YAY! New chapter. … unfortunately, it is filler. However, it is very important filler, as you will see in later chapters. Anyway, on with the filler! … actually, no disclaimer. I actually own these characters! But if you want to borrow them, all you have to do is ask. I wouldn't deny a request like that. And here is the chapter.

Chapter 25: On the Road Again

Hour Three

Hour three of our voyage to the Destiny Islands. We had stopped talking for the time being, conserving topics of conversation for later on in the trip. So we sat there in silence, watching the minutes tick by, alone in silence with our thoughts. The silence was one of those lonely kind of silences that forms when people haven't run out of things to talk about, but they choose not to talk.

Again, we just sat there. Bored. Alone in our insane thoughts. Like right now I'm thinking about how we will kill Sora. … ill have to meet him first, decide the best way to kill him. Make it as painful to him as possible. Or not. I still have to decide yet. Which I will do when I meet him.

… Boredom. … Yay. Fun. Like kerosene on your pancakes.

Hour 5

Sooo…. Bored. Yet not going to talk…. Not yet. Not until boredom gets to the point of suicide. Must… hold… on … to … sanity! … Wait. I had sanity to begin with? What the hell? Maybe my sanity is a product of my insanity. Does that even make sense? Am I losing my sanity that is caused by my insanity! AHHHHHH! My brain is melting from the direction of this philosophical train of thought! Its melting like a brain will after going on /b/ on 4chan! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ... Bored with mental screaming now … wait… I'm better now? … Or am i? … Did the frosty coolness of boredom just prevent my brain from melting? Did boredom actually just save my life? … ok, note to self, do not alleviate boredom with thoughts on the cause of my sanity or lack there off. Will cause brain to melt. Or self destruct. Or something.

… so bored now that brain is not on fire. … But I would rather be bored than dead. Unless there is a Heartless heaven.

Hour 6

… I can't take it anymore. I just can't. I have to talk, to say something, anything to alleviate this boredom. Even if it did save my life. If I don't… I have no idea what will happen, but whatever it is it will be bad. Like suicide or insanity bad. Or maybe even Barney bad…

"So guys, how are you holding up?" I asked suddenly, shattering the silence like so many pieces of glass at an Oprah House filled to the brim with shrill singers of the most piercing music ever. Or like the fragile psyche of an emo kid who just saw his only friend in the world commit suicide cause the emo kid just came out of the closet. Basically, it was shattered.

"… I think I am actually dying of boredom. My brain actually hurts. Like really hurts." Said Vestara, moaning a little bit while clutching her head. Poor Vestara.

"Well, I am fine. I have memorized thought puzzles to keep me busy." Said Vergere in an almost taunting tone of voice that pissed me off and made me wonder for a second why I had to open my mouth in the first place. Then I remembered how boring it was before and I was just plain thankful that somebody was talking.

"This position hurts me too much for me to be bored." Said Domovoi in a pained voice. I felt a pang of sympathy for him. He's going to have some nasty cramps and bruises from sitting there like that for 72 hours

"It kind of reminds me of that time I got stuck in a hall way, kind of like Winnie the Pooh did in Rabbit's house. They had to use a battering ram to get me out of there. First they covered me in soap and anything slippery they could find, and then they went all the way back in the corridor with the ram and charged at me. I didn't go flying or anything, I kind of just slid out and flopped onto the ground like a fish. I couldn't feel my arms for days, because they were stuck between my body and the wall of the corridor."

After that, awkward silence again reigned supreme in the shuttle. We had no idea how the hell to respond to that, and even if we had known what to say we kind of didn't want to. Some conversations just needed to die.

Hour 10

I'm actually not that bored right now. I have discovered a tiny secret to stave off boredom. All you do is run scenarios for something through your head, in my case the first meeting with Sora. I ran through it in my mind at least a hundred times, imagining him in all sorts of different ways. As an exact copy of the original Sora. As some sort of upstart to his name. As some other type of person entirely.

Will he be nice? Will he be an asshole? Will he be a skilled fighter? Or will he be such a wimp that he can't even hold a weapon? I just don't know… and its driving me crazy.

