*I do not own any of the Kingdom Hearts characters, I only own Aeris Heart, Nico Heart, Katie Heart...and a whole lot of others but you haven't met them yet. Spoilers, ya know?
"What do you mean, "Mom's not here"?!" Aeris yelled.
Nico motioned wildly at the doorway. "See for yourself!"
Aeris went into the room and saw that the sheets were disturbed, like their mother left in a hurry. She couldn't see their mother's nightclothes anywhere, not even in the hamper. So she left in a giant hurry. What would make her leave so quick? "Okay…maybe…she's in the bathroom?"
Nico shook his head. "Our bathroom and the master bathroom doors are opened and the lights are off. I'm telling you, she's not here!"
"Why would she leave the house in nothing but her nightclothes?"
"Maybe she didn't have her nightclothes on yet…" Nico pointed at him then at Aeris. "We're not in ours."
Aeris nodded in understanding. They were. Aeris was still in her bright clothes, and Nico was still in his dark clothes. "That may be…okay, then let's stay calm and look everywhere…okay? I think this storm is making you paranoid and jittery."
"I'm telling you…it's like I'm sensing that something is wrong…" Nico went around the house, Aeris behind him. He stopped and sighed heavily. "Yeah…she's not in the house…her shoes aren't by the door anymore."
"Then maybe it was a last minute call."
"She would have told us," Aeris told him. She crossed her arms, why was her brother acting so weird? In all their fourteen, almost fifteen, years of life, she has never seen him act like this before. She noticed something else. "You stopped jumping at the thunder."
Nico looked at her. "What?" He shook his head hard. "My phobia of storms doesn't matter right now. Mom isn't home! We need to—" His head shot up and he stared at the front door and burst through it and outside.
"Nico!" Aeris ran after him. "Where are you going?! Get your butt back here!" Aeris noticed that there was no rain. Only thunder and lightning. The sky was dark and the storm clouds were churning madly. There was even a green hue to the sky. The wind was blowing what felt like fifty miles an hour. Aeris looked far to the horizon, towards the small, remote island and her eyes widened. Above the island seemed to be the center of the storm. The clouds above the island were swirling, not like the clouds above Aeris' head. It was like it was been stirred…erratically. It was getting struck by lightning. "Nico…Nico! Nico, come back!" He was running to the docks. "Nic—" Aeris groaned loudly and ran after her brother.
She thought since she had longer legs than him, Aeris is 5'4''….Nico is only five feet tall, she would to be able to catch up to him quickly. She thought wrong. Nico was dashing his way to the boats, at top speed. Since when did Nico get so quick? The wind was blowing against them so there was no way he should be running like there was no wind at all. Her eyes widened to see that her brother was attempting to get a boat from the rocking dock. The waves were white capped; the ocean was so dark it looked black. And it crashed against the shore, spraying sea-water on the beach houses. He could barely stand on the dock, it was being shaked by the water so much.
Aeris finally caught up with him. He managed to get the boat untied and was about to step into the boat. She grabbed him by the shoulder. "Where do you think you're going?!"
"Look at the dock, Aeris!" Nico shouted over the raging sea and wind. He flinched a little at the thunder. He pointed on the other side of the dock. The boat on that side was gone. "Mom and Dad's boat is gone. And do you know where it is?" He pointed at the small island. "I can see it over there! And it looks like it's tied up to the dock! Mom's on the island! I can feel it! And I can also feel that something isn't right! And it's coming from that island!"
"So you're going over there?! Are you insane?! The storm is coming from there! It'll be worse there than here!"
"Look, I know that dream you had rattled you up a bit but Mom is on that island during a storm and I want to why! And you're not stopping me, Aeris." Nico got into the boat. As he grabbed the shift, he yelled over his shoulder, "You got fifteen seconds to decide if you're coming with or not. Starting now."
Aeris stared at him then shook her head hard before slowly getting into the boat. "This is insane…"
"We've done worse," Nico reminded her. "Hang on, it'll be bumpy." He sped to the island.
They almost tipped the boat. Twice. The waters were alive and angry. Waves crashed over them as they made their journey to the island. The twins finally made it to the island after a ten minute ride. Nico helped his sister get out of the boat, who was shaking like a leaf and completely soaked, like him. "You okay?"
