[A/N: I realize that the wait for this chapter was a lot longer than usual, but the site I was using for the Disney movies to get the dialog right went down and I've been looking for a new one. I found one not that long ago so the waits between chapters won't be months long anymore. I also started school last week so the chapters won't be posted as often, but you won't be having to wait a month for one either.]
The next world that they landed in was a thick lush forest. Juliet reached into her pocket and pulled out her map. "According the map we're in New World….that's really vague."
Akio peered over Juliet's shoulder to examine the map. "Maybe this world was newly discovered."
Juliet looked the map over flipping it over a couple of times. "I think this map is pretty old. I think all the worlds here were discovered a long time ago. Maybe the person who named the worlds wasn't very creative."
Clementine looked around the forest when she saw something white through the trees. "What's that?" She walked a little closer to the gap in the trees until she came to a rock that was jutting out and crawled out onto it. Clementine stood up all though with a little bit of wobble in time to see a large ship coming into the harbor. "That is one big ship." She stepped aside to allow Juliet and Akio to join her on the rock.
Nearly losing her balance Juliet hopped down off the rock into the ledge beneath it. "Whoever is on that ship might be able to tell us more about this world." The sound of someone walking behind them caused her to peek back around the rock.
Disappearing back into the woods was a tall young woman with dark skin and long black hair wearing some kind of animal skin dress. She looked hesitantly back at the trio.
Not waiting until Juliet or Akio could get back over the rock Clementine hopped down and began to walk towards the woman. "Who are you?" She had a good natured smile on her face and was trying to look friendly towards her. "I'm Clementine and this is Juliet and Akio."
The woman still looked a little confused, but slightly more comfortable. "Pocahontas."
Clementine looked back at Juliet and Akio in confusion. "Wonder what she means by that." She turned back to the woman. "Is that your name?" She saw the woman nod and gave a sigh of relief. "Well now that we're done with the introductions would you happen to know if New World is what this world is actually called or is it just a newly discovered world?"
Pocahontas nodded her head to the first question. "This land has been around for as long as I can remember. It is an old land." She saw the white peeking through the trees over the trio and walked over to the ledge to crawl on top to get a better look. "I wonder if those were the clouds Grandmother Willow was talking about." She looked around and saw a tall man wearing strange clothes with blond hair making his way through the trees. Pocahontas turned back to Juliet, Akio, and Clementine as she brought a finger to her lips.
"John, what are you doing up there?" Came a voice off in the distance.
"Getting a better look."
Juliet looked over at Pocahontas who was looking at the stranger with a smile on her face. Wonder if they know each other.
Pocahontas's raccoon companion Meeko crawled out of their hiding spot and crawled towards the strange man while the humming bird Flit tried in vain to pull him back.
The stranger looked at Meeko and put his knife away before he kneeled down. "Well, you're a strange looking fellow. Are you hungry?" He reached into a pack at his waist and pulled out a cracker. "It's a biscuit." He handed it to Meeko who took it curiously. "Its food. Well sort of."
Meeko took one look at the biscuit before devouring it.
"Oh you like it. Well try eating it for four months straight."
Meeko took another biscuit and waved back at Pocahontas and the rest of the group.
"You got a friend back there?"
The stranger got off the tree he'd been standing on and walked over to the bush that they were hiding in, but as he pulled back the foliage Flit sprung out and began flying in his face.
"John, you better get down here the Governor is coming ashore."
John put his helmet back on as he backed away from Flit. "All right I'm leaving."
Waiting until John had left Juliet turned to Clementine. "Why don't you follow him?"
Clementine looked back over at Juliet with her mouth open. "Why me?"
"Because you can blend in. You've got blond hair and blue eyes just like him. The other people on that ship will probably think you came with them."
"My eyes are grey." Clementine could feel Juliet still staring at her. "Fine, fine I'll go." She slipped out of the bushes and began to creep after John trying to keep as quiet as possible.
Pocahontas turned to Juliet and Akio. "Do you think you're friend will be all right?"
Juliet nodded. "Yeah she'll be fine."
