Author's Note: Hey, guys. Here's the Percy Jackson/Kingdom Hearts crossover I've been working on. Chapter two is already in the works. I'm going to try to make this a whole lot better than Shattered Hearts. This takes place after the events of Kingdom Hearts III (which I wish would hurry up. It will probably be forever until it's even announced.) Xehanort is dead, and the Kingdom Hearts universe has been experiencing an era of peace. As for the Percy Jackson universe, ignore the events of the Heroes of Olympus. I didn't work them in because only the first book is out. Jason, Piper, and Leo are still mentioned though. This contains spoilers for all released Kingdom Hearts games and Percy Jackson books. Enjoy friends...
"Ahhh," I sighed with relief. It was my eighteen birthday finally. It didn't seem like it had been two years to the day since we had defeated the Titan Lord, Kronos. Grover and Juniper were having a happy life together. Annabeth and I were still together as well. I would be having a birthday party at Camp Half-Blood after my party at home. I kind of hoped they would make an exception and let my mortal family come into the camp so we could all celebrate, but that didn't happen.
I was walking along the docks at the canoe lake when I heard a familiar voice call out to me.
"Hey, Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth yelled from a distance. We had been dating for two years and she still called me by the same nickname she gave me when we first met six years ago. We were so young and immature back then. Those four years fighting Kronos had made us grow up too fast. We never really got to enjoy our teenage years. My heart pained at the thought of all the friends we had lost. Silena Beauregard, Charles Beckendorf, Michael Yew, and far too many more had all lost their lives during those hard battles. I felt a tear escape my eye at the thought of them. Sure, we had grown in numbers, but all of the people who died were irreplaceable.
"Hey, Annabeth," I said. I kissed her sweet, full lips and ran my fingers through her golden, blond hair. She twisted my short, black hair in her hands and kissed me back fiercely. She was so beautiful. She pulled away from the passionate embrace and looked at me for a while. I stared back into her intimidating, gray eyes. Long ago, I tried to decide whether they were scary or beautiful. I think I know now.
"Happy birthday, Percy," she said as she pulled out a small, neatly-wrapped box from her backpack.
"Aww, you shouldn't have," I said jokingly as she gave me the box. I opened it up to see a small, leather-bound book. I opened it to see that it was a photo album. It was full of pictures from the past six years we'd known each other. There were pictures from my first night at camp, pictures of me and Annabeth in battle armor, pictures of us with Grover and Tyson, and pictures from the many dates we had been on. There was a special section for our dead friends. It hurt to see them, but it also brought back good memories. One of them was the night before Beckendorf died. He and I were planning our ill-fated attack on the Princess Andromeda. He had me in a headlock and I looked like I would pass out from lack of oxygen. I could breathe underwater, but I was still getting oxygen from the water! "Thank you, Annabeth," I said. "I love you."
"I love you too, Percy," she said as she kissed me again. Annabeth and I had been through a lot together, and that made the bond between us even stronger. "See you at both parties? I asked.
"Of course, Percy," she said. "See you then." I watched her walk away toward the Athena cabin and caught myself checking her out. She was my girlfriend, I could do that. Her body was well-toned from years of fighting. She had to fight to survive for most of her life. She wasn't too muscular, but she was still strong. She could beat the crap out of me, and I'm invincible! Well, almost invincible. I do have that one weak spot on my back just opposite my navel, but she knows about that and is careful not to touch it. I keep it well-armored at all times because if I get struck there, I'll die. It's the only part of my body still attached to the mortal world. Sometimes, I wished I didn't have the Curse of Achilles, but it kept me alive during the second Titan War.
I walked along the edge of the forest for a while. I still had a few hours until I had to go home for the first party. I felt a chilling presence of death around me. I knew it could only be one person. "Hey, Nico," I said. Nico was the only living son of Hades left. It was kind of like how I was the only demigod son of Poseidon left. Thalia and her brother Jason were the only daughter and son of Zeus. None of us were ever supposed to have been born, though.
"Hey, Percy," he said. Nico had black hair like mine and brown eyes. He had just turned fourteen. His dad promised him the fastest car in the Underworld when he turned sixteen. He didn't really have much use for it though, he preferred shadow travel. "Happy birthday."
