Chapter XIV: Topsy turvy land final part I
"Attack my angel!!" Frollo bellowed as the fire was beginning to gain intensity making dark black smoke begin to flood, Esmeralda was holding her head back trying not to breathe in the horrible fumes.
The angel then moved over them all as it's giant tentacles then ran straight at them turning into sharp pointed like daggers. Everyone leaped out of the way instantly and as the dust cleared from the attack Nozomi looked at it hatefully, "you call this thing an angel? It's more like a weird octopus!"
Riku calling out the way to dawn then replied, "Angel, octopus whatever it is we've gotta put an end to it!" With that he then ran straight towards it in full charge.
Phoebus then drawing his sword out of his scabbard then started to run too, "I couldn't agree more!" With that he too then began to run.
Nozomi seeing the two of them charge she then quickly called out her own keyblade in a rush as she then called after, "wait for me!"
As the two guys charged at the heartless it had already recoiled it's tentacles back as it then once again launched them at the two again. This time though Riku and Phoebus were prepared as they struck back against the tentacles, it was metal upon metal as sparks flew from their blades.
Nozomi taking the chance then charged between the two of them as she then leaped into the air and then moved to strike the heartless' masked face just as she was couple of inches from it she then swung her keyblade with full strength. But then suddenly wings came over it's face blocking her attack, "what the-" but she was cut off when suddenly another tentacle came out of no-where and struck her right in her stomach winding her, she coughed loudly falling to the floor with a loud crash.
Regaining her strength back she then breathed heavily in and out as she looked at it one of her eyes closed as she looked at it with a slightly angered cringe, "that was cheating!" She muttered.
But as she got up again she saw that the tentacle had decided to give go after her again, reacting as quickly as she could she jumped out of the way out of it's line of attack, she breathed heavily again but then saw that it had changed targets once again.
"Riku!!" She screamed loudly.
Hearing her he turned to see the tentacle coming towards him at full pelt but he didn't have enough time to react due to the tentacle he was still countering back.
He looked in utter shock and all of a sudden he felt a pressure from nowhere smacking into him from his left side, he looked startled to see that it was Nozomi.
She had ran as quickly as she could and had rammed into him putting a lot of pressure into the impact as the two of them then fell out of the way in time as the impacting tentacle rammed itself into the other one that Riku had been fighting. They were stuck to each other as the heartless tried to dislodge them with great trouble.
"Owww that really hurt!" Nozomi complained as she got up holding her right arm with her other hand feeling slightly sore. Riku himself cringing slightly as well from the impact got up as well slowly but as he did he then noticed Phoebus who too was just barely holding on with his own sword and as he looked he suddenly caught sight of another tentacle this one was poised above him and suddenly it moved to strike him.
It was too late though for anyone to cry out.
Then suddenly-
A huge clash was heard for suddenly from behind him there stood a shining protective shield glittering yellow in light that made everyone stare in amazement and shock, even Phoebus who too looked on just as bewildered.
"What is-" but before Nozomi could continue from above there suddenly arrived out of nowhere a familiar shade of black and red as his golden keyblade smashed into the attacking tentacle turning it into dust in mere seconds and then turning to his other attention he then wiped out the other one that Phoebus had been dealing with.
"Your Majesty!" Nozomi shouted in delight.
For it was sure enough the king as he gazed at everything that was going on he then asked aloud, "What has happened here?!" He asked aloud in utter disbelief.
It was then that suddenly another familiar face made himself known as he then pounced upon the king's head as he then cried out, "what the heck took ya so long ya large rodent!"
Mickey startled only looked at cait sith in surprise.
As Nozomi watched cait sith and King Mickey she then noticed that the shield had then vanished she then assumed it must have been the king who had called out the shield.
A loud screech and smash was then heard as from above someone came hurtling down from the towers above in the cathedral as she saw him swing in on a long rope it was Quasimodo!
He swung hard he headed towards the bonfire where Esmeralda was tied, but the heartless though felt him coming and it immediately reacted coming over the bonfire using twisting it's body to form a tent like cage.
Watching this wide-eyed Nozomi and Riku suddenly looked to see the tangled tentacles had now gone back to the main body as they too then morphed becoming a large two edged twisted curved blade as it then started to spin upon the top.
Quasimodo seeing this had barley had anytime to react as he then swung out of the way but not before the blade had struck him slightly. He gasped in pain as he then crashed into the floor, the others seeing this then rushed to his aid.
"Quassi!" Nozomi cried out clearly worried about her friend as she and the others turned to him it was then that Frollo appeared from the top of the heartless as though in victory his arms folded, " now all things that are unclean will herald to mine and my angels calling all of you gypsies and heathens shall receive the justice of my judgement!"
As everyone took care of Quasimodo's injury more heartless then started to appear out of nowhere as they surrounded them in a threatening circle as well as the gypsy cages.
Looking at their situation and then at the old man at the top she then was truly infuriated, "I'll give you judgement you stupid old fart!" She shouted straight back at him which caused him to look at her with infuriated eyes, it was then as she gazed at him and then the heartless she noticed some glowing orbs around it's outer circle which shining red and beating like hearts.
'Hearts,' as the word came into her mind something clicked inside turning to Quassi who she could see was now in better shape thanks to the king's and Riku's healing abilities she then grabbed him as she whispered something in his ear.
Quassi eyes widened as he heard her plan but then hearing it, he realised that though it was absurd it could work.
