Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

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Clenching his fist, Aux caught the hat that slowly floated towards him. There was a lot he could say to Karina right now. A lot he wanted to say to reply to her harsh words towards his actions and so called inadequacies. Looking down at the hat in his hand, a quick flash of a memory popped into his head. A friend with blue hair was looking at a store window with him, excited about something. He could remember much about the boy. His hair covered his eyes in his memory, as if he was unrecognizable. Not owning the hat at the time, the hat he would eventually own was sitting in the window.

Coming back to present day, Aux took a deep breath. He wanted to be better, but he always felt as if something was keeping him on edge.
Looking back up to the girl that threw the hat at him, another quick flash showed her getting her keyblade back, being teary eyed and vulnerable.
Karina was still dealing with things as well. He didn't need to bring up things that could better be left unsaid.
When she asked if he was happy now that he got his hat back, Aux simply chose to ignore her for now and turn his head to the yellow fish. He looked over to Flounder, who had hid behind Ariel. "Sorry. This just means a lot." He put the hat over his head again as he swam back a bit.
"Uhh... it's okay I guess," Flounder said, still unsure of what to make of the newcomers.
"Not the best way of going about it. But I cherish my treasures from the land as well," Ariel smiled. "I think we started off on the wrong fin. I'm Ariel, and this is Flounder. Where are you all from?"

 

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"I'm surprised you don't know if you made it this far. We're explorers. What? Did you expect a different answer cuz I ain't got none." He casually spoke with a gruff inflection in his tone, knowing that a real soldier in this group would be unlikely to give the entire truth. It worked out for him anyway since he was not entirely certain just what exactly was the purpose of Rourke's mission. Though he already had a few ideas in mind as to what it could be given how predictable the cause of military actions often were. He hoped he would not have to play this part for too long as he already felt that making himself talk that way would get tiring.

Castur was certain he would be able to let the other keyblade wielders free soon enough once there was not so much attention on them. All he had to do was wait for the right moment so a fight would not immediately start. The soldier beside Castur motioned towards a truck halfway filled with other soldiers sitting in the back. "Come on. Git. We're not walking the whole way." He motioned with his hand for Ignis while the soldiers who apprehended Faust were a little less than friendly and waved their guns at him to do the same.

"Loire stop getting friendly with our guests and get the girl in the truck already!" Castur called out though he did not actually care whether or not Ananta and Laguna got along, only that they did not do anything to cause any fighting this early on. How long had it been since he had given orders to anyone? A year? Two? He almost missed it. "All of you take your seats."

 

Aux ignored her after that, but Karina decided that it was likely for the best, of they didn't talk to each other, they couldn't yell at each other after all. Meanwhile Beuce had looked over to her, chastising her for being late. "Well you know I still had a few things to take care of. Mark of Mastery for one. No more holding that title over me now." Karina smiled a bit and nudged Beuce jokingly. "Then there was the matter of not leaving the team high and dry. I called in an old favour, so waited around for her before my left. And I couldn't leave them without a leader since Lea had to go and disappear, so.... I think Luna picked a good one. Koa will be a fine leader, and he has someone to stay alive for, so I don't have to worry about him going off and dying on me." Karina glanced over at Luna as she spoke of Koa, wondering what she would think of her fiance now leading the black coats. "And then, before I hopped onto that raft, I had to get something, a thanks..." She explained. "Buuuut I will tell you about that when we have a little more privacy." She didn't feel like having an audience when she tried to figure out how to Thank Beuce for everything that he did for her.

"It was amazing that we all found each other again, but now we need to figure out where to go from here." Karina added to Beuce's statement to Ariel. She figured she shouldn't completely ignore the new person, but she still wasn't all that good with dealing with new people. She did her best though as she tried to readjust to how things were done here, usually a little less upfront than with the Black Coats. She had to watch her mouth a bit more, and that would be the hard part. ​

 

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"It's wonderful to meet you Luna," Ariel smiled. "And all of you..." she said to the rest of them. "Even if you are from another ocean. And if that's the case, you're gonna have to learn some tricks to help keep you up to pace in these waters... It'll really help in the long run for those who need some... extra practice," She said looking as Aux struggled a bit.
Aux glared as he grunted quietly under his breath.

