Sorry for only the eleven second video. Along the way in editing I realized that the rest of the song didn't make sense with Roxiri, so I stopped. So then I was like, weeeell, if I'm going to stop doing THAT then I should write a quick drabble or something so here's the other half I that goes with the video. :D
Yes, there are a lot of breaks in here. I did that intentionally; so please don't comment on it.
"Rewriting History"
Kairi appears in Twilight Town to do what Sora couldn't; save the life of his nobody.
NOTE: There IS a time warp in this. It's generally pretty obvious, but let's put it this way if you don't understand. The scene where Axel kidnaps Kairi happens ON what in the game is called "The Sixth Day." Sora is not combined with Roxas and cannot function. Roxas is still his own entity in a way. Kairi is in Twilight Town ON "The Sixth Day" [SLIGHT SPOILER] she goes through and pretty much re-writes the history of KH2 on that day, (not shown in the story) and technically throughout the entire game.
Kairi huffed, kicked the warm sand beneath her feet, and slowly let the realization sink in. Sora was not coming back anytime soon. Maybe he never would. It was either wait forever, or do something about it. So which one? It's not like there was any clear direction as to what he would want her to do. "Maybe waiting isn't good enough."
ESxXx
The red haired girl awoke in a strange place, a three teenagers staring at her strangely. She got up when they remained unresponsive and looked around.
"Man, I could not sleep last night…"
No time for paying attention to other people. She had to figure out where she was. She'd never seen a place like this before. Well, maybe the old tree house built up in the trees on Destiny Islands but it wasn't as raggedy as this place. Barren except for a single cloth since Riku, Sora and everyone else grew up, but not raggedy.
She yelped as she was pushed down by the same kids that were staring at her ran by. "Rude, much?!" She yelled back at them. They didn't waver, just kept running. She turned around again to see if there where any clue as to where she was on the other side of the small, dark crevice hidden beneath some train tracks.
"Why would you want to meet in such a musty place?" She muttered to herself.
"It's free?"
Kairi drew back and looked at the other voice who answered her.
Tall. Skinny. Blonde. With Spiky Hair.
She noted, making a list in her head. He looked like Sora, sort of. "Do you know a boy named Sora?" Kairi asked, not paying any attention to his comment. Only his looks.
He looked to his side, paid no attention to her and walked past her disappearing behind a torn dark red blanket used to cover the entrance of whatever that place was.
Kairi huffed, obviously displeased. She only asked a simple question. Where do people get off ignoring her and treating her like she was common trash? On Destiny Islands behavior like that would never go through well.
"Hey!" She yelled after the boy. "Stop and answer my question you weirdo! Where do you get off treating people like that?!"
She ran after the boy, and went through the blanket/curtain that was on the entrance trying to convince herself that it wasn't infested with disease and other unmentionables.
"Look at what it's come to. I've been given these icky orders to destroy you---if you refuse to come back with me."
Kairi reappeared on the other side behind a tall man in a black trench coat with long red (also spiky, but only in the back that was a bright red like a fire truck as opposed to her deep red auburn color) hair threatening the boy. "Hey! What is with this place?! All everyone ever does is hurt each other, and I've only been here like five minutes! You," She said jumping in between the red headed man and the blonde on she met earlier and pointing forward at the red head, "leave him," she turned and pointed at the blonde, "alone!"
The man let out a deep, husky laugh and quickly disappeared into a dark portal with a final "this isn't over" to the blonde before he left.
Kairi looked at the portal with big, wide eyes. She'd never seen that happen before, but at the same time, it almost seemed familiar.
"Who are you?" The blonde asked, crossing his arms over his chest and glaring with the same blue eyes she recognized as Sora's. "I could ask you the same thing back." Kairi retorted, "and it's Kairi if you must know. Where do you people get off being so, well. . .mean?"
"You're exactly like what you look like aren't you?" He shot back and then started to walk away down a set of stairs stone behind him. Kairi huffed again, what was with this guy? "Hey! Blondie! What's your name?"
