Usagi: Welcome back friends, enemies and all of you who couldn't' care less! To yet another chapter of DoH! Seems I am failing on my original crazy plan to finish this fanfic within a year…. I did that with LiD but this one wasn't as easy to write…
Zakura: no wonder. You keep planning more things for the SEQUEL than for DoH!
Usagi: good point… I'm hoping to get this finished soon but there's still lots that needs to be done! And it had better not looked rushed…
You might wonder why it took so long to finish this...well there's several reasons, one is that the Jungle Book Arc was hard to write, the other was that my not-even-two-year-old laptop "Rabbit" was ready to fall apart...
First the screen has been threatening to fall of a long time now, then the D-drive was acting up and corrupted plenty of my files, among those Darkness of the Heart I might add...but I didn't loose anything because I had a safety copy on my portable hard disc.
But then... sometime after Christmas the H-button fell of.... Decided by then enough was enough and bought a new laptop:3 Its called Rabbit V2, its a lot faster than the old Rabbit for one, but it didn't come with MS word... so I had to wait to finish this chapter till I got it back, since I didn't want to write it in notepad.... or even download Open Office which I stubbornly refuse to do XD I hate it really...
That being said…the Seeone-jungle arc has been made rather short… my main reason for having it in here was pretty much to introduce the Albino Powerwild anyway.
Zakura: makes me wonder why you didn't just make it based of Ape Escape.
Usagi: … and have them hunt monkeys that make TV-shows that are so boring they literally rot your brains?
Zakura: (Shrug) among other things…
Usagi: … no. Instead I give you this strange AU version. And plenty of NIS-demons slapped into chapters they don't belong. ENJOY!
Chapter 23
War of the Monkeys
Somewhere far above the Seeonee Jungle flew a creature that would look strange in almost any world.
Morty the mothman demon heartless, now kept in the air by a pair of propels rather than his broken wing, and with one glowing red eye he scanned the jungle bellow him.
"And just why do you think they would be coming here of all places?" he asked out loud.
"Why can't you just do as you're told like the other heartless and stop asking so many questions about it?" Mao's voice said from a metal contraction, apparently a two-way radio, attached to the moth's ear. "The shadow we caught at that Radiant Garden place had been following these heroes on orders of Xehanort, and he said they were going here, you should know, you're the one who can speak to heartless."
Morty snorted. The boy wasn't even an overlord yet he sure was bossy like one, he couldn't have learned that from his father, he was pretty gentle as far as overlords went.
But he was right about one thing; Mao couldn't talk to the common heartless, Morty could, all of the demon heartless were important to him because of that ability but did he ever appreciate them for it?
Sure he was a demon, so it was to be expected, that still didn't make it less annoying.
"HOLY SHIT! What was that?" Morty suddenly yelled.
"What was what?"
Oh just get your head out of your comics for once you dumbass! Morty thought, but he knew far better than to say it out loud, but Mao seemed to have looked up anyway, as he heard the demon prince whistle in astonishment.
The hidden camera in Morty's eye was picking up a fire, which spread at an amazingly fast yet controlled rate just near the river, before the fire was just as quickly let out again by a ray of water seemingly coming just out of the river.
Trough the radio Morty heard sounds of someone tapping on a keyboard, suddenly he could see much better on his right eye, as if he suddenly moved in a lot closer.
That's when he saw what had caused the fire to go out.
"That fish" Mao said. "Isn't that the little sea serpent hatchling that followed the three-tails around? What was it called…Samihat?"
"Its Samehada Mao, Geez!" a female voice said.
Morty looked up in surprise until he remembered the camera only worked one way, so he couldn't see who was in there with Mao…yet he soon found out anyway.
"Beryl! How many times have I told you not to come into my room like that? Don't you have class or something?" Mao asked.
Of course, Raspberyl. Mao's childhood friend and one of the few students at the demon school who had perfect attendance…and since most demons never showed up in class at all that was pretty remarkable.
"Samehada is the subordinate of the three-tailed shark Isonade" Beryl continued. "I was wondering what happened to him after Isonade got turned into a heartless."
"Who cares? It's only a small fish!" Mao said. "If that was the best demon they thought they could bring with them from the Netherworld they're dumber than I thought. What did they do to the other bijuu? Released them back into the wild?"
"What started that fire?" Beryl asked.
Good question. Morty scanned the area around the forest, through the burnt leaves he only spotted a small red weasel, but surely that couldn't be the fire starter.
"Lightning?" Mao suggested.
"No, it's a clear sky" Morty said.
"Keyblades can start a fire right?" Beryl asked.
"But none of them have their weapons drawn" Morty said. "Unless that ferret-thing can produce fire out of thin air."
"You're right, that's just silly" Beryl said. "Still…Mao, why do you keep sending your modified heartless at these kids? Wouldn't it be easier just to send them to defeat Xehanort directly?"
