Well here's a nice long chpater for you, and I must say that I got it pretty fast considering the way I've been going. Hmm does the title sound familiar to any of you … Yes read this chapter I will be different from my other story.
Kairi walked down the hall heading toward where Tia was staying for the night. The black haired girl had interested her; she seemed so mysterious. And those eyes, there was something in those eyes of hers, alone with distrust and anger. Kairi knocked on the other girls' door and waited for an answer.
When she received no answer, Kairi knocked again a little louder. "Yes," Came a stiff voice inside the room.
"Um, it's Kairi, may I come in?" Kairi called.
There was a short silence before Tia answered. "Yes you may, just make sure you close the door quickly behind you."
Kairi quickly slipped into the room and gasped as she closed the door. Tia had taken the darkest blanket in the room and hanged it over the window blocking the light and the rest of the blanks hung around the bed making the room very dark but she could still Tia's figure on sitting on the bed. "Wow, it's really dark in here." Kairi commented.
Tia didn't say anything; her cold coffee brown eyes bored into the red haired girl. "Um well you can barely see a thing in here; I'll take down this blanket." Kairi started walking over to the window.
"No, don't!" Tia commanded sharply making Kairi jump back in surprise.
"Sorry."
"So what did you want?" Tia asked coldly watching Kairi's every move.
"Well, I just thought that, your Sora's friend and I'm Sora's friend, maybe we could get to know each other better." Kairi suggested walking over and sitting on the bed.
Kairi saw Tia's eyes scanning over her several times then said calmly. "Very well, what would you like to do?"
"Um, I was thinking that we could play twenty questions or something."
Tia thought about it for a moment then agreed. "Ok, you go first."
"Ok, my first question is why do you like it so dark in here?" Kairi asked after thinking for a moment.
"Because I'm not afraid of the dark," Tia replied stiffly.
"Do you think you could elaborate, that doesn't really answer why you'd rather sit her in the dark then the light?"
Tia glared at her. "I gave you an answer so I believe that it's my turn to ask a question."
Kairi was stunned a little by the sharpness of the other girls' voice, but shrugged it off with a smile and motioned for Tia to ask her question.
"So Kairi, how long have you known Sora?" Tia asked.
"Oh I've know Sora for years, every since I came to Destiny Islands when I was a little girl. I haven't known him quite as long as Riku, but a fare amount of years." Kairi explained. Tia just nodded and waited for Kairi to ask her question. "Oh I guess it's my turn." Kairi laughed. "So what world are you from?"
"I'm from the world of Calão." Tia replied.
"I've never heard of that world before, were you born there?"
"I do beleive that is two questions, so we can skip your turn. No I was not born there; I was in fact born in Radiant Garden."
"No way, that's where I was born also. I don't remember living there at all; I only remember moving to Destiny Islands. Why did you leave?"
For the first time Tia actually smiled at her. "You now this really isn't twenty questions anymore, because your asking all the questions."
Kairi giggled despite herself, "Sorry."
"I'd rather not say why I left the world." Tia replied seriously.
Sora lay in his bed trying to sleep for the night. It was always weird trying to sleep in this world because it never got dark; he wondered how they decided when it was day and when it was night. But it wasn't the light that was keeping him from sleep; what Riku said about Tia was still on his mind. Could Tia really be his enemy and is only pretending to be his friend.
Sora shook his head confused. But that didn't make sense; if Tia was against him than why did she kill the heartless and nobodies. Maybe she wasn't on either side, but as far as he knew there were only two sides, good and evil, light and dark there was no in-between side, was there?
Knowing that he would never be able to sleep with so much on his mind, Sora got up and left his room heading down the hallway towards where Tia's room was. He stopped in front of her door but didn't knock. "I don't want to wake her up." He whispered to himself. Great job Sora, why'd you even come down her if you didn't want to wake her up?
