Ok everyone, can you feel the excitement in the air, I know I can, I welcome, everyone, to the story you have all been waiting for, ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, 12
Authors Note: I just wanted everyone to know that 1. I am not mocking, or intending to mock any religion in this story, 2. This is not going to try and convert you; this is a story, and nothing more. and 3. Do not judge the entire story on this one chapter, believe me, it will be good
Another Authors Note: The title of each chapter will be a line from the story, in case people don't get it.
"Does that answer your Question?"
Destiny Island. The forgotten heaven was what it was called by most of the residents. Destiny Islands wasn't the biggest place in the universe. It wasn't grand, like America. It wasn't techno, like Japan…well; most parts of it weren't techno. In fact, not many people knew where Destiny Islands was on the world map. It was actually about 132 miles off the south of Japan, yet everyone on Destiny Islands could speak English. It was said that when the Queen had ordered to stop convicts from being sent to Australia in 1868, they began dumping convicts where they had found 5 large islands close together, with smaller islands around it. This had continued for about 2 years, but when the Queen of England had found this out, she held a secret meeting with many other members of the Royal court. She had created a law that would ban convicts from ever being transported, and that the Destiny Islands would be removed from the map, and forgotten. No one would ever know what the United Kingdom had ever done. The queen had gone to the Destiny Islands once, and traveled to all 5 islands, and had forced them to sign Secrecy documents. These documents stated that all generations of, or anyone that traveled to the Destiny Islands, could never tell anyone where the Destiny Islands were. In exchange, they would be given free transport to anywhere in the world, funded by England, with only Destiny Islanders being able to board these planes. Over time, the convicts had become gentlemen, and gold was found all over the place, as well as oil, making it the richest countries in the world, but, with no one knowing, it remained a secret. They had sent men over to Japan to get large amounts of technology and other things such as metal, and voila, they we're the richest countries in the world. Over time, they constituted the same laws as the rest of world, and they gave a name to their Islands, The Destiny Islands. It didn't look very big, but it was, it was big, and majestic, and absolutely brilliant. With a population of nearly 100,000, it was perfect, not too busy that it was loud, and yet not to quiet that everyone was bored. The 5 main islands all had names. Sunset Horizon, Dawn City, Midnight, The capital of the Destiny Islands, Eclipse Mountain, with villages all around a grand mountain, and Twilight Town. Twilight Town was right in between Dawn City and Midnight with the best beach in the world, great schools, rich kids, social outcasts, and home to Kairi Mary Faller.
15 years old, and halfway through Year 10, Kairi was a kind-hearted person but wasn't a girly girl. Her autumn red hair went down to her shoulder, and she had violet eyes that shone. She lived near the outskirts of Twilight Town, a couple of miles away from Midnight, the most advanced, biggest city in all the world, clearly beating Dawn City. Kairi, with her friends loved to visit Midnight on weekends and during the holidays, to go shopping, go to the movies and see all the cute builders working on improving the city. She attended Destiny Island High, which was only half an hour away from her house. There was only one Destiny Island High on the Destiny Islands, because Twilight Town had been the first island to be populated. The other school in Twilight Town was Twilight Private School, where only the rich kids could afford to go, and you had to be a nerd to go there as well. Kairi really didn't care about all that, Kairi was clever, but she just didn't go around telling everyone she was. Her family wasn't poor, but they weren't filthy rich either, Kairi was doing pretty well for herself. Her mum was a divorcee of 2 years, and yet she was as happy as she had ever been. Kairi's parents had thought it best to go their separate ways. Kairi's dad had moved to Japan, working for a computer company, while her mum had stayed in Twilight Town. Kairi hadn't seen her dad since he had gotten in the Taxi and left. Kairi didn't mind, though, she loved her mum (even though sometimes she was a bit of a control freak, and worried for her daughters safety), although she missed her dad occasionally, she would get over it soon.
The Sun was just rising on a Wednesday morning, around 6:59. It was a school day, and, unfortunately, Kairi had stayed up till 12:00 chatting on MSN, and her alarm was set to 7:00. Which was very bad, seeing as it was loud, annoying, and 4 seconds away from going off.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
The annoying sound of Kairi's alarm clock screeched in her ears, as if it had nowhere to go BUT in her ears. Kairi, still half asleep, pulled her hand out from under her nice cozy bed, and moved her hand around her bedside table, sliding her hand over her iPod, her bedside light and other random bits and bops, before she laid her hands of the cold, hard, metal alarm clock. She raised her hand, and like swatting a mosquito, hit the snooze button on her alarm clock. Fortunately, once Kairi woke up, she was up. Kairi pulled the warm covers off her bed, and managed to swing her feet over and sit up. She yawned as she got up, wearing pink pants with black flowers down the right side of her leg and a white tank top. Her hair was all over the place as she looked at her alarm, which read 7:00.
She managed to stand up, and walked out of her room and into the shower. Turning the taps and making the water as hot as her body could take it. She stayed in the shower as long as she could, until her hands got all wrinkly. Kairi slowly turned off the hot water but quickly turned off the cold water. She slowly got out, quickly dried off her body, wrapped a towel around her and walked to her bedroom. She opened her closet and pulled out a pair of dark blue jeans, and a pink top, with a black smiley face on the front, and slipped her purple Nike Shoes on. Kairi picked up a charm bracelet, with a diamond in the center, a 13th birthday present given to her by her parents, while they were still together. She slipped her hand through the bracelet and then began looking for something else; she pushed and lifted things up from her bedside table. When she couldn't find what she was looking for she ran out of her bedroom, ran downstairs and into the kitchen where Kairi's mum was busy eating a bowl of cheerios, and reading the morning paper
"Hey mum, do you know where my chain is?" Kairi asked her mum.
Ms Faller continued chewing on her cheerios, before she swallowed, and then said "You left it next to the computer," She smiled as she continued eating her cheerios.
"Thanks mum," Kairi was already next to the computer, she looked down as she smiled at her most prized possession, a star made from Thelassa Shells.
