Hello everyone and welcome to the chapter that was meant to be up a year ago. Just saying to the one person other than my friend and my sister who was reading this, it has been partially rewritten so you should go take a look at the first four chapters, but maybe in a couple of days because there's one last thing I want to go back and edit. Yeah I was kind of playing through 3D and there was a line that made me think that there was this one thing in this story that I should fix up. So anyone reaading this should also go have a look at the edit. It will effect the second and forth chapter.
Just saying but this level is mostly based around things in the book with the KH story line, but softened a littlle I guess, becuase the actually themes of the book are a little too, I don't know, dark I guess for what is needed in this chapter. Mostly it's just location though and some things with character design.
Oh and if anyone was wondering because I'm in dire need of a rant, here's what happened to me the weekend I finished 3D.
Got to the last level, got mind shrewed. WTF is the shit.
Went into my sister's room a little later saying "Well played Normura-san, well played". Came back a little while after that yelling"Why Nomura-san why?!"
The night I completed it I walked into the lounge room fell to the ground and them proceeded to scream insanely at my sister, pulling my hair out.
And I am now in a state of temperary insanity.
If any of that sounded insane it's because I am. Have to say, but Kingdom Hearts really isn't a smart game to get obsessed with.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix does.
The jungle
Luke stared ahead of him at the great expanse that was the space between words through the cockpit window. Behind him he heard Crowtassha talking to Sora. She was teaching him what the different gestures in sign language meant. He knew that they had practically only met him but she should have attended to that right from the start, seeing as if Sora would be staying around for a while, understanding him was a very important thing.
They flew on for a while more before in the distance Luke spotted the great looming shape of a world ahead. He waited until it grew a little larger in his vision before he signalled to Crowtassha that it was there. Getting up from her seat beside Sora, Crowtassha walked up to the front of the cockpit and leaned on Luke's chair.
Humming to herself she asked, "Think it's worth to go check it out?"
He raised his hands to answer, but before he managed to form the gestures a big jolt shook the ship and he fell forward and slammed into the wheel. It made the ship turn askew some but other than that it did no more than hurt his hands which had gone out in front of him to take the brunt of the fall. The unprepared Sora had fallen out of his chair and poor Crowtassha, unfortunate as she was, had flew smack bam into the windscreen.
If he could, the sight would have made him laugh.
Detaching herself from the wind screen Crowtassha pressed a hand to her aching head and only succeeded in asking "What was that?" before the ship lurched forward again and she slammed right back into the glass. This time whatever was messing with the ship didn't stop there; it started to pull the ship along as if it was in a current. And it pulled it along until without even having to direct it there it was sucked up by the portal and into the world.
…:…
Getting up from a rough landing, Sora lifted himself into a sitting position. Rubbing his head where he felt an aching pain, he looked at his surroundings. His eyes widened when he found that he was alone. Standing up now he tried to see if he could see his two companions anywhere but they were nowhere to be seen. He was all alone on a well beaten path that seemed to go on endlessly. To either side of him were trees and long grass that engulfed everything around him.
Moving on he decided to see what he could find, most importantly of all the missing Crowtassha and Luke because he was stuck here without them. But he hadn't taken more than a couple steps when there was a sound of a stick breaking behind him and he turned just in time to summon his keyblade and block a pouncing Lioness from clawing his eyes out.
Jumping back Sora raised the keyblade up to defend himself. The animal reared and came running back at him once more. He slammed it with the keyblade and sent it flying in the other direction, but the stubborn thing it was just came running right back. So a dangerous dance begun of batting the animal back and blocking its fierce attacks from reaching him, that was until a stone beneath his foot tripped him up and he fell backwards. It was too late now to block the oncoming creature's attack, and try as he did to raise the keyblade to do so he knew he couldn't make it in time. Flinching Sora prepared for the pain to come.
