Hello, everyone! Here's chapter two in the collab story of Sora and Kyla. Not much to say expect, let's get started!
Chapter 2 : Meeting New Friends
The sun rose over the horizon as morning came, the sunlight shining through and hitting the sleeping Sora, who was sitting in front of the fireplace. He winces a little and slowly opens his eyes. The first thing he spots is the sea green hedgehog, breathing softly and slowly. Sora felt a smile come across his face and stretched a bit. Kyla squirms a little and shifts towards the wall. Sora couldn't help but chuckle a little.
Sora then got up to his feet, "So peaceful.." He said to himself.
Kyla squirms and turns back, facing him. She opens up her blue eyes and squints to the light. She mumbles "Morin..."
"Morning." Sora said back.
Kyla sits up and scratches her head, "Where are we going now..." she grumbled.
"Haven't decided yet." Sora answered.
A small pumpkin hits Kyla in the head, "Ow!" she looks over to Sora and glares at him, "What did you do that for?!"
"I didn't do anything!" Sora said. He then looks at the pumpkin, "Where did that pumpkin come from?"
Kyla gets off the bed and picks up the squash. "I don't know. But it has a jack-o-lantern look." she said.
"That's weird." Sora said.
Kyla sighs and throws it out the window.
"That was random." Sora said.
"What? It might be a spy."
"Odd spy." Sora said.
Kyla shrugs, "Can't be too careful."
"True." Sora said.
Kyla turns on her heel and looks outside in the snowy tundra. The pumpkin was smashed into a tree.
"Still, where did it come from?" Sora questioned.
Kyla scratched her head. "I don't k-"
"Ello." Kyla jumps from the window and crashes into Sora.
Sora catches Kyla as she crashes into him, "You all right?"
Kyla looks back to the window and her eyes widen. "AAAAAAHHH!" she quickly hides behind Sora, "A MOTH! A BIGASS MOTH!" Sora looks at the window and only sees a girl wearing a skull mask.
"That ain't a moth, it's just a girl wearing a skull mask." Sora corrected. "Excuse me, who are you?" He asked the girl.
"Wot? How can you see me? Don't you have any fears of a monster of some sort?" Sora shook his head, "Well bloody hell."
"WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO IT!?" Kyla screamed.
"Kyla, chill. I'm talking to her because I'm asking who she is." He then looks back at the girl, "You gave my friend quite a scare, not bad. Name's Sora."
"HER!?"
"The names Eve, Hallow's Eve. Or Halloween if you want, but I'm used to Hallow."
" Nice to meet ya, Eve. Uh, mind telling me why Kyla thinks you're a big moth?" Sora asked.
"It's Hallow. She thinks I'm a big moth because I'm wearing the fear mask." She answered.
"Ah, I see. Would you mind taking it off, Hallow?" Sora politely asked her.
Hallow sighs an annoyed sigh, "Fine." she takes off the mask and shows her red eyes. Her long black hair was pulled up in a messy ponytail and she wore a black suit that oddly looked like Jack Skellington's from the Nightmare Before Christmas.
"You look nice." Sora said.
She hops off the window sill and crosses her arms, "What the bloody hell are you guys?"
"We're hedgehogs from a different dimension." Sora answered.
Hallow looks at them confused, "O...K?" she looks over to Kyla, "What's your name blot?" Kyla furrows her eyebrows, "Kyla."
Sora was standing there, thinking.
Hallow pokes his forehead, "What you thinking, poppet?"
"I'm thinking you must be from Halloween Town, right?" Sora asked.
Hallow stood there with a blank expression, "Uh, I'm from Transylvania, Romania."
Sora snaps his fingers, "Damn. I thought you were from there because your suit looks like Jack's."
Hallow glares at him, "That so-called king of Halloween? BLOODY HELL NO!"
Sora stood there, unaffected. "Sorry, sheesh. BTW, if you ask me, you scare others better than him."
"I bloody hope so."
"Why do you hate him?" Kyla asked.
"Because he's a phony. A fake. Kids believe in him. But me? NOPE! They think that Halloween doesn't have a guardian! They think it's just a day to get freaking candy!" She starts raving on, "Why do people believe in the bloody blot Easter Bunny? Or Santa Clause? WHY DO THEY NOT BELIEVE IN ME!?"
Sora stayed silent, unable to answer her question.
Hallow stops and apologizes, "Sorry. It's two months near Halloween. Kinda stressed out."
"How can you be stressed out when it's two months away?" Kyla asks.
"Um... Big plans. It's a secret mostly."
"It's fine, I see your point. Must be very big to be stressed out this early." Sora said.
