I just love this story SO very much! ^_^ Okay, let's have some more fun...
Traverse Town is a small world, but its population is very varied
and somewhat polarized. Longtime residents of the town now live
alongside an ever-growing group of refugees, upon whom they depend for
protection from the Heartless.
Because, of course, the natives are normal, helpless NPCs, while the
refugees tend to be levellable party characters. ^_^
News spreads quickly there.
Of course it does. Rule #90 remains in effect.
It spreads EXTREMELY quickly when it's being spread by a hyperactive
young boy with the ability to almost hit Mach One, who also has an even
faster mouth.
He can satisfy every girl AND boy in the Orphanage at the same time!
People started heading for the orphanage, to see the Key they'd
hoped would arrive in their lifetime.
Unfortunately, there were only 29,999 of them...if there'd been only one
more...
Unsung Heroes part 2.2 - The Circus
in the Second District
There should be a Rule for circuses...
Cid wasn't in the inventor's workshop, and nobody was visiting Pongo
or Perdita, so Dash zig-zagged around the square a few times, asking
random passers by and telling them the good news. But that was no good.
Of course. Rule #93.
The waiter picked up the drinks from the counter and took them over
to table three. A young, brown haired woman in a pink dress sat there,
opposite a small boy: a redhead with thick glasses clad in a white lab
coat.
There was also a Labrador with red glasses and a thick whitehead, but
everybody just sort of ignored it and hoped it'd go away.
He sat the herbal tea down in front of the woman, and plonked the
hot chocolate in front of the boy.
He was then arrested on charges of indecent exposure, corrupting a minor,
unsanity handling of commestibles in a food service establishment, and lewd
conduct with an unwilling beverage.
Aerith nodded at him. "That's good. It looks like you're working
hard, too." She took a sip of her tea. "You're always busy here, and
it seems like Harry is the only one who sees you away from work these
days."
Now THERE'S a ship nobody saw coming...
"Hm, well..." Dexter scratched his chin, trying to think. "I
suppose eet would be the planett deestroying space staation... though I
never managed to launch that without my parents noticing, so eet
probably doesn't count. And my pocket universe was only infinitely beeg
on the inside. So I suppose it would be my Dextermech Mark Eight, which
was my latest and greaatest giant robot, which I allso piloted..."
Uh-oh, he said the 'r'-word...
He just walked away, and Aerith cursed inwardly, adding Robots to
the list of things that set Shinji off. She'd hoped he might have been
interested to talk to another pilot... might have opened up a little.
No such luck. She could only guess that he hadn't liked being a pilot.
Naw, y'think?
[OK, I admit it, I had ulterior motives for bringing Dexter here,
but it wasn't to get you into a robot or to get you to join the
resistance. It was to get you to join the human race!]
Nah, he already ran that one. Unfortunately, he was one of only two who made
it to the finish line.
A long, red-bricked tunnel stretched out beyond the door, brightly
lit so that any Heartless in it would have nowhere to hide. It was
about 100 feet long, and there were boltholes on both sides every thirty
feet. Leon had taken a look at them and decided this security measure
hadn't been designed with Heartless in mind - against a large swarm,
those boltholes would either be traps for defenders to get caught in or
hiding places for attacking Heartless. Nobody was to use them if the
town was attacked - they would depend on the door, and the magical
explosives now stored in the boltholes.
"Because they're *bolt*holes. Get it? BOLT holes! Hahahaha. ......I mean,
whatever."
Dash made it down the tunnel in much less than a second, and blew
past the guards stationed at the end. They were supposed to check
anyone going in either direction, and kids weren't allowed in the port
at all, but it had been established that there was no point trying to
stop Dash from going where he wanted. Nothing except a carefully timed
Petrificus Totalus could bring him in. So Dash hit the brakes when he
caught sight of a boy in his late teens wearing an incredibly messy mop
of dark hair, jeans, a sweater and a pair of glasses. Better to just
topple over when paralyzed than to be sent tumbling at 200 Mph.
That'd redefine "skid marks"...in more ways than one. x.x
"Dash!" a girl's voice yelled in somewhat stilted English, "what you
doing out here?" She was in her late teens, with short black hair. She
wore a blue and white dress that had once had a long skirt, but the
skirt had amateurishly been cut short. She also wore a bandolier, which
strapped a huge, blackened metal spatula onto her back. This was Tendo
Akane.