Pocahontas began to creep out of the bushes as well. "Come with me I'll take you to my Father."
In the Indian village in one of the huts an old man with long grey hair was standing in front of a fire. "These are not men like us. Strange beasts with bodies that shine like the sun and weapons that spout fire and thunder. They prowl the earth like ravenous wolves consuming everything in their path."
A strong looking young man spoke up as the smoke continued to fill the hut. "Great Powhatan I will bring out strongest warriors and we will destroy these visitors."
"Kokum in that battle we knew how to fight our enemy, but these pale visitors are strange to us. Take some men to the river to observe them. Let us hope they do not intend to stay."
By this time Clementine had reached where the ship was and was hiding in the trees as she watched a large man wearing purple plant a flag in the ground. "They don't look like Pocahontas. Maybe they're from another world too." She took a step forward when she saw a young man with red hair wearing a floppy hat look in her direction and she quickly ducked back into the trees.
As Pocahontas, Juliet, and Akio made their way back towards the village Pocahontas saw a shadow from the other side of a waterfall and silently crept towards the shadow. She motioned for Juliet and Akio to keep quiet and stay behind.
On the other side of the waterfall John was kneeling down with a handful of water cupped in his hands. He splashed the water onto his face when he thought he saw movement on the other side of the waterfall. Silently he moved into the shadows and readied his rifle. He waited until the person moved out from behind the waterfall before he jumped out with his rifle aimed at the figure. John stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of Pocahontas standing on a rock staring back at him. The way her long black hair blew in the wind casting a shadow over her dark eyes was entrancing.
They stood together in silence staring at the each other until John put the gun down and began to walk towards Pocahontas.
Pocahontas took off at a dead run with Juliet and Akio close in pursuit. She hopped into her canoe and was about to start off when John caught up to her.
"Please, don't run away. Its alright I'm not going to hurt you." He offered his hand to her. "Here, let me help you out of there."
Pocahontas said something unintelligible to Juliet, Akio, and John.
"You don't understand a word I'm saying do you?" He saw her look skeptically at his hand. "It's all right."
Juliet could hear some kind of strange singing in the trees as Pocahontas took John's hand and nudged Akio. "Did you hear that music?"
"I heard something, but I thought it was just the wind."
John looked relived when he heard Juliet and Akio speaking English before he turned his attention back to Pocahontas. "Who are you?"
"Pocahontas."
"What? What did you say?"
"My name is Pocahontas."
John looked like he was starting to visibly relax. "I'm John Smith."
While Juliet and Akio were getting acquainted with John Smith, Clementine was keeping an eye on the growing camp out in the harbor. She had decided that the portly man in purple called Radcliffe was the leader of the group. As she spied on the group she'd realized very quickly that they were looking for gold.
"That's it keep at it men." Radcliffe was getting dangerously close to Clementine's hiding spot which causing her to back up into the trees. "Keep digging it's got to be here somewhere."
Clementine very slowly inched out again in time to hear a red haired man with a beard start complaining.
"How long are we going to be keep digging, sir?"
"Aye we're busting our backs slaving away day and night." Agreed a dark haired man.
"For King and country I know and I share your fatigue."
Clementine had gotten up behind a tall skinny young man who was busy cutting bushes into different animal shapes when she heard Radcliffe call out to him and quickly disappeared again. She was about to go off to look for Juliet and Akio when she heard a sudden uproar….something about savages. Peeking out of the trees Clementine could hear Radcliffe berating the red haired young man with the floppy hat that she'd seen earlier.
Back with Pocahontas, Juliet, Akio, and John Smith, Pocahontas was examining the strange object that Smith would wear on his head.
"It's called a helmet."
"Helmet?" Pocahontas said back.
Flit flew up to the helmet and pecked at it angrily as his reflection grew.
Smith laughed as Flit bounced off the helmet. "So what river is this?"
Pocahontas said something in her own language that the rest of them couldn't understand.
"You have most unusual names. Chickahomenie. Pocahontas."
"You have the most unusual name….John Smith."
