Survivor: Destiny Islands
"Kairi! I'm back!" yelled Sora, running towards Kairi from the water. When Riku and him went through the door of light they had plummeted from the sky in huge meteors and landed in the water. The burnette had gasped for air and saw Kairi ahead, she had waved back to him.
"I knew you would be back." smiled the girl, laughing as Goofy and Donald jumped out from in back of her, hugging Sora. Riku walked out of the water last, he noticed Mickey jump up and the two ran to each other, Riku lifting the mouse into the air and spinning him. Sora smiled and looked up at Kairi, but something struck him odd to see that Kairi's eyes were now green. Before he had left the boy had always remembered her eyes to be blue, Sora shook off the difference of eye color, thinking that he was just seeing things. After all that time away from her Kairi's eye color could have changed, even if something was wrong he didn't want it to be true. The girl helped Sora up as the teenager and Riku began to recall all the things that Kairi hadn't been able to see on their journey. Kairi nodded every so often but didn't talk, this worried Riku as he hadn't heard her voice ever since he came back to the island. Just then the two boy's eyes glanced to the side as the water started to pick up and people started to wash up on the shore.
The only words that Sora could mutter was, "Organization 13."
Riku averted his gaze over at the girl who had helped make a portal for Kairi to get home. He believed her name was Namine, based on insitincts the silver-haired boy ran to the shore-line to the girl. Leaving Sora and Kairi to look out at all the Organization members awaking. Riku held up Namine and shook her a bit, "Namine? Wake up, its me Riku."
Namine fluttered her eyes open and mumbled, "R-Riku?"
"Yea, its me." responded the silver-haired boy, placing Namine onto the dry sand.
"All of the sudden I saw a huge glow then I was here." explained the girl, positioning herself on the sand, looking absent mindedly out into the sea of Organization 13, "They're here too?"
Riku moved a piece of his hair to the side and sat next to the girl sighing, "I guess so. But Sora and I killed all of them."
All of the sudden Sora ran down the shore-line towards Riku, panting he said, "Kairi.. She just disappeared, and I cant find Mickey, Donald or Goofy. They're all gone."
All around the three slowly but surely the Organization 13 members were waking up. Riku nodded at his friend and tried to summon his keyblade, finding that nothing happened. Without any alert a man started to walk towards them, with a black suit on and a grin on, "Welcome to Survivor: Destiny Islands! I see all the contestants have made it here safely.. Everyone gather around to hear the rules, I am your host Jeff Probst!"
The sitar-player dizzly woke up hearing the name Jeff Probst, "Jeff Probst? Sounds like some lame t.v show host."
"Maybe you can come over and figure out!" exclaimed the host, trying to keep his grin on, after all he was getting paid a million dollars a day for this. At the exclamation the rest of the Organization 13 woke up and glumly walked over to the host, all grumbling in anger. Sora positioned himself sitting next to Riku as he looked over at all the scowling faces of the Organization members passing him by. The only people who did not scowl at him were Axel, Zexion, Roxas and Demyx. The host stood up on a rock as he explained the rules, "You are on the t.v show Survivor: Destiny Islands! You 16 have been chosen the participate in this game show, to win 1 million dollars and or your life back for those from Organization 13. Every 2 days you will be in contests to get the idol, which keeps you safe from being voted out and not get a chance to win 1 million dollars. Though if you do get voted out then the 7 people who last got out will vote from the 2 people left who should win."
Xigbar grumbled under his breathe and stood up announcing, "I'm just going to get out of here." as he tried to summon a portal, but nothing happened.
"Oh yes," added Jeff, "I paid extra to make sure that you from the Organization 13 cant use your powers."
"Ok then where are we staying, castle, house or apartment?" impatiently asked Larxene, giving Jeff the death stare.
The host sighed and looked back at Larxene, daring himself to reply, "You will have to make your own home. Out of the many materials found here."
Larxene scowled and grumbled, "When I make myself a sharp knife I sware I'll use it.."
"Remember he is the one that is going to give us our life back." reminded Zexion, a tiring look on his face.
The girl put her head down for a second and looked back up, "Fine. I wont kill you but only because I want to win."
