Kingdom Hearts:Birth by Sleep Zero-Book 1-Chapter 11

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"Hey carrot-top!" I casually greeted the orange-haired apprentice.

"I hoped I'd never have to see you again." Igneous sourly snapped in reply.

You and me both, pal. I didn't dare to repeat that out loud, in the hopes that Igneous wouldn't start a fight. Then again, why should I care if Igneous gets a black eye and a few bruises? I mean, I could take him any day. I claimed to myself with fierce courage.

"Ditto." I returned Igneous's snappy attitude back to him.

The teen scowled in disgust.

He does fit the description for being Geezernort's apprentice. Seeing his scowl reminded me so much of Xehanort. His attitude, facial expressions, the same scowl matched Xehanort perfectly. And since I hate Xehanort even worse than I hate prune juice, Igneous wasn't on my list of favorite people either.

"So, where's Geezernort?" I questioned, hoping that Xehanort was in the burning hellfires of Oblivion.

"Why do you care?" Igneous asked.

"I don't." I admitted. The only reason I asked Igneous was so that if we did get into a fight, he wouldn't be able to rely on Xehanort to back him up if he was losing. Even if it "dishonored" Igneous to rely on an old geezer, he'd do it anyway.

"You should." an elderly voice interrupted the brief silence.

"Geezernort, long time, don't want to see." I insulted him by twisting the common saying.

"I suggest you go back to your dorms before you get lost from wandering about." Xehanort rudely ordered.

"And I suggest you crawl back to the sewer you came from." I ordered back. Followed by this were gasps from the surrounding apprentices who were listening.

"Don't you remember what happened the last time you let that foul mouth of yours run rampant?" Xehanort grinned his signature one. The ugly, wrinkly, disturbing one.

"At least I'm not one-thousand, six-hundred and thirty-three years old." All of the other students gasped at this. Like Mickey, I could've sworn that their job in life was to respect rotten old geezers.

"How did you know that?" Xehanort questioned me in surprise.

"Do the math." I answered casually.

"Don't make me angry, young porcupine." he warned and insulted at the same time. His amber eyes were twinkling with anticipation, as if he was begging to have a reason to try to kill me again. It was like we were mortal enemies;nothing could convince us to stop despising each other.

"You always ARE angry; I swear, even when you're taking a dump, you-" I was interrupted by a maniacal grin and a chuckle.

"You're just begging to die, aren't you?"

"I'd rather do that than see you any day." I snapped back.

By now the crowd of teens surrounding us were murmuring things like "Would Master Xehanort really kill him?" or the more common one "Go spiky-haired dude!". Master Xehanort heard these and announced that in fact, he would kill me, and that I couldn't possibly win in anything while opposing him.

Aqua put her hand on my shoulder softly. "Terra, getting in a fight with Xehanort doesn't sound like a good idea right now."

"It does to me." I replied in a cocky manner.

She sighed and backed off to watch another race and/or fight between Xehanort and I unfold.

"Prove it, Geezernort." I ordered the elder.

Xehanort grinned at the challenge. "Okay, then fight me." Master Xehanort ordered as he summoned his fiery purple and black Keyblade.

Oh crap, I didn't mean he had to prove it THAT way. My endless amount of courage had left me when I remembered that I couldn't summon my Keyblade.

Now I'm in hot water...

All I saw for the next few moments was Xehanort, his Keyblade raised to strike at me, my arms shielding my face, and...

particles?

The icy metal weapon was once again in my grasp. This surprised Xehanort so much that he toppled over. Igneous gave me his trademark scowl, and the students around us were amazed and astonished.

As expected, Ven and Aqua thought that my Keyblade looked "cool".

To make Xehanort even more surprised and confused, I held out my hand to help him up. He did just as I expected and thrust his arm away from my outstretched hand in defiance.

"Rejecting help isn't an honorable way to lose, Xehanort." a similar voice to Xehanort's called from behind the crowd of people.

"Master Oni." I greeted and bowed at the same time. In unison, the rest of the students bowed as well.

"Oni, you dare call me by first name, you foul-" Xehanort was interrupted by Master Oni's sigh.

" I don't think I'm the one who's being foul currently." Master Oni grinned at the fallen elder.

"You smell foul." Xehanort quickly insulted back, and it was a horrible one, too.

Master Oni raised him arm and sniffed his armpits. "How could I possibly smell foul?" he asked in disgust at Xehanort's bad insult.

"The only thing foul here is your attitude." Oni pointed out much to Xehanort's dismay.

"At least my friends don't go off and kill themselves." Xehanort knew that he had a soft spot, and that was his intention.

What a crotchety old man! He's not getting away...

I took one step ahead to chase after Xehanort. Master Oni rested his white, gloved hand upon my shoulder to stop my chase.

"Don't bother, he'll just become nasty and complain to me about it." Master Oni pointed out to me. I really wanted to go after Xehanort, since I had so much energy left to have another go. I mean, we didn't even finish our match yet, so...

"Don't go looking for trouble." he advised me as he turned to walk away.

Once all of the Keyblade Masters had left the main hall of the castle, the whole crowd of students were cheering.

