The mysteries of Twilight Town
Author's Notes- Oh my God I'm paragraphing. I've finally deciding that I'm going to try my best to paragraph this story better from now on. Hopefully, this will make my story look better, and give your eyes a break.
Sora jumped out of his bed, as he woke up. He looked at himself, in disbelief. What was he doing in his bed? Why wasn't he in hospital? Why didn't he even have a single scratch? Sora tried to calm down and think calmer. He was sure that he had fallen off the clock tower, and yet here he was. Alive. He shook his head. "It must have been a dream." He said to himself. But Hinata and Li, They both seemed so real.
As Sora was getting dressed, he remembered something. He had won the Struggle Tournament. Then there was Axel and Kakashi. They had fought. Or had that been a dream too? He looked at the trophy sitting, proudly, in the corner of his bedroom. The Champion's belt was sitting on the top of his little desk. He looked for the little blue crystal, which he had taken off the trophy. He couldn't find it. He checked all his pockets. He checked around his room. In his drawers, under the bed. Everywhere. It was gone, and while he was searching, another thought came to his mind. 'I don't even remember coming home last night…another one for the list.' This list was going to be as big as Santa's, if this kept up.
"There's only three days left of Summer vacation, Hayner. We need to get our homework done!" Olette and Hayner were having the same argument, that they had been having all summer.
"Please Olette. Don't make me do this." He moaned, making a little puppy-dog pout, in her direction.
Olette looked at him, sceptically. "Hayner!" She said, warningly.
Hayner stopped his pouting and looked towards Pence and Sora for assistance. The two looked at each other, then they saw Olette glaring at them. "Hayner. I believe that we should do our homework, like responsible young men." Sora said, making his high-pitched voice sound as grown-up as possible.
"Quite right, Sora, old chap. Now Hayner, we wouldn't want to get in trouble at school do we?" Pence said, putting on a horribly fake, British accent. "And I doubt Olette would be entirely impressed with you." Pence said, trying to tug on Hayner's heartstrings.
Hayner scowled at his chubby friend. He mouthed. 'I will kill you'. Sora and Pence burst into gales of laughter. "Then it's decided. We'll do our homework today. Now it's a research assignment, so we can do anything in the whole of Twilight Town. I asked Sensei, she says we can even investigate popular rumours Pence."
Pence smiled ear to ear, like something you would see fan girls doing on an anime character. What was it called? Chibi. Pence looked like a little Chibi. "Okay, Olette. There's one mystery here, but all of the other six are in the Sunset Hill area."
Olette waved a hand, dismissing it. "That's okay. Truth be told, I've been saving for supplies for this homework but if all we need is a return for four people, I'm sure I've got it covered."
Pence jumped up and picked up his map for the Seven Wonders of Twilight Town. "Let's get going then." He said, running out of the usual spot, faster than anyone had seen him go. The three others looked at each other and broke out in laughter, before setting off after him.
On the train ride, Sora had a look at all of the different wonders. There were a few that caught his eye, mainly because those were the ones that couldn't be explained by simple logic. 'The Friend from beyond the wall.' 'The Mysterious Train.' And…Sora's eyes bulged as he looked down at that wonder centred at the Haunted Mansion. 'The lonely Girl.' The description in Pence's untidy scrawl read. 'People say that when they look up at the window of the Haunted Mansion, a girl sometimes appears. This girl is described as being dressed in white, but with dark hair.' "Namine?"
"Say something Sora?" Hayner asked, looking away from the window.
Sora shook his head. "No…looks like we're here." Hayner, Pence and Olette looked out the window to see that Sora was right. They were at the station.
The gang got out of the train and Sora looked at the map, in his hands. "This says the first wonder is right here." He said, pointing at the stairway in front of him. "The spooky steps. Supposedly, there are supposed to change between going up and…pound?"
Pence frowned at the brunette. "Oi. If you can't read my writing, then give it to me. It says down."
Sora held his hands in the air and surrendered the map to Pence. "Shall we try to figure this out then?" Hayner and Olette started counting the steps going up, with Pence and Sora counting the downwards ones.
"I get nineteen." Hayner said, after counting.
"Same here." Sora said, frowning.
"You guys wondering about the spooky steps?" The four looked up at Rai, who was about the last off the train. "I actually discovered this little number, Y'know?"
Sora, Hayner, Pence and Olette looked at each other, a silent realisation passed through them all. Rai wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. He must've miscounted them. "Let's move on to the next one." Olette suggested.
"We should split up." Suggested Hayner. "Me and Olette will take the next couple." He and Olette looked at the map, nodded and set off.
Pence and Sora were going off to investigate 'The friend from beyond the wall.' Pence read. "Apparently, people find balls being thrown at them when they cross a bricked-off alleyway."
Sora arrived at the dead-end alley, while Pence was lagging behind. "Whoa!" Sora cried, a white ball, like what you would use in grandstander, came right at him.
Sora looked down the alleyway and gasped. There was no-one there, but the balls were coming straight out of the wall. "Get back!" Sora said, punching the balls away from him. One hit him in the face.
