Chapter 42: Kraken!
The sun was shining brightly on the ocean as well as a certain white ship that could be seen for miles. Riku had mentioned this lot of times to Will, saying that if the Flying Duthman did find that they were gone, they would only have to look to their right and find a giant spot of white in the distance. Will just choice to ignore Riku's comments and trust in his father's words about the ship.
Riku had even asked Bootstrap where he got the nobody ship from and how he managed to hide it from Jones when Bootstrap said that one of the crewman had turned completely into a nobody that still served under Jones. Apparently, Bootstrap had won a game of Liar dice against the Nobody crewman and instead of giving up years of service, he gave Bootstrap the ship instead.
Riku started to walk towards the captain's quarters while Donald took control of the ship. When he walked in, he saw that Sora was STILL unconscious and Will had a blanket over him due to him falling over board a couple of minutes ago. Goofy was in the room checking Will and Sora before walking out to see if Donald needed any help after seeing Riku come in the room.
Riku quickly checked Sora and noticed that his face looked like it was in pain. He then checked Sora's arm and noticed that the dark markings had gone down a bit and saw the arm itself had grown stronger. Looks like I was right about the Anti-Sora theory . Riku thought. I just hope that he'll wake up soon.
"How long until we reach Port Royal, Riku?" Will shivered as he drank some of his tea.
Riku came out of his train of though and looked at Will, "We'll been there in about 30 minutes." He said. "I'm guessing that you would want to see if Elizabeth is safe."
"We could use your or Sora's Keyblade to free Elizabeth and to get that anger Endless out of Port Royal." Will suggested.
Riku nodded to the suggested. We can also go back on the Gummi to let Sora rest as well as get beaten by the girls and I can moan at Brian for not telling us that the rule of the world is no technology. Riku noted to himself.
Suddenly, Donald came rushing in a started to pant from the lack of oxygen. "Donald, I thought you were driving the ship?" Riku questioned.
"Riku…(pant)… a ship's…(pant)…been spotted." Donald panted.
"The Flying Dutchmen?" Riku asked. Donald nodded. "I knew that they will be able to spot us." Riku said angrily as he started to head towards the deck. Will followed as well as Donald but Riku quickly stopped him. "Watch over Sora." Riku instructed as he went above.
BOWBOWBOW
On the Flying Dutchman, Jones was on deck, looking at the cloth that Will and Riku had swapped for the key to the chest. Jones threw the cloth into the ocean and looked at Bootstrap, who was being held at knife point from the other crewmen. "You will watch this." He said darkly to Bootstrap as he summoned a couple of Berserker Nobodies to start turning a large screw in the centre of the boat.
Jones started to shout so all the ship could hear. "Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the Kraken!"
"NOOOOO!!!" Bootstrap shouted as the large screw fell and created a large thump against the sea.
BOWBOWBOW
Riku and Will came rushing out of the captain quarters and onto the deck when they saw the Flying Dutchmen. "I've doomed us all." Will muttered fearfully to himself, even though Riku still heard him.
Riku turned to face Goofy, who was driving. "Goofy. Head towards the closest land you can find." Riku shouted to him. The ship suddenly started to shake, causing Riku and Will to fall over. Riku looked at Goofy angrily, "GOOFY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" Riku complained
"He must've hit a reef, Riku." Goofy shouted back. Riku went to check the side while Will started to climb up the mast.
Riku looked over board to see nothing but bubbles. "There aren't any reefs, Goofy." Riku turned back to see that Will wasn't on the deck any more. "Where has Will gone?" Riku looked up when he heard his name being called from the top of the mast. Before Riku could question Will, he saw him pointing out to sea. Riku turned to the direction that Will was pointing and his eyes widened when he saw a giant tentacle raises high over the ship. Riku quickly looked at Goofy with horror, "GOOFY! QUICK! GET OVER HERE!"
Goofy looked up at the tentacle when the tentacle slammed down hard against the ship, making the ship break in half and made Goofy soar through the sky. "Yah-hiiiiiiiiii-Hoy-Hoy-Hoy!" Goofy yelled as he fell into the water with a big SPLASH.
Back in the captain's quarters, Donald freaked out of his feathers when he saw a tentacle slided over the window of the ship. After hearing Goofy's yell, Donald had tried to wake Sora up knowing that this would be the perfect time for Sora to wake up and save the day. "C'mon Sora! Wake up." No response. "Sora. If you don't wake up, we're gonna die." Still no response. "Sora wake up! For Kairi and Riku." There was little movement, like Sora was trying to wake up but couldn't.
