Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

"Kel. Got it. I'm Base. Also, terrified. I have some serious heebie-jeebie feelings going on here. That's why I have this out," he said holding up his Keyblade. "Don't you hear the organ music? Is it just me?"

It was a waltz in dismay. Discord ruled over the song he heard rolling through the area. He swore he could even see the flicker of spinning phantom couples high in the sky by the Manor's shattered windows. This was where they were supposed to go...

"Come on. I'll try to be Jokey Base only so often as to lighten the mood, but we're really going to need to be serious about this." His tone was far more somber than it had been in a long time. Death was lingering in the air. Where Death lingered, misery would fall on the living. They had to go in, get out, and come out of it sane. "We watch each other's respective backs, and we don't let Fear control- That is a pretty funky eye, to be honest, Steel. Minor detour here: What happened there? Yeesh."

 

Ananta woke up to a bonk on the head. She made her left hand into a fist and punched Raisor in the stomach. When she heard him cough and gasp, she jerked up and stared at Raisor. "Oh jeez, oh god, I'm sorry! It's just...I...sorry!" she said. Ananta stood up and looked around, staring at the place they were in. It was so dark, but everything was beautiful and reminded her a bit of the pictures in her story books. "Wow, where are we and what happened?" she asked Raisor. "I've been kinda out of it since we got back to Disney Town, so I have no idea what's been going on."

 

Raisor was clutching his stomach, kneeling on the ground from the punch from Ananta.

"Ananta," Raisor struggled to get a few words out from his mouth, "next time you want to sleep, all you have to do is let me know."

He fell to the ground, giving up. He was not ready for any punches, and ones to the gut were especially high on the list. While he was down, he suddenly began to hear singing - if that's what it could be called. A hole appeared in the wall, and out of it walked an old, bald man with a mustache and beard that needed clipping. Actually, just for that bad singing Raisor wanted to cast a fire spell on his hair to stop him. The doctor pulled a lever on the wall and a bunch of tools came out; not the kind that you would want used on your either. He pulled the lever again and the tools disappeared behind the wall again.

Soon as the ear-bleeding singing stopped, Raisor got up to his feet and suddenly got dizzy. He leaned against a pillar and starred at the Doctor, trying not to throw up. "What are you talking about, "unable to use our keyblades"? I don't know what you think you're planning, but I don't need a keyblade to beat you."

 

"Beuce!" shouted D'daear as the man got jumped.

At first glance it was thought to be a heartless, so naturally the boy drew from the light and summoned the keyblade to hand. However, it was quickly revealed that it was no heartless; since it was wearing pants. Fighting stance waned, but only a bit while the boy watched the moment unfold. A black rabbit like person, no taller than Mickey was looking at Beuce rather irritated. Now this black rabbit could be two things: 1) a bad guy or 2) a good guy. Since D'daear was one to listen, it came to mind that this rabbit may not have ill intent considering the verbal cues. It was going off on the group about not looking like pirates, which seemed to ease the tension a bit for D'daear.

Yet, when it's small eyes landed on their weapons that was when the rabbit got real with the moment. It got off Beuce, and drew to fighting stance. What came from it left D'daear a little amazed.

"TWO!?" Axel s- I mean the boy uttered in amazement.

The rabbit was wielding not one, but TWO keyblades. The only other person he knew that was capable of that thus far was Steel. Things were getting interesting. In the now, Brows furrowed as D'daear got serious, body tensing for a potential battle.

"KN-Knucklehead?! Who are you calling a Knucklehead, nnnggh..." he paused, trying to think of a comeback. Sadly none came to mind. "..nn...Knucklehead!" Whatever.

Since the rabbit was being rather rude, D'daear decided NOT to answer anything until the black rabbit calmed down.

"You'll get your answers once you put away both, your keyblades AND that attitude! I mean seriously, do we LOOK hostile to you?"

D'daear was so caught up in the moment that he had not realized that he himself was just as lost as the rabbit, and he was pretty sure the others were just as lost. Where were they exactly? Why did they end up here of all places? Where were the others?

Then Karina happened, which was counterproductive.

Blue irises fell dull the moment her mouth opened, unveiling every word that was spoken.

"It's like you WANT to fight. ALL THE TIME." he said turning to Karina, ignoring the Black rabbit for a moment.

A huge sigh escaped the tall boy, mind flooded with confusion. This tension needed to be lifted. A free hand fell on the bridge of his nose as he tried to collect himself by shutting his eyes. If this situation escalated, they'd be wasting time getting nowhere.

"Alright alright. Let's...let's all settle down. Call back your keyblades guys. We can work this out without a fight. Please?"

 

While the topic of Steel's eye was still left unanswered, they ventured on into the manor letting Steel be the one to decide when to tell them about it. Once inside it was just as Kel had figured from his first look at it while they were outside. Very creepy looking, but fortunately more suited to ghosts rather than vampires. That alone made Kel feel a bit better.

