Another boring and long day at Destiny Islands Community High had finally finished. The Kingdom Hearts trio had decided it was time for some fun down on the island. The summer breeze was gently blowing that it was just about noticeable and the sun was shining like always. Riku, of course wanted to race Sora and Kairi ended up giggling after them. 'They never get tired of it do they?' Kairi silently laughed in her mind. Kairi closed her eyes for a brief few moments and before she knew it she ended up smacking against Sora, she yelped and staggered back.

"Ah, I'm sorry Kairi!" Sora cried and snapped out the trance he was in and held onto her, stopping her staggering.

Kairi blushed at the contact then composed herself, shaking her head with a reassuring smile to Sora. "Why did you two stop…?" Kairi trailed off when looked up and could see Riku slowly carefully pacing towards whatever the boys were staring at. She wasn't sure what it was at first but then she realised what or should she say who they were shocked by. There were two bodies lying right by the water, the waves slowly caressing their legs on occasions as it splashed up against the sand. Kairi took a few steps forward as Riku walked around the two girls, narrowing his eyes. She saw one girl spread out somehow gracefully on the sand, she was only a child, probably around the age of 8 to 10, she looked so peaceful. Her skin slightly pale yet tanned at the same time, her hair Bistre brown and put up, she had a tiara made up of violet coloured roses. Her dress was that of a ballerina, the top part was a dark purple, strapless and beautiful sequins that were made into a pattern. The tutu part was a very pale purple and sparkled, her ballet pumps slightly darker than her tutu. She looked like an adorable angel. The other girl next to her was also gracefully spreading out; she looked more like a teenager around the age of 14 or 15. Her hair was put up into two tight buns and had a special silver crown that wrapped around her buns, her hair was seal brown (dark like the girl with her) she has a pure white halter neck dress on that was long, and had various blue small rose buds dotted about on the dress, she had matching white ballet tights and a creamy coloured pair of ballet shoes on, the ribbons wrapping round her ankles like a present. She looked so young and vulnerable and like the younger girl, she was like an angel.

Riku bent down near the older teenager, his eyes still narrowing slightly. He reached out his unbandaged hand and slowly stroked her cheek with the back of his hand; she was only the tiniest bit warm, he gasped slightly and picked her up bridal style, making Sora and Kairi gasp too, Riku said nothing and hurriedly moved her away from the water and then doing the same with the younger girl.

"Riku…are they still alive?" Sora asked with slight shock.

Riku nodded. "I think so; they're still warm, but only just."

Kairi spoke worriedly, "Those poor girls. They must've been here all night, why didn't they get to somewhere warm?"

"Maybe they were asleep for the whole night?" Sora went over to join his older friend and looked down on them. "They look like ballerinas…" Sora reached out and hovered his fingers slightly over the purple tutu of the younger girl and then recoiled quickly. "Maybe we could try waking them up."

On cue, the older girl let out a small groan, her petite fingers curling slightly. She shivered and then let out a weak cough. "Gi…selle…" She croaked, her steel air force blue eyes opened slowly. "Hello?" She muttered.

"Hey there." Sora said softly, tilting his head to the side. "Take your time getting up, you look a little weak."

The girl slowly lifted herself up so she was leaning on her elbow, looking around and adjusting to the new light. "Am I dreaming?" She winced and sat up straight.

"No you're not I'm afraid." Kairi moved a bit closer but stayed back just a bit, not wanting to invade the girl's space when she was clearly confused. "You don't need to be afraid, we can help you."

The girl finally had woken up and realised that this was real; she could feel the warm sun heating her pale skin, she gasped involuntarily. "Oh, no!" She looked round quickly and set eyes on the younger girl. "Giselle!" She crawled over to her and held her head gently in her lap, stroking her hair. "Oh Giselle, can you hear me sweetheart?" The girl continued to soothingly rub her head. "Come on now sis, you have to wake up, we mustn't sleep too long!"

"You're sisters?" Riku asked, wanting to be involved somehow.

The girl didn't move her hand away from her sister but she had the courtesy to look up at Riku and she was entranced by what she saw, his beautiful aqua eyes and masculine physique, he looked beautiful to her. She blushed. The girl had to shake away the thoughts going around in her head; she needed to focus and moved back slightly in with slight fear. "Yes we are and both ballerinas of course." The girl smiled fondly then her face fell. "Did you do this to us?"

