Spike The Keyblade Master

by Dragonfan101

8: Deep Jungle, Part 2

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After everyone agreed to head out to find the Gorilla's with Tarzan's help, they all headed out of the camp in order to find out where they are, Tarzan most likely knew where they are, so they tried keeping up with him the best he can. Spike found it interesting seeing how different the worlds they go to compared to one another.

Wonderland was like a mix up of tons of wacky places that felt disconnected, yet close to eachother at the same time, while Olympus Coliseum felt mainly like a battle arena, and this world mainly focused on platforming ways and traversing trickier parts. Traverse Town was still a fascinating world to Spike, because if he and Sora ended up there for some reason other then them both having Keyblades, then it made Spike wonder what other reasons there are for why that portal appeared before him in Equestria.

Spike still felt worries about what's happening with Twilight and everyone else in Equestria, if the Heartless are spreading out into other worlds, then Equestria may be attacked again soon, while he hopes they will be able to handle themselves with the power they have, they may not be able to hold out until a Keyblade wielder stops it, the Heartless stopped coming in Wonderland after they closed that strange Keyhole, so that makes Spike wonder where the Keyhole in Equestria is?

Spike, Sora and the rest of the group followed Tarzan through the jungle as he lead them to the gorilla's, they had to take a higher route in the trees in order to reach them, Spike was trying his best to climb up the vines and not to fall off.
"Man, how can anyone make it through these vines without slipping up?" Spike asked with a grunt as he tried climbing up the large tree branches to a larger area where vines are hanging all around the place.

"I don't know, but I think the longer we get used to this place, the easier it'll be for us to climb these things. Tarzan's practically grown up in this place and knows where to go, so we should try to follow along with him right?" Sora asked as he was just a few inches ahead of him.

Spike felt his arms were getting tired before he saw a nearby vine he could use, and Spike summoned his Oblivion Keyblade before he sliced the strap holding it down, and used his other Keyblade to stab it on the tree so he could climb his way to it.

"At least if we're gonna climb, we might as well do it in a creative way!" Spike shouted as he used both his Keyblades to reach the vine before he jumped onto it, Spike then cheered with joy as he swung around the area they were in, and he started jumping across vines to follow Tarzan.

"Gawrsh that looks fun! Let's give it a try!" Goofy said with joy as he was about to leap for the vine too.

"Goofy wait!" Donald and Sora shouted at once before Goofy jumped out to it, but the vine had brushed past Goofy's hand as he was left floating in the air for a moment, before he suddenly fell down to a pond below them while making his iconic scream.

A loud splash was heard below them and everyone was worried for him.
"You okay Goofy?!" Donald shouted below them while Goofy chuckled a bit from below.

"I'm okay! I'll catch up in a bit!" Goofy shouted from below which made them sigh in relief.

"At least he's okay, now let's try this again.." Sora said to himself as he looked at the vine Spike used, and at the right moment, Sora jumped off his path and grabbed onto the vine with one hand, the vine swung around the high area they were in, and Sora started to jump across the vines with skill while Spike was just ahead of him.

"Clever move Spike! This is way faster!" Sora said with a smile while Spike jumped off his vine and slid down one more branch, before he leapt of that one and grabbed onto another.

"Hey, as long as we're doing this, it's best we have some fun while we're at it!" Spike replied as he laughed with joy, Sora laughed as well as they both jumped across the vines in order to catch up with Tarzan, Donald and Goofy were soon able to catch up with them after Goofy caught up with them again, and were just about to catch up with them.

As they were all about to make it to the end, they soon saw Tarzan in an open area where a bunch of gorilla's were, and that's when they realized they reached they're destination.
"I think this is the place guys." Spike declared as all of them landed down in the open area too.

Everyone looked around the large place to see what's going on, there were tons of gorilla's all over the area and were high in the branches above them, the biggest one was standing above them all, it must be Kerchak. He looked really upset with Tarzan as he brought trespassers into this territory.
"Let's stay back for this guys, we should let Tarzan try to talk to them." Sora suggested which everyone agreed to, and they backed up for Tarzan to speak to them.

