The Voice lost among the wind A poem by Rex.

I hear a voice. Is this my voice? I believe it is. Who am I? I do not know. Am I dead? I do not know. I feel no pain, but my mind remains. I try to remember who I was, but can not. All I remember is an explosion, a loud boom. Was I trying to protect someone? I do not know. All I know is my voice. Why do I remain? Why do I stay? Who am I? I'm just a voice. A voice lost among the wind.

I hear a voice. It's calling for someone; is it calling for me? I do not know. I try to approach it but cannot. It seems to only be slipping farther and farther away from me. I'm trapped in this world of darkness. I cannot see only hear. The voice is gone. I hear a whistle. The whistle of the wind. I am just a simple voice. A voice lost among the wind.

Was I meant to protect someone? Or was it to stop something? I do not know. Why do I remain? Is this a punishment? Did I anger the gods? Why can't I remember? Wait that voice, is it coming back? It sounds a lot clearer and louder. It sounds like a girl. "Okay Stitch what are you trying to show me? Wait there is more than one?" "Aka tiki baba." I hear a second sound; it sounds familiar like I've heard it some where. I feel my world start to shake. "Who do you think could have lost this?" I hear the female voice once more. "Meega don't know." "I guess we could hang onto it until we find the owner. Lets go see Jumba if knows anything." This was that last thing I heard before I was alone again. I'm just a voice...a voice lost among the wind.

My memory just fades but my mind is still here. Where did I come from? I had to have come from somewhere. I couldn't have just magically been created out of thin air. Could I? I do not know. Only if I could remember who I was.(Author's Note: this is where the poem ends and a story begins. Seriously I don't know how a poem turned into a story. Also this is from the mind that's trapped point of view so its still in pretty much limbo.)

Chapter 1 a normal day

The voices I heard before started to return "So what did little girl want to show me?" I heard in a strange Russian accent. "This; Stitch found it. We wanted to know if you have seen anything like this before." My world began to shake once more. "Where did 626 find this?" "In that thicket of bamboo near the beach." "Hmm interesting. I might have to get Pleakley to help with this." Sudden slam! "The little monster tore up my garden." "Calm down Pleakley. What did 626 exactly do?" Jumba said. "The little monster tore up my rose bushes and petunias." So I'm guessing that voice was Pleakley. "Actually Pleakley that was me. I was experimenting with the autopilot in the buggy."

"What!?" "Any way, I need you to look at this object little girl and 626 found." "It's a mask?." "We know that already but, is there anything else?" I've heard this conversation go on and on. But then I heard "Now that I got a better look at it, it looks a lot like the lieutenant that went missing after the convoy he was in flew too close to a blackhole." I heard Pleakly say, "ah yes, I remember reading about that some time ago. Every one got away in an escape pod, except for him. He was assumed dead." So that's who I am. A dead soldier.!? *Sudden Images flash for a brief second. One of a sword, one of a ship convoy flying past a black hole, escape pods being fired, watching the light fade as being pulled into darkness sword in hand.* I remember who I was; who I am. I am lieutenant Rex. *Suddenly, the void Rex is in starts to have 2 light sources coming through positions that look like eye holes in a mask. Shining a light on him revealing his true figure. Purple scaled hands with claws on the end his arms had a similar color running all the way up; there were a few spines orange shaped like triangles running running from wrist to elbow seeming like they could stop a blade but also looked sharp enough to cut something.

A snout so clean it appeared to reflect light even though it was still a shade of purple. In the reflection there was a pair of blue eyes just staring right back. A pair of orange and purple wings that looked to be badly torn. They were holding onto an object similar to an sheifed blade.

I tried to move closer to one of the light sources. But when I did I couldn't move, only the light came closer. It appeared to be a window. A window into the world where the light was coming from. All I could see was a 1 eyed noodle-like thing and 4-eyed, shaved looking thing I really didn't know what it was. They eventually moved away revealing a little girl with black hair and brown eyes wearing a red shirt that had yellow flowers on it. She looked to be about 12 maybe 13; and a blue dog like thing. "Lilo didn't you say your cousin is coming all the way from the mainland today?" Pleakly asked. "I forgot." "Lilo its time to go we need to pick up our cousin, his ship will be arriving soon." "Coming Nani." The little girl had quickly moved in my direction. Soon my world had started to shake once more. The window I was looking out of had faded - consumed by the darkness I am trapped in. Back in limbo. I am alone. And nobody knows I'm here but meega. Wait, why did I say that?

