Hopefully I'll have KH in this chapter, it depends how far I get though. It's difficult because I'm redoing my first version, sooo yeah...
Haha, I just had this up and then I realized I wanted to add more to the chapter. xP Edit/ I changed it again! But mostly just a little in the beginning and ending. :)
Disclaimer: I have yet to take over the world.
Chapter 3: Together
"Like an echo pedal, you're repeating yourself / You know it all by heart / Why are you standing in one place / Born to blossom, bloom to perish / Your moment will run out / Cause of your sex chromosome / I know it's so messed up, how our society all thinks (for sure) / Life is short, you're capable / Look at your watch now / You're still a super hot female / You got your million-dollar contract / And they're all waiting for your hot track"
I could feel myself falling through this stream of light and dark. Images began to flash in my head. I saw a woman in a white gown playing with a young child in a field of tall grass. This image snapped away quickly to reveal a ballroom in a palace having a masked ball. A teenager, anywhere from 16-19 dancing in a long flowing dress adorned with wings and feathers. She wore a white mask to match her dress. Another image appeared with the same girl, this time no mask. She was still wearing the dress, but appeared to be on a balcony star gazing. Her brown hair fluttered in the breeze. She turned and looked past me, smiling. A guy stepped into view and took hold of her hand. I opened my eyes and was immediately pulled out of it.
I was no longer in the tunnel of darkness, but sitting on a bed. The room I was in looked like an apartment. There was a bathroom and a dresser on the left side of the room. On the right side there was the bed and further down toward the wall was a table with some flowers and a note on it. I got out of the bed, noticing that my sword was missing. I shrugged internally and walked to the table. I examined the note, not recognizing the handwriting. It read:
Passion,
Welcome to my ship. Please make yourself at home. I am very sorry for inconveniencing you on the bus, but it was the only way I could keep ya'll safe. When you are ready to talk, exit your room and make your way to the bridge. Thank you!
There was no signature. "Pssht, figures." I said, walking into the bathroom to check my hair. I wasn't about to walk out with my curls looking frazzled and my eyeliner smeared. I looked at my brown curls in the mirror, noticing that only a few pieces were out of place. I turned on the sink and let the water run into my hands. After they were slightly soaked, I ran them through my hair to tame it. Luckily, the little bit of liner I was wearing hadn't smeared, so I dried my hands and noticed something strange was dangling from my neck. Attached to a silver chain was a silver crescent with a star resting on it. I had never seen this before, but it didn't worry me too much. "Plus it's cute, "I told myself while I exited the bathroom.
I stood in front of the door that led out of this room. I didn't know what I would see when I opened it, but I couldn't stay in here forever. "Suck it up." I told myself while I pressed the button next to the door. It slid open and revealed a brightly lit hallway. The hallway was lined with a few other rooms, all of the doors identical to mine. The walls were a light teal colored metal lined with a strip of white metal. I walked down the hallway and saw a girl who looked about ten with mid-length purple hair and big purple eyes. She wore something that looked like a pink jumpsuit with a purple skirt and collar. It was buttoned down the front with purple and pink buttons. She was adorable.
"Um, do you know where the bridge is?" I asked.
"Yes, go down this hallway," she pointed to her right," and in the elevator. It'll take you to the bridge." She smiled cheerfully.
"Thank you so much!" I said, wanting to squeeze her. Gosh I love cute kids.
"No problem!" I continued down the hall and stopped at a clear tube with doors. Maybe this is the elevator? There were buttons on a side panel. I clicked the one labeled bridge. The doors opened and I stepped in. As soon as the doors were fully closed, the elevator I was in zoomed up, traveling about thirty times faster than what I was used to. In about five seconds, it had come to a complete stop and the doors opened. I walked out dazed and a little dizzy. The whole front of the room was one big, curved window. I saw out of it and into space. Stars sparkled brightly as we passed them. There were a few seats facing monitors in here and one big seat with objects used to steer this.
