Chapter 45: Fallen World
Hikari and Max looked out at sea while Gibbs looked out for Jack and the others. They had to admit, the view of the Caribbean was nice and peaceful but from what Kairi had said about Destiny Islands from dawn to dusk, this place was nothing. Looking out to sea had brought some important thoughts to Hikari and Max. Hikari was wondering why Brian was acting so strange and what was happening to her friends while Max seemed more worried about his dad. Hikari had said that he does care about his dad but Max just denied it, the conversation soon went to talking about Brian.
"I don't know what's up with him lately." Max said while looking out to sea, "He's been angrier ever since drinking that rum from that pub."
"Yeah…" Hikari said, "He's been saying stuff that he wouldn't even say, drunk or not."
"Maybe…" Max said with wonder, "Maybe the chip that Kyle had pulled into Brian was destroyed."
Hikari looked at him questionably, "You mean the one to keep Skullo off his trail?"
"Yeah, what if he created this new thing that he placed in our drinks and tried to give it to us to destroy the chips and the only reason it didn't affect me is because Brian drunk my rum before I ever got the chance."
Hikari raised an eyebrow at Max, "We haven't seen Skullo at all, Max. He might not even be here anymore since Elizabeth escaped his grasp."
"You'd never know, he might be still here." Max said.
"I doubt it." Hikari huffed.
"Glad to see you alive and well, Riku." The two heard Gibbs say to the group boarding the ship. Hikari and Max turned to see Jack, Riku and Donald talking to Gibbs while Goofy and Sora carried the unconscious Will with Elizabeth and Kairi right behind them.
"It would have been better if-"Riku began replying when he felt something around his waist, Riku looked to see Hikari hugging him.
"Where the hell have you been, Riku? I've been so bored and I-"Hikari stopped to see Sora, Kairi and Max looking at her strangely while Riku was wide eyes. "What?"
"Okay, we'll just annoy the fact that you just hugged Riku." Max said, "But did you just called him by his actual name?"
"No." Hikari responded quickly, "I said Silver."
"No, you said Riku." Riku smirked. Hikari stopped hugging him and smacked him around the arm. "Ow!"
"Oh please, like that hurt." Hikari huffed then realised something. "Wait. Where are Flame's taunts?" Hikari started to look around to see not sign of Brian, "Where's Brian?"
"Brian drove Jones men away by making himself bait so we could escape." Sora said to her.
"And you let him?" Max asked the three.
"We couldn't really stop him-"Riku started to explain when Hikari started to panic and got herself ready.
"Brian's plans never work!" Hikari shouted, "He could get killed. I'll go get him." Hikari was right about ready to jump off the Black Pearl and swim towards land when Max grabbed her and pulled her away from the side of the ship. "N-no, Max! Let me go! I have to go and save that idiot." Hikari tried to struggle out of Max's hold without resulting to hurting him.
"Don't worry, Kari." Max assured to her. Max soon wish that he didn't say her nickname because it resulted to Hikari freezing her actions and lowered her head as a memory flashed though her mind.
"Hikari?" Riku tried to approach her, stepping closer.
"I'm fine." Hikari said quickly to him, rubbing her eyes with her arm on the quick.
"Hikari, I'm sorry. I forgot tha-"Max began to apologise when Hikari cut it off.
"I said that I'm fine." Hikari repeated firmly and started to walk away from the group. Sora wanted to help but was dragged away by Elizabeth as Will started to wake up. Kairi, Riku and Max followed Hikari as she walked on the other side of the ship, looking in the distance again.
"Don't worry about Brian, Hikari." Max carried on from before, trying to cheer Hikari up. "And look at the bright side; at least we're not being attacked."
Just as he finished that sentence, the Flying Dutchman appeared from under the water and right next to the Black Pearl. Hikari slammed her fist down on the side of the ship and turned to glare at Max, "Well done, Max." Hikari said angrily at him, "You jinxed us again." Hikari then stormed towards Jack, Gibbs and Donald.
"Lord on high," Gibbs said, crossing himself, "deliver us."
(A1)"I'll handle this mate," Jack said as he stepped past Gibbs and Donald. He held out the jar of dirt above his head and began waving it around and walking sideways. "OI! Fishface!" he yelled at Jones, attracting his attention. "Lose something? Eh? Scungilli!" Jack suddenly put a foot out into the air and fell down the steps from the bridge to the deck. Sora and co cringed as looked down the rail from the bridge. The jar of dirt popped up as Jack stood to show he was okay. "Got it!" Jack carried on his talk, "Come to negotiate, eh, have you, you slimy git? Look what I got" Jack started to chant. "I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt. And guess what's inside it?"