Smith turned to Juliet and Akio. "Who are you two anyway? You don't look like Pocahontas."
Juliet stretched and popped her back. "My name is Juliet and this is Akio." She decided to leave out that Clementine was out spying on his people.
"So you're not from around here are you?"
"No, we're from a place far away from here."
"Oh, you mean like London?" He saw Juliet and Akio shake their heads. "Spain?"
This time Juliet laughed quietly under her breath. "No, nothing like that. We're from another world." She saw John quirk an eyebrow.
Meeko took this opportunity to bury his face in Smith's bag in search of biscuits. The raccoon was seized by the tail and hoisted out of the bag.
"Is this bottomless pit a friend of yours?"
Pocahontas took the raccoon from Smith and held him upright. "Meeko," she scolded.
"Well how do you do, Meeko?" Smith held his hand out to Meeko who began to flip his hand over looking for more biscuits. Meeko thrusts John's hand back at him in disappointment.
"Its all right it's just a handshake." He offered his hand to Pocahontas who shrugged. "Here let me show you."
Pocahontas looked at Smith's hand in confusion. "Nothing's happening."
"No, I need your hand first."
Hesitantly, Pocahontas gave Smith her hand. After they released each other's hands Pocahontas looked like she was starting to relax. "This is how we say hello. Weengapo." She raised her arm and fanned it out over her head. She watched Smith copy back what she'd done. "And this is how we say goodbye. Aana."
"I like hello better." Smith put his hand up against Pocahontas's, but was sabotaged by Flit who put himself between them. "I remember you."
"Flit just doesn't like strangers."
"Well I'm not a stranger anymore." He tried to pet Flit only to be pecked at. "Why doesn't he act this way around them?" Smith gestured at Juliet and Akio who shrugged.
Meeko meanwhile had gotten back into John's bag and this time had resurfaced with a strange object in his mouth.
"Meeko, come back here," Pocahontas called after him.
"Don't worry he can't hurt it." Smith had to jump after Meeko who'd began to bang it on a rock.
Meeko ran up a tree where he continued to bang on the object.
"Meeko come down here." Pocahontas called up to the raccoon.
"All right keep it. Call it a gift."
Pocahontas looked up at Meeko in the tree in curiosity. "What was that?"
"It's called a compass."
"Compass?"
"It tells you how to find your way when you get lost." He looked over at Juliet. "Don't you two know what a compass is?"
Juliet shook her head. "We use the stars back home to find out way around."
Akio was also shaking his head. "My world considers compasses primitive."
"Its alright I'll get another one in London."
"London? Is that your village?"
Smith smiled as he looked up at the sky. "Yes, it's a very big village."
"What's it like?"
Smith turned his attention to Pocahontas. "Well its got streets filled with carriages and bridges over the rivers. Buildings are as tall trees."
Pocahontas gazed dreamily up at the big tree that they were seated under. "I'd like to see those things."
"You will."
"How?"
"We're going to build them here. We'll show you how to use this land properly how to make the most of it."
"Make the most of it?"
"Yes, we'll build roads and proper houses."
Pocahontas looked like she was starting to get cross with John. "Our houses are fine."
"You think that only because you don't know any better."
Now Pocahontas was cross. She got up from the grassy spot she'd been sitting in and began to walk away with Smith in pursuit. Getting into her canoe Pocahontas wasn't able to get very far before John had gotten in front of her to stop her boat.
"Wait, there's so much we can teach you. We've improved the lives of savages all over the world."
"Savages?!" Her voice had risen in her anger.
Smith could see Juliet and Akio giving him a hard look from back on the shore. "Not that you're a savage."
"Just my people."
"Listen that's not what I meant. Just let me explain."
Instead of listening to anything else Smith had to say Pocahontas tried to paddle around him. "Let go!"
"No. I' not letting you leave."
Not to be deterred Pocahontas jumped out of her canoe and crawled up into the tree that was overhanging the river.
"Savage is just a word. You know a term for people who are uncivilized." Smith was attempting very ungracefully to climb up after Pocahontas.
