~*~Worlds Apart~*~
Chapter 2:
A/N: Hello Again! First I'm gonna thank everyone who reviewed my story, but I have to say this to the people who flamed me. Listen I could really care less about what you think about my story. And yes I know Riku loves Kairi to death, but come on most people anymore put Riku with their own characters. Most of them are some of the greatest Kingdom Hearts fics I've ever read. In my mind Riku doesn't belong with Kairi, that is Sora. From now on flames will be ignored so yer wasting yer time writing them, cause I will just laugh and point at yer own stupidity. Oh yeah, Dre, thanks for the advice and all, it was helpful. Now for all the legal stuff, I dont own Kingdom Hearts, but I do own my characters.
~*~Destiny Island~*~
Four years and two months has passed since the day Yukara left Destiny Island, and Riku has since then been making plan after plan on how to find his long lost friend.
"Hey Sora, ya got any idea's yet?" Riku called to his friend.
Sora sighed and looked at his friend,
"No not really, how bout you Kairi?" asked Sora looking over to his other friend.
"Nope, my brains fried." Said Kairi looking down at the ground.
The three friends friends sighed, Sora laid back on the sand and closed his eyes.
"Hey Riku? Your birthdays tomorrow right, so what are you gonna do?" Sora asked trying to change the subject.
Kairi lifted her head and smiled,
"Really Riku, you'll be turning fifteen ya know."
Riku looked out towards the sea and shook his head,
"I really dont know..." he said calmly.
He started thinking about more idea's about how to get off the island, it finally came to him. If Yukara had been to other worlds there must be a limit to how far you can go untill you reach another world.
"You guys I know what we can do to get off the island!" Riku said jumping up from the ground.
Sora and Kairi looked up at him,
"Really what is it?" Sora asked excitedly.
Riku explaned the whole thing to them,
"And thats gonna help us how?" Kairi asked.
"If we build a raft we can sail out to our worlds barrier and go through it." said Riku.
Kairi nodded her head and looked at Sora,
"What do you think?" she asked standing up.
Sora stood up as well,
"I think it just might work."
Riku smiled at his friends, something he rarely ever did since Yukara left.
"Well come on, let go plan this out at my place." Said Riku.
Sora and Kairi nodded and followed Riku down the trail to his house.......
~*~On a Ship~*~
A young girl laid on her bunker thinking of absolutly nothing, she sighed and rolled over on her stomach. Her long silver hair fell over her shoulders.
"Yukara were almost there." A woman called from the other room.
"Yeah whatever Sapphire..." Yukara said in a low voice.
She slid off her bunker and grabbed her trench coat from the rack.
"Where are we this time?" Yukara asked.
"We'll be landing in a place called Ludia Forest." Sapphire replied.
'Lovely I've always wanted to wander around some creepy old forest.' she thought to herself walking away.
"Where are you going Yuka?" Sapphire asked.
"Back to my bunker, and its Yukara..." she replied coldly. Sapphire sighed.
Ever since they left Destiny Island Yukara had totaly changed. Instead of wearing her usual bright cheerful colors, she always whore dark colors and her trench coat. She never left the ship either unless it was dark out. Sapphire shook her head of her thoughts and landed the ship in a small clearing. After she had landed she took note of how dark it was, she knew it was night time but this almost seemed like an eternal darkness. Yukara walked from her room,
" I think I like it here..." She said silently as she opened the hatch and walked outside.
Sapphire watched her walk into the woods,
"What has happened to her..." She said getting up and walking to the kitchen.
Yukara walked through the dark forest silently, it started to rain lightly. Yukara pulled her hood up over her head, parcially covering her eyes. Her thoughts drifted over to her old home and her friends, she wondered if they had changed any. She laughed at herself, they'd probably changed a lot. It had been about four years since she's seen them after all. She looked up to see a starless sky, Yukara sighed and jumped into the tree at her right. She climbed up it half way and laid on one of the branches. She closed her eyes and drifted into and uneasy sleep.
~*~Riku's House~*~
"Its simple, but it would be enough to get us to the barrier." said Riku holding up their drawing plans.
"I sertainly hope so, we dont know how far the barrier is from the island." said Kairi.
Sora nodded in agreement,
"How bout this, we'll start gathering suplies tomorrow and then we'll build it and set sail in a couple of weeks?" asked Sora.
Riku thought about this,
"Yeah I think that would work."
Sora smiled,
"Alright then, its settled," said Sora, "Well Riku we better head home, its starting to get dark out."
Riku nodded and opened the door,
"I'll see you guys tomorrow." He said closing the door.
Riku walked back over to his bed and laid down,
'Yukara...' he said to himself.
Her name echoed in his head, he wondered if he thought hard enough if he could talk to her....Riku continued thinking about her until he slowly drifted to sleep.....
"Huh? Where am I?" Riku asked looking around the black void.
He saw a tree in the distance, and someone was laying on one of the branches. Riku ran over to the tree, when he was just about 20 feet from the tree the person woke up. He couldn't see any of the person face,
"What are you doing here?" said the hooded figure.
It sounded like a girl to Riku,
"What do you mean what am I doing here, your the one in my dream!" Riku argued.
"How is that possible, I dont even know you." The hooded figure said annoyed.
"Well fine then, whats your name?" Riku asked.
"Its..."
Riku was shocked, the girl and the tree just disapeared.
"What the heck?!" Riku said looking around, he saw another hooded figure, but it wasnt the same person.
"Who are you?" Riku asked.
"Thats is not important now, but its time fore you to leave...." the man said shooting a blue beam at Riku, makeing him fly backwards.......
"Ahhhh!!" Riku yelled jolting up from his sleep.
He looked over at his clock, it was 7:30 am, Riku got up from his bed and ran down stairs.
'That dream....it was so real.....' he thought to himself.
He went out the front door and ran down the trail to the beach. As he exited the woods he saw Sora and Kairi at the dock talking,
"Hey you guys, Sorry i'm late!" he called out.
Sora turned around and waved,
"Its okay, well come on lets go collect our stuff."
Kairi pulled out a list of what they would need.
"Okay, we're going to need, eight logs, rope, and a cloth." she read the list and looked up at Sora and Riku.
"Okay then, Riku and me will get the logs, you can get the cloth and rope, kay?" said Sora.
Kairi nodded and ran off to get the supplies she was assigned. Riku and Sora ran round the beach and the wood picking up logs and draging them back to the beach, by the end of the day, they had collect all the logs they needed and Kairi had gotten the rope and cloth. Sora looked around,
"Shouldn't we put this stuff where the other kids wont mess with?" Sora asked.
Riku nodded,
"Yeah lets take it to the other side of the island, we can work on it there and no one will question us."
They picked up their stuff and slow walked over to the other side. They stacked their stuff neatly as far away from the water as possible,
"Well lets head home for the day." Said Kairi.
The two boys nodded their heads and they walked off to the trail.
~*~Back at the tree~*~
Yukara woke up with a sudden jerk, she wiped the sweat from her head.
'What the hell type of dream was that?' she asked herself.
She could tell that the person in her dream was a boy, but she couldnt figure out who it was because he was very blurry. Yukara shruged it off and jumped out of the tree, morning would be soon so she started to walk back to the ship.
Sapphire woke up to the sound of the hatch opening,
"Hello Yukara, did you find anything?" Sapphire asked.
"No...I didnt find anything...."Yukara replied as she walked by.
Sapphired sighed,
"Going to bed, right?"
Yukara stopped at the door way and nodded, then continued to her bunker. Sapphire got up and walked to the computer room, she turned on the computer and scanned the area for any towns. There was a small town about a mile and a half away from the ship, she turned the computer off and headed to the door. It was now daylight out and it wasn't as dark as she thought it would be, she started to walk down the trail heading to the town.
Once she entered the small town, she was greeted by a large man.
"Where are you from little missy?" he asked in a gruff voice.
"I'm just passing through sir, I just needed to stock up on suplies." Sapphire replied.
The man nodded his head,
"Oh okay, just have to make sure of these things ya know? Theres been some strange people showing up causing trouble, and then just disappearing." He explanned.
"Oh I see, well I must be going." said Sapphire.
The man nodded and waved, Sapphire walked quickly down to the store and bought what she needed. On her way out of town she saw the man who greeted her when she first entered.
"Um....exscuse me? Can I ask you something?" she asked him.
He looked over to her,
"Sure go ahead."
"What did these people look like, you know the ones who just came and left?" Sapphire asked.
"Well, the leader of the group was some tall woman who had horn looking things on her head, uh there was also some thing that looked like it was made out of potato sacks......what else was there......oh yeah! There was a pirate who was missing his hand, and some really weird dude with a pet bird, thats all of them. They seemed to be lookin' for somthing...." he finished.
Sapphire knew perfectly well who these people were, this was Maleficent and her gang. Only thing she didn't know was what they were after, her crew had everything they wanted....power mainly but they still had it.
