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"You guys ever hear of Maleficent?" Cid asked us. We were in the abandoned house which turned out to be his house. After he cleaned the place up a bit it didn't look so old and dusty anymore. Leon was leaning against the wall by Sora and Yuffie was poking my shoulder. Aerith was standing still along with Donald and Goofy. "I hear she's in town."
"Who is she?" Sora asked, turning his head to face the older blonde male.
"A witch, man, she's a witch!" Cid replied, a horrified expression on his face. Leon rolled his eyes a bit and joined the conversation. "She's the reason this town is full of Heartless. Don't take her lightly." He warned, explaining it better than Cid did.
"She's been using the Heartless for years." Aerith added, making us look over at her. I raised an eyebrow; so this had been going on for YEARS now? "We lost our world thanks to her. One day, a swarm of Heartless took over our world. That was nine years ago."
"I got out of that mess and came here with these guys." Cid sighed, adjusting the toothpick hanging out of his mouth. "That's awful!" Donald said as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Our ruler was a wise man named Ansem. He dedicated his life to studying the Heartless." Leon informed us, closing his eyes. He seemed a bit uninterested in the conversation but interested at the same time. Was he always this confusing? "His report should tell us how to get rid of the Heartless."
"Where's this report?" I asked, trying my best to ignore Yuffie. She had gotten a stick out of nowhere and began poking me with that instead of her finger. Leon sighed and shrugged is shoulders. "We don't know. It got scattered when our world was destroyed." He replied.
"I'm sure Maleficent's got most of the pages." Cid said but was cut off by a sharp hiss. Yuffie had poked me where Clayton shot me. It hurt like hell!
"Yuffie, will you stop poking me, already?" I growled, glaring at the raven haired ninja. She smirked and shook her head. She poked the SAME area again and smiled. "Hey, why are you wearing gauze right there? That's a weird fashion statment..." She chuckled.
"She was shot." Sora started, watching as I jumped up and grabbed the stick from her. The wound had started bleeding again thanks to her! She slowly backed away as I gave her the most murderous look I could manage. "Don't you even think about it, Sasuke!"
3rd Person P.O.V.
"You see? It's just as I told you." Maleficent smirked, looking into the window of the house. Riku was standing next to her while he looked in as well. Inside, Sasuke was chasing a short-haired girl with a stick while Sora was chasing after her. Everyone else was attempting to move out of the way so that they wouldn't get hit. Aerith was trying to get them to stop, Cid was laughing, Leon looked annoyed, Donald was yelling at them, and Goofy looked worried. "While you toiled away trying to find your dear friends, they simply replaced you with some new companions. Evidently, now they value them far more than they do you."
"Ow, Sasuke don't hit me! That hurts!" Yuffie shouted, jumping over the giant table that sat in the middle of the room; her voice muffled from being inside the house and they were outside. Sasuke swung the stick but Sora snatched it out of her hands. She instantly tackled him while Yuffie tried to pry her off. "You're going to kill him! Go back to hitting me!"
"You're better off without those wretched children. Now, think no more of them and come with me. I'll help you find what you're searching for..." Maleficent offered, looking down at Riku. He seemed to be deep in thought already.
"I've been thinking about the bell in the second district." Aerith said, tapping her chin with her index finger. They had gotten Yuffie, Sora, and I away from each other and made us sit in different corners of the room. That was before Leon broke the stick into three pieces and hid them somewhere.
"The one that rang a bit ago?" Sora asked, looking at her. Yuffie attempted to leave the corner but Cid told her to sit back down. "The one above the gizmo shop. There's a legend about it, you know. But it's all boarded up. Nobody can get in there. Hey, you guys should go check it out! Ring it three times to see if anything happens!" Yuffie smiled, squirming around.
Sora and I stood up and walked to the door. Since we were able to get up, Yuffie tried to too but was told to sit. That's what she gets, she started it! Donald and Goofy followed after us as we walked out of the house and to the second district. Being the awesome people we were, we walked all the way through the second district and to our destination. Turns out there was a sign in front of it that said 'Gizmo Shop' and we were looking around earlier like a bunch of idiots. I'm used to it though. These different worlds never cease to make me feel stupid.
We walked to the balcony of the shop to see how we get to the bell. "Was that ladder always there?" Goofy asked, gripping onto the ladder on the side of the wall. He was right, that wasn't there before. I watched as he climbed up without a problem and wave us up. "Yes, but it was broken before. Remember?" Donald answered, climbing up too.
