The next morning the three teens had breakfast with Kivara and bid their final goodbyes as they had somethings to prepare for. Kivara smiled as she waved them goodbye before making sure they knew where to go to head back to the main island. Once gone, Kivara lost her smile and quickly made her way into her home. Once inside she made sure to shut all the windows as well as cover them and turn off all the lights to her home.
Knowing the layout by heart, Kivara was able to quickly make her way down the hall to her home and towards an empty wall. She tapped the center of the wall and tapped in the pattern of a small star. The figure she tapped, rose from the wall and she turned it to the left before placing it back. It wasn't long until the wall slid to the side to reveal a passageway underneath her home. Briskly walking down the flight of stairs, Kivara entered a room full of computers and went to work on the main computer. Clicks and the sound of a computer whirring was the only thing heard as Kivara began to input all the information she gathered during her time here.
Eyes squinted, Kairi scribbled over a clipboard furiously as she sat on a palm on the play island. Mumbling to herself she tried to write all the things she might need to gather. "Hey, Kairi whatcha writing!" Kairi screamed as she almost fell off the palm and held onto her clipboard for dear life. She turned around to see Sora smiling up at her from the play island and she glared. Smacking him on the shoulder, she quickly set back to work. "I swear Sora, you really need to stop doing that! One of these days you're gonna give me a heart attack!" Sora laughed as he climbed the palm tree and sat next to her and read the clipboard over her shoulder.
"Really though, whatcha doing and what do you need ribbons for?" It was then that Kairi smiled happily her face almost split in half from her grin. "The festival! Being the Mayor's daughter means I get to help out with things like these, I couldn't last year cause I was too young but now, Dad's letting me help him! It's so cool, he let me be in charge for decorations and entertainment! But thing is I don't have anything or anybody for entertainment!" Kairi spoke excitedly before deflating slightly.
Sora chuckled at his friend's antics and nodded and watched as she struggled to come up with something, that is until something came up. "Hey why don't you ask Kivara! I remember seeing that she had a dance studio in her house!" Sora smiled before quickly adding something else when he saw the annoyed/questioning glare he received from Kairi. "I wasn't snooping or anything, I swear! I was just looking for the bathroom and I happened to stumble on it! I just never got around to asking Kivara about it!" Kairi looked at her friend out if the corner of her eye before dealing his excuse as a valid one.
Kairi frowned before speaking. "You think she'd be up to volunteering for the festival for entertainment?" Sora shrugged taking the clipboard from his friend and looking through what Kairi scribbled down. "I dunno, I mean it's worth a shot in asking her. She seems fond of you maybe if you ask, she'll say yes." Kairi thought about it for a while looking at the clear blue horizon in front of her before nodding. "Yea, you're right!" Kairi then jumped off the palm tree. Walking towards the bridge she looked back at Sora. "Well you coming or not?" Sora smiled and soon followed Kairi.
Running past the beach, the two ran into Riku who was just coming back checking in on something back at the main land. The two then told him of their plans and asked if he wanted to help. Nodding, Riku agreed and soon they set off towards Kivara's house.
Blowing out a small candle, Kivara smiled fondly at her sleeping brother's figure as he laid in his bed. It has been a while since she was able to see him, as she was on a long term mission. She had told him of her encounters and how much she had missed him and his bubbly presence. However, it was about time she left to go and visit everyone else in the castle. Turning off the light, Kivara stepped out of the room, not noticing the slight twitch of her brothers face as it turned into a small smile, before relaxing back into it's normal state.
Kivara quickly shifted to her Majesty's throne room and knocked. It wasn't long that they allowed her to enter and she was greeted with tears of joy and warm hugs when she revealed it was her. At that this point she returned to her old clothes as not to draw in attention. The Queen was smiling as she stroked Kivara's hair as she hugged the teen close to her chest, like she was a fragile infant. Meanwhile, the King was blubbering like a whale that he had missed Kivara so much
Kivara chuckled slightly as she started explaining her mission in details which the Queen and King happily listened to. It wasn't until she was halfway into her story did the front door burst open with an army of soldiers. Kivara jumped to her feet and quickly summoned a sword from her space pocket. At the ready, she stood in front of the King and Queen as she protected them. However, it wasn't until she realized it was her own army did she relax and smile.
