Phantom64: Well here's chapter 2 finally. Enjoy!
Kingdom Hearts: The Keyblade of Dreams
Chapter 2: The Slayer
Sora's gummi ship sped off through the endless reaches of space, making it's way to Radiant Garden. In the rec area of the ship, Sora, Kairi, and Riku were talking about the past and the present with the unexpected and often forgotten traveler Jiminy Cricket. (A/NYeah, I kind of forgot to add a piece with him last chapter, It's really sad for Jiminy)
" AWWW!" Kairi squealed looking at the picture of Sora in his lion form. Jiminy had made an enlarged copy of his journal so they could read it. "You're so cute and cuddly!"
A heh heh." Sora rubbed the back of his head embarrassed.
"Heh, you should probably see the pictures of Atlantica." Riku smirked. Kairi flipped the pages to Atlantica.
"My, you and Ariel look happy dancing." Kairi said playfully but Sora and Riku could see a hint of jealousy in her eyes.
"It's not like that!" Sora yelled. " She just needed a dance partner! I mean she fell in love with Eric!"
"I know silly." She said playfully tapping his forehead. "I was just kidding. Were you worried that I was jealous?" She asked, getting up close to his face.
"Ah, well, uh….." Sora mumbled as his face began to turn red.
"Boy here's a picture I'd like to forget." Riku muttered, changing the subject. Sora and Kairi came over and saw it was a picture of when Sora found Riku and broke into tears. "What the hell was that all about man? You hug Kairi, but you break down into tears going 'Riku's here!" Don't get me wrong but you sounded pretty gay right there."
"Hey!" Sora yelled. "I was worried! I knew Kairi was alright but I had no idea where you were! Can't two guys be close emotional friends without looking gay?!?"
"Not in this world buddy." Riku muttered. The story immediately froze and Riku looked at the screen of those reading this. "You fangirls disgust me." He spat. Immediately it went back to the way it was forgetting the whole incident.
"Hey! We're here!" Donald squawked over the intercom. Sora, Kairi, Riku, and Jiminy riding on Sora ran to the cockpit to see the world of Radiant Garden which looked relatively different. The world itself looked much better than the last time, but they couldn't see much from space. The most noticeable difference was the fleet of ships around the space of the planet. There were several gummi ships flying about on patrol, along with them were small nimble one-pilot fighters that were white with red markings and had one wing on tip, with two on the bottom making a upside down V. Closer to the world were several large battleships, armed to the teeth with cannons and missal launchers.
The one that stood out the most was one that had the word ' Galactica' on the side. Suddenly a man appeared on a screen in the Highwind's cockpit. He was a relatively old man with tanned skin, Graying black hair, wearing glasses, and wore a navy blue military uniform with a pin in the form of a upside-down triangle with wings pinned on his shirt. "This is Admiral Adama of the flagship Galactica." He declared, his voice grave and raspy. "Please state your name and business here along with your traveling codes."
"It's Donald Duck of the Highwind Admiral. We're with the keyblader and his friends b King Mickey's orders." The duck said.
"Ah." The man named Adama said a slight smile on his face. "Welcome back. I'm glad your trip was a safe one. So this is the Keyblade warrior?"
"Yeah. I'm Sora." Sora greeted. "And these are my friends Riku and Kairi." Sora greeted.
"Well I hope you enjoy your time on Radiant Garden." Admiral Adama said as he disappeared from the screen.
"What's with all of these ships?" Kairi asked looking at the vast armada orbiting the planet.
"When you guys left a military organization was created to defend Radiant Garden and combat the Heartless in other worlds. They've been named the Shining Shields. Already in this six months they have a whole army and fleet ready. They're best minds are now working on a counter-Heartless campaign." Donald explained.
"Well I'm glad they've got somebody to help us with those Heartless." Riku said, glad to hear of an army dedicated to fighting the dark creatures. The gummi ship passed the fleet and passed a large space station that was behind the ships, obviously a command station for incoming ships. They finally landed in the atmosphere and gaped in awe of the new Radiant Garden. Where there once were boarded up houses were now tall skyscrapers that glowed in the afternoon sun. Where there was barren wasteland was now grassland and trees. Hover-Cars flew in the skies, while people flocked in hustling ground of the city. And at the center of the beautiful city was the massive Citadel of Heart now fully rebuilt to it's former glory.
