Fellowship & Fairydust

Worbazz! He got away again! Cursing whatever allowed him to escape, I turned to the nearest of the creatures Scrooge called Unversed, and began to vent my anger on them. With a couple of jabs and a thrust, I managed to destroy the stupid blue thing before turning to the next one. 

Aladdin and Scrooge were also holding their own, though one of Aladdin’s strikes missed as the thing melted to the floor and snuck behind him. When it popped up, Scrooge whacked it with his cane, stunning it while Razoul finished it off. He then got tackled by one of the big fat ones, and before it could attack again Aladdin leaped behind it and destroyed it. 

Another of the big Unversed things began charging towards Clair and Jasmine, who were checking up on Genie. With a gasp, Clair cried out, “Fire!” and sent the spell at the monster. She did some damage and managed to slow it down, but it didn’t destroy it. With a growl, I began to run over with Aladdin getting ahead of me. Plunging his scimitar into the back of the monster, he managed to finish it off while I fumed over that. Why couldn’t I get myself to go faster? 

“Father!” Jasmine called out with wide eyes. Turning, I could see another one of the big Unversed making its way to the Sultan, who was trying to back away. However, I saw several of the smaller ones coming up towards my cousin and the princess. I couldn’t be in two places at once, so I made my choice. Turning, I ran towards the ones sneaking up on Clair. 

With a couple of jabs and a thrust, I managed to destroy one of them before repeating the process with another. I could hear cries of protest behind me but I blocked them out. I wasn’t going to apologize for my choice. Before I could strike yet another, it then leaped up and slashed at me with its arms. With a grunt I fell backward, still smarting over the attack of that thing. 

“Fire!” Clair called out, hitting the Unversed before it could strike me again. That left it burned and smoking a bit before I finished it off. I then turned towards the Sultan, only to see Carpet carrying the fat ruler off while Aladdin and Razoul both stabbed the monster from behind, finishing it off and sending it back into the darkness.

A few more Unversed then appeared, looking like the blue ones save for the long sharp claws they had on their hands. “Scrappers!” Scrooge warned us as he parried the attack of one before throwing it to the princess’ boyfriend. Aladdin managed to destroy it with a slice of his scimitar before hurrying over to where we were fending off the small blue ones. 

I was finding it irritating when they sunk into the floor and dodged our attacks. “Hold still!” I growled at them while I swung Born Fighter at the creatures only for them to strike me from behind. Narrowing my eyes I tried to jab one of them only for them to melt back into the floor and repeat their attack. 

Finally one of the things Scrooge called a Scrapper moved to attack me, but I was able to parry its blow. With two jabs and a slice, I managed to send the thing flying backward before I rushed to finish it off by repeating the process. What? It was still alive? Yeow, those claws were nasty!

“Jason!” Clair called out while her eyes lit up– what? Was that from her magic? It was kind of freaky to look at. “Blizzard!” She cast the opposite element spell at the Scrapper, freezing it in place before I stabbed it, destroying it. She then fired  Plasma Bolts at blue Unversed after blue Unversed until they were no more. Once she saw all the enemies had been defeated her eyes returned to normal. 

Maybe I’d better forget about that. Maybe it was nothing. “I had everything under control.” I frowned at her.
“You’re welcome.” She said. “Uh, Jason?” I then noticed several people were frowning at me, but I guess it shouldn’t surprise me. Back home that was the only expression I was used to seeing from others. Guess that was going to follow me here too.

Jasmine was the first to speak. “Why didn’t you protect my father?” 

“Why should I explain myself?” I frowned back. 

“Are you daft? That was the Sultan’s life! If anything had happened to him…” Scrooge began to explain while Carpet lowered itself to the ground to let the monarch off. 

“What does it matter? Aladdin and Razoul were there to protect, and it all worked out in the end.” I said. 

Throwing up his arms, the duck continued, “That’s not the point! As a bearer of the Keyblade, you must make sure chaos is held back and prevented.” 

“So why do I get the feeling that even if I protected the old geezer you would still be upset with me?” 

My words offended the ruler of this world. “Old geezer?”

“Mind your tongue boy. Insult the Sultan again, and I’ll cut it out.” Razoul warned. 

Ignoring him, I went on. “Weren’t all of you saying how bad it would be if Jasmine lost her heart? Why don’t you make up your minds as to who is more important to protect?” 

“Except you weren’t protecting Jasmine, were you?” My cousin asked me. 

