Chapter Sixty-Four: The Powhatan Village
Upon arrival to a new world Jason and Max arrived to a forest as they looked around.
"Wow this place it feels so...peaceful" Jason said taking a deep breathe of the new world.
"This world so peaceful" Max said as a gust of winds blew past them with leaves and small orbs of light spinning around them as they could hear a whisper off a woman singing but the language was foreign so the two didn't understand.
"How strange" Max said as Jason looked to the direction the leaves were going.
"I think we should go that way" Jason said.
"Why?" Max said.
"I do not know I just think we should" Jason said
They then heard drums beating as they looked to see a village of Natives all gathering as they saw the Village leader talking in the language.
"What are they saying?" Max asked.
"I do not know" Jason said as the leaves and light spun around them again.
"Que que na-to-ra, You will understand, listen with your heart, you will understand, let it break upon you, like a wave upon the sand."
"Hey I understood that!" Max said.
"So do I, hey! This place must be magic, it's helping us understand the language here!" Jason said as they heard Powhatan tell his story.
"Faced a determined enemy. The battle lasted from the rising of the sun until the evening shadows fell. Our warriors fought with courage, but none as bravely as Kocoum. He attacked with the fierce strength of the bear. He has proven himself to be the greatest" Powhatan said as the village elder place a bear claw on the man chest, "and the finest destroying every enemy in his path. Tonight we will feast in his honor!"
All the Natives then cheered as Unversed looking like forest animals and some wicked looking Natives appeared.
(A.N. play the Unversed theme the Thumbing for this fight!)
"Take the women, elderly and children to safety! The monsters are back!" Powhatan said as the village was filled with screams as they tried to evacuate as some warriors shot arrows at the Unversed and saw they cut went through them and reformed.
"Father look out!" Pocahontas yelled as an Unversed jumped at Powhatan as Jason keyblade slashed threw it and Jason and Max entered the village weapons drawn as Jason caught his other keyblade.
"Stay back! We'll handle this!" Jason said as Powhatan moved away and Jason looked around to the Unversed surrounding them.
"Let's go!" Jason yelled as he and Max charge at the Unversed and began to beat on them.
"Rah! Ha! Ya! Take that!" Max yelled making a few strikes and sending the Unversed skidding back.
"Yah! Ha! Rah! Like that?!" Jason yelled making attacks and seeing that the Unversed was stronger.
"Dude! They're stronger now!" Jason yelled managing to destroy one.
"Got any spells?" Max asked.
"I can't, I will destroy the village if I use any powerful spell!" Jason said.
"Okay old fashioned way!" Max yelled as they charged again.
After the last Unversed was slain Max and Jason panted as they pulled out Elixirs to refill their energy as the village began to return and Powhatan examined the keyblades in Jason hands.
"Who are you stranger?" Powhatan asked.
"Oh I'm Jason and this is my friend Max" Jason said as they bowed.
"The weapons you wield, our people have heard stories of such strange weapons and the destruction to worlds they can bring" Powhatan said.
"Wait kings know that story which means you in sense the king of this world" Jason said.
"What is this word 'king'?" Powhatan asked.
"Never mind sir, I promise I am only searching for a keyhole, once I do and seal it those monsters should leave you alone" Jason said as Powhatan began to think.
"Jason, Max my daughter has been the main target of these creatures, so until you find the keyhole, can you two protect my daughter?"
"She must be Princess of Heart I noticed they are main targets of these things, okay Powhatan we'll watch over her" Jason said.
"Father!" Pocahontas said running over.
"My daughter" he said hugging her.
"Wingapo, father."
"Seeing you gives me great joy."
"I am so glad you've come home safely."
"Come with me, we have much to talk about. I want to hear everything you've been doing, come Jason, Max" he said leading them to his large hut.
"Father, for many nights now I've been having a very strange dream. I think it's telling me something's about to happen, something exciting" Pocahontas said holding her father staff.
"Yes, something exciting is about to happen" Powhatan said placing his headpiece on a shelf.
"Really, what is it?" Pocahontas asked excitedly.
"Kocoum has asked to seek your hand in marriage" Powhatan smiled.
"Marry Kocoum?" she repeated as Jason and Max glanced at each other.
"I told him it would make my heart soar" he said as she forced a smile as she glanced out the blanket that was used for the door as Jason and Max glanced at the frowning man surrounded by kids.
"But he's so… serious."
"Is smiling possible for him?" Jason asked.
"My daughter, Kocoum will make a fine husband. He is loyal and strong and will build you a good house with sturdy walls. With him you will be safe from harm" Powhatan said.
"Father, I think my dream is pointing me down another path."
"This is the right path for you."
"But why can't I choose-" she began but stopped when a raccoon flew off the shelf and she caught him wearing Powhatan head piece.
"Pocahontas, come with me. You are the daughter of the chief."
"Ergo the princess of the king" Max whispered as Jason nodded as they followed them out of the hut.
"It is time to take your place among our people. Even the wild mountain stream must someday join the big river."