Thelassa Shells were said to be one of the rarest items you could find in the world. Impossible to find anywhere in the world, the one place to find it would be on the shores of Destiny Island where they would wash up on the beaches. They would never break, and never even get a scratch mark on them. Finding just one would be extremely lucky, but for Kairi's 5th birthday, her mum and dad had gotten her a star made of them. Legend said that the more Thelassa Shells you had, the more luck you would have. Kairi had had a lot of luck ever since then.
Kairi attached the chain to her belt, she then ran back up the stairs and into her bedroom. She grabbed her school bag, which she had packed the night before, grabbed her iPod and stuffed it in her bag. Swinging the strap over her shoulder, she ran down the stairs, into the kitchen, where her mother had finished eating breakfast, and handed her a lunchbox, containing a sandwich, an apple and a sweet and sour poupu smoothie. She dumped them in her bag, and was about to walk out when her mum called from the kitchen.
"Honey, do you want me to take you to school today, I can drop you off on the way to Midnight if you want?"
"It's okay, mum, I promised Nam that I'd walk with her," Kairi called back.
"Oh…alright, well, have a good day at school,"
"I will, mum," Kairi said in a rhythmic tone, as if she had said it many times before. As she opened the door, she jumped down the stairs, and walked to the front of her house, she turned, and saw her best friend, Namine Richmond, walking towards her.
Kairi and Namine had been best friends since they had gone to kindergarten. They had often been mistaken as sisters, but they didn't care, merely saying "Thank you," when someone mentioned it. They shared every secret with each other, slept over as much as they could, lived a couple of doors down from each other and took all the same classes…basically they did EVERYTHING together.
"Hey, Nam," Kairi smiled; as her best friend wore the same grey shirt, knee long white skirt and blue sandals she always wore. Kairi wasn't surprised to see her golden hair down, or that it was around the same length as hers, or that her eyes, although they were blue, shone just like hers.
"Hey, Kairi," Namine also grinned, and together they begun walking to school.
"So, Nam, I saw Axel flirting with you at the movies the other day," Kairi nudged her best friend as she giggled, "You think he'll be the one you finally give your heart to,"
"Kairi, I told you, I'm not going to give my heart to every guy that flirts with me. If I did, it would be ripped up so many times, I'd be a miserable wreck,"
Kairi laughed at the thought of Namine Richmond, the happiest girl in the world, being a 'miserable wreck'
"Ok, but still, you need to find someone…you do know the School disco is on next Friday?" Kairi asked.
"Yes, Kairi, and you do remember me saying how I wasn't going to go?" Namine reminded.
"Yeah…I just chose to ignore it," Kairi tried out a goofy smiled.
"You know, goofy smiles don't suit you," Namine pointed out as she laughed.
"Yeah…hey, stop trying to change the subject, Now, come on, there has to be one guy you like," Kairi started going through all the guys at their school.
Namine sighed, before saying "Look, Kairi, I know it was easy for you, but for me, it's going to take a while,"
Kairi had stopped listening to Namine, and instead had gone back to thinking of all the guys at their school (Which was a lot) and matching them up. Kairi didn't hook her friends up usually, but because Namine was her best friend and she had never had a boyfriend in her life, she decided to do it for her. When Kairi actually tried, she was good at matchmaking.
"Kairi…Kairi…KAIRI!"
"Yeah," Kairi annoyingly asked as she turned to her loud friend
"We're here," Namine muttered to her friend, as they stood in front of the large building known as Destiny Island High.
3 buildings, 2 of them 3 stories high, the other was the cafeteria. 6 blocks, 20 rooms in each block, high computer systems and all sorts of curriculums, great teachers, 4 lessons and lunch after the 3rd lesson, in short, the best public school on Destiny Islands. Of course, Twilight Private was 7 Stories high, 16 blocks, 35 rooms in each block, and had the biggest super computer in the world which was connected to every computer in Twilight Private, but still, Kairi thought that Destiny Island High was the best school in the world, or at least on the Destiny Islands.
As they finally reached the back gate, and the picnic table that had all their friends seated on it, Kairi couldn't help but smile as all her friends talked, laughed and gossiped.
Axel Davis, the fired redhead was, to put it quite simply, a player. He had dated more girls than any guy at DIH and he bragged to almost everyone that he had sex more times than any of the guys as well. His green eyes we're noted as a sort of 'Sexual desire' with some girls. Kairi had never, nor ever did want to date Axel, and thought nothing sexy about his eyes. He regarded girls as nothing more than play things, never actually seeing their intelligence. Axel wasn't a bad guy, in Kairi's opinion, he just really didn't know when to stop. On this day, he was wearing a red sleeveless shirt with black knee long pants and black Nike shoes. As usual, he was wearing his miniature chakram chain around his neck.
Axel was sitting on top of the picnic bench talking to Yuna Smiles. Yuna wasn't really that good at making…well, good decisions. She had a brilliant mind, but was never able to use it, because she had brilliant looks as well. She wasn't a slut in Kairi's eyes; she just didn't know when to say no and when to say yes. Yuna's eye color was extremely strange, because one was blue and the other green. Yuna had said that it was a genetic mistake, usually happening during pregnancy, the eye color couldn't decide whether to be from the fathers or mothers side and so, they managed to go into one eye each. She had chocolate brown hair that just touched the back of her neck, but had a long ponytail going as far as her ankles. She had decided to wear her usual blue skirt with a grayish white t-shirt, with long black boots.
On the other side of there was Zexion Gareth, the emo. His dark blue hair covered the left side of his face, and could always be seen with a book in his hand. He was wearing a black shirt and dark blue pants, with a long black coat and tall black boots, like Yuna's, but for men. He wasn't really the type of emo that slit his wrist, but, because he never smiled, and no one ever saw the left side of his face, he had been branded as an emo. Zexion really didn't care about it, he was emotionally unstable, and that was it. Still, it wasn't all bad, he did have a number of great friends, and, plus, he had his girlfriend, Paine Letum.