Only it didn't come, and when he opened his eyes he saw the Lioness hanging from a tree with a grass noose circling its neck, struggling to break free. Confused Sora stood back up and searched for whoever had saved him from the attacking animal. As he did the Lioness's claws finally broke through the grass around its neck and it scurried off like a frightened house cat. And from the tree above him dropped a man.
His body was tanned from long exposure to the sun and his long untamed hair was black and fell well past his shoulders in long matted strands. His eyes were grey and he was scarcely dressed, wearing nothing more than a loin cloth and a few tribal bracelets. Peculiarly, around his neck was a beautiful silver locket.
Staring at the man curiously, Sora tried to ask him a question not knowing what sort of answer he would get from a man like the one in front of him.
"Um, hello," he said. "I'm Sora. I'm looking for my friends, have you seen them?"
At first he got no reply, so he tried something else, this time more slowly, "One's a girl with shortish black hair; she should have a brown haired boy with her."
There was a moments silence before the man started to make some weird 'Hu' sounds and said haltingly, "Friends, here."
"You've seen them?" Sora asked surprised.
The man did a little bob, then made more of those 'Hu' sounds, then said while lifting his hands to his chest, "Friends here."
"Can you take me to them then? Sora asked.
The man bobbed again then hobbled off in the other directions before stopping, obviously wanting Sora to follow him and said, "Tarzan go." Then he hopped into the tangled mess of trees and grass. Watching him go, Sora soon began to walk after him. Stepping into the line of trees he saw that the man was waiting just a little while in for him to catch up. Walking after him through the twisted net of thickly spread plant life Sora followed him through the jungle, wondering as he did if the man had meant by the last thing he said that his name was Tarzan.
…:…
Sitting up from where she had fallen, Crowtassha looked around, and was shocked to see that Sora was nowhere to be seen. Getting up she quickly spied Luke laying on the ground a couple of metres away, undoubtedly sulking. He had a thing with hating losing control of the ship even if what had grasped control off him had been completely an outside force that he had no control over. It made her fear how he would react if Sora made the mistake of asking him what was wrong. Which unfortunately, he probably would. That was if they could find him.
Looking in every possible direction Crowtassha began to grow worried. He definitely wasn't anywhere around here. They were in a small clearing and the trees in the immediate area were loosely spaced, so it would be easy to spot anyone. Purging her lips, a sound above her made Crowtassha look up. In the branches of the trees surrounding the clearing she could make out some animals. She couldn't make out what they were from the height they were at, but she definitely saw one of them drop something small and shiny onto the ground.
Curious, she walked over to it and lo and behold, it was Mythacite.
Picking it up, Crowtassha looked at it more than a little weirded out. Of course one of those black furred buggers just happened to be carrying around some Mythacite; that made perfect sense now didn't it? Not.
"What the hell?" She mumbled as the sound of footsteps coming from behind her attracted her attention and she turned around to see Luke getting up from the ground-still visibly grumpy- and a man she didn't know holding a gun to his chest.
…:…
Breaking through the endless curtain of jungle Sora found himself in a cove. There were some trees littered lightly about and a body of water, most likely an ocean on the side furthest from him. But most notable of all was the tree house built between a group of trees and in middle of the expanse.
It was to this tree house that Tarzan walked. Sora followed along behind him and waited as he leaped up elegantly to sit on the window sill and tapped on the wooden shutters to attract the attention of someone inside. After a few moments the man leaped back down and landed softly on the ground and the door to the tree house opened. From inside stepped a beautiful woman with blonde hair. Sora didn't know who she was, but was at least grateful that the man had taken him to what seemed a much safer place than he found himself in before.
The woman made a surprised gasp when she saw him and quite quickly climbed down the ladder and approached him, "My, what do we have here?" She asked.
"I'm Sora." Sora replied holding out his hands in greeting.
She shook his hand willingly and said gratefully, "It's nice to see you speak English, so that means you're definitely not a part of Tarzan's group then."
"Tarzan's group?" Sora asked curiously.
