Well, the last chapter took a year, and this one only took me a few days, so I'd say that's a huge improvement. This chapter we get to see what happened to Garrett's parents, so I'm super excited about that. I have a question that I would like to hear what you guys have to say on, and I'm going to put that in the authors note at the end. Enjoy the chapter!
Hello - Dream
Hello - Normal POV
"Hello" - Dialogue
WHY DIDN'T YOU LET ME DIE
GARRETT POV
I couldn't wait, I was so excited. My parents and I were on our way to the hospital. A few months ago, my parents told me I was going to be a big brother. Today was the day we were going to find out if I was going to have a baby brother or a baby sister. I asked them all sorts of questions the past few months to make sure I was completely prepared. I promised them that I would be the best big brother ever! Suddenly, disaster struck on the city road ahead of us.
"Dad!" I screamed as a car ahead of us collided with a semi-truck carrying construction materials. The car got stuck under one of the wheels, and the semi spun out of control. Building materials flew off the semi as it rolled onto its side and collided with multiple cars. Time slowed down for me as everything happened. My parents died instantly along with my unborn sibling when another car collided with ours. I looked straight ahead as rebar flew through the windshield, and stabbed straight through my abdomen, my head collided with the headrest behind me, knocking me unconscious.
"NOOO" I screamed as I shot upright in the unfamiliar bed. I began sobbing as the memory flashed before me again. The white sheets covering me began to stain red as my sudden movement reopened my wounds.
Someone came into the room and rushed over to me. They sat on the bed beside me and gently wrapped their arms around me. I couldn't tell who it was, it was too dark to see, but I tightly wrapped my arms around them, and for the first time since I was adopted, I cried in front of someone. I clutched them tightly as my tears soaked their shoulder.
"Shh, you're okay, it was just a bad dream" I could now tell the voice was feminine, and the girl gently ran her hand through my hair as my shoulders bobbed with my sobs.
"W-Why…" Was all I was able to get out between my tears.
"I don't know why we have bad dreams, it just happens."
"Why didn't you let me die?"
HANNAH POV
"Why didn't you let me die?"
My body stiffened when his voice came out in a whisper. He wanted to die? I didn't know what was going on, but I knew more about Garrett from those few words than I did from our small conversations over the past month at school. He was broken, there was no other way to put it. He was in so much pain and wanted it to end. I didn't respond at all, instead I just held him. He cried for who knows how long. My parents came in to see what was going on, and they saw me sitting there holding him. I bit my lip as tears streamed down my face as well. I shook my head at them, knowing what they were asking. Garrett was in no way, okay.
Eventually, after I don't know how long, his sobs stopped, and his breathing slowed down. He cried himself to sleep. However, his arms were still tightly wrapped around me. I sighed quietly, there was no way for me to get up. Reluctantly, I laid back onto the bed with his arms around me and eventually fell asleep.
GARRETT POV
Sunlight shone through the blinds of the window, causing me to stir from my slumber. Slowly, my senses came to me, and I became aware of the faint smell of vanilla along with an unfamiliar warmth curled against me in my arms. My eyes shot open, and I saw a head of messy brown hair. Quickly, I released the person in my grasp and backed away, getting tangled in the bed sheets in the process.
"Shit!" Not realizing I was close to the edge of the bed, I fell backwards, dropping a couple feet onto the floor. I rubbed the back of my head as it hit the floor, and I saw a familiar face looking at me from on top of the bed. Although her hair was messier than normal from just waking up, I recognized her in an instant, and confusion crossed my face, not remembering what happened to me for me to be in these circumstances.
"Garrett, are you okay?" She looked at me, concern crossing her face when she saw the sheets covered in traces of blood from when they reopened the night before.
"Yea I'm…" I wince when I move to stand, and pain shoots through my body from my wounds, keeping me on the floor.
"I'm fine. What am I doing here?"
"You were attacked. My dad found you unconscious in the park… He brought you here."
"O-Okay, I remember getting attacked. Why were you in the bed with me?" A faint blush crossed her cheeks, but it quickly disappeared.
"You don't remember? You woke up screaming in the middle of the night. I came in here to check on you, and you were crying so much. You uh… You held onto me and I couldn't get out."
"Oh…" I stammer awkwardly and try to get up, but the sheets prevent that. Hannah gets off the bed and helps me untangle myself and offers her hand to help me up. I notice the blood staining the sheets, and then see her light-yellow shirt also stained.
"I'm uh… Sorry about your clothes"
"Oh, It's fine, don't worry about it. You should probably lay back down and get some rest."
"Yeah, that's probably a good idea" I climb back into the bed gently and she walks out of the room.
A short while later, a slender woman with red hair walks into the room carrying a tray of food. She gently sets the tray on the bedside table.
"Hello, my name is Kairi, I'm Hannah's mother, she told me you were awake, so I figured I would bring you something to eat. How are you feeling?" I examine her, she's definitely about the same height as Hannah, and she shares most of her features, namely her deep blue eyes and slim nose.
"I'm okay, a little sore. Thank you for the food." I start eating the food slowly, careful not to hurt myself.
"You took quite the beating, Heartless can be relentless."
"Heartless?"
"Yes, the things that attacked you. My husband said that there were a lot of them."
"H-How do you know about-" Kairi quickly silenced me.
