Fipp: In light of these last three chapters, I have decided to write a Dissidia fic, in which characters from XI, XII and XIII are added the mainstream cast.
It won't be a remake of the entire game, I'm only writing (and in several cases, rewriting) the scenes that involve these characters.
Care and guess who will be added? Both heroes and villains?
Also, there is a bonus chapter after this one.
Also, like the last chapter, this one also has something different in it.
XIII
Hope Estheim
Sora grabbed the bag that held six bars of Sea-Salt ice cream, thanked the ice cream vendor, paid, and began to walk away.
As he walked by the flyer board, which was always covered with numerous posters advertising numerous things, something caught his eye.
"Huh?" he asked. Using his free hand, he picked at the flyer and read it. "I don't get it?"
"Don't get what?" Sora looked to his left to see a boy his age walk up to him. He looked a bit like Riku.
The boy looked at the flyer. "Oh, that? That's a fireworks festival."
"Fireworks?" Sora looked into the sky. "But, how can you see them? It's always the same time of day?"
The boy shook his head. "No, not really. While Twilight Town is always in dusk or dawn, twice a year the sky is either bright as day, or dark as night. On the day that it's dark, we have a special fireworks festival to celebrate it."
"Really?" Sora chuckled. "It's funny, we kind of have something like that back home."
"You're not from around here?"
Sora shook his head. "No, I'm from out of town. Way out of town. I'm just here visiting some friends." He looked back down to the poster again. "What's this festival like?"
"It's real big, and lots of people come over to see it. It's kind of for kids, so I'm not really into it that much. My mom like it though."
"It sounds like fun to me." At his island's firework festival there was always lots of food to eat, and prizes to win. There was also a legend that if you wished upon them, it would come true. "Maybe I'll stay an extra day or so, just so I can catch it."
The boy shrugged his shoulders and began to walk away. "Maybe."
Sazh Katzroy
"Hey, Cid!" Sora called, walking into Radiant Garden's Gummi Garage.
"Yeah!" the two Cids called back.
"Hey there Sora," said Cid H.
"What brings you here?" asked Cid P.
Sora shook his head. "Squall called me and said you had some upgrades for the Gummi Ship me, Donald and Goofy use."
"We did?" they asked themselves. "We did!" They snapped their fingers.
"That's right!" Cid H. said. "We did tell Squall to send ye down here because of an upgrade for yer ship."
"Follow me," Cid P. said as he walked through a large door that lead to an outdoor aerial platform. "Right now we're having a ship test it out, to make sure all the kinks are worked out."
"What's this thing do?" asked Sora, who, along with Cid H., was following the short man.
"This new component is supposed to greatly cut down the lag time down after you do some impressive spins," Cid H. explained. "Yer gonna have an easier time fighting enemies in space."
There was then a loud VROOM from above them.
Sora looked up to see a reddish-orange Gummi Ship descended from the sky sly, landing down on the center of the aerial pad.
The glass dome that sat atop the ship opened up, and a dark-skinned man with an afro jumped out of the ship.
He dusted his hands off and tuned his attention to Sora, Cid H. and Cid P.
"Hey guys!" he called, waving a hand in the air as he walked over to them. "Glad you're here."
"Finished with the testing already?" Cid P. asked.
"Yup," the man said. "That new upgrade's working wonder. That baby is a smooth thing to handle."
"That's good to hear," Cid P. said.
"Now, all we got to do is give it to that kid you talked about, and see if it's safe to work in the high-stress situations of interstellar combat without exploding like we've been having problems with."
"What?!" Sora yelled. "IT EXPLODES!" he yelled to the Cids.
"This is the kid, isn't it?"
"Yup," said Cid H.
"Don't worry Sora, it only explodes if it overheats," said Cid P. "And we've fixed that problem."
"We think. We're still testing."
"On me! Why not make him do it!" Sora pointed to the man.
"But Sazh is one of our best pilots," Cid H. said. "We can't having him flying into space with unstable equipment into a situation where he would blow up?"
"And I can't blow-up!" Sazh said.
"And me blowing up is better?!"
"I got a kid. Do you want my kid to be an orphan?"
"That's horrible of you Sora," Cid H. shook his head.
"Wanting to orphan children," Cid P. finished.
"Eh, but!" Sora tried to say something, but he had a feeling that nothing he could say would make any difference. "Fine, I'll bring my Gummi Ship around to get installed with the upgrade."
