Likah woke up. But she wasn't in the little cozy study anymore. She was on an island. If you were to look at it, Destiny Island would appear in your mind, but this wasn't it. This island's surroundings were pink water, green sky and silver sand. She stood up. She felt fine, except for a little dizziness. Suddenly a little voice spoke up in her head.
"Do you know where you are?" it said.
"Let's get down to business Aura. Why are we here?" Likah said loudly.
Aura appeared in front of her, in her true form. She was wearing a yellow over all dress. Her hair was blonde, in a high ponytail, and her eyes were a cold yellow.
"So, you can see right through that huh?" She laughed.
"Where are we?" Likah asked
"You don't recognize your own home? Gee, that key really did kill your brain cells. This is Calendria you twit." Aura said.
Likah looked around. She scratched her head. She walked into the water and dipped her hand into the ocean. It felt like water.
"Am I really home?" Likah asked herself.
Aura stared at her walking around the beach.
"You could have it all back you know." Aura said interrupting her thoughts.
Likah stopped in her tracks. She thought for a moment wondering what she meant.
"What do you mean by that?" Likah asked her.
Aura smiled evilly.
"It's simple, I'll give back your home, and you can live here freely again." Aura said.
Likah watched her eyes. She knew what was coming.
'What's the catch?" She asked.
"Oh, you're a smarty! Well the catch is that you have to give me your keyblade." Aura said simply.
Likah looked at her.
"No." She said tartly.
"No?" Aura repeated.
"No. Not now. Not ever. If you're going to take this keyblade, it's going to be out of my cold, dead hands." Likah stated.
Aura smiled.
"We'll then that will be today!"
Aura lunged forward with her arms out in front of her. Likah pulled out her keyblade and started hitting Aura. Aura lost her balance and Likah swung her keyblade sideways. Connecting with her face. Blood started pouring out of her ear.
"You'll pay for that, you little brat." Aura said.
She lunged again. Likah jumped over and floated far away.
"Ah, lil' Aurie is a poet and didn't even know it!" Likah smiled.
This made Aura mad. She jumped up into the air and was preparing for some type of magical attack. Suddenly a giant ring appeared in front Of her.
"Sagittarian Rain!" Aura shouted.
Then about a million little ninja spurs started shooting towards Likah. She didn't know what to do. If she jumped, the spurs would follow her. If she used, Aeroga, the spurs would still penetrate the shield. She was going to die right now.
"OMEGA DREAM!" shouted a voice.
Likah looked over and gasped.
"SORA!" Likah shouted.
Sora was running, and with him were Goofy and Donald, A guy in a red robe and a girl in a pink swimsuit and a blue skirt. The man in the red robe had just created a giant dream cloud around Likah. The spurs all fell dead to the ground. They all caught up to where Likah was.
"You okay?" Sora asked Likah.
"Sure. This clown thinks she's going to take my keyblade though." Likah explained.
"Is that so?" The man in the red robe said.
"Not today!" Said the blonde haired girl.
Likah stared at them and looked at Sora
"Who are they?" She asked.
"Oh, this is Sir Auron and Lady Rikku." He said.
But their little gathering would have to continue later on. Because Aura had started attacking again.
Likah jumped into the air and started shooting little starbursts at her but they weren't working.
"Damn! Nothing seems to stop her!" Likah screamed at the others.
Auron pulled out his sword and started hacking at her but the cuts barely seem to cut her. Sora, Goofy and Donald all jumped up in front of Aura and preformed the Trinity attack. But when all the light had settled, Aura was standing there still, with no scratches.
"You'll have to do better than this." She said.
"Rikku! You're up!" Auron yelled to Rikku.
Rikku ran to where the others were.
"Okay guys clear out!" She yelled.
Everyone ran away and hid behind some trees.
"What's she going to do?" Likah asked Auron.
"Watch." Auron said. He nodded towards Rikku.
Rikku did some cute cheerleader flips and swung around. She was dancing. She pulled out a small silver necklace. On the end was a star pendant.
"Holy Star! With powers so clean. And magic so right. Reveal the staff and burn so bright! Release!" she screamed.
Her star grew ten times larger and a pole emerged from it. She swung the staff and the sand around her started to form a small column for her to stand on. It grew up until she was level with Aura.
"If you want the keyblade, you'll have to get past me first!" She yelled.
Aura just stood there in mid-air.
"What are going to do about it?" She asked Rikku.
"This!" She yelled.
She flung forward her staff and about a million cherry blossom petals started to rain around them.
"Holy spirits, guide me!" Rikku whispered.
She pointed her staff and Aura and she yelled.
"I command Saturn, The God of Death, rise before me!" She yelled.
The petals formed into a large, old man carrying a sickle, Saturn.
"Attack!" Rikku screamed
Aura looked at the man in fear. He lunged right through her. He pulled out his sickle and sliced it right through Aura. As soon as she had been cut she knew she didn't have much time.
"Fine you're coming with me!" She yelled, pointing at Sora and Likah.