The Keyblade Master shook his head and was about to head back to his room, but he heard something coming from her room. Silently tip toeing closer to her door he pressed his ear to it and strained his hears to listen. It was Tia singing again, that mysterious song; he had woken up every night since he had met Tia to find her singing the same song. There was something about that song that he couldn't put his finger on. The melody was beautiful but in a different way sent shivers down your spine.
Sora suddenly realized that he was singing alone with her on some parts of the song that he learned from listening to her so often. Then he noticed that there was something off about her singing. Before she sang so smoothly and confidently; but now she kept stopping abruptly and starting again. After several minutes she stopped completely, which meant that she had gone to sleep, and not wanting to disturb her he went back to his room to try and sleep again.
The next morning, they all got ready to leave. Two gummi ships were prepared to leave; a single rider ship for King Mickey, and a ship that would be able to hold the four of them. "Sora, Aerith contacted me last night and asked for you to return to Radiant Garden as soon as possible." Mickey announced as he was getting ready to leave.
"What's the problem?" Sora asked concerned.
"I don't know, she didn't say. But I'm sure its nothing two horrible, otherwise she probably would of said." Mickey explained.
"Well looks like we're going back to Radiant Garden now." Goofy chuckled.
"Yep, and it sounds urgent so we better get going." Sora urged. "Donald come on we're leaving."
Donald was a little ways away saying his good byes to Daisy. "Go on Donald, you friends are waiting." Daisy urged her boyfriend.
"All right, you make sure you take care of yourself. You hear me?" Donald ordered; he realized that he couldn't fall apart now, Daisy was now in her second trimester and he had to be strong for her and couldn't let his fears get in the way.
Daisy smiled at him, very happy that her boyfriend was now trying to be strong for her. "Don't worry Donald; everything is going to be fine."
"Ok, I love you." Donald kissed her on the cheek and left to join Sora.
The rest of them said good byes and boarded the gummi ship, Sora and Donald had there usually fight on who was going to drive, and after a while Tia got fed up and said that she was going to drive shutting them both up.
Tia could actually drive pretty well; they in fact made it to Radiant Garden in no time. She and Sora's deal seemed completely forgotten; Tia seem to have any problem with going back to Radiant Garden and didn't seem very eager anymore about going back to her world. In fact she didn't even mention it anymore.
They headed to Merlin's house after they landed, and Aerith was waiting for them. "Sora, I'm so glad you came." She said.
"What's the problem Aerith?" Sora asked anxiously.
"Well, Cid found some reports on the Emotion Seekers on the computer. And it contains information about how to defeat them other things, so we need you look through them." Tifa explained while she was looking at the computer with Cid.
"Oh great, let me see." Sora said walking over to the computer.
"Well there's about a thousand pages worth of it." Cid commented.
"Aw man, we don't have time for that." Sora explained.
"But Sora, this could have information that you need." Aerith said.
"Well maybe, you guys could read through it for me and take notes, and later on I can come back to get them." Sora suggested.
"Jiminy, your good at taking note, why don't you do it." Goofy suggested.
"Well I don't know. I'm supposed to stay with you to conical your journey." Jiminy mused to himself.
"We'll be fine Jiminy, your needed here more than we us." Sora urged.
"Well if you think so Sora, I'll stay but you keep my journal and writing down the events for me." The cricket replied and handed Sora his journal.
"Where's Yuffie?" Aerith asked looking around but the other girl was no where in site.
"We'll go find her." Sora offered. "Tia you stay here and help out and me Donald and goofy will go find Yuffie."
"All right just hurry back sorry." Aerith called to Sora Donald and Goofy's retreating form.
It didn't take them long to find Yuffie in fact she actually ran right in to them almost running them over. "Wow, Yuffie, where are you going in such a hurry," Sora asked regaining his composer.
"Oh, hey Sora," The ninja greeted trying to catch her breath, "Say did you by any chance see any organization XIII guys by any chance have you."
"No but why would you be looking for Organization XIII guys, we got rid of them all?" Sora asked.
"There's some guy, stirring up trouble; and he's dressed in an Organization XIII outfit."
