Mnemosyne
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Summary:
Sora and Roxas were connected…they shared the same abilities. Kairi's found that the same rules apply for her and Naminé, and it's threatening to tear her mind apart…
Disclaimer:
I don't, that's DON'T, own or lay claim, to the Kingdom Hearts Franchise. (If I did, Riku and Kairi would absolutely be joining as party members in the next KH adventure, which I'm beginning to think won't happen).
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~Cracked~ (Prologue)
"Sine! Cosine! Tangent! YUCK! I'm sooooo tired of this!"
Selphie was stomping her foot underneath her desk, looking down all fierce like at the math worksheet she'd gotten last period.
"Well we went over this stuff together you know Selph… If you'd been paying attention you wouldn't have to finish it for homework…" Tidus was one to talk, since he'd been in the class right along with her, and couldn't remember a thing.
"Oh shut it Tidus… If you were smarter, I wouldn't be in this—" Selphie was almost too good at spreading blame these days.
"-Aaaand here we go Wakka! All Aboard! The Blame Train is leaving the station!" Rolling your eyes as quickly as Tidus could, looked pretty dang painful. (Though it probably didn't hurt as much as Selphie's notebook against his face.)
"Don't go bringing Wakka in to this! Bartz said Wakka was in the same boat as me last semester at their school when he couldn't stop looking at the creepy girl with the dark clothes and the funny dolls—!"
And that's where I drew the line. "Hey now! Lulu is not creepy! She's just a little different okay?" She was kinda sweet even, when she wanted to be. She just didn't want to be very often…well,…almost never really.
"You're kiddin right?" The left side of Tidus's face was turning a rather angry shade of red thanks to Selphie's projectile notebook. He kept pullin at his funny blue tie, trying to loosen it. "A little? She's a total Gothic Fruit Cake man!"
Lulu wasn't really all that bad. Bartz's pride and big mouth were some of the reasons she got such a bad rap. He tried getting me to believe that every time she turned him down, something bad happened to him, like a broken arm, or a broken leg, or accidentally breaking Tidus's nose…
"—with those weird-ass Voodoo dolls of hers. You know that weird short kid who acts like a Knight? He says Lulu even has a doll of him in her collection; all cuz he kept trying to be a gentleman and open doors for her." That was me all of last year too. Every chance I got, I tried to be nice to her and stuff. Thanks to Kairi's advice, I wasn't trying so hard to always be there to do stuff for Lulu, invading her 'personal bubble' or somethin, and she actually seemed to take notice of that.
'Leave it to another girl to know how to get a guy noticed by one ya?'
Then again, with her transferring schools, it wasn't all that easy to see her too often, so that probably helped. With my mind totally focused on Lulu, and keeping Tidus and Selphie from making a scene, I decided it was time to pack up and finally get off campus; I started putting my books and notes back into my shoulder bag. They allowed us to stay inside the building for awhile, here at their school, but on Fridays they closed early and tried herding you right out the doors the minute they saw you.
"You know… Sora and Kairi and Riku are a lot like Sine and Cosine and Tangent…" I had thought Selphie was done with that stuff for the day.
Tidus started packin away his stuff too. "I thought we were still talking about Wakka's weird taste in girls?"
"I stopped talking about that some time ago. Just goes to show how slow you are…" Selphie stuck her tongue out.
"Forget you!"
"Of course you would, you're slow!"
I knew they'd get tired eventually, so I started heading out to the hall on my own.
"But really though, think about it! Use that furball you call a head… Sora's the Sine, Kairi's the Cosine and Riku's the Tangent!" Wait a minute,… what?
"Selphie… what the hell are you talking about?" I agreed with Tidus. What was she talking about…?
"Sine and Cosine are similar, kinda like Sora and Kairi. And then there's Tangent, which is different but still a part of the others, like Riku… Although… Sora and Riku were friends before Kairi came along, so maybe he's Cosine… and Kairi's Tangent?" Selphie wasn't gonna let this go… What was worse, I was actually startin to think about it too.
Tidus started pullin his tie the rest of the way off. "As interesting as all that is Selphie, Wakka and I gotta go practice some more of our game. The coach here said he'd take a look at it, and maybe recommend us to some big Sports hotshot if it looked cleaned up enough."
"Psh,… your silly ball game? That Blutz Ball?" She just didn't appreciate the fact that we hadn't hung out as often as we used to. What with her and Tidus goin off to a different school, the only times we got to see each other were on weekends and after classes, when work and other things didn't get in the way.
"Come and watch us play ya? We can show you how far we've gotten with it. Maybe even teach ya how to play?"
"If not, at least we could spar for a bit like the old days."
' I wonder if she still has that old jump rope of hers.'
Selphie crossed her arms, and she closed her eyes, like she was thinkin real hard. I wouldn't be surprised if she just said no till we begged her to co-
"Okays!" She burst out a sunny smile and tucked her hands behind her back. "I'll just go get changed first and meet you guys… at the play island right?"
"Right. We'll see you there," Tidus seemed a little more excited now.
Selphie bounced off towards her house while Tidus turned towards me. "I'm just gotta go get changed too. This uniform's makin me itch…"
"Yeah well man, maybe if you showered after P.E. you wouldn't have to deal with it ya?" Fear of foot fungus or not, the kid was really startin to smell.
