A/N
This is basically a lead in for my story of Valiant Hearts III, giving some insight on the beginning on the event just before my main story begins. Just so you know, this is our world; a world without the Heartless and without the Keyblade. If you are reading this and you have not read Kuugen the Fox's story Valiant Hearts II, then STOP and go read it. Its an amazing story, and you will most likely love it like I do.
Thank you and please enjoy my work and continuation of Valiant Hearts II.
Valiant Hearts III
Prolog: Valiant Heaven – Another World
Kairi jolted awake, panting heavily with sweat beaded on her body, her heart was racing a million miles, and she had a splitting headache. Her eyes darted around the room as if expecting to see some unknown figure jump out and attack her.
But she saw nothing, except for the four walls of her bedroom, a dresser in the far corner, a mirror on the wall opposite the door and collection of pictures of friends and family littered the otherwise blank wall.
After she calmed herself down, Kairi realized there were traces of tears going down her cheeks. Rubbing them away she began thinking long and hard about what she was crying for but the agony behind her eyes made it impossible to remember anything.
"Maybe it was that dream I had last night?" She asked herself as she tried to recall her last dream or even what happened the night before, but to no avail. Her mind drew a blank.
"Hmm… Guess it wasn't important." exclaimed the redhead as she dragged herself out of her twin sized bed.
She massaged her forehead in an attempt to ease the pain she felt as she shuffled to the mirror. She made a face at her reflection as she discovered she had a nasty case of bed head and slight bags under her eyes.
Then something in the background caught her eye. On the wall above her bed there was a note on a colorful piece of paper. Kairi looked back. It read:
"Don't forget today is the party and you still need to get snacks, and decorations. Naminé and Olette should be stopping by around ten to check on you and help if needed. Also make sure not to let Naminé and Olette do all the work. Remember this was all your idea. So long for now see ya at the party!"
"Signed: your neighbor Yuffie."
Suddenly memories of planning this party for weeks in advance flooded back to her.
"Dammit," Kairi cursed and she ran into the bathroom to quickly brush her hair and teeth. Then she went back into her room and found a clean outfit in her dresser and changed before she made her way out of the apartment.
While heading out she glanced at the clock above the front door. It read 8:56.
"Good I got sometime before the girls get here." Kairi told herself as she went out the door.
A clicking sound told her the door was locked. Knowing it would be hard to get to and from town on foot; Kairi "borrowed" her neighbor's bike, promising herself she would bring it back.
In less than ten minutes she had gotten to town but her legs were starting to pay the price.
"I never realized…there was…so many…hills." puffed the winded redhead.
She rested against a sturdy lamppost and tried to regain her breath.
"Next time…I'm taking the bus." Kairi concluded.
Suddenly chills ran down her spine and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. She lifted her head and stared across the street at a woman with water blue hair and was clad in armor as if preparing for war.
Then Kairi blinked and the woman was gone. Rubbing her eyes, she stared back in the direction of the strange woman. She was nowhere to be found.
"This heat must be getting to me." She said to herself just before she ran into someone.
"Sorry." Both parties apologized as Kairi recognized the faces. It was Tifa and Cloud walking together with their arms locked and cheerful happy smiles on one face and a permanent gloom over the other.
Something didn't seem right to the teen at first but didn't let it show on her face as not to be rude. "Hey…" Kairi said awkwardly from her internal confusion.
"Hey Kairi." Tifa said with exaggerated cheer, which also set off bells in the redhead's mind that she forcefully ignored.
"Can't wait for the party later, it's gonna be great, right Cloud?" said the woman as she elbowed the guy to add to the conversation. Cloud, not really wanting to say anything, or be talked to at all, only nods, and says a quiet "Sure."
Tifa, satisfied with Cloud's answer looked at Kairi and waved good-bye.
"Well. We'll see you there." Tifa said happily, and couple started walking again.
"See ya." Kairi says still somewhat confused about why something didn't feel right with that whole interaction.
"It's probably nothing." Kairi said to herself and continued to the Grocery Store to get snacks and decorations for the party.
Upon getting there Kairi looked at her cell phone clock.
"9:12, plenty of time." Kairi said reassuringly to herself, as she went into the store.
She'd gotten snacks, drinks, and some party decorations as quickly as she could.