"Dude, you stood up to a Keyblade Master!" Dirk jumped in excitement.

"Yeah, so?" I casually put my arms behind my head trying to bask in the "glory".

"And you have a Keyblade!" he thrust his hand out. "Can I see it?" he pointed to the cold, boxy Keyblade that was suspended by four of my fingers.

"Sure, I guess." I tossed Eternal Horizons towards his outstretched hand.

"This is so-" he was interrupted by Eternal Horizons transforming back into particles and reappearing into my hand.

"You can even re-summon it!?" Dirk's excitement was pouring over the top.

"YOU'RE SO COOL!" he fell over.

"Okay..." I raised my eyebrow.

"You have to hang out with us!" Yamada grabbed my arm and somehow dragged me over to the middle of the group of people.

"Wait a second, I don't want to make you look cool!" I bellowed while struggling to get out of the puny kid's tight grip.

I finally wrenched his hand off of my wrist. Running away made Yamada ask me where I was going.

"Crazy!" I yelled back from across the hall.

"Let us come with you!" Ven and Aqua yelled as Yamada ran after them.

"If you're friends with Terra, you could make us look cool too!" The whole mob of people ran after Yamada to try to stop him, but to no avail, there were students scattered around on the floor from chasing after Yamada. Why were they on the floor?

Yamada pushed them out of his way on half of them, and others reached out to grab him but were pushed away as well.

"Let me go!!" Ven yelled as Yamada grabbed the back of Ven's shirt.

"Hah, now I'm cool!" Yamada screamed to the world in victory.

I had stopped to go after Yamada who was dragging Ven away, but the blond girl from yesterday walked in front of me.

"You're not as ugly as I thought you were." she propped her eyebrows up and down a few times.

"Sure, we'll go with that." I muttered back to her before running after Yamada.

Yamada looked back at me and screamed again. "Now I have cool people chasing after me!"

I knocked him over and grabbed Ven. All the way back to our dorms, Yamada was chasing after us.

"Wait, come back cool people!" he fell over in defeat.

My heart by now was beating like running horses' hooves, not only from sprinting, but from having to drag Ven as well.

"Let me go, I can run myself!" he protested every few seconds.

I ignored him and slowed to a sprint. Yamada was so far behind from his fall and the door to our quarters was just ten feet away.

Finally, instead of throwing Ven into his dorm, I just dragged him into mine. Why?

Yamada had caught up and was only two feet away when I got into the main hall of the dorms. Aqua was peeking out from the blue door and instantly shut it when she saw a flash of curly, brown hair.

I slammed the door in Yamada's face and locked it tight. "Cool people, come out!"

Ven had gotten up from his fall from when I tossed him so Yamada couldn't grab the back of his jacket.

"What'd you do that for?" Ven rubbed his cheek.

"To save your ass." I replied. I bent over to catch my breath.

Ven got up and walked over to the couch. He plunked down and reached over for the onyx-black remote.

"Who said you could do whatever you wanted in my dorm?" After this, Ven raised his eyebrow, then focused his attention back to the TV.

I sighed and paced towards the kitchen.

I still have to fill out that sheet. I reminded myself before opening the cupboards.

Today, eating comes before anything.

Grabbing another package of Ramen, I paused to think. I really have to learn how to cook things other than Ramen.

I bet there are cookbooks on the bookshelf. When I was done, I headed out to the couch to see Ven sleeping and drooling on the arm. I grabbed him by the back of the shirt and dropped him on the floor.

"It's time for school already?!" Ven randomly asked as his face hit the floor.

"It's one in the afternoon Ven."

"God, I'm so late!" he jumped up and ran around, then he hit the crimson wall. He fell over and didn't wake up, so I checked to see if he was okay.

I was glad to see that he was still breathing, but he was out cold from slamming into the wall.

He must've been sleepwalking.

I remembered one other time(out of the countless ones) when Ven had sleepwalked. It was one AM and I was in my living room back at home. I couldn't fall asleep, so I watched TV for a while. Then I heard the front door slam open and someone started banging around the entryway.

I instantly got up to see that no one was there, but the banging noises had started to sound in the kitchen downstairs. Instead of banging, it actually sounded like pots and pans clanking together, as if someone was trying to cook something.

In fact, I was right.

When I got down there, Ven was standing at the stove cooking something in a frying pan.

"Ven, what the hell are you doing?" I asked as he flipped something out of the pan.

"Sorry, I was making pancakes." he took the pan off of the stove to show me the underdeveloped pancakes.

"It's one in the morning!" I yelled at him.

"No, it's time to get ready for school." Ven contradicted me.

"Then go get ready for school somewhere else." I ordered.

"I would've made pancakes at my house, but my cat ate all of the pancake mix." he turned back to the stove.

"How could your cat get the box open?" I asked in perplexity.

"Well, she said she'd help me make pancakes if I'd open the box, but then when I did, she knocked the box over and ate it all." Before I could ask another question, he looked down at his feet. "And it was my favorite kind, too."

