KZD: I own nothing. So Kyuubi, how do you like being a star charm?
Kyuubi: (The wayfinder glows violently before it stops.)
KZD: What did he say?
Aqua: Something about how he hates you and the moment he gets out he's going to eat you.
KZD: Never mind then lets get on with the show. Also more explanations in this chapter.
Speech: "Normal"
"Human/Normal thinking"
"Kyuubi talking"
"Kyuubi thinking"
Days passed for Aqua and her hooded friend, unlike Kyuubi, who was currently trapped in the wayfinder already felt like years. Time for the demon was irrelevant anyways as long as he didn't fade away he was immortal.
The two humans would take shifts at various time periods. While one got rest the other would look out for any of the heartless that would try to attack them but none of the dark dwellers seemed interested in them and kept a respectable distance mostly due a certain demons red aura seemingly scared them away.
When ever Aqua would be on her shift she would always pull out her wayfinder and brush her finger tips over its new crimson color. The charm would glow and the blue haired women would hear the fox growl inside her head just like now.
"Why did you wake me from my sleep?"
"Sorry, I didn't know you were asleep." she said in a hush tone to not wake the napping man who was on the side of the rock she was sitting on.
"Speak in your head! There is a reason why I opened a mind link between us. You'll look ridiculous talking to an object."
"Sorry." She said softly in her mind before the fox let out a frustrated sigh.
"Stop apologizing it's annoying. What do you want anyway?"
"It's been bothering me for a while now but," She hesitated for a moment before the kitsune hissed telling her to sit it out already, "exactly how do you now about the keyblade." There was a loud snort on the fox's part.
"Such a foolish question. I've been alive for thousands of years and had first hand seen the keyblades creation by the God's of light and darkness themselves. It was before I became the ruler of Hell and I was the dark Gods right hand." The fox said with a huff leaving out the details about how he was there when the blades were created.
In her hands Aqua squeezed the glowing charm tighter. "Exactly why would they create a weapon like the keyblade?" This time she earned a grunt from the disgruntled demon.
"Another reason why I hate humans. You all ask to many questions that you can't even comprehend the questions to." The keyblade master's eyes narrowed at the red charm in a glare. She had half the mind to throw it into the ocean because of the demons rude nature. But before she could throw she would remind herself that the kitsune was probably just upset about any past events that might of degraded him.
"I'll make it as simple as possible. The Gods got tired of fighting each other considering they were equal. I was completely against the idea, but they decided to create the keyblade to give to mortals to fight for them. To them it was nothing more then a game of what was superior light or darkness. The goal being Kingdom Hearts." The fox explained.
The moment the demon motioned the heart shaped moon the dark memories of the last time she and her friend were together came rushing back. Terra becoming Xheanort, Vens frozen body being casually tossed off a cliff. All the horrors stated to come back and she could feel her body start to quiver.
From within his new home in the wayfinder, Kyuubi could sense the women's fear. He wanted nothing more then to laugh at her weakness, tell her how pathetic she was, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.
Mentally he cursed at himself for feeling anything towards the blue vixen. The demon king immediately saw it out as pity. He had felt it once for his old container but got over it quickly. But it angered him to end that it wasn't going away for her. Kyuubi inwardly growled before deciding to move on with the last part of his story.
"The Gods created Kingdom Hearts so that who ever opens the heart to all worlds first would unleash a new era of darkness or light to the worlds depending on whose side they are on, and thus what was superior. The truth is that all the worlds use to be one big world, but all those fucking wars had caused it to separate into small fractions of its former self to what you know now."
Aqua thought about the kitsunes words. All of it seemed to make sense. She knew the demon was leaving some parts out but what he said know was more then enough. In her free hand she summoned the master keeper to her and looked at it with a sullen look.
"So everything about being taught about being a protector of the worlds, its all been a lie."
"Yes and no. For you see the few survivors of the wars went on to sign a treaty to cease the fighting against each other. The finally noticed that darkness and light will always be equal to one another. They decided the best thing to do was preserve the balance to make sure nothing like the tragedies of the wars will ever occur again."
There was a long silence between the two and the only sound that was heard was the waves and the snoring of the hooded man. Kyuubi was irritated by the silence but guessed it was a lot for the human to process.
The glowing of the charm started to subside signaling that the fox was about to go back to sleep when it flared up again. The presence in the air had change and the sounds of the waves became more frequent.
