Crowned Hearts Chapter
Five
By Blue Dragon
Tidus, Sora and Riku had just made
it to the skate park, a place with great wooden trails, half pipes,
big ramps, quarter pipes, pools, rails, benches, and just about
anything else a self-respecting beach skater would enjoy in a skate
park.
"Awesome!" Riku for the first time forgot
about his predicament and decided the he might actually take some
time to enjoy himself.
"I wonder if Solidus really died
because of that statue."
"You're pondering, aren't
you Sora?" Tidus started cross-examining Sora.
"NO!
I was just exploring a different view!"
"Right. Let
skate already!" Tidus, Riku, and Sora ran to the wooden rental
shack and strapped on some roller blades.
"How about the
half-pipe?" Riku suggested.
The group speed-skated
towards the pipe and started their skating.
"I LOVE
skating!" Tidus yelled as he achieved maximum air. "Sometimes
I think of myself just soaring through the air, actually
flying"
"That's just fantasy, Tidus" Riku said
as he followed him.
"But I doubt its your final one"
Sora said, flying behind.
The group flew higher and higher on
the half pipe, when Riku got an idea.
"Hey! I have an
idea!"
Sora and Tidus skid to a stop in the middle with
Riku.
"What?" asked Sora, sitting beside him.
"I
bet that if you and I acted as propulsion markers, Tidus could get
higher than ever!"
"What's a propulsion marker?"
asked Tidus.
"And why do we have to be the ones?"
asked Sora.
"Duh. You and I are heavier. What we do is,
we all skate up hand in hand, you and Sora push off of me to get
higher, then Tidus can push off of Sora, then he could go higher than
I bet any skater has"
"Cool!"
"Great
idea" added Sora. "But how do we know that will
work?"
"Gravity in the islands is way lower, it has
to work!"
The three skated up and down, hand in hand
preparing for the big plan.
FWOOOM!
The three of them
went to twenty feet.
Sora and Tidus pushed off of Riku.
Riku
smiled as the landed back on the half pipe. His plan was so
great.
FWOOM!
Tidus pushed off of Sora, but they went
so high that the gravity temporarily carried them.
"Ahhhhh!"
Tidus screamed.
"Ahhhhh!" Sora agreed.
The
poor boys landed in a sand bar far away from the park, leaving Riku
alone like he wanted.
"I can't believe they forgot about
last time!"
A three-year-old Sora and Tidus were in the
air sailing away to a sand bar.
"I'm so good! I'll be
able to pull that off at least three more times in their
lifetime!"
"Ey brudda Riku!"
Riku took
off his skates to see Wakka and a girl his age with black hair and
clothing.
"This is Lulu! Say hi, Lulu"
".This
is the nice friend? He seems awful"
"Lulu! What gave
you dat idea? He's great"
Lulu scoffed.
"Ask
him where Tidus and Sora are," she said, smiling at Riku.
It
was then clear to Riku that Lulu had somehow witnessed his dirty
act.
"They're, uh--"
There was a thud in the
beach far away.
"--Temporarily grounded" Riku
finished.
"See? Riku's a good guy"
"Wakka,
you have chosen some strange friends"
"You're such a
card, Lulu! Dat's why I like you, dough"
Riku gave a
nervous chuckle that the girl was no tattletale.
"Lulu
and I are goin' to meet Selphie and Chuckis at a party on the beach.
Feel free to come. Later!"
"See you later, Wakka and
Lulu"
The two walked away from the skate park, finally
leaving Riku alone.
I got rid of everybody. Now all I want to
do is talk to Kairi. Alone.
Riku thought up the apology he was
going to make to his friends as he ran to Kairi's favorite spot near
the docks where he knew he would probably find her.
Kairi sat
on the docks staring out at that fateful spot, remembering the great
day that the two boys she loved most had returned. She was even
happier that they had no differences and still seemed to be great
friends. The sun was setting on the horizon even better than it had
seemed the day that the islands were attacked. She was almost
becoming afraid that it would happen again.
No, she said to
herself. After all that Sora and Riku did for the world, or worlds,
it could never happen again.
So much had happened since then,
and they had all recovered so well. But still, something had been
troubling her. Everyone seemed to have a relationship to look forward
to save Riku. He had always looked like something was eternally
troubling him, and now even more so.
She knew that Riku cared
for her, but also knew that Sora did more, and that was whom she
belonged with. Even though Riku was a great friend and irreplaceable
she felt she had shrugged him off. Riku had stepped aside to let her
and Sora come together. But now she felt horrible, as if abandoning
Riku, even though he never complained.
At least he's found
someone now. I just hope that he can get the courage to ask her out
before the Crowned Hearts prom. He'll be crushed if he has no one to
go with.
"Kairi?"
"Hmm?" Kairi
turned to see the blonde-haired brown-brown eyed Jerris
Seinfeld.
"Hey Jerris" Jerris was one of the friends
from school that Kairi had been glad she could talk to again. He was
one of those guys that you could consistently count on to be there if
you ever fell back.
Jerris sat beside her.
"Are
you staring out there into space again?"
"Yeah. But
there's more to it, this time"
"You're worried about
Riku, aren't you?"
She sighed.
"Yes. I want
to know if he'll be able to find a girl. If he'll be lonely"
"Hey,
I know Riku, a guy like him shouldn't have any trouble. As a matter
of fact, I and half of the other boys wish we were him!"
Kairi
laughed at the thought.
"Everyone seems to think Riku's
cool except for Riku. He doesn't know that people are fond of him,
and he seems to forget just how many friends he has."
"Don't
his parents tell him"?
"Good one Jerris. His father
is a silver-haired Cetran, and his mother is a busy Al Bhed woman
from islands a few miles from here."
"I suppose. But
you told me he met a girl, right?"
"I just hope he
doesn't feel like he's abandoning us. I know how much he cares about
his friends"
Tidus and Sora's legs were sticking up from
the sand dune that they had crashed into headfirst.
"That's
true. I say you should just talk to him"
"You're
right. Thanks, Jerris"
"Don't mention it. I'm going
to go to that beach party. You should come too"
"I'll
keep that in mind"
Jerris stood up and ran off. Not
noticing Riku standing behind a tree and smiling.
Now I know
my friends support me all the way. I'll ask Lisa to Crowned Hearts
with no fear!
