Even If You're In the Deepest Darkness, I'll Be Your Light

Monstro & Pinocchio

My Pov

We were traveling through space. All the while, I kept wondering about Riku. Something was wrong. Instead of staying with us, it's like he was trying to avoid us. Or, Sora anyways.

Donald: "What is that?" I turned my attention to what Donald was looking at. What was that?

Sora: "Wow. It's huge!" Then I saw its mouth open as it made some sort of call. Then it 'swam' over us and I finally got a better look at it. it was a whale!

Goofy: "It's a giant whale!"

Jiminy: "It's Monstro! He's a whale of a whale, and vicious besides!" Monstro came back into view and I got the gut feeling he was going to trying and eat us.

Donald: "Whoa! Hikari, get us out of here!" The giant whale was starting to come back our way. He was going to eat us! At times like this, I hated being right!

Me: "Too late! He's going swallow us!" That was the last thing I said before the giant whale swallowed our ship whole.

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Sora's Pov

Flashback

Me: "It's true! I saw it with my own eyes!"

Riku: "You sure you didn't just hear it this time?"

Me: "What difference does it make? There's a huge monster in there, I tell you!"

Riku: "All right. Suppose there really is a monster... Think we can beat it by ourselves, Sora?" I looked at him with confidence.

Me: "No problem. Let's do it!" Riku turned to me. "Listen! There! Can you here it growling?"

Riku: "Shh, quite. We've gotta be careful." We went through the small mouth of the cave into a cavern on the other side. "See that? It's just the wind making that noise."

Me: "Aw, man. I wish it had been a monster! Hold on! What's that over there?" It looked like some kind of door. Riku went over to it.

Riku: "A window, or maybe a door? It won't open."

Me: "Geez, is that really all that's in here?"

Riku: "What do you expect in a boring place like this? Hey, Sora."

Me: "Hm?"

Riku: "When we grow up, let's get off this island. We'll go on real adventures, not this kid stuff!"

Me: "Sure. But isn't there anything fun to do now? Hey, you know the new girls? The one staying at the mayor's house and the one whose staying with you? Did you hear?" That's when I felt my consciousness flow back.

End of Flashback

I felt someone shaking me, trying to get me to wake up. I opened my eyes to see Hikari, hunched over me.

Donald: "Knock it off!" Hikari helped me to my feet.

Goofy: "Hey, Sora. Are you okay?"

Me: "What are you guys doing? Where are we, anyway?" That's when a chest fell and almost hit me.

Hikari: "Where else? Inside the goliath whale's mouth."

Goofy: "And for today's weather: expect showers." Then, another chest fell on Goofy's shield which was covering his head. "Heavy showers."

Donald: "Hey! Who's there?"

Voice: "It's me."

Donald: "Oh, it's just Pinocchio. Pinocchio!?" Jiminy popped out of my hood at the mention of Pinocchio's name.

Jiminy: "Pinocchio? Pinocch, where are you going? Pinocch! Come on, everybody! After him! Quick!"

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My Pov

We had to swim across the small lake that had form in Monstro's mouth to get to the small boat that was near dry land. I saw an elderly man on the boat. He was talking to Pinocchio. Must be his father, Geppetto.

Geppetto: "What have you got there, Pinocchio?"

Pinocchio: "With this, we can get out of here, Father."

Geppetto: "Really? With this big block? You think so?" We all lifted ourselves up to the boat.

Sora: "It's true. So, how did you end up here, Pinocchio?"

Geppetto: "Oh, my. So the whale swallowed all of you, too? My goodness."

Sora: "Yeah, looks like it."

Me: "Are you Pinocchio's father, Geppetto?"

Geppetto: "Yes, I am." I was happy to know that the father and his son were reunited. "When we got separated, I traveled all over, looking for him. Thank goodness we're together again." Geppetto picked up the large gummi block. "So, you seem to know Pinocchio quite well. I hope he was a good boy in my absence. Well, we've all had quite a journey. Right, Pinocchio? Pinocchio?" He was gone. I managed to catch a glimpse of him going further into the whale.

Me: "He's gone that way. Let's go!" The 4 of us hurried after Pinocchio. We found him lingering in an opening. "What are you doing Pinocchio? Let's get you back to your dad."

Goofy: "You know, Geppetto's awfully worried about you."

Sora: "Pinocchio, stop fooling around! This is no time for games!" We turned around to walk back when we heard Riku's voice.

Riku: "But, Sora, I thought you liked games." We turned to se him standing next to Pinocchio. "Or are you too cool to play them now that you have the Keyblade?"

Sora: "Riku! Wh-What are you doing here?"

Riku: "Just playing with Pinocchio." What was this? I was feeling so many emotions coming from Riku. Anger, jealousy, betrayal and sadness. This was Maleficent's fault. She was turning Riku against Sora.

Sora: "You know what I mean! What about Kairi? Did you find her?"

Riku: "Maybe. Catch us and maybe I'll tell you what I know." He did know something about Kairi! I could always tell when he was hiding something.

Sora: "Come on!" Riku grabbed Pinocchio and ran deeper into Monstro's bowels. I ran after him before the others could react. I had to warn him. I had to tell him he was being tricked and used by that witch of a fairy. If he doesn't listen to me, he'll go down a path where there's almost no turning. He'll do something he'll regret for the rest of his life.