PARTY LEARNED "DOLPHIN KICK"

"That should help you guys out alot! You look like you're getting better already!" Flounder cheered.
"Ariel! Where in Neptune's name have you been!" A small crab with a thick Jamaican accent came swimming up to the girl.
"You're father has been looking for you high and low! It's one thing to miss my musical show, but to disappear without his approval! What were you thinking?! Probably off looking at the Surface world, weren't you missy!" The crab swam with his tiny legs with his claws on his hips.
"Aww, lay off Sebastian. We were just showing these new merfolk how to adjust to our waters," Flounder replied.
"And you brought in outsiders?! King Triton will not like this one bit..." Sebastian sighed.
"Oh come on Sebastian, they aren't that bad," Ariel said reassuringly. "And I still don't know why he's so apposed to humans they aren't that bad! Why... I saved one the other day and he-"
Sebastian covered his ears with his claws. "La la la, I'm not listening! So long as I have plausible deniability with your teenage escapades, you're father won't roast me with that trident of his!"
Ariel turned to the party. "Why don't you come meet my father? I'm sure he can help you adjust to this place better than I ever could."
"King Triton is the ruler of the seas! He has no time for your petty tours!" Sebastian replied. "But should they wish to let the king know they are here, than I will oblige it! But no funny business! And no more human talk!"
"Great! Follow me, everyone!" she smiled, leading the way.

Aux groaned as he looked to the others. "If this Ariel is the one from the list of princesses, we have to keep an eye on her don't we?" He sighed. "Well this should be fun."

MISSION START!

 

Maybe the wolf... is Maui?" she asked curiously. "He is a shapeshifter after all. Maybe we should see what he wants," Moana suggested.
She followed the wolf pulling Kel along, hoping they would see what the wolf wanted.
It wasn't that far of a walk along the sand covered island that they ran into Kaida, Stratos, AJ and a large hulking shirtless man in a grass skirt.
Maui turned as he heard the footprints, sighing at the sight of more arrivals. "Great... more teenagers! Lotta use you turned out to be," Maui grunted, before tossing his uneaten fruit scrap at the wolf. "This is just perfect! First contact with humans in a millennium, and you mortals act like you don't even know who Maui is. And after everything, I've done for you mortals?!" he yelled, before sitting on one of his tally covered rocks.
Moana took this all in before stepping forward. "Wait a minute... YOU'RE Maui?"
Maui nodded. Clearing her throat she began to speak in acommanding tone. "Maui, shapeshifter... demigod of the wind and sea. I am Moana of-"
"Finally, somebody gets it!" Maui cheered. "But it's actually 'Maui, shapeshifter, demigod of the wind and sea, hero to all.' I interrupted, from the top, hero to all. Go.
A little agitated, Moana tried to continue. "I am Moana of-"
"And don't sweat the small stuff. Ca you believe these guys didn't even know who I am?! I know, not every day you get a chance to meet your hero, but-"

Before he could continue, Moana pulled down on his ear so he would finally listen to her.
"You are not my hero.!And I'm not here so you can receive praise. I'm here because you stole the heart of Te Fiti and you will board my boat, sail across the sea, and put it back!
Maui lifted his head up, dragging Moana's toes along the sand as she barely hung on before letting go. "Yeah... It almost sounds like you don't like me, which is impossible because I got stuck here for a thousand years, trying to get the heart as a gift for you mortals so you could have the power to create life itself. Yeah. So what I believe you were trying to say is thank you.
Moana: Thank you?
Maui: You're welcome," Maui smiled. "Wait... you said you had a boat?..."
"Yeah, how do you think I-"
Before she could even finish, Maui raced off "Enjoy the island guys! Maui OUT!" Maui said racing passed them to get to the boat.
Moana immediately took chase after him. "Hey wait! You have to restore the heart!" she yelled chasing after him.
For his large size he was surprisingly fast and had already gotten on the raft, sailing away from the group. "Enjoy the overgrown pile of pebbles!" he yelled back.
Moana quickly turned to the keybladers. "Quick! Where's your boat? We have to catch him!"