Riku came rushing in and looked at Donald, "Donald! We need to get off this ship!" Riku informed him, "NOW!" Donald nodded and got his staff out ready while Riku ran over to Sora and placed him on his back.
Donald and Riku came out of the captain's quarters and saw that one of the tentacles was climbing up the mast, after Will. As they watched the tentacle, another tentacle burst from the captain's quarters and grabbed Sora from Riku. Riku immediately turned around, summoning the Way to Dawn while watching Sora being pulled through the ship. Riku ran in the direction of the tentacle and dived into the sea while Donald helped out Will.
Riku swam underwater and what he saw made him gasped bubbles from his mouth. He saw the huge Kraken with his own eyes as it had about eight tentacles and used its sharp teeth to eat the nobody ship. He saw the tentacle that had Sora and began to swim towards it.
Sora slowing began to open his eyes and tried to yawn when his lungs were suddenly filled with sea water. He shots his eyes open and found himself underwater as well as being held captive by a mythical creature. Sora tried to wriggle his way out of the Kraken's grasp but the Kraken wrapped around him too tightly and it started to pull his tentacles near his mouth. Sora could see how deep its mouth went and knew for a fact that there was no way out of this one like Monstro.
SLASH
Riku cut the tentacle that was hoping Sora off, watching the tentacle go back towards the Kraken. Riku then swam over to Sora and helped him swim in to the surface. When the two resurfaced, they saw Will and Donald swimming over to them. They turned around, hearing Goofy's voice, swimming towards them with a floating board that must have come from the ship. All five of them grabbed onto the piece of ship before seeing the Flying Dutchmen appear from the mist.
BOWBOWBOW
Davy Jones looked overboard to see no one swimming or alive for that matter. One of the crewmen reported to their captain, "The boys are not there. They must've been claimed by the sea."
Jones looked at him bluntly, "I AM the sea." He said as he stomped over towards to Bootstrap, who couldn't believe that his son was gone again. "You need time alone with your thoughts." As Bootstrap was dragged to the cabins, Jones didn't notice Will and Riku watching the event. Jones sensed some dark energy that normally came from Riku and looked in their direction, only for them to duck out of view before being seen.
While Will carried on listening to the conversation, Riku walk towards Sora as they hitched a ride in the jaw formation of the Flying Dutchmen. Riku sat down next to Sora, "You gave us quiet a scare." Riku said to him while ruffling his hair, "If Kairi were here, she would have called you a lazy bum."
"Or she would be checking if Sora was alright." Goofy added. Sora blushed at the though of Kairi being protective over him which made the other three laugh. Soon Sora joined in as well and the four just laughed until Will came to join them.
"Jones is heading to Isla Cruces." Will informed them.
"We're running out of time." Donald said out loud, "We need to find the keyhole."
"And the item of this world." Goofy added
"Which Brian forgot to tell us …again." Riku grumbled
"And I need to get Jack's compass to save Elizabeth." Will said.
Sora didn't speak the entire time, which caught Riku's attention immediately. "Hey you ok, buddy?" Riku asked. Sora nodded his head. "You're not talking though."
"I'm just got something on my mind." Sora said quietly. Sora did have something on his mind, he was wondering what was going on with him. He couldn't remember anything from when he woke up on the Flying Dutchmen, heck it was like he was never even there. Roxas had managed to beat and placed Anti-Sora away but asked Sora what could have caused it to escape in the first place.
The truth was, Sora didn't know.
BOWBOWBOW
Sgt Abroc was in the courtyard of Ultimate Castle, where all the plants were a brown colour like it was the middle of autumn while the castle behind him was original white but was slowly being covered with a dark blue cover, the same colour as the Unbirth. Abroc was leaning against the castle based bush, playing his PSP.
When Col Devil came in the courtyard, looking for any sign of life, he found the yellow Endless humming to the Tetris song while playing the game. Devil just smirked to himself as he approached his fellow member. "To think, when we're not around, people will actually fear you." He chuckled as he looked at him.
Abroc looked upwards from the portal computer screen to see his good old friend, "Oh hey Devil." Abroc greeted cheerfully, ignoring his higher rank status. Abroc jumped up and placed his PSP in his armoured pocket. Both of the Order members were wearing their armoured uniform with their coloured shadowed claws showing. Devil and Abroc started to talk about the past, all the things that they did before and after they had caught the virus, avoiding the death related details.