At the only dock in Hanapepe...

Nobody's P.O.V. (Mainly cause I can't just stick to first person forever.)

A cruise ship was pulling up into the dock there was a crowd of people standing on the dock waving at the incoming ship. Lilo, Nani and Stitch where in the crowd looking out for their cousin. Just getting off the ship was said it was a male in his teenage years maybe roughly 16 his eyes were blue and he was wearing rectangular glasses the lenses were darkened a bit to block the sun, he had dirty blond hair and a pail skin with a slight tan, he was wearing tan cargo short, a skyblue short sleeve shirt with a pocket in the front, on his back was a backpack that looked like it could hold alot of stuff, he was thin but he didn't look like he was out of shape he had a little bit of muscle tone, on his head he was wearing what appeared to be a fox skin hat at first glance but upon closer inspection it was a sleeping orange fox. He was looking for his cousins.

Once he got off the ship he then spotted them. "Hey Lilo, Nani. Over here." He yelled in their direction while waving his arm. This got their attention so they looked in the direction that it was coming from. They eventually spotted him heading in their direction. He eventually stopped in front of the group "Lilo, Nani, and you too Stitch *Stitch was jump waving his arms trying to get noticed* how have you guys been?" He asked "We've been good. You?" Nani said quickly she was in a little bit of a rush. "I've been better and worse. I'll tell you about it later. Let's just get back for now. I do not want Pleakly's cooking." He said that with a shudder. The look he had was enough for them to realize what he meant. So, Nani quickly popped open the van's trunk where their cousin had set his suitcase and his backpack in before closing it and getting into the van. Their cousin got into the front passenger seat while Lilo and Stitch sat in the back.

On the drive home...

"Hey Seth, why are you wearing that hat? Aren't you hot?" Lilo asked out of curiosity. "Hat? Oh you mean this little guy. Come on bud it's time to wake up," he said, gently nudging the creature on his head. The creature then stirred to life and lifted its head before releasing a small yawn. "Lilo, Stitch I want you to meet Kody, and thats with a 'K' not a 'C,'" he said while taking the little fox off of his head and setting him down on the arm rest. "Go on, say hello. They're family," he said, trying to encourage the little guy. "Hello," the little fox said. This caused almost every one to jump a little except for Nani who was too busy paying attention to the road to notice.

"Youga can talk?" Stitch asked "Meega can," is the response he gets in return. "That the only other word I know in tantalong," Kody says laughing. This just bothered Stitch so in return he let out a low growl. "Stitch, I have to ask you something," Seth asked. "Ih?" "Can you keep this a little secret from Jumba? I want to tell him myself about Kody. I don't want him to be dehydrated and/or captured. And double goes for you, Lilo. And 3 times for you Kody." After the conversation ended it was a quiet ride to the house.

Meanwhile, at Gantu's ship...

*Beep beep beep beep beep.* The sound had been echoing throughout the ship until a loud "Experiment activated. Number unknown, Abilities unknown, Purpose unknown, Nature unknown," in a robotic voice said before a holographic image of a fox displayed with 2 tails. "Oh boy, I know what's going to happen next." Ruben, A.K. 625, said before taking a bite out of his tuna salad sandwich. He was waiting for the show to start.

"INCOMING CALL FROM HAMSTERVILLE," a robotic voice says again. "Gauntu, you blundering idiot excuse for a trapper. Why haven't you gotten me an experiment yet?" says a white hamster wearing a red cape and what appeared to be a tin hat. "But sir, it's the girl and that ..." a giant alien, with what looked like a whale with legs and arms, tried to say before he was cut off. "Gauntu, if I was there right now I would be slapping you a lot. You are a despicable failure. Can you not do anything right?" "But, sir, give me a second chance." "No more second chances! I've had enough of your failures. If you don't bring me that experiment within a week you're FIRED! Hamsterville out!"

