Blood Runs Red

Chapter 7: End of the world

A/n: Back! New chapter, Adventure Time! :D Sorry for the last chapter. I know it was slow, it was boring, but it was essential! Sora leads a pretty boring, lonesome life. The only thing he wants is Riku to liven it up ;D

Anyways, sorry it took soooooo long. I really don't have an excuse, just, the last week I had Vbs(vacation bible school) I didn't have to go, but there was this really cute guy there and... Enough of my life! I'm not sure when I'll upload another chapter. School will be starting up soon and I'm not sure when I'll even get a chance to sit down and write. I hope I do, I don't want to let you guys down! I love you!

Ps. Thanks for all you guys who are faving, and reviewing and all that good stuff! It means a lot! It really does!

*3/1/13. Oh look at me catching up. It only took 2 years. Don't worry. I'll finish this story when I'm 80. Don't hate me.*

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Waking up to a weird, sharp jabbing pain in the forehead, is not fun. I winced and opened my eyes to see Roxas, of course, poking his finger into my cranium. Isn't there anybody else he can torture? I growled, trying to shoo him away, and he laughed as I slapped his hand and sat up. He scooted away, far away, from me and sighed. "What do you want?" Came my angry voice, I'm not a morning person, I said that already. "Wow, grumpy! I just wanted to see if you wanted to go to the beach?" He asked grinning from ear to ear. It was sort of nerve racking, but I didn't let him know that. That would only make him happier. "Um, sure, I guess." before I could say anything else Roxas was out the door and down the hallway. Even though he was a pain, I smiled anyways. Roxas was just... well Roxas.

I hopped out of bed and headed towards the bathroom. After using the toilet, I brushed my teeth, making sure not to hit my busted lip with the toothbrush, continued to brush my hair and threw on my swim trunks. When I finished that, I admired myself in the mirror, something I seemed to do a lot of recently. So sue me. Smiling, I skipped down the stairs and into the living room, plopped onto the couch next to Ventus, who was struggling to apply some sunscreen, which was sort of amusing and yawned.

There was a loud crack behind us as Roxas clapped his hands. We both twirled our heads around to face him. He gave us a terrifying smile and yelled "To the beach!" I sighed as Ventus laughed. Roxas was something else. I hopped off the couch and followed them outside. "So are we just going to go swimming?" I asked. Sure, the beach was fun, but how was I supposed to enjoy every day at the beach? After a while it got boring, unless Riku was there that is. "Well, duh." Roxas said. "Yeah, but it's sorta old now. Don't you guys ever do anything other than swim?" I asked as I turned around to walk backwards. "No." they said in unison. Excellent. This would a long summer indeed.

Brainstorming time. What could we do that was different? Think, beach, swimming, scratch that, swimming was getting boring. Um, what about the dock? We could go hang out by the dock, wait no, also boring. We could go fishing. Ehh, no. Then it hit me. "Roxas! Ventus!" I screamed, excited. "What?" They said in unison, again. God I hate that. "Remember that small island we found when we were little?" "Yeah." said Ventus. "What about it?" asked Roxas. "Why don't we go check it out? We haven't been there in like years! Come on, it'll be fun!" I begged. I could tell by the look on Ventus's face, he was in, but Roxas, I wasn't sure. It was always a struggle with Roxas.

"Please." Puppy dog eyes, no one could resist my puppy dog eyes. I watched as Roxas fell under the spell. Grinning, I knew that I won. "I guess." He finally said. "Yes!" This was going to be fun. I just knew it. We turned to our left and headed towards the small dock. "Why do you want to go there anyways?" asked Roxas. "Why not?" I retorted. Good enough answer. I mean, I really didn't know why. Just tired of swimming at the same boring spot, I guess. Some change would be nice.