Hearing the voices, distinguishing the one that sounded in clear distress was an easy task. Finding where the voice was coming from was a different matter and could be a difficult one, but a voice in distress was a voice in distress. "Come on, someone else here is clearly being tormented by what I'm going and and calling ghost. We need to find where they are." Kel didn't imagine any of them would object to helping someone who was stuck here against their will and on the off chance they did, it wasn't going to stop him from going an investigating.

 

Last episode on the 'What did exactly did Cailyn miss?', we found Minnie in trouble being attacked by Julius, Julius explained himself as mickey and with some conviction through Pluto, gained our trust. Anyway, Mortimer pulled out a book and it sucked everyone up.

~Tomorrow City~

Cailyn was covered in junk, and was, confused, tired, hungry, and really cranky. Everything was slightly fuzzy on what happened, but stranger things had been happening to her on her little adventure. She had twigs stuck in her hair, dirt on her face, and her nice outfit was also stained with some kind of dirt, asphalt and grass. She looked like she had just crawled through a forest and maybe a trash can. It had taken her a while to catch up with everyone, and when she finally did, she had been transported somewhere. She was really tired of that happening, she just wanted to take a nap. She look a look at the place around her. It made her sort of sad. It was really 'dark' and she felt like it wasn't a happy kind of place.

She heard someone talking who was unfamiliar to her. "Waitwaitwait, wait." She paused, running at both Stratos and Luna, putting up her hand, out of breath. "Don't go anywhere yet. I'm here. Wait for me." She huffed. "Sorry, it's been a rough day." Cailyn muttered. "Anyway, this place is seriously giving me the creeps-" Before she could finish her sentence, she screamed, seeing the giant ink monster looking thing. "I'm Cailyn, and these are...." Her voice trailed off. "Well, I'm not really sure who these guys are but I'm guessing they're not bad. Thank you for saving us from that monster." She gave him a smile. "Uh, do you mind telling us where we are? Or, rather, maybe, where those monsters are coming from? Who's 'The Blot'?"

 

As Luna asked which direction they should go in first, Stratos just sort of stood there, in deep thought while he wondered which way would be the best. They were in a completely unknown area, so basically any which way they went was bound to go to the same place. Granted, when one was lost and separated from the rest of their group, it was best to just stay in one place. However, if everyone followed this kind of mindset, then they'd all be sitting still and no one would find anyone. Granted, he knew that given all of the people who they were split off from, they would most certainly not be sitting still, but there was no way to know if they were even in the same world as he and...uh...whatever her name was. However, the girl with the unknown name brought up a good point, and nodding he said, "alright let's get going the-" before he could finish, he was caught off by something.

Well, a giant blob monster. That was certainly a first. While Stratos had gotten his keyblade at the ready to fight the thing, when sudddenly a green thing just kind of flew in and told them to get away from it. Well, that was also certainly a first as well. As he and his other green friends had subdued the creature, Stratos dismissed his keyblade, as another person came running after them, seeming to be in a bit of a hurry to catch up with them. Stratos had literally no idea who she was, or why she was following after them, but he wasn't really in any position to do anything about it at the moment. Before he could ask her just who she was, it seemed to be taken care of as they were introducing themselves to Gus now.

Giving a short wave, Stratos simply had said, "my name's Stratos. Pleasure to meet you." He then stood by as the new girl, Cailyn, went on a motorcade of questions at the green guy, and simply asked, "yeah, and is there anyway we can help out with it?" He figured he might as well offer help while he could to those who may be in need of it. After all, wandering around a foreign world wasn't going to get them finding the others in any more of an efficient manner.

 

Okay, things were weird for a bit. At first, Glen was confused because he could have sworn he had seen Mickey just a short time ago. Wait, he had seen Mickey a short time ago. Twice, in fact. He'd seen him in symphony of sorcery where he'd been friendly, and then again just before they'd had the ink put all over them where he'd been....well, he certainly hadn't been friendly. Carefully, Glen summoned his keyblade in his left hand. He didn't hold it in a threatening motion, but there was a chance Mickey could take it that way. This Mickey didn't seem particularly dangerous, but there was always the chance that it was a trick to gain their trust. "My name's Glen. What are you doing here, Mickey?" he asked, suspicion in his voice evident.

 

"What, you mean this?" Steel asked his friends innocently as he tapped his eye as if it were a piece of plastic. "It's a bit more than a 'minor' detour." He said as the three began making their way into Lonesome Manor. "As Kel may or may not remember from earlier, I've already admitted to being a freak of science." That was a rather vague explanation.

He searched for the proper words to explain his freakish eyeball as ghostly (and rather childish) voices tuanted an unseen person that they supposedly knew. He was pretty sure that Base was the only one who talked to that character at any length. Anyway, he didn't bother giving Kel a specific reply; he just followed. After all, it was pretty obvious what they had to do. However, with any actual danger yet to be in sight, Steel kept himself preoccupied with his attempted explanation.