After getting everything Kairi made her way to the registers, and used one of those self-checkout registers. After a brief moment of confusion of how to use the register, and some help form a very nice woman with long brown hair in two braids, one going down on either side of her back with a pink bow, and wearing a pink dress.
Kairi could feel another headache coming on upon seeing the woman, as a strange familiarity came from her.
"Do I know you?" the redhead blurted out looking at the woman as she felt her headache getting stronger.
Looking at Kairi with a confused expression, the woman answered "No dear, I can't say we've met before." she says still looking at Kairi in confusion.
"Are you sure, you seem really familiar." Kairi felt she knew her from somewhere.
Suddenly something caught Kairi's attention from behind the woman. Through the window she could see that same armor clad woman from earlier standing outside of the store looking at her, and again she blinked and the woman was gone.
"Are you ok, dear?" The pink dressed woman asked Kairi, looking at her with concern, giving Kairi a strange but warm feeling in her heart.
"Uh… yeah sorry, I spaced out. Oh and thank you for helping me with this." She said gesturing to the register.
"Your quite welcome." the woman said with a gentle and warm smile.
"I'm Kairi by the way" Kairi said extending her hand somewhat awkwardly.
After a moment the woman took Kairi's hand "Nice to meet you, my name is Aerith." The woman named Aerith said with a smile Kairi thought was so familiar.
After retracting her hand, Kairi checked her phone for the time, it said 9:37.
"Oh jeez, Um thanks again, and it was nice meeting you." Kairi said in a rush.
"It was nice meeting you too." Replied a somewhat amused Aerith as she watched the redhead leave, who of which still had that strange but comforting warm feeling in her heart.
Leaving the grocery store Kairi realized that the basket on her neighbor's bike was much too small to hold the decent sized amount of grocery bags that she was carrying.
Not really having a choice, Kairi left the bike, and went to the bus stop. Kairi also figured when Yuffie found out about her precious bike being left at the grocery store, she's probably going to be pretty mad.
"Sorry Yuffie." Kairi figured this was a bad idea as the bus began to pull up. In a rush, Kairi got on the bus and sat down randomly, setting her grocery bags down in the empty seat next to her.
Kairi noticed the bus was relatively empty except for a brown haired man wearing pretty much all black leather.
A feeling of familiarity striking Kairi again like it did earlier with the woman from the grocery store.
Ignoring the feeling Kairi looked out the window of the bus until she saw it was pulling up to the bus stop closest to her apartment. Getting up, and paying the bus fair, Kairi grabbed her groceries and made her way to her apartment. While walking, Kairi check the time again.
"9:46 this is going to be close," Kairi said, talking to herself "and I've got to stop talking to myself."
Upon reaching her apartment she pulled out her keys, unlocked the door and opened it. Walking in, Kairi pushed the door shut with a light nudge of her hip.
She set the groceries down on the living room table, and after a moment Kairi slumped down into one of the couches in the living room, sighing with relief.
"Well that was fun."
Immediately after saying that someone knocked… more like banged on the door repeatedly for at least 5 seconds.
Kairi, being agitated after all the previous "fun" she had, made her way to the door, and looked through the peephole.
Seeing who was on the other side of the door didn't help Kairi's mood, and only made her a little scared to open the door, but she didn't have much of a choice.
Opening the door Kairi was greeted by a loud and hyperactive "HI!" from the black haired girl in front of her.
"Hey Yuffie…" Kairi said somewhat awkwardly, still trying to come up with a way to tell her friend that her precious bike was at a grocery store roughly 2 miles away.
"Where is it?" Apparently Kairi better think faster.
Kairi tried to play dumb.
"Where's what?" She asked trying to look as innocent as possible and not make direct eye contact with Yuffie, whom of which was wearing her usual outfit of black shorts and tank top with matching boots.
Yuffie, not buying any of the "play dumb" act in any way, pressed Kairi further.
"My bike. Where is my bike? I saw you take it this morning coz I'm guessing you forgot about getting the stuff for the party. Am I right?" Yuffie asked with an accusing look at Kairi.
Not being able to avoid the question or think of a good excuse, Kairi answered.
"Ohhh… that, well ya see what had happened was." With every word Kairi's face got redder and redder do to embarrassment
"I used your bike to get to the grocery store in town, and when I went in and got the stuff I realized that the basket on your bike was too small to fit all the bags into it, so I took the—" Kairi was interrupted by Yuffie.