Tarzan looked back at them one last time and tried finding a way to get him to help.
"Kerchak, please listen to me." Tarzan said within the gorilla language which Spike and the others couldn't understand, but the gorilla's could.

"I know the nesting grounds are sacred.. but.. I trust them. You see.. I want to help them.. because.. they need us.." Tarzan said calmly while he looked at Kerchak, but Kerchak remained stern with his expression and didn't look to be budging with this.

"Did you get any of that?" Goofy whispered to Donald and Spike.

"No." Donald replied with a curious look.

"Shh, let him speak guys!" Spike shushed while they kept they're eyes on the gorilla's.

"Kerchak!" Tarzan begged as he looked up in the air to where the tree house was, and started to leave suddenly with all of the other gorilla's.

"Where is he going?" Sora asked with concern while Tarzan looked down with regret, and Spike put a claw on his shoulder to comfort him.

"You okay Tarzan?" Spike asked with worry while Tarzan looked up to the tree house too and had a worried look.

"I think he's sensing something's wrong at the tree house." Goofy suggested just until Sora realized something important.

"Hold on a minute guys, where's Clayton?!" Sora asked with worry as they all finally noticed he disappeared from the group when they were climbing the trees, and Spike looked at the tree house and had a bad feeling of what was happening.

"Oh no.. guys come on! He may be causing trouble!" Spike shouted with worry as he quickly jumped up the tree branch and started swinging across the vines to reach the place.

"Spike's right, I knew it was a bad idea bringing him along! Let's go!" Donald shouted as he ran after Spike, and everyone else followed suit while Tarzan was worried about what this could mean.

Everyone tried hurrying they're way up to the treehouse as fast as they could, they were getting used to the way to traverse the higher grounds of this jungle thanks to the time they've had here, it was quicker to adapt to the place the longer they tried it.

Spike and Sora quickly rushed to the steps of the treehouse after carefully making they're way over the net, this place was very large and looked really old from the looks of it, and it may have been home to people who lived here before passing on. As Spike was running near the windows, he could see Clayton in the room taking aim at a very small gorilla which made him very angry.
"There he is!" Spike screamed while Donald quickly ran past the two to stop them.

The small gorilla was simply playing with a globe of the planet while Clayton was taking aim at the little guy, but Donald made a very loud scream which shocked Clayton out of his aim just as he fired it, and the gorilla was barely able to avoid the blast and quickly ran to Kerchak and Kala.
"What's the big idea?!" Donald asked with rage while Tarzan looked up at Kerchack.

Kerchak looked furious with what Tarzan's done, and it risked the life of this poor guy as a result.
"Wait Kerchack! Please!" Tarzan begged while Kerchak was walking away again with a look of disappointment and an upset look, the small gorilla looked at Donald one more time before he and the other gorilla's left too. And Tarzan just felt very upset about this before he turned to Clayton with a glare.

"You.. you don't understand.. I was only trying to.. uh.. uh you see there was a snake! Yes a snake you see? I saved that poor gorilla's life." Clayton lied which no one believed, and Spike raised his weapons at Clayton with an upset look.

"You were doing this intentionally, everyone can see it! And we're going back to camp, now!" Spike demanded while Tarzan forced him up, Clayton could see no one was believing this lie, and had no choice but to go with them as they headed back to camp to explain this to Jane.

Everyone made they're way back to the camping ground after Clayton's stupid act, they could see he was doing this intentionally, and saw that he wasn't to be near the gorilla's again. This action likely destroyed Tarzan's trust with the gorilla's after he was raised by them, and Tarzan was very upset with Clayton for this.

Soon enough, everyone made they're way back to camp and told Jane what had happened, she was furious to hear of this action of his, and everyone in the tent was ready to chew him out for doing this.
"How could you do such a thing?!" Jane shouted with fury while everyone had they're arms crossed while looking at him.

Now.. Miss Porter, as I told you.. I wasn't aiming at the gorilla..." Clayton said in defense before Jane had got up in his face.

"You are not to go near the gorilla's again!" Jane ordered while everyone agreed with this action.

"All because of one mishap? Come now...." Clayton said with a nervous look before he saw Spike and everyone else agreed to the fact he isn't allowed outside of this camp.

