Kingdom Eds: Rise of Darkness
Chapter 6: StrandEd
"Kingdom, this is Night Wing. Over." A voice over the radio announced.
"Roger," Donald replied, glancing over to the side of the window. Hovering next to him was what seemed to be a black gummi ship, and inside it... was Alex waving at him. Kevin was behind him, his usual scowl painted across his face. "Goofy."
"Yeah Donald?" His dim-witted friend replied.
"Keep an eye on Alex." Donald ordered "There's something fishy about him..." Meanwhile, the Eds, Nazz and Sora were at the back, just talking.
"So Sora, what did you usually do back home?" Nazz asked. Sora just smirked, folding his arms as he did so.
"Races, sometimes we did play- err... I mean training." Sora answered with a carefree smile on his face. "What did you do?"
"Well, Alex and the Eds usually did scams. I didn't really do much, except for makeovers of course." Nazz replied. Sora had nodded, before turning his head towards the Eds.
"So, what's Alex like?" Sora curiously questioned.
"Alex, hmm where to start. Oh yeah!" Eddy started. "He's bossy, annoying and a smarty pants!" Edd however had frowned upon his friend's shenanigans.
"Eddy! Sure Alex maybe on the sarcastic side, and he definitely is smarmy. But... well..." Double D trailed off. He began to scratch his head, pondering on anything good to say about Alex.
"Just face it Double D, Alex is a jerk and you know it!" Eddy teased, poking him on the forehead.
"I think Alex is funny!" Ed called out, randomly laughing.
"Yeah? Well no one asked you lumpy!" Eddy scorned, sneering towards his friend. Everyone then began to chuckle.
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In Alex's ship, however there was less conversation. Alex was behind the wheel of the gummi ship, steering with one arm with the other place loosely on his side.
"Hey Alex," Kevin called. Alex had tilted his head towards Kevin, with one eyebrow raised towards him.
"What is it?" Alex murmured.
"I don't have a weapon." Kevin explained. Alex nodded, switching the ship to auto-pilot mode. He then began to rummage through the glove box, hoping to find something of use. He finally found a bronze spear, although blue in colour. He had shown it to Kevin, eyebrow still raised.
"Will this do, Kevin?" Alex pondered. Kevin had grasped the spear in his hands. Its smooth handle had fit perfectly with his palm. He began to twirl it around with one arm, although he almost sent it flying towards the window. "Hey! Be careful with that!"
"Oops!" Kevin exclaimed. Once Kevin had picked up his spear, he had holstered it on his back, mainly because the spear had some material which had stuck to clothes. He then looked around the gummi ship, realizing that the whole interior was dark and gothic, he didn't want to stay in here for long.
"When do we land?" Kevin asked. Alex just shrugged his shoulders, returning back to the pilot seat. For the moment, everything was going smoothly, that was at least until the gummi ship in front had started to move erratically. Not only that, but the intercom was left on, so that Alex and Kevin could hear what was going on.
"Come on Donald, let me drive!"
"No!"
"But I am chosen one!"
"I don't care what you are, no!"
Alex and Kevin had begun to chuckle, but then had realized that the ship had begun to spiral out of control.
"Whoa, this is like a water slide!"
"Ed you idiot, now look what ya did!"
Alex and Kevin had glanced at each other and gulped, and had seen that the gummi ship had crashed into the nearby world, The Deep Jungle. Alex had desperately sighed, placing his hand on his forehead, a feeling of exasperation flowing through him.
"Tch, dorks." Kevin muttered.
"Well Kevin, it seems that our next destination is the deep jungle." Alex said, landing the gummi ship on the ground of the jungle.
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Sora had crashed through the roof of a tree house; one that looked like it had been ransacked and then quickly abandoned. Shrugging, Sora had stood up and surveyed his surroundings, the glass was smashed, the stairs were rotting and crumbling, seemingly impossible to climb. In frustration, Sora had kicked against the rotten wooden floorboards, when suddenly a leopard had leaped out from the window and attacked him. Sora had looked at the big cat with wide eyes, scared at the size of his claws and teeth.
"Um, nice kitty?" Sora asked, before summoning his keyblade. The wild cat had lunged towards Sora with his claws elongated; however Sora had luckily dodged out of the way. In confusion, the wild cat began look around to try and see where Sora was. Giving him the chance he needed, Sora had smashed his keyblade over the head of the leopard, causing the large feline to fall to the ground. He then stepped towards the leopard and tried to poke him with his keyblade, yet the leopard was cunning, and quickly leaped on all fours and made his way to the shocked and stunned Sora. A scream was then heard, as a man wearing nothing but a loin cloth and carrying a large spear had stood between the beast and Sora.