"Well thanks for the information, maybe i'll see you again?" said Sapphire. The man nodded,
"Maybe, you better get going now, its gonna start getting dark in about an hour."
Sapphire nodded and ran down the trail back to the ship.
~*~The next week at Destiny Island~*~
Within the past week at Destiny Island, the three friends had managed to build a sturdy raft. They had a few days before they were going to set sail to the world barrier. Sora was laying peicfully on the shore, he slowly opened his eyes to see Kairi.
"Whoa!" said Sora getting up.
Kairi giggled slightly,
"Sora you lazy bumb, I should of known I'd find you snoozing down here." She said smiling.
"Give me a break Kairi." Sora said slightly laughing.
Riku walked up behind them,
"I cant wait to get off this Island." he said stretching.
"A couple more days Riku." Sora said excitedly.
"Tomorrow we'll have to collect our supplies, can I count on you for that Sora?" asked Kairi.
Sora smiled,
"Of course Kairi."
She turned to Riku,
"You and me can make sure the raft is 100% secure and stuff, okay?" Kairi asked.
Riku just nodded.
"Well for now we should just relax and enjoy ourselves." said Riku walking towards the poapu tree.
Sora nodded and ran off towards Wakka to duel with him, and Kairi went to talk to Selphie. Riku crossed the bridge and jumped onto the poapu tree and layed down. He sighed to himself and looked out towards the ocean. The sea had always seemed to calm him for some unknown reason, it also reminded him of Yukara. She had always loved the ocean, of course whats not to love about the crystal clear water that is all around the island. He sighed again and slid off the tree, it would be sunset soon and he didnt feel like watching it. Riku walked down to the beach and headed towards the trail that leaded to his house. He walked slowly down the trail enjoying the cool shade from the trees, his house came into veiw within a matter of minutes. Riku open the door and walked up stairs to his room. Once in his room, he looked over the plans for the raft for no reason at all, he also waited for his mom to call him down to dinner. A whole hour had passed and still Riku heard nothing, he walked downstairs and into the kitchen. There was on the fridge...
'Riku, went out to do some shopping. I wont be back till late so feel free to make whatever you like, i'll see you later. Love you honey, Mom'
Riku raised an eyebrow and threw the note in the trash, he wasn't that hungry so he head back up to his room and layed on his bed.
'One more day...and i'll finally be searching for you Yuka...' he thought to himself.
He didn't really feel bad about leaving his home, he wanted to find his friend and bring her and Sapphire back to where they belonged. It wasn't any fun getting into trouble without the whole group together. Riku sighed and slowly closed his eyes, he began to slip into a peaceful sleep.....
~Riku opened his eyes to see he was in a forest, this forest looked very old.....not like the one on Destiny Island. He heard a soft trickling of water behind him, he turned and saw the hooded figure from his last dream standing in front of a fountain.
"So you have come again..." she said.
Riku walked up to the person slowly,
"Who are you? You didn't answer me the last time." Asked Riku.
"I'm not saying, I have no reason to." She said quietly.
"Okay then, I can live with that..." said Riku trailing off.
"So do you always have that trench coat on?" he asked.
"Yes, people usually leave me alone when I have it on...." She answered annoyed.
They stood in silence a little longer,
"You better get going, it'll be morning soon where you come from..." she said.
"Wait a minute how did you know that?"
Before she could answer she had disappear and Riku woke up.
"How would she know it would soon be morning here?" he asked himself.
He shrugged it off and ran out of the house to the beach, he had gotten there quite early by the look of things. Nobody was here and dew was still dripping off the tropical plants. Riku walked over to the dock and sat down, waiting for Sora and Kairi to arrive. Kairi had the list of everything they needed and he wasn't gonna start checking the raft with out her there. He heard foot steps down the trail, he looked up to see Kairi, but Sora wasn't with her.
"Where's Sora?" he asked.
"Oh, he's uh still asleep I guess, well come on lets go check the raft out. Sora knows where to go to get the list." said Kairi.
Riku nodded his head and they walked in silence over to where the raft was. Once there, they tugged on all the ropes to make sure they were nice and tight, Riku had Kairi stand on the raft while he pushed it out a little just to make sure it floated. After checking that they pulled it back in and pushed it up out of the water.
"Well thats about all we can check you know?" said Kairi smiling.
"Yeah, I guess we just have to wait for our lazy friend." Riku said cheerfully.
Kairi giggled,
"Your rather happy today aren't you?"
Riku smiled slightly,
"Would you perfer me to be sad Kairi?" He asked faking a pout.
Kairi playfully punched him in the shoulder, and Riku just laughed.
"I'll go wait for Sora at the door." said Riku walking off.
"I'll come with you if you don't mind!" Kairi said happily.
Riku turned his head and nodded, kairi ran to catch up with him.
Sora ran down the trail and across the beach as fast as he could,
'Aww man....their gonna kill me....' he thought to himself as he pushed open the door.
"There you are Sora!" said Kairi.
"For a sec I thought you might of been swallowed by the mess that is your room. " Riku added.
Sora glarred slightly and his two friends just laughed. When they had finally finished, Kairi pulled a list out from her pocket.
"Okay Sora, where going to need two coconuts, three fish, and two mushrooms. Also take this bottle and fill it with water, but not from the ocean!" said Kairi giving him a bottle.
Sora nodded and ran off to get all the supplies.
~*~In the woods~*~
As Yukara walked through the woods of her new home, she hear the soft trickling of water not to far from where she was. She continued to walk untill she saw a fountain like spring infront of her. She walked over to the water, and sat down. Her mind was completely clear of all thought so she just sat there, relaxing. She looked around to make sure nobody was around her, she sighed and took off her trench coat and gloves. Her long silver hair fell over her shoulders as she leaned over to look onto the water. All she saw was a girl who didn't look at all like the peaceful and care free person she used to be. She sighed again and looked up at the stars, this was something that always made her feel better. There was one star that had caught her attention, she didn't know why it just did. Yukara stood up suddenly, the star she was looking at had just started to fade.
"Wait a minute!" she cried out.
The star brightened up then disapeared,
'thats not good...' she thought to herself.
Everytime a star went out that meant another world had been destroyed.....but by what? Sapphire never told her what destroyed the world, just that its never good. She pulled her trench coat and gloves back on and headed towards the ship to tell Sapphire what had happened.
~*~Back at the island~*~
Sora brought back all the supplies that they needed and gave them to Kairi, she stored them in a crate on the raft. The three friends headed back to the Poapu tree and sat down. They talked about random things, mainly just about their upcoming adventure. Riku was very excited that he could barely sit still, he just wanted to take the raft and go now. But he decided against it since it was going to be a very long trip by himself. As they continued to talk the sunset came sooner then they expected.
"Well come on you guys, lets get some sleep so we can be up early to leave." said Kairi standing up.
The boys nodded and stood up as well, they walked down to the beach and onto the trail. Sora and Kairi continued to talk about their trip while Riku just listened. Once they reached their houses they bidded eachother goodnight and went inside their houses, Riku went strait up to his room and laid down on his bed. He was just about to close his eyes when he heard thunder. He looked out his window and saw a huge black ball of energy near the beach, Kairi must of seen it to cause she was also looking out her window,
"Kairi! Come on we gotta go secure the raft!" Riku called to her.
She nodded her head and climbed out her window. Riku did the same and jumped off his roof, he ran over to Kairi's house. just as she was about to jump she slipped and fell off her roof, Riku ran over just in time to catch her.
"Thanks!" She said as Riku sat her down.
He just nodded and ran down the trail and Kairi followed. reaching the beach, they ran over to the door to where the raft was. Riku pushed and pulled on the door, but it wouldnt budge. He turned to Kairi,
"Lets wait by the poapu tree, Sora will be able to see us there!" He yelled.
"R-Riku!" Kairi stuttered while pointing behind him.
He turned around to see a little black creature,
"Come on lets go!" he said pulling Kairi's arm.
She ran as fast as she could to keep up with Riku, they ran threw the shack and across the bridge. It seemed the creatures didn't want to come here so they were safe for the time being.
Sora shot up from his sleep,
"Huh? A storm? Oh no the raft!" he yelled opening his window and jumping out.
He ran down the trail and arrived at the beach, he looked around the beach looking for any signs of his friends. He spotted them near the poapu tree, Kairi looked in his direction.
"Sora! Look out!" She yelled.
Sora looked around to see little black creatures forming around him,
'its thoughs things from my dream!' he thought to himself.
He ran up to the island that Riku and Kairi were on,
"Guys what are you doing here?" Sora asked.
"Checking on the raft, but the door wont open so we waited for you." Said Kairi.
"Sora...The door has opened..." Said Riku in a low voice.
"What?" Sora and Kairi said together.
"The door has opened, now we can go to the outside worlds!" Sora and Kairi just looked at him.
"We may never see our parents again, but we cant let fear stop us....I'm not affraid of the darkness!" said Riku.
