Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, but Alma and its people are mine. Mine.
No has mentioned my Fifi joke. Wahh!! Please send in a review about it. I'm sort of proud of it...But someone noticed the drunken man joke. Me so happy! Utter bliss But more reviews please!! Not just a few... FYI Riku's scream in the first part was way more impressive before. The text size was bigger...meanies.
Chapter Two
Drowsily, Riku got up. The act of sitting up caused his head to reel. He collapsed back onto his back. Blearily, Riku looked up at the ceiling, trying to focus his eyes. His head was pounding like he had been drinking last night, and had gotten the mother of all hangovers while at it. His body felt...different somehow, but he couldn't quite understand how. The body doesn't change over night last Riku checked. Finally, with much effort and groaning, Riku managed to sit up. He looked around and spotted his clothing near the bed, on a chair that was placed close to the bed. They weren't his original clothing, of course, but by now Riku considered the girl clothing his, having wore it a long time by now. As he was reaching for the clothes, he noticed something different. He double taked on what he saw. He bounced up and down, and, finally mustering the courage, touched it. It was real. Then he did what any normal human being would do. He screamed. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" I'm sure everyone in the worlds looked up and wondered 'What was that?' to themselves.
Riku was thinking along the same lines, but it was more like 'WTF!' than otherwise. At this point, Ses, Sa, and Tek decided to walk in, very calmly. "What is going on!!!" Riku screamed, a little softer this time. For he had noticed that he had acquired certain female...organs. (B-R-E-A-S-T-S) They weren't that big...but still. Ses moved the clothing off the chair and onto the bed, by Riku's feet. "Its about time this happened." Tek said, dragging over two other chairs, one for her and one for Sa. "What do mean its about time!!!!" Riku screeched. "Calm down Riku. We will explain it all in due time." Sa said, sitting down. (But Riku didn't calm down, and the conversation originally was two pages long no matter what I did, so I just deleted it and replaced it with the below paragraph that boils down the conversation into the important bits)
Basically, the reason the people of Alma didn't consider children male or female was because Alma took a certain approach to gays and lesbians. If you preferred people of the same sex, you would be changed into the opposite sex. It was apparently a painful experience, which is why it happened at night and the experience was wiped from your memory. So when Riku first came here, Alma began working on turning him into a her. It takes some time for it to get to the point of the transformation process. Riku had the...things in him when Fifi had first encountered him, so she saw him as a her. When the transformation happened you kept your original organ, but during the ceremony the Alma's Eye will cast a spell that will take care of that. People don't like being confused.
"So this is natural?!!!" Riku shrieked, clearly not keeping his...I mean her cool.(damn it. This is not going to be easy...) "No. It is Alma's way." Ses said calmly. "Screw her." Riku said, defiantly not pleased. "Don't say such things," Tek said, running her fingers down the sides of her chair. "You might just make her angry." Riku blinked. "You mean she's real?" He...She said, confused. "Yes." sighed Sa. "You would think your transformation would have proved it to you." " I have got to be hallucinating things." Riku said, pinching herself. That didn't improve matters, but it was worth a shot. "No. This is real. And you have a lot of adjusting to do." Ses said, clearly taking charge.
And Riku did have a lot of adjusting to do. There was new clothes for starters. They itched terribly. (trust me, I am a girl after all) And it really was annoying. She had to learn how to fight basically all over again. There were counter weights involved. (If you guys want a more detailed version, tell me and I happily will send you one.) And, worse of all, there was the bleeding. Bleeding from a certain area.(if you don't know what it is, why are you here?) The first time this happened, Riku had screamed at the top of his lungs. Neither he nor Sora were there for that talk at school. Ses and Tek had explained it to her, but, it really was bothering her. It bloody hurt!
But slowly, Riku began to almost get use to it. Almost. There was something bothering him, no her. Six days after the transformation, he walked up to Sa and asked her a question. "Sa, why did I transform? I don't believe I'm gay." Sa looks down at her and smiles. "Tell me, who do you love?" Riku grinned in relief, she knew this answer well. "Oh, that's easy, its Ka-." She trailed off as something struck her. She didn't love Kairi like that anymore. It was more brotherly or sisterly like now. So who did she really love? The only one she liked spending time with other than Kairi was...Riku's face went very pale as she realized something. She had been gay. But now, thanks to Alma, she was straight. But back then admitting her love would just make it fall apart for them. Even now it would just ruin things. So she had kept quiet and hid it from the world...even from herself. But Alma had seen through the facade...and there was no hiding now. For the one she loves is...
Sora
"See. Alma is always right." Sa said gently, recognizing from Riku's face she had realized something. Riku slowly backed away, than ran away. She couldn't stand there anymore. She didn't want to think about it anymore. But it crept into her mind and it would be awhile before she was ready to face the universe. But while she would face the universe, she wasn't so sure about Sora.