"Thanks, Nico," I said. Other than Hades, he had no family. His mom died back in the forties. He and his sister, Bianca, were really older than the rest of us. They were placed in the Lotus Hotel-a hotel where time moves slower-when they were little. Bianca died four years ago and he initially blamed me for it. He tried to kill me on a number of occasions, but he forgave me when he summoned Bianca's spirit from the Underworld and she told him that it wasn't my fault. I still blamed myself for her death for a while though. "You coming to my parties?" I asked.
"Sorry, Percy. I can't make it," he said. "That's why I dropped by so early. I promised I'd help dad out in the Underworld. The Hellhounds are getting too numerous and I have to help him send a few back to Tartarus. Plus, Persephone will probably chew me out for a while. You know how she doesn't like me that much." It was true; Persephone didn't like Nico and Bianca. She never got over Hades having demigod children with a mortal woman.
"It's ok, Nico. I understand," I said. It didn't bother me. I understood that Nico had obligations. He couldn't exactly tell his dad no. Hades would give him a one-way ticket straight to Hell for that. "See ya later."
"Take care, Percy," he said as he turned back to the shadows. He slightly turned back to me and said, "Oh, and one more thing, Percy. Watch out. I feel a growing presence of Darkness approaching the Mortal world. It's unlike anything I've ever felt before. It's not native to this world, it's something else, something Darker than any of us have ever known. The Mist won't even be able to hide this from mortal eyes." He turned back around and walked away through the shadows. He was probably going back to the Underworld to clean up the mess with the Hellhounds. I let his dark warning sink in for a while as I stood at the forest's edge. A Darkness that we've never seen before? What could be darker than Kronos? Riptide felt a little heavier in my pocket as I thought about it. Would this mean more fighting? Would it mean more dying? Fear struck my heart at the thought that I might lose Annabeth. We knew all too well how fast the Fates could choose to take someone away from us.
A few hours had passed. I figured I should head home for the party. Mom and Paul would be worried if I didn't get there on time. Paul Blofis was my second stepfather. My first stepdad, Gabe, was probably in some old lady's garden as a decoration right now. I chuckled as I thought about how mom turned him to stone with Medusa's head. He treated us like crap; he got what he deserved.
We still lived in that same old apartment in New York. It was a little bit nicer than it used to be, but it was still modest. "Percy, you're home!" mom said with delight as she ran over to me and gave me a hug. "How was camp?" she asked.
"It was great. I saw Nico and Annabeth. Annabeth will be here, but Nico has to help Hades in the Underworld," I said. Mom knew about the gods and the camp because she could see through the Mist.
"Ok, it's going to be a few minutes before everything's ready," mom said. She smiled at me and hugged me again. I went down the hall to my room to kill time until we were ready to start.
The party went by pretty quickly. Paul congratulated me on surviving to eighteen. That was an accomplishment for a demigod. Most of us didn't survive past sixteen. Monsters or other things would usually kill us by then. Mom cried about how her little boy was becoming a man. It was kind of embarrassing because my beautiful girlfriend was standing right there next to me. Annabeth laughed at my expense the whole night. Poseidon didn't show up, but I didn't figure he would. He had only ever come to one of my birthday parties. I understood he was busy being a god so it didn't hurt like it used to. But it still would have been nice to have my dad there. We had a cake and some ice-cream, blue cake and blue ice-cream to be exact. No matter how old I got, we still had that little inside-joke about blue food.
"Mom, dad, thanks for the party," I said. I considered Paul to be my dad. He was a good man to be willing to marry mom even though she had a teenage son. "I love you guys."
"We love you too, Percy," mom said. Paul had his arm around her and he smiled at me. "Now, get to Camp Half-Blood with your friends. Paul and I have a little date planned for this evening." They need not say more, I got out of there. Annabeth drove us to the camp. I didn't have a car because they are so impractical here in New York City. Her father had bought her car for her when she visited him in San Francisco two summers ago. It was a black Mustang. I wasn't sure what year it was, but it was a newer model and it was, to describe it with one word, beautiful! Annabeth drove with her left hand and I held her right hand. I would occasionally look over to her and she would do the same. "I love you," I said.
"I love you too," she replied. "Happy birthday, Percy." She turned the CD player on a low volume. Believe it or not, Annabeth and I liked the same music. She had a mix CD of different songs by Godsmack, Nirvana, and Linkin Park in the CD player. The Godsmack song, Voodoo, was playing. It was creepy, but relaxing at the same time.
