DISCLAIMER: *Ahem* Through out this fanfic there will be many characters
and items that are in video games, I do not own any one of them, the only
thing I can ever take credit for is my original characters and other ideas
put into this fanfic. All characters from games probably are owned and
licensed by Squaresoft or their own respective companies.
I do not get paid for the creation of this fanfic (wish I did though).
But:
I write this fanfic to amuse readers.
I write this fanfic to show the world how bad my spelling is.
I write this fanfic because it was the only other thing to do at 11:30 at night.
I write this fanfic because I have no other way to express my gratitude to all of the writers/animators of great games and animes.
(Note: Because of the fact that italic writing won't show up on Fanficiton.net I will be putting dreams and other special visions after this symbol *** )
Content Warning: (If any) In this 'fic there is mild use of foul language and some humor that would be considered inappropriate for younger children also, there might be so romance (still in progress with the details) but nothing is for certain...
~Have fun and don't sue!
Otherworld: The Beginning
Chapter 4
~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~
Aeris walked out from the room where her 'guest' was being treated. She held a bowl of warm water and used bandages, this was the sixth day since she had last talked to Lia and though she seemed to be getting better, she still had an awful amount of bruises and had gotten a high fever.
She leaned against the wooden door that separated the rooms and Aeris put her hand to her aching forehead, "The faster she heals, the better." she sighed. Aeris lifted off the door and walked into the hallway down to wash out the bowl and gather more bandages.
~*~
Lia looked out of the window in the room, her arms curled protectively in her lap and looked up at the endless night sky. The stars blinked lazily in her view twinkling in a far off manner, 'Like I wish I was...' she thought sadly.
For the past couple of nights she had been having the same dream over and over, the same dream she had first arrived here. Her legs shifted uncomfortably and she swung them around the edge of the seat near the window so she wouldn't have to stare at the depressing sky. She stared at the small dresser that elevated a lamp Aeris had so kindly left.
Lia stood up, wavering a bit as her weight shifted from one leg to another. 'I really need to get out of here, there is absolutely no reason I of all people should be cooped up like this, injury or no injury!' Lia thought with a huge smile, she limped to the closet in one of the corners and searched through it for a good pair of clothes.
Lia searched through various garments when she came upon her own clothes. Her white tank top with ripped slightly where the straps met the shirt, and her jeans were torn in three places and one pocket was partially ripped off, 'Great, just great.' she thought. She searched in the closet and pulled out a shorts made of blue jean material with three buttons in place of the zipper and a bright red tanktop with a black disfigured heart in its center. She slipped out of the pajamas she was wearing and put the shorts and shirt on and brushed her hair thoroughly. Lia searched through the closet again for some shoes and a small bag caught her eye; the bag was a dull purple drawstring bag with the ends of the pull strings frayed from age. The bag was somewhat heavy, Lia up- ended it on the floor and small balls rolled out with 'MUNNY' printed in bold letters on them, there must have been three hundred of the little balls too.
Lia shrugged, scooped all of them back into the bag and tied the string onto her jeans. 'Now, where are my weapons? Who knows when those things try to attack me again.' , Lia searched around the room and poked under chairs, tables until she came to the bed. She got onto her knees and looked under the bed, she pulled her head back and searched around for her shield, sword and staff in the darkened area underneath the bed. Her hand slapped dully against a hard metal object, she smiled and grabbed onto one the edges.
Her shield glittered dully in the soft light from the lamp on the dresser Aeris had left from her last visit. As she pulled the remainder of the shield from the bed Lia's sword was dragged out too by a long piece of gold braided cord that met in a fancy knot that was tied to a leather strap on the back of the shield. Lia pulled apart the tie, and swung the shield behind her back and slipped the sword in also.
"Now for my staff..." she whispered with a bright-eyed smile.