"Oh," The woman said placing a hand on her lips, "We found him among the apes when we were shipwrecked here. He's been a great help to us surviving here for this long. Gathering food and all"
"Huh." Sora said nodding his head in understanding.
Humming, the woman mused to herself, "So what are you doing here then?"
"Not anything good that's for sure. I found these two in the clearing near the apes." A third voice rang out.
Turning to see who had spoken, Sora was surprised to see a man herding Crowtassha and Luke along in front of him. Breaking free of his grasp which he loosened the closer he got to the blonde women, Crowtassha ran forward and grasped Sora's hands. "Sora I'm so glad you're safe. You had me real worried for a second there when we couldn't find you!"
Glad to see that the both of them were safe and sound, he replied. "Me too."
Looking to the side he caught sight of Luke. He didn't really look happy to see him or anything of the sort; he actually he looked gladder to be free of the man's grasp. But Sora didn't let himself be bothered by that. That was just the way Luke was as far as he knew.
"Hey Sora," Crowtassha said, gaining his attention once more as she pulled something from her pocket. "Look what I found."
"Is that-" He began to say.
"Yes" Crowtassha cut him off. "Mythacite. One of the animals here dropped it. This is hardly the type of world where this is commonly placed. Outside factors most likely have had some sort of influence in this.
"So we're staying then?" Sora asked.
"Of course," Crowtassha replied. "Stuff like this should at least be investigated. We should see what we can find here."
"And what is it that you are looking for?" Came the voice of the man that had taken Crowtassha and Luke here.
"Ah." Crow sounded a little surprised by the man's sudden intrusion, "Personal things," she said "Nothing relating to you."
The man looked a little put out but her answer, but he still told her after he'd smoothed over his expression, "Well I don't think you'll find anything here, I've searched all around this place since we got here and found nothing that I think you'd have any interest in. There's just jungle for as far as the eye can see."
Crowtassha looked discouraged at his words, and Sora wondered if she would take back saying that they'd stay here to look, that was until the man added on "Though there is one last place I've yet to look. The ape's nesting grounds, if there's anything here that's of interest to you it's there, but Tarzan refuses to show me there location."
Blinking at the unknown name, Crowtassha asked, "Who?"
The man pointed behind them to the black haired man with the long hair, "Him." He answered.
Turning around to look at the crouching man in the primitive clothing, Crowtassha's face flooded with visible surprise. Off to the left Sora saw Luke's was much the same.
"Who is that?" Crowtassha asked only a little more than deadpan.
"Tarzan." The blonde girl replied, holding out her hand for Crowtassha to take she tacked on "And mine's Jane."
Trying to hide her surprise at seeing the woman whom she had neglected to spot, Crowtassha responded with a friendly greeting to hide her tracks and shook her hand. "Crowtassha, my quiet friend here is Luke, and I'm just guessing here but I'm going to say you've already met Sora."
Jane nodded, "Yeah. Tarzan brought him here from within the jungle."
"Well good to see he's had someone to help him here; I was worried when I saw he was nowhere about. But can I ask you who that man is, I apologise if you find it a little rude but he looks kind of strange." Crowtassha said sneaking a sidelong glance at the man in question.
"Not at all, I can see how you feel," Jane replied. "We found Tarzan living amongst the apes a small time after we landed here. So he doesn't speak much English but he's been a great help to us."
"That so, well do you think he'd be any help to us?" Crowtassha wondered looking over at Tarzan again.
Jane looked unsure. "He might, but it all depends if he's willing to take you to the nesting ground." Still unsure, she turned to look at Tarzan "Tarzan?"
The black haired man remained silent for quite a time, which made Sora wonder if he'd understood the question, but eventually he bobbed his head and said, "Must ask kerchak."
"Kerchak?" Crow said.
"Head, ape." The man told her in his fractured English. Then he began to hobble off in the direction of the jungle. Behind them they heard the other man step forward. "I'll go with him, just to make sure all's safe you know." He said.
