Disclaimer: I don not own the rights to Kingdom Hearts. It belongs to Disney and Square Enix. Seriously, don't sue me...
"Hey, Donald, maybe King Mickey's down there." Goofy said, pointing to a world that stood in front of the gummi ship. We were in space again and, like usual, I was going to be car-sick. Or would that be ship-sick? Donald stepped on the brakes and scanned the world as if he was trying to see if it was a possibility Goofy was right. I guess he didn't think so by the way he scrunched up his face, "In a backwater place like that? No way! Let's move on!"
"Hold on, Riku and Kairi might be down there." I said, stopping him before he could keep driving. Sora nodded his head furiously in agreement. There was no way we were going to miss out of finding our friends just because this duck didn't feel like it. "Let's just check it out."
"Forget it! We're on an important mission!"
"Just land!" Sora groaned, running a hand through his brown spikes. By the tone in his voice he was most likely getting frustrated with him. "No!" Donald snapped, starting the engine again.
"Come on!"
"Aw, phooey!"
"We're landing!" Sora growled, hopping into the front seat. He pushed Donald out of the way and grabbed the controls. The gummi ship tilted side to side as they fought over the steering wheel. I covered my mouth with my hand; I didn't feel so good. "Don't touch that! Nooo!" Donald yelled as the ship turned upside down. Sora sped off to the world, leaving all of us screaming in fear.
"Where are we?" I groaned, clutching my head as I stood up. Everything was fuzzy and I felt woozy. After we crashed into the jungle, we were hurled away from the ship and from Sora. We were in a clearing surrounded my what looked like bamboo. "My head hurts..."
"I sure hope Sora's okay." Goofy mumbled, looking up at the sky. Donald jumped up at his words and crossed his arms over his chest. He glared at the ground like it was the spiky haired teen himself. "Aww, who needs him?! We can find the king without him. Huh?"
He looked down and seen a gray gorilla sitting in front of him. They stared at each other for a minute before screaming so loud I had to cover my ears. If there was such a thing as pure terror it would be the look on their faces. The gorilla ran away when it heard rustling in the bamboo behind us. It dropped a red cube on its way.
"What are you three doing here?" A man with a big shotgun asked, appearing out of the trees. We turned around and looked at him. He was strong and wore beige clothes along with a funny looking mustache. Goofy stood up and picked up the cube before walking over to where Donald and I were. "You aren't gorillas."
"Oh really..." I snickered, raising an eyebrow. I couldn't help it! That was just a dumb thing to say. He frowned at me and pointed behind him with his gun. "Follow me." He commanded, walking away. I exchanged glances the the two of them and followed after him. This guy was almost as sketchy looking as the Cheshire Cat.
He brought us to a camp of some sorts with stuff everywhere. There were luggage, radios, ovens, tables, chairs, science materials, and all kinds of things scattered everywhere. The man lead us into a giant tan tent with a scowl on his face. Inside stood a girl, Sora, and a guy with long hair. "Sora!" Goofy cheered, running inside and pushing the man out of the way.
"Goofy! Sasuke! Donald!" He smiled, running over to the duck. They looked really happy to see each other but as soon as they got within a foot close to the other, they huffed and looked the other way. They crossed their arms over their chests and held their heads up high.
"A circus of clowns. Not much use for hunting gorillas." The man sighed, walking out of the tent. The girl snapped her head around to look at him with her soft green eyes. She looked upset that he had said that. "Mr. Clayton, we're studying them, not hunting them. This is research." She explained with a thick english accent, watching as he left. She turned to us and sighed, "Well, the more the merrier. Do make yourselves at home."
Donald and Sora didn't say anything for a while. They still looked really mad with each other. "Well, anyway. I'm staying!" They said in unison. They turned to look at each other with surprised looks on their faces. I thought Donald didn't want to be here.
"Sora, look what we found. Look at this." Goofy said, pulling the cube out of his pocket. Sora looked at him then at his hands.
"What's that?"
"A gummi block. It's the same stuff used to build our ship."
"So that means..."
"The king could be here." Donald finished my sentence, looking up at me. I gave him a curt nod and a thumbs up. If he was here then that would save us a lot of trouble. That way we wouldn't have to go to who knows how many worlds looking for him. "So, we've gotta work together to look for him... For now!"