All of a sudden, Likah and Sora started to float upwards towards. The others tried to grab them but without success. As they floated towards them Rikku grabbed onto Likah's hand. The three of them were suddenly transported somewhere once Aura exploded into about a million bursts of light.
When they came too, they got up in silence. They were still on the island, but the others were all missing. It was just Sora, Likah and Rikku.
"Well it's not much, but it sure feels great to be home again." Likah sighed.
Sora looked at her sad expression. He felt bad, yet he understood what it felt like. He remembered when he was taken to a version of his island, right before he defeated Ansem.
"Do remember anything new about your home?" Sora asked Likah.
She thought for a moment. She looked around. It was quiet, to quiet.
"Yeah, Yuki and Mai were guardians of the Sun and Moon Shrine up on the top of that mountain. Which mean if we go to the shrine, we'll..." She stopped herself from finishing her sentence.
"Do I dare say it?" she asked herself loudly.
"What? Rikku said. "What will we find?"
"We'll find my village!" Likah screamed. "Oh My God! C'mon guys! Let's go!"
She started running. Sora and Rikku quickly caught up to her.
"You remembered Likah! You really remembered!" Sora grinned.
"I did it! Every step I take and more comes back to me." She replied.
"So what did you do here? Who were your friends? Were you important? Any boyfriends?" Rikku asked her.
"Um, oh yeah! My best friends were a girl named Lola and a boy named Skylar. We pretty much hung out. And I was important. I was the elder's niece which made me the Calendrian Lilly Queen!" she yelled excitedly.
"How cute!" Rikku exclaimed.
"Lola and Skylar?" Sora asked to himself.
"Okay Skylar isn't really a friend he's a rival more so, and we don't get along unless- okay we don't really get along it's just that we're the only teenagers on this island and another thing that I don't really want to talk about, and except for Yuki and Mai, but they had devoted their lives to the shire so they weren't allowed other lifestyles."
"Oh." Said Sora, sounding relieved
The three continued running up the mountain. They were making pretty good progress. When they had decided to take a quick rest, they were about two- thirds to the top. When they sat down they all looked at the sky. Something grayish was floating around it.
"What's that?" Rikku asked.
"I don't know smoke?" Sora insisted.
"Could be, bonfires and such." Likah stated.
"It seems awfully big to be a little bonfire." Rikku continued.
Likah stood up and looked at what she could see of the shrine from there, the rooftop. She opened her eyes in fear.
"Guys! Lets go! Now!" She screamed.
"What is it?" Rikku asked as they started to run again.
"No time. Run!" Likah commanded as she pulled out her keyblade.
Realizing what she was doing, Rikku activated her staff and Sora pulled out his keyblade.
"Guys, something isn't right so be ready for anything!" Likah instructed.
They ran up to the top of the hill and through the village gates And stopped in their tracks. Likah's eyes widened in terror. It was her village all right but it was pretty much in flames and ruins. Likah ran up a bit more and dropped to the ground screaming.
"This can't be happening!" She screamed and started crying.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Rikku called out.
Sora walked into the closest hut and saw a few skeletons and decided not to say anything, Likah seemed in enough grief for now. But she got up and walked into the hut that Sora just walked out of. Then Sora and Rikku heard another scream. The followed her in there and saw that Likah was crying over the body of a smaller person.
"What is it?" Rikku asked.
"This is Lola's home, she lived here with her Aunt! She yelled.
Rikku knelt down and put her arm around Likah.
"There there. I'm sure Lola wouldn't want you to be upset forever right. What would she want?" Rikku asked.
"We'll the last thing she said to me before I started my journey was that no matter what happens to her, always put my priorities first." Likah sniffled.
"And what would that mean now?" Rikku continued.
"She would want me to go on." Likah sighed.
"Okay so, we'll give Lola, Her Aunt and everyone else here proper funerals okay? Then we have to go on." Rikku insisted.
"Shouldn't we look for more survivors?" Sora asked, "Someone may still be alive."
Likah stood up and nodded her head. Rikku got up too.
They walked out into the center of the village again and started to search the other huts. There were about twenty or so. After they had searched their share, Sora and Rikku saw Likah standing outside a small hut. It looked liked she was debating to go in.
"What's wrong?' Sora asked.
"Oh, this was Skylar's home." She answered.
"Oh well maybe I should go in." Sora said grimly.
Sora walked in and for a few moments silence followed.
"Riku?" Came his voice from inside.
Rikku jumped.
"Yeah?" She said.
"No not you I mean..." he said.
Then he and a cloaked figure walked out.
"..I meant him. This is Riku." He said.
"Riku, this is Rikku and Likah." He introduced.
Riku didn't say anything he just shook hands with the two girls.
"Why won't you talk?" Rikku asked Riku.
Riku opened his mouth but no sound came from it.
"You've, lost your voice?" Likah asked.
Riku nodded and pointed towards the shrine.
"You want us to go there?" Sora asked.
Riku nodded and walked towards the shrine.