Clayton chuckled nervously and only went outside the tent while getting really furious.
"What am I doing with these imbeciles? Blasted gorilla's! I'll hunt down every last one of them! I'll track them down somehow, I'll stake my life on it." Clayton swore as he clutched his fists.

But as he was thinking to himself, a strange sound in the bamboo got his attention, Clayton raised his gun at the thicket and could see something in it, and with a pull of a trigger, a loud bang was heard throughout the jungle which got everyone's attention.
"What was that?!" Spike asked with worry while Tarzan was feeling something's wrong.

"It must be Clayton again, come on guys!" Sora shouted as he and the others ran outside of the tent to see what's going on.

Everyone made they're way into the camp to see where that sound came from, to everyone's shock, they saw the camp was swarmed with strange monkey looking Heartless, and that meant that something was very wrong with this world by now.
"Heartless!" Sora shouted with shock and anger while he summoned his Keyblade to fight them off.

"They must've tracked us to this world, we gotta fight them off guys!" Spike shouted as he summoned both his Keyblades and twirled them around with fast speeds, Tarzan, Donald and Goofy all drew they're weapons too and made battle cry's as they engaged in battle with these Heartless.

Spike twirled his Fire Keyblade around as he charged directly into a group of these Heartless, Spike raised his Keyblade in the air and prepared to use a magical attack against them.
"Thunder!!" Spike screamed which made his Keyblade shoot out thunder directly down on the Heartless which took most of them down. Tarzan grabbed on of the Heartless by the tail and threw it into the air, and Tarzan finished the thing off by doing a high leap into it, and he threw his spear directly at the Heartless's chest and took down that one too.

Donald shot multiple ice blasts at the Heartless before switching to Fire, Goofy threw his shield at multiple Heartless at once before it bounced back to him.
"How did these Heartless find they're way to this world?!" Goofy asked with shock as he twirled his arms up before he used his Tornado move to smack most of them down.

Sora raised his Keyblade in the air and slashed them down while Spike flipped right behind him and took another out in the air.
"I'm betting you Clayton ties into this!" Spike betted as this was a possibility with his actions recently.

"Do you think they were after the Darkness in his heart like Aerith said it was?" Donald asked while he shot down another group with his fire, and Spike, Tarzan and Sora all delivered a combo move by having Tarzan throw his spear on the ground, and Spike and Sora jumped off it before going into the air to deliver a air slash.

Spike took a deep breath and shot a large stream of fire over the remaining Heartless, and Sora soon landed on the ground and took down the last one after they made sure there weren't any around for now.
"I'm betting you it was. It just makes sense with what Clayton did back there." Sora agreed while everyone was taking heavy breaths to rest for a moment.

But before any of them could try and talk more about what's going on, another gunshot was heard from the bamboo thicket not too far away from the camp, which may mean Clayton's trying to fight off against something.
"That may be him, come on guys let's go!" Sora shouted as he quickly started moving to the thicket with the others following behind.

Spike had a bad feeling about Clayton the moment he saw him, even if he's still getting used to traveling to different worlds with a new group of friends, they're getting better with seeing the threats that come to them, and it could either be from a person from the world with a large darkness in they're heart, or something forming from the world itself.

Everyone made they're way into the bamboo thicket to see where that sound came from, but to everyone's shock, they couldn't find Clayton or anything else, there wasn't any Heartless around, or a sign of the gorilla's.
"Where is he?" Spike asked with concern as they looked at a small rock in between the thicket, and saw only one thing left over from Clayton.

But as they were looking at it, they heard sounds coming from the bamboo around them, and that made all of them take out they're weapons. And Spike's senses had suddenly reacted again as he saw the same Jaguar from before leap out of the bamboo to attack him, Spike quickly used both his Keyblades to block this animal's attack, and Tarzan quickly used his spear and slashed against it's chest to knock it back.

"This thing again?!" Sora asked with annoyance while the Jaguar roared at them and began circling around the group.

"Guess it's warning wasn't enough last time, it won't leave us alone if we let it go, we need to take it down now!" Spike shouted as he prepared his magic while the Jaguar ran into the trees and tried getting a sneak attack on them.

