Battle for Salvation
Discovery
It was a calm night. The moon shone over a quiet village on the outskirts of a forest. In one of those particular houses lived a family of three. Two teen-aged girls sat in the living room. The girl with long blonde hair sat contently reading a vampire novel, while the short haired brunette had her attention fixed on a video game. It was a quarter till midnight and their father was putting on his shoes, getting ready to head out for work.
"Now, I don't want you two staying up too late" their father said as he opened the door. The two girls nodded. "Oh, and Shana," he said before he shut the door. "I want you to take a break from that video game. You've been playing it all day."
The thin brunette answered with a vague 'fine'. The door shut and left them alone. About an hour afterward, Shana threw down the PS2 controller and sprawled out on the floor. "Finally!" she sighed. "I finally beat it." Sabrina marked the page she was on a set the book down.
"It took you long enough. How many hours did you spend on it?" Shana sat up and took the disk out of the PS2. "Too many." She put the disk back into its case and wiped some dust away from the title, 'Kingdom Hearts II'.
Sabrina continued to ask questions about the game. "So how did it end? What happened to Organization XIII?" Shana snorted.
"How did it end? It was a horrible ending. The whole Organization was killed off, and Roxas joined Sora…so he basically doesn't exist anymore." Sabrina slid down the sofa and sighed.
"Way to make everything depressing. But you're right, that is a horrible way to end." She glanced at the clock, which read 1:30 AM. It was about time to go. The two got dressed in older clothes and went out the door, headed towards the woods.
About a year and a half ago, after Shana had finished Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, both of them had developed an obsession for Organization XIII. So whenever Shana's dad had to work late, the girls would walk over to the woods and look around, trying to find Castle Oblivion, or The World That Never Was. It was all in good fun, but in the back of their minds they did hope to find something. They would stay out until they had just enough time to get back to Shana's house before her dad got home from work. On occasions when they wanted to go far, they would take their bikes. However, they didn't on this night, for they were more tired than usual tonight.
They passed most of the area at the opening, because they have searched there so much they practically had it memorized. However, they skimmed over all of the trees and bushes as they passed, just in case they missed something. As Shana scanned over their surroundings, Sabrina stood there looking at the stars in the sky. Suddenly Shana called to her and made her jump.
"Hey, come over here! Have you seen this here before?" Sabrina walked over to her friend, who was looking at a path that was half hidden by pine branches.
"No." She replied. "I've never noticed that path here before. I wonder how we missed it."
"Let's see how much time we have left before we go any further," Shana said as she looked at her watch. If they didn't have too much time left, they would go home and use their bikes to ride down it tomorrow. She looked at her watch for a few moments, and then tapped the glass covering. "That's funny," She said. "My watch seems to have stopped. What does your cell phone say?" Sabrina took the phone out of her pocket and flipped up the top. She looked at Shana's watch and then back to hers.
"It says the same time as yours. But that can't be right. It's the same time as when we left." They both shrugged at each other. "Well, I guess we could walk for about an hour or so and then head back." Shana agreed and moved the branches aside. It was a tricky task at first, because the path became heavily laden with branches and roots. The path soon, to they're relief, became clearer, but it seemed to be going nowhere. Slightly disappointed, Sabrina suggested that they turn around soon, but Shana wanted to go a little further.
A little while later, they stumbled across a new, strange obstacle. The path separated into two different paths, but the weird part was the signs that lie in-between them. Written, or carved rather, on the slightly rotting wood were the words 'Light' and 'Darkness'. The 'Light' sign pointed towards the right path that went straight, and disappeared in the direction the sun would raise. The sign that read 'Darkness' pointed down the left path that twisted and turned over hills, and soon disappeared into the night. "Great," Shana mumbled and leaned up against a tree.
"What should we do now?" Sabrina looked down both paths and thought a while. Then a light bulb went off. "Maybe," she said as she snapped her fingers. "We shouldn't go down either path." Shana gave her a look of confusion, but then she understood.
"I see. I think I get what you're saying. The World That Never Was is a world that lies between light and darkness, so that's why we shouldn't take either path." Sabrina nodded.
"We have to be careful though," she added. "We don't want to get lost out there and end up getting home after your dad." Keeping that thought in the back of our minds, they took a few steps in the grass that lie between the paths. Suddenly; everything shattered like glass around them. The scenery disappeared, and so did the two girls. There was a sickening feeling of falling, and then everything went black.
Just to let you know now, the chapters will most likely either be this short, or longer, but just slightly. So don't be surprised. This is pretty much the first fanfiction that I wrote, so if there is any constructive criticism, please share it with me.
Until next time!