Author's Notes: Hey all! Welcome to the mahem that I call "The Female Sora"! And don't get all worried, I know the title makes this sound like a morbid sex-change yaoi fic, but I assure you IT'S NOT! You'll get what I'm sayin' if ya read it. It's in the first person point of view from my favorite "Mary Sue", Katie. If you've read my other lame story ("The Screwed Up Vision of Escaflowne" which is currently incomplete) then you'll have noticed that "Katie" was also in that too, well guess what? In almost EVERY story I write, there will be Katie and/or Courtney as the main characters. I dunno, but I can't help but put myself and my best friend in the mix of RPG/Anime fun, ya know?!

"The Female Sora" is rated PG 13 for slight naughty language, nothing too serious, and if it is serious, then it's cut apart. (You'll see what I mean) It's basically a "love-story" from my perspective, and trust me, it's gonna be wacked, and quite funny. At least I hope funny, I try. Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter One: Teenage Crush

It's been like what? two days since this guy just ramdomly shows up at school and steals my heart? Yeah, I think it's been about two days... But time doesn't seem to be important to me now, I may sound like one of those ditzy girls who have crushes up the wazoo, BUT I'm not like one of those girls, I only have ONE crush. To bad everyother girl in the freggin' school has a crush on him too. That kind of makes my little crush look insignificant, yes? Oh well, I'm Katie Smyth, I don't get crushes everyday, and he should feel privilaged to be liked by me, too bad he doesn't know. It's not like it's not completely OBVIOUS, Courtney can tell I like him, even though I deny it every time she brings it up. Wish I could be like her, and have no fear of tellin' other people about who I have crushes on. Takes a lot of trust to just up and tell someone about stuff like that, a lot of courage too. Trust I have, courage I don't.

Don't get me wrong, when it comes down to spiders or snakes or walking in the dark, or answering the door in my PJ's, I have all the damn courage in the freggin' world. But when it comes to tellin' about my inner- feelings... I chicken out. Sure I'm an excratory kinda person, up to a point, and my inner-feelings are definitely up to that point. Maybe it's just that I don't want to be rejected? Or maybe that I don't want to be embarrased if someone told, I don't like to be made fun of, I get enough of that at home from my bro. Or maybe I just can't get myself to say it cuz there's this voice inside my head tellin' me to keep quiet about stuff like this... OR maybe it's because I don't want to be like everyone ELSE! Sharing my feelin's openly like that, and gettin' all "giggly" like all them dumb as all hell girls out there. Yup, that's it. The little tom-boy inside me won't let me become like what I had always promised myself I wouldn't be.

Now that I think about it though, strange things have been happenin' now that this guy shows up. The weather's turned quite violent, it gets darker sooner, odd material has been fallin' from the sky, and just yesterday I saw a creature in the woods while walkin' home from the bus stop. It was black and walked almost on all fours, with antennae and two bright yellow eyes. I just deemed that as part of my over-active imagination, but I could almost SWEAR I saw that damn freaky creature... However, what all of those things have to do with HIM are completely BEYOND me. He would have no way of being able to control ANY of that, but I can't help but feel that maybe... he's involved in all this SOMEHOW. Nevertheless, you won't hear me making any accusations ANY time soon.

One of the meteors fell in my back yard the other day too, you know, "by the way." The stuff is actually pretty damn cool, it's a funky glowin' color, and stretches if you pull on it. It bounces pretty well too, to tell the truth, it bounces REALLY well, I chased it for almost a half an hour tryin' to catch the damn thing. So now it's on a leash, and I have EVERY intention of doin' odd experiments on the little peice of goo. The scientist in me is takin' over! Everyone BEWARE! Mwahahaha!