"I thought he would never shut up. 625! You're going to help me with this one," Gauntu turns around to see Ruben sitting on a lawn chair eating out of a bag of popcorn. "Why'd ya stop? It was just starting to get good," Ruben says jokingly. Gauntu picks up Ruben and points a plasma pistol at his head. "You will help me or I will destroy all your sandwich making supplies," he threatened. "You wouldn't." "I would." Hearing this caused Ruben to panic. He wound up biting Gauntu, causing him to be dropped to the ground before he took off running. This caused the angry giant to come chasing after him.

At the Pelekai residence...

Nani's van is parked in front of the house. Everyone was getting out of the van, beginning with Seth and Kody who started stretching out a bit. Kody especially needed to stretch considering he had been curled in a position that made him look like a hat most of the trip down.

Kody's P.O.V.

Once we were done, Seth got his things out of the trunk and set the backpack on the ground. He left the pocket I usually go in open, so I quickly climbed inside. "Seth, the guest bedroom is unlocked so you can go put your things in there. Me, I got to get to work can't be late," I heard Nani say. "Ok Nani see you later." I was then carried inside to the guest bedroom with the rest of Seth's luggage. Once inside, I hopped out of the bag and onto the floor of the room. "Kody you can go look around. I need to finish unpacking here. Just make sure you stay out of sight of Jumba and Pleakly until dinner tonight. Stay with Lilo and Stitch. I'll catch up with you guys later at the beach." "Okay then," I respond before wandering out of the room. Luckily, Pleakly wasn't on the other side of the door - that would have been a disaster.

I just carried on exploring the house until I ran into Lilo and Stitch in the living room playing a card game with a few others. One was purple and had 4 arms that were very muscular. There was a bit of hair standing up on top of its head and it looked larger than Stitch. There was another one - a pink one - and it looked roughly the size of Stitch, but more feminine looking. I'm guessing that one must be Angel. I was told about her. Then the 4 armed one slammed his cards down on the floor. This made Stitch angry and he threw his cards in the air before getting up and storming away. "Wow, Kixx that is some luck you have! Thats the 3rd royal flush you've gotten," I heard Lilo say. *Thud, Wack, Snap, Crack.* I heard coming from outside.

Out front of the house

Stitch's P.O.V.

"Meega angry. Meega lose last piece of coconut cake to cousin." Meega say while uprooting a tree and slamming it onto the ground. It snapped on meega making meega more angry. "Meega hate Poker!" meega yell before tearing out another tree and this time throwing it away. "Stitch?" Meega turn to see Kody. "Youga okay? Youga looked kinda upset back there." "Meega fine." meega responds. "Are youga sure? Meega heard part of youga's rant. And youga broke a few trees." "Fine. Meega lost last piece of coconut cake in poker game." "I still don't understand why you're upset about that." Meega grab him and start to shake him "Meega wanted to eat coconut cake." Meega yell at iga. "Put meega down Stitch! Meega will bite youga!" Meega should have listen. Meega had arm bitten quite hard causing it bleed. Meega screamed and let go of Kody. "I warned youga."

Seth, Lilo, Angel, and Kixx come running outside to see what was going on.

Seth's P.O.V.

Stitch was holding his arm fr some reason. Kody was running towards me. "Boogiboo, why youga scream?" Angel had asked. "He bit meega." Stitch said pointing at Kody. "Let me see it, I'll tell you how bad it is," I said while walking up to Stitch.

"Why did 626 scream?" I heard Jumba yell. "Kody quick get on my head and be a hat," I whispered, while bending down to let Kody on. "Stitch you don't let Jumba know about Kody and I will buy you 3 coconut cakes and a 2 liter soda of your choosing. Deal?" I say through my clenched teeth while holding out my hand. "Deal," Stitch says while taking out one of his spare hands before shaking mine. "626, why are you holding your arm?" I hear as I turn to see Jumba with a look of worry on his face. "Meega okay. Meega just got into fight." "Move your hand 626." "Naga." During this time, while they were distracted, I snuck back into the house but only briefly. I went back to the guest bed room. I grabbed my wet suit and my wake board, as well as a towel. After I did so I quickly ran off to the beach.

At the beach...

The sun was high in the sky. Many people were at the beach; some were surfing on the waves. Others were lying in the sun getting tan. There were a few kids building sand castles - one was crying because they dropped their ice cream in the sand. As for me, I was looking for a spot to put the towel I brought with me. That was when I spotted the rental hut Nani worked at so I decided to pop by to say hi.

