Sora
Now how did this all come about? How did the boy appear in this strange world? How did he open this path?
What lit Sora's way here, and how did he get here?
He knew that he stopped Xehanort and used the power of waking to get Kairi back, and he was free falling into the darkness silently telling Kairi how to find her way home. Sora was going to follow her but a voice pulled him back.
A sweet and soft female voice. The last thing he heard until he opened his eyes and woke up here. A strange city of night, with brightly lit streets and yet no people.
"Hello! Anyone out here!" Sora called out as he looked around looking for any signs of life.
"Who are you?" a voice asked, it sounded close and it caused Sora to jump, and quickly turn around to see a figure in black. Sora couldn't see the woman's face underneath the hood of her long coat and the bottom half of her face was covered with a strange mask. Something that looks like a demonic fox mouth. The only other things that stood out was the red hair that fell from one side of the hood and the scar that ran up her stomach and chest.
Something about this newcomer that set Sora's nerves on edge made him summon his keyblade.
"Woah!" she said putting her hands up, "I don't want to fight, I'm just wondering how you ended up in a place like this. You're not from here… in fact, there's only one other here that has a weapon like that but she's not of this world either."
Sora tilted his head in confusion, then he asked, "you know what this is?"
Sora held up the keyblade in front of his face.
"Follow me," She said becking Sora to come towards her, "I'll explain once where's not out in the open. You have a dangerous weapon kid and if the wrong person saw they keyblade you weld who knows what they'll do."
She started to walk away before Sora had a chance to say anything except for, "Hey! Wait up!"
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Kairi
"Even with all your magic, you can't find him!?" the young redhead who just spoke looked about ready to cry when she heard Merlin say that he couldn't use his magic to find Sora. The wizard was her last hope to find him and make things right. If she only trained harder than Sora wouldn't have to keep saving her.
She was sick of being the damsel in distress! And for some reason it kept happening, there were those who made her appear to be helpless.
She hated it.
She was angry at herself!
But that's why she was here, back in the place that was her home — the place before the islands.
"I'm sorry," Merlin said, "have you tried to ask Yen Sid. He would most likely would know more than I."
Kairi looked at the ground.
"Since we left without telling anyone, that might not be the best idea," one of Kairi's companions said, she was with two boys that appeared to be about her age. Both appeared to be identical. Though only one when into Merlin's house with her.
Roxas stayed out, seeing a pretty brown haired woman carrying gardening tools and offering to help her.
A woman Kairi only met once in another world. Aerith. And for some reason, there was a sadness in Aerith's green eyes that Kairi has never seen before.
Even as Kairi tried to talk to her the woman kept looking off into the distance, unconsciously doing that
She would have tried to talk to Aerith more but the restoration committee member had some work to do, that she was the one who constantly tended the garden- looking as if she couldn't believe that they had full rebuilt the world.
As for the other boy with Kairi, Ventus went into the house with her as Roxas and Aerith walked away from town. Towards the bigger gardens, though Roxas stayed silent.
As for the other two in the group, they now needed another plan. Before the rest of the seekers of light caught on, then they would be in trouble… mostly from aqua who was most likely making herself sick out of worry because Ven wasn't where he should be.
Not to mention that Kairi would never hear the end of it once they realized that Xion isn't her from both Riku and most likely the King.
But what they were doing is important.
"Are you sure? You don't have a book or item that would help us?" Ven asked, "Please we just want to bring Sora home."
"I might have something then… I think," Merlin said.
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A strange woman sat at a bar, swirling the brownish drink in her hands as she felt a shift around her.
"So another round between the light and darkness is just beginning," she muttered to herself, before knocking back the glass and allow the liquid to burn her throat as it went down. Allowing the sweet taste to numb her mind as she tried her best not to remember her past.
What she had a part in, what she had caused.
But every time the balance between the forces of light and darkness shifts, the woman felt it. She had no choice…
She was the last of the forgotten… the only one who wasn't lost… until today.
The masters of old had returned.
` "need around round?" the bartender asked breaking the woman out of her thoughts.
"Keep them coming," the woman replied, "don't stop until I pass out."