Lia searched the whole area of the room and it clicked in her head, she had seen Aeris leave it in one of the drawers of the nightstand. She crawled diligently and opened the top drawer to her prize; Lia grabbed her staff and shot up ignoring the sharp pain from the many bruises on her leg. Lia walked over to the four paned windows and opened it to its full extent and looked down at the seemingly familiar alleyway below her. She looked down at the stone before her and grimaced, 'This is going to hurt a little...". Lia swung a leg over the edge of the window and then another, Lia stuck her head out by crouching and hopped down.
She landed with a thud, followed by another much louder one as she fell backwards onto her rump. Lia's feet stung and she felt like she had just crossed a sea of needles. She shook her head and stood up shakily, grasping at the wall nearest to her. She looked up cross-eyed and saw two cloudy windows, nodded and stumbled down the alley.
~*~
A small black shadow moved swiftly down the side of a wall as it watched the rapidly disappearing for of the girl it was assigned to watch. It took for on the top of a building and twitched its head slightly and looked up at the faraway clock tower and bowed slightly.
Its master had gotten the message... She was one the move, alone.
~*~
Sora tightly grasped the bag of groceries Aeris had sent the group out for. Ironically, he was the only one carrying bags. Everyone was silent, the only noise being made was of the voices of scurrying children and adults talking amongst of to themselves in the now crowded shopping area. Since Sora had closed the Door to this world with the Keyblade, everything had seemed to return to normal other than the occasional Heartless.
Donald gave a raspy laugh as Leon cracked a joke Sora either didn't understand or didn't hear. Goofy gave an appalled face and shook his head and looked at Sora with a lop-sided smile. Sora looked up at his tall companion and gave the widest grin he could manage. Goofy K-yucked a couple of times that resembled a laugh.
The small group strolled down the fronts of many shops, turning down all the open invitations to warmer spaces. Leon stopped them infront of the coffee shop and led them inside. He walked past a small booth that had a sign literally saying "Wait!" and sat down at a table near the front window.
Sora gratefully dropped the heavy bags he was carrying and sat down with a content smile. "So, why are we here Leon? Does Aeris need some coffee?" asked Sora with closed eyes. Leon set gray eyes on Sora, "No, but I'm cold and need a warm drink and so does Donald." he said in a matter-of- fact way. Sora nodded with his eyes still closed and stifled a yawn with a gloved hand.
A waitress approached with four menus covering her face. She stopped infront of their table and set one menu infront of each of the companions. "I'll have..." Leon started with his head in the menu. "Holy cow! It's Yuffie!" Sora gasped loudly. It was Yuffie; she blushed crimson as she pulled her red apron with yellow striped down tightly to cover her beige shorts. Leon looked up quickly and gave a whole-hearted laugh at the cherry red Yuffie.
"Are you going to order something or are you just going to laugh at me the whole time?!" she yelled loudly causing customers and co-workers to look up quickly at her.
"Ahem, what would you like....sirs." she said in a quieter tone. The group looked into their menus, Donald and Leon both ordering cappuccinos, Goofy ordering an Agrabah Creme and Sora just ordering a Hot Fudge Jungle Sundae. Yuffie sighed begrudgingly and stalked off to put in their orders.
~*~
Lia wandered through the mazes of alleyways and small roads leading to nowhere, passing by many places with weird names that even she couldn't pronounce. She came to a big courtyard much like every other she passed filled with people carrying bags and boxes, "It's the holidays all over again..." she sighed.
Somehow managing her way through the crowded bunch, Lia looked through the glass windows in front of the stores to find what she wanted. Lia came to a store that looked remotely like a shoe store. Just as she stepped one foot inside fifteen people came running out nearly trampling her. Lia coughed and straightened her clothes and walked inside. On wooden floors were painted shapes of what looked like brick that made up a long winding road while the walls reflected the colors of the city at night and a navy blue ceiling with starts and a gigantic moon in the center. All together were no big change from being outside.
As she wandered down the aisles, Lia started to wonder if these people had oh, how could she put it? Normal shoes. Nearly every pair she found was either three times the size of her foot or had such a bizarre shape to it that she couldn't fit her foot into it to begin with.
