"At long last, here we are again at Lady Three's shrine." Cent squeezed Two's hand. "Do you remember this place, my love, with your strange sister? We're so close, just hang in there."
The journey from the Land of Sands to the Land of Forests was a perilous one, but Cent believed it was worth it for Two's sake. He brought Two right up the castle doors, then gave it a few knocks. It took a while for the door to be opened by one of her heartless, but there Three stood before them. Her clothes were tattered and black and her hair had grown out so long that it fell to her feet.
"Ah- you look quite different, Lady Three. Let me guess, was it a haircut?" Cent asked.
Three didn't even crack a smile like she used to at his horrendously bad jokes. It was all business to her. "...What do you want?"
"I do believe the letter I sent detailed most of my grievances."
"I didn't read it."
"Ha ha, you never change Lady Three! Well, not to bore you with the details, but rumor's been spreading pre-tty far and wide about your powers to bring back dead people. I'm talking about necromancer levels here, and I was wondering if you'd be so kind as to bring a couple of dead children back to life? Doesn't have to be all of them, just enough so Lady Two's pleased."
She turned her head away from him. "...There's nothing I can do, sorry."
"What- why?"
"I work with corpses, not homunculus. Their bodies are long gone."
"Oh...I see. That's unfortunate we traveled all the way here, fighting off demons and what not, just to return empty handed."
"Such is life."
"Wait, so there's not anything else you can do to save your dear older sister? You remember what having one was like, don't you? She used to cook you hot meals and braid your hair...and do uh, other girl activities whenever she used to visit you."
"...Yeah."
"Yeah?"
"I remember...liking Two." Three gazed at her older sister's empty face, she had been in a catatonic state ever since the orphan incident. A part of Three buried deep inside that black chasm of a heart longed for the days when Two was still with her so maybe that's why she felt compelled to help. Or maybe she was simply looking for another doll to toy around with... "I can make her smile again," She finally said.
Cent was so relieved to hear those words from her. "Really? How so?"
"It won't be easy, but the demons will mend her fractured mind. However...time is not on our side."
"Don't worry. There's nothing going on back at home, we have all the time in the world."
"No...Zero and her dragon have arrived. The demons told me. And they also told me about a peculiar boy called the 'demon slayer' who travels with her. Bring him to me."
"Uh yeah, you see, I've never been the strongest guy around so how do you expect me to bring him to you exactly?"
"Deliver this message to him...he'll come to me."
"How can you be so sure?"
"There is always truth that lies hidden in the shadows."
"Riiight, but you will bring my dearly beloved back to me, won't you?"
Three grabbed onto Two's hand. "...Indeed."
Zerofire210: Aw thanks, sorry I didn't save Five, but I have other plans for her. One's brother does need a good name, maybe like 'One' in a different language or something. Cent with One is interesting, a total dumbass with the smartest girl in the game XD I like to think Zero and Four are slightly nicer bc of Riku tbh.
Anon: Back at it again with these weekly updates all of a sudden :V Tbh, Zero treats Four like all sisters treat each other, I write from my own experience. Mikhail got caught up in all of the divergences. I really wish we got a scene of Zero sining frl in the game bc it would've been so jarring to her actual personality. Four is a changed woman who just so happens to be notoriously racist. Ask and you shall receive, there will be Dito ass knocking in this chapter.
Raximus: Riku's fate is basically in the hands of Drakengard characters
keybladelight: Gotta love that kingdom hearts optimism. Sora saves the world every other game then something horrible happens to him, I just want my boy to be happy ;_; Like, as for the gunmiphone scene, there just hasn't been a good time to include that yet, but Kairi will check up on Riku soon.
Note: I changed heartless soldiers to hybrid soldiers so yeah , thank the anon who thought of them name
"Where the Heart Goes"
"Ugh..." It was morning and as usual, Riku woke up before the others, although he couldn't sleep much at all last night anyways. 'I need food. Maybe I can go catch a few fish before the others wake up.' And so back to the riverside he went where he cast his line out.
'I feel like I'm getting crazier everyday I stay in this world. Wonder if this is how Sora felt like too?' He reeled in his line . 'Nah. I'd still take post-apocalyptic machine warfare over whatever's going on here.'