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Eveyone in the class of highschooler's looks over at me as I chuckle to myself insanely. Uh-oh... Well, there's number 10,877 times I've made a COMPLETE ass out of myself infront of my peers, but that's only a rough estimate. Oh well. It's only first hour! I'm sure I can make a few more incidences to add to my total by the end of the day. My face flushes alittle and I smile cheesily at my fellow classmates half waving to ease my embarrasment. Doesn't work, never does, worth a try though. I sigh, and go back to watching the horrible as all hell movie that Mr. Shellert's just showin' to take up class time, even teachers get lazy sometimes, right? To be honest, I'd rather watch this gay movie than take notes, and I'm sure that's how everyone else feels as well. So, I'm not complainin', not at all.

You know that naggin' feelin' that you get when someone's lookin' at you? Yeah, so I'm feelin' that about right NOW... I look up, takin' a quick look around the class room, makin' no eye contact with anyone, but still trying to see who's lookin' at me... And--he's... why is HE lookin' at me?! Great, he must think me weird now that I laugh about nothing in paticular... Oh well, yet ANOTHER guy out there that thinks I'm crazy. Could be worse. Around this time I notice that I'm lookin' at HIM too, he sure does have pretty eyes though... I wouldn't mind looking into those eyes--er... NOW would be a good time to look away... Quick, give another cheesy smile and half wave... and--IN THE CLEAR! Whew, that was close!

Uh... Not to be like "Captin Obvious" or anything, but the bells ringing... Guess I should go huh? Ok, it's official, all sanity that may have been present inside of me is officially GONE, gone without a TRACE! DEAR GOD WHAT WILL I DO?! Well... what CAN a crazy person do, you know, besides act crazy? And the answer is... NOTHING!! There is no hope for people like me. Aw, what a complete and utter SHAME!

Let's see here, second hour, oh joy, it's like my FAVORITE class out of the whole stinkin' DAY! Damn I'm just a reakin' with sarcasm. Floriculture, bahumbug... Someone must have it out for me... Out of the so many OTHER classes, I get stuck with this one, full of seniors and a wacked- out teacher that calls me by my FIRST FREGGIN' NAME, which by the way I absolutely HATE with every FIBER of my BEING. But ya know, what can ya do? Some people just can't get the point that they can call me KATIE! NOT KATHARINE!! ARG! ... Must... be... CALM! Aw, screw it. However, there is an upside to this class, once again HE is in the same class as I am... Come to think of it, he's in just about every one of my classes... Actually he IS in every one of my classes... How strange. But I'm not complaining! I have no reason to!

Out to the Green House we go, the whole class except for the damn Agriculture Lacky's that seem to always get good grades in this damn class even though they do absolutely NOTHING. Once in the Green House we get the usual comments of "This place smells like ass." coming from several of the students. I, of course, stick to my little lonesome and head for the far corner, to hide behind an overgrown plant and try not to be noticed as much at possible. Of course, as luck would have it Mr. Cook sees my despirate dash for the back and takes this opportunity to think me as a volunteer.

"Ah, Katharine, you look like you'd like to water the Poinsettias!" he says, followed by his annoying as all hell laugh that sends chills down my spine and makes me almost want to vomit.

"Fine." I mumble, and head for the god-forsaken hose, to begin my horrible task of getting all of the clothes on my body wet--er watering the Poinsettias.

"Yes and uh... Riku, could you give her a hand with that?"

I freeze in the middle of turning the water on, did he just say Riku? RIKU??? Oh great, now I can make a total ass out of myself in front of him PERSONALLY! YAY!

"Uh... You do realize that you're giving your shoe a good watering, right?" His deep sarcastic voice rings from behind me.

Lookin' down, I see that he's definitely correct in making that assumption. Pulling a Chandler, I look up at him, "I know." I say quickly, pulling the hose away from my soaked shoe, and jerking away heading to the Poinsettias. Pulling the lever on the hose to make the water stop for the time being, and shaking my foot wildly riding it of the access water to the best of my ability. Mission accomplished on making an ass out of myself, but the hours not over yet!

She reminds me of Sora.

Sora? Who the hell is Sora? And how did that name enter my feeble little brain?

The cheesy smile, the half wave, the ditzy childish mistakes and getting embarrassed about them, but trying not to let anyone see it. All I need to do is cut the hair and give her a keyblade and I'd have my own personal Sora. Heh-heh.