Paine, the Goth, was their newest member of three months to their little group. She had joined their group when she had asked Zexion out. Her light brown hair stuck up, and brown eyes glared with death at anyone who didn't like her or her boyfriend, She was always seen with a black tank top and long black pants, with black boots. She was a daredevil, willing to live life on the wild side. She loved to take the ferry out to her cousin, Auron, where he owned a large dessert farm on Sunset Horizons, and ride the sand dunes on her quad bike all the time. Paine had brought along her best friend into the group, Rikku Anima
Rikku was the optimistic one of the group. Her long blonde hair swayed it the breeze and her green eyes were as bright as emeralds. Today she was wearing a blue bandanna, dark yellow short shorts, blue and cream boots and a yellow tank top. To her, the opinion of others wasn't something that mattered much, and this was what Kairi respected about her. The fact that she didn't care if others thought she was a slut, and that proved to Kairi that she wasn't.
Rikku was talking to the final member of their little group, Demyx Young, the coward of the lot. He was usually the subject of Axel's fun, but managed to ignore his insults. Demyx had very light brown hair, which had been gelled up. He could usually be seen with a bright blue shirt on, black jeans, and black boots. He was usually teased for playing a sitar, which Axel constantly reminds him, "It's not a real guitar, and you're not a real guitarist," followed by laughter. Demyx had a crush on Rikku, and Kairi already knew that Rikku thought he was cute, but neither had gotten the courage to ask the other out. Rikku believed that Demyx had a crush on Yuna, whereas Demyx believed that she had a crush on Axel.
Kairi saw that Axel was constantly flirting with Yuna, and Yuna was laughing and doing the same thing. Kairi turned her worried head towards her best friend, but Namine merely smiled at her troubled friend, and walked towards Demyx and Rikku and began talking about an Art assignment that they had gotten. As she was about to walk towards Axel and Yuna, two pair of hands we're concealed over her eyes, and an extremely sexy voice said, "Guess who?"
Kairi squealed in her mind, put her hands up to the mysterious stranger's hands, removed them, and turned around, facing her boyfriend, Riku Johnson.
Riku Johnson, Captain of the Blitzball, Football, Cricket and Soccer teams, belonged to the richest family on the Destiny Islands, was kind, funny and handsome. His silver hair was spiked down to his shoulders; he usually wore a black shirt with a cream sleeveless jacket, dark blue jeans and runners. He was always seen with mirrored aviators and a long white sweatband, covering his wrist. He always gave money to charities and never asked for anything. Every guy wanted to be him, every girl wanted to date him, and he was all Kairi's.
Kairi wasted no time in having any space between them, as she grabbed his collar, and pulled him into a breathless kiss. She explored every inch of his mouth with her tongue, and then backed off as Riku did the same. They continued this for round about 2 minutes, before Axel decided to speak up.
"Oi, get a room you two," Axel laughed.
Kairi stuck up her rude finger as she continued to kiss Riku, and continuing for about a minute, before Riku needed to get air, and he pulled away.
"You know you're a great kisser," Riku smiled breathlessly.
Kairi played with his hair, before she said, "Yeah, I know,"
"You know, you too make a good couple and all, but, you kissing in front of us makes me gag," Axel laughed.
Ignoring him, Kairi asked "What are you doing down here, why aren't you training at the Soccer field?"
Riku stuck his hands in his pocket, and answered her "Well, training ended early, and I decided that I'd take my hot and very sexy girlfriend to her home room,"
"Aww, you're so sweet," Kairi giggled.
"So, is that a yes?" Riku Joked, as the bell rang.
"Well, I suppose you can," Kairi sighed and then she giggled, and held her hand out.
Riku locked his hand in hers, and, followed by the rest of the gang, walked towards class. As they passed through the grounds, with the other late students running, Kairi couldn't fail to notice fellow 9th grade student, and arch enemy, Larxene Wilson.
Larxene, was in Kairi's opinion, a slut, the biggest slut in the world. Always wearing the shortest mini-skirt she could find, and the most revealing tank top, as well as the highest heels anyone had ever seen. Her face had been plastered with makeup, and she had a lot of jewelry on her fingers. She was never seen without her two friends, Rinoa Heartily and Quistis Trepe, or, as Kairi liked to call, the twin lapdogs. They would follow her into hell, if they knew the way. All three of them we're known around the school as the slut parade, a name that Kairi had created for them. Larxene hated Kairi for the luck she had, and Kairi hated Larxene because she was sooty, sluty, and bitchy. Kairi believed that every girl had a mind, and hated girls that thought otherwise. Another reason that Larxene hated Kairi was that she had the hottest guy at school, which Kairi always managed to gloat in her face. As they were about 30 feet away, Kairi retracted her hand, and moved it onto Riku's arse, and squeezed, just so Larxene could see. She couldn't see the anger in her face, because of all the makeup, but Kairi knew it was there.
Riku just jumped a bit, before he turned to Kairi and said, "You alright there, honey?"
"Hmm? Oh, I'm fine," Kairi smiled as she turned her face back to Larxene.
Kairi thought it very odd that Larxene was winking and flirting with her, which was until she realized that she hadn't been looking at her, but someone behind them. Kairi turned to see Axel returning the gesture and accompanying it with a wink.
"Axel, you didn't?" Kairi shockingly asked.
"Well, it was a pretty good night," Axel, admitted, as he nervously laughed.
"Axel, your worse the Larxene," Kairi frustratingly concluded.
"No, he's not," Namine, corrected.
Kairi thought about it for a second, then said, "No, he's not,"
They all laughed when Kairi realized that they had walked into building 2, and had reached block D. Kairi bade farewell to the others, gave Riku a peck on the lips, and, with Namine walked into room 79, their role call room.
As Kairi and Namine managed to quickly take their seats up the back, as their music teacher, Miss Notes walked in and she began to recite the names of her list of students. Once she was done, she put the list on her desk, and said, "I only have one announcement, as you know the school disco is on next Friday, and we are looking for a band for it. Tryouts will be this Friday. Be advised that the band that is picked will have to choose several of their own songs, and they will have to be ones that they know very well, because no one wants to listen to a band that keeps stuffing up," The class laughed, but then went quiet when Miss Notes put a finger near her lips.
