AN:// This is just a random little piece I thought up in fifteen minutes and posted on here because if I have the account I might as well use it, right? Read if you want, review if you want - I don't mind either way. If you liked it, great. My purpose is done :)
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Sea.
He could hear the sea.
Yeah, yeah, what's so great about that? Anyone can hear the sea (at least, if they lived on a series of tiny poky islands, that is) at any time. So surely hearing it would have gotten boring by now – even if he had just spent around two years away from this particular one.
Although, as one of those years was spent comatose, that can be cut down to just one. Plus, after visiting Port Royale, Atlantica, Neverland and Monstro (look, a sea of digestive goo is not nice and is in fact very icky and so it counts, alright?) it wasn't like he was bereft of all oceans.
But all of that is beside the point.
The point is:
It soothed him. When on his adventure, he missed it. Hearing the sea crash against the rocks was his night time lullaby as a baby, it had been the boundary of the world and that was fine by him. Sure, it had sent his best friend ever over to the side of the Dark when he tried to get off the islands; and turned his other best friend ever into a lifeless puppet which required him to sacrifice his life (as he thought then) to revive; and the rest of his friends vanished into wherever-the-worlds-went-to-after-the-Heartless; but that didn't matter so much.
What mattered was that in the end, the sound of the sea meant everything was alright. Except when it turned purple thanks to Ansem, but that was an illusion (he thinks) and so wasn't really his sea after all.
And now his journey was at an end – if it ever could be at and end, so perhaps saying it was in an interlude would be better – it was alright again.
He saved the worlds. More than he ever thought existed.
He saved his friends. Even those he didn't start out to save.
He went home.
Sora could hear the sea.
AN:// That's it.