The two had reached the library, which now had books about the Endless, Unbirth and the Order and the pictures of King Mickey's ancestors were taken down and destroyed. The group sat on the edge of the desk, which King Mickey used to work on, when Abroc changed the subject.
"Any luck finding the boy?" Abroc asked. Devil sighed with annoyance as he moved away from the desk and started to pace around the room.
"NO!" Devil shouted with frustration, "I can't sense him anywhere."
"I thought you were looking for him?" Abroc asked him, not realising that he had just said a stupid question.
Devil stopped pacing around the room and glared deadly at the sergeant, "Abroc. You're my best friend, don't make me hurt you." He threatened.
Abroc gulped with fear, "Right. Sorry" he sheepishly said as he watched the Colonel started to pace around the room once again.
After a couple of minutes, Devil stopped pacing again and faced Abroc, "Where are Skullo and Nikolai?" he asked, remembering that he hasn't seen anyone else in this corrupted world.
"We sent Nikolai to Wonderland to misbalance and plant a base on that world while Skullo went to misbalance Port Royal." He replied
"Why has Skullo gone to Port Royal?" Devil asked
"He said that he wanted to try something out." Abroc answered, "Besides, if he's here, he would want to try and practise his outburst mode on me and I don't want to smell like charcoal again." Devil smirked at the thought of Abroc coming in a room covered with soot.
Devil's face then turned serious again, "What world did you go to?"
"Neo Mansion. I needed to check something." Abroc said as he walked away from the desk and towards to books.
"The history book." This was a statement, not a question.
Abroc nodded his head, "The Dark Master said to check it every now and again."
The Colonel started to feel anger rise in him, "The Dark Master isn't even from the same place as us. Why would he want to know about the information in our history book?" he raised his voice.
"Uh…he said it might help clear up this Keyblade Master theory?" Abroc said unsurely, receiving a slap around the head from his commanding officer. "Ow! What I do?"
"You idiot!" Devil said angrily at him, "Remember that the Dark Master is to know NOTHING about the Keyblade Master's condition. If he gains his control then we can throw any chances of taking over."
Abroc smirked as he remembered the plan, "Right…Me, you, Skullo and Snake came here to make sure that things stay the same…"
"And to make sure that those Devon boys don't get in our way like the time they prevent us taking that world one time, good thing Skullo found one of their ships and destroyed it." Devil and Abroc laughed at this when a red portal appeared near the desk and Nikolai was pushed through and was held on the desk by Skullo. Devil and Abroc nodded to each other, noting to not say anything and walked towards Skullo, who was holding Nikolai down on the desk.
Devil sighed and shook his head, "We're gonna make a habit of this, aren't we Skullo?" He said to him. Skullo apologized, as Devil expected, he was always respectful to higher ranks even if he could be a hot-head at most times.
"Would you mind letting me up now?" Nikolai tried to get up when Skullo slammed him back down onto the desk. Nikolai had put on his armour to make it look like he was actually doing what he was told to do for once, it didn't work.
"You stay down, you neutral." Skullo said angrily. Isn't Skullo just a wonderful role model for the Endless-to-be? Tortures the young and neutral while respect the old and powerful. Yep, best role model ever.
Abroc laughed at Skullo's behaviour, "What did Nick do to piss you off this much, Shawn?" the sergeant asked. Skullo was about ready to move his claw away from Nikolai and burn him to a crisp but Devil beat him to it by blasting him with one of his leaf blast. Abroc looked up with confusion.
"Respect their Endless names." Devil said coldly to him as he went back over to Skullo and Nikolai.
Abroc pushed himself up from the floor and brushed the dust off of him, "Ohhh but our original names sounds so much better." Abroc said, ignoring all the deathly glares, that could kill, he was receiving right now. Abroc then chuckled, "I remember when the villagers back at Incas would always call you D.D instead of your name which was—"
"Abroc-"Devil tried to stop his rambling.
"---really funny when you met Julie and she would always called—
"Abroc!" Devil knew he was going over the line this time, mentioning his past wife.
"—you D.D or 'The D man' instead of David---"
"ANTONY!!!" Devil shouted as loud as he could. Abroc froze and shut his mouth as he looked at his friend with fear. "Shut. Up."
Abroc bowed respectfully, "Sorry sir." He said and stood to attention without another word. Nikolai knew for a fact that the Colonel would now be in a bad mood thanks to Abroc mentioning his past wife. According to the other members, he so-called wife had cheated on him but with the Colonel's emotion being Jealousy, he highly doubted it.
