This is my first Fanfiction, so please go easy on me, Also a big huge thanks to Ghost Writer no. 3 for editing it for me, it meant a lot.
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Lost in another Heart & Destiny~
We have all heard of the three brave key bearers, Sora, Riku, & King Mickey, and how they risked their lives trying to put the worlds back into order and save the ones they cared for. What many others did not care to believe though, was that the stories of the "Key" goes back many years ago were many others too shared this gift, but as the years went by, many of the gifts were lost, due to the darkness in people's hearts. Upon the world now, it is rare to see that happen again, people thought they would never see this happen again other than those three, until a young girl who lived in Perch Town, was born.
There was a room. A peaceful room. It was easy to hear others walking around the home, but in that room a child slept. Perhaps not a child, but a girl of sixteen years. Though she did look more like a child then an adult. At this age, her eyes were wide and round and her form was rather small, having a more doll quality that was more apparently on a girl a few years younger then herself. At the moment she slept, her doe-eyes closed and oblivious to everything around her.
"Izori dear, GET UP!" That was the voice of her mother, right outside her bedroom.
Izori made some sort of sound, turned over and sighed before replying, "Five more minutes…" She then buried her face into the pillow.
"You better get your little body out of bed and into the shower before I get in there and decide to pour cold water on your head!" Izori took her mother's threat serious and shot out of bed, waste-length mass of hair flinging around in a slight mess. That threat was the only reason she rose out of bed. It certainly was not the thrill of the school day.
After finish her bath ritual, she returned to her room and pulled out her school uniform; a solid navy-blue shirt and a typical white blouse-shirt. She looked in the mirror, making sure her tie was fitted perfectly. She beamed at herself and smiled, happy to see her china-fine skin looking great in the sun-light. But then her body dropped slightly, revealing more of her truer, shy self.
Even though there was breakfast being made and served, she skipped eating and headed straight for her school. Her parents as long as she remembered boxed her up and made sure she never left unless she had to. School was really the only time she could show a scrap of independence. But even then, that sheltered up-bring made her confused about certain things such as "fads" and general popular culture as well as some more common acts, such as playing a lot of gym activities. With teachers and adults, she perfected an 'I-am-too-innocent act' that worked most of the time. It was a different story with her peers. Compound with her bashfulness, this made her an outcast among her classmates, who found her slow.
That was another reason she went to school early; she was usually made fun of by the same kids. She made sure she could get her stuff ready before those people came.
Unfortunately, today, she was a little late.
"Ah, what do you know, little Izori-Chan, the beauty, is here," it should have been something of a compliment, but that was not how it ended, "To bad Kamahasa's so stupid, a pencil could do better in school then she does; oh wait it already does." All the girls and boy surrounding him laughed and laughed at her. Tears swelled up in her eyes. She strutted around the corner, then ran the rest of the way down the hallway, far away from any of the other kids. She was unaware of why people treated her this way; she just accepted her differences. 'I am smart.' She thought as heading to her first class, 'I will show the one day.' But she blocked that pain, letting it burn her deep inside her core. She already knew it would be a very long and hard day.
After school, with another session of mockery from the school tormenters, Izori walked down a rocky path to her home, deep in thought.
'Why am I always treated this way? I mean…I am a nice person, yet people are mean and bully me.' She felt the tears in her eyes beginning to form again, but she fought them back. 'No! I won't fall into temptation! I will not snivel.' She took a deep breath and smiled that familiar smile, "Just think of something else.' Izori did indeed think of something, "Oh yes, that's right; I better hurry home if me and mom are going to-" Her train of thought ended abruptly as her foot caught hold of a tree root while she was not paying attention to where she was stepping. She tumbled…right to the start of the hill. Soon the world became a painful and dizzy place. She continued to roll down the very rough, rocky, and hard mount until her head just hit the ground just in the right angle to knock her unconscious at the bottom.
Sometime later, Izori opened her eyes. She first noticed the pain. And then she noticed how late it had gotten. She blinked her eyes a few times until the forest stopped spinning. Once it all came into focus, she stood up, shaken. She gazed around, somewhat in a slight daze. She had stumbled somewhere she did not recognize. And there was no way to tell which direction she came from; she apparently was in some sort of dell. Even though all her body parts still functioned correctly, she did not feel strong enough to scale up any of the side. She instead chose to continue down the straighter path.