"—You eat, sleep and shit fish, you know that?"
"I'll take fish over starving. Besides you-" He paused, not because of a loss of words, but from the pure shock of what he was seeing. Zero stripped down right in front of him like he wasn't sitting there, then threw her clothes over to the wayside.
While Zero nonchalantly stepped inside the river to wash herself, Riku was mortified and had his hands pressed into his face. "Wh-What're you doing?!" He asked, barely able to get the words out.
"I'm taking a bath you moron. You're the one who kept on saying I smelled so you should be happy."
"You could've warned at first! What's wrong with you?!" Riku grasped for his fishing rod, still trying his best not to look at Zero, then scrambled away from her.
"...He's such a fucking virgin."
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"Ugh..." 'Thank god it was only a nightmare. Still, I can't believe I thought of Zero in that way.' Riku looked across the campsite to Zero who was knocked out on the ground. 'That's so messed up.'
He stood up to stretch his legs out, then gazed out to the river below. 'And now I lost my appetite too.'
When everyone else woke up, they continued their journey through the Land of Forests. Today's order of business included mobs upon mobs of heartless and if they were particularly unlucky, hybrid soldiers to reinforce their defense. If that wasn't enough, Riku was mentally withdrawn on top of it since he was still disturbed over his explicit dream, which the others eventually picked up on during their latest battle.
The five of them, with Mikhail flying above, were traveling between two overhanging cliff sides. Needless to say, no one was the least bit shocked when Bizzare Archer heartless manifested along the cliff, it was the perfect strategic area for them to release a barrage of arrows at them. Naturally, with one heartless type to terrorize them came others to do the same, multiple Graveyard heartless dug themselves out from the ground and lined up in a way to block their path.
The onslaught of arrows initially split the group up and Zero just so happened to run near Riku. "-Hey, fucking do something already."
"I know. I'm waiting for my magic to..." He lost his train of thought. 'Why does she have to be all up in my face? I can't think anymore.'
Her eye followed his eyes. "What're you staring at?"
He threw his hands up. "Nothing! Just avoid the Graveyard heartless until my magic builds up."
Zero left Riku to join the others who were working on destroying the Bizarre Archers, while he went for the Graveyard heartless since they would take a little more roughing up to defeat. Rushing in on the animate tombstones, he immediately deployed reflect to block their jack-o'-lantern surprise attacks, then slashed through all of the Graveyards at once. They were just as quick to counterattack, so he rolled back to avoid a knife in the stomach.
"Alright. Time to end this." Flipping his keyblade around, he cast Magnega to gather all the heartless together into one giant vortex, then coupled it with a Thundaga spell. Classic strategy that never failed any keyblade wielder. Once all the heartless were defeated, they grouped back together.
"Hey, keyblade, gonna keep walking behind me so you can stare at my ass?" Zero asked.
"What- no?! I would never do that!"
"Relax. I was just kidding. You're as straight as an arrow."
Dito snickered. "More like a broken arrow."
Riku knocked Dito upside the head.
"Ouch! That fuckin' hurt!"
"You had it coming," Four said.
"...Shut up."
"Hey, Four," Mikhail said.
"Hm?"
"Did you get along with your other sisters?"
"Um...let's just say I wasn't the favorite sister or anything."
"Probably because you're a stuck up virgin."
"That's not cool, Zero! You shouldn't be mean to your little sister!"
"Maybe she shouldn't have been a virgin." Zero turned to Four. "So what is it then, are you saving it or do you just stink down there? My guess is it's the latter."
"Not at all! I'm a strong believer in saving it until you find true love!" She locked arms with Riku. "Riku can back me up on this one!"
"Don't include me."
"Of course you two son of a bitches would bond over being virgins."
"It sounds to me like you're frustrated that Riku hasn't slept with yo-" She slapped her hands over her mouth. 'I should've kept that to myself.'
No one was the least bit shocked when Four received a black eye from Zero, Riku even preemptively cast Regen on her to speed up the healing process.
"You had it coming," Dito cheekily said.