"I see you didn't have much trouble finding your way here." said a male voice from one of the chairs near a monitor. I approached it.
"No, not really. Where are my friends?" I demanded, politely of course.
"Still sleeping probably." Whoever was in the chair turned to face me. I looked him over. Brown hair, light brown eyes...jacket... Oh my god, it's the bus driver!
"It's you!" I exclaimed. He nodded.
"I bet you're wondering why you all are here..." He explained that it seemed Lisa, Pam and I all were holders of special objects and inner powers. Pam had a Flowerrow, Lisa had Flameblades, and I had a Keyblade. Each did something special that we would have to find out for ourselves. We were apart of some group that were elite when it came to magic. Our untapped powers could destroy galaxies. He said he wasn't sure why Carolyn and Amber had been chosen to come, but that they probably had something needed in them that they would discover soon. The letters that had been sent to us came from him as an excuse to get us out of Earth ASAP without any questions asked. We were needed for reasons he didn't know yet. He had been asked to find us so we could save the worlds that were being destroyed by darkness.
"Wait, won't they worry about us on Earth? We'll be gone for more than two days-"
"It's been a week already. And Earth was destroyed about ten hours after you guys left." I felt myself go numb.
"Wh-what? No, it can't be gone."
"The darkness must have had already been building up inside of it. It couldn't be helped, the darkness consumed it." I looked to the floor. My family, friends, all those people...
"Are they..." I couldn't finish the sentence.
"No, they aren't dead. Some may have escaped the darkness and are in a different world now. Others... well, we aren't exactly sure what happens to them. Those things you saw earlier when you were in darkness, those are called Heartless. They are what help to destroy worlds by getting into the heart of the world. They consume the darkness inside of a heart of a person, which turns them into a Heartless." He explained that the worlds all used to be connected in some way. After a struggle for the light, they all became separated and shields were put up to protect them from the Heartless. The shields had been destroyed years back, allowing things to enter.
"So, what am I supposed to do?"
"Find that out for yourself. For now, go wake up your friends. Explain to them what is going on. In the cargo hold are two smaller ships, one for attacking and one ya'll can use to travel together. The one for attacking can only fit one person though and can be kept inside the traveling one. Ya'll can have them to travel."
"Thank you so much!"
"Your welcome. Just remember, you need to protect world order. Don't reveal too much information about the outside worlds to those who know nothing about them. Good luck," He nodded at me and I turned to leave.
"Wait, I have to ask you something." I said stopping suddenly.
"Go ahead."
"What is your name and how old are you?" Now that I looked at him more, he looked younger than 25. Maybe 20?
"The name's Saeya and I'm 17." Haha you suck at guessing ages.
"Thank you very much Saeya!" I pressed the elevator and went back to the Cabin Quarters that I had been in. I followed the hall back to the area that I had previously been in. I went into the room next to mine. The set up in it was identical to mine and the bed looked slept in. However, no one was in here. I sighed and exited it. Then, I went into the one across from it. Same story.
"Rawr, where'd they go?" I went into the room that was across from mine. There they were, seated around the table in this room.
"It's Passion!" Carolyn chirped, running to give me a hug. "Pam and Lisa just finished explaining what happened. Wow." I nodded.
"Yeah, and I just got from talking to the captain of this ship." I summarized what Saeya had told me. "So, we'd better get busy saving the worlds!"
"Aww, I wish we had special stuff too...!" Carolyn mumbled.
"You will, I'm sure of it. Just wait and see. For now, let's get down to our ships and leave. We need to start our adventure." They nodded and we left the room.
Cargo Hold
Once in the Cargo Hold, we walked to the medium sized ship. It was wicked looking, black and blue with streaks of silver. The front was rounded and each side had four spikes along the side pointing to the back. The back of the ship had a tail-like structure with two huge engines on it.
"AWESOME!" Carolyn exclaimed. She touched one of the spikes.