We arrived at Camp Half-Blood a short time later. The party would be held at the dining pavilion because there were far too many campers to host it at the Big House like we used to. They always threw big parties like this for all the demigods, and they were always fun. "Percy, happy birthday," Chiron said. It was still startling after all these years to see him in his true form. He was a centaur. His lower half was a white stallion, and his upper half was a middle-aged man.
"Thanks, Chiron," I said. "Let's get this party started!"
The party went well. All my friends wished me happy birthday. We had more cake and ice-cream. But this time, we had to put a little in the fire in the center of the pavilion as a sacrifice to the gods. All in all, it was very fun.
Annabeth and I managed to sneak off by ourselves after the party died down. We didn't have to follow curfew tonight so we had the opportunity to spend some more time together. We didn't get to be together as much as we'd liked to. We went to the canoe lake and took a small boat to the middle of the lake to be alone for a while. "You look so beautiful in the moonlight, Annabeth," I said.
"Thank you, Percy. I love you so much, you know that right?" she stated. She seemed troubled about something.
"Of course, I love you too," I said. I was starting to feel concerned for her.
"Percy, can I tell you something? It's very important," she said. Her gray eyes were full of deep concern. I think I even saw a tear escape.
"You can tell me anything, baby," I replied, putting my hand on her knee. "What's wrong?"
"I have a bad feeling, Percy," she said. "I feel like something is going to go horribly wrong tonight."
"You know, you may be right," I said. "Nico came to me earlier today and told me he sensed a great Darkness approaching the mortal world. He said it was so big, The Mist won't even be able to hide it from the mortals."
Her big, beautiful eyes showed something I'd never seen in Annabeth in my whole life, absolute fear. "Percy, please don't leave me," she said with tears in her voice. "No matter what happens, promise me you'll be right there with me?"
"I promise, Annabeth," I said. "I'll never leave your side! I love you so much." I kissed her softly. She kissed me back, only harder. She acted like it was the last kiss we would ever share. I savored her taste. Our kiss was broken by a bump on the underside of the boat. We looked down to see what it was, but we couldn't see anything because it was too dark. It bumped us again. I used my powers of the sea to try to see what was going on. I felt an unfamiliar, aquatic life form under the water, but I couldn't communicate with it.
Suddenly, a large trident that was pulsing with lightning erupted from the bottom of the boat between me and Annabeth. It almost killed her because it was so close to us. Four submarine-shaped heads bobbed out of the water. They were green and had beady, yellow eyes. I tried once again to talk to them, but I couldn't. It was almost like they weren't really fish. I willed the currents to carry us toward the shore and away from those creatures. "Percy," Annabeth yelled over the waves, "what were those things?"
"Your guess is as good as mine!" I said. "I couldn't talk to them. They must be part of the Darkness Nico warned me about." We reached the shore to see that the whole dining pavilion was on fire! Someone had attacked it while we were gone. Demigods, Satyrs, and nature spirits were running frantically. Some were being chased by small, black monsters with the same yellow eyes I had seen on the ones in the lake. One monster caught up to an Apollo camper and dug its claw into his chest. Blood sprayed all over the monster as it pulled something out. It was his heart, but it didn't look like an actual heart. It looked like something from a Valentine's Day card. It was glowing red with a bright, white light radiating from the center. There was also a slight, black fog around the edge of it, but it was nothing compared to the light. The creature consumed the heart as the camper's body faded out of existence.
"Percy, what's going on here?" Annabeth shouted. She was scared out of her mind. I was scared out of my mind!
"I don't know, Annabeth," I said. She drew her celestial bronze dagger that was given to her by our dead friend, Luke. I uncapped Anaklusmos and it grew into a three-foot-long celestial bronze sword. We went to work hacking and slashing at the monsters. We found out quickly that they weren't mortal because our celestial bronze weapons worked very well against them. The dark creatures would disappear into puffs of black smoke. Some of them were harder to kill than others, though. There was one, large monster that seemed to be their leader. It was at least thirty feet tall. It was black and had beady yellow eyes amidst what appeared to be either hair or tentacles. There was a heart-shaped hole in its abdomen and it could summon more of the small, shadowy creatures. Annabeth tried to take it on, but it easily swatted her away. She came crashing down into a tree. I immediately ran to her side. "Annabeth!" I yelled.
"I'm fine…Percy," she said through her pain. The ground started to shake as I felt the whole earth ripping apart. A dark orb with an orange-red core was hovering over the camp. I embraced Annabeth tightly in my arms as we were sucked up into the dark ball of energy.
