"Selphie! God, we've been looking everywhere!" Kairi said, running toward the lost friend, she was with a group of seniors. Sora barely recognized one of them but Kairi recognized her completely. "Aqua? You found her?"
"Yep, we made sure to latch onto her, she looked like she was running away, meaning people were following." Aqua smirked. Upon further inspection, Selphie was tied up. The tallest of Aqua's three friends pulled out a switchblade and cut the string
"Hello Sora. Long time no see." She said, putting the knife away.
"Paine." Sora said with a but of a shake.
"This is the one who threw up on you?" said the blonde girl, she looked about as caffienated as Yuffie.
"Sora?" Kairi asked.
"Paine." Said a new voice. Riku was behind them, Wakka too who was holding the runaway Tidus.
"TIDUS!" yelled the brunette girl.
"OKAY I AM FREAKING CONFUSED!" Kairi yelled.
"Paine is my older sister. Sora threw up on her one Christmas when he was six and got the tar beaten out of him, and is still afraid of her." Riku said tonelessly.
"I'm Yuna and Tidus is my baby brother." Yuna said, hugging the boy.
"I guess it's true what they say, this is a family school. Me father went here, and his father before him, and even his before him." Wakka said, counting on his fingers.
"Let's just get the lovebirds back to the shack, have a quiet talk with them." Sora said.
"Lovebirds? What're they talking about Tidus?" Yuna asked a smirk pulling at her lips.
"Well if Yuffie told the school paper you'll hear about it on Sunday." Tidus spat.
"That's enough Tidus. Just because you're pissed at Yuffie doesn't mean you can take it out on your sister." Sora said angrily. "Thanks for holding Selphie girls, we owe you one."
"Then come by sooner and later and mow our damned lawn! Rikku's too lazy to do it." Aqua said, pointing at the blonde girl.
"Shaddup Aqua!" she retorted, sticking out her tounge. Sora and Riku had to carry Tidus over their shoulders and Selphie went quietly as they went back to the cabin.
After scolding Hayner, Pence, and Olette (they were playing video games instead of searching for Selphie) they got right down to business.
"First off, we will talk to Yuffie about other people's privacy, secondly nobody is angry about you about last night, just surprised." Kairi said sternly. "I'm sure you two will slow things down, that is if you haven't split up."
"We won't, corny as it sounds it was love at first sight." Selphie said, Tidus just blushed.
"How romantic." Olette commented.
"Okay please just slow it down between you two, and we'll try to keep comments about it to a minimum." Kairi said, rubbing her forehead.
"And be sure to use a con-" Hayner started before Tidus shoved his left shoe into the blonde's mouth.
"What do you take me for, a third grader? I already know that stuff." Tidus seethed.
"Tidus, calm down." Selphie asked quietly. "There's been enough anger today." Tidus shook his head in agreement. After a long (and loud) talk with Yuffie, the group made peace and Riku bought a few pizzas for dinner.
"Tidus… I'm really sorry. You too Selphie. If either of you EVER need help with ANYTHING I'll be there like lightning fed on pixie sticks and cocaine." Yuffie said, holding her shuriken up high.
"Yuffie please tell me the cocaine was just part of the analogy." Riku said darkly.
"It is, but I do have a million pixie sticks stashed away in the cabin." Yuffie replied, everybody laughed, even Tidus and Selphie.
The next few days passed quicker than expected, Wakka was conned into mowing not only Shack XIII's lawn, but also Cabin XIV's, and even Cabin XXVI's, which was Aqua and co.'s. Hayner and Roxas trained for struggle, they heard that the team would be starting up in about a month. Selphie and Tidus were being all lovey-dovey, kissing, talking quietly amongst eachother, etcetera; which caused more than one occasion Sora had to spray them with a spritz bottle. School was starting the next day, and they found a letter taped to the door.
"What're our classes?" Hayner asked. Roxas opened it and with all the boys gathered around, listening intently. "Blah blah blah, we're sharing classes with XIV and XII, etcetera etcetera, oh here we go!
Period One: Math with Mr. Saix
Period Two: Science with Mr. Vexen
Period Three, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: Gym with Mr. Luxaeus
Period Three, Tuesdays and Thursdays Music and Art with Mr. Demyx
Lunch
Lunch
Period Six, M,W,F: Magic Training with Mr. Zexion
Period Six, T & T: Gardening and Home Ec. With Mr. Marluxia
Period Seven M,W,F: Combat with Mr. Axel
Period Seven T & T: Hero Survival Tips and Activities with Mr. Luxord
Period Eight: English with Miss Larxene
Period Nine M,W,F: War Strategies and Activities with Mr. Xigbar
Period Nine T&T: Social Studies with Mr. Xaldin
In other words, a hell of a lot of classes." Roxas finished.
"Two lunches?" Sora asked.
"No, our lunch is two class periods long. We have some classes every day, and some alternate. You guys didn't do much studying about the place beforehand did you?" Riku asked. A dark smirk came to his lips. "Well then I guess you haven't heard of the Legend of the Unversed."