"Are you telling me you left my precious bike at the grocery store in town!?" She summarized getting a little louder with every word.
"Yeah pretty much, I'm so sorry Yuffie." Kairi said bowing her head in apology.
With a very loud and agitated groan, Yuffie scratched her head out of annoyance.
"Man now I gotta go into town later, and get it." The black hair girl said to herself, making Kairi feel even guiltier.
"But YOU owe me big time for letting this one go!" Yuffie said pointing at Kairi. Nodding, the redhead said
"I'm sorry, I'll make it up to you, I swear." And she meant it too.
Satisfied with that answer, Yuffie looked into Kairi's apartment.
"So what—" She was interrupted by a voice behind her.
"What are you two doing?" Looking over Yuffie's shoulder Kairi saw the owner of the voice, whom had a puzzled look on her face.
"Hey Olette." Kairi smiled and waved to her brunette friend as she approached, she also saw a flash of blonde hair behind Olette.
"And I see Naminé is hiding behind you." Kairi figured this would get Naminé to reveal herself, and that it did.
Looking over her own shoulder, Yuffie greeted the other two that have just arrived.
Upon being called out, Naminé came out from hiding behind Olette and hugged Kairi.
"You weren't supposed to do that, you meanie." she pouted as Kairi retuned the hug, but she felt her face heat up as she blushed for whatever reason… Was it this close contact with Naminé?
'What the?' Kairi thought to herself 'I hug her all the time, what's different now.'
"So, where should we get started, coz I'm guessing you forgot to set up for the party today." Olette's words brought Kairi back to the present situation; Kairi released Naminé and looked at Olette who had a smirk on her face.
"Umm, yeah something like that…" Kairi said scratching her head. "So where to start? Uhh how about the front door."
-Valiant Heaven-
"So when does your sister get back?" Olette asked Kairi after getting started on decorations, and helping Kairi get the ice-cream cake out and into the kitchen freezer.
"Oh she gets back around 3 o'clock. She's 3 years younger than me so she's finishing up her last year of middle school." Kairi explained while setting snacks on the knee-high wooden table in front of the T.V.
"Oh yeah and Kairi, Naminé and I ran into Tifa, and Cloud on the way here, and they told us they wouldn't be able to make it to the party." Olette had almost forgotten about the odd encounter with the stoic man, and the black haired martial artist.
"What; why?" Kairi asked puzzled since she saw those two not that long ago.
"I don't know, something about them running into some guy that bullied Cloud when he was a kid, so Cloud ran off after him or something like that." Olette didn't really understand it herself.
"Uhh… Ok then, no idea what that's about." Kairi responded still feeling puzzled.
"Also Olette did you and Naminé each bring a movie to watch during the party?" Kairi asked Olette, and Naminé while checking the clock, it read 10:57.
"Yeah I brought a good one." Olette smiled proudly about whatever movie she brought.
"I brought one of my favorite movies." Naminé had an adorable look on her face at the mention of the movie she brought, while she continued to pour drinks at the kitchens counter.
"Ok, now I'm curious. What did you two bring?" Yuffie was putting streamers up over the front door, and was looking down from the step stool she was standing on at Naminé, and Olette.
"I brought Tangled." Naminé responded immediately, with a smile like an adorable angel.
"Aww Naminé, that's so cute." Yuffie teased her friend.
Naminé was slightly confused as to why her choice of movie was cute, she gave Kairi a puzzled look, and the redhead answered Naminé's unasked question.
"It's cute because the movie suits you Naminé." Kairi couldn't help smile at how cute Naminé could be. Kairi suddenly felt her face blush fiercely at the thought of Naminé being cute.
'What's wrong with me, why do I keep blushing?' Kairi thought to herself.
Shaking her head, Kairi, hoping no one saw her blushing, looked at Olette.
"Uh so what did you bring Olette?" Kairi sat down on one of the two sofas across from the T.V.
One of the sofas was a lounge chair, and the other was a love seat, and the wooden knee-high table was in between the sofas, and the T.V.
Upon hearing the question Olette grinned…evilly.
"I brought my favorite zombie movie." Immediately the room was filled with agitated groans.
"What?!" Olette looked around the room, what was wrong with her movie choice.
"You seriously brought a zombie horror movie to my little sisters birthday party?" Kairi should have seen this coming.
"And what's wrong with that?" Olette saw no problem whatsoever.