Tarzan quickly looked around the thicket to see where the Jaguar will strike next, and he could hear the thing coming at them from nearby.
"There!" Tarzan shouted as he pointed near the area where the Jaguar jumped out of again. The Jaguar roared at them as it was completely lost in it's senses, and everyone yelped a bit before they quickly jumped in the air and avoided it's claws again.

Spike was getting annoyed with this thing distracting them from stopping the Heartless, and he had to find a way to take this thing down before it gets away again.
"I've had enough of you!" Spike shouted as he landed back on the ground and ran directly to the Jaguar while dragging his Keyblades on the ground again.

Spike stabbed his Fire Keyblade on the ground before he slid around it and jumped onto the top of it, Spike then jumped high into the air and raised his second Keyblade in the air while making a battle cry, the Jaguar tried escaping Spike's fast attack, but it couldn't escape his air slash, and Spike went flying down to it and delivered a strong slash to it's side to weaken it.

The Jaguar went sliding over to Tarzan from the strength of the attack, and Tarzan had enough of this thing still being around, and he made a loud cry of anger while he raised his spear in the air and swung it around across it's back, Sora helped finish this thing off too by raising his Keyblade again, and he shot more Thunder blasts at it to finish it for good.
"Now!" Spike screamed as he took another deep breath and shot a stream of fire at it, and the Jaguar roared in pain as the fire harmed him to the point it couldn't recover from.

The flames soon calmed down and the Jaguar was left weak and not able to fight back, it's vision was fading from it's eyes before it finally collapsed on the floor, defeated. Everyone sighed in relief and felt glad that this thing was defeated for good.
"Good riddance..." Spike said with heavy breaths while Tarzan looked at the thing and sighed knowing it's finally gone.

"Come on, let's check up on Jane, we'll try and see what happened to Clayton once we figure out how to deal with these Heartless." Donald suggested as he was ready to go back to the camp.

"Yeah, that sounds good, come on guys, let's go." Sora replied while everyone finally left the thicket, they were all just glad that the Jaguar was finally dealt with, and now they only have to find Clayton and deal with the Heartless.

Everyone quickly made they're way back to camp in order to see if Jane's alright, with the Heartless starting to appear more and more around the place, it was causing more concern for them with where they're all coming from. Spike kept on betting it was Clayton since he's after the gorilla's, and something tells him he'll be proven right for this.

Everyone soon made it back to the camp after finishing that Jaguar off, but as they went into the tent, everyone looked worried and concerned seeing that Jane was somehow gone.
"Where's Jane?" Spike asked with worry as the tent was empty, and she wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Maybe she went to hide somewhere safe?" Sora asked hopefully as this camp wasn't the safest place for her right now, but Tarzan could sense something was off, and began turning back to the entrance to leave.
"Jane's in trouble.. she's near... near the treehouse.." Tarzan declared as he looked up to where the house was, and everyone could feel something was wrong upon seeing it.

"If there's something wrong, take us there Tarzan, we need to make sure she's safe." Spike asked which Tarzan agreed with. He soon began heading back down the same path as before to reach an area near the treehouse, and everyone soon followed behind him.

As everyone kept up with following Tarzan through the jungle, Spike was worried about what this could mean with all the Heartless being around here now.
"Guys, do you think that something's causing the Heartless to spread out to different worlds? Like.. there's a source that's making them attack all the places we've been too?" Spike theorized which interested the others.

"What makes you think that Spike?" Goofy asked as they were quickly climbing up the vines from before again to reach a higher area.

"I don't know, it's a weird feeling I'm getting right now, I don't know if there's a source, but something tells me that something must be making all these Heartless attack these worlds, maybe that's why your king set out to stop it." Spike theorized which may be true.

"It could be the case.. the king always knows when there's trouble, it'd make sense for him to think there'd be a source of all these Heartless." Donald agreed which started to make Sora worry a bit.

"But doesn't that mean there may be too much for him to handle? What if he's in danger or something? If there is a source out there, we need to find it, not only to help the king, but to save the worlds that are in danger." Sora concluded which everyone agreed with.

"He's right, we'll deal with this later though, we need to rescue Jane first, I think we're almost to where she is!" Spike shouted as Spike swung across the vines and climbed up to another area where Tarzan was climbing up too.

