Chapter 2: Terrified

Kairi's POV

"I'm Home." Sora called out when he got home from his classes.

I walked out of the kitchen and smiled at him, "it's about time you got home. Did you get in trouble?" I teased

He shook his head, "Me, get in trouble? What world do you live in?"

Before he shut the door behind him I saw a raccoon with glowing red eyes looking at me. I slightly jumped back as Sora shut the door. "I don't know, a really weird one." I said as I walked into the kitchen.

"Where are Namine and Roxas?" he asked when he got his shoes off and threw his bag off to the side.

"I sent them to the store to pick some things up. They're taking their time though." I sighed.

"Maybe they stopped somewhere to fuck." Sora teased.

I just bursted out laughing. It was nice being able to live with my friends, but it's also sad at the same time. We live together because our parents our dead. My parents died in a building collapse when I was really little so my grandma raised me most of my life. She died three years ago in her sleep, I guess she just was really old.

Sora's story is a little more interesting than mine I suppose. His parents separated when he was really young. His mom was able to get him in the middle of the night but his brother couldn't get away. His mom was killed just last year in a real bad car accident and his dad was murdered, not like he cared about his dad. Even his brother looked pleased that their dad was dead.

Namine's parents deaths were tragic though. I knew her parents well because she's my cousin. They were the perfect family and you wouldn't think something could go wrong, but one day her parents went out to run some errands and the place they were at got robbed. Her parents tried to be heroes, but only got shot.

Roxas never told us much about his family. All we know is that his dad died from the flu when he was thirteen and his mom died two years ago in a plane crash while going on a business trip. He never told us what they were like or anything, they're a complete mystery.

"We're back!" I heard Namine call through the sound of an opening door and grocery bags.

"Sorry we're late..." Roxas said as he walked in and set a couple plastic bags on the counter. "We couldn't find some of the things you were looking for so we had to look around a while."

"Bullshit." I heard Sora cough in the living room.

Namine walked in and brought her share of bags with her. "There was this strange raccoon outside, but I think we scared it off." she explained.

I smiled at her as I finished making us food. "yeah I saw it earlier, it was creeping me out."

"I think Fido needs to go out." Roxas said as he saw my dog scratching at the door and whining.

"Then let him out." I simply stated. Roxas shrugged and let Fido out.

The night went well and we all talked and laughed. As I was getting ready for bed, Fido started barking out the door. I smiled, walked over to the door and let him out. In the moonlight I could see him messing around with some creature that kind of looked like a raccoon. When Fido's paw touched the raccoon he turned into a man and ripped his head off.

I gasped in horror as blood flooded the ground and he threw the head off in the distance. Then he looked at me in the window and smiled as he started heading for the front door. I screamed in horror and ran up the stairs. I was greeted by all my friends looking at me strangely.

"Kairi, what's wrong?" Sora asked holding onto my shoulder.

I broke down crying in fear, "There was this raccoon outside that turned into a man and he killed Fido and now he's trying to break into our house."

"That's absurd." Roxas said wanting not to believe it.

Just then we heard the door break down. Namine screamed at the top of her lungs and we all ran into Sora's room and locked ourselves in.

"we're dead, we're dead, we're dead." Namine kept saying to herself.

"We're going to be fine!" Sora yelled as he slid the dresser in front of the door. We all watched the door as we heard footsteps come up the stairs.

I stopped breathing when the footsteps stopped in front of the door. Seconds later the door was blown up and he walked in. "Why hello there." he grinned evilly at us. He had shoulder length silver hair and red eyes.

"Who the fuck are you?" Roxas screamed.

"My name simply is Richard, Richard Nightingale."

"Nightingale?" Namine mumbled under her breath.

"Miss Nightingale's father?" Roxas asked himself.

As he walked toward us, Vanitas busted through the window and took a defensive stance in front of us. "Leave them alone!" he yelled.

Richard smiled at him. "I know you."

"Like I give a fuck if you know me!" Vanitas shouted as he charged. All of a sudden Vanitas was lifted in the air.

"You think you can stop me? If you thought Lidia was powerful, you haven't seen anything." A second later the room was filled with Vanitas's screams and blood started flying out of him. After a few minutes Vanitas collapsed to the ground unconscious and Richard looked at me.

"Close your eyes!" I yelled and everyone did at the same time. I could feel pressure stabbing my body but it didn't hurt. "Go away!" I screamed and in a burst of energy the window shattered and the pressure stopped, when I looked around he was gone.

"What was that?" I asked confused. Everyone opened their eyes and Vanitas woke up.

"You guys have powers." Vanitas mumbled as he staggered up. "I need to talk to Lidia tomorrow." he said as he jumped out the window.