Watching the two head off, Jane walked up behind Sora and Crowtassha and whispered to them quietly, "I'd go too, Clayton's a good man but he doesn't like the apes so I'm afraid what he might do if left unchecked; watch him for me will you."
Turning to see her worried face, Sora gave her a reassuring smile and told her, "Sure we'll follow them for you. We sort of have to go anyway."
The woman nodded her thanks and stepped back. "I'll see you again then."
Nodding, Sora and Crowtassha waved her goodbye and set off into the jungle, Luke following silently behind them.
…:…
The three of them wandered through the mess of vines and trees after Tarzan and the man, Clayton. Worryingly, Clayton had dropped out from view early on and no amount of looking could seek him out. But Tarzan remained in clear sight for the whole time until he came out to an area that began to edge upwards into the steep hill.
The three were unfortunately forced to climb the hill along with Tarzan to the very top where they found, the land completely dropped off. In place of where they had thought would be more land was empty space filled with vines hanging from ancient trees that climbed into the sky. And in the branches of one of these trees, they spotted a large black haired ape accosted at his side by another of his kind which was considerably smaller and brown in colour. There were many others dotted around in the branches all around them but none attracted the eye quite like the black haired one they had first noticed.
Stepping forward to the edge of the cliff, Tarzan began to speak in what Sora now knew to be ape language.
He went on speaking for a minute or so, the ape he was talking to giving nary a reaction the whole time, til it got up from its seat on the branch and grabbed one of the vines closer to him and swung away.
Defeated, Tarzan slumped forward.
Watching all this take place, Sora's gaze wondered off in the direction the ape had taken. "Hey Crow." He said to get her attention. "That ape looked distracted by something, where do you think he went?"
Looking at where he was looking, Crowtassha purged her lips intrigued. "I don't know, but seeing as we don't really have anything else to do here without being able to get to the nesting grounds we may as well check it out. Who knows, maybe we'll find that Clayton guy too, I don't care what that woman says about him, I wouldn't trust him anymore then I can throw him."
"Me too." Sora agreed. He had to say but he didn't think it was just him when he thought he saw the man smiling to himself as he walked away from the tree house.
With that in mind, they set off through the jungle with Tarzan in tow to find wherever that ape had gotten itself off to.
…:…
Their journey took them to a small clearing close to the tree house where Jane rested. Within they found a small ape playing with some sticks on the ground and the larger black ape sitting menacingly up in the branches of the closest tree. But most importantly, Clayton, with his gun aimed squarely at the younger ape. Stopping at the start of the clearing, they were taken aback and it was only Luke's quick reaction to knock Clayton aside that made his shot go wide and miss killing the innocent animal.
The black ape looked on disapprovingly as the small ape fled, and Tarzan charged forward and began speaking in the language of the apes, but whatever he said fell on deaf ears and was ignored. Beaten, Tarzan was left to slump forward in defeat much like the last time. Turning to Clayton who now lay on the ground since Luke push had knocked him off his balance, the three of them stared on, their feelings of disapproval clear on their faces.
"What were you doing?" Sora asked him.
"Um, you misunderstand me," Clayton stumbled trying to hide his true intentions. "I was only trying to help the animal, a snake was slivering over to it you see."
Sora caught Luke's eye in his own and he saw him roll his eyes, showing how he wasn't going to believe Clayton's words for a second. They were nothing but lies obviously, so why should they?
"Yeah, yeah, say what you will, let's see what Jane thinks of your actions." Crowtassha mumbled, as the she turned her back on him and began walking off, Luke taking Clayton's arm and dragging him with them.
As they left the clearing the defeated Tarzan was soon to follow.
…:…
"What were you thinking?!" Jane roared, outraged by Clayton's alleged acts, and no more likely to swallow his excuses then Sora and his group were.
"But, but don't you see I wasn't trying to hurt-" Clayton stammered out only to be cut off.
