Chapter 6: Maleficent

It was late in the morning when I woke up. It doesn't help that the constant cloud cover messes up my time schedule. By the time I got down stairs all the boys were gone.

"Where is everybody?" I asked looking around.

"They're out for the day." Bella answered. She was cooking at the stove with Esme.

Namine smiled apologetically, "They would have said goodbye to you but you were sleeping."

"Oh, that's okay. I was just surprised it was so empty." I mumbled and sat at the table next to Namine. She was drawing in her sketch pad. "What are you drawing?" I asked leaning over a little to get a better look,

"It's us." She said lifting her sketch pad so I could see it. Everyone in the house was in it. I smiled as my fingers ran over the little detailed drawing.

"Here you go." Esme smiled as she sat a cup of hot chocolate and a muffin in front of Namine and me.

"Thanks." We said together and started laughing. I guess today would give me an opportunity to talk to Namine a bit since it wouldn't be that busy. After breakfast we went up to her room (Emmet expanded the house and added our own rooms. He was all too excited for the renovations.) Her room was white and the walls were covered in drawings. We talked for a while, mostly about her, she's a very shy and passive person but she's a lot like me as well. She also showed me her drawings, a lot of them having to do with Sora's memories.

"Who's that?" I asked pointing to a picture of a woman with light green skin a black dress.

"You don't remember?" she asked eyeing the picture. I shook my head. "That's Maleficent." She continued, "but then again you didn't have a heart then." The memories of Hallow Bastion came back to me. All I remember was Sora gave me my heart back by giving up his.

"So she's the heartless manipulator?" I asked as the stories Sora and Riku came to mind.

"Yes, stay away from her at all costs." Namine warned.

"But isn't she dead?" I was surprised about the warning.

"She was but she's back. If she still has the same plan, she'll do anything to get your heart." She said looking at the ground.

"My heart?" I asked placing my right hand over where my heart was.

"Yes, you are one of the princesses of hearts and one of the very few people who have a heart of pure light."

"But what does that have to do with me?"

"If she gets a hold of your heart, she will have unstoppable power."

I just shook my head not sure what to say and she left it at that. I looked around her room some more. There was nothing much to look at anymore so I just looked down at the floor.

"Let's go back down stairs." Namine suggested. "The boys might be home soon." I nodded and fallowed her out of the room and into the living room. Namine put on some random soap opera that I wasn't really paying attention to. I was thinking about what we had talked about earlier. After some time I felt someone come into the room, I looked over and it was Alice, her angel face blank of any emotion.

"Alice?" I asked concerned. She didn't answer, she seemed like she was seeing something far away. "Alice?" I said more loudly. This time everyone was in the room watching, Bella, Renesmee, Esme, Rosalie, and Namine.

Bella crossed the room in half a second and gently shook Alice's shoulders. "Alice what do you see?" she asked, her voice almost a whisper. Alice seemed to snap out of it then and looked at Bella.

Alice shook her head and explained her vision to Bella in such a low voice it only sounded like a low hum to me. Bella just nodded her head and looked at me a few times, and then they left the room.

"What was that about?" I asked Namine when we were alone again.

"I don't know." She answered shaking her head. The conversation was quickly interrupted when the door opened and all the boys came back.

They all looked serious and were talking in really low voices that didn't sound like this was a normal conversation. Maybe their activity of the day had to do with Alice's vision? The party split up then, the vampire speeding out of the room and leaving Riku, Sora, and Roxas in the living room with us.

"Welcome back." Namine said as she got up to go stand next to Roxas. He greeted her with a gentle kiss on the lips.

Riku walked over and gave me a hug that crushed all the air out of my lungs. "Can't breathe," I gasped as his hug pulled me off the couch. He set me on my feet and laughed as he left the room.

The only one who's mood didn't seem to lift was Sora's. He stared at me looking worried. "What's wrong?" I asked as I walked over to him.

He brushed his fingertips and smiled at me slightly, but it didn't touch his eyes. "It's nothing."

I sighed and shook my head. "It has to be something."

He looked up at the ceiling, "really it's nothing."

I backed away trying not to yell at him, "why won't you tell me?"

"There's nothing to tell."

"You're a terrible liar!" I yelled and then I left the room.