"Stay back, Sabor!" The man shouted, flinging the leopard to the other side of the room. Fearing the man's strength, the spotted feline had quickly fled from his adversaries. Sora had then sighed, before placing his hands behind his head.
"Sabor danger!" The loin clothed man uttered.
"Thanks." Sora said, although he couldn't understand what the man was saying, he seemed to be speaking in some foreign language; Gorilla maybe?
"Excuse me?" Sora asked.
"Friends, want to find friends?" He asked. Sora's face had beamed at the proposition.
"You know where they are?" Sora asked, scratching his head. Sora had then seen Kairi sitting on one of the steps, he looked dumbfounded at first, and however the image of Kairi had dissipated. Sora had then frowned in confusion, before staring at the almost naked man.
"What's your name?" Sora asked.
"Tarzan" Tarzan replied.
"Well, I'm going to find my friends now." Sora announced. Tarzan had just stared at Sora with confusion, tilting his head to the side. Sora had realized that Tarzan couldn't understand him.
"Err, I mean... Sora go, Tarzan go go." Sora explained. Tarzan had understood, before leading Sora out of the tree house. When Sora had seen what the jungle had looked like outside he was completely awestruck but even more so when Tarzan had leapt from the side of the cliff. Sora however had no choice but to follow Tarzan so he leapt from the cliff as well. It turned out that there was a cave here, and a hole in the middle, and seeing that Tarzan wasn't there he jumped down the hole.
"Whoa!" Sora exclaimed, as he was riding on a tree branch. He had to duck and jump over the obstacles, and had seen Tarzan in front. He then caught up with the wild man, before jumping down with Tarzan into what seemed like a forest with a stream in it.
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Alex and Kevin had landed next to some trees and water. Surveying his surroundings, Alex had noticed that he was in a forest. Kevin had spotted something at the other side of the forest, it looked like...
"Hey, it's the Eds and Nazz!" Kevin proclaimed. Kevin had then ran towards them, but noticed that he had to jump across the water and onto the other platforms. Alex had also seen where they were, and began to scratch his head.
"Strange, the heartless haven't attacked..." Alex muttered. Then, as if on cue, the heartless had appeared. Kevin didn't know what they were though, and began to tremble.
"What the heck are those things?" Kevin queried.
"Ah, they're just heartless, although they do look a little funny." Alex replied. The heartless looked like monkeys with blue fur, with their razor sharp claws capable of ripping somebody's heart out. Kevin had brandished his spear, holding it in front of him.
"Alright, Kevin, you ready?" Alex asked.
"Sure." Kevin replied simply, as the two boys had rushed towards the heartless. Alex was the first to attack, swinging his sword towards the heartless. However, the monkey like heartless had rolled out of the way of Alex's attack and scratched his leg.
"Ow!" Alex shouted, rubbing his leg. While Alex was doing this, the heartless were beginning to advance towards Alex, claws ready. Kevin, however had suddenly leaped high in the air, spear in hand.
"Jump!" Kevin had shouted, crashing into one of the heartless with his spear. The force of the spear crashing into the heartless was so hard, that it simply dissipated into nothing. The other monkey heartless had jumped, fearing the newcomer and fled. Alex had then stood up and looked around to see no heartless.
"What happened?" Alex asked. Kevin had smirked with cockiness.
"Well, I just jumped on the heartless with my spear and they were all too scared to fight!" Kevin replied, flexing his muscles. Alex had stolen the spear from Kevin for a moment and looked at it.
"Hey! That's mine!" Kevin shouted. Alex had ignored his "friend" for a moment to heavily study the spear. Its engravings had read 'He who uses this spear is given the power of the once legendary, but foolish dragoon..." Alex couldn't read the rest, the last part looked like it was covered with rust, heck the whole weapon looked like it could do with polishing. Alex had then handed the spear back to Kevin.
"You've got the power of a dragoon apparently; maybe that's why you can jump so high." Alex explained. Kevin looked confused.
"What's a dragoon?" Kevin asked, although Alex had shrugged.
"Beats me." Alex replied, scratching his head. Suddenly he felt something, no, someone land on top of him, as he was crushed from the weight of the person who fell on him.