"What? Bring you here? No." Riku shook his head, narrowing his eyes once more. "We're just as shocked as you are. It's been a while since Destiny Island had…visitors."

The girl's eyes widened slightly. "Destiny Island? Oh Gosh, I've never heard of it, we must be so far away!" Her voice had risen in a high pitched panicky tone. "Both me and Giselle are from somewhere called Lunar Island." The girl was surprised at how calm she was being, she wasn't screaming or crying or despairing like most girls would, but she realised it's because she was too entranced by her surroundings. An image flashed in her mind, making her gasp. It was her lovely Island, becoming completely blown up, the beautiful culture, the people, the ballet and most importantly the people she loved have been lost. Tears filled up in her eyes as it played over and over in her head and hugged her sister tightly, gently learning over her and crying.

"Hey now, don't cry. You'll be fine, both of you." Sora dared not touch her in case it was a gross invasion of her space but tried to sound encouraging as he usually did. "Destiny Islands isn't that bad, you can stay out until we work out how to get you home."

Kairi put a hand on Sora's shoulder to stop him rambling, understanding the girl may need time. "What's your name?" Kairi whispered to the crying girl soothingly.

The girl didn't look up this time and only sniffled quietly. "Alexis."

"And Giselle is your sister? Wow, they're such lovely names, I'm Kairi. And these two are Sora and Riku, they're my best friends."

Alexis looked up this time and looked directly at Kairi. "I bet I look like such a mess right now."

"Don't worry about that." Riku said calmly, "Are you crying because you don't know how to get home?"

"I remember…there is no home now." Alexis sniffled sadly. "We lost our home. The last I saw was it being engulfed by the darkness, pure black and scary darkness." Alexis cried a little more. "I nearly lost my little sister."

Riku sighed sadly, closing his eyes and opening them again, observing them as Kairi tried to reassure her. "That's so sad."

Sora looked quickly to Riku then at Alexis. "Don't worry. We'll try and help; it's what we're good at!"

Riku rolled his eyes at the younger teen and then gasped slightly along with the rest as Giselle started to stir in Alexis' lap. "Mummy?"

Alexis let out a shaky sigh of relief. "Oh Giselle, Mummy's not here. It's me though, Alexis. We're together." She whispered with joy.

Giselle slowly woke up, her Cornflower blue eyes fluttering slowly. "I need to stretch…" She muttered and then her eyes fully opened. "Oh no don't tell me I fainted before my exam?!"

Alexis giggled. "Sweetheart you don't need to worry about that anymore. There's…not going to be one." Alexis' voice went sad and she sat her younger sister up.

That moment, Giselle realised where she was and saw Riku infront of her and she screamed. "Ahhhh who are you?!"

Riku blinked in surprise. "There's no need to shout."

Alexis put an arm around her younger sister. "Giselle calm down please! Don't you remember? Our home disappeared. We've washed up here."

Giselle whimpered and looked at her sister and then Sora and Kairi who were smiling awkwardly. "I…oh yes, course I do..." She crawled into Alexis' lap and held her neck tightly, crying softly.

"I'm with what Sora said." Alexis turned to Riku's voice. "We should try and help you."

Alexis blushed and peeked up at him through her eyelashes. "You'd do that for us?" She asked in quiet astonishment.

Riku smiled warmly at her blush. "It's what we do, we may even be able to bring your world back, but we can't promise you anything."

"I think that's a bit impossible, but thank you."

Riku side smirked. "Impossible? You haven't seen what we could do yet." He coughed, trying to be more serious. "Don't worry."

Alexis let out a small diamond like tear roll from her eye. "Oh Riku…Riku…Riku…wake up."

"What?!" Riku shook his head in confusion.

~x~

"Riku come on wake up! We have let you sleep for long enough!" Giselle was roughly shaking Riku awake, since just shouting wasn't working on him.

Riku let out a long irritated growl. "Stop it!"

Giselle started to ramble on bossily. "Your Mum says you've been in bed too long, me and Alexis have already been to ballet practice this morning and we want to go fishing with you and your Uncle!"

Riku finally managed to push Giselle away and with a groan sat up, his eyes only staying half awake. "Since when did you like fishing?" He grumbled.

"I don't smarty pants." Giselle popped her tongue out. "But I like your Uncle, he makes me laugh and we always share some good sweets, so up, I won't ask again!"

