Chosen of Sky and Twilight
MP:Sorry for the delay, for anyone actually reading this but I coudln't get more than a sentence written before deleting it or stalling on what to write so enjoy!
This chapter is dedicated to Shane, my friend. To the best Captain Hook I've ever seen, here's a big hand, since he only had one! Bravo to you and your crew of 'Bloody Buccaneers'. I know he may never read this but I wish him the best of luck at Gettysburg.
"I have a place where dreams are born and time is never planned... just think of lovely things and your heart will fly on wings forever in Never, Never Land."
--- Neverland from Peter Pan, the musical
Chapter 22
Never say never in Never, Never Land
Walt found Sora still staring at the tombstones.
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Sora. "That there were others? That they were like me?"
"I didn't know you mother was one but your father, I always knew. But I knew he wasn't the Keybearer. You see if one has a strong enough heart they will be chosen to wield a blade of indeterminate form based on their own hearts. Your parents were such people. I don't know why your father left, but he knew he had to be somewhere." said Walt. Sora stood shakily, still weak from being injured. In his eyes a resolve set in.
"We need to find the keyhole and lock it before finding Riku and Kairi." he said. 'I'm not going to fail this time!' he thought.
After sealing the keyhole Sora was uncharacteristically silent on their way to the gummi ship, but it was understandable. However they soon forgot Naminé, as that too was the work of Serenity.
The crew was in space a few seconds before the ship they were avoiding caught up to them. Sora was silent as the pirates dragged them before an almost comical looking man standing on deck. He had on a rich red over coat with an extravgent golden vest over a white shirt that had frills spilling down from the collar and from the cuffs, his pants were also a high quality velvet and his boots were of a superior quality. His mustache curled comically, his nose over long and his face ugly. Atop a fluffy mass of hair that reminded Sora of a poodle sat a red three cornered hat with an extremely long feather protruding from it. The only thing menacing about this man was the silver hook he had instead of his right hand.
"These are the ones giving all this trouble? Odd, bods, hammer and tongs! I see before me nothing more than a few mangy dogs and a few stinking codfish!" said the man.
"Who are you?" demanded Sora.
"I am Jas Hook! Captain of the Jolly Rodger! The Most Feared Pirate of the Seas!" he said.
"Dude, I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and I must say Davy Jones is ten times as scary as you'll ever be." said Sora flatly.
"Silence, boy! Were it not for this lady needing you alive I'd make you all walk the plank." said Captain Hook.
Nami strolled over to them with a smirk on her face.
"Your friend is in my employer's capable hands now." she said and Sora moved to attack her but the pirates restrained him.
"Take them to the brig!" she yelled and the floor opened sending all four travelers through to the darkness below, the pirates releasing Sora into the darkness. At least this time he was on top of the pile.
It was pitch black, Sora couldn't see his hand in front of his face, let alone the other sides to the cell.
'I need to get out of here!' he thought.
Elsewhere a boy touched down on the deck of the ship and stole inside, a glowing ball of light following him.
"She's not a Princess of Heart." said Nami pointing to an unconscious girl with curly light brown hair wearing a blue night gown lying on the window seat in Hook's cabin.
"But how do you know?" said Hook.
'Because we already have all seven dumb-dumb.' she thought,
"Look the boss said she wasn't." she said instead, knowing that Captain Hook had a HUGE ego and it was best not to insult him while in the midst of his guards. Though, with the heartless only at her command it would give her a chance to escape on her own, on foot. That wasn't something she relished doing.
The boy saw the ball of light dart ahead.
"All those strange things are guarding Hook and he's got Wendy? We need help-, wait there's a group of prisoners aboard the ship? Would they help us? Let's go!" said the boy floating down the hall.
Sora heard a pounding coming from a wall.
"Hey you guys want out of there?" a voice asked.
"Yes." said all four at once.
"I'll spring you if you help me find Wendy and that's all the longer we'll work together." said the voice.
"We will." said Walt before anyone could even speak. The door opened to reveal a teenage boy dressed in a green tunic and green tights with an elfish face, brown eyes, and red hair under a green feathered cap. On his feet were green pointed shoes.
"I'm Sora." said Sora offering his hand. The boy smiled proudly.
"I'm Peter Pan." he said
"Donald." said Donald shaking Peter's hand next.
"Goofy." said Goofy doing likewise.
"Walt." said shaking Peter's hand firmly and smiling.
