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After I had gotten back to my feet after being knocked to the ground, explanations and introductions had been said, everyone had decided to go to the Indian camp, everyone, but Taiga and I. We were both tired and didn't feel like running around fires or whatever it is they were going to be doing. So everyone else had left and only Taiga and I were left at the base.
I took this time to study her. She was quite beautiful. Her pale blue eyes sparkling. As I looked at them I noticed how unusual they were. A pale blue that gave me the chills. The pattern in them was just as unsettling. Crescents that were almost white circled her pupil.
As she titled her head her hair shone, there were so many different colors and shadings. The tones ranging from a dark brown to a white blonde. She was short, and her body was curvy and full yet she stayed petite, her wrists and neck thin. She looked weak, but if you looked closely you could see that she had muscles that subtlety showed. She had a gentle looking face, but I knew that it could turn into a mask of rage. She was graceful and usually quiet though she could be loud just as easily.
"Hey Taiga?" I say, still looking at her. She was supposed to be my best friend, but I knew nothing about her.
"Hmmm..? Whats on your mind Lagroa?" she looks over at me, a slight dent between her brows.
"I was just thinking that you and Tinkerbell seemed really close," I say. "Is there a story to that?"
She laughs, it was a musical laugh just like a child's. "Well she's a part of me," Taiga says, smiling slightly.
"What does that mean?" I ask her confused. She continues to look up at the the ceiling, as if to see the stars that lay above it, a peaceful look on her face.
"Well a fairy is born from a baby's first laugh. It bounds from the baby's throat and out across the sea to Neverland," she says. "Sometimes part of the laugh breaks off, usually when that happens it just turns into nothing. In my case, however, my father had been sleeping as I laughed for the first time and I had woke him up. Well he stormed into the nursery while I was still laughing and he-" she stops and puts both her hands around her throat. I stare in horror.
"So while part of the laugh got out the rest broke off inside of me. When part of a laugh breaks off the fairy the laugh turns into may have a defect. In Tink's case she can't talk. She makes the sound of tinkling bells whenever she talks. She thinks she is talking like you and I do, but she isn't so when people don't understand what she is saying she can get frustrated!" Taiga laughs.
"Well why do you understand her?" I ask confused.
"Because the rest of her is inside me." Taiga says, "She can understand what we say, but the only people who know what she says are Peter and myself. I don't know how Peter does though.
"Anyway the other part of the laugh was absorbed into me, and gave me some fairy like abilities," she winks, "I can levitate a bit and I always have a faint glow around me that changes a bit depending on my mood.
"I lived with my mom, dad, and sister for a long time. My dad was abusive and had choked me many times after that first one. That's why my voice is deep. After he died my mom and sister and I struggled. I ran away about 4 years ago to make things easier on mom, so that she would only have one other person to take care of. A few months after I left I met a girl with blue hair. She took care of me for a few weeks then gave me my keyblade, she did the ceremony and when she finished she just suddenly disappeared.
"I met Axel by chance one day about a month later, almost attacked him! He was so damn lucky he was hot. I traveled with him for a while after that and we...got to know each other I suppose you could say," she gave me a naughty smile. "I met you and Riku about 7 months after that. Axel had been called in on someone Organization business at Castle Oblivion and I've been waiting for him to come back ever since." She smiles.
I remember seeing Axel when they had first taken me to that apartment. Marluxia had shown up and caught him and Axel had said he had a reason for helping me. But now Marluxia is dead and I haven't heard from the others in a long time. Was Taiga the reason? Did he really risk the trust of the organization just so she would have me, her best friend? Why had he not come to see her yet? I think of mentioning my seeing him, but decide against it, he probably had a good reason. They seemed to be very in love so he must have one.
"Love is magical," I hear myself say. Taiga looks over to me and smiles, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Yes," she says, looking back up at the ceiling, "Yes it is."
A long silence envelopes us, I stare at my hands, wondering what will happen next. "I'm sorry for forgetting..." I mumble more to myself than an apology to Taiga.
"Is all of our faults. We let you slip away," Taiga explains staring at the ceiling again.
"What does that mean? How did you guys let me slip away?"
"I'm not suppose to tell you, Riku said that we were suppose to let you figure out what happened. He means were suppose to keep secrets from you, years worth of secrets. They'll come pouring down on you one day and you will realize what happened to you. That's all he gave me the leverage to say."
"All I remember is a clip, from a battle, I think. It was dark and Riku had his arm stretched out to me. His Keyblade in his right hand and his left hand out to me. I was rapidly being covered in darkness, it was wrapping its way around my feet. He screamed my name and that's all I remember."
"How long have you known this?" Taiga asks, staring into my brown eyes.
"Since I was back in the real world, before all of the visions started happening, it was how I knew my name. But it just slowly comes back to me, the rest of the memories. Most of them have to do with something or someone that I'm near. I remember using Oblivion and the battle between all of those Heartless in Olympus Coliseum, seeing you use Naturia, Riku singing, Aladdin's wedding, and Tinkerbell putting Riku's hair up in knots."
"That's it?"
She says it like I should have had more than just that handful of visions, but that's it. I nod and stand, wanting to get out of the musty air that was surrounding the hidden area, and out to the fresh air. "Where are you going?" she asks.
"Outside, I want to see the stars and some fresh air."
"Do you mind if I come with?"
"No, not at all. I would be glad if you joined me." Taiga smiles and sets her hands on the bed, like she was about to launch herself off, which she was. She brings her feet up and pushes her hands off the bed, doing a complete front flip and landing on the floor. "Nice."
"Thanks." I follow her up a small flight of stairs that lead out of the base. We emerge from a hidden hole somewhere in the rooting of the big tree we had fallen out of earlier. It was dark, but not dark enough that we were not able to see.
"How long do you think the others will be?" I ask, lying down on the ground, staring at the stars twinkling in the sky.
"They are guys, they could basically live there!" Taiga erupts with laughter. "Riku's probably flirting with Tiger Lily!"
"Who is Tiger Lily?" I ask.
"She is the princess of the Piccidilly Tribe. Last time we were here, she showed some affection for him."
"Oh..."
"No need to get worried," Taiga says through laughter. "He doesn't like her in return. He likes someone else." I don't reply, hoping she couldn't see the red playing at the edges of my cheeks.
I return my gaze back to the sky, looking at the shining half moon. It seems way more peaceful than the events that are happening around it. The stars seem to still be in different orders here, too. "Did you know that every star up there," Taiga says, indicating the sky, "is a different world? Well that's what they say."
"I didn't know that."
"They're also brightest before they fall... I learned that from the girl who gave me my Keyblade..." Taiga says, trailing off into her thoughts.
I decide to drop the subject and continue to stare at the stars, wondering which ones were the ones we had already been to. "What was that?" Taiga whispers over to me.
"I didn't hear-" I stop myself because at that moment I did hear something, a faint rustling noise, it was coming from the treeline that surrounded the big tree.
Taiga stands and immediately summons Naturia, I follow what she was doing and summon Oblivion. She readys herself, already in a battle position. A Heartless bounds out of the trees, she pounds on it without hesitation. I ready myself also, I sense an upcoming attack from around us. This is gonna be a fun night! I think.