Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy XIII
A/N: Hi Everyone! Well that was a nice bit of adventurous stuff in the last chapter, huh? Well, this chapter just continues right where the last left off and then the real adventure begins! Just to give full disclosure, the timeline of the two Final Fantasy games is kinda totally out the window. My logic in that is that…maybe…Serah found a time gate that led back to before FF XIII, so yeah, just suspend your disbelief please! Thanks! Please read and review!
Chapter X: Safe in the Cocoon
"Bu…bu…but…Master? How do'ya not know?" Mickey's right, how does he not know?!
"Not everything is within my sight. This is a topic upon which I can pass no judgment."
"Then what are we supposed to do?"
"There is one thing that may be of some help. With your defeat of Xehanort, there should not be a way for him to come back." Merlin finally breaks his silence.
"But that means someone else is out there." Goofy hangs his head a bit.
"Indeed…but the question is who." I turn back to Yen Sid at his desk then to the others around me. Come on Tobi! He's usually the planner of the two of us, but he's not giving me anything.
"What do you think you're Majesty?" I'm hoping he has an answer.
"Well…we haven't heard of anything anywhere else…so uh…um…"
"Mickey?" Ven looks down at the small, but dignified mouse.
"Gee I don't know…well…"
"Perhaps something different is in order given these circumstances," Yen Sid speaks again as we all break from our mini-trances. I tilt my head and raise an eyebrow toward him.
"Uh…"
"What I mean is perhaps there is a new world for you to venture to. I have heard of a place that has an unconventional connection with Chaos." A puff of smoke appears on his desk in place of the Rifter from before. In its place is this strange looking world with a hole in the center of it, and there's this thing below it too…it looks like another world.
"What is this place?" Roxas leans up against the desk. I join him in staring at the strange image.
"Ah, yes Cocoon, an interesting place to say the least." Merlin steps up with us, "Below it is the world of Pulse, a wild world that hasn't seen human life in hundreds of years."
"Cocoon is a world under the sway of beings known as the Fal'Cie. I do not know much about these creatures, but I do feel that this is our most promising of prospects."
"How are we going to look at both worlds though? It'll take forever," Ven almost seems to whine from behind us.
"We'll go with you to help." Awesome! I get to go on an adventure with Donald and Goofy again!
"Maybe we should split up. You know, into teams…like Ven, Van and I will go down to this is Pulse place and you four can go up there to Co…Coco…whatever it's called."
"Cocoon." Tobi smirks before Roxas rolls his eyes and sticks his tongue out.
"But what about the girls?" My mind drifts back to Kairi. I'd feel really bad if I had to leave them again, especially after all of these adventures that's she's not be able to go on. Well, at least willingly.
"Won't they like getting a chance to go to college? I know that Nami's been looking forward to it for a long time."
"But…Kairi always gets left behind…I feel so bad."
"Don't you think she'd understand Sora?" I look to my twin.
"I guess, but…I don't know. I guess I'll just talk to her about it before I go…and maybe…I don't know."
"Very well, you should leave as soon as possible." I nod to the Master and take that to be our cue to leave.
"And don't worry about Kairi and Naminé, I'll make sure they stay safe!" The King gives me a huge smile that makes me feel a lot better about maybe leaving Kairi here.
"Thanks you're Majesty!" I put my hands behind my head and give him a huge smile. With a bow we all leave the room, and ugh…the stairs.
"So Sora, whatcha been up to?" Goofy asks as we make it down all those stupid stairs.
"Not much lately. School, well I guess not anymore. Mostly dealing with these guys." I say with a huge smile.
"Hey!" I guess Tobi was the only one that was paying attention. I love my brother!
"Whata 'bout you Tobi? Are you liking it here?"
"Yeah it's great! Despite what Sora says, he's the one that's tough to deal with!" Wow, Tobi can actually understand Donald, that's surprising, what a minute…hey!
"Whatdya mean? I'm the fun one!" I spin around to be face to face with him.
"The spider in my bed?! I mean come on!"
"It was Halloween!"
"I wish I had never told you about that stupid holiday." I turn to the others who've started laughing at us. "What?"
"The two of you. It never really gets old." Ven's nearly bent over. I didn't think it was that funny.
