Disclaimer:
I do not own any part of Kingdom Hearts. Though I wish I did. Ha ha!
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Author's Note:
This is just the Prologue, I know it might be a little boring, but trust me, there are a lot of hints in here. So please read! AND REVIEW!
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The simple melodic swishing of the ocean's waves caught her ear immediately. It was the same sound that had eased her mind and lulled her to sleep so many nights before. People disappear, lost in time or circumstances; your own life rushes past you every day, changing with each passing moment; caught up in the hectic madness of loss and change, you forget what's really important to you, reacting to each event as it comes, trying to keep yourself balanced and in control of your life...
But the sea... The sea knows no time. The sea was consistent, never changing in its nature, yet it was formless at the same time. You could dive into the water and be immersed in it, you could reach down and scoop the water out only to have it slip out between your fingers. No matter what you did or how you did it, however, the sea itself never changed. It was always there, always moving, and always formless. It simply was, as it simply is, and it would continue to be that way forever, as long as the world existed.
Kairi thought mindlessly about the letter she and her friends recieved earlier that day. She wondered why King Mickey would possibly need their help so soon. Kairi was overwhelmed that Sora and Riku might have to leave again to solve this mission. Birth by sleep... What could that mean? The King's letter was so vague, adding to the sand and ocean water that had already smudged the letter from him. Kairi turned to the opening of the old Secret Place.
Old, forgotten memories and simple, child-like adventures had happened there when Kairi and her friends had not yet known about the beings who lived on other worlds. Sora and Riku were probably asleep by now, but Kairi was still standing at the cove of her island. She was thinking about many things. The letter, of course. But then there was that one time when Sora had told her something that she could not forget.
"You would kind of be in my way."
Kairi hoped that maybe on this journey, she could take part on the mission to save the worlds once again. In the letter, the King had mentioned some sort of 'Keyblade War' that happened long ago. It had happened when the openings between the worlds caused trouble and suffering long before they had opened the last time.
Kairi often stood at the shore, contemplating the sea with these thoughts in mind. No, not contemplating... She never really had to consider these things that she already knew. She simply thought and listened, day after day. She listened to the sound of the sea, the reminder that it was and would always be. The sea always calmed her thoughts, and outside her window in the dark.
She had seen and heard the sea so many times – the boundless ocean stretching on forever – that she had memorized everything about it that her senses could take in. Now, here, wherever that was, the sound was more than familiar. The swishing of the sea echoed in her ears, reminding her of so many memories from its shores. But something was wrong; this sea wasn't the sea she knew. There was no salty smell in the air, there was no salt-white sand stretching across the whole of the shore. The sun that she knew was gone, too. Here, in this place she didn't knew, she encountered a new kind of sea – a new ocean she had never seen before.
Rocks jetted out of the water beyond the edge of the shore, twisting up and around each other, hanging about lazily, as if they slept even as they looked down upon the salty water. The sun, at the edge of the horizon beyond the arch of stone that stood in front of her, was low and lazy, as if it slept even as it gave what little illumination to these shores that it could.
As the water tickled at the bottom of her bare feet, Kairi found herself looking up at the sky, listening once again to the sound of the ocean's rolling waves. The ebony sky seemed to darken everything around her – everything not looking directly upon the tired white sun in front of her. The sandy beach was darkened a twilight blue, the salt-white sand barely revealing the color it knew when under the sun's full splendor.
"Just what is this place...?" She muttered under her breath, lowering her head to look upon the tired sun. Suddenly she felt something – another presence nearby. Turning to look across the shore, she saw a boy, standing and looking forward to the sun as she was, his face as clear as day, illuminated by the silver star before him. As if sensing the same thing she did, he turned to face her, his blonde hair swaying slightly in a silent wind that rushed by.
Kairi had recognized the boy as Roxas, who was Sora's Nobody. But he did not seem like the Roxas she had seen before, for he was wearing black appearal and had a stern look on his face as if everything was wrong.
Kairi finally realized that she was dreaming, and woke up, finding herself lying down next to Sora and Riku. The letter, which was in Sora's hand, was being blown by the wind that caused the ocean waves to crash and the salty smell of the water had come back to her. "Of course it was a dream," Kairi whispered to herself. She layed back down on the sand, forgetting exactly how she got there, but yet fell back asleep.
In the outside world, as the three friends slept, many changes had happened that could also change their destiny. But this time, as the dusk rolled in, is their destiny's awakening.
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That's the Prologue! Please, PLEASE review! I will not write more if you don't! Shame.