Chapter 37: No waiting around
Riku was right about Kairi not going when Sora asked her if she wanted to go to Port Royal and she turned down the offer. When Sora, Riku, Donald and Goofy left to go to Port Royal, Brian and Max done anything that was possible in the gummi ship because they were technically 'the men of the ship'. As soon as Hikari heard that from them, she just laughed at the two before she began reading her magazines, blueprints of future pranks or just talking with Kairi. At some times, Brian would give Kairi some training with magic only to see that she had become very good with her spells and element.
It was four days later and all four of them was sitting in the bridge. Brian and Max were laying on the floor, looking at the ceiling. Hikari was trying to read her magazine but was contently irritated by Brian and Max. Kairi was looking out of one of the small windows that looked down at Port Royal. Kairi was starting to get worried, normally the group would give off a status report to each other everyday to check if the other person was alive. However, neither Sora or Riku had called back ever since they went to Port Royal. "Maybe I should have gone down there with them…" Kairi thought to herself.
"Sora and Riku will be fine." Naminé assured her original self, "Sora has been there before with Donald and Goofy and Riku would not let anything happen to him."
"I know that but at least one of them would have called us to let us know they are alright."
"Well…Why don't you ask Brian or Hikari to check up on them?
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't know, what do you want to do?"
Kairi was pulled away from her thoughts and the view of Port Royal to turn her attention at Brian, Max and Hikari. Hikari had her magazine on the table and was rubbing the side of her forehead from the headache that had formed from Brian and Max. Hikari gets a headache every time the two get bored because they always ask each other the same question over and over again.
Brian sat up and looked at Max, "Hey Max, can't we do something different?"
"What do you mean?" Max asked, still looking at the ceiling.
"Well I'll ask you, 'What do you want to do?' and then you say, 'I don't know, what do you want to do?'" Brian explained, not noticing Hikari's angry glare. "Can't we do something different for once?"
"I don't see why not." Max replied. Brian laid back down and looked at the ceiling again, Hikari sighed with relief until Max added, "So what do you want to do?"
"I don't know, what do--" Brian sat up and glared at Max, "Hey, don't start that again."
Hikari just burst from her seat with a angry sigh catching Kairi, Brian and Max's attention, "Why are you two complaining!?!" She glared at Brian and Max, "There are lots of things to do on the gummi."
Max and Brian sat up and looked at her before Max replied, "Well, we've done anything." Max replied.
"Yeah. We've duelled, done skateboarding, training, complete every game we have, tried out my inventions which we are still sorry about, fix and took my gummi for a spin and I've played on my guitar as well as check the chocobo egg." Brian listed, "There is nothing else to do." They were THAT bored.
"Well, I'll give you something to do since the two of you are useless when it comes to be in charge." Hikari huffed. She first faced Max, "Max, go do us some food. It's unfair that Brian and Kairi has to cook for us for the last four days. I would do it myself but someone, not saying any names, won't let me anyway near the stove."
"But-" Max said
"No buts. Go. Do. NOW!!" Hikari instructed him. Hikari pointed towards the kitchen and Max rushed past Hikari, Kairi and Brian. Kairi giggled at the sudden change of behaviour in the two, Max was actually doing as he was told and Brian had fear in his eyes. Hikari then turned to Brian, "Go in the communication room and contact either Silver or Spiky, we haven't heard from them for days and I can assumed that not only me but Kairi is starting to worry about them."
Brian smirked as he crossed his arms, "Are you sure it's just not Riku you are worried about?"
"Excuse me."
"I think you like him and he likes you."
"EXCUSE ME!!" Hikari yelled
"Brian, I don't think now is the time to have this conversation." Kairi stepped between the two, preventing any chances of death. "Can you just go and contact Sora please?" she asked him. Brian sighed before he gave her a single nod and went to the communication room.
When Brian had left the room, Hikari faced Kairi. "I swear that boy can bring up the most stupidest things sometimes."
"Yeah…" Kairi said quietly. The question that Brian was implying to was now struck in Kairi's head. "Do you like Riku?" she asked unsurely.
