Chapter 59: Travels
Major Snake chuckled as he heard the gorillas' roar change more demonic by the second before seeing if his gummi was repaired yet. When he had landed on African Depths with his prisoners, a part of the engine had blown so he had placed the gummi in Dark Mountain a.k.a African Depths' gummi port. Snake turned at the sound of slams at metal to see Tarzan completely outraged as he tried to escape the prison. Snake took his cowboy hat off and quickly dusted his hat which was covered by the dust of the grey dead mountain. He placed the hat back on his head and smirked as he approached the angered Tarzan and his mate. Snake then looked at Tarzan sadly, "Now with all that bashing about, you're making it sound like you don't want to be in there."
Tarzan didn't fall for his act, "Let my family go!" Tarzan demanded. Jane had taught Tarzan much more English then he did know when Sora had first come to Deep Jungle. He was now able to fully understand the English language and was able to read and speak it too.
"Now Tarzan, I'm not like that." Snake said to him honestly, "I don't put animals in cages like that Clayton. Now would be cruel to them."
"What DO you do with the gorillas then?" Tarzan's partner, Jane, asked. She slowly approached the side of the cage to where Tarzan was.
"We make them advance and understand our ways." Snake sneered. A monstrous roar came from the other side of the mountain to where some animals were still being transformed. "I'll ask you one last time; join the Order Tarzan or the animals won't be the only ones to understand our ways." The response that Snake got was Tarzan slamming at the cage that he and Jane was in once again. "I'll take that as a no." Snake lifted his claw and showed it to Tarzan and Jane as the claw began to glow.
"Major Snake!"
Snake slammed his scaly claw back to his side and looked behind him to see that Sergeant Abroc had appeared from his portal behind him. Snake though badly of Abroc's appearance as he stopped his claw glowing, he knew that Abroc was here for Colonel Devil's pestering again.
"I need the Princess." Abroc got to the point as he halted in front of him.
"Then go get yourself one." Snake answered grumpily, "You're not having my catch."
"You know that we can't change the plan and going against the plan will reveal us to the Dark Master." Abroc told him in a serious tone as his claw began to glow. Snake growled at Abroc's words and actions as he shoved Abroc back. "Hey!"
"You are an idiot! There's no point trying to pressure me into your little fear. Where I come from, we respect others choices by going to a steakhouse." Snake told him.
"Maybe on your world but you know I'm right. Your actions will reveal us to the other Endless." Abroc repeated. "Stop acting so pessimistic."
"That's my emotion, you fool." Snake reminded him.
"Yeah, you don't see me being a scary cat." Abroc replied back.
"You do when you're around the Colonel." Snake comment, earning a plenty amount of denials for the next lifetime. Snake quickly covered Abroc mouth with his claw. "Why do you even follow the Colonel's orders anyway?" The cowboy asked.
Abroc pulled Snake's hand away from his mouth, "Don't ask." Abroc left it at that.
Snake growled with ignorance as he knew that Abroc was right for once, he quickly summoned at Endless guard. "Go and get the Princess of Hearts and the Endless from the cells." He ordered.
"Yes sire." The guard replied as he disappeared into the realm of darkness. Abroc grinned happily at Snake.
"Ahh! Not only the Princess but Brian too? You're really on a role." Abroc cheered.
"I wasn't talking abou-"
The guard came rushing back through a dark portal, "Sire, the prisoners have escaped."
BOWBOWBOW
"It's defiantly this way."
"You said that twenty minutes ago!"
"Well I'm sure that this is the way to Dark Mountain."
"You said THAT five minutes ago. Endless or not, you still have no sense of direction."
"Well Zidane, where do you think we should go?"
"The other direction."
"Well how would you know?"
"Because I've lived here for the past two years. How long have you been here?"
"Three months."
"…..Sakuzy."
"Fine! A week."
