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Three things before you read the story. One, for those of you who read Deep Dreams, my other story, be aware that all will become clear soon, and longer! Much longer. Two, for Dookaller, be aware that the other story that I talked about is still on. Three, for Meeee! If you are reading this and have figured out that I am directing this comment to you, Hi! How ya' doin'? Now, all comments aside, enjoy a little something I like to call Black Terrace, and hey! What do you know? If you stay logged in long enough after the story, you'll be able to here a feeble, if not pathetic, plea of mine.
Black Terrace
I. Accidents and Repair
I didn't mean to break it. Really, I didn't. It's not my fault Donald didn't teach me how to control my magic. –Riku
Oh, it was only an accident. We just need to practice our magic more. –Kairi
Donald drove while Goofy navigated, and Riku and Kairi were down in the body of the ship looking at everything that was down there. Sora had nothing to do, so he sat in his chair and watched as star after star silently passed outside of his window. They were going to Radiant Garden formerly known as Hollow Bastion. Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, and Cid had contacted them through the computer on their Gummi Ship and told them to come there immediately.
"I wonder what they want?" Sora thought as a strange noise came from bellow him. The little sliding door that led downstairs opened up and Riku, followed by Kairi, walked up the little stairway. They looked guilty which led Sora to say, "What did you do?"
"N…nothing," Kairi said.
"Unless breaking this is something," Riku said, holding up the oddly shaped part he was carrying. Sora dully turned his head to look at the large part, and then shot out of his seat to inspect it.
"This had better not be what I think it is," Sora said, "Goofy, isn't this that part you said to never break? Ever?" He said the last word while gripping Riku's arm, which meant he was going to just kill Riku if Goofy said yes. Goofy turned around, and when he saw the part that was in Riku's hands, he practically fell over.
"That's the engine's battery," he cried, "How did you get it up here?"
Sora didn't even have time to yell at Riku since Donald called over, "Uh, we've got a problem." Everyone, except Riku who was trying to keep from dropping the battery, ran over to where Donald was to see what was wrong. "We're loosing power, and I don't think we'll be able to stay in the air much longer." The ship suddenly gave a lurch forward and started to teeter to the left and to the right.
"What's happening?" cried Kairi who was clutching Donald's seat to keep from falling over.
"The ship's engine is failing," Donald said. He was trying to keep the ship in a strait line, but wasn't having much success.
"Radiant Garden is right there," Goofy said, pointing in front of them. The world could barely be seen now since the ship was shaking so much that nothing could be made out through the windshield. The ship gave one more lurch before sailing downward.
"Hold on," Donald cried as he maneuvered the ship so that it would land on Radiant Garden. Before the ship crashed, everyone was holding on to a chair, the wall, or, in Donald's case, the steering wheel, as hard as they could. As the ship made contact with the land, there was a screeching noise that made everyone cringe. The glass of the cockpit broke with the ferocity of a thousand wails as it hit up against the wall of the valley.
As smoke quickly spiraled up from the nose of the ship, Sora brought his head up from where he had fallen. Coughing because of the smoke, he looked around and saw that the ship had taken major damage. Many red panels were hanging off of it and glass was scattered all around. As he moved closer to the wreckage, Sora spotted Riku and Kairi also staring in awe.
"Riku, Kairi," Sora shouted running over to them, "How do you break an engine?"
"Well," said Kairi, "We noticed that the engine's heat gauge was getting a little hot."
"Yeah, and Kairi suggested that I practice my magic by casting Blizzard on it," said Riku, "And when I tried, I accidentally cast Thunder."
"Then I tried to cool it by casting my own Blizzard spell, and I accidentally cast Fire," Kairi said, "That made the battery break off from the engine."
"Okay then, answer me this," Sora said, "Where is the battery now?"
"Right here," Goofy said, walking from behind the ship and holding up the tattered looking piece of machinery.
Donald followed behind him and said, "The ship won't work unless we replace the engine. I bet Cid could help us with that."
"Yeah," said Goofy, "How far are we from town?"
Sora looked around and said, "We're in The Great Maw. That's not too far."
"Hey, are you guys alright?" Yuffie's voice could be heard coming from the Crystal Fissure.
"Yeah, we're okay," Riku called over to her.
Yuffie ran over and said, "When we heard the crash, the other's sent me over here to see what was going on." She laughed, "Wait till I tell them it was you guys." Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, and Kairi started following Yuffie back to the populated part of Radiant Garden and asked her why the members of the committee had called them there.
"Sorry, can't tell you," Yuffie said in a taunting voice.
"Why not?" Donald asked.
"The other's wanted to tell you personally." They were just now getting to the Marketplace so the others decided to wait until they got to the Borough to hear why they'd been called.
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Yuffie rapped on the door a few times and opened it, "Look who I ran into," she said, beckoning Sora and the others into the house.
"Good, you're here," said Leon once he'd spotted them.
"So, what was it you wanted to talk to us about?" said Sora as they all tried to squeeze into the somewhat small space that felt kind of cramped with this many people in it.