Everyone quickly followed behind Tarzan after theorizing what could be the cause of this, and soon enough, everyone soon found Jane trapped in some trees while a strange black fruit was near the logs.
"Tarzan!" Jane shouted with fear as she was trapped with the small gorilla from before, and more and more Heartless appeared in front of them to halt they're progress.

Spike looked up at the big black fruit that was connected to the roots trapping her, and he got an idea on how to free her.
"Guys, we need to destroy that fruit! I think that's what's holding her there!" Spike shouted as he summoned his Keyblades again and blocked multiple strikes from these monkey Heartless.

"Got it! Tarzan let's go!" Sora shouted as he and Tarzan went to repeatedly attack the fruit in order to destroy it while Spike and the others fought the Heartless off. Spike was surrounded by another group of them once more, and they all charged at him and threw weird banana's at him, but Spike quickly rolled out of the way and ran to one of the trees nearby, Spike hopped across the branches before he ran fast enough to run across the walls, and he did a backflip over the Heartless while powering up another move.

"Take this!" Spike shouted as he charged up his Keyblades with Thunder again, and he slammed himself to the ground and created a shockwave of Thunder as a result.

"Wow Spike, your really getting the hang of using that thing!" Goofy said with surprise as he propelled more attacks away from him before he threw his shield under the Heartless's feat and tripped them over.

"Thanks, it's thanks to you guys me and Sora are getting more skilled!" Spike replied as he ran past Goofy and ran alongside Donald, Donald raised his staff and shot more Ice at the Heartless once again, and Spike joined in and shot multiple Ice blasts at them too which destroyed the Heartless that was around for now.

Sora and Tarzan kept on slashing at the black fruit which was getting weaker with each hit, and Spike soon came in to help finish it off.
"Heads up guys!" Spike shouted again as he jumped in the air directly to the roots that were connecting it, and with one last slash, Spike, Tarzan and Sora all delivered one more attack against the black fruit, Spike cut the roots connecting to it, and the fruit finally exploded from the constant attacks.

Jane was finally able to be freed from the trap she was in, and sighed in relief while the others came up to her.
"You okay Jane?" Spike asked with concern while Tarzan checked if there was any wounds on her.

"I'm fine.. thank you.." Jane said gratefully while everyone was concerned about what happened.

"So what happened? How'd you end up here after we left to see where Clayton is?" Sora asked with concern which made Jane look down with regret.

"I think that may be the reason honestly.. he came into the tent with those monsters.. and that's the last thing I remember.." Jane revealed which proved Spike's theory right.

"So he's working with the Heartless! I knew it!" Spike said with a growl as he felt a strange dark aura come from his hand with the Oblivion Keyblade for a brief moment...

"Gorilla's trapped, Terk ran." Tarzan concluded as he saw the small gorilla named Terk was hiding for protection.

"We must help the gorillas!" Jane said with worry which made Tarzan get a feeling about where they are right now.

"But where are they? How do we find them?" Sora asked with worry while Tarzan looked down the path from before.

"Follow me!" Tarzan shouted as he suddenly jumped down the path again and began swinging across the vines to save them.

"You heard him! Let's go!" Donald shouted once again as he and the others started making they're way through the path to save the gorillas.

Spike had a feeling Clayton would team up with the Heartless for hunting the gorillas, it made sense with the actions they've seen and heard him do during the time they're here, he always carry's that weapon around for hunting them, not research, how a person like him ever was allowed to go with Jane is beyond him, Clayton's clearly gone down a path of no return, and if they don't stop him for good here, the gorilla's may not make it out of this.

Spike and the rest of the group slid down the trees that they used before, only now they were going at a much faster speed while Tarzan was looking out for where to land, Spike could feel the Heartless were close by somehow, and prepared himself for what they're about to face.

Tarzan soon jumped off the tree slide again and began swinging down the vines that lead through the bamboo thicket from before, and everyone quickly followed suit so they won't be too late.
"I think we're here! Be ready guys!" Spike shouted as he and everyone else finally landed on the ground safely.

Tarzan could feel the gorilla's were just up ahead, and he looked upset knowing that his family is in danger.
"Through there." Tarzan declared while he pointed his spear through a path they haven't been too before.