Storm and Zidane pushed throw the bush as their continued to argue on which way to go with Sora trailing behind, then Brian and Hikari and then Kairi at the back. Storm and Zidane soon found a path that they both knew would take them to Dark Mountain and told the others to be cautious while going down the path. Sora just grunted and carried on trailing behind the endless and the monkey. Brian and Hikari were casually walking beside each other while Kairi walked behind them.
"It's hard to believe that Storm is really your brother." Brian said as he walked with his hands intertwined behind his head. Hikari had told the others about Storm's true self and Brian was the first to accept the fact. Hikari had also questioned why Sora seemed to be angry but either Kairi or Brian answered as they didn't know the answer.
"It's hard to believe that you're an Endless but it's true." Hikari spat back. Even if her brother did suggest giving Brian a chance, she wasn't going to forgive him just because her brother told her to. Brian sighed as he ran his claw through his scarlet hair, feeling despair hit him.
"I still can't believe that the Devon brothers didn't tell you." Kairi came between the two, she was hoping that this would prevent any more fighting. It was bad enough that Sora wasn't letting anyone in, she didn't need her other two friends bickering at each other. "Why would they keep this from you?"
"Sakuzy said that he didn't want me searching for him as he considered himself dead already." Hikari said with a hint of despair. "They were only keeping their word."
"The only reason they kept their word is because Daniel was the one to kick him out of Little Devon in the first place." Brian commented with annoyance, "The world should be called Danny Town as he wants everything his way. He won't even tell me about me."
"Why would he need to tell you about yourself?" Kairi asked him as she was confused about his statement.
"I-I don't know." Brian sighed.
"If you don't know then don't accuse people." Hikari glared at him, "You're just lucky that we're on talking terms at the moment, Flame."
"Right..." Brian sighed once more.
"Patrol!" Storm reported from ahead, "Get in to cover!!" The three quickly rushed to the closest bush while Zidane quickly jumped up a tree. Kairi was the first to notice that Sora didn't move a muscle, similar to when the tower was collapsing back on St Dragonknight. Storm turned around to see Sora standing there. "Get out of the way!" Storm warned him again. Sora seemed to look at the Endless darkly before taking his sweet time to get in cover, away from the others. Hikari looked at Brian and Kairi with a worried expression to see the two in the same state as her. They then drew their attention to the patrol that began to approach Storm; all of the soldiers were in the same armour as Storm.
"Private Storm? What are you doing out this way?" The head officer asked.
Storm quickly though on his toes," Err...I went on my break back at Elephant Falls and when I came back, everyone was gone. Sir." Storm quickly saluted.
"You're heading back to base?"
"Yes sir." Strom reported, "Kinda got lost on the way though."
The soldier shook his head, "Now how do you except to join the Order if you keep getting lost?" The soldier quickly pulled Storm closer to him, "Okay, carry on up this path and then take a left then a right then a left then a right then a left." Storm tried to speak, "-then a right then a left."
"Err thanks sire." Storm pulled himself away.
"Now before I go, be on the lookout for a group of teens. They've escaped from our prison." Storm nodded and watched the patrol pass him. Storm checked to see if the patrol had really passed them before signalling the others to come out of cover. Again, Sora took his sweet time to come out while the others came out and got ready to travel again.
"C'mon Sora, while we're still young." Brian complained. Sora glared at him with much anger and hatred. "Why are you glaring at me like that?!" Brian questioned. Sora didn't reply; he knew that he didn't need to explain. He looked at Kairi the same way, making Kairi's heart break as well as getting irritated with Sora's sudden dark nature. Sora grunted again before looking away from them and took the lead ahead.
Storm and Zidane looked at each other the same way, confirming their thoughts before going after Sora. Brian walked over to Kairi to try and comfort her but Kairi shook her head, not wanting Brian to comfort her. Hikari looked at the two, "Okay, something must have happened to make Sora glare at the two of you like that."
Brian looked at Hikari with disbelief while Kairi stayed in her thoughts, "Sora was the one who started it." Brian told her.
