"The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round..." Skye, Yuki, and Bryan all drawled as the gummi ship flew through space. "The wheels on the bus go round and round, ALL THROUGH THE TOWN!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!"
Riku, who had just about enough of their singing, was gripping the steering wheel tightly. He was just about ready to get some duct tape and tape their mouths shut if they began to sing another song.
"I'm getting tired of singing." Bryan spoke up with a yawn.
Thank you! Riku thought, pressing buttons to adjust some settings.
"Well, can you guys think of anything better to do while Dad's driving to Twilight Town?" asked Yuki.
Skye put a hand to his chin and began to think. "Hmm. How about we play the license plate game?" he asked.
"Great idea!" Yuki squealed. She peeked out the window and began to look for other gummi ships.
While the kids were playing their little license plate game, Sora spoke with Hurky and Riku.
"I wonder what Roxas has been up to this time around?" Sora asked. "It's been a while since I've talked to Roxas."
"Well, the last I heard, the university was undergoing some inspections by the Universal Accreditation Team." Hurky said as she knit something with pink yarn. She had taken knitting lessons from Kairi a while back due to boredom. "He never called me and told me how it went."
When Roxas was eighteen and graduated high school, he applied to several colleges in the universe. Sadly, all of them rejected him. After beating up his mailbox, Axel gave Roxas the idea to start his own university. Desperate to avoid working in the sea salt ice cream factory, Roxas started his own fictional college, called The Friendly Academy of Resourceful Technology. After a string of events (As of this writing, the story linked to this is not complete), Roxas was able to keep the university. He has remained the president for about twenty years now. It's one of the most successful colleges in the universe, despite the many different class choices.
"I see one from Balamb!" Bryan yelled at the top of his lungs.
"And I see Twilight Town!" Riku said, preparing for landing. "Everyone, buckle in!"
"We already are," Skye pointed out.
"I know. I just wanted to make sure you guys are safe." Riku explained. He paused. "And I also like saying that."
Sora rolled his eyes and shook his head. Even though Riku was in his late 30s, he still acted like a kid.
Riku geared the gummi ship to land in Twilight Town and the ship lowered and lowered until it landed on the launch pad nearby the train station (I just came up with that out of nowhere). Everyone unbuckled and got up from their seats and got out of the ship.
"Where do you think we can find Roxas?" Hurky asked as the group walked away from the ship.
"Most likely at FART." Sora replied.
Riku snickered. "Haha. I still can't believe that college's abbreviation is FART!" he laughed.
Sora gave Riku a Look and he shut his mouth.
Suddenly, Bryan bumped into a man holding a bag of groceries.
"Hey, watch it!" the man said.
"No, you watch it, man!" Bryan said.
Hurky went to go help the man up while Sora helped Bryan up. Hurky saw the man and realized who he was.
"Roxas?" she asked.
The man, who had very short blonde hair, was wearing a suit with a black and white checkered tie. He smiled. "Hurky?" he asked. He looked at Sora and Riku. "Hey! It's been years! How have you been?"
Sora grinned. "I've been doing great!" he answered excitedly. "Kairi's been doing fine, too! How are you and Namine?"
Roxas and Namine were now married with kids of their own. Namine had previously been married, but she left Justin Baker after he proved to be very lazy and refused to get a job after being fired every week for six months. A few months later, Namine and Roxas reunited and started dating. After a year, Roxas finally proposed and six months later, they got married. In a course of eleven years, Roxas and Namine settled down and had two boys. Namine was still hoping for a girl.
"Namine's pregnant." Roxas said happily.
"WHAT?" All the adults except Roxas yelped.
Roxas grinned and nodded. Riku patted Roxas on the back.
"Congrats! How long is she into the pregnancy?" Sora asked.
"Seven months," Roxas answered with a smile. "And it's going to be a girl!"
Hurky squealed. "OMG, I'm so happy for you guys!" she said, throwing her arms around Roxas. She knew how much Namine wanted a girl. Raising 2 boys was tough and Namine wanted a little girl to buy Barbie dolls for and talk about things like make-up and boys. She's spent the past 11 years dealing with Legos, Transformers, and G.I. Joe figures littering the floor. Hurky let go.
"So what brings you guys here?" asked Roxas.
"We haven't seen you in a while, so we wanted to stop here and say hi!" Riku explained.
Sora put on a serious face. "Roxas, my son Skye has been chosen as a keyblade master," he began. "But Oarah bon Sorton took it from him and we've got to get it back from her!"
Roxas scratched his chin in thought. "That name sounds familiar," he said, trying to picture a face. "Who is she again?"
"She's Ansem's daughter." Hurky replied. "She, like her father, isn't right inside the head."
Riku nodded. "It's true. You won't believe what crazy things she did when we were younger!" he said.
"You mean like that one reality show?" Roxas teased. "I remember watching that! She ran around yelling, "DARKNESS!!'"
Everyone but Riku laughed.
"But seriously!" Riku spoke up admidst the laughter. "We've got to get the keyblade, otherwise it'll become accustomed to Oarah and she'll try to take down Sora and the other keyblade masters, and then take over the universe!"
"WHAT?" Roxas yelped this time. "We've got to look all around! I'll get Hayner and Pence to help out if you want!"
"The more people, the better," Sora agreed. "Let's go!"
Meanwhile, in the dark, unknown world, the man who was working for Oarah was asleep in his bed, having a dream. It had that girl in it again, and this time, the guy in the previous dream was in it. He was wearing a black and white tuxedo with a pink rose on the jacket. He was standing in front of a door to what appeared to be a dorm room.
"What's taking her so long?" he asked impatiently, taking peeks at his watch. "The doors are gonna open in ten minutes!"