Plus 1/4th of Kuonji Ukyou!
[Yeah...] Anita replied, but then she smiled down at Sakura.
[Don't worry though. Nobody's mad at you. They're just really excited
to see you!]
Because they're all lolicon fanboys!
[However it's meant to work, the key's bearer will be a very
important person. She might have to lead the entire fight against the
Heartless.] Sakura nervously turned red and gulped as Ruri continued,
[she's not someone I would envy.]
[But no pressure.]
"we have the time to let a scared girl who's lost everything rest
for a little!" Jane retorted. There were mumbles and shouts of both
approval and dissent, and a few people started heading for the door.
"There's no need to drag her out by her ear!"
It's not her ear they want to drag... 8B
"The doors to the Third District are still holding!"
"For how long, Aer-head?" Mauthus sneered, getting a few sniggers
from some of the dumber people in the mob.
Ouch. That's low.
"Long enough for this girl to get ready! She needs time to deal
with what she's been though, you know that!"
"She can mope and cry and whatever after she's locked the keyhole,
but she's coming NOW!"
Gee, his concern for his fellow human being is touching.
"No. How dare you come in here, dictate to me and my kids and hurt
my friends." she hissed, bracing her hands against the door frame. "Get
the hell out of our home."
"Right, and I suppose you're going to stop me," he replied
sarcastically, grabbing her shoulder with one huge hand and starting to
to drag her out of her wheelchair
Oh, attacking a crippled person is just WRONG...
- for about a second, until someone
held a small piece of white paper in front of his face.
Upon which was written: 'YOU GOT SERVED'
"What are you going to do, give me a paper cut?" he asked
incredulously, but Anita just smirked angrily.
Hehehehehehehehehheheheheheh.
"Anita," Jane said, looking back over her shoulder, "put that away
before you do something stupid." She then looked up at Mauthus. "And
you, get the hell out of here before she does something stupid, and
you're beaten up in front of all these people." There was a stern
threat in her voice that suggested she really wouldn't be too upset if
Anita did something "stupid," and Mauthus found himself noticing how the
girl held that paper, as if it really *was* a weapon... and, he also
realized, there were a lot of people watching him attack a woman with a
double amputation.
Bout time he noticed that. :/
"Okay Leon," Harry replied, drawing a circular metal device from his
pocket. It wasn't a portkey - Harry had no idea how to enchant them -
Actually...theoretically, Harry should be able to figure out how to make a
portkey. He knows the incantation (as of OotP), and it's not exactly hard to
imagine the sort of focus/willpower you need in order to make it work.
Sakura jumped in surprise as the bell rang and the wall behind her
started to shift, closing up and hiding the keyhole.
[NO!] she shouted, and turned to yell at Leon. [I can do this! I
promise I can do this... I need to! Please!]
But he just lowered and shook his head. Sakura blabbered out a few
[buts] and found herself sinking to her knees in the middle of the
fountain, letting out a soft sob.
;_;
She couldn't help it... she'd been
so sure she could lock it... but she was completely powerless, and she
could never go look for Tomoyo now, and she was so completely humiliated
in front of so many people who'd been so happy to see her. She couldn't
bear the thought of opening her eyes or looking up, for fear of seeing
someone staring angrily at her. So she sat and cried in the fountain,
trying to wipe her tears away with fingers that were already soaking
wet.
;_;
Sakura opened her eyes and looked up at Jane, but even though her
words were kind, Jane was not superhuman and couldn't hide the
disappointed look on her face.
Aww. ;_;
"Aren't yooo comink?" Dexter asked her.
"Yes," she replied, staring at the fountain. She looked down at her
hands - there were small red arcs on the middle of her palms, from when
her fingernails had bit into her clenched fists as she'd waited for the
keyhole to be locked...
[Idiot,] she said to herself.
"Vwat?" Dexter asked.
Ruri sighed. "Nothing."
;_;
The next part will be Part 2.3, "Sakura and the Wall of Faces" and will
conclude this arc.
Damn, that's an ominous title.
I promise, things are going to start looking up soon.
That part was a long time coming... I actually sat on this completed
version for at least a month, I think.
About that, yeah.
Harry Potter: a seventeen year old apprentice wizard, Harry is high up
in the Traverse Town guard.
So this IS post-HBP Harry, then? OUCH.
Anticipating the next one eagerly...
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