Chapter one: Here I am without you.
~There is no true paradise. Just a world near perfect~
She rolled over on the raft and moaned. Her red hair got caught in her eyes and that made her feel worse. The sun was beating down on her and it was especially hot today. She wasn't sure how long she had been on the raft but she knew that it had to be more than a week. She ran out of food two days ago and hoped to find land soon.
Her name was Christa and she considered herself to be the most foolish person in the galaxy for accepting this job.
This all started two years ago, when a 14-year-old boy left his world to search for his friends after the barriers broke down. He only had a Keyblade and a belief that he would find them.
Christa had heard the story thousands of times while she was at Disney castle. But never knew that he was looking for the king as well.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
It was a cold and rainy day at Disney Castle when Christa was told what she had to do. The queen had summoned her to the Library. As Christa walked through the large hallways, she remembered all that she'd been through. Everything that had to do with her uncle and her best friend had already hurt her enough.
Now she was supposed to do a job for the queen on another planet. As soon as she came up to the door and knocked, it swung open to let her in.
Christa walked towards the queen on the red carpet still reminiscing about her horrible past. She had been at the castle since she was 12; ever since her uncle opened the doors in Hallow Bastion. She remembered how he slowly lost his sanity and how she watched him toil away in the darkness. Ansem was the only family member left for her and he seemed to slowly die right in front of her, like her parents did. That's what threw her into a depression.
Her only friend had been sent away before that, too. So, all day she would wander around the waterways of the castle to see if there was anything to do. Unfortunately, Christa's heart got buried and covered in the darkness that consumed her uncle. The Heartless down in the waterways never went after her heart because she was so closely tied to the darkness.
Christa fell into the darkness, but was rescued by a king who came to her planet many times to talk to her. And when things in Hallow Bastion got worse, the king took Christa with him to the Disney Castle in secret. Queen Minnie had taken care of her after that and that's probably why Christa listened to her the most.
"Christa? Christa, are you paying attention?"
She realized she was daydreaming again and snapped out of it. Just in time to hear her mission.
"Okay, now. Christa, did you hear what I said?" The queen questioned her like a child.
"I'm sorry, but I wasn't paying attention." Was the response from the now 14-year-old girl. Her memories soon disappeared back into the depths of her mind.
"That's okay. Anyway, we will send this young woman down to where the first Keyblade Master's journey all began. She will get the princess of that planet and bring her on the journey to find the Keyblade Master." The queen said to her subjects, referring to Christa as the young woman (even though she was only 14).
With that the subjects left, leaving Christa and the queen alone to discuss her mission.
"I hope you don't mind leaving here in such a hurry, but we really need that Keyblade Master back where he belongs."
"I only have one question to ask you, your Highness." Christa replied.
"And that would be...."
"How will I be able to leave if the barriers are still up?"
"We have created a machine which will teleport you safely in the ocean of the world. It'll teleport a raft there as well so you can get to Destiny Islands safely." Queen Minnie told her as she turned to leave.
"Wait I have one more question!!!"
The queen turned around and looked at Christa.
"Why do I have to find only one Keyblade Master and not all four?"
"Well, first of all, you have a Keyblade locked within you." The queen said as Christa stared at her in amazement. "That's why we are sending you instead of anyone else. As for the other two Keyblade Masters, one isn't ready to come back and he's learning from the last of the Keyblade Masters."
Christa had taken this in and stored it in her mind for later use. She was surprised that she had a Keyblade and stared at her feet wondering why she never noticed before. She knew who that inexperienced Keyblade Master was. Christa had heard his name many times before and it was...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"RIKU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sora woke up from his nightmare sweating profusely and panting. Donald and Goofy also woke up from Sora's screams. The young Keyblade Master had been having the same nightmare every night for a couple of weeks now.
It started with him walking down a road and then seeing Riku looking for him. Sora would run up to Riku and the darkness would swallow him. Then, Ansem would show up with a Darkside, laughing. The Darkside would lift him up getting ready to kill him and he'd wake up screaming for Riku to come back.
It seemed that Ansem still frightened him after all that happened with Riku at Hallow Bastion and even at Kingdom Hearts. It had been two years since he last saw Ansem and his best friend. He thought that getting Riku and the King and going back to Destiny Islands wasn't going to take as long as it did.
"Damn!!! It happened again!!!" He said under his breath.