"You are not allowed to go near the apes again ever! You hear me, now get out this instant." She fumed.
Sighing, knowing this was not a battle he was going to win; Clayton slumped his shoulders and slowly exited the tree house. When he was gone Jane turned to the three of them and said quietly "Please don't stay mad at Mister Clayton, he's not bad, just a little impetuous."
"Sure." Sora said. In the corner of his eyes he saw Luke roll his eyes again, so he was pretty sure he wasn't on the agreeing party. But he wasn't going to say that.
…:…
Walking from the tree house, Clayton holstered his rifle over his shoulder and exhaled, musing "What I'm I doing with these people?"
Walking a little further away from the wooden structure a sudden sound from within the trees drew his attention and he swerved around gun at the ready. Hearing it again he held the rifle up and aimed.
…:…
Outside the tree house now, Crowtassha stretched her arms, pondering to Sora, "Now I wonder where that man has gotten himself off to, nowhere good I suppose."
Humming in agreement from where he sat by the trunk of one of the trees that supported the tree house, Sora asked her, "What do you think is up with him? I mean Jane keeps defending him but he's giving us no reason to believe what she says."
Crowtassha shrugged. "Oh some people are just like that Sora, it's just the way they are."
"Hmm." He hummed back as his eyes trailed over of where he saw a grumpy looking Luke walking along the shore of the cove. He'd just realised it but Luke had seemed pretty ticked off at something the entire time they had been here, so turning back to Crowtassha he asked her, "What up with Luke?"
Strangely the question made Crowtassha crack up laughing. The sound was loud enough to attract Luke's attention, though he didn't come closer to see what the cause of it was.
"You are so lucky you didn't ask that to his face." She choked through her laughs.
"Why?" Sora questioned generally confused.
"Because he's being a sook. You see that ship is like his little baby, and this world reacted badly to it and made him lose control of it. And something about that makes him really, really angry for some weird reason I couldn't explain if I tried. Now if you'd asked that to his face he would have reacted hugely over the top and signed all the things to you that you probably wouldn't understand even if you were fluent in sign language because he did them so fast, and then fall onto the ground exasperatedly. You know something kinda theatrical like that. I'm not just saying this; I would willingly bet you a tonne of money that he would do that or something like it."
Cracking up again she fell to the ground beside Sora. Staring over in Luke's direction, Sora said, "I'm just going to take your word for that."
Still giggling, Crowtassha replied "Wise choice."
Whatever more conversation that could be had was cut shot abruptly when an unfamiliar sound drifted over to them. Hearing it, Crowtassha shot up off the ground and gazed about frantically for the source. Behind her she signalled to Luke to come back to them. Just as he reached them the creators of the sounds revealed themselves as they burst through the foliage and on the ground before them.
"Heartless!" Sora yelled in surprise, following Crow's lead he got up off the ground and summoned the keyblade to his hand. With Luke and Crowtassha readying their weapons behind him he was the first to lurch into battle.
When it was all over, he straightened up, only to notice a lone ape climbing down a tree hesitantly. Watching it curiously as it dropped to the ground, he heard Crowtassha say, "It looks scared, they must have been harassing it."
Looking to the sides to make sure the coast was clear the ape backed off slowly, still unsure if all was safe. As it left it dropped something on the ground. Seeing it Sora went to pick it up. Turning it around in his hand he saw it was a piece of Mythacite. Showing it to Crowtassha, the woman pulled a face, "Oh come on, what's this doing here, Mythacite is never attracted to rural worlds like this; I mean you saw how it reacted to our ship. So what in the world is this doing here?"
Sora shrugged, "I'm not sure."
Crowtassha pulled another face, "Yeah I Know, I'm just ranting and I don't really have anyone else to do it to."
Pocketing the shard Sora looked back in the direction of the jungle, just as a primeval sort of scream rang out through the air.
"Was that an ape?" Crowtassha asked.