"It's beautiful." Kairi whispered, gazing at her former home.
"Yeah, I can't believe they got this much done in six months." Sora exclaimed. Radiant Garden was now truly radiant. Donald landed the gummi ship in a hanger buit into the hangar where many gummi ships were housed for defense and emergency purposes. Many repairmen and pilots flocked to greet the heroes as they exited the gummi ship.
"Wow! Are you Sora?!?" One asked excited.
"Man! You're a hero!" Another said.
"Will you sign my head please?" A bald mechanic begged.
"I LOVE YOU SORA!" A female mechanic screamed
"Wow aren't you popular?" Kairi joked.
"A heh heh heh." Sora rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Maky way! Make Way! Coming through! Outta the way! One side baldy!" A familiar female voice yelled as she pushed her way pass the Sora fans. It was none other than the hyper active ninja Yuffie. "Hey Sora! Hey! Kairi!" the ninja greeted happily.
"Hey Yuffie!" They greeted!
"Man it's been so long girl!" Yuffie laughed as she looked Kairi from head to toe. "Dang! You've grown into a big girl in a year! Looks like you picked a winner sora!" she giggled winking at the brunette. Sora and Kairi mumbled and blushed.
"AAAAAWWW" The crowd of mechanics and pilots cooed. This caused their blushes to redden.
"Hey! What is this? Social hour?!? Get back to work you nimrods!" Cid yelled as he walked in, chewing on his toothpick. Immediately the group dispersed and returned to their respected ships. "Well Hey! If it isn't The heroic trio plus one princess and a bishi." He laughed.
"Hey Cid!" sora waved as the gummi mechanic came to them.
"Soooooooooo." Yuffie said slyly sliding up next to the silver haired bishi. "You're Riku huh?" she asked batting her eyelashes.
"uh, yeah." Riku stammered, blushing. "So uh, you're Yuffie?"
"yep. The Great ninja Yuffie!" She beamed. "So, got a girlfriend? If not I'm free if you want to fool around." She giggled naughtily, making Riku start to sweat.
"Watch it Silver!" Cid yelled. "She may have the attention span of a chimpanzee, but she's got the bite of a lion!" He snickered
"You stay out of this grandpa!" she hissed, receiving a glare from the gummi mechanic. "Well I'm kidding with ya anyway! I'm a free spirit! No boyfriend for me for a while!"
"Come on! The King and Leon want to see us!" Donald said.
"Well don't let me get in your way." Cid said. "Yuffie! You're not doing anything useful! Go take them to the lab."
"Sure." She sighed and led the way. Cid watched them leave the hangar and walked toward his ships.
"Still can't believe those three goofs actually saved the universe." He murmured. "Well, miracles happen I suppose."
Yuffie led them through the newly constructed halls of the citadel. Many men and women walked about to do their daily duties. Several soldiers in white armor and wearing helmets that had targeting lenses on the left part of the helmet marched through the castle with advanced laser rifles. "So are these guys the Shining Shields?" Riku asked as they passed another patrolling soldier..
"Yep!. These guys know what they're doing and the castle's never looked safer." Yuffie said. They entered what looked like a large laboratory with many computers, screens, test tubes, and scientists all over the room.
"Ah!" exclaimed an older bald man in a wheelchair. He rolled his wheelchair toward them. Sora could feel many feelings from this man. He could feel kindness, love, and mysterious enlightenment from this bald old man. "You must be Sora. I am Professor Charles Xavier, one of the head staff in this lab."
Well well. So this is the child with the key." Proclaimed a voice from above. Sora, Riku, and Kairi looked up and jumped back at the sight of a furry blue creature in pants and a lab coat landed in front of them. His face had a smile that could make anyone at ease. " Sorry to frighten you. I am Dr. Henry McCoy, or Beast as many call me." He chuckled.
