Author's Note: I've been doing a lot of updating lately, haven't I? lol Here's my newest multi-chapter story. PoV switches each chapter, but I'll let you know who is narrating at the beginning of each chapter. This is my Kingdom Hearts/Silent Hill crossover. Credit to xXUr-RawR-BuddyXx for the name XD. She and I were discussing what to call it, and she suggested it. Enjoy, friends...
Sora's PoV:
"Ugh, are we there yet?" Roxas sighed in a mix of frustration and boredom. Roxas, Namine, Riku, Kairi, and I were piled into my black Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV on our way to a supposedly haunted ghost town, Silent Hill, West Virginia.
"No," Kairi said as she looked back at him. It was her turn to drive and I sat in the passenger's seat while Riku sat behind me, Roxas sat behind Kairi, and Namine was squashed in-between Riku and Roxas. "The GPS says we're almost there, so don't worry. Besides, we still have to check into our hotel in the next town. This town is abandoned, so we can't stay there, now can we?"
"You'll survive another fifteen minutes, Roxas," I said. "Besides, I know you just wanna get away from all of us so you and Namine can…"
"Shut up!" he said, cutting off what I was about to say. Roxas blushed deep red like a tomato and crossed his arms. We could talk like that to each other without taking it personally, being cousins.
"I'm a little scared," Namine said. My little, blond friend had a look of uncertainty on her face. I looked at her through the rearview mirror. "What if all the horrible stories about this place are true? I mean, I don't want to get into something that might make us disappear! What if we die?"
"Nothing's going to happen to us, Nami," Riku said, chill as always. "This town was abandoned because the coal mines caught fire, not because of a little ghost girl or a big guy with a 9-foot-long kitchen knife. We'll be fine."
"I hope you're right, Riku," she said with a shaky voice. She curled up around Roxas and buried her nose in his arm. He took his fingers through her platinum blond hair lovingly. Namine relaxed a little as Roxas wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close, her head resting on his slightly muscular chest. Roxas and I had always been scrawny, no matter how much we'd work out with Riku, Terra, Xemnas, and Vanitas. It just didn't work for us. We were as strong as anyone who worked out, but we didn't seem to gain much muscle mass.
"Hey, I'm going to call Xion and Vanitas to see if they've caught up with us," I said. Vanitas was my twin brother and Xion was Namine's sister. They'd been together as long as Kairi and I had been. It was uncanny how much Kairi and Xion looked alike, only being cousins and not sisters. At least Vanitas and I were blood related. Kairi was only related to Xion and Namine by marriage. They looked even more alike when Kairi's hair was short. She grew it out two years ago at age sixteen because she thought she looked older like that. I thought she was stunningly beautiful either way. Xion expressed a desire to grow her hair out as well.
I pulled my cellphone out of my pocket and dialed my brother's number. He and Xion had come in a separate car because there was no room in mine. They were driving Xion's silver Volkswagen Jetta and had gotten separated from us when a tree fell in front of them and behind us. It was a thousand wonders how it didn't hit them when it collapsed. In that small car, it probably would have killed both of them. I offered to stop and help them, but Vanitas insisted he could move it himself. Last I'd checked, a road crew was clearing it and they were starting on their way toward us. That had been an hour ago.
The phone rang a couple of times before Xion answered Vanitas' phone. "Hello," she said sweetly in a voice that was all too similar to Kairi's.
"Hey, it's Sora. Have you two gotten anywhere near us yet?" I asked.
"Depends, where are you guys?" she asked.
"We're about ten minutes away from the town outside Silent Hill. Where are you?"
"I don't know," she said. "Our GPS died suddenly and I can't get it to charge up. I thought it was my power outlet, but the phone charges perfectly. I think the GPS is just messed up. And…there's a lot of fog around us. Wait, I see a sign. It says, 'Silent Hill Next Right.' No, that can't be right," she said in shock and a little bit of fear. "We were behind you guys, but now we're here? This is impossible! Vanitas, look out!" she screamed and I heard a loud bang before the phone died.
"Xion…Xion!" I yelled into the phone.
"What happened, Sora?" Kairi asked.
I just sat there in shock. "I…I think they just had an accident," I said, rattled to the core. I knew panic was right around the corner for me. "They were in a thick fog and saw a sign that said they were in Silent Hill. Then I heard Xion yell and a loud bang then the phone died. Kairi, drive faster!"
My red-head girlfriend nodded and slammed the gas pedal down, accelerating at a steady, but swift pace. I dialed 911 in my phone to report the possible accident. "Hello," the operator said.
"Please, I need an ambulance. My brother and his girlfriend…they may have been in an accident," I said in a panic.
"Calm down, sir. Do you know for sure? How do you know?" she asked.
"I was talking on the phone with his girlfriend. They were coming with me and four of our other friends to Silent Hill and they were in another car. She said they were entering Silent Hill right when I heard her scream and a loud crash before the phone died. Please, you have to get there fast!" I said in one breath.
The operator became silent for a second. "If you try to prank us one more time, then I'll have to report you," she said. "Everyone knows you can't get into Silent Hill by car. Don't call again unless you have a real emergency."
"But ma'am, I…" she hung up before I could finish my sentence. "Crap. They won't help us. She said she thought we were pranking them. And there was something strange. She sounded kind of funny when I mentioned Silent Hill."
Just then, a fog like what Xion described encircled the SUV. "What's going on?" Kairi asked, slowly decelerating from 75 to 45 MPH. I was surprised she had even reached that speed, going through the curvy, Appalachian Mountain roads of West Virginia. It was a testament to her driving skills.
"I have no idea, Kai," I said. I looked out into the fog and saw an outline ahead. "Wait, that's Xion's car! Pull over."
