And now we figure out how our teen drama queen is going to get out of this mess.
"Mizuki make a break for it!" commands Grey worriedly while trying to wrestle with fifteen year old Don. Don easily kicks Grey off and he bangs against the wall. I hurry towards Grey but Don steps in between us-wait a minute, what happened to his eyes?
"Aren't your eyes red?" I ask in order to distract him but his intense glare fixates on me. His eyes are glowing yellow, how did that happen? A trail of yellow mist leaves his eyes with every movement he makes, he almost looks like a Heartless. He disregards my comment and stomps towards me menacingly.
"I have no attachment to Mia anymore which means I don't have to go easy on you," says Don threateningly, although it's hard to find him that intimidating when he's younger. He's fifteen years old but in the past he's eighteen-did he and his future self switch places? Can people actually do that? "Bring back my memories now."
"You lost your memory?"
"Don't play dumb with me, I was there when Mia told you and she told me you can take people back in time. This world is ending," his voice changes to a deep pitch suddenly. "and you're a part of this world. Now give me back my memories!"
"Mia's obviously mistaken because I can't do any of that," I chuckle lightly while raising my hands in surrender. Something warm is on my lips but I'll check that later. "Sorry, can't help you." In the middle of his gesture his arms stops and his hateful expression doesn't change; the Heartless have stopped marching and I no longer hear the gunfire down the block. I don't know how long I can do this but I have to get me and Grey away from here, this was obviously a mistake.
I run to Grey, who's frozen slumped against the brick wall, and pick him up. "He's so light," I comment. It could be because of time and space blah, blah, blah, weight and matter and stuff don't matter when time is frozen. Running as fast I as I can, which really isn't that fast, I make it up to the next street but that's when I hear Don's rushing footsteps behind me and I'm sure he can catch me in a second. Grey suddenly becomes heavy and he slips from my arms then gapes at me.
"What're you doing? How are you over-?"
"Oh shut up, I'll explain later." I turn to Don who's almost up to us. Shit, guess there's no other choice but to fight him. When I face the superhuman Don, a strong girl's voice stops him in his tracks. "Don!" the younger Don turns towards a Mia of the same age far behind him and is distracted by her. His eerie eyes are toned down as he looks away from us. Thank God for your future badassness Mia 'cause in the present I don't see you doing that. Damn, she's willing to stand up to Don of all people, all right! I pull Grey up and together we leave the scene of the chaos and to a Heartless free setting. To get to one of the other streets, Grey and I jump over a gap and hurry along, avoiding most of the Heartless. Once we find a safe street to relax, we catch our breaths.
"I was the ground and then I was in your arms? What did you do, I thought that guy was going to kill us both right then and there," states Grey fervently, but I can understand him even while I'm sweating like a waterfall.
"I stopped…time, I do…that sometimes," I reply in between pants. "Why…didn't-you kick his ass?"
"He surprised me. You're bleeding by the way." We stop by the beach where I woke up after falling off the cruise ship. Everything weird that's ever happened to me started when I woke up on that beach. I sit on the ledge to catch my breath while Grey leans on it while looking towards the ocean; I use my shirt to wipe the blood off before it dries, still warm 'cuz I stopped time. Wow I'm really get the hang of this, I'm starting to feel stronger every day. "Are we gonna make it back?" Grey asks seriously.
"Duh."
"How are you doing that?"
"What?"
"Being so optimistic, it's a little nauseating if you ask me. You're like Ms. Optimistic, it's scary." I laugh, something I haven't done in a long time. It feels good to laugh and be around someone with a sense of humor. That's gotta be my favorite trait in people. "I don't know what you were doing before you fell in this time rift but after that whole Heartless thing went down I made it back home, cleaned myself up. I was going to the car shop to pick my car up and then I heard you."
"What're you talking about? I didn't call you."
"Well I heard you, you said, 'please come' and then I ended up falling in the time rift and I made it to this world. So this is where you live?"
"I already said that I didn't live here. My world was lost to the Heartless but yours is still Darkness-free," I mention sarcastically as I grip the railing. "So that dude-lady in the blue dress, who is she really?" He burst out laughing, unable to control himself and is nearly in tears. "'K chill it's not that funny."
"Yeah it is!" He wipes away a tear and then retains his seriousness. "That thing you call a dude lady isn't really a person at all. It's a human representation of time itself. Time took that form so that it can talk to us, before I didn't know how you knew it, it but after seeing you freeze time, I think I understand why. Obviously you and Time are related."
"So all this time," at this point I'm willing to believe anything anyone tells me. "No pun intended but all this time it was the essence of time that's been messing with me? Dori's mom-and she and I are not related in any way! She's been ruining my life all this time, no pun intended there either. But wait, how do you know her?"
"She met her with Space a couple a months before you and I met. They told me about me being 'the chosen one' and then informed me about someone I had to look out for. I didn't know who it was but it's-most likely you…yeah," he scratches the back of his head. "Not sure who Dori is but Time's sibling is Space and we should be able to find him soon. But tell me, who's Dori?"
"A long ass story that's who," my mood goes to shit when I remember the crazy drama that went down in Grand Palace. He's doing well to stay away from me, I haven't seen him in a long time. "It's not important."
"Yes it is because you're turning red," he obviously points out to my dismay. "Did you guys go out or something?
"What? Ew no! Of course not!" Now that I think about it, what if we did? He is a handsome guy, I'll give him that but I doubt he would wanna date Ms. Zitface. Think about the things we could do together, the beautiful, voluptuous things-eww stop it, you're creeping yourself out. Sheesh, it's all Grey's fault, he asked the question about him. "We're mortal enemies."
"Uh-hah," he snorts, pretending to believe me.
"We are! He's the reason why this is all happening anyway. He's the one who opened the black door of unspeakable evil and had me taken away from my home and the reason I almost died when I got here 'cuz Don wanted my Chaos Emerald but it was only for me so he couldn't use it and the reason why I'm always irritable and the reason I couldn't sleep properly and-"
"Okay woah, woah, I didn't need to hear all that," he backs away and scratches his shoulder.
"Too much?" I ask with my head to my shoes, my face burning with embarrassment and humiliation.
"Too much," decides Grey teasingly. "So you said he was Time's son? That means you better watch out, she must of made him for a reason. He's already been tormenting you, you better be on your guard. Don't be too cautious though, you got me as backup apparently. I'm the one your heart chose."
"My heart has a strange taste in people."
"No it doesn't. Don't worry, I got you."
"Uh-huh. What're you looking at?" Grey gawks at something behind me, his caramel eyes fixed on something.
"Look over there!" he jumps over the railing and runs. I flip around to see what has him so interested and it's a bald man in a robe similar to the one Time was wearing but it's burnt orange. I hop off the ledge and walk down the steps, still red from confiding all that stuff to Grey. I'm sure he's only pretending to care, he's a master of deception, I'll never forget about him making me believe that he was my lost brother, but he was so easy to talk to just two minutes ago. Risa's only good to talk to 'cause she's so quiet and listens to every word I say but Grey's actually talks back.
"He's a master of deception," I remind myself when I meet up with Grey and the being called Space. For all I know Grey's using me again to get back to his world without a scratch, once this is all over he's just gonna leave me here to deal with Don by myself. "You said something Miz?"
"Nothing at all, and don't call me that."
J.G.P.
