Sora landed the gummi ship in the gummi garage of Disney Castle half an hour later (I don't remember the names of the rooms anymore, since I haven't played KH2 in a long time). Sora had gone the speed limit to get there (He normally drives a little under the speed limit to avoid accidents and getting pulled over, but he was in a big hurry). Everyone got off the ship. Skye was in awe as he stepped off the ship and walked through the open corridors to the main part of the castle. This was the first time he'd ever seen something other than island. Here, there were no palm trees, no water anywhere in sight except for maybe a fountain. There no no seagulls cawing and circling the place. Grass was everywhere. There was grass on Destiny Islands, but you had to go far into the town to see grass. Skye's house did have grass, but as soon as you stepped off their lawn, you're faced with sand.
"So where does King Mickey sit all day, anyway?" asked Bryan as the walked and walked some more.
"Are you kidding me, Bryan?" Riku cried. "He doesn't just sit there all day! You know what he has to do? He has to help-"
"Sawa! Wiku! Is that you?" asked a quacky voice.
Riku turned to his right and saw Donald and Goofy running up to them.
"Donald! Goofy!" Sora exclaimed with a grin. He opened his arms and Donald and Goofy threw themselves towards him and all hugged.
"This is getting weirder and weirder." Skye commented.
Goofy let go of Sora and saw Skye. He smiled and walked over to the spiky red head. "Is that Skye? Garwsh, he's grown up so much!" he said, amazed at how tall Skye's gotten to be. "Last time I saw him, he was a lot shorter than Donald!"
"HEY!" fumed the pantsless duck. He waddled over to Skye and stopped in front of him to stare at him. Suddenly, he began to laugh and threw his arms around him. Skye continued to be confused.
"I hate to break up this reunion, Sora, but we've got some business to tend to!" said a voice.
Everyone looked over to the west and saw King Mickey walking over to them with his hands behind his back. "Gentlemen," he said. He looked at Yuki and Hurky and bowed to them. "Ladies. Follow me to the throne."
He started to walk and everyone followed. Mickey talked as they walked.
"Now, you all know that Oarah is the daughter of Ansem, right?" asked King Mickey. "She has the same powers and practically the same mind her father did. You know what this means?"
"That she has a high opinion of herself?" Hurky guessed.
"That's one thing!" said Mickey, agreeing with Hurky's hypothesis. "But she also has the power to control heartless. She sent them to the islands to try to take care of Sora and the other wielders, meaning Skye's parents, Yuki's parents, Bryan's mother, and Hurky. She also wants to avenge Ansem."
"Why?" cried Sora, "It's not like we killed Ansem. He died of cancer. We could only kill him from the outside."
"Was it butt cancer?" joked Riku. Hurky smacked him upside the head.
"What are you, 16?" Hurky asked in disbelief. "This is a serious matter!"
"Hey, I'm just trying to lighten the mood!" Riku said, taking out a cigarette, lit it up, and took a puff.
"And I think Ryo will notice the fact that you're smoking when you come home smelling like cigarette smoke!" Hurky pointed out. "I know, because my brother used to stink up my house!"
Riku took another puff and gave Hurky an evil look. "I just won't smoke for several hours. Easy as pie," he said in an irritated tone of voice.
"But Riku, think about it," said the King, walking alongside Riku. "You cut off 17 seconds from your life every time you smoke a cigarette. Plus, the more you smoke, the more harder it will be to quit! Quitting is not easy as pie...mmm, pie!"
"You know, I don't rag on and on about Goofy's drinking!" Riku yelled.
"That's because I do it in a comedic way, ahyuck!" laughed Goofy as he took a drink of his mojito. "Want some, Riku?"
"No!" cried Riku. "I won't drink from the same glass you slobbered all over! I may smoke, but I don't drink!"
"How come?" asked Hurky.
"Well, gee, remember that time I was in college?" asked Riku. "It was the only time I got drunk. Ryo was visiting her parents, so I went to one of those parties, and I got so wasted on beer that I thought the grandfather clock was a-"
"Riku, there are children here!" Sora reminded Riku angrily, reminding Riku that there was a fourteen-year-old and two thirteen-year-olds present.