Riku raised an eyebrow at Jack, noting that he will never understand Jack Sparrow. Riku, as well as the others, grew serious as the cannons to the Flying Dutchmen started to reveal themselves. "I don't think Jones cares about the dirt, Jack." Riku shouted to him.
"Hard to starboard," Jack said as he stared down the barrel of one of the guns.
"Hard to starboard!" Elizabeth shouted as Goofy ran over, grabbed the wheel from Gibbs and spun it in a clockwise direction. Will began shouting orders as Sora, Kairi, Riku, Max, Hikari and Donald headed towards their stations. The Dutchman's cannons began to fire as the ship turned away. The cabin's windows shattered as cannonballs flew through, breaking down the wooden doors as they exited the cabin.
"The Dutchmen is on us!" Donald shouted.
(A2)"She can't hit us like that!" Sora retaliated. "There are no cannons at the fore of that ship." A cannonball suddenly flew past, shattering a lamp behind him and crashing into the deck, sending a man flying into the sea. Sora ducked his head in surprise as pieces of glass fell onto the bridge before some pirate nobodies appeared on the ship.
"You were saying, Sora!" Riku argued as he summoned Way to Dawn and started to fight off the nobodies.
While Jack took over the steering from Goofy, Sora, Kairi, Riku, Max, Hikari, Donald and Goofy started to fight Jones nobodies. Unlike Jones crewmen, the nobodies weren't immortal so it was much easier to fight them off. After fighting the nobodies back and dodging any cannonballs flying by, the nobodies retreated back and the group noticed that the Black Pearl was speeding away from the Flying Dutchmen.
Sora , Riku and Will approached Jack and Gibbs as the ship carried on fleeing from Jones. "She's falling behind?" Sora questioned
"Aye, and we've got her." Gibbs replied cheerfully
"We're the faster?" Will raised an eyebrow.
"Against the wind the Dutchman beats us. That's how she takes her prey." Gibbs went to explain, "But with the wind..."
Will smirked with realisation, "We rob her advantage."
"They're giving up!" Donald yelling from the rigging of the ship. Hikari and Kairi started to cheer, Sora ran up to the girls and started to dance with Kairi out of happiness. Goofy and Max locked their arms and started to jig but ended quickly as Max realised what he was doing. Riku and Will approached Jack, who was at the wheel.
"My father is on that ship." Will said to Jack.
"If we can outrun her we can take her. We should turn and fight" Riku added. Jack turned to the two with a smile as he placed the jar of dirt on the rail.
(A3)"Why fight when we can negotiate?" he asked rhetorically. "All one needs, is the proper leverage." The ship suddenly shook violently and the jar of dirt fell onto the deck and shattered, revealing that inside all there was, was dirt.
Riku and Will looked down at Jack strangely while he digged in the little pile of dirt like a mad man. "Yeah, I don't want to know." Riku simply said.
"Me nether." Will agreed.
"Man, we must have hit a reef." Sora said as he looked overboard. Riku eyes widened and quickly pulled Sora away from the side, accidentally throwing him on the floor. "Hey Riku! What gives?" Sora complained.
"Get away from those rails." Donald shouted to Kairi and Hikari as Max was getting dragged away by Goofy and Elizabeth was held on to by Will.
"Why? What is it?" Kairi asked.
"The Kraken." Will responded.
"We need to ready the cannons." Riku instructed, "Me, Sora, Kairi and Donald will set the cannons while Elizabeth, Hikari, Max, Goofy, Gibbs and Jack will stay up here with weapons ready. Will, you give off the signal, got it."
"You got it, Riku." Sora cheered, making everyone agree with the plan.
Sora, Kairi, Riku and Donald then headed lower deck and started to set up the cannons. As they loaded the cannons, Kairi tapped on Sora's shoulder and pointed to the cannon hole. Sora gasped as he and Kairi watched one of the Kraken's tentacles slime over the cannon as it raised over the Black Pearl. "Will?" Kairi said to him unsurely, waiting for the signal.
"Not yet." Will replied as he stood on the stairs that lead to the upper deck.
Riku looked out his cannon hole to see the shorten tentacle slime over his loaded cannon, "Will."
"Hold. Hold." Will said to them.
"Uh Will, I think we've held fire long enough." Donald told him. Sora, Kairi and Riku could hear the others backing away on the deck, guessing that the Kraken was right near the edge of the ship.
"WILL!!!" Hikari's voice shouted.
"FIRE!" Will signalled
The group automatically casted fire on the fuse of the cannons, shooting the cannonballs at the Kraken tentacles. The Kraken groaned in pain and withdrew its tentacles. Sora, Kairi, Riku and Donald came back on deck to see the others gathering.
"It'll be back. We need to get off the ship," Will said. The group looked to see that the rowboats were destroyed.
