Kingdom Hearts:Birth by Sleep Zero-Terra's Story-Book 1, Chapter 16/End of Book 1, Part 1.
"Terra! Terra, are you okay?!" That was the first sentence I heard after blacking out from the Unbirth ambush in Halloween Town.
"Wha, grrr, ugh." I slurred from exhaustion, confusion, dizziness, and the sudden rush of unbearable pain.
"I think he's returning to consciousness!" Jack's excited voice made the pain even worse as my eyes tried desperately to focus on the blurry scene before me; Jack, Aqua, Ven, and this bald man in a wheelchair loomed over me with expressions of fear and concern.
"What happened to the Unbirths?" I ignored the pain and managed to slip the words past my lips.
"They disappeared right after you were ambushed."
"Are you okay?" Aqua's concern surprised me; only an hour ago, or so I thought, she was calling me "hairy", an insult that I thought was cheesy. You agree with me, right?
Before I grimaced at her I glanced at the bandages covering about three-fourths of my body, "Do I look like I'm okay?"
Aqua looked taken aback at my snappish attitude and rolled her blue eyes at me. Ven poked me a few times on my forehead, "Are you sure you're okay?"
"Stop poking me." I shoved Ven's onyx gloved finger away before I started poking his head in mockery, "Are you okay, are you okay?"
"Shut up." Ven playfully punched me in the shoulder lightly.
"Wow, I thought you were dead there for a few moments; you were out cold like a monkey who had run out of bananas." Ven waved his arms up to exaggerate.
"Yeah, because you would've been the one who ate them all." Aqua interrupted.
"You're not a normal werewolf, are you?" the handicapped man tugged my pointy ears while analyzing my eyelids and snapping them back in place.
"No intent on killing anyone, no random hunger for raw meat; you don't even turn back into a human, do you?"
"Jack! Jack! There are monsters in the town square! And a creepy old man is with them!" A disembodied voice echoed from the cracked door.
"Creepy old man?" We all knew(not counting the handicap and the Pumpkin King) that the creepy old geezer had to be either Xehanort or Master Oni. And telling from the fact that the voice sounded really frightened, it must have been Geezernort. Jack, Aqua, Ven, and I instantly leaped out the door to face the oncoming monsters, but before I could even go down one of the steps, Aqua turned around and poked in the chest, "Where do you think you're going? You're too injured to fight." Before I could reply, she had already reached the bottom of the steps and was summoning her Keyblade.
"She's right, you know." An elderly voice echoed from behind me. Turning around meet it, I had become face to face with an old man with amber eyes.
"Hello, your geezership." I greeted him with my eyes slanted and my mouth formed into a grin.
"Still as foolish as ever, I see." He rubbed his silver goatee and sighed, "If only you were a tad bit smarter. Not that you had common sense in the first place, but oh well."
"What are you doing here, anyways?" My curiosity had swept the thought of people on my "hate list" away.
"Oh, my brother ordered me to check up on you. Too bad the old coot couldn't do it himself, the lazy little cockroach." His gloved hand was balled into a clenched fist while Igneous, my arch enemy number two and number two on my hate list, peeked his head out from a iron gate that loomed through the fog.
"Come out, Igneous." Master Xehanort ordered without even glancing at the oncoming teen that crept behind him. It was like he had eyes on the back of his head, or something like that.
It wouldn't surprise me. I chuckled silently.
Igneous's appearance had changed to fit his surroundings as well, something that Xehanort had either failed to do, or was avoiding it. Anyways, Igneous had the same exo-skeleton suit except the fact that it really did have a skeleton on the outside.
"That's just little cheesy, don't you think?" I raised my eyebrow at him while remembering that I had a skeleton costume like that when I was four.
"Yeah, well at least I don't look like a forty-year-old monkey."
"I'm a werewolf. Werewolf, not monkey. Not a monkey, a werewolf, you idiot." Man, insulting him made me feel so glad to be me. You know when you're a little kid? And your mother gives you a cookie and you get that warm feeling inside? Yeah, that's what it felt like insulting him.
