Disclaimer: Don't own Kingdom Hearts or Titanic
Characters:
Rose Dewitt Bukater – Kairi Dewitt Bukater
Jack Dawson – Sora Dawson
Fabrizo - Roxas Grey (I'm not making him Italian, I just can't do that to him :) )
Cal Hockley – Riku Hockley
Brock Lovett – Cloud Strife
Ruth Dewitt Bukater – Aerith Dewitt Bukater
Granddaughter of Rose – Yuffie Calvert
Spicer Lovejoy - Ansem Lovejoy (Ansem the Wise, not the other one)
Will update as necessary, but anyway, enjoy! :)
The dock was a tsunami of people, hustling and bustling, here and there and everywhere you could think of. Hording loads of suitcases, car horns beeping, family and friends departing for America. Titanic was packed! People waving their hats in the air, crying tears of joy and sadness, screaming at the top of their lungs just to say, "Farewell!" or "Until next we meet." Busy, busy, busy it was.
Honk! Honk!
A car made it's way through the waves of people and then stopped abruptly. The chauffeur opened his door and made his way over to the passengers. He opened the silver-black door and took the ivory gloved hand of a young lady. She gracefully stepped out of the car and lifted her head to gaze at the wonderful Titanic. A beautiful red head she was, with creamy skin, rose-colored lips that matched her hair, a petite nose, ears pierced and adorned with gold 18 karat earrings. Just one look at her and you're blown away. A fairly looking man steps out of the car to assist a graceful, fairly aged woman. She took his hand and swiftly exited the car. Her eyes were gleaming in awe as she looked up at the luxurious ship. Of the last of them, a silver haired man, wearing a 100 watt smile, stepped out of the car and stood by the red haired woman.
"What's the fuss all about anyway?" She had her back turned to him but then she made a swift turn and gave him a bored expression. "I think it's just as big as the Mauritania Riku."
"Stop being so blasé about everything Kairi." Riku said with that grin of his. "This is Titanic." Kairi turned her around so now her back is facing him. "This ship is over 100 feet longer than the Mauritania, and more luxurious to say the least." Kairi was now no longer listening to him.
Riku then went up to the second lady that exited out of the car and quickly muttered something in her ear. "Aerith, your daughter is hard to impress nowadays isn't she?"
Aerith gave a slight laugh at the comment. "She is, isn't she?" She again takes another good look at the ship and says, "The unsinkable ship they say, huh?"
Riku immediately answered back. "Of course it's unsinkable! God himself couldn't sink this ship-" A man interrupted Riku's rambling on Titanic. "What?" he said irritably.
"Sir, you have to check your baggage through the main terminal." The man then pointed west. "It's round that way, sir."
Riku pulls out dangling keys from his pocket and hands the man it. "I trust with my luggage so please see Ansem for me will ya?"
"Yes, sir." Before the man could say anything else, Ansem, the man who assisted Aerith out of the car, rudely grabbed him and dragged over to the luggage.
"Take the luggage to the parlor suite, rooms B-52, 54, 56…"
Kairi waits patiently with her mother but becomes angry when Aerith spoke the next words. "Please behave on this trip. You know the reason right Kairi?"
"…" She looked away and her attention went to a little girl waving happily to the people on board. 'Lucky.' She thought.
"Please behave." She sincerely said to her daughter Kairi.
"Ladies let's hurry!" Riku then leads the way into Titanic.
They walk through the crowd of people anxiously waiting to get on Titanic. Kairi looks around her surroundings and observes the many people. The third-class passengers are on one side to have a health inspection. Men carrying bunches of luggage, and children running around the dock while their parents scold them after they are caught.
"Welcome aboard Titanic!"
An elderly Kairi begins, "This was the Ship of Dreams, to everyone else. To me, it a was slave ship to me, taking me back to America in chains. On the outside, I was a graceful young woman, on the inside, I was screaming for a way out.
The steam whistle blew loudly, announcing in its peculiar way of saying that it's almost time to leave.
Four young men are sitting around a table, betting on two Titanic tickets. A blond man by the name of Luxord gulped down his beer and glared at his friend with a patch over his right eye.
"Sora, you're a freaking idiot! You just bet everything we own man!" Another blond man by the name of Roxas, who was the same age and had messy hair, said to the spiky haired brunette on his right.
Sora took the half-chewed toothpick from his mouth and said to him, "Roxas, you're my cousin, right? We have nothing valuable to give them, all we have is junk." Roxas didn't respond.
"Xigbar, you moron! You just bet our Titanic tickets! I can't believe it." Luxord whispered to the red headed man beside him, who mearly ran a hand through his big spiky hair.
"Chill Luxord, we're gonna win anyways." Xigbar grabbed a couple of cards from the deck and so did the rest of them. This was the moment of truth. Their lives were about to change forever, just because of those two tickets taking them to America.
"Xigbar?" Sora asked as he gave him a mischievous look.
Gibing him a blank look, he set down his cards. "Nothing."
"Roxas?" he said, looking at his cousin.
He gave Sora a pissed-off 'I'm going to kill you if we lose this game.' look as he set down his cards. "Nothing."
"Luxord?" he said, giving the other blond man that mischievous look.
"A two pair!" cried Luxord, slapping down his cards and then crossing his arms, smiling in victory.
Sora glanced down at the cards that he held, and then the cards that Luxord threw on the table, and then put his cards down. They amounted to nothing. "Roxas, I'm sorry." he whispered apologetically.
Roxas's anger was undiminished as he snarled slightly, "Of course we lost, and I'm gonna kill you" he said, before turning to look at Xigbar and Luxord. Suddenly, he smiled deviously, his anger evaporating completely. "After we fight over those tickets, that is" he whispered, grinning.