"Ooooh- L-Lady Four, are you alright? That black eye looks so nnnghh... p-painful...it's so s-swollen."
"Shut up...both of you."
Their path soon diverged, one way led into a densely wooded area that was probably crawling with heartless, while the other way was marked by a signpost. "It says 'Elfheim'...whatever the hell that is," Zero read out loud.
"I believe Elfheim is an elf village. Just going based off the name," Decadus said.
"Then we'll go this way. It's about time I restock on supplies."
Four stuck her tongue out. "Just my luck. A whole village of Elves."
"What's wrong with Elves?" Mikhail asked.
"What's right with them? Honestly..."
"Four..." Riku said.
"I don't think I'm alone when I say they're menaces to society. Just wait, you'll see."
"Hey, dragon, fly around the village and keep patrol. You can handle that, can't you?" Zero asked.
"You bet! I'm gonna do the best patrol yet and swoop in if you guys need to run away real fast, okay?" He flew ahead of them towards Elfheim while they continued the rest of the way on foot.
As they got closer to Elfheim, Four spotted something on the ground that caught her attention. "What's this-" She picked up a piece of paper, then gasped. "Oh my goodness!"
"Is something the matter, my lady?" Decadus asked.
"Yes!" She waved the piece of paper in front of them, which happened to be a crudely drawn wanted poster of her that read 'Wanted! Dead or Dead: The Evil Mountain Intoner'. "Ugh- those pointy-eared bastards! How dare they desecrate my image!"
Dito snickered. "I dunno Four, they really captured your essence there, pointy teeth and all."
She crumpled the paper up then threw it at his head. "Oh shut up."
"Get over yourself. You know how many wanted posters I had back in the day? But you didn't see me throwing a bitch fit over it," Zero said.
"I get Zero- well actually both of you guys are pretty questionable, but why would you have a wanted poster, Four?" Riku asked.
"I might have done some bad things in the past, but they were evil air pirates so it's not like- it's not-" She shook her head. "Actually, I rather not talk about it. I'll just keep my identity hidden and still my tongue until this nightmare is over with."
Four put her hood over her face, which she figured would be enough to fool them. "You can just call me Rydia!"
"Er...Rydia?" Decadus asked.
"From my favorite epic romance series! Something an oaf like you clearly knows nothing of."
"Wh...what agonizing words."
However, when they tried to enter Elfheim, two Elf soldiers blocked the entrance with spears. "Halt! You're the Intoner Zero, aren't you? We don't take too kindly to you witches, all you do is plunder and destroy like savages!"
Riku stepped in between Zero and the soldiers before things could get ugly. "We're not here to cause any trouble, we're just passing through. And from the looks of it, you can't use all the help you can get."
"Unfortunately, that is the case. Three's demons have terrorized our village for days on end. We're likely the last Elf stronghold left standing in the Land of Forests."
'They say that like it's a bad thing.' Four thought.
"Don't worry. We're here to take Three down and I'll defeat whatever darkness comes into this village."
Zero rolled her eye. 'He's so annoying.'
"I see, we haven't come across a brave human like yourself in a while. You're all free into our village, although you must excuse its desolate appearance."
Elfheim was unlike any place they'd ever traveled through before. It was a sprawling village packed to the brim with shops, restaurants, and cottages. Usually, Elfheim was a lively place, the streets would be filled with Elves walking about and their doors were always open for visitors, but due to the heartless, the village was about as depressing as a place could get. Many of the shops were boarded up and there was a large presence of Elf soldiers patrolling the area.
'Hope there's a tavern around here.' Zero faced the others. "I don't care what you guys do. Just meet back in an hour, then we'll leave." She walked away.
"Cool, so we get to fuck around for an hour," Dito said.
"How do you propose we'll spend our time?" Decadus asked.
He shrugged. "There's probably a few shops we can poke around in. Maybe we can find some weird shit too."
"Will you be accompanying us, Lady Four?"
"I suppose I have no other choice to feign boredom in this horrid village. Oh- Riku, you're free to join us as well."
"Thanks, but I think I'll pass. I want to look around for heartless just in case any show up."
She smiled. "Always the heroic one, aren't you? I'll see you around then."
