Open your Eyes
Chapter 1
My walk home from the bus stop started as usual. I got off the bus, crossed the street, and walked to my front door, as usual. I dug my key out of my backpack, and unlocked the door, as usual. When I stepped inside the door, I saw something very unusual indeed. There was a stranger sitting at my kitchen table. Not just any old stranger. No, this particular stranger was wearing a brown cloak with a hood, so I was unable to see his face. He looked just like the hooded figure that appeared in the Secret Place in my favourite video game of all time, Kingdom Hearts... "What the heck...?" I said to myself. I'd like to tell you that I marched right up to him, and tried to fight him. Instead, I stood on the rug and closed the door. I was too scared to go back outside because there were lots of hornets out there. It had taken every ounce of courage I possessed to just run up the front walk, jam my key into the lock, and turn it. Now, there was this stranger in my house and I was nowhere near a phone, so I couldn't call 9-1-1. Even if I had been able to call the police, the hooded figure probably would have just disappeared, like he did in the game. Then, my worst nightmare came true. The words that I had been dreading for the past 30 seconds came out of the strangers deep hood.: "This world has been connected". I was shaking so hard, I'm surprised that I didn't fall. "I-I know who you are," I managed in a feeble voice. "One who knows nothing can understand nothing," replied the stranger. Good, I thought to myself. He skipped the part about Earth being "tied to the darkness, soon to be completely eclipsed." Somehow, I hoped that the exclusion of these words meant that I had a little bit of time before Earth was destroyed by the evil creatures that frustrated me so much in the game: the Heartless. The stranger stood up and took off his hood. I knew now who this man was. He was the pillar of all darkness.
Ansem.
I was shaking even more now. He was walking toward me. As he did so, I felt memories rushing back to me. Me, but younger, sitting on a bench with a boy who had long, pointed ears and golden brown hair. He was holding a flame in his hand, and I seemed to be trying to get a flame to appear in my hand too . . . I suddenly noticed that Ansem was drawing closer to me. That didn't seem all to important to me, as I suddenly realized that I wasn't who I thought I was. I was still 12 years old, and I was still a girl, but I realized that I wasn't human. Never had been human, and never will be. I was an elf princess, who used to live in a castle. A elf princess? I shook my head. It wasn't possible! If I was a princess, why was I here? All of these thoughts fled to the back of my head when I realized that Ansem was standing over me, and I was curled up on the floor, clutching my head. My only reaction was to push myself back against the door and try to make myself as small as I could. He only smiled and moved forward. I managed to say, "What do you want?" Ansem only smiled. As he did so, a small ball of swirling dark energy appeared in his hand. I whimpered. Suddenly, I felt calm. The dark energy was making me feel alone; but strangely comforted. I tried to think. Then I had it. I concentrated with all my might on the feeling that the dark magic gave me. I could feel Ansem drawing nearer, but that didn't matter. All that mattered was conjuring a sphere of dark magic all on my own. When I thought that my brain would burst from all of that concentrating, I finally felt a small pop! When I opened my eyes, I saw that I had a large, black sphere in my hands the size of a basketball. I was also very pleased to notice that Ansem had stopped dead in his tracks and was looking completely surprised. Then, it was as if someone had un-frozen time. I did the only thing that seemed sensible at the moment. I hurled the dark magic at Ansem's stomach, knowing that it probably wouldn't work, and forced myself to get up and walk two steps away from Ansem. I then promptly sunk to the floor again. I hadn't realized that using magic would take so much energy... it was then that I started to cry. It was probably because I was feeling so alone... but mostly because I had never even hurt anyone before. I mean, I really don't like insulting people, even if it's just a joke. Ansem then struggled to his feet. Struggled? Did I really hurt him that much? I mean, he was the source of all darkness. How could I, a 12 year old elf girl have done anything to him with one shot? I stopped pondering all of these things when I noticed that Ansem was getting very close to me. I shrank back against the wall, and began to concentrate on conjuring another sphere of darkness. Before I could though, Ansem had snapped his fingers. Almost immediately, black pools of darkness began to grow on the floor all around me. Slowly, small shadows began to rise out of them. I knew that I couldn't fight them. Not right now. So, I let the darkness take me. As I sunk into it, I heard Ansem cry out. There was a tall figure enshrouded in light fighting Ansem. The figure pointed their finger at the portal I was sinking into. Suddenly, the portal began to spin in a different direction. Then, as I sunk deeper and deeper into the swirling vortex, I heard a voice. "You are not alone."
The next thing I knew, I felt sand under my fingers. I tried to lift my eyelids, but they were too heavy. As I listened for any signs off life, I clenched and un-clenched my hands. Destiny Islands, I thought to myself. That's where I am. Then, I heard a voice. A voice I knew very well. "What...?!" I heard footsteps coming towards me. No more time to ponder my situation. I heard Riku kneel down beside me. "Hello? Are you okay? Who are you?" He has almost as many questions as I have, I thought to myself. I realized fully for the first time what situation I was in. Lots of girls would kill to be me right now. Then why didn't I open my eyes? I took a deep breath. I took a huge step into another life, and a huge step out of my old one. I took a chance.
I opened my eyes.
Author's Note: Does anyone like it? This is only my second story, and my first try at something other then comedy. So, do you want me to continiue? Please review and I'll see if I should keep going.
AlWaYs, ^_^ Luna C*