Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Kingdom Hearts. It belongs to Disney and Square Enix. Seriously, don't sue me...
"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.
Outside, a gorilla sat in the middle of a circle of Heartless. The Heartless looked like black and blue monkeys and hand sharp claws. Not to mention that they would not stand still. They jumped in the air and tried to claw at us like we were a bunch of scratching posts. I summoned my keyblade and put it in front of me to block their attacks. It worked but one of them managed to scratch my shoulder a bit; it was nothing major to worry about.
Goofy charged at them with his shield and they fell backwards. Man, I've gotta get me one of those... I smirked, swinging my key at them. I shot fire at one of them and they disappeared. One was going for Donald while he wasn't looking and I threw my keyblade at it, making it disappear. Donald yelped and turned around to see the key wedged in the ground. Sora took out the last one and looked at the gorilla. It nodded to us before going off into the jungle where it came from.
Another gun shot rang throughout the area and we ran to where it was coming from. "Sasuke, you forgot your-" Donald started but was cut short by the key disappearing. It reappeared in my hands while we were running. "Ah... never mind."
The gunshot came from the area surrounded by bamboo Donald, Goofy, and I landed in when we came here. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. That was, until I seen something sitting on a boulder. It was Clayton's smoking pipe; he never went anywhere without it. "What if something bad happened-" Sora started, but was cut off.
He was stopped mid-sentence by a loud scream from where the camp was. Too many things are happening at once! We sprinted to the tent to see what was going on. The screaming had to have come from Jane. Either that or the Heartless shriek like women. That would make them a LOT less scary. I pulled back the tent's flap and let everyone in before me. "Hey, where's Jane?" Tarzan asked, looking around the tent. There was no sign of the brunette girl anywhere.
"What's wrong, Tarzan?"
"Something coming, Jane danger. Jane near... near tree house." He explained, sniffing the air. I raised my eyebrows at this. He could tell where she was just by smell? I wish I could do that with Riku and Kairi. That'll save us a lot of trouble. "Sounds like trouble, let's go!" Donald said, heading to the exit.
It's a good thing I'm not that lazy or all this running back and forth would kill me... I thought to myself as we rushed to the vines yet again.
"Tarzan!" Jane shouted, catching our attention. She was in some kind of prison made out of thick vines from what I could see. A countless amount of monkey Heartless were everywhere. They were seriously all over the place. Jane held a small gorilla in her arms as she looked at us for help.
"What do we do?" I asked, looking at the four males next to me. Sora and Tarzan had already began fighting the Heartless without coming up with a plan. With every monster they took out two more appeared in their place. If they kept this up they were going to end up exhausted with more Heartless to fight than what they started off with. "There's got to be a way to get Jane 'outta there-"
"Look!" Goofy shouted, pointing to a large tear-drop shaped fruit hanging on a tree. At least... I think it was a fruit. It looked a bit suspicious along with the other small fruits scattered around the tree. "What if they're the key to getting them out of there!? Maybe we have to hit 'em or something."
They glanced at me in unison, obviously hinting that they wanted me to do it. "Don't rush over there at once, you guys. I got it." I said sarcastically, making my way over to the smaller fruits. I summoned my Keyblade and striked it. Nothing happened even after a minute of waiting.
"Move out of the way, Sasuke!" Sora yelled, shooting fire at one of the Heartless. He missed, however, and the flaming ball came hurtling in my direction. Was this guy trying to kill me? I jumped to the side and the element hit the fruit. Surprisingly it opened and a bunch of sparkles came flying out of it. "My bad, sorry about that!"
"You know, I usually would be mad but you just helped us a lot." I smirked, waving him off. He gave me a confused look before shrugging and going back to fighting. Donald caught on and shot fire at another fruit. It did the exact same thing as the first one, leaving sparkles in its place. So far there were two down and three more to go. I set the third one on fire while Donald got the fourth one. All that was left was the giant one hanging on the tree. "Sora hit the fruit!"
He jumped up and attacked it with his key. Instantly the vines keeping Jane and the gorilla in the cage disappeared. The Heartless vanished too, leaving us with pure silence. We walked over to them. "What happened?" Donald asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Clayton came to the tent. That's the last thing I remember." She answered, not making a move to put the small animal down. It looked awfully scared and was watching Tarzan the entire time.
"Clayton!?"
"Gorillas trapped. Terk ran." Tarzan explained, looking at the gorilla in Jane's arms. So that was her name, huh? So she and the one from earlier must have been the only gorillas to escape. But who trapped them... and how?
"We should go back to camp." Sora suggested, walking over to a dead tree. There was a hole in it that lead to who knows where. He pointed to it and smirked. I approached it and looked into it. There was a gigantic long log that went through the jungle inside. "Come on, this way is faster."
"No... no, no, no, no, no. I'm not breaking my neck." I said, going wide-eyed and backing away slowly. He smirked wider and walked behind me while I wasn't looking. Was this the kind of dangerous things he did on a daily basis?! He took one more step back and crashed into his chest. Unfortunately, he lifted me up bridal style and tossed me into the hole. "AHHHH~! SORA, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
"YOU'LL THANK ME LATER!"
The next thing I knew I was laying face first on the ground. We were in front of the tent unlike before. My face hurt more than you could imagine. "Gawrsh are you okay, Sasuke? That wasn't a such a good idea." Goofy asked, helping me up. The sound of Sora and Donald laughing rang all throughout my ears. They were literally on the ground laughing at me.
"That wasn't that funny." I sighed, brushing myself off. That only seemed to make them louder. Donald stood up and wiped the tears from his eyes. "Anyway, shouldn't we be searching for Clayton?"