I woke up to find Annabeth lying next to me. It was daylight. We must have been out for quite some time. I looked around and we were on an island in the middle of a vast, light-blue ocean. I stared in amazement at the beautiful sight before me. I loved the sea! Annabeth woke up right after I did. She winced from the slight pain she still felt. "Where are we, Percy?"
"I don't know," I replied. "But I don't think we're anywhere near New York or Camp Half-Blood anymore."
"Hey," a strange voice yelled from a distance. "Who are you two? Are you guys new around here?"
We turned to see three people around our age approaching us. The man that called out to us had long, silver hair and emerald green eyes that were a little lighter than mine. He was tall and was wearing baggy jeans, a black shirt with a yellow and gray jacket and gray shoes. He was seriously ripped too. His biceps looked bigger than my head! The other guy looked more childish and less muscular, but still very built. He had spikey, chocolate hair and eyes bluer than any ocean I'd ever seen. He was shorter than the other guy and he wore a black jumpsuit that was covered in all kinds of different colored pockets and zippers. The girl with them was really beautiful. She had big, violet eyes and long, wine-colored hair. She wore a pink, strapless mini-dress, a white halter underneath, and light purple shoes with laces that came up just above her ankles. "Hey," I called out, "I'm Percy Jackson and this is my girlfriend, Annabeth Chase. We just washed up here." I looked at Annabeth and she was soaking wet. I was dry, of course.
"My name is Riku. These are my friends, Sora and Kairi," he said, gesturing to them as he said their names. "I sense strong light in you both. And I know you aren't from this world. Where are you from?"
"We're from a planet called Earth," I said. How could it be possible we were on another planet? "We're the children of our world's gods. My father is Poseidon, god of the sea, and her mother is Athena, goddess of wisdom."
"So you guys are gods?" Sora said. "That's so awesome!" He seemed very energetic.
"Demigods, to be exact," Annabeth interjected. "We're only half-god. We're still mortal, but we have the powers of our godly parents. His mother and my father are humans." She had obvious pain in her voice at the mention of our parents.
"How did you get here?" Kairi asked. She seemed like a sweet girl. I guessed she was Sora's girlfriend because they were holding hands.
"I don't know," I answered honestly. "There were these black monsters running around killing people. And then the ground started to shake and a big, black orb of energy sucked us up. The next thing we knew, we were here." I managed to say all of that in one breath.
"Oh no, not again!" Sora gasped. "The Heartless are destroying worlds again!"
"The Heartless?" I inquired.
"Beings of Darkness," Riku clarified. "They are the Darkness in people's hearts manifested. It's what happens when someone is overtaken by Darkness. They are pure evil. Their sole purpose is to collect more hearts."
"Nico warned me of a Darkness approaching," I said.
"Nico? Is he a short kid with black hair and dark brown eyes?" Riku asked.
"Yeah, how do you know him?" I asked.
"A boy fitting that description showed up a few days ago and asked me about the Darkness. He said he was someone close to the Dark. I told him about the Heartless and how they tried to conquer the worlds. Then he left without a trace," Riku said.
"He's very close to the Dark. His father is Hades, Lord of the Dead," I replied. How much did Nico know that he didn't tell me? And I wondered if he made it out alive.
"The Heartless must be trying to take the worlds again, but I have no idea who could be controlling them. We finished off Xehanort last year after Riku and I took our Mark of Mastery exams," Sora stated.
"Mark of Mastery exam? Xehanort?" I asked.
"I think we'd better just show you two," Kairi said. The three of them held out their right hands and three unusual swords appeared in their grasp. Sora and Kairi's appeared in a flash of light, but Riku's came in a cloud of Darkness. Sora's looked like a simple skeleton key. The teeth of the key were shaped like the outline of a crown and the hilt was gold. Kairi's was very intricately designed and girly. It was mostly gold and the teeth were shaped like flowers. The hilt was shaped like a heart. Riku's looked more sinister than theirs. The blade was a red and black demon wing with an angel wing for the teeth. The hilt had a blue eye on it and was shaped like a demon wing and an angel wing forming a circle.
"These are called Keyblades. They're some of the few weapons capable of killing Heartless easily. They are very mysterious and we don't know much about them. They chose us because of our strength of heart," Riku explained. "The Mark of Mastery exam is a test for Keyblade wielders to prove that they have what it takes to be given the title of Keyblade Master."