The army ran inside tears in their eyes and Kivara sighed shaking her head lightly as the army continued to ask where she had been this whole time. Soon Kivara got annoyed with them bombarding her with questions as to where she was and yelled. "Line up!" out of fear soon all of them got in line in an orderly fashion. "Alright, listen here! I'm not here back on a finished mission, actually the opposite. I'm currently doing a mission that is to be kept top secret and is on my first priority. However, like I said before if I hear one thing about all of you being reckless I will return back home faster than you can even think about running away." the army paled at Kivara's harsh words and she flinched in doing so to her comrades. Lowering her voice to a more peaceful one, Kivara smiled slightly. "Though, it is great to see everyone once again, I really missed you." it then that the army she's tears once more for their general and her kind words.
The Queen smiled as she placed a hand on Kivara's shoulder and the King smiled brightly as he chuckled happily. Kivara smiled softly before a ring came from her pocket. Pulling out her moon crystal, she turned around and tapped its surface. The King and Queen quickly sent the army back out and Kivara was able to see her notification in peace, away from prying eyes.
Soon a digital image appeared of her home back on Destiny Islands and at her front door she could see Kairi, Sora and Riku approaching. The King smirked as he looked over Kivara shoulder as saw the silver haired teen Kivara vaguely mentioned. "So let me guess this is the Riku fellow huh?" Xavier questioned as he pointed to the screen where Riku stood and Kivara nodded. At hearing Riku's name, Klaris soon ran forward and saw the teen. "Hey, Kivara, he's kinda cute, maybe you should try and date him!" Kivara's face blushed slightly at her Queen's words and she shook her head to rid of the blush before they could tease her about it. "It seems that they are looking for me, I need to head back." Klaris frowned as Kivara had ignored her previous comment but nodded all the same.
Kivara quickly bid her goodbyes to her Majesty's before quickly shifting to her home in Destiny Islands.
Landing inside her home she flicked her wrist upwards and soon the lights in her home were turned on and she quickly made herself a place in her home on the couch with her sketch pad. She made look that she was working on something in case they could see her from a window somewhere. Soon enough a couple of knocks were heard and the doorbell was heard. Placing on a forceful but what seemed natural smile, Kivara moved herself from the couch.
Mumbles were heard from the other side of the couch and Kivara opened the door knowing very well who it was. "Kairi! Nice to see you again! Sora, Riku! I bet y'all followed her to make sure she didn't get lost! That's so nice, how can I help you?" Kairi smiled up at her friend and giggled as she passed the clipboard towards her friend. "See Kivara, you're new here so you don't know, but every year around this time, there is a festival that is held in town and the Mayor, my father, put me in charge of all the decorations and entertainment! Can you believe it Kivara?" Kivara nodded as she went through the list of things that her friend had scribbled down and let them inside, where they continued to set on her large sofa. Once inside Kivara got right down to it.
"Kairi this is cool and all but I have a feeling that you didn't come my way just to talk about how excited you guys are." Kairi froze and held a bright smile on her face all the while. Nudging Sora, Kairi have him a look and he shook his head. Kaira frowned as she turned to look at her friend. "It as your idea now go and ask her." Kairi whispered and Sora gulped. Kivara gave them a questioning gaze and looked over to Riku for questions, which he gave her a shrug. Sora smiled awkwardly and squealed as he spoke.
"Well you see, when umm were stayed over those three days to watch over you with Riku here, I was looking for a bathroom and stumbled upon a dance studio. Well, as you can probably see on the clipboard, Kairi doesn't have..um anyone booked for entertainment and well I thought that maybe you could maybe perform?" Sora closed his eyes shut, waiting for the scolding that came with him snooping. All he heard instead was the soft chuckling from the blue haired teen. "You got lost didn't you, Sora?" Sighing, Kivara nodded for the whole group to follow.
Passing by the kitchen and heading past the infirmary that Riku was in, the group found a door towards the ending of the hallway. "This is my studio, while that door over there, is the bathroom. Remember, Sora?" Chuckling at the embarrassed look of the brown haired teen, Kivara opened the door and let everyone in and turned on the lights, to reveal a spacious room. Walking over to an accordion wall, Kivara pulled it back to reveal several outfits. The three stood in amazement as they reveled at the beauty of the outfits.
It outfit was similar in shape, seemingly being made for a specific dance but each one unique in design. I looked as though some were based for the seasons and others looked as though they held a deeper meaning into their design. One thing was true in each design, they each held the same color of gold and held several bangles and glints of small jewels that were skillfully embedded in the stitching. All three teens walked forward as they each wanted to get a closer look. Nodding in allowance, Kivara stepped to the side and let them forward as she walked over to a folding screen. Pulling it forward and facing it to the wall, Kivara stepped behind it.