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We climbed into the small fishing boat, which was a lot bigger when we were little. Roxas grabbed the oars and started moving back and forth. The sun was baking us, but the small breeze created by the movement of the boat helped to make it tolerable. I looked over the edge of the boat and stared at the clear, blue-green water beneath us. It was so pretty. The color almost resembled Riku's eyes. I smiled, and Ventus nudged me. I looked up to see the small island come into view. "There it is, Roxas! Row harder!" I yelled. "Shut up! If you want it to go any faster, you better get over here and row yourself!" At that Ventus and I laughed.

When the boat finally brushed against the small dock built there, we all quickly played rock paper scissors to see who would set foot first on the tiny island. Ventus won. He stepped out of the boat onto the dock while Roxas and I fought to be second. We almost turned the boat over, as we struggled to free ourselves from each other's grasp. Ventus tied the boat to the dock as Roxas stepped out of the boat. Roxas was the second one to set foot on the island and I was last. Lame.

I stretched as I slid out of the boat and onto the dock. "Ok, we're here, now what?" asked Roxas. "Well...I don't know. Let's just explore. See if anything has changed." I said, thoughtfully. "I don't think anyone has set foot on this island since we left Sora." Ventus replied. "You don't know that." I retorted quickly. Roxas huffed and Ventus smiled. I marched ahead of the two and looked up at the huge palm trees that lined the island.

"Remember what we called this place?" I asked, smiling sadly. "Yeah." Roxas replied. "End of the World." Ventus said. "Yeah." I said, still smiling. Back then we thought that this tiny island was all that was out there. Our littleminds still didn't know that the world was much bigger. And much meaner.

We walked off the dock and onto the small beach that wrapped halfway around the tiny island. On the left of us was a huge deck, we weren't sure what it was there for. Some of the trees held tree houses. Only a few of them were usable. Past the trees was a cave, were we used to draw and carve things onto the walls. Next to the opening in the cave was a tiny waterfall, surprisingly it was freshwater. To the right of us was a tiny shack, that lead to a bridge over the water to a higher mound of dirt that held a Paupu tree.

We used to sit and eat Paupu fruit until we were sick. Those were the days.

I continued to lead the way as we walked down the beach and to the wall made of wood. Whoever had 'built' the island was a little strange, I'll say that. There was a small door. It took us a few tries to open it, but it finally moved. When we walked through the door we came to the other side of the island. There was an old bridge that was falling in, but we managed to cross it. There was another small beach and some palm trees, but that was it. This island was tiny. "It's hot!" I complained. "Well how about we go swimming now." Roxas said agitated. "Ok!" I replied, cheerily. Why not. At that we all raced into the water.

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I crawled out of the ocean water and sat under one of the many palm trees that lined the beach about an hour later. Roxas and Ventus were busy swimming, but I still wanted to explore. It was one of those adventuring moods that seemed to have taken over me and I complied. I got to my feet and climbed the small rocks that were there. The rock formation led to another cave, which would put you on the other side of the island. When I finally reached the top, with a little trouble, the view was beautiful. I was pretty high up now. Waving to Ventus, who of course waved back, I proceeded on with my adventure. I entered the cave and the temperature immediately dropped. What a wonderful feeling.

After a walk I slowly approached the opening of the cave. I peeked over the edge and started to have second thoughts about going this way. It was still high up, but when I was little I use to jump it all the time so it couldn't be that bad, right? I sat down on the edge of the hard rock and threw my legs over. On the count of three. One. Breathe in, breathe out. Two. Breathe in, breathe out. Three. Jump!

The rush of air hit me hard in the face. My heart was beating as fast as ever. The ground was rushing towards me and my stomach got this funny feeling to it. I closed my eyes as my feet hit the ground. At first I had succeeded with jumping and landing on my feet. Then I fell face first into the dirt. I seemed to be doing that a lot too. Now I hurt. Rolling over wasn't too difficult but breathing without coughing was. I closed my eyes and listened to the sound of the waves crashing onto the shore. The sound of footsteps. The sounds of giggles. Wait! What?