He reached his hands out towards Sora and Kairi, they grabbed his hands and the darkness had swallowed them up. As they fell through the darkness, they saw many doors, but only one of the doors was opened. And that was the door they were heading to, once they entered it they saw a huge forest bellow them. They also saw a town, but unfortanatly that was not where the were heading, they were falling stait into the forest. Sora and Kairi had gotten lucky and didn't fall into any trees, they landed in a large bush and just kinda rolled to the ground. Riku on the othe hand wasn't so lucky, he had fallen into a tree and hit what seemed like every branch and then finally landed on the bush.
"Ugh there has got to be a better way to get around..." Riku said in pain.
"Are you okay Riku?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah i think a just lot my pride for a while though..." he said while laughing slightly.
Kairi and Sora joined in.
"Well we're finally off the island..." Sora said trying to be cheery.
Riku nodded,
"Yeah true, well lets go to that town and buy some supplies." said Riku walking down a trail to his right.
"Yeah our wooden swords wont be of much use." said Sora looking at his wimpy wooden sword.
Kairi nodded and they followed Riku trail. The tree's in this world were much different then there tree's on the island, they were a lot bigger and covered with moss. They looked all around at this strange world, if anyone was to look at them, they would know that they were glad to be on this adventure together.
"So what do you think happened to our home?" Kairi asked.
"I dont know, I hope its okay..." said Riku.
Sora nodded, they continued to walk for about another thirty minutes and they finally saw the light of the town. Kairi sighed happily, they continued to walk towards the enterance. Once at the entrance of the town, they were stopped by a large man,
"What're you doing here?" Sora and Kairi looked at him with scared faces.
Riku saw his friends looks and looked towards the man again.
"Our world was destroyed, and we ended up here." Riku said plainly.
Sora and Kairi looked at him in shock. They were both wondering how he could say that,
"Oh not another one, Clair! Theres more of 'em, 'cept its a group of kids!" He called out.
"Oh yer joking Brain!" She called back coming out of the house.
She looked at Sora and gasped,
"Oh you poor dears, yer all welcome to stay here." Clair said sweetly.
Sora stepped up,
"Thats nice of you to offer, but we're looking for someone."
Brain turned to him,
"Really who ya lookin for?" he asked.
"Our friend Yukara." Sora replied.
Brain thought for a second,
"Hmm...strange....there was a weird group looking for that girl....but they didn't seem like they knew her to well."
Sora mouthed an 'oh'. "You kids better go buy some weapons and potions, oh by the way, this is Dorda." said Clair handing them a bag of munny.
"Thanks!" said Kairi.
The tree friends walked off to a shop that had weapons in the window, they slowly walked into the shop and looked around. A man walked from out of the back,
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Yeah, we need to buy some potions, tents, and weapons." said Riku.
"Okay, weapons are over there, i'll get yer potions from the back." he said going to the back of the store again.
The group walked over to the weapons, Riku picked up a sword that looked like a wing. He swung it a couple of times and decided to get that one, Sora picked up a long sword and Kairi was looking at a bow. They picked them up and walked to the counter, by that time the man had came out to the front. He added up their total,
"Okay then, yer total is 325 munny."
Kairi dug into the money bad and gave him the money, they grabbed their stuff and walked out of the store. Once outside Riku gave Kairi and Sora their weapons, they split the potion between them evenly.
"Alright, lets go back to thats wood and set up camp." said Riku.
They walked out of town and back into the woods, they searched for a while to find a place to camp.
"Riku, can we stop for a sec?" asked Kairi.
Riku nodded and sat down next to a tree, he watched Sora look around. Sora then stood up quickly,
"Whats up Sora?" Riku asked.
"I hear water!" He replied happily.
"Where at?" Kairi asked.
"That way!" said Sora pointing to the left of them.
Everyone stood up and went in that direction and sure enough there was spring in the middle of a clearing,
"I think here would be a good place ya know?" said Kairi.
"I agree, we wouldnt have to travel for water and such, plus its not far from town." Sora added.
Riku nodded his head and pulled out the tents they had bought, Sora helped set them up and Kairi gathered wood.
~*~At the Ship~*~
"Sapphire!" Yukara called out once she was inside the ship.
"Yes Yukara what is it?" Sapphire asked.
"A star, a star went out!" she said quickly.
Sapphire eyes widened and then went back to normal,
"This isn't good....But don't you worry about it okay?" Yukara nodded and walked away from her gaurdian.
She pulled up her hood and walked back out of the ship and back to the clearing, just as she was about to walk into the clearing she jumped behind a tree. She heard laughing in the clearing, she peered out from behind the tree....The forst thing she saw was coffee brown spikey hair, she leaned a little farther and a twig near her foot snapped. Someone looked strait at her...
Riku's head jerked towards the woods at the sound of a stick cracking, he grabed Kairi's bow and an arrow. Kairi looked up at him in confustion, Riku shot the arrow towards the figure....the arrow struck the person and they moaned in pain, the person turn and ran away....
Yukara saw the boy shoot the arrow but she froze in place, the arrow peirced her in the should. She grunted in pain and ran, the arrow in her arm slowed her down. She didn't dare run back to the ship, she just ran....
He dropped Kairi's bow and chased after the person,
"Riku wait!" Sora called out.
"Stay here with Kairi i'll be back!" He said running faster.
He could still see the person in front of him, running around tree's was not helping him catch them. Riku jumped into a tree and started to jump from tree to tree catching up with the person quickly, once in front of them he jumped down and the person ran into them.
"Ow..." said the female voice.
She had been stopped by running into her chaser, she felt the arrow getting pushed farther into her shoulder.
"What were you doing snooping around are camp?" the boy asked.
"I was coming to the spring...you weren't there when I first went there..." she replied.
The boy nodded,
"Whats your name?" he asked.
'I cant tell him my real name....I dont trust him....' she thought to herself.
"Sara..." she said quickly.
"Oh I see...Well i'm-"
"I have no need to know your name..." Yukara said cutting him off.
"Okay then....well come on let me take you to get your wound healed." he said holding out his hand.
She didn't take his hand, she just stood up.
"No it's fi-arg..." she said falling down again.
"No your not fine Sara....come on your coming with me." Riku said lifting her up to her feet again.
Riku still didn't trust this person but he wasn't going to just leave her here to get hurt worse. They made there way back to his camp, Sara was looking around nervously.
"You should take off your hood." said Riku.
She continued to stare forward,
"I'm not taking it off..."she said annoyed.
They continued on in silence, Riku still had a firm grip on Sara's arm. Riku was the first to see the bright glow from his camp, Sora then came up to them.
"Why did you bring her here?" Sora asked.
Riku pushed pass him,
"She's hurt...and i'm not one who let people get hurt worse..."
He walked over to Kairi and let go of Sara.
"Here, you can sit down and i'll get that arrow out." said Kairi calmly.
Sora looked at them like they were all idiots,
"Riku! Your not gonna just let her go are you?"
Riku looked at him,
"She wasnt going to hurt us, and besides she has no weapon."
Kairi just nodded and turned back to Sara,
"I never got you name..." said Kairi.
"It Sara, and I have no need for your names for I will not be seeing you again."
Sara replied coldly. Kairi just nodded and yanked the arrow out, Sara winced in pain slightly. Sora brought over a wet cloth and gave it to Kairi, she carefully cleaned out the cut as best as she could.
"Now, if you would just remove your coat, I can bandage that for you." Kairi said nicely.
"Kai-.....um......no thats fine, i'll bandage it when I get home....." Sara said quietly.
Sara stood up and ran from the camp as fast as she could. Riku almost followed her but stopped himself,
"You guys, that was Yukara." he said plainly.
Sora looked up at him,
"How could it be? She wasn't very nice to us like Yukara was."
"If you ever paid attention to anything you would of heard her almost say Kairi's name!" Riku snapped.
"Hey don't get mad at me just cause you couldnt stop her from leaving!" Sora said now angry.
"Who said I was mad!" said Riku moving closer to Sora.
"I wonder, maybe its cause your yelling!" he yelled back at Riku.
"Ugh both of you stop!" Kairi screamed.
They both looked at her shocked.
"One of you should follow her if you think its Yuka okay?"
"I'll go..." said Sora as he ran after Yukara.
Riku glared in his direction and then walked into his tent,
"Riku...don't be mad with Sora, we're all a little stressed with this adventure..." Kairi said crawling into Riku's tent.
"I'm sorry Kairi, its just...its hard to beleive she was here and acted like she didn't know us..."
Kairi patted his shoulder,
"It shocked us all Riku, come on why don't you come back out to the fire?" Riku shook his head,
"Nah, i'm tired so just wake me up with Sora comes back."
Kairi nodded and walked back out to the fire.
Sora was not about to beleive that was Yukara at their camp, she was way to harsh to be her. He finally caught up with her halfway, he followed her another fifteen minutes until they came to another clearing and a ship. Sora stepped behind a tree and watched,
"Oh Yukara your hurt, what happened?"
