Without A Heart
I was surrounded by nothing... and I was falling.
There wasn't anything above me or below me, just a never ending darkness that seemed to swallow my very being whole.
I didn't know how long I fell for.
I could remember nothing, see nothing, and feel nothing….
Then out of the darkness I heard voices, saw faces... in a blur.
Only one face… one voice seemed to stand apart from the others.
A spikey, brown haired boy.
When ever his form appeared to me, my plummet seemed to slow, and I could hear a thrumming, a pounding, that seemed to resonate within me with such a force that I could feel it.
And when he was gone, I was left achingly hollow.
I thought it might be his heart.
There was nothing for a while.
A new image… two boys, one the brown haired boy, the other one silver haired, engaged in battle... I saw no more.
He was near again. My plummet was slowing. The pounding was getting louder, and stronger.
A crack formed in the darkness, and then another, each forming in rhythm with the beating of his heart, and each illuminating the darkness, each slowing me down more.
I heard his voice... speaking pleadingly to someone… KAIRI…
Was that me?
I had to see him, had to hear his heart with ears and a mind that were coherent enough to understand why I longed for him so…
It continued with each beat, each crack illuminating the darkness a little more.
His name… is SORA…
And then the world of darkness shattered around me, and I was free.
My first coherent thought was that it was not his heart that I heard and longed for, but my own… beating within the protection of his.
The End