Kingdom Hearts:Birth by Sleep Zero-Chapter 4

DISCLAIMER:Terra, Aqua, Ven, DS/Igneous, and Master Xehanort belong to Squeenix, Disney stuff belongs to Disney.

I opened my eyes slowly to find myself in a pine green room that held only two small windows. Sitting up, I saw that the floor had carpet that matched the walls around me. Everything in this room was pine green;the carpet, the walls, the bed I was sitting on, even the windows had a green rim on them. The only thing different was a pure black cat sitting at the foot of the bed.

I have always hated cats; ever since I was little, all the cats I ever got close to ran away, and whenever I've tried to pet them, they either hiss or bite me.

Trying to avoid having holes in my foot, I reached out my hand to push the cat off of the bed. Instead, the cat hissed and stared daggers at me.

It jumped off of the bed and trotted out the green door of the room.

Well, that solves my problem.

I laid back down, too bleary-eyed to investigate where I was.

A few minutes later, the cat came back with the elder named Xehanort behind it.

"You have awakened." Xehanort announced.

I stared at him for a few minutes, then I questioned him:

"Where are my friends?"

"They are next door to you." the old man claimed.

I instantly jumped out of the bed, hoping to meet my friends. Xehanort thrust his arm in front of me with surprising speed for an old man.

"Not so fast, young man."

"Move." I simply commanded.

"How rude you are," the man started. "ordering someone like me, who could easily kill you with one hand tied behind his back."

"I'd like to see you try, old geezer." I grinned.

"Geezer?" he asked.

"Is that the name you title me as?"

"Yep." I answered.

"Then I suggest you not use it once again, or I will have to kill you for such disrespect." he warned.

"And your point is?" I dared to say.

"I have warned you child, one more-"

"Your breath stinks like a cow barn, garlic, and rotten eggs mixed together, did you know that?" I interrupted.

The man shut his amber eyes tight, trying desperately to keep his anger from flying off of the hook. I noticed this and smirked, an insult floating in my mind.

"Oh yeah, and you look like Mr.Clean too."

"That is it!" he yelled, letting go of his bottled-up anger.

He thrust out his right hand, and in unison a dark mist surrounded it.

"This is your last chance, imbecile, one more little peep out of you and I'll stab you."

The dark mist formed into a onyx black weapon, and it's blade looked like a black and purple flame. A small chain dangled off of the handle. It looked similar to a giant key.

A Keyblade? I asked myself.

"So, Mr.Clean, do you have any products that could make that Keyblade any uglier?" I laughed as hard as I could.

"How do you know about the Keyblade?" he questioned, surprised at the knowledge I held.

"Why do you care, old geezer?" I grinned.

I ran past him and out of the room, knowing that the old man was probably about ready to stab the crap out of me.

In front of me stood a huge hallway decorated with crimson and golden-yellow. I glanced behind me; the old man was running after me, surprisingly keeping up.

He'll get tired before long. I guessed.

I was wrong; he had kept up with me for the past ten minutes, making me even more exausted just thinking about it.

My feet slid across the floor as I came to a turn. I slid so much that my shoulder brushed the marble wall that originally was twenty feet away. The elder slid as well, except that he slammed into the wall instead.

"Come back here!" he yelled in fury.

I waved back at him, hoping to frustrate him even more. I didn't know why, but making him angry made my day even better.

I didn't know if he had gotten up from his fall yet, or if he had even gotten up at all because I knew if he caught me, I would be turned into mince-meat, so I just kept running wherever I felt I wanted to.

I came to another huge hallway, except that this one was filled with colors of blue and gold. This hallway was even bigger than the last one. There were other people in this hallway;some dressed in maid outfits, others with extremely odd clothing, some in armor that looked medevil, kinda like that guy in the armor that was on the mural.

As I ran past they all stared at me, surprised that some weird teen in a t-shirt and boxers was running around the hallway, I assume.

I had started sweating a long time ago, but now my whole shirt was soaked.

"Catch him!" Xehanort ordered the people standing in the hallway.

That made me run even faster, especially when I looked back to see a whole mob of people chasing me.

"Block the hallways!" one of the armored people ordered.

Hearing that, I leaped out of a huge, open window. Thankfully, I was on the first floor of the castle, for when I looked up, the castle towered above me several hundred meters.