Sora couldn't beleive his eyes, it was Sapphire! And she was talking to Yukara! He watched a little longer,
"I got shot with an arrow by them..." Yukara said coldly, pulling down her hood letting her long hair fall out.
"Them? Who's them?" Sapphire asked.
"Sora, Kairi, and Riku..."
"Oh their here? Then that must mean that was their world that was destroyed, were you happy to see them?" she asked hopefully.
"No, they should of stayed out of the woods and in that town. Their not wanted here..." Yukara said coldly.
"Yukara...what's happened to you? I thought you would be glad to see your friends..." Sapphire said sadly.
"You wanna know what happened to me? That happy little twerp you used to worry about so much? Well she died a long time ago on that island, and any feeling for her friends died with that girl!" Yukara yelled running back into the woods.
"Yukara wait!" She cried out.
Sapphire sighed and walked back into the ship. By that time Sora was wide eyed and staring at the ship, he finally snapped out of it and ran back to his camp. He had to tell the others, this was bound to excite everyone. By the time he had got back to camp, it was morning. Riku was watching the fire and Kairi had her head on his shoulder sleeping.
"Riku!" said Sora.
He looked up and shook Kairi to wake her up,
"Did you find anything Sora?" Riku asked.
"I sure did, Yukara, Sapphire, and their ship, but Yukara yelled at Sapphire and stormed off in the forest somewhere." Sora explained.
Riku gave him a weird look,
"Yeah I know, Yukara has changed alot, she was saying stuff like her feelings and stuff died on Destiny Island. Also she wasn't to happy about us being here either." he explained some more.
"Well then.....I'll just have to go see her!" Riku said with a determened look.
"Um......Riku did you miss the part where I said she didn't want us around?" Sora asked.
"Nope, didn't miss a word." He said smiling.
With that he walked down the trail Sora just came from and down to where Sapphire's ship was, he walked to the ship and walked up the ramp.
"Hey Sapphire you home?" Riku called into the ship.
He heard someone stubbling from the back to the front,
"Huh? Riku is that you?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah its me, do ya know where Yukara might of went?" he asked.
"Oh, yes I do have some idea, you see theres a lake not to far over there, I bet thats were she's at." she said pointing to her left.
Riku nodded,
"Thanks Sapphire, i'll try and bring her back." he said walking away from her.
Sapphire nodded and walked back into the ship with a little hope. Riku walked quickly in the direction Sapphire had told him and sure enough there was a lake, and Yukara was standing next to it. Her trench coat and gloves laid on the ground next to her, all she had on now was a black tank top and black, grey, and white camo pants. Riku walked up behind her slowly, once behind her he put his hands to her eye quickly. She jump slightly,
"Who's there?" she asked nerviously.
Riku lowered his head to her ear and whispered,
"Guess who?" Yukara didn't say anything.
Riku was confused for a second, but all the ended when he felt her elbow him in the stomach and move out from in front of him. Riku still held his stomach in pain as Yukara pushed him in the lake,
"I thought I made it clear I wanted nothing to do with you!" Yukara yelled clenching her fist.
Riku stood up,
"Nice to see you to Yuka." he said still holding his side.
He walked out of the lake and shook his head. Yukara glared at him,
"Its Yukara...not Yuka anymore Riku..." she said in a low voice.
Riku shook his head again, and leaned down to catch his breath. His necklace slipped out from his shirt, and Yukara gasped,
"You...You still have it?" she said almost stuttering.
Riku saw what she was looking at,
"Of course I do, you are my friend after all!" he said smiling.
"How did you know about this lake and where I was?" she asked.
"Well Sora followed you home last night, and I went there a few minutes ago and asked Sapphire where you where." Riku replied.
Yukara stared out at the lake then turned around and started to walk away.
"Hey where are you going?" Riku asked.
"Away from here..."she replied.
Riku stood there for a second,
"Wait a minute, we didn't come here for you to just say 'no i dont want you around'."
Yukara stopped and turned,
"Thats right you didn't, your here cause your world was detroyed!" she snapped.
At that time Kairi had run out from the forest,
"Oh Riku, there you are! I know you said you went to talk to Yukara but we started to worry when you had been gone for so long."
She took one look at Riku, his face had a hurt look upon it.
"Riku whats-Oh hi Yukara!" she said cheerfully.
"Hi..." was all Yukara said.
Kairi walked over to her friend and hugged her,
"Whatcha been up to? We've all miss you a lot!" Kairi said cheerfully.
Yukara had a confused look on her face, she turned to look at Riku, he was just staring at her and smirked. Sora had come running out from where Kairi had and ran strait into Kairi and in turn Yukara was pushed back, and she fell back on Riku and then he fell back pulling Yukara into the lake with him. Yukara surfaced before Riku and was waiting for him to come up to attack him and she did just that, he surfaced and she jumped onto him and just started poking him like there was no tomorrow.
"Sora! Kairi! Help me!" Riku yelled.
Yukara had pulled him under water, Sora and Kairi couldn't stop laughing.
"We should go help now." said Sora.
Kairi nodded and they ran into the lake. Riku's head popped up out of the water somewhere towards the middle of the lake,
"Hey wheres Yukara?" Kairi asked.
Her question was soon answered, Sora was pulled under and Yukara surfaced. She was laughing and pointing at Riku,
"You should of seen your face!" Yukara tried to imitate it as best as she could, Kairi busted out laughing.
Sora surfaced a few feet from Riku,
"What the heck?" he asked.
Yukara did the face again and then Sora cracked up, it wasn't long before Riku started to laugh as well.
In the distance Sapphire watched the four friends splashing around in the water, it was good to see the old Yukara back. Just as she turned to leave she saw a shadow materialize in front of her, she gasped slightly,
"Oh no not here too!" She pulled her sword from her side and slashed the heartless in half, she looked back to Yukara and she was running out of water.
She ran out of the wood and to Yukara,
"Yuka, take my sword and run, away from this place."
Yukara looked at her guardian and then back to her friends,
"What about you?" she asked.
"I have the ship, go back to their camp and wait for me there, i'll come get you guys." said Sapphire running back to the ship.
Riku grabbed Yukara's arm,
"Come on lets go!" Yukara nodded and ran back to their camp, Sora and Kairi followed behind them closly.
The ground began to shake slightly, but everyone still ran as fast as they could. Just as they reached the top of a hill, the ground began to shift apart and Kairi's foot had gotten stuck in a crack. She fell to the ground and tried pulling her foot from the ground, Yukara saw this and ran back to he friend. Heartless had begun to mave in towards Kairi, just as a shadow was about to attck Yukara sliced it in half and then took care of the others. Once the heartless were destroyed, she walked over to where Kairi's foot was caught and carefully pulled it out. Kairi was shaking so badly Yukara had to pick her up and run to catch up with the others. She looked around trying to find them, but she did not see them.
"Yukara over here!" Sora called out.
She looked at where the voice had come from, the ground in front of Sora and Riku was begining to split slowly. Yukara ran as fast as she could to where they were and jumped over the opening, she tossed Kairi from her shoulder to the other side in mid-air. Sora caught her and the sat her down, Yukara had just caught herself on the ledge. Riku and Sora helped her up and they continued to run to their camp. Just a few yards from their camp they stopped at the sound of an explosion. Yukara turned to see what it was,
"Sapphire!" She called out.
The explosion was right where her gummy ship was, Yukara couldn't beleive her guardian was gone forever....A strong gust of wind started to blow, it was so strong it made Kairi fall back onto Sora. But instead of him catching her she went strait through him and disapeared.
"Kairi!" Sora yelled looking around.
Sora then laid eyes on Riku and Yukara,
"Whats going on here?!" Yukara was staring at the ground sadly, Riku put a hand on her shoulder and then they were both being swallowed by darkness.
"Riku! Yukara! Snap out of it!" yelled Sora.
He reached out to them to try and make it stop but he couldn't, they had disapeared just like Kairi had. Sora then saw a flash of bright light, he covered his eyes and felt something forming in his hands. The light faded and he was holding a huge key. Voices started speaking in his head,
"Keyblade.........Keyblade....Keyblade........."
That the only thing the voices said. The very little light that he had left had faded, a huge shadow was taking its place. Sora turned around and saw a huge black thing that he had fought in his dream. He ran up to the beast and attacked his huge hands, he hoped by killing this thing he would be able to get to his friends. The battle did not last very long, it seemed like the beast didn't really even put up a fight. That didn't matter to Sora though, he just wanted his friends back. The monster had collapsed, Sora gave a small smile and waited, but his friends never came. The beast was slowly pulled up into a huge ball of energy just like the one on the island. Sora grabbed onto the nearest tree not wanting to go where ever that thing was going, but he lost his gripped and began to drift into the dark energy..........
A/N: YaY! I finished it! Woot woot! I do beleive this is longer then chapter one! Oh yeah i'm happy, well go on, review my story! Again i dont care if its a flame cause flames can be really funny sometimes.Next chapter will be up soon. Buh bye for now!
