Well, here it is again. I decided that the entire thing needed a redo desperately, so here it is! I hope y'all like it! Please, RR (again!)! ;) Later!
School was never really boring…most of the time. My class was in the library doing research for our English project, but I just don't research much at school. Besides, I was so much further along than everyone else. And we couldn't check out any books. That was a real pain in the rear because I LOVE to read. So…I laid my head down, and I let sweet darkness take me into the realm of sleep.
I was hurtling across a plain with fires of all sorts of colors on all sides, surrounding, burning, healing, wanting, and needing me. Every color imagined was there, and even some that weren't. Red, blue, green, all flew by and suddenly I slowed my sideways flight. I stopped and landed on a black ground where all fires were too far away to light my path. Then a light erupted under me and the blackness became animals of every color, very much like the fires. I looked up to follow the progress of the animals and a single feather drifted down in front of me. Then I saw what the animals had uncovered. It looked like a circular stained glass window. It was yellow, and it had a person on it. It was so big though, that I couldn't tell who it was supposed to be.
Kaitlyn… a voice called my name… Kaitlyn…the heart calls you…you must find it…the door cannot be opened with out it.
It is time. Choose your weapon…
Around me rose three pedestals. On each appeared a different weapon, a sword, a shield, and a magician's staff.
"It's like Kingdom Hearts." I thought. I had just finished the game the night before, and to tell the truth, I had cried at the ending, but this dream felt so real, I thought that it wasn't a dream at all. I reached out to the weapon that had always suited me best.
As I reached for the sword a voice whispered in my head…
The power of the warrior,
Invincible courage,
A sword of terrible destruction,
Is this the power you seek?
"Yes. I take this sword in hopes that it will be used for good, and not evil." I said aloud.
But this time, instead of asking me what I would give up, the pedestals just disappeared and I was thrown to the middle of the stained glass area. The outside rim started to collapse and the collapsing rushed inward. The glass below my feet fell, and, it was almost comical, I seemed to hang for a moment before falling myself. Blackness took me again.
I awoke on another stained glass circle of light. This time it was blue. Now that I could tell that this was Kingdom Hearts, I knew that this one was Cinderella. I was admiring the glass when I noticed a shadow on the glass in the corner of my eye.
"Heartless!" I thought. Somehow, something "clicked" in my mind and suddenly my sword was out in front of me. The Shadows attacked in their strange, jumpy fashion. I fought them off with my new sword, only attacking when I had to, and defending as much as possible. "Leave me alone!" I shouted as I fought off a very ferocious attack.
And to my utter surprise, they left, dissolving into shadows that soon disappeared. Stairs appeared on one side of the glass. I followed it, and I soon discovered that about three steps behind me, the steps started to disappear. I followed the path up, not really caring about my way back being blocked.
As I reached the next window, I heard a voice in my head again and I knew exactly what it was going to say.
The closer you get to the light…The greater your shadow becomes.
A light appeared and my shadow grew. It rose up from the floor and still it grew.
"But this time, I have no reason to fight my Darkside." I said stepping forward, touching the shadow near where the heart would have been. "There is no point in us fighting as we are equal in strength and defeating one means defeating the other. I accept the darkness as a part of me, and in me shall darkness and light be equal." The darkness came into me and I felt as if I was the large Darkside and myself at the same moment.
Through both darkness and light shall the neutral shade be born, and only with this one can the door of light be opened.
The Darkside shrunk and became my normal shadow again. A pillar of light appeared and I stepped into it. I was swept up to another glass window, but instead of landing on it, it seemed as though I was watching from a distance. There on the glass stood a person wrapped in a black cloak. I could tell that it was a boy. He was staring at a silver door in front of him. He pulled out a silver weapon of some sort. As I looked closer, I could tell that it resembled a key.
"A Keyblade?" I thought. "Silver? It's…Sora!"
He pointed the Keyblade at the door, but when something should have happened, nothing did. The Keyblade then turned into a silver blur as he ferociously attacked the door. I knew that what he was doing was futile, and I could tell that he knew it as well. Then the whole world seemed to zoom in and suddenly I was standing next to him.
"Let me help." I whispered, yet I knew he could hear it.
I felt a power swell up inside me, and I knew what I wanted to do with it. It swelled to the reaches of my limits and I let it spill over. I took it all and threw it at the door, shouting "OPEN!"
Sora gave me a look like "why didn't you increase my powers?"