"Oi snap out of it. And wake up that bastard too something coming." Kyuubi warned. Aqua snapped her head up and immediately became more aware of her surroundings. The fox was right there was a change in the air and it felt the round was rumbling.
She shook the hooded man to wake up but he didn't budge. Aqua was already frustrated by the demons story and had little patience for the man at the moment. She roughly jabbed the pointed end of her metallic shoes of the sleeping man who woke up with a groan.
"Was that completely necessary?" he said while rubbing his side.
"You wouldn't get up. Besides something coming." as she finished the rumbling turned into an all out earthquake. Both had a hard time standing and stumbled back to the ground.
From the ocean a pillar of light appeared and it seemed like the tremors were coming from it. The sound of jet engines screamed from the light and Aqua's eyes widen.
"Get down!" Both of the two jumped to the side just before some sort of space ship came crashing threw and stuck the rock they were once lounging about on.
"What the fuck is going on!" Kyuubi roared from within the wayfinder but Aqua never responded to the confused demon in her own dazed state. The ship was just a few meters from actually hitting them.
Smoked poured out of the cockpit and voices could be heard yelling from within. Aqua put her charm back in her jackets pocket before getting in a more cautious stance as she slowly approach the ship.
"What did I say about you flying the ship?" A scratchy voice quaked out.
"Sorry Donald, I just thought I could drive this time."
"There's a reason why you don't drive Sora and that because you always crash the gummi ship!"
"Garwsh fellas I don't think you two should be fighting at a time like this."
"Can someone open the hatch before we all suffocate from the smoke already?" The last voice yelled out to the others. The blue haired women lowered her keyblade. She had recognized two of the voices, and did one of them say Sora? The hooded man walked up behind her and both of them gave curious confused glances at each other while Kyuubi still roared about what was going on and was growing frustrated with the lack of answers.
The hatch finally opened to let out a accumulated pile of smoke to flow threw. The loud sound of coughing ensued afterwards as the first person who stubble out was silver haired teen who clutched his throat trying to gain some sort of breath as he cursed. Then a dog man an overgrown white duck walked out with soot on their faces before a spiky haired boy jumped out. All of them were gasping for breath and covered in the smoke.
From under his hood the mans eyes widen as he recognized the silver haired boy.
"Riku, is that you?"
"Ansem! So this what happened to you after the boy."
"The explosion…Ah yes now I remember everything." Ansem remarked taking off his hood to reveal his face. Bright blond hair and the same burning amber eyes that haunted Aqua's memories.
"It's good to see your still alive." The spiky haired brunet came up from behind his silver haired friend and looked at the blue haired women. Aqua couldn't believe it. Sora and Riku. Where these the same boys she met when she visited Destiny Island? The younger looking at the female keyblader with his big blue eyes.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Aqua." she said slightly flustered. The boy gave a wide grin that seem to brighten up the dark realm.
"You're the one Master Yen Sid told us to find." The spiky haired boy said as he suddenly was just a shoulders length away from the blue haired women. He was only about an inch shorter the herself.
"My names Sora. That's Riku and over there are Donald and Goofy." He quickly pointed out all of his friends, Riku still talking to Ansem and Donald and Goofy working on the smoking ship.
"Good Kami, I can already tell that this brat sounds like he's going to be worse the Naruto." The fox let out a sigh as he thought about how nothing seems to go right for him.
Aqua couldn't believe it. They really were the boys she met while on her journey to save her own friends. Sora had extended his hand to greet her but she took the final step and embraced the younger boy. He was confused by this.
"It's been a while Sora."
"Ahh have we met before?" Aqua pulled away but keep her hands on his shoulders and gave a small laugh.
"I'm not surprised that you don't remember me. When we first met you were-" Aqua looked Sora up and down and she was slightly unnerved of what his current age might be, "a lot younger."
"How long have been gone?" She could hear the demons manic laughter once more and it was stating to aggravate her slightly.
"Remember Vixen, there is no such thing as time here. What feels like one day here could be a year on the outside."
"I think I get it!"
"Someone's a little touché today."
"Miss Aqua are you alright? Your just standing there and your eyes twitching." Sora said while waving a hand in front of her face. Coming back to reality, a faint blush was evident on the older keybearer face from embarrassment. It must looked like she was spacing out when she was talking to the Kyuubi.
"I'm sorry Sora did you say something?" The younger scratched the back of his head.
"I was just saying that I'm sorry for not remembering you. Also that Yen Sid was the one who wanted us to track you. He said that the worlds are endanger this time by someone you once knew." The blue haired women nodded her head. She had a good idea at who he was referring to.
