned to meet Trish's annoyed glance.
"That's enough you two. You can both fight and then do ten flips or you can eat your pizza and tell me about your adventures. You only get one of those two, choose wisely." She said, her tone leaving no room for argument.
"We choose pizza and talking about our adventures." They both said quickly.
"Good. Now sit down and eat." Trish ordered.
"Yes ma'am." They both did as they were told and sat down. As they ate their pizza they could hear everyone silently laughing. Well…Yuffie wasn't so silent.
"HAHAHAHA! Oh, you guys are so easy to order around." The female ninja said, pounding her fist against the wall.
Sora and Riku glared at her. Right now they wanted to rip the her head off so badly that they actually started to reach for their weapons.
"If ya'll feel like killin' her go ahead." Cid said. "We don't mind."
"I'll help." Leon said really quickly, which made Yuffie kind of nervous.
"Um…Trish, Aerith, a little help please?" Yuffie asked, turning toward the two women. They just stared off into space, doing their best to ignore the poor girl. "Oh crap."
Sora and Riku looked at each other and smiled.
"Now or later?" Riku asked.
"Eh, later. Right now I want to eat pizza. I haven't had any in weeks." Sora said, taking another bite of his pepperoni slice.
"You and me both." Riku said, also taking another bite of his slice.
Yuffie sighed in relief that she wasn't getting beat up…yet. Cid and Leon looked a little disappointed that the loudmouthed ninja (that just sounds wrong doesn't it) wasn't going to get the stuffing kicked out of her.
"I really thought it was going to happen." Leon said.
"The day was almost here." Cid said, putting a toothpick in his mouth.
"Shut up you two!" Yuffie shouted.
Everyone in the room just started laughing. They were one, big dysfunctional family. It made both Trish and Aerith happy on the inside. It was nice to know that even in these troubled times there were still friends to cheer you up.
Everyone finally sat down and ate the other pizzas that Trish and Aerith made. Sora decided to start up conversation by telling everyone how he got to Traverse Town. Riku laughed when he told them that Pluto woke him up by slamming his paws on Sora's chest.
"Donald, Goofy, and I also fought this huge Heartless." Sora said. "We kicked its butt." He chuckled.
Trish gained a serious look for a moment but quickly replaced it with an interested expression. "What happened then?"
"Then we started heading out to other worlds trying to find Riku, Kairi, and the King." Sora said.
"Not to mention sealing up the keyholes to the hearts of the worlds." Donald added.
Goofy nodded in agreement. "Yup. Sora's been doin' a really good job. He even beat up some demons."
When Riku heard that he stopped eating his pizza. "Wait a minute. You guys fought demons?"
"Yeah. I beat this huge one called Cerberus. He was like a giant, three-headed ice dog. After I beat him he turned into this." Sora said, holding out the blue nun chucks.
"Amazing." Riku said. "I gotta fight one of those."
Trish sighed in exasperation. "Why don't you guys take a break from fighting for a few days. You need to rest up."
"But Moooooom, I don't wanna!" Sora said very childishly.
"Me neither!" Riku said in the same tone.
"You're taking a break and that's final." The blonde woman said.
"But—" They both started.
"Would you rather do one hundred flips?" She asked.
"No." Sora and Riku said quickly. "We're good."
"I thought so." Trish smiled victoriously. I always win. She thought.
Aerith looked at Riku and asked, "So Riku, how have you been traveling to other worlds?"
Riku seemed to mull over this. He didn't want Aunt Trish and Sora to worry about him but they still had a right to know, even if the blonde woman would kick the stuffing out of him after telling them.
"Well…how do I put this delicately?" The silver haired boy said. "I've sort of taken up residence with an evil witch named Maleficent."
"WHAT?" Everyone but Sora shouted.
"I think you should have put it a bit more delicately Riku." Sora commented.
"Yeah, probably." His cousin agreed.
Trish couldn't believe what she had just heard. Riku was living with Maleficent? Unbelievable! She was just about to stand up and go over to Riku but Aerith beat her to the punch.