"I told you, my sister scares easily, and she's pretty shy around people she doesn't know… actually she's pretty shy in general." Kairi shot back.
She remembered last Halloween when her and her sister went to a haunted house and her sister clung to her the entire time, Kairi smiled at the memory.
"Well, maybe this will help toughen her up a bit." Olette, as always being the brute. Kairi's smile faded and she glared at Olette who sat down next to her in the love seat grinning at her.
Again Kairi blushed for some reason that she could not figure out. 'Seriously, Again!' Kairi was starting to get annoyed.
As everyone finished doing their tasks they all joined Kairi and Olette in the living room.
"So why don't you tell us something about your dear sister since we've never met her, how bought for starters. What's her name? You don't want us to all yell 'Happy Birthday Kairi's sister.' Do you." Olette had a good point
"Oh yeah. I forgot you haven't met before… weird." Kairi found it odd that her best friends and her neighbor have never met her little sister before. Ignoring the odd feeling Kairi looked at her friends and smiled.
"Well for starters, her name is Xion."
-Valiant Heaven-
"Wait wait, your saying people think you two look exactly alike?" Olette asked Kairi after she made a comment as to how Kairi and Xion look nearly identical.
"Yeah, people who've seen us together have said we look like we're twins, except for our hair color, and height difference. I have a dark reddish shade of hair, while Xion has jet-black hair, and since I'm her older sister I'm taller, but only by a few inches." Kairi never really noticed that her sister looked like her that often, unless someone brought it up.
Kairi and her friends were watching T.V. to help kill time. The time on the clock was 2:50. Xion would be home soon.
Kairi was flipping form channel to channel as she felt her headache make a comeback again.
"Not again!" The redhead complained and began to massage her temples.
"What's wrong Kairi?" Naminé was looking at Kairi with concerned eyes.
"Oh it's nothing; my head has just been bothering me all day today that's all." Kairi replied as Naminé placed her hand on her forehead.
This close contact with Naminé again, Kairi could feel her face heating up, but a sudden blur on the T.V. screen over Naminé's shoulder caught Kairi's attention.
When she looked at it she saw the same armor clad woman from earlier looking directly at her, and apparently Kairi was the only one that could see her since no one else seemed to react at all to the screen blurring out.
"Kairi, are you ok? You're really pale all of a sudden." Naminé's concerned words caused Kairi to look away from the T.V. screen, and look at her friend.
"You don't see —" Kairi looked back at the T.V. screen, but the woman was gone, and the screen was playing the channel she stopped on, but Kairi's headache was still going.
"Uh, never mind, it's nothing." Naminé still looked at Kairi with concern.
"Ok…" Naminé said finally.
"Alright then… uh Kairi shouldn't we start picking out hiding spot." Yuffie said helpfully after listening to Kairi's and Naminé's exchange.
"Good idea, she'll be here in a few minutes." Kairi nodded, and checked the time again. It read 3:01.
With that said, all the girls picked different hiding spots around the apartment, except Kairi, who chose to wait by the window, and be look out. Kairi couldn't wait to see the look on her sister's face. Right on schedule the Xion's bus pulled up in front of the apartment.
Upon seeing this, Kairi stepped away from the window to stand in front of the door to surprise her sister. After a moment passed, Kairi heard the bus drive away, and the sound of jingling keys on the other side of the door. Then the doors lock clicked.
Xion opened the door to her sister's apartment. Stepping into the dark apartment Xion found her older sister Kairi standing directly in front of the door with a huge smile on her face.
"Hey Kairi," Xion was puzzled by her sister's smile. "Why are you—?"
"SURPRISE!"
Xion was cut off by three girls she didn't know, whom of which came out of different hiding spots around the apartment and yelled along with Kairi.
Xion, being very surprised, immediately hid behind her sister Kairi while her heart stopped racing from her sisters "surprise".
Upon seeing her sisters fear, Kairi petted her head.
"Sorry for scaring you like that." Kairi figured an explanation should help Xion calm down. "But, since your birthday is coming up I kinda invited some friends over to help throw a party for you."
Xion started to calm down, and looked at her sister's friends.
"Wow Kairi she really does look like you." Yuffie said looking at Kairi and Xion together. "And shy too." Olette pointed out, coming over to where everyone was. Kairi took the lead
"Xion let me introduce you to my friends." Kairi was trying to get Xion to open up a bit.