"Later."
Riku strolled around the village, checking for obvious spots that would draw darkness near like in alleyways or under bridges and he was able to defeat a few stragglers before they could wreak havoc. 'Sucks that the heartless always have to target innocent people like this, we need to take Three down as soon as possible.'
During his patrol, Riku walked past a tavern that was still open despite the looming threat of heartless. 'Smells like there's food in there and I'm starving since I skipped out on breakfast. I don't think it'll hurt if I stop for a quick bite.' He went inside and sure enough, there were dozens of hardy Elves drinking their problems away. What he wasn't expecting was for Zero to also be at the bar, drowning herself in gallons of beer.
'Great, she's here too. Hopefully, she won't notice me, I don't want her to bother me.' Riku thought he avoided detection when he went over to the far end of the tavern, but the moment he took a seat, Zero stood over his table.
"You avoiding me now?" She sat down across from him, then waved for the servant girl.
"Why hello, what'll you two be having this fine day?"
Zero raised two fingers. "Two pounds of boar meat and beer."
"Uh- I'll also have boar meat too," Riku said.
"Coming right up. And try not to stay too long, 'kay? The monsters'll come eat you right up if you're not careful." Parting them with those foreboding words, she disappeared into the kitchen.
"You're paying by the way and for all the other beers too."
"Whatever. Surprised you're not drunk already."
"I've been drinking since I was a kid. I don't get wasted easily."
"That's...messed up."
She shrugged. "Welcome to my life. Still don't get how you used to be a shitty kid, but you don't drink or have sex."
"I think that's just you. We have different priorities."
"Clearly." Zero propped her arm on the table, growing bored as they waited on their meal since Riku wasn't much of a talker. It just so happened that the way she positioned herself gave Riku a perfect view of her chest. He was trying his damndest not to stare, but it was like something in his brain got rewired and he couldn't help himself anymore. His only saving grace was that Zero didn't notice, but she absolutely did. 'First he wants to get to know me, and now he keeps staring at me. Does he actually want to-'
*CRAAAAASH
The entire tavern wall burst open and a horde of hybrid soldiers marched inside.
"You can't be fucking serious? We didn't even get our food yet," Zero said.
"That's what you're worried about?"
Riku shot up from the table, fighting off the soldiers before they could kill anyone. He then went outside and saw there was an entire army of soldiers storming the village and slaughtering every Elf they could find.
In the meantime, Four and the others were at the far ends of the village where the army of darkness had yet to reach them. They were checking out a shady item shop that was in the business of selling Elven oddities. Although Four was far from fascinated by the human skulls and glass eyes, she kept to the back of the store where she stared at the collection of wanted posters in her name.
"Lady Fo- I- I mean Rydia, can you believe all the t-torture devices they have stocked? Perhaps I should acquire one for my own leisure...oooohhhHH."
"Leave me, Decadus."
'These posters are all over this village just because I killed a few evil air pirates. It's not like I was killing civilians, they were evil so it was fine to-'
"-You seem quite interested in those wanted posters, lass."
Four turned around to meet face to face with a young Elf carrying a crate full of supplies. "What do you-" She paused. Although he was an Elf, he fit all of Four's standards which was basically just being a generic-looking pretty boy. 'For a lowly Elf, he has such a handsome face! Wow, I can't believe he's talking to me- I mean, I CAN'T BELIEVE this FILTH is talking to ME.'
"Hm, now that I take a closer look at you, you do look very similar to that damned Intoner."
"I- I get that a lot!" She spit out. "My name is Rydia...there's no relation between her and I."
"I see, well then that's a relief. Otherwise, I would've had to kill you on the spot- ha ha ha!"
Four swallowed hard. "Ha..ha...ha."
"—That's enough Cecil, don't be rude to our customers," The shopkeeper said. "Please, you must excuse my grandson. He lost his father due to the attacks dealt by the Intoner of the Mountains. It was devastating for all us... so many of our families got torn apart because of her cowardly actions."
"You have my condolences," Decadus said
"I'm with you there, man. Someone's gotta be pretty fucked in the head to do that," Dito said.
Four glared at him.