Sazh nodded. "Good. And if you blow to smithereens, then we'll need to work on something better."
Sora wondered if he should write a will.
Oerba Dia Vanille and Oerba Yun Fang
Sora's home of Destiny Islands was a chain of islands, with each islands having its own name. From smallest (1) to largest they were named Cornelia, Fynn, Ur, Baron, Lix, Mobliz, Edge, Balamb Garden, Lindblum, Besaid, Jeuno, Rabanastre and Bodhum respectively.
Selphie lived on Balamb Garden. Tidus and Wakka lived on Besaid. Kairi lived on Rabanastre. Riku lived on Fynn. While Sora himself lived on Ur (2).
Since each of his friends had something better to do, Sora had decided to simply wander around the islands. Currently, he found himself on Mobliz.
After walking around the streets, simply looking for something to do, when something caught his eye.
Two women, one with black hair, and the other in red pigtails, dressed in odd clothing, blue and red respectively, looking around the area as though they were lost.
"Hey, you guys okay?" he asked, walking up to them. They both turned to him, seemingly surprised by his appearance.
"Yeah, we're okay," the black-haired woman said, moving in front of the redhead. She had a very odd accent.
"Are you sure? You don't look it? Are you from out of town or something?"
"Yes, far away," the redhead said. She had the same kind of accent. "Very far away."
Sora scratched the back of his head. "Heh, I know how that feels. Hey, how about I show you around? It looks like you need a guide."
"No thank you," the taller woman said. "We don't-"
"Come on, I insist!" Another thought occurred. "How about I tell you about the island over lunch? I know a great restaurant not too far away."
As Sora walked away, he didn't notice the two woman exchange uneasy glances, before following him.
000
"Order anything you like, I'm paying!" Sora said, as he and the two woman sat down at a table inside a restaurant . He handed them their menus.
The two woman took the two menus and looked them over.
"Yours is upside-down," Sora said to the redhead.
"Huh?" she said, then slipping it right side-up. "Ehe, sorry."
"She's a bit of an airhead at times," the other woman said quickly.
Sora didn't give this any thought.
After several more minutes of looking over the menus, Sora had decided what to eat, while they didn't.
"You know, if you don't know what to get, how about today's specials?"
"We'll do that then!" the taller woman said, slapping her menu down onto the table.
While he tried to make conversation with the two, they seemed very recluse, and unwilling to give much information about themselves, and what information he tried to give about himself only seemed to confuse them, even if it was about things that were common knowledge.
"Food's here!" Sora said, thankful for the arrival of their lunch, as this meeting was getting awkward.
After the waitress placed their food in front of them, for some odd reason, the woman clasped their fingers together and bean to mummer something in an odd language.
They stopped when they noticed the odd look Sora was giving them.
"Was that some kind of spell?"
"Um, yes!" the redhead said.
"Okay," Sora shrugged. Donald always said things he didn't understand. Though, he wasn't sure if that was because it was the spell's incantations were in another language, or just Donald's normal speech patterns.
Things got a little odder when the black-haired woman poured half a salt shaker onto her food.
After five minutes of more awkward conversation, the black-haired woman pushed herself from her chair. "Hey, can I talk to you for a few minutes?"
"Yeah, sure." After Sora paid for the meal, he and the two woman exited the restaurant, and he followed her into an alley.
"What do you want to-"
Her fist met his face.
000
Sora wasn't sure how long he was out. He only knew was that his face hurt, and he most likely had a black eye.
Oh, and his wallet was gone.
If Riku or Kairi asked what happened, he was mugged by five very large guys with guns.
There was a flapping noise, and Sora looked up the edge of a roof.
"An owl?" he said to himself.
Just as quickly as Sora saw it, it flew away.
Lightning and Snow Villiers
After having recovered from the ambush of the two women, who had long gone after they had knocked him out, Sora had once again taken to his trek across the islands.
Currently, he found himself walking the beach on Bodhum.
He was enjoying his peaceful walk when he suddenly heard a loud screech.
Turning around to the shoreline, he saw that several Flan-type monster were crawling out of the waters.
Growling to himself, Sora summoned the Keyblade and rushed to defeat them.
Monster attacks from the sea, caves or jungles was not something that was totally uncommon on the islands.