"Now, I want you all to start reading, or doing something constructive with your time,"
Kairi pulled out the book she was reading for English, Merryll of the Stones, while Namine grabbed her art books and a pencil, and began drawing her own project that she had been working on. 20 minutes passed, and the bell rang for her and Namine to go to their first lesson, English.
Kairi crossed the hall, until she reached her locker. She took out her English assignment, closed it, and followed Namine to the end of the hall. They took the stairs down, and walked out of the second building, across the pathway and into building 1. Kairi and Namine walked up the stairs, where they arrived at block A. They walked across until they reached room 11, their English classroom. Kairi entered with Namine and walked up to the back. Unfortunately, a friend of Kairi and the gang, Hayner Green had taken the far right side, so, she and Namine took the two seats across from his.
Hayner was the school bad boy at DIH. He was usually seen wearing camouflage pants and shoes, a black shirt and Khaki jacket. He had been expelled from a number of schools, including the Dawn Boarding School for the Gifted and Talented, and Midnight High, two of the richest schools on Destiny Islands. His parents wanted him to have the best schooling, but, the problem was, Hayner could never be taught by anyone. So, he spent his time disobeying and pranking, until he was expelled. He did have a girlfriend, Olette Torch, whom he had met at Midnight High, and spent every moment he could traveling to Midnight to see her.
"Hey, Kairi, what's happening, girl?" Hayner held out his hand, and Kairi slapped his.
"Nothing much, how was Olette?" Kairi asked, remembering he had said he was going to her place while being suspended.
"She's cool, we had so much fun, we took a train over to Eclipse Mountain, and she showed me all the horses, it was awesome,"
"Hayner, I hope you're not going all nice on us," Kairi laughed.
Before Hayner could say anything, a very loud scream came from the hall, followed by a name.
"HAYNER!!!!"
The door flew open, to reveal Miss Clarke a very plump woman with a black suit on. The strange thing about her was that she had a funny multi colored Afro on her head, with super glue oozing from underneath it.
"Does that answer your question?" Hayner smiled as he looked towards the steaming teacher.
"PRINCIPALS OFFICE! NOW!" she screamed, as she turned around, the entire class saw that she had a rather large hole around the butt of her pants, revealing her pink and red underwear. The entire class began to laugh, but soon stopped as Miss Clarke shot them all death stares. Hayner got out of his seat, grabbed his school bag, said "See you in a couple of weeks," and he left the classroom, followed by the angry Miss Clarke.
Kairi and Namine waited until she was absolutely out of earshot, before they joined the rest of their class in laughing until they began to cry.
Once the exciting events of English finished, and the bell rang for the next period, Miss Clarke, who had come back with the afro cut off in a very bad job, was wearing a coat, and had put 4 people on detention for smirking and ordered them all to hand in their English assignment. As all the students left, handing in their English assignments. They could hear the other students laughing as they walked out. Kairi and Namine quickly handed in their assignments, and ran out, down the hall, down the stairs and out of the 1st building. They stopped and then fell down to the ground laughing. Namine was the first to start talking.
"Come on, we better get to Art," Namine giggled, as she picked herself up off the ground and helped Kairi up before they went into building 1, up two flights of stairs and reaching block E. They walked straight to the end of the hall, to Room 19, their Art studio. Kairi and Namine took the seats near the front. A couple of minutes later their art teacher, Miss Provenance, entered the studio.
Miss Provenance had spent her last 5 years traveling from gallery to gallery around Destiny Island. When she had finally returned back to Twilight Town, she had taken up the post of Head Art teacher at Destiny Island High. She had pitch-black hair and opal eyes with tanned skin. She usually wore an old white t-shirt with baggy jeans, because she painted so much, she couldn't be bothered wearing something nice.
"Good morning class," Miss Provenance had a dreamy sort of voice, like she was distant, not in reality.
Some of the class muttered "Good morning," while most were still muttering to their friends.
"Before we begin, I want to see your assignments," She said, and she went to the first people who already had their assignments out.
The assignment had been to create something Mythological, Kairi had created a cross between an eagle and a snake. Kairi had called it a serpent hawk. She gave her book to Miss Provenance and she flipped through it, until she reached the page.
"What is its name?" Miss Provenance asked.
"It's called a Serpent Hawk, miss, it was said to appear to wanderers of a desert, and they would get a choice to wander forever, or reach the next town, by answering a riddle," Kairi described her make-believe mythological creature.
"Very good, Kairi," She smiled, as she gave Kairi her book back, and turned to her favorite, and top student, Namine. She picked up Namine's book and flipped it to her assignment.
"Oh, my, Namine, this is absolutely brilliant, some of your best work," She smiled as she put down the book. Kairi leaned over and took a look.
It was a picture of what looked like a human, wearing a long coat, the left side was black and the right side was white, separated straight down the middle. It was the same with his hair, which was stuck out. On the white side, was what looked like an Eagles wing, and on the black side was a black bat wing. On top of his head was halo, half was white, the other half black.
"Could you tell me what it is, Namine," Miss Provenance.
"It's nothing," Namine said.
"Of course it is something, it's your assignment," Miss Provenance smiled.
"No, I mean, it's nothing, its literally nothing. It's a human being that's died, but hasn't gone to Heaven or Hell, so he's nothing, not alive, not dead. Not good, not bad," Namine corrected.
"Oh…what a horrible way to live," Miss Provenance muttered in sadness.
"Yeah," Namine agreed
They stood in silence, before Miss Provenance said "Great work, Namine, full marks," and she turned to look at other students work.
"How did you think of that, Nam?" Kairi whispered.
"I don't know, it just…came to me," Namine admitted, but was then silent when Miss Provenance was in front of the studio.
"Now, in the next couple of weeks, we will be studying an age old myth, that is still alive now, Angels and Demon, this week we will be studying Angels"
Miss Provenance walked to the board and wrote down the words 'ANGEL' on the board.
"Now can anyone tell me what the signs are of an angel?" Several hands went up, including Namine's. Miss Provenance pointed at Namine.
"Their wings and Halo," Namine answered.
