Isidori, Lucy, my two friends, and I are standing by an ice cream stand in the mall. I'm very bored so I'm doing a handstand. (I might want to mention I have taken Martial Arts classes and acrobatic classes and are extremely skilled at both.) I don't want any ice cream either; I'm not in the mood. "Hey Luc!"

Isi was waving her hand in front of Luc's face and she replied with a very dumb answer, "Huh?"

"You space out a lot", I say

"What kind of ice cream do you want?" Isi asks.

"I do not! And cookies and cream please."

"Coming right up!" said Bob, the cashier, happily (I know him because he is Luc's dad's friend and will give us discounts every time we get ice cream there. (I personally think he's gay)

"You need to stop thinking about that game, Kingdom Hearts, you know." I say.

"Yeah, it's unhealthy", Isi says.

Luc comes back quickly with "I'll stop thinking about it when you (point'sfinger at me) stop thinking about pirates and darkness and you (points finger at Isi) stop thinking about Harry Potter!" (Puts a British accent on harry potter)

"Yeah, well…" I say while trying to think of a good comeback.

"Um…Pirates are a part of history!" Isi says trying to help me out.

"What about darkness? That's not a part of history." Luc replies getting annoyed.

"There was a part of Europe's history which was called the dark ages. And darkness is awesome!!!" I say. Besides who cares about history it's summer! But darkness is black and black is death… I think, drifting off into my own world.

"Grr…" Lucy growls at me.

"Grrrrrr to you too!" I reply.

"What we mean is, you needed to stop thinking about it because you might start mixing it with reality." Isi says (sensible like always!) I roll my eyes.

As they eat their ice cream I notice an odd man in a black cloak come out of a black (yah!) portal of darkness (more yah!!) he looked a lot like a guy from Luc's game. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe Luc's game has got me seeing things…I think

Isi turns to Luc and whispers, "Luc, did you see that guy come out of that weird black portal?"

"Yeah,"

I'm not crazy they saw it too! I think.

"And by the looks of it he's part of Organization XII."

"Who?" I ask.

"Bad guys" Luc says back.

"Oh" I say

"Why is he staring at us?"

"I don't know but whatever it is, it isn't good. We need to get out of here now!" We get up and walk/run to the exit. As if on que, Axel comes toward us and grabs us by the arms. Isi and Luc stand still. I fight back hard. Still for a guy like him he's strong!

"Your coming with me maidens, got it memorized?"

"Hey! We ain't no maidens!" I scream.

Luc is gasping and looking very knowing of this dude. Of course she knows him! He's on her game! I think. Isi and I get free and run to the ice cream stand while his attention is on Luc. Luc seems to be talking to him but you're too far away to hear. He obviously has no idea where I and Isi are. I vault over the counter, grab a scooper and throw a huge glob of vanilla right at his head! "WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!" He screams.

The hood of his long black cloak fell down and I could see his face and fiery red, spiky hair. I recognized him as Axel from Kingdom Hearts.

"Take that porcupine head!! You scream, she screams, we all scream for ice cream!!!!"I scream as I throw my second ice cream cannonball at him.

He says "Come on, all I want is for you to come and meet the boss!"

"NEVER!!!!!!" we scream in unison.

Then Isi grabbed a scoop and started to throw ice cream also. In the background Bob was yelling how he'll be fired for sure. Axel yells really angrily, "Fine then, I'll have to take you one by one starting with the Maiden of Sacrifice!!!"

Ice cream was all over his now rainbow cloak and more was coming by the minute. He yanked away Luc and pushed her through the portal. Then he ran over and before I could blink he pushed Isi in too. All I could do was stare. In the moment I was still, he grabbed me but I flipped over him in a double spin back flip. (Remember what I said about me being good?) Then I fought back with anger and revenge of my friends bubbling up inside of me but as you paused after a flying kick I thought disabled him he grabbed me and pushed me through. Then he jumped in himself after doing what looked like erasing the scene from everyone's minds. In the portal I'm falling into black and then I see a pinpoint of light. As I fall, I blackout when I hit the ground.

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