Hallow nods nervously, "Yeah." Kyla starts to feel fishy about her, but ignores it.
"So, are there any other places nearby that we can go to, Hallow?" Sora asked.
She nods, "Yes. The North Pole."
Kyla scoffs, "Yeah. The North Pole. If yetis paint soldiers."
"It's better than nothing, Kyla." Sora said.
Kyla rolled her eyes. "C'mon, poppet, we have to go soon. A storm is coming."
"All right, let's get going." Sora said, heading for the door.
The three start trudging through the snow for about an hour or so. Kyla's legs starts numbing up and she starts have a coughing fit.
"Kyla, want me to carry you?" Sora asked.
"N-no!" Kyla stumbles, but regains her balance.
"You sure? I won't mind." Sora said.
"N-no!" Kyla falls face first into the snow. "Screw my life." she muffles.
"Here." He then helps her up.
Kyla shrugs him off, "I can get up myself." she said with a glare.
"OK, sheesh. Just trying to help." Sora said.
Kyla crosses her arms and continues walking.
Hallow sighs, "Are you two a married couple? Cuz you fight like one."
Kyla glares at her, "NO!"
"No. I hope that was a joke." Sora said.
Hallow rolls her eyes, "Whatever. We're here." She points over to a castle like building on a snowy cliff.
"Never expected a castle to be at the The North Pole."
"Well, North needs a bigger working space."
"I see. Shall we knock on the front door?" Sora said as he started to walk to the castle.
"Nope." Hallow grabs Kyla by the back of her shirt and Sora's leg. She then jumped in the air and started flying to a open window.
"Woo!" Sora said as they headed for the open window.
Hallow goes through and lands swiftly on the tiled ground. She puts down the two and Kyla freezes to the ground, shaking.
"Glad to see I'm not the only one here that flies." He then looks at Kyla, "Kyla, you all right?"
"Never. Again." she says in a deep tone to Hallow. "Why?" she asks. "I HATE flying! I HATE heights!" Kyla snapped.
"OK..." Sora said.
Hallow sighs and opens a door. Light pours in and sounds fill their ears, "C'mon, we've got to find North."
"All right." Sora said as he walked to the door she opened.
The trio walk down a huge hallway and at the end of the hallway was a giant door. Hallow slams it open and yells, "Ello guvnor!" the sound of someone falling makes the room shake.
"Wow." Sora simply said.
On the ground, a big man was lying. He got up to his feet and yelled in a German accent, "Hallow! You know you're not allowed here!"
Sora raised an eyebrow to that.
Hallow rolls her eyes, "Yeah yeah, listen, I have found something in the snow, you bloody wanker."
Sora lowers his eyebrow and observes.
The man sits back in his giant chair, "I don't care. It might be one of your monsters or tricks."
Sora crosses his arms and taps his foot a bit.
Kyla sighs, "I thought Taylor was bad enough with the stupid tricks."
"Must be fun living with her then." Sora said.
"Well, when I had a heart."
Sora stayed silent, not knowing how to respond to that.
"Lookie here, North, these... things... are not monsters. Nor tricks." North crosses his arms, "Like I can believe that."
"Really? I find that hard to believe." Sora sarcastically said.
North looked behind Hallow. "... What are these?" Hallow shrugged, "I dunno. But they have names. The grumpy one is Kyla and the brown one is Sora."
"Hey!" Kyla snapped.
"I find that funny because I told you what we are earlier." Sora reminded.
"I know your hedgehogs from another dimension, I mean wot ARE YOU."
"What am I? Just a dimension jumping hedgehog with powers." Sora said plainly.
Kyla sighs and face palms, "We're creatures called Mobians. We're animals that walk, talk and act like humans. But, some of us have abilities."
"Pretty much, yeah." Sora agreed.
North raises a brow to that.
"Hard to believe, right?" Sora asked North.
"Yes. But I think you two are just monsters that Hallow is controlling right now." All three fall to the ground, anime style.
Sora gets up to his feet, "You're thick, dude. Why don't we just prove that we aren't something Hallow is controlling?" Sora questioned.
"I'll need proof. I you get hurt, you'll disappear." Kyla then suddenly punches Sora in the gut.
Sora barely flinched, "Not bad." He said as he dusted his stomach off.
North furrowed his brows, "Typical. Monsters can't hurt monsters."
"Dammit!" Kyla yelled, "You know, you're too over powered." Kyla snapped at Sora.
"Ain't my fault. Your punch only made me flinch a bit, I still felt the blow and it hurts."
"Yeah, right!" Kyla tackles Sora to the ground.