What the FU--... I refuse to finish that sentence... aw, what the hell--CK!!

Only female... that's not so bad...

"Do you mind, you're freakin' me out." I growl out loud, not meaning to, mind you, and I clap my hands over my mouth hoping Riku didn't hear it...

"Mind what?" he sounds confused, I am too...

"Uh, nothin'. Didn't mean to say that out loud. Sorry." I laugh nervously, rubbing the back of my neck.

There she goes again, acting like Sora, but a better looking, more attractive Sora... Am I saying that I'm attracted to Sora? No... I just like him as a friend, but seeing a girl that acts just like him is...

"Don't say it..." I growl again, but noticing my second mistake I slap my hands over my mouth and laugh nervously again.

"Don't say... what?" he looks down at me with those absolutely beautiful aqua-green eyes, under those oddly colored silver/platinum bangs, and quirks a thin silver eyebrow.

"Uh... nothin' again?" he gives me that look. "What? You don't hear that?"

"Hear what?"

I sigh, didn't think he did, oh well, it was worth a shot dammit. "It's nothin', just me going nuts, don't mind me." I turn and start to carefully water the small deteriorating plants to the best of my ability. Poor plants are just a dying away, ain't they? Probably because I'm watering them, I have a tendency to curse everything I touch to either destruction or death, at least at SOME point.

"... You're drowning them..."

Ok, I've had enough... "I am, AM I?! You think you could do a BETTER JOB?!"

"Actually, yes."

"Then, BE MY FREGGIN' GUEST!" I thrust the hose infront of his face, then cross my arms and pout.

Yep, just like Sora. Over reacts then pouts like a little child.

"There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN' wrong with ACTIN' LIKE A CHILD!" I snarl, that damn voice in my head--that's talking about nothing that I understand--is REALLY starting to TICK ME OFF!!

"... w... what did you just say?" he stares at me astonished.

"It's nothin', don't worry about it." I wave him off, and close my eyes. Doing my best to ignore the numerous naggin' feelings that I'm gettin', tellin' me that the whole class is lookin' at me. Not the first time...

Ok, that was just about WEIRD. For a second, I thought she could read my thoughts...

My eyes jerk open. What... Huh? I'm confused... Reading thoughts? Is THAT what I'm doing? Then... who's thoughts was I...? I turn slowly to look at Riku, who's slowly watering the plants with the utmost care that almost seems unhuman. Ok, well there's only one way to find out if they're his thoughts.

"Riku?" I say shakily, his eyes look over at me, but he continues to water. "Do you... by chance know someone named... uh... Sora...?"

He drops the hose.

Gee, I guess so. I watch him as he quickly picks the hose back up and shuts the water off. He looks at me astonished, his already pale face getting paler, if that's even possible. Well, I think I surprised him a little bit... just a little. THUMP!! My attention is drawn away from his face and over to the wall of the Green House, there, clinging to the wall, I could see one of those creatures that I saw in the woods, looking in on us.

"Heartless!" Riku sneers, and dashes for the door, nearly tripping me with the damn hose. Heartless? What the HELL is a HEARTLESS?! Suppose it's that freaky as all hell thing that's scratchin' at the wall... Hm... BRILLIANT deduction my dear DUMB ASS! Ug, my own stupidity kills me... Gotta work on imporving my IQ when I get the chance. But, as for now, I shall follow Riku! Why? Well, I'm not sure, but I've got this OTHER naggin' feelin' that I should help him... with... WHATEVER he's doin'... So I dash for the door as well.

What I'm seein' now, is definitely NOT what I was expecting to see. Well, what EXACTLY I was expecting, I dunno, but it sure as hell wasn't THIS! Up in the sky was a giant ball of "blackness" and some small things flying up to it. Uh, it's kinda like a vaccum... WHAT?! A VACCUM?!?! All it needs is the Dirt Devil sign and we'd have a match... Great, now I'm going to get sucked up and DIE! Perfect...

A few dark circles form around me and before I know it, I'm surrounded by them "heartless" thinger-majigers. I gulp, gee, this doesn't look too good.