"Precisely," Miss Provenance said, as she took her whiteboard marker and wrote 'WINGS' and 'HALO' next to the angel.
"First brought on by the religion Judism, and then, Christianity. An angel was said to be one of God's messengers, a human who had believed, would become an angel, another type was a Guardian Angel, a being who would be sent back to Earth, whose job would be to protect a human,"
"Of course, there are other religions that have angels in it, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Buha I Faith and Mysticism. But Christianity is one that every human knows very well,"
Miss Provenance walked around her desk, and sat on top of it.
"Now, I want you to turn to your partner and draw them as an angel, you've got till the rest of the lesson,"
Kairi and Namine had fun trying to draw each other as angels. Kairi did a good job, but Namine, as usual, did the best, making Kairi absolutely beautiful.
"Namine…that rocks," Kairi merely stated.
"Do you think so?" Namine smiled.
Miss Provenance, who had come around to see what all the commotion was about, looked at Namine's drawing, and said "Namine, this must be one of your best work…Namine, would you mind if I had some of your work, I plan to set up a gallery, of students work, and I wanted to put yours in one of the top,"
"Oh, well, yes, sure you can," Namine said, completely embarrassed
"Excellent," Miss Provenance smiled "Ill just need your book, so I can photocopy some of your work.
Suddenly the bell rang for the 3rd period. As the others departed out of the classroom, Kairi waited while Namine gave her book to Miss Provenance. She uttered a word of thanks, before she and Kairi walked out of the classroom, took a left and down the stairs, out of building 1 and once again into building 2, where, right at room 2, was her science room. Kairi walked in, followed by Namine as they sat in the middle of the classroom, where Zexion and Paine was sitting.
"Hey, you two," Kairi smiled.
"Hey," They both blankly said, but Kairi knew they were happy, because they were in the company of each other. Just then their Science Teacher, Professor Samuels, walked in.
The professor was one of those 20 something hot nerds. He had black short hair with bright opal eyes, and nice tanned skin. He usually wore a white lab coat with a number of black, blue and red pens in his pocket. Along with that, he was wearing a green shirt with long blue jeans, and black leather clarks. He always loved to take his students out into the grounds and show them the wonders of the universe and hated bookwork.
"Good day class, today. Unfortunately, I've been given orders to give you all bookwork today,"
There was a loud groan that went through the entire class. The professor nodded his head with them all.
"Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, but, if we get this done today, then I'll be able to take you to the beach for that excursion. Now, I want you to open up to page 215 of your science books and read what it has to say on Plant Adaptation,"
As he finished giving the class his instructions, Yuna walked in, with shocked, but excited look on her face.
"Sorry I'm late, sir," She managed to say.
"That's quite alright, Yuna, take your seat," That was as another good thing about the professor, if you we're less than 10 minutes late, The Professor didn't really care. Yuna took her seat next to Namine.
About 2 minutes later, Axel strode in, with a smirk on his face. "Sorry I'm late, sir,"
Professor Samuels looked at his watch, before saying, "Just in time, Axel, go take your seat," and Axel took his seat opposite of Yuna, as they began smiling and flirting with each other.
Kairi looked at Axel, and then Yuna, then at Axel again, and finally her eyes rested on Yuna, her mouth open and the look of pure fear on her face
"No," She slowly said.
Yuna looked at Kairi with a confused look on her face.
"No," Kairi said again, a bit louder, and a bit faster.
"What are you talking about," Yuna asked her with a confused look on her face.
"You didn't," Kairi hoped. Kairi prayed.
"I didn't what?" Yuna was extremely confused now.
"You didn't do…it," Kairi said, embarrassed to say the actual word.
"Oh, well, you know, it kind of just…happened," Yuna said.
"Oh, Yuna," Kairi said in a disapprovingly tone, as she shook her head.
"And you guys are friends," Namine, who had been listening in, pointed out.
"Still, it's not as bad as when he took Rinoa into the closet, and we opened it looking for pencils and we saw them having…" Zexion began to say, but he was stopped.
"STOP RIGHT THERE," Kairi screamed, and everyone turned his or her head in her direction.
"Kairi, is something wrong," Prof Samuels, asked.
"No sir," Now Kairi's voice was the sound of a tiny mouse.
"Good, now, please, let's continue with the work," Kairi waited until the professor had his head turned the other way before she turned to Zexion.
"I thought we agreed to never speak of that moment ever again," Kairi furiously whispered.
Zexion, still with a blank look on his face, said, "Sorry, I forgot,"
"I'm still trying to put the evil memory out of my head, and you mentioning it is not going to help," Kairi was settling down now.
"Sorry," Zexion said again., this time as if he didn't mean it at all.
Kairi and the rest of the guys and girls spent the rest of the science lesson with their heads down, and working on through their workbooks. As soon as the bell rang, Kairi grabbed her books, dumped them in her bag, and ran all the way to the cafeteria.
Most of the students were just starting to arrive; Kairi had sat down, and took out her lunch. She was just starting on her sweet and sour poupu smoothie when the rest of the guys, excluding Namine had joined her.
Zexion and Paine were both talking about the homework they had gotten for language class, Rikku and Demyx were sitting there with textbooks, because they had a pop quiz in their math class next, and Kairi just sat there eating lunch. There was silence, however, when 3 students walked in. Seifer Almasy, Flanked by Fuujin 'Fuu' Locks and Raijin 'Rai' Gareth.
In short, they were the bullies of DIH. They got what they want, when they wanted it, wherever they wanted it, and if they didn't, they would punch and kick until they did. Seifer was the leader of their little gang. Usually, he wore brown long pants, black boots, a t-shirt, black beanie and a white long coat. He had blue eyes, blonde hair and was muscular. He had grown up in the rough parts of Dawn City, and had been sent to Black Heart Prison, an isolated island, just off the side of Eclipse Mountains, a number of times, mostly for physical assault and attempted murder.
