Author's note : Hi there. Ok. First, english's not my native language so, please, just go over those awful grammar mistakes :)
Then, this is my first fanfiction. I do love KH and, well, I wanted to give it a try! If you like, let me know and I'll continue with the best I have, promise ;)
Finally, because I don't want any trouble, I have to say that I don't own, unfortunatelly, neither all those characters nor the game itself. It belongs to Square and Disney. But I do own the story ! P:
A story. He always wanted to write a story. Why not indeed. A story. About what? Here comes the problem. He wants to write, like he is in need of it to survive, and yet, he can't, because he doesn't know his subject. Love? Too cliché. High school? College's better. See, he wants to write, but the subject doesn't come. How about a college student, with a complex love affair? Far too usual once again. Why is there everybody stealing his subjects? Well, let's try again. What does he like? Clocks, whales, birds, flowers, sea, sun, winter, sweets. What does he believe in? Magic, youth, true love. Ok, so why not a young college student in love with a man who wears a clock all made of flowers and who eats sweets, near a shore full of whales and sea birds, while the sun's shining during winter? Too complex. Botheration, as he would say, why is it so complex to write something which makes sense?
He creases the piece of paper on which he was trying to write, throws it away and takes a look at the window. It's winter, but yet it's not cold. Sun's up, but it's not hot. Perfect time for a walk. He takes his overcoat, pulls it on and goes out.
Let's take a look at him, don't you want? Not that tall but still not tiny, not that brawny but certainly not skinny. His hair, let's just say it now, seems to be made of silver pearls. We're talking about the colour; his hair ain't in pearls, that's obvious. His eyes are aquamarine, yes they are, trust me, one of the most beautiful shade of the ocean just decided to go in his eyes to make them wonderful. Nonetheless, they look like they're in despair. Because, as we said, he's in pain of writing. He's a college student, not that smart but absolutely not that dumb, and he likes to read all kind of things, listen music, watch movies, play video games, eat, sleep, walk and, above all, to write.
Right now, he's walking down the street, and the street is somehow just aside the beach which is aside the sea. In this sea live whales, blue ones especially, manta rays, jellyfishes and all other kinds of marvellous creatures. He's thinking about the subject of his writing. It could be anything, but even that, he doesn't find out. Anyway, he'll walk, it'll eventually come to his mind, and everything will be better. This thought makes him smile, a little, tiny, itty bitty smile. Yet, he feels better. So he goes back to his house, and starts everything over again.
Next day is a school day. So he wakes up, dresses (blue jeans, purple jumper and black opened cardigan), eats breakfast (French type, because that's one of the best with the English type) and goes out, walking five or six blocks, we can't fix our mind, to the Island's college. Yes, he lives in Destiny Island. He arrives and before he passes the doors, well, let's see what happened.
"Riku! Wait for me!" screams, behind him, a voice full of joy, as always.
He turns back, showing, but not for long, his itty bitty smile to his, yes, we can say so, only real friend. Sora eventually arrives in front of Riku, panting because he ran to catch him, smiling like one of those happy kids playing in streets in summer.
"I woke up late. Sorry" he says, "What do we have this morning?" he asks.
"Biology. We go on the beach to study manta rays, remember? Weren't you almost dancing on your table when the teacher announced it?"
"Ah, yes, true! I remember now! Let's go, quick quick quick!" Sora says, pushing his friend into the building to their classroom where the teacher, we decided it'd be Mrs. Ursula for all of you, is waiting for all the students to check them all and then go on the beach.
They arrive and Mrs. Ursula, who always embodies elegance with her heels and dresses despite her obvious lack of regime, was calmly waiting for students to arrive, they still had one or two minutes before the countdown's over. While these few minutes are passing, Sora and Riku are talking about their week-end. Sora was not there, which explains why Riku was lonely and trying to write something to forgot his loneliness, he was in a little journey with his parents and his twin, Roxas. The way Sora's telling it, it sounds like it was the journey of his life. Riku had nothing special to say, except that he finally finished reading a Diana Wynne Jones' book.
Time's over, too bad for latecomers. Mrs. Ursula goes out, followed by her students, and exits the college, going straight on to the beach. That takes about two minutes and three seconds, the beach was really close. Here, someone, probably a sailor by her look, was waiting for them. She waves at Mrs. Ursula who waves back elegantly and then walk to her, still followed by her really obedient students. After all, no one would want to make Mrs. Ursula angry, she has such a voice, not that bad actually, but terribly horrifying, like she could turn you into nothingness just by screaming. She does not preside over the college's choir for nothing.
"Dear Ariel, how nice of you to make us benefit from your experience" says Mrs. Ursula in her mondain accent.
"You're welcome" answers Ariel, politely. But everyone could see she was actually talking to the students. Mrs. Ursula dismissed Ariel from the choir a long time ago, because, as she would say, "she had no voice at all, like a mute really". Everyone now knows she was jealous. Anyway, that is not our subject.
"Follow me, I'll show you the way to the rays, they're swimming just right in front of the quay" says Ariel, already walking, soon followed by the students and their teacher.
"Do you think they'll dance?" asks Sora to Riku.
"You know, I don't think manta rays dance. They just swim. Where did you got that idea?" answers Riku, making fun, just a little, of his friend.
"I heard that when they're swimming, it's like they're dancing! Hey, stop giggling!" orders Sora, in a bit of a sulky mood.
"Ok, ok, we'll soon see if that's right. But look, here we go, the quay" says Riku, pointing at the said place.
"The first gets a sweet from the others!" screams Sora to everyone, taking advantage of how Mrs. Ursula was far away (she is not used to walk on sand with heels actually).
