This 100 Song Theme challenge belongs to the awesome Bond Of Flame08, 100 little drabbles, each prompt is also a song title from the myriad of music in the Kingdom Hearts soundtracks. I own nothing, all Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Tetsuya Nomura and Square Enix, the music was primarily composed by Yoko Shimomura. Ahava, Aqua's mother for the purpose of this drabble, belongs to me.
Author's Note: Aqua's destiny, laid out by a hopeful mother. Ahava, means ocean in Hebrew.
1. The Promised Beginning
"And they all lived happily ever after. The end. "Bending down, the dark haired woman planted a gentle kiss upon her daughter's forehead, smoothing a stray piece of the child's blue locks away from her face.
"Mom? Do you think I'll ever have adventures like that?" Aqua's eyelids opened and closed slowly, her voice saturated with hope, amongst the drowsiness that came with sleep.
"Aqua, you are going to grow up to be a wonderful young lady, with more adventures than you'll know what to do with. That much I promise. But now, sweet dreams."
Ahava smiled, turning off the ice blue floor lamp that stood beside her daughter's bed and setting the embossed storybook on her nightstand. As the light went out, the veritable ocean of glow in the dark fish, stuck on the walls and ceiling came into view, illuminated by the moonlight spilling through the window, two soothing substitutes for a night-light.
Aqua dreamed of adventures that night, magic spells, flying through stars and a mysterious blade in the shape of a key.
It was only three short years later, the day after her seventh birthday, that the little girl with such big dreams met a man named Eraqus and a boy named Terra. And with that, like knocking over a domino, a chain reaction set Aqua's dreams and destiny into motion.