-Kairi-
Chapter 2:
A/N: Hello Again! First I'm gonna thank everyone who reviewed my story, but I have to say this to the people who flamed me. Listen I could really care less about what you think about my story. And yes I know Riku loves Kairi to death, but come on most people anymore put Riku with their own characters. Most of them are some of the greatest Kingdom Hearts fics I've ever read. In my mind Riku doesn't belong with Kairi, that is Sora. From now on flames will be ignored so yer wasting yer time writing them, cause I will just laugh and point at yer own stupidity. Oh yeah, Dre, thanks for the advice and all, it was helpful. Now for all the legal stuff, I dont own Kingdom Hearts, but I do own my characters.
~*~Destiny Island~*~
Four years and two months has passed since the day Yukara left Destiny Island, and Riku has since then been making plan after plan on how to find his long lost friend.
"Hey Sora, ya got any idea's yet?" Riku called to his friend.
Sora sighed and looked at his friend,
"No not really, how bout you Kairi?" asked Sora looking over to his other friend.
"Nope, my brains fried." Said Kairi looking down at the ground.
The three friends friends sighed, Sora laid back on the sand and closed his eyes.
"Hey Riku? Your birthdays tomorrow right, so what are you gonna do?" Sora asked trying to change the subject.
Kairi lifted her head and smiled,
"Really Riku, you'll be turning fifteen ya know."
Riku looked out towards the sea and shook his head,
"I really dont know..." he said calmly.
He started thinking about more idea's about how to get off the island, it finally came to him. If Yukara had been to other worlds there must be a limit to how far you can go untill you reach another world.
"You guys I know what we can do to get off the island!" Riku said jumping up from the ground.
Sora and Kairi looked up at him,
"Really what is it?" Sora asked excitedly.
Riku explaned the whole thing to them,
"And thats gonna help us how?" Kairi asked.
"If we build a raft we can sail out to our worlds barrier and go through it." said Riku.
Kairi nodded her head and looked at Sora,
"What do you think?" she asked standing up.
Sora stood up as well,
"I think it just might work."
Riku smiled at his friends, something he rarely ever did since Yukara left.
"Well come on, let go plan this out at my place." Said Riku.
Sora and Kairi nodded and followed Riku down the trail to his house.......
~*~On a Ship~*~
A young girl laid on her bunker thinking of absolutly nothing, she sighed and rolled over on her stomach. Her long silver hair fell over her shoulders.
"Yukara were almost there." A woman called from the other room.
"Yeah whatever Sapphire..." Yukara said in a low voice.
She slid off her bunker and grabbed her trench coat from the rack.
"Where are we this time?" Yukara asked.
"We'll be landing in a place called Ludia Forest." Sapphire replied.
'Lovely I've always wanted to wander around some creepy old forest.' she thought to herself walking away.
"Where are you going Yuka?" Sapphire asked.
"Back to my bunker, and its Yukara..." she replied coldly. Sapphire sighed.
Ever since they left Destiny Island Yukara had totaly changed. Instead of wearing her usual bright cheerful colors, she always whore dark colors and her trench coat. She never left the ship either unless it was dark out. Sapphire shook her head of her thoughts and landed the ship in a small clearing. After she had landed she took note of how dark it was, she knew it was night time but this almost seemed like an eternal darkness. Yukara walked from her room,
" I think I like it here..." She said silently as she opened the hatch and walked outside.
Sapphire watched her walk into the woods,
"What has happened to her..." She said getting up and walking to the kitchen.
Yukara walked through the dark forest silently, it started to rain lightly. Yukara pulled her hood up over her head, parcially covering her eyes. Her thoughts drifted over to her old home and her friends, she wondered if they had changed any. She laughed at herself, they'd probably changed a lot. It had been about four years since she's seen them after all. She looked up to see a starless sky, Yukara sighed and jumped into the tree at her right. She climbed up it half way and laid on one of the branches. She closed her eyes and drifted into and uneasy sleep.
~*~Riku's House~*~
"Its simple, but it would be enough to get us to the barrier." said Riku holding up their drawing plans.
"I sertainly hope so, we dont know how far the barrier is from the island." said Kairi.
Sora nodded in agreement,
"How bout this, we'll start gathering suplies tomorrow and then we'll build it and set sail in a couple of weeks?" asked Sora.
Riku thought about this,
"Yeah I think that would work."
Sora smiled,
"Alright then, its settled," said Sora, "Well Riku we better head home, its starting to get dark out."
Riku nodded and opened the door,
"I'll see you guys tomorrow." He said closing the door.
Riku walked back over to his bed and laid down,
'Yukara...' he said to himself.
Her name echoed in his head, he wondered if he thought hard enough if he could talk to her....Riku continued thinking about her until he slowly drifted to sleep.....
"Huh? Where am I?" Riku asked looking around the black void.
He saw a tree in the distance, and someone was laying on one of the branches. Riku ran over to the tree, when he was just about 20 feet from the tree the person woke up. He couldn't see any of the person face,
"What are you doing here?" said the hooded figure.
It sounded like a girl to Riku,
"What do you mean what am I doing here, your the one in my dream!" Riku argued.
"How is that possible, I dont even know you." The hooded figure said annoyed.
"Well fine then, whats your name?" Riku asked.
"Its..."
Riku was shocked, the girl and the tree just disapeared.
"What the heck?!" Riku said looking around, he saw another hooded figure, but it wasnt the same person.
"Who are you?" Riku asked.
"Thats is not important now, but its time fore you to leave...." the man said shooting a blue beam at Riku, makeing him fly backwards.......
"Ahhhh!!" Riku yelled jolting up from his sleep.
He looked over at his clock, it was 7:30 am, Riku got up from his bed and ran down stairs.
'That dream....it was so real.....' he thought to himself.
He went out the front door and ran down the trail to the beach. As he exited the woods he saw Sora and Kairi at the dock talking,
"Hey you guys, Sorry i'm late!" he called out.
Sora turned around and waved,
"Its okay, well come on lets go collect our stuff."
Kairi pulled out a list of what they would need.
"Okay, we're going to need, eight logs, rope, and a cloth." she read the list and looked up at Sora and Riku.
"Okay then, Riku and me will get the logs, you can get the cloth and rope, kay?" said Sora.
Kairi nodded and ran off to get the supplies she was assigned. Riku and Sora ran round the beach and the wood picking up logs and draging them back to the beach, by the end of the day, they had collect all the logs they needed and Kairi had gotten the rope and cloth. Sora looked around,
"Shouldn't we put this stuff where the other kids wont mess with?" Sora asked.
Riku nodded,
"Yeah lets take it to the other side of the island, we can work on it there and no one will question us."
They picked up their stuff and slow walked over to the other side. They stacked their stuff neatly as far away from the water as possible,
"Well lets head home for the day." Said Kairi.
The two boys nodded their heads and they walked off to the trail.
~*~Back at the tree~*~
Yukara woke up with a sudden jerk, she wiped the sweat from her head.
'What the hell type of dream was that?' she asked herself.
She could tell that the person in her dream was a boy, but she couldnt figure out who it was because he was very blurry. Yukara shruged it off and jumped out of the tree, morning would be soon so she started to walk back to the ship.
Sapphire woke up to the sound of the hatch opening,
"Hello Yukara, did you find anything?" Sapphire asked.
"No...I didnt find anything...."Yukara replied as she walked by.
Sapphired sighed,
"Going to bed, right?"
Yukara stopped at the door way and nodded, then continued to her bunker. Sapphire got up and walked to the computer room, she turned on the computer and scanned the area for any towns. There was a small town about a mile and a half away from the ship, she turned the computer off and headed to the door. It was now daylight out and it wasn't as dark as she thought it would be, she started to walk down the trail heading to the town.
Once she entered the small town, she was greeted by a large man.
"Where are you from little missy?" he asked in a gruff voice.
"I'm just passing through sir, I just needed to stock up on suplies." Sapphire replied.
The man nodded his head,
"Oh okay, just have to make sure of these things ya know? Theres been some strange people showing up causing trouble, and then just disappearing." He explanned.
"Oh I see, well I must be going." said Sapphire.
The man nodded and waved, Sapphire walked quickly down to the store and bought what she needed. On her way out of town she saw the man who greeted her when she first entered.
"Um....exscuse me? Can I ask you something?" she asked him.
He looked over to her,
"Sure go ahead."
"What did these people look like, you know the ones who just came and left?" Sapphire asked.
"Well, the leader of the group was some tall woman who had horn looking things on her head, uh there was also some thing that looked like it was made out of potato sacks......what else was there......oh yeah! There was a pirate who was missing his hand, and some really weird dude with a pet bird, thats all of them. They seemed to be lookin' for somthing...." he finished.
Sapphire knew perfectly well who these people were, this was Maleficent and her gang. Only thing she didn't know was what they were after, her crew had everything they wanted....power mainly but they still had it.