Oh no, here we go Morty thought, and wished for his dear life he could just turn of the radio.
"Oh I have my reasons" Mao said. "First of Xehanort needs this kid, the heartless told me so. And another thing…"
The mothman heard Mao take a deep breath and so flew a bit higher up in the air.
"I hate, hate HATE HEROES!" Mao shouted, so loud Morty was almost worried the jungle creatures on the ground would hear him.
"Really? I never would have guessed" Beryl said. Morty thought he could almost see the girl gaze over at the Super Hero comics and video games that Mao apparently kept in his room for "research".
"Get out of my room delinquent! I've got work to do!" Mao said.
"Fine, I have to get to class in a few minutes anyway. Bye Mao!" Beryl said.
Morty heard the sound of a door closing and assumed Beryl had now left the room.
"Will you get back to work already?" Mao asked.
"Aye" Morty sighed.
--
"Did anyone hear someone shouting just now?" Riku asked.
"No. You must be imagining things" Sora said.
"Yeah you're probably right" Riku said shrugging.
They were on their way back to the wolves' meeting place (Riku and Sora had changed back into their wolf-forms, as they didn't feel like explaining to the wolves why they were suddenly monkeys) when suddenly Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear showed up.
"Oh there you are, we were just on our way to help you" Bagheera said. "Did you get the heartless?"
"Some, but we think their leader may have gotten away" Sora said.
"Don't worry. We'll catch him" said Baloo. "From what I've seen these critters aren't very bright are they?"
"Normally no. But this white one seems different" Sora said.
Suddenly a howl pierced the woods.
"Sounds like trouble" Bagheera said.
"Sounds like heartless-trouble" Sora said.
The party turned and ran towards the direction of the howl and arrived at Lala and Sura's den.
The two adult wolves were fighting of some of the heartless, with the pups hiding in the den.
"These things are popping up everywhere" Riku said.
It seemed the heartless had heard them; they turned around in panic, before they once again ran of into the forest.
"And...That was easy" Riku said.
"Hey! What was that all about?" Lala asked.
Before anyone had time to answer, the ground started shaking, a giant round heartless suddenly burst into the clearing, knocking down trees as it walked.
"A big body? Now that's one heartless I didn't expect to see here" Ienzo said.
"Hah! That thing is too fat to even move properly! It should be easy to beat it" Lala said, and started running towards the fat heartless.
The heartless stopped walking, and instead it bent over and got ready to roll at the wolves.
"Look out!" Sora shouted, he pushed Lala out of the way just before she could get hit by the giant rolling ball, the others quickly moved too.
"Okay, so it can't walk but it can roll, I got it" Lala said.
"Wanna see it fly?" Riku asked, he summoned the keyblade in his fangs again, and used it as a bat to hit the heartless, which flew a couple of feet into the air before landing on its back.
"Quick! Get it while it's down!" Sura said.
The party surrounded the heartless (who was having problems getting up) and decided to give it a little push, making it roll of the den site towards a cliff.
It didn't make it as far as the cliff, as a skeleton heartless (otherwise known as a Living Bone) ridden by a shaman showed up, and pushed the fat body in the other direction...only it pushed a bit too hard and it flew of and crashed into a hillside and vanished into nothing.
"Ah finally. Heartless with a more normal IQ" Riku said. "Or lack of thereof."
The shaman heartless riding the living bone however didn't look as happy, it jumped up and down on the living bone's back, and a few more of the monkey-heartless appeared, among those the white one.
"Great, you've come back for more?" Riku said. "I don't know what kind of creature you're supposed to be, but you're not getting away this time!"
The powerwild growled and shrieked something at his subordinates, before they decided to run for it again.
"Get them before they leave!" Sora said.
Someone must have heard them, since suddenly the rest of the wolf pack appeared too, and surrounded the monkeys.
"You're not getting away that easily" Luri said as she took her position in front of the other wolves.
There were no trees nearby that the monkeys could escape into, and the few that had been there had already been knocked over by the fat body.
"Don't let them escape! They can disappear into dark portals at any time!" Ienzo shouted.
"You heard him! Attack!" Luri shouted.
The wolves charged at the heartless, snatching the powerwilds and bouncywilds by their tails and throwing them into the mountain wall, most of them evaporated on impact, the rest where given the final blow by the rest of the pack.
Sora and Riku went for the living bone heartless attacking it from the left side while Sura and Akkru came at it from the other.
The shaman on its back didn't seem happy about this, and used his staff to try and hit the wolves.
"Leave them alone you freaky monkey!" Mowgli yelled, and threw a pointy rock he'd just picked up at the monkey heartless.
The stone hit the mask of the shaman, which cracked, and the heartless fell backwards of the back of the living bone and evaporated before it even hit the ground.
The living bone fell not long after its rider when Sora shoved the Kingdom Key into its chest.
"Great job everyone" Luri said.
