The darkness was growing. I could feel it in every pore of my body. Sora had gone into the darkness.
"DONALD!" Meg yelled. "GOOFY!" there was a pause. "GIRL?" she yelled. "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?"
"AWAY. GET MOVING THE HEARTLESS ARE COMING!" Donald yelled and they kept running.
"Go Kairi!" Goofy nudged the girl on.
"Kairi's awakened," I moaned, "Kingdom Hearts has been opened."
"Come on get up!" Nessa tugged on my arm. I slowly let her pull me up. I felt more like myself. The woman had been pushed back into the shadows of my mind and I could no longer hear her voice. Even with the darkness pushing in on the light in my mind. Nessa put the light back in.
"Where do we have to go?" Meg asked, looking at me.
"There is really nothing we can do," I wiped the dirt off my jeans as best I could, though they were still crusted in dirt. "I suppose we could go find your friends and see if we stay with them when the darkness overruns this world."
"What do you mean 'when the darkness overruns this world?'" Nessa gapped at me, "There's no hope?"
"None. There has been so much darkness here that it is impossible that the heart will not be eaten, unless Sora some how seals the keyhole. Which I feel that he has yet to do."
"Great!" Meg threw up her hands. "just great."
"Well they've left!" Nessa said. And indeed they were gone.
"FANTASTIC!" Meg screamed. Her voice echoed in the room. "Now we're stuck in this heartless infested stink hole and we're doomed to go down with it!" "Now did I say that?" I asked. Standing up and facing Meg. She stared at me with her mouth hanging open. "No. If we head up there is a Gummi Ship Garage with one or two of the things. I don't know how to fl-"
"I DO!" Meg raised her hand, yelling. "I CAN FLY IT!"
"Great," Nessa looked nervously over my shoulder. I turned to see what she was looking at. There was a large mass of heartless standing behind us, looking from me to them. "Can we move? With speed?"
"Sure." I lead them through the doorway and up a set of spiraling stairs. Both of them whispered nervously to each other.
"Uh, Rachel?" Nessa asked eventually. We were almost to the top.
"Hm?"
"Why are the heartless following us?"
"What?" I turned around and looked down the steps. Sure enough, all the large bodies, dark knights, shielded dogs and so on were just a few dozen yards below us. "Oh. Well I suppose they're waiting for orders."
"ORDERS?" Meg yelled. She pointed her staff at me.
"Calm down," I swatted it away. "I don't know what it is. I can still control them." "So why are we walking when we could take a portal to the top?" she asked, we rounded the last bend.
"Because the door is right here."
"Oh."
The Gummi Ship Chamber took up most of the top towers. It had Gummi Ships docked at each port.
"Okay pick a ship."
Meg picked a small black ship called Hawk III. It looked fast and durable. There was equipped with several large cannons on the outside and little laser releasers on the front.
"Alright." We climbed aboard and Meg started it up.
"Seatbelts please." She looked over her shoulders at us. I sighed loudly but clicked it on.
"Is she a good driver?" I asked Nessa. She just shrugged.
"I don't know. She's only watched Donald do it." I could feel all the blood drain out of my face.
"Hold on!"
The ship lifted off the ground and was suddenly high in the air. It took a few seconds for my stomach to catch up and when it did I felt sick. Through the window I could see the launch pad flying by, then we were surrounded by stars.
After a long time we reached this world. It was a really large town with misshapen buildings and many different people.
"Where are we?"
"Traverse Town."
"Ohhh-kay." I looked all around us, amazed. "Hey look its your Sora friend." I pointed over to the little overhang behind the Items Shop. The spiky-haired kid had disappeared behind the wall.
"FOLLOW HIM!" Meg yelled. We started to run after him. We jumped up from a box and landed on the second level of the district we were in. We turned down the little alley and followed him through the break in the wooden boards. We ran into a very tall stack of boxes.
"I can't jump that high," Nessa said, looking up to the top. Meg was looking the same.
"We didn't get the high jump ability," Meg said, sounding rather remorseful.
"Well that sucks," I muttered. They both glared at me. "Sorry." I thought about it for a moment and reached out with my mind for the darkness: It came to me readily. "I can get us around it." Then I pulled up the portal.
"Rach, I don't know. We could just go around…" Meg suggested.
"Oh don't be such a baby," I egged her on.
"I'm not being a baby."
"Yes you are."
"No! I'm not."
"Then go through." She paused.
"You first." I sighed, but obliged.