He stopped, and turned around to look at her with the same strange look the other three did before. "You do all of this so you can know my name?" He asked, "and here I thought you were after something else entirely."
Now it was her turn to look at someone strangely. She walked up to him and they started heading down the stairs together. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"You really don't know?" She shook her head left and right signaling no. He chuckled. "Hi Kairi, I'm Roxas."
The red head smiled at him widely, and then went on about how she got there. What was foggy. What wasn't. How the trench coat man seemed somewhat familiar for some reason. Who Sora was. Everything. At the end Roxas looked at her baffled. "And none of this seems strange to you?"
Kairi paused and thought for a moment, "No, it doesn't."
Roxas grinned, "Then, I think, there's a lot of the story that you're missing."
ESxXx
They walked around what Kairi now knew as "Twilight Town" for a good few hours exploring all the areas until they got to 'Roxas' favorite place.' The Tram Common, he called it. It was the center of the forever-in-twilight town, and it was always busy with tons of people, or so he said. When they got there all they saw was a girl at the far end standing between an archway that looked like it was build for a train.
"Namine!" Roxas yelled, immediately running after her forgetting about Kairi's existence entirely. "Roxas! Wait!" She followed as Namine disappeared into a forest behind a broken wall.
Kairi grabbed Roxas' arm before he ran through. "No! Don't!" She pleaded, hitting him with her best puppy eyes that she had at her disposal.
"Kairi! I have to! Namine! I can't-" He stopped, "I have to talk to her alright?"
She paused, loosening her grip slightly, "I just have a bad feeling about that place, OK? It seems familiar. It looks like this old place near that waterfall. . ."
"I have to go, Kairi."
"Then I'm coming with you."
ESxXx
"What's gonna happen to me now? Just tell me that. Nothing else really matters anymore."
Kairi stood in a corner of the extremely white room as she listened in on the conversation between Namine and Roxas. By the middle she turned pale white to match the walls. By the end she was about ready to puke. It all started coming back to her little by little, she didn't fully understand, but she knew that she had to do something. Sora would've wanted her to, right?
She couldn't just let Roxas disappear forever. It would be too cruel to let him disappear to save her friend. No one deserves to be told they're worthless nobodies. She couldn't let him disappear to make everyone else, including herself, happy.
"I'll...disappear...?"
"Roxas!" Kairi yelled while running up to him, "We have to get out of here!"
"No, you won't disappear! You'll--"
"Roxas!" Kairi pleaded, tugging his arm toward the door. "We have to leave! It's not safe here!"
"Wait!"
Kairi whined his name again with tears filling her eyes. She was afraid if they didn't go now he wouldn't be there with her to leave, and as much as she hated being called weak, she wasn't strong enough to escape this place on her own.
"Roxas! We will meet again. And then we can talk about everything. I may not know it's you, and you may not know it's me. But we will meet again. Someday soon. I promise!"
Kairi finally pulled Roxas out of the room with her before the two strange men took away Namine and Roxas. One in a trench coat. Another in strange wraps and garb. At that moment Kairi's only hope was that the two didn't follow them. They had the blonde girl named Namine. That should be enough, or so she hoped it would.
"Let her go!"
"Roxas!" Kairi cried, "Don't provoke them! I don't want you to disappear! I won't let you!"
Roxas looked at Kairi sadly, then grabbed her hand and rushed her to the other side of the staircase into another room not far away, but at least there were a few escape options. He knew that running out onto the streets with those creeps and defenseless Kairi was not a good idea. Even if she didn't.
"Roxas! We need to leave! We have to get far, far away from here!" Kairi yelled still as pale as chalk and terrified of the drama that had happened since she got here. All somehow revolving around her and her best friend, Sora. Twilight Town was a more messed up place than she originally understood when she came.
Roxas sighed, "Just trust me Kairi, OK?" He walked into the middle of the room to a table and observed some strange drawing written in yellow chalk on the table itself. There were three circles. Two of which were filled, and one which wasn't. The yellow chalk still laid still on the table around the outside perimeter of the drawing. Roxas stood silent in thought for a few moments before picking up the chalk and drawing a yellow 'X' in the empty circle.
