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Chapter 11
The Race to Wonderland
Redd's Domicile
Rosso walked down the corridor leading to the entrance of the castle. She had the Cat fallowing her, "Who I will enjoy this." Rosso said to her feline company. "My rose is very sweet." The Cat purred while he was walking with Rosso in his kitten form. "I know Xemnas suspects you being Redd's body guard, but if I go then he will think I am the assassin, but seeing you escort me will check you off the hit list making your attack on him all the more sweet." Rosso said babbling half way through her speech thinking about her upcoming battle 'and all that glorious BLOOD'.
"Remember you have to get that mushroom or get the nobodies dealt with." The Cat said running in front of Rosso. His irises shrinking as he stared at the other half of his love. "Of course I know darling" Rosso snapped at her feline.
"Well on with the show" the Cat said sitting in front of the door waiting for Rosso to catch up to him.
The pair walked into the entry hall to see Lust, Sloth and Tira in a group while Kadaji and Yazoo leaned agents the wall. Tira was the first to approach the new arrival. "So you must be the Queen's fav? Huh?" Tira said looking at the red woman with the same lust for blood in her eyes as her.
"Oh, you must be great at killing" Tira said her eyes widening with glee as she smelled the sent of blood and death from this woman. "What is your name?" Sloth said eyeing the woman with her red eyes.
"Rosso, Rosso the Crimson" Rosso said her sharp accent cutting through the air. Kadaji's mako eyes shifted to the smiling cat, back to Rosso. "Let's see how good you are." Kadaji said unsheathing his Souba.
Kadaji kicked off the wall a moved at Rosso like a bullet, zooming past Sloth and Tira. Kadaji thrust his Souba, ready to pierce Rosso's armed chest. The sound of silence filled the hall, no clash of metal to metal or let alone the sound of flesh tearing. "Such vigor." Rosso said as she smirked at the shock on Kadaji's face, while she held the Souba's blades between her figures.
Kadaji growled as he tried to get the weapon out of the woman's grasp. The blade shock with his strength as it tried to move free of the woman's power. Yazoo pulled out his Velvet Nightmare and fired at Rosso.
Rosso's free hand glowed a crimson light before she slashed it through the air, cutting the bullets in half. She then kicked Kadaji in the stomach, sending the Nobody into the wall next to Yazoo, his Souba still in between her figures.
"Stop fooling around!" A viscous voice rang through the halls. As if a drop of water in a pool, the wall behind Rosso rippled and melted into a mirror with Redd's reflection in it. " Fallow Rosso's orders without question and go to WONDERLAND AND GET ME THAT AEON NOW!!" Redd shouted, her voice echoing in the halls. "Yes" everyone said, even Rosso, playing her part well.
The Nobodies slowly melted into the shadows.
Sora and everyone in the Gummi
"We have to get through all these air ships before they get to that damn mushroom." Riku said as they shot down another Reaper's Wheel flying at them. "Donald, Goofy, Take the Teeny ships and work in independent mode. We can handle the big ships just take care of the small fries." Sora shouted as he rolled the sip to miss a blast of missiles fired from a Group of Crawlers under them.
Donald and Goofy merely ran to the ships bunker and jumped into the Main Gauche units. The Secret Model opened the hatch automatically and moved the ships out. Donald and Goof made quick work of the Crawlers the moment the got out and moved the SM's side.
"Go to Wonderland, we just have to slow them down." Donald said to Sora from the com. "We just need to Look out for the Hunters" Riku shouted form Sora's right as he worked the weapons unite.
"Let's use that Mega Cannon" Goofy said opening his own channel. "We could blast through all of them at once" Donald said nodding his head at the suggestion. "Then let's do it" Sora said.
The Main Gauches moved to the SM's front and moved counter clock wise. The teeny ships moved to the point were they became blurs. "Ready" Donald and Goofy messaged in. "Riku" Sora said as they slowed their speed and moved slowly into the on coming ships. "Charge will release in 5" Riku started as the computer counted.
