"Gah—that's cold!" I screamed as a wall of icy ocean splashed against my back, causing my whole body to shiver and stagger. The other two teens with me just laughed and I rolled my eyes. But I couldn't help but slightly smirk when the tallest in our group, Axel, was also attacked by the sea. Kairi, his beautiful, rose-haired girlfriend laughed even harder than when the water had attacked me. The red head raced after her after he regained his footing and she screamed playfully as they took off down the shoreline.
It was just your typical, summer day at the beach. We were out, getting burnt to a crisp under the hot sun, but ignoring it and trying to have as much fun as we could. The rest of our friends were enjoying themselves as well; either messing around in the water, or sitting in the shade enjoying sea-salt ice cream. Roxas and Naminé, who were madly in love with each other, were sharing ice cream together and giggling. Riku was chasing after screaming Sora, Roxas's younger twin brother, with a fully loaded water gun. Marluxia and Larxene were talking under the shade of an umbrella. Vexen was gathering samples of different types of animals and plants from the tide pools for his current research.
As for myself, Zexion, I just wanted to go out farther into the water. I just had to wait another hour. Then Vexen, my foster father, would take me out to explore while he gathered more samples. For now, I just had to enjoy myself with the others.
I decided to take a break from the sun and water for a minute and retreated to a nearby umbrella. I wrapped one towel around my cold body and sat on another. The gentle wind blew my hair slightly off of my right eye and I inhaled the sea breeze it brought with it. I surveyed the beach around me. Despite being a glorious day, we were the only ones there. But, I'm sure that some jerks will probably come and ruin our time.
A sigh escaped my throat at the thought of our day coming to an end and looked to my left at a bunch of rocks. Something shiny caught my eye and I stood. I made my way towards it, having to climb multiple rocks to reach it. Finally, I picked it up in my hand. A fish scale. It was absolutely beautiful. I turned it over, examining it. From all of Vexen's samples of scales, I had never seen one like this before. It was a bright teal colour and translucent. My eye then caught something else; blood.
I climbed farther over the rocks toward the blood. It looked fresh. I followed the couple of drops of it here and there until I reached a ledge with a smear of the crimson liquid. I peered over the edge and gasped. Below lay a body of a boy about my age. I quickly made my way down from the rocks and crouched next to him. He was completely naked accept for a swirling tattoo down his right upper arm. His hair was styled in a blond Mohawk. His skin was tan from years in the water. I brought my hand to his cheek. It was cold, but not cold enough for him to be dead. I glanced downwards at his legs; they were completely mauled. Large wounds, from what I guessed were from the rocks, were covering them.
"I have to get you some help," I told the motionless body. I wrapped my towel around his waist and tried to pick him up. My small arms couldn't hold him, though and I placed him back down. I glanced around me. We were surrounded three ways by the rocky cliffs and one by the ocean, which looked as though it was getting closer. "Oh crap," I whispered, "high tide." I definitely had to get him out of here.
I tried to lift him again and this time he responded with a moan. Good; he wasn't dead. He then opened his eyes and, god, were they amazing. They were a teal colour and sparkled beautifully in the evening sunlight. "W-who?" he asked weakly. I shushed him and began to drag him away from the approaching sea. He winced as the sand dug into his cuts but I ignored it. Felling a little pain was ten times better than dying. I knew that more than anyone.
"Hold on, I'm going to try and pull you up onto the rocks before the water reaches us," I told him. He opened his mouth to talk but hesitated. His eyes searched the water rapidly as if he was searching for something in the tumbling waves.
"Let go of me," he told me suddenly.
"Wha—no way," I argued back. "I'll get you back to Larxene's house and you'll be just fern!" I was cut off by a sudden hand to my face, slurring my words. I released him and fell backwards into the sand. "What the hell? I was just trying to hel—" My voice trailed off a huge wave formed in the ocean.
The blond turned to me, "Get out of here!" I tried to grab onto him again but he shook me off, "I'll be fine, but you have to get out of here."
"No, I won't leave without you." It was silent as the wave came closer to us, "I'm not just going to leave you for dead." I didn't want to know that I had caused someone else's death. I had made my final decision and I was staying until he agreed to come with me.
He sighed and stood, his legs wobbling underneath him. "Fine," he then turned towards the sea and made his way towards it. The wave was about to hit too!
"Stop!" I yelled and raced after him. The wave towered above us and everything seemed to slow down. The blond turned and looked at me. He mouthed something as the wave came crashing down on top of us. I was forced backwards and my whole body made contact with the rocky wall behind me, my head hitting the hardest. I opened my mouth to gasp, but inhaled water. I choked and swallowed more water. My eyes opened weakly to see a figure swimming before me. I couldn't see clearly, but his legs looked teal. And morphed into one. My eyes then closed and everything went black as I entered a deep sleep.