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Karina nodded at Luna, she didn't need the girl backing up her choice, she felt pretty confident that Koa would be able to get the job done, and with the help of Dawn she could feel secure in leaving them behind. But knowing who Arctus was now, she did wish he had stayed to help protect them too. He was more qualified than anyone else after all. Karina couldn't focus too much on that however as the girl was going to bring them somewhere. She supposed that they could follow, but then Aux brought something up that made Karina look a little bit confused. "List of princesses? What Princesses?" Karina whispered just to Beuce. After all she didn't feel like having Aux making snide remarks on the fact that she so clearly missed something. The worst part of it was that she wasn't certain it was something she missed while she was gone. She was so broken and miserable before that there was a lot of things that Karina had not paid attention to when she was first with everyone. She still remembered her first time meeting Lea, she actively avoided listening to anything that he spoke about, and now, she found herself missing him and his guidance. It was funny how things had a habit of coming back to bite her in the butt.

"Knowing us, trouble will find us before we find it." Karina then replied to Steel, in an attempt at being a bit nicer person. She was not in the mood for one of those brawls like they had in the realm of darkness. She just hoped that he had some sense of humour and wouldn't chew her out for such a comment. If he did, she knew it might be difficult to behave herself, even though she knew more than ever she needed to right now. With her keyblade so freshly returned she couldn't help but feel one wrong move, and her heart might shatter again and she wouldn't be able to put it back together again. ​

 

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"Well, after Steel and I finished Sugar Rush, we got the list with the princesses Snow White, Cinderella, Alice, Aurora, Jasmine, Belle, and Kairi..." He thought to himself for a moment as to how he recalled another list. "But there's the other list from Space Paranoids that had Anna, Ariel, Moana, Mulan, Rapunzel, Tiana and Vanille. I think I must've had the memories of that list when..." He paused for a moment not wanting to continue reminiscing about his friend's sacrifice. "Let's just keep moving," he stalled, swimming forward.

As the group swam through the city of Atlantica, they made their way into King Triton's throne room.
Sebastian the crab cleered his throat as he bowed in his King's honor. "Behold. You swim before the ruler of the seas: His Majesty, King Triton."
"Daddy!" Ariel cheered as she swam up to him, smiling.
"Oh, Ariel! When will you listen? It’s dangerous out there! Strange creatures have been lurking outside!" Triton scolded. King Triton was an old, but muscular merman, with a white beard extending down to his stomach, and a tail fin matching his daughter's. As he scolded his daughter, Ariel couldn't help but look guilty.
"And who are they? They don't look familiar..." he asked looking at the other five.
"Foreign swimmers from a far off ocean, my liege," Sebastian filled in. "Apparently your daughter ran into them as she was prepared to show up LATE!" he said aggressively at her.
" I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young lady," Triton sighed.
"Daddy, I'm sorry. I just forgot-"
"Don't give me that look Ariel.. You went up to the surface again, didn't you? Didn't you! Oh, Ariel, how many times must we go through this? You could have been seen by one ofthose barbarians, by-by one of those humans!"
"Daddy, they're not barbarians!"
"They are dangerous. Do you think I want to see my youngest daughter... snared by some fish-eater's hook?"
"'m 16 years old. I'm not a child anymore."
"Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young lady' As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules-"
"But if you would just listen--"
"Not another word' And I am never, never to hear of you going to the surface again' Is that clear?"
The rest of the group floated awkwardly as the King was yelling at his daughter. She and flounder swam away leavin the rest of the group behind.
"Hmph' Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you," Sebastian snidely commented.

