Sorry that it took so long guys. You know, with Christmas being in the way, but I hope you enjoy this. I tweeked this a bit more and I've changed the sword's appearance. You'll find out when you read the chapter. I'm very proud of this and please review and fav!

Theme - "Go! Fighting Action Power" by Area 11

Chapter 2 - The Dream

Wind. That is all Roxas felt at this point. It felt strangely real to be a dream so he had to open his eyes to see what he was seeing. As he opened them, he was met with a bright blue sky with the sun shining bright. Roxas heard the sounds of birds chirping within the trees and strangely enough, he heard the distant sound of waves.

'Am I on the coast somewhere?' To investigate this matter, Roxas got up from where he was lying and looked at what he thought was the edge of a cliff, but as he was about to step on the edge, he was met with a big surprise. 'Wait a moment, if those waves look small here, then... am I really high up?'

Roxas turned around from the cliff and he was met with many trees; it looked like he was on the edge of a forest and from what he's seen so far, his possibilities were that he was on an island, but either high up somewhere or what may have been impossible, but a floating island.

"So yeah, this was when I was confused about what I was dreaming of. You see, normally I dream of what me and my friends normally do, us at the hill, all of us playing games, but this was something I never dreamt about. This was when I wanted to explore more of this 'floating island'".

"This is so strange... where am I exactly?" Instead of looking around from where he was, Roxas decided to walk through the trees and explore. Strangely enough, he had this feeling that there was someplace that he needed to go.

As he was walking, Roxas heard the sound of a waterfall; the sound wasn't powerful, but it was very clear that it was the sound of running water. Roxas knew that if there was water nearby, there might be signs of life; this could be his best opportunity to find out where he is.

Roxas ran to the location of the sound, hoping for any sign of life; as the view of the waterfall became clear from the trees, he saw the waterfall itself from the side of a small cliff, but there wasn't anyone around the area. "I guess it was worth a try..." Roxas sighed, but something caught his eye. He noticed something wrong with his reflection from the waterfall, from what he was seeing, the reflection wasn't human, it looked like some kind of humanoid bird. The humanoid bird was light blue in colour and it had five long feathers that curved from the back of its head with the ends of the long feathers having a blue pattern. The eyes were coloured the same as Roxas', a sunset red and on the side of its eyes were marine blue followed by the same blue colour as the long feather pattern. The humanoid bird had a patch of white on its chest just below the neck and the bird was wearing nothing but the gloves and shoes Roxas was wearing.

Roxas looked at the bird reflection in confusion. 'What kind of creature am I seeing? Is that supposed to be...me?' As he was moving slightly to the left, the reflection was moving slightly to the left as well. This convinced Roxas that the bird reflection was indeed himself, but as some strange bird-like animal. 'What happened to me?' Roxas stopped looking at his reflection and sat on a nearby log, he looked down and thought of what to do next.

'So somehow, I'm dreaming that I'm this humanoid bird on a floating island in the sky and I've got this feeling that I've got to be somewhere on this island... this sure is one strange dream...' Roxas got up from the log and looked at the direction on what he thinks the feeling is coming from. He was right at what direction to go since the feeling was getting closer and as the feeling was getting stronger, he reached a small clearing with a tall rock that was about twice the size of Roxas' 'bird' form, but there was something shining on top of the rock.

Roxas stepped back to see what was shining on top of the rock and from what he was seeing, it looked like a handle to some sort of weapon or key. The handle had a frame shaped like a tombstone and in the middle of the frame was a spongy textured handle connecting the top and bottom of the frame that was coloured orange and mostly white. Roxas couldn't see it, but there was a small emerald green gem quite close to the top surface of the rock. On the corners of the frame were small curved points that looked like it was used for decorations.

Roxas arched a brow in confusion, he couldn't figure out what was up there. Roxas looked around the area to see if there was something he could use to climb the rock and he found a small cluster of rocks to get to the top. It took a while to get to the top as he was being careful not to slip off, as he got to the top of the tall rock, he got a closer look at the handle and saw the small gem and saw a small slot where it looked like the object continued down inside the rock. The feeling Roxas had was the strongest it has ever been and he knew it had something to do with this object he was seeing.

'What is this thing? That feeling is really strong here, so I think this is the right place, but... what am I supposed to do now?' That was when he noticed the hole and it looked like something was attached to the handle. 'Whatever is stuck down that hole must be a part of this handle... do I need to get this out?' Roxas grabbed the inner spongy handle with his right hand and he followed it with his left hand. As he touched the handle with his right hand, he felt a stinging pain from his hand and the pain was gradually spreading throughout his whole body.

'What is this pain?! Is it coming from this sword?' Roxas was unsure on what was happening with this pain, but he knew somehow that the pain would stop if he got the object out of the rock. As Roxas was pulling up the object, he was gradually seeing more of what was attached. It looked like some sort of blade that was blue at first but it was gradually becoming red as Roxas was pulling it and there were also rings attached to the blade. The pain was becoming more unbearable as he was almost about to take the object out, Roxas couldn't see it, but the end of the blade looked like a swirl, but it has curved spikes on the outside of the swirl.

Roxas then felt no more pain coming through his body, he opened his eyes and looked at the object with amazement. Now that he can see the object fully, it looked like some sort of sword.

"So at this point, the feeling was gone and I was glad that the pain was gone, but... this sword, I didn't know who made it, but it must have been powerful enough to give my body so much pain".

After about two minutes, Roxas saw his vision becoming white everywhere he looked. It looked like his dream had ended, not before a voice shouted out, "Wait! Who are you?" But unfortunately, Roxas couldn't hear the voice as his vision turned white and was unconscious.

That took so long! I hope you like this and please review and fav!

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