"I agree. It was manslaughter what that Intoner did to our people, but I suppose you lot are decent." Cecil flashed a smile to Four as he walked past her. "I do hope you find something you like lass."
Four let out a sigh. 'I feel so low right now. It's not like I was thinking about whether they had families or not, they were just evil air pirates to me, nothing more. But I guess that's not much of an excuse either.'
All of a sudden, they heard blood-curdling screams rupture from the outside.
"Um...what was that?!" Four asked.
"Sounds like trouble! Grandpa, get the crossbows, we're not going down without a fight!"
"This is bad..." Not sure what she could do, Four pressed her back against the wall of wanted posters in fear. Suddenly, the hands of a hybrid soldier bust out from the wall and snatched her from behind. The attack was surprising, to say the least, and Four was screaming bloody murder as she tried to break herself free from its grasp, but the worst of it had far yet to come.
Before Decadus could reach her, Cecil was the one to pull her away from the soldier.
"Th-Thank you..." She muttered.
"I would save your thanks for me, Intoner."
Her eyes widened. 'He already knows. Of course, how could I be so foolish.' The shopkeeper also held a crossbow aimed at her direction. 'They both know.'
Cecil punched Four in the gut so hard that she was coughing out globs of blood and was on the verge of throwing up. Before she even got a chance to gasp for breath, he forced her against the wall then took out a jagged dagger and held it to her neck. "If any one of you humans decides to involve themselves, I'll slice her fucking head off, got it?!"
"N-No! Please, allow me to trade my life in place of Lady Four's!" Decadus pleaded.
"I'm not the type who kills people senselessly like your Intoner friend here."
"Welp, nice knowing ya Four," Dito said.
During an already life or death situation, several hybrid soldiers barged into the shop.
"Damn it, not a good time for the cavalry to arrive." Cecil pressed the blade deeper into her neck until it drew blood. "I suppose I'll have to make this quick."
In a stroke of luck on Four's behalf, the hybrid soldiers attacked Cecil and threw him down to the ground.
"Let's escape now, Lady Four!" Decadus yelled.
So many thoughts rushed through Four's head, but the loudest one was screaming at her to do one good thing in her life. "...We're not going anywhere." Casting away the fears that held her back, Four rushed to the safety of the Elves. She pounced on the soldier that was about to stab Cecil, then twisted its neck around. Right after, she picked up its sword, then slashed through a group of the bastards all at once.
"You should leave this village now," Four said, helping Cecil off the ground.
He pushed her off of him. "Damned Intoner...you think saving my life changes the fact that you killed so many?! I'll never forgive you for what you did!"
"I didn't save you to ask for your forgiveness, only that it was the right thing to do." Four quickly left the shop with the disciples before Cecil could try his hand at killing her again, then they made their way to the center of the village where the rest of hybrid soldiers were.
"That was a fine act of bravery, Lady Four," Decadus said.
She shook her head. "Only because it followed years of cowardice. Besides, the work is far from over. Let's go help Riku and Zero take down the rest of those soldiers!"
At the same time, Riku and Zero were finishing off the last of the soldiers when a large, shadowy figure appeared at the entrance of Elfheim.
"Fuck, this can't get any worse," Zero said.
However, their situation got substantially worse because the enemy that was dragged into Elfheim was their age-old nemesis; the Cerberus. The three-headed demon was wrapped in heavy chains all around its body that the hybrid soldiers held onto like a leash.
Zero let out a sharp sigh. "...They're doing this on purpose."
"A rematch huh?" Riku gripped his keyblade. "I won't fail this time."
The soldiers released their grasp on the chains and the Cerberus bolted forward, bulldozing past the houses that lied in its path. Riku and Zero jumped out of the way before they could end up getting crushed under its paws, then Riku started off his attack strong with a devastating Meteor spell. A giant, flaming meteor came crashing down from the sky, splitting the heavens apart, then it pummeled into the Cerberus.
In comparison, Zero's follow up attack wasn't nearly as flashy, but you couldn't go wrong with slashing a couple of heads off if it got the job done.
