Day 1: Carnegie Hall
Note: In Square's Parasite Eve, the game is divided into six days, each day progressing the storyline. All six days will be followed, exempting day four. (For chronology's sake) All six days WILL NOT be shown at once, the second half of this world appearing in a revisit.
Of all places to sit, they lucked out that the tickets said "balcony". Goofy fell asleep before the lights even dimmed, the last seats filling in as the show began. Donald quickly began losing interest, but Sora was drawn into it. The opera went on for a while, and Donald moved from playing with his fingers to messing with his sleeping friend. Sora ignored them, focusing on the stage instead. On the stage, the prince pushed his way between his father and the other woman. "But I love her!"
"My son, every man who falls in love with her dies!" The prince turned to the woman.
"I don't care. I love her." The king rose a hand, pointing to them.
"Seize her!" Soldiers marched out from behind him, pulling the prince back. The woman walked to the edge of the stage, the spotlights focusing on her. She began to sing, her voice echoing through the hall. It sounded like Italian, maybe. Sora didn't really understand it, but he did catch something odd. Donald turned back from Goofy.
"What's wrong?" Sora shook his head.
"I think… she didn't start from the beginning."
"So?" Donald shrugged. "Maybe they needed to cut-" Screams from below cut him off as people began to run about. Sora looked back up, shocked. One of the soldier actors had caught fire, setting the curtains ablaze as well. The other actors and most of the audience began to spontaneously combust, terror spreading throughout the building. Sora grabbed Donald and knocked Goofy out of his chair in one swoop.
"Gwarsh, is it over already?" Flames shot overhead, wooden planks falling from the ceiling everywhere. The actress continued singing, completely unscathed. Sora stood up, looking at the stage.
"C'mon!" He jumped over the balcony, landing on one of the chairs. Donald looked at Goofy, and then reluctantly jumped off too. Goofy followed, the trio rushing out to the aisle. They drew their weapons, fire dancing around them. A woman pushed between them, running to the stage. She pulled a gun out of her dress, loading it along the way. Donald rushed after her, stopping to look back.
"She can't do this alone!" Sora and Goofy agreed, following her to the front of the room. They ran up the stairs, the woman already there. Her short blonde hair covered her blue eyes, but she didn't move it.
"Freeze! NYPD!" She leveled the gun at the actress, who stopped singing to turn to her. The massacre continued off stage, the remaining spectators trying to escape before they perish. The actress laughed, and then said something Sora couldn't hear over the inferno. The cop tightened her grip on the handle, the actress hovering back behind the stage. Sora ran up to the woman. Grabbing her by the arm.
"We'll handle this." She shook her head.
"Get out of here, kid." She ran ahead, leaving the party behind. Sora waved his friends forward, following the strangers backstage. They came out into a long hallway, a pair of double doors cracked open at the end. The police woman was halfway down the hall, weapon in hand. Sora made a silent gesture to move ahead, the three of them coming up behind her. When they came closer to the doors, Sora began to hear a piano in the other room. It played the song the woman sang in the theater room. They broke through the doors, armed and ready. The actress sat in front of the piano, still playing as they made their entrance. She never looked up, but her hands began to falter on the keys. Her breathing grew heavier as she grabbed the top of the piano.
"I'm Mel… Melissa…" She told herself. "No! I'm… I'm…" She looked at her hands, and then the intruders. Her eyes changed from brown to a bright green. "Eve." She began to stand, her hands smashing into the piano keys. They let out their dying notes as her hands grew, ending in nails that were more like claws. Her skin turned pale as her air grew out, remolding to stand on end behind her head. The red dress tore as she transformed, her body rising into the air. Her legs melted together into a blue tail-like appendage. She looked down at Sora, Donald and Goofy, then the woman. "Aya." Eve reached out for the cop, who pulled the trigger. Shots rang out as bullets flew through the monster, burrowing into the wall. Eve stumbled back from the impact, otherwise unharmed. She regrouped, moving forward again. "You'll have to do better than that, Aya."
"How about this!" Sora rolled between them, severing Eve's outstretched arm with the Keyblade. Eve shrieked with pain as she grabbed the remnants of her elbow. The limb on the floor melted into a rancid mass, which slid along the floor. Eve's body absorbed it, her arm regenerating in the process. Eve, however, was still recovering from the attack.
"How… did… the Keyblade…" Donald ran up to Sora, Goofy following.
"How do you know about the Keyblade?" Donald raised his staff as Thunder shot down close to Eve. "Missed." The duck muttered.
"My avian friend," Eve "stumbled" back. "I AM life. I know all."
"Then you'll know how this is going to end." Sora held the Keyblade back to attack.
"I do, and it's not now." Without warning, Eve crashed through the wooden floor into the sewers below.
"Eve!" Sora stepped forward, Aya grabbing him by the shoulder.
"Let her go, kid. She can't do anything now." She looked at the hole, and then back to Sora. She turned him around, leading the trio out the doors. "Now, let's get you back home." Sora looked down.
"Not without Riku." He whispered.