She trudged through the store she was nearing the back when she noticed what in her opinion were normal shoes. Though the majority were tasteless high-heeled boots or sandals while some were cross- training and running. Lia picked out two pairs that somewhat matched her clothes, low cut boots made of a very flexible leather of some kind colored black and a pair of running shoes black also with splotches of red ever so often. Happy with her choices, she went to the front desk and paid the small amount of 55 'munny' and a very curious smile from the clerk.
~*~
As Lia started out from the shoe store she was again almost trampled by a stampede of customers, "They should really get bigger doors." she coughed as she regained her breath. Lia wandered again, this time looking for a clothes store now carrying a bag of shoes as well as her wand. She was looking upward into the sky when she was hit by someone's low flying bag and knocked into a store; Lia skidded to a halt under a coat rack and stood up.
'Kind of ironic, huh?' she thought giving curious glances into various parts of the store.
She wandered to a part of the store that had bags and backpacks and looked, she found a black backpack that had a square opening with a zipper that had the same disfigured heart as her shirt. Lia shrugged; at least it was roomy. Lia looked down through some of the aisles and found one with brushes and hair accessories and toiletries, she picked out a big pack of hair bands and a circular brush and some of the necessary toiletries. She backtracked to the clothes area and picked out a set of pajamas made up of red and green drawstring plaid pants and a thick white shirt with similar clothes that she was wearing now a pair of long pants, alot of ankle length socks and a watch.
Lia went to the check-out lane and was smushed between two very talkative women that seemed to be talking about what they ate in the morning, how they differentiated between day and night was a mystery to Lia. In her little expedition into the clothing store she spent 195 munny.
She walked outside of the store and stuffed her items into the various pockets, slipped her wand inside of the backpack letting the end stick out but tying it securely and slipping on a pair of socks and put on her running shoes and set her watch by the time on a giant clock tower in the courtyard. Unbeknownst to Lia, she was being watched the whole time not only by Heartless but also Riku.
~*~
Donald yawned and rubbed his stomach as he leaned back in his chair, giving Leon a sidelong glance and Leon nodded. Meanwhile Sora and Goofy were engaged in a fierce thumb war game, Goofy obviously winning.
Yuffie slammed the check onto their table a slight red tinge still visible on her cheeks. "Here you go sirs." she said through clenched teeth, Leon still snickered as she said 'sirs'. Goofy glanced at the check and flipped his thumb giving the upperhand to Sora who was about to pin Goofy's thumb when Leon said "Ok you two, it's time to go."
Sora first stepped foot out side and almost ran into a girl wearing a red tank top, blue shorts and toting a black backpack. The girl stepped backwards slightly and looked up at tramplee. She gasped, and Sora barely heard it as he was grumbling while looking down at his shirt.
Lia stared at Sora and watched in horror as Goofy, Donald and Squall Leonheart walked from behind him. She started to back away and ran into two more people.
"Whoa, sorry 'bout that..." laughed Sora as he started to look up. Leon squinted his eyes at the girl backing away from Sora. "Hey, aren't you the girl..." he started until the girl took off in a sprint.
~*~
Riku watched in amusement as the girl he was tracking ran into his rival Sora. His smiled widened into a malicious grin as he watched her back off quickly as she seemed to be in shock from who she recognized while Sora was still oblivious to the whole thing. She looked up to see Sora new 'friends' and she took off running.
He leaned forward slightly on the spot where he was sitting, blending in perfectly with the black background of the night.
Today was getting good.
A/N: Oh yeah! Fourth chapter! Sorry it took extremely long but I just had to much homework to do. I know I'm switching Squall to Leon but that's how Sora knows him and Squall is how Lia knows him. Well anywho, I got adventurous, BOOYAH! I'll add the world hopping next chapter and also a bit in Wonderland then off to China (yes, this is my own created world with the characters of Mulan). Reviews please! Flamers always welcome, but be creative.