Aeris nodded. "I'm fine…" She looked up and gasped. On the tiny island near the shore…there was a person standing there. She flashed back to her dream, it was the exact same. Her ponytail was whipping the back of her neck, the waves were tall and the storm turned furious. Lightning started to strike the sea. Her heart started to race. "This isn't…happening…" she whispered.
Nico saw the person too. He gasped. "Aeris, come on!" He grabbed her wrist and drug her to the shack and onto the bridge that connected the two islands. They stopped in the center of bridge. He yelled over the winds, "Mom? Mom! What are you doing out here?" Their mother didn't turn around. "Mom?" They started to get closer to her. "Mom, it's us! Can you hear me?" He suddenly stopped in his tracks.
"What?" Aeris asked him
Nico looked like he saw a ghost.
"What?!"
Nico slowly looked over to his sister, his pupils shrunken with fear. "Th-the thing I'm sensing…i-it's coming from…" He shakily pointed at their mother. "…M-Mom…"
"What are you…sensing?" Aeris questioned.
"Something…bad…"
Their mother slowly turned to them. Her cheeks and the whites of her eyes were tinted red…she had been crying. Her right sleeve had been ripped off. Aeris gasped to see that what she saw earlier in the day was an "x"…but now, it had little black marks surrounding it and the small black marks were growing up her arm…they were swaying like tiny flames. The black scar was bleeding aggressively, her hand stained red. Her shoulders were jerking up and down, showing that she was still crying. And she was shaking.
Nico was lost for words, not knowing what to say or do seeing the shape his mother was in. It was like something he would see in a horror movie. "M-Mom…?"
Their mother stared at them for a long time before whispering, "I'm sorry…" she suddenly curled in on herself, making agonized groans and hisses. Her shaking increased. The blood forming from her scar dripped onto the ground and the ground burst into dark flames. They slowly grew around her and a star formed under her feet. She sunk to her knees, hugging herself. She yanked her head up and screamed at the twins, "Go! Go, now! Go—!" It was swallowed by a scream. Her body convulsed painfully and she screamed at every convulsion. Her eyes snapped open and they shrank in fear. The twins slowly started to back away when her blue irises started to turn gold from the pupil. Suddenly, her body was lifted off the ground like a bullet and her arms opened wide. Her hair was floating on its own and she levitated three feet from the ground. An ear shattering hyper scream escaped from her widened mouth and the flames shot up and crawled up her body. It turned into streams of black and it started to cover her body until it was nothing but a solid black figure. It seemed to bubble. Darkness grew around her and the pentagram that formed under her started to expand. Slowly, out of their own little mini pentagrams, grew blobs of melting darkness until they fully stood up and formed into figures. The darkness suddenly burst with a red tint.
The twins yelped when they were knocked off of their feet. They scrambled up to their feet. "You okay?!" Aeris asked Nico, who looked like he was having a seizure.
He grabbed Aeris and held her tightly. "My head…agh…my…head…" He then pointed at the island. "It's coming from there…"
Aeris looked up and gulped. Standing before them were thirteen people in black cloaks. Just like the ones in her dream. In the center, where their mother was, was a woman who looked just like their mother except with darker tone of skin, her eyes were gold, and her hair was silver. She grinned wickedly. The group around her had their hoods up. Except for one…
He was an old man, slouching forward. He was bald with pointy ears, all his hair was his silver goatee. He had piercing gold eyes just like the woman and the same skin color. He smiled just as wicked at the twins, "This is the new generation of Wielders? You look like you wouldn't be able to harm a fly…"
Nico growled at him.
Aeris stared at her bother. What was that for?
The old man raised an eyebrow at the growl then his smirk grew wider. "Oh…I see…you have the Sense…that must have been your mother's doing…" his eyes shifted over to Aeris. "And you have the Sense as well…but it's not the same…isn't it?"
"What are you talking about?" Aeris inquired. "Who are you?!"
"You will find out soon enough…" the old man looked at one of the cloaked figures and pointed at the twins. "Take them."