"Hey Alex!" Sora shouted, smiling bashfully, "Hi Kevin." Alex however had growled in irritation and had glared at Sora.
"Get off me!" Alex ordered. Sora had jumped off of Alex, before rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. After Alex had dusted himself off he noticed another person, a wild man wearing naught but a loincloth.
"Who's he?" Kevin asked, with his eyebrows raised.
"He's Tarzan, and he knows where Riku and Kairi are!" Sora exclaimed gleefully. Alex had stared at Sora with a questioning look, while Kevin didn't really know what to say.
"Don't get your hopes up." Alex said half-heartedly, "They may already be gone, swallowed by the darkness." Sora had glared at Alex.
"Oh yeah? If that's the case, then you shouldn't be here either." Sora refuted.
"Good point I suppose..." Alex muttered, before walking towards the Eds and Nazz.
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"So, that's why you crashed." Kevin said, sighing. Alex had shaken his head, wondering how his friend could be so stupid.
"Where are Donald and Goofy?" Nazz asked. Kevin and Alex had shrugged, while Sora had frowned.
"Well, we should get going now." Alex suggested "I'd rather be moving than wait for the heartless to show up again."
"Alex is right; it would be wise to travel now." Double D agreed. The group had thus, decided to follow Tarzan, since he knew his way around. Soon enough, he had leaded them to a tent. It was large and orange in colour, and looked like it was big enough to hold the whole party. Alex and Eddy had both strode toward the entrance, before Alex had stopped before the "door"
"Ladies first, Eddy." Alex wryly remarked. Eddy had grumbled miserably, before going inside. Alex had then followed him inside, before everyone else decided to follow as well. The inside of the tent was quite large as well, a projector and a board was amongst the many antiques in the room, such as books on studies of gorillas and whatnot.
"Oh, hello." A voice greeted. The voice had belonged to a woman who had worn a white vest and long red dress, and had brown hair and green eyes. Her beaming smile had suggested that she was friendly. "Are these your friends Tarzan?"
"Um, I'm looking for my friends, have you seen them?" Sora asked.
"What do they look like?" The woman asked.
"Well they-"Sora was interrupted by a thud, as a large muscled man with a shotgun had dropped Donald and Goofy on the floor.
"I assume they are with you?" The man asked. The two had risen to the floor agitatedly while brushing themselves off, before noticing Sora.
"Heya Sora!" Goofy shouted before jumping on his friend.
"Hi, Goofy." Sora replied. Then, when Goofy had gotten off of Sora, Donald had edged near Sora, scowling as he did so.
"So, where's my apology?" Donald questioned, pointing accusingly at Sora. Sora had frowned at Donald's shenanigans, and had turned his back on him.
"I don't owe you anything." Sora answered defiantly.
"Oh put your handbags away ladies!" Eddy exclaimed, although this earned him a "Shut Up!" from almost everyone in the room.
"Come on guys, just kiss and make up, alright?" Alex asked, as he grabbed both of their hands and shoved them together. Reluctantly, Donald and Sora had shaken each other's hands, and had both agreed on a truce... for now atleast.
"Well, I'm staying!" Both Sora and Donald retorted. Sora glanced at Donald in a confused manner.
"What?" Sora asked. "Why?"
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"So, umm, you need to look for your friends, yes?" The woman, now known as Jane, asked.
"Yeah." Sora replied. Jane had nodded, before entering a few slides into the projector. There were a few slides, although one had stood out to Sora; A large tower with a clock. He felt as if he had known the place his whole life, although he had never left the island. 'Weird.' thought Sora 'I feel déjà vu.'
"What's wrong Sora?" Double D asked. Sora had looked taken aback, before regaining his composure.
"Ah nothing, just déjà vu." Sora replied. Alex had stared sternly towards Sora, as if he was surprised yet annoyed at the same time. Sora had noticed the glance Alex gave, before wincing slightly.
"Geez, what's wrong Alex?" Sora asked.
"Huh?" Alex questioned, "You say something?"
"Yeah, what's wrong, you gave me a weird look." Sora replied.
"Really? Sorry..." Alex apologized, grimacing as he did so. Afterwards, all of the slides were shown, all of which Sora didn't recognise as his friends.
"So, did you recognise anything?" Jane asked. Sora simply shook his head, before sighing and resigning all hope he had.
