"This is really boring..." Riku mumbled to himself, walking along the beach with Tidus. He had just made a new friend the other day who performed some weird magic trick with him. It wasn't a good trick, considering nothing happened, but the light show was pretty neat. Ever since he met that man, Riku had started coming to the beach, in order to hopefully find something interesting and new.
"Who cares? It's pretty peaceful here" Selphie commented, following them, much to Tidus's ire. She could never understand Riku's fascination with the beach. If one didn't know better, you would think that he lived there, he was here so often. It didn't really make any sense, but the alternative would have been playing with Wakka and Lulu, and those two were...weird.
"Who invited her?" Tidus whispered to Riku annoyed. He knew he should've stayed with Wakka, weird girl or not. At least she wasn't annoying, like Selphie. She was always following Riku around, asking questions and just irritating him. She didn't help matters any by hitting him with her jump rope, which only served to make Tidus madder. He opened his mouth to yell at her, when something caught his eye.
"Hey...What's that?" He asked, pointing at a slowly moving object at the end of the beach. It was too far away to be certain of what it was, but it kind of looked like a person.
They all ran towards the end of the beach, and the foreign was revealed to be a child around their age. By the time they had reached him, he had risen to his feet and was staring blankly at the arrival of Tidus, Riku and Selphie.
"Are you okay? You look kind of...awful." Selphie commented.
Riku winced at Selphie's statement. Hadn't she learned any manners? Even Tidus knew better than to just say things like that out loud. It was true though. His white t-shirt was ripped to shreds and he could see a few cuts and bruises hidden under what was left of the shirt. He wore undamaged black pants that flared out slightly at the bottom. He was also soaked to the bone, but was strangely not shivering. He was just staring at Riku, with a strange look in his blue eyes.
He absently pulled on one his brown lockes of hair, showing an interesting tattoo on his hand. It was a glowing purple tattoo that had six eyes arranged in a v shape pattern, with a line behind the eyes linking them together. Riku wasn't sure what the tattoo meant, but it gave him the creeps.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"My name is Riku. You can come with me to my house and get yourself cleaned up. Or at the very least, I can find you a new shirt to wear. What's your name?"
The boy, who up to this point had been staring blankly at Riku, suddenly adopted a more normal expression as he opened his mouth to respond.
"I'm Sora...nice to meet you. And thank you for the help, I appreciate it."
Selphie, who up to this point had been silently watching the interaction between Sora and Rikku, suddenly let out a squeal. "With Sora here, there's so many things we have to do! I need to go tell Wakka and Lulu!"
With her piece shared, she ran off to spread the news of the strange visitor, with Tidus following closely behind her. He had to make sure that Selphie shares the news correctly, and with the right people. And by the right people, Tidus only meant people that Tidus himself did not want to talk to.
Sora stared at the retreating figures silently, while Riku nervously laughed. "I'm sorry about them. They're a little wierd...Are you good to go?"
Without looking away from the retreating figures, Sora nodded. But Sora couldn't help but feel like he was forgetting something. Hopefully it wasn't anything too important.