The Awakening Part 2

Co-written by fiercepotato and koolguy1776

Sora woke up with a terrible headache the next morning. But, he quickly realized that was the least of his problems. Once Sora woke up he took a glance around the room around him the only problem he wasn't in his room…far from it. He was sitting on a very dirty bed covered in strange white and dusty debris. The room around him was about medium size, bigger than his at Destiny Islands, his room was full of strange devices with big opaque, reflective panels on the front of them. After he was done looking at the demolished room and demolished objects in it he looked at the floor and saw his friend Roxas asleep on the floor propped up against the bed. Sora quicjly hopped off of the bed and shook his friend to wake him.

Roxas finally woke up after a few rather forceful shakes from Sora. Once he was up they both started freaking out together. There was no one around and they had no idea where they were. They did know one thing; they were no longer on Destiny Islands…nowhere near it.

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"The last thing I remember was standing and watching the meteor shower…" Roxas recalled from the night before.

"Yeah, and then we went to go get all of us water from my house, but I don't remember ever being at my house," Sora said as he struggled to pull details from his fuzzy memory, "And then there was that big flash of light and then my memory just cuts off."

"Yeah now I'm slowly starting to remember we were walking along the water and there was like a pulsating light of red and white…" Roxas said with a quiet sigh.

"I think maybe we should leave this room and start looking around for some people and some answers," Sora suggested.

"I don't see why not…" Roxas said and he stood up and headed for door.

Sora followed behind him and they walked through the destroyed hallway and walked past a few rooms on their left, a bathroom and another bedroom which was in slightly better shape and then the past a kitchen on their right. After walking through all the rooms and investigating them they reached a room that had a table surrounded by some chairs, but most of the chairs were destroyed by whatever had happened. Eventually they finished searching the house and saw nothing but a destroyed house, although the basement wasn't in too bad of condition.

They finished searching the basement around 1:08 and left the house and headed out to the street at 1:14. What they saw outside of the house was worse and saddened them more then the destruction inside the house. They were in a strange neighborhood they had never seen before; it had houses lined side by side down the road. That's not what saddened them, what saddened them was how badly destroyed all of the houses were and it only added to their sadness that they had very convincing proof that they were far from their homes. Roofs were broken away and shone the inside of the houses. Walls were filled with gaping holes the size of cars and strange dark colored rocks littered the streets and yards, some were the size of a minivan and some were the size of pennies.

"What are those?" Roxas asked Sora pointing to a rock that was on top of a crushed white car parked in the driveway they were standing on.

"Do you think- do you think those could be meteors…" Sora stuttered out in worried and horrified tone.

"I've never seen one so close before but I don't know what else it could be," Roxas said as he moved closer to the giant rock.

He carefully touched and after placing his fore finger on it he quickly pulled his hand back.

"Ahh! It's hot whatever it is…" Roxas said has he stuck his finger into his mouth to cool the slight burn.

"It's gotta be a meteor what are the odds that there was meteor shower and now the ground is covered in burning hot rocks?" Sora asked as he turned away from the rock and observed some of the other houses.

"Let's go look for help that way," Sora suggested as he pointed at a road then went up a slight hill.

"Yeah maybe's there's a…survivor that can help us…" Roxas said with growing sorrow.

"It's worth a shot," Sora said as he led the way away from the house and up the hill.

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After walking for about an hour Sora and Roxas stopped at the top of a fairly large hill to catch their breath that was taken away from the humidity and the ninety degree heat.

"You'd think we'd be used to heat like this since we're always on the beach," Sora said to his partner with a slight chuckle.

"Yeah, but back at the island we can swim whenever we want to," Roxas pointed out.

"True," Sora said as he stood up against a white post with a bright red stop sign on it.

After a short and relatively silent rest they continued their journey down the hill. They made all the way down in a few minutes. They walked down the road until they reached a one way circle that had a few large and gray metal boxes, mailboxes. They ran over to them hoping for the small possibility of someone hiding behind one or standing in the grassy circle. Much to their dismay they saw no one but stopped and waited on the curb in front of the boxes, just to survey the area. The neighborhood was fairly large but had lots of cul-de-sacs branching off of the more main roads that were lined with houses of various colors and shapes.

"Maybe if we were to climb on top of one of these we could get a better view," Roxas suggested as he stood up from the curb.

"Might as well give it a try," Sora agreed.

Roxas used an open mailbox as a place to put his right foot as he boosted himself up onto the mailboxes. Once he got on top of it the box started swaying back and forth.

"Whoa!" Roxas yelled as he lost his balance but got it back before he could fall.

Once his balance was regained he looked around as Sora stood on the ground holding the mailbox to reduce the shaking and swaying.

"Do you see anything?" Sora said trying to look up at Roxas but the sun was too bright for him to see anything.

"Not much. Let's just continue on this road here," Roxas suggested pointing to the road on his left.

They decided to walk down the road that Roxas suggested. They passed to other cul-de-sacs, one on the left and one to their right. Once the past to two cul-de-sacs they started walking up a gradual hill until they reached a much steeper hill, but not as hill they stopped at to rest. Once they got to the top of the hill there was another grassy circle with mailboxes that were more destroyed, except this one had a little white gazebo that was in surprisingly good condition. They walked across the paper covered ground until they got to the path that led to the gazebo. But as they got closer to the gazebo they quickly realized that they couldn't stop there. A giant meteor had crashed straight into the little hut and occupied the little bit of space it provided.

"Look," Sora said as he pointed to roof above the meteor.

"How does that happen?" Roxas said with much surprised and curiosity.

They both stood in strange awe; the roof was still perfectly intact which it made physically impossible for the meteor to appear there.

After trying multiple explanations for how that could happen nothing seemed to fit. They thought a little more and then Roxas spotted a path between of the houses that were around the 'mailbox circle'.

"Let's go!" Sora yelled as he and Roxas ran across the street and down the path.
Neither of them knew why they were so excited but they ran down the path side by side. They followed all the way down the path until it ended and realized they were in another col-de-sac.

"There's too many of these!"Roxas yelled.

"This kinda looks familiar," Sora said.

"Everything looks the same here," Roxas said with annoyance as he walked away from Sora and went towards the direct road.

"Are you kidding me!" Roxas said he looked down the road.

Sora ran over to him, "What?"

"Look! That's the house we started at!" Roxas yelled as he pointed down the hill that they had walked up hours before.

"So we just did a big circle?" Sora said trying to keep his cool.

They decided to just walk back down to the house they had started at. They walked slowly and sadly down the hill with their faces directed the ground. Once they got back to the house they decided to go back look around for anything odd.

Once they were in the room again they looked around.

"What's this?" Sora asked pointing at the black box he was observing earlier.

"It's a TV," Roxas said, "We had them in Twilight Town."

After explaining what a TV was to Sora he asked why he wanted to know in the first place.

"Because, it's practically the only object not destroyed in here," Sora pointed out, "how do you turn it on?"

Roxas bent over and examined the array of different buttons below the screen until he spotted the button with power symbol on it. He pressed the on button and the two best friends stared at the TV.

"It's Destiny Islands," Roxas said without blinking.