"Riku, Don't go there!" Roxas yelled. "We Don't even know if we can trust them with this info!"
"Only us, Yuffie, You, and Paine are to know of the other half of the story, the rest was disavowed." Sora said angrily. "I'm pretty sure that means only us and those who told it to us can know about it!"
"What? Go on, you can trust us!" Hayner yelled. Tidus, Wakka, and Pence nodded in agreement.
"Go on Riku." Said a voice. Yuffie and Paine were in the doorway.
"What are you two doing here?" Tidus asked, running to his sword, Yuffie threw her shuriken and it hit the floor in front of him.
"We weren't followed, so it should be fine, I just wanted to see my little brother's new digs." Paine said with a smirk. "But it looks like the Fenrir Fellowship has been reborn."
"Fabba-wha?" Tidus questioned. Yuffie lowered the blinds and Paine locked the door and shut off the lights. Sora, Roxas, and Riku light up some candles in the middle of the room
"They say sixteen kids died here the first year it opened, and there are hidden tombs for each of them. Each ridden with Traps." Riku started. "But they say if you get proof you've gotten to the end of all of them, you get the Unversed Trophy, one of the schools three highest honors. But they tend to keep the Unversed Trophy under wraps."
"Wait, how do you know these things even exsist?" Hayner asked.
"Well it strangely enough has to do with how we call Riku, Paine, and Yuffie our cousins." Sora started "Our dad, Riku's dad, Yuffie's adoptive dad, and one other guy lived in Shack VII and didn't get along too well at first, so they decided to race around campus to see who was the coolest or something like that..."
"But halfway there they fell into this pit near the lake, it was the hidden entryway to one of the sixteen tombs. Above the door carved into the stone was the thing that said if you proved your mettle in all sixteen tombs, atop their stone caskets there is a piece of metal chained to the ground. and a large bowl of oil." Roxas stepped in. Riku stepped forward to explain.
"If you set the oil ablaze and use it to heat the tip to the metal bar on the chain Roxas talked about, you can press it to a piece of wood and it'll leave a mark like a cattle brand." Riku said looking deep into the flame of the candle. "If you present all sixteen marks to the headmaster he'll give the house the trophy, which means a place here for all the descendants of the finders."
"We're gonna find 'dem." Wakka said, they all turned to the boy.
"I want to do it too, and if any of you want to come with us, you are welcome to." Tidus said, putting a hand on Wakka's shoulder.
"Good, because we have thirteen to find." Sora said.
"Count me out." Paine said dimly.
"I'm in!" Yuffie squealed. "I'll be for this shack but I'll still get part of the adventure!"
"I may not be good at obstacles but if you need a brain in the bunch, I'm your man." Pence said, with a thumbs up.
"Well looks like Yuffe's getting your night vision goggles then Pence, I already ordered some for us online, this'll be the perfect opritunity to use em." Hayner smirked. Sora turned on the light. "But you said we had to find thirteen, and that there were sixteen about."
"I'm out at this point boys. Enjoy your adventure." Paine said, exiting the room.
"We still have the three we need." Sora said with a shrug. "Assuming one of you kept yours."
"Mine's back at the cabin." Yuffie said sadly.
"I've got mine." Riku said, pulling a necklace with a key out of a suitcase. Roxas and Sora pulled identical keys from the chains on their necks. Roxas then took a large book from his backpack.
"Our dads gave us these keys, just in case we needed this book. You need three to open the lock on the book." Roxas explained.
"What the? Brothers Cloud, Barret, Vincent, and Cid's Atlas-Shinra." Pence read the cover aloud.
"The Atlas-Shinra was my father's main project, and the group's main edge. Most of the pages are blank, can anyone write maps?" Riku asked. Pence raised his hand. "Good. This already has a bunch of the school's secret passageways and hidden shortcuts, as well as the locations of the first three Tombs."
"In the first year they found a tomb, then on their third year. Cid was diagnosed with lung Cancer on the fifth year of their enrollment, they were too worried to search." Sora stated sadly. "He passed at the beginning of final year and to honor his memory they found the third. In six years they found three, we have that much time but we have to find more than four times that many."
"Well let's quit yapping and start searching!" Yuffie yelled.
"Not tonight, classes start tommorow. Saturday morning we go out and search." Riku interjected. "Sora, Roxas, take Yuffie back, it's getting late." With that the white haired male climbed up to his bed and nodding off. "Lock up the Atlas-Shinra, keep it hidden."
"I'm on it." Tidus said. He went to the supply closet and pulled up a trap door. "Found this yesterday. Where do I put these?" Tidus asked, holding up two Frisbees with fire designs and spikes on them. Hayner grabbed one and looked on the inside.
"We wait until Combat Training and get extra credit." Hayner smirked, pointing to three words on the inside written in permanent ink; Property of Axel.
(A/N: just the usual chestnut, I don't own kingdom hearts or any of the mentioned copyrighted material. I have officially set up a plot, not a very good plot but one nonetheless. Who doesn't like a good treasure hunt story? Well at least you'll get a mediocre one. I'm trying to a point so don't fill the review box with flames please.)