"Uh Hi dr. McCoy." Sora greeted.
"Please, Beast will suffice." He said cheerfully.
"What's going on over here? Asked another older scientist. He had grey hair and was wearing a red shirt, kaki pants, brown shoes, and a white lab coat like Beast's. He was smoking a pipe as he came up to them.
"Sora I'd like you to meet Professor Samuel Oak. He too is on staff." Prof. Xavier said. "He comes from a world of creatures called Pokemom. They're some sort of creature unlike any other.
"Yes. I spent my life studying those beautiful creatures." Prof. Oak mused, his eyes staring at the floor in sadness. "…Then the Heartless came."
"Oh no." Kairi whispered.
"My world was destroyed a year ago,…all those people, all those Pokemon…gone. I found myself in Traverse Town. But then my world was returned thanks to you Sora!" He said happily. "but the Heartless are still out there. I didn't want my world to suffer again so I dedicated myself to studying the Heartless here along with the Nobodies." Professor Oak said determined.
"Yes that's what this lab is for boys." Replied a sultry young woman with orange hair tied into a ponytail. She wore a long lab coat and wore glasses, yet her right eye was closed, and she had a robtic right arm, but that was the only things that made her like the other scientists. Underneath the coat she had on a short red skirt with a red belly shirt that seemed to fuse with her body. "This lab is dedicated to studying and finding a solution to the Heartless. I'm Dr. Shalua Rui."
"Hi." Kairi greeted. Sora and Riku said nothing, staring at the doctor and blushing. Kairi whacked them both upside the head.
"Uh hi!" Riku said quickly.
"Uh What he said!" sora exclaimed, blushing.
"Boys." Shalua muttered.
"Really, you didn't expect that to happen dressed like THAT." Remarked a young man with black hair and a skin complexion and accent of a man from India, and wore normal clothes under his lab coat. "I am Dr. Mohinder Suresh. I'm a geneticist. I've been studying Heartless genes to see what makes them tick. They are unlike anything I've ever seen, and I come from a world with super heroes." He joked.
"Yeah too bad you don't have a super sense of fashion." Dr. Rui sniffed. "So what if I want to dress sexy?"
"You're a scientist of God's sake. I'd think you'd know proper dress code for one." Mohinder muttered.
"Enough of this mindless chitchat you two!" declared a man who appeared in front of Sora in a puff of black smoke. This figure was much different than the others present. He was a man in his middle ages, with graying hair styled like Vincent Price's, tanned, wrinkled skin, and wore a red robe that ended at his waist, tight black pants, shoes, and instead of a lab coat he wore a black cape with red on the inside that was held together by a strange medallion. "We have much to do and so little time!"
"Yes uh that's right." Professor X said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment of the strange man's appearance. "Sora this is Doctor-"
"Please. Professor, I can introduce myself." The man with Vincent Price hair said waving him away. "Ahem!... Greetings wielder of the Keyblade. I am… DR. BRIAN ORPHEUS!" He declared in a loud dramatic voice, dramatic music playing in the background. " I am the magical and spiritual consultant of this little project."
"Yes. We here at this laboratory. We have been studying the Heartless for quite some time." Explained Beast. "we hope to find a solution to them."
"But I'm afraid we have found something much, much worse than the Heartless OR Nobodies." Mohidner gravely explained.
"Something worse?" Goofy whimpered.
"Yes, and much more gruesome." The egmatic Leon said as he walked up to them. Next to Leon was the ever hopeful Aerith.
"Leon! Aerith!" Sora greeted.
"It's good to see you." Aerith whispered in her soft voice. "
"Too bad we aren't meeting in a peaceful time." Leon muttered. Follow me. You have to hear this." Leon led Sora, Kairi, Riku, Goofy, Leon, Yuffie, and the head scientists toward a large computer monitor with a keyboard. "The Science lab and the Shining Shields have been working closely together for our mutual goal of defeating the Heartless. The Shields received an audio message from a soldier patrolling the wastelands outside of Radiant Garden a few days ago. This is what the recording said" Leon pushed a few buttons and suddenly a soldier's voice came out of the audio speakers.
