Kingdom Hearts:Birth by Sleep Zero-Terra's Story-Chapter 2
The only thing I saw for a few moments was the flailing of barbed Unbirth arms.
It wasn't even slashing my face, so it didn't seem like it was attacking me. Or so I thought...
The Unbirth had stopped swinging it's arms around, and had started to gaze up into the black abyss above us, as if it was waiting for a command from the voice. It turns out that I was right.
The voice had said only one simple sentence: "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands."
In the Unbirth's response, it clapped it's hands, and time had seemed to stop.
I waited for what seemed like hours on end, for what, I didn't know.
All of the sudden, everything was red. Blood had started to gush out of my face, shooting out from multiple cuts.
Time had come back to normal speed, grimacing pain came along with it.
I fell over, burying my face in my hands, hoping that the pain would cease.
Pain had been there constantly, not even throbbing, just staying there for what seemed like an eternity.
"Giving up already Terra?"
Tears rained down onto the mural, making me feel so pathetic and helpless.
"I thought you could do better than that."
God, did he make me angry...
"Poor Terra, crying like a weak little baby."
"Oh really?" I started. "If I'm such a big baby, then why don't you just come down here and kill me?"
"Me, kill a pathetic weakling like you, how cruel do you think I am?"
The Unbirth had been dormant for while, staring at me, waiting to see if it had killed me yet.
Picking myself up, I targeted it's position.
I sprinted towards the Unbirth, raising my Keyblade in the process, ready to strike at it.
It looked surprised to see me standing, and running, for it just stood there in awe.
Man, that thing is dumb, it's just waiting for me to come and kill it.
As soon as I struck my Keyblade down, the Unbirth swiftly moved out of my attack's way.
I shifted around, trying to strike the Unbirth down in the process. It grabbed my left arm and twisted itself around it, tightening with each second.
Instantly, I tried to pull it off, but each time I did, it got tighter.
"Get off of me!" I ordered, hoping that the Unbirth wouldn't stop the blood flow to my arm.
Finally, it stopped. Though, much to my dismay it covered it's skin with tiny needles, digging them into me.
Once again, blood spurted out of my flesh, though this time it was only for a few seconds.
The Unbirth let go with satisfaction, for it danced once again around the platform.
I ran as fast as I could, getting my Keyblade ready for wiping off that smug look on the Unbirth's face.
This time I had finally killed it, scattering even more ashes onto the blood that had carpeted the mural.
"Good job, Terra."
From out of nowhere, I heard soft clapping.
"Here's your reward."
A strange green light surrounded my body, healing every wound I had gained.
Three lights had appeared above the mural, forming into three treasure chests.
"I'm sure it'll help you for the next trial."
"Next trial?" I asked in disbelief. "There's another one?"
"Come on Terra, I thought you liked challenges."
I walked over to the first chest, opened it, and saw what was inside: a bottle that had a green lid and with green liquid inside.
"What is this?" I asked.
"It's a potion, just drink it and it will heal you."
Opening the bottle, I saw a green waft of smell come from the liquid.
"Oh yeah, that's a special potion, makes your breath smell better."
I shrugged, hoping that it wasn't a trick before swallowing it.
I spit it out instantly.
"It tastes like chocolate flavored toothpaste." I announced, being honest to the voice for once.
"That's the point."
"You can't be a brave hero of the Keyblade and have smelly breath, can you?"he pointed out.
"I guess not." I didn't know anything about "brave heroes" of the Keyblade, so I just went along with him. I put the green lid back on the half of a potion.
"Open the other chests." he ordered me.
"Why are you being nice to me, when a few minutes ago you were trying to kill me?" I asked, confused about his mood swings.
He ignored me, so I went to the second chest and opened it. Inside, was another bottle filled with green liquid, except this time it had a blue cap on it.
"And this is?"
"It's an ether, refills your magic energy."
"Magic?" I asked, half hoping he was lying, and half hoping that he wasn't.
"You'll find out soon enough."
After that, he started laughing again.
I hate how he laughs... I said to myself.
I walked over to the third chest, and yet again found a bottle of green liquid with a red cap.
"That's an elixir, heals your wounds and refills your magic energy."
I jammed the three bottles into my pant's pocket.
"Now for the best part."
In front of me, a huge gray ribbon rose from the mural, reforming into a giant, gray monster.
It looked like a larger version of the small Unbirths, except that it had teeth, four arms, and tentacles shaped like ribbons coming from it's back, much too many to count.
"Before you stands an Unbirth named Dribbon." he told me.
"Now, attack this unworthy fool." On it's cue, the Unbirth smiled a toothy grin, happy to oblige to it's Master's order.
It's first attack was a simple swat from it's lower right arm. Luckily, it missed me by a few inches.
The second attack didn't phase me either; the Unbirth just kept swatting at me for about ten minutes, getting angrier at it's inability to land a single blow.
This Unbirth is even dumber than the small ones.
"Have you forgotten what I have told you Terra?" the voice questioned, making me jerk my head up at the sudden remark.
The ribbons on the Dribbon's back shot past me. In response, I turned around to see the ribbons shooting towards me. I raised my Keyblade to cut through them, but when I did, they reformed and grabbed my wrist and lifted me into the air. Then it grabbed me again, then tossed me up again, then grabbed me again.
"That's so cute, he's playing catch with you." he snickered his constipated duck laugh again.
"You know I could tell you that..."
I couldn't really hear him between my dizzy head, and the sound of the air rushing around my ears.
There must be a weak point somewhere...
I scanned over every place of the Unbirth's body, looking for a place to land a critical hit.
Maybe it's heart is it's weak spot.
As the Unbirth's hand was thrown up to catch me, I dodged it and put my Keyblade in position to stab the unsuspecting Unbirth.
" A solid hit!" I yelled as I stabbed my Keyblade into the monster's heart.
The Unbirth screamed in pain as it collasped over. Though, I couldn't get my Keyblade unstuck from the terrified Unbirth, so I fell over with it.
I coughed from the Unbirth's ashes going into my throat.
"So, you found the weak spot, Terra." the voice casually spoke.
"Well, the heart was the most obvious place, wasn't it?" I asked.
"Yes, the heart is always the most obvious weak spot." the voice agreed.
"Always remember that."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.
The voice just laughed for a few minutes, echoing through the endless darkness, before everything faded away into nothing.