(P.S.: Sorry for any and all typing errors and bad use of punctuation.)
~Mandala (CaitSith11093@aol.com)
TBC
I do not get paid for the creation of this fanfic (wish I did though).
But:
I write this fanfic to amuse readers.
I write this fanfic to show the world how bad my spelling is.
I write this fanfic because it was the only other thing to do at 11:30 at night.
I write this fanfic because I have no other way to express my gratitude to all of the writers/animators of great games and animes.
(Note: Because of the fact that italic writing won't show up on Fanficiton.net I will be putting dreams and other special visions after this symbol *** )
Content Warning: (If any) In this 'fic there is mild use of foul language and some humor that would be considered inappropriate for younger children also, there might be so romance (still in progress with the details) but nothing is for certain...
~Have fun and don't sue!
Otherworld: The Beginning
Chapter 4
~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~
Aeris walked out from the room where her 'guest' was being treated. She held a bowl of warm water and used bandages, this was the sixth day since she had last talked to Lia and though she seemed to be getting better, she still had an awful amount of bruises and had gotten a high fever.
She leaned against the wooden door that separated the rooms and Aeris put her hand to her aching forehead, "The faster she heals, the better." she sighed. Aeris lifted off the door and walked into the hallway down to wash out the bowl and gather more bandages.
~*~
Lia looked out of the window in the room, her arms curled protectively in her lap and looked up at the endless night sky. The stars blinked lazily in her view twinkling in a far off manner, 'Like I wish I was...' she thought sadly.
For the past couple of nights she had been having the same dream over and over, the same dream she had first arrived here. Her legs shifted uncomfortably and she swung them around the edge of the seat near the window so she wouldn't have to stare at the depressing sky. She stared at the small dresser that elevated a lamp Aeris had so kindly left.
Lia stood up, wavering a bit as her weight shifted from one leg to another. 'I really need to get out of here, there is absolutely no reason I of all people should be cooped up like this, injury or no injury!' Lia thought with a huge smile, she limped to the closet in one of the corners and searched through it for a good pair of clothes.
Lia searched through various garments when she came upon her own clothes. Her white tank top with ripped slightly where the straps met the shirt, and her jeans were torn in three places and one pocket was partially ripped off, 'Great, just great.' she thought. She searched in the closet and pulled out a shorts made of blue jean material with three buttons in place of the zipper and a bright red tanktop with a black disfigured heart in its center. She slipped out of the pajamas she was wearing and put the shorts and shirt on and brushed her hair thoroughly. Lia searched through the closet again for some shoes and a small bag caught her eye; the bag was a dull purple drawstring bag with the ends of the pull strings frayed from age. The bag was somewhat heavy, Lia up- ended it on the floor and small balls rolled out with 'MUNNY' printed in bold letters on them, there must have been three hundred of the little balls too.
Lia shrugged, scooped all of them back into the bag and tied the string onto her jeans. 'Now, where are my weapons? Who knows when those things try to attack me again.' , Lia searched around the room and poked under chairs, tables until she came to the bed. She got onto her knees and looked under the bed, she pulled her head back and searched around for her shield, sword and staff in the darkened area underneath the bed. Her hand slapped dully against a hard metal object, she smiled and grabbed onto one the edges.
Her shield glittered dully in the soft light from the lamp on the dresser Aeris had left from her last visit. As she pulled the remainder of the shield from the bed Lia's sword was dragged out too by a long piece of gold braided cord that met in a fancy knot that was tied to a leather strap on the back of the shield. Lia pulled apart the tie, and swung the shield behind her back and slipped the sword in also.
"Now for my staff..." she whispered with a bright-eyed smile.
Lia searched the whole area of the room and it clicked in her head, she had seen Aeris leave it in one of the drawers of the nightstand. She crawled diligently and opened the top drawer to her prize; Lia grabbed her staff and shot up ignoring the sharp pain from the many bruises on her leg. Lia walked over to the four paned windows and opened it to its full extent and looked down at the seemingly familiar alleyway below her. She looked down at the stone before her and grimaced, 'This is going to hurt a little...". Lia swung a leg over the edge of the window and then another, Lia stuck her head out by crouching and hopped down.
