Tonbo: The Anime Fan's Quest (A random story of anime) 8

“WHAT DO WE DO KNOW!?!” Sora and Roxas screech at the same time, their eyes locked onto the dilapidated dungeon they were just stuck in.

“Why couldn’t you have gone with them?!?” Sora hollers in Roxas’ face.

“I didn’t know! I was following YOU!” Roxas pushes Sora away from him.

Sora pushes him back, and then they tackle one another to the ground, yanking at each other’s hair and punches were flown. Dante pulls Sora away from Roxas and Nero drags Roxas in the other direction. All of them either screaming: LET ME AT ‘IM! Or: SHUT UP YOU’RE ACTING LIKE CHILDREN! Link jumps in the middle and starts to help make the situation…worse. In other words, absolute chaos.

Carla and Deliana exchange a glace and roll their eyes simultaneously and Carla takes a kazoo out of her pocket and hums into it. The noise is really loud and everyone freezes.

“Thanks for stopping your meaningless arguments to listen to us!” Carla scolds, “Now, we’re not going to solve anything fighting like immature retards!”

Deliana nods, “Exactly! If we’re going to save Tonbo and Xylo, then we need to work together, not kill each other!”

“So, stop fighting!” Carla orders, Sora and Roxas are set free and they say their apologies.

“Any ideas on how to fight back?” Link asks, preferably only to Deliana, but Sora is the one to respond.

“We should go and see if Demyx, Axel and Zexion are okay.” Sora responds, his keyblade master instincts, if has any, are setting in. “We need a gummi ship…”

“Which we don’t have…” Dante slaps his forehead.

“Then…” Carla points behind everyone she’s facing, “What’s that?”

Everyone turns to see the gummi ship, with new blasters and paintjob, nestled on the ground. In the window, Chip and Dale are hopping around with Demyx, Axel and Zexion behind them. Everyone runs into the ship and sits down, thankful and happy for the rescue by the small, furry critters and the Nobodies.

“Okay,” Carla looks at the brightly lit control panel with all confusing buttons and the steering wheel, “Who’s driving?”

Sora instantly sits in the pilot’s seat and everyone just shrugs, obviously forgetting what Xylo had said earlier that day. He lifts them off the ground with a shaky and dangerous start, and everyone quickly straps themselves in their seats.

“Hey…” Deliana’s grip tightens on the chair as Sora just misses a huge cliff, “Where are we going if we have the members we were going to look for?”

“I don’t know!” Sora responds, making us all tense, “But I have a feeling on where they are! But first…” He lets go of the steering wheel and they plummet downwards in a spiraling formation, screaming, “WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

“SORA!” They all scream, Carla jumps out of her seat and clings onto Nero, Deliana’s seatbelt unclips and Link grabs her and helps her squeeze into his. Demyx and Axel are clinging onto one another for dear life, and Dante…fell asleep.

“YOU IDIOT!” Roxas screams out over all the other screaming, Naruto and Ryuu trying to remain calm in the seats next to him, “HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TELL YOU, THE DEATH SPIRAL IS NOT A FREAKING TRICK!”

I’m going to say this, I have a feeling that Naruto and the others are in danger still. I’m thinking about this while we’re brought to an entirely different, dark and spooky world and thrown into an even smaller cell. We’ve both been chained up and Xylo is just coming to. Her head turns around on her socket so fast it cracks.

“Where are we??? What happened back there? Oh, my head!!” She says a million things at once, and then something hit her, “Did they make it out okay?”

I smile weakly and shake my head a bit, “Yeah, just fine.”

She sighs in relief, and in the pale moon light, I can see tears forming in her eyes, “What is it, Xylo?”

“N-nothing…I’m just, I’m sorry, Tonbo. I got you into this mess. I should’ve never taken you out of your world, it’s gotten you nearly killed.”

I shake my head, “Are you kidding me? I’m having the best time of my life right now! This is the most adventure I’ve ever had!”

“Really?”

“Absolutely! I should be thanking you right now, but we should get out of here first!” I give my best effort to cheer her up, and I succeed at first, then she is saddened again.

“I can’t form a portal, which is weird.” She attempts to look down at her hands and sees something, “Eww! Gross! Someone put slime on my hands! That’s why!”

“That’s nasty!” I agreed, noticing the glowing muck smeared on my friend’s hands, “What do we do now?”

“I guess we wait until the bad guy comes or something.”

As if on cue, the door slams open and a creepy laugh cascades off of the small walls, we both look up to see an outline of a huge, bag-like monster, and Xylo gasps.

“Oogie Boogie?” She exasperates, and my eyes grow wide.

“But-but he’s from the Nightmare Before Christmas! That’s not an anime!”

“But he’s in Kingdom Hearts.” Xylo growls, and the bag-man cackles again, “I thought we got rid of you the last time!”

