Chapter XIV: Topsy turvy land final part II
"Oh wait!" Everyone then looked at Nozomi as she just remembered, "we have to let the gypsies out!"
Hearing that it was then that the thought had struck them too, "fancy her for remembering that," Riku sighed feeling a little idiotic himself for forgetting it.
With that Riku, Nozomi and Phoebus went around the various cages as they released the many, trapped gypsies from their cages while King Mickey, Quasimodo and Cait sith looked after Esmeralda as she was still struggling.
As Quasimodo watched over her along with his friends he was deep in his thoughts as he closed his eyes not believing that his master could do something so terrible as he had done, for though he was strict towards him he had still cared for him but yet… the monsters that had arrived and how he had been tied to the very towers and left in torment…but yet still he…
As Nozomi helped the last of the prisoners from their cages she suddenly heard a cry from where the others were, running in panic towards them she then saw that they had scattered apart for there two heartless with giant claws and bat like wings were advancing towards the King and Cait sith but the one that was heading straight towards Esmeralda and Quasimodo was none other than Frollo.
She looked absolutely shocked for he had survived and he was advancing towards her two friends insanely as he held a sharp knife in his hands acting like a savage wild animal.
Looking at what he was about to do she ran faster but then suddenly as she did another giant armoured heartless appeared before her in a whirl of darkness.
"What the heck-" but it was too late for her to talk as it suddenly smacked it's belly and ran straight into her sending her flying, "Agggh!" She cried out.
Riku and Phoebus hearing her cry rushed over to her aid, Nozomi cringing from the pain tried to get up as best she could, but saw that Frollo was now only a little away from her friends and there was no way for Quasimodo to protect Esmeralda with her in his arms and no weapons available.
Frollo moved in to strike, "No don't!!" She screamed loudly.
As she did this though all of a sudden again the protective yellow shield appeared around them and sent the strike Frollo was about to give them away.
Quasimodo seeing the shield around him then took the best chance he had as he then grabbed onto the brickwork of the cathedral and started to climb up it taking great care not to drop Esmeralda as he made his assent.
Frollo stood angrily at the base where the shield was as he became more and more angered as they climbed together until he saw them reach the top, where he knew they would be hiding in the towers with the bells.
As they made it there the shield disappeared which then allowed Frollo then to open the heavy doors in front of him as he then barged his way through to go to the top.
Nozomi meanwhile had been helped up by both Riku and Phoebus, "we gotta stop him!" she said desperately as she then rushed off then towards the door.
"Wait up!" Riku called after her as he ran too along with Phoebus.
But then as Nozomi made near towards the door the gigantic heartless she had been against earlier was back as it looked at her its fists bared ready to lunge at her, she looked at it angrily and spat, "I haven't got time to deal with a fatso like you!"
But then as she spoke these words it was then that Riku and Phoebus ran up behind her, Phoebus then spoke, "what's the situation?!"
Nozomi then pointed to the top as she then spoke quick, "Frollo's after both Esmeralda and Quasimodo we've gotta get up there and stop him-" but then as she spoke it then began to get worse as then one of the heartless that the king had been fighting then appeared alongside the fat heartless.
"This is gonna be impossible at this rate!" She spoke angrily.
"Well then we'll just have to clear a path won't we!" Riku spoke as he charged with his own keyblade towards them as he then struck them hard.
Nozomi watched then as Phoebus went to join Riku but as she looked up at the cathedral towers she knew she had a faster way to get to the top, she closed her eyes in concentration as she felt that familiar feeling of power build up inside her as she then released the wings upon her feet, then opening her eyes she then saw the orbs.
"I'm gonna take a short cut!" She shouted to Riku and Phoebus.
Riku turned his face around as he saw Nozomi once again had her winged feet, hearing what she said he then shouted to her, "just make sure you hurry!"
Nozomi nodded her head as she felt her adrenalin pumping in her blood as she then jumped landing from one light to another as she then ascended quickly and fast higher and higher into the air hoping with all hope she'd make it in time.