"Good so maybe I can sleep more huh?" Riku grinned cheekily and collapsed back down onto bed, his eyes closing again.

However, Giselle wasn't having any of it; she bonked him on his head, creating a loud thud. "Giselle!" Riku cried out with annoyance.

Giselle giggled. "And you always call Sora lazy bum, look at you, we'll wait for you downstairs, if you're not down in the next few minutes I will bonk you on your head again!" Giselle curtsied with a giggled then ran downstairs.

"Damn that little girl sometimes." Riku moaned, not wanting to disappoint anyone, he started to get ready.

~x~

Riku came down as quick as he could, fully dressed and washed. He missed the last step and jumped, heading straight to the kitchen. He saw Alexis sitting at the breakfast table, eating an apple. He had never seen her eat anything unhealthy, well he had but they were even smaller than a child's portion, she truly had the body of a ballerina.

"Good Morning Riku." Alexis showed her dazzling smile, God she's breathing taking. Riku let out a cough and composed himself, why would he think that? "Morning."

"Nice sleep?" She asked teasingly.

"You're just as bad as your sister." Riku headed over to the fridge.

Alexis faked gasped, feigning innocence. "Me? I'm as bad as Giselle? How dare you!" She giggled.

Riku smiled and ended up chuckling too. He brought out some orange juice and looked up at her, his smile grew wider. "So fishing huh? Since when did you like fishing?"

"I don't but it'll be fun with Giselle and you, oh and your Uncle of course! I can mess around and distract you instead of fishing."

"Distract me?" Oh you don't even realise how much you do just by smiling Alexis. "How, exactly?"

Alexis blushed at Riku's sexy seductive tone. "Oh I'm sure I'll find a way." Her voice lowering down to a mere whisper. "You're doing a good job from distracting me from my apple right now." Her voice switched to stern.

Riku sauntered over to her, a playful smirk on his lips as he gazed at her. Alexis' mouth dropped slightly and she blushed some more, he looked so irresistible, what was he planning? "Riku..."

He paused infront of her, his bright eyes searching her gentle ones, his smirk grew wider and he slowly lifted his fingers and tucked some of the hair that escaped its tie behind her ear, massaging for a moment he felt her shiver and then rapidly he snatched the half eaten apple out of Alexis' hand and backed away.

Alexis blinked, the power of speech failing her as she felt the stab of disappointment that he didn't do more, why was she disappointed though? She shook her head to shake away the invading thought and her voice returned. "Rikuuu~!" She whined.

Riku laughed at her whining, she's like another Sora. He raised his arm higher in the air when she tried to snatch it back. Alexis was tall but not tall enough to reach Riku's apple. "Come on, use your little ballet leaps or something!"

"Riku please give it back I'm hungry! I didn't have breakfast!" Alexis was spinning round him as Riku spun round, wanting to get up on her ballet shoes to make her taller.

Riku's face fell and he grabbed her wrist gently before she could reach the apple. "You didn't eat?"

Alexis gasped slightly and blushed, he was scolding her. Riku had never scolded her before. Why? Is it just because she had no breakfast? Hadn't he noticed that she doesn't have breakfast on a daily basis? She looked into his eyes and she was somehow attracted to himand not scared at all. "Riku I slept in and I wasn't hungry until after training anyways."

"No one wants you to get ill Alexis, please; you need to eat more than this." Riku scolded her lightly and let go of her wrist, handing her the apple.

Alexis tried to jokingly be stern with him but it ended up being harsher than she wanted. "Okay then, so don't steal my food please!"

Riku blinked and took a step back. "Alright then…" He sounded hesitant.

Alexis went shy again and looked down, anywhere but his face. "I'm sorry…I don't like being told what to eat."

"It's only because I don't want you to be ill." Riku lifted her chin with his finger and grinned indulgently at her lovely red blush.

"I've not been ill yet so I think I'll be fine. Besides, it's an apple." She took a bite. "It's healthy!"

Riku chuckled and leant forward, whispering softly near her ear. "Thank you." Then he walked away to make himself some breakfast.

Alexis shivered as he whispered, her mouth open slightly in shock, her blue eyes going large. She turned round and could see Riku was busy making food; she wanted to ask what he was thanking her for but her mouth had gone dry as her mind went crazy with all sorts of thoughts. She walked away slowly then ran up the stairs, ignoring Giselle as she tried to speak to her.