By the time Four and the other disciples joined the battle, it was practically over, the poor demon dog was already on its last legs and all Riku had to do was finish it off with a couple of keyblade swings. Simple. And yet, when he looked into the Cerberus' eyes, vividly remembering all the pain it caused him, something weakened inside Riku that allowed the Flower to worm its way into the cracks of his heart. All he could see was red as he repeatedly hacked his keyblade at the demon.
This Cerberus in particular was also rare in that it wasn't a creature of darkness unlike so many others of its breed, so with every swipe of the keyblade, blood splattered onto Riku from head to toe.
Four put her hands over her mouth. "Oh my god...Riku."
"Heh, looks like he can join the fucked up club with the rest of us," Dito said.
Seeing Riku give into his violent tendencies was so grotesque precisely because it was Riku of all people. Zero was especially distraught because to her, watching a guy she thought was a genuinely decent person lose his goddamn mind was like watching a nun get railed in a back alley. It angered her enough to march over to him and land a solid punch right in his jaw.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" She screamed.
While the punch stung because Zero put everything she had into it, nothing hurt Riku more than knowing Zero was using anger to mask the sadness in her voice. He was so disappointed in himself that he could hardly look Zero in the eye. "I'm sorry I...I don't know what came over me." He used Water to wash the blood off his clothes, then released his keyblade.
"...Whatever, let's just get out of this shitty village."
'I really messed up. What happened back there? That must've been the flower messing with my head again.'
Your anger reveals your truth, Riku.
I only listened to your inner desires.
'That's not true. It keeps on trying to get to me, I can't let that happen anymore.'
"—Oh ho ho ho! Where do all of you think you're going? The toughest challenge has yet to come!" An old, short statured man landed down right in front of them. "My name is Octa! I am the disciple of Lady Three, mistress of the wood."
"What the hell is it this time," Zero said.
"Ugh...what're you even doing here Octa?" Four asked.
"Why hello to you too, Lady Four! Ho ho ho...it's funny that you ask why I'm here-" He raised his chakrams in the air. "If only you knew the surprise I've GOT in STORE for YOU!"
"Bring it on!"
He dropped his chakrams on the ground. "...I surrender."
"..."
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"...You what?"
"I surrender. I followed you all here because I wanted to join your cause."
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Zero slowly lowered her sword which was inches away from his head. "Uh...sure whatever."
Four let out a huff. "Don't we have enough perverts traveling with us?"
"Nnnnghhh...you won't even refer to me by name."
"At least he can actually lead us to Three's shrine so we're not fucking around this forest all day," Zero said.
"Yes, certainly, however my services aren't limited to navigating these woods. I know my way around in bed as well~" Octa said.
"It's getting dark so I'll find out about your performance soon enough, or lack thereof."
"On the contrary dear, my one-eyed snake has yet to disappoint a single lady who bears witness to it. The question is if you can handle it in all of its girth."
"Uh-huh...we'll see about that, Gramps."
Dito's face scrunched up. "God I hope there's no threesomes tonight. Last thing I wanna see is Octa's shriveled up 'snake'."
"The last thing I want is to have a mental image of that in my head," Four said.
"Could've gone the rest of my life without hearing that," Riku said.
"Why I- I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear such slander to my precious little Octa!"
"Now we just have to find wherever the hell my dragon went- damn it, I told him to fly above the village." Zero cupped her hands over her mouth. "Hey...HEY IDIOT!"
"Perhaps your winged companion would respond better if you used his name," Octa said.
Zero glared at him.
"Er- forget I said anything, Lady Zero!"
Zero shouted a few more 'HEY IDIOTS' loud enough for the whole forest to hear and fortunately, Mikhail's silhouetted appeared above them. Unfortunately, he was covered from horn to tail in mud that pissed Zero right the fuck off. "H-Heyyy Zero! I know this looks super bad but promise you won't get mad at me, okay?"
"...Okay. I'm not...mad."
"Whoa, really? That's a relief." Mikhail made the mistake of trusting Zero and the moment he touched down on the village grounds, Zero pulled her sword out.
"YOU DUMBASS! I'm going to stab the FUCK out of you!"
"Wahhhh! No Zero! I'm sorry- I'm sorry! Don't stab me, please!"