"Of course not!" Hikari replied roughly, Kairi just about saw a hint of red on her cheeks before turning away from her.
"Was that--are you blushing??" Kairi gasped
"N-no." Hikari stammered before adding, "Do you hear that?"
"Don't try to change the subject Hi-" Kairi replied
"No really! Listen…" Hikari cut her off. Kairi stopped talking for the minute and listened. She could hear the faint sound of banging coming from the communication room. Both of the girls sighed with slight annoyance as they knew who it was and decided to go see what the problem was.
When Kairi and Hikari reached the communication room, the two watched Brian slammed down his fists on the main computer, which controls the radars and any com technology that they have on the gummi or on any other world. Brian growled with angry as he gritted his teeth, "I can't believe this! I'm a bloody idiot."
"Why are you complaining? I tell you that everyday." Hikari laughed, "What's the problem anyway?"
"Oh nothing important" Brian said calmly, Hikari knew he was being sarcastic, "Just that someone send a virus to the main computer which has made it completely shut down on us, making us completely unaware of anything at all for the last four days." Hikari's grin immediately went and turned into a angry frown. Max came in to see both Brian and Hikari's angry expressions and decided not to ask what all the banging was about.
"What are you waiting for?! Fix it! Who knows what is happening down there." Hikari commanded him. Brian seem to be in a bad mood so he didn't move an inch. Max was the only one to notice that Kairi was starting to get impatient too.
Brian began to speak very slowly to her, "I will only fix it if you say please and be my slave for a w-"
"Brian!! Fix it or I will personally bring out my Keyblade and re-create the wounds you had gotten off Riku when he though you cut his hair!!" Kairi threatened him. All three of them was surprised of the Princess of Heart's sudden angry burst.
Brian, believing that she was only buffing, relaxed against the computers and smirked smugly at her, "Make me." he challenged her. Kairi just summoned Oathkeeper and threw it straight at him. Brian quickly dived out of the way and saw Oathkeeper stick out of the wall, his heart would have been gone if he didn't move. Brian felt his angry and stubbornness get replaced with pure calmness and respect for Kairi. He looked up at her, "I'm sorry Kairi. I'll get right on it." Then he went to the main computer and tried to fix it.
When the others left the room, a sudden though came across to Brian which froze him in place. "Why does it feel that she's not only feel familiar but a part of me too. Maybe I should stop flirting with her…"
BOWBOWBOW
When the group first arrived on the world, they noticed that the teleport send them off course, leading them on a island called Pelegosto. They searched the island until they came across the Black Pearl on the beach, full of heartless. While Sora and Riku battled the heartless, Donald and Goofy got the ship ready, thinking that Jack had lost the Pearl again and would sail to Port Royal to return it or just keep it if they couldn't find him, either way Donald would be happy. When the ship was ready and the heartless was gone, they saw Jack, Will and Gibbs being chased by millions of heartless. As soon as the three had jumped on the Pearl, Jack pushed Riku out of the way of the steering wheel and fed away from Pelegosto.
When they were safe on the Pearl, Will greeted Sora and the others and told them that he needed Jack's compass to save Elizabeth. Jack then told them that he is looking for a key that can open a certain chest. Riku then asked why not use the Keyblade open this called chest, only to be told that some Keyblader had tried that when the chest was first buried and it caused the world into complete horror and nearly destroyed it. He told them that the so-called key could only be found on the Flying Dutchmen. He also said that the captain might have some connection to Maleficent which made Sora and the others agree to help.
After four days of searching, the crew had found a possible lead of the Flying Dutchmen's location. Jack was hiding below deck somewhere. Gibbs was at the wheel, driving the Pearl. Donald and Goofy were at the side of the ship, looking out for the Flying Dutchmen. Will and Riku were talking about Jack's odd behaviour and how suspicions this plan of Jack's sounded. Sora was sitting on the stairway that lead to the upper deck, where Gibbs were, trying to contact the gummi ship. He wanted to let them know that they are alright, mostly Kairi. He soon gave up and sighed with annoyance before placing the communicator in his pocket.
