SUMMER IS OVA!
My dear friends, summer is over. I officially can say this now because August is at an end, St. Raphael's fair has come and is going, and both year round and traditional schools are in.
I want to say something. Listen to this;
I was at the fair and was getting on a ride called the Scat when I saw someone from my school. It was just someone I thought I had seen in the hallway, and I remembered him because on one of my particularly bad days I had cussed him out in my head. But now, this guy looked different from what I remembered. His hair was a bit longer. When we got on the ride, he kept looking over to me for long periods of time. Just as I was getting off, our eyes met. (His eyes were chocolate brown!) After the ride, my parents and I went home, so I didn't get the chance to approach him. I went home and looked through my year book from last year, but he wasn't in there. So he wasn't from my school; where had I seen him before? That's still bugging me. (Along with his eyes)
So what do you guys think? Think I'll ever see him again?
Well, enough about me. TO THE STORY!
Sora and Cloud clambered onto the bike, eager to race again. Now four people were balancing on this one bike, Roxas and Sora in the back, Cloud in the middle, and Alucard in the driver's seat.
Putting the pedal to the metal, Alucard cackled as he raced forward down the track. The world they were in was a large metallic city.
"Home." Cloud muttered. Alucard glanced behind him. "This is my home." Cloud seemed in a reverent daze. (Anyone remember at the beginning when Sulhadahne stated that she had named Cloud's home world Obsidian because the name sounded cool?)
Twisting along the track, Sora took in as much as he could of this world that Cloud called home. It looked kind of worn, war beaten; desperate. Sora could only imagine how it had gotten this way.
All too soon, the light reappeared, and the world changed…
Atlantica
Sora immediately realized they were under water again. With a groaned release of bubbles, he cast an aero spell to dispel the water from them. A small air bubble appeared around the bike and followed them as they sped around the water.
"How much longer?" Roxas asked Cloud. The blonde shrugged indifferently.
"This is the fifth to last world." Alucard answered. Roxas nodded.
Leon grinned at the screen. Out of the fourteen left, Alucard's bike was in seventh place and rising! He had five worlds to catch up, and Leon hoped they would.
Up in the stands, a blonde with blue eyes smoked her cigar as her analytical eyes danced across the screen high above her.
"Win, servant." She muttered. "Win, Alucard."
Laughing, Alucard heard.
"Of course, my master." He responded. With a flick of his wrist, the bike raced forward.
Spinning around and up towards the surface, Sora saw Ariel and many, many others at the castle, cheering them on. Sora grinned to Ariel, who was waving happily.
The aero shield began to disappear, and Sora recast it. Then, the bike flew out of the water and into the sunrise, and past that sunrise into a new world…
InuYoukai
Sora looked around. This world, like Makai, was full of demons, but this one was not a wasteland. It was lush with forests.
Sora saw that they were right behind another rider, and flung out his keyblade. He did so just as the bike turned around a corner and came near a tall tree. In the tall tree was a man with white hair and dog ears, who had been greedily looking at a bowl of ramen. The keyblade slashed the bowl of ramen in half, spraying the man. With a twitch of his eyes and a dog like growl, the man stood.
"DAMMIT!" He complained, and with that, he growled and leapt after Sora and the group.
Just as Sora was about to use a spell or something to attack the next racer, he heard a loud shout, and a large wave of yellow energy came up behind him. Alucard spun out of the way, losing control for a moment, and Roxas almost flew off. Cloud grabbed Roxas by the hair and kept him on, against the boy's complaints.
The man with dog ears came out of the light, the attack that had destroyed the other racer's bike. This man had a huge sword, and wore red clothes with a purple and white necklace. Roxas looked at the necklace and gulped.
"That thing gives me a bad vibe for some reason." Roxas muttered, when the man swung at the bike and almost hit them.
"I wonder why it gives you a bad vibe." Sora pondered sarcastically. "Maybe because it's trying to KILL US!"
"I'm not an IT!" The man cried, unleashing another yellow attack. The bike avoided it, but almost spun off the track as Alucard grunted. He had to stop the bike for a moment before starting back up and speeding after the two nearest racers, who were fighting against each other hard.
Sora pulled out the keyblade, and with a grin, he shouted.
"FINAL FORM!"
With that, he was bathed in white light, and then could fly with two keyblades following him. The next yellow attack he deflected with Bond of Flame.
"Axel." Sora muttered. He was snapped out of his reverie, and then the man and Sora fought.
Then, the light for world change came.
"Sora! Get on the bike!" Roxas demanded. Sora leapt towards the bike.
"Oh no you don't!" The man screamed, and just as Sora latched onto the bike, the man latched onto Sora's foot.