"My husband will come talk to you about that later, for now, how about you finish that food and clean up." She motions to my ruined clothes, which I now realized were definitely not mine.
"There are some fresh clothes sitting on the dresser over there, and the restroom is down the hall. Take a right when you leave the room, and it's the second door on the left, I left a fresh towel for you on the counter. After that, I'll come and try to heal you a little more."
"Thank you, Miss Kairi," She smiles lightly at me and stands, leaving the room quietly.
Once I finish the food, I gather the clothes and make my way to the restroom. I remove the bandages and step into the shower. I wash myself, careful not to hurt myself. I reach for the shampoo, washing my hair before using the vanilla scented conditioner. I felt bad about using them, but I knew how oily my gets, so I did it anyway. I get out and dry off before getting dressed and make my way back to the room and lay down in bed.
Miss Kairi walks back into the room a little while later and sets some blue cubes down as she sits beside me.
"I'm uh, going to need you to take your shirt off so I can heal you."
"Heal me how?" I ask nervously.
"With magic of course" She giggles as if it was obvious, but I had never seen anyone use magic, I had heard it was long forgotten, but here she was saying she knew how to use it.
"O-Oh, okay" I nervously peel off my shirt, exposing the cuts and bruises covering my upper body, yet her eyes rest on the large scar on my abdomen.
"What happened here?" She had been curious about it since the day before, but she was too worried about keeping Garrett alive.
"I'd… Rather not talk about it" She silently nodded her head and hovered her hands over my body.
"Curaga" She whispered, and my body covered in a green glow. My wounds stung as they healed a little bit, most of the bruises fading away to green-yellow splotches on my skin. When the glow faded, I felt a little better, although my wounds didn't heal fully. My muscles were sore, and she told me I could put my shirt back on as she began chewing on one of the blue cubes.
"What's that?" I ask curiously.
"It's an ether, it's like a potion, but it's used to restore magical energy" I nod in understanding, still surprised that she knew magic in the first place.
"I thought magic was long forgotten, where did you learn it?"
"A magician that we knew when we were your age taught me the basics, and then my husband taught me more. I'm only really good at healing magic, but I also know a very powerful light magic spell. My husband is much better at offensive magic than I am, I focused more on healing."
"Wow, I'm impressed, I never thought that I would meet anyone that knows magic. Does uh, does Hannah know how to use magic too?" She shook her head at me.
"No, we didn't see any reason to teach her. We only learned how to use it because we needed to."
"What do you mean 'needed to'?"
"Because of the Heartless" I heard a deeper voice say. I looked to see a tall man leaning against the door frame. He had wild spiky brown hair, I guess that's where Hannah gets the brown from. As he walked towards us, he tripped over one of his large feet and Miss Kairi giggled.
"Clumsy as ever, Garrett, this is my husband Sora" He extends his hand to me after he recovers, and I reach out to shake it.
"Well Garrett, it's nice to officially meet you. You gave us quite a scare, those Heartless handed you quite the beating"
"You guys keep saying Heartless, what are they?" I look at him, confusion all over my face.
"The heartless are beings born from the darkness in people's hearts. Kairi, my friends and I had to save the universe from them a long time ago. Do you know why they were attacking you?"
"No, but they started attacking me about a month ago, I had this weird dream, and that's when it all started." Sora and Kairi looked at each other. Sora's face had a sign of suspicion before quickly turning to nervousness.
"This uh… This dream. It wouldn't have happened to be on a giant stained-glass platform would it?" My eyes widen suddenly. How could he know?
"Uh yeah, how did you know that?" Sora grabs a chair at a desk and pulls it over beside the bed. Sitting down, he rubs his face for a moment, thinking about how to talk about the subject. Kairi grabs his hand and holds it gently, giving him a reassuring nod.
"You can use a Keyblade can't you?" The question came from out of nowhere, I was caught off guard. He knew about the Keyblade?
"Uh, yeah. How did you know that?" Kairi is the one who spoke next
"We were Keyblade wielders when we were your age. We had to fight a man named Master Xehanort who was trying to take control of something called Kingdom Hearts." Okay, I was officially lost, what were they talking about? Sora quickly snapped me out of my confusion.
"Garrett, if the Keyblade chose you, that means you have a difficult road ahead of you, you're going to need help. Let me train you, you'll need to know how to fight as well as know how to use magic." I was stunned, I was going to have to fight some mysterious enemies?
"Wait, what? I don't understand any of this." A look of seriousness came upon Sora, whatever was going on, he wasn't messing around.
"I can explain more later when I train you alright?"
"Uh, alright"
"Good, then once you heal up, I'll start teaching you some of the basics." He got up and walked out of the room without saying another word.
"I guess we'll be seeing you around here often" Kairi smiled softly at me.
"I guess so…"
Alright, so Garrett met Sora and Kairi, and Sora is going to spend some time training him. Like I said, I have a question for you guys. I'm trying to figure out weapons for all the characters. I want to do something new for Jonathan and Kyler. I already know what Kyler is going to use for a weapon, and I'm super excited about that, but I'm still trying to decide on what Jonathan is going to use. So I want to leave that up to you guys. If you have an idea, just leave it in a review, and I'll pick my favorite one. Besides that, please follow and review, I would really appreciate it. That's all for now guys, so I'll see you soon. Mainwolf out.