Summary: Eight teenagers are sent to a camp for the summer. It isn't just any camp though. It's Twilight Camp, a camp for depressed, trouble-making, or anti-social students. What happens when the campers must interact with each other and problems arise?
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Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any related materials.
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Chapter One – The 'Emo Camp'
The three teenage boys wandered through the woods, looking for the entrance to Twilight Camp. Considering they were from the downtown part of Destiny City and none of them had ever been camping, they had no idea how to navigate themselves through the wilderness. So they were completely lost.
"She sends us to this 'emo camp,' and then she leaves us to get lost in the woods," one boy said clenching his fists. He was already getting angry at his mother who had the idea of sending the three boys to camp. The boy who said this, the oldest of the three, had blue-green eyes and silver shoulder-length hair. His hair was very...unique, especially for someone who was only fifteen years old. The boy, Riku, turned around to look at his companions.
One of them was his best friend Sora. Sora had deep blue eyes that made him extremely popular with the girls at school. His hair was also unique. It was brown and stuck up in every possible direction.
The other was a boy named Roxas, who was also a friend of Riku, and Sora's cousin. You could tell they were cousins, too, because they had almost the exact same face, including the huge blue eyes. Some people even thought they were twins when Roxas first moved to Destiny City. The only real difference between the two was the hair. Roxas's hair stuck up, like Sora's, but instead of sticking up in all directions like Sora's, It only stuck up to the right. Personality-wise, Roxas was somewhat uptight, but then again, everyone is compared to Sora.
The three of them together ruled their school, Destiny High. Thanks to their good looks and cool, collected personalities, every girl wanted to date them and every guy wanted to be them.
Riku was still staring at Roxas and Sora. Sora nodded while Roxas searched the area for a path or trail of some sort to lead them out of there. It was hopeless, though. They were surrounded by trees on all sides.
Roxas stuffed his hands into his pockets and smirked. "What do you say we ditch this place and go get McDonald's?"
Sora patted his pockets. "Can't. Got no money, remember?" He knew Roxas was completely serious about his McDonald's idea, considering Roxas was completely obsessed with McDonald's.
Riku looked off into the large mass of trees. "Plus, we'd probably get lost even more if we try to get out of this freakin' forest!" He was starting to get even angrier. Not at Roxas, but just in general.
Sora, who had known his friend long enough to recognize is anger, noticed this and decided to intervene. "C'mon, Guys. Let's go!"
With that, the boys continued through the woods.
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A blue mini-van pulled up by the entrance of Twilight Camp. A girl with round, indigo eyes and auburn hair that reached just past her shoulders, sat in the passenger's seat not wanting to get out. It wasn't that she was nervous, as many are on their first day of camp, but she wasn't exactly excited either. She knew she shouldn't have told her mom how she had been feeling lately.
Her mom was sitting right there in the driver's seat next to her, smiling, no, grinning a huge, obviously fake grin at her, though, so there was no way she could avoid this moment any longer. She could strike up a conversation with her mom, but she hadn't talked to her mom since she found out she was being forced to come to this camp, two and a half weeks ago. She wasn't about to start now.
Slowly, the girl stepped out of the van. She heard twigs crack beneath her black converses. Fortunately for Kairi, her mom was smarter than Riku's and she dropped her off oat the entrance instead of leaving her to search for it in the woods. "Kairi, Honey, ma–"
SLAM!
Her mother didn't even get the chance to finish her sentence before Kairi slammed the door on her. Yes, it was harsh, but her mom took the hint and shifted the car into reverse. And Kairi got the satisfaction of seeing her mom's face as she drove away. Ah, sweet revenge!
Kairi looked around for a few seconds. She was considering running off and trying to find civilization, but then she heard footsteps coming up behind her.
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Finally, after about an hour of seaching, Roxas, Sora, and Riku found what they were looking for.
"Yes! We are finally here!" Sora threw his hands into the air and fell to his knees. He got weird glances from Riku and Roxas before he got up.
The three boys stared at the old, rickety, wooden sign that they had been looking for this whole time. It was several yards away, but still visible.
As they came closer, they noticed a girl, with her back to them, standing in front of the sign, staring up at it. She had auburn hair and was decked out in all black. At the sight of her, all three boys let out a wolf-whistle as they walked over to her. Obviously she wasn't in a very good mood because she flipped them off without turning around to look at them. Even Riku knew not to mess with a pissed off girl, so they shut up.
The sign that marked the entrance to Twilight Camp was red with yellow lettering. It reminded Roxas of a McDonald's sign. Through the watermarks and cracks in the wood, the four students could make out the words, 'Camp Destiny.'
Sora was puzzled. "I thought this place was called Twilight Camp.
Roxas pondered this. "It probably used to be called Camp Destiny, but then they renamed it and never got around to changing the sign.