So I walked over and went

to the window to try and see Nani. I noticed there was a poster for a wakeboarding contest today. I found it ironic that there is a contest for it here. I thought they were only in the states. Anyway, Nani had her back turned to me and appeared to be taking stock of the shop items. "Excuse me," I say trying to get Nani's attention. She didn't turn around. "Ah excuse me. Do you know where I can sign up for the wakeboarding contest?" This got her attention. She got up and turned around. Man, was she surprised to see me. "Hey Nani, so where do I sign up." She looked at me and shook her head before she reached over and pulled out a clip board the had a pen attached to it. "Here is the sign-up sheet." I take it and look at it and see that there are alot of names on it. There was only one empty spot left. So, I quickly did the registration. "Well, I hope to see you at the contest to be cheering me on." I then gave her the clip board and pen back with the registration.

"So do you know when the contest starts?" "Around 2 o'clock." "Crap thats in 30 minutes," I say in a panic. "Don't worry, I'm closing up for the contest once I find that video camera. I can take you." I looked a little surprised by this. But, I decided to help and spotted the camera over by the register. "Here it is Nani. It was by the register," I say as she turns and quickly snatches up the camera. "Thanks. Just head down the beach past the tikis. I'm going to close up. Maybe give Lilo a call." "Okay, then," I say before I start on my trip down the beach. I eventually reach the contest area with Kody who has been surprisingly quiet this whole time. Well, the contest area was roped off. Then, I spotted Lilo and Stitch with Jumba and Pleakly. Hell, even Angel was there. They were sitting in the bleachers. "Hey Lilo, Stitch!" I said as I waved to them.

In the crowd...

Lilo's P.O.V.

"Hey Lilo, Stitch!" I heard someone call me. I look up to see my cousin in a black wetsuit that had orange sleeves and an orange strip running diagnal on both of the legs. In the center of the chest was an orange dragon and Kody was on his head and he wasn't wearing his glasses. "Hey Seth what are you doing here and where are your glasses?" "I was going to ask you the same thing. Not about the glasses, though. Those I took off and put my contacts in. Besides I didn't want them falling in the water. So, what about you?" "Well, David invited us to come. He said he volunteered to drive the boat that will be pulling the contestants. What about you?" "Well, I'm a last minute entry. I got the last spot. And what is Jumba staring at?" "Oh, Stitch found that. It's some kind of mask that looks like a missing Lueitenet." "Hey Lilo, do you mind keeping an eye on my hat when I do my run?" he asked when winking at me. "Sure," I respond winking back "Thanks. You're the best," he says before he takes Kody off of his head and gives him to me. Surprisingly Kody didn't seem to move. He was holding his hat disguise perfectly. This was also the first time I felt him. Despite having rough looking fur it was quite soft. If anyone was paying any real attention to it they would have noticed it was moving up and down slightly and very slowly as he breathed.

"Hey Weirdlo," I hear. There is only one person that calls me that: "Mertle," I say with a bit of annoyance not even trying to look at her. "So you do remember. Anyway where did you get that hat? I bet you stole it." "Yeah." the group that is always following Mertle chimed in. "Back off Mertle I'm just here to watch the contest." "Yeah right if you're here trouble is soon to follow." "Yeah," her group said in sync behind her. "Alright, what's going on?" I heard my cousin say; he sounded a little bit angry "Hey! Four eyes, stop harrassing my cousin." Mertle turns to see my cousin "Cousin?" "Yes I am her cousin." "Then why haven't I seen you before." "Because I'm from the mainland." Mertle was about to open her mouth. My cousin gets down on one knee and says "Before you say I don't look related I already know, but DNA does not lie. Now I sudgest you apologize to Lilo then leave me and my family alone before karma comes back to bite you." He said this sounding a lot calmer and more mature. It was like he was almost a different person. "Fine... Sorry Weir..." Mertle was about to say but my cousin let out a loud hmmm. "I mean Lilo, I'm sorry Lilo," she let out, sounding a little sad and very annoyed before walking away. He then turns to the group that was with Mertle. "I suggest you four do the same."

