On the shores of Destiny Island, a brunette woman and two young boys sat on the sand. They had laid out a blanket and set up an umbrella to block them from the sun. The two boys were on their stomachs, each with a piece of paper in front of them and a colored marker in hand.
There was no tension in the air, but that wouldn't last for long.
The silver-haired boy sat up and proudly held up his masterpiece. "It's a keyblade," he said.
The brunette boy also sat up to stare in awe at his friend's drawing. "Whoa! An X-blade!" he said.
The silver-haired boy shook his head and corrected his friend, "No, it's a keyblade, not an X-blade."
"X-blade."
"Keyblade."
The brunette woman looked between them with her eyebrows scrunched together. "Wha-You're both saying the exact same thing!" she said.
The brunette boy rolled his eyes and sighed exaggeratedly. "It's not like you would understand, Catherine," he said. He wisely said the last part quieter, but she still noticed.
"Excuse me?" she said.
"Sora," the silver-haired boy said quietly.
"What?" Sora said, crossing his arms.
Catherine raised her eyebrows, either meaning she was impressed at his courage, or surprised by his stupidity. "What? For a boy who just called his mother Catherine, you're awfully cocky."
"It's your name," he said quietly. He was now looking down at his own unfinished drawing as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. "I don't see why I should call you Mom if it's not your real name."
"Ah," the silver-haired boy said while looking up at Catherine, "So he finally found out?"
"Yeah," she said, never taking her eyes off Sora. "I'll forgive this for now, but I don't want you to call me that."
"Fine," Sora said, quietly adding, "Catherine."
She chose to ignore him, and instead said, "I like your X-blade, Riku."
"Actually it's- Never mind," Riku said. He had nothing better to do, so he started to add some lines and stars to his drawing.
Not too long after, Sora asked, "Hey, what is a keyblade?"
Riku looked up at his friend, then looked back down. He added another star on to the corner of his drawing. "It's nothing," he said.
Sora leaned closer to Riku, who was refusing to make eye contact. "Wait," he said, "It isn't one of those secret things you never tell me about, is it?"
Riku ignored him, but after several seconds of Sora staring intensely at him, he answered. "Yes," he said bluntly, still not making eye contact with his friend.
"Oh come on!" Sora said.
"Sora, don't use your whiny voice," Catherine warned him.
He grumbled under his breath, but stopped when he saw his mother's warning glare. "Fine," he, "I have my own secret thing." He quickly started drawing, before holding up his paper for the world to see . "It's called a… a cazoova!"
On the paper was a colorful drawing that looked like a half-completed picture of a star-shaped fruit with jagged spikes sticking out of it.
"That looks great, Sora," his mother said.
"What's a kazoova?" Riku asked.
"It's a thing," Sora said, glancing away from his friend. "It's a secret thing you don't know about." he continued, "And it's pronounced cazoova, not kazoova."
"It's the same thing."
"No, it's not."
"Yes, it is."
"No, it's not."
Catherine took their distraction with each other to hide their wooden swords under the blanket. "Okay boys," she said, "I think this argument has been milked enough. I expected more from you, you're both-er… Riku, you're mature enough to know that this is unacceptable. You have much better things to be doing, not arguing over how you pronounce qazoova."
In the end, it would take a few days until any of the three could look at each other. Dinner at Sora's house was extremely awkward.
Author's Note: This chapter may have seemed a bit weird, and for good reason. This was for challenge issued by ZadArchie in the Writer's Anonymous Challenge Thread. The challenge was to pick one of the made-up words given, and integrate it into the story. You probably can guess which word that was. Yeah, it might be hard to get some of the jokes in this chapter unless you've played Birth By Sleep... Sorry about that. Anyway, please review and have a nice day.
