Chapter One: The beginning
"Talking" 'Thinking'
The sun warms my face as it is gently caresses by the wind. I open my eyes and see blue sky. I glance around and find myself on a beach, alone. I sit up quickly and franticly look around. I finally conclude that she's not with me. I fall to my knees and begin to weep. The only sound I heard was my sobs until a crunching noise admitted. I slowly stop crying; hoping whoever it was would walk by without a second glance. But luck wasn't on my side today.
"Why are you crying? Are you okay?" I look up and find myself staring at a girl around the age of 10. She has long, straight black hair with brown eyes, she's wearing a mu'umu'u with a flower pattern and sandals.
Another sob emits from me as I stare into the girls innocent eyes. I shake my head. "What's wrong?" she asks. I look down, "I lost my twin sister..." I quietly mumble. I can feel her gaze on me. "Do you want me to help you look?"
My head snaps up to her, meeting her gaze. "R-really?" I ask, my eyes sparkling with hope. "Of course!" she says with a smile. "My names Lilo Pelekai, what's yours?" I avoid her gaze. "I don't have one," I tell her. "Oh... well then, let's find you a name!" My eyes brighten at this.
"How about, no... What about, naw... I know! Kiana!" I pause, "Kiana." I smile, "I like that." Lilo smiles and leads me away from the beach and into town. We spent the day exploring the island looking for my sister but met so many different people on the island.
"That's French-fry, he cooks the most amazing food. Oh! There's Squeak, he can talk for hours and hours. That's Skip, he makes you jump ahead 10 years. And of course, there's Stitch" Lilo explained as we walk through town. I giggle at Lilo's talkativeness. But the more she talks about Stitch the more I want to meet him in person.
At the end of the day I was becoming discouraged because there has still been no sign of my sister. "There's only one other place she would be." I look at Lilo. "Where?" "Gantu. But first we need to stop off at my house."
We rush over to her house. "Stay here." She tells me and runs inside. A few minutes later she runs back outside with a paper bag in her hand. I raise an eyebrow at the bag. She just smiles and shrugs.
Lilo leads me to a beautiful clearing with a ship at the base of a waterfall. We carefully walk inside the ship and find ourselves in the middle of room filled with sandwiches. "Hello! Err... Hello?" Lilo calls.
"Sorry, we're not open." A voice emits from in the middle of the room. Me and Lilo manoeuvre through the sandwiches to see the speaker. An experiment stands in the middle of the room, making sandwiches. He's a golden colour, a little chubby with short ears that flop down at the sides of his head, three small antennae that look like a tuft of fluffy fur are on the top of his head, he has pointed fingers, short stumpy legs, hourglass-shaped marking on his back and two flat teeth sticking out of his mouth that overlap his bottom lip.
"Open?" I ask. "We're turning this dump into the best spaceship sandwich shop on the island." He says. "You and Gantu?" Lilo asks. "No, Gantu left. But I'm naming a sandwich after him. Open faced, double decor, blubber butt." He says while finishing a sandwich. "Okay then..." Lilo says, "Who are you working with then?" "628" He answers. My eyes widen.
"Where is she?" I quickly ask. "Right here." Says a voice from behind me. I turn around and see my sister sitting between a stack of sandwiches. She looks the same as always, a pine green female experiment with a shapely figure; she has small ears that come to a point, with small eyelashes and a white O-shape symbol on her slightly larger mint green chest.
As for me, I have Iris colour fur shapely female experiment with a shapely figure; I have two long tendril-like white-tipped antennae, white-tipped ears with small eyelashes and Iris V-shaped symbol on my slightly larger white colour chest.
I squeal and hug her. "Where have you been?" I ask as I let go of her. "Here, with 625." I giggle and bring her over to Lilo. "This is Lilo," I told my sister, gesturing to Lilo. "Lilo, this is my sister." "Hello," Lilo says, my sister smiles and nods.
Lilo turns and sets the paper bag in front of 625. He looks inside before pulling out a sandwich. "Peanut butter and jelly," He says and smells it. "Gee, nobody has ever made me a sandwich, haha." 625 suddenly stops. "Hey! What do you want?" "I need to call Stitch."
I look up at Lilo, remembering about how she talked about him throughout the day. "Eh, sorry. Video phone is busted. Like everything else in this dump!" 625 says looking around the room, Lilo looks down. "Can you fix it?" I ask. I really wanted to meet Stitch. "Why should I? Gantu's the only one calling and I ain't answering. From now on I'm looking out for old number 625."
Lilo suddenly looks up. "625... I never gave you a name!" Lilo exclaims. "A name, for me?" He asks. "Let's see, how about Patty? Short for patty melts?" 625 made a face. I intervene, "What about Monty, like a Monty Cristo?" 625 shakes his head. "Reuben?" My sister asks. 625 looks at my sister and smiles. "Huh, the classic six corn beef and sour crout on rye. Reuben! Oh, I like that."
He turns to Lilo. "So... Does this give me official cousin static, full ohana rights with all that aloha stuff?" Lilo smiles, "Depends... You have to give a little aloha to get some back. So, you gonna help me fix the video phone?" "Sure." Reuben gets to work as Lilo turns to my sister and me.
"Now all I have to do is give 628 a name. How about... Alana?" She thinks about it for a moment before smiles. "Alana, that fits." I giggle. "Alana and Kiana, the only twin experiments that are super strong and that can shape shift!" We all laugh and begin to help Reuben fix the video phone.
Soon enough it's up and running. Lilo calls Stitch's ship and it takes him a few moments to answer before he appears. Stitch is a blue, koala-like experiment with large rabbit-like ears, a wide mouth, a round nose, black eyes, a small, short, stubby tail, two nose wrinkles, one chin wrinkle and three tuffs of sharp hair on top of his head and on his chest. 'He's kind of cute.' I thought to myself.
"Aloha Stitch!" Lilo says. Stitch hesitates, "Stitch?" Lilo asks. "Eh?" I quickly notice that it sounded kind of forced. "Are you okay?" Lilo asks.
"Oh ya, it's me, I'm Fluffy!" I also notice his voice changes as he speaks. "That's him alright." Reuben says confidently. Lilo stares at 'Stitch' for a moment before gasping. "Wait a minute, my tiki necklace! He's not wearing it! That's not Stitch!" 'Stitch' looks away for a moment before turning to us. "Okay, bye-bye." "Wait!" Lilo calls but it's too late. He pulls out a gun and shoots the screen.
Lilo turns to us. "Kiana, Alana and Reuben, there is a fake Stitch driving the Big Red Battleship! Do you know what that means?" Lilo says. "I don't know," Reuben answers, "Lunchtime?" "No, Stitch is in trouble and so are the Galactic Armada and Planet Euro and maybe the whole galaxy!" Lilo yells.
"It ain't our problem!" Alana stares at Reuben in disbelief. She steps forward. "Look, you're number 625! The closest one to Stitch, if you wanted to, you could have all of his powers. You just have to stop making sandwiches and start making something of yourself." Alana explains.
Lilo and I nod. "I'm gonna fix this ship, fly to Planet Euro and warn the Grand-Council Woman! Are you with me?" There was no answer from Reuben as me and Alana agree. Lilo huffs and tries to lift something 10 times her size. I move to help her but Reuben beats me to it. "I'm with ya sista." We all smile.
With us all working together we get the job done in no time and were on our way to warn the Grand-Council woman and hopefully save the galaxy. I look up as we fly off, 'I hope Stitch is safe.'