But she only took a few steps around the next bend before she noticed a small opening that looked like a cave entrance. At least, that is what she thought. Curiously, she entered inside. It was too dark to see around.
As soon as it became near pitch black, she pulled out a little flashlight connected to a key-chain usually reserved for her side (just in case of emergencies, as her father told her). She turned it on.
Half of the cave was shown with one single click. It was…massive.
"Whoa" was the only thing that could escape her lips. The small sounded echoed around the cavern. After she got a good look, she stepped slightly wrong on her ankle. She had to lean against the wall for a moment, thinking about the pain. It reminded her of the fall down the hill, and the short walk had let her body sober enough to realize where she needed to be. 'Oh no! I am supposed to be at home and help mom with that cake!' She turned back around to the entrance.
But all that greeted her was a dead end. There was no way she took a wrong turn; there were no other twist or turns in the cave. The surprise of a whole entrance vanishing left her mind reeling, 'Disappeared, it disappeared…like, like, like magic!' One the astonishment dissipated, she realized that she was trapped.
Then the panic hit.
"HELP, HELP ME! PLEASE, HELP! I AM STUCK! HELP!" She screamed and screamed and clawed at the wall until she realized nobody could hear her. She was all alone and nobody would ever find her in such a concealed place. Once the adrenaline burned out, Izori slumped down and started to cry, buried in her arms with her knees brought up against her chest.
She tried to make herself feel better. This was the only cheerless thought she could speak, "At…At least…nobody will m…Miss me." She took a deep breath after that, and began crying a waterfall of heartbreaking tears.
"Do you wish to be freed, to be heard?"
Izori heard this voice and stopped crying. It was not so much that she heard the words, but was comforted with the thought of another voice, "Oi, I'm saved! That goodness, oh thank you!" With the thought of her death just moments before, her tears changed to tears of joy, "Did my mother send you to find me?" She reached for the light, stood up, and scanned the area around her. Confused, she asked, "Who are you? Why can't I see you?"
'I will not rescue you, for you must rescue yourself, Come let your Heart be swallowed by the darkness of hatred!'
At ending that sentence, Izori saw some black and purple swirls coming straight at her heart. In shock, she dropped her flashlight. In panic, she tried to run.
'Foolish girl, trying to fight darkness in darkness never works you shall be swallowed completely, and never see the light again.'
"No, leave me alone!" She screamed at the voice. Still weak in the legs from the tumble and the stress of being stalked by a mysterious voice, she stumbled and fell to the ground.
'This is the end,' Izori thought in disbelief, 'I am a goner now.' She started to get back up, but turned to look at the shadow approaching, darkness somehow vivid in the darkness of the cave. It drew closer and closer. It charged her and nearly poured on top of her. In terror, she turned and held her hands in front of her, as if that would protect her. "NOOOOOOOO!" She screamed as more tears poured down her cheeks.
But…she saw this little light start to glow from her chest…and she felt something from her heart. In a strange mix of rushing calmness through her body and anxiety with her hands, she tore away the top buttons of her shirt. In between the points where her clavicles met, a small crown-shaped birth-mark appeared on her chest.
'NO IT CAN NOT BE'
While the darkness screeched in terror, a blinding light pour out of her hands. Her eyes shut as she heard the last of the shadow voice.
'This is not the end Key-Bearer'
Izori opened her eyes to see the darkness was gone. She was shocked, but then saw something bright a distance away. Not wanting to be in any type of darkness again, she rushed to it, still filled with the need and energy to run. She had to cover her face from the brightness that hit her at the end of the tunnel. Her eyes adjusted and discovered it was the entrance to the cave. It had re-opened! Without caring where it would lead her, she ran straight up and up the side of one of the hills.
Izori may not be a trained navigator, but once she stood at the top of the rise, it took her only minutes to figure out the direction to home. All of a sudden, the woods did not seem as deep and the drop not as sloped. But she was not going to think about this. No, she sprinted home in under fifteen minutes.
Once she stepped inside her house, just glad to see the familiar walls, her mother peek her head out from the kitchen. "Izori! Where in the world were you?" He mother asked sterling, "I was worried sick!"
Izori paused and thought about her mother's reaction if she said, 'I fell down a hill, and then walked into a cave, where I was attacked by this mysterious voice and was trapped inside. Then was escaped by using weird powers coming from my heart, which, by the way, now has a crown right over it.'
She decided to keep this little adventure to herself and start thinking up a better excuse.