"Great, the boats are dead." Hikari sighed angrily, "Now what?!"
Will looked as a barrel rolled across the deck and an idea formed in his mind. "Pull the crates," he ordered. "Get all of the gunpowder onto the net into the cargo hold." He handed Elizabeth a rifle. "Whatever you do don't miss," he warned.
"As soon as you're clear," she answered before turning away.
Riku looked around briefly to see that someone was missing. Riku quickly went over to Gibbs, "Gibbs, where's Jack?" Riku asked. Gibbs shrugged before being told by Riku to go somewhere safe.
In the cargo hold, Donald, Goofy and Max started to full the cargo net but stopped when they only found six barrels of gunpowder. Max stopped Sora as he was about to go above, "Sora, we only have six barrels."
"What else do we have?" Sora asked
"Nothing but rum." Goofy replied as he looked at him.
"Then load the rum." Sora told him.
"But Jack said to leave the rum." Max told him.
"Well, Jack's not here." Riku came lower deck to see what the wait was about, "He's done a runner."
"What?!?" Sora said in disbelief
"Max, load the rum." Riku instructed him as he and Sora came on to bridge. The ship suddenly thudded at the kraken's return. Riku summoned the Way to Dawn followed by Sora summoning the Kingdom Key. The kraken attacked the lower decks and cargo hold with its tentacles. Kairi and Hikari ran over to the boys with their weapons draw. Riku faced them, "We have to protect the cargo net from the Kraken until Elizabeth has a clear shot."
"Right, we'll take out the tentacles." Hikari said and waited for the Kraken to attack the bridge. Sora looked over to Riku.
"Hey Riku, you're starting to sound like a captain." Sora grinned
"Yeah, yeah, just get ready for the battle." Riku shrugged the conversation off.
"Aye! Aye! Captain." Sora said before getting in his battle stance.
In the cargo hold, Donald, Goofy and Max dived out of the Kraken's tentacles as soon as it burst into the ship. Donald casted fire to burn the tentacles, Max turned his bow into swords and started to chop the tentacle up while Goofy had his shield in the defence position, protecting Will as he was lifted with the cargo net full of barrels. Goofy looked to see that another tentacle was heading straight for Max, who was oblivious of it.
"Maxie, look out!" Goofy cried out. Max turned around but was caught at the Kraken's grasp as it grabbed Max's waist and started to pull him back.
"Dad! Help!" Max pleaded. Goofy left his post and grabbed one of Max's swords which he had dropped from the sudden attack. Goofy rode on his shield and speed across the room. Before the Kraken pulled Max through the tiny hole from where it came in, Goofy jumped and sliced the tentacle off. The tentacle withdrew while Goofy went over to Max and untangled him from the dethatch piece of the tentacle. "Thanks Dad." Max smiled warming at his father for the first time in ages. Goofy handed the sword back to Max and quickly grabbed Donald before fleeing on to the deck.
Back on deck, Riku, Sora, Kairi and Hikari fought against the tentacles as the cargo net carried on rising. Sora looked around to see even more tentacles appearing from the depths, Sora then decided that they only one thing he could do. "Light! Give me Strength!" Sora shouted as he started to glow brightly. Sora garments then change into a yellow and black theme as he turns into Master Form with Oblivion as his second Keyblade.
Sora jumped on the cargo net and then on the top of one of the sails, the Kraken's tentacles started to go after Sora due to his sudden power up. When all of the tentacles were near, Sora started to use his disaster move by spinning in the air and started to gather wind around him. The tentacles didn't take any effect of the move due to its mass and smacked Sora right back into the ship, breaking the wheel that was pulling the cargo net up in the process.
Riku turned to see Sora revert back to his original form and was struggling to get back up. Riku started to run towards Sora when the Kraken's tentacles wrapped around Riku's arm and started to pull him off the ship.
Hikari turned around from dodging one of the other tentacles to see Riku get pulled off the ship, "Si-Riku!" Hikari ran over with her Eternal Blade and struck at the tentacle. The tentacle let Riku go and went after Will like all the other tentacles. Hikari went over to him and gave him a hand, Riku took it and the two carried on defending the Pearl.
Will had dropped his sword when the Kraken's tentacles wrapped itself around the cargo net and was now trapped. Kairi went over to Elizabeth, who was waiting for Will to get out of the way. While Elizabeth and Kairi were waiting for Will to be set free, two tentacles came from the captain's cabin. Sora rose and saw the tentacles, "Kairi! Elizabeth!" Sora cried.
Both of the tentacles grabbed the girls' ankles and pulled hard. Elizabeth dropped her gun and Kairi dropped Oathkeeper, which vanished in an instant. Kairi and Elizabeth screamed in terror as the Kraken pulled them through the ship. Luckily, Donald and Goofy were in the cabin room so they used Goofy's shield as an axe to chop one of the tentacles. Elizabeth was set free but Kairi was still getting dragged through the room. Sora watched with horror as one of his best friends were getting taken away from him again, before he could do anything, Riku pushed him down to the floor and covered his head.
