{{Sora}}

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise; What it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" Kairi giggles.

"Kairi, you're funny!" I laugh.

Kairi shakes her head, smiling, "But, I"m right. You know I am. Right, Sora?"

My smile falters, "You're.. You're not serious?"

We're just kids, she's just playing.

I laughs, "That's silly, Kairi. You can't really have a world just for you."

"Sure I can." she smiles, "You can do anything if only you believe."

"You're sure hung up on this." I say, "What got you hooked on this thought?"

"Well," she shrugs, "Everything. My grandma used to tell me of this world where nothing was like now. It was safe, and nobody died. A light protected everyone, and then the darkness came from people's hearts, destroyed the light. Brought this world, with war and horror. I want a world like Grandma used to tell me about."

"That's just a story." I say, "It's not even real. It's a bedtime story."

"Did you mom ever tell you that story?" she asks.

"No, I heard it from Riku, his Dad told him about it." I reply.

Kairi smiles, "I'm going to make a world where everything isn't what it is."

"That's impossible." I continue to shoot her down.

If I didn't, nobody would. She looks at me angrily, "I thought you of all people would believe me."

She gets up, and I ask, "Kairi? Where are you going?"

"Home!" she calls over her shoulder, running from the shore of the Islands we were playing in. I wanted to go after her, but there wasn't anything I can say, I don't believe in her fantasy world she wants to create.

I sigh, "I can't let her try to find her home on her own."

I get up and run after her.

{{Kairi}}

"I can't believe he didn't believe me!" I huff, running across the bridge leading back to town.

I stop, someone's walking towards me. It's a girl about sixteen with blond hair wearing a white dress. She stops in front of me and smiles, "Hello, Kairi."

"Who are you?" I ask, "How do you know my name?"

"I am Namine." she smiles.

I stare at her in wonder, and she says, "I heard what you said about the world you want. What everything is, it isn't. I can bring that world to life for you."

I smile, "You can?"

She nods, smiling, "I can. I am a witch, I can do whatever I want."

"You can bring me the world I want?!" I gasp, smiling wide.

"I can do one better," she turns from me and holds out a hand and a white portal appears, she then looks back at me, "I can bring you to that world."

I look at the portal and she says, "Look into it. You can see your world."

I walk up to her and peer into the portal, and I can see things.

"What do you see, Kairi?" she asks me.

"I see a garden, lots of pretty flowers, and kids, lots of kids!" I say in excitement.

She nods, "I create these worlds for kids like you, you can share their world, or I can make you one of your own."

She then closes the portal and turns to me fully, "What do you want me to do?"

I look up at the witch, "I want my own world! Where what this world is, that world isn't!"

Namine smiles wider, and her blue eyes turn pink, "Then that is the world you will get."

She turns from me and opens another portal, she speaks, still not looking at me, "I will allow you to live in this world, but there must be a deal made."

"What deal?" I said, "I'll do anything!"

She smiles at me, "I was hoping you'd say that."

"So what's this deal you need?" I ask.

She turns to me again, "I will let you live in this world, if you give me one simple thing."

"What?" I smile.

She continues to smile at me, "Your energy."

I don't know what that is, I don't care! I want my world, "It's a deal!"

She holds her hand out, her pinkie sticking up, "Pinkie promise?"

"Pinkie promise!" I entwine my pinkie with hers and she laughs, pushing me into the portal. I gasp, I'm falling through the sky!

{{Sora}}

I finally caught up to Kairi and I gasp at what I see. I see her laying on the bridge, unconscious.

"Kairi!" I run over to her and turn her over, so I can look at her.

She's sleeping?

I hold her in my arms, "Kairi, wake up, wake up!"

I shake her but she doesn't stir. Tears form in my eyes, "Kairi, wake up!"

My cries were heard, and my mother comes running down the bridge with Kairi's adopted father, the mayor. The mayor takes Kairi from me, "Sora, what happened?"

"I'm not sure, she ran off and I went after her, when I got to her she was like this!" I cry, tears falling down my face.

Mom looks at me and picks me up, "It'll be okay, Sora."

"I'm taking her to the hospital." the mayor says, turning and running off, and mom follows, carrying me with her.

"Do they know what's wrong with her?" my mom asks the mayor as I stare into the room Kairi's in as she lays in a bed asleep with machines attached to her.

He sighs, "No, they can't find anything wrong with her, nothing at all. But nothing can wake her up."

I stare sadly at my friend, What happened before I got there? Was I too late to save you? I start to cry again and mom pulls me from the window, "Come on, Sora, we're going home now, sweetie."

Kairi... I was too late, wasn't I?