Wow, that sounded creepier than I thought it would've. I recalled my previous statement.
"Same thing."
"Sure, we'll go with that." I chuckled at his stupidity.
"Hello! We're getting our asses kicked here!" Ven's voice was muffled by the heap of Unbirths as his raised hand slowly sunk into a pile of screeching Unbirths.
"Oops, sorry. Must've slipped my mind!" Igneous bellowed afterwards in apparent sarcasm.
Before he even went down two steps, I literally kicked butt and he went flying down the stairs while squealing his carrot topped head off.
"Oops, sorry! Must've slipped my foot!" I called out to him with my hands cupped around my mouth. While Igneous was still recovering from his "accidental" fall, a horde of gray monsters gleefully hissed and jumped on him before he could retaliate.
"Stupid..." The rest I couldn't hear as he too was engulfed by a heap of Unbirths.
"That wasn't very nice, cockroach. You should have let him really have it."
"Since when have you been hostile towards your own primitive kind, Geezernort?"
"Why don't you ask yourself that question? I mean, you are just standing there while your, what do you call it?" The elder paused to summon the word he hadn't used for so long out of his large span of memories.
"Ah, yes, 'friends'. That was the word; I haven't had to use that one in eons."
"You don't have to tell me twice." Suddenly, the Unbirths had disappeared once again, eventually leaving the three teens and Jack gasping for breath. Puddles of scarlet were littered across the area and were reflecting the cold moonlight.
"Do you have any potions, Terra? I used all of mine in the battle." Ven had hunched himself over as he trekked up the steps with his gloved hand lurching out towards me.
"Yeah, and this one is special." I popped the top off of the minty-chocolate potion that I had received from the voice in my dream.
"What? Is it supposed to taste like fruit punch, or something? Man, fruit punch sounds really wonderful right now." He longingly sighed as a faint breeze rustled his hair.
Chugging the potion relentlessly made Ven instantly gag on the concoction. "What is this crap?" He ungratefully threw the potion at me. Luckily, I caught it without spilling a drop.
"All I know is that brave heroes of the Keyblade aren't supposed to have bad breath."
"Well then, I guess I fail the test because I don't think I could ever drink something that horrible ever again." He shuddered to make it look even more horrid than it was.
"Well drink it anyway. That's the only potion we have and we can't have you bleeding over everything." Aqua grabbed the bottle of liquid and almost shoved it down Ven's throat. The teen struggled and tried to talk through the gushes of potion contradictorily. Some of the words I heard were no, grrrr, let, stop, and hate, so I knew that he wasn't exactly enjoying it even if Aqua was the one shoving it into his mouth.
Only when every single drop of the potion had been forced down the boy's throat Aqua had let him knock it away.
"God, Aqua, I thought you were going to shove the bottle through my neck." The droplets of green were swept away by Ven's glove.
"Sorry." She apologized with no emotion at all.
"Well, since you've had your...'fun' time here in this world, it is time that we head back to the castle." Xehanort shivered at the word "fun".
"How do we even-" Before Ven could finish his question, Xehanort swooshed his gloved hand into an empty space and summoned a portal of forbidding darkness. Everyone was hesitant except Jack, who almost dove into the portal but was caught by Xehanort's fast reflexes.
"Where do you think you're going, little cockroach?" The old man now held on to the skeleton's foot with increasing pressure.
"Well, I've always wanted to visit a castle, so-" Jack was interrupted abruptly.
"Too bad." Xehanort tossed the skeleton away without even giving any effort.
"Get in before I turn you into a cockroach!" Master Xehanort shoved Ven and Aqua into the dark portal without even touching them.
Okay, note that: Number One on Hate List is now officially obsessed with cockroaches.
"You too!" I was swept into the portal without even being touched as well.
"Ugh." Ven gurgled aloud once we arrived at our location.
"I hate traveling in portals." He complained.
"You are back." Master Oni announced to himself out loud.
"How was it traveling to your first world?"