Jeff Probst smiled at Larxene and took out a piece of paper, stating, "This is the groups in which you will be parted in and compete in competitions with,
Group 1:
Larxene
Sora
Lexeaus
Axel
Luxord
Xemnas
Vexen
Zexion
Group 2:
Roxas
Riku
Namine
Saix
Demyx
Xigbar
Xaldin
Marluxia"
Quitely everyone around started to talk to the people next to them about the groups. Xemnas was obviously angry he had to share a group with a traitor (a.k.a Axel) while Riku was angry about not having the same group with his best friend (a.k.a Sora). Jeff Probst looked out into the sea of people sharing their comments about the groups, quitely he motioned his camera crew to his side and sent them out to video tape their opinions. Sora was the only one to look up and notice the people with video camera's begin to record all their moves and opinions. The burnette shuddered and felt a prick of worry about having to be in the same group as Larxene and be away from Riku. Larxene however was actually glad that the annoying Demyx wasn't in her group, if he wasn't there everything will be ok in Larxene's eyes.
"Tell us your opinion on the groups." asked the camera to Xemnas.
Xemnas crossed his arms and said, "I am slightly worried about Axel, since he is a traitor. Having Lexeaus may help us win competitions though so I guess everything is just fine." Slowly the camera-man nodded and went to video somebody else, leaving Xemnas to ponder his new plans of conquest after he wins the grand prize and his life back.
The host clapped his hands together, ordering everyone to quite down, "Ok, now get in your groups and I will hand you the map of where your base camp will be. There will be some things to get you started such as 3 blocks of firewood, a water-carrier, paint and an ax. Once you get there be sure to also think of a name for your group and paint it on your flag in front of your camp." after everyone got into their groups still mumbling under their breathe Jeff handed out the maps. One team will be on the east side and one will be on the west side of the island.
Group 1: West Side
Xemnas looked out over his group and ordered, "Lets head out!"
Larxene rolled her eyes and walked over to Xemnas, "Your not the boss of me anymore Xemnas, so stop trying to act the role."
The red-head over-heard this and kept his distance in the back of the two, maybe if he listened to everything they said it could help him in the future. Axel looked over at the Superior's obviously angry face and for the short moment of silence the red-head looked over at everyone else walking and chatting with those who they were friends with.
"Well if you want to be leader why dont you stop complaining about it and tell the people?" asked Xemnas, walking away from the fuming Larxene.
Larxene's blood boiled as she thought about what the Superior had said to her. Now that he wasn't even real after getting killed by Sora who was now in their group she wasn't afraid of what Xemnas thought. She decided she was going to treat Xemnas the same as everyone else in this hell of a group, starting with Sora. Larxene stopped and looked around for Vexen the only one that she could remotely trust because he usually had no idea what he was doing most of the time. For example Vexen got killed because he didn't realize that all around him Marluxia, Larxene and Axel were plotting against him. Hopefully the Chilly Academic didn't suspect Larxene of planning to get him killed but Larxene was 99.9 sure he didn't suspect her for a thing. After spotting Vexen she ran up to him and said, "Hey Vexen."
"Hello Larxene." replied Vexen, looking up at Larxene.
Larxene smoothed down her hair and said, "What would you say if I wanted to have a truce with you? You dont vote for me I dont vote for you, that kind of thing."
The Chilly Academic sighed and looked up ahead at Xemnas who had just found base camp, "As long as Xemnas isn't in this truce."
"I promise," said Larxene, putting her hand over where her heart was supposed to be, "Xemnas wont be in this truce."
Slowly everyone got to the base camp and Larxene did what Xemnas had proposed to her. Larxene stood up on one of the logs and yelled, "Ok everyone! Lexeaus, Luxord and Xemnas will bring this ax to get some cocunuts to eat for later! Vexen and Sora will think of the group's name and color in the flag. While Axel, Zexion and I will start work on the campsite. Everyone understand?!"
Lexeaus raised his hand and said, "What if we dont want to?"
"Well then I would have to say I would personally use the ax to cut your arm off." replied Larxene, smiling. Everyone grumbled and left to do their chores leaving Axel, Zexion and Larxene to do the campsite. The red-head sighed and watched everyone leave, he felt a little dissapointed that Roxas wasn't on his team but he quickly pushed that aside and walked over to Zexion who was drawing a picture of their soon-to-be campsite.