"I suppose you could say my eye... is at the center of my other biological and mental mutations. Does that make sense?"

 

Kaida was a little less wary then Glen though she understood his reasoning, especially after what happened not long before. However, she decided to still pull the friendly approach with a smile and a bit of a wave, "Hey, it's no problem at all. I'm Kaida." Afterwards she just kind of brushed her hair behind her ear and kicked her foot a bit and swayed, lollygagging because she had nothing to do other than wait to hear what Mickey had to say since there was nothing else to say and what's the point in being redundant when you can get it over with short and sweet.

 

Just as Stratos was about to choose the direction they were going to go in, a giant monster made of ink appeared out of nowhere! "Are you serious right now???" As Luna spoke, another girl came running in their direction along with what seemed to be a green gremlin telling them to run. As the group ran, the girl introduced herself as Cailyn. "Nice to meet you! I'm Luna! I'm pretty sure I saw you back in the Timeless River right?" Luna looked toward Cailyn as she ran then looked toward the gremlin named Gus. "Hey Gus? Is there any way to fight this ink monster??? I'm a bit of the type who doesn't like to run from their problems." Luna awaited for her answers from Gus as the ink blob of a monster continued to chase after the group of four.

 

"OooooOOOoooooOooo!" The ghosts circled round and cackled, goofy-looking, phantoms with teal capes and bowler hats. Poor Horace. He was shaking, and his teeth were chattering. Erm... Was Horace a gift horse? Base was told never to look a gift horse in the mouth, for some reason or another that slipped his mind. Nevermind. Good thing he was already armed.

"Hey! Leave him alone! Go haunt some place else."

"Woa, boys! We got a real riled up live one here!" The stoutest of the ghosts halted in flight and floated over the group. "Not afraid of us, huh? BOO!" He pulled a face and waggled his tongue, rolling his eyes back into his transparent head.

No reaction was pulled from the thin lad face-to-face with the sight. In fact, for good measure, Base yawned. He wasn't really tired, but knew that would bother the boisterous bully. He wasn't wrong.

"Say! Either you all start shouting and hollering and going "EEK! A G-G-G-GHOST!" or we'll... or we'll..." the ghost steadily lowered as he lost steam. "Well, we won't be too pleased, I tell ya what."

"Can we just get over this? We have bigger fish to fry, sir. I'm guessing you don't get too many guest, but we're really in a hurry, if you don't mind."

"Well, sonuvagun. Hmph. The living these days. They can't be spooked by nothing. Alright, kid. Whadaya want?"

"That depends. Guys?" Base looked over to Kel and Steel, while helping Horace Horsecollar to his feet... erm... hooves?

 

Beuce nearly stumbled back from the sudden arrival of a bunny jumping on his chest. It was another talking animal, like the ones in Disney Town. He wasn't really surprised to see him, so much as he was surprised that he jumped onto his chest and started yelling at him for saying the word mouse. After taking a quick look at each of them, he decided that they weren't locals, along with something about pirates. Leaping off, he summoned two keyblades. So, not only was he a keyblade wielder, but a dual wielder. "Impressive." D'daear gave a rather witty response to the rabbit's insult. He gave him a pat on the shoulder. "Slick. If we can find ten minutes without something trying to kill us, i'll give you some pointers on witty retorts." He joked.
Now if Karina could just not make things wo-

"I hate everything..." He muttered under his breath. "Karina, could i talk to you for a second?" He grabbed her by the shirt and pulled her off to the side. She was the stronger of the two, but Beuce wasn't exactly Stratos. "So...Just do me a favor and run me by the thought process behind making the first thing we run into hate us and try to kill us? Yeah he drew his weapons, but he wanted information. He might be able to help us find the others and get out of her. Even tell us what this book is. If it's Yen Sid's book. You know, the one that it's critically important to the fabric of...basically everything ever that we find before the apprentices? Yeah, remember that? So, we need to go over there and try not to kill each other, or we might be stuck in a book for a very long time because you broke our way out over your knee."

 

"In a way I guess." Kel said. He did remember what Steel had admitted back when hey first saw Mickey Not Mickey, but he didn't really just o what extent did he mean when he said that. He certainly wasn't expecting that though. Then the ghost appeared and attempted to scare them off. Attempted being the key word there.

They weren't really doing a good job at trying to scare them off and thus they cease their attempts and asked what they wanted. "Well a way out would be nice, that and Horace." They weren't going to be staying in this mansion forever, so they would need to know a way out and what else was here. Hopefully these ghosts had at least one of these answers.

 

Ananta heard the singing and looked towards the source of it. Aaaaand then they were caught in a cage. Perfect. Sighing, Ananta moved over to try and heal Raisor a bit, seeing as he was hurt more from that punch to the gut than she thought. "Look, Doctor, I don't know why we're here. I kind of wasn't paying attention..." she admitted. "But, if anything, we weren't trying to get in your way. That's for certain."