Rai was Seifer's best friend, and had actually met him in Black Heart Prison. He was usually seen wearing an orange shirt, black pants, yellow skechers and a thunder chain. He had black hair and black sideburns, with tanned skin and a muscular body. As Seifer's right hand man, Rai would usually help Seifer in beating up the target. He had an annoying habit of ending all his sentences in 'Ya' Know'
Fuu was the girl in the group, but she was nowhere near a girly girl as Larxene. She had short silver hair that covered the left side of her eye. She had a blue shirt and dark yellow pants with blue shoes and dark red hair. She only ever said one word at a time, but she said a lot. She would usually be the one holding the victim while Seifer and Rai beat them up.
Kairi and Namine watched as the 3 walked into the cafeteria and straight up to a Year 7 kid, who was standing in line waiting to get his lunch. Fuu walked right up to the boy, and grabbed his arm. Seifer walked up to the boy, and said, "Well, Well, Well, look at all that money you have. Why don't you give it all to me,"
"My mum gave me that money," the kid whimpered.
"Yeah, and now you're going to give it to me," Seifer smiled as he picked up the kid by his collar.
"You're going to give me the money, or I'll beat the shit out of you AND take the money," Seifer snarled.
"You may wanna listen to him, he might kill you, ya' know" Rai smiled at the child's fear.
"Destroy," Fuu smiled.
When the boy did not answer, Seifer, held him with one hand and said, "Ok, you asked for it, and now you're going to get it," And he raised his arm as he put his hand into his fist. Kairi couldn't look, deciding to instead look down, but she couldn't block out the screams of the kid. Finally, the screams we're replaced with a sob, and Kairi looked up to see Seifer standing in front of him with $10 clenched in his fist.
"Now, you know what happens when you mess with your elders," Seifer laughed as he pocketed the money.
The kid looked up to the crowd, and said to no one in particular and said, "Please…please help me,"
"What was that?" Seifer asked, "You want help,"
Seifer picked the teen up by his collar and faced him to the crowd.
"Does any of you want to help this little whelp," Seifer yelled to everyone watching.
Nobody said a thing. Not one word was uttered from the crowd. Seifer smiled and he said, "Didn't think so," as he threw the kid into the ground, and began to walk off, with Rai and Fuu following him. The boy managed to pick himself up, and limp out of the cafeteria, to what Kairi assumed to be, the Hospital Wing.
Everyone at the table was silent for a few minutes, before Zexion began talking to Rikku and soon everyone began talking again. Suddenly, Namine burst into the Cafeteria, quickly located the gang, and ran over to them. She stopped behind Demyx and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Demyx, Axel's trapped in the PE block again, and he says he needs your help," Namine managed to get it out extremely quickly.
"Ah, crap, not again…Why can't he get Zexion to do it," Demyx whined.
"Because he said, and I quote, "I like Zexion"," Namine explained.
"Fine," As he stuffed his book in his bag, and walked off, muttering, "If he didn't sleep with so many girls…"
Namine smiled as she turned to Kairi, " Kairi, are you ok,"
Kairi was silent, she was still looking at the spot the boy had been, before she shook her head and smiled, looking up at her best friend and said, "Yeah I'm fine, Nam,"
A few minutes after, the bell rang, indicating the start of the final period, Math.
As Kairi ran ahead of Namine, through the hall and reached her class, the one person that she didn't want to see, Seifer, stopped her.
"Hey, Kairi," He smiled.
"Umm…hey?" Kairi uncertainly said.
"So, how's your relationship?"
"Fine," Kairi slowly said as she made her way around Seifer and walked to class.
"Would you like some on the side," He yelled out, which, to be honest, isn't the best thing you should yell out, when you're in public place, like a school, with thousands of people you know are around you, because he had and everyone turned and stared at Kairi and Seifer.
Kairi honestly didn't care about what the other people thought, but what Seifer said had made her want to throw up. She rushed into her classroom headed to the back, got her books out and waited.
About a minute later Namine walked in and sat next to her, then students began to walk in one at a time, then two at a time and then before she knew it, the class was full, everyone was talking and laughing. This was destroyed, however, when their math teacher, Mr. Bell, an extremely strict teacher, walked in.
Mr. Bell looked like what you would find in every toddler's nightmare. He had a pointy face, round black glasses, long black gelled-back hair, black suit, and pointy leather shoes. He never smiled, and had a death stare that would kill you.
He dropped his briefcase, and wrote page 213 to 220 on the board.
"Read to page 218, then complete the work on the last two pages,"
That was all he ever said, the work. No help, no rewards, nothing. He sat at his desk, and watched as all the students got their exercise books out of their bags. They sat there for the remaining 75 minutes of class. No one was talking, no one making any sign of wanting to talk. Every so often, Kairi would look at the clock, praying every time she did that it would read 3:00.
Finally, the sweet sound of the final bell rang throughout the ears of every student at the school. Mr. Bell didn't say a word, as he got up, took his briefcase and silently walked out the door. Kairi quickly managed to pack her bag, waited for Namine, and then walked out the classroom, and, quickly, out of the building.
As they both walked out the front gates, a loud car horn sounded through her ears. Kairi turned to her left, and saw her hot boyfriend in his new Ferrari.
"See you later, Nam," Kairi said with a look that said 'I am the luckiest girl in the whole freaking world'
"Let me know what happens," Namine said, as she smiled, and then began to walk away towards Riku.
Kairi smiled, then turned and ran towards Riku.
"Nice ride," Kairi smiled, as she finally reached him.
Riku turned around, and smiled, before saying "Well, you know, I wanted to take you out in style,"
Kairi jumped up and gave him a great big hug, and a peck on the lips, before getting in the car.
"When did you get this?" Kairi asked, as Riku opened the door for her to get in.
"A couple of days ago, when dad came back," Riku stated, as he closed the door, walked around and jumped over the door, landing in the driver seat.
"So, where are we going today," Kairi asked, excited.
"Well, I was hoping that we would be able to go to my house, and we would watch a movie, then I would take you home," Riku suggested
"Sounds good to me," Kairi smiled
"Alright then, off we go," Riku said, and he started the car, and soon they we're speeding past the trees, the beach, houses, until finally they reached the golden gates of the Notnef Castle. Kairi had once questioned the name of the manor, why it had not been called the Johnson Castle. Riku had explained to Kairi that no member of his family had built the Castle. He said that the Castle had once been own to a pair of rich scientists, and their son almost 70 years ago but they had gone traveling, and had never returned to the Islands. 50 years later Riku's grandfather had bought the Castle, seeing as he was the only one who could ever afford the iy and they had occupied it ever since.