"It's Cloud," Aerith said once everyone had gotten situated, "He's left again."
"But he leaves all of the time," said Sora.
"Not like this," said Aerith, "He didn't even tell us he was leaving."
"Do you know where he might've gone?" asked Goofy.
Now Leon said, "We're not so sure, but we think he might have gone to a place called Black Terrace."
"What's Black Terrace?" asked Sora.
"That's the problem," said Aerith, "We don't exactly know what or where it is."
"Wait, if you don't know what it is, how do you know that's where he went?" Riku said.
"Ansem's computer showed us that someone had been looking at files about Black Terrace," said Cid, "Access was denied when we tried to look at them."
"What do you want us to do?" asked Sora.
"Please, find out where he is," Aerith said, "I think Sephiroth is after him again."
"That's why we want you to find him and get him out of trouble," said Leon.
When no one said anything, Kairi said, "Hey, we can do this. All we have to do is gather information. Someone's bound to know what Black Terrace is."
Where do we start?" asked Riku.
"Let's start at Traverse Town," said Sora, "There are people from all over the worlds there."
"Great, we can go right after Cid fixes the sip," said Donald.
"I have to fix the ship?" Cid said, "Wait a minute, that crash wasn't you, was it?" Everyone nodded their heads yes. "Well, take me to it and I'll see what I can do." When Cid saw the ship, he was lost for words. "What did you do, crash it into a meteor?"
"Hey I only did that once," Sora said, "We just crashed here and now the engine needs to be fixed."
"You think the engine needs to be fixed?" Cid asked, "I'd be better off giving you a new ship than fixing this heap of metal."
"Really?" asked Kairi.
"I can't fix this," said Cid, pointing to one of the hanging panels.
"Anything that works I guess," said Goofy. In about twenty minutes Cid had the new ship ready to go and Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku and Kairi were on their way to Traverse Town. On the trip over, Sora, Riku, and Kairi had decided go down to one of the rooms in the ship that had computers in it to see if they knew anything. Right now, Sora was looking at a list of some worlds that they hadn't been to before, and to his disappointment, he hadn't been able to find any world called Black Terrace.
After a while he asked, "What do you think Black Terrace is?"
"Hm," said Riku, "Aren't terraces those flat pieces of land that people carved into mountains when they couldn't plant on the ground?" Sora and Kairi looked at him with confused looks on their faces. "Oh, you'll learn about them in 10th grade."
"Knowing that still doesn't help us know what Black Terrace is," said Kairi, "Did you find anything Sora?"
"Well," said Sora, "There are a lot of worlds with the word terrace in it." He beckoned Riku and Kairi to come look at the computer screen. On it were a list of worlds that, like Sora had said, had the word terrace in them. There was Terrace of the Prairie, Aurora Terrace, Terraces of Light, Ancient Terrace, and even Red Terrace, but of all the terrace worlds, not one of them had the name of Black Terrace.
"Well, at least we'll be going to Traverse Town," said Riku, "The people there'll probably know about Black Terrace."
As he said this, Donald's voice came over the intercom saying, "Sora, Riku, Kairi, we're about to land." As they made there way out of the computer room, Riku's elbow accidentally bumped up against the computer's keyboard. Looking to see what he'd done, Riku noticed that the words, "LOADING FILE," had appeared on the screen. There was a bar underneath the letters showing how much data had been loaded and since it wasn't going very fast, he decided to just leave it alone until they got back from Traverse Town.
"You guys go on ahead," Donald said once they'd come up, "Goofy and I will stay here and make sure the ship doesn't have anything wrong with it." This having been said, Sora Riku and Kairi stepped out of the new blue and purple ship, through the big wooden doors, and onto the coble stones of Traverse Town. They asked about Black Terrace all over town, but each time they asked they got a negative response. No one in all of Traverse Town knew anything about a place called Black Terrace.
"Am I the only one who's starting to think Black Terrace doesn't even exist?" said Riku as they leaned on the little wall that looked over the 3rd district.
"But it has to exist," said Sora, "Ansem's computer said it did."
"It didn't exactly say that," said Kairi, "It just said that someone was looking at files about it. That doesn't mean the files were telling the truth." As the three shirked around in the 3rd district, wondering about the reality of Black Terrace, a figure was wandering around the 2nd district.
"The Key Blade Masters will soon fall," it said, "I will make sure of that."
To Be Continued...(In case any of you actually cared enough to notice, I forgot to put one of these in the 2nd chapter of Deep Dreams, and I forgot to put a The End in the 3rd. Just thought I'd let you know.)
Okay! Hope you liked the story, now for that plea of mine. Please! Please! Please! Somebody tell me how to make links in my profile! I've been trying, and trying, from copying and pasting a link, from going to Google and putting, "Links," in the search bar. Could anybody help me out? Come on! I'm dying here! This is The Mangosity saying do not eat the food on airplanes, trains, and other public transit vehicles. Don't you know it's bad for you?