"Yeah right." Hikari huffed as she crossed her arms and looked at Brian questionably.
"Look, I know you don't trust me at the moment and you have to believe me when I say that Sora is a stubbord idiot who jumps at his own friends and doesn't help in any way." Brian was waving his arms up and down while talking to Hikari to try and make his point look serious.
"Wave your arms all you want, I can't just count on your opinion alone." Hikari told him."Besides, if Sora doesn't want to tell us then we will just have to wait until he's ready to tell us."
"I suppose your right." Brian sighed, "I don't like his attitude change though." Brian huffed and crossed his arms immaturely before turning round to face Kairi. If only Kairi was standing there to face. "Where's Kairi gone?" Brian asked as he turned around to face Hikari before facing back at the place that Kairi should be standing at multiple times.
"She went ahead with the others." Hikari answered.
"Right." Brian began to head after Kairi, when Hikari ran in front of him making him skid to a stop. "Hikari-"
"This has nothing to do with us." Hikari said.
"You don't even know what's going on since you was too busy running from your Endless brother." Brian spat out before cursing himself in his head at what he had just said. Brian gulped shakily as he looked up at Hikari's angry form. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
Brian eyes widened as Hikari began to run towards him with her Eternal Blade.
BOWBOWBOW
Roxas came flying out of another dark portal onto a dark mural before the portal closed. Roxas groaned as he struggled to get up, he had been fighting against the mysterious figure that plays the annoying voice to Sora for the last couple of weeks. He was lucky enough to speak to Sora for the first time in ages before being pushed back to square one. Roxas looked at the stain glass to see that it wasn't as bright as the other murals. He had to look at it with more intensity before gasping with shock.
It was a mural of Sora and Naminé.
Roxas thought about this for a minute before looking at the other murals in the distance that seem to have no light shining on them. Roxas' mind quickly flashed back to where he and Naminé were talking about Sora in the White Room in the Old Mansion back in Twilight Town. He remembered that Naminé had said that she had to return Sora's memories to normal, meaning he had to return to Sora. So... these must be Sora's forgotten memories in his heart. Roxas froze at the thought, Wait! Forgotten part?! That means- Great! There's no way I'm gonna reach Sora from here.
Roxas started to jump mural from mural once more in hope that he could reach part of Sora's heart to make contact with him or Naminé. During his travels, Roxas would get weighted down from the thickness of darkness that laid in Sora's heart. The pressure of the darkness was getting to Roxas as he travelled the murals.
You seemed tried Roxas. Why don't you take a rest?
"And let my well being return to darkness like the rest of the Organisation? Never! I won't leave Naminé!" Roxas jumped on the mural of him, Axel and the girl that looked by Naminé but Roxas remembered that this mural was in Sora's memories. The pressure of darkness started to cover the mural where Roxas stood and Roxas started to sink into darkness.
Naminé can handle herself! You shouldn't worry about her!
The darkness covered his arms and legs.
There's a plus side, you get to see Axel again.
The darkness started to get swallowed into Roxas' lungs as the darkness covered his body and face. Roxas started to push himself out but the waves of darkness was too strong.
As well as every Organisation member that seeks revenge on Sora and Riku. I wish I was there to see it.
Darkness covered Roxas' consciousness completely; he could only hear the voices around him.
Good riddance, now I can- Roxas held the voice suddenly groaned from a sound of some sort of blast. W-what you doing here?
Here to save my buddy. Roxas didn't know who was talking. Who else would be here in Sora's forgotten memories?
Save him if you want. There's no way you can escape without the help of that witch.
Yeah. I'll keep that memorized. Roxas felt blind and he needed to escape. Roxas!
A grab of a hand pulled Roxas out of the forgotten darkness.
It's been a long time.
BOWBOWBOW
Kairi managed to catch up with Zidane, Storm and Sora since the three had stopped at the end of the part and Zidane and Storm were arguing which way to go. Kairi saw that Dark Mountain was in their sight and would properly take round about five minutes to reach. The mountain was completely grey and was surrounded by the remains of ash tree bark. Kairi turned to look at Sora, seeing him hold his head again.