"So how do we get out of here?"
"Well…" His voice drifted off as both looked at the ship. Donald and Goofy had managed to get the smoking to stop but whether it would fly was another question.
"Hey guys is it ready yet?" The once white duck, now covered in black smoke have an angry stare at the boy as he walked up to him.
"It would be if it wasn't for your reckless driving!" The duck yelled.
"I said I was sorry." Donald was fuming and if anyone squinted hard enough they could see the smoke coming from the top of his head. The mage was about to open his beak again when the silver haired teen stopped him by lifting the animal by the back collar of his shirt.
"Calm down. it looks like it will be able to get us back to Yen Sid's place and get it properly fixed." The animal crossed his feathered arms and let out a humph before being put down. "Let's just get out of here. This place brings up bad memories."
As Riku made his way to the semi broken ship everyone followed. Goofy greeted them with his normal cheerful personality. Donald made sere to get in the captains seat before Sora could. The boy give a small pout but was still denied of the privilege to drive.
Aqua on the other hand was apprehensive. She had never been in a gummie ship before and didn't now what to think of it. She asked either of the boys if they had ever heard of a keyblade glider before and she only received a confused looks from the two friends.
"Don't worry about it I'll show you one day."
"It's obvious that these brats don't have the proper training. Exactly how are they keybearers?" The fox pondered as he listened in.
"Uh-oh"
"What is it Donald?" The dog man asked his companion
"There's no more fuel left."
"Are you kidding me? I thought this damn thing ran on smiles." Riku said in mild irritation. Aqua let out a disappointed sigh.
"And here I though I would be able to leave this place. Its what I get for getting my hopes up." She hadn't even noticed that the Kyuubi was trying to contact her in her sudden depression until Ansem snapped his fingers in front of her and pointed down to her glowing pocket where the wayfinder was. She had forgotten that he taken a seat next to her on the ship.
"He really wants something." The blond man whispered. She quickly took out the glowing red wayfinder.
"Now's not the time."
"It's about fucking time I got to you. I didn't think you be this dense." Kyuubi snarled. "If they need some sort of energy source its in your hands. I have better controls of my power now that I can channel it through this object. Even a small breath of it could run what ever the hell this trash is for the next hundred years." There was a certain ting of pride in the demons voice that made Aqua roll her eyes.
Looking up from the charm she saw that Sora was attempting to start up the ship by hitting it with his keyblade.
"Wait Sora!" In a blink of an eye she was up and grabbed the younger boys keyblade in her hands before he could swing it down on the control panel. Everyone in the ship seemed to breath a sigh of relief at the blue haired women's fast actions and a very shocked Sora.
"Wow she's fast. Yen Sid wasn't kidding when he said we could learn a few things from her."
"Before you do…Well any more damage to the ship apparently, can I try something first."
"Right. Sure." The boy ruffled his spikes sheepishly before returning to his seat with a small pout.
Aqua looked back down at the crimson wayfinder before placing it on the dashboard of the ship.
"No tricks now."
"Like I'm in the position to pull any pranks." The fox retorted with a snort. A small amount of the bijuu's chakra seeped through the charm and entered into the ship. With the evil aura coursing through the flying contraption a loud crack was heard and the roar of the engine blared out.
"Every things back online, and the fuel tank is full." Goofy said surprised while staring at now brightened monitors. Riku leaned over his chair and notice the glowing charm and looked at it with suspicion.
"What the heck is that?"
"This ahh," What was she suppose to say? Oh I'm hording what could quiet possibly be the devil in a star charm and made a deal with that said demon, "It was just to help put a spell on the ship to get it started. To amplify my magic a bit." She said with a nervous laugh. The silver haired teens piercing gaze never left her. He didn't believe her for a second but decided to drop it for now since the ship was running.
"Lets get out of this place before anything else goes wrong." Donald said while typing in coordinated on the ships interface. With everyone seated the ship stated to rise shakily into the air.
"Your turn Sora." the dog man called.
"Right." The youngest member of the group closed his eyes and put a hand over his heart. From the black ocean the tower of light reappear out of seemingly nowhere. The ship, though wobbly from damages, gradually made its way to the light. Despite the sickening feeling in her guts for flying in a ship for the first time, Aqua was just thankful to finally leave this place with most of her sanity. And Kyuubi was happy that the search for a proper body has now begun for the demon.
KZD: And another chapter out of the way. This was kind of harder to write it out and that's why it took longer to post. As always R&R