Gold and Blue
kallen vi britannia
Kingdom Hearts : Birth by Sleep
Pairing: Terra and Aqua
Alternate Universe
Author's notes:
My younger brother and I had been hook up with Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and finished it within a span of a week, well the beginner mode. I am really determined to finish the three KH series. I'd been head over heels with Terra and the opening song. I really liked the structure of his face and his freaking changing eye color, thus the origin of the title.
And also Terra x Aqua fics are just too few for my viewing pleasure, so I will add one! Maybe I can really keep this up, as well as my other stories. I am really abusing my notebook at these typing jobs. I really, really love making fanfics.
So on with the story.
Chapter 1: Myriad of Colors
"Mother! Mother! Tell me that story again please?" a young girl with stunning oceanic orbs asked her mother as they watched over a babe by the crib. She was smiling at the child, her brother with such excitement and awe. "Please Mother; tell me about the story of the rainbow and the stars."
"Ah ah dear child, you have heard and read it many times. Why would you like me to tell me again?" the mother remarked with her soft voice, patting the girls soft hair. She saw the expression her daughter behold just for her, really eager to hear the story once again. The mother sighed and nodded her defeat, readying her voice and shifting to her storyteller mode.
"Now, now dear child, listen to the tale of how the stars are like rainbows and rainbows are almost like shimmering stars.
The legend foretold that before there where never rainbows in the sky just stars that stared down from the heavens, they just stayed there just watching over what are to be watched. Of course, they are persons, entities, and their light came from their hearts and they shone brightly with the help of the Darkness. You see dear child, where there is light there is darkness, for one cannot live without the other. Those two balance each other like a libra constellation. But there was nothing in the heavens, just light and darkness.
Then a star was slowly being consumed with darkness. He hated the fact that he was tempted to give in and be defeated. He wretched himself to exile, wandering different and many worlds and seeing a lot more from his view back from above. The universe was a very large place and in one world that he landed upon, he encountered a woman. This woman was a daughter of that place. She who welcomed him with a hospitality he never had before seemed to scare the star. He was scared that his impending destruction and darkness may swallow her as well. So he went farther, farther but not going away, just farther. But she always reached out, pulling him in.
Then the entire star's hard work of avoiding her for her own sake never paid off.
"Tell me Lupa ,what are you?" the woman once asked the star. He never answered the question until one day she told him: "Tell me not Lupa and evade me not either that lie that you are a lone man, for I can see the light within your heart radiating. Are you not a star?"
"Indeed I am a star. But Siren I do not have the light that you claim I have. The darkness is consuming me and soon I will be destroyed."
"Is that why you avoid me and push me away?"
The star never answered the question yet the woman understood as she looked at his deep blue orbs. But when the day that darkness claimed the star, the woman saw golden eyes and not the deep blue, she was scared for a moment at how the pain affected him just to save her from that darkness. She saw the tiniest speck of light being swarmed slowly.
She screamed his name and held him in her arms and she did something unexpected. Through the star's almost losing sanity and consciousness, he felt the coldness other than the darkness that was consuming him. Through golden orbs he saw the woman, siren, and discovered at the moment that she was a daughter of the waters, soothing his panicked heart and let him think. Through her cool waters, she surrounded him and he was amazed at how his tiny remaining light shone with a myriad of colors and realization dawned to him that he wanted to live more to see those colors and overcoming darkness were shimmering colors born together and like a bridge and a bow shot through the sky and space, giving color to the colorless stars.
Thus that was why rainbows shimmer and stars color."
"There were always two important colors then, the gold and the blue; it was then admired by the woman as why and how the star's eyes still shift colors when his emotions are most intense. Together with her though, a whole lot of colors were made." The mother finished with a smile. She heard her daughter yawn, even though she was still widely alert with the story that just ended. "Now dear child, say goodnight to your brother and go to bed as well. You will need your strength tomorrow."
"Will you tell Riku that story when he grows up?"
"Of course dear, though I do not think he would be that interested. Now off to bed!"
"Good night mother! Good night Riku!"
"Good night Aqua."
Ocean orbs snapped open and a groan instantly came out of Aqua's mouth as she rolled to her side. Her head was throbbing from headache because of sleeping late the last night. By her bedside a sigh was heard and then Aqua felt another tap by her shoulder. "Hey Sis, I got painkillers and some water here, I know you slept late because of that term paper you're working and Mom Isn't that happy that your overworking yourself."
"Go away Riku." Aqua said waving her arms as she blindly tried to turn off her cellphone from ringing its alarm. "Hell. Shut down will you. I'm going. I'm going alright!"
"Come on Sis. Time for school." Riku said as he poked his sister again. "Come on up, up, up!"
Then the closest book was thrown at the door with a chuckling Riku coming downstairs for breakfast. Their mother who heard the commotion just laughed as she watched her children one by one settle for breakfast. "Did you get into her bad side again?"
"She's always on her bad side on mornings.." Riku said, fishing some pancakes to his plate and munching them. Their mother just laughed again and continued on setting the table. "Did Dad leave early again?"
"Yes." A sigh from their mom. "He's aiming for a three day leave so he's finishing all his assignments and projects in advance."
"For your anniversary?" Aqua intruded, settling in for breakfast as well, now fully refreshed and ready for school. "Where are you going now?"
"To my mother's. I know I can leave the house to you." Then they all ate their breakfast and said their goodbyes to their mother. Riding on the bus they went to Radiant Gardens Academy.
"Will you be coming with me on the way home?" Aqua asked her brother before they went to their own buildings. Riku was a freshman high school student while Aqua was a sophomore college student and their buildings are rather far apart that they decided beforehand to meet at a destination so that they can go home together.
"No. Zack and I are still going to finish our report papers so I'll be late for dinner." Riku said as he walked away waving to his watching sister. Aqua just sighed and went on her own way with a smile as she faced another day. She breathed in the sent that was school thinking and waiting when the adventures will begin. Ten seconds after that thought, she gasped in surprise. She whirled around to the one who just grabbed her shoulder and saw Tifa with a sorry smile. Aqua just sighed again and sighed, nothing like the relaxing days of school.
She was smiling for she just knew that it would be a nice day, a rainbow just came to guide her path to the right direction.
-TBC_
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