part 13
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The gang continues their quest to King Haggard’s castle. Meanwhile, just outside the system, the Grand Magasin Task Force has dropped out of hyperspace. In the command center, Diz is sitting on a throne-like chair with the other members of the order circling a round table. The members that have arrived are: General Pete, Axel, Larxene, Lexaeus, Vexen, Xaldin, and Demyx.
Diz: gentleman. I called you all here for an important meeting. Do you all remember our little attack ten years ago?
Demyx: yeah, we remember. Why do you ask?
Diz: Pete and Axel were sent to that system to find any remaining republic presence on the planet, but instead they found this.
Diz presses a button creating a holoimage of a unicorn in the center of the table.
Larxene: *gasps* no way!
Xaldin: but…..but……that’s impossible! The Trio of Fire took them all during the battle.
Lexaeus: yeah how could they miss one?
Diz: that’s what I thought. But here where it gets interesting. I’ve just learned that the Rave Master and the Keybearer are with her, heading towards King Haggard.
Demyx: HAHAHAHAHA! They must be nuts going there!
Vexen: should we alert Haggard of their arrival.
Diz: no, we’ll not tell him. *presses a button for the intercom* prepare my shuttle for departure.
Officer: yes sir.
Diz: *to the others* if all goes according to plan, we will gain the gift of immortality and crush the Republic once and for all.
Later the gang reaches a cliff overlooking a decrepit, evil-looking castle.
Schmendrick: Haggard's fortress. We'll be there tomorrow if we walk all night.
Riku: geez, if King Haggard is as evil as that castle of his. We could be in trouble.
Unicorn: Where does King Haggard keep the Trio of Fire?
Schmendrick: I have heard that they roam at night and lies up by day in a great cavern beneath the castle - but we'll know soon enough.
The party is lying down against trees. The moon gives off a fiery red light which reflects on their sleeping faces. Molly wakes.
Molly: Schmendrick, the light!
The group wakes up to see a flaming aura surrounding the castle. Then the aura shoots up into the air exploding into three fireballs, crashing right next to them.
Carth: It’s them! The Trio of Fire! They’re here!
The Trio of Fire reveal themselves. The unicorn runs away in fear. They chase her across the forest, never losing ground.
Molly: Do something!
Sora: they’re gonna kill her.
Schmendrick: they’re driving her! They can't want to kill her or-or they would have done it by now!
The Trio continues to chase the unicorn still the dragon creates a barricade of fire.
Schmendrick: they’re driving her the way they drove the others - to the castle, to King Haggard.
Goofy: come on, we gotta do something!
Schmendrick: What can I do? Do you think the Trio of Fire likes card tricks?
The Trio has the unicorn cornered and they starting to win.
Schmendrick: If I could I'd change her into some other creature, some beast too humble for the Bull to be concerned with. But that would take a real magician, with real magic - and I can't pretend any more.
Molly: But you do. You have magic. Maybe you can't find it, but it's there. You called Robin Hood, and there is no Robin Hood. You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it.
The unicorn submits to the Trio of Fire. She walks slowly before them.
Molly: Please! It's not fair!
The unicorn doesn't listen to him; she plods on, depressed. The dragon roars, frightening the unicorn and starts running. The trio chases after her. Schmendrick tries to run in front of the Trio of Fire; he is thrown aside.
Molly: Schmendrick!
Donald: Riku!
Riku: I’m going! I’m going!
Riku chases after the trio.
Sora: if Riku can perform that spell, then so can I.
Schmendrick: *gets up* Magic do as you will! Magic do as you will! *repeats in a low voice. Lines of power stream from his fingers towards the unicorn. He slowly falls onto his knees and then his face.*
Sora: Power of the Rave Stones, do as you will. Power of the Rave Stones, do as you will.
Two beams of energy fires from the keyblade but ends up hitting Riku. Riku’s body splits two a red and yellow spheres, which land on the ground. The Red Bull noses a white shape on the ground and then walks off. Molly rushes to the side of what used to be the unicorn. Carth goes to where Riku was hit by the spell.
Molly: *to Schmendrick* What have you done?
She holds up the head of a human girl with a white face and white hair. A brown mark that looks like a star is on her forehead.
Molly: What have you done? What have you done?!