"Let's get em guys." Donald said with an angry look while he prepared his magic for any attacks.

With all of the gorilla's, Kerchak, Kala, and every one else was trapped by Clayton and the Heartless who surrounded them, Clayton aimed his weapon directly at Kala who was almost shot, but everyone managed to arrived at the last second to stop him.
"No!!!" Sora screamed which echoed through the forest, and Clayton was able to stop long enough for her to escape with the gorilla's.

"So it was true, you were behind this weren't you?!" Spike asked with anger while Clayton smirked evilly.

"Not Clayton, *&&X%! Not Clayton!" Tarzan warned as Clayton began to laugh like a maniac. And just behind him where what looked like a dead end, the wall suddenly burst down from something not able to be seen.

"What the?!" Sora asked with shock as something picked Clayton up and on it's back, Tarzan had enough of Clayton's actions and was about to go and attack him, but the sound of a large creature was heard before Tarzan was suddenly knocked away from them.

"Everyone, get ready!" Spike shouted as he prepared to fight Clayton and the Heartless that formed in front of them, it looked like a Chameleon in some ways, it was able to camouflage itself around them to turn invisible, but with Clayton on top of the monster, it made it very easy to see where it was right now.

Spike and the group all charged into the fight while Clayton aimed they're weapon at them, Spike raised his Keyblades in front of him just as Clayton shot at them, and they were thankfully blocked from Spike's Keyblade thanks to his quick thinking.
"Your not gonna harm the gorilla's anymore!" Spike screamed as he climbed up the monster's tail and ran straight to Clayton and delivered a hard slash to his back, this managed to knock Clayton off of the monster which separated the two of them.

"Guys, get the monster! Tarzan and I will deal with Clayton!" Spike ordered as he and Tarzan went to finish Clayton off.

"Got it!" Sora shouted once more as he charged at the large monster and shot more thunder at it. Goofy charged in front of the large Heartless who roared at all of them, it tried slashing it's claws against them, but Goofy's shield was durable enough to block it. Donald then came up next and shot more Fire at the creature, and Sora came in to help Donald out to push it back.

"Together Donald, now!" Sora shouted as he raised his Keyblade at it, and they both shot multiple fire blasts at the monster which was knocking it back even more.

Tarzan screamed with anger as he was rapidly slashing his spear at Clayton who was trying to avoid them, but Spike was making it harder as he two weapons. Clayton tried shooting them with his gun again, but Spike quickly slashed it out of his hands in order to make sure he wouldn't use it anymore.
"Why don't you try fighting like a man and not a coward?!" Spike shouted with anger as he used his Keyblades to slice Clayton's gun to pieces so he couldn't fight back anymore.

"No!" Clayton shouted with shock and anger as his weapon of defense was gone now, Spike and Tarzan charged at Clayton again to finish him off, Tarzan dropped his spear and delivered a strong uppercut to Clayton's chin, while Spike jumped up in the air and delivered a kick to Clayton's chest which sent him down to the floor.

Spike felt his rage building up as he and Tarzan fought this monster, he didn't know why, but Clayton's actions just made Spike very, very angry for some reason, and as Spike was clutching his right fist, the same dark aura from before began appearing in his hand which the others didn't see yet.

Spike made a loud cry of anger before he suddenly raised his hand forward and shot a dark blast directly towards Clayton who was shocked seeing it, Clayton was soon hit by the blast and sent flying across the floor and directly under the monster which shocked everyone.

Everyone looked at Spike with surprise, and Spike himself was shocked at what he just did, and he looked at his fist with shock.
"W.. what was that?" Spike asked with shock while everyone checked on him.

"You okay Spike?" Goofy asked with worry while Spike tried feeling what that just was now, but he couldn't feel it now for some reason.

"I'm.. I'm fine, sorry guys." Spike apologized as he and everyone else turned to Clayton.

Clayton felt weak after getting hit by that blast, but he was still trying to stand up and fight after he and the monster took a beating.
"I'm.. not.. finished.. yet..." Clayton said weakly as he was about to try to fight them again, but he soon noticed the large Heartless he was using began to fall onto him after being defeated, and Clayton could only scream with terror before it finally fell on him and they were both defeated.