"Are you Keyblade Masters?" I asked.
"Sora and Riku are," Kairi said, "but I only use my Keyblade in emergencies. I'm not very good with it."
"Nonsense, Kairi. I saw how you were two years ago at The World That Never Was. You were great, beautiful. I think you have what it takes to be a Master," Sora said. He gave her a quick kiss and looked over to me and Annabeth. "You guys said you were the children of your gods, right? Those names you mentioned sounded Greek. Do you, by any chance, know Hercules?" he asked.
"Hercules is dead. He has been for thousands of years," I said.
"Not the one I know," he said. "The Hercules I know is alive and well."
I turned to Annabeth and looked her in the eyes. "I don't think we're just on another world, Annabeth. I think we're in another universe," I said in amazement. I turned back to Riku. "Do you believe in inter-dimensional travel?"
"I suppose anything's possible," he said. "King Mickey banished a guy named Pete to another dimension about fourteen years ago. But, how would the Heartless get to your universe, and how will you guys get back?" he wondered.
"I don't know, but I don't think we have a home to go back to," I said. "I think those monsters destroyed it already. Everyone we know is probably dead by now."
"They're not dead, Percy," Riku said. "When a world is taken by the Heartless, its citizens are put in a sort of stasis. This world was destroyed three years ago by the Heartless. Our friends and families are still alive. Sure, there are some who are gone forever. They were turned into Heartless, but everyone just assumes they died in the storm. We let them believe that it was just a storm. They don't remember a single thing."
So, our families were still alive. Great, now we just had to get back and get rid of the Heartless in our universe. But figuring out how to do that would be another thing entirely. I reached for Annabeth's hand and squeezed it tightly. She looked at me almost like she knew what I was thinking. I was thinking that it would be a long time until we got back home.
"Well, while you guys are here, you can stay at my place," Kairi said. "I have a decently big house with all kinds of extra rooms. Sora and Riku are staying over tonight anyway. It beats spending all night on a beach." Well, Kairi was generous, I could tell that much about her.
"Thank you, Kairi," Annabeth said. She tried to stand, but she was still too weak to do it by herself. I hauled her arm over my shoulder and wrapped my arm around her waist. We hobbled over to Sora, Kairi, and Riku's boats.
We rode in Sora's boat. I took the opportunity to see if my powers worked in this universe. I tried to will the currents to carry us to the main island. They carried us, but not as fast as I would have hoped. I wasn't completely powerless here, but I was definitely weaker. Sora was still impressed though. I could tell he was a man of the sea. I saw that he really enjoyed being on the ocean.
"So, you said Nico was the son of Hades," Sora said. "I know Hades and he's a really bad guy. How do you know you can trust Nico?"
"We know a different Hades, Sora," I said. "I don't trust our Hades, but Nico is nothing like him. I know I can trust Nico." But I knew that statement was false. I didn't know if I could trust Nico. Sure, he warned me about the Darkness, but didn't he know how to stop it? Did he have something to do with this? I dismissed the thoughts of distrust as quickly as they came. Nico was my friend. If he had known a way to stop the Heartless, he would have warned me.
I looked out to the ocean around us. It was so amazing. "So, you like the ocean, Percy?" Sora asked.
"I love it. My father is the sea god, it's kind of in my blood," I said.
"It's beautiful, I love the sea. Actually, that's kind of funny because Kairi's name is derived from a word meaning sea. I guess I really love the sea," Sora said awkwardly.
"You really love her, don't you?" Annabeth said. "That's so sweet. She's really pretty."
"I love her more than life itself. She's saved me more times than I've saved her. Once, I was turned into a Heartless. I sacrificed my heart to save hers. She never gave up on me though. She walked up to my Heartless and used her Light to pull me out of the Darkness," Sora said. "I'll never be able to repay her for all the love she's showed me!"
"I feel the same way about Annabeth. She's saved me many times too. I bathed in the River Styx so I could be nearly invincible like Achilles," I said. I trusted Sora enough to mention I had an Achilles spot, but I didn't tell him where it was. "We were fighting the Titans and I was distracted with the monsters I was killing. A guy named Ethan snuck up behind me with a poison dagger and tried to stab my weak spot. I would have died if Annabeth hadn't risked her life to save me. She threw herself in front of the dagger and was stabbed in the arm," I said. I looked over to Annabeth and smiled.
