Looking around, I saw nothing but darkness. There was grass, dirt, trees,
but no light at all. I felt a tear fall down my cheek. I closed my eyes,
seeing Riku and Sora's faces, causing more tears to fall down my cheeks. I
saw the last time we were all together. Four years ago we were all sitting
on the beach together, for the last time we were all together before the
heartless came. Tears fell constantly as if they were rain. The locket
glowed brighter than ever. I looked at the staff, Riku made for me, forever
unbreakable. I opened my locket and smiled as I saw the picture of all of
us together. I turned to face Ansem.
"I don't know what you want with me, but I'm not going to let you get it with out a fight. I don't want to fight right now though." I said still holding the locket in my left hand, and the staff in my right. As I spoke to Ansem, I thought: Take me back to Sora and Riku! "So I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm not staying."
"." He was speechless, staring at me confused. I closed my eyes and in that very instant, still hearing Ansem's cursing as he saw me disappear, I traveled through time and space back to them. Back to my best friends in the world. I opened my eyes, tears still streaming down my face, to see the smiles of Riku and Sora as I appeared. She ran up and gave them each a hug.
"So glad to see you're safe!" Sora and Riku said in unison.
"I'm just glad to be away from that place. It was a world he created, but I still don't understand why he needs me. Sora you have to tell me." I said looking at him.
"He needs you because you were the youngest, which makes you the strongest Princess of heart. You are the only one who can actually stop him once and for all. How? Nobody knows. He was going to create a world where you would be happy and then make it where you could never leave, even by transporting. When you started crying because Riku and I weren't with you gave you the ability to transport. If you would have been happy there, you wouldn't have been able to leave, ever." He said looking down at the ground.
"Oh, why would that worry me, Sora?" I asked, making him look at me.
"Because I thought maybe you would feel pressure with all this laying on you, maybe thinking you wouldn't be able to complete the task laid out before you." He replied giving a shrug.
"Well now that you put it that way. What if I can't? What if I fail?" I asked, then seeing the look on their faces, I added quickly. "Only kidding! As long as you guys believe I can I will be ok."
They both smiled, and shook their heads laughing. Then talking behind the hands, so I couldn't hear, they both looked at me smiling. "What are you guys.?" I started to say, but before I could finish, they were both jumping on me, tickling me. They stopped and we all just laid there on the pavement for a while laughing. Then we headed back up to the hotel and into the room where Leon, Aerith and Yuffie were.
"We'll rest here and go looking for Ansem tomorrow." Riku said, "Sora, you and I will take turns keeping look out, incase he shows up during the night. Since you have the stronger weapon you should sit with Kairi last and I will sit with her first. Okay?"
"Yeah. Okay, I'll sleep then on the couch and Kairi can have the bed, and you will sit by her bed just incase he shows up and vanishes quickly." He replied.
"I hate it when you guy's talk about me like I'm not here!" I exclaimed.
They just laughed. I lay down on the bed as Sora lay down on the couch and Riku sat in a chair in the corner. I fell asleep almost immediately. Riku sat there watching the darkness as Sora and I slept on.
"I don't know what you want with me, but I'm not going to let you get it with out a fight. I don't want to fight right now though." I said still holding the locket in my left hand, and the staff in my right. As I spoke to Ansem, I thought: Take me back to Sora and Riku! "So I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm not staying."
"." He was speechless, staring at me confused. I closed my eyes and in that very instant, still hearing Ansem's cursing as he saw me disappear, I traveled through time and space back to them. Back to my best friends in the world. I opened my eyes, tears still streaming down my face, to see the smiles of Riku and Sora as I appeared. She ran up and gave them each a hug.
"So glad to see you're safe!" Sora and Riku said in unison.
"I'm just glad to be away from that place. It was a world he created, but I still don't understand why he needs me. Sora you have to tell me." I said looking at him.
"He needs you because you were the youngest, which makes you the strongest Princess of heart. You are the only one who can actually stop him once and for all. How? Nobody knows. He was going to create a world where you would be happy and then make it where you could never leave, even by transporting. When you started crying because Riku and I weren't with you gave you the ability to transport. If you would have been happy there, you wouldn't have been able to leave, ever." He said looking down at the ground.
"Oh, why would that worry me, Sora?" I asked, making him look at me.
"Because I thought maybe you would feel pressure with all this laying on you, maybe thinking you wouldn't be able to complete the task laid out before you." He replied giving a shrug.
"Well now that you put it that way. What if I can't? What if I fail?" I asked, then seeing the look on their faces, I added quickly. "Only kidding! As long as you guys believe I can I will be ok."
They both smiled, and shook their heads laughing. Then talking behind the hands, so I couldn't hear, they both looked at me smiling. "What are you guys.?" I started to say, but before I could finish, they were both jumping on me, tickling me. They stopped and we all just laid there on the pavement for a while laughing. Then we headed back up to the hotel and into the room where Leon, Aerith and Yuffie were.
"We'll rest here and go looking for Ansem tomorrow." Riku said, "Sora, you and I will take turns keeping look out, incase he shows up during the night. Since you have the stronger weapon you should sit with Kairi last and I will sit with her first. Okay?"
"Yeah. Okay, I'll sleep then on the couch and Kairi can have the bed, and you will sit by her bed just incase he shows up and vanishes quickly." He replied.
"I hate it when you guy's talk about me like I'm not here!" I exclaimed.
They just laughed. I lay down on the bed as Sora lay down on the couch and Riku sat in a chair in the corner. I fell asleep almost immediately. Riku sat there watching the darkness as Sora and I slept on.