Set Me Free

Well, this idea has been in my head for years. It's fully fleshed in my mind, I just have to write it. If I get enough reviews, I'll continue more often. I'll try to get a chapter out a week, but I promise nothing! Anyway, enjoy ;3

Chapter 1

The day was bright and pleasantly warm. The palms of the trees were swaying ever lightly in the cool breeze, and the gulls overhead were squawking themselves into a frenzy. The island was small, very small. It had the wood-workings of young ones. Boards and planks were built onto, around, and along the laying of the enormous rocks the island harbored. These pieces of wood connected, and created a maze of small cubbies and rooms. Roofs were also included into their simple but effective designs. Wonderful and lively tropical plant life had also found their way in growing with the lay of the rocks, adding colorful greens into the island's beauty.

Though humble, this island contained the most precious of memories. Generations of children had played here, each of them adding to the island's charm, and to its unique physical appearance. However, the most recent of all the island's young persons, left the biggest and most enduring impression. Their smiles and frowns, their games, and their hopes…From the simplest to the more complicated, those three children gouged their adventures into the island's stony-heart.

One was a girl, and the other two were boys who often competed for her attention and affection…

"Sora!"

Sora jolted into consciousness. Looking up, he gazed into a pair of indigo eyes.

"Geez, Kairi," Sora groaned. "You scared me."

Kairi laughed. The sounds of her giggles were like the sun's light reflecting off clouds.

"Well," she said, "you just lying here was just too irresistible an opportunity."

"Ha-ha," Sora replied pulling himself into a stand.

"Come on!" Kairi shouted over shoulder as she began to run down the beach. "Riku's waiting for us!"

So as Sora bounded after Kairi, the two of them raced along the shoreline with the waves occasionally splashing onto their shoes.

Finally the pair reached Riku, who was sitting in his usual spot on the angled palm tree.

"I...almost..." Kairi pants, "beat you that time!"

"Almost," Sora replies, very out of breath himself. Kairi was becoming lightning fast! "But not yet!"

"So, what were doing these past two hours, Sora?" Riku asks while hopping off the palm tree.

"I found him napping on the sand," Kairi tells him. "Good thing, too, or he would have suffered the worst sunburn!"

Riku chuckles, and then asks. "What were you dreaming about, Sora?"

Sora glances at Kairi, who returns his glance with a worried look, and then he turns his view back to Riku.

"Uh," Sora stammers. "I didn't dream. I was sleeping pretty hard."

Riku gave him a skeptic look, silver eyebrows raised.

"Are you positive?"

"Very."

Riku sighs, and then says to Sora:

"Whatever you say. Anyway, the folks are waiting for us. That's why we came looking for you."

"Yep!" Kairi adds. "Now let's go!"

And Kairi bounded down to the wooden hut, which had a door leading to the other side of the island.

Sora went to follow, but Riku grabbed him firmly by the arm.

"Hey, what the..."

"Tell me," Riku demanded, his face not an inch away from Sora's, green eyes stern and glaring. "Tell me about your dream."

"Riku, I already told you-"

"You were lying, Sora!" Riku yelled at him. "I know you, and I saw that look you gave Kairi!"

Sora gulped, the saliva in his mouth had begun to pool in curious amounts.

"Tell me."

Sora sighs, and whispers:

"We were wrapped in green light. But it was only you and me. Kairi wasn't anywhere near us. We went searching for her, but the green light ended to a black void that looked filled with other lights. We both sensed she was somehow wrapped in one of the other lights, but we couldn't escape the green one..."

"We were trapped," Riku said looking away from Sora's face, pulling his hands away from Sora's arms. "And in our frustrations, we started fighting. And we weren't ourselves. We were other people."

"How do you know that, Riku?" Sora asked.

"Because I had the same dream, Sora," Riku replied quietly. "I fear that something is going to happen again. And what if we can't find Kairi this time? What if-"

"Hey, wait," Sora butted in. "It was only a dream. Forget it."

"A dream that we both had?" Shouted Riku in an angry burst. "This can't be something we can just shrug off! This is serious!"

"Riku, this could have been just a portrayal of our feelings when we couldn't get home. It doesn't mean something else bad will happen."

Riku looked down, his face scrunched into a mad pinch. He took a deep breath, brought his face back up, and said:

"We're not to tell Kairi anything. This is between you and me. We forget it. Throw it out the window."

Sora nodded with a white smile.

"Yeah! Now let's catch up with Kairi. She'll probably be steaming when she finds out we didn't even try to race her to the boat."

"Steaming?" Riku asked. "She'll laugh herself silly when I tell her you fell into the ocean, and that I had to dive in and save you."

"She won't buy that!" Sora retorted, laughing himself. "I'm not even-"

Riku then cut Sora off and shoved him off the raised plump of rocks and sand. Sora landed with a splash and a "Hey!"

"Now she'll believe me," Riku laughed and also ran toward the wooden hut.

"Hey!" Sora yelled and chased after Riku. "You can't win! Then I'll be the rotten egg!"

"Better you than me!"

And the two boys ran to catch up with Kairi. The sun still shone high overhead in the cloudless, blue sky.