A/N: Hello again. Sorry for the wait on this chapter. Multiple things have led to the delay of it. Shifting interests, computer problems, too many things I wanna work on at once. Well now that my computers back for now, I really want to get some stories done so I'm typing this at the same time as my other stories Hidden and Shatter. Its rather hard and I'm surprised even with these notes I'm not getting mixed up.
Well, last chapter we lost our beloved Tidus. Well, someone had to die first. I really just wanna skip to the last chapter though. I have in my head how all of this will play out, which is quite a rare feat for me. Oh how I want to divulge information. Well, I'll hold it back for now.
Now I hope you all enjoy this new chapter, and please review on your way out. It doesn't take long. Well now, on to your reading and enjoy.
Riku felt a wave of uneasiness as the minutes dragged on. Nobody really paid much notice to the fact that Tidus still hadn't come back downstairs. Selphie had said that Tidus was probably being nice and staying with Sora for a while, but Riku didn't think it so. Nothing seemed quite right.
"C'mon Riku. We're supposed to be having fun, right?" Kairi complained, stretching Riku's face into a smile. He moved her hand away from his face. "Don't worry to much about it. Sora'll be fine. He just hasn't slept much. If anything was wrong, he would've told us, wouldn't he?" Kairi half heartedly tried to convince.
"I guess so. What I want to know is what's taking Tidus so long. Its been fifteen minutes already," Riku wondered worried. Kairi shrugged and placed her plate down on the table.
"I'll go check on them then," Kairi said, heading towards the stairs. Riku couldn't help shake the uneasiness building in him. That made him worried even more since his gut feeling usually wasn't all too far off.
"Tidus? You in here?" Kairi called lightly, softly rapping on the closed door. When there was no answer, she first assumed that he had fallen asleep. But something didn't feel too right. She knocked again, a little louder this time, hoping the feeling was just Riku's word getting to her. Still silence. She decided not to wait for him and opened the door.
The room was pitch black and icy cold. The window had been opened and the chilly air was blowing in. In the air came a strange smell, but she figured it was probably something from outside. She noticed only one person was in the room, someone laying on the bed. She could tell it wasn't Sora. The person was much too tall. She could see practically nothing in the dark besides a black outlines so assumed the figure was Tidus. Groping through the darkness, she found the edge of the bed and shook the boy by the shoulder. She needed to wake him up now to find where Sora had gone. Tidus did not stir, but the strange aroma did seem to grow stronger. She shook him even harder now and still nothing. She was drawing her hand back when a chill ran up her spine and felt something slightly warm coating her hand. She ran back to the door, to the light switch and flipped it, the lamp next to the bed turning on.
She had never screamed so loud before in her life.
"This isn't much of a party is it?" Selphie said as she laid on the couch, looking at a magazine. "The person the party was for went out like a light, Tidus didn't want to come back, and now our hostess has even left us."
"Hey Riku, wanna had home?" Wakka suggested, giving a yawn. The two of them lived rather closed. Riku shook his head.
"Nah. The party isn't too fun, but I'll probably crash here for the night," Riku said, occasionally glancing at the clock, keeping track of the time. Wakka got up and grabbed his stuff, and headed for the door. "Alright, I'll you to tomorrow then, ya?" Riku waved goodbye. As he reached the door though, throughout the entire house rang a horrible and terrified scream.
Dropping his stuff, Wakka followed Riku, who hadn't wasted a second, up the stairs to the source of the scream. Selphie was not too far beind them, not nearly as fast.
Riku went to the only room on the second floor that had light pouring in from the bottom. He threw open the door, Kairi falling back onto the ground in hysterics. There was brilliant red all over her hands. The two boys went down to help her, so it was Selphie, who came last, who noticed Tidus. She too let out a scream, alerting the two to the reason of the screams.
Tidus laid motionless on the bed, eyes staring up at the ceiling without seeing. There were claw marks on his arms and crimson stained the sheets, and dripped onto the floor. But both Riku and Selphie found themselves vomiting onto the floor at the sight of Tidus' chest, ripped open, ribs shattered, the empty cavity overflowing with warm blood. His heart was gone.
Riku helped Kairi to her feet, who was shaking uncontrollable and now letting out small sobs. Selphie could not stay in the room. She was on the verge of being in the same state as Kairi.
"Wh-what the hell..."Wakka found himself lost for any other words, backing out of the room.
"Where's Sora?" Riku scanned the room for any trace of him, but found nothing. Kairi was still clinging desperately to his arm.
"H-h-he wasn't here when I c-came in here," Kairi managed to choke out between sobs.
"Why the hell does Sora matter now, ya? Tidus is dead!" Wakka yelled at the silver haired boy. "We gotta call the police or somethin." Wakka turned and ran out of the room to call the police from the downstairs phone. Selphie watched him as he ran but didn't follow. She just simply sat on the floor, back against the wall, trying hard not to cry.
Riku led Kairi out of the room and closed the door behind him. He wouldn't probably break down if he had to see that grisley scene any longer. He had done some horrid things when he had fallen into darkness, but nothing he had done or seen even compared to this.
He helped Kairi onto the floor next to Selphie, letting her rest in his arm and settle down some. When she finally released him, he got up.
"I'm going downstairs. Wakka may need some help. You two stay here, okay?" The two girls nodded a little unsurely. Riku turned to go when Kairi grabbed onto the back of his shirt.
"Please, try and find Sora to," she pleaded. Riku freed his shirt and nodded.
"Was planning on it." Without another word from either of them, Riku headed downstairs.
The bad feeling was gettng worse.
He really wished his gut feeling was wrong.
The two remained in silence for a few minutes before Selphie broke the thick silence.
"He's okay."
"What?"
"Sora. I know he's fine," Selphie assured, putting her hand on Kairi's shoulder. "He's the best fighter I know, even better than Riku. So whatever or whoever...killled Tidus...I'm sure they wouldn't stand a chance against Sora!" Selphie put on the best smile she could in this situation trying to make Kairi feel a little better.
"Yeah, I hope you're right. I love Sora more than anything in the world. I...I don't know what I would do if I lost him..." Kairi said quietly, resting her head on her knees. She wanted Sora to be safe, to have woken up when he heard Tidus'...end, and had managed to escape. But then she remembered Riku's ominous feeling. She too now had a bad feeling welling up. She had a feeling that things were going to get much worse than they were now.
A/N: Yeah, sort of a short chapter. I was planning on killing someone, but then I decided, nah, lets draw this out some. But I will assure you, there will be a death, maybe two in the next.
Ah, I would never be able to work on this story if it wasn't for REPO the Genetic Opera soundtrack. Its what made me write this to begin with. *Sigh*. This comment would be more relevant if people actually saw this movie. No matter who I ask, it seems like no one's ever seen it or heard of it. Its good. Anyway, this one song, the first song of the movie, I think its Genetic Repoman, reminds me of AntiSora.
"He won't bother to write or to phone you, he'll just rip the still beating heart from your chest. Now you can run, you can hide, you can try to, but he always had a way of finding you. He will come at your weakest hour, when no one is around who might rescue you."
Ah, I like this movie too much and love referencing it. I gotta stop though.
So anyway, I hope you enjoyed this newest chapter and please please review! The more reviews, the faster the chapters will come out! So until the next time, watch out for heartless and go eat a cream puff.^^