I grabbed another box of pancake mix out of the cupboards, thrust it into his hand and shoved him away from the stove.

Before I did anything else, I leaned over to turn the stove off.

"Here, go to your house and make pancakes." I started to shove him again.

"But my cat will trick me into opening the box again!" Ven complained.

"Then don't open the box." I gave him his "solution".

"But I'm hungry." he rubbed his stomach.

"Then eat dog food; I'm sure your cat won't eat that." I pushed him out the door.

The next day after Ven's sleepwalk-

Ven and I were walking to the play island to watch Sora and Riku play-fight. It was the only thing that didn't bore us.

All of the sudden, I saw a bunch of dogs following us. "What do they want?" Ven asked while shooing one of the dogs away.

All of the dogs leaped on Ven and knocked him to the ground. "Get off of me!" he yelped.

"Terra, help me!" Ven yelled in desperation to get the dogs off of him.

Then all of the dogs started licking his closed mouth. "Help, they're kissing me!"

I remember that day like it was yesterday.

Back to the present:

I walked back to the kitchen to grab the sheet that I had to fill out.

Are there any pens anywhere? Then I noticed that the paper felt a little heavy. Attached to the bottom of the sheet was a bright orange pen. Below it said:Use this!

I shrugged and peeled the tape off of the pen. Doing it carefully, I avoided ripping any paper in the process.

The sheet had some really odd questions. Like for example: Have you ever peed your pants after the age of six?

I answered:No

Do you think you are capable of feeling like a rich person?

I already do.

Do you think the castle is pretty?

I don't know.

What are your favorite kind of trees?

I don't know.

Do you think your dorm is big enough?

Sure.

Do you like cooking?

I guess.

Do you like reading?

I guess.

Do you like gardening?

Not really.

Do you like cheese?

I guess.

I lifted the ball-point pen off of the paper for a second.

Man, these questions are really weird.

Do bright colors intimidate you?

No.

Do dark colors make you depressed?

No.

How often do you take a shower/bath?

Every two days.

Speaking of bathing, I need to take a shower tonight.

Do you think of rainbows every five seconds?

I hate rainbows.

Do you love to shave?

Not really.

Is pink your favorite color?

I hate pink.

Do you hate everything?

Maybe.

What do you not like about your uniform?

Ribbons.

Would you like different songs on your alarm clock?

YES.

What kind of video games do you like?

RPG, Adventure, Computer, Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Do you like eating in a healthy way?

I hate eating healthy food.

Which is better? Meat or Vegetables?

Meat.

What is the best soda that makes you burp?

Root Beer.

Do you like noodles?

They're okay.

I flipped over to the back page.

What kind of fruit do you hate the most?

I don't know.

Do you think these questions are weird?

YES.

Do you want any pets?

Maybe.

Do you like buying stuff?

Not really.

Do you like homework?

Not really.

Is "not really" your favorite sentence?

Not really.

If you could learn anything, just one thing, what would it be?

Who came up with these questions?

List all things you want in your dorm below:

Pool, Computer, Two Desks, More books/bookcases, dining table, chairs to go with table and desks, drawer full of paper and pencils/pens, decent shampoo and conditioner, decent deodorant, MP3 Player.

LAST QUESTION: Do you think I'm pretty?

I don't know.

The instructions on the survey was to throw away the paper.

Why would I do that?

So I tossed the paper into the trash bin next to me and waited.

I figured out that Ven had woken because he sarted yelling. "Terra, help, I'm being eaten!"

Rushing to the living room, I noticed that Ven was on the floor...laughing?

Instead of being eaten, he was being licked by a white kitten with a red bow around it's neck.

"How'd that thing get here?" I asked as Ven tried get the kitten to stop licking his nose.

"You just filled out the sheet, right?" Ven questioned while trying not to laugh.

"Well, yeah, but I didn't ask for a kitten." I pointed out.

"Well, you must've, otherwise all this stuff wouldn't have popped out of nowhere." My gaze looked around to the computer in the corner and the rest of the stuff I asked for. Some pet supplies were heaped in a pile.

"You said yes to the pets question, right?"

"No, I said maybe."

"Did you say what pet you wanted?" Ven asked as I ran back to the trash bin in the kitchen.

The paper was...gone? But I had just threw it in there!

Ven came into the kitchen with the kitten peeking it's head out of his jacket pocket.

"It's gone." I searched desperately through the black bin.

"Well, then you're stuck with the kitten." At that, the kitten jumped out of Ven's pocket and walked to the front of me.

"Meow!" it looked up at me with it's innocent blue eyes.

"But cats hate me." The kitten started to sniff my feet; it then started to bat at my shoes with it's snowy paw.

"Evidently, this one doesn't." Ven pointed out as the kitten started rubbing against me.

I sighed and walked away from the kitten. Looking back, I saw that the kitten was following me and meowing.

"Shoo." I bent over and nudged it away. Instead of going away, it sniffed my hand and rubbed against it.

The kitten's motor had started running as it kept rubbing against me.

"You're a cat, you're supposed to hate me." I whispered to the content kitten.

"Meow!" it innocently stared at me in confusion.