As Riku fought the heartless he managed to destroy the smaller heartless, but the bigger was proving more to be a thorn in the side as it was hard to get behind it in the enclosed space. This one was also more aware of what was going on around it as it gave very little chances for him or Phoebus to get at it.
"Darn this is impossible!" He whispered angrily.
It was then that it moved to charge into him running into top speed as it glowed with purple aura.
Riku moved to brace himself but then suddenly there was an almighty crash as he opened his eyes and saw with amazement that the king had appeared again in the nick of time as he held his keyblade ready, "hey Riku sorry I'm late!"
Riku just laughed relieved as he then said, "I'm just glad that you could make it!"
The king
nodded with a smile but then as he looked around him he noticed,
"Where's Nozomi?"
Riku then told him, "She's gone off to
fight Frollo!"
The king looking at him then back at the heartless as it then got itself up again as it waved it's arms madly up and down ready to fight again but as it did shadow heartless then started to appear around it. The king then spoke quickly to Riku, "well ya better get in there after her! Myself and Phoebus will handle the rest from here!"
With that the king charged on forwards as Phoebus then followed him his own sword brandished high.
Taking the advice Riku took the initiative as he then opened the closed heavy doors and proceeded to run in.
However once he got in a good distance he suddenly noticed a shadow in the darkness, "What is-"
But then it rushed at him quickly before he could react and before he knew it felt a horrible pain from within him. Then suddenly he was thrown back outside onto the street and there in front of him as he looked at her with gritted teeth was none other than that girl he had met before in Disney castle that had started the whole mess.
She held the one-winged angel in her hand with her steel wings aloft looking at him with cold hard eyes she then spoke to him, "You will be disabled from the powers you had before they would have proved a nuisance in future events."
As Riku looked at her angrily still clenching his chest tightly as it hurt incredibly badly, looking with her cold eyes she then turned to the air as she spied her, "and now it's time for my prey…"
With that she then pulled her wings back and then with an almighty pulse she lifted off the ground quickly bounding into the air climbing rapidly.
Nozomi continued to run stepping from orb to orb as quick as she was enabled to, she had made it nearly over the half waypoint, she was getting tired from the climbing but she couldn't stop in worry for her friends.
"Don't worry guys I'm coming!" She spoke breathlessly, but suddenly as she was about to make another step onto another orb something clashed into her as she gasped from the impact she quickly remembered she was falling in the air and had to quickly gather herself opening her eyes she landed, looking for what had struck her she then saw with eyes, her!
That girl who had kidnapped Wairu and who was Bamboo town looking at her with those cold green eyes her brown hair swaying in the wind with those same diamond shape marks on her cheeks. Her wings were as scary as she remembered.
There was silence between the two of them for a few moments until she then broke it, "now it is time to collect what is mine…" With that the girl held her keyblade out as she pointed it at Nozomi.
"Collect what?! What you want!? Who are you!?" Nozomi shouted at her angrily.
The girl taking her keyblade back then answered her, " the name that I was bestowed with was that of Hari, and I am here the treasures," With that she moved in quickly to attack Nozomi.
Quasimodo meanwhile was now upon the roof of Notre dame and was desperately trying to get away from Frollo and his merciless pursuit, Esmeralda had began to stir in his arms but she had still not completely woken up.
He looked around desperately trying to hide when suddenly he saw below him Nozomi who he could see was battling someone with wings he watched with wide eyes as they struck against each other Nozomi seemed breathless and tired while the other looked on at her indifferent.
"Nozomi!!" He cried out.
But this however was a fatal mistake as he saw Frollo coming from around the corner, Quasimodo looked at him wide-eyed as he then ran around another corner.
Nozomi gasping heard her name being called and as she looked up she saw that he was above her and Hari running she looked on wide-eyed.
But she couldn't react as again Hari came at her again as her keyblade struck against hers fiercely, Nozomi clenched her teeth trying desperately trying to keep her strength up.
Quasimodo though meanwhile then had moved himself onto the lower gargoyles out of sight hopefully for a while as he held onto one of them tightly with his free hand he looked at Esmeralda in his arms as she then finally opened her eyes, " Quasimodo?" She asked weakly but nicely with a smile.