She landed with a thud, followed by another much louder one as she fell backwards onto her rump. Lia's feet stung and she felt like she had just crossed a sea of needles. She shook her head and stood up shakily, grasping at the wall nearest to her. She looked up cross-eyed and saw two cloudy windows, nodded and stumbled down the alley.
~*~
A small black shadow moved swiftly down the side of a wall as it watched the rapidly disappearing for of the girl it was assigned to watch. It took for on the top of a building and twitched its head slightly and looked up at the faraway clock tower and bowed slightly.
Its master had gotten the message... She was one the move, alone.
~*~
Sora tightly grasped the bag of groceries Aeris had sent the group out for. Ironically, he was the only one carrying bags. Everyone was silent, the only noise being made was of the voices of scurrying children and adults talking amongst of to themselves in the now crowded shopping area. Since Sora had closed the Door to this world with the Keyblade, everything had seemed to return to normal other than the occasional Heartless.
Donald gave a raspy laugh as Leon cracked a joke Sora either didn't understand or didn't hear. Goofy gave an appalled face and shook his head and looked at Sora with a lop-sided smile. Sora looked up at his tall companion and gave the widest grin he could manage. Goofy K-yucked a couple of times that resembled a laugh.
The small group strolled down the fronts of many shops, turning down all the open invitations to warmer spaces. Leon stopped them infront of the coffee shop and led them inside. He walked past a small booth that had a sign literally saying "Wait!" and sat down at a table near the front window.
Sora gratefully dropped the heavy bags he was carrying and sat down with a content smile. "So, why are we here Leon? Does Aeris need some coffee?" asked Sora with closed eyes. Leon set gray eyes on Sora, "No, but I'm cold and need a warm drink and so does Donald." he said in a matter-of- fact way. Sora nodded with his eyes still closed and stifled a yawn with a gloved hand.
A waitress approached with four menus covering her face. She stopped infront of their table and set one menu infront of each of the companions. "I'll have..." Leon started with his head in the menu. "Holy cow! It's Yuffie!" Sora gasped loudly. It was Yuffie; she blushed crimson as she pulled her red apron with yellow striped down tightly to cover her beige shorts. Leon looked up quickly and gave a whole-hearted laugh at the cherry red Yuffie.
"Are you going to order something or are you just going to laugh at me the whole time?!" she yelled loudly causing customers and co-workers to look up quickly at her.
"Ahem, what would you like....sirs." she said in a quieter tone. The group looked into their menus, Donald and Leon both ordering cappuccinos, Goofy ordering an Agrabah Creme and Sora just ordering a Hot Fudge Jungle Sundae. Yuffie sighed begrudgingly and stalked off to put in their orders.
~*~
Lia wandered through the mazes of alleyways and small roads leading to nowhere, passing by many places with weird names that even she couldn't pronounce. She came to a big courtyard much like every other she passed filled with people carrying bags and boxes, "It's the holidays all over again..." she sighed.
Somehow managing her way through the crowded bunch, Lia looked through the glass windows in front of the stores to find what she wanted. Lia came to a store that looked remotely like a shoe store. Just as she stepped one foot inside fifteen people came running out nearly trampling her. Lia coughed and straightened her clothes and walked inside. On wooden floors were painted shapes of what looked like brick that made up a long winding road while the walls reflected the colors of the city at night and a navy blue ceiling with starts and a gigantic moon in the center. All together were no big change from being outside.
As she wandered down the aisles, Lia started to wonder if these people had oh, how could she put it? Normal shoes. Nearly every pair she found was either three times the size of her foot or had such a bizarre shape to it that she couldn't fit her foot into it to begin with.
