a/n: Hey, sorry this took so long, there's a note at the bottom, otherwise on with the story!
Colors swirled around me making me
dizzy and sick to my stomach. Fading in
and out burning brightly the colors danced until I had to close my eyes to
keep my breakfast down.
From out of the abyss, a hand rested on my shoulder, steadying me.
"Look, Sora." The King of this
realm commanded me.
I opened my eyes,
only partly at first to see the colors had disappeared
from view. Opening my eyes fully, I saw a large sphere. There was a large
grassland prairie that connected with a jungle landscape that faded into a
beautiful ocean.
I couldn't get my
thoughts into any coherence. "What's goin' on?" I
finally
managed. "Where is this place?"
"This is the Void,
as I told you before. And that," Mickey motioned toward
the gigantic ball, "That is the world. Our world, it is all connected, and
anyone who ventures out like you did will find someone else's domain. You on
the other hand were able to dream yourself to these other places. You've a
strong heart, Sora."
I stared at the
planet, and then refocused my gaze on the mouse. "A…strong
heart?"
Mickey laughed.
"Yup, I'll explain it a little later. It's getting late,
you'd better be off to bed."
"Huh? We just got in
here and it was only just after breakfast when we I
came to you…"
"Time's different in
the Void. Come on now!" He said playfully and used the
hand on my shoulder steer me out back into the palace.
Sure enough, when we got back to Mickey's domain, the moon had taken the place of the sun and white starts were twinkling in the dark mass of sky.
"Alright." Riku announced, and changed my gaze from out the window back to him.
"I don't see why you make such a big deal out of changing." I mumbled as I made my way across the room. "besides I've seen you—"
"You were six years old!" Riku exclaimed losing his passive exterior momentarily.
"Then why don't you use the closet or bathroom?" I saw a flash of a 'why didn't I' face before but it vanished quickly.
"Closet's too dark." He replied indifferently, "and the bathroom is all the way at the other end of the hall, a little inconvenient if you ask me." He smirked before flipping out the lights.
I crawled beneath the clean sheets of the bed happy that the cleaning people there had taken the time to clean my night shirt as well.
"Riku?"
"Yeah?"
"When are we going to leave this place?"
Riku laughed lightly elbowing me in the ribs playfully "what's the matter, Sora? You want to go home already? Miss your mom?" he mocked.
I pushed Riku back and retorted with a "Well we can't stay here forever." Unfortunately for Riku, he had been on the very edge of the bed and when I pushed him, he went toppling over the edge dragging the covers with him.
"Sora!"
I grinned and laughed lightly, falling asleep soon after my friend had returned to the bed and the covers had been restored.
I walked blindly through the darkness, hands in front of me, groping for any object to guide myself. The floor shifted beneath my bare feet like sand as I moved along slowly. Am I home? No, I don't hear the ocean. I walked on and on until I didn't think this abyss would ever end.
A voice boomed with malicious laughter, the sounds echoing off unknown walls. I looked around in hopes of finding the source, but to no avail. "Ha, you really think that you'll be able to save them? It is too late." It scoffed, "you are too late." The distinctly masculine voice paused as I tried to understand what it was talking about.
"You understand so little. Everything shall be devoured, and you cannot stop me. Nothing you can do, nothing you can try, nothing will save you or your pathetic little world now. Your very attempt to come here was pure folly. You cannot defeat me!" The voice cackled before fading out and revealing the planet I had seen earlier with King Mickey.
"What's going on, why don't you tell me who you are?" I yelled, hoping to get some answers but none came. The ground beneath my feet dematerialized as I stepped forward but I remained suspended in the air.
It was like swimming—I moved through space kicking my feet to propel me forward toward the planet.
Heat. Pain. Burning. Electric shock. All these my brain registered. Then when blank as if I was slipping back into that black abyss I had just escaped from.
I opened my eyes partly to view various shades of yellows, browns, and tans. Where..? Where am I? I winced at the pain flaming though my sides as I attempted to sit up. A…desert? Squinting in the bright sunlight, I looked around. Off to my right was a stretch of shadow and to my left was a seemingly closer splotch of darkness on the horizon.
With a small sigh, I headed off to my left, trudging through the scorching sands that were burning my feet, mentally noting to wear shoes to bed the next night.
After much walking, I arrived at a huge bustling city. My feet were blistering and each step was more painful than the last. Let's just get this over with, where's the big bad monster person so I can just beat him and wake up? Looking around, I couldn't find anything wrong with my new surroundings. A little different than the last times I had visited new places through sleep.
"Uh, excuse me…" I walked up to one of the owners of a small stand on the street who was selling apples and watermelons.
"Apples! Watermelons! Freshly picked! Best ya ever seen!" The shopkeeper shouted into the busy streets swarming with people/
"Umm, excuse me, but—"
What? Oh! How'd you like to buy a nice juicy watermelon? Or a beautifully crisp apple?" He smiled brightly, but I noticed him looking over my attire, which did make me stand out here…
"Actually, could you just tell me where this is?"
"Yeah, Agrabah. Where else is there?" The man laughed as his stomach bounced up and down.
"Agrabah?" I repeated.
"Yep, hey kid, you feelin' alright?" I nodded and made my way out back into the sea of people calling a "thanks" over my shoulder.
Throughout the day, while keeping an eye out for a villain, I collected money carelessly dropped by the moving people in the streets. I managed to collect enough to pay for a tiny room at a small hotel and a meager dinner.
Munching on an apple, I began to wonder why I hadn't been woken up yet, and what that voice had meant. "Come on, Riku." I said between bites, "wake me up already."
Tossing the core into a trashcan, I flopped onto the excuse for a bed. Oh well, I'll wake up next to Riku any time now, but for now, I might as well sleep here."
a/n: ack, that wasn't the greatest, and I'm sooo sorry that took so long. I wrote this chapter the first time, then decided I didn't like it and completely took it in this direction. And from there, I've had projects and tests galore and then I was just too lazy to type it, heh. Sorry about that once again. Please read and review. And in effort to get this up sooner, I didn't write notes to each one of you. I will next chapter, mmk?
Thanks to…. RIA, Ann-chan, Bouncybouncy, Dual Keyblade Master, Angel Bliss, Maxine, The True Sora, Silver Angel, and Luana Hime. (my reviewers for the previous chapter.) Thanks guys and I'm sorry I didn't get to give notes to you individually, but I thought having the next chapter up might have been better.
~*~Sora~*~