I turned to him. "The power of your Keyblade lays in you; there is nothing I can do about its power." I turned back to the door, "Now open it."
He nodded, and then tried to open the door once more.
An intense light blinded me, and I raised my hand to protect my eyes. I heard one more voice in a quick second.
"Thanks Kaitlyn."
"Riku?" I asked, surprised, but only kind laughter answered me.
"Kaitlyn?"
"Huh?" I asked. I blinked and realized that I was in the library at school.
My friend Sarah stood next to me shaking me. "English is over. Didn't you hear the bell ring?" She sighed. "Sleeping again? How far are you this time?"
I gathered up my stuff sleepily and realized she was talking about the project. "Oh, yeah, well, I've only got about another night of research and then I can start putting it all together." I sighed as well. "But right now my mind's on this dream I just had."
"Really? You slept deep enough to dream?" she asked incredulously.
"Yeah. It was really unusual. It was just…really bizarre." I laughed at my allusion to Kingdom Hearts.
"Pull your self back to reality girl. You still have an entire day of classes left to go. But what about guard?" she asked.
"No, no guard today, thank goodness. But you're right." I playfully smacked my face. "Bad Kaitlyn! Wake up girl! Pull your self together!"
We laughed at my antics, then split heading for our separate classes. The rest of my day was a dull as school always is. But all day I couldn't concentrate totally, and that was very bad during colorguard class. But I survived, and I finally made it home.
"What was that dream I had?" I asked as I let myself into the house. "Was it really a dream?"
A thought popped into my head, "Is any of this for real, or not?" I laughed, thinking of how much like Kingdom Hearts this was going to sound. I went about my evening as normal. Doing homework, making sure my sister got off the bus ok and everything.
But that night, something happened that had never happened before.
I woke up at about one in the morning, and I went and looked out my window. I don't know why, but something drew me to witness this event. I gasped.
A meteor shower.
"Wow…" I thought, and then the pieces clicked into place. "Oh… no… Heartless!" I put on some clothes quickly and ran downstairs, grabbing my wooden dagger and staff from my room, thinking "A weapon is better than NO weapon". As I reached the downstairs, I felt a cold touch, like a shadow on my heart. I ran into the kitchen, discarding my dagger and staff for a few knives, securing them in my belt loops. I ran into the next room and grabbed an unsharpened sword off the wall.
I approached the door; afraid to see what I hoped was not there, but just as afraid to not look.
And there they were.
Black darker than night.
Glowing yellow eyes.
Three clawed hands reaching for the abundance of hearts here.
The cold feeling of despair that came with them washed over me.
"Oh…no…"
I backed away from the door as Heartless shadows filled the cul-de-sac. Then they weren't just outside anymore. They were there, in my house. I took out a knife and threw it at of the Shadows as it was forming just to make sure that it was real. And then I turned and ran, heading up the stairs, trying to get to my family before more Heartless could come. I looked back as I ran, and saw only Shadows flying at me. I was no match for them, even with metal weapons, and I had no friends to help me. Just as I was about to shout for my family…I sat up in bed, drenched in a cold sweat with the breeze gently wafting over me.
"Oh…my…gosh." I gasped. Shivering, I looked around, and found that the dagger, staff, and sword I had taken were still in my room. "Just a dream, just a dream." I said. "Go back to sleep," I told myself. "Everything will be normal again in the morning." And after tossing and turning for a while, I finally fell back asleep.
"When you walk away, you don't hear me say…" sang my CD player/alarm clock.
"How ironic…" I muttered thinking about how weird it was to wake up to something that reminded you of a dream you just had.
I got up and went about my normal getting ready for school process, brushing teeth, getting dressed, putting on make-up and my charm bracelet. While getting ready though, I noticed some scratches on my right leg. Three parallel red lines hurt, a lot, and they seemed recent too. As I checked myself, I noticed more scratches on my shoulder. Colorguard sometimes gave me scratches that I never noticed, so I just blew it off as that. Soon I was ready to go and I headed downstairs to get breakfast and wait for my dad to be ready to drive me to school. Just after I sat down at the table with all of the stuff for my bowl of cereal, fog seemed to fill my vision, and suddenly it cleared and I was somewhere else.
I was walking down a familiar road in the rain. I heard a sound and looked up to the sky.
A great eagle flew across the sky, and after it passed, the rain slowed to a stop.
I heard voices whispering.
"What does it matter?"
