Crowned Hearts Chapter
Ten
By Blue Dragon
Lisa sat down at the edge of the
water, and took a smooth shell in her hand. Crowned Hearts only a few
hours away, the perfect opportunity for her to meet everyone.she
couldn't think about that now. She slowly squeezed and the shell
cracked. The she launched it the length of the blue sea. She never
heard the splash.
All that she could do to contain her
nervousness was to leap up and start a brisk walk. Then a jog. Then a
skip, a gallop, a run, and soon an all out sprint kicking up a trail
of sand.
"I have nothing left to do. I might as well go
home and get ready" she looked forward to seeing her father just
before she left. He had this strange ability to make her feel
completely calm about anything and everything.
"Crowned
Hearts, here I come!"
Tidus slicked back his hair and
adjusted his tux.
"Damn you look sexy" he said to
his reflection. He started pretending to hug and kiss his own
reflection in the mirror in Sora's room.
"Tidus, why are
you kissing my mirror?"
"Holy God!" He spun
around.
"I didn't know you were there, heh. How much did
you hear?"
"Enough to disturb me Tidus, enough to
disturb."
There was an awkward silence.
"Move
over, I wanna see how I look."
Tidus stepped to the right
and let Sora show himself. He was transformed. His usually clumped
and spiky Cloud Strife hair gave way to new calmer straighter Sion
Barzhad hair. The tuxedo he wore was black on both the coat and his
undershirt with one red and white rose. His eyes seemed to sparkle
with anticipation. Selphie and Kairi were in the other room, but had
earlier made outfits about how he had looked in it when they saw him
before.
"How do I look?" he asked Tidus.
"Like
ass"
".Very funny. But really. How do I
look?"
"Well, you actually look cool, man"
"Thanks.
You think Selphie and Kairi are finished in there?"
"They'd
better be" Tidus sat on Sora's bed.
"Your mom will
be back in forty-five minutes"
Sora took note of this
realization.
"You're right. I'd better go check."
With
that, Sora stood up from the bed and went to go check on the other
two.
"Hey, wait up!" Tidus went after him.
Selphie
and Kairi stood on the balcony, admiring the afternoon sky.
Kairi
wore a dress of her signature pink with matching gloves, her hair
tied up with a white ribbon.
"Sora! You're mother's
coming home! Tell your beaver friends to hurry up!" Mr. Barzhad
yelled.
"Why does he call us beavers?" asked Kairi
looking up at the sky that was turning dark. Only one hour remained
before Crowned Hearts. Wakka and Lulu were coming to meet them before
they all set out together.
"Your ribbon makes a Mobius"
Selphie noted.
"A Mobius?" asked Kairi.
"It
curves and makes one side. Mobius one!"
"Dammit
Selphie, that's the last time!" yelled Sora as he walked
in.
"You're getting that from somewhere. Just stop it,"
he continued.
"I made it up! And this time I have proof!
No birds are flying by, whatever that means" there was silence,
and then an amazingly loud roar as and F-15 ACTIVE blazed overhead at
a low altitude, circling once.
"This is SkyEye to the
Barzhad residence for the communication to Selphie Tilmitt. If you
take one more reference from Ace Combat 04, then we are confiscating
all of your property and selling you into slavery. Ace Combat 04 and
ISAF are both operated by NAMCO and will no longer tolerate your
infringement" The craft flew off leaving the party stunned. Sora
narrowed his eyes and looked at Selphie.
"I'm not the guy
that would say I told you so."
"Thanks, Sora"
"I
TOLD YOU SO!"
Riku walked into his house to find that his
father had an employee, Aeris Gainsborough, at the
table.
"Sephiroth. You look really handsome. Do you want
to dance with me later.?"
"Uh, Riku and I have to
check on something" He said, pulling Riku into the kitchen.
"I
can't stand that Aeris! She's a co-worker that only wears pink, and
keeps hitting on me. One of these days I'll just stab her through the
stomach or something"
Riku had no comment; he only
pondered how Aeris reminded him of Aerith.
"Sephy-chan?"
Aeris came into the kitchen.
".Don't call me
that."
"Sephy-chan, you look even better than
before. Want to come back to my place and.?"
"I
don't know if you've noticed, but I'm HAPPILY married to a beautiful
wife with a fifteen year old son, who is present. So if you wouldn't
mind?"
"But now one but us three would ever half to
know, precious"
Rikku came out of her hiding place with a
.45 in her hand aiming it dangerously close to Aeris' head.
"Hey,
slut, get away from my husband or I'll blow your head off"
Aeris'
eyes widened with fear and she ran out of the door crying.
"Rikku!
You're perfect! Don't ever change!"
Riku's mother Rikku
dropped her .45 and came close to her husband.
"Well, I'm
just glad I have you all to myself"
"Oh my."
Sephiroth muttered worriedly as he held his wife tighter.
"What
is it sweetheart?"
"I feel.the ANIMAL!"
"Sephiroth!
Not in front of our son!"
"He could use an early
education, come on woman!"
"Uh, mom, dad, I'm just
going to put on my tux and bolt" he said.
"Yeah yeah
whatever" said Sephiroth. He swiped everything of the counter
and placed Rikku on it. Then got on top and.
Riku ran off to
his room, and decided to use the back entrance.
He didn't even
look at himself, but he did retreat through the back door into the
darkening sky.
"Oh you devil!" he heard.
".I'm
scared," he said to himself.
He could already see the
lights off in the distance. He saw Chuckis, Morgan, Jerris, and
Jennifer already making their way to the school gym. He also
encountered Lulu and Wakka but told them he had someone to
meet.
Still about thirty minutes away from Crowned Hearts,
Riku rested at the beach and didn't bother looking at himself. He
probably looked like a mess anyhow. He only wanted to see Lisa. He
actually doubted that he could keep a girl like that for long so he
really wanted to enjoy the healing she had provided from a while of
loneliness before he went back to it, so he really didn't care how he
looked.
"Riku?" He looked up and saw a sight that
almost made him fall back in awe.
Her beauty was mystifying,
unlike anything.
Her hair was tied in the back so that two
braids fell on either side of her shoulders and the rest fell nicely
behind her. Her eyes seemed to sparkle blue rather than the usual
hazel, giving volume to the dress of pure white that seemed untouched
by the sand. She wore tow silver high-heels. The perfume she wore
smelled like a white rose, a perfume strong enough to reach anyone
but not so strong it was alcoholic.
The gloves climbed just
past her elbows, and the dress was held by one strap that went behind
her neck, the dress starting a few inches below he collarbone. At
first, when he saw her wide, bright eyes he thought he looked more
ugly than usual, but he found she was staring in complete awe and
admiration.
If only he knew how good he looked Lisa thought to
herself. Riku's unique tuxedo was a shade of ocean blue like the
pants, the shoes a sleek black. His hair fell in away that they
blended palely against the coat, as if partners to the silver rose in
his breast pocket.
The shirt went in and outlined his abdomen,
which was pretty well shaped, she noticed. He basically looked like a
prince.
She hardly expected him to say:
"You look
awesome"
She blushed furiously, not really thinking much
of her looks.
Riku held out his hand. He had more confidence
than ever now. With a girl like this, he couldn't NOT have
confidence.
When she took his hand and smiled, he felt a tinge
of electricity surge through. This would be a memorable night.