"I wasn't about to let you die, Percy," she said. She looked at me lovingly with her iron-gray eyes. "I love you, Seaweed Brain." Sora chuckled at the nickname. I had a feeling that Kairi had an equally embarrassing nickname for him. I didn't dare ask what it was.
"I love you too, Annabeth," I said. I gave her a quick kiss on the lips. She blushed from the contact. She smiled at me and my soul melted.
We arrived at the main island after a few minutes. I said my goodbyes to the sea for now. I wished I could explore the oceans of this world, but we had a job to do. We had to get back to our universe and send every single Heartless to Tartarus where they belonged!
Kairi's house was pretty big. She said her adoptive father had been the mayor of the islands a few years ago. He was famous for serving the most terms of anyone who has ever held the office. "Hello, Kairi," Kairi's father said. He was a tall man. He was about six feet tall. He had deep-set, chocolate brown eyes with wrinkles around them like my father had. His hair was short, but not buzzed. It was chocolate brown with hints of gray. He looked like he used to be muscular when he was younger. He seemed like a kind man. "Who are your new friends?"
She glanced at me and Annabeth. "This is Percy Jackson, and the girl next to him is Annabeth Chase. They're not from around here. They're actually from another world." Her dad apparently knew about other worlds. "Is it ok if they stay here with us? Their world was destroyed by the Heartless." He apparently knew of the Heartless too.
"Well, given the circumstances, I don't see why not," he said. He called upstairs to his wife. "Honey, we have guests. They're friends of Kairi's and they need a place to stay."
"Coming," her adoptive mother said. She walked down the stairs and appeared in front of us. She was an attractive woman. She appeared to be in her mid-forties. She had long, red hair that was a lighter red than Kairi's wine color and it was curled. Her eyes were an ocean blue like Sora's. She wasn't very tall. She was about as tall as Kairi. "Well hello," she said. "It's nice to meet some of Kairi's friends."
"Pleasure to meet both of you," I said. "I'm Percy Jackson and this is Annabeth Chase." I motioned to Annabeth when I said her name.
"My name is Angela and you've already met my husband, Jeff," Kairi's mom said. "What brings you to the Destiny Islands?"
"Our world was destroyed by the Heartless," Annabeth said. I could tell that the thought of our home really hurt. Her voice faltered a little bit. I saw a small tear escape her beautiful, gray eyes. "We don't have anywhere else to go. We just woke up on the beach and Sora, Riku, and Kairi found us."
"Oh you poor dears," Angela said. "You can stay here as long as you need to."
"Thank you ma'am," I said.
"No problem," she said. "Kairi, show them to the guest rooms."
"Sure, mom," she said. Kairi thought of Jeff and Angela the same way I thought of Paul. They weren't her actual parents, but she loved them just the same as if they were. I could see it in her eyes.
We walked up the stairs to the guest bedrooms. "You really love them like they were your own parents, don't you Kairi?" I said.
"Yes," she said. "They are really the only family I have ever known. I'm originally from a world called Radiant Garden. I don't remember much though because it was taken over by the Heartless when I was four, and all I remember from that time is my kind, loving grandma. She's probably dead now and I never even got to say goodbye," she said as a tear escaped her eyes. "Jeff and Angela took me in like I was their own. So, of course I love them."
"I'm sorry about your homeworld, Kairi," Annabeth said.
"It's ok," she said. "And call me Kai. All my friends call me that. I try to look at it like this, if I hadn't come here, I would have never met Sora and Riku. They are the two best friends I could have ever asked for. And Sora…wow…he's been so good to me since we got together. He's always been good to me, but he really treats me right. We've had our share of fights, but he's never hit me. He hasn't even pulled his fist back like he was about to hit me." She smiled as she thought about her boyfriend. "I truly don't deserve him. But I'm so thankful that he's with me. This may sound crazy, but I really hope he asks me to marry him one day."
"That's not crazy, Kai," Annabeth said. "I think it's sweet and romantic." Her gray eyes lit up like the silver moonlight. I wondered if Annabeth thought about our future like that. She was a girl, of course she thought about that stuff. Heck, I even thought about it once or twice. Although, we were both still too young to even think about marriage. But I knew I loved her enough that I would be willing to marry her and commit my entire life to her right then and there without any regrets. I loved Annabeth Chase more than life itself. I would go straight into the bowels of Tartarus and fight every monster and Hellspawn in the Underworld if it meant being with her forever. Annabeth turned to me and looked into my soul with her intimidating eyes.