It soon turned dark and they had reached the place where the Flying Dutchmen was last seen, only to see sharp rocks, tough tides and a ship broken in half. It was raining down hard, it was thundering and it was no use trying to stay dry because it was completely impossible. Everybody was at the side of the ship, looking at the wrecked ship.
Riku looked back at Sparrow in disbelief, "That's the Flying Dutchmen?" judging by his tone of voice, Riku didn't trust Jack much. Jack and Gibbs didn't reply to his question, they didn't know what to say.
"That can't be the Flying Dutchmen, can it?" Sora asked out loud while looking at the ship.
Will then looked at the two, "She doesn't look like much." He said before looking at the ship again. Donald and Goofy agreed with this.
"Neither do the lot of you." Jack said as he looked at Will, "Do not underestimate her." Jack theb elbowed Gibbs in the ribs to add on the comment.
"Musta run afoul of the reef." Gibbs made up on the spot, holding his ribs from the pain before going to get the rowboat ready with the help of Donald and Goofy.
"So what's your plan then?" Jack asked Will.
"We'll row over, search the ship until we find you're bloody key." Will replied darkly
"And if there are any crewmen?" Riku asked
"I'll cut down anyone in my path." Will replied before he started to head in the direction of the rowboat.
"I like it. Simple, easy to remember." Jack said to the two Keyblade Masters before following Will. Sora was about to follow when Riku stopped him.
"There's something fishy about this." Riku said to Sora, "I think Sparrow is hiding something."
"It's Captain Jack Sparrow, Riku." Sora corrected, "That's just Jack for you. You'll get used to it." Sora then when towards the rowboat where Donald and Goofy was already in. Riku eyed Captain Jack for a moment before following Sora.
Will, Sora and Riku jumped onto the rowboat and was about to set off when Jack called to them, "Oy! If you do happen to get captured, just say Jack Sparrow sent you to settle his debt. Might save your life."
"Or end it." Riku muttered to himself.
"Don't worry Jack, we will." Sora said to him and Donald and Goofy started rowing the boat. Half way there, Riku looked back at the Black Pearl only for it to fade away into the darkness.
The five arrived on the wrecked ship and began to search for this key. They looked and looked but found nothing but broken barrels of gunpowder. Sora moved some broken barrels to an old, soggy book. He called the others over showed them the book that said 'Mythical creatures of all worlds' Sora started to skip though the pages, looking for the one that seemed to connect to the 'black spot' that Jacl had on his hand. Sora then stopped on the page that shown information about 'The Kraken'.
Suddenly, a sailor fell from the riggings behind the group and Donald goes to investigate. "Hey, are you ok?" Donald asked the fallen sailor as he kneel next to him and rolled him over. As soon as he did, he wished he hadn't. Donald complete freaked and hid behind Goofy. Sora, Riku and Will ran over to see what freaked out Donald. The sailor had his face sucked off.
Riku turned to the noise of something coming out of the sea and saw a giant ship coming out of the sea. Sora called out to him, making him turn to see strange sea-life men appear on the ship. Riku saw one of the pirate-sea-creature-thing swing at him and quickly grabbed the ropes above him to evade the attack. Riku then summoned the Way of Dawn, as well as everyone else, and started to attack the enemy. Donald and Goofy was the first to get beaten by these creatures and was taken away. Sora changed into his wind element and blasted all of the creatures to the floor. Will hit a lantern that was on the ship and set his sword on fire. Will started to take out the enemy but was hit from behind and was knocked out, leaving only Sora and Riku.
Sora changed back to using the Kingdom Key and was back to back with Riku as the other sea-creature crewmen surrounded them. Riku slices open the stomach of one of the crewman, fish spill out instead of blood before the crewmen died. As the struggle continued, Riku started to notice Sora's health. He was breathing heavily, his hand was shacking and he was having trouble seeing. Riku turned to aid his friend when he was taken out the same way as Will was.
Sora fell to his knees, not knowing what was happening to him. Before the darkness took over him, he saw a part octopus, part crab captain come aboard the wrecked ship.
BOWBOWBOW
"What do you see, Captain?" Gibbs asked as Jack looked though the spyglass.