"Oh, right." Riku said. "Sorry guys!"
"Wow, Dad, I didn't know you were once a party animal!" Yuki said with a giggle.
"I never was." said Riku, puffing out some more smoke. "I could have gone to lots of them in high school, but I didn't want to. A lot of people then thought I wasn't cool because I hung out with the unpopular kids."
King Mickey and the group reached their destination. "Now, we are about to enter a very important room. It's where I sit beside Queen Minnie and make my decisions about what to do. No smoking! That means you, Riku!"
Riku sighed, dropped the remainder of his cigarette, and stepped on it. One of the walking mops came, swept up the crushed cigrarette, and sped away.
Mickey knocked on the big, gigantic doors and waited for a response. A second later, a regular sized door opened up on it's own and everyone entered through it. Skye and his friends thought that was very unusual. What was the point of making these huge looking doors when there's really a secret little door? It must be for when giant people came to see the King and Queen.
The room was large and had hardly anything in it but one throne. The floors were very shiny and there were large windows. Mickey led the group to the throne and he sat in it.
"Now," he began with an important businesslike tone in his voice. "Oarah is hiding out somewhere, I just know it. She may be with her uncle, but no one's heard much about him since Ansem died."
"Just who is her uncle, anyway?" asked Sora.
"Xemnas." replied the king (Yes, I know. He's a Nobody of Xehanort. I'm having it so that he's Ansem's brother and Oarah's uncle) "He may be helping her out wherever she's hiding. Oarah has a very low IQ. That's all the info I have on her."
Riku cleared his throat. "Ahem. She was the most unpopular and the most annoying girl in Destiny Islands Elementary, Destiny Islands Middle, and Destiny Islands High School. She and her family were pretty wealthy, so she paid people to be her friend. Me and my friends always called her 'Horse Hair,' 'Dog Fur,' and 'Horsey,' Her dad took my car when I was like fifteen or sixteen just so Oarah could have a date with me WHICH SHE PUT ON REALITY TV!" he said. Suddenly, tears welled up in his eyes as memories of his first car came back. "My Escalade!! My poor Escalade!"
Riku's Cadillac Escalade (I do not own the names), the car that started off the Dude Where's series, was totaled when Riku was 25, after owning it for nine years. He wasn't even in the vehicle. Two idiots were street racing and one ended up smashing into Riku's car while it was parked on the street. The guy's car was perfectly fine and no one got hurt. Devastated, Riku had to go out and buy a new car, which was a white Scion. He still owned one of the original keys to the Escalade, which he keeps in a box in the closet of his and Ryo's bedroom.
Sora sighed frustratingly. "Riku, it's just a car!" he said.
"I know, but it was my very first car!" wailed Riku. "At least your first car gave up on you!"
"It left me stranded in the middle of nowhere, Riku!" said Sora. "I had to call you for a ride!"
Mickey watched the two bicker for the next minute or so. Finally, he turned to Hurky and the children.
"So, as I was saying, before these two started their arguing, you must search high and low within the next ten hours." he continued. He stood up and began to walk to the window with his hands behind his back. "Oarah has her ways. If the keyblade becomes hers, who knows what will happen? She has one of the most powerful keyblades. I know that she is rumored to have hidden in Halloweentown, Radiant Garden, Balamb, The World That Never Was, and most likely, The End of the World. I would go look there if I were you. I just know she's hiding somewhere. And she has an apprentice. Be careful of him. He is a pretty powerful person himself and he is a lot smarter than Oarah."
"Uh, I hate to break it to you, Your Majesty, but everyone is smarter than Oarah!" Hurky said.
"Yeah! Goofy's a lot more intelligent than that lady! And he's dumb as a brick! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!!" joked Donald with a laugh.
Skye turned to Goofy, who was finishing off his mojito and walking away.
"I'm going to go get me another mojito!" he said as he walked to the mini bar.
"Uh, I don't think that's healthy for him to be drinking so much alcohol," Yuki commented.
"Oh, don't worry about him," said Mickey, waving it off. "If he doesn't drink, he can't function at all!"