"Ah shut it!" Tidus looked out far towards the Play Island, scratching his chest with both hands. Finally he just tore open his shirt and embraced the breeze. I'm surprised none of his buttons flew off from that.
"I'll just head out and meet you and Selphie there. I already got my gear on underneath my track clothes." Comfort was the benefit of staying at a public school. We waved each other off, and after a detour to pick up my old fighting Ball, I jogged my way down to the beach. I started spinning the thing on my finger, glad to know I still had the talent to keep the thing balanced.
I used to go everywhere with this thing, even spinning it whenever I was studying for something, or in the bathroom, but these days I just barely ever had the calmness or interest, or hell, Free Time(!), to sit back and relax anymore. As I watched the ball spin itself over and over again on my finger, I couldn't help but think how badly I hoped Tidus was right; I really wanted this game of ours to be our big ticket to something great…
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Even with my 15 minute delay in getting here, I still beat Tidus to the Island. (Selphie I'd pretty much expected to beat anyway). He'd probably gotten sidetracked by his mother, and Selphie by her closet.
Whatever. "Guess I should start gettin set up while I wait."
I started whistling as I walked over to the door on the other side of the beach. We usually practiced on the far side of the island since the water was deeper back there.
'I wonder if Selphie even knows that our game is played under the water…'
What Selphie did or didn't know about our game though didn't matter. I realized as I got closer to the bridge that connected to the islet, (Riku's old space) that my whistling had kept me from hearing the small sounds coming from behind it. Whatever it was, it started getting louder.
As I walked a little faster around the islet, passed the bridge, I saw her.
Laying on her knees, the water just barely reaching her and parts of her skirt, Kairi was crying. Her back was to me, and it seemed like she was holding something. Her right arm was held up, like she was trying to cradle something, but from where I was, it didn't look like there was anything there.
"B-But then….w-who will I have…"
Her sobs were getting really bad now. In a few quick strides, I was there kneeling behind her. Just before I put my arm on her shoulder and asked what was wrong, she burst out with a scream.
"NO!"
I fell onto my butt. What the hell was wrong?
"Kairi?" I extended my arm to her right shoulder, but she just cringed, and seemed to shrink into herself. The arm she'd been holding in the air was now wrapped around herself, and she still wouldn't turn around.
"I'm so sorry….so sorry… Please… FORGIVE ME!"
I didn't have the slightest clue what was going on. "Kairi, what's wrong!?" As far as I knew, Sora and Riku were completely okay. I'd walked with them since we were all headed to the same place. Something had seemed wrong with them though. These last couple of months they'd been pretty distant. And Kairi…
"…come back, please… I'm s-sorry…" I could see her tears falling into the sand as I leaned over her. I tried getting her to turn at least, but she wouldn't budge. It wasn't like she was resisting or turning away, but she felt too solid for me to actually move.
Whatever was wrong, it looked like it was breaking her apart. She needed help. I kneeled right in front of her, not caring that my ass and legs were getting wet now with the water.
"Kairi, it's Wakka." She hadn't looked up at me once, so I wasn't sure if she'd known it was me. "What's the matter? Are you alright? Did someone hurt you?" She looked completely fine, except for the total breakdown she was going through…
She raised her head a little, but only high enough to where her eyes were staring through her tears to my chest. Had someone attacked her? Where were Sora and Riku?
"It's my fault…why did this…WHY?!"
That was enough. I took her shoulders, not caring that she'd spasmed from my unannounced touch. "Tell me what's wrong ya? I can't help you if I don't know what happened! Were you attacked? Did something happen to Sora or Riku?"
"She's g-gone… and it's all…my fault…She's gone…because of me…" She raised her head finally, and all that red hair fell away to reveal those big, soft, soaking, violet eyes. She opened her right hand to me. "I KILLED MY BEST FRIEND!!"
She'd crushed the shell to dust in her palm, and it looked like doing so had cut it up a little bit. From the color of the dust, even mixed in with some of her blood, I guessed it was one of those Thalassa shells she used to always play with.
I was really freakin out now. Was she goin nuts? I was prayin like crazy that Tidus and Selphie would show up soon… I wondered if I should just take Kairi back to my boat and get back to the mainland. But I really had to know…
"Kairi, tell me. Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not your fault… Who's gone though? Who are you talking about? The shell?"
"(sh..)" 'Sh?' Was it the shell? Her voice was suddenly a lot softer, not much more than a whisper. I really couldn't even hear her.
She looked down at the dust again in her hand, and clenched it into a fist. When her head snapped up, her eyes closed tight, I half expected the girl to just hit me, or throw the Thalassa dust into my eyes, but all she did was clasp her other hand around her fist, and bring it to her chest.. The look in her eyes was almost too much for me. She looked way too calm, like the islands during a devastating storm.
"…Xion…"
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Okay! So this Prologue was actually written after the 1st chapter was already done. I hope there weren't any horrible mistakes anywhere. This story, as I've stated next chapter, is what I believe will help me get out of this Ridiculously long Funk I've been in and get back to writing.
This part of the story takes place like, several months into what's going to be happening. More or less. Well see XD
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