Twilit: Finally, Chapter 2! Sorry it took so long.
Zaxke: Don't take so long next time.
Twilit: -_-' Just do the disclaimer…
Zaxke: Twilit here doesn't actually own any franchises. Especially not Kingdom Hearts.
"Hey! Wake up!"
"Huh? Who's there?"
"Well, at least we know he's alive,"
Standing there are a boy with light brown hair and hazel eyes. He's wearing a black shirt , black shorts, and red sneakers. There is another boy next to him. This guy's wearing a black sweatshirt, black pants, black shoes, everything black. Surprisingly, his hair is brown and his eyes are green.
"Who are you guys?"
"I'm Matt."
"And I'm Yen."
"I'm Kaze."
Kaze, Riku, and Sora stand together on a small, stormy island."What about Kairi?"
"She's coming with us! Once we go through, we may never be able to come back, we might never see our parents again. There's no turning back, but this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!" Suddenly, darkness begins to surround the three. Soon, all three of them disappear into the shadows.
The Keyblade? What... What's a Keyblade?
Once again, I wake up with a start. Another one of those dreams. Like before, they were all about Kaze, and his friends. But what does he have to do with me? I've never met him before, he lives on some island! But he visited so many other places as far as I can tell. Why am I having these dreams?
My thoughts go back to yesterday. I dreamed about a weapon similar to what I used then. A Keyblade, huh? That Kaze kid had one, is that why we're related?
I hop out of bed and put on my clothes. I'll figure this out later, the others are waiting for me. I rush outside, heading for the hideout. But I can't stop thinking about the dreams. They have to mean something, right?
I suddenly see a flash of black, and then I'm on the ground. I think I crashed into someone. "Oh, sorry about... Huh?" No one is there! But I know I didn't crash into a wall, and I even saw a black cloak... Something small hits me in the head, shaking me from my thoughts. I pick it up, seeing it was a stick. Who threw that?
"Sorry, Zaxke, didn't see you there," Roxas says. He walks up to me and helps me up. "But I don't think a twig like that could knock you down."
I glare at him. "Of course the stick didn't knock me over! I ran into someone. How weak do you think I am?"
"Whoa, I didn't mean it like that!" He apologized. "Come on, the others are waiting inside." For the first time, I notice that we're near the Secret Place. Wow, I was really lost in thought. Already over what had happened, I follow Roxas inside.
The others are already in eating light-blue Popsicles, Hayner waiting rather impatiently. "Where have you guys been?" He asks, obviously irked.
"Much longer and your ice cream would have melted!" Olette says, handing us each a light-blue Popsicle. It's called Sea-Salt IceCream. It tastes salty, but sweet at the same time. Either way, it tastes amazing!
Roxas and I sit down and start to eat.
"Do you guys think we'll always be together like this?" Pence suddenly says. What?
Olette answers him first, seemingly not fazed by the randomness of the question. "I sure hope so."
"Huh? Where did that come from?" Hayner asks.
"Oh, well, you know. Just thinking out loud."
"Well, I doubt we can be together forever." Hayner says. "But isn't that what growing up's all about? What's important isn't how often we see each other, but how often we think about each other. Right?"
Pence laughs. "Get that off a fortune cookie?" The rest of us laugh for a moment while Hayner seems annoyed. Of course that only made it funnier.
"That's it, no more ice cream for you!" He says angrily. He stops for a moment, apparently realizing something. "Man, today's turning out to be a drag."
"Maybe because of yesterday's memory thief." Olette suggests.
"Nuh-uh. You know what it is? We don't want summer vacation to be over. That's all! So, how about this?" He stands up. "We all go to the beach! And why do we go to the beach? Because we haven't gone once this entire vacation! Blue seas! Blue skies! Let's just get on the train and go!"
He is met with total silence. "What? Aw, come on!"
I sigh. "I think you're forgetting something."
"We're flat broke," Roxas continues.
"I think you guys forgot I'm smart!" Hayner has an idea? Might as well see how this turns out. "Come on!" He runs outside, signaling us to follow. We all run after, slightly behind.
We catch up at Market Street where Hayner is reading a poster for The Struggle Tournament in two days. It's held every year near the end of Summer Vacation. I don't usually enter, but Roxas and Hayner enter every year.
Haynes turns to Roxas. "Just two days to go. You and I have to make the finals! That way, no matter who wins, the five of us split the prize!"
"Okay, you're on!" Roxas replies.
"You two are gonna clean up!" Pence assures.
"Go get 'em!" Olette cheers.
"You'll do great!" I say. Roxas and Hayner do our handshake to prove its a promise. Well, not really a handshake. Only arms are involved.
"It's a promise! Now, let's get down to business." Finally. "One ticket to the
Beach is 900 munny. How much for five of us?"
"4500 munny," Olette says after a moment.
"And 300 each to spend there. What's that for all of us?"
"1500 munny. A total of 6000 munny."
"To spend on what?" I ask.
