Return to Port Royal. Sora Gets Mad

Sora, Donald, Goofy and Merlin stood in Merlin's house. The wizard was conjuring up World-Transport spell.

"Um" said Sora. "I hate to say this, but when I used to watch TV on the Islands, I used to see all sorts of horrible stuff happen when people teleported from place to place."

Merlin turned from his work to the Keyblade Master, his hands on his hips. "When I came to Disney Castle during the Cornerstone crisis, did I look scrambled?" he asked.

"Well…no" Sora said.

"That only happens when an inexperienced mages attempt such a spell" the wizard said. "I have been doing such magic since before you were born, Sora."

"Well…if you say so" said Sora.

"Remember" said Merlin. "You must win this time. If you don't then Jack Sparrow will become the new Keyblade Master!"

Donald and Goofy shuddered. "Got it" said Sora.

"Very well" said Merlin, and he began to mutter strange words. Sora felt the air around them begin to shift. Roxas, speaking from inside Sora's head, said it was like when the reality began to shift inside the other Twilight Town. Then they were gone in a puff of smoke. Sora had the impression of flying down a long white tunnel.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" he could hear Donald scream. He sensed his friends close by. Then he fell with a thump upon something loose and gritty. Immediately they were hit by a solid wave of water, knocking all of them to the ground.

"Ouch!" said Goofy as he stumbled to his feet. Sora landed a few feet away. Donald splashed into the ocean. It was a sandbar that they had landed on. Sora drew Excalibur and looked around. They were indeed on a sandbar, and in the middle of a hurricane it looked like. Water rose in huge waves around them, and rain fell in huge sheets. Thunder and lightning crashed and flickered back and fourth.

"Where are we?!" Donald shouted over the madness.

"I don't know!" Goofy yelled back.

"We've got to find cover!" Sora said. He walked a few feet, but was slammed by a wave of water. He tried to get back up, only to be blown down again by the wind and rain. "What is this?" Sora asked. "It's like one of those hurricanes on the Islands…but it's a lot stronger! It's like Calypso Herself is causing it!"

"Who?" asked Donald.

"Calypso, the Sea Goddess" said Sora. "We worship Her on the Destiny Islands. She causes storms and has power over all who die at sea. I've heard of Davy Jones too…but that's another story and---Ahhhhhhhhh!" a bolt of lightning struck the sand a few feet away from him, sending him flying. Instantly white shield formed over them all.

"What was that?" asked Goofy. "Is that you, Donald?"

"Not me" said Donald. "Is it…look at the sword!"

Sora looked at Excalibur. It was glowing with a white light that made it hard to look at. "Well, I'll be…" Sora said. "We've got to get off this sandbar. There's no cover here!"

They desperately tried to find something. But they were on their own. "This is crazy!" said Sora. "If we don't find some cover soon, we're gonna die, Excalibur or not!"

For how long they wandered around, dodging lightning, getting soaked by water and blown around by wind was something they Keyblade Master could never really remember. All he knew was that they were going to die. He felt horribly guilty. He had brought his friends along and led them to their deaths. Then, suddenly a deafening clap of thunder made them all put their hands over their ears. But it didn't stop. It got louder and louder. Is this it? Sora thought. Is this what death sounds like when it hits you? The something large landed on the sandbar. Sora knew he had to be hallucinating. It was a Gummi ship. A huge, white and gold Gummi ship, the same color as Excalibur. Even as he watched, Riku got out of it, shielding his head against the rain and weather.

"Come on guys! Get in! Come on in and---Sora, stop sitting there, and GET IN!" Riku yelled. Sora finally made it inside.

Once inside the Gummi ship, they were able to sit down. As Sora already knew it was much bigger inside the ship than it looked like from the outside.

"Whew! Thanks Riku, if you hadn't saved us, we'd be done for sure" said Goofy.

"No problem" said Riku. "Sora, what is wrong with you?"

Sora rubbed his eyes again. "I want to make sure it's not a hallucination. I can't believe its you! It's really you!" he looked around. "Where's Kairi? Did you drop her off at the Islands?"

Riku looked down. "Sora…" he said.

What's wrong with her, Riku? asked Roxas, suddenly stepping out of Sora's body. "What's wrong with Namine?

"Wait…" said Sora. "I…I mean he didn't …" he looked at Riku. "There isn't anything wrong with Kairi. Is there?" he asked.