I'm not going to back down this time. Kairi thought with confident. He's going to tell me what's wrong whether he likes it or not. Kairi could hear Naminé agree with her as well as asking about Roxas. Kairi subconsciously nodded to Naimné request before taking a deep breath and walked over to him. "Sora, we need to talk." She said determinately.
"Sure Kai." Sora said as he started to act as his usual self, he released his head before facing her, "What's up?"
"I want to know what's wrong, Sora." Kairi said with seriousness. "Ever since we escaped from the prison, you've been pushing us away."
Sora's face turned cold once more. "I just want to figure out some stuff." Sora said in a low tone before trying to turn away from Kairi. Kairi placed her hand on his shoulder and made him face her.
"Let us help you, Sora. Don't do this alone." Kairi said to him, "You said that to Riku, now I'm telling you the same thing."
"You won't understand." Sora glared as he talked to Kairi with anger, "I don't get what's been happening lately like I don't know myself anymore."
"Let us help you, Sora. I care about you." Kairi moved her hand on his shoulder to his hand but he just moved it quickly.
"Who are you talking about?" Sora suddenly asked with anger in his voice, making Kairi confused. "Me or Brian?"
Brian? What has he got to do with this?!
"What do you see in him? He's nothing! He's just using you!" Sora told with hatred.
"Brian's my friend." Kairi defended him, "He's your friend too."
"He was." Sora looked at the scenery before looking at Kairi with the same cold glare, "I don't need to explain myself to you." Sora started to walk to the side of the path where below lead to more forest. "Why don't you go spend precious time with your boyfriend, Brian. You seem to be interested in guys that are linked to darkness after all!" Sora jumped off the side without the others knowing, leaving Kairi completely speechless.
How could he say that? How dare he say that?! Kairi's patience with Sora had completely broke from there. "FINE!" Kairi shouted to him, making sure that he heard her. Her shouting caused some of the remaining birds to fly off. "I WON'T EVER HELP AGAIN!" Kairi started to breath heavily as she let her anger out, trying not to let tears fall. I don't need Sora. It's obvious that he doesn't need us. Kairi began to storm back to Zidane and Storm.
"It's left then right then right then left-" Storm said to Zidane.
"No! It's right then a left then a right then a left-" Zidane argued back before noticing Kairi at the side of them. "Hey Kairi, didn't see you there?" Zidane then looked at their surrounding, "Where are the others?"
A huge explosion was seen from the path that they had taken before Kairi could reply. All thre of them covered their eyes from the smoke that blasted in their direction. They cold see grunts and battle cries as well as some cursing within the smoke cloud. As soon as the smoke cleared, Kairi saw that Hikari and Brian were fiercely fighting each other…yet again.
Brian's hair was more of a mess then usual, making it look like he was trying to impersonate Sora. His clothes were cut and ruin and had a black eye. Hikari were covered in soot yet again and her hair seemed to be smoking, her clothes were slightly worse then Brian's. The two jump away from each other and the two started to argue again.
"This is all your fault!"
"My fault?! This is your fault?!
"NO IT'S NOT!!"
"Guys!" Zidane shouted at the two to grab their attention. The two looked at the others confusingly, not sure on how they got here. The smoke that was coming from Hikari's hair suddenly burst into a flame, setting Hikari's hair on fire. Hikari started to panic until Kairi quickly burst her water ability at the flame. The flame may be out but now Hikari was soaking wet with ripped clothes and smelling soot. Brian snorted as he tried not to laugh as he receives a deadly glare from the tomboy. Zidane sighed at the teens before grabbing their attention again, "What happened?"
"Well…" Brian began to explain, he made it sound like this was the best story ever to be told. "There we were, standing th-"
"Fighting." Hikari corrected him.