"What did we tell you Sora?" Donald asked. "No frowning." Sora had cheered up a bit, giving off a cheesy smile.
"You're right, thanks." Sora replied thankfully.
"Don't mention it Sora." Donald said with his arms folded. "Anyway, we also found this gummi." Goofy had then shown the group the small orange block.
"It could mean that the king is here." Goofy insinuated. Sora had approached the man with the shotgun, named Clayton.
"Have you seen my friends, Riku and Kairi?" Sora asked.
"No, I haven't seen any humans besides you lot." Clayton answered. "And, it seems that there's only one other way to find your friends: the gorillas." Tarzan had stared at the floor momentarily, thoughts running through his head, while the rest of the gang pondered on the situation.
"And the gorillas would help because?" Alex asked. Clayton had frowned at first, but followed up with a devilish smile.
"They could lead us to your friends, of course." Clayton replied. Suddenly, Tarzan had walked outside of the tent, presumably to lead the way. The group had followed closely behind. Clayton however, stayed still, a demonic smile creeping across his face. "Yes, lead the way Tarzan."
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The group had stood in front of the tent, looking for Tarzan. He stood near the forest entrance, where the group first came into. However, suddenly a large leopard had leaped from the trees and attacked the party.
"It's him!" Sora exclaimed.
"Who?" Ed asked.
"The leopard!" Sora answered. Suddenly the feline foe had leaped acrobatically towards Alex. Alex had rolled out of the way of the attack, and rushed the leopard. The leopard however was too quick and jumped out of the way.
"Hmm..." Alex mumbled irritated. Kevin was running towards the leopard, and with his spear having a long reach dealt a punishing upwards body blow to the four legged beast, launching it upwards in the air. After it landed, it stayed on the ground groggy. Ed had dashed towards the leopard, and struck it hard on the head with his keyblade, before swinging it horizontally with great force. The leopard was propelled to the right of the group, rolling in the ground before getting up slowly.
"Persistent, isn't he?" Double D asked, as he fired a fire spell towards Sabor. Sabor, while still tired was quick enough to dodge the attack, however instead of leaping had begun to stalk his opponents. Eddy had sprinted towards Sabor, his keyblade raised high in the air with one hand, intending to strike his foe. However, Sabor had ducked the attack, and swiped his claw across Eddy's face, sending him backwards.
"Yeowch!" Eddy screamed, dropping his keyblade and sitting on the ground, while trying to heal his wound. Nazz, also joined in the fray by leaping towards the leopard with grace, however the leopard had saw this and slinked away from the young girl's attack. Sora crept behind Sabor and tried to get a sneaky hit in, but failed as the leopard had once again evaded the attack. Goofy and Donald tried to attack both sides of Sabor at the same time, however the felonious feline had escaped from their grasp, causing the two to hit each other.
"What's it take to get rid of this guy!?" Alex asked exasperated, suddenly running towards the beast with his sword emanating dark smog.
"Whoa..."Kevin muttered, awed by the sheer power Alex had accumulated. Alex had then dashed towards the big cat and struck Sabor with such great force that it sent the spotted animal through a various amount of trees in the forest, ejecting Sabor out of the battle.
"Well, that should do it." Alex remarked, dismissing his sword. However, his friends had stared at Alex incredulously, their mouths agape in confusion.
"How in the name of Pete did ya do that!?" Eddy questioned.
"Easy, the darkness boosted my power." Alex replied.
"That's cool!" Ed exclaimed loudly "Can I try?"
"Nope." Alex replied casually, before walking away from his friend. Ed had sighed loudly, before following his compatriot along with the rest of the party on their quest.
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"We're in the forest again?" Alex pondered. "What good is this gonna do?"
"Hey Alex, remember that large pole vine thingy we saw, you know the one that the Eds and Nazz were by? Maybe that's the way to their nest." Kevin queried. Alex had then sparked with realization, his brightness resembling that of a light bulb.
"By jingo Kevin, you're spot on!" Alex exclaimed. The group were confused with Alex's sudden change of language, prompting them to raise their eyebrows towards him.
"What, it's a reference to old English." Alex muttered. The group had shrugged, before trekking through the water and various green spaces of land. After a couple of minutes of swimming and jumping over hippos, they almost reached the island with the pole. However, they had to jump across a hippo. Tarzan jumped first, followed by Ed, Double D, Nazz, Sora, Donald, Kevin, Goofy and Eddy. Alex was reluctant at first, staring at the water with beady eyes.