As the others stared at them as they talked they suddenly then heard the heartless as they realised as they were starting to advance upon them with their various weapons and claws at the ready.
They looked at the oncoming force with gritted teeth and angered frowns but suddenly they were distracted, "hey guys!"
Turning they looked to see Nozomi talking to them while she was being held by Quasimodo, "I need you to take care of these annoying things while we take care of Mr fart face and his weird saint contraption, okay?"
As they all looked at her oddly wondering what she and him could possible do on their own it was then that Riku then looked at her angrily as he then spoke, "how in the hell are you going to take care of that thing!?" As he then pointed at it showing clearly it's huge size.
Nozomi smiled as she then winked and made her reply, "with a little luck and a good smacking!" With that she then summoned her keyblade as it appeared with a sparkle of light into her hand.
Riku was stunned by her show of confidence that he couldn't argue back but then someone else interjected, "you ain't not doin nothin without me!"
It was Cait Sith as he then jumped up and landed on Quasimodo's head he then grabbed his hair which made him wince slightly, "I'm gonna make sure it's not just luck that ya through all this!"
As Nozomi looked at him she then whispered under her breath, "oh great just what I need a midget giving assistance."
"What was that!" Cait sith asked angrily having very keen ears.
Ignoring him then Nozomi then called out, "alright let's get going!"
With that Quasimodo nodded as he then started to run with her towards the cathedral, as they did this Riku the king and Phoebus looked at the heartless as they marched towards them as they readied their weapons Riku then said aloud, "I hope that idiot knows what she's doing!" Then they rushed forward into battle.
As Frollo studied them as they started to fight his warriors he then turned his attentions to where Quasimodo and the other gypsy girl had gone, he looked carefully around trying to spy their movements but as he looked he suddenly heard a whistle as he looked a little ways up he saw that it was them.
Quasimodo was holding onto a rope tightly that was reaching straight from the cathedral towers and in his arms was Nozomi as she looked at the old man hatefully as she clenched the keyblade tightly in her right hand, Cait sith had now moved his position now sitting behind Quasimodo's head holding on tightly to his shoulders.
"So there you are…" He smiled evilly as he then moved his right hand out and with that the grand heartless moved it's grand blade moving to strike them.
Nozomi and Quasimodo were silent as they watched the blade coming towards them, it was Cait sith that made the count down,
" 4"
It was twenty feet
"3"
Ten feet.
"2"
Five feet.
"NOW!!"
It was then the blade struck into the side of the cathedral as it made dust and rubble fly everywhere, Frollo smiled in glee at the sight but then as the dust cleared out of the way he then saw that they were no where to be seen.
"What is-"
But he was distracted as suddenly then the heartless he was upon suddenly howled in pain, as he looked to where it had howled from he suddenly saw then a stream of red light as it then started to spread all the way from the outside of the centre, he then saw a rope swinging.
He then saw that Quasimodo was swinging from the rope as he held onto it with his feet and holding Nozomi by her own feet as she was striking each of the red orbs with her keyblade encircling the heartless.
"You!!" He spoke angrily as he then made the heartsease's grand blade come forward and chase after them.
As Nozomi concentrated hard on destroying the orbs with her keyblade being careful not to miss a single one she then saw that there were now only ten to deal with but suddenly, "Hard to Port!!" Cait sith shouted out loudly, as Nozomi looked she saw with a clench of terror the blade coming after them at top speed.
As she looked she suddenly remembered the orbs and just barely managed to get to incoming one.
"We've just got nine more!" She cried back.
She could hear it coming closer and closer, "9, 8, 7-"
"It's almost upon us!" Quasimodo shouted desperately as he saw it was now only 5 feet away from them.
Nozomi still concentrated desperately though not wanting to let anyone down, " 6, 5, 4-"
It was now enclosing upon them and she could hear from behind them as it clinked and clanked angrily waiting to slice them to pieces.
"3, 2 –"
It was now upon them and suddenly,
"1!!" Nozomi shouted loudly as she struck the final one and then suddenly there was a gigantic flash of light as then the gigantic blade had been halted once again by that ominous yellow shining shield that covered them all.
The heartless started to writhe and turn horribly as then started to produce more red light and Frollo shook upon it as he suddenly then saw that the centre of the heartless he was next to suddenly opened up like an enormous flower as it suddenly revealed a gigantic heart beating furiously.
Nozomi seeing it then knew immediately what to do, "Chuck me!!" She shouted loudly.
Quasimodo hearing her then seeing the heart then did exactly that as he swung her hard into the air.
As she sailed in the air Nozomi then closed her eyes as she then called upon her wings and as they then appeared on her feet she then ran in the air as she saw the glowing orbs running from one to another she then arrived at her target.
Pulling her keyblade she then launched her attack as she then struck it madly with her keyblade reducing it's HP in seconds and then for the final blow as she cried out loudly, "ASTRAL AERIAL SMASH!!"
She then struck the heart with a thunderous clash as it then glittered more with light blinding everything as time seemed to stand still.
As the blinding light faded away the heartless had disintegrated into nothing in seconds leaving only Esmeralda who was now unconscious upon the bonfire the flames having been snuffed out.
The dust settling down Riku and the others immediately ran over to her as they untied her and removed her from the stake. Nozomi looked at her friend with deep anxiety, "Is she gonna be all right!?"
As the King checked her he then replied, " I believe she will be but she needs time to recover."
It was then there was a brief silence of relief as there was a nice calmness between everyone and a joy over the victory of the grand heartless but then suddenly-