"Yes Sora. Yes there is" he said.

"Sora, Donald, Goofy?" asked Kairi's voice from the driver's control. "Is that you guys?"

"Who else would it be?" Sora asked, laughing as he stepped forward. He walked right into Roxas, reabsorbing his Nobody. As Kairi turned around to face them, both Sora and Roxas gasped, along with Donald and Goofy.

Kairi now had a long, thin scar that slanted from her nose to between her eyes. It looked just like Leon's. "Hi, Sora" Kairi said, blushing furiously. "Look…I…" she turned to Riku. "You didn't have to say that something was wrong with me! I could have told Sora myself! But you had to say 'keep driving; just let me explain it to them when I pick them up!"

"What…happened?" Sora asked. "How did it happen?"

Kairi explained what Axel had said.

Sora was quiet for about ten minutes. Then, he grabbed Excalibur and threw it into the wall. It stuck in like a knife into butter. "AXEL!" Sora roared. "THAT SON OF A BITCH! HE…" Sora stopped. "Sorry" he panted. "I just…Kairi, he got your face…how could he do that?"

"He said he had orders to…" Kairi said. "They want Tine for something."

"They can have Tine" Sora said. "I don't care." He picked up Excalibur. "Let them have something to play with before they all DIE!" Sora's voice once again rose into a roar of rage and hate.

"Sora…it's alright" said Goofy, "but you've gotta calm down. We have to---"

"No I DON'T have to calm down!" Sora snarled. "THOSE Organization BASTARDS will PAY for this if it's the last fucking thing I DO!" Sora slumped onto the floor. Riku went over to him.

"Sora, I'll help you. I'll---" Sora punched Riku in the face. "You were supposed to take care of her!" he raged. From the floor he shook his fist at his best friend. "And you let this happen to her? I guess I was right! I'm the better one to take care of Kairi! I guess it shows that you can't even---" Sora was about to finish, when Kairi slapped him across the face. He looked at her in shock. While he had been ranting, she had moved quickly and silently past Riku, Donald, and Goofy. She grabbed Sora by the front of his shirt and pulled him up off the floor with amazing strength.

"Listen to me Sora" she said quietly. "I am not going to die from being scratched in the face by a Nobody. Do. You. Hear. Me?" she matched every word with a slap. "You were going to say something really nasty to Riku, and I can't have you do it. Not for me. We all hate the Organization; say what you like about them. But leave Riku out of this. If you have to know, he was the one who insisted that we stay on the Islands…but I wanted to keep going. Besides" she said, letting him drop to the floor, "I led the fight against Demyx. Not Riku. Me, little Kairi."

"You?" Sora gasped. "But Merlin said that you guys and Hayner Pence and Ollette fought him I thought he meant Riku and they did. I thought---"

"That I was hiding in a corner?" Kairi demanded.

Sora blushed. "Well…no…but…"

"No" said Kairi. "I fought. I dealt out injuries, and I received them." She summoned Welcoming Garden, holding the flower decorated Keyblade in front of Sora's face. "This is a Keyblade Sora. My Keyblade. It was made to fight the universe's scum. You, me, Riku, the King…we're all Keyblade Masters. It's our calling. And if we get hurt or killed in the line of duty…then that's what happens. But I'm not some damsel to be protected." She walked away, leaving the room.

Riku started to laugh.

Sora gave him a glare that would have turned Medusa to stone. "What's so funny?"

"Your face, man" said Riku. "When Kairi started yelling at you, your face was just a complete blank. Total system overload!"

"It wasn't that funny" Sora said when he noticed that Donald and Goofy were laughing too.

"Come on guys! Give me a break!"

"She gave me a version of that speech too" said Riku. "When we were on the way to Radiant Garden. But without the slapping parts."

"How did you guys find us anyway?" Donald asked.

"Actually, we didn't expect to find you" Riku said. "We were looking for the nameless Keyblade. Sora's was sending out an aura. I sensed it, and we headed for here. Kairi thought it would be a good gift for you if we killed Jack Sparrow and got the Keyblade back."

Sora shook his head. "I don't want to kill Jack" Sora said. "I just want to teach him a lesson."

"Riku smiled. "Hmmm…I think I have an idea of how to do that."

Wow! That was a nice speech by Kairi, if I do say so myself! It should have been set to the song "Don't Call Me baby!" by Madison Avenue. It's okay if you've never heard of it.