And everyone runs. Even Riku. Even Ariel, she was still young after all. Who got at the quay first? Who cares, really? You do? Fine, Naminé did. Yes she is fast, she likes running after all. But whatever, they are all on the quay, except Mrs. Ursula who's following behind them. They go to where the manta rays have been seen earlier, and there they are, swimming. No. Dancing, just like Sora said. Have you, yes, you, ever seen a manta ray in your life? No? You ought to, it's magical to see them plane on water, to see them circle and turn and go up and down. All students, Sora and Riku firsts, were dazzled by the spectacle. Ariel's telling them a lot of interesting stuff about them, really, you ought to do some research on manta rays, it's worth it.
Eventually, Mrs. Ursula succeeds in catching her students. At everyone's surprise, she says that the whole day will be dedicated to study sea creatures; she obtained the authorization of the other teachers. Everyone's overjoyed by the new, and after manta rays, Ariel takes all students and their teacher onto a boat to go study jellyfishes underwater. Yes, underwater, with wetsuits and all the stuff.
One after the other, all students dresses with a wetsuit and an oxygen tank.
"That is one heavy thing" groans Sora, trying to walk with all that stuff on him.
"If only you were doing more sport, it wouldn't be a problem" says Naminé, gently laughing.
"Not funny, and I do sport!" responds Sora
"Yep, he runs every morning not to be late at school!" adds Hayner, laughing so hard that his stomach hurts.
"Hey, not funny Hayner! Riku, help me, they're all against me!" childishly begs Sora.
"Sorry, they're right. Can't do a thing for you" says Riku, blinking to Naminé who giggles softly.
"Aww…" says Sora, sitting down on the boat's floor, his legs opened and his fingers playing on the wood of the floor.
"Don't be sad, you'll get over it, as usual" Riku tells him, trying to cheer him up, disliking when Sora's not always smiling, as if something was going wrong with the world.
"Be ready children, we will go underwater in less than a minute, just the time for Ariel to tell you how it works under the sea" says Mrs. Ursula, interrupting the conversation, appearing in her own wetsuit. And now, she really does look like an octopus. Like a real octopus. But anyway. Ariel explains them how to breath and swim underwater and here they go, plunging. Just to say, they all communicate with radios.
"We will go a little bit more in the depths of the sea" Ariel radios the others, showing with her thumb the exact way.
To answer your question, yes you have one, they all know how to swim. They all live on an island, it looks totally logical.
Let's go back to our story. They all swim where they have to, and that is what they see. Remember Finding Nemo? When they arrived in a field of jellyfishes? Well, that's the exact same thing here, except that the jellyfishes are a radiant purple, not pink. And they are not dangerous. At least not to human beings.
Sora's playing with the umbrella-shaped bell of a jellyfish, seeming to enjoy this day class more than anything in the world. Riku, a bit more serious, listens to what Ariel has to say about jellyfishes, and it really is interesting. Did you know there was an immortal jellyfish? Don't believe me? Go google it for yourselves, and let's go back to Riku and Sora, now playing together with inoffensive tentacles, putting them on their heads and shoulders to act like divas, but soon stopped by Mrs. Ursula's own tentacles, the one of her wetsuit. Told you, like a real octopus.
But soon, a scream. Who screamed? Riku. Why? Because he's in admiration. Of what? A blue whale, calmly swimming a few metres away.
"Huge!" Sora says, his eyes wide opened.
"Marvellous" whispers Riku, dazzled, amazed and all the synonyms. We told you he loves whales.
Have you ever heard a blue whale sings? Try one day, that is one of the most perfect sound on earth. And Riku's thinking just like we do.
We can't tell how much time passed where Riku's starring at the blue whale, just like the other students actually, and even Mrs. Ursula was impressed. Ariel's still saying everything there is to know about blue whales. Perhaps two hours passed. Their oxygen tanks are now almost empty; they must go back on the surface. And they do. Now on the boat, they're going back to the beach, talking about how wonderful was what they saw.
But there, a yell. Naminé yelled. She's pointing at the horizon, just behind the boat. Another boat, a tiny one, is sinking, unfortunately hit by the whale's tail while she was swimming, without thinking of hurting someone. No talk, just moves. Mrs. Ursula's calming the most sensitive ones while Ariel's piloting to go straight on to the tiny craft with the help of Riku, Sora and Hayner to guide her through the sea.
They arrive, they see them. Something like three or four people are drowning, their craft broken in a multitude of wood pieces. In a few minutes, everyone on the boat's floor, throwing out, spitting, and coughing salt water, except one who needs to be helped by Riku to do so. Three of them look rather young, just as much as the students. The other looks older, yet less than Mrs. Ursula. Something about thirty we'd say. One has grey-blue hair and dark blue eyes. The other seems to have, when dried, ash blond hair. The old one's scary, dark-grey hair, one yellow eye, scars. That is a creepy one. The last one is knocked-out, probably directly hit by a huge wave or by the whale's tail. He has red hair and eyes as green and precious as jade.
Ursula's trying to do her best to help them, but it's not like she's used to, so some students, that is to say Naminé, Hayner, Kairi, Sora and Riku, are helping her being helpful. The boat finally arrives at the quay, all students are going home, half amazed by their day, half terrified by the end of it, except the five we talked about who help Mrs. Ursula and Ariel taking the castaways to the college nursery.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you liked, or I'll be forced to get over it with my invisible reader who'll congratulate me all over the story (because whatever happened I won't stop!) instead of you. I named him Walter.
No, seriously, you can't imagine how good it is too have a review, good or bad (bad means improvment!) so, please, do! :))