I ended up going last because Sora beat me to it. Just like Yuffie said, the bell was boarded up to no one could enter. The three males exchanged a glance before looking at me. "No, no, no. No way! You guys knocked all the air out of me last time!" I huffed, making an 'X' with my arms.
"Come on, it's the only way we'll get in." Sora pouted, pointing to the many wooden planks. I shook my head furiously. There was no way these guys were gonna- "Now!"
The three of them charged at me and pushed me into the boards. They instantly broke and I'm pretty sure my bones did too. Goofy, Sora, and Donald were on top of me this time instead of just two of them. "I see stars..." I groaned, trying to stop my head from spinning as they got off of me.
"Gawrsh, sorry about that, Sasuke." Goofy apologized while he helped me up. I looked to see if the other two were going to say sorry too but, alas, they were busy ringing the bell. Well it's nice to see ONE person cares about me. The loud ringing of the oversized bell rang throughout the second district. "You see that?" He asked, pointing to the fountain below.
When the bell rang the mural on the fountain wall changed. It used to be cherry blossoms now it's a humming bird. "I wanna do it!" Sora said, pulling on the string again. The wall turned one more time, this time the mural being flowers. "No, you do it like this!" Donald instructed, yanking the string with all of his strength.
"Guys, look!" I shouted, looking at the foutain. The wall turned to show a bunch of butterflies as water shot out of it and into the fountain. The mural then shifted to a blinding blue light before revealing a keyhole like the one in Deep Jungle and in Wonderland. "This time your arguing actually helped us."
"It was my idea." Donald claimed, jumping onto the balcony and onto the ground. We followed after him while he rushed to the Keyhole. Sora narrowed his eyes at the white duck. "It was not! It was mine-" He started.
"Just hurry up and do the lock thingy before something..." I interupted, though before I could finish my sentence a big purple suit of armor dropped out of the sky. It had long claws and big feet; none of its limbs were connected to its torso. We slowly backed away so that we wouldn't get hit. "... bad... happens..."
"This guy again?" Sora groaned, summoning the Kingdom Key. They fought him before? Sora jumped into the air and began swinging at its head. Just four hits and it came crashing down into a pile of metal. "Oh. That was easier than I thought."
The pieces of armor started shaking before it reassembled itself. This time, though, the hands were used as the feet and the feet were used as hands. The torso flipped upside down and the head took its place on top. It could fly now. No, I'm not lying. The suit of amor was literally FLYING.
Sora went for the hand while I went for the foot. Donald and Goofy were just attacking the Heartless everywhere. The foot tried to kick me away but I flipped out of the way. That wasn't such a good idea because Yuffie opened my wound again and it hurt, but oh well. You live and you learn, right? Sora managed to destroy the hand and Donald and Goofy got rid of the other foot. I took care of the last foot so that just left the right hand, the torso, and the head. I used lightning at the same time Donald shot a ball of fire at the hand, causing it to disappear. Sora, being the brave one like usual, jumped in the air and slammed his keybade onto the Heartless's head. It started shaking again before it faded away, leaving a heart in its place.
I nodded my head towards the fountain and Sora walked over to it. He pointed his key at it and the beam of light shot out of it and into the keyhole. There was a clearly audible locking sound from the wall. "Well that should do it." Sora smiled, crossing his arms behind his head. "Looks like it's on to the next world."
"Wait!" A voice shouted from behind us. We quickly turned around to see Yuffie sprinting over to us full speed. She came to a stop in front of me and bent over to catch her breath. "Aerith told me... to give this... to you for... your... gunshot. She also... told me to tell you... sorry. Are we... cool?"
She handed me a black cloth and pointed towards the white one on my arm. It had already started to turn red from the blood. I untied it and replaced it with the new one, ignoring the cringing Sora who was trying his best to not catch a glimpse of my wound. "Thanks, Yuffie. Yeah we're alright." I smiled, giving her a thumbs up.
She smiled back and winked, giving me a thumbs up too. "I can't say the same about Sora. He looks a little sick." She said, pointing to the brunette behind me. I turned around and he was covering his eyes and sprawled on the floor. His tanned skin seemed a bit green. "There was... so much blood..." He groaned, puffing out his cheeks. We all laughed at his misery. Maybe it would be a good idea to help him... nah, we could do that later.
So there's the end of Traverse Town for a while. I don't know why but my older brother claims that Riku reminds him of Kadaj from Final Fantasy. I can see the resemblance a little bit but it's not enough to where I would point it out. What do you guys think? Well anyways, did you love this chapter? Hate it? Have any comments or ideas? Review!