"This is so gangster." I commented, walking around the other side. As I got there, a part of it opened up, which I guessed was the entrance. "C'mon guys, let's start our adventure!" I said and entered.
Inside the ship were four rooms, each with two beds, a bathroom, and a dresser. Carolyn explored each of these rooms, finding our stuff from the bus already in there. The hallway carpet was teal and the walls were off white. There was an elevator that took you to the Bridge, Cargo Hold, or Bar. The bar/kitchen area was stocked fully and set up very adorably. There were clear tubes full of water that changed color and bubbles that constantly floated up. The flooring was a white marble with a black swirl and light brown counter tops. Pam and Lisa hung out in here, looking through the food supplies and drooling over the brownies that were in the fridge.
Amber and I went up to the Bridge. The set up was similar to that of the bridge in the Saeya's ship, but the floors were purple, the walls were black, and the seats/monitors were silver. Amber walked up to one screen and ran her hand over the top.
"This is so new. Wow. Hey, I'm going to fool around with this for a while, okay?" she said, taking a seat.
"By all means, you may as well fool around with something other than me." I winked at her and she stuck her tongue out at me. "You know you want me." I said, putting one hand on my hip.
"Oh yeah, duh." she responded, turning on the monitor. Messing around with Amber was always fun. I went back to the elevator and selected the Cargo Hold.
Once down there, I examined the fighter ship. It was a blood red color, with one large black line going down each side. It had a pair of wings and two engines on the back. On each wing and the top of the ship were cannons. They two on the wings were black, but the one on the very top was black and red and had a cone-like shape. The front had a dome-like clear structure over the pilot seat and controls. There wasn't very much else on the ship. It was extremely small.
I walked to the front of the ship and automatically the dome popped open. "Oh, this must be the way to get in.." I muttered to myself, lifting my left leg over the front and getting in. As I sat down in the driver's seat, I noticed all of the gadgets located in front of me. There were several buttons and switches, labeled like : 'CannonR', 'CannonL', 'CannonT', 'Shield', 'Boost', etc. There was one of those joy stick things used to steer and on the right side of the ship was a screen which I guessed kept me in contact with the bigger ship. I got out of the cockpit of the ship and decided to head to the Cabin Area.
I found that Carolyn and Pam had picked their rooms. They had chosen ones that were next to each other on the right side of the hallway. Pam didn't mention who she was sharing her room with, plus hers was the smallest so I assumed she would be there alone. Carolyn said Amber requested to share a room with her. This left the other two rooms open. I wondered if Lisa and I would share a room or if we would be in separate ones. I decided to put my bag in one of the rooms anyway. I brought it to the room closest to the elevator and threw it on a bed on the left side of the room. I didn't unpack it, though. Instead, I just layed down next to it and stared at the ceiling.
Letting the information sink in was something that didn't occur until now. Earth was gone. My family was gone. My pets were gone. My friends were gone. My house, my city, my world... just gone. And I couldn't have helped them. I felt one tear fall out of the corner my eye. No need to cry, I told myself, just like Saeya said, some are scattered throughout the worlds. I hoped that everyone was okay, but then I realized that I needed to focus on saving other worlds from the same fate. But, how? How can I do things to help other people when I don't even know how to handle myself? I just feel so empty inside, like I'm missing something... I sighed and sat up. Contemplating when I knew so little would be pointless and I knew that. I unzipped my large bag and fiddled around looking for my CD player. I felt my hands come in contact with a sheet of paper. I didn't recall putting any paper in the main compartment of my bag, so I pulled it out and examined it.