"Well thanks for the information, maybe i'll see you again?" said Sapphire. The man nodded,
"Maybe, you better get going now, its gonna start getting dark in about an hour."
Sapphire nodded and ran down the trail back to the ship.
~*~The next week at Destiny Island~*~
Within the past week at Destiny Island, the three friends had managed to build a sturdy raft. They had a few days before they were going to set sail to the world barrier. Sora was laying peicfully on the shore, he slowly opened his eyes to see Kairi.
"Whoa!" said Sora getting up.
Kairi giggled slightly,
"Sora you lazy bumb, I should of known I'd find you snoozing down here." She said smiling.
"Give me a break Kairi." Sora said slightly laughing.
Riku walked up behind them,
"I cant wait to get off this Island." he said stretching.
"A couple more days Riku." Sora said excitedly.
"Tomorrow we'll have to collect our supplies, can I count on you for that Sora?" asked Kairi.
Sora smiled,
"Of course Kairi."
She turned to Riku,
"You and me can make sure the raft is 100% secure and stuff, okay?" Kairi asked.
Riku just nodded.
"Well for now we should just relax and enjoy ourselves." said Riku walking towards the poapu tree.
Sora nodded and ran off towards Wakka to duel with him, and Kairi went to talk to Selphie. Riku crossed the bridge and jumped onto the poapu tree and layed down. He sighed to himself and looked out towards the ocean. The sea had always seemed to calm him for some unknown reason, it also reminded him of Yukara. She had always loved the ocean, of course whats not to love about the crystal clear water that is all around the island. He sighed again and slid off the tree, it would be sunset soon and he didnt feel like watching it. Riku walked down to the beach and headed towards the trail that leaded to his house. He walked slowly down the trail enjoying the cool shade from the trees, his house came into veiw within a matter of minutes. Riku open the door and walked up stairs to his room. Once in his room, he looked over the plans for the raft for no reason at all, he also waited for his mom to call him down to dinner. A whole hour had passed and still Riku heard nothing, he walked downstairs and into the kitchen. There was on the fridge...
'Riku, went out to do some shopping. I wont be back till late so feel free to make whatever you like, i'll see you later. Love you honey, Mom'
Riku raised an eyebrow and threw the note in the trash, he wasn't that hungry so he head back up to his room and layed on his bed.
'One more day...and i'll finally be searching for you Yuka...' he thought to himself.
He didn't really feel bad about leaving his home, he wanted to find his friend and bring her and Sapphire back to where they belonged. It wasn't any fun getting into trouble without the whole group together. Riku sighed and slowly closed his eyes, he began to slip into a peaceful sleep.....
~Riku opened his eyes to see he was in a forest, this forest looked very old.....not like the one on Destiny Island. He heard a soft trickling of water behind him, he turned and saw the hooded figure from his last dream standing in front of a fountain.
"So you have come again..." she said.
Riku walked up to the person slowly,
"Who are you? You didn't answer me the last time." Asked Riku.
"I'm not saying, I have no reason to." She said quietly.
"Okay then, I can live with that..." said Riku trailing off.
"So do you always have that trench coat on?" he asked.
"Yes, people usually leave me alone when I have it on...." She answered annoyed.
They stood in silence a little longer,
"You better get going, it'll be morning soon where you come from..." she said.
"Wait a minute how did you know that?"
Before she could answer she had disappear and Riku woke up.
"How would she know it would soon be morning here?" he asked himself.
He shrugged it off and ran out of the house to the beach, he had gotten there quite early by the look of things. Nobody was here and dew was still dripping off the tropical plants. Riku walked over to the dock and sat down, waiting for Sora and Kairi to arrive. Kairi had the list of everything they needed and he wasn't gonna start checking the raft with out her there. He heard foot steps down the trail, he looked up to see Kairi, but Sora wasn't with her.
"Where's Sora?" he asked.
"Oh, he's uh still asleep I guess, well come on lets go check the raft out. Sora knows where to go to get the list." said Kairi.
Riku nodded his head and they walked in silence over to where the raft was. Once there, they tugged on all the ropes to make sure they were nice and tight, Riku had Kairi stand on the raft while he pushed it out a little just to make sure it floated. After checking that they pulled it back in and pushed it up out of the water.
"Well thats about all we can check you know?" said Kairi smiling.
"Yeah, I guess we just have to wait for our lazy friend." Riku said cheerfully.
Kairi giggled,
"Your rather happy today aren't you?"
Riku smiled slightly,
"Would you perfer me to be sad Kairi?" He asked faking a pout.
Kairi playfully punched him in the shoulder, and Riku just laughed.
"I'll go wait for Sora at the door." said Riku walking off.
"I'll come with you if you don't mind!" Kairi said happily.
Riku turned his head and nodded, kairi ran to catch up with him.
Sora ran down the trail and across the beach as fast as he could,
'Aww man....their gonna kill me....' he thought to himself as he pushed open the door.
"There you are Sora!" said Kairi.
"For a sec I thought you might of been swallowed by the mess that is your room. " Riku added.
Sora glarred slightly and his two friends just laughed. When they had finally finished, Kairi pulled a list out from her pocket.
"Okay Sora, where going to need two coconuts, three fish, and two mushrooms. Also take this bottle and fill it with water, but not from the ocean!" said Kairi giving him a bottle.
Sora nodded and ran off to get all the supplies.
~*~In the woods~*~
As Yukara walked through the woods of her new home, she hear the soft trickling of water not to far from where she was. She continued to walk untill she saw a fountain like spring infront of her. She walked over to the water, and sat down. Her mind was completely clear of all thought so she just sat there, relaxing. She looked around to make sure nobody was around her, she sighed and took off her trench coat and gloves. Her long silver hair fell over her shoulders as she leaned over to look onto the water. All she saw was a girl who didn't look at all like the peaceful and care free person she used to be. She sighed again and looked up at the stars, this was something that always made her feel better. There was one star that had caught her attention, she didn't know why it just did. Yukara stood up suddenly, the star she was looking at had just started to fade.
"Wait a minute!" she cried out.
The star brightened up then disapeared,
'thats not good...' she thought to herself.
Everytime a star went out that meant another world had been destroyed.....but by what? Sapphire never told her what destroyed the world, just that its never good. She pulled her trench coat and gloves back on and headed towards the ship to tell Sapphire what had happened.
~*~Back at the island~*~
Sora brought back all the supplies that they needed and gave them to Kairi, she stored them in a crate on the raft. The three friends headed back to the Poapu tree and sat down. They talked about random things, mainly just about their upcoming adventure. Riku was very excited that he could barely sit still, he just wanted to take the raft and go now. But he decided against it since it was going to be a very long trip by himself. As they continued to talk the sunset came sooner then they expected.
"Well come on you guys, lets get some sleep so we can be up early to leave." said Kairi standing up.
The boys nodded and stood up as well, they walked down to the beach and onto the trail. Sora and Kairi continued to talk about their trip while Riku just listened. Once they reached their houses they bidded eachother goodnight and went inside their houses, Riku went strait up to his room and laid down on his bed. He was just about to close his eyes when he heard thunder. He looked out his window and saw a huge black ball of energy near the beach, Kairi must of seen it to cause she was also looking out her window,
"Kairi! Come on we gotta go secure the raft!" Riku called to her.
She nodded her head and climbed out her window. Riku did the same and jumped off his roof, he ran over to Kairi's house. just as she was about to jump she slipped and fell off her roof, Riku ran over just in time to catch her.
"Thanks!" She said as Riku sat her down.
He just nodded and ran down the trail and Kairi followed. reaching the beach, they ran over to the door to where the raft was. Riku pushed and pulled on the door, but it wouldnt budge. He turned to Kairi,
"Lets wait by the poapu tree, Sora will be able to see us there!" He yelled.
"R-Riku!" Kairi stuttered while pointing behind him.
He turned around to see a little black creature,
"Come on lets go!" he said pulling Kairi's arm.
She ran as fast as she could to keep up with Riku, they ran threw the shack and across the bridge. It seemed the creatures didn't want to come here so they were safe for the time being.
Sora shot up from his sleep,
"Huh? A storm? Oh no the raft!" he yelled opening his window and jumping out.
He ran down the trail and arrived at the beach, he looked around the beach looking for any signs of his friends. He spotted them near the poapu tree, Kairi looked in his direction.
"Sora! Look out!" She yelled.
Sora looked around to see little black creatures forming around him,
'its thoughs things from my dream!' he thought to himself.
He ran up to the island that Riku and Kairi were on,
"Guys what are you doing here?" Sora asked.
"Checking on the raft, but the door wont open so we waited for you." Said Kairi.
"Sora...The door has opened..." Said Riku in a low voice.
"What?" Sora and Kairi said together.
"The door has opened, now we can go to the outside worlds!" Sora and Kairi just looked at him.
"We may never see our parents again, but we cant let fear stop us....I'm not affraid of the darkness!" said Riku.