Xigbar and Luxord were caught off guard at the unexpected remark. "Huh?" they replied in unison.
In one fluid movement, he stood up and punched Luxord hard in the face, sending the blond man unconscious to the ground. But before he could move, Xigbar grabbed him from behind and held quite a grip on him. Roxas struggled, but couldn't get himself free. Sora was also standing up and was looking for something to hit Xigbar over the head with. An unexpected shattering of glass made him snap toward the noise, finding Roxas unhurt, but getting broken glass off himself. Xigbar was out cold on the ground, a few traces of blood on his head, but nothing that looked too serious. What really surprised him was that the red haired man was standing nearby, holding what was left of a broken glass bottle.
Both teens stared at him in shock, while the red haired man mearly tossed the broken piece into the nearby trash. Smiling at them, "Sorry about that, my friends there needed a good punch and crack over the head" he said. Both of them blinked, but before they could respond, the red haired man was speaking again. "Well, I already know your names Sora and Roxas, but you don't know mine. The name's Axel" he said, then his smile got bigger and he tapped a finger on the side of his head. "Got it memorized?"
The two teens finally got out of their shock and smiled, nodding their heads. Then they turned to each other and grinned. "Sweet! We're going to America now!" shouted Roxas, clapping his cousin on the shoulders. "Boys!" called out the owner of the place, drawing their attention. "Titanic" he said, emphasising the word, "leaves for America in five minutes". True to his statement, the clock beside him showed five to noon.
Sora and Roxas stared for a second, then quickly grabbed what was there's, including the tickets the ran out the door. On the way out, Roxas briefly clapped Axel on the shoulder with a "Thanks!", while a chuckle and a "Don't mention it!" followed them out the door. They ran as fast as their legs could take them. In their haste, they kept bumping into people and things, which only slowed them down. "Damn it! This is taking too long!" yelled Roxas as he run behind Sora. "You got a faster way? No? Didn't think so!" Sora shouted over his shoulder, barely hearing a grunt in response.
They both scurried along while Roxas caught ran with Sora. "You're so crazy, but I'm still gonna kill you for losing that game and making me save your ass!" he yelled.
"Less rambling and more running!" Sora shouted over the wave of people. They pushed, ran over, and even cursed at some random people just to get to the entrance. Not that I blame them though because who wouldn't do that when they're trying to get aboard the most famous ship people talked about almost everyday?
"We're practically royal now Roxas! This has got to be the grandest day of our peasant life!"
"I've told you many times man, I was destined to go back home to America to become a millionaire! I told you!" Roxas said with a playful smirk on his face as tiny sweat dropped from his forehead. They both came across a carriage and almost collided if it hadn't been for Sora, who grabbed Roxas by his hair. "OW!"
"Keep moving then and watch where you're going!"
"Alright sheesh!"
They spotted the entrance, well more like stairs, to the ship and Sora made a mad dash to stop the man who was about to take the stairs away. "WAIT, HOLD IT!"
"Sir-"
But Sora ignored him. He reached for his pockets and grabbed the tickets. "I have a ticket!" He raised it up for the man to see. Then Roxas came up with his ticket as well. "And so does my cousin!" The two were gasping for air as they waited for the man to answer.
"Have you been through the inspection queue?"
"Duh! Of course we have! We're Americans anyway so we don't have lice." Sora responded.
"Right, we don't have lice." Roxas added after.
The man looked at them suspiciously and then hesitantly answering, "Come aboard then." Then the two jumped and shoved past him and ran across the hall and to their rooms.
"Sucker." The two spiky haired boys said in unison.
"We are so lucky Roxas! We are soooooooo lucky!"
"We're the luckiest sons a bitches ever!"
The ship's horn blares loudly signaling that it was time to depart for the new world. People were waving, crying, shouting, throwing their hats in the air to say goodbye to their comrades. Every one of their faces was filled with mirth and sadness, the sadness being of their departure.
Just then, two trouble-making young men were running toward the handles of the ship. "Goodbye England! Goodbye everyone! I'll never forget you!" Roxas frantically waved his arms up and down as if her were doing jumping jacks.
"See ya!" Sora shouted with him. Then he held a thoughtful look on his face, "Why are we saying bye anyway?"
"Cuz' we feel like it!"
The propellers began to rotate, clouds of sand being disrupted on the the ocean floor. Yes, it was time to go to America.
Titanic outgrew the other smaller ships on sea. She sailed smoothly across the sea and everything seemed peaceful. The sky a periwinkle color and clouds drifting among peoples' heads. Oh what a beautiful day it was that Titanic chose to sail on today.
"Sora look for a door that says 360." Roxas said as he looked to his left.
"I know okay!" Sora looked to his right and bumped into a lady. "Sorry ma'am."
They both kept looking until he turned 90 degrees to his right. "Here it is Roxas!"
"Great!"
Sora opened the door and randomly grabbed a man's hand. "Hey, how you doing?" Then he greeted the other man. "Doing fine right?" He slapped the man's shoulder in a friendly manner. "I'm Sora and this fool here is my cousin Roxas."
"Hey!"
"I'm Zexion." The short silvered haired man said as he looked at them with distant looks.
"And I'm Marluxia." The pink haired man said, as he held a rose in his hand.
"Nice rose." Roxas said.
"…"
Roxas awaited an answer but Marluxia did not reply. 'Okay…' thought Roxas but then he diverted his attention and made his way over to the top bunk before Sora could reach it. "I get top bunk."
"That's not fair! Who said you get top bunk?"
Roxas just stuck his tongue out. While the two were conversing, well more like punching playfully at each other, Zexion turned to Marluxia and quietly whispered, "Where are Luxord and Xigbar?"
Well, read and review as always :) I'll see about getting the 3rd chapter up when I can :)