"We're looking for someone too." said Sora
"Tink, was there anyone with Wendy?" Peter asked the ball of light. It tinkled a bit and Peter nodded.
"Yeah, she said there was another girl." Said Peter after the ball continued to tinkle on.
"What's she saying now?" asked Goofy.
"She's not a very polite fairy. It's best I don't tell you." Said Peter this only triggering more angry tinkling.
"How are we going to get out of here?" asked Donald impatiently.
"We're going to fly." Said Peter triumphantly.
"How?" asked Sora.
"All you need to do is think happy thoughts, well, that an a little pixie dust. Tink?" asked Peter. The fairy begrudgingly flew over the group coating them in dust.
If the pirates weren't bad enough, the heartless overwhelming them were worse, with Nikoli still on Halloween town the Heartless numbers weren't dwindling as fast as one would hope. Plus the heartless army was spread thin. Sora had enough determination to get to Kairi leading the way following the ball of light known only as 'Tink.' Had this not been a fight for his life to get to Kairi Sora might have been awed by the fact he could now fly and that he was near a real, live, fairy.
"Wendy!" said Peter once they were in a room with grating in the ceiling.
"Peter? Peter Pan? IT is you!" said a girl crawling over to the grating.
"Hey is there another girl up there with you?" asked Sora.
"Why yes, but it seems as if she's asleep. Why she hasn't stirred at all. Oh no Peter HELP!" she said as priates came and dragged her and Kairi, whose legs had been visible away.
"KAIRI!" yelled Sora flying up to the grate pounding on it with his bare hands. He then seemed to get an idea and fired a fira spell followed by a blizzara spell at the thin metal grating before smashing it with the keyblade causing the weakened metal to shatter. He flew through the hole he'd created and was closely followed by Walt, Donald, Goofy, and Peter.
Nami knew this pirate fool was incompetent but she heard of the prison break and rolled her eyes. Could this moronic pirate do anything right?
'I don't want to know the answer to that.' She thought shaking her head and looking at the wave charm on her wrist. She stood in her cabin next to her bed looking at the unconscious Kairi.
'Soon Kairi we will open Kingdom Hearts and restore your heart to you. Soon.' She thought looking at her friend fueling her determination to help Maleficent succeed. She had to, for Kairi's sake.
Our heroes crashed out onto the deck and saw a surprised Captain Hook surrounded by pirates and Heartless.
"You guys take the pirates and the heartless. The old Man is mine!" said Peter.
"Ok." Said Walt before anyone could protest, anyone meaning Sora and Donald. The heartless rushed forwards and the Keybearer and his allies began fighting for their lives as Peter and Captian Hook began their duel.
"Brash and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom!" said Hook.
"Dark and sinister man, have at thee!" said Peter Pan making a 'come and get me' gesture with his hand. The lefty swords man charged into the duel and the grudge match began. As Sora finished off his twentieth heartless he heard his grandfather cry out in pain. On the ground was his grandfather's hand and his sword, a bloody gushing stump was in his other hand. Donald rushed over to help as Sora and Goofy took down the pirate responsible. Donald was able to mend the hand back on with a quick 'cura' but reported Walt would never have full use of that hand again, meaning no more sword fighting.
"It isn't fair, tis some being that is fighting me! Peter Pan who and what art thou?!" yelled Hook who was standing dangerously close to the edge of the ship.
"I am youth, I am joy, I am Freedom!" yelled Peter Pan kicking the pirate over the edge of the ship towards the source of a rather mysterious ticking noise, well not so mysterious as Hook actually held the crocodile that had swallowed a clock's mouth open with his legs.
"SMEEEEE!!!!!!!!" he yelled before being snapped into the air and he began running so fast he ran on water to flee the hungry, ticking, crocodile. All the while screaming,
"SMEEE! SAVE ME!" the pirate in question was in a row boat faithfully following his captain trying to keep up with both him and the crocodile.
"I really flew. I wonder if Kairi will believe me if I tell her? Probably not." Sora muttered to himself.
"Let's go back to Traverse Town, I think we might have a way back to the world where they took Riku." Said Walt. "Well you three I mean."
"Well uh, it was a pleasure fighting with you again, yup! A pleasure!" said Goofy smiling.
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MP: I will finish this story one way or another. If it means cutting out Chain of memories or Two for that matter I will do it for I will not kill another story.
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