"Oof!" Sora said as he hits the ground.
"Opal sword! Scorpio!" a sword appears in Kyla's hand. It had a rainbow colored blade and a symbol of a zodiac was on it's handle, "Let's see it you can bleed!" Kyla snaps as she points the blade at Sora's arm.
Sora then vanished and reappeared a few feet away, taking out the Decisive Pumpkin Keyblade. "You're gonna have to try."
Kyla smirks evilly, "Alright~" She jumps into the air and slams Sora through a window. They both fall to the snowy ground and Kyla's eyes start glowing blue. She stops a few inches from the ground and charges.
The keyblade then glows a golden aura, "Sonic Blade!" He then zoomed at Kyla with supersonic speed, catching her off guard and has her block the attack. Sora then continued the attack by teleporting after each successful sonic blade.
Kyla tries to dodge them all, but one blow makes her crash into the wall. She winces in pain, but her eyes flash with anger.
"So you like to play tough, huh? I'll play tough. Peridot! Leo!" Her sword's blade turns from rainbows to green and the symbol is now the Leo. She then disappears and reappears behind Sora and strikes him in the head which sends him flying into the wall.
Sora quickly recovers and lands his feet on the wall, jumping off it like a slingshot and swings, striking Kyla in the stomach and sends her flying into a tree.
Back with Hallow and North, they were both looking through the shattered window with wide eyes. "Now do you believe me! Why would I waste my monsters if they were fighting!" North glares at her, "Fine! I believe you! Stop them!"
"Good! See how easy it is to simply believe, man!?" Sora shouted at North.
Kyla jumps off the tree and slashes Sora's arm. Blood flies into the air. "OK. I'll stop it." A bunch of shadows then swirled around her hand and they turn into a giant scythe. The blade shinned silver and the handle was wisping wisps of shadows. She jumps down and slashes the hedgehogs' abdomens, making them fall to the ground and unable to move.
"What!? What did you do?!" Kyla demanded. "I just paralyzed you two." Hallow said plainly.
Sora tries to move, only to slightly move his body. "I'm been paralyzed before during a fight, didn't stop me."
"Oh shut your piehole, rat!" Kyla snapped.
Sora gave a chuckle as he continues his slight movement, "Wasn't even talking to you."
Kyla's eyes turn white and her fur grows darker. "Why I'm gonna kill your-"
Hallow then grabs Kyla and Sora's feet and took them back to North, setting them down on a couch.
"So easily pissed off, and I'm not even trying to annoy you. How does that work?" Sora asked.
"Easy, one word: HEART. LESS. I don't' care about anything, and I get angry easily. You'll never see me cry or act happy!"
"Two things. One, that was two words you said and two, you're saying in a way that no matter what I do, you'll just get pissed off. You may have no heart, but that doesn't mean you can't chill out."
"IT'S NOT THAT FUCKIN EASY!"
"I know. You're just giving me that impression the way you said it just then."
"Oh how much I want to kill you right now!"
"Just because I said something simple as even paralyzing me won't stop me in a fight. That's how this conversation started and you're just overreacting for no reason. You want to kill me because I won't shut my mouth when I'm not even trying to make you mad."
"I have my reasons! First of all, the only ones that get me pissed is Sonic, Blaze, Eggman and now, YOU! You all have reasons."
"What's my reason?"
Kyla turned her head away from him, "You need to figure that out yourself. That's what everyone else had to do."
"Fair enough. Mind giving me a hint at least?" Sora asked.
"Nope." Kyla said dully.
"All right." Sora simply said. "BTW, nice shot."
Kyla looks back at him, "What do you mean?"
Sora smirked, "You managed to slash my arm and I can still feel your punch."
"Humph. Well... The slash was pay back for hitting me into a wall. And I guess that tree."
"Fair enough." Then the two were silent.
"OK, are you done chatting?" Hallow asked, "By the looks of it, I need to take you guys to Transylvania."
"Really? Why's that?" Sora questioned.
Hallow glaces over to North, "He doesn't want you two around here."
"Ah." Kyla said, "That makes sense."
"Yeah, it does." Sora agreed.
Hallow takes a pumpkin from her pocket and throws it at the wall. A vortex appears, "Hop in." she jumps in and disappears.
Sora then got up, "Guess the little spell wore off."
Kyla hops to her feet and follows after Hallow, "Let's go."
Sora then follows after Kyla into the vortex. After a minute or two of trippy colors, they find themselves near a temple of some sort. The sun was bright and the grass was green, this was something Kyla and Sora were not expecting.