"This is Private Chico Sanders calling Shield Command. I've been cut off from Bravo Unit during the earthquake. I can't get radio contact. Can anyone hear me. My are seems Heartless free yet it feels lirk… What was that?!?" The soldier exclaimed. A scraping noise, like blades hitting concrete could be heard in the audio along with the soldier. "Who's there?!? Show yourself You worthless Heartless fie-HOLY SHIT!" The soldier screamed. The sound of laser fire escaped the audio along with a blood curling scream. Obviously Chico had shot and killed whatever attacked them. "Oh God! Oh God! I think I killed it! Command?!? This is no fucking Heartless I just killed! Shit! I don't even think it's a Nobody! It's-it's like a corpse with blades for limbs! I think-" The soldier's voice froze as more scraping of blades could be heard. MUCH MORE. "Oh God there's ,more of them! Stay away!" More laser fire blasted the audio along with sinister hissing and screaming noises. The laser fire stopped….. only to be replaced by the noise of blades ripping flesh and the soldier's scream. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! THEIR BLADES!!!!! THE PAIN!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! GOD HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP-"
The audio immediately ended. Sora held Kairi tightly who was trembling. Riku was shaken by the brutality of the audio. Yuffie, Donald, Goofy, and the other scientists shared the feeling. "We found his body horribly mutilated." Leon said sullenly. We were able to retrieve the corpse of the one he killed. The other's had disappeared. I'll show it too you." He led them to a window that had shutters on it. "I warn you. It is very disturbing." Leon pulled up the blinds and they all gasped in shock of what was in front of them.
Inside the window was an operating room with two doctors. On the medical table in the center was a sickening creature far more horrifying than a Shadow Heartless. The body seemed like a decaying corpse, it's head not attached to the neck, but kept attached to the body by sickening devices. It's face had bandages around it's eyes and some sort of gag in it's disturbing mouth. But the most noticeable thing about the creature were the lonf, sharp, and curved blades attached where it's lower arms and legs should have been. It was a wonder how this creature walked.
"Jesus…" Riku gasped. Kairi looked like she was ready to throw up.
"Yes it's unlike anything we have ever seen. Every time we take a tissue sample to test it always deteriorates! And we're still trying to figure out how this monstrosity walked…..." Dr. Suresh said. Sora ignored the Indian scientist half way and walked closer to the glass and stared at the sinister corpse on the table. He could feel many sinister thoughts radiating from the dead monster. Anger, suffering, violence, death….fear. Sora's eyes widened as he saw something that truly scared him to his soul…
………….One of the creature's blade arms began to twitch.
"Guys." Sora whimpered. Immediately the creature jumped off the table and impaled a shocked scientist with it's blade arms. Blood ran down from the scientist's wounded chest and he fell to the ground after the creature took it's blades out. The other scientist screamed and ran out of the room. The creature ran effortlessly on it's blade legs and crashed through the window. It immediately charged at Sora. Sora whipped out his keyblade and blocked a slash from the horrifying creature. He immediately slashed at the monster's chest until it screamed and collapsed to the floor. Sora breathed heavily, the creature clearly frightening him.
"I thought you said it was dead!" Riku yelled.
"We thought it was! It didn't have a Heartbeat!" Sahlua cried.
"Relax it's dead now." Sora said as he walked toward them. He didn't notice the creature jumping up.
"Sora behind you!" Kairi screamed. Sora spun around as the monster charged again.
BANG!
The creature fell to the ground, it's head blown completely off. Sora stared dazed at the bloodied headless thing. Behind the creature's corpse was a tall man in dark green armor with a helmet shaped like a paintball helmet. In his hands was an advance tactical shotgun, smoke billowing out of it's barrel. "Well, at least we know that kills it." The armored figure remarked.
KH-KH-KH
Standing out in the balcony of another part of the citadel was a boy of 15 with spiky orange hair, chocolate brown eyes, and a curved scar under his left cheek. He wore a black t-shirt with a white overcoat, brown pants, sneakers, and had a sword in it's sheath attached to his back. He looked on at the city, in a daze of sorts. Suddenly his vision became darker, and everything was black. All that could be seen was a single large yellow eye with a slit pupil, making it seem feral.