"The funny thing is guys, I can't swim..." Alex wryly remarked, which in turn raised many irritable sighs from the group.
"Oh come on Alex, how did you get this far?" Sora asked impatiently.
"Jumping over hippos isn't hard, is it!? And besides, what if I miss and drown?" Alex retaliated.
"Aw, does the baby need his bottle?" Eddy retorted. Alex, annoyed had simply jumped on the hippo and onto the little bit of land, before smirking at Eddy.
"I'm not really scared of water and I CAN swim, smart aleck." Alex said. Afterwards, the whole group climbed up the pole.
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If anyone wasn't afraid of heights, they would be after seeing how far down they were from ground level, in fact it was enough to make anyone faint.
'So that's why the gorilla's nests are hidden...' Alex thought. On another tree branch from quite a distance away, were two gorillas both male and female. Tarzan had spoken to the male in gorilla language.
"Kerchak!" Tarzan exclaimed "I need your help, I need you to find their friends because... because... they need my help." Kerchak had blankly stared at Tarzan and his misshapen group before simply walking away without reply, with the female gorilla following suit. Tarzan had simply fixated his view to the ground, downtrodden.
"Did you get that?" Goofy asked, looking at Donald as he did.
"No." Donald simply replied.
"Kerchak..." Tarzan muttered. Alex had begun to sigh, before kicking the ground.
"What now?" Alex asked exasperatedly.
"...The tree house..." Tarzan mumbled. The group had looked at Tarzan questioningly.
"What about it?" Sora asked, scratching his head.
"I sense... something." Tarzan replied. And so the group went, following Tarzan on their quest to find their friends...
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Tarzan had led our team near the tree house; of course it looked almost nothing like a tree house, and looked like it suffered damage beyond repair.
"Gee, what a dump." Eddy remarked. Alex had crossed his arms, sighing with exasperation.
"It reminds me of the dorks' tree house, ha ha!" Kevin exclaimed, chuckling while doing so.
"You're telling me..." He muttered. The group had neared the entrance when they had spotted Clayton aiming at something. When they got closer they realized he was aiming towards a small gorilla. Obviously, the group wasn't pleased.
"Hey, what are you doing!?" Sora questioned, causing the poacher to shoot the ground near the gorilla. It scared her off, causing her to flee. In the distance, Kerchak could be seen shaking his head, before shortly disappearing.
"Kerchak, wait!" Tarzan pleaded. However all attention had been placed on Clayton, who was about to commit the dirty deed.
"Wait, I wasn't aiming for the gorilla, you see a snake passed by!" Clayton "explained" raising his arms in defence "I saved its life!" however the party didn't look convinced, with Tarzan pointing his spear towards Clayton. Clayton, left with no other option was forced to escape from the party.
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"What an interesting bunch..." The figure muttered, watching the events play out on his sphere of magic. He focused in on Alex.
"How interesting indeed, it seems I'll have to meet them in the next world..." The figure mumbled, before chuckling to himself.
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"I'm sorry about Clayton," Jane said "It seemed that all he wanted to do was to hunt the gorillas."
"Nah, its ok," Sora replied, hands behind his head. "Just means it's harder to find my friends." The Eds and Alex had huddled up closer together, trying to figure out a plan.
"So, got any ideas?" Alex asked, eyes shifting between his three friends.
"How about we just dump 'em?" Eddy suggested, smiling slyly while poking a finger out towards the rest of the group.
"I don't think that's a good idea, the more the merrier I say." Double D replied.
"He's got a point." Alex agreed, eyeing Ed "What about you Ed?"
"Lothar will lead us all!" Ed exclaimed dumbly, a smile stitched across his face. Alex, sighing had disbanded the huddle, while folding his arms.
"We'll just have to wait for a clue..." Alex muttered, as the rest of the party seemed to chat about other things.
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"Imbeciles, I'm never going to hunt any gorillas with those fools around!" Clayton ranted, sighing heavily. Then, hearing a faint sound, he pointed his gun before pulling the trigger...
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*BANG*
The whole group was startled, bobbing their heads left and right in fear.
"Huh, what was that?" Sora asked.
"Maybe you should check, Sora?" Eddy suggested. Sora had growled at Eddy, summoning his keyblade and pointing it at him.
"Oh no you don't, you go." Sora ordered. However, both were actually thrown out by the group, as to stop them arguing.