Radiant Garden
Sora grinned at the sight of his home, but the grin didn't last long when he realized that the white haired man was now on the bike with him.
"Why the hell is everyone coming to ME?" Alucard sobbed, grimacing as he pulled back hard to avoid smashing into one of the walls around Castle Radiant Garden.
"Why the hell'd you come along?" Cloud muttered.
"Where the hell am I?" The man demanded, looking around confused. Then he glared at Sora, and moved back to punch him.
All of a sudden the bike went spiraling downward with the track, and the man missed Sora, who then grabbed his sword. The sword immediately became smaller and dingy, and Sora grimaced at it.
"This thing's weird." He murmured. The white haired man's vein pulsed.
"IT'S NOT A THING!" He shouted, when suddenly the bike twisted sideways and then flew upward.
Alucard began to lose control just as the worlds changed.
The World That Never Was
"Well, what do you know?" Roxas laughed as Sora and the strange man argued behind him. Cloud and Alucard glanced at him. "It's my home; the world of deepest darkness."
"Deepest darkness, huh?" Alucard smirked and chuckled as the white haired man grasped Sora by his ankle and Sora pulled on the man's dog ear painfully.
The bike dove downward towards the Brink of Despair and raced along its track. When the track came to the castle, it flew upwards.
The white haired man tried to punch Sora but hit Roxas instead. The boy grimaced and then put the man in a headlock, and the two fought against the white haired man.
Alucard shouted. "Be quiet back there!" Cloud's eyes went wide.
"Watch it!" He commanded.
"NO BACK SEAT DRIVING!" Alucard screamed, about to lose it.
"You're mother's a dog!" Sora insulted the white haired man.
"No, my father was a dog, idiot!" Roxas looked puzzled.
"I don't want to know." Cloud sighed.
"You have fleas!" Roxas shouted. The man growled.
"You have lice!"
"You smell!"
"You're an ass!"
"You're a freaky dog man!"
"I'm a DEMON!"
"SHUT UP!" Cloud and Alucard shouted at the same time.
All of a sudden, one of the bikes in the front began shooting behind it. The shots hit the two bikes just ahead of the five, and began bombarding Alucard's bike. He shrieked angrily.
"Damn it all!" He murmured menacingly.
The bike was terribly injured, and looked like it could barely race, but Alucard held it together using his weird black darkness tendrils. He pulled a gun out of his belt and shot once at the bike ahead of him. The driver vanished as the bullet went through where the man's head had been.
"Whoa." Sora, the man, and Roxas had stopped in the middle of their fight, frozen in a position where Roxas had the man held back under his arms, Sora was on the other side pulling the man's hair, and the man had one hand grasping Roxas' hair and one grabbing Sora's shirt collar. The three were in awe of Alucard's prowess.
"Now we're in third place." He growled happily. The white haired man's eyes twitch, and he sniffed the air.
"There is no way you're human." The man muttered. Alucard grinned menacingly, and turned, his bulging eyes red.
"What could have given you that idea?" He muttered huskily with a deeper voice than usual. The man, Roxas, and Sora shivered.
The world changed.
Middle Earth
The field expanse was large and dotted with rocks. The white haired man ceased fighting for a moment.
"What's going on?" He asked. Sora answered.
"We're in an inter-planetary race, and you interrupted it!" He complained. The man glared.
"Well you ruined my lunch when you chopped my bowl of noodles in half!" He growled. "And it was the last one!"
All of a sudden, a huge being came down out of the clouds, roaring loudly and flapping its immense wings. Roxas gulped.
"It's a dragon." He whispered. Sora's and the man's eyes had grown incredibly small.
"Really? What gave it away?" Cloud asked, eyebrow twitching as he gazed on the giant creature. "The wings, the fire breath, or the fangs?"
The dragon descended on the racers, breathing fire. The flames tickled the back of Alucard's bike, and he grimaced.
"I cannot fight the dragon off and keep the bike together! Do something!" Sora gawked.
"Do what? It's a dragon!"
"You fought Xemnas' dragon, fight this one!" Cloud answered.
"That was a dark being; this is a real, live, fucking DRAGON!"
"WE GET IT, IT'S A DRAGON!" Everyone but Sora shouted very angrily. Sora huffed.
"Fine, but if I get dragon guts on me, I will hurt you." He threatened. Then, he transformed into Final Form and flew into the sky to play dragon slayer.
Alucard grinned when the leader of the race was taken down by the man in second.
"Second place." He determined. Grinning, he raced forward.
Sora was having trouble with the dragon. He didn't think it would have a barbed tail, and he was having trouble avoiding the mouth and the tail. The man with white hair growled.