Lush, green grass was pressed to the dirt as I ran for my life, not forgetting that about a hundred people were chasing after me. When I was little, I had always wished that when I grew up, people would be shouting my name and a mob of people would be chasing after me. I had never thought it would be under these circumstances, though.

Xehanort had jumped out of the window as well, and was right behind me.

"You cannot run forever, little boy!" he yelled.

I chuckled even though I knew that Xehanort's blade was only a few feet away, ready to stab me at any moment.

I would've added an insult to my laugh, but at the moment my only focus was to get away from Xehanort.

There was nothing but green grass everywhere, the castle standing off in the distance. A few trees were scattered here and there, but there was nothing else.

Xehanort had slowed down, and was about half of a mile away. Then he lowered himself and panted for a minute.

I knew this was my chance to rest as well, so I headed toward one of the trees, climbed up it's trunk, and settled down on one of it's branches.

I sat there for about twenty minutes, staring off in the distance at Xehanort's position.

Finally, he had started running towards me once again.

I leaped off of the tree and sprinted towards the castle again. Xehanort just stopped where he was and stared at me as I ran past. I knew that it would probably be easier to hide in the castle than in an open field, so I jumped back into the window, avoiding the crowds of people that skirted the edges of the castle.

After a few minutes of running, my face hit the marble floor as I tripped. I stared behind me to see that I had tripped over an oversized mouse carrying a stack of books.

Xehanort caught up to me once again, and smirked as he saw that I had tripped.

"Thank you, Mickey." the old man thanked the mouse dressed in black.

"Excuse me, Master Xehanort?" he asked confused.

"What are you thanking me for?"

"You have stopped a disrespectful little cockroach that had thought he could run away from me."

I snorted loudly at the elder's comment.

"You have to rely on an oversized mouse to catch me, old geezer?" I asked.

The mouse named Mickey gasped loudly, as if I had committed a horrible crime.

"I will ask your master to raise your rank, Mickey." the old man promised.

Mickey leaped in joy, as if making this geezer happy was his goal in life.

Talk about mood swings.

At the end of the long hallway where all three of us were, a tall robed man walked toward us.

To my surprise, Ven and Aqua were trailing along behind him. As they drew nearer, Mickey bowed his head to the tall figure. Xehanort looked at him for a long time, not paying attention to me at all.

The figure turned out to be a blue-robed man that had a long, gray beard and a tall, pointy hat that had moons and stars upon it.

"Welcome, Master Yen Sid." Xehanort greeted.

"Why is this boy laying upon the floor?" Yen Sid questioned.

"Well-" Xehanort was interrupted by Yen Sid chastising him.

"I have asked you to bring this boy to me in perfect condition, so why is he laying on the dirty floor, with your boot pressed on his back?"

"Ask the boy yourself." Xehanort commanded.

Yen Sid stared at me for a while, but I didn't look back at him.

"Speak."Xehanort ordered.

I shoved Xehanort's boot off of my back, rolled over and randomly shot a glob of spit at him, hitting his face. I watched in glee as it rolled down his cheek. Xehanort just scowled.

"You see, Yen Sid, this is why I didn't leave him in "perfect condition"."

"Get up." Yen Sid commanded me.

I picked myself up and stared straight at Yen Sid's face.

"Hi Terra." Ven and Aqua greeted in unison.

"Come over here, young man."

I slowly walked to the front of the second old man, finding out that his breath smelled even worse than Xehanort's.

He swiftly grabbed my arm and started to walk away. I obediently followed him now that I had been reunited with my friends.

"Bye Geezernort!" I waved at him once again.

He glared at me, turned around, and walked away.

Ven laughed, and Aqua giggled. Even Yen Sid grinned for a short moment.

"So, why was the old man chasing after you?" Ven asked

"I insulted him a few times." I casually answered.

"A few?" Aqua asked, somehow knowing that I had fibbed.

"Well, you get the point, right?"

All three of us laughed for a while, Mickey joining in.

"Why is that creepy mouse-thing following us?" Aqua questioned.

"Creepy?" Mickey raised his head.

"This is my apprentice Mickey." Yen Sid announced.

"Apprentice?" all three of us asked.