The campsite showed in the drawing showed four huge tree's connected to some leaves weaved by pieces of tree that they could get from using the ax to peel it off the tree. Leaves would cover the huge campsite and provide comfort inside. Zexion looked up at Larxene and Axel and explained, "We already have the perfect place to set this up, where those four tree's are over there," pointing over to the spot he continued, "Also we should probably get Lexeaus to peel off parts of the tree's so then I can weave it all together with leaves for the ceiling."
The red-head snickered as he said, "You know how to weave?"
Zexion frowned and replied with an icy glare, "Yes I do know how to weave, what is your special talent Axel besides being conceited?"
Larxene smiled and laughed at the red-head, Axel scowled and said, "First of all I know how to make a fire, and just because my hair looks like it takes hours on end to do doesn't mean it actually takes that long! Its naturally like this."
"Sure.. And Xemnas' tan is natural too." teased Larxene.
Zexion shook his head and tried to get everyone back on track, "So lets get some leaves ok?" Axel and Larxene reluctantly agreed and the three went around looking for leaves.
Meanwhile Vexen and Sora took the flag down and were pinning it on the ground, thinking of what to put on it. Sora felt odd working alongside an Organization member so he tried to not do anything that would make him angry. The burnette put his hand through his hair and suggested, "Maybe we should ask what everyone else thinks."
Vexen sighed because he couldn't help but agree with Sora, "Fine, lets go find them." the two departed as they searched for everyone else. While walking Vexen thought about his truce with Larxene, she sounded oddly optimistic about it. In Vexen's memory before he got killed by Axel he remembered her as someone who was crafty and loved seeing people suffer, not optimistic and friendly. The Chilly Academic decided to keep an eye out for Larxene, because most likely she was just setting him up for the fall. He needed to get his life back because frankly he wanted to conduct more experiments, it had been a long time since he had smelled the sweet smell of a successful experiment. Sora however was still worried that he was the only person not from Organization 13 on this team, and that Kairi had dissapeared before his eyes. The burnette looked down at the ground thinking that Jeff must have put them in a data world. After much walking the two ran into Lexeaus, Luxord and Xemnas trying to get cocunuts out of a tree.
"I dont want to bother you but what do you think our group's name should be?" asked Sora to the three.
Lexeaus quickly replied, "The Bears."
"Gamers." added Luxord, smiling.
Xemnas held the ax and swung it at the tree saying, "I have no opinion."
Vexen looked over at the Superior who was probably dying having to work with Lexeaus and Luxord. The Chilly Academic rolled his eyes and explained, "We only need one title from you guys we still have everyone else to get to."
Lexeaus sighed and tried to put the two titles together, "I guess then the.. Gambling Bears."
Vexen wasn't surprised that Lexeaus thought of such an unoriginal name and while the two walked away to get more people's opinions he leaned over and said to Sora, "Lets just forget we ever heard that group name."
After getting everyone's opinions they had gotten IslandHawks, by combining Larxene's love of animals that eat other animals and by Zexion's suggestion that they were on an island. Axel however thought of the name, FireBurn but frankly nobody had such a love of fire as Axel did.
Group 2: East Side
The group headed out towards the east with Riku in the lead and Namine by his side. Besides Riku nobody else seemed to want to get the role as leader other than Saix, but Saix was so quite nobody would even figure that. The teenager looked over at Namine who was looking at the ocean, her footsteps leaving tracks in the sand. In the back of the group of people was Demyx who was singing the popular song, "Old McDonald". Most of the people when the sitar-player started singing walked even faster the only person who stayed back with him was Roxas, who seemed to have no preference.
"I have alot of great idea's I just need someone to be a figure-head." explained Saix, Riku nodded and looked over at Namine seeing if she had any opinion on this, unfortunately the girl's sight was elsewhere.
The silver-haired teenager looked back at Saix and replied, "If you really want to be leader why dont you let everyone know? You have no chance if you continue to be as quite as you are." Silence followed that sentence as Riku felt the presence of Saix drift off, probably to ask someone else to be his stupid "figurehead".