"Not good mate." Jack replied, "Looks like they got captured after all." Jack could see that Davy Jones were talking to the four while Sora seemed to still be unconscious.
"What should we do?" Gibbs asked
"Well, we'll wait and see if old squid-face would take them instead of me." Jack looked at Gibbs and then when back to looking thought the spyglass. Jack could see Jones look in his direction, as soon as he moved the spyglass away from his face, Jones was right in front of him. "Oh bugger"
"You have a debt to pay." Jones said angrily to him, "You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. That was our agreement."
"Technically, I was only captain for only two years, then I was viciously mutinied upon." Jack tried to back away from Jones and tried to escape but Jones's deathly glare seem to freeze him in place.
"Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless! Have you not introduced yourself all these years as 'Captain' Jack Sparrow?" Jones mocked.
"You have my payment." Jack told him, "Not only one but fives souls to serve on your ship is already over there."
"One soul is not equal to other." Jones growled at him
"Aha! So we've established my proposal is sound in principal, now we're just haggling over price." Jack said to him.
Jones stopped in front of him, "Price?"
"Just how many souls do you think my soul is worth?" Jack asked
"One hundred souls, three days." Jones told him
"You're a diamond, mate." Jack said cheerfully, "Send me back my crew, I'll get started right off." Jack tried to make a run of it again but was blocked by Jones's claw."
"I keep your crew. A good-faith payment. That leaves you 95 more to go." Jones laughed evilly.
"The five have to be worth more than that. What of the dog and the duck? Their should be worth at least two souls each. The silver haired guy should be worth three souls and Zola should be worth at least ten souls since his got that key thingy." Jack pointed out.
"95 souls!" Jones replied darkly
"Have you not met Will Turner?" Jack asked, he though that Will's back-story might make Jones send him back, "He's noble, heroic, terrific soprano. Worth at least four…maybe three and a half. And did I mention… he's in love." As soon as Jack said that, Jones seemed to be clouded by his memories. "With a girl." Jack continued, "Due to be married. Betrothed." Jack began to circle Jones, "Dividing him from her and her from him would only be half as cruel as actually allowing them to be joined in holy matrimony. Aye?" Jones felt a tear fall down his cheek, making him come out of his daze. Jack didn't seem to notice, "Also, Zola seems to have a bonny lass as well and had already be separated before hand, we don't want to that to the poor lad now. Aye?"
Jones realised what Sparrow was trying to do and just snorted at his comments, "I keep your crew, 95 souls. But I wonder, Sparrow, can you live with this?" Jones then turns around to face Jack. "Can you condemn some innocent men, friends of yours, to a lifetime of servitude, in your name while you roam free?" Jones asked him
Jack paused as he thought before he answered, "Yep! I'm good with it" he replied cheerfully, "Shall we seal it in blood? I mean…mm-mm…ink?"
Jack held out his hand that had the black spot mark on, Jones grabs Jack's hand, resulting in moist and slime to cover his entire hand. "Three days." Jones reminded him before fading away to the wrecked ship along with Jack's black spot.
BOWBOWBOW
Kairi, Hikari and Max went in the bridge while Brian fixed the main computer. Hikari looked at Kairi in amazement of what had just happened between her and Brian. "I have never seen Brian agree to something so fast while being in a bad mood before." Hikari laughed, "What made you do that, it's so unlike you."
"I just want to know if Sora, Riku and the others are safe and Brian was just being a jerk." Kairi sighed before crossing her arms.
Max quickly went into the kitchen and grabbed a can of fanta for the each of them. Max handed them the drink and sat back down on the sofa before trying to look on the bright side, "Well, at least things can't get any worse." Max took a sip of his drink, only to spit it out again when Hikari slapped him at the back of the head while drinking. After coughing and sniffing out all the fanta that came out his nose, he looked at Hikari with anger, "What did you do that for?!"
"You just jinxed us."
"I did not!"
"You did too, I heard you!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!!"
"Did too!!"
"Did not!!!"
"Did too!!!"