"That's impossible!" Donald said.
"Which one was it? What did he look like?" Sora asked.
"I don't know, never saw his face; he kept his hood up." The raven haired ninja explained.
"Gets go get him." Donald shouted already on the move and Goofy had to grab him by the collar of his shirt to hold him back.
"Hold on Donald; Yuffie, Aerith needs you back at Merlin's house." Sora explained
"All right, I'm going. Be careful you guys." Yuffie ordered.
"Don't worry about us Yuffie; just keep your head up."
"Let's go already" Donald pressed before running off. Sora and Goofy waved bye to Yuffie before running off down the ally ways after Donald.
I didn't take long for them to catch site of who they were looking for. Sora caught him examining a wall; but as soon as he noticed that he was being followed the figure ran off again.
"It is someone from the organization!" Sora called behind him. He was on the figures tail until they cornered him at the edge of a cliff by the old castle. Sora and his friends ran up to the figure, summoning his keyblade. "Alright you, who are you and what, are you doing here?"
The figure turned to look at them; he had his hood up shadowing his, and the burette couldn't put his finger on which it was. The figure was short and small with even a feminine figure, and all the members that he remembered meeting where never that small and none of them where girls.
"Are you threatening me?" the figure asked in a feminine voice, which meant they were very wrong about her gender. The figure they now knew was a girl spread her legs apart and lifted her hands; some black pasty stuff formed in her hands then slowly dripped down till they formed into two vicious looking whips that were dripping with the black pasty stuff.
Sora got in battle position. She made the first move by slashing one of her whips at him; Sora dodged it by jumping back. The girl made another attack by slashing her whip horizontally at him, but Sora was able to jump over it. There battle skills seemed to be equal, Sora seemed to be able to dodge all of her attacks but he wasn't able to get anywhere near her to land his own attack.
The girl made another attack on him, slashing one of her whips at him. The deadly whip wrapped around Sora's neck and she pulled tight to block his airways. Sora made a squeaking noise as he tried to take a breath and became dizzy. "Sora," Donald called out to him and casted thunder on the girl; making her collapse to the ground.
This gave Sora the extra slack to get his neck out of the whips hold. The figure regained her composure quickly and snatched her whip back before Sora could grab it and the two continued to fight. Sora still couldn't get close enough to her to land an attack. So he tried something different. As soon as she slashed out one of her whips again Sora held his keyblade up in the air so that the whip wrapped around it. Then in one fast movement he pulled the keyblade toward him taking the whip out of her grasp; leaving the figure with only one of the deadly weapons.
That made her freeze, and even though she had her hood up the keyblade master could feel the girls' eyes boring into him. "Only one was ever able to pull that move on me." she commented more to herself than to him.
She stared at him more; Sora got ready for an unexpected attack. "Sora," she suddenly said bewildered. "So you're Sora, I should of known."
Then a big glob of the black pasty poison formed in the girls' hand, and then she flung it at him. Sora jumped back in surprised dropping the whip in the process. Then the girl made a jump to get her whip back; than made an unexpected slash at Sora.
She got him in the side breaking his skin and making him bleed and getting the black paste right on his wound. The burette quickly used his hand to wipe the stuff away from his injury, but it only made it worse. The foreign paste was sticky and clung to his skin and the more he tried to wipe it away the more he kept smearing it and the boy now had it all over his hands and his side. "Sora!" Donald shouted and casted heal, and the wound closed up.
The figure laughed evilly at him. "What's the matter, don't you recognize me?" she asked.
"I've never seen you before in my life!" Sora shot heatedly.
That comment seemed to make the figure angry, and she started fighting like her life depended on it. Using the same move Sora was able to take away this time both of her whips, finally had the chance to start attacking her.
At last she collapsed on the ground breathing heavily; her hood had fallen from her face, and for the first time Sora looked into her emerald orbs. She was quite beautiful, long black hair, around the age of thirteen or fourteen, green eyes, eyes that were filled with sorrow and betrayal.