"No, before that." Brian told her before going back to his fascinating story. "There we were, standing th-"
"Fighting." Hikari corrected him again with amusement.
"We were standing." He growled at her.
"No! We were fighting." Hikari glared at him.
"Standing!"
"Fighting!"
"Standing!"
"Fighting!"
"Standing!"
"Fighting!"
"Fighting!"
"Standing!"
"HA! You agreed!" Brian cheered as his master plan worked. Hikari stomped her foot and growled with frustration.
Brain: 2 Hikari: 3
"Guys!" Kairi shouted at them to stop their annoying bickering, "Will you stop fighting for five minutes?!"
"We are trying to sneak into the base, remember?" Storm reminded the two of them. "Now, explain from when you two started to fight."
Hikari and Brian glared at each other for a minute before sighing and nodding in agreement. "Fine." Brian calmed himself before speaking, "We were fighting like we were trying to kill each other but we weren't—"
"I was trying." Hikari muttered under her breathe so quietly that no one seemed to notice.
"—When we started to use magic against each other—"
"Which is completely unfair since I don't know magic and I had oil in my hair." Hikari complained, Brian ignored it as he rolled his eyes.
"Yeah okay." Brian looked back at the others, "Then this satellite came crashing down on us—"
"That's explains the explosion." Zidane said out loud. "Anything else?"
"Oh nothing except that the explosion might have caught someone's attention." Hikari said casually while glaring at Brian.
"WHAT?!?" Zidane, Storm and Kairi said with shock. A monstrous roar was heard close by as its vibrations began to get closer and closer. Looks like Hikari was right. Everybody summoned their weapons, they noticed that Storm's weapon was a replica of Hikari's Eternal Blade expect that Storm's was slightly bigger and had a grey outline to the sword when Hikari's had a blue outline. Zidane quickly looked around for Sora as the footsteps got louder and closer. "Where's Sora?"
"We don't need him." Kairi said coldly as she readied her weapon. Hikari and Brian worried about Kairi's cold response, putting their difference aside for the minute. They were about to ask about it went the trees broke apart as the identity of the creature.
A/N: What is the creature that they're fighting? Where has Sora gone? Who is the mysterious being that helps Roxas? Stay tune to Kingdom Hearts: Balance of World. Hey guys, back at school or college. My timetable is mad but at least i can do my chapters. I'm also trying to be a vegi for a week which I'm finding REALLY hard since I'm craving chicken. Also, there is a post on my profile on whether I should go to pride lands or not. Could you guys answer the poll please so I can know whether to plan or not. Thank you X3
Brian: Back out of it then.
Mad: No! Vegi food is nice. Try sweet chilli sauce on a salad. It's well nice.
Brian: If you say so...
Sora: ....
Mad: Sora, say your line.
Sora: ..... no.
Mad: Tidus then.
Tidus: I quit!
Mad: Fine! I don't own kingdom hearts or Hikari. Just plot and OCs. Now for messages:
Celticskyedancer: I think that Sora doesn't want to tell her about the voice is because of the dream but it could be many other reasons as well.
Future Keybearer: ummm, nope. Brian shirtless is like Sora or Riku shirtless. *fangirl moment* anyway, thanks for your review mate.
Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: I read your chapter and it was good I like the chapter and great work on it.
Artism: I'm looking forward to reading your story. You have to PM me when it's up and people that copy are sad and you only get the couple that take a ability or some way you described something. If someone professional (unlikely to happen) took your character then make sure that you have original pics of characters and the story dated. Thanks for reviewing.
Soragirl4ever: Happy to help X3
Razgriz1: That's just a theory. Play 358/2 days and you can see why the theory is wrong in many ways. One big fact: the timeline.
Speaking of 358/2 days, you guys in America must have the game now while I have to wait another month. Grrr. So I'm gonna start putting 358/2 days stuff in the further chapters. If you can't get the game then I'm sorry if it ruins the game. Besides, the time I would have to use that is ages away.
See ya next time
Kingdommad