"Humans!" He declared, before bringing out his huge sword and leaping into the sky. When he landed on the dragon, his sword plunged deep into its skin. The creature roared in pain, and Sora took the chance to attack its eyes.
"Don't kill it!" Sora demanded. The man rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." He groaned.
Pulling his sword out, he ran across the dragon's scales towards its face. But this time, the creature got the better of him. It dropped its wing down low and knocked the man away. Seeing him falling, Sora raced towards him and grabbed him under the shoulders. The two flew towards the creature's head.
Alucard came up behind the man in first.
He was tall, with long dark locks of hair. He didn't wear a helmet, for some reason, and was dressed in finery. He smiled sexily.
"Morpheus of Hinode, at your service." Roxas and Cloud looked shocked and angrily.
"Hinode?" Cloud muttered, holding his sword high. He may have been injured, but he wasn't stopping.
"Yes. And I am here to kill you, and Sora. Kairi may be needed, but the princes are useless." Roxas blinked. What was Kairi needed for?
With that, he flicked his wrist at Cloud.
All of sudden, Cloud screamed, full of intense mental pain. Images and memories and nightmares and lost dreams and so many things he didn't want to see…
"Cloud?" Roxas questioned shaking his friend's shoulder. "Cloud!"
Alucard flung his wrist out just as Morpheus had. Morpheus grimaced slightly, but held his stance.
"Back down." Alucard muttered dangerously. Morpheus did not move.
Sora and the man went to attack the dragon's face when he heard Roxas' cries. Sora looked down to Cloud with worry.
"Go!" The man cried. "I've got this bitch!" Sora nodded and threw the man up onto the dragon's back, and the man landed nimbly.
"Wait!" As Sora flew down, he called to the man. "What's your name?" The man grinned.
"Inuyasha."
Cloud screamed when he saw the flames, and her death, and everything all over again. He heard Vincent's voice in his head. He heard Tifa, he heard Aerith…
"Which will it be? A memory or us?"
"See? Everything's… alright."
"You cannot keep running away."
Then, it was Morpheus' turn to scream. His bike spun out of control and landed with a sound boom, and he flew off. He landed at the feet of the man that had sent his bike astray. The man was standing in a large puddle of blood, with cuts and bruises and many large injuries all over his body. Despite this, he stood tall and proud.
"I believe that man is my brother." The injured man mocked. 'In a way.' The man thought. "If anyone kills him, it will be me." Morpheus looked up to his enemy with a scowl.
Sephiroth stood before him, smirking despite the fact his body was writhing in pain.
"You could have killed him earlier. You could have killed him now." Morpheus pointed out. Sephiroth's brow furrowed.
"I could kill you." The man named Morpheus laughed insanely as a pool of darkness began to take him.
"No one can kill a dream!" And with that he was gone.
Sora saw that Cloud was okay, and rushed up to get Inuyasha as the world changed.
Monde Race
Landing on the back of the bike with a thud, Inuyasha grinned at Sora.
"You're not so bad, shrimp." Sora glared playfully.
"You either, mutt face."
Alucard groaned. "The flames of the dragon mangled the back of the bike. Do not fight anymore or this bike will collapse!" Sora grinned.
"We're almost there!" He cheered. "We're gonna win!"
"Only if this bike survives to the finish line." Cloud murmured dully. His mind was throbbing.
"You know…" Roxas whispered to Sora. Inuyasha looked at them quizzically. "Cid is gonna kill us when he finds out what happened to the bikes." The color drained from Sora's face.
"If I'm gonna die", Sora began. "Then I will die winning!" Sora, Roxas, and Inuyasha cheered. Alucard chuckled, but Cloud grimaced.
"Quit the loud noise!" He droned sleepily.
Roxas grinned. Inuyasha gasped as the stands came into view.
"We're so close!" Sora leaned forward. When he did that, he placed his hand on the edge of the bike. Accidentally, he slipped, and his hand broke something off. A plug.
"Uh oh." Sora muttered. The bike was creaking. Alucard moaned in pain, his head on the dash, sobbing. He wasn't crying, but he looked like he would.
The bike was only meters away from the loud cheers and screams. Cloud groaned. Roxas screamed like he was on drugs. The color drained from Inuyasha's face and he looked stunned. Sora was panicking, wanting to be excited but also freaking out about the bike; he looked like he was going to implode. Alucard looked like he was between sobbing and killing everyone on board the bike.
"Stop the loud noise!"
"WE'RE THE CHAMPS! WOOHO!"
"Oh man oh man oh man!"
"What the hell is this!"
"Everyone just shut up…"
And with that, the rickety bike crowded by a vampire, a half demon, a nobody, and two humans roared across the finish line.