Schmendrick, Sora, Donald, Goofy join her.
Schmendrick: *excited* What do you mean, what have I done? Only saved her from the Trio of Fire by magic, that's all I've done! By magic! By my own true magic! Doubtless you are wondering how I plan to return her to her proper shape. Wonder not. The power will come to me whenever I need it. And one day, one day it will come to me when I call! You were right! You were right.
Molly: I didn't know you meant to turn her into a human girl!
Schmendrick: The Trio of Fire came for a unicorn, so she had to become something else. The magic chose the shape, not I. I am a bearer! I am a dwelling! I am a first-class messenger!
Molly: You are a first-class idiot! Do you hear me? You lost her! You trapped her in a human body! She'll go mad!
Carth: if you think that’s a problem, look at this!
Two identical Riku’s are on Carth’s shoulders. One is in the pryo-form while the other one is in the Electro-form. Each has the mark of the rave stones on their foreheads.
Goofy: what happened?
Carth: my guess is when the spell hit Riku; it must’ve created two separate forms using the rave stones. In other words, they are the actual human incarnations of the rave stones.
Sora: I didn’t know that would happen.
Carth: well I hate to be you when he, I mean “they” wake up.
The girl begins to stir. She wakes up, and tries to stand.
Schmendrick: I can change her back. Don't worry about it. I-I can change her back.
The girl falls, and goes on all fours.
Girl: What have you done to me?
Molly: *begins crying* Oh, no. Oh, please, no!
Schmendrick: *to the girl* You see, I couldn't think of anything else I could do to save you.
Girl: What have you done to me? * She hugs herself, and her voice sounds like a neigh.* I'm a unicorn! I'm a unicorn!
Molly: *grabs her arm* Don't! Don't you hurt yourself! *She drapes Schmendrick's cloak around the girl's shoulders.*
Schmendrick: Be still! The magic knew what it was doing. In this shape alone you have some hope of reaching King Haggard and finding out what has become of the other unicorns.
Girl: *sad voice* I wish you had let the Trio of Fire take me. I wish you had left me to the harpy and the dragon! I can feel this body dying all around me!
Carth: That’s enough! He saved your life and that’s all that matters!
The twin Rikus start to wake up.
Riku 1: uhh. What happened?
Riku 2: uhh. What happened?
Both see each other and…
Riku 1 & 2: AHH!?!? What happened! Who did this to me?
Carth points at Sora.
Riku 1 & 2: Sora!!!!!!
Sora: *gulps* it was an accident.
Riku 2: Accident? I’ll give you an accident you little…
Electricity surrounds Riku 2 but, shocking him.
Riku 2: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Riku 1 feels the same pain only this time flames surround him.
Riku 1: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Both Rikus fall on their knees
Riku 1 & 2: ow….
Carth: how long will they be like this?
Schmendrick: only for a little while, I promise you! Soon they'll have their true forms again, forever!
Molly: Why not now? Schmendrick, you can't let them stay like this, you can't possibly!
Schmendrick: Why not? Unless you think they can defeat the Trio if they face them again.
Girl: No. *She takes the cloak herself and holds it in place.* And I'm afraid of this human body - more than I was of the Trio of Fire - afraid!
At that moment, the scene changes to the Jedi temple in the Republic capital known as Courscant. Inside the temple, in one of the meditation chambers, an old woman is focusing her energy through a force crystal. (This is Genkai, a Jedi Master who is a member of the Jedi Counsel and a powerful warrior for her age. She helped Riku earlier by training him in the Rave Master arts on Paris. She also taught many Jedi’s and warriors throughout her career) then the crystal splits into two even pieces.
Genkai: *looking at the crystal* hmm.
Another Jedi walks into the chamber.
????: Master Genkai.
Genkai: I know, I felt it too.
????: it’s about the Rave Master.
Genkai: something happened to him. It had to be something big to trigger the other rave ston…
Genkai is cut off short by another disturbance.
????: what is it?
Genkai: I sense something else. A tie that connects to the Rave Master. Something I didn’t notice before.
????: It has to be the unicorn. It’s the only possible explanation
Genkai: *chuckles* so Zaljin did hid it after all. Get the shuttle ready, we’re going.
????: yes master.
The two Jedi leave the chamber.