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"Sora, you see anything?" Eddy asked, searching for the creation of the noise. Sora, slowly rising to his feet had scratched his head, before slowly walking around the camp site.
"No, not a thing, wait is that a gorilla?" Sora asked, pointing towards the primate. Eddy had got a good look of not only the bewildered gorilla, but the heartless around it.
"We've gotta fight 'em!" Eddy exclaimed, summoning his keyblade and readying his stance. Sora, for a moment had raised an eyebrow at Eddy.
"I thought you didn't like fighting?" Sora questioned, pointing on Eddy's forehead.
"They're helpless! Come on, just do it!" Eddy shouted.
"Alright, geez..." Sora muttered, summoning his keyblade "Here goes!" Sora had then run towards the heartless, with Eddy close behind him. The monkey heartless had noticed this new threat and began to focus their sights upon their new target, surrounding them, and thus the battle begun.
"You ready?" Sora asked, standing back to back with Eddy.
"Always!" Eddy replied sharply, before dashing towards the surrounding heartless. He faced two of the powerwilds, as they were called. Eddy had wildly lunged towards one of the heartless, and luckily his speed had paid off, as Eddy got a hit in. Stunning the heartless, he smashed his keyblade on its head, before doing a spinning slash, causing the heartless to dissipate. However, he was kicked heavily in the back by the other powerwild, causing him to crash hardly into the floor.
"Eddy!" Sora exclaimed, reaching out to him. However, he quickly rolled out of the way of a flying kick from one of the persistent primates, before crushing its head with his keyblade, stunning it. He then dashed towards the heartless towering over Eddy, before wildly slicing the heartless in half with his keyblade. Eddy had then slowly risen, before shaking his head. He stared at the remaining two powerwilds, getting into a fighting stance.
"You ready, Sora?" Eddy asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be!" Sora replied, as the two dashed towards the heartless.
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"What's taking them so long?" Double D pondered "Do you think they got lost?" Alex had growled in irritation, which turned the attention of the others to him.
"Gee Alex, what's the matter?" Kevin asked. Alex had stared back at him, flashing a sharp look towards him.
"What do you mean?" Alex asked impatiently.
"Well, it just seems that ever since you got here, you've been a bit weird." Kevin replied, crossing his arms. Alex, having a sense of realization, had changed his face from a scowl to an almost apologetic look.
"Oh, sorry, I just wanna find our friends quickly that all." Alex replied. Suddenly the two had burst through the tent, tripping each other up and landing flat on their faces.
"What was all that about?" Alex asked, folding his arms. The two got up, dusting themselves as they did.
"There are a few gorillas out their being terrorized by heartless!" Sora exclaimed, pointing outside.
"Really? We've got to help them!" Nazz said agitatedly, summoning her weapon.
"We've already cleared the outside of the tent; all we've got to do is keep going forward." Sora explained.
"Alright, let's move!" Alex commanded, running outside. The rest of the party had followed suit. As they gazed on outside of the tent, the group had run towards the path of the bamboo thicket. The party then saw a gorilla standing on a rock, surrounded by the heartless.
"Charge!" Ed exclaimed, as he leaped towards one of the heartless, crushing it under his keyblade. Alex had leapt high into the air, landing on one the heartless with his sword.
"Okay, I've got it." Alex said, before getting kicked in the back of the heard by one of the heartless. He fell to the ground face first, before rolling on his back. Suddenly, two of the power wilds had ganged up on him, sharp claws at the ready. "Oh shoot."
"Oh no you don't!" Donald exclaimed "Thunder!" suddenly a large thunder bolt had hit one of the power wilds, causing it to disintegrate. Double D then had sent a large fire ball at the heartless, causing it to disappear. Alex got up, before getting in a fighting stance. The monkey heartless, being the last one and numbered, simply vanished. The gorilla had escaped, before leaving behind a gummi piece. Alex went up to it, before examining it.
"Is this a thunder Gummi?" Alex asked. The group came up to him, as Alex gave it to Donald, who stored it in a pouch.
"Let's keep going." Double D said. The group nodded, as they ventured near to the cliff. They then say another group of heartless gang up on a gorilla, five in total.