"Apparently Tarzan was raised in the jungle by gorillas." The girl said, motioning towards the guy with long hair with her head. My silver eyes traveled over to him before returning back to the girl. Raised in the jungle by gorillas? Was that even logically possible? "Communicating with him still isn't easy, but he's learning."
"So he was speaking 'gorilla' back there..." Sora whispered, more to himself then it her. He must have met Tarzan earlier than we did. The whole time I've been here he hasn't said a thing. "Ah, that's right. You're looking for your friends?" The girl asked, moving a lock of her chocolate behind her ear.
"He said Riku and Kairi are here. And one word I couldn't understand..." Sora replied, tapping his chin with his index finger. It seemed as if he was trying to recall what he said but nothing was coming to mind. The girl patted a projector machine in front of her and smiled at us.
"Why don't we try this? We'll show Tarzan some slides and see if any of them match that word." She suggested, turning it on. We stood back so she would have enough room to show it on the wall. A picture of a castle appeared on the tent. It was brownish bronze with green spikes while the sky was dark, making the castle look like it was glowing. It was so odd, I had a weird feeling inside of me after seeing that.
"What's wrong, Sasuke?" Donald asked, looking towards me. I turned my head and saw that everyone was staring at me curiously. I chuckled nervously and scratched the back of my neck, "What? Um... Nothing. This place... It just looks so familiar. But how? I don't remember anything before coming to our island."
The next slide was shown and revealed a man giving a woman flowers. Even after looking at it Tarzan was completely silent. Next, there was a woman knitting a sweater I think. Then there was a gorilla, a pirate ship, and two men sword fighting. The girl stopped the slides and looked hopefully at Tarzan, "Well, Tarzan?"
"Where are my friends? Riku and Kairi?" Sora tried, crossing his fingers. Tarzan stared at him for a while and slowly shook his head. So he didn't know where they were. "But I thought-"
"That just leaves one place." A voice sighed, getting closer every second. We turned around to see Clayton entering the tent again. He wasn't holding his gun like he was last time. He walked past us. "Young man, we've been in this jungle for some time now. But we have yet to encounter these friends of yours. I'd wager they're with the gorillas. But Tarzan refuses to take us to them."
"Really, Mr. Clayton, Tarzan wouldn't hide-" The girl started but was cut off by him. He walked over to Tarzan and smirked at him. "Then take us there! Take us to the gorillas. Go-ril-las." He pressed, looking down at him. Tarzan glances at Sora and nodded once.
"Tarzan... are you sure?" The girl asked, sounding unsure. Despite the tone in her voice her facial expression appeared shocked. He nodded again and looked up at her. "Tarzan go see Kerchak." He told her with a monotone voice.
"Kerchak?"
"He must be the leader. Perfect. I'll go along as an escort. After all, the jungle is a very dangerous place." Clayton smiled, rather creepily. I made an "X" with my arms and shook my head. I didn't trust this guy. If this was a secret to Tarzan he should be the LAST one to know about it. "No way, bub!" I said, blocking him before they could leave the tent.
"Move out of my way, little girl." He lowly replied, picking me up by the waist and moving me to the side. I growled and clenched my fist. Oh, this guy was going to get it. I moved back in front of the exit and glared at him. "I. Said. No. Tarzan can handle himself, let him go alone." I growled, making him return my glare.
Donald appeared by my side and grabbed my hand. He tried to pull me out of the way but I held my ground. "Come on, Sasuke! Stop being such a bother!" Donald said, still trying to pull me away. I pointed my index and middle fingers at my eyes before pointing them at Clayton. I let Donald pull me away and they left the tent.
We went outside and found a big cheetah outside of the tent. Okay... so there are cheetahs here, huh. I summoned my keyblade and charged at it, only for it to jump over me and go over to Sora. Did it have some kind of grudge against him or something? Goofy knocked it upside the head with his shield and it fell over unconscious. "Umm, Sora... I think he hates you." I said, pointing at the sleeping animal.
"Yeah, I ran into it earlier and fought it." He smiled sheepishly, looking around the campsite. There was a green chest next to the huge piles of trunks and luggage. He tapped it with his key and three dalmatians hopped out. I quickly grabbed one, "Aww they're so cute! You don't think their parents will miss one do ya?" I asked, petting the black and white puppy.