"Like me?" Pocahontas was hanging out of the tree.
"Well when I say uncivilized what I mean is-" The branch that John grabbed onto broke and he fell from the tree landing hard on his butt.
Pocahontas jumped down from the tree after him. "What you mean is not like you."
Smith saw Pocahontas's face suddenly grow tense. "What is it?" There was the distant sound of drums.
"The drums…they mean trouble. I shouldn't be here." Pocahontas tried to walk off again when Smith took her hand.
"When will I see you again?"
"I can't I'm sorry."
They were in each other's arms and looked like they were about to kiss when Pocahontas turned away.
"I have to go." She turned to Juliet and Akio. "The two of you had better stay here too." With that she headed back to her canoe to return home.
A few days later it was raining at the encampment. Clementine was headed back to look for Juliet and Akio when she heard a rustling coming from the other side of the wall that the settlers had put up. I guess it couldn't' hurt to poke around a little in there. Making sure no one was around she cast a gravity spell lowering part of the wall when she realized that someone was watching her.
It was the young red headed man with the floppy hat. He was staring at her wide eyes as if he'd never seen anything like her before. "What do you think you're doing?"
Clementine stood stock still for a few seconds before taking off at a dead run out of the encampment.
The young man shrugged and turned around to go back inside when he came face to face with a slobbering black dog with mad rolling eyes. He stumbled backwards and meant to shot it, but to his dismay the bullets when right through it.
Clementine heard a yell coming from the direction that she'd just came from and quickly turned around again. "What am I doing? He's probably just going to panic when he sees me. Oh, but if a wraith is attacking him I wouldn't feel right about just leaving him." Clementine stopped running looking quiet put out with herself before she decided it would be best to help him.
The young man had been thrown onto his back by the Anger Dog had had shot it in the mouth, but to no avail.
The wraith leaned down and was about to bite him when a bolt of lightning hit square in the back of the head.
Walking a little closer Clementine took the wraith by the scruff of the neck and pulled it off the young man. "Are you all right?" She saw him open and close his mouth several times like a fish out of water. "Well if you're all right then I'm going to go."
"Who are you?"
Clementine bit her lip. It wasn't like she could actually tell him that she was traveling with a Keyblade wielder and they were looking for the seven pure lights. "I'm a traveler like yourself."
"No, I mean your name." He took his hat off and offered his hand to her. "I'm Thomas."
She didn't bother to shake his hand. "Clementine." She began to walk off again when she heard Thomas call out to her.
"Why don't you stay here? You'll be safe from the savages."
"No thanks, I need to go look for my companions."
The next morning was when Clementine found Juliet and Akio still under the big tree where Pocahontas had left them. "You two have been here the whole time?" She saw them nod. "I've been looking everywhere I even went to the outskirts of the village that's here and nearly got an arrow stuck in my head."
Juliet laughed quietly. "So, did you find out anything?"
"Yeah, I found out there are wraiths here too." Clementine's face suddenly brightened up. "So, have you found any of the other seven pure lights?"
Juliet sighed under her breath and shook her head. "No, I was wrong about the only lead I had. She's really nice and her name is Pocahontas, but-"She quieted herself when she saw Pocahontas and John starting to come up the river bank.
Smith saw Clementine and smiled at her. "You don't look like Pocahontas. You must be with Juliet and Akio." He saw her nod before Pocahontas pulled him up into the tree.
Juliet motioned for Akio and Clementine to follow her up the tree.
"This place is incredible and to think we came all the way just to dig it up for gold."
"Gold? What's gold?" Pocahontas got up onto a stump to sit down.
"You know its yellow comes out of the ground it's really valuable."
A sudden look of realization came to Pocahontas's face. "Oh, here we have lots of it." She reached into her bag and pulled out an ear of corn. "Gold."
"No. Gold is this." Smith reached into his pocket and pulled out a gold coin.
"There's nothing like that around here." She reached for it only to have Meeko snatch it away.
"No gold?"
"Not that I've seen."
Smith chuckled to himself. "All this way for nothing. Those boys are in for a big surprise."