"Well, I don't think we want to waste any more time," Hurky said. "Kids, let's go!"
Skye, Yuki, and Bryan followed Hurky, who then grabbed both Sora and Riku by their ears.
"I swear, you two are worse than Seth when he doesn't eat sugar." Hurky muttered.
"Owowowowowowowowowwowow!!" cried Sora and Riku at the pain in their ears and Hurky's long and sharp nails.
Mickey laughed to himself. "Have a safe trip and good luck!" he called.
Meanwhile, back at Oarah's secret hideout, the man in the cloak was sharpening his sword. He had to prepare to fight the keyblade master and his son. The sword was silver and it had blue jewels embedded in it. The blade was now sharp enough to cut through a soda can made of heavy aluminum.
Gotta go destroy the keyblade master for Oarah to rule, thought the man as he finished sharpening the weapon and studying it. Suddenly, he felt dizzy and lightheaded. What's happening? Why is everything so...
That was right when he passed out, sword clanging on the floor as it fell out of his hands and he hit the floor. While he was out, he had a dream. It was in a large room that looked like a classroom. There were about thirty teenagers, sitting in 7 rows of 5 desks. The classroom itself had large windows with no curtains. Sunlight poured in and brightened the classroom. A tall blonde haired girl was at the front, teaching the class. On the markerboard indicated what the date was. April 14th, 2003. Twenty-five years earlier.
"You will all get your special tattoos when you graduate from this wonderful school." said the girl. She wore glasses. She was unusually young to be a teacher. "The graduation ceremony will be-Miss zzzzzzzz, are you paying attention?"
A girl with long brown hair with glasses wearing a navy blue shirt with a big, yellow bow on the chest, skirt, long black socks, and black, white, and pink skateboard shoes was tinkering with a weapon that looked like a long pipe.
"Uh, yeah?" she lied. She was obviously not paying attention.
"What exactly is it, anyway? I still have yet to cover that weapon." said the teacher.
"It's a bazooka!" the girl said happily. "It's capable of-"
"-I've heard of what it can do." said the teacher. She walked over to the girl at her desk and stretched out her hand. "I'm afraid that I'm going to have to take that away from you, Miss zzzzzzz. This isn't Defense class." she said.
Why can't I hear the girl's name? thought the man as he viewed his dream.
Before the girl could fork over the weapon, she accidentally pulled the trigger and a loud blast shot out from the weapon and hit the west side of the classroom, narrowly missing her classmates and making a big hole in the wall. The entire class stared at the hole and then to the girl, who was just grinning a nervous grin and laughed a tiny laugh. The teacher was not happy at all.
"Dude, it was just an accident!" said the girl.
"Grr, Miss zzzzz, GO TO THE ADMINISTRATION, NOW!" screamed the teacher. "AND I AM NOT A DUDE!"
The girl sighed as the class laughed. She turned to her left to see a boy with brown, short hair, hazel eyes, lightly tanned skin, and wearing a navy blue jacket (which was part of the male version of the uniform), and a white shirt, a few seats over. His expression appeared to be shocked.
"Victory is mine!" shouted the girl as she walked out of the classroom.
"Hell yeah, zzzzz!" said a girl wearing the same uniform as her friend, only she wore black Chuck Taylor Converse shoes and her hair was tied into a bun. "Way to tell off The Woman!"
The boy smiled as his friend walked out. His other friend with the hair tied in a bun nudged him with her elbow.
"Zzzzzz's gonna rule the school one day!" she said.
The boy was about to speak when the man regained consciousness and opened his eyes...
Back on the gummi ship, Riku was looking through the navigation system on a laptop, typing on it.
"Well, do you think a good place to look would be Twilight Town?" he asked.
Sora sat back in his chair and thought. "Hmm. Yeah, let's go. I haven't seen Roxas and Namine in a while!" he said as he pressed buttons and pulled a lever. The gummi ship blasted out of the Gummi Garage and into the sky...
Hurky: What is the deal with those weird flashbacks that guy is having?
Riku: The ring came off my pudding can!
Hurky: Well, I'm out of time for now. Updating late at night again. This time, at two in the morning. Good night!