"4" Riku said. A horrid of Hunters cut through the ships surrounding them. "3" Riku said as the 6 Hunters encased the ship in there box. "3" Riku said. The Hunters opened all their Cannons and Gatling guns out. "2" Riku said as the weapons aimed at them charged. "1" Riku said grabbing Sora's hand. "ZERO."
The Everlasting Forest (Enlarged)
Rosso walked through the Everlasting Forest, Kadaji, Yazoo, Tira and Lust walked behind. Rosso had sent Sloth to go get Leon once more, knowing that the darkness that still encased in his heart would be very helpful.
"And here we are" Rosso said as she slashed through the Tall grass in front of her with a meager swipe of her claws. Stopping in front of the group Rosso Turned to show them where 'Here' was. "Mushroom Valley" Tira read as she looked at the large colorful mushrooms.
"Were going caterpillar hunting boys and girls." Rosso said as she unhooked her weapon from her back. The popped out and Rosso slashed through the first mushroom in front of her. "Spread out and find me that Caterpillar." Rosso said as she continued to cut through the mushrooms in front of her.
Tira snapped her figures, calling her Dancers while Lust merely hummed and Neo Shadows kneeled at her feet and Dusks fallowed suite. Yazoo and Kadaji called their Samurais and Snipers. Each Nobody went a separate ways with their lower Nobodies and Heartless fallowed.
Riku and Sora in the battle
"ZERO" Riku and Sora shouted as the beam of energy blasted through the Hunter in front of them and the two flaking their sides. The remaining Hunters fired their weapons. Each blast of energy hit it's target dead on. "WE need to get out and find a way down" Donald shouted as the blast of energy stopped.
"But HOW" Goofy said before the next wave.
Just as the Hunters moved in for their kill, a blue beam of magic shot through each one. Time froze for only a second before each Heartless burst into ruble.
"Huh?" Sora moaned do to the weight on him and as he looked at the ruble. "What, who, where?" Riku said as he pulled himself off of Sora. "I think it came from Wonderland" Donald said as he pulled up the channel.
"Let's not waste time" Sora said jumping back onto the controls. "Right" Donald and Goofy said as they dashed for the portal. Sora and Riku fallowed behind just as fast.
Radiant Garden (Cloud and Leon)
Leon had stayed unconscious since Sora and the others left. Cloud had Leon in their bed, not leaving Leon's side all the while. "Come on Leon. Please wake up. I really need that smile of yours. Besides we have a wedding of our own to get to, right?" Cloud said in a low hushed voice as he stared at his love.
Hoping to see those silver eyes shine with love for only him, as he looked at them. "Cloud" Aerith knocked at the door. "Can I help?" the brunette asked worried for both of them. "Come in" Cloud said not moving his eyes off of Leon. "I can help him you know" Aerith said as she walked to the bed.
"How?!" Cloud asked as he looked up at the girl he once loved. Aerith smile as her irises turned to slits. "By taking him away" Aerith said in a voice that was not her own. Cloud reacted immediately and slashed the women in front of him, his Buster Blade had not loosen from his grip all the time he was near Leon worried that something like this would happen again.
'Aerith' melted into a mere puddle of water as she was cut. "Now where are your manners?" The voice emanating form the pool said. The water rose and shaped a woman, 'Sloth' Cloud thought as he remembered the run through of all the bad guys and all their powers the group had before the battle.
"You need to have manners to some one who is trying to help your little lover." Sloth said her purple lips twisted into an evil smile. "Why the HELL should I let you take him?! He is this way BECAUSE of you" Cloud shouted as he readied himself.
"Our fault" Sloth said amused "All we did was increase his fears and the sadness. That being merrily helped him use that to his advantage. It is not our fault if he had so many doubts in his heart regarding his relationship with you." Sloth said, amused by the shock and surprise play in his eyes and slowly revel its ugly head on his expression.
'What fun' Sloth thought, as the man in front of her slowly crumbled. Cloud shook himself out of his surprise, 'Why?' Cloud thought in the back of his mind. "DAMN YOU" Cloud shouted as he dashed forward. Instead of using his sword, Cloud used his fist and punched Sloth off the once broken window.