He was relieved to see that she was well now but he was distracted again as he looked above him to see to his horror that Frollo was above them, "Leaving so soon?" He asked menacingly as he then moved to thrust his sword at them.
Nozomi still battling Hari had jumped upon another orb as she then turned around quickly she saw wide-eyed that Frollo had caught her friends in a horrible predicament but she had no time to react for right there and then Hari had come at her again, but Nozomi launched herself out f the way as she jumped upon another quickly out of harms reach.
She looked on desperately though as Frollo was getting too close to them attacking them over and over again as they barely made it from one gargoyle to the next she then saw they were getting near to the end of the edge.
Looking at them and then back at Hari who was coming at her again she looked at her with utter fury, "stop it I have friends to help!" She screamed at her.
Hari though looked at her emptily as she then said, "other individuals have nothing to do with my own agenda's regardless of their well-being, you and I are to solve this matter now."
Hearing this Nozomi looked at her with gritted teeth as she then said angrily back, "well you might your own agenda with me but I have nothing to do with you!"
With that she then swung her keyblade as fast she was enabled hoping to get a hit but then missed and was shocked when suddenly she was struck back downwards as she felt the wind knocked out of her as she descended.
Quasimodo at that moment was still dealing with Frollo and as he had tried to help Esmeralda he had fallen upon the last gargoyle while Esmeralda had landed upon the floor breathless.
It was then Frollo began to speak angrily, " I should have known you'd risk your life to save that gypsy witch, just as your own mother died trying to save you…"
Quasimodo was aghast in horror as he heard this he replied, "what?"
But instead Frollo only smiled wickedly as he spoke once again, "Now I'm going to do what I should have done twenty years ago…" With that he then suddenly threw his cape over Quasimodo's face blinding him.
At that moment as Nozomi continued to fall Hari was chasing after her as she came closer and closer to her she moved for the final kill but then suddenly Nozomi then opened her eyes as she then stood her hands upon another orb that was beneath her as she then grabbed Hari's head with her feet as she then quickly twirled and swung her around sending her downwards she then taking that big burst of energy then made herself jump immediately into the air gaining incredible speed.
Looking she could see that somehow Quasimodo was on the edge of the platform with Esmeralda holding onto him with both her arms as Frollo stood over them his sword high in his hands as he then cried out with a manic look upon his face, " And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!!" He then moved strike.
Her anger now truly at it's point she then screamed, "NOOOOOOOO!!"
With that she then flew past him as she had cut into the gargoyle he was standing upon making both him and it crumble and fall into the fiery pitfalls below.
But as he fell his gaze fell on her as she looked at him coldly with those emerald eyes he then shouted his last words, "My angel!!"
Then he finally met his demise.
Gasping then Nozomi landed upon the cathedral scaffolding as she then quickly ran over to Esmeralda and then pulled Quasimodo with her having to use a lot of energy that made her gasp heavily.
Looking at her friends and seeing them safe brought a gigantic smile to her face as she collapsed onto her knees holding onto her fast beating heart. But before it was safe enough to relax SHE appeared again.
Esmeralda looked at her in horror as did Quasimodo who looked at her his eyes widened, Nozomi looking at her again got up uneasily as she held hey keyblade shakily clearly out of energy, "you still want to go on?!" She asked exasperated.
As Hari looked at her though she felt a faint whisper in her mind, 'you'll always play fair right?'
Hearing this it didn't change anything upon her physically but, "I will leave the battle to be continued for now… you still have a ways to go before your truly strong."
Nozomi blinked as she heard this thinking it was really weird but before she could ask what she meant by that the girl disappeared into a portal of darkness that appeared behind her.
It was silent for a few moments as Nozomi then asked aloud as dawn emerged, " what on earth is up with her?"
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Everyone had now gathered inside the main part of the cathedral everyone was glad to have some rest but more importantly that had been won caused Nozomi to truly smile.
But then as she was inside with Quasimodo and Esmeralda it was then that the doors opened and there came in King Mickey Cait sith and Phoebus who held Riku in his arms.