The pink clad woman put her hands on Riku's shoulders. "Riku, if you know that Maleficent is evil than why are you staying with her?"
Riku didn't answer right away. He didn't really know this woman but for some reason he felt bad that he made her worry. Like he had disappointed her.
"Riku?" Aerith said.
He snapped out of his thoughts. "Well, she said that she would help me find my family if I helped her with her plan to take over the worlds. I mean I don't really want to, I actually want to see if there's some way I can stop her. But I didn't have any other options. I didn't know where I was or how to get to other worlds." He lowered his head in guilt.
What Aerith did next surprised both Riku and Sora. She hugged him. She put her hand on the back of his head and started rubbing his hair. To Sora, they looked kind of like a mother and son.
"I knew there was a good explanation." Aerith said, pulling away.
"Yeah. Besides it's not to bad. I've gotten a lot stronger by staying with her." He said, glad that he wasn't in trouble.
"But Riku, you can't stay with her any more. Now that you've found us we can all find Kairi. Trust me, that witch is nothing but bad news. She's the one who destroyed their home world." Trish said, pointing to Aerith, Leon, Yuffie, and Cid.
"Gawrsh, really?" Goofy said as he scratched his head. "How terrible."
"You got that right. She used the Heartless to completely obliterate our home. Luckily Leon, Yuffie, and I managed to make it off just in time." Cid said, as he clenched his fists.
"What about Aerith?" Sora asked.
"I was in a different world at the time." She answered. "There was something I had to take care of. But back to the point; I don't think it's a good idea if you work for that witch anymore Riku."
"But it's all right. I'm not alone there. I met this guy called the Horned King. He said that he used to know my grandfather and that he would help protect me if Maleficent tries anything funny." Riku said.
Aerith's eyes widened. "You met the Horned King?" She asked.
"Yeah. He's kind of acting like a bodyguard for me. He's just as powerful as Maleficent if not more powerful." The half-breed told her.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy were all confused. The three of them looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders. Everyone else in the room seemed to understand what was going on except them.
"Um, can someone please explain what it is you're talking about?" Sora asked. "I'm getting a little lost."
Trish glanced at her son. "Don't worry Sora, I'll fill you in later." She said.
"Be that as it may Riku, I still don't think it's a good idea for you to be working with Maleficent. She's smarter than you think she is." Aerith continued to try and convince Riku.
But the fifteen year old wasn't going to give up. "I know how clever she really is. I don't doubt that she's eventually going to figure out that I'm not really trying to help her if she hasn't already. Besides, the Horned King can help me get strong enough so that I can protect myself against her."
Aerith put her hand to her hair and gripped it in frustration. "Riku, I understand that you want to help your friend Kairi and to find your father and uncle but that witch is more likely to break her end of the bargain."
"I know that. But I didn't have much of a choice when I first arrived at her castle. But—"
"Maybe it isn't such a bad idea that he continues as a double agent." Trish put in her say.
Sora, Riku, and Aerith all looked at Trish. The words "What did you say?" were written all over their faces.
"Trish," Aerith said, "You can't actually be serious." She sounded a little bit angry.
The blonde demon huntress just leaned on her elbow with her head resting in her hand. "I'm completely serious. Think about it, while staying at the castle Riku can gain Maleficent's trust. He can bring any valuable information he has right back to us. The Horned King is there to train him not to mention protect him from the witch should things go south. So why not let him keep doing what he's doing?" Trish finished with a smirk.
Something seemed suspicious to Sora. He knew everything about his mother…save for the whole demon thing mind you. But he knew her well enough to know the look she had on her face. Whenever she had that look it meant she was up to something.
"Maybe Aerith's right though." Goofy said, but Sora put his hand on his shoulder.
"Wait just a minute Goofy." He whispered. "My mom's trying to do something."
"You know very well why he should stop Trish!" Aerith said a little loudly. "He's just a kid, you can't honestly expect that he'll be able to fight Maleficent on his own!"