"Um…ok." Xion said hesitantly stepping out from behind her sister still looking at Kairi's friends.
"Ok good. So the really loud hyperactive black haired girl is our neighbor, Yuffie." Kairi gestured to Yuffie.
"Hi. Nice to finally meet ya Xion." Yuffie greeted loudly. Kairi was still confused how Xion hasn't met their neighbor, or her friends up till now.
Ignoring that feeling Kairi continue the introduction. "The brunette in the orange tank-top is Olette," Olette waved.
"Sup. Happy Birthday." She said with a smile.
Kairi continued "And the blond girl in the white dress is Naminé." Naminé gave an adorable smile.
"Hello Xion, it's good to finally meet you, happy early birthday." She said to a very flustered Xion.
"He...hello, and thank you for coming." Xion gave a small bow.
"AWW she's so cute Kairi and you've been keeping her all to yourself." Yuffie pouted and teased at the same time.
"Yep, and you can't have her" Kairi replied hugging her sister, who was blushing at Yuffie's teasing remark about her being cute.
"Well now that introductions are in order" Olette said dramatically. "LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" Olette has been wanted to shout that all day, which in turn scared Xion again and she was once again hiding behind her sister.
"Stop yelling, you'll scare her off." Yuffie said in a really bad australian accent.
"Ok, ok so Xion what do you want to do first?" Olette asked quietly to a very nervous Xion.
Xion peeked over Kairi's shoulder.
"Um… birthdays parties usually involve cake, right?" Kairi smiled affectionately at how adorable Xion could be.
"Yes, and I got your favorite kind too, is that what you want to start with?" Kairi asked.
"Yes please." Xion said smiling up at her older sister.
-Valiant Heaven-
Once the cake was eaten, and after a lot of joking, and teasing later, the girls were now sitting in the living room in front of the T.V. to finish the night with movies.
Olette and Naminé were sitting together on the love seat, Yuffie was sitting on the floor in between the love seat, and the table, and Kairi and Xion were sharing the lounge chair and a blanket.
"So what movie do we watch first?" Kairi asked, and then got an immediate response.
"Tangled!" "Shaun of the Dead!"
Naminé and Olette looked at each other eyes wide and immediately started to argue.
"My movie's cute and funny." Naminé put up.
"Well mine's funny and scary at the same time." Olette shot back.
"HOLD IT!" Kairi had to stop this pointless argument. "It's Xion's party, so let her choose the movie. Go ahead Xion, which one do you want to watch first?"
Xion, not to happy with being put on the spot again, used the blanket she and Kairi shared to hide herself with it, only her nose and up was visible.
"Um… I'd prefer the cute funny one, over the scary one." She said quietly.
"Mine's funny too." Olette tried to press on but Kairi stopped her.
"Xion chose, and we will watch your movie after. Ok Olette?"
Sighing in defeat Olette nodded. "Fine" and she slumped back into her seat.
Putting the first movie in everyone got comfortable. As the movie progressed and got more romantic, Kairi kept catching herself glancing at Naminé and Olette.
She kept blushing uncontrollably every time she looked at both of them on especially romantic parts of the movie.
'Really not again, why does this keep happening, and why is it always those two that keep causing it?' Kairi was seriously getting irritated by this recurring event.
Then on the part where the main character in the movie died, Kairi's headache spiked for a brief moment, and she didn't notice that she had tears rolling down her cheeks until Xion wiped them away.
"Are you ok?" Kairi could barely see her sister in the now dark room, but she could hear the concern in her sister's voice. Kairi smiled at her sister and hugged her close.
"Yeah I'm fine." Kairi's headache started to fade as she became more relaxed in her sisters presence.
For some reason, that scene in the movie reminded Kairi of something that happened to her recently, something painfully. But as if it was a dream, she could not remember what it was.
Shaking her head to try and clear her thoughts, Kairi just tried to relax and enjoy the rest of her night with her friends, and little sister.
By now the credit to the first movie were rolling, and Olette was already up and changing the disc's.
"Ok, get ready to laugh your asses off, and fear for your lives." Olette had a crazy smile on her face the whole time she said that.
"Uh Olette, you're not helping." Kairi said as her sister began to effectively hide herself further into the single blanket they shared. The only thing visible now was the light reflecting off her eyes from in the center mass of the blanket.