She glared straight at Sora. "How could you Roxas?" she chocked back sobs as tears filled her eyes. "I thought that- you said that ... what about the promise we made!" she shouted sorrow evident in her voice. "The promise you made, I mean- don't you remember?" The tears started leaking down her cheeks.
There was a minute's silence. "I guess not." She broke into silent sobs. "Ju…just go ahead and…and kill me I-I have no other reason to live." She fully collapsed face down on the ground sobbing her nonexistent heart out.
The keyblade master felt a twinge of remorse for her. "Sora, what are you waiting for kill her." Donald encouraged.
Sora took a step towards the sobbing girl and raised his keyblade, but something stopped him from bringing it down; he couldn't do it, he just couldn't. They all stood still that for a few minutes; until the girl looked up confused as to why she wasn't dead yet. She looked straight into Sora's blue orbs.
"Go," Sora ordered. "Leave now, and don't come back."
Hope flashed across her face, "You are still in there Roxas, and you do remember now … Roxas, my brother is still alive; we were wrong, and he's looking for you. You have to find him." That was the last she said before she sank onto a dark portal that appeared beneath her.
Donald's mouth was opened with shock. "Sora! Why did you let her go-" his voiced suddenly softened in confusion when Sora turned around. "Sora, why are you crying?"
Sure enough Sora had tears running down his cheeks. "I don't know." He replied in a confused voice.
Sora suddenly noticed that his hands were burning. He looked down at his hands and saw that the black pasty poison was like acid burning through his skin, and quickly rubbed his hands over his clothes to get the stuff of. After it was all off his hands looked red raw but it didn't look bad enough to worry about.
The three of them headed back to Merlin's house; the tears hadn't stopped falling from Sora's eyes since he let the mysterious girl go, and his friends hadn't stopped throwing him anxious and concerned looks.
Sora kept reassuring them that he was fine and had no idea why he was crying; but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't stop the tears form falling. "Hello, we're back!" Goofy called as they walked in.
Yuffie came running up to greet them. "Hey Sora did you find the guy- Sora what's wrong?" She asked.
"Well that 'guy' is in fact a girl and she did something to him because he hasn't stopped crying since he let her go."
"Guys I really don't know why I'm crying, I don't even feel sad right now." Sora reassured them.
The looks on there faces varied from confusion to concern but no one else commented on it. They decided to stay the night and leave the next morning. As they all lay down to go the sleep, Sora's eyes were starting to get sore because of all the crying, and he still hadn't stopped, than a thought came to him.
Sitting up quickly he turned to his companions. "Donald, Goofy," he whispered to wake them up.
"What is it Sora, are you ok?" Goofy asked sitting up looking concerned. Donald sat up too looking equally concerned.
"Guys, I don't think it's me that's crying." He started; Donald and Goofy both raised an eyebrow at him.
"It's not me, I think its Roxas" Sora said a matter of factly, when his friends confused looks didn't vanish he went on. "Remember before he found out about the nobodies and we first left twilight town after meeting Hayner, Pence and Olette?"
They both nodded, and Sora continued. "Before we left on the train and I started crying, but that was me it was Roxas."
"But why would Roxas, be crying so much now?" Donald asked confused.
"He knew that girl, and made some promise with her; maybe…I don't know" Sora looked down in confusion.
Nothing else was said they all laid down again still puzzling over the situation. The tears had finally stopped and Sora slowing fell asleep and started dreaming of memories that weren't his.
Two figures, were standing in front of memory skyscraper, both clothed in organization uniform hoods up getting ready for battle; there weapons were summoned, two whips appeared on one figures hands and two keyblades appeared in the other's.
They started fighting, landing a fare amount blows to each other, at last the figure with the keyblades did a very familiar move. Raising one of his keyblades up in the air letting the other figures whips wrap around the key then pulling them away. Then the figure landed on ground and the other figure with the keyblades stood over them in triumph. "I told you." A male's voice spoke from beneath the hood. "Your good, but I'll always be better." He threw back his hood reveling his spiky blond hair and sky blue orbs.