"Did we get them all?" Akkru asked, and looked around for more heartless. "Did anyone see that white one?"
"Even if he did get away he won't dare to show his face here again" Mowgli said. "We sure showed those monkeys!"
"Yeah, just a shame we didn't find…" Sora started but was cut of as something started glowing on the mountain wall where the fat body had landed previously.
"What's that?" Sura asked.
"It's the keyhole!" Kairi said excitedly.
Sora summoned his keyblade again and pointed it at the keyhole; a beam shot out of it and made a clicking noise.
"Was that it?" Kichi asked.
"Yup, the world should be safe now" Sora said. "But the heartless might still return".
"No worries, we'll just kick them out once more" Mowgli said. "I'm sure those monkeys will think twice about coming back."
"If they're capable of thinking…which their leader seems to be" Riku said.
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The white monkey in question had in fact managed to sneak of in the confusion, and was already a good distance away from the wolf pack.
It jumped through the trees, often not seeing where he was going because he was too busy looking behind him that he wasn't followed, until he suddenly crashed into something, and felt strange claws grab onto his tail.
"Sorry about that, but you're without a doubt not a regular heartless, and my boss has gotten quite interested in you" a voice said.
The albino Powerwild gazed up, and saw a large moth, it was using one of its smaller wings to hold on to the monkey's tail, as it was kept in the air by a pair of propels.
Let go of me you freak! The Powerwild sneered.
Morty merely gazed at him.
"I'd love to little one. But I've got my orders and if I mess up now Mao will… frankly I don't want to think about what he will do" Morty said.
The monkey glared at him for a little while, before it suddenly started staring at something behind the moth.
"Yes, I know they look ridiculous, but thing is I can't fly without them, broken wing and all" Morty sighed. The propels was probably his favourite part about the modifications Mao had done to him, and the only one that was actually useful for something.
You idiot! Look behind you! The monkey said.
"You don't have to be rude…oh crap!" Morty yelled as he turned around, looking straight at a sorcerer nobody.
"So those are the nobodies I've been hearing so much about. Wonder how it would look like with lasers in those arms" Morty heard in his ear.
"Forgive me for saying this lord Mao but this really isn't the time" Morty said.
FLY! The Powerwild shouted.
Morty didn't have to be asked twice, with a good grip on the monkey's tail (who eventually crawled up and grabbed his wing as hanging there was really uncomfortable) he turned and flew as fast as the machinery on his back would let him, which thankfully was pretty fast.
Mothmen demon weren't known for being slow already but Morty was sure the propels even made him faster.
However the moth wasn't about to give gratitude towards Mao yet, especially as he heard a crackling noise.
"Mao? Are those propels you installed fire-proof?" Morty asked.
"Probably not. Why?" Mao asked.
Morty wasn't capable of replying, as suddenly one of the propels exploded and caught fire, and the moth and the monkey fell to the ground.
In a last attempt at saving whatever life had left, Morty dropped the monkey and rolled over on his back to put out he flames.
Just as he did that he saw the sorcerer nobody approaching.
The albino Powerwild was unconscious after the fall, the sorcerer could only bend down and pick it up.
"Don't let it get away with my experiment! If you loose this one you are as good as dead!" Mao complained.
Morty gazed at the nobody. It was a lot bigger than him; Morty had low defence already (heck at one time he even got a felony from the dark court for being a looser) and on top of that he couldn't fly…
Screw this; I'm dead either way Morty said, before vanishing into a dark portal.
Knowing Mao he would probably put some strange contraption on him but let him live, he wouldn't last a second against a high levelled nobody.
Part of him wondered what the nobodies would do to the albino Powerwild, but the monkey would still be lucky, no matter what it was, it had to be better than what Mao had in store for him.
Usagi: In case I haven't made it clear enough; Morty hate, hate, HATES Mao.
Zakura: oh gee. Wonder why.
Usagi: Don't expect the Disgaea references to end just yet… I just recently came across Disgaea 2 in a web store which I previously thought I'd never find! (Not un-used anyway) so of course I had to buy it! In turn, playing that game gives me ideas for the Netherworld-arcs of LiD. Including Morty, whom I even made in the game, but he most definitely isn't a modified heartless there…
Regarding the felony Morty mentions, they are from Disgaea 2, where demons can get felonies for all sorts of crazy things, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Being demons, a felony works almost like a war medal, and they even congratulate you for it.
In the game Morty got one…and it's for being a looser, after he died one too many time. (His defense is really low…which is even true in the fanfic as you can see…)
Zakura: doesn't beat Tink's felony for merely existing though…
Usagi: true. But Disgaea-references aside, what do the nobodies want with the Powerwild you ask? Well don't freaking expect me to answer! Just keep reading!
AND REVIEW.
Or Mao will do strange things to Morty… well he'll do that anyway, but if you review I might be able to convince him to use anaesthetic this time.