She trudged through the store she was nearing the back when she noticed what in her opinion were normal shoes. Though the majority were tasteless high-heeled boots or sandals while some were cross- training and running. Lia picked out two pairs that somewhat matched her clothes, low cut boots made of a very flexible leather of some kind colored black and a pair of running shoes black also with splotches of red ever so often. Happy with her choices, she went to the front desk and paid the small amount of 55 'munny' and a very curious smile from the clerk.
~*~
As Lia started out from the shoe store she was again almost trampled by a stampede of customers, "They should really get bigger doors." she coughed as she regained her breath. Lia wandered again, this time looking for a clothes store now carrying a bag of shoes as well as her wand. She was looking upward into the sky when she was hit by someone's low flying bag and knocked into a store; Lia skidded to a halt under a coat rack and stood up.
'Kind of ironic, huh?' she thought giving curious glances into various parts of the store.
She wandered to a part of the store that had bags and backpacks and looked, she found a black backpack that had a square opening with a zipper that had the same disfigured heart as her shirt. Lia shrugged; at least it was roomy. Lia looked down through some of the aisles and found one with brushes and hair accessories and toiletries, she picked out a big pack of hair bands and a circular brush and some of the necessary toiletries. She backtracked to the clothes area and picked out a set of pajamas made up of red and green drawstring plaid pants and a thick white shirt with similar clothes that she was wearing now a pair of long pants, alot of ankle length socks and a watch.
Lia went to the check-out lane and was smushed between two very talkative women that seemed to be talking about what they ate in the morning, how they differentiated between day and night was a mystery to Lia. In her little expedition into the clothing store she spent 195 munny.
She walked outside of the store and stuffed her items into the various pockets, slipped her wand inside of the backpack letting the end stick out but tying it securely and slipping on a pair of socks and put on her running shoes and set her watch by the time on a giant clock tower in the courtyard. Unbeknownst to Lia, she was being watched the whole time not only by Heartless but also Riku.
~*~
Donald yawned and rubbed his stomach as he leaned back in his chair, giving Leon a sidelong glance and Leon nodded. Meanwhile Sora and Goofy were engaged in a fierce thumb war game, Goofy obviously winning.
Yuffie slammed the check onto their table a slight red tinge still visible on her cheeks. "Here you go sirs." she said through clenched teeth, Leon still snickered as she said 'sirs'. Goofy glanced at the check and flipped his thumb giving the upperhand to Sora who was about to pin Goofy's thumb when Leon said "Ok you two, it's time to go."
Sora first stepped foot out side and almost ran into a girl wearing a red tank top, blue shorts and toting a black backpack. The girl stepped backwards slightly and looked up at tramplee. She gasped, and Sora barely heard it as he was grumbling while looking down at his shirt.
Lia stared at Sora and watched in horror as Goofy, Donald and Squall Leonheart walked from behind him. She started to back away and ran into two more people.
"Whoa, sorry 'bout that..." laughed Sora as he started to look up. Leon squinted his eyes at the girl backing away from Sora. "Hey, aren't you the girl..." he started until the girl took off in a sprint.
~*~
Riku watched in amusement as the girl he was tracking ran into his rival Sora. His smiled widened into a malicious grin as he watched her back off quickly as she seemed to be in shock from who she recognized while Sora was still oblivious to the whole thing. She looked up to see Sora new 'friends' and she took off running.
He leaned forward slightly on the spot where he was sitting, blending in perfectly with the black background of the night.
Today was getting good.
A/N: Oh yeah! Fourth chapter! Sorry it took extremely long but I just had to much homework to do. I know I'm switching Squall to Leon but that's how Sora knows him and Squall is how Lia knows him. Well anywho, I got adventurous, BOOYAH! I'll add the world hopping next chapter and also a bit in Wonderland then off to China (yes, this is my own created world with the characters of Mulan). Reviews please! Flamers always welcome, but be creative.
(P.S.: Sorry for any and all typing errors and bad use of punctuation.)
~Mandala (CaitSith11093@aol.com)
TBC