The handwriting was the same as the letter I had found when I woke up in Saeya's ship. I figured that he had slipped it into my bag sometime while I was sleeping. It was written to me and described something called TDS. TDS stood for Third Dimension Space, which was pretty much an area that extra things were put for storage. It could be accessed virtually anywhere at any time. He had rented a TDS for each of us and already stored some needed items in it. On the paper he listed each of those items; a holograph ring to use to store pictures and movement, a communication module (similar to a cell phone) to keep us in touch, a transformer for disguises, a data absorber bracelet (he said that he wasn't sure exactly what it did, so we should mess around with it to figure it out), an energy scanner (when turned on, it appeared as a transparent light blue screen across the eyes with readings in red), a list of basic spells, 30 potions each, accessories to protect us during battle, a sphere recorder notebook thing that would chart our travels (called a CompAnian), several outfits, sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, 5000 munny, and various other things we would find useful. I was in awe, how could he afford to give all those things to us? Also in the letter were directions to opening our TDS. It was relatively easy and just involved calling forth energy into our finger tips and drawing a symbol of our choice in the air. I decided to set mine as a P and L combined into one letter after my favorite Sailor Scout identity, Sailor Pluto. To store items, we do that, but smaller and on the object.
"Hey guys!" I heard Amber's voice coming from a speaker above, "Please come and meet me in the Bridge! Thank you!" I decided to bring the letter with me to share it with the others.
I was the last person to get to the Bridge. Amber sat in the same chair she had been in when I had last seen her. Carolyn and Pam stood near her. Lisa was seated in a chair which was right next to Amber. "Hey guys." I greeted walking forward, "What's up?"
"I was just getting to that." Amber turned in her chair to face the monitor. "I've been working on learning the controls to this ship and I've found that it's extra easy to use." Amber explained how to start the ship, work the loud speaker, and steer. The ship could go on auto pilot when navigating to places it had been. If not, then two people were needed to steer it. This ship had no weapons, but it did have a very strong shield. When needed, the smaller fighter ship could be deployed. "If you guys want, we can leave now..." Everyone nodded vigorously.
"How can we tell which way to go?" Lisa asked, making a very good point. Amber pulled up a huge semi transparent screen.
"This has a list of all the worlds in our vicinity. They are currently labeled as unknown because we haven't been there yet. Once visited, a mini display will be available."
"Oh, that makes sense." I said. "Oh and by the way, everyone needs to read this after we depart." I held up the paper and waved it a little. "It's from Saeya." I handed the paper to Pam. At that moment, Amber phoned the Main Ship and had them open up to let us out. I told them that I was going to go to bed and that they could finish reading the letter.
As we embarked on our journey, I gazed into the depth of space, wondering where we'd go and who we'd meet. Back in my room, I set up my bed and took out one of the magazines I had brought. Looking at it, I felt as if it had been years since I left Earth. Was it really only seven days ago we stepped onto that bus? I heard the door to my room slide open and in stepped Pam.
"Hey, " I greeted. "Didja read the letter?" She nodded. "Awesomeness. What's your symbol?" Pam smiled.
"Guess." Oh fun, a guessing game (which I usually suck at).
"Um, a bunny?" I guessed, thinking she'd chose an animal.
"No..."
"A flower?"
"Nope!"
"A peach?"
"Why would I choose a peach?" She gave me an odd look.
"I don't know, you told me to guess! And why not a peach?" I shrugged. "Go ahead and tell me, you know I'll never guess."
"The symbol for... Sailor Ceres!" I gave her a huge smile.
"Oh my god, I picked the one for Sailor Pluto! WE CAN BE TWINS!"
"Yeah!" We went to give each other a high five and missed. Oh yeah, we're so cool. Lisa walked in carrying her bag. I guess I wouldn't have to room alone after all!
"Passion, wanna share a room?" she asked, setting her bag down on the bed across from mine.
"Of course! Did you read the letter?" I wanted to know if everyone was finished it yet.
"Yep! Carolyn and Amber are still in the bridge." Lisa said, walking toward us, "That TDS thing sounds cool. I picked the symbol for Sailor Mars." Pam and I made the 'fwoooooo' noise which caused Lisa to look at us weird.
"I picked the symbol for Sailor Pluto and Pam picked Ceres. We're all like, twins!" I pumped my fist into the air.