Sora nodded.
Riku just seemed to get more aggravated. "Not only does she leave us at the 'emo camp' but it's an emo camp that's too friggin' poor to replace a sign!"
The girl turned to her left to look at them for the first time. She didn't seem phased by Riku's outburst at all. "Emo camp?" She raised an eyebrow.
Riku sat down on a log. "You do know what this camp is for, right?"
"Of course."
Yeah, well my mom had this 'great' idea to send the three of us to camp for the whole summer and she found this camp. She just tried to pretend that it was just some normal, fun summer camp, but then Roxas looked it up online, and we found out it was actually some camp for 'depressed, angry, and/or trouble-making teenagers.'" Riku smirked. He figured his mom thought he was a little of all three...Okay, he was a lot of all three.
Kairi nodded. She didn't really seem to care, but then again, Riku didn't care if she cared.
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"Wow," Kairi thought. She noticed that all three boys were really hot! Hm...she could have some fun here at camp.
Then she snapped back to reality. As soon as possible, she wanted to be out of this place. She could not risk getting her emotions involved with anything or anyone–none the less guys–during the next three months that she was forced to stay here.
After Riku finished explaining how they ended up at this camp, ther was a long awkward silence. She felt three pairs of eyes baring a hole into her skin, so she just looked down at her shoes. Then, Sora's shoes caught her eye. She raised an eyebrow at them. They were unusually large and...yellow.
When she couldn't stand the silence any longer, she decided to say something. "Well, let's go in."
The three boys nodded and reluctantly followed Kairi, who was already walking past the inaccurate sign.
After walking straight for several yards, they came across another sign. This one was big, white, and in big, black block letters said, "NEW CAMPERS SIT HERE!" Underneath that, an arrow pointed towards a circle of logs.
"I wonder where they want us to sit," Roxas said sarcastically, as the group made their way towards the circle of logs.
When they got there, they all took a seat on one of the logs. They were the first ones there. Kairi sat on one end. Riku sat next to her, staring off once again into the trees. Roxas was sitting next to Riku, looking down at his hands, and Sora was on the other end just, well...being Sora.
Sora stood up and walked to Kairi. "Well, since we have to spend the whole summer together, how 'bout introduction." He stuck out his hand towards her. "I'm Sora."
Kairi also stood. She looked at Sora's hand, but didn't take it. Instead, she giggled. "I'm Kairi."
Sora withdrew his hand and rubbed the back of his head with it. He was embarrassed and wondered why she was laughing.
Kairi sensed his embarrassment and laughed again. "He's so adorable," she thought to herself.
Sora, still embarrassed and even more confused turned to walk away, but before he could, Kairi grabbed him and embraced him in a hug.
Sora was even more confused now. Why was she hugging him? He felt his face getting red. "Uh...Kairi?"
"Yeah?"
"W-what are you d-doing?"
"Hugging you."
"Uh...w-why?" He didn't know why he felt this way. It wasn't that he didn't like it–believe me, he liked it. He just felt uncomfortable. But he's hugged a lot of girls. He's gone much further with girls, but he never felt uncomfortable. Why was he suddenly feeling this way from a hug with a girl he just met?
Kairi was still clinging onto him, her head on his chest. She knew he probably thought she was crazy, but she didn't care. "Because you cheered me up."
At that Sora laughed, happy he had the ability to cheer her up. Picking up his arms that had, until now, hung limply at his sides, he wrapped them around her.
Riku and Roxas, who had been–up until a few seconds before–sitting on the log talking and not paying any attention to Sora and Kairi, had now taken notice of them. They were surprised to find the two standing there practically on top of each other (well, not really, but that's how their perverted minds saw it).
Riku smirked. "Oooooh...What do we have here?" he asked suggestively.
Sora leaned back, still holding onto Kairi, to smile at her. "We're just introducing ourselves."
Roxas quickly stood up. "Well, I'm Roxas. Can I have a hug?" He made a puppy dog face at Kairi
Sora let go of Kairi to jokingly shove Roxas away and stick out his tongue. "Go away, man, this is my hug."
Kairi laughed at their immaturity and turned to Riku. "So what's your name?"
"Riku."
Then she realized that she had only introduced herself to Sora, but not Roxas and Riku. "I'm Kairi."
The two boys nodded. For the first time, Kairi got a good look at Roxas. "You know, you look a lot like Sora."
Roxas shrugged. "We're cousins."
At that moment someone else stepped into the circle. He was tall and serious. His hair stuck up like Sora's and Roxas's, but it was a lighter blonde than Roxas. He sat on the log next to them without acknowledging the other campers at all and just stared of into the horizon, as Riku often did.
The other four teens, Roxas, Kairi, Sora, and Riku all sat down, somewhat intimidated by the new presence. Silence fell upon them.