He reached his hands out towards Sora and Kairi, they grabbed his hands and the darkness had swallowed them up. As they fell through the darkness, they saw many doors, but only one of the doors was opened. And that was the door they were heading to, once they entered it they saw a huge forest bellow them. They also saw a town, but unfortanatly that was not where the were heading, they were falling stait into the forest. Sora and Kairi had gotten lucky and didn't fall into any trees, they landed in a large bush and just kinda rolled to the ground. Riku on the othe hand wasn't so lucky, he had fallen into a tree and hit what seemed like every branch and then finally landed on the bush.
"Ugh there has got to be a better way to get around..." Riku said in pain.
"Are you okay Riku?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah i think a just lot my pride for a while though..." he said while laughing slightly.
Kairi and Sora joined in.
"Well we're finally off the island..." Sora said trying to be cheery.
Riku nodded,
"Yeah true, well lets go to that town and buy some supplies." said Riku walking down a trail to his right.
"Yeah our wooden swords wont be of much use." said Sora looking at his wimpy wooden sword.
Kairi nodded and they followed Riku trail. The tree's in this world were much different then there tree's on the island, they were a lot bigger and covered with moss. They looked all around at this strange world, if anyone was to look at them, they would know that they were glad to be on this adventure together.
"So what do you think happened to our home?" Kairi asked.
"I dont know, I hope its okay..." said Riku.
Sora nodded, they continued to walk for about another thirty minutes and they finally saw the light of the town. Kairi sighed happily, they continued to walk towards the enterance. Once at the entrance of the town, they were stopped by a large man,
"What're you doing here?" Sora and Kairi looked at him with scared faces.
Riku saw his friends looks and looked towards the man again.
"Our world was destroyed, and we ended up here." Riku said plainly.
Sora and Kairi looked at him in shock. They were both wondering how he could say that,
"Oh not another one, Clair! Theres more of 'em, 'cept its a group of kids!" He called out.
"Oh yer joking Brain!" She called back coming out of the house.
She looked at Sora and gasped,
"Oh you poor dears, yer all welcome to stay here." Clair said sweetly.
Sora stepped up,
"Thats nice of you to offer, but we're looking for someone."
Brain turned to him,
"Really who ya lookin for?" he asked.
"Our friend Yukara." Sora replied.
Brain thought for a second,
"Hmm...strange....there was a weird group looking for that girl....but they didn't seem like they knew her to well."
Sora mouthed an 'oh'. "You kids better go buy some weapons and potions, oh by the way, this is Dorda." said Clair handing them a bag of munny.
"Thanks!" said Kairi.
The tree friends walked off to a shop that had weapons in the window, they slowly walked into the shop and looked around. A man walked from out of the back,
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Yeah, we need to buy some potions, tents, and weapons." said Riku.
"Okay, weapons are over there, i'll get yer potions from the back." he said going to the back of the store again.
The group walked over to the weapons, Riku picked up a sword that looked like a wing. He swung it a couple of times and decided to get that one, Sora picked up a long sword and Kairi was looking at a bow. They picked them up and walked to the counter, by that time the man had came out to the front. He added up their total,
"Okay then, yer total is 325 munny."
Kairi dug into the money bad and gave him the money, they grabbed their stuff and walked out of the store. Once outside Riku gave Kairi and Sora their weapons, they split the potion between them evenly.
"Alright, lets go back to thats wood and set up camp." said Riku.
They walked out of town and back into the woods, they searched for a while to find a place to camp.
"Riku, can we stop for a sec?" asked Kairi.
Riku nodded and sat down next to a tree, he watched Sora look around. Sora then stood up quickly,
"Whats up Sora?" Riku asked.
"I hear water!" He replied happily.
"Where at?" Kairi asked.
"That way!" said Sora pointing to the left of them.
Everyone stood up and went in that direction and sure enough there was spring in the middle of a clearing,
"I think here would be a good place ya know?" said Kairi.
"I agree, we wouldnt have to travel for water and such, plus its not far from town." Sora added.
Riku nodded his head and pulled out the tents they had bought, Sora helped set them up and Kairi gathered wood.
~*~At the Ship~*~
"Sapphire!" Yukara called out once she was inside the ship.
"Yes Yukara what is it?" Sapphire asked.
"A star, a star went out!" she said quickly.
Sapphire eyes widened and then went back to normal,
"This isn't good....But don't you worry about it okay?" Yukara nodded and walked away from her gaurdian.
She pulled up her hood and walked back out of the ship and back to the clearing, just as she was about to walk into the clearing she jumped behind a tree. She heard laughing in the clearing, she peered out from behind the tree....The forst thing she saw was coffee brown spikey hair, she leaned a little farther and a twig near her foot snapped. Someone looked strait at her...
Riku's head jerked towards the woods at the sound of a stick cracking, he grabed Kairi's bow and an arrow. Kairi looked up at him in confustion, Riku shot the arrow towards the figure....the arrow struck the person and they moaned in pain, the person turn and ran away....
Yukara saw the boy shoot the arrow but she froze in place, the arrow peirced her in the should. She grunted in pain and ran, the arrow in her arm slowed her down. She didn't dare run back to the ship, she just ran....
He dropped Kairi's bow and chased after the person,
"Riku wait!" Sora called out.
"Stay here with Kairi i'll be back!" He said running faster.
He could still see the person in front of him, running around tree's was not helping him catch them. Riku jumped into a tree and started to jump from tree to tree catching up with the person quickly, once in front of them he jumped down and the person ran into them.
"Ow..." said the female voice.
She had been stopped by running into her chaser, she felt the arrow getting pushed farther into her shoulder.
"What were you doing snooping around are camp?" the boy asked.
"I was coming to the spring...you weren't there when I first went there..." she replied.
The boy nodded,
"Whats your name?" he asked.
'I cant tell him my real name....I dont trust him....' she thought to herself.
"Sara..." she said quickly.
"Oh I see...Well i'm-"
"I have no need to know your name..." Yukara said cutting him off.
"Okay then....well come on let me take you to get your wound healed." he said holding out his hand.
She didn't take his hand, she just stood up.
"No it's fi-arg..." she said falling down again.
"No your not fine Sara....come on your coming with me." Riku said lifting her up to her feet again.
Riku still didn't trust this person but he wasn't going to just leave her here to get hurt worse. They made there way back to his camp, Sara was looking around nervously.
"You should take off your hood." said Riku.
She continued to stare forward,
"I'm not taking it off..."she said annoyed.
They continued on in silence, Riku still had a firm grip on Sara's arm. Riku was the first to see the bright glow from his camp, Sora then came up to them.
"Why did you bring her here?" Sora asked.
Riku pushed pass him,
"She's hurt...and i'm not one who let people get hurt worse..."
He walked over to Kairi and let go of Sara.
"Here, you can sit down and i'll get that arrow out." said Kairi calmly.
Sora looked at them like they were all idiots,
"Riku! Your not gonna just let her go are you?"
Riku looked at him,
"She wasnt going to hurt us, and besides she has no weapon."
Kairi just nodded and turned back to Sara,
"I never got you name..." said Kairi.
"It Sara, and I have no need for your names for I will not be seeing you again."
Sara replied coldly. Kairi just nodded and yanked the arrow out, Sara winced in pain slightly. Sora brought over a wet cloth and gave it to Kairi, she carefully cleaned out the cut as best as she could.
"Now, if you would just remove your coat, I can bandage that for you." Kairi said nicely.
"Kai-.....um......no thats fine, i'll bandage it when I get home....." Sara said quietly.
Sara stood up and ran from the camp as fast as she could. Riku almost followed her but stopped himself,
"You guys, that was Yukara." he said plainly.
Sora looked up at him,
"How could it be? She wasn't very nice to us like Yukara was."
"If you ever paid attention to anything you would of heard her almost say Kairi's name!" Riku snapped.
"Hey don't get mad at me just cause you couldnt stop her from leaving!" Sora said now angry.
"Who said I was mad!" said Riku moving closer to Sora.
"I wonder, maybe its cause your yelling!" he yelled back at Riku.
"Ugh both of you stop!" Kairi screamed.
They both looked at her shocked.
"One of you should follow her if you think its Yuka okay?"
"I'll go..." said Sora as he ran after Yukara.
Riku glared in his direction and then walked into his tent,
"Riku...don't be mad with Sora, we're all a little stressed with this adventure..." Kairi said crawling into Riku's tent.
"I'm sorry Kairi, its just...its hard to beleive she was here and acted like she didn't know us..."
Kairi patted his shoulder,
"It shocked us all Riku, come on why don't you come back out to the fire?" Riku shook his head,
"Nah, i'm tired so just wake me up with Sora comes back."
Kairi nodded and walked back out to the fire.
Sora was not about to beleive that was Yukara at their camp, she was way to harsh to be her. He finally caught up with her halfway, he followed her another fifteen minutes until they came to another clearing and a ship. Sora stepped behind a tree and watched,
"Oh Yukara your hurt, what happened?"