Everyone kept watching the two women in front of all of them argue. Cid, Leon, and Yuffie looked at each other and nodded. They knew that this was going to get ugly. Sabor remained calm but she was moving inch by inch towards the door. Sora, Riku, Donald, and Goofy were wondering just what it was Trish was trying to accomplish by getting Aerith riled up.
"Of course not. That's why he has us and the Horned King." Trish retorted.
"Who's finding a way to get his original power back which will make him stronger than Maleficent." Riku stated.
"It's not worth the risk. Maleficent may find out that Riku's trying to stop her plans and then try to kill both him and the Horned King before his remaining powers return to him." Aerith argued more and more. Her voice was getting louder with each sentence.
"But the Horned King is still a bit stronger than Maleficent. Riku will be—"
"DAMN IT, TRISH! I'M NOT GOING TO RISK MY OWN SON'S LIFE AND CONTINUE TO LET HIM BE MONITERED BY THE MONTSTER THAT DESTROYED ONE OF MY HOMES!" Aerith shouted right into Trish's face, which still had a smirk on it.
The silence in the room was deafening.
Aerith gasped as she realized her mistake and covered up her mouth. She couldn't have let that slip out. She just couldn't. She turned around and instantly knew that she did.
Sora and Riku's mouths were open. Their eyes were filled with shock and disbelief. This woman had just announced that she was Riku's mother so they weren't sure what to say to that. I mean come on, if some woman who you didn't know was talking to your aunt and just shouted that she was your mother how would you feel?
Of course the other occupants in the room felt extremely awkward at that moment. It was like if they said anything than the whole house would randomly catch fire and burn them all.
Riku gulped. He stared down at his shoes while gripping his knees. A whole wave of emotions washed over him as he tried to register what it was that he just heard.
After what seemed like an eternity, he slowly lifted his head and looked at Aerith. At first he didn't say anything, he just stared at her with confused eyes.
Finally, a word made itself known in his head and made its way out of his mouth.
"What?"
Forest in Prydain
"I'm glad that's over." The man in the red coat said. They had just gotten done with getting their supplies from the witches and were now miles away from their house.
"Maybe if you didn't argue with them all the time it would go a lot faster." The man in the blue coat said.
"Yeah, whatever." The other man responded with a wave of his arm. "Anyway, what's next?"
The man in the blue coat sighed at his companion's immaturity before he said anything. "Now we wait for the Horned King. It's been a day now and he should be back with his report."
"Shouldn't we have given him a bit more time? I don't really see how he could really get much information in just a day."
"I did give him more time. I said that he should come back with something in a week but he said that he'd report back after twenty four hours."
"Well, okay. Wonder what he'll tell us?"
Just as they walked into the clearing, a red portal opened up a few feet away from them. The Horned King stepped out and walked towards them as the gateway closed behind him.
"I'm here with my report." The demon said.
"That's good." The man in the blue coat said. "What have you found out so far?"
"Well, it's not much but it is troubling."
"Have you found her yet?" The man in the red coat asked.
"I'm afraid not." The Horned King responded.
The man in the red coat cursed and put his hands on his hips. "Guess I shouldn't have expected you to find her already. Maleficent wouldn't have made it that easy."
"Anyway, what is it that you've found out?" The man in the blue coat asked, hoping that whatever it was the Horned King was going to say would get his friend out of his depression.
"It's about Riku, Sora, and Trish."
Both traveling companions immediately tensed up. Somehow they knew that this wasn't good news that they were about to hear.
"What about them?" The blue coat man asked.
"Here's what happened." The Horned King said. He gave the information he had retrieved while the men listened with worry filling up their hearts.
There it is! I'm finally done! I know this chapter probably isn't as good as my other chapters but I promise that the next one will be better.
Sora: It does seem like you put in only half the effort.
Me: Hey! I worked really hard on this chapter!
Sora: Then you need to work harder.
Me: Whatever. Anyway, please remember to review this chapter. I don't care if it's one word or a dozen sentences just tell me what you think.
Riku: You should definitely review this story if you're taking the time to favorite it.
Kairi: So if you favorite this story, just leave a few words or something.
Me: See you next chapter!