"Pretzels, of course! What else is there?"
Roxas interjects. "Well, there's always watermelon."
"Too pricey." Hayner says. "They're, like, 2,000 munny apiece."
"Pretzels it is."
"So, where were we?"
"We need 6,000 munny altogether." Olette says after thinking about it. "But all we have is..."
"I've got 1,000." Pence says
Olette counts her munny. "...850."
After digging through my pockets, I say, "500"
Roxas looks a little embarrassed. "350. Sorry."
"That's 2,700 munny!" Hayner exclaims. "We need another 3,300. Let's find ourselves some odd jobs and earn some dough! We have 'till the train leaves to earn 660 munny each!"
Of course he doesn't have any cash...
In a few hours, we all meet at the clock tower. The jobs I took today were pretty weird. Especially the bee exterminating one. I have no idea how that worked out.
"All present and accounted for?" Hayner asks.
"What do you think?" I question. He gives me an annoyed look.
"What've we got?" Pence inquires.
"Let's see..." After pooling together our cash, Olette counts up the total. I have to say, though. Roxas and I seemed to gather a lot more than the others. Weird.
"Nice work, everyone. Added to what we started with, we now have..." Olette holds out her handmade munny pouch. "Tada! 6500 munny!"
"Sweet!" Hayner exclaims. She hands the bag to Roxas.
"Let's get tickets!" Olette and Once run ahead to the station. I almost follow, but Hayner stops me for a sec with what he says.
"We can't be together forever... So we'd better make the time we do have
Something to remember." What?
Roxas is just as confused as I am. "Huh?"
"Gotcha!" Hayner jokingly punches Roxas in the stomach and joins the other two.
I'm still bewildered by what our friend had just said. "Is it just me, or did Hayner say something intelligent?"
"I don't know..." Deciding to forget about it, I start to head off toward the station. Suddenly, I hear Roxas cry out.
"Whoa!" I turn back around. Roxas is now on the ground. Did he trip? I notice a small stick suddenly hit the ground. All of a sudden, something grabs my arm. Someone in a black cloak… like this morning! He grabs Roxas arm and lifts him up as well. I can now see that he's much taller than Roxas and I.
"Can you feel them?"
He lets go of our arms. What was that all about?
"Roxas! Zaxke! Three minutes!" Hayner shouts. Oh right, the train.
"Okay!"
"Be right there!" We turn back around to look at the hooded figure, but no one is there anymore. What in the world? Why is all this weird stuff happening.
"Guys, hurry up!" We run over
To the station where Hayner is already buying the tickets.
"Five students!"
"Roxas, the money!" Pence says.
"Wait-" Roxas starts to check his pockets, searching for the money pouch. For some reason, it doesn't look like he's going to find it.
"No!" He doesn't have it? Wait a minute... At the same time, we look out toward the Plaza. The guy in the black cloak…
"He took it!" We shout at the same time. That jerk! We worked hard for that munny!
We start to run outside, but Olette stops us. "Where are you going?"
"Remember when I fell?" Roxas explains. "I had the money before that. I bet that guy took it!"
Hayner looks just as confused as Olette. "Guy?"
"He couldn't have gotten too far..." I say.
"What are you talking about?" Hayner asks. "There was no guy."
The train station bell rings loudly.
What are they talking about. They didn't see him? "Huh? But he... There wasn't... Really?"
The train whistle suddenly blows. Oh man, we missed the train! But still...
Pence groans. "Oh boy..."
"There wasn't anyone...there?" Roxas repeats. I'm just as lost as he is. I know I saw someone grab us! Right?
About half an hour later, we're at the top of the clock tower, eating Sea-Salt ice-cream. The sunset looks even more beautiful up here. I can see the train we were going to take in the distance.
It's our favorite place to hang out at the end of the day. Being so high up feels awesome. But today, I can't really enjoy it. I'm still stuck on the munny incident. I couldn't have just hallucinated it, right?
"It's melting." Olette warns. She shakes me from my thoughts. Oh right, the ice cream.
"Sorry." Roxas says again. Well, no hallucination could take our munny! That much, I know!
"Cheer up already!" Hayner says.
"That was definitely weird, though," I murmur.
"Strange," Olette agrees
"You said it."
I think back to what the hooded person had said. "Can you feel them?"
Restoration at 28%.
The hooded figure stood in the corner, juggling the munny pouch he had indeed stolen hours before. DiZ glared at the computer screen in front of him. This was going too slowly. "Naminé, hurry,"
"Is it really that hard to make a beach?"
"We'd be giving the enemy another entry point."
The man stopped bouncing the pouch in his hand and held it out. "And this?"
"We can always buy some Sea-Salt Ice Cream." Diz laughed at his own joke, but quickly regained seriousness. "Objects from that town must be kept out of the real world. You can delete that."
Twilit: So, maybe there wasn't any real action there, but day three should be great!
Zaxke: What are you going to do to me?
Twilit: Hehe.