Meanwhile Xigbar, Xaldin and Marluxia quitely shared stories about their deaths, all involving Sora. Marluxia quitely listened and told her story when it was her time, doing this only insured that she got more information about these two to use it against them later. Out of all of the shared stories Xigbar's was the longest consisting of what he tried to do during the fight to trick Sora and how it got him killed.
"So, Marluxia. It seems like we have been sharing more than you have. Just out of curiosity was it you who led the Castle Oblivion trick?" spat Xaldin.
The man looked at Xaldin and said, "Nope. It was all Axel's idea."
Xigbar looked over at Marluxia and grunted, "We would really like to believe you Marly."
"But we just think you have not proven your loyalty just yet." finished Xaldin.
The conversation was split short as the group arrived at the grounds. Riku picked up one the pieces of firewood and said, "Ok people! Here's what we are going to do, first we are all going to think of a name for our group then I want Saix, Xigbar, Xaldin and Roxas to make the house and Namine, Demyx, Saix and I to get food." The reaction to this order was mixed as people chatted with each other about the orders, both angry and ok with it.
Everyone gathered around the flag to pull it down, Marluxia however stood at the side-lines thinking about what kind of allies were going to be useful in this situation.
The making of the flag was very difficult to say the least as people randomly started to blurt out their idea's.
"We should draw a picture of a body of water on it!" yelled Demyx, pointing at the ocean.
"No, lets put a couple of weapons on our flag!" cheered Xigbar.
"Lets put a sitar on it!" yelled Demyx again, putting his hands in the air.
Riku rolled his eyes and put his hand on Namine's shoulder, raising his arm he yelled, "Everyone! Lets just put all of our idea's together and one at a time." the people buzzed with rebellion until it slowly quited down. Marluxia walked over to the group and crossed his arms, looking at the blank flag. Namine smiled at Riku as he turned his head to see her approval, but the girl couldn't help but look over at Roxas. The blonde caught Namine's eye and saw her eyes pleading for someone to help her out of the death trap known as Riku. Roxas walked over to Namine and unwrapped Riku's grip on her shoulder, the girl smiled at Roxas and the silver-haired teenager scowled as he saw them walk away.
"Ok, Demyx what do you think?" asked Riku, trying to push the thought of Namine with Roxas out of his head.
The sitar-player grinned at everyone's scowling faces and said, "I want something to do with water for the flag."
The silver-haired boy scratched the back of his head and replied, "Fine, we will either have the flag have water or the name ok?"
Xigbar raised his hand and added, "We should also have some weapon or something scary to frighten the other group."
"Ok... You mean Halloween scary or scary?" asked Riku, not sure if he could actually do such a thing.
"Scary."
"Fine, I will try to make it happen." assured the teenager, "Now the name what should our group name be?"
While Riku was trying to think of the name Roxas and Namine were sitting on a tree branch, both talking about what they have been doing.
"We should probably be back with the others Roxy," said Namine, "Because we need more people on our side in case they want any of us to leave. We need people who we can trust, I'm thinking that possibly Demyx and Riku could join our truce."
The blonde pondered this and put his arm around Namine, "Demyx sure. But Riku? You were the one who told me you didn't want to be anywhere near that phycho."
"Just so we can make it to the final two." promised the girl, looking up at Roxas with pleading eyes. The boy sighed and nodded, helping Namine up and starting the walk back towards camp where the others were.
"So you want the name to be, StormTree?" asked Riku, surprised that 6 people could pick such a stupid name.
Xigbar smirked and said, "Its either that name or no name."
The silver-haired teenager rolled his eyes as Namine and Roxas came out of the forest and sat down on a rock. Riku quickly painted the words "StormTree" onto the flag, making sure it was obsuletly perfect. In the background was the island they were on and a skull on the side. The skull was the only thing close enough to a weapon that Xaldin would get.
"Ok, now that we are done with that I want you guys to start working on what I told you to earlier!" announced the boy, sticking the flag back into the ground and watching it flutter in the wind. Riku walked up to the group and noticed that Namine was watching Roxas walk away, it made his blood boil that she didn't even give him a chance. He swared that by the end of this game Namine would be his.
And thus the IslandHawks and StormTree groups were born.