Riku took out his Blackberry Storm and keyed in a 4-digit number, then after a few seconds, a cool female voice said "Welcome, Riku," and the gates suddenly opened, revealing the 600-acre grounds of Notnef Castle.
As Riku drove up the long driveway, Riku explained the security system.
"Dad picked it up when he was in Japan. I key in a 4-digit number, one of several distributed through the family, then, the touch screen instantly scans my eyes, mouth and face with infrared beam…it even manages to scan my DNA from it. Dad bought me the Phone when he was in England, and had an old friend in Midnight put it into the phone. Anyone else who tried to do this would instantly have 10,000 volts of Electricity; coming from the gates hit you. You wouldn't be able to move until the police, or dad came,"
Kairi smiled, she loved it when her boyfriend talked technical.
As they parked the car in the garage, along with a Bentley classic, A Ford Fiesta and a Holden Commodore. Riku opened the door and ran over to Kairi's side, before she could get out herself. Riku opened her door, and she stepped out. Another thing she loved about him, he was always a proper gentleman.
They walked out of the garage and towards the front door; Riku opened it, and let Kairi walk in first.
"Why, thank you," Kairi said, imitating a classic cowgirl.
"Not at all ma'am," Riku replied, as he imitated a cowboy, and they both started laughing as they walked inside.
The entrance hall was as big as a stadium, with a grand diamond chandelier in the middle of the hall. Grand stairs were at the end, both going left and right up higher in the castle. Several rooms were along the sides of the hall. Kairi tried to hear the sound of his mother or father walking down the stairs, but she couldn't hear a sound.
"Where is everyone?" Kairi asked, and her voice echoed throughout the hall.
"Dad's in Midnight for a week, working on an Atom teleportation machine, and mums visiting my cousins on Eclipse Mountain.
"So, we're alone?" Kairi flirtatiously asked.
"Yeah, I guess we are," Riku smiled.
They suddenly burst out laughing, and they continued laughing for a couple of minutes. When they finally stopped. Riku lead Kairi to one of the rooms on the left. Riku opened the door and led Kairi in.
In the room there was the biggest Plasma screen TV Kairi had ever seen, over 207cm long, just hanging off the wall. The sound system was hanging of the top corners of the walls, and on either side of the TV. Underneath was a DVD player, Blu-ray Player, HOPETV, the pay TV service provider for Destiny Islands, with could connect to any Pay TV channel in the entire world. In the middle were 4 red massage chairs, with cup holders, and along the right side of the room, there was nearly every DVD and Blu-Ray ever made, sorted between genres, First DVD, then Blu-ray, even if there were doubles
"Did you want anything to drink?" Riku asked.
"Yeah, could you get me a 7-up please?"
"Yeah, sure, why don't you pick a movie, and I'll get the drinks," Riku made his way out the door.
Kairi walked over to the horror sectioned, and looked until she found 'I Am Legend' for Blu-ray. She smiled as she picked up the movie, took it out of its case and placed it in the Blu-ray player. Kairi had just pressed the 'Play Movie' button when Riku came in, carrying a bottle of 7-up and mountain dew. He took his seat right next to Kairi, took out his phone and pressed something. Instantaneously the lights went out, and Kairi snuggled next to her boyfriend.
Throughout the movie, Riku would occasionally play with Kairi's silky hair, and also circled his finger around her knee. When the mutants suddenly appeared in the dark, Kairi buried her head in his chest, of course, she wasn't really scared of them, but Kairi just wanted to feel the warmth of his muscular chest. She could hear his heartbeat, and it was loud, so very very loud. Kairi was so tempted to take out her phone and snap a picture, to show to Larxene. She knew that she would go absolutely mad, but Kairi didn't want to ruin the moment. His chest was warm, so warm, and Kairi wanted to be there, nested in his chest forever
Unfortunately for Kairi, the movie soon ended, and Kairi had to get off Riku because he had to get up. Riku looked at his watch and said, "Come on, I better take you home, before your mum thinks I ran off with you,"
"I wish," Kairi muttered, but she reluctantly agreed, and followed Riku out of the room and out of the castle, into the car and out of the castle grounds.
The car sped past the upper section of Twilight Town, and before Kairi knew it they had arrived at her house.
"I had a great time," Kairi used an old, but extremely effective romantic line.
"Yeah, I did to," Riku smiled, and he leaned in, and gave her a long good night kiss.
The kiss only lasted about 10 seconds, but in that time. It was such a beautiful kiss. The kiss was full of lust, but at the same, romance. Kairi allowed Riku to explore the cavern that was her mouth with his tongue. It went to the roof of her mouth, then to the bottom. After he had finished, he retracted his tongue and allowed her to explore his mouth. She covered all corners of the inside of his mouth. Kairi never wanted the time to end.
Unfortunately, Riku was the one who ended it. He pulled himself back, and glanced at the window at Kairi'shouse. Kairi also turned around, and saw the curtain move just a tiny bit, as if someone had quickly moved away
"You better get in, before your mum comes out with the baseball bat," Riku chuckled.
Kairi groaned, wishing she could be anywhere but where she was right there and then.
"Well, if I haven't died, I'll see you tomorrow," Kairi pecked her boyfriend on the lips, before she opened her car door, got out and walked towards her house. She heard the car door slam, and the car screech off. She didn't look back, because she had a fear that she might run after him if she did.
Kairi took her key out of her pocket and slotted it in the keyhole. She turned the key, and the door suddenly opened. Kairi was starring face to face with her mother.
"Inside, now," Was all she said.
Kairi obeyed her mother, and she walked past her and sat on the couch. Her mum closed the door, and then walked in front of her.
"So, where were you today?" Her mum had her hands on her hips, and she was unimpressed.
"I was just at Riku's," Kairi muttered.
