*Explosion. Enters in Cloud's cloths and enters with Welcome To Paradise by Green Day*
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
Chapter Five
Another World
Riku opened his eyes, the right stinging as some form of liquid touched it. He got on his hands and knees, finding himself in a small pond. His hair stuck to his face, it being soaked from the water, along with the rest of his body. Riku was felt something hit his head. Rain was falling now, grey storm clouds hanging in the air. Riku inhaled the fresh air of the rain, this smelling much better than dank darkness.
He heard a screech, and looked to his left. In front of him was a small arch, where a raven was perched. It stared at Riku for a few moments, Riku staring back.
'What's it want?' He thought.
The raven glowing green eyes blinked several times.
'Wait, I don't remember ravens having green eyes.' Riku thought.
The raven jumped from it's perch, and was surrounded by green flame. Riku jumped back as this happened, and he became wide eyed at the site. The raven had transformed into a tall, black cloaked woman. She had glaring yellow eyes, and a cepter was in her left hand. She stared for a few moments, then took a step towards Riku.
Riku backed up several more feet, the woman following. Riku ran out of room quickly, noticing he was on a small island. He looked behind him, then gasped. This wasn't a normal island. It was floating in midair!
'What the...' Riku thought.
He turned his attention back to the woman. She had closed the gap between them, and was only a few inches away from him. Riku tried to keep calm, but he was scared out of his mind. He had no idea where he was, and this woman was totally playing the part of crazy murderer. Riku's heart beat faster as she reached out to him. Her hand shot to Riku's throat, and raised him into the air. Riku would have screamed if it weren't for her vice like grip on his throat. She looked him in the eyes. This scared Riku more. He brought his hands up to her arm and tried to pry himself free. This didn't seemed to be working though, as she brought her cepter up to his face, green flame roaring to life inside it.
Riku swung his legs around, still trying to get free. She was going to strike soon, he knew it. Sweat beaded down his face, along with the rain. Riku swallowed hard, and closed his eyes, waiting for the blow.
Seconds passed. Two, three, four, ten seconds he counted and still nothing had hit him. Riku felt himself fall to earth, landing right on his backside. He opened one eye, and saw the woman was still standing above him. Riku rubbed his throat, and the woman took a step away from him.
"Come with me boy." She said, slamming her cepter into the ground in front of them,
a large green orb envoloping them. The orb turned into the size of a baseball, and launched into the sky. Riku couldn't see anything inside of it, it was like he wasn't even in the world. 'I guess I've made it to a new world.' He thought. 'I didn't think it would be so frightening though.' Riku hit himself mentally for that. 'You're stronger than that.'
The orb darted through the air, arriving at a huge castle. It flew strait up, stopping above a balcony. The orb slowly lowered itself to the ground, and glew large once again. It dissapeared in a blur of green flames, and Riku found himself on the ground.
'Now where are we?' Riku thought.
"Stand up, boy." The woman said.
Riku did as he was told, and walked to the edge of the balcony, staring over the wide land in front of him. Down below was the waterfall and the floating islands he had awoken at earlier. then far out to the horizon was nothing but barren earth, streching out far, all the way to some mountains.
"I suppose you're wondering where you are boy?" The woman asked.
Riku jumped. It had been quiet for so long he forgot she was there. Riku nodded.
"I can easily tell you're not from this world. But, anyway this is the great Hollow Bastion, my strong hold." She said.
"So you're a witch?" Riku instantly regreted those words.
He was dead, he was sure of it.
"Ha! Good guess." The woman said. "I am Maleficent, the witch." She bowed gracefully. "And you are?"
Riku blinked a couple of times, trying to remember his name.
"Riku." He said, keeping his eyes on her.
He was being very cautious, he knew. But this woman had attempted to kill him earlier, but for some reason had stopped and brought him to this castle.
"Good. Now that we're on a first name basis, get away from me." Maleficent said.
Riku gave her a puzzled look.
"Go on! Off to bed with you." Maleficent said pointing to the doorway behind the balcony. Riku once again did as he was told, and ran down through the doorway. Inside the doorway was a room. It had green carpet, red walls, and a small bed in the far corner.
'Wow, this is pretty nice.' Riku thought.
He turned to thank Maleficent, but she had left again.
'Oh well. I'm tiered anyway, I'll just rest and thank her in the morning.'
***
"Boy! Get up! Get up!"
Riku pulled the covers over his head.
"Arrruh!" Maleficent growled.