"Nice view." Sora commented.
Hallow stood there, dumbfounded. "Wha... ho... ca?"
"Something wrong, Hallow?" Sora asked her.
"Bloody hell, this isn't Transylvania! I'm in Bunny's home!"
"Indeed you are." A voice from behind them said.
Hallow freezes and turns, "E-ello Bunny, how's it going mate?"
Bunny crosses his arms, "Fine. Don't know why you and your little friends showed up here, but I would like to know." He said in an Australian accent.
"I was trying to get to Transylvania. I don't know why the pumpkin took us here." Hallow explained.
"I see. Tell me, who are your two friends here?" Bunny questioned.
"I'm Sora, and this is Kyla." Sora introduced.
Kyla stared at Bunny with wide eyes, "I feel... so short."
"Uh, OK." Bunny said, a little confused.
Hallow looks at her weirdly, "Why's that?" Kyla points to Bunny, "He looks like the biggest Mobian on Mobius to me. But, he's not a Mobian."
"Judging by that word, I'm guessing you two are not from around here." Bunny guessed.
Kyla nods. Then suddenly, she covers her mouth and runs away.
"Where you going, Kyla?" Sora called out to her while going after her.
"What was that all about?" Bunny questioned.
Hallow shrugs in confusion.
Kyla runs to a bush and vomits, the red liquid flows down from under the bush into the green grass.
"Kyla!" Sora said, catching up to her.
Kyla falls to her knees, blood staining her jeans. "I'm... fine." she said.
"Yeah, blood coming out of your mouth is fine." Sora sarcastically said as he crouched down next to her.
"I'm... used to it. But I did have... special pills..."
"Pills? Do you have them on you?" Sora asked.
Kyla digs in her pockets for a few minutes. Then a horrified look takes form, "They're... at home."
Sora then took off his backpack, "Give me a sec." He then starts to reach inside it.
Kyla covers her mouth again and some blood streams from her mouth and hands. Her once white gloves now red.
Sora then pulled out a small container of pills, "Are these it?"
Kyla takes it and pops open the cap. Inside were small pills that looked like blood capsules. She took out two and dried swallow them. She sticks her tough out in disgust. "Still gross tasting as always."
"It still helps." Sora said as he zips his backpack back up and puts it on his back.
Kyla sighs and lies down. "I hate the pills. They taste bad, they're hard to swallow. And I always feel so... so..." Kyla's eyes drop and she falls asleep.
"Tired, I guess." Sora finished.
Hallow and Bunny run/hop over to Sora. "What in bloody hell happened?" Hallow asks.
"Kyla felt sick and threw up some blood. It's one of her side effects." Sora answered.
Hallow's eye twitches, "... blood?"
"Yeah. She lost her heart a long time ago and that's when the side effects started happening. She got a new heart, but the side effects are still there." Sora simply explained.
"Is she OK?" Bunny asked.
"She is now since she took her pills. She's asleep now."
"... blood..." Hallow repeats, "Excuse me..." she turns and leaves.
"Is Hallow all right?" Sora asked.
Bunny shook his head, "Don't know, mate."
Sora is debating in his mind, "Should I go talk to Hallow, or stay and watch Kyla?"
"You can go talk to her. If she lets you."
"All right." Sora then stood up and started walking to where Hallow went. "Mind watching over her for me?"
"Sure, mate." Sora starts going to the trail Hallow went through.
Sora continues down the trail, looking around for Hallow.
After a few seconds, he finds a bloody hand print on a tree.
He examines it for a few secs, "OK..."
He continues walking the direction were Hallow went, but trips over something. He gasps at what he tripped over. A body... a very disfigured one. It wasn't even human.
Sora quickly got up to his feet and continues down the trail, watching his step from tripping over anymore dead bodies.
Soon, he fines large pools of blood and intestines. He then stops at what he sees. Hallow was standing in a middle of a grove, small and large monsters surrounding her. She takes her scythe and slashes one of them in half. Blood splattered around her, oddly not touching her.
Sora stood there and observed what was happening in front of him.
The monster she just slashed reappears, but the body is still slashed. But it looked alive. She pats it on the head and slashes another monster.
Sora continues to observe, "She slashed the monster, it reappears with the wound, she pats it on the head and moves on. These monsters must really like her for this type of treatment." He thought in his mind.
One of the monsters sees him and charges at him. Before Sora moves, the monster stops near it's face, it's giant one eye staring him down.
Sora stares it down with a smirk on his face, "I'm not afraid." A large tongue then licks his face.
"I guess you like me." Sora said, wiping off the remaining saliva on his face.