I quickly opened my eyes to see two girls leaning over me. I hopped up into a sitting position as they began to laugh harder. My face turned red instantly. No matter what I did there was always some there to laugh at me. I fail at life.

"We saw what you did there. You looked quite stupid." said the small girl with black hair. The small blonde girl only giggled some more.

"Well that wasn't very nice." came a voice from in front of us. My head flipped up to see a girl with bright, blue hair and matching blue eyes. She wore a black tank top and a white skirt. You know, the kind of skirts you wear when you go to the beach. I was paying so much attention to trying to jump and land successfully on my feet that I didn't even notice the three of them.

"Now please say you are sorry, Xion." Said the stranger, she had quite a nice voice. Neither to high nor to low. The girl named Xion huffed a little bit, but turned to me and mumbled an apology. I smiled and accepted her tiny, inaudible apology.

"Are you ok?" I looked back to the blue-haired girl and nodded my head.

"I was just trying to use a short cut." I explained. She laughed, but it was okay because her laugh was soothing.

"Well, I've never seen anyone else on this island before." she said, looking a little confused.

"Oh, well my cousin's and I used to come here a few years ago, but we stopped. This is our first visit in like ten years!" I exclaimed.

She laughed again, I was beginning to like her laugh. "Haha.. Well excuse me, where are my manners! My name is Aqua. This here is Xion and Namine, my daughters." That information sort of blew my face off. She looked so young and yet these two girls were her daughters? This was crazy.

Xion was the taller of the two. She had short, black hair that wrapped around her face. Her bangs almost covered her deep, blue eyes. She wore a cute, little purple summer dress. Her sister,Namine, was completely the opposite. She had long blonde hair that was all pushed over one shoulder. Her bangs were long, but you could clearly see her sky blue eyes. She wore a cute, little white dress. Blue eyes seemed to run in this family. Or maybe the whole damn island.

I smiled at the both of them. "How old are they?" I asked, curious. "Oh, well Xion is eight and Namine is five." She patted both of their heads. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside at the gesture. It sorta made me miss my mom. "Well don't let us get in the way." Agua said, nicely. "Huh? No, no! You're not getting in the way; I was just going to go into the woods. Do alittle exploring." Aqua gave me a strange look, one of concern, but shrugged her shoulders anyways. "Well you be careful." She said sounding motherly. I loved it.

I slowly walked away from the threesome as they headed towards the beach. Entering the forest tookno time at all and I slowly mingled in and out of the trees. Then I rounded to the other side of the cave. The opening was wide. I stopped in front and stared at the waterfall. Some fresh water wouldn't be bad right now so, I skipped over and bent my face down towards the water. Then I saw my reflection. It looked really weird with all the ripples in the water. After a few minutes of staring at my messed up reflection I dunked my head under and quickly pulled back out. "Ahhhh..." That water was slightly colder than I thought it would be.

After drinking one or two handfuls of water I went back to the cave entrance. It was dark and spider webs hung from the top. I was a little afraid to enter, but pumped up my chest and said you only live once. I scrunched my face up and entered the cave anyway. Casually I walked along the cave wall, my hand tracing along it's cold, hard surface. The darkness was unbelievable and I kept running into spider webs, but finally I came to the opening in the cave where the sun shined through the hole in the ceiling. My eyes slowly adjusted to the light.

I slowly went around the cave admiring all the old drawings of when we were little. There were drawings of superheroes, chocobos, Paupu fruits, stars, sea salt ice cream, everything you could imagine a little boy would draw. Memories flooded my mind causing me to smile. My hand slowly traced the lines carved into the wall. I sat down on the soft sand and relaxed. Inside the cave was a lot cooler than being on the beach. That depressing feeling was creeping back. I suddenly felt lonely. Really lonely. So lonely that before I knew it I was wishing Riku was there, sitting with me.

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A/n: Awww Xion and Namine sound so cute don't they? :) And Aqua sounds like a good mommy! :D

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