“So what?”
“So what? We’re part of something bigger than us now. What’s going on right now is more important than us getting back home!”
“You just want to work more on your hocus pocus.”
“Enough!” A sharp whack on the head left me cringing while Scrooge frowned at me. “Your boneheaded attitude nearly cost us the battle. You tried to go through it solo like the rest of us weren’t even there!” 

Glaring at him, I said something I shouldn’t have. “That’s because I work alone!” 

In a puff, the Genie transformed into a woman that looked like an old-fashioned school teacher, with a board that had a bunch of junk written on it and everything. “Ah, young man, but you forget the important lesson. There’s no I in team.” 

“Aye, lad, and Sora knew that his strength came from–” 

“I’m not Sora!” I snapped. “And I got my strength on my own. No friends. No team. Just me, myself, and I! That’s how I’ve always done it, and that’s how I’m going to continue to do it. You got a problem with that? Deal with it.” 

“Jason.” Standing tall, Jasmine looked at me. “I order you to leave Agrabah now.” 

I wasn’t sure who was the most surprised out of all of us, but something inside me was shocked at that. Why though? Why was I hurting from the look on her face, the look I saw on everyone’s face? It wasn’t anything new. It was what every teacher in every class had for me when I proved myself to be a disappointment to them. 

Turning on my heel I moved to leave the palace and this primitive world behind. Why did we even come here? What was the point of all this? This had been nothing but a giant waste of time. I could hear Clair and Scrooge behind me, but I said nothing to them. What could I say?

I had nothing.

 

MORTEM’S POV

As I exited the Corridor of Darkness, I thought of everything I needed to bring up with him. First on my priority list was those creatures I had summoned, those that had come from my darkness. The duck had called them Unversed, but I had no recollection of them. The second item was how I was to carry the hearts once I had them. 

“Ah, Mortem. Have you managed to retrieve the Heart of Light?” The man asked as he appeared from behind a shelf. 

Shaking my head, I marched over to him. “No. Because something came up. While I was battling those fools I summoned a vast amount of darkness, and created monsters from it. I thought they were Heartless at first, but then I realized they were blue instead of black and had a different symbol.”
“Not this perchance, would it?” I looked up to see the scientist had pulled up an image that matched the insignia I saw. 

Looking at him, I asked, “How did you know?”

“I found it while looking through the data. The creatures you summoned are called Unversed, and what I have says they are born from the negative emotions of other beings. They were a problem over thirteen years ago, but then they vanished.” 

“So why did they come from me?”

“I will have to run some tests to find out.” 

“Pass.” Time for the other problem. “I realized something while I was in that barren wasteland. How am I supposed to carry around the hearts? I only have two hands.”

“Well, thanks to the data you procured for me, I have found the location of each of the seven hearts. However, when scanning the known worlds for the light, this happened.” While he had been speaking, a holographic map appeared showing the location of each world. One by one, I saw areas light up showing where the hearts were located… wait a minute. There were seven hearts, but I saw… 

“There’s an eighth location? But there’s nothing out there.”

“That they know of.” The scientist looked at me. “Which means that what is there is connected to the Hearts of Light. Maybe a possible solution to your current conundrum.” 

“It could just be a flaw in your computer.”

That earned me a snarl from the man. “This is the most advanced piece of equipment in existence. It has no flaws!” After clearing his throat, he regained his composure. “Regardless, it could be worth checking out. You’ll be the first to explore a brand new world undiscovered by even the Restoration Committee.”

Rolling my eyes, I opened another dark corridor preparing to head to that location. Before I left, I gave the man one last warning. “The brats made contact with some friends from their world. People who thought they were dead.” 

“Leave that to me.” 

With that, the door closed behind me and I made my way through the Corridors of Darkness heading towards the area that the egghead said had a strong light. It was odd there was a light as strong as the Princesses of Heart, and I wanted to find out what it was. But if that old coot’s equipment proved to be faulty, then I was going to make him pay for wasting my time no matter what he did for me. 

The Corridor opened and when I stepped out, the first thing that I noticed was the bright light. I realized this place had a bright sun too like the previous world, but unlike the deserts of Agrabah there were trees all around me, and I could hear the call of gulls and smell salt in the wind. When my eyes adjusted, I realized where I was. “An island?” 

Not only that, it was a tropical island with palm trees and palmettos. Further down I could see white sand stretching far in both directions while the water was bluer than anything I have seen, though that wasn’t saying much. Already this world was proving to be far more beautiful than the last one. 

Whatever. I wasn’t here to sightsee. I had to find this light, and see what it was. Activating my powers, I focused on sensing the light although I was not expecting anything. Hold on. Is it… on the bottom of the ocean?

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