Disclaimer: Standard.
Notes: Beginning of Divergence. Picks up right where Delena/Aneled Hupp's Best Laid Plans leaves off.
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A familiar red jump rope cracks through the air just inches away from Kairi's face, knocking the shape born of Shadow away from the redhead. Selphie looks terrified, not for herself, but for the other girl. Kairi is equal amounts relieved and afraid. What if Selphie had not shown up when she had? Another crack sends the Shadow back into nothing, but more eyes appear, more eyes watching them.
C'mon, princess!" Selphie grabs Kairi's hand, pulling her, and Kairi is surprised at the smaller girl's strength, but only briefly. Selphie does spar with the boys, after all. Selphie looks Kairi over, making sure she wasn't hurt, as they run. Snaps her jump rope at another creature. "Did it get you?"
"No," Kairi responds, keeping up so Selphie isn't so much dragging her anymore. "Selphie, what are those things?"
"I don't know! They just came out of the shadows!" The brunette tugs Kairi's hand a little more urgently. "C'mon, I think I saw Riku and Sora at the dock."
Riku and Sora. Kairi breathes a little easier. Maybe they'll be able to make sense of the madness their world has suddenly become.
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They run down to the dock where Riku stands in a pool of shadows, Sora mere inches away from the writhing Darkness that reaches out to claim him as well. "Come with me," Riku says to Sora, holding out a hand.
"Riku! Sora!" Selphie calls, snapping her red jump rope at the Dark creatures with the glowing yellow eyes when they come too close, and keeping a firm grip on her princess's hand. Keeping her safe.
"Don't-!" Kairi starts to say, but it's already too late.
Sora grips Riku's hand, trusting the older boy(like he always has, and this may very well be their downfall for it), and the Darkness takes them right before Kairi and Selphie's eyes.
All around the girls the world as they know it breaks into pieces and is swallowed by the all-encompassing Shadow that stole their friends. Selphie wraps her jump rope around Kairi's and her hands, binding them together and holding on for dear life. "Don't let go, Kairi," she sayspleadsbegs the only one she has left, and it's the first time in a very long time that she's called the redhead anything but ' princess', and where is everyone else when you need them(TidusWakkaLuluIrvine, please be all right). "Don't let go."
It's not like Kairi has very much of a choice in the matter, but she holds on tight as the world disappears.
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The silly red rope binds you to your little soldier in more ways than one, Princess of Heart. And because of that, another's fate will be changed as well.
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Far away, worlds away, another place is taken by that same Darkness, but its occupants are blissfully unaware. Save one. Out of the corner of her eye, Fuu sees the end of her world, and something no one else on her world has seen.
Kingdom Hearts