"Uh, you mean triplets?" Lisa said, poking me.
"Sure!" I realized at that moment that I wouldn't have to worry about what future lie ahead for me. As long as I was with my friends, things would be okay.
One Week Later
It had been a week since our journey had started and we'd already been to eight worlds. Each one gave us new information on just what exactly we were doing. Lisa, Pam, and I had gained many new abilities in the short time we had been out. Carolyn and Amber still hadn't unlocked any powers, but I didn't doubt that they would. I knew that something was holding them back for now. We all began to gain a reputation as heroes, which was fine by me.
The world that we had just left was very city like, a good comparison would be Tokyo. It was called Zxeaphon. When I was there, I received a call on my special cell. It didn't recognize the number, but I answered it anyway. The anonymous caller said they had heard about me and called to warn me about a few leaders of the darkness that were after me. They said to take special care of my power and that I held a dangerous gift. I figured it was some kind of prank call to scare me, so I didn't pay very much attention to what they were saying.
The only thing that worried me was the power I had yet fully mastered. I had been alone during a battle with a boss heartless on Zxeaphon when I used a power I wasn't used to. It had knocked my Keyblade out of my hand, pinned me against a wall and became summoning a large quantity of power to its hand. Suddenly, I felt a tremendous power surge from inside of me. It wasn't the same light power I had felt when I first unlocked the light orbs. This one felt heavier and more...consuming I think? It burst out from me in a dark purple mass. The heartless was knocked across the room and exploded. I had never felt power like that before and it scared me. When I went to pick up my Keyblade, it had changed form. It usually had a light purple handle with a black grip, a silver shaft, an end key that had a tiara shape, and a key chain that was a silver crescent moon with a star resting in it. It had changed so that the shaft was skinnier and black, the end key was in the shape of a sharp pointy heart, the base before the handle had a red gem, the handle was blood red, and the keychain was now a black crescent with a red star resting in it. I worried that the others may question what happened to it, so I put it away. I decided not to mention the phone call or the battle to anyone.
On top of that, every night that week I'd have a dream about the girl I had seen when I was in the tunnel of darkness. She looked oddly familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on where I'd seen her. Each night the dreams were shorter, but seemed to have more meaning. They had started with just a day in her life, or so it seemed, and they had begun to develop into a war. The night before, the dream had only a short clip of her putting on gloves and donning a helmet for battle. It seemed she was some type of royalty or high class because she had been forbade(well, that's what it looked like) in the dream the night before to enter the armory.
I swirled my spoon around in the tea I had been drinking. There was really nothing to worry about, so I should just forget about it. Dreams are completely subconscious, so I reasoned I was just going slightly insane because of stress.
"We have a problem! I need everyone in the bridge immediately!" Amber's voice called from the speakers. I wondered what was up and dashed to the elevator. I arrived at the top and, for once, I was the first one up.
"What's the problem, Amber?" I asked while walking over to her monitor. She pointed at the screen.
"We've got a huge swarm of darkness that the shield won't be able to handle. I need someone to use the attacker ship ASAP and shoot through it."
"I'll do it." I smiled, "No worries." She gave me a concerned look.
"It's really dangerous, are you sure you can take it?"
"Of course! I'll go down to the Cargo Hold and get it all ready." I began walking to the elevator. I selected the button for Cargo Hold and watched as the doors to the elevator opened.
"Passion," Amber called before I boarded it, "Be careful." I nodded and stepped into the elevator.
When I got into the attacker ship, I got one of those nervous adrenaline bursts. I dismissed it and strapped in as the top came down and locked. I turned on the engines and turned on the screen that connected this to the main ship.
"Amber, I'm all ready for deployment."
"Okay, I'm opening the hatch..." I watched as the platform I was on lowered into a secured chamber. As soon as I was closed completely in the new chamber, the bottom opened up, dropping me into space. I kicked on the engines and sped forward toward the glob of looming darkness.