Hallow freezes and turns her head towards Sora, "Kinsley! Get back over here!" The eye turns and flies back to her. Hallow then gasps when she sees Sora.
"Uh... hi." Sora nervously said.
Hallow glared at him, "... What did you see?"
"Um, I saw a dead body on the way here, you slash a monster in half, it comes back, you give a pat on the back, you slashed another one, Kinsley came over and licked me, you called it back and saw me. Other than that, nothing... sorry." Sora answered.
Hallow sighs, "OK. You kinda did see everything, you wanker." More monsters appear behind Hallow, one of them growling protectively.
"Friends of Hallow, I'm not here to bring harm, just to talk." Sora said, holding his hands slightly up. The monster then stopped growling.
"I thank you for understanding." Sora said as he slowly walked over to Hallow.
Hallow pointed the blade of her scythe at Sora, "Don't, come any closer."
Sora stopped in his tracks, "...Why?"
"Because, you might die." She said as her eyes glow.
"...At this point,... I'll take my chances."
Hallow smiles evilly. "Ok~" She then spins and cuts all the monsters down, Sora ducks the attack, a piece of his quills getting cut off. The monsters disappear as she twirls the scythe in her fingers and it disappears into shadows.
Sora laughs, "Talk about a close shave there."
Hallow laughs a little, "Yeah." Hallow goes over to a tree stump and sits down.
"So, with that out of the way... why did you leave?"
Hallow sighs, "If I tell you, you won't tell a soul. Got it?"
"Don't worry, your secret is safe with me." Sora agreed, also sitting down on the tree stump.
Hallow takes a deep breathe, "Well, fourteen years ago, I snuck in the Tooth Palace to find out my past. When I found my memory teeth, I made the biggest mistake in my life... I found out I had a peaceful life with a mother and a father. I thought I was a happy child... but... I was wrong. A rebel invaded our home. My father was out hunting, so we had no protection... the rebel tied me up and forced me to watch him..." tears formed in her red eyes, "... Raped my mother... he silted her throat and killed her after. My father came home and found the rebel. The rebel killed him... I was all alone. Years later, people kept accusing me of being a vampire. So they burned me to a stake... After that, I reawaken as Halloween. My hair turned from blonde to black. Eyes, brown to red. I was all alone yet again..."
Sora was looking at the ground, his hands tightly gripping the tree stump.
"Something wrong?"
"Not really, just hearing your past makes me feel your pain through it all. I don't know why, maybe I just care too much."
Hallow laughs a little, "You sound like Cupid."
Sora lets out a chuckle, "Maybe."
Hallow gets up and stretches, "Well, we better go back to Bunny and Kyla. Let's go, poppet."
Sora also gets up, "All right. Lead the way."
Hallow takes a different path away from the blood puddles. When they come back, they find Bunny with Kyla on his lap.
"Hey." Sora said as they approached them.
Bunny glances up, "Oh. How'd it go?"
"Fine." Sora simply said.
"Uh, what's the bogger doing?"
"Well, she grabbed my leg and saying in a sad voice, 'Silver.' A tear then escaped her eye."
"Must really miss her friends back home."
Hallow looks at Kyla,"I dunno. Maybe Cupid shot her."
"That would not be likely, if you ask me."
Kyla's ear then twitches, "Guess she's waking up now."
Kyla's eyes start to open as she notices so many people staring at her. "... What?"
"Nothing. Just waiting for ya to wake up." Sora said.
Kyla sits up and yawns, "I had a strange dream with a doll. She kept playing the violin."
"A violin doll... weird." Sora simply said.
"But, Bunny said-" Sora suddenly slaps his hand over her mouth.
"Nothing. He said nothing." Sora said.
Kyla tilted a brow, "Um... OK? What am I sitting on?" she looks up to see Bunny's face. "ACK!" She jumps off, "So sorry!"
"It's fine." Bunny said.
Sora then took his hand away from Hallow, "Sorry."
Hallow sighs, "It's alright. Well," Hallow reaches into her pocket and takes out a pumpkin, "To Transylvania!" She throws it and the portal appears again. She turns to Bunny, "See ya later, mate." she jumps in and the two hedgies follow.
Done! Another long chapter finished. Now before you guys ask, the pumpkin is actually a squash.. unless it was a joke, and I didn't know that. If I'm the only one who didn't know that, then call me dumb. Anyways so, we met Hallow the Halloween Guardian, North, and Bunny. Three guardians down, more to meet. Next time, do we arrive in Transylvania or have another accidental detour? Only time will tell. So, until then, we will see you in the next chapter, buh bye!