"Let's do this!" Alex exclaimed, leaping towards the heartless. Kevin had jumped high into the air, before landing on one of the heartless with his spear, destroying it. Eddy had thrown his keyblade like a boomerang towards one of the heartless, causing it to dissipate. Alex had sliced a power wild in half, killing it, and goofy had bashed one with his shield into the wall, defeating it. Donald had then cast a blizzard spell on the power wild, freezing it. This allowed Ed to run up to it and crush it with his keyblade.
"Alright, we did it!" Eddy exclaimed, punching the air. The gorilla had left, leaving behind an Aerora gummi behind. Donald had picked it up, putting it in his pouch.
"Where should we go now then?" Alex asked, scratching his head. Tarzan had quickly sprinted away from the party, leading the way.
"Let's follow him!" Eddy said, running after him...
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The group had gotten to the forest near the river after fighting a horde of heartless, "pooped out" after fighting all of the heartless on the way there.
"Geez, they never give up!" Eddy sighed. The group noticed Tarzan at the far end of the river, before climbing up the vine.
"Let's go!" Alex ordered, as he rushed towards the vine.
"Aw come on Alex, we're tired!" Eddy moaned, rubbing his head. Alex turned around, summoning his weapon and pointing it towards Eddy.
"I don't care!" Alex exclaimed furiously, enveloped in a purple aura. The party gave their looks of disgust at Alex, most noticeably Nazz.
"What's wrong with you!?" Nazz asked, sharply pointing her finger in his chest "Don't you care about your friends at all!?" Alex had growled loudly, eyes turning yellow. He turned to Nazz, pointing his sword at her.
"Alex, are you okay?" Ed asked with concern, staring him in the eye. Suddenly, Alex's "evil aura" vanished, and he returned to normal. His sword disappeared, as Alex's face hit the ground along with his body.
"What was that all about!?" Eddy asked exasperatedly, pulling on all three hairs. Double D examined his friend's body, rubbing his neck nervously while doing so.
"I have an idea, a thought maybe..." Double D murmured.
"What!?" Eddy questioned, "Why is Alex all, "cuckoo"!?"
"I think he used the darkness too much... amplifying his emotions to the extreme." Double D explained. "It makes sense, since he was surrounded by a dark aura, and his eyes turned yellow."
"Like a heartless?" Sora asked, folding his arms.
"That's exactly my point." Double D replied. Alex had shuffled his body, before getting up from the floor slowly.
"Ugh, my head... what happened?" Alex asked, rubbing the back of his head "I feel like I was hit by a truck." Shaking his head, he regained composure.
"So, when do we go?" Kevin asked.
"Now, before Alex gets grouchy again." Eddy said. Alex stared at his friend briefly, before shrugging.
"Hmm, whatever you say Eddy." Alex said, "Let's go." The group had followed Alex to the vine, and one by one climbed up the vine eventually leading to the branch.
"Where do we go now, "boss"?" Eddy asked, looking at Alex.
"We're better off climbing that green vine on the tree." Alex suggested, climbing up the vine. The party had followed suit. The group were in a place where there was a massive fruit, and were suddenly attacked by the powerwilds.
"You ready guys?" Eddy asked, summoning his weapon "Attack!" Eddy had leaped towards one of the heartless, rapidly striking the heartless with his keyblade until it dissipated before getting scratched in the back by one of them "Ouch!" Alex had come to his rescue, slicing the assailant in half with his sword.
"Um, I'm sorry Eddy..." Alex muttered, as he sliced another powerwild which jumped at him in half. "I just wigged out on you; I can't help it at times."
"It's alright Alex, I understand." Eddy replied, blocking a kick from a heartless. Nazz had slashed a heartless twice with her sword before destroying it and Donald had sent a thunder spell at one, dissipating it. The gorilla, before escaping had left behind an Aeroga gummi which Donald had yet again taken and stored in his patch. Suddenly, the group saw Tarzan standing near a cave-like entrance, before walking through it.
"It looks like he went to the tree house." Double D said.
"Let's go then, we don't have time to waste." Eddy said, before walking off.
"I thought you were tired?" Alex said jokingly, before following his compatriot...
Xxx
The group had gotten to the tree house, slowly walking towards it.
"I wonder though, why is this place so beat up?" Alex pondered, scratching his head in wonder.
"Maybe it was a meteor!" Eddy shouted, jumping up and down in a giddy fashion.
"I doubt a meteor crashed Ed..." Double D answered in exasperation.
"Um, guys..." Sora muttered.
"Maybe it's old, like Double D's pet lizard!" Ed shouted.
"Guys!" Sora shouted.