They all nodded in unison while Donald snatched the dog out of my hands. I pouted and reached for the puppy. He just set it down so they could go through the portal. "No pets in the ship!" He warned, pointing a finger at me. I watched at they went through the portal and back to their homes. "Besides, having you as an owner would be torture."
"What do you mean by 'torture', huh?" I huffed as we walked into the jungle. Donald snickered at my offended expression. I crossed my arms over my chest and narrowed my eyes at him. "I'm perfectly capable of taking care of a pet! If anything I'm the most capable!"
"Remember your goldfish when you were eleven?" Sora asked, pushing passed a leafy bush.
"Hey, Mr. Goldie died of natural causes!" I defended, going wide-eyed. So he was against me having a puppy too? Even though I only had that goldfish for a week and a half he still died. I had Riku bury him somewhere on the island but I'm pretty sure he just threw him into the sea. That sounded like something Riku would do anyways.
We arrived at a tree with a sturdy looking vine hanging from it. Sora tugged on it a few times to see if it would be able to hold his weight then hoisted himself up. He climbed up after him, ending up on the tree tops. Nothing but long green vines filled the area. We had to swing endlessly through the trees to get to where we needed to go. I might have slipped one or two times... whether I fell on my face or not I will not tell.
"Kerchak, please listen to me." Tarzan begged a gorilla, speaking in their language. I hid behind Goofy and Sora seeing as they were the only ones out of the four of us that were bigger than me. That gorilla was enormous. He looked like he could fling me across the jungle with a flick of his wrist! "I know the nesting grounds are secret, but I trust them. You see... I want to help them because... because... well, they need us."
"Did you get that?" Goofy asked us, scratching his head. Donald shook is head slowly, "No. Not at all."
The gorillas didn't say a thing to him. Instead they just left him there and walked away. I peeked my head out from behind Sora; Tarzan was staring sadly at the ground. "He seemed sorta distracted by something. Was he looking towards the treehouse?" Donald asked, looking up into the trees. A house made of wood rested upon the branches a little higher than where we were.
Sora lead us to the treehouse since he was the only one of us who know how to get there. It looked as if it took a long time to build and- Clayton was going to shot the gorilla! I ran over and pushed him over just as he pulled the trigger. Luckily it missed, making the gorilla run away. I glared at him as he put his shotgun down, "What's the big idea?!"
"Wait, Kerchak. Please!" Tarzan said to the same big gorilla from before. It stared at him and walked away with the smaller gorilla behind him. Clayton probably messed up his chances of convincing the leader. We all turned our heads to glare at him.
"You don't understand. I was only trying to... Ah. A snake slithered by, you see. I saved that poor gorilla's life." He explained, stuttering a bit. I rolled my eyes and bent down to Donald's height to whisper something to him.
"You don't believe him, do you?"
"Of course not..."
"How could you do such a thing?!" The girl yelled at Clayton as he walked into the tent. We had explained to her what happened and she was furious. If they thought I was mad, my anger didn't even scratch the surface of her's. She glared at him with such intense green eyes, it made him stop in his tracks.
"Now, Miss Porter, as I told you. I was not aiming for the gorilla." He told her, trying to pretend he was innocent. I wanted to hit him so bad. I hope she didn't see through his dumb lies.
"You are NOT to go near the gorillas again!" She shouted, stomping her foot in the ground. Sora looked over to me and let out a whistle. I'm glad we were on her side. Clayton put his hands up in defense, "All because of one mishap? Come, now..."
We all glared at him as he grew quiet. He began to slowly back out of the tent. He nervously chuckled and left. "Come on, Sasuke. Don't be such a bother." I mocked Donald's previous words, using a deep voice. Said duck narrowed his eyes at me. "Yeah, because we ALL know Clayton's the good guy!"
"Well, how was I supposed to kno-" Donald started but was cut off by a loud gun shot. We exchanged glances before running out of the tent.
Tarzan was one of my favorite movies so I had fun writing this. Also, there was a big hint to Sasuke's past in this chapter... let's see if you can find it. Did you hate it? Love it? Have any ideas or comments? Review!