"As the river cuts his path. Though the river's proud and strong. He will choose the smoothest course. That's why rivers live so long. They're steady as the steady beating drum." He sang as he pulled a blue necklace from his clothes. "Your mother wore this for our wedding. It was her dream to see you wear it at your own" he said placing it around his daughter neck. "It suits you"
Later that day Jason and Max followed Pocahontas to a river as they stood at the riverside as she looked at her reflection.
"Is something wrong Pocahontas?" Jason asked.
"He wants me to be steady… Like the river" she said as the looked at the water as two otters popped out making Meeko screamed and fall over, "But it's not steady at all."
"She right" Max nodded.
"What I love most about rivers is, you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing." She sang as they got into the log boats they moved down the river, "But people, I guess, can't live like that. We all must pay a price. To be safe we lose our chance of ever knowing. What's around the riverbend. Waiting just around the riverbend. I look once more. Just about the riverbend. Beyond the shore. Where the gulls fly free. Don't know what for. What I dream the day might send. Just around the riverbend. For me. Coming for me."
"I feel it there beyond those trees. Or right behind these waterfalls" she sang as Meeko looked past the waterfall as two fish landed on him as he glared at Pocahontas, Jason and Max. "Can I ignore that sound of distant drumming? For a handsome, sturdy husband. Who builds handsome, sturdy walls and never dreams that something might be coming. Just around the riverbend. Just around the riverbend!" she sang as they reach a water fall as Meeko eyes widen like Jason and Max as they move down as Jason and Max help up their hand smiling like they were on a water ride in a amusement park.
"I look once more! Just around the riverbend! Beyond the shore! Somewhere past the sea! Don't know what for! Why do all my dreams extend! Just around the riverbend! Just around the riverbend" she sang as they moved out of some rapids then stop when they reached a fork in the river.
"Should I choose the smoothest course? Steady as the beating drum. Should I marry Kocoum? Is all my dreaming at an end? Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver. Just around the riverbend?" she sang as he took the narrow rapid path to the right.
"Where are we?" Jason asked as they reached a beautiful glen and approached a willow tree.
"I want you to meet someone" Pocahontas said as they moved past the leaves of the willow tree as they saw many animal moving across the branches as they reached the base of the tree as they walked onto the roots of the tree and climbed with Pocahontas to a flat spot to sit.
"Is that my Pocahontas?" an elderly woman said.
"Grandmother Willow, I need to talk to you" Pocahontas said looking at the tree.
"Where is she?" Jason asked looking around as he saw a face began to appear in the tree as Jason and Max eyes widen.
"Good morning, child. I was hoping you'd visit today, oh! You brought me guests! Oh and handsome ones too! Why, your mother's necklace!" Grandmother Willow said.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. My father wants me to marry Kocoum" Pochatontas.
"Kocoum? But he's so serious" Grandmother Willow said.
"I know. My father thinks it's the right path for me. But lately I've been having this dream and I think it's-"
"Oh, a dream! Let's hear all about it!" Grandmother said as all the animals around then began to chatter.
"Quiet!" she yelled as a squirrel climbed on her face as she blew it off, "QUIET!"
A frog then ribbit as Grandmother Willow glared at it as it swallowed and hid in the water.
"I know what it's like frog?" Jason said as he and Max recalled their time as frogs.
"Now, child, you were saying" Pocahontas said.
"Well, I'm running through the woods and then right there in front of me is an arrow. As I look at it, it starts to spin."
"A spinning arrow? How unusual."
"Yes! It spins faster and faster and faster until suddenly it stops."
"Hmm. Well, seems to me this spinning arrow is pointing you down your path."
"But Grandmother Willow, what is my path? How am I ever going to find it?" Pocahontas asked as Grandmother Willow chuckled.
"Your mother asked me the very same question."
"She did? What did you tell her?"
"I told her to listen. All around you are spirits, child. They live in the earth, the water, the sky. If you listen, they will guide you" she said as the wind began to blow as they heard the Wind Spirits.
"Ay ay ay na ay ay na."
"I hear the wind" Pocahontas said.
"So do I" Jason said looking around with Max.
"Yes, what is it telling you?" Grandmother Willow asked.
"I don't understand" Pocahontas said.
"Que que na-to-ra, You will understand" she sang as a light came down from the branches above to the three as the leaves and orbs of light slowly spun around them "Listen with your heart. You will understand. Let it break upon you. Like a wave upon the sand."
"It's saying something's coming! Strange clouds?" Pocahontas said as they began to climb up the tree with Pocahontas said.
"Listen with your heart. You will understand."
"You will understand" the Wind Spirits sang as the three reached the top of the tree and looked out past the forest as they saw what they were to see as Flit and Meeko screamed going back down below.
"What do you see?" Grandmother asked.
"Clouds. Strange clouds" Pocahontas said.
"No" Jason said looking to the sails of a ship approaching the beach, "I know what that is! We call those sails, they use the wind to make our uh boat move faster but our boats that big we call ship and that has visitors on it."
"You must tell me more Jason" Pocahontas said.
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