Right then, the door opened and there stood the girl, wearing a long, pink gown with spaghetti straps, pink high heeled closed toed shoes, and her hair was still down, but it had been done at the hair salon and it was wavy-curly halfway down her hair. The top part of her hair was straight. And, on her face, she wore pink eyeshadow and pink lipstick. The young man's jaw dropped at how beautiful she looked right now. This girl was one of the Plain Janes of the school. She was normally plain but she was always making up her own rules and did things in her own unique way. Like wearing skateboard shoes with her uniform instead of loafers and black shorts under her skirt.
"You look...absoutely stunning!" the boy said, after he managed to close his jaw. He handed the girl a pink rose corsage that sat in a small clear box. "This is for you."
The girl smiled. "Aww, thank you so much, zzzzzz!" she said in awe.
"Hold out your wrist." the boy directed, taking the corsage out of the box.
The girl held out her right wrist and the boy strapped the corsage to it. He smiled.
"There. Now it completes your outfit." he said, grinning from ear to ear.
The girl blushed. The boy held out his arm. The girl linked her arm with his, and they took off into the corridors of the school.
That was when the man shot up in bed, panting and gasping. His long brown hair was damp and he was wearing a sleeveless white shirt. He was drenched in a cold sweat.
Why...he thought, still panting. Why do these dreams keep coming to me? They make no sense! Who is that girl and why is she doing this? What message is she trying to send?
He turned to his right and saw that it was 3:42am. He sighed and laid back down into his pillows. He waited five minutes and closed his eyes, drifting back into a deep sleep.
A few hours later, the man woke up. He didn't have another dream about the strange girl since he woke up earlier. He looked to his right again and saw that it was 7:19am. He closed his eyes and stirred. Maybe Oarah was still asleep and he could get a few more winks of sleep in. Oarah normally got up early every morning to plot, but there were some mornings when she slept until the afternoon.
"Dante!" Oarah's voice boomed through the corridors and rang into the open door of his bedroom. "Get your lazy butt up and get over here! I have an assignment for you!"
Dante sighed and sat up. He yawned and stretched.
What does that old bat want this time? he thought, irritated. Oarah was actually younger than he was, but she looked a lot older with the plastic surgeries she had gotten over the years and all the botox injections. Dante didn't know what Oarah's real age was, since she told him she was thirty-two when she was actually about thirty-seven or thirty-eight. He knew she was lying about her age.
So, Dante got dressed in the white cloak with black swirls all over it, a white belt, and black boots. As he walked in the halls, he pulled the cloak over his long, brown hair.
"DANTE!!" Oarah screamed.
"I'm here, I'm here!" Dante said, walking in. He put his hands on his hips. "What is it that you want?"
Oarah smiled a devious smile. She was once again sitting in her throne, only she was in a bathrobe and slippers. She was still holding Skye's keyblade.
"Dante, will you get me some breakfast?" she asked.
Dante made an annoyed face. She was always making him get breakfast for her. He wanted to know exactly what she was going to do with the keyblade.
"Oarah, are there any plans with that keyblade?" Dante asked.
"Why? Are you planning on stealing it?" Oarah asked quickly.
Dante made a face. "Uh, no. You have that thing in your hands all the time." he replied.
"I'm gonna take over the universe!" Oarah said with a cackle. "All the people in the worlds will be bowing to me! My daddy may have failed at doing it, but I'm not going to!!!"
Dante backed away slowly. "I'm just...gonna go get your breakfast..." he said. He turned around and walked off. He really didn't like dealing with Oarah.
Back in Twilight Town, the sun was setting after an unsuccessful day of searching for the keyblade. Roxas invited the adults and the kids over for dinner at his house.
"Namine?" Roxas called, opening the door.
A woman with long blonde hair wearing a white sleeveless shirt, capri pants, and fuzzy white slippers walked in from the kitchen. "Hi Roxas!" she said, giving him a hug and a peck on the cheek. Roxas was sure to be careful with Namine's bumpy stomach. They let go and Namine took a look at Sora, Riku, Hurky, Skye, Yuki, and Bryan. "OMG, hi guys! It's been forever since I saw you guys!"
She went to give everyone hugs. She took a good look at the kids and said, "Wow, you guys have all grown!"
"Mooooommmmmmm!!" yelled a little boy's voice. Everyone turned to the door and saw that two boys fighting over a toy robot. Both of the boys had blonde hair, but one had spiky hair and the other one had half of his hair spiky and the other side wasn't. "Chad won't share his toy!"
Namine sighed. "Here." she said. She took the toy from the kids and put it up on a high shelf. "Now no one gets it!"
The kids groaned. Roxas laughed. "You guys can have the toy after dinner, but you have to take turns!" he said. He turned to his friends. "These are our sons. Chad and Jake."
"I'm eight!" Jake said, holding up eight fingers. "Chad's eleven!"
"I'm gonna start middle school in the fall," Chad said.
"Boys, these are our friends, Sora, Riku, Hurky, Skye, Yuki, and Bryan." Namine introduced. "Sora's the keyblade master!"
"Cool!" The boys said. Chad went up to Sora. "My dad's told me all these stories on how you kicked tons of heartless butt! How did you do it? Did you spend years practicing?"
"Is that why you're so strong?" Jake asked.
Sora chuckled. "To answer your questions, when I got my keyblade, I didn't have time to train. I had to think really fast and just slash at the heartless until they were gone." he explained. "It's also how I got really strong."
Riku rolled his eyes. And he thought he suffered from egotism. Sora liked to bask in his own fame.
Hurky: I know not a lot happened in this chapter, but I'm sure some more stuff will happen in the next chapter.
Riku: It's just mainly one of those talking chapters. It's like watching an episode of an action anime and all they do the whole episode is talk! What a waste of space!!! (walks aways grumbling)