"Aww, she's so cute" Yuffie couldn't help but think how cute Xion was, trying to hide like that, and Kairi silently agreed and smiled.
"Don't worry. I'm here." Kairi said trying to comfort Xion by pulling her close, causing Xion to snuggle into her older sister's embrace and smile up at her.
"Thanks Kairi." Xion really loved her sister, especially when she was there to comfort her.
"You're welcome Xion" Kairi petted her sister's head and waited for the movie to start.
-Valiant Heaven-
When the Movie ended Kairi had to literally dig to get Xion out from hiding in the blanket, then the redhead gave Olette an angry glare.
"What?" the brunette had the nerve to look around innocently.
"Please don't ever bring a zombie movie to a person's birthday party." Kairi said dryly to her brute of a friend.
"But it was kinda funny on some part." Yuffie tried to defend Olette.
"Hmm it was a little funny, but not as good as Tangled." Naminé started. "Plus it was kinda violent." She finished with a grim look on her face.
"True, but that's beside the point. Olette don't bring zombie movies to birthday parties. It's not fun to watch people get eaten by zombies then expect cake afterwards."
Sighing, Olette answered.
"Ok, I get it, no zombie movies to birthday parties. Jeez your such a party pooper sometimes Kairi." Olette stuck her tongue out at Kairi.
"Anyway I gotta go, it's late, and I'm tired. So I'll see y'all later, and it was nice meeting you Xion." Olette got up and grabbed her belongings then made her way to the door and look back at her blond friend. "Naminé you want to walk back together?"
Naminé nodded to Olette, she got up and grabbed her stuff too, and waved good bye.
"Bye and Happy Birthday Xion." She followed Olette out the door.
"Well I better go too, it's almost midnight, and I gotta get up early tomorrow morning and head into town to get my bike." Yuffie gave Kairi an accusing look.
"I already said I'm sorry about that." Kairi sulked a bit.
"Heh heh heh, I know I just like to tease you, anyway I'll see you two around." Yuffie got up and went to the door but no before looking back at the birthday girl.
"It was nice meeting ya Xion." Yuffie smiled cheerfully to the other black haired girl, causing Xion to blush. With a quick "See ya later." Yuffie left, leaving Kairi with her sister,
"So, how was your birthday experience?" Kairi asked smiling at her little sister.
"It was great thanks to you." Xion answered immediately and hugged her sister affectionately.
"Good, I'm glad you had—" A massive amount of pain entered Kairi's mind so suddenly all she could do was cry out in pain, causing Xion to recoil in fright.
"Kairi! Are you ok?! What's wrong?" Xion asked in a panic, catching her sister as she fell to the ground.
-Valiant Heaven-
Pain is all Kairi could feel. Her mind was filling with images of herself doing things no human being could do. She saw darkness taking whole worlds, worlds she tried to protect and failed. Now Kairi could hear her sister crying out to her.
"Kairi! Kairi! Wake up, please wake up!"
Was that her sister? Kairi had memories of them growing up together, a whole life of affection that might be fake Kairi thought. The pain was unbearable, filling her mind with memories.
Kairi was remembering Destiny Island, Hollow Bastion, the Keyblade, the Heartless. Everything that happened to Kairi from the destruction of Destiny Island to the invasion of Hollow Bastion, Kairi was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of it all.
"Wake up Kairi! Please you're scaring me!" Xion was still here, Kairi could hear her, feel her shaking with fear next to her. She was real; Kairi grew up with her and their parents… didn't they, Kairi had those memories.
'Is this an alternate world' Kairi could barely think straight from all the pain in her head.
"What's happening to me?" Kairi said in a quiet pained voice.
"Kairi! What's wrong! Do you want me to call someone?!" Xion asked Kairi not knowing what to do.
Still lying on the ground, Kairi began remembering what happened to her, her death. Pain much like now had enveloped her, the suffering she felt now was just as bad as it was then.
Kairi could feel her mind practically breaking from the overwhelming amount of pain, and memories that enveloped her.
Opening her eyes one last time, Kairi looked up, she saw her sister sitting next to her crying, trying to keep her awake, but behind Xion was that armored woman again looking down at Kairi with a grim and sad expression.
Kairi looked back at her little sister with tears running down both her, and her sister's cheeks.
Then Kairi saw nothing but darkness, and felt nothing, no pain, just the cold.
-Valiant Heaven-
-Valiant Hearts III-