I don't own anything you recognize as Square Enix's.
So, maybe I shouldn't be writing or posting this but playing Kingdom Hearts III just burst open the door that held my love for this series even more and I just couldn't help it.
I need to get it out of my system so here it is.
o.
It starts with a butterfly.
It's a little, fragile thing - blue wings, with star shapes on them and very, very small - that just appears out of nowhere and it's like time stops.
When you're walking around with your friends, normally you wouldn't notice any other stuff that's happening around you because you're having fun; you're in your own space and bubble. But for some reason, she completely ignores what her friend is saying - "Hey, are you listening?" - as her eyes lock on the peculiar little being. Her surroundings vanish and it's like there's nothing else but the butterfly and herself. It lands in one of the tables on the other side of the road and she's stopping the walk she was doing immediately, feeling the urge to follow it.
Sometimes she should just forget these weird urges she gets.
But she doesn't.
She's walking in its direction and why wasn't she paying attention? Why couldn't she just be paying attention?
Ironically, she don't hear anything at first. No cars or people talking; anything. It's just her, in the middle of the road, a blue butterfly in her line of vision, a loud and horrible scream of, "Audrey!" and then the car slams into her side.
Screams. Pain and red explodes everywhere. It's excruciating, merciless pain and she can feel her arm bending in a way that it's clearly not natural and the way her legs just crumble when her body hits the ground with a thud. It rolls a couple of times until it comes to a stop, her face facing the sky. There's the screeching sound of the brakes of the car starting to work and she weakly wonders how had the driver not seen her?
But then again, she hadn't been paying attention either.
Vaguely, she think about how none of this would've happened if she just hadn't been distracted by a butterfly but it's a thought she discards almost immediately.
No one approaches her. No one moves. No one does anything. Audrey doesn't know if they called an ambulance or something because she just can't grasp what is happening around her that well. Her mind is dizy. She has an urge to puke and her chest contracts when she coughs harshly, feeling a familiar liquid trailing down her chin; the very same one that is currently leaking out of her head and most likely every single scratch and injury she has. The pain subsides into a heavy numb everywhere.
Dark spots begin to cloud her vision but she forces herself to stay awake because that's what you're supposed to do, right?
("C'mon, honey," Mom had whispered, eyes trailing over Audrey's six year old body searching for any other grave injuries but she had just blinked sleepily at her, "You gotta stay awake, okay?"
"I'm sleepy, Mama," she had told her, eyelids starting to close as the pain grew numb.
A choked sob had left Mom's trembling lips and she had grabbed her even harder, "I know, honey. B-but you have to stay awake, okay? After, you can sleep for as long as you want."
"Even if I miss school?" she had mumbled, suddenly more awake and feeling warmer.
Mom had laughed quietly, her panic fading momentarily, hand rubbing over her face to clean the tears dripping from her eyes, "Yes, you lazy monkey. Even if you miss school."
She had given her a smile and tried her best to stay awake, those moments somehow easier than before. "I'm sorry I fell down the bike and hit my head, mommy."
Mom hadn't answered but she had sobbed quietly. It wasn't until later that Audrey learned about how her head had cracked open and she had been bleeding furiously but Mom had been able to prevent it from getting worse until the ambulance arrived.
She still don't know how her mom did it. Her hands hadn't even been near the wound at all.)
I want my Mom.
But she isn't here anymore. Not here or anywhere matter of fact. She feels her eyes stinging. Thinking about her always hurts, even more than broken bones.
Why did you leave us? Me Why why why why why why
Dad didn't know anything about her whereabouts. She hadn't taken any of her stuff. She had left it all behind, along with a broken husband and a broken daughter. He never really got over it. He had continued taking really good care of Audrey and himself; never let himself go down. Kept his job and continued on his life. Sometimes she wondered if he even missed Mom, but then she'd find him cry himself to sleep on her side of bed and she'd get her answer.
She did the same.
She lost count of the years she spent thinking her mom would return, that she'd give a damn about them but she didn't. Never. She left when Audrey was six and never came back.
God, she think bitterly, mentally laughing at her stupid thoughts, here I am, bleeding out like a mothertrucker and thinking about her.
The numbness is getting heavier and heavier and her eyelids keep forcing themselves to close but she doesn't let them, can't let them.
But sleep sounds so nice . . .
Coldness begins to slip through, travelling from her feet upwards towards her head. She shivers and blinks more times, telling herself stay awake stay awake you have to stay awake. But the coldness that is slipping thorough it's merciless. It's overcoming her body and her whole being. She can't breathe. Audrey tries to take a breath in but she just can't.
I can't breathe I can't breatheIcantbreathe
It - whatever it is, Death or whatever - pulls at her, to just give up and let it take her but she fights it. I don't wanna go I don't wannagoIdontwanna
I don't wanna leave my dad.
He can't stay alone. Audrey has to stay by his side. He may have handled losing his wife well but losing his daughter too? No, that can't happen.
I don't wanna go
The pulling stops. The coldness leaves. But she's still numb and hurting and broken. Finally, she can hear the frantic voices of her friends reaching her ears, saying everything is gonna be okay!! an ambulance is arriving for you and she smiles because the coldness is gone. She's gonna be okay. The ambulance is arriving and she's not gonna leave her dad. Audrey is not gonna be like her. She's gonna stay and--
A flash of blue reaches her eyesight and her breath stops when she finds the butterfly hovering over her face. With wide eyes, she can't do anything but watch with teary eyes as the small, little being lands on the tip of her nose and it all just vanishes from around her.
There's no coldness. Just warmth. The numbness leaves her body completely and Audrey's eyelids slip closed, the last thing she see being the little blue butterfly.
It ends with a butterfly.
(She didn't know it, but soon she would awaken in a complete different world.)
o.
What's with me and always like killing off (sorte in this one) my characters at first? Smh I don't understand myself.
Sorry if its not that interesting. It's just a prologue of some sorts. And this is just an idea I got and wanted to get it out.