Clayton and the large Heartless both began to disappear after this, and a large heart began floating away, and everyone sighed with relief as he was finally defeated.
"Well, he could've gone out in a worse way at least..." Spike said as they all saw the gorilla's come to them with a look of gratitude.

Kerchack came up to the group too, while everyone was confused at what he's doing right now, they didn't have to wait long to get they're answer as he grabbed on Spike and Sora's shoulder and he... threw them both up the cliff that lead to a new location.
"What the heck?!?!" Sora screamed as he and Spike both landed on the ground roughly, followed by Donald and Goofy as well, Tarzan quickly made his way up to where they were after thrown there.

He looked back at Kerchak one last time who didn't say anything still, he must have some stuff on his mind that he needs to discuss earlier, and he soon went off with the rest of the gorilla's who were all saved thankfully. Spike and the rest of the group looked towards a waterfall in the distance that had caverns able to be seen from it.
"What is this place?" Spike asked with awe as it did look extremely beautiful, and Tarzan knew what this place was.

"Tarzan, home." Tarzan explained as he started making his way to a nearby tunnel which lead inside it, the others looked at eachother and agreed to follow behind him just as Jane and Terk finally met up with them too after they saved the day.

Spike and everyone else made they're way through the caverns and looked at it with shock, they were making they're way through a cavern that was right behind a waterfall, the drops of water could be felt on they're bodies as they climb up a small cliff that's so close to it, it was a very beautiful sight to say the least.
"Wow..." Spike said with awe as he and everyone else followed Tarzan through a cavern that led to a secret part of the jungle.

It was an open area that looked like someone could live in, there was a lot of beautiful things to see from this place, compared to the rest of the jungle they've seen, it felt calm and peaceful, and safe.

"*%%X%" Tarzan said once again while everyone looked around the place with shock as there was a strange glowing spot in the very center of this place.

"This is your home? But that means.." Sora asked with surprise before Tarzan shushed him for a moment, and he put his hand near his ear to help them see why.

Spike put his hand on his ear too and tried listening to what he heard, and to his shock, even when they're this deep in the jungle, they could somehow hear the waterfalls all the way here.
"I can hear something.." Spike said with surprise as everyone else heard it too.

"It's the waterfalls! They're echoing all the way out here!" Jane said with amazement as they heard Tarzan say that same word again.

"Friends there, see friends." Tarzan explained which made them finally realize what this meant.

"Oh.. now I got it! *%%X%, means heart. Friends in our hearts." Jane declared which seemed to be true.

"Of course.. " Spike said with amazement as Tarzan could finally say that thing fully.

"Heart." Tarzan pronounced which made Sora a bit sad understanding it.

"Oh.. so that's what it meant.." Sora said sadly which made Spike pat his arm.

"Don't worry Sora, we'll find them soon, I promise." Spike assured while they looked at the glowing symbol in the center.

"Friends, same heart. Clayton, lose heart. No heart, no see friends. No heart, no friends." Tarzan explained which made both Donald and Sora feel bad about what happened back on the ship.

"Hey.. sorry about, what I said." Sora apologized while he held out his hand.

"I'm sorry too." Donald apologized too which made Spike feel glad about it.

"Glad you guys made up, we're in this together right?" Spike asked as he came close to the them.

"Yeah, all for one huh?" Goofy asked while he brought them closer with his shoulders which made everyone nervous a bit.

Spike and Sora soon made they're way to the glowing spot in the center of the place, and it soon began to form itself into another Keyhole like the one they saw before. Spike and Sora both raised they're Keyblades at the Keyhole together, and an energy beam soon shot from them directly into it, another lock sound was heard from somewhere as the Keyhole faded away, and another one of those strange Gummi pieces from before dropped on the ground.

"A gummi!" Donald said with surprise while Spike picked it up to inspect it.

"It's like the one we found earlier, we'd better hold onto this until we find someone who can help us with it." Spike declared as he put it away for now.

But as they were trying to think over this, Terk was getting strangely close to Donald which made Jane chuckle a bit.
"I think someone has a new admirer!" Jane joked which made everyone laugh hard seeing it.

