IHTP Ch4
Sorry for not updating for so long, everybody! X( I’ve been busy…. Okay, so maybe I CAN’T steadily update this… but I’ll try to update whenever I can, okay? :)
Nya! I freakin’ love this chapter! Seriously, though, the first line originally didn’t have “nya” in it. This was the chapter I stopped at! I ended at the words “brown eyes.” If you notice the characters (Chris and Ann to be exact) change a bit at this point, that’s ‘cause this was written after my writing improvement. Read on!
Chapter 4: A Catty Mage, A Reunion, And Three New Heroes
“La-la-la-la-la, nya…” A girl sang cheerily, brushing her blonde hair out of her brown eyes. “Let’s see… nothing very interesting here today, nya.” She sounded disappointed, walking out of her home in Third District. Her ears twitched at every interesting sound and her tail wagged from side to side slowly.
“Teacher isn’t home yet, nya…. Maybe Yuffie will play with me,” She decided, and was about to enter Second District. Just as she was leaving, she suddenly walked backwards, stopped, and turned. There, lying still on the ground was a green haired boy. She walked over to him, getting on her tiptoes and leaning over him slightly as if she could get a better look that way. She cocked her head at him, crouching.
“Uhnnn….” He moaned, his eyes opening slowly.
The girl grinned. “HI!” She said loudly and cheerfully.
“Uwah—!” Chris sat strait up in an instant, causing the girl to jump back.
The girl blinked and cocked her head again, then asked, “Are you okay…? Nya.”
Chris looked around, then at the girl, his eyes staring at her in disbelief. “Where am I? Where’s Ann?” He asked the first questions that came to mind, and then, “Are those real?” He indicated the girl’s ears and tail.
The girl laughed, standing and helping Chris up. “Of course they are, silly! Why wouldn’t they be, nya?” Chris could see she wore a blue tunic and pants with plenty of silver and gold designs and some zippers on them, along with a tall hat that had a silver star hanging on the bent-over point. Out of her blonde head stuck two cat ears to match, the pink of her ears contrasting well with her rosy cheeks. Behind her was a blonde cat tail, and in her hands was a short stick like a cross between a wand and a staff. She looked about nine years old.
“Um… no reason.”
“You don’t see my kind of people where you come from, huh, nya?” The girl smiled up at him and he could see she had cat fangs.
Chris suddenly realized she hadn’t answered his questions. “So where am I? Have you seen my friend around? She’s about this tall and has brown hair and really dangerous looking boots?” He indicated her height by raising his hand in a horizontal position.
“You’re in Traverse Town! The town were all those who don’t have a world to return to go, nya!” The girl said cheerily as if she had said it a million times before. “And I just came out here, so I haven’t seen anyone around.” Chris’ expression changed. “I could help you look though, nya.”
“Thanks. Um… What do you mean by ‘don’t have a world to return to’?”
“When the Heartless take over a world, certain people are sent here! You must be really strong, because mostly only strong people show up.” Chris looked at her grimly. “Oops. I guess you don’t know about Heartless or other worlds yet, nya….”
“Yeah… I can only guess Heartless are those living black shadows that attacked my island?”
“Yup!”
“…So where’s my friend?”
“Oh, well, let’s go to the other Districts and see if we can find her. I’ll explain about the Heartless and everything on the way, nya.” Maybe I shouldn’t tell him his friend might not be here… “What’s your name, anyway? I’m Kristy, nya!”
“My name is Chris.”
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“Hmm… I dunno if I’ve seen a green haired kid around. I’ll go take a look for ya!” Yuffie smiled, jumping up and heading out the door.
“Err… Thanks?” Yuffie didn’t even hear Ann as the dark-haired ninja left. Behind Ann, Leon, Aerith, and Alex were talking about the Keyblade.
“So I gotta go to a bunch of freakin’ worlds and lock them with this huge-ass key?”
“You’re the Keybearer. Why am I not surprised it chose you?” Leon shook his head, getting a glare that said ‘what-do-you-mean-by-that’ from Alex. He continued, not caring what look Alex gave him, “Sora is already going to many worlds, why don’t you go to the ones he’s not going to?”
Ann’s ears perked. “Sora?” She turned around. “Do you mean a brown-haired kid that wears red?”
“Yeah. How did you know?” Leon raised an eyebrow at her.
“We used to live on the same island. Where is he?”
“I don’t know. I’d say he’s at Olympus Coliseum by now.”
“Olympus Coliseum?”
“It’s a world, just like Traverse,” Aerith explained.
Alex tapped his foot impatiently. “Hello? I’m still here.”
“Ah, yes. Well, when you set off, you will need teammates to back you up, like Sora has the King’s friends.” The woman in a pink dress said.
“King?”
“The King knew of the Heartless coming so he set off on a journey to other worlds like Sora.”
“We didn’t expect another Keybearer to show up. Your Onyx Keyblade is unique, though…” Leon was interrupted by a scream from outside of the hotel. They all looked at each other and headed outside.
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“Yuffie!” Kristy ran forward.
“Huh?” Chris looked from Kristy to the approaching girl.
“Hey, kitty!” The girl with short hair said. “Hey, do you know where I can find a green haired kid?” She clearly didn’t notice Chris staring at her behind Kristy.
Kristy looked behind her, and Yuffie followed her gaze. “Oh, hi! I’m Yuffie!” Chris nodded in greeting, “You have green hair. Are you looking for the new girl?”
“The new—? Oh, I think she means your friend, Chris!”
“Ann? You know where Ann is?”
“Yup! She asked me to find ya! Now that I found ya, let’s go get her!” Yuffie grinned, turning around and preparing to march back to where she came from.