He heard Kairi gasp as the floor slowly started to glow yellow and move in toward the center. He ran out of the area just as the floor, table and everything else that used to be there disappeared to reveal a dark blue room.
It seemed to be barren other than the staircase leading down and some strange computer equipment.
The look in Kairi's eyes said it all as she stared at Roxas. He shot back a reassuring look and grabbed her hand, anyways. She knew as well as he did; if just coming into the strange mansion Namine led them to was dangerous, then snooping around and going into their secret corridors was suicidal.
There wasn't much else they could do, however. The foyer was plainly visible from the big staircase, so even assuming they could find their way down there they would be easily spotted. Not that they could seeing as they were on the other side of the staircase and there wasn't much place to hide there to get past them either.
"There isn't any other choice Kairi. Either we go down there, or we hope they don't bust into this room and take us both."
Kairi whimpered, and held his hand tighter as they walked across the room and down the staircase together. The stairs made a hollow clanking sound as they walked down them. It looked as if the whole room was made out of the same metal as the stairs. Like there was even circuit boards that ran through the walls controlled by the lone computer standing out in a corner of the room.
Roxas let go of Kairi and moved again to observe on his own. He found Kairi's obviously terrified state rather distracting when trying to figure out how to not get them killed, or whatever else those guys were after.
It had something to do with a guy named Sora. The one Kairi mentioned. . .and me disappearing?
A head splitting pain struck as Roxas got close enough to touch the computer causing bits and pieces of memories he didn't know he had to resurface through the pain.
"If we can maintain the simulated town until Naminé finishes chaining together Sora's memories."
"What will happen to Roxas?"
"He holds half of Sora's power within him. In the end, he'll have to give it back."
Kairi watched as Roxas violent clutched his head trying to stop the pain. Needless to say, it didn't help the feeling of needing to violently vomit from all of what was happening beforehand. Upon seeing all of this she did suddenly understand why she was never allowed to be a major part of the fight before.
"Why!? Why do you have the Keyblade?"
"Shut up!"
Roxas threw his head to the right and started grunting loudly along with clutching his head. Whatever he was doing didn't seem to help ease the pain of whatever was happening.
"Until then, he'll need another personality to throw off his pursuers."
"Poor thing."
If Sora and Riku can do this, why can't I? Gender isn't really that much of an issue these days. Ugh, I can't watch this anymore! Sora? Riku? Where are you two?
Roxas slowly stopped and then stood up. A familiar flash and the Kingdom Key appeared in Roxas' hand. This time Kairi's gasp was more out of familiarity than pure unadulterated horror. He raised it up to smash the computers and tore them apart one hit at a time until it was nothing but a heap of sparking metal surrounded by shards of glass. The system whirred down and then shut off opening up another door in the room leading into a dark hallway.
"How stereotypical." Roxas commented, still fumed from the adrenaline running it's course through his veins.
Kairi smiled weakly in response but was still noticeably shaking from the events that had just happened and more so the ones that unraveled through the few hours she'd known the boy.
He nodded to go through and she replied back the same way as they went through the door into the next location of the creepy mansion that Namine had led them into.
They walked down the hallway, that looked exactly as the room before it décor wise, in stride. Kairi trying her best to be brave for whatever was next (which mostly meant she just stopped noticeably shaking) and Roxas still seemingly unraveled by it all.
They reached the end of the wall where there was a turn to yet another door and there were two capsules with familiar looking faces on them.
". . .Donald . . .Goofy?"
"I think. . . it's all becoming clear now." Roxas muttered, and then flashed a smile to Kairi. "Shall we go through the next door?"
"We've already gone through every other one." Kairi said, looking to the door at the end of the turn and grabbing Roxas' hand to pull him through.
ESxXx
"At last, the Keyblade's chosen one."
It was the strange man in wraps and even stranger garb, again. He was standing there in the middle of the large white room before Roxas and Kairi even entered. He was in front of a large white capsule even bigger than the ones outside. Unlike the ones outside, the capsule he was standing behind wasn't see through.