"Will they leave?"
"Some of them might."
Pocahontas looked around a little nervously. "Will you go home?"
Smith who'd been lying on the stump propped himself up. "Well its not like I have much of a home to go back to. I've never really belonged anywhere."
"You could belong here."
The familiar music began to blow there the tree's branches and leaves and if you looked carefully a face could be seen in the tree's trunk.
Smith was staring up at the tree in confusion. "What was that?"
"Did you see something?" Pocahontas made this sound like it was the most natural thing in the world.
"No, no I just I ah….I didn't see anything. Did I?"
"Look again."
As the face rematerialized in the tree's trunk the only one who seemed at all calm was Pocahontas while Smith, Juliet, Akio, and Clementine all stared up at it in shock.
"Hello John Smith." The tree's voice was calm and soothing.
"Pocahontas, the tree is talking to me."
"Then you should talk back."
"Don't be frightened young man. My bark is worse than my bite."
"Say something."
"What do you say to a tree?"
"Anything you want."
Smith who'd fallen backwards hesitantly got to his feet. "So…."
"Come closer John Smith." The tree used her leaves to push Smith closer to her. The tree peered at him with curious eyes. "He has a good soul and he's handsome too."
John looked like he was starting to relax. "Oh I like her."
"I knew you would."
The tree then turned her attention to Juliet who'd been quietly observing the situation. "Don't think I forgot about you Keyblade wielder. Come over here my eyes aren't what they used to be."
Juliet felt the tree's leaves pushing on her back as she walked closer. She could feel the tree looking down at her and looked elsewhere out of embarrassment.
"You're heart is strong, but I sense a dark presence looming over you."
Remembering Mama Odie's similar warning Juliet felt her blood ran cold. Maybe there was something to this warning after all.
"Smith! Smith, where are yah mate?"
"We can't let them see us."
The tree gestured to the other side of her trunk. "Over here." As the men neared their hiding spot the tree uplifted one of her roots and tripped them.
"Watch your feet you big oaf." Berated a man with black hair at his companion.
"It wasn't me it was the tree."
"Of course the tree just felt like lifting its roots." The black haired man looked behind him at the roots to see it going back down into the dirt.
They looked at each other before the black haired man spoke up again. "Let's get out of here."
The tree snapped both men in the backside prompting them to run off.
Smith peered around the side of the tree's trunk. "I'm glad you're on our side."
"There's still some snap left in these old vines."
"I better get back before they sent the whole camp after me."
"When will I see you again?"
"Come meet me tonight right here." He stroked her face tenderly before he began to walk away.
The tree watched him go. "Well, I haven't had this much excitement in two hundred years."
Pocahontas looked like she was having a crisis. "What am I doing? I shouldn't be seeing him again. I mean I want to see him again."
"Who wouldn't? I want to see him again."
"But still something inside is telling me it's the right thing."
"Perhaps it's your dream."
"Do you think he's the one the spinning arrow as pointing to?"
Juliet turned back to Clementine. "Why don't you follow Smith and go back to the encampment. You weren't seen were you?"
Clementine tried to look innocent, but nodded her head. "Some kid named Thomas saw me, but I don't think he'd tell anyone." She turned and began to go in the direction that Smith had gone.
Shortly after this Smith had reentered the encampment with Clementine following at a safe distance.
Radcliffe came hurrying out of his tent looking very annoyed about the whole situation. "Smith, where have you been?"
"I was out scouting the terrain, sir."
"Excellent. Then you must know the Indians whereabouts. We'll need that information for the battle."
"What battle?"
"We'll eliminate these savages once and for all."
"No, you can't do that."
"Oh can't I."
"Look we don't have to fight them."
Thomas looked both angry and confused. "John, what's gotten into you?"
"I met one of them."
"You what," asked the black haired man from before.
"A savage," asked Thomas.
"They're not savages. They can help us. They know the land. They can navigate the rivers." He was handed the ear of the corn by Meeko from his bag. "And look its food."
"What is it?" The red haired companion of the black haired man marveled as he looked at the corn.