"God- you're lucky you smell like a walking pile of shit. I don't even wanna get anywhere near you." She whipped her head back to Four. "You. You're going to wash him in the river tonight, got it?"
"Wha- why me?"
"Are you fucking back talking to me?!"
"N-No of course no, but as much as I would love to clean your dragon, I feel like Decadus would want to even more and I don't want to take that away from him!"
"I don't care who does it, as long as he's not smelling like a crapper by tomorrow."
"Oooooh, I- I would want nothing more than to be subjected to Mikhail's terrible stench all night. You Intoners are truly d-devious."
"Jesus, you sure a trooper, Dec," Dito said.
That night, they set up camp a little ways off of Elfheim by the river so Decadus could get to work on scrubbing Mikhail clean. Four decided to fall asleep earlier than usual because there was already so much on her mind, while Zero and the other disciples were once again nowhere to be seen at the campsite. Usually Riku would've appreciated quiet times like now when he was alone, but there was no peace of mind to be had because the Flower was relentless in his thoughts.
If it wasn't feeding on his anger, it was feeding on his sexual desires and he couldn't decide which was worse anymore. 'I need to do something or I'm gonna go crazy thinking about this stuff.' Riku left the campsite to go take a walk around in the forest. 'Mikhail means well, but all the fish just got an early death sentence since he's getting washed up in the river. I guess I could go hunting for some critters instead.'
Riku snooped around the forest to find any branches he could make a snare out of. Even though it was dark out, his eyes were used to the darkness so he made his way around pretty easily. The same couldn't be said for Zero who ended up bumping into him by accident.
"Shit, my bad," Zero said.
"Zero, what're you-" He immediately went into flustered mode when he realized that Zero was stark naked. What embarrassed him even more was that his dream body of her wasn't too far off from reality. "W-wait, what happened to your clothes?!"
"Oh that? I just got done having the most mediocre sex of my life. Fucking Octa broke his back in the middle of it...so why the hell are you here?"
"I was going to uh..." He was thankful it was dark out so Zero couldn't see how red in the face he was turning, but she had her suspicions. "Just you know, go hunting for...food...and stuff..."
Zero stared at him for the longest time until the pieces started to fall in place. 'Wait-wait-wait! I think he actually wants to do it?! That's why he's been staring at me all day and talking like an idiot. Fucking FINALLY! I'm going for it before he runs away.' She stepped closer to him, then put her hands on his shoulders and gently lowered him to the ground.
As soon as Riku let her touch him, she took it as him not wanting her to stop. So she went ahead, slipping off his jacket and shirt, then she pushed him onto his back. After that, she positioned herself over him, her breasts pressing against his chest and her face above his. Her breathing was getting shorter and shorter because she was getting so aroused just being on top of his body.
"Zero..."
You're thinking about how much you want to **** Zero, aren't you?
So why are you holding yourself back?
Normally, Riku would've never let Zero go so far with him, but he was internally freaking out to the point where he had no idea what was going on. The Flower's constant remarks weren't helping in that regard and it especially didn't help when Zero sat down on his crotch and made his virgin mind go into overdrive.
"I...I want it rough." She was panting now. "...make me cry. "
Despite everything, Riku was still Riku and there was no way he could commit to such acts against Zero. He threw his jacket over her, then stood up and put his shirt back on. "Look...I know I haven't been acting like myself lately and I'm sorry, but don't ever ask me to hurt you like that again." With that, he walked away, leaving his jacket with her.
"..."
"—Oh ho, but I'm always available for round two Lady Zero!" Octa boasted, crawling out from behind the bushes.
"Get the fuck out of my face."
His shoulders sunk. "Yes...as you wish."
When Zero was finally alone, she fell to the ground, clinging onto his jacket. "What the fuck is wrong with me..."
The further they ventured into the Land of Forests,
The more of a grasp the Flower held on the keyblade weilder's heart.
Sorry- not to break character, but if this keeps us, it'll have catastrophic consequences.
I believe now is as best time as any to pay Riku a long-overdue visit...
Flowers for the Dead
A/N: Re-read the chapter in the high pitched Elf voice and it's 10x funnier XD