"What about Skylar, Sora? Did you see anything?" Likah asked.
"No, nothing." Sora said quietly.
They walked into the shrine to see everything normal. It was the only place in the village that hadn't been destroyed or ruined. Riku sat down in a pew and learned over, he seemed tired. Rikku sat next to him to keep him company. Then all of a sudden they heard some footsteps from the hall on the right. The doors opened and a large man with a bushy beard and yellow robes came through. He stooped when he saw the four teens and when he saw Likah a smile appeared on his face.
"My Lily!" He boomed. His voice echoing through the room.
"Papa Tao!" Likah screamed.
She jumped up and ran through into his arms.
"Oh my child, my child. You are safe. I had thought that I would never see your beautiful blue eyes again. But again you have proven me wrong." He said.
"Yes but this time it is a good thing no?" She said and she stopped hugging him.
"And who are you're friends? Oh Riku, you met up with them already I see?" He asked.
Riku nodded his head and walked over.
"You see, Riku showed up here a while ago he couldn't speak but he wrote for me a story about him looking for friends of his own." He explained.
"Oh, yeah, Papa, these are my friends, Sora and Rikku." Likah said.
"Hi!" said Rikku and Sora in unison.
The elder chuckled.
"And I have someone to introduce you guys to, Likah you know who else survived our little crisis?" he asked
"Who?" Likah piped up.
At that moment a tall blonde haired boy wearing a long green outfit walked through.
"Hello Likah." He said quietly.
Likah stood back in horror.
"No, y-you, you can't be." She stammered
"I am though. I thought you would be glad to see me." He said.
He walked right up to her kind of shoving Sora and Rikku out of the way. He didn't even acknowledge them. He just pulled Likah into a vice grip like hug. When he let go be leaned over and kissed her, right there in front of everyone. When he pulled back he turned around and looked at Sora with a devilish grin on his face. Then he turned to everyone else.
"Hello everyone, I'm Skylar. I'm Likah's fiancé." He said casually.
"What?" Rikku shouted.
Riku turned quickly with a look of suspicion on his face.
"No!" Sora shouted.
At that moment silence filled the shrine. Likah collapse to her knees and blurted out.
"Yes, it's true Skylar proposed to me the night before I left. I said yes and everyone in the village was overjoyed. It seemed like the right thing to do." She sighed.
She got up and walked out of the shrine onto a balcony. She looked back, everyone had followed her out. She threw her keyblade down and it slid and stopped in front of Sora. She wiped tears from her face. She faced the balcony edge; over it was a gigantic drop. She climbed onto the ledge. And looked over.
"What are you doing Likah? The elder asked.
"I'm ending a lot of heart break. Finishing my mission and killing myself. What does it look like?" Likah retorted.
"What do mean Sweetie?" Skylar asked.
"Don't call me that!" Likah screamed.
"Why not?" Skylar asked looking hurt.
"Because, I said so! You really thought I was marrying you for love?" She asked loudly.
"Well, yeah. And whether you like it or not we are getting married." He said.
"No! I wanted to do it for the village plus I never thought I'd ever finds true love so I let it go." Likah screamed now her voice getting horse.
It had started to rain but they all stood there wondering what Likah was going to do.
"What do you mean true love?" The Elder said.
"What do I mean?" Likah asked herself. "My true love would be someone I could protect."
Sora jumped, this is what she had said earlier to him and this is what he vowed to do for her. He had just realized that maybe Likah was falling in love with him. A pang of guilt hit him again, he thought of Kairi and his promise to her and Likah. What was he going to do? Likah talked on.
"Somebody to help, if they were in trouble or pain. Somebody to rely on if you were in trouble. I don't think I ever had anything like that. At least not yet" She sighed.
"Likah." Sora said stepping forward.
He picked up her keyblade. It started to thunder now. Rikku started to shudder, Riku noticed this and took off his black cloak and put around her. Sora walked forward past them and past Skylar until he was the closest to Likah. He held up her keyblade to him and smiled.
"Your mission isn't over. You will not end heartbreak and I won't let you kill yourself. Also, I'm sure that you have already found true love." He said quietly.
Likah smiled at knelt over and picked up her keyblade. She looked down at him and frowned suddenly. She looked at everyone else stood up and turned her back to everyone.
"Oh really? Well I'm going to end it all anyways. I'm gone now." she said.
She fell forward falling. Sora leapt and just missed her hand and everyone else ran to the ledge to see her fade into the treetops.
"No!" Sora yelled.
"Hold on!" Skylar yelled.
Rikku and Riku jumped over started to fall, they were going after her.
Skylar screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Now look what you did! You killed my bride to be!" Skylar shouted at Sora.
"No look what you did! You don't even love her so you can't have her!" Sora shouted.
"Oh why?" Skylar said.
"Because you'll have to get past me first!" Sora said going into battle position.
"Bring it on puny!" Skylar said. "I win you go away, I lose..."
"And I get Likah" Sora said.
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