"I think it was." Sora replied.
Their true answer though came in the form of Tarzan bursting through the door of the tree house, from where he'd been inside with Jane, and jumping hysterically into the jungle in a fit of panic, laced with an obvious purpose.
Rushing to the door, Jane rose her voice to tell them, "Go after him; something bad must be happening in the jungle!"
"Okay!" Sora yelled back, as him and Crowtassha ran off into the mess of tree limbs and vines without a word, and Luke following behind.
…:…
And so it went that they followed Tarzan through the matted lay of trees. He wasn't hard to keep sight of, but rather hard to keep pace with. The ape man swung through the branches with dizzying speed that would have had anyone less intent on keeping up with him left in the dust. But they kept up.
And it was that they landed in a tangle of trees and plants in a place littered with Heartless. The Heartless were soon killed and a harassed ape was revealed as it slid down one of the trees. Tarzan did no more than check if it was alright before speeding off again. Sora and his group were almost too slow to react to follow him once more.
This went on for four more times before exhausted and breathless Tarzan seemed to calm down. The troubles that had afflicted him obviously gone. Bent over double catching his breath, Sora spied Crow, who seemed to be not doing so much better than him, and a strangely unaffected Luke standing not so far off with his back against a tree. He eyed Luke curiously, but when he saw Crowtassha giving him a dirty looked that was laced liberally with jealously he ruled it out that he must have had inhuman stamina.
Straightening out, he wiped the sweat off his forehead. Slowly him and Crowtassha regained their wind and took note of the area they were in. It wasn't too far from the tree house where Jane was. Plus it was joyously free of any dangers like the heartless that had been hampering them constantly from the moment that they had been sent after Tarzan. Sora had thought for a short while that maybe this world was blissfully free of them, but he had been proved wrong. Perhaps they'd be anywhere the keyblade was. Not a very good thing for him unfortunately.
After that, all of them began heading back to the tree house, only not so long into the journey, something seemed to attract Tarzan's eye. Noticing this Sora walked over to the source of the man's curiosity, and found dropped thoughtlessly on the earthen ground, the pipe that Clayton had been carrying. Picking it up, he inspected it, "What's this doing here?"
Crowtassha walked up behind to stare at the out of place object, she must have opened her mouth to pose a question, but whatever she could have said was interrupted when a ferocious growl burst forth from an animal of pray as it leapt onto the scene, tackling Tarzan to the ground. Sora recognised it as the same Lioness that had lashed out at him when he came to this world.
Over and over they rolled on the ground until Tarzan threw the beast from him and it landed forcefully against a tree. Never to be discouraged through it got right back up and jumped back into the battle. Knowing that he was now to be a part of it Sora summoned the keyblade and raised it high to protect himself. To his sides, his companions did the same. Again and again the lioness attacked with its claws bared. It struck at them countless times, and was struck back against. The furious animal was adamant on taking down its prey no matter how they fought.
But the thing had miscalculated on the strength of those she was attacking and after a tiresome fight full of clawed scratches and striking blows, the lioness fell to the ground, having no longer the strength to get up again.
They were hardly given time to celebrate their victory when a feminine scream rent the air.
Twisting around to the source of the sound, the first to react was Tarzan as he burst from the ground into the trees quicker than lightning. The three of them followed not so long after. There was only one person in the jungle that could make that sound. Unfortunately, by the time they got to the scene of the crime, the tree house had it's door and window ripped open, and the inside was sans a Jane. No looking about the area could locate her, which made the only possible answer to her whereabouts being inside the deep jungle.
Luckily for them, Tarzan was quick to find tracks as they entered the jungle. He was a grand tracker it turned out, and with his help they remained strong on Jane's track the entire time, until they ended at an area full of ledges thick with long grass, and upon the highest ledge, was Jane holding to her chest a small cowering ape.
Spotting them down below her, she was quick to stand to her feet. "Tarzan!" She yelled in fear.