The figure on the ground removed there own hood reveling the mysterious girl, she smirked up at Roxas. "Don't let your head get two big, I'm going to one day beat you, and its going to hurt."
The blond Key of Destiny smirked at the raven haired girl. "Keep dreaming honey," he dismissed his keyblade. The girl stood up looking at Roxas seductively, wrapping her arms around him and kissed him passionately. The blond responded to the kiss, then suddenly she pulled away looking away from him. "Roxas I can't do it anymore." she said.
"What is it Xylia!" Roxas asked concerned.
Tears filled the girls' eyes. "I want to really love you, but they all say that these emotions our only memories, it's not fair, I love you so much, but it's not real."
Roxas looked at his hands, "But we're going to get our hearts back, and where close, and when that happens it will be real."
"But will it be the same, will you still love me?"
"Of course I'll still love." Roxas reassured but she still looked skeptical. "I'm going to make a promise to you. I promise that no matter what happens; I'll always love. You are the only one I'll ever love." He kissed her on the lips.
The memory faded then formed onto something else.
The two nobodies were standing on an ally way in the world that never was; they both looked like they finished with a gruesome battle, and both were staggering struggling to catch there breathe.
Xylia looked at Roxas anger and betrayal in her eyes. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!" she screamed. "I thought you loved me." Tears leaked from her eyes.
"I do love you Xylia; I just have to find out."
"But if you find him, you could disappear forever, you could forget me."
"Xylia, I promise, that I'll never forget you, as long as you don't forget me."
"I won't forget you if you don't forget me, promise."
"I promise."
The dream faded as Sora awoke, and he couldn't believe it. "He had a secret romance with her." he whispered to himself.
A sound from outside caught his attention. He stood up and quietly walked toward the door; he had a feeling about what it was. He very quietly opened the door and as he expected it was Tia singing her mysterious song again. She obviously heard him open the door because she stopped singing right away and looked toward his direction.
"Oh no, you don't have to stop, I like listening to you sing." Sora said as he started walking toward her.
"What are you doing up?" she asked as he approached her.
"I just heard you singing and came out here to listen. Why do you only sing in the middle of the night?" he asked.
"That's just when I like to sing."
"What's the song called?"
"It's called Trucant la foscor."
"What is that translated?"
"We should go back to bed." Tia suggested obviously changing the subject. Sora gave her a look but didn't press on; he wondered if he'd ever understand her.
Maleficent walked through the halls of her castle; she stopped in front of a door briefly before opening it. Inside was a dimly lit room lightly furnished with a small child sized bed and dresser. A few toys scattered the ground; and a small girl with long black hair and dressed in a dark blue dress, was sitting on the floor silently playing with a doll.
A look of fear crossed her face when she saw the witch approaching her. Maleficent gracefully walked over to her and bent down to make eye contact to her and brought her pale hand to gently run over the child's chin. "There, there my dear; there is no reason to fear me."
The small girl let out a terrified gasp and looked away from the witch tears filling her eyes. "Now sweetheart, it won't be long now before its time to do your part in my plan." Maleficent continued.
The child started trembling slightly and a soft sob escaped her while tears fell down her cheeks. "Don't worry honey, it is no different from anything else you've done; is should be very easy for you. Am I right?"
"Y-Yes." The girl whispered through her frightened sobs.
"That's my girl." Maleficent said in a disgustingly sweet voice then kissed the top of her head before walking out leaving the young girl to cry quietly.
ooooh plot twist. What could Maleficent need a little girl for? And what is that poison going to do to Sora; for those of you that are familiar with my other stories can probably figure it out. My story muse has finally come back from vacation; hopefully she won't go away for so long again.
Like I said this chapter was different from my story, I improved the battle scenes a little by adding more detail to it. They still aren't that good because I totally suck at battle scenes. It may take a little while for the next chapter to get up because school's starting soon but is shouldn't take as long as before.