Nozomi gasped seeing Riku looking so weak she ran over to him, "hey Riku, snowball hey are you okay?!" She asked truly concerned.
Riku winced slightly as he looked at her annoyed slightly, "I'd feel better if you didn't call me snowball…"
Nozomi ignoring that part only looked at hi in worry, "what happened to you?"
Looking at her, he then turned away from her not wishing to look at her concerned, "something that shouldn't have, that's all."
Hearing this she couldn't understand why he was being cold towards her, as she watched him he she then saw that he tried to get up and stand as Phoebus let go. But as he did she saw that it was looking really difficult for him, but then as he tried to step forwards with what she thought was confidence but then suddenly stumbled forwards seeing that she then ran forwards, "hey!"
With that she then caught him in her arms as she held him to herself, she felt his white hair touch her arm and shoulder and she noticed how soft it was thinking it was nice but then as she thought this she shook her head, why would she be thinking about something like that?!
"Man you're heavy!" She said loudly.
Riku then looked up at her and as he did she then noticed eyes hidden behind his hair that were turquoise a very enchanting colour but then looking at this she then blinked and then turned her face away looking queerly as she then thought to herself again, 'and why am I thinking about that?'
"Well if you don't want to hold me then just let go," he replied as he then got up and walked away from her, moving to the main stain glass window.
Looking as he walked away from her Nozomi then just looked him crossly as she then turned her face away from him.
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After explaining what had transpired to the others Nozomi then had her hands behind her back.
"I see then… well this means we have two problems, Pete and that girl Hari …. And also what has happened to Oralee…" The king spoke as he had his head in thought.
The minute her name was mentioned Nozomi then looked really depressed and worried as she then pressed her hands together remembering her new and now lost friend.
Cait sith who had been silent for the entire time now spoke in irritated tone, "well it blantly obvious aint't it! We gotta go and find her highness! And you rolly lot are gonna be helpin me do it! Until we find her highness I'll be stickin with ya!"
Nozomi looked at him wide-eyed as he suddenly ran over and then pounced on her head as he then spoke to her, "and there'll be no disagreements right?"
Looking at him she was stunned for a moment but then she smiled, "right none at all! Besides least I can do, … or rather we can do to make up for it, right?" She then asked Riku and Mickey.
Mickey looked at cait sith for a moment but then shook his head with a smile, "nope there ain't no complaints here!"
Riku looked over and shrugged as he then replied, "whatever's comfortable."
Hearing agreements all around Nozomi smiled.
Suddenly then the stained glass window started to glitter shine strangely that caught Nozomi's attention, she walked over slowly to it in awe as she gazed at it then suddenly her right hand and then upon the window there appeared a keyhole that glowed brightly remembering what had happened before in the world with the wolf she guided the keyblade aloft as she then aimed it straight at it.
Then as she did so a white beam of light appeared and entered the keyhole as then suddenly she heard a click of something being locked and then it disappeared into fragments of light.
As this happened Nozomi felt an odd sensation as again the wings on her feet appeared along with a wide circle it was time for them to leave again.
"I guess we've gotta say goodbye then…" she said a little sadly as Riku and the king made their way over to her, Cait sith still upon her head.
Quasimodo, Phoebus and Esmeralda looked at them all sadly especially Quasimodo he walked over to Nozomi as he then asked her, "do you have to leave?"
Nozomi looked at him saddened herself but she tried to be as positive, "yeah we do… but I'll come and visit you guys sometime okay? Besides we've got things to do and to see more things, just are you gonna start doing right?" She asked him.
Quasimodo silent a moment then nodded as he heard he words, "yeah I will, you all take care okay? And thank you again." He added with a smile.
Hearing this Esmeralda and Phoebus both nodded in agreement as they held each others hands, "yeah all take care" Phoebus spoke, then Esmeralda then added, "I hope you'll come back for the festival next time."
Nozomi then truly happy then disappeared with the others with a smile as she then said, "yeah I'll dance better next time, see you all again!"
With that the group set off for their next part of their travel as Quasimodo then for the first time could in the light of the outside world.