“I did too, fire ball.” He stomps in as only his stubby legs can and puts a grimy hand under her chin, “But everything’s possible! Xemnas gave me life, in return I need to torture you until you give me what I want!”

“Take your hands off of her, you bag of bugs!” I shout, where’d that come from?? He turns to me give me a creepy smile only he could.

“Well, who’s this sweet thing?”

“Don’t do anything to her. She’s new.” Xylo states bravely, “And you’re too soft to hurt us anyway. After all, you did swallow that heart.”

“One more crack like that, and I’ll start it off right now!” He warns, and we both bite our tongues, “Now, that’s more like it. I’ll be back soon, ladies.” He cackles again and leaves, slamming the door behind him.

“Okay, just like that and we know that we’re in Halloween Town.” There is a small sparkle in her eyes as she says the word, and then it vanishes, she looks up, “We’re going to be here for awhile, I’m guessing…and we can’t play Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock….”

“Well, I do have a couple more questions for you, Xy.”

“Well, aren’t you the curious one,” She teases and then says, “Shoot.”

“Well, first off…” I hope she won’t make me guess, “How’d you become a nobody?”

She looks at me like, ‘Didn’t see that one coming.’ And then she smirks, “I’d have you guess, but I think I’d just explain…no one knows the story better than I do.

“It was a few days after my fourteenth birthday, well, my twin’s birthday too…we were out and about with Naruto, practicing our ninja skills, and that’s when it happened. The armada against us in the war started to attack us like there was no tomorrow, and they had Heartless on their side. At this time, we just thought they were a genjustu, no idea what heartless were.

“This was before I had my weapons I do now, so no way to fight the heartless. My brother was getting surrounded by a bunch of them, and he could only focus on the ones in front…he was paying no attention to the ones behind. I was low on chakra, but I’d never forgive myself if anything happened to him.

“I used my last bit of chakra to blow them into a nearby brick wall, which was full of shadow. So when I went to help Naruto and my twin, they retaliated and turned into a HUGE heartless. My twin screamed for me to get out of the way, but it was too late. The darkness enveloped me and I almost forgot everything, until I heard a voice. It asked me if I wanted a purpose, able to keep my memories and still remember everything. I accepted without regret, this person gave me the ability to be Sora’s Guardian, but at a price.

“My brother thinks me, Oly, is dead. When I came back after my time with the organization, I couldn’t tell him the truth, or I’d be turned into a Dusk. Don’t get me wrong, with my twin alive, and Sora’s heart made of gold, I’ve been able to keep my true emotions, and some of my heart. I’m too different; I’m a Halfa, a kid with freaking half a heart. Is this confusing?”

When she stops, I bet she can see the pity in my eyes, and looks away, “Sorry, too graphic.”

“Xylo,” I start, “Ryuu is your brother, isn’t he?”

She freezes and nods, then looks around, “I was created in Halloween Town, this is where Zexion came and asked me to join the Organization. Before that, Jack took me in.”

“Jack Skellington? Not surprising.” I respond, nodding, “You miss Ryuu knowing you’re his sister…don’t you?”

“Yeah, every time I see how pained he is from Oly being destroyed, I just want to tell him, but never can. He either needs to find out for himself or someone else can tell him.”

I feel so bad, “Does Del know?”

“No, I thought that he’d hate me for it.”

The loud, thundering footsteps echo back towards our cell, and we become silent again. Oogie slams the door open and drags us out, his seems look like with one blow, they’ll burst.

“Now, you stay there!” Deliana growls at Sora, who is chained to his seat all the way at the back of the ship. She sits in the pilot’s seat and starts to steer, “Xylo showed me how to do this once…what were your instincts telling you?”

Ryuu’s eyes grow wide and he sits, stiff as a board, “Deliana, go right…I feel something…go to the world on your right.”

“Kinda creepy-looking if you ask me…” Carla points out, still sitting in Nero’s lap.

We’re released from our chains and put in what I can remember as Oogie’s torture room, the floors brightly lit in panels of different colors with different pictures on them…very gruesome pictures. He points a stubby, fingerless hand at me. “You first, sweet stuff.”

I shudder and gulp, but Xylo slides in front of me and spreads her arms out, whispering, “I’m not going to get you hurt.” And then shouts, “Like I said, she’s new and doesn’t know much.”

Oogie gives her a twisted, evil smirk and pushes buttons on the control panel built next to him, “Then, your first, fire ball.”

A crane pulls me out of the torture area like I’m a toy in one of those games, and tosses me into what looks like a huge bird cage, the floor under Xylo’s feet begins to spin and she gets low to the ground.

“So, tell me about your rebellion.” Oogie calls out to Xylo, who I’m calling out to, telling her not to say a thing, “Or face my wrath!”