She pulled the covers off of Riku with force, sending him sprawling off the foot of the bed.
"What?! I'm going to the island in a few minutes! What's it matter? I hear you and dad getting into it every time anyway!" Riku shouted.
Maleficent eyes widened at Riku. Riku's opened his eyes and looked around him.
'Oh, man! That wasn't a dream!' Riku thought.
"What did you say boy?" Maleficent asked.
"Uh, sorry." Riku said backing away from Maleficent.
"Hurry up and get dressed!" She yelled, and walked out the door.
Riku grabbed his shirt and pants, and pulled them on sleepily. Walking out the door he pulled on one of his gloves.
"Finally!" Maleficent shouted.
Riku jumped back, thinking she had left him by himself.
"You sure do scare easily, boy." She said.
"It's just the shock of being here hasn't worn off yet." Riku said pulling on his other glove.
"Well, come on then. Breakfast is ready in the main hall." Maleficent began to walk down the hallway.
Riku followed a few paces back, worried that she might lash out at him at any time. About ten minutes of walking passed, neither saying a word to eachother until they reached two large oak doors.
"Here we are." Maleficent said.
She raised her cepter to the doors, both glowing bright green. They slowly creeked open, and Maleficent walked inside. Riku again followed, looking at the large hall. It looked as if there had once been windows, but they were draped over with black tarps, blocking out the sun. It had nice hard wood floors, and blank stone walls. All of it was empty, except for the one table in the center, where six were already seated.
"These your friends?" Riku asked.
"Ha. Sure, if you want to call them that." Maleficent chuckled.
She held her hand out, telling him to stay there. Maleficent walked to the only open seat on the table. The others were still chatting with eachother, not noticing that Maleficent was there.
"Ahem." Maleficent said.
They all turned instantly quiet. She sat down with them, and began conversing in wispers. After awhile Maleficent nodded towards Riku.
"We have a guest with us today. Go introduce yourselves." Maleficent said with a smile.
This scared Riku more than her scowls though. The first got up, tall and skinny. Riku saw the glint of a thin sword on his left side. The man stepped forward, where Riku could see him properly. He wore a bright red uniform and hat, black boots and belt, and a large purple feather in his hat. He took off his hat, and bowed like Maleficent had the day before.
"Hooks the name. Captain Hook." He said with a smile.
"Uh...Pleasure to meet you." Riku said holding out his left hand.
The man brought his arm up to shake, but Riku gasped at what he saw. In the place of his hand was a iron hook.
"You understand why they call me hook now?" He said as he walked back to the table.
Another got up, pretty much the same physique as the last one, but a cepter was in his right hand. He stepped into the light as well. He wore a red and black robe, and a black turban around his head. His cepter was modled after a cobra, pure red rubies in it's eyes.
"I am Jafar, the Royal Vizier of Agrabah." He said.
Riku just nodded this time.
The next got up as Jafar made his way back to the table.
'Wow, this guys BIG.' Riku thought as he saw the mans lard like build.
He walked over, and Riku's eyes widened at the site. It was burlap bag sown into the shape of what seemed to be a starfish.
"I'm Oogie Boogie." He said with a smile from his stiched mouth.
The next one that got up had the strangest form yet. It seemed to have several legs, and had a large build like the one before it. She walked into the light, if you can call it a she, and smiled at Riku as he gasped. The woman was only...half woman. From her waist down were black octopus tentacles.
"I am Ursala." She said.
Riku felt something creep up against his arm. He looked down to see oneof the octopus tentacles winding up around it. With a gasp he jerked away from her grasp. With a laugh she headed back to the table, and the last of them got up.
He was tall, at least 8 feet, and had a fiery blue hair. When he got closer Riku noticed his hair really was fire.
"Hey, how ya doin' kid? It's Hades." The blue skinned, black toga'd man said.
"Hades? The god of the underworld?" Riku asked.
"Oh, so you've heard of me huh?" Hades asked.
"Yeah, so you're the one who sentences people to death? What's it like? It's gotta be horrible doing a job like that."
"Actually it's not to bad. We dance, we sing, we smoke, we drink, we shmoose, then we get up and do it all over again in the morning."
Riku's jaw dropped.
'That was a stupid question to ask.' Riku thought.
"Well, come on. Come eat." Maleficent said.
Riku reluctantly walked over to the table and sat next between Maleficent and Hades.
This world would get some getting used to, but he was glad he had escaped his prison at last.
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