The blade sliced clean through one of the remaining Flans, and he heard another screech behind him, almost too close for him to properly counter.
There was then a loud gunshot rang though the air, and the Flan's head then exploded.
"Huh?" Sora looked to the Flan as it was dissolving into a puddle, and looked around to see where the shot had come from.
"You guys are more trouble than help." Sora turned around to see a tall, pink-haired woman walk up to him. In her hand was an assault rifle. The pauldron on her left shoulder instantly let him know she was a member of the Guardian Corps, a group set up by a previous mayor to settle domestic problems such as monster attacks.
"Thanks there," Sora said, walking up the woman.
"Just get out of here," she said. "This is official business, and you'll only get yourself killed when you mess up. I don't want to be held responsible for that."
Sora was a little hurt by this comment. He had taken out things that make Flans monsters look less threatening then flan desserts.
"But I-" Sora started to say, just as more Flans jumped out of the waters.
The woman gave an annoyed sigh and, with a flick of her wrist, shifted her rifle into a sword.
"I told you to leave," she said.
"Sorry, but if there's something I can do to help, then I'll do it."
The woman became very annoyed at Sora's persistence, but said nothing and opted to ignore him. She ran into the horde of Flans. Sora, to her annoyance, followed.
After several more minutes of fighting off the monsters, a loud humming noise could be heard from the air.
"Great, just what I need," the woman said.
"The hero has arrived!"
Sora looked up to see a hover bike fly down towards them.
The person flying the craft, then pulled out a gun, and leashed a steady stream of bullets that instantly killed the remaining flans.
The hover bike then swooped down, and landed on the beach.
Sora instantly recognized the (very) tall man as he jumped off the bike.
"Hey Snow!" Sora called, waving to the man.
Sora had seen Snow numerous times around the islands, most times at a café run by him and some friends of his.
"Hey Sora!" Snow waved to him as he walked up to Sora. "Hey Lightning!" That must be the named of the Guardian Corps officer.
Lightning didn't reply to his greeting, and simply turned around and walked away.
"Oh come on!" Snow called as ran up to the woman. "You can at least say hi to me! What's the worst that could happen Sis?" He made to put an arm around her shoulder, but she quickly stopped this action by (painfully) elbowing him in the stomach.
"Don't call me 'Sis'." Lightning said, walking away as Snow collapsed to his knees.
"Are you okay?" Sora ran up to Snow.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he said, though it was obvious he was in some pain.
"I'm guessing she doesn't like you much."
"Yeah, I kind of figured," Snow then stood up. "But, I promised my girlfriend, who is her sister, that I tried to get along with her."
"And that's not working, it seems. You have any plan to make this work?"
Snow grinned. "Nah. After all, heroes don't need plans." Snow then ran after Lightning.
Serah Farron
Sora let out a content sigh as he lay on the beach, bathing in the dusk.
He should probably be heading home soon.
. . .
Maybe five more minutes.
"Are you okay?"
Sora grumbled and opened his eyes to see a pink-haired girl that was maybe a few years older then himself crouching next to him.
"Yeah," he said, sitting up and stretching his muscles. He must have been a sleep longer then he originally thought judging from how much further down the sun was.
"What are you doing out here so late?" she asked.
Sora patted the sand out of his hair. "Guess I fell asleep. What about you?"
The girl stood up and clasped her hands behind her back and began to walk towards the water. "I just came here to think about some things." She gave a light kick to the waves as they came in.
"What kind of things?"
"They're kind of personal."
"Oh. Sorry."
She shook her head. "Don't be. Though, I think I've about figured out what I need to figure out."
"What did you figure out?"
"I had a dream not to long ago, and in it I did something terrible. And since then, several things have happened that caused me to put distance between the people who are close to me. But," she smiled, "someone special to me helped me realize that he's always there for me." She turned to Sora. "Those same people I distance myself away from each other, are the same people who I want to be the closest to. As long as their with me, I'll be okay." She looked away. "I probably sound silly."
Sora shook his head. "No." He jumped up and stood on his feet. "There were times when my friends helped me out. I actually doubt I'd be here without their support."
The girl looked at him for several seconds before smiling. "Thank you." She then departed, leaving Sora to himself.
(1) The smallest island being the play island.
(2) Care to guess why I stuck Sora, Riku and Kairi on those specific islands?
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