I had shot through about fifty Heartless ships and evaded the majority of their attacks. Far behind me, Amber followed in the main ship. A group of Heartless fired a few rockets at me, so I barrel rolled to dodge them. I pulled up just in time to destroy them.
"Nice shot." Amber said from the screen. I smiled.
"How much more do we got, Lisa?"
"You're headed toward the exit now, they're about ten left." Lisa said, from her position at the other monitor.
"Okay! I'm going to speed it up a little." I switched each engine to full gear. A group of Heartless came at me in a row and I shot right through them. I guessed I had about four more left as I flew through some loops. After I flew through the last loop, I was attacked by the final four Heartless ships. I used a combination of rockets and cannons to destroy them.
Lisa confirmed that all Heartless were gone from radar, but the surrounding area didn't lighten. As I flew out of the last loop and into open space, I turned off my engines to come to a complete stop. Things seemed eerily still. A few yards in front of me, I saw black bubbles form.
"Lisa, are you sure there are no more left?" I asked, keeping my eyes locked on the bubbling.
"Nothing is showing up on the radar..." she responded. The bubbles suddenly burst into black smoke, creating a hole and pulling me toward it. We'd fallen into a trap!
"Shit, Amber turn around! It's a trap!" I yelled, turning on my engines. I could still get out of here if I tried.
"Passion, what's going on?" she asked. I looked behind me and saw them emerging from the loop.
"Turn around!" I could see that it would be nearly impossible for them to get out in time; the ship didn't maneuver very well. The hole was pulling things into it and I could see Heartless building inside. I had a choice, either leave them and get my ass out of there or... I inhaled deeply. Or what? How were we gonna get out of this one?
"Amber, " I calmly said, closing my eyes. Stay calm, panicking won't help... "Are your shields off?" I prayed her answer would be no. If they were off, it would take too long for her to turn them back on. And then they might not make it.
"Yeah, why? What's going on up there?" I could see her concerned face in the monitor. Hadn't Lisa checked the radar? It couldn't miss something this massive.
"Look at the radar. We're about to be bombarded." No more than three seconds after I finished this sentence, Heartless ships swarmed out of the hole. I nose dived to avoid the first blast of energy aimed at my ship and glanced back at the main ship while firing my cannons at the oncoming heartless. They weren't moving or starting up the shields. "Amber! TURN ON THE SHIELDS!" I yelled into the monitor. Why weren't they doing anything?
"We're ----ing mal---------" I was getting a lot of feedback in the screen, "I can't -------. The engines are -" The screen went blank.
"Amber! Guys!" I yelled into the monitor. No response, which meantmy feed had been cut off. "Shit,"I cursed asI turned my ship around and flew as fast as I could their way. I needed to protect them from hits until they got the shields working. They were about thirty yards in front of me when my engines died. "What the fuck?" I looked at my gas meter and saw that it was no where near empty. I felt something ram into the side of my ship which slammed me against the wall. I made an attempted to fire my cannons, but they were unresponsive. It was as if my whole ship had shut off.
I noticed I was slipping backward, toward the hole. This couldn't be good. I fiddled as much as I could with the controls, trying to find out what the hell was wrong with my ship. The pull from the hole was getting increasingly stronger and I could see it looming behind me. I banged my fists on the controls and even tried a mild thunder spell to jumpstart it. The ship remained non-responsive. In front of me, I saw a spiked orange heartless ship on a course of collision with my ship. As a reflex, my hands went up to shield myself. Instead of an impact, I felt myself get thrown around as if someone were 'shaking my ship like a saltshaker'. I made an attempt to look out my window to figure out what the heck was going on. I saw I was surrounded by a blackish purple glow, meaning that I was on the edge of the hole. I was jerked back one final time when I blacked out. Everyone... I hope they're okay...
Kingdom Hearts will begin next chapter promptly! Please R and R every chapter if you can!