"What are you doing out here?!" Hey that's Riku's voice!

"Riku!" I say, trying to find him.

"You shouldn't have come out here!"

"Well I didn't hear you tell me not too! I took that as an opportunity to show off my stupidity! You got a PROBLEM WITH THAT?!"

He rounds the corner, only to be surounded by his own circle of heartless. Yep, this doesn't look too good at ALL. But to my surprise in his hands two... giant keys appear, one a dark color and one a light color. The dark one glows an odd yellow color and I watch, all too aware of the heartless inching in closer to me. Suddenly MY hand starts to glow yellow and there pops the dark colored key... "What in the world!" I almost drop the dumb thing. "What am I supposed to do with this?!"

"Use it!" he instructs.

"And do WHAT?! KEY them to death?!" He doesn't get the chance to answer, he's too busy wacking the heartless with the "key" like thingy in his hands. If it works for him, then it should work for me too. Alrighty then, ASS KICKING TIME!!

I swing--and miss. I swing again, and I hit something, turns out I took out two heartless, with odd black stars erupting from the sword as it made contact. Ok, so it's magical, seems more practical than beating them with a giant key. The Green House behind me lifts up from the ground and starts to fly up to the black orb in the sky. HEY! My classmates are in there! ... Uh... How exactly does that work? The Green House gets sucked up before I DO?! I watch the windows of the Green House, seeing my fellow peers scream and beat on the door despiratley fighting to survive... and I lose sight of it. It's... gone... sucked into the dark abyss...

A heartless, or at least I think it's a heartless, hits me in the back and I start to get sucked up myself, uh... not good? So, I scream. What else am I supposed to do?! Can't grab anything, no way of "de-sucking" myself back to the ground, no wings to fly with. Ok, so I'll meet the same damn fate as my peers. How FUCKING WONDERFUL!!

"KATIE!" Snatch, yank and OW!! Sure, try to save me Riku and PULL MY ARM OUT OF IT'S SOCKET! But... I'm not complaining, at least I'm not sucked into the black hole behind me.

"RIKU!" I yell back, looking at him, he's scared, I can see it. I wonder if he's as scared as I am? "Don't you DARE let me go!"

"I'LL NEVER LET GO!"

.... Now, where does that sound familiar? Yes, that's right, freggin' TITANIC! Ug... WRONG choice of words there Riku, hun. "I'll never let go." and then you're yanking your hand away from mine to let me sink into the ocean's depth's... or in this case, get sucked into a giant dark BALL IN THE FREGGIN' SKY! Boy, this is turning out to be a pretty bad day, wouldn't you say?

Well not even the cutest guys in the world have the best grip, so he eventually loses his on whatever was anchoring us down. And soon we're both just a spinnin' right up to the big black ball thingy. Well... DAMMIT! I don't WANNA DIE!! I have so much to LIVE FOR! I still need to see ALL THE ANIME IN THE WORLD! I still need to FINISH ESCA! I need to READ TWISTED! So much to do... AND I'M ABOUT TO DIE!! Where in the HELL is Ishi when you NEED HER?!

As we get closer to the dark ball, I feel Riku's grip on my arm tighten... Why is he still holding my arm? Does he think I'M going to save him?! Ha, fat chance, I gotta save myself first, and we all know I can't do that! You know... how they say that when you think you're goin' to die, how you're life flashes before your eyes? Yeah, they are SO WRONG! All I see is black-green, black-green, black-Riku-green. Yeah, definitely no pictures of my mom, or dad, or hell even my brothers, or the rest of my family, no memories of Courtney or Jess, or all the stupid shit that I wish I hadn't done... So... Does that mean that I'm not goin' to die...?

That's when EVERYTHING turns black...

Author's Notes: So, how'd you like it? Yes, I know. It doesn't make much sense, but I assure you, it'll get a little more clear as the story goes. I'm just now making a plot. ^_^ If you guys stick with me, then maybe I'll be motivated! And we'll actually get somewhere! But until then, JA!!