"What's this all about??" Kairi turned to the voice to see that it was Brian. He had a confused face that was watching Max and Hikari childish 'did not, did too' game. Brian then looked at Kairi, knowing that she would want to know if the computer is fixed. "I've have finished mending the computer and the A.I system should reboot right about………………….now." Max and Hikari stopped their bickering when they heard the ship's A.I log on in the system and introduces itself.
Before Kairi could thank Brian, red lights appeared from the ceiling and the A.I spoke again, "WARNING! WARNING! BALANCE CORRUPTION DETECTED! LEVEL 4 CORRUPTION DETECTED! REPEAT: LEVEL 4 CORRUPTION DETECTED!"
"Level 4?!?" Brian gasped, "That can't be right." Brian quickly rushed back into the communication room with Kairi, Hikari and Max right behind him. Brian began to check the radars that scanned Port Royal. His eyes widened in shock as he saw the problem and he went over to the communication screen.
Kairi could sense the sudden worry and stress that Brian was giving off, "Brian, what's wrong?" she asked
Brian put in some sort of code on the computer while answering Kairi's question at the same time, "Port Royal is showing major corruption levels, lower the level is, the more chance we have of restoring it. The radar is showing that the world is on level 4, meaning that it's near impossible to balance the world without a pure heart and that it's showing signs of Endless activity somewhere on that world."
Hikari turned to Max and seemed to address him when she said, "You just had to bring it up, didn't you." she cursed him.
"It's not my fault." Max put his hands up defensively.
Brian ignored the two and tried to contact Sora. "Sora, this is Brian. Can you hear me?"
BUZZ
"Sora! Can you here me?!"
BUZZ
Brian tried a different approach, "Hey Sora, I have a picture of Kairi topl-" Hikari immediately went over to Brian and covered his mouth. Brian gave her a questionable look and only to receive a look that said 'you know what you done wrong.'. Brian got a better idea and let Kairi had a go.
Kairi started to speak, "Sora? This is Kairi. Are you there?
BUZZZZZ
"C'mon Sora, let me know you're okay." she pleaded
BUZZ "…found this….Keyblade m……, Captain."
"Hey guys, I've got a signal." Kairi called to the three. Brian, Hikari and Max hovered around the screen to listen what was going on. They could tell that the signal was jumpy but they could basically tell what they were saying.
"Dispose of it and………….devices on… That way they won't sum……Keyb……"
"Aye Captain"
The four heard a loud pitch noise coming from the communicator before ending the transmission. Kairi was the first to burst up, "We have to save them." she said to them
"I agree, we have to get them out of there before the world goes to level 5 and get swallowed by the Order and their Endless and Unbirths." Brian smiled at Kairi
"The only reason you are agreeing is because it lets you down there when you are banned from the world." Max excused.
"Not this time." Brian said to the three, "Look, I know I've been a jerk or selfish, especially to Sora. I want to help them because it's the right thing to do." Hikari smiled at Brian, these are the kind of times where he would act like his old self. She was about to say something when Brian added, "Besides, it would make you guys feel better if I help save your boyfriends."
Max immediately laughed and Kairi and Hikari felt their faces heat up. "There are not our boyfriends!!" Kairi and Hikari said in unison. Hikari said it more boldly that Kairi though, Kairi then wondered that herself.
Brian laughed as the four prepared for departure, "Yeah sure, you're blushing for no reason what so ever."
"You know Flame, you was this close to a nice comment from me. THIS CLOSE!-" Hikari brought her index finger and thumb very close together, "--and then that MOUTH OF YOURS came in."
Brian smiled softy to Hikari, apologized to her before the four went down to Port Royal.
A/N: First chapter of Port Royal. Will be mainly aimed at Riku this time, just seems right. WHAT'S GOING ON PEOPLE??? I'M ONLY GETTING AT LEAST 1-3 REVIEWS A CHAPTER. I KNOW A LOT OF YOU READ THIS SO IT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY IF YOU GUYS REVIEWED.
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Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: I was thinking sometime after or during Halloween town, I might change my mind and Kairi is going to Port Royal. YAY! Like I leave Kairi out of one the best worlds.
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