How can I assassinate him if I don't know anything about the guy! I am a soldier, not an assassin! When I kill things, it's on the battle field with them trying their best to kill me, not with all this cloak and dagger stuff. And if I plan to kill a specific enemy on the battlefield, I always make sure to know as much as I can about them before hand. Not just their combat skills, but their personality, their history, their motivations. What makes them tick.

And with Sora… I have none of that information, and unless there is some sort of miracle, I will probably not obtain it. At least not up until the last moments of his life, and by then it will be too late. … And now I am depressed rather than bored. … I hate my life. I really do. It's like the universe goes out of its way to give me bad luck,or gives me good luck just to ruin it at the last moment. As if the day I became a Heartless the universe smiled at me and gave me the one fingered salute that the drivers in New York and New Jersey have turned into an art form, accompanied by the soothing music of people screaming "Fuck you bitch!" … yah, I really hate my life.

Hour 13

Between going insane from boredom and going insane from my cure to the boredom, I'm not sure which is worse. Well… going insane from boredom is commonplace in such places as long corporate meetings and classes in school, while going insane from the cure to boredom is rarer. Yet being rare doesn't necessarily mean that it is worse than the more common type of insanity. Hmm… or maybe they ae equal in terms of badness. Not necessarily the same, but equal. That would make sense…

Hour 13 and 10 Minutes

… but if going insane from boredom means that your insanity will keep you entertained as not to keep you bored, wouldn't that be the same as going insane from the cure to the boredom? … or would it? … and why do I smell smoke? And its not the kind of smoke that gets everybody nearby high.

Oh shit oh shit oh shit… there is smoke coming from the cockpit! Crap… this is bad.

"Vergere! What the hell's going on in there! " I called out, concerned and frightened for my life.

" One of the consoles appears to be on fire." She shouted through the sudden din of alarms that sounded.

"WHAT!" the three of us in the back shouted, our collective boredom kicked out of our minds like a soccer ball by Pele.

"I said one of the consoles appears to be on fire." Yelled Vergere in a panicked voice.

"Well, can you put out the fire!" I yelled as the air became blurred from the acrid smoke that is present around burning electronics.

"If I fucking could, I would have already. You have so much to learn." She shouted.

"Vestara, why don't you use some sort of ice spell on it?" asked Domovoi in a curious, scared voice.

"Because if any of the ice melts, it will get into the circuitry and crap and fry the electronics rthat haven't caught on fire. That will kill us all." She shouted, shrugging.

"Wait… do you have the MP to do two Blizzaga spells in a row? " I asked in a hopeful voice over the blaring alarms. …why couldn't that have been the console to catch on fire?

"… yah, I think so. Why?" She said in a curious voice.

"Cast one Blizzaga on the fire, then cast another one a second afterwards to freeze the water melted from the first spell by the fire." I shouted, barely able to see from the smoke.

"OK!"she shouted.

Suddenly, the smoke filled air became a bit colder. About a second later, it became very cold. Almost to the point of shivering. Yet I wasn't going to complain. We were alive, and that is all that matters. Then the two flaws in my plan hit me.

"Vestara, did you freeze Vergere?" I asked in a neutral tone of voice.

"… kind of." She said, chuckling a nervous chuckle.

"Also… can you unfreeze the ice so we can get to the controls and land when we get to the Destiny Island's?" I asked in the same tone of voice, betraying no emotion.

"… fuck. … No, I can't." She said, her voice filled with a mix of emotion that said "oh crap, we're going to die, aren't we."

…ok. Yah, we are going to die. … well, maybe we will crash into Sora and kill him. That would be convenient. Like a kamikaze attack, but accidental. … as if that will actually it did, I would spend all of eternity laughing my freaking ass off.

That's the end of the filler. Next up will be a non Shade chapter. Not sure who yet. Maybe Sora and Kairi. … oh, and heres a hint for you all. The bad guys aren't always who they seem to be, if they are truly bad at all. Also, a question. What is good and evil? Is there a difference? If so, what is it? .. ok, so three questions. But these will be important later. However, my lips are sealed.

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