"Doing what?" The question had been fired so fast, Kairi hardly had any time to breathe.
"Just watching a movie," Kairi slowly said.
Her mum decided that Kairi was telling the truth, because she went on to her next question, "So, what were you doing out there?"
"We were just kissing," Kairi said innocently
"Yes, yes you were…FOR 11 SECONDS!" Kairi's mum screamed.
"But mum," Kairi groaned.
"No buts, Kairi, I was uneasy when you started going out with Riku, but you know the rules. For every year your going out, you get 5 seconds of kissing time, but for each second you go over, you cannot spend that many days with him,"
"Mum, this is so unfair," Kairi had raised her voice a tiny bit.
"Kairi, you're a clever girl, and I know you can count while your kissing," Kairi's mum ignored her as she continued.
"I bet your mum never had any stupid rules like you've got," Kairi reasoned.
"When I was your age, I wasn't even allowed to have guy friends," Kairi's mum responded.
"Yeah, well welcome to the 21st century," Kairi ran up the stairs and into her room. She took her hiptop out of her pocket and put it on her bedside table. She laid on her bed thinking.
She knew that her mum was just being careful. But it was the principal of the matter. No other kid had to have a mother who was over-protective, so why did she have to have one. She knew that she was sounding like a little kid that couldn't have her way, but she still didn't like it. She knew that in a couple of days they would both forget about the incident, but she still wasn't going to lighten up easily.
Her Hiptop phone vibrated on her table. Kairi picked it up, and it read "Nam". Kairi smiled as she pressed the green phone button.
"Hello," Kairi said.
"Hey, Kai, so, what happened?" Namine wasted no time in asking for the details.
"It was amazing, Nam. We watched a movie, I nested in his chest, and we had the most romantic kiss ever," Namine joined in with the sighing.
"And then my mum grounded me," Kairi then sighed again, but this one was a saddened sigh.
"Ouch, for how long?" Namine asked.
"A day…but I can't spend it with Riku," Kairi fake sobbed.
"Double ouch," Namine said.
Suddenly there was a loud scream from downstairs "KAIRI, DINNER TIME!"
Kairi covered her phone with her hand and yelled back "COMING MUM!"
She removed her hand from the speaker, and said, "Listen, Nam, I've got to get going, but I'll talk to you tomorrow,"
"Yeah, alright, see you tomorrow," Then the sound of the dial tone went through her ears.
Kairi pressed the red button, wishing she could still talk to her best friend. Then she placed her phone down, and ran downstairs for dinner.
After a beautiful dinner of pasta and garlic bread, and after Kairi had finished packing the dishwasher and cleaning the table and kitchen benches, Kairi ran up the stairs, into her bedroom and began to start her homework and assignments. After an hour and a half of hard working, she decided that she had done enough for that day, and she opened msn and checked to see if anyone was online. She was about to log off when she spotted Riku online. She began the conversation with 'Hi sexy thing, how u doin?' Kairi didn't have to wait long before Riku sent a reply 'not much, not much, how's my hot girlfriend doin?' Kairi smiled as she typed 'she doin well'
For at least 2 hours, Kairi was typing to Riku. When Kairi's mum told her to get off the computer and go to sleep. Kairi turned off the computer, but then dove for her hiptop, and logged onto msn from there. She then spent another 3 hours talking to him. Kairi finally looked at her watch, which read 12:07am. Kairi, who was too tired to get changed, decided to sleep in her clothes. After a quick goodbye to Riku, she signed off, and she placed the hiptop on her bedside table. As her eyes began to droop, and she was about to go into a dream about Riku, and a never-ending beach, she muttered to herself "Life is good,"
12--------12
High in the sky, over earth, over space, over time, two figures looked through a cloud to see an unsuspecting Kairi asleep in her bed. Both figures were male; one was wearing pure white robes. With long blonde hair, and a little blonde goatee. He was around 7 foot 4. The second figure was wearing a black robe, with a black hood. This figure was about 6 foot 2. He had two pure white wings and a golden halo above his head.
"And there she is, the final child," The man in white robes had a wise voice, as if he had centuries of knowledge within him.
"What is her name, almighty?" This voice had to belong to a teenager, no less than 16 years old.
"I named her Kairi Faller," The Almighty said
"Kairi…I believe its Japanese for Sea," The boy said to no one in particular.
"Yes, yes it is…" The Almighty looked at the boy for a few seconds, before turning to the cloud again.
They stared at her for a couple of minutes, before the Almighty turned to the boy.
"Now listen to me, it is absolutely important that you keep this girl alive. If she fell into his hands, it would be catastrophic. Even without the others, he could still use her void energy to…well, let's just say it would be a bad time to be an angel,"
The boy chuckled, but understood.
"This is why I've chosen you to protect her, you are my greatest protector, and she'll be a handful. Do you think you can handle it…Sora Twelve?"
The boy removed his hood to reveal bright deep blue cerulean eyes, a tanned, muscular body and chocolate brown spiky hair.
"Oh, I can handle it," Sora smiled, showing his perfect blinding white teeth, "And believe me, no one is going to touch her," He winked at the almighty one, before saying with a strong and forceful voice, "Allons-y!" and his wings were brought around him, as if they were hugging him, and in a bright flash of white lightning, he was gone.
Next Time On 12
A teen boy is sitting on a desk chair
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Sora Twelve, and I am your Guardian Angel,"
Sora sees Kairi kissing Riku, and for a moment grows jealous
Sora is above Kairi's house, talking to a hooded figure.
"I think I might be falling for her,"
"You know that the first rule of being a Guardian Angel. "Thou shall not fall in love with a human,"
Sora and Kairi are standing above England.
"Kairi, my soul purpose is to protect you, no matter how much trouble you get in,"
A truck is screeching, about to hit Kairi. Kairi lets out an ear-piercing scream.
Well, there we go. The first chapter is up. This is one of the only free days I had to complete it. So, I hope you enjoy it, tell me what you think, and until next time, see you later, and remember to review. Fresh homemade cookies to everyone who reviews (::) see there's one as proof.