"What?" Alex asked.
"The heartless are in there!" Sora explained. Indeed, through the broken windows, was a gorilla being surrounded by five powerwilds.
"Okay guys, I've got an idea." Alex said, as he ran to the heartless alone. The powerwilds had noticed the youngster, ganging up on him.
"Watch this." Alex said, covered in a purple aura "Dark fire!" Alex had then shot several black balls of fire at all of the heartless, making them all disappear. Suddenly, Alex had sat down on the ground, tired. The party rushed in afterwards, staring at Alex in bewilderment.
"How the heck did ya do that!?" Eddy asked. Alex got up, before dusting himself of.
"Simple, I used the power of darkness." Alex replied.
"Cool, can I try? Pleeeaase!" Ed pleaded.
"Nope." Alex replied, before obtaining the shell gummi the gorilla left behind. He gave it to Donald, who then stored the gummi.
Xxx
Sitting on the floor feeling lonely, Jane sighed, reminiscing. She hoped that Tarzan and the others were fine, flicking her hair as she was embroiled in her thoughts. Suddenly, however and small gorilla had barged through the tent, before jumping on her.
"AAH!" Jane exclaimed, as the heartless entered the tent...
Xxx
The Eds were finally at near the tent, although they heard a noise.
"What was that?" Alex asked.
"I dunno, but I've got a funny feeling..."Eddy mumbled.
"Gas?" Ed asked
"No you dummy, he means something strange is happening." Donald replied, "And we need to find out what's going on."
"Well, let's go then!" Nazz shouted, dashing off into the direction, with the rest of the group following suit. When they had arrived at the tent, they were hit with an eerie silence, followed by the chill of the air...
"What's going on? Something doesn't feel right..." Alex pondered. He decided to look inside the tent, only to find that no one was in there.
"What the heck?" Eddy exclaimed. "Where's Jane?"
"Taken away..." Tarzan uttered "To, forest with giant black fruit."
"Huh?" Alex asked, confused by Tarzan's gorilla speech. Tarzan, like a flash ran away from the group. "I guess that's our queue..."
Xxx
The group had arrived at the place that Tarzan had, unbeknownst to them described as: The forest with the giant black fruit.
"Help!" a voice exclaimed. The voice was recognised as Jane's voice, as a large amount of power wild's were summoned. Alex however had leapt towards the fruit and sliced it in half, destroying it. The heartless then escaped, as Jane and the gorilla were freed.
"Tarzan, the gorilla's need your help, Clayton is near the cliff at the bottom of the forest." Jane informed. And with that, the group took off. They arrived in the campsite, after the long fall from the forest.
"Quick, let's go!" Alex exclaimed, as he rushed towards the bamboo thicket. The rest of the party had followed him, however before the group could get to the cliff they were greeted by one last visit from their felonious foe: Sabor.
"Oh no, not this guy again..." Eddy moaned exasperatedly. Alex had dashed towards the creature, swinging his sword wildly towards the creature, just about missing the leopard's whiskers. Double had casted fire on Sabor's face, stunning it, while Kevin struck it across the face with his spear knocking the spotted enemy away.
"Did we beat it?" Kevin queried, as he examined the feline closely. The beast shot like a spring however, and leaped towards Alex and pinned him to the ground.
"Hey, get off me!" Alex shouted, as he tried to wriggle free. The leopard had raised its paw, claws sheathed. "I'm warning you..." Alex muttered, as he began to glow purple. Sabor, before going in for the blow was flung high into the air by the sudden surge of energy. Alex, rising from the ground quickly, fired a dark ball of fire at the four legged foe, sending it high into the air.
"How did you do that?" Double D asked "And why didn't you do that against Cloud?" Alex had stopped glowing, before simply shrugging.
"Come on, let's go." Alex said, before walking to the Cliffside.
Xxx
A large group of gorillas, including Kerchak were rounded up by Clayton, as he was about to release the trigger.
"Stop!" Sora demanded, summoning his keyblade. Clayton and the powerwild's were preoccupied with Sora and the party, allowing the gorillas to escape.
"It seems you've made it this far, congratulations." Clayton sarcastically greeted, loading his double barrel shotgun.
"It's over Clayton!" Double D exclaimed, summoning his keyblade too, before everyone else summoned their weapons.
"Why, it's only just the beginning!" Clayton remarked, pointing his weapon towards the group.
(TBC...)