"OH MY GOD!"
"M-mom?.. It can't be... This is all a nightmare..."
"NO! ROXAS, BEHIND YOU!"
Muffled screams.
"DOC, PATIENT 401 HAS BEEN INJURED, A BROKEN ARM AND LEG AND THERE SEEMS TO BE BLOOD LOSS POSSIBLE FROM THE MAIN ARTERY STRUCK BY A KNIFE, REPORTING TO A BLOOD TRANSFER AND CPR, THE PATIENT IS NOT BREATHING!"
"IMMEDIATELY TRANSPORTING PATIENT TO THE ER ROOM, SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN UNCONSCIOUS! FOR AT LEAST 5 HOURS, DOC!"
"INSANE goddammit, she has then BEEN dead, blood transfer from her vein if she has been flat for 5 bloody hours is impossible!"
"Doc... Another patient came in.. A young, unconscious teenage boy, he's identified to be the son of Melody Strife, older brother of Kairiana Linda Strife, who's currently in hiding of the house and claims him to be Roxas Strife, under investigation of conscience! Anyway, he's also the twin brother of-"
"Cloud Strife... Leave me to the boy."
2 hours later, ER room, Destiny Hospital
"Mmph..."
"Ugh.."
"KAIRI!" Roxas sat upright in his hospital bed, still in his school clothes and tired... Where was everyone?... Where was he?... Ever since he saw his...
"Mom..."
He was attacked. He remembered Kairi's voice as they walked home. The blood... The fear.. The last thing he even saw was not a man... It was a shadow...
He heard a knock on the door. Roxas hesitated after wiping away a tear of sadness and fear, and muttered "Come in.."
In came his little sister, who closed the door and ran at him, throwing her arms around him in relief. Roxas hugged her back too, and whispered to her as she dug herself into his shoulder "everything will be okay, I promise... I won't let anyone hurt you..."
"Roxas... Mom's dead... She's bled out... The killer ran away... or.. disappeared..."
Roxas's eyes widened as he realized the ugly truth... The mere little sentence from his frightened sister...
His mother died. His beautiful, perfectly innocent problem free mother who deserved nothing wrong in her life..
Had died.
Roxas felt something trickle from his eyes when he blinked.
How little he known, that his eyes had turned a blazing red in anger when he did.
1 day later. Recovery room, Destiny hospital.
River flowed, vast and never ending. Skies were a robin blue. Sun was burning away energy. Roses in their valley bloomed. Roxas was below the tallest, sweet scented grass. Laying under the wind, the boy heard the songs his mother sang him to sleep.
Come and go, water flows, wind will blow, as I bestow.
A beautiful sleep, please do not weep, beautiful baby, fall asleep.
Fall asleep, not forever, it does not do do dwell, but I wish you well, enjoy your land, as I lay down my spell...
Burden cannot erase thy smile, enjoy thy rest for thy time is precious as thy while... while...
Fall asleep...
He wanted to hear that soft yet perfect voice sing to him one more time as he remembered being a little boy, ready for the stars to shine their light on him as he laid back to rest, his mother caressing his soft hair.. It wouldn't hurt to lay there forever. It would in fact heal the pain of the loss of a loved one. Roxas was doing so well... He wanted to live a happy life, move beyond the walls of limitation, explore and still keep sanity on the line. Why couldn't he just.. Stay.. Asleep?..
Roxas, wake up! Wake up! That solution should've worked on him! Roxas, you may be wanting to stay there, but it's only tricking you... Think about what your mother would want best of you before she died! Roxas...
"WAKE UP!"
Roxas bolted upright in his hospital bed once again, still the same time and place, why did he daze off like that? He looked around the place, and caught his sister's soft blue eyes staring at him concerned but relieved. He mumbled "Sorry... I was stuck there... mmph.. What happened?"
"You fell asleep... Your anger struck you out. You got Kairi unconscious there too, you were probably not letting go of her. She fell down to the floor and you fell back into bed clueless. Doc told me it seems," The tough voice of Cloud Strife had filled the room as it spoke to Roxas, shocking him.
"Cloud... You know what happened, right?.." Roxas was certain Cloud would know the awful news...
Cloud nodded his head slowly after a minute of silence. Roxas's eyes turned to Kairi as he wondered why she looked a bit afraid of him, keeping her distance. He quietly said "I'm sorry for that... It was not even something I knew..."
Kairi looked down and whispered softly "It's.. Okay..."
Cloud nodded his head at Roxas in assurance if he himself was okay, and Roxas returned it.
"When you're ready, get your bags and get moving. I have hell of a lot to teach you about what you are."
"What?"