"It does get old, but not this time." Even Van's laughing and he hardly ever laughs at least that hard. I scowl back at them, but I can't keep it. I join them in laughing until we get to the gummi ship at the bottom of these awful stairs. The four of us hop into the ship while the others put on their armor.
"Everyone ready to go?" I tap on some of the buttons of the gummi ship. I can hear the engines starting up and the whole ship is rumbling.
"Good to go!" Ven's voice comes across the radio.
"Alright, see you back Home." I let them lift off first before sending the gummi ship off.
"So this is the famous gummi ship you've told me so much about." I look back at my brother as the ship starts going on its own.
"Yep. Pretty cool huh?" I walk back to where he's sitting.
"Yeah...it's a lot bigger on the inside."
"You've never been in a gummi ship before, Tobi?" Donald's voice reaches us from the front.
"Nope, I've been in planes before, but never anything like this. It's kinda awesome."
"Well you're gonna see a whole bunch from up here! Just you wait!"
"Oh don't worry, I'm looking forward to it."
It doesn't take that long for us to get back to Twilight Town. We head straight for the school. I asked Kairi and Namine to meet us in the courtyard.
"Sora! Tobi!"
"Kairi!" I run over to her with Tobi in tow.
"You guys are back! How'd it go?" Kairi wraps her arms around me as the others join us.
"Welcome back Roxas," I watch as Roxas embraces Naminé.
"It was bad. We have to leave again." I feel her tense up.
"Again..." Aw...I think she started trembling. I knew I shouldn't've told her.
"I'm sorry Kairi…but…" I'm not sure how I'm going to explain this…
"Just stay safe…okay?" Her arms tighten around me.
"Thanks Kairi, don't worry I will. Plus I've got these guys to protect me!" Maybe I shouldn't have tried to be funny…oh she's laughing, guess I'm okay!
"All right then, you guys make sure you get him back safely, okay?"
"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to him, I kinda owe it to him." Tobi joins in the little bit of laughter.
"Same for you Roxas. I need you to come back, alright?" Roxas leans his head down to her.
"No problem Nami." That nuzzling would be cuter, if it wasn't my roommate, but eh, whatever.
"Hi everyone! How are you all doing?" Where is that…
"Serah! Hi, it um...well…not so good…" Tobi's the first of us to respond.
"We have to leave." Van's always good at getting to the point.
"Oh…"
"Yeah for some place called…uh…Co…Coco…Cooco…"
"Cocoon," Donald finishes Goofy's sentence, he's been doing that a lot lately.
"Cocoon?" She seemed to get really excited about that… "That's my home!" That's why.
"Really?" Not sure why I asked that…
"Yeah, I'm from a town named Bodhum there. I know it really well. Eden's really beautiful too."
"Hey Sora, maybe we should take her along with us…I mean she knows this place and that'll be a big help." I have to step closer to hear what Tobi's saying.
"I don't know…I mean we said no to Kairi…"
"But she knows where she's going, plus she knows about the people."
"Tobi's right Sora, Serah might be good to have." Not sure why, but Goofy's argument is what put it over the top for me, but I still see what Donald has to say.
"Sounds good to me." Well, I guess that settles it.
"Hey Serah…would you…maybe…be…not totally against going with us to help us get around Cocoon?" Nice job Tobi, way to actually ask the question.
"Uh…um…this is kind of sudden…well…what about school and…"
"They're right, Kupo." Who said that? I spin around and around looking for the source of that voice.
"What do you mean Mog?" Oh, that's kinda cool, Serah has a Moogle! This one, Mog, looks a bit different from the one's I've seen, but hey it's still cool.
"They need you to help them save the world, Kupo. Without you they won't get very far." The little guy is carrying a weird little clock staff.
"But…"
"They don't have much other hope, kupo…"
"Will you come along too, Mog?"
"You're not getting rid of me that easily, kupo!" I love when that little thing talks it's so funny.
"Okay guys, I'll go with you, but Mog's part of the deal, okay?" I shake my head really fast, I love that little thing and I've barely met him! "Alright then! When do we leave?" I give Kairi one last squeeze and a kiss before I decide to answer.
"As soon as you're ready."
A/N: We're on way! Please Review! Thanks!