"Who are you talking to? Me? Or Sora?"
"To half of Sora, of course. You reside in darkness. What I need is someone who can move about the realm of light and destroy Organization XIII."
Kairi squirmed, the feeling of needing to violently vomit was coming back up. She had just barely shook that off by pure force of will. Conversations around this man that she wasn't even apart of somehow made her sick every time. Then again, she'd only had the displeasure of being around him twice so far, but she really hoped there wouldn't be a third.
"Why? Who are you?"
"I am a servant of the world."
The strange man laughed huskily. Almost like one of the evil serial killer laughs Kairi often heard when she was forced to watch horror and thriller movies with Tidus and Wakka every movie night when they got to pick the movie. They always gave her nightmares.
It's more like I'm in my own self inflicted nightmare. I don't even really remember how I ended up here in the first place. It doesn't make any sense.
"And if I'm a servant, then you should consider yourself a tool, at best."
"Was that... Was that supposed to be a joke?"
Roxas' hot headed tendencies seemed to kick in again as he summoned the key blade in a flash and quickly added, "'Cause I'm not laughing!" before he went and charged at the strange man that only seemed to want to distract and irritate him.
Roxas let out a powerful strike on him only to find a wave of data where his key blade went straight through. Wide eyed from shock he stood still and waited for the next series of remarks from the strange man who seemed to not even exist.
That would explain the fashion choice. Kairi thought absent mindedly as she watched. Things just keep getting weirder and weirder.
"My apologies. This is only a data-based projection."
Roxas screamed in anger and frustration and futilely let out a series of strikes on the data-based projection of the creepy man. The man vanished, and reappeared behind Roxas while he panted to catch his breath.
"Come, over here."
Roxas only stiffened. Not moving a muscle for a few moments until he glared and sneered at the other man.
"I hate you so much. . ."
"You should share some of that hatred with Sora. He's far too nice for his own good."
"No! My heart belongs to me!"
Roxas ran again and cut through the man one more time. His disappeared for good this time as the capsule he was originally standing in front of glowed. The mechanical petals around the outside opened slowly to reveal what it contained.
"Sora. . ."
Kairi gasped and ran by Roxas' side to look up at her best friend. They really were similar. Sora's hair was a bit more spiky and it seemed as if though he had outgrown his cloths, but otherwise they weren't all that different appearance wise.
"Well Kairi, I guess this is the end for me." Roxas commented glumly.
Kairi looked at the two and tried to find the answer. Sora, you wouldn't want this. She was scared, and she knew that saving Roxas meant possibly never seeing Sora again, but what else was there to do? Sora wouldn't agree with letting Roxas die for him. She knew that, but he couldn't stop Roxas from sacrificing himself either.
"That's it! Our hearts are connected. And the light from our hearts broke through the darkness. I saw that light. I think that's what saved me. No matter how deep the darkness, a light shines within. I guess it's more than just a fairy tale."
"Well, let's go."
"You can't go."
"Why not?"
"Because it's way too dangerous."
"Come on, Sora. We made it this far by sticking together. You can't go alone."
"Kairi, even if we're apart, we're not alone anymore. Right?"
"I can't help?"
"You'd kind of be in my way."
"Okay. You win. Take this. It's my lucky charm. Be sure to bring it back to me."
"Don't worry. I will."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Don't ever forget. Wherever you go, I'm always with you."
"Well Sora, I think it's my turn to go alone. Don't worry, I'll come back just like you promised too. . .you never did return my charm yet." Kairi smiled weakly talking to her comatose friend. She looked at Roxas doing her best brave face and said, "I don't want you to disappear Roxas. I won't let you. I said it before, and I mean it. We've got to get out of here. We'll save Sora later."
"Kairi-"
"No! C'mon, we've have to hurry!"
Namine appeared behind them, and smiled opening a dark portal to a new world. For once, Kairi was the one to shoot Roxas the reassuring glance as they ran through into the unknown.