Riku sat on an outcropping of rock, staring at the setting sun. It was so beautiful...just like Sora was to her. She smiled wistfully. Sora was so naïve. When she had gone... bad, Sora had retained the hope that she (well he back then, and still like that for Sora) would come back. He had been so worried. When Riku had first reappeared to Sora, Sora had stuck his fingers in her mouth. He was wondering if he was hallucinating about Riku now. Sora started looking for Riku and the King after they closed the Door to Darkness for good. Riku had helped them by closing it from the other side. She (he then) had told Sora then to 'Take care of Kairi'. When Sora had gone to sleep and they were having trouble bringing his memories back, when Riku had found out that capturing Roxas would help Sora, Riku had immediately set out. And got beaten up. So Riku tapped into the darkness she had trapped inside herself and had become Xehanort's Heartless. But then he had hidden himself from the rest of them. He had only let the King find out because he wanted to help Sora get rid of Organization XIII and maybe figure out what had happened. But he really didn't want Sora to find out what had happened to him. He really had been...ashamed about what he had become. Back then, Riku admitting that he was in love with Sora...he would never have done it. But she could do it. But she won't. It would ruin it for both Kairi and Sora. Better for it to never come out. Better for Riku to remain in hiding. Less pain for Sora. But a lot for Riku. But she can live with it. She always has.
A tear drops onto her hand. Riku blinks, then rubs at her eyes. "Wh...Why...Why am I crying? There's nothing to be sad about." She sniffed out, trying to dry her eyes. "There has to be, otherwise you wouldn't be crying now, would you?" Riku quickly turns around to face Ses, trying to dry her eyes. But the tears kept coming, so Riku turned around, trying to hid her face. Softly, Ses handed her a handkerchief. Sniffing, Riku took it and stared at it for a moment. Then the dam burst. Riku wailed in anguish. Ses calmly held Riku close until she was done. "You should never hold things in like that." Ses said when Riku was done. "It just makes it hurt a lot." Riku nodded mutely. She didn't feel like saying anything right now.
"You know...I was once like you." Riku blinked and looked up at Ses. "I...had been born a boy. I didn't quite believe it was true at first. After a bit though...I realized that I was in love with a boy I had known for as long as I could remember. I never...got together with him, or admitted it to him. I knew he was in love with someone else, and I didn't want to get in the way." Riku looked at her, knowing that she had gone through the same thing that Riku was going through now. "Then what?" Ses smiled. "I fell in love with someone else, got married, and had a child. But the birth was difficult and it would kill me to have another child, so I can't have another. That's why I'm going to be acting as your mother for the ceremony. That way, I can do it. I was supposed to do it for my child, but..." "Your child died." Riku said softly, knowing that wasn't quite true. Ses nodded sadly. "Yes...and Alma doesn't like things unfinished. So, I will finish it, with you." Riku looked up into the sky. Ses looked at her. "You can tell me the boy's name...but you don't have to. I never told anyone." Riku looked at her, and almost didn't tell her. But...she felt as if she should...like she owed her something. "Sora." Ses blinked, confused. "His name is Sora." Ses smiled. "Thank you."
Sora was currently upset. He didn't really understand why Riku had left. He also didn't understand where that argument had come from. It had been so...spontaneous. He looked up at the night sky. Riku was somewhere out there. But...he didn't know where. "Sora?" Sora blinked and turned to look around at Kairi. She also looked worried. "Kairi...do you think we should go get Riku?" he asked. Kairi smiled. "Well...it has been almost a month now...so yeah. I think he's had enough alone time."
Actually...Riku could live without seeing them again...
Riku looked around. The Alma's Eye had taken him aside during the ceremony. It was time to get rid of a certain confused organ...
Alma's Eye began the incantation...and Riku collapsed. Ses rushed over and looked Riku over...but couldn't touch her until the ritual was over. The Alma's Eye looked worried too, but kept going with the ritual. It took all his power not to lose it when the darkness started coming from Riku. He had heard about it from Ses...but he could feel the evil in it, unlike Ses. And so, in his mind, he prayed to Alma. And got an answer. Light enveloped Riku in a tight cocoon, fighting back the darkness. He poured his heart into the ritual and was, finally, able to finish it.
Riku slowly opened her eyes and blinked drowsily. She looked up at Ses. Ses smiled and whispered something in her ear. And Riku's eyes widened. So that was her true name... And it did fit.
Well...so far so good. Please review or...you won't get any cookies! Make me happy and I will review your stories as well, how does that sound? Or look at what you have...I do that myself all the time. I get curious about my reviewers.