Just as she took her first step, shadows formed on the ground. “Heartless!”
The three of them took a battle stance, Yuffie taking out her large four-point star shaped weapon, Chris grabbed the Jade Blade off his belt, and Kristy readied her staff.
One of the civilians screamed, fleeing. One of the Heartless went after her, and Chris witnessed the creation of a Heartless. The Heartless reached into the lady’s chest, pulling out a shining heart-shaped light. There was a flash and the heart disappeared, and the body of the lady was now replaced by a Heartless.
“Chris, watch out!” Kristy called, pulling Chris back into his own situation. He hadn’t realized the battle started. He was in mid-turn when a beam of lightning shot by him, incinerating the Heartless Soldier that was approaching him. He saw another shining heart float into the air, fading away.
“Thanks!” He called to Kristy, and then attacked a small Heatless near him. He didn’t even ask what she just did; he figured it would be best to focus on the battle.
Nearby, another group just entered the battle. Alex, his black Keyblade in hand, swiped at a number of Shadow Heartless all at once, while Leon’s massive Gunblade took a toll on a group of Soldiers, and Ann sent the Heartless flying.
After the last Heartless was finished, the two groups finally noticed each other.
“Ann!” Chris ran over to the girl, who was panting from their short fight.
“Chris!”
“Hey, new girl, I found your boyfriend!” Both Ann and Chris looked over to Yuffie with a blank expression, blushing slightly.
“Yuffie, you mustn’t be rude.” Aerith reminded her. Yuffie opened her mouth to say something, but something changed her mind. “Apologize.”
“Sorry, new kids….”
“No harm done.” Chris replied, looking at the others.
“So… What the hell am I supposed to do now?” Alex suddenly asked.
“Go to other worlds. Kristy here will accompany you.” Leon said, motioning to the cat child.
“What!? That little freak?” Alex glared at her, but she just looked innocently back at him.
“Believe it or not, Alex, Kristy is a very experienced magician. She can help you on your journey a lot.” Aerith gave Kristy a push in Alex’s direction.
“Oh, like hell I’m gonna travel with a purring little kid!”
“Cool it, big boy. And watch your language, nya.” Kristy grinned and tilted her staff in his direction, casting the freezing spell “Blizzard”. Chris couldn’t even blink before Alex was encased in a block of ice from the neck down.
“The hell!? Lemme outta here!”
“You better get used to it, Kristy. He’ll curse no matter what you do.” Leon said, “Now release him. You never know when more Heartless are going to appear so we’d all better be prepared, especially him.”
“Oh, so now I’m special!?”
“Alright, nya.” Kristy tapped the ice with her staff and cast “Fire”. Alex was now all wet and felt something like a cross between warm and cold. “By the way, Aerith, I’m not a ‘very experienced magician,’ I’m still a mage-in-training, nya.”
“Yes, which reminds me, if you choose to help Alex on his adventure, I’ll inform your teacher where you are once he gets back, okay?”
“Okay! I want to go with Alex, nya! It could be a good experience.”
“G-great….” Alex muttered sarcastically through chattering teeth.
“La-la-la-la-la, nya….” Kristy began singing again as she skipped around, then headed back towards Third District. “I’m going to go get some things for the journey! I’ll be back soon, nya!”
“Kristy isn’t enough, so you’ll need one more team member.” Leon said, looking towards Alex, who was drying off.
“What about this kid, Squall?” Yuffie asked, jabbing a thumb in Chris’ direction. Leon walked over to them and looked at Chris carefully. “He’s old enough to take care of himself and the other two, and he seems to be a really good fighter.”
“M-me?” Chris was surprised, “I just got here, I don’t even know you people, and you’re just going to send me off?”
“It’s your choice. Besides, I’m sure you’ll be good friends with them.” Aerith said.
“What about Ann?” He looked at her. She was talking to Alex a little far off and didn’t seem to hear them. “Can she come with us?”
“She was really tired after one fight…. She’s kinda weak. But we’ll take good care of her, don’t you worry. Traverse Town is the safest place around!” Yuffie smiled.
Chris thought about it. Going to new worlds, fighting Heartless, doing all sorts of things he never imagined… and Ann wasn’t going to be there. She was going to stay in a world where people protected her, and he wouldn’t have to worry about loosing her. Not again.
“I’ll do it.”
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Kristy is my favorite character! Though her role is minor compared to Chris, I love her :3! She’s so cute, ne? This is Amanda’s character. Originally she didn’t have cat ears and tail. Seriously. Really, after I rebooted this story, I just wanted a character that I can make go “nya” (and later on, my favorite saying shows up which she says, but you’ll see that WAY later) ‘cause it’s cute and I was in this phase where I kept making cat noises. But it worked out so freakin’ well for the story! Especially when Chris went “are those real?”
. She’s so cheerful and innocent. I love her (I already said that…)! It’s so easy to write as her (later on too) ‘cause she’s younger than me and I’ve been her age before (unlike Chris and Alex! Who are both boys and/or older than me!). What’s a bit of a creepy coincidence is that Amanda (Amanda’s other character, the mascot of my website) and Kristy are both cat girls and are sort of the same age!
And sorry for the bad pun when Kristy said “cool it” and cast a freezing spell. I didn’t realize till later after reading that part again I realized that it was a bad pun. Gomen!
Once again, I say I cannot do official characters. That’s why I fail to describe them. :( I don’t know why I cant! Maybe it’s ‘cause the way I write it, you’d have to had played the game to understand it, even though there are some parts that are completely confusing (which, by the way, you can ask me about if you are!). R&R, please!
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