"And now that my daughter isn't here any more, I can deal with the lot of you," Triton sneered, pointing his golden trident at them. "You may fool Ariel, but you can’t fool me. You don’t know your dorsal fin from your tail! You're part of the SOS, aren't you?!" He interrogated.
"The what, you're majesty?" Sebastian asked, backing away behind the king.
"Seekers Of the Storm... Wielders of keyblades who bring chaos wherever they go. As key bearers, you must already know... One must not meddle in the affairs of other worlds. Just by BEING here, you have violated this principle. The key bearer shatters peace and brings ruin... Every time. So what are you after?! My daughter... or the keyhole?...." he asked, his trident glowing.

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"It's Moana!" she corrected, getting on Kaida's vehicle. "What kind of boat IS this?" she asked confused, as they raced off.
As the keyblade wielders came up on their gliders, Moana got co jump for it, but immediately missed, falling in the water. She came up for air as she looked at the ocean around her. Uhh, ocean, I could use some help!" she asked loudly. And as if by magic, the ocean, picked her up in a tiny wave and rushed her onto the boat that Maui stole.
Surprised, Maui blinked a few times. "Did not see that coming."
Turning to face him, Moana stepped up to him angrily. "I am Moana of Motunui.This is my canoe. And you will journey to-" Before she could finish, Maui threw her off the boat. The ocean responded to Moana again, by putting her back onto the boat.
"And she's back," Maui sighted. :It was Moana, right?"
"Yes. And you will restore the heart!" She unlocked the pendant in her shell necklace and revealed a small green gem to the demigod. Maui took one look at it and immediately threw it far away. The ocean, not taking any of his flack, carried the small green gem back and spat it back out at him.
"Alright, I'm out," Maui said, jumping overboard. The ocean wouldn't let him off that easily, throwing him back onto the boat. "Ahh, come on!"
"What is your problem? Are you afraid of it?" Moana asked.
"No! No! Ha..ha..ha. I'm not afraid, okay? That is not a heart. It is a curse. the second I took it, I got blasted out of the sky. And I lost my hook. Get it away from me.
"Get this away?" she asked, holding it closer to his face.
Backing away slowly, Maui tried to brush off his reaction. "Hey... I'm Demigod, okay? Stop that, I will smite you. You wanna get smote? Listen, that thing doesn't give you power to create life. It's a homing beacon of death. If you don't put it away bad things will come for it. You wanna get to Te Fiti, you have to go through a whole ocean of bad. Not to mention Te Ka. Lava monster? Ever defeat a lava monster?"
"No...." Moana replied. "Have you?"
Maui scoffed. "I'm not going on a suicide mission with some mortals and a wolf! You can't restore the heart without me. And me says ... No. I'm getting my hook. End of discussion."
Moana examined the tattoos on Maui, which showed crowds cheering for him. She felt she could use this to her advantage. "You'll to be a hero... That's what you are about, right?"
"Little girl, I am a hero!" Maui laughed.
"Maybe you were but now... Now you're just the guy who stole the heart of Te Fiti. The guy who cursed the world. You're nobody's hero," Maona declared.
"No one?" Maui adked, unconvinced. Moana folded her arms, shaking her head. Looking to the rest of the characters, he saw that no one even knew who he really was, aside from the wolf by association.
"But, put this back. Save the world. You'd be everyone's hero," Moana bargained.
"We'd never make it, without my hook. Not passed Te Ka..."
"Then we get your hook! We get your hook, take out Te Ka. Restore the heart. Deal?"
Maui thought hard about it, before reluctantly agreeing. "Deal... Okay, we go east. To the Lair of Tamatoa. If anyone has my hook, it's that bee-eyed bottomfeeder."

MISSION START!"