Sora couldn't beleive his eyes, it was Sapphire! And she was talking to Yukara! He watched a little longer,
"I got shot with an arrow by them..." Yukara said coldly, pulling down her hood letting her long hair fall out.
"Them? Who's them?" Sapphire asked.
"Sora, Kairi, and Riku..."
"Oh their here? Then that must mean that was their world that was destroyed, were you happy to see them?" she asked hopefully.
"No, they should of stayed out of the woods and in that town. Their not wanted here..." Yukara said coldly.
"Yukara...what's happened to you? I thought you would be glad to see your friends..." Sapphire said sadly.
"You wanna know what happened to me? That happy little twerp you used to worry about so much? Well she died a long time ago on that island, and any feeling for her friends died with that girl!" Yukara yelled running back into the woods.
"Yukara wait!" She cried out.
Sapphire sighed and walked back into the ship. By that time Sora was wide eyed and staring at the ship, he finally snapped out of it and ran back to his camp. He had to tell the others, this was bound to excite everyone. By the time he had got back to camp, it was morning. Riku was watching the fire and Kairi had her head on his shoulder sleeping.
"Riku!" said Sora.
He looked up and shook Kairi to wake her up,
"Did you find anything Sora?" Riku asked.
"I sure did, Yukara, Sapphire, and their ship, but Yukara yelled at Sapphire and stormed off in the forest somewhere." Sora explained.
Riku gave him a weird look,
"Yeah I know, Yukara has changed alot, she was saying stuff like her feelings and stuff died on Destiny Island. Also she wasn't to happy about us being here either." he explained some more.
"Well then.....I'll just have to go see her!" Riku said with a determened look.
"Um......Riku did you miss the part where I said she didn't want us around?" Sora asked.
"Nope, didn't miss a word." He said smiling.
With that he walked down the trail Sora just came from and down to where Sapphire's ship was, he walked to the ship and walked up the ramp.
"Hey Sapphire you home?" Riku called into the ship.
He heard someone stubbling from the back to the front,
"Huh? Riku is that you?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah its me, do ya know where Yukara might of went?" he asked.
"Oh, yes I do have some idea, you see theres a lake not to far over there, I bet thats were she's at." she said pointing to her left.
Riku nodded,
"Thanks Sapphire, i'll try and bring her back." he said walking away from her.
Sapphire nodded and walked back into the ship with a little hope. Riku walked quickly in the direction Sapphire had told him and sure enough there was a lake, and Yukara was standing next to it. Her trench coat and gloves laid on the ground next to her, all she had on now was a black tank top and black, grey, and white camo pants. Riku walked up behind her slowly, once behind her he put his hands to her eye quickly. She jump slightly,
"Who's there?" she asked nerviously.
Riku lowered his head to her ear and whispered,
"Guess who?" Yukara didn't say anything.
Riku was confused for a second, but all the ended when he felt her elbow him in the stomach and move out from in front of him. Riku still held his stomach in pain as Yukara pushed him in the lake,
"I thought I made it clear I wanted nothing to do with you!" Yukara yelled clenching her fist.
Riku stood up,
"Nice to see you to Yuka." he said still holding his side.
He walked out of the lake and shook his head. Yukara glared at him,
"Its Yukara...not Yuka anymore Riku..." she said in a low voice.
Riku shook his head again, and leaned down to catch his breath. His necklace slipped out from his shirt, and Yukara gasped,
"You...You still have it?" she said almost stuttering.
Riku saw what she was looking at,
"Of course I do, you are my friend after all!" he said smiling.
"How did you know about this lake and where I was?" she asked.
"Well Sora followed you home last night, and I went there a few minutes ago and asked Sapphire where you where." Riku replied.
Yukara stared out at the lake then turned around and started to walk away.
"Hey where are you going?" Riku asked.
"Away from here..."she replied.
Riku stood there for a second,
"Wait a minute, we didn't come here for you to just say 'no i dont want you around'."
Yukara stopped and turned,
"Thats right you didn't, your here cause your world was detroyed!" she snapped.
At that time Kairi had run out from the forest,
"Oh Riku, there you are! I know you said you went to talk to Yukara but we started to worry when you had been gone for so long."
She took one look at Riku, his face had a hurt look upon it.
"Riku whats-Oh hi Yukara!" she said cheerfully.
"Hi..." was all Yukara said.
Kairi walked over to her friend and hugged her,
"Whatcha been up to? We've all miss you a lot!" Kairi said cheerfully.
Yukara had a confused look on her face, she turned to look at Riku, he was just staring at her and smirked. Sora had come running out from where Kairi had and ran strait into Kairi and in turn Yukara was pushed back, and she fell back on Riku and then he fell back pulling Yukara into the lake with him. Yukara surfaced before Riku and was waiting for him to come up to attack him and she did just that, he surfaced and she jumped onto him and just started poking him like there was no tomorrow.
"Sora! Kairi! Help me!" Riku yelled.
Yukara had pulled him under water, Sora and Kairi couldn't stop laughing.
"We should go help now." said Sora.
Kairi nodded and they ran into the lake. Riku's head popped up out of the water somewhere towards the middle of the lake,
"Hey wheres Yukara?" Kairi asked.
Her question was soon answered, Sora was pulled under and Yukara surfaced. She was laughing and pointing at Riku,
"You should of seen your face!" Yukara tried to imitate it as best as she could, Kairi busted out laughing.
Sora surfaced a few feet from Riku,
"What the heck?" he asked.
Yukara did the face again and then Sora cracked up, it wasn't long before Riku started to laugh as well.
In the distance Sapphire watched the four friends splashing around in the water, it was good to see the old Yukara back. Just as she turned to leave she saw a shadow materialize in front of her, she gasped slightly,
"Oh no not here too!" She pulled her sword from her side and slashed the heartless in half, she looked back to Yukara and she was running out of water.
She ran out of the wood and to Yukara,
"Yuka, take my sword and run, away from this place."
Yukara looked at her guardian and then back to her friends,
"What about you?" she asked.
"I have the ship, go back to their camp and wait for me there, i'll come get you guys." said Sapphire running back to the ship.
Riku grabbed Yukara's arm,
"Come on lets go!" Yukara nodded and ran back to their camp, Sora and Kairi followed behind them closly.
The ground began to shake slightly, but everyone still ran as fast as they could. Just as they reached the top of a hill, the ground began to shift apart and Kairi's foot had gotten stuck in a crack. She fell to the ground and tried pulling her foot from the ground, Yukara saw this and ran back to he friend. Heartless had begun to mave in towards Kairi, just as a shadow was about to attck Yukara sliced it in half and then took care of the others. Once the heartless were destroyed, she walked over to where Kairi's foot was caught and carefully pulled it out. Kairi was shaking so badly Yukara had to pick her up and run to catch up with the others. She looked around trying to find them, but she did not see them.
"Yukara over here!" Sora called out.
She looked at where the voice had come from, the ground in front of Sora and Riku was begining to split slowly. Yukara ran as fast as she could to where they were and jumped over the opening, she tossed Kairi from her shoulder to the other side in mid-air. Sora caught her and the sat her down, Yukara had just caught herself on the ledge. Riku and Sora helped her up and they continued to run to their camp. Just a few yards from their camp they stopped at the sound of an explosion. Yukara turned to see what it was,
"Sapphire!" She called out.
The explosion was right where her gummy ship was, Yukara couldn't beleive her guardian was gone forever....A strong gust of wind started to blow, it was so strong it made Kairi fall back onto Sora. But instead of him catching her she went strait through him and disapeared.
"Kairi!" Sora yelled looking around.
Sora then laid eyes on Riku and Yukara,
"Whats going on here?!" Yukara was staring at the ground sadly, Riku put a hand on her shoulder and then they were both being swallowed by darkness.
"Riku! Yukara! Snap out of it!" yelled Sora.
He reached out to them to try and make it stop but he couldn't, they had disapeared just like Kairi had. Sora then saw a flash of bright light, he covered his eyes and felt something forming in his hands. The light faded and he was holding a huge key. Voices started speaking in his head,
"Keyblade.........Keyblade....Keyblade........."
That the only thing the voices said. The very little light that he had left had faded, a huge shadow was taking its place. Sora turned around and saw a huge black thing that he had fought in his dream. He ran up to the beast and attacked his huge hands, he hoped by killing this thing he would be able to get to his friends. The battle did not last very long, it seemed like the beast didn't really even put up a fight. That didn't matter to Sora though, he just wanted his friends back. The monster had collapsed, Sora gave a small smile and waited, but his friends never came. The beast was slowly pulled up into a huge ball of energy just like the one on the island. Sora grabbed onto the nearest tree not wanting to go where ever that thing was going, but he lost his gripped and began to drift into the dark energy..........
A/N: YaY! I finished it! Woot woot! I do beleive this is longer then chapter one! Oh yeah i'm happy, well go on, review my story! Again i dont care if its a flame cause flames can be really funny sometimes.Next chapter will be up soon. Buh bye for now!
-Kairi-