As Sloth hit the ground, she melted her body. Cloud jumped down and rammed his sword into the puddle that was once Sloth. After Cloud's sword was impaled into the ground and through her body Sloth made her upper body slid. "I guess boy's really like to play with their toys." Sloth said, her arm became a water tentacle and stabbed Cloud through the chest and hurled him into the wall.
"Damn it, cure" Cloud said as he it the wall. Sloth had made her self completely solid as Cloud's cure spell ended. "Well, you have been a bad boy. You need to be punished." Sloth said as she liquefied her arms and coved the Buster blade in her water.
Every molecule move through the sword and pulled it out of the ground. Sloth hurled the sword at Cloud as if it were a torpedo. Cloud was able to move out of the blade's path before it was impaled deep inside the wall. "You WILL stand still while I kill you!" Sloth growled.
"Fat chance you old bitch." Cloud said as he pulled his sword out of the wall. "Blizzaga" Cloud shouted. The high level spell hit the unsuspecting Sloth, not knowing Cloud could use magic, was frozen in her puddle. "Damn you!" Sloth screamed not from pain but the hold the ice magic on her body.
Cloud wasted no time in running at the frozen woman knowing that his spell would weaken soon or she will break through it. Cloud jumped when he was half way to Sloth and slashed at her body before Sloth cloud move.
Sloth's body froze for minute before the top half of her body fell off. As her body hit the floor she shattered into ice like the rest of her body. That was when Cloud saw it. "The HEART" Cloud said as he looked at the red crystal. He watched as the heart gave off a red glow as if it were a pulse. The ice shards that were once Sloth slowly melted.
Before the water could meld back together around the crystal, Cloud snatched it. Cloud jumped back just as a hand flew out of the water, desperately trying to grab the heart Crystal. "Nope" Cloud said as he landed. As if Sloth had to crawled out of a hole, only half of her body was able to be solid.
"Give me that!" Sloth slurred out as if she were drunk from the pain. Sloth made both of her arms tentacles and sent them at Cloud. The crystal heart gave another pulse and the tentacles became more solid rather then looking like they were melting.
Cloud moved out of the tentacles reach. "Tell why do you want Leon and tell me how to make in better!" Cloud shouted at the woman as her tentacles melted. "Give me… that UHC!... HEarT!" Sloth said sounding as if she were droning in her own water.
"Tell ME NOW!" Cloud shouted moving farther away. "This will heal you but I can tell you need it to be near. It is giving off the worst smell." Cloud said stopping, as he watch Sloth try desperately to crawl to closer to the pulse. "Tell how to FIX LEON!" Cloud shouted again as he moved to the same distance he was before Sloth tried to attack him.
"I Don't KNOW!" Sloth said back to her drunken slurs. "I was just told to get him by that bitch ROSSO!" Sloth half screamed as she swayed trying to reformat her body to solid but failed only leaving her upper body intact.
"I can kill you right here if I want to." Cloud said coolly, enjoying the surprise glow on Sloth's face. "You LIE, Only the QUEEN Can kill us" Sloth said laughing a little. Cloud smirked. "MY grandson is in your QUEENS hold and you have hurt the man I love. Plus MY friends are not happy." Cloud said his smirk turning into a frown and voice turning cold.
"SHE wants and kingdom… aLL the worlds. She wants no NEEDS THE PURE HEART to control the Kingdom that is premade. My master has all the princess but not TWO. One of imagination and the island bitch." Sloth said coughing up blood, a mixture off red and black.
"I know this." Cloud said growling. "Tell me why she wants Leon." "She wants to have him as a back up plan to use his heart AS a Tool to stop you and Kadaji wants him to HAVE FUN WITH. Being Sepheroith's Nobody he knows your heart inside and out." Sloth said pausing to cough up more blood this time a combination of red and white. "The Puppetmaster was to use him to kill you in the most painful way but she was blocked." Sloth said as her body shock violently.