They nodded and we walked to the bamboo clearing. It was quiet, which shocked me because usually a Heartless would be trying to rip my head off. There was a loud screech coming from a cliff. This time there was no other disturbances; though what we saw was slightly disturbing.
Clayton had his shotgun pointed at the gorillas while the Heartless stood next to him. It was as if they were on his side. His finger moved to pull the trigger but Sora pushed the gun out-of-the-way. Clayton just watched him with a blank expression while the gorillas escaped. Was he dead or something? "Clayton?" Sora asked, furrowing his eyebrows and looking up at the man.
"Not Clayton!" Tarzan growled, clenching his spear. He began speaking gorilla language as he kept his glare on Clayton. Donald and Goofy looked just as confused as I was. Did we miss something that those two didn't? Clayton pointed his gun at Donald and put his finger on the trigger. Said duck jumped and ran around screaming. "Move!"
Tarzan, Sora, and Goofy fought with Clayton while I ran after Donald. This duck would just not stand still. When I finally caught up with him a loud gunshot ran throughout the air. I turned around and a bullet grazed my arm. It stung... A LOT! My hand instantly shot up to stop the wound from bleeding. "OH MY GOODNESS, THIS HURTS!" I growled, glaring at Clayton.
Suddenly one of the cliff walls tumbled to the ground and Clayton started flying. No seriously, he was FLYING. As in his feet weren't touching the ground. We all raised an eyebrow at him when something hit Tarzan and made him crash into the ground. There was obviously something here that we couldn't see. "Ah, great..." I groaned, clutching my injured arm.
Donald healed my arm for me while everybody else attacked the air. Once he was done I flexed my small biceps; it didn't hurt but my arm was sore. I decided it was fine and went to help out with the invisible monster. After striking it a thousand times (give or take a few) it finally turned visible. It was a bright green chameleon of some sort with white horns along its body. The Heartless kicked Clayton off of its body and he came crashing to the ground.
"That's what you get for shooting me!" I laughed, pointing at him with my Keyblade. My laughter was short-lived though because he pointed the gun at me again. The lizard or whatever was staggering around behind him as he got ready to shoot me. "Uhh, Clayt-"
I was cut off by the Heartless landing on top of him. He yelled out in pain as a heart came floating out of the Heartless. Once AGAIN, the heart started shaking when it was by me. This was beginning to grow annoying. I was brought out of my thoughts by a gorilla walking up to us. It grabbed Sora by the hood of his short-sleeved jacket and tossed him up into the air; he flailed his arms around and yelled while he disappeared from view.
Being the awesome friend that I was, I burst out laughing. Next it threw Goofy into the air. It picked up both me and Donald this time instead of one of us. "Hey, we could work this out!" We begged in unison before he tossed us over the cliff. We landed by a pretty looking waterfall. Too bad I landed on my arm and the skin opened again.
"Tarzan, home." Tarzan explained, appearing at our sides. He motioned for us to follow him into a cave by the waterfall. Inside were a bunch of vines with a glowing blue light on the wall. You could hear the water flowing from the outside. It was actually kinda nice in here... in a dark cave sort of way.
"This is your home? But that means..." Sora started but was cut off by Taran putting a finger over his lips. Jane and Terk entered the cave behind us. "The waterfalls. They're echoing all the way here."
"Friends there. See friends."
"Oh, now I've got it 'ee oo oo oh aa' means heart. Friends in our hearts..." Jane explained, walking over to me with bandages in her hand. I let her wrap up my bleeding arm. If magic wasn't going to heal this I was going to have to do it the old fashioned way. "Oh, so that's what it meant." Sora sighed, sounding a little bummed out.
"Friends, same heart. Clayton, lose heart. No heart, no see friends." Tarzan explained further, turning to look at us. Sora sheepishly scratched the back of his neck and smiled slightly at Donald.
"Sorry about what I said earlier."
"I'm sorry, too..."
"Yeah! All for one, huh?" Goofy chuckled, bringing us all in for a group hug. As soon as he did the blue light on the cave wall died down to reveal a keyhole. It was like the one from Wonderland. Oh man, I hated that place. It was so confusing! I thought to myself as Goofy let us go. Sora walked over to the keyhole and pointed his Keyblade at it. A beam of light shot out of it and into the hole, making a lock sound.
An orange and green cube fell out of the hole before it locked. "A gummi!" Goofy cheered, picking it up. Where these things going to be everywhere we went?
"But it's sure not the king's." Donald sighed, crossing his arms over his chest.
3rd person P.O.V.
"What drew the Heartless to that world?"
"The hunter drew them there. It was his lust for power that was the bait." Maleficent explained, answering their questions. "But it seems the bait was too tasty for his own good."
"Hahaha! Yeah, he got chomped instead!" Oogie Boogie laughed, hitting Jafar lightly on the shoulder. Said man shrugged him off and glared at him.
"A weak-hearted fool like him stood no chance against the Heartless. But the boy is a problem. He found one of the Keyholes." Jafar said, stroking his thin beard.
"Fear not. It will take him ages to find the rest. Besides, he remains blissfully unaware of our other plan." Malenficent cackled, staring at the hologram in front of her. Sora, Donald, Sasuke, and Goofy were walking back to their ship.
"The princesses!"
"They are falling into our hands, one by one. Speaking of which..." Maleficent added, looking to the side. Alice was in a cage looking around. She had a terrified expression on her face. "That girl traveling with them... something isn't right with her..."
So... sorry it took me so long to update! I just recently got braces so my teeth have been KILLING ME. My teeth have never hurt this much. I couldn't even eat a bowl of cereal without crying. Enough with my ranting, back to the story. Did you love it? Hate it? Have any ideas or comments? Review!