A Universe Imprisoned
Chapter 1
Worlds That Hate
Another alarm. Another escapee. Sora fell back onto his bed. It was made of straw and it was terribly uncomfortable. He sat in a small cell, similar to a prison. It had bars made from sturdy wood. Sora could not even figure out how they created such a natural cell with the materials. No metal, it was all naturally made, which is why the escape rate is so high. It is not to hard to get out, as Sora figured out. He, however, stopped trying. Escape was impossible. He knew that now. The guards were impenetrable and Sora could not fight back with the weapons they had.
Sora turned to face the wall as a guard passed by, hauling whoever was trying to escape back to their cell. Sora could not standing seeing the sight much longer. Whenever they caught you, they would pour some kind of acid down your arm in a thin line. It seeped into your skin and burned so intensely, sleep was impossible. Sora obtained his a week ago, and it still burned, though not as bad.
Sora heard the man screaming as they punished him. Then, the guard walked by again. Sora sneaked a look at him. He still could not figure out what they were. They were not human. And when they arrived, they erupted from the ground. Their faces were pale, their necks was made of wood. All were bald and their eyes were solid black. They moved slowly when they walked. They bobbed their heads from side to side as though hypnotized by something ahead of them. Their hands were made of rock, sharp rock that jutted out like swords. Their legs were thin and made of an assortment of twigs and leaves.
Another alarm. Wait. This one is different. It is faster and deeper. Sora sat up, studying it. Is something happening? One of the guards slinked by quickly this time, as though panicked. He screeched. It was how they communicated, Sora gathered. It sounded like a leaf was in their throats because every time they screeched, you could hear the sound being vibrated through something as though it was closing up the throat back and forth.
Sora still got chills from seeing them. Just thinking about what had happened before he arrived. Well, Riku was there too, but Sora had not seen him since he got put in this cell. But then, an explanation of what happened would clear some things up.
"Riku, can you believe Kairi? How could she even say that? I mean, seriously. She must be jealous or something," Sora said, falling back on the warm sand as the afternoon sun heated his face.
"Well, it isn't that weird," Riku stated.
"What? How can you say that isn't weird? She thinks I am gay!" Sora yelled. Riku sat down beside, trying to calm Sora down.
"Well, I guess it is because of how much we hang out. And maybe because you ditch her all the time to hang out with me, not that I am complaining about it," Riku said, running his hand through the sand.
"It's still crazy," Sora said more calmly. "I mean, it is not like we are going out," Sora said.
"Who?" Riku said, not paying much attention as he said it.
"Me and Kairi!" Sora yelled, raising up to eye his friend.
"Oh right," Riku said, continuing back to playing with the sand.
"Duh! I would not mean me and you going out, that would be...weird," Sora said.
"Hmm," Riku muttered.
"Anyway, what do you think about that war," Sora said changing the topic.
"Which one," Riku said.
"That is so said. These worlds are constantly fighting and we have so many wars that we have to name them to know which one," Sora said.
"Yeah. Well, it is not getting better. I hear Spira has joined in some bickering too," Riku said.
"Really? Will it really end? I mean what will actually stop it?" Sora asked.
"More violence, which means, it will never stop because that is the only way we know how to stop things these days," Riku said.
"SORA!" his mother was screaming from half across the beach. Sora looked at her. She was pointing to something in the air. It looked like a rain cloud, approaching fast. Suspiciously fast.
"Huh?" Riku muttered.
"What do you suppose that is. It seems a lot darker than a rain cloud," Sora said. His mother finally got close enough to tell them what she wanted to tell them.
"Sora! Something is wrong. The news is reporting that all of the worlds are beginning to have some kind of outbreak. Things are popping out of the ground and kidnapping people," she said through several deep pants.
"What?" Sora asked.
"They are saying it is similar to an apocalypse. The worlds want revenge. They are talking as though our planets are creating these monsters," she said looking up. The cloud now covered the entire sky.
"Oh my," Sora said.
"Perhaps this is what is intended to stop the wars. Annihilation of everyone," Riku said.
"Riku!" Sora panicked. Suddenly, screeches rang out from all directions. Then, a creature, clawed its way through the sand and stood eyeing them all.
"AHHH!" Sora screamed. They all ran, only to be blocked by another creature that climbed up just as fast. Sora's mother ran to a nearby palm tree and placed her back to it, holding her hands in fear. Two arms popped out of the tree and grabbed her.
"Sora!" Riku yelled as another creature crawled from the ground behind Sora and attached itself to him. Sora squirmed to get away. Riku did not have time to react, as he also met the same fate of being grabbed. The creature finally got Sora to stop wiggling. He looked around, the entire distance of Destiny Islands was captured in under a minute. Everyone was being held by a creature, and no one could escape. Sora whimpered under the tight squeeze of his captor.
Several screams indicated that they had found something that was making the situation worse. Sora found people staring up and when he did, he knew what the problem was. The clouds that so quickly formed, were releasing toxin in thick quantities to the ground. As it hit Sora, he felt light headed, then his vision was blurry and he felt like he had just stepped of a merry-go-round that was going a million miles per hour. Lastly, darkness.
That is when he woke up in this cell. So, Sora had no idea what was really going on. He tried to understand why they had not killed him yet. Why would they keep him locked up for a week? What were they planning? Was the world really intending to exterminate its inhabitants? Sora intended to find out in good time, because something was definately wrong. Explosions rung out down the hallways. And something very large was causing the walls to vibrate.
Okay, this a pretty strange first chapter and it is short too. Tell me what you think, oh and expect twists and turns so drastic that you might question my intentions. And there might be pairings among later characters, granted people inform me of ones they would like to see from either Kindom Hearts or Final Fantasy...wink wink nudge nudge ( ;