"I love you, Annabeth," I said.
"I love you, Seaweed Brain," she said. I started to protest about the name, but she was too quick. She shut me up with a firm kiss. I couldn't think straight, but I knew I heard Kairi chuckle a little.
After our little moment, Kairi took us to our individual rooms. Sora had noticed earlier that we both wore the same sizes and brought some clean clothes for me. I thanked him for his generosity. Kairi gave Annabeth some clothes too. We both took a shower because we didn't exactly smell like roses after our little ordeal.
I bumped into Annabeth in the hallway as we were getting ready for dinner with Kairi's family. Sora, Riku, and three of their other friends would be there too. They said it was kind of a tradition because it was the four-year anniversary of when the Destiny Islands were destroyed by the Heartless.
Sora and Riku arrived with the other friends and introduced us to them. "Percy, Annabeth, this Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka. They are the only other people on this world that know what happened four years ago," Sora said. Selphie was a short girl with long, brown hair that twisted upwards on the ends. She had pale skin and green eyes just like mine. Tidus was about as tall as me. He had short, sandy-blond hair and deep, ocean-blue eyes. He was pretty muscular. Sora said he was the captain of the Blitzball team. I still didn't know what Blitzball was, though. Wakka was tall and just as muscular as Tidus. He had a peach-fuzz beard and orange hair. His hair was even redder than Rachel's. He had dark skin and dark eyes.
"Hey mon," Wakka said. He sounded like a Jamaican, and he was very friendly. "Welcome to the islands."
"Thanks Wakka. I'm Percy and this is my girlfriend, Annabeth," I said.
"Riku and Sora already filled us in on what you guys have been through, man," Tidus said.
"Welcome to our sandy little corner of the universe," Selphie greeted. She was very hyper and energetic.
"Thanks guys," Annabeth said. "It's great to know that there are people who understand what we're going through."
"Hey, it's no problem," Wakka responded. "Everybody's very friendly here on the main island. We all know each other and almost no crime."
"Well, that's a relief," I said. "Where I'm from, there's nothing but crime. I lived in a big city called New York. Every day, someone was getting mugged, beaten, or shot. It was horrible." The thoughts of home hurt a little. What if I never saw mom and Paul again? What about my friends at Camp Half-Blood? And what if they had been turned into Heartless and were gone forever?
"Hey everybody, dinner is ready!" Angela called from the kitchen. We all walked together toward the dining room and started to celebrate the occasion.
Annabeth and I felt sort of out of place in the celebration. It was probably because we hadn't been there. I felt like I was intruding on some sacred ritual. Kairi reassured us that we were more than welcome. She said that since our home had been destroyed, we were in the same boat that they were. Our problem just still needed to be resolved.
"This grilled chicken is delicious, Mrs. Hikari," I said. Kairi's mom could really cook! It made me miss my mom's cooking.
"Thank you," she said, her face curling up into a big smile.
"Yeah, mom it's…" Kairi trailed off. Suddenly, she gripped her chest and shrieked in pain. Sora started to jump over the table toward her, but the same thing happened to him!
"Sora! Kairi!" Riku shouted.
"What's going on?" I asked. Sora and Kairi looked like they were having violent seizures. I was afraid for them. I thought they were dying or something.
"I think I know what's happening," Riku realized. Just as he said that, bright lights illuminated the room. They were coming from Sora and Kairi's chests. Suddenly, something strange happened. Sora and Kairi stopped seizing. Their eyes and mouths opened wide. Two transparent figures sat up from their bodies. The two mysterious people started to become more solid. The one that appeared from Sora was a man about as tall as Sora. He had deep, cerulean eyes like Sora, but his hair was blond and spiked different. He was wearing an off-white jacket, a black shirt, and tan, baggy pants. The girl that sat up from Kairi was the same height as her. She had cerulean eyes like the boy and her hair was blond too. She was wearing a plain, white dress that came down halfway down her thighs. She was seriously beautiful. Riku just looked at them with his emerald eyes wide open. After a few minutes, he finally addressed them. "Roxas, Namine, what are you guys doing here?"
Author's Note: So, what do you think? Review button right below this text. Something must really be wrong for Roxas and Namine to be expelled from Sora and Kairi like that. Until next time friends...