Sora growled and jumped off the walls, avoiding all of the balls trying to hit him. He kicked the wall, expecting it to be a screen or something, but it was a solid brick wall. His foot throbbed in pain, but the wall did seem to stop spitting out balls.
Pence arrived on the scene moments later. "What's with this one? Were you the one throwing that ball?"
Sora shook his head. "It was weird. It's like they actually came out of the wall."
Pence gave his partner a disapproving look. "Are you trying to spice up the report? We'll be alright without that. So, what shall we say? Some people like to throw balls at people and climb over the wall, before they're seen? Alright then." Pence started taking notes in a little book.
Hayner and Olette had come to collect Pence to show him that the Doppelganger rumour was nothing more than a person's reflection being shown by a small little fountain.
Sora was going to investigate 'The moans from the Tunnel'.
"Hm…" There was a huge tunnel system underneath Twilight Town. People often used it as a way of getting to the Sunset Hill area, without having to pay for a train. Sora heard the moans almost immediately, he followed the sounds, until he was at a little square area, Vivi was holding a struggle bat and was trying to pull off moves with it.
He was practicing and breathing hard, between battle cries. Sora found the scene quite cute, that was until he remembered at the struggle tournament, where Vivi had turned out to be one those silver jumpsuit guys, in disguise. But that had been a dream, hadn't it?
Sora was about to leave when. "Don't leave Number 13." Vivi commanded, in a cold high voice.
Sora turned on the spot. 13? Why did that number hold significance? "What did you say Vivi?"
"You cannot leave. We have orders to detain you." He said. We? The tunnel filled with Vivis.
Sora gasped. He backed up on the spot, as the Vivis advanced on him. "Get away from me!" Sora yelled, lashing out hits and kicks. The Vivis were hardly affected. Sora screamed. "Back Off! …Wind Style: Wind Scythe Hurricane Jutsu!" Sora began spinning on the spot, around him gusts of air were wrapping themselves around him and wind was cutting up the Vivis one by one. Within a matter of seconds, a dizzy Sora was left with one concerned looking Vivi.
"You okay, Sora? You got here and started spinning. You aren't drunk are you?" Sora shook his head.
"I'm fine, Vivi. Thanks for your concern." Vivi nodded at him and then left when Pence entered the room. He had a small talk with the plump boy, and then went on his way through the tunnel system. Unbeknown to them, right through a little black hole.
"So the moans were Vivi practicing for the struggle. It's no wonder he did so well in the Struggle Tournament then, he comes here and practices nearly every day." Pence said, taking more notes.
Hayner, Olette, Pence and Sora met at the foot of Sunset Hill. "There are two wonders up here. At the summit of this hill, there's supposed to be an animated bag up there. And up there's the best spot to try and get a glimpse of the wonder of the mysterious train'."
The gang made their way up the hill, the walk wasn't long, so even though Pence and Olette weren't the most physical involved people in the world, but they made up, easily enough.
Sora and Hayner arrived on the scene first. There was a huge bag jumping around on the summit.
The blond and the brunette looked at each other. Hayner smirked and jumped on the bag, and started riding it like at a rodeo. Sora stood his ground, as Hayner directed the bag at Sora's open arms.
They struggled to tame the bag. The two opened the bag, and a brown retriever dog came bustling out. He barked at Hayner and Sora.
Pence, Olette and a little boy came up to the summit. The boy took the dog, which was apparently his. He had put the dog in a bag to scare people. "Great way to treat your pets kid." Hayner commented.
The boy took the dog down the hill, pulled a kunai out of his pocket and stabbed the dog. "Damn Dusks!" The boy said, in a very low voice, that obviously belonged to an adult, before disappearing in a beam of light and numbers.
"The last wonder is a mystery train." Pence said. "A train that only a selected few can see passes over the tracks, despite the station having no record of it." The gang sat on Sunset hill looking for it. They waited for about an hour, when Pence finally decided enough was enough and called this one a trick of the light and the power of suggestion.
Just before they left though, Sora was sure he saw something, just out of the corner of his eye, a purple object moving across the tracks. He was about to say something when he remembered Pence's comment about the power of suggestion. That had to be it.
Hayner and Olette had gone home early that night. "You know, if all homework was that fun, I wouldn't school that much." He told Olette. She smiled.
"Then I'll try to get our homework to be more like that from now on." Hayner returned the smile.
Pence and Sora set off towards the Haunted Mansion to investigate 'The Lonely girl'.
Sora looked at the mansion suspiciously. "Which window is it?" He asked Pence.
The boy pointed a rather large finger at the long window at the left side of the mansion. "Right there."
Sora looked up. He didn't see anything at first besides a curtain and could vaguely make out a little black lampshade in the room. Until, Namine appeared at the window, he barely had time to acknowledge her existence, when he was sitting with her in a long white room. He was sat at one end of a table. Namine was at the other. I looked around the room. It was full of drawings. He looked out the window and saw Pence standing completely still. He was inside of the mansion.