Devil stomped over to Skullo, who was still holding Nikolai on the desk, and looked deadly at him. "What did Nikolai do?" he asked darkly.
"For one, he decided to balance Wonderland and collect the world's item instead of capturing it for the Order." Skullo reported.
"So what! We have half of the galaxy in our control. It doesn't matter if one world goes wrong." Devil reminded him, making Skullo not happy at all. "Anything else?"
"Well Sir! " Skullo said with bitterness, "He had been helping the Princess of Heart in Port Royal."
"Which one?" Abroc asked, feeling that it's safe to talk again.
"DOES IT MATTER?!?" Skullo yelled at him before facing Colonel Devil again. "Point is! This neutral is going to worlds that he shouldn't be going to and is helping the enemy. He's a spy."
While all of this was happening, Nikolai was in though of what Skullo said earlier. How did he know I was there, I didn't see him there. Nikolai thought. Wait a minute….he must have been the bartender that gave Haru and Max the drinks. I wonder what was in them. What does it matter, I wish I had what Haru has, friends that care about me.
"This is Nikolai we're talking about, Skullo. He doesn't even have the ability to turn into his outburst mode so why would he go against us! It's like saying that Abroc is the smart one of the group or that the Dark Master is actually 'one of us'." Devil argued
"Do you have to use me in every example of something not happening?" Abroc whined but was annoyed by both of the hot-heads.
"It would if it involved a certain friend of his." Skullo shot back. Nikolai gulped as soon as he heard that and tried to get out of Skullo's grasp only to have Skullo dig his claw into his back. Devil had enough of Skullo's behaviour and pushed Skullo away from Nikolai.
Nikolai looked confusedly at the green infected Endless when he started to talk, "We will get him back soon. All you have to do is to follow our orders."
"I won't do that to Haru." Nikolai said at he looked deadly at Devil.
"How many times do I have to tell you, boy. He's name is BRIAN!!" Devil blasted his powerful sphere orbs that was know as leaf blast at him, only for Nikolai to summon Frozen Promise, his gunblade, and deflected them all. He didn't see Devil teleport up to him and punched him square in the chest, making Nikolai fly into the bookstand of books. Lucky for Nikolai, the bookstand was screwed to the wall so it didn't fall on him. Nikolai pushed himself up while Devil ordered him around. "You are going to go back to Port Royal with Skullo and you will bring me back me son!"
Nikolai pushed himself up and formed his blue portal. Skullo walked though it and Nikolai was about to walk threw when he turned around and said: "Last time I checked, he wasn't your son." and ran though the portal before the Colonel could kill him from those words.
A/N: Sora's finally awake. I was planning to wake him up at the second kraken fight but this seemed right. Do you think I've made Kairi too under confident cause normally see's happy and all-sort. I think I could use a guild on character's personalities. Also, wonder what happened in Devil's past, this will be important.
Sora: Now for messages.
Brian: FINALLY! I WANT TO SEE MY FANS
Riku & Sora: (laughs) what fans?
Kairi: Aww leave Brian alone.
Riku: Kairi and Brian sitting in a tree.
Brian: no way man
Sora: RIKU!!!!
Riku: sorry man. What I was meant to say was…
Riku & Brian: Sora and Kairi sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
Kairi: (blushes) Guys, messages.
Riku, Sora, Brian: Oops
Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: Oops, my bad. I remember that next time and this story will properly have a lot of spoilers, just warning you now. (::) (::)
Future Keybearer: I was planning to do that anyway with the three way fight and I would love to hear this idea you have for a new world. Also, not only Brian but all the Devons have a problem around rum so they don't go there. Hope that helps. (::) (::)
sailor winx: Glad you liked it. (::)
"Tetsuya Nomura went on to say that he will put all his attention on Versus XIII until it is finished, but wants that to be his last Final Fantasy so that he can focus on Kingdom Hearts III after that."
Not only have we got 2 Kingdom Hearts coming as well as FF XIII and FF Versus XIII but now we know when about KH3 will be started, meaning that we could see it in about 2 or 3 years. We just have to wait for FF Versus to come in the shop then we can start to find screenshots of the new game. I'm soooo excited.
Also, I won't be able to update for a while due to coursework, exams and all that stuff. Hope to update again in a couple of weeks
See ya
Kingdommad.