Chapter Six: The World Enders
We returned to our mini-island with the amulet. Riku was looking at pictures on his iPod Touch.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I just saw this explosion on island five!" he said. "It was—like—green fire, or something…so I took a picture with my iPod."
"Oh, yeah, that was Joe's Black Magic," I said.
"What?"
"Yeah, we were there. It was Maleficent. She's back—or—she was back. But now she's dead."
"Good. That witch disserved to die. Where's Kairi?"
"She's getting some banana splits."
"So…"
"So what?"
"What have you and Kairi been doing?" He put some extra enthusiasm in the word "doing" that gave me a chill.
"Nothing," I said, honestly…but still blushing a little.
"Sure..." he said, still with enthusiasm in his voice.
"Shut up," I said my face really red. "You can even come with and see."
"Good, I changed my mind. I actually do want to come with you this time…just in case you guys get a little…wild"
"Shut, up!" I yelled.
"Okay, just kidding. But, yeah, I'll be glad to go with you guys. I've been itching for a battle for the last few days."
"Heh."
"What?"
"Oh, it's just…It seems typical of you to say that."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Oh, nothing…" Just then, Kairi came with our half-melted sundaes.
"Hey, what's up?" she asked.
"Not much," I replied.
"Yeah, not much at all," Riku said smirking.
"Well, here are your sundaes," she said, plopping down next to me. We sat and talked and caught up. We answered the questions that came from Riku like, "Minnie's dead?" or "Where's the raft?" or his typical sick-minded comments like, "No messing around when I'm around." Eventually, we got him to shut up, and we started to tell him what we were doing next.
"So, we're going back to the castle?" Riku asked us.
"Yeah," I said. "And we'll put the amulet on the queen there."
"Oh, when you were gone taking your test, Sora," Kairi began. "The king told me to tell you that we'll be starting a new adventure soon."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"Well, let's get going!" Riku yelled, almost jumping out of the tree.
"Alright, I'll get the co-ordinates set," I said.
On our way to the castle…
"Ha! I have all of the aces!" I said, nearly yelling.
"Shh! You're girlfriend's sleeping," Riku said, brushing his long, silver hair out of his face. I chuckled and said,
"Woops."
"Alright, I know you have all of the aces. I'm not stupid."
"Well, you only have what? Fifteen cards?"
"Thirteen."
"So, basically, I win."
"Not yet," he growled. We were playing War. I won by laying down a king, queen, jack, jack, ace, ten, ace, ace, then we had a war with twos. Of course, I won with my fourth ace and got his last five cards which were two threes, a two, and two fives. The funny thing was, this was my first time winning. I leaped into the air and shouted,
"YES! Take that, Mr. 'oh, the darkness will help me!'"
Riku laughed at me and I heard Kairi's little giggle. I stopped and blushed…really bad.
"Um," I said, trying to hide my blush from her. "I think I should…go to the cockpit and see how close we are."
"No, you're fine. I just came back from there. We're…" she paused, trying to think. "About five minutes away. You might want to get dressed…and out of your pajamas." She said, giggling at Riku's specially-made Keyblade Warrior pajamas.
"What?" he asked. "I'm awesome." Kairi went into her cabin, still giggling. I left and went to my cabin.
When we got to the castle, the King, Donald, Goofy, and Daisy were waiting for us. In front of them lied a casket. Minnie, I thought. I retrieved the amulet from my back pocket as I got off of the Gummy Ship.
"Greetings, Keyblade Warriors," Mickey said. "Riku?" he asked with a smile growing on his face. Riku smiled back.
"Yeah," he said. The king's face suddenly grew glum.
"There's a horrible thing that's going on," the king began. "I know that you're familiar with Xemnas," he continued, kind of chuckling after his sentence.
"Yeah," I said, grinning a little.
"When you killed him and released his 'soul' into the realm of light, also known as 'Kingdom Hearts,' the world was destroyed. That's why you ended up on the Island of Darkness. The Island of Darkness was still Kingdom Hearts, but because of the evil 'spirit' that had 'destroyed' Kingdom Hearts, the hearts had to have some place to go. So, they created these beings that have called themselves 'superiors.' They all ganged up and created a group called 'The World Enders.'"
"The World Enders?" we teenagers asked in unison.
"What's their goal," I asked, chuckling. Kairi smacked me in the back of the head.
"This is serious, Sora!"
"I know," I said. "I'm assuming that they're going to attack somewhere soon?"
"You assume correctly. We've heard of twenty bright figures, in white cloaks, heading toward Traverse Town."
"Oh my god," I thought. "Traverse Town."
"I'm going," I said.