"No no no no! Daisy would kill me!" Donald said with fear as Terk wasn't leaving him which made everyone laugh even harder seeing it.

"Well good luck with that Donald, come on guys, let's get back to camp." Spike advised as he and everyone else was finally leaving the place so they can set off again.

But unknownst to them, they're progress was being tracked by some strange evil figures within another world, they were able to watch the progress of this adventure happen, and were interested with what's happened.
"What brought the Heartless to that world?" One of the figures asked while they saw them heading back.

"The Hunter lured them there, it was his lust for power, that was the bait. But it seems the bait was too tasty for his own good. And it seemed to trigger something in that dragon that's with them." Maleficent explained as the same symbol the Heartless had was behind her on a large alter of sorts.

"Haha, yeah! He got chomped instead!" One of them said with a laugh while one of the figures came out of the shadows, and was revealed to be.. Jafar.

"A weak hearted fool like him, stood no chance against the Heartless. But the boy and dragon are a problem, they found one of the Keyholes. And they're getting stronger by the minute." Jafar warned while Maleficent didn't seem too concerned about it.

"Fear not, it will take ages for them to find the rest. They remain unaware of our other plan. And that dragon seemed to have tapped into the power of darkness for but a brief moment.' Maleficent said as she showed the villains they're progress currently.

"Yes, the princesses." Another voice said from the shadows with a sinister look while Maleficent smirked.

"Yes, they are falling into our hands, one by one. Speaking of which..." Maleficent said with a smirk as she turned to a nearby corner, and a familiar figure emerged from it with a look of fear of where she was..

Back with Spike and everyone else, they soon made it back to the camp and were ready to depart back to Traverse Town for now after this adventure. While it was fun hanging around here, they have an important job to do right now.
"Well, I guess we'd better get going." Sora said as they all had no business left to do here now.

"Where is your ship anyway?" Jane asked as she hasn't seen anything that could bring them home from what she knows.

"It's not too far, don't worry, we'll be careful, thank you for all you've done, it's been great hanging around here." Spike said thankfully while Tarzan came up to them both.

"Sora, Spike, Tarzan, friends." Tarzan replied with a smile as he shook they're hands, and when they let go, they saw a strange keychain was left from him, and it could come in handy later.

"Thanks Tarzan, hope to see you later. Come on guys, let's go." Spike advised as he and the others were finally leaving this world, and felt glad for being able to help out here.

Spike and the others soon warped back onto they're Gummi ship once again and we're now traveling to they're next world once again.
"Man, that was an adventure huh?" Spike asked as he leaned back on his chair to rest as the world was fading away in the distance now.

"It sure was, but we still don't know what these Gummi blocks are for, any ideas on how we can find out what they are?" Sora asked as he held both of them up for them to think over.

"Hey, maybe Leon will know!" Goofy suggested which may be possible with what they've learned from him.

"He might, so back to Traverse Town then?" Donald asked the others as he was setting the course for that world.

"Sounds good to me, let's go!" Spike said with an eager look just before Sora looked a bit too excited about something else.

"Hey, I wanna drive!" Sora announced as he was trying to take control to pilot the thing.

"Hey stop it!" Donald shouted as Sora was trying to push him off the seat.

"Come on, Spike and I are the Keyblade Master's." Sora insisted which was making things start to shake.

"I don't care who you are, no!" Donald shouted again which made Spike and Goofy role they're eyes again.

"Here we go again.." Goofy said with an annoyed look while looking at Spike.

"Oh.. boy..." Spike said with a nervous look as Sora took the pilot seat, and he started to make the Gummi ship spin around due to lack of control as they headed back to Traverse Town. Even with what they went through today, Spike was still concerned about what happened earlier, and if it should be something to look out for if something like this happens again..


Author's Note

Hey guys thanks for reading this! Sorry I had to put this world into 2 parts, but there are some worlds in this series that need to be split into 2 parts with how long they are, especially for when we get to the later games. I know there wasn't much for the action here, but we're still early into the story, they'll get much more powerful ability's later on. I hope you all don't mind how I'm handling things right now, just hope you liked it and have a good day guys!

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