"Its better then hard tack and gruel that's for sure."
Radcliffe stormed up to the John and grabbed the corn throwing it the ground. "They don't want to feed us you ninnies they want to kill us. All of us. They got our gold and they'll do anything to keep it."
"There is no gold."
"And I suppose your little Indian friend told you this. Lies lies all of it is lies. There's no room for their kind in civilized society."
"But this is their land."
"This is my land! I make the laws here and I say anyone who so much as looks at an Indian without killing them on sight will be tried and hanged."
Clementine had been listening to the upheaval and decided it wouldn't be safe to stick around since they might think she was an Indian and take a shot at her.
It was night by the time Pocahontas arrived back at Grandmother Willow's tree.
"The earth is trembling child what's happened?"
"The warriors are here."
At that moment Smith came up over Grandmother Willow's roots. He took her hands in his. "Listen, my men are planning on attacking your people. You've got to warn them."
"Maybe it's not too late to stop this. You must come with me and talk to my Father."
"Pocahontas, talking isn't going to do any good. I've already tried talking to my men, but something about this land has them spooked."
There was a strange howling coming from the distance and out of the shadows came a creature that was clumsily balanced on its hind legs, but its upper body looked like a tree stump.
Grandmother Willow turned to look at it. "That's the strangest creature I've ever seen."
The creature took a few more bumbling steps before tripling and rolling down a small hill. It flew off the edge of the hill and got stuck up a tree only to have a small dog shoot out of the bottom of the tree stump.
Smith caught the dog upside down. "Percy!"
Percy saw Meeko and imminently started barking at him leaping from John's hands.
"See what I mean? Those two sides want to fight nothing can stop them."
Meeko and Percy continued to chase and fight each other until Grandmother Willow raised her voice as Percy ran towards her.
"Alright that's enough. Now then there's something I want to show you." Using one of her long tendrils of leaves Grandmother Willow lightly touched the surface of the water causing it to ripple.
Pocahontas was staring at the water in wonder. "The ripples."
"What about them?"
"So small at first, but look how they grow, but someone has to start them." said Grandmother Willow.
"They're not going to listen to us."
"Young man, sometimes the right path isn't the easiest one." She moved the root that Smith had been sitting on causing him to slid down to Pocahontas. "Only when the fighting stops can you two be together."
"All right let's go talk to your Father."
Pocahontas threw her arms around John's neck as Grandmother Willow closed the curtain of leaves around Meeko, Percy, Flit, Juliet, and Akio.
"What do you think they're doing that we can't see?" Akio tried to peer through the leaves only to be smacked by Grandmother Willow. "Seriously though what could-" He was cut off by a high pitched screech and looked through the leaves to see a large Indian man tackling Smith to the ground while Pocahontas tried to pull him off. From the corner of his eye however he could see a small group of Wraiths making their way towards the commotion. He tapped Juliet on the shoulder and pointed over at them.
Juliet taking the hint crawled out from beneath the leaves to attack the Wraiths. As they battled the few Wraiths that had appeared the only thing that broke their concentration was the sudden blast of a gun going off. She looked back to see the Indian man falling to the ground; a wide eyed Thomas staring down at him.
"Is he?"
Pocahontas was kneeling down next to the Indian. "You killed him." She jumped up and had to be restrained by Smith. "He killed him!"
"Pocahontas, he was only trying to help."
There was the sound of more people coming and Smith looked angrily back at Thomas. "Thomas get out of here!" When he didn't see Thomas move was when Smith grew angry with him. "Get out of here!"
Thomas took off at a dead run nearly running into Clementine in the processes.
The Indians that came running out of the trees tackled Smith and began to lead him away as Pocahontas watched on in horror.
She walked over to the Indian who had been shot and kneeled down beside him waiting for someone to take him away.
Juliet waited until the Indians including Pocahontas had left before she turned to Akio and Clementine. "Who thinks its time we left? There's no sign of the any of the seven pure lights and it looks like there's going to be a war of some kind coming here pretty soon."