The cargo net explodes as the Kraken holds it, causing it to groan in pain as more of its flesh was destroyed. The Kraken then retreats back to the depths. As everyone recovered from the explosion, Sora pushes Riku away from him and runs towards the rails of the ship, looking out for Kairi.
Riku runs up to him, "Sora, what's wrong?"
"Kairi was taken by the Kraken." Sora quickly said before shouting Kairi's name as loud as he can.
"Uh Sora, no she wasn't." Riku said to him, quickly looking to the side of him.
"Yes she was." Sora argued without facing him, "I saw her get dragged into the ocean by the Kraken and-"
"and used her water element to breath underwater and escaped the Kraken's grasp." Riku cut him off.
"And how would you-"Sora turned around and was dumbfounded, "know..."
Kairi was standing right next to Riku, completely intact and soaking wet with a bit of seaweed in her auburn hair. She smiled sweetly at Sora before she giggled, "I told you guys I could protect myself." She told them before walking over to the others. Sora sighed with relief to know that Kairi was safe while Riku just dragged him towards the others.
Riku and Sora walked over to the group to see that they were saved by none other than Jack Sparrow. Riku stormed up to him, "Decided to come back, did ya?"
"I never left, mate." Jack protested.
"But you weren't on the ship and one of the boats were missing." Riku started to argue with Jack being on the ship while the others wondered about the Kraken.
Donald and Gibbs looked over the side, "Is it dead?" Donald asked.
Gibbs shook his head grimly, "No. We just made it angry."
"And that is when time runs out." A voice appeared behind them. The group turned to see Lt Skullo looking smugly at them; his helmet was under his left arm.
Elizabeth stepped forward from the group to face Skullo, "You're wasting your time, Lieutenant." Elizabeth said to him, "The chest isn't here."
"Who said I was after the chest?" Skullo questioned
"Gawsh, you brainwashed Donald just to try and get it." Goofy reminded him
"I do not need to be reminded." Skullo struck at the group with a fireball. The group jumped out of the way and summoned their weapons, except for Hikari and Max. Skullo looked at the two with a smirk, "At least you two are clever enough to know that you cannot win." He said to them.
Riku and the others looked at the two strangely, "Why haven't you summoned your weapons?" Riku whisper-shouted to them.
"Remember what we said about Skullo?" Hikari started to explain, "We can't fight him out of anger, he'll just know our moves and cast berserk on us like Donald."
Skullo chuckled as the group disposed of their weapons, knowing that they really couldn't do anything without a proper plan and with a Kraken just underwater. "I'm glad that you see the light, unlike this world." Skullo said to them.
"What do you mean?" Sora raised an eyebrow. Skullo just pointed upwards, towards the sky. The group looked up to see that the sky was no longer the bright blue colour that it was but was now covered with dark red clouds, "What's going on?!?" Sora gasped.
"The world is falling to the Order." Hikari replied.
"You mean the world has unbalanced." Riku looked at her.
"Same thing, Silver!"
Skullo clicked his fingers before summoning his blood red portal. He looked at the group, "Shame that you did not destroy that spider, it would not have got to the keyhole otherwise." He said before going through the portal. The waves started to become stormy and blue lightning began to show. Sora and the others fell to the floor as the Black Pearl began to rock until their were suddenly covered by a bright light.
A1, A2 & A3 belong to Shire Folk and should be creited for those bits, not me
Mad: This chap is done. YAY! Not as good as the last chap but still alright. Ok, now for messages:
Kisdota- The Freak Gamer: I can't tell you about the chocobo but it will be here soon. (::)
JuneBaby95: Kairi may be a Pure Heart but Brian just gets on every girl's nerve. (::)
Sailor Winx: I'm glad to hear that you find Brian as a interesting character. YAY!!! (::)
Future Keybearer: Wonderland is boring and I just didn't want to go there. (::)
Destiny-FaithAngel: I think that the Riku bit was the funniest bit in that chap and I thought that you guys would see it coming since I've tortured Riku in every world so far and it goes with the storyline. (::)
Shadow Sylph: Why am I even writing to you, you're right next to me.
Shadow: Hello
Mad: Why am I here again?
Shadow: because you nicked my Irn Bru
Mad: Well its nice. Anyways, I now have a deviant-art account and have posted a picture of Brian. Just go onto my account to get the link to the page. KK, I gonna have a pretend snowball fight with Shadow.
Shadow: SNOWBALL FIGHT!!!
See ya next time.
Kingdommad