"THE darkness and doubt is what keeps Leon as-" Sloth said before her eyes nearly popped out of her head. "NO!" Sloth screamed. As if some invisible axe cut her head off Sloth's rolled to the ground. The crystal shattered in Cloud's hand and melted into blood.
Sloth's behead corpse shook and was assaulted with thousands of weapons and attacks. While her water turn black then evaporated into shrieks of white. Only Sloth's head remained. The pale lips slowly moved of their own accorded.
"Well done." A voice not Sloth's said from the dismembered head. "I take it you are Queen Redd" Cloud said not shaken from the fact the disembody head talked to him and it's eyes not completely red as if it was dipped in blood and placed in a dolls head.
"Yes." Redd said making Sloth's lifeless lips smile. "Tell me how to fix Leon" Cloud said his voice turning to a growl once more. "Oh my that time all ready I am sorry but I have to have my tea now good bye." Redd said. Sloth's eyes turned white and melted into nothing with the rest of her body.
"DAMN IT!" Cloud shouted into the quiet street.
Redd's Domicile
"How do they know the heart's weakness?" Cat asked voicing his thoughts from his loves lap. "MY journal entries and data, that pathetic fool ANSEM THE WISE stole from ME!" Redd shouted her roses shrieked and hissed at the man's name.
"I will tell Rosso" Redd said before she rolled her eyes to the back of her head and calling Rosso.
Wonderland (Rosso)
Rosso used her weapon and slashed through all the mushrooms in front of her hoping to find the caterpillar hiding behind one. She stopped mid swing before her eyes closed. "What is?" Rosso asked aloud knowing no one was around.
'Turns out the whelps know how to kill the toys' Redd said into Rosso's mind. "What do we do?"
'I had to kill Sloth, she was give Cloud the keys to break Leon out of his cell.'
"Good riddance I guess Xemnas knows"
'Continue with the plan we don't need any more set backs'
"Right" Rosso said as she continued her hunt.
Riku and Sora in Wonderland
"So that was YOU!" Sora shouted as he looked at the smiling Alice and all the cards. "We my not have the best weapons but they get the job done" A three card said. "Do you know anything about a glowing mushroom or a magic mushroom by chance?" Riku asked Alice.
"NNO! I haven't sorry" Alice said blushing and looking at her feet as she twiddled her fingers. Alice had a crush on Riku the moment she saw him, Sora was ready to chop her head off. "But the Cheshire Cat would know something." Alice said, as she stopped her twiddling and looked at the man before her.
"Alright thanks" Sora said ready to kill the girl, but was held back by Donald and Goofy. "Thank you" Riku said. "Where do we find the Cheshire Cat?" Riku asked as he turned to the now released Sora.
"OI CAT! Get out here!" Sora shouted into the emptiness. "Lose something did you" A sly voice said from a tree behind Sora. "Hello Cheshire Cat, I think you know where that caterpillar is and What he has?" Sora said just as slyly. "Him, he is in that place in the mirror." Ches said as he stood on his head.
Riku pinched the bridge of his nose trying to get ride of the headache from the Cheshire Cat. "Where is this mirror?" Riku ground out. "In the Queen's room." The Cheshire Cat said in a plan voice.
"Okay" Riku said as he walked with Sora to the castle.
AS the entered the castle they saw the Queen of Hearts come into view. "Hello your majesty" Sora said. "Ah I was wondering when you would get here" The queen said turning to them. "This way." The Queen said as she lead the into the court room.
"The caterpillar told me to move it here." The Queen said showing them the large mirror. "So we just go through it?" Donald said eyeing the mirror copiously. "Yep, now hurry along, I don't know how much longer those other people will be before they learn he is not in mushroom valley." The Queen said before shoving them into the looking-glass.
Sora and Riku appeared on the other side of the glass a walked into a garden with roses and other flowers. With the exception of one huge mushroom in the middle it was beautiful.
On top of the large blue fungi was a hookah jar and one blue caterpillar.