Akio looked around for a moment as if he was trying to find the right words for what he wanted to say. "I think we should stay just a little longer." He saw Juliet look at him in puzzlement. "I mean we've been here for so long already it couldn't hurt to help them with their problems."
Juliet took a moment to think this through. "I guess you're right, but whose side do we pick." She looked over at Clementine. "What were those settlers like?"
"Most of them were alright, but there's their leader this man named Radcliffe is just awful. I say we fight for the Indians."
"All right so we've picked a side now we just need to find out where their village is."
Back at the encampment Radcliffe was rallying the settlers for the coming confrontation. "I told you those savages couldn't be trusted. Smith tried to befriend them and look what they've done to him, but now I say its time to rescue our courageous comrade. At day break we attack!"
As Juliet, Akio, and Clementine were ready to start looking for the Indian village they heard the familiar voice of Pocahontas.
"They're going to kill him at sunrise Grandmother Willow."
"You have to stop them."
"I can't."
"Child, remember you dream?"
"I was wrong Grandmother Willow I followed the wrong path. I feel so lost."
Meeko struck with an idea crawled up into a hole on Grandmother Willow's trunk and after searching through feverishly for a few seconds crawled back down with something in his paws. He handed it to Pocahontas.
"The compass?" A sudden gust of wind caught Pocahontas by surprise and she looked back down at the compass. "The spinning arrow."
"It's the arrow from your dream."
"I was right. It was pointing to him." As the wind continued to blow the needle in the compass stopped facing the direction of the village. "Sunrise!"
"It's not to late child. Let the spirit of the earth guide you. You know your path child now follow it."
Deciding this was a good an idea as any Juliet, Akio, and Clementine took off after Pocahontas as she began to run back to the village.
Pocahontas was a much faster runner then Juliet, Akio, and Clementine and was able to reenter the village faster just in time to throw herself over Smith. "If you kill him you'll have to kill me too."
The chief looked like he was in complete shock. "Daughter, stand back."
"I won't! I love him Father."
Again the chief looked shocked.
"Look around us. Look at where the path of hatred has led us. This is the path I choose Father. What will yours be?"
The chief looked between his people who were ready with their bow and arrow to the settlers with their muskets. The wind began to blow again washing over the chief making him calm. "My daughter speaks with wisdom beyond her years. We have all come here with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day if there is to be more killing it will not start with me." He turned to an Indian with a knife and gestured at John. "Release him."
Radcliffe looked enraged. "Now's our chance fire."
"No. They let him go." Piped up Thomas.
"They don't want to fight," said the black haired man.
"It's a trick don't you see? Fire!" When no one agreed Radcliffe snatched a gun. "Fine, I'll settle this myself." He aimed it at the chief and fired.
Smith seeing this happen jumped in front of the bullet and fell to the ground.
Radcliffe looked on in shock. Beneath his feet smoke began to swirl releasing several Wraiths.
Juliet jumped down from the cliff with her Keyblade raised. "So you're the cause the Wraiths in this world." She swung her Keyblade at Radcliffe only to be blocked by his sword.
"You cannot defeat me I will have my gold!" Radcliffe swung his sword at Juliet almost hitting her in the shoulder before it was thrust back at him.
The Keyblade came down hard on Radcliffe's hand knocking the sword from it.
The rest of the settlers took this opportunity to jump on Radcliffe with Thomas as the ring leader.
"Put him in chains."
"I'll see you all hanged for this!"
"And gag him as well."
Juliet took this moment to back away from the settlers as she rejoined Akio and Clementine. "You think he'll be all right? John I mean."
Akio looked back up the cliff. "Maybe if they can get him back to whatever world he came from he'll be all right."
Clementine didn't look at all nervous about the situation. "If he's anything like the rest of these settlers he'll be fine."
As she turned to walk away Juliet saw Pocahontas looking down at them. "I guess its time to move on. We didn't find anything here, but maybe in the next world we will."
Clementine looked up at Pocahontas who looked as though her heart would break. "Shouldn't we at least say goodbye?"
"What's the point in saying goodbye? We'll see them again."