"Here I am..Dream Warrior." The eye said in a deep, sinister voice.
Before the boy could respond he was shook back to reality. "Ryo! Hey!" Ryo found himself back in the balcony, being shaken by his friend. His fiend was a humanoid dog of 15 with floppy ears and bucked teeth. He wore a white shirt with a black jacket, blue jeans, sneakers and had silver armor on his right arm, going up from his hand to his shoulder. "Come on Ryo! The King and the Princess are waiting on us! King Mickey wouldn't like to see his daughter without her bodyguards.
"Right!" The orange haired teen, named Ryo said. "Let's get moving Max!" With that said, he and the dog boy named Max ran off to find their Princess.
KH-KH-KH
"Oh cool!" Exclaimed an Asian girl of fourteen. She had semi-long black hair and black eyes. She wore a yellow t-shirt with a blue jacket, jeans and sneakers. "So this is Radiant Garden?"
"Sure is!" exclaimed a boy of sixteen with messy blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and a goofy smile on his face. He wore a red t-shirt with a black jacket, jeans, and sneakers. "One of the best places to start our incredible action packed world-hopping summer adventure!" He declared zestfully.
"Yes! Summer fun in the big city! We need to get some photos! And try the buffet! And then more photos!...wait. I already said photos." said a tall tanned man with long black hair, and wore shorts with a blue t-shirt and sandals. He also had on a funny looking hat.
"Wow. Your incredible memory inspires us all Kronk." Remarked a man in his thirties. He had balding black hair, a thin mustache, and had a sarcastic look on his face. He wore a typical butlers outfit with a white collared shirt, black bowtie, black jacket, black pants, and black shoes.
"Gee thanks Jenkins!" The tall man named Kronk replied.
"I was being sarcastic you moron.." the butler, Jenkins remarked, rolling his eyes.
"…. Oh." Kronk answered.
"Now be nice Jenkins." The bonde haired teenager said turning his head back to them. "We're here to have a great time and that's what we're going to do."
"Sure thing master Skyler." Jenkins answered.
"You got It boss." Kronk said saluting.
"That's good to hear." Skyler said, rubbing the back of his blonde head.
"Hey Skyler?" asked the Asian girl with black hair. "Thanks for bringing me on your adventure. It was nice of you."
"uh well..It was no problem. I'm uh happy to have you with me Priscilla." He said, blushing and rubbing the back of his head.
"Skyler and Priscilla sitting in a tree." Kronk snickered. "K-I-S-S-I-N-OOF! " Kronk exhaled as Jenkins rightfully elbowed him in the stomach.
"what was that about?" Priscilla sked, not hearing Kronk.
"Uh it's nothing!" Skyler said quickly. "Come on! Let's go see some of the shops!"
"Okay!" Priscilla beamed. She grabbed Skyler by the hand and pulled him toward the stores.
"Ah the beauty of youth." Jenkins smiled watching the two.
"I'd agree if not for the fact that it hurts to breathe." Kronk wheezed, on the grounds and clutching his chest.
"Shut up." Jenkins intoned.
KH-KH-KH
In the dark ravine outside of Radiant Garden, which refuses to grow green grass of give life. The figure in the brown cloak with pointed ears sat on a rock over looking the ravine. "So it seems one of the Slayers was found by them. And Sora has met it as well." He intoned. "Well it's no matter. The Slayers are just the beginning. Once I get what I'm looking for here, there will be MUCH MUCH more hellish creatures to raise hell!" He laughed as two of the sickening blade limbed creatures appeared. "Go. Find the Princess." With that the two creatures disappeared below the earth, not leaving any trace of their existence. "Now then. I think it's time to visit an old friend of my Lord." The cloaked figure said, disappearing in a cloud of darkness.
Phantom64: Horray! School is over!...ut nowI have to get a summer job. TT oh well I'll still have time to update! R&R!