Smiling, she could hear the mumbles of the teens as they looked towards the clothing. Behind the screen, Kivara quickly swiped her hand upward and she changed her clothes for a way to avoid any embarrassment. Walking from behind the screen, jingles could be heard from the gold rings and crystals that lined her clothing.
She wore a form fitting halter top that was silver and seemed to shine from the light that reflected from it. It was lined with gold near the neckline and small blue crystals hung from the top. The top was covered with a sheer light blue fabric and it stopped around the beginning of her hips.
She wore a bikini bottom the same color of the halter top and it held gold strings hanging from the sides. Over this was also a sheer blue fabric that covered her legs and stopped at her ankles as they were tied by a black ribbon. Past the sheer fabric, a large tattoo was able to be seen, vines that seemed to encase what seemed to be a musical note that was on a line that seemed to curve in on itself. The vines seem to reach from the base of her thigh and wrap around her hip and her back, stopping at the very end of her rib cage.
Her anklet from before was seen as her feet were still bare. Her arms once again held the gold arm bracers that she wore with her usual outfit but were swapped out when she got here.
Her fringe was pinned to the side by a small silver pin that held gold strings hanging. Sher purple blue eyes were lined with a deep black lines that seemed to make her eyes pop. Smiling, she placed her hands on her hips as she waited for the teens to look her way.
Riku was the first to notice Kivara's wardrobe change and blushed slightly at her choice. Sora saw his friend's blushing state and turned around and saw his friend standing there with an outfit similar to the ones next to him and excitedly he tapped Kairi's shoulder. The two of them started happily and seemed to have one thought running through their mind. 'She looks like a princess!'
Riku shook himself if his blush and coughed slightly. Sora smirked nudging his friend and was about to tease him, when Kairi started to speak. "Kivara! You look amazing, you look….just like a princess!" Kivara smiled at Kairi and nodded slightly in thanks. "Thanks, if you would like, I could show you one dance that I've been working on?"
The three teens nodded and Kivara noticed that she hadnt brought chairs. "Umm, I kinda forgot to get you guys chairs, but umm there's a fridge in the corner, that is if you want something to drink." the teens nodded and Riku went to grab drinks while Kairi assured them that they would be fine sitting on the floor.
Nodding, Kivara smiled and began to walk over to a small corner of the room where she set up a small stereo system to play some music.
Walking towards the center, Kivara stretched and waited for the music to play but once that it did, she took off.
Amazing, that's all he could think of as he watched the girl dance, with such flexibility and grace that could only come with such practice. She looked as if she were to be gliding across the floor with such fluidity that it was almost hard to look away, but when he did he longed to look back towards her. One look to the side at his other friends, Riku knew they thought the same.
When she was nearing the end of her dance, he found himself almost falling forward. She was so breath taking, he couldn't help it. This girl had so many secrets to her, that he wanted to uncover. It was weird since he only met her not too long ago, well officially anyway. He literally tackled her, he still felt sorry about that, since he could still slightly see the traces of the healing scabs on her back from the fall. But besides only knowing her for such a short amount of time, he wanted to get to know her more, because she had this air about her. It was filled with mystery, wonder and finally...such loneliness. He didn't want her to be lonely, he wondered why. Why did she seem lonely when every time he interacted with her or saw her, she seemed to be filled with smiles.
It was clapping that sent him flying out of the depths of his mind and he unconsciously did as well. Glad he did so, because even while he was deep in thought, he could still see the girl dancing beautifully before him. 'Them.' he corrected himself in his mind, as he looked over to his friends smiling happily and he choose to compare it to Kivara's smiles and they didn't match up. His friend's smiles seem to be genuine and take up their whole face. While Kivara's didn't seem to reach her regal eyes, her eyes seem to hold such sadness that it unnerved him a bit.
'What has she seen in her life and why does she seem so sad?' Riku thought as he commented on how amazing Kivara looked while dancing and received a warm smile in return. One that still didn't reach her eyes. But why had he noticed it while his friends hadn't?
It was then that Kivara was to perform for the festival as she agreed to Kairi and Sora's proposal, they were beginning to leave and Riku lingered slowly behind them as he noticed a small picture frame containing a photo of what seemed to be a smaller version of Kivara, holding a small child's hand and an adult male placing a large hand on her head. As Riku studied the image, he began to finally notice how quiet the blue haired girl's home really was and frowned a single thought floating through his mind.
'Where is her family?'