"Sorry," I hear the four say in unison before they went after Mertle. He then comes over to me and gets down on his knee. "Lilo, why didn't you tell me you were getting bullied?" "I thought they wouldn't have shown up today," I say in response. He puts his hand on my shoulder and says, "Lilo, I've been bullied before. It is never fun. And if you don't do anything about it they'll never go away. They'll just keep coming back. Just like a starving dog that you always give food to. Please let me know if this happens again..."

Rex's P.O.V.

Well I was still in the dark until the 2 windows opened up again flooding my world with light. But this time my world seemed more upright as I was seeing out. Something was calling out to me. I was looking out trying to see who or what was calling me- until I spotted a man with blonde hair and glasses. He was on his knee and had his shoulder on a little girl. "Lilo, I've been bullied before. It is never fun. And if you don't do anything about it they'll never go away. They'll just keep coming back. Just like a starving dog that you always give food to. Please let me know if this happens again. I can take care of it." There was a strange glow coming from him after he said this. It was a faint blue glow but this glow seemed to be pulling me toward him. But not by force but by an embracing and accepting force fueled by hope. This was something I didn't want to disappear. I kept watching.

Seth's P.O.V...

"Okay folks we have our contestants and the order they are going to be running. The order will go starting with Joshua Dugolus, followed by Nicholas White, then Nickolas Black, Javier Cortez, Mateo Rodriguez... William Reed, the last runner will be Seth Smelser (Pronouncing it Smel-zer)." The announcement guy had said. "It's Smelser (pronouncing it Smel-ser)! It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled. How hard is it to say it correctly?" I blurt out with annoyance. "Okay; you need to calm down," the announcement guy said responding to me. "Anyway... Each contestant will get 3 minutes for their run. After that run, the judges will award them their points. The highest amount one person can get is 30 total. First contestant, you're up! You're up!" Then the first one started their run. Once in position, David got the boat up to speed and they were off. The first rider wasn't all that bad - he did a few tricks with the air he caught. But, he wound up wiping out when he misjudged a jump, ending his run early. "Let's see what our judges have to say to our first contestant." Then three 5 point cards were held up. "

15 points! Not bad for our first run folks." The rest of the competitors scored similar to this. Some got in the 10s others got in the 20s. Then came the final two: me and a guy named William Reed. His name sounded familiar. I just don't remember where I heard that name. Well, I was all ready for my run so I watched William as he was about to make his run, trying to think about why he seemed familiar. William had dark hair and had semi-tan skin. That was all I could tell from behind at the time. When he started his run it started off a little slow. But once he landed a few basic tricks I saw his confidence building by the fact he was doing more difficult. Heck he even pulled off a side flip as well as a 720. He even pulled off a clean landing off the launch pylon. When his time was up the 3 judges were all holding up a score card that had a 9 on it. "27 points is the score to beat..." Then disaster struck as the tow cable started to snap while William was coming to land. It snapped with a loud crack. This caused William to go slamming into a large rock pillar that stuck out of the water.

The rock stopped him but must have knocked him out because he started to sink like a rock. This caused me to react without thinking. I jumped into the water and started to swim out to him. When I reached him he was underwater and his board had slipped off. I quickly dove beneath the waves squeezing my eyes shut tight as possible, while trying to bring him up. I couldn't find him. So I had to open my eyes. My eyes burned and stung the instant they came in contact with the saltwater, but it eventually subsided. When I did spot him, I started to swim towards him. When I got closer to him, I saw a scar running along his check and a bent nose. I didn't think of it at the time. I grabbed him and tried to pull him up but, no his leg was tangled in seaweed. My first reaction was to grab something. First thing I grabbed was a shell. To my surprise, it was kind of sharp. I cut my hand on it as my luck would have it. Anyway, I held it the best I could and started to swing at the plant cutting through it. This was the point that my lungs had started to burn like crazy needing to get some air. Once he was free I grabbed and starting to pull him up.

On the way up something stung me on my foot. I assumed it was probably a jelly fish. Once we both breached the surface I was coughing and gasping for air. There was a rescue boat on the scene. I had passed William up to the people on the boat. As they pulled him up I had climbed aboard the boat. I had thrown up on the deck. Some of the rescue workers had already started doing CPR on him. I was still puking my guts out. But in between one of the times I vomitted I managed to get a glimpse of his face; there was scar on his right cheek. This was all I remember before blacking out.