Kairi pulled the car to the side of the road and we all jumped out to run over to the totaled vehicle. I saw the driver's side of the windshield was broken and blood was dripping from the sharp edges. I heard a low moan coming from the mangled wreckage of the Jetta. "Xion, Vanitas," I called out, hoping one would answer.
"Ugh," the voice said as I followed it to the passenger's side, Kairi, Riku, Roxas, and Namine not too far behind. "Sora," Xion said weakly. I motioned everyone else to stay behind as I pried the door open.
"Sora, I'm going to look for Vanitas," Kairi said. I nodded and turned toward my injured friend.
"Xion, we're here. Are you ok?" I asked.
"Ugh, Sora," she weakly said. "I don't know."
I looked across her body to see what had happened. She had cuts all over her body. Still, she appeared to be alright. I unbuckled her from the seat and helped her out of the car. "Where's Vanitas?" I asked.
"I don't know," she said, holding her head. "But…in the fog, there was a girl. She…she looked normal, but there was something about her. She was about as tall as me. She was wearing a purple cropped top and denim shorts. And she also had black hair that was short in the back and long in the front. It was styled into three spikes that went across her face, and the largest completely covered her left eye. Vanitas tried to swerve out of the way, but we hit her. Well…we thought we hit her. She landed on her bare feet behind the car. Sora, that girl wasn't human!" Xion's hands were trembling and she was holding onto me as if her life depended on it. For all I knew, it probably did.
"It's ok, we're here, and we'll find Vanitas and whoever this girl is," I said. "Did you get a good look at her face?"
"No, it was too foggy," she said. "All I saw was her outline, clothes, and hair. I don't even feel comfortable calling it a 'her.' It was definitely not a person!" Xion's eyes fluttered closed. "I just need…need to…lie down." Xion passed out in my arms and I handed her to Riku. He carried her bridal-style to my Jeep and set her in the seat, staying with her to make sure she was alright.
About that time, Kairi came back, alone. "No sign of Vanitas anywhere," she said. "It's like he just disappeared."
"Xion mentioned a girl with black hair, a purple top, and denim shorts. She's the one that caused the accident," I said. "Xion said they ran over her, but she just landed on her feet. It was like it didn't even affect her at all."
"Do you think that's who took Vanitas?" she asked. "I mean, there's no way he could have walked away from this accident. Look at what it did to Xion!" Kairi bit her lip as she thought about what to do next. "I think we need to just go ahead into Silent Hill so we can find Vanitas and whoever this…woman is."
"Alright," I said. "Guys, get back in my car. We're going to the town to find Vanitas."
Everyone piled into my car, Kairi taking the wheel again while I got into the passenger's side. Namine and Roxas sat next to each other and Namine held Xion steady. Riku got into the back and leaned over the backseat and rested his head between Xion and Namine's. Kairi stepped on the gas and sped through the fog, her headlights on dim so she could see well. I saw Riku look out the back window through the rear-view mirror. "Umm, Kairi, I think you should go faster!" he said with an anxious tone in his voice.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because the ground is disappearing behind us!" he yelled. "It's just…falling away, and it's catching up fast!"
"God, I wish this thing went faster," she said under her breath, being used to her Corvette and being an amateur racecar driver. "Hold on, guys!" She slammed the gas pedal until it threatened to punch through the floorboard. I watched the needle of the MPH gauge rise higher than I ever thought possible for my Jeep.
The disappearing road nearly caught up with us before it stopped at the Silent Hill City Limits. Kairi stepped on the brakes and skidded to a stop just before we were about to plow through a pharmacy. "Whew, that was so close," she said, panting and checking her pulse on her neck.
"Yeah, thanks Kai," I said, lightly kissing her on the lips and playing with a strand of her red hair.
"You're welcome," she said as she tried to catch her breath. "Well, looks like there's no turning back now. Let's find Vanitas and get out of this place!"
Xion started to regain consciousness. "Ugh, where are we?" she asked through her daze.
"We're in Silent Hill," Namine answered. "And it doesn't look like we'll be getting out any time soon." And she was right; it seemed we'd be stuck there for a long time. All I could hope for is that we'd find Vanitas and be out of there as fast as we could, but I wasn't counting on that. I held Kairi's hand tight as we proceeded into the town.
Just as we'd heard, the town was abandoned. The same fog that caused Vanitas and Xion's wreck enveloped the whole town. Strangely, the buildings seemed to be intact. The streets were broken asphalt and several old cars were left abandoned. They still looked like they'd run, despite being over twenty-five years old. I thought I saw someone run down the street out of the corner of my eye, and it sent me on edge. I protectively pulled Kairi closer to me and wrapped my arm around her. "Sora, is something wrong?" she whispered.
"I just thought I saw something," I said. "I don't think we're alone here. Something…something just doesn't feel right, you know? I can't explain it, but this place feels…evil." Every instinct in my mind was telling me to run away, to try and find a way for us all to escape this nightmare, but we pressed forward. We had to find my brother, and I'd find him no matter what the cost!
"You know, I felt something too," she said. "I just don't feel right here."
"What do you guys think?" I asked, but received no response. "Um, guys…are you there?" I turned to see that Kairi and I were completely alone. "Riku, Roxas, Namine, where are you guys?" I called out.
"They just disappeared!" Kairi said. Her eyes widened in panic. "What happened?"
"I have no idea, but I don't like it," I said. Great, now we had more friends to look for. Kairi and I pressed through the fog in search of our friends, but we had no idea what we were getting into.
Author's Note: So, what do you think? This story marks the first appearance of my Heartless OC, Kurami. I used her Heartless form for this story because she's the one who is actually evil. She will be the main antagonist of part 6 of the Hearts series. That will be worked on shortly before the end of Light and Dark, so it will be a little while. Until next time, friends...