The next new camper to come was a girl with long blond hair, blue eyes, and a light blue shirt. She looked almost afraid as she looked around worriedly before sitting down.
Two more campers showed up. One had blond hair, down to his chin and blue eyes, a lot like Sora and Roxas's but they weren't as intense.
The last one had long brown hair, somewhat like Riku's but a different color. He gave of the same serious vibe that the first guy did.
Sora, being Sora, went around and introduced himself to each one. Once again, Kairi couldn't help but think he was adorable.
Riku smirked at her. "So you like Sora?"
Kairi was taken aback. "NO! I mean–"
"Aw, c'mon. You guys were this close to making out right in front of us," he teased.
"No, we weren't." Kairi was now blushing. It was just a friendly hug.
Roxas joined in. "Yeah, right. Did you see how red his face was?"
"Hey what are you guys talking about?" Sora had just walked up behind Roxas.
Kairi slapped herself in the head. She knew Roxas and Riku wouldn't bother preserving he dignity.
Riku glanced at Kairi before turning around and facing Sora. "We were just talking about how you and Kairi were making out earlier." And Kairi was right.
Sora stopped dead in his tracks. "What?" He could feel himself turning red. When he looked over a Kairi, she had her face buried in her hands. He decided to play it cool.
While subtly smacking Riku in the back of the head, he sat down next to Roxas. "Whatever." With that he started pointing out the other campers in the order they arrived. "That's Cloud, that's Namine, and Tidus," he said with a nod, pointing to each one as he said they're names. "The last one wouldn't tell me his name, but I've seen him at school before and I think it's Squall."
Roxas shook his head. "His name is Leon. It used to be Squall, but now it's Leon, and he won't let anyone call him Squall."
"Oh."
After about five minutes of silence, a tall guy with blond hair under his gray hat emerged from a small trail leading through the immense amount of trees. He stood in the middle of the circle and stared at each camper with penetrating blue eyes. "I'm Seifer. I'm the head of the discipline committee around here." His tone was angry.
All of the campers were thinking the same thing: "It's going to be a long summer."
Except Sora. Yes. Poor Sora had his mind set on Kairi. He was leaning forward to look past Roxas and Riku to her. She also looked over to him and smiled. Sora smiled his 'sheepish' smile he knew girls loved before looking away. "God, is she hot!" he thought.
Riku saw Sora staring at Kairi and smirked. He could have some fun with this.
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"Well, here at Twilight Camp, you will be separated into groups of two, and your partner will be your cabin-mate, along with your counselor.
"You will each get a laptop in your room with access to the internet, but all sites will be monitored.
"During the day, all eight of you will be together for activities, such as swimming, campfires, archery, soccer, et cetera. There will also be three times a day where we meet in the dining hall and eat. On occasion, we will barbeque. Any questions?" Seifer looked around to see if anyone had anything to ask about the speech he just made.
Riku raised his hands. "Yeah. Are these all the campers?"
"Yes."
"Oh, man! There's only two girls! Geez, what a rip-off!"
The campers around Riku snickered.
Seifer glared. "Anyone have any appropriate questions?"
No one said anything. They just wanted his speech done with as fast as possible.
Okay, then. Now I will pair you up and introduce you to your counselors." Seifer picked up his clipboard, which had been lying beside him before. "Let's see...Cabin One will be Riku and Sora."
Hearing this, Riku and Sora hi-fived. Roxas looked a little disappointed that he was going to have to stay with someone else. In fact, he looked very disappointed.
"Your counselor will be Axel." Seifer pointed to a guy with spiky red hair. "Cabin two will be...Kairi and Namine."
Kairi turned to look at the blond haired girl. She had figured they would be sharing a cabin since they were, as Riku pointed out earlier, the only two girls. She didn't know anything about the other girl except that her name was Namine and that's only because Sora told her.
"Your counselor will be Yuffie." This time he pointed to a girl with short black hair wearing a tank top and really short shorts. She smiled and waved at us.
Cabin three will be...Roxas and Tidus. And your counselor will be Wakka." Seifer nodded towards a guy with tanned skin and very...unique orange hair that sort of swirled up in the front.
"Finally, cabin four will be...Leon and Cloud."
Kairi thought that Leon and Cloud suited each other. They both had the same solemn attitude and serious vibe.
"Cid will be your counselor." An older man with blond hair stepped forward.
Seifer continued. "Okay, tonight will be just for unpacking and getting introduced. So you can follow your counselors to your cabins then walk around to get acquainted to your fellow campers. Light's out is at ten P.M. sharp. No exceptions. I will see you tomorrow morning at eight. Now go!" With that said, Seifer turned around and headed back in the direction of which he came.
We all looked at each other wondering what to do next.
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