Her yelling soon roused the places other inhabitants, a small army of heartless, that when seeing them became enraged and starting attacking without any further warning. The battle was tough but soon over and done with. With it behind them, Sora, Crowtassha and Luke climbed to the highest Ledge where Tarzan was already waiting.
"What happened?" Crowtassha was the first to ask.
Jane shook her head in confusion, "I don't know, the last thing I remember was this little guy climbing into the tree house and then suddenly Clayton was there, then I was here."
"Clayton!" Sora said, "Where is he now?"
Jane shook head again. "I don't know."
Letting go of the small ape in her arms it hobbled over to Tarzan and mumbled a few sounds in its language. Whatever it had said had great effects on Tarzan.
"Apes, trapped." He said and jumped off the ledge and onto the waiting ground. "Come, Follow." He said as he disappeared.
Turning back to Jane one last time, she said "Go, he want's your help." Sora and Crowtassha nodded and the three of ran after the ape man.
…:…
Their journey led to an area close by the tree house, wherein they found many apes being hounded into a corner by heartless, and at their backs, Clayton with his rifle in his hands. As the apes struggled to flee from his aim he raised the gun level with one too slow to get away just as the great black ape, Kerchak, jumped down to guard it.
"Stop!" Sora yelled upon reaching the scene. To his sides stopped Crow and Luke, Tarzan standing by his left.
"Not Clayton." The man said, proceeded by words in the ape language which none of them could understand, and then the repeating of "Not Clayton."
Confusion welled up in Sora at the strange words but he wasn't giving the time to figure out what he meant as Clayton raised his gun to fight almost instantly after the words had left Tarzan mouth.
Sora didn't try too hard to fight him because he didn't want to do the man any true damage, but as the going of the fight went on, those thoughts were wiped from his head. As a lull in the battle went by, Clayton backed off and aimed his gun squarely at them, only for the earthen wall behind him to crack and tumble to the ground.
Unbeknownst of the danger, Tarzan charged forward only to be blown back by an invisible enemy. Landing hard on the ground not so far from him, Sora turned all his attention to Clayton. The man was now floating a couple of centimetres from the ground held up by something they couldn't see.
Beside him he heard Crowtassha say, "Now who wants to bet that's some huge bloody heartless holding him up come to ruin our day."
Dodging as the unseeable enemy came charging his way, Sora struck at it with his key blade, "But why would it be doing this?" he asked.
"Hey if he's given in to darkness it'll not only explain this but all his actions today!" Crowtassha replied back as she began attacking the enemy. After a while more her guess was proved correct as the enemy suddenly flowed with colour and became visible. It was indeed a heartless, as the symbol on its chest advertised. It was shaped like a chameleon and coloured light and dark green.
"Told ya." She yelled across the battle field.
The battle was harsh, and the giant heartless was strong and fast, and with Clayton lying above its head it flew about the battle laying them down in fell swipes, but they always got back up because this battle had to be won.
After many close calls the Heartless finally stumbled backwards and Clayton fell from its head. No longer having its protection, the man did the only thing he could and pointed his trusty gun at them, but he failed to take note of the stumbled Heartless behind him which then fell forward, landing right on top of him. When the Heartless disappeared the man was out cold.
The battle over, the group turned around and found to their surprise, the black ape Kerchak. Wondering what he was doing, Sora wasn't prepared for when he placed a hand on his shoulder took hold of him and threw him into the air and over the edge of a close earthen wall. Luke and Crowtassha were only slightly more prepared. Tarzan climbed up after them, and cast a fleeting look back at Kerchak. The two held each other's gazes for a moment, before Kerchak turned around and left the area with the rest of the apes.
Walking over to them, Tarzan looked over a great body of water that decorated the other side of the wall, "Tarzan, Home."
Looking around the place, Sora said, "This must be the nesting grounds."
"Guess so." Crowtassha said after him.