Sora looked at a few pictures around the room. He recognised who the drawings were of. Mainly they were of Roxas, Naruto and Sakura. Roxas showed up a multiple of times. So did Sasuke. And then there was one of four people. Two of which he recognised, because they had their hoods on their cloaks down. The other two were concealed, although Sora got the feeling one of them was Ansem. "That's me and Axel, but why?"
Namine frowned at him, sadly. "Because you are best friends, Sora. Or at least, part of you is."
Sora didn't understand. "Part of me?"
Namine nodded. "You are made of three parts. You are Naruto's Nobody, yet you have hardly any of his memories inside of you. You have mainly the memories of Roxas and Sakura. Sakura's more than Roxas' because of Eli."
Sora blinked. "I'm sorry, but I still don't understand."
Namine shook her head. "It doesn't matter Sora. Besides, Diz wouldn't allow me to tell you more."
"Diz?"
"The man behind this whole operation. The man who put you here."
"Put me here?"
"Sora, you and I both know that you haven't been here longer than five days."
"That's…Who is Naruto? What is a Nobody?"
"You know who Naruto is. You've seen his life in your dreams a million times. As for a Nobody, you need to think to how the story ends. You must be getting there by now."
"…Naruto gave his life to protect Hinata. He released their two hearts."
"That's correct. A Nobody is what is created when a body's heart is taken away from it and it becomes hollow. A Nobody is made of Nothingness and memory. We have no hearts, although some people would beg to differ. Some people say you and I have hearts."
"So, I am Naruto?"
"No. You are a unique case that you and your Somebody exist at the same time, although this has damaged you both greatly. Naruto is currently asleep and he nor any of his friends will wake without you giving up what is their's."
"You're talking like I stole it from them! I didn't ask for this!"
"None of us did…Okay, I actually did but that's beside the point. Sora…you're not supposed to be exist!"
"…How could you say that! Well, unfortunately for you I do exist! I just don't know why!"
Namine sighed, sadly. "Goodbye Sora."
Sora found himself right next to Pence, who was writing in his notebook, as if nothing had happened? Had anything happened? Yes. Sora was now sure that this wasn't his own mind playing with him. There was something going on here. Something that he just couldn't comprehend.
"A curtain and a lampshade blowing in the breeze." Pence said, sadly. "And I really wanted this one to be true."
Sora watched Pence, as he left the sight of the Haunted Mansion. Sora looked back at the window. Namine was looking at him. She looked so sad. No. Sora saw what Namine was truly expressing. It was pity.
Sasuke played with a crystal blue orb that he had collected off Sora, the yesterday. Diz was on the computer, as usual. Kakashi had just returned from eliminating the invading dusks, in the Sunset hill area. "We're almost done now boys. There's just Sora's involvement and then Namine's elimination to handle now."
Sasuke almost broke his crystal. "What? Eliminating Namine? Why?" He exploded. Kakashi put a hand on his shoulder. A warning.
"Sasuke." Diz said, turning in his chair. "We can no longer let Namine live. She has too much power and she knows too much."
Sasuke threw his head back and laughed. "She's been helping us! She's not a puppet you can use and then get rid of Diz! She has a heart! She's in love with Roxas! She's even got a Keyblade of Light!"
Diz shook his head. "If you will not kill her Sasuke, I will get Kakashi to do it."
The silver haired man shook his head. "I'm sorry Diz, but I'm going with Sasuke on this one."
Diz glared at them both. "Such impudence." He grumbled, while getting back to his work. "Fine. She may live, but I want one of you to be her guardian."
"I'll do it." Sasuke said, immediately.
"Very well. Keep her alive and monitor her activity. I suppose Roxas won't be very fond of me, if I send out the task to eliminate his sweetheart."
Sasuke smiled, victoriously, before throwing his crystal up in the air again, before making the effort to catch it again.
"Don't act so smug." Diz warned Sasuke. "I may very well change my mind."
"So, you couldn't bring him back?" Axel sighed, under his superior's questioning.
"It's not like that. Namine's messed with his memories. Just give me a little more time with him." The Flurry of Dancing Flames pleaded with his superior, Xemnas.
Axel was in the round room, also called The room where Nothing gathers. Along with Axel and Xemnas, also witnessing his begging were Number II-Xigbar, Number III- Xaldin, VI- Saix, VIII- Sephiroth, IX-Luxord, XI- Ruby Moon and XII- Spinnel Sun.
"There is no more time Axel!" Xemnas said, silencing Axel's pleas. "If you can't bring him back…then let him join and awaken the original Key Wielders and we'll use them to create Kingdom Hearts."
Axel was wounded, as if Xemnas had just stabbed him. His boss was telling him to stand aside and let his friend disappear, just so he could have his precious little Kingdom Hearts. It made Axel sick to his stomach. At that moment, Axel began to realise why Sora had turned on the Organization. They were evil and doing something that was all based on theory. Axel couldn't take it anymore. He was leaving the Organization!
A/N- Yeah, this chapter was kinda boring I'm afraid, but I tried to give it a little bit more of a boost with Axel deciding to leave the Organization. Also, some people might have picked up on something that has come about from me watching and reading WAY too much KH Yoai and now had become a plot point. Oh and you though this story was messed up before. Just you wait!