"The world has changed."
"I haven't forgotten."
I looked down and saw someone in a black cloak standing ahead of me. The person turned around and laughed a cold, terrible laugh.
"Much lies ahead of you, but…" he chuckled, "it might not be what you expect."
Suddenly I was back at the table, hearing the seconds tick by on the clock. I looked at it, and no time at all had passed, at least not enough for the vision to have been in real time.
"What was…that?" I asked, utterly confused.
I kept thinking about it as I made and ate my breakfast. My dad drove me to school, and I went through my day as normal, again. After school I had practice, but I had about an hour to use before it started. My best friend in colorguard had to go somewhere so I was left to kill time by myself. I headed to the library to see if any of my non-guard friends were there browsing the manga section. As I was walking to the library entrance, I noticed a ladder leading up into the ceiling. I heard sounds coming from up there, at least, that's where it seemed like they were coming. That's when I recalled the stories about the 'third floor' that didn't exist.
"What if it did exist?" I thought. "I have to find whatever it is." I grabbed a hold of the ladder and started climbing.
I pulled myself up into the undiscovered-until-now third floor, and gasped. It was clean, and lit, as though someone was taking care of it.
"The janitors?" I wondered. "Could this be their doing? Wow."
Then I spotted another light, a light different from the light bulbs hanging around. It had an odd coloration to it. Enchanted, I followed the light, but as I got closer, the light faded. When I reached the point where it was, I found a pedestal with a charm on it. There was a light hanging above it.
"Can they not see the light from this charm?" I wondered.
I looked again at the charm. It was a heart with a sun etched on to it.
"Wow…It's beautiful…" I sighed. I reached for it, but as I did, the light suddenly intensified. I held up my hand with the charm bracelet on it up in front of my eyes.
Remember, Kaitlyn…said a voice, Only with you, can one open the door. And only with you, can the other close it.
I stepped forward, and the floor – or the ceiling- collapsed under me. I fell down, and found myself in the library. Normally a peaceful place, it was thrown into chaos, not just by my fall, but by the appearance of puddles of darkness.
Puddles with bright yellow eyes, and black, clawed hands.
Heartless!
That was when I realized that I didn't have a weapon to fight with. I grabbed some nearby books and got ready. I noticed others doing the same. "Kingdom Hearts fans." I thought. "They must have recognized what these things are."
Then they took form, and showed no mercy in their attack. They reached the others first, jumping and scratching in their strange fashion. The others were forced to retreat and suddenly they were back to where I was. I took one swing at a Heartless, but I knew it was futile.
"Run! There's nothing we can do! Get back!" I shouted.
The others started to run, but one of my friends that had been in there tripped and fell, right in front of a Heartless.
"Jamie!" I shouted.
A Heartless jumped, ready to attack. I rushed to my friend's aide, throwing myself in front of her so she could get away. I held up my hand to block what I could of the attack.
The door must be opened. Said that voice again.
Suddenly a bright light appeared, and I heard the sound of something hitting metal. As I looked up, I saw a red and black blade in my hand. The Heartless was recoiling, holding a stump where its wrist should have been.
Welcome the Key of Heart…
"A…Keyblade?" I said, stunned. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. It was similar to the Kingdom Key with a three pronged crown on top, but instead of a middle prong, it had a red heart. The crown also shaded from black to grey. The pole went from grey at the top to red at the bottom. The hilt/hand guard was shaped like two hearts pointing opposite directions. And on the keychain at the bottom was a heart, as it twirled around, I noticed the sun etched on one side. Then my attention was torn from the keychain by Jamie's shout as the Heartless attacked again.
"Jaime, run!" I yelled as I swept my blade across in front of me to hold off the Heartless while she escaped. I kept slashing at the Heartless while slowly backing up to leave the library. That was when I heard the scream. A high pitched and blood curdling scream. A scream of utmost despair. The Heartless seemed to get excited, and as suddenly as they had appeared, they melted into shadows and left. The Keyblade suddenly disappeared. I felt something on my wrist and looked at it, and there, on the charm bracelet, instead of the charms that I had put on before, there was only the charm I had just found. The heart and sun charm turned as I looked at it, and I now noticed the moon etched on the other side.
"Light and Dark," I thought, "equal and opposite sides of the same coin."
Then I heard another scream. I turned and ran, hoping that somehow someone could save this world from the disaster that had happened.
Well, there you go. Please RR! Thanks, later!