Tarzan led them all through a small tunnel that came out behind a waterfall. The scene they entered was beautiful. Ledges climbed high up to the top of the cascading water and it cast a blue tinted glow on everything around them. Taking in everything around them, they followed Tarzan as he led them up the high ledges with a certain location in mind. Eventually, they were led to a small cavern at the top of the falls. There was nothing notable inside apart from some moss that a group of bright blue butterflies fluttered over. Looking over the place, none of them could figure out the reason for the ape man bringing them here.
"Why did he bring us here?" Crowtassha asked, as they saw Jane approaching from the cavern's mouth with the small ape from before playing at her heels.
To answer her question Tarzan placed a hand to his ear requesting them to listen. His meaning was lost on Crow, but Jane got it.
"The waterfalls." She said "They're echoing all the way here.
Tarzan said something in ape language, something which Sora recognised to be the word he had first said to him, and then said "Friends there, see friends."
"I've got it, that word means 'heart'" Jane answered for them, "Friends in our heart."
"Oh," Sora mumbled, "That's what it meant.
Tarzan began to speak again, "Friends, same heart. Clayton lose heart. No heart, no see friends, No heart, no friends."
"Ooh!" Crowtassha hummed. Shrugging her shoulders she draped her arm over Sora shoulders, "Well no clue on our King's whereabouts, but a good lesson all the same." Looking over to Luke she told him, "And you should remember that too you know, don't be so loner all the time." she said as she pulled him over and away from his loner corner.
Staring at the blue butterflies hovering over the centre of the wall in front of him, Sora felt the keyblade summon itself again and direct itself to their centre. A burst of light shot forth like the last time and the outline of a keyhole appeared before fading away.
From the keyhole, a shard fell at Sora's feet, and picking it up he saw it to be once again Mythacite. The sight of it made Crowtassha's face screw up and she groaned, "Dear lord we're not having a normal day with that stuff are we?"
Relinquishing her hold on Luke she walked to the entrance of the cavern, "Well come on, I think it's about time we went."
"Oh you're going?" Jane voiced.
"Yeah." Crowtassha replied, "Have to sometime don't we?"
"I guess you do." Jane conceded. "Come back and visit us some time won't you?"
"Sure." Sora told her as he walked passed her and exited the cavern with Luke and Crow.
Outside Crowtassha pulled the piece of Mythacite that would take them to their ship from her pocket, and readied to use it.
"This world was different." She said.
"Not as bad as the last one." Sora countered.
Giving a little laugh, she turned to Luke and asked, "What's your opinion?"
A couple of hands movements and a weird twist of her mouth later, and she replied to him "You know I don't think the hacksaw was necessary."
Luke shrugged his shoulders to show he didn't care and Crowtassha gave him a look before returning her attention back to the Mythacite shard. Sora didn't even bother to ask what he had said.
The shard lit up, and they were gone.
To answer what Luke said, it had something to do with getting a hack saw and obliterating any world that reacted to the ship like this one had. Only I don't think that's remotely possible. That's kind of the problem with Luke, he writes himself so most of the time not even I get what he says, he just says it.
Also something I noticed I wrote in there that's probably useless to you, but I wrote 'Luke and Crow readied their weapons', except Luke doesn't use a weapon, just Mythacite shards. I'm not much of a fan of Donald's wands. I am of some of them, but not most of them. I realise this is pretty nit-picky of me but for some reason my mind said I had to make a note of it.
P.S, My favourite part of this chapter was when Crowtassha flew into the winmdscreen the second time, and my favourite line was " I don't think the hacksaw was necessary."
I have to say but I'm not too ssure what I'm doing for the alladin chapter. I could use the same sort of storyline in a different situation, like fantasy sort of stuff, but I think it might get too similar to what I'm planningt for the Lion king one. If anyone has some ideas for me I 'd love them.
Please review, they help me maintain my sanity, which after being driven out of my mind by KH 3D, would be a really big help to me.