Crowned Hearts Chapter
Six
By Blue Dragon
Sora and Tidus slowly pulled their
heads out of the dune and shook the sand out of their hair.
"Gee,
we really did go high. Riku was right!" Sora said, looking
around him and noticing that the sun was setting.
"What
happened? We must have fallen asleep or something"
"Who
cares? We're awake, so now we can go to that party out on the beach
right? Doesn't it start now?"
"Sora, don't you think
it's strange that we're having parties and stuff right before Crowned
Hearts?"
"Yeah. It's definitely to spark the mood
up. That way people will be really ready to party"
Sora
and Tidus both stood and brushed off their clothes, deciding that
Riku had long since left them to "sleep".
Riku had
one more stop before he would go to the blowout on the beach. It was
a nice time to spark up the party mood because it was the only the
day after tomorrow. Things seemed to be happening so.slowly. Riku
remembered he had just met this girl that day, but it seemed like six
hours had stretched out into three days because of all the
experiences he had gone through because of it so far.
Riku was
going to talk to his dad, a man-to-man conversation.
He found
it interesting that the Sephiroth in the coliseum had been similar to
his father, in name and appearance. His father, Sephiroth Osterot,
was from and island called Cetra in the destiny islands, and his
mother was from the island called Home. People that called themselves
the Al Bhed mostly inhabited home. His mother was Rikku Osterot.
As
it got a little darker outside and Riku approached his home down the
street, he spotted Chuckis walking towards him from the opposite side
of the road, and he began walking alongside him.
"Hey,
Chuckis"
"S'up Riku?"
Riku explained his
predicament that he had been caught in to Chuckis.
"Jerris
told me all about that. You're going to ask her, right?"
"Of
course. Later I'll be going to that beach party, but after a quick
talk with my parents."
"Mind if I join you?"
"If
you want"
Chuckis and Riku made their way into the house
that was Riku's through the big mahogany door and into the kitchen,
which was the first stop.
"Hello, Riku, Chuckis"
Mrs. Osterot greeted the two boys.
"Hi, Mrs. Osterot"
Chuckis responded. Riku's mother was preparing dinner over the hot
stove.
"Hi mom. Where's dad?"
"Your
father is in the living room, polishing his sword"
The
boys walked through the open doorway to the living room to find
Sephiroth Osterot in his black suit from his accounting job wiping
polish over his treasured sword "My Baby" a. k.a. the
Masamune.
"Hello boys. I see you got home a little late
today"
"Chuckis, would you mind helping me set the
table?" Mrs. Osterot called from the kitchen.
"Not
at all, Mrs. Osterot!"
Chuckis ran a hand through his
messy brown hair and ran over to the kitchen.
Riku sat down on
the couch next to his father who seemed very transfixed with
polishing his sword.
"Dad?" Riku asked his father.
Sephiroth answered without looking up from his work.
"Yes,
son?"
"Did you know that there was a guy in Olympus
Coliseum that looked just like you? He had the same name, too.
Everything was right except for his voice. He sounded like a guy
straight from NSync"
"That doesn't sound like a
pleasant thought" he responded still polishing.
"He
even had a sword and a black cloak that looked straight from a video
game!"
"That, I wouldn't mind"
Father
and son got a good laugh from the statement.
After a while,
Riku go enough courage to ask his question.
"Dad, how did
you meet mom?"
Sephiroth finally put his sword down and
started staring into space as if in deep thought.
"I was
about fifteen years old, and my class was taking a field trip to
Home. I saw you're mother there on the beach, as beautiful as ever
guiding our tour group. She was a little older than me, but I was
still desperate for attention. No one else seemed interested in her,
oddly enough, so I didn't have competition. Near the end of the tour
I slipped down a sand bar and hit my head on a rock. She carried me
all the way back and tended to my wounds. We talked all night and
shared out first kiss. A magical time."
Sephiroth's eyes
seemed to well up as he remembered and forgot all about Riku.
I
bet someone that you don't love may look normal to other people
sometimes, but if you can love someone they could be as pretty as
anyone.
Riku went to the kitchen to find Chuckis finishing his
work.
"Hey mom, Chuckis and I are going to go to that
party now"
"Alright then. Stay out as long as you
want, have fun!"
"Thanks mom, bye"
"Bye
Mrs. Osterot!"
The two boys ran down the street back
towards the beach.
"Chuckis, are you going with Jennifer
to Crowned Hearts?"
"Yep. But I haven't asked her
yet."
"Is Jerris going with Morgan?"
"Definitely!
I'm kind of jealous, but oh well."
Riku ran faster and
Chuckis ran to meet his pace. It was now dark outside, about 9:31
Destiny Islands Pacific time, and the party would start in about
fifteen minutes.
"Do you think that beauty is in the eye
of the beholder?"
"I think all the girls on Destiny
Islands are hot, but you tend to notice mostly the ones you love and
care about"
"That makes sense," Riku said as
they approached the beach.
When they arrived, Everyone from
school was there dancing around the many flames lit, eating fried
chocobo, chocobo pudding, stuffed chocobo, baked chocobo, chocobo
liver, chocobo ice cream, chocobo sandwiches, chocobo soup, chocobo
tail, chocobo feet, chocobo stomach, chocobo cocktail, chocobo 'n
eggs, sirloin chocobo, raw chocobo, strained chocobo, cooked chocobo,
chocobo cider, chocobo nutmeg, chocobo on a stick and chocobo
turds.
Selphie was on her back in the sand next to Tidus, the
two were holding hands.
"The sky is beautiful. The stars
seem to divide it like a big puzzle"
In fact, Selphie was
right as the stars gave the sky a cartoonish look.
"Almost
as if they were shattered skies," she continued.
Tidus
looked at Selphie.
"Did you get that from
something?"
"No. I made it up, why do you ask?"
"It
sounded like it was from some game."
A flock of birds
flew overhead.
Riku was surprised he didn't see Lisa. As a
matter of fact, none of his friends had really met her yet. He would
have to introduce her to everyone the next day.
He left the
party early, which was near midnight and went home. Of course his
parents were already asleep. Riku simply crawled into bed and slept
there, eager to meet Lisa again the next day.