"Let me guess...uh... the nightmare?" Goofy said next to him. While Pluto sleepily opened his eyes and sat up.
They found Pluto on the road a while ago and read the letter he had from the king. It told of how he and Riku would have to struggle to get back out of Kingdom Hearts and how they would need Sora's help when the time came.
"Yea. It seems to get worse and worse every time I have that dream." He replied.
Donald looked out of the tent and frowned at the sign of daybreak, "We'd better get going!" The duck shouted to the others.
They got their gear and moved out to walk onward down the never-ending road.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
She rolled over again and opened her eyes. Those green eyes of hers adjusted to the dark. The air around her was finally cool and she sat up, staring at the never-ending abyss of sea around her. It was nighttime and she looked up at the stars.
"Every time I close my eyes, I wake up to find that it's a new day." Christa said to herself as she lay down again to go to sleep. "Tomorrow will be better. I'll hopefully find land and be off of this raft.
The night stretched on and she barely got a wink of sleep. A storm started at the horizon and she worried that it would reach her and capsize the raft. It also didn't help that she had gotten severely sunburned during the day.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
They walked onward. Hoping that they could reach the end of the road and find Kingdom Hearts. The dirt road turned to pavement. The dream was still within Sora's mind and he couldn't stop thinking of Riku and how much danger he was probably in. What if Riku and King Mickey have already been killed?
Sora was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't realize they had made it to a neon city. Donald tapped his shoulder to awake him from his daydream as they went to get a hotel for the night. Sora didn't care whether or not they got a room. He spent the rest of the day out in the market area, helping Donald in getting food and items for the rest of the trip. Knowing Donald, Sora expected to stay in the Hotel for two nights at the most.
While walking back, Sora couldn't help but notice the signs stapled on the walls of shops and stores. They talked of bounties on big crooks and escaped criminals. He turned to the duck beside him, who was staring and wondering about the condition of his friend.
They weren't watching where they were going and bumped into a big street gang leader. He towered over Donald and Sora. He was ticked off.
"Watch where you're going, you tourists!!!!" His booming voice rang in their ears. "You can't come down this way at night without paying the toll!!!!" He told the newcomers.
"What's the toll?" Donald asked, suspiciously.
"All of your supplies and munny!!!!!!" The booming voice said.
The gang moved closer taking out their weapons. Donald and Sora both grabbed their weapons. "Here we go!!!!" Sora yelled as he leaped into the air to begin his attack.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The storm roared around her as Christa tried desperately to hold onto what little of the raft that was left. The rain and rough water choked her with every breath she tried to take. Christa tried hard to look around but every time she opened her eyes, another wave crashed over the raft. It was soon capsized and the large raft forced Christa under. Falling into unconsciousness under the water, she grabbed onto whatever she could to get to the top of the water.
The storm still raged above the water nearly flipping Christa under again. She tried to hold onto what appeared to be a log from the raft as the storm pushed onward, seeming to punish her for whatever crime she had caused in the past.
The storm pushed her under countless times until she finally let go of the log and lost consciousness. The storm went on like that until morning. That's when Christa's wish was granted.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
With the street gang and their leader defeated after a long battle, Sora and Donald went back to the hotel with their supplies. It had grown considerably dark all of a sudden and they rushed to get in before curfew. If they were caught out after curfew, then they would be arrested.
Sora kept his eyes in front of him, not knowing that Donald had stopped. When he didn't hear the duck's footsteps behind him, Sora knew something was amiss. He quickly stopped and turned around to see that Donald was five blocks behind him. He seemed preoccupied.
Sora sprinted back to the duck who was staring at a building. When he came up to the duck he noticed that his eyes were glazed over. It was like Donald was in a trance.
"Donald??? Donald, wake up!!!!" Was the shout that came from his friend. But no answer came from his mouth.
Sora looked to see what he was looking at and spotted a stranger on the street fighting off some Heartless.
"What??? Why are there Heartless in this world??? I'm sure I locked down their world." Sora wondered. He left his petrified friend to take a closer look.
The man was about to fight the Heartless surrounding him. They were different than the Heartless that he had previously fought. They seemed more human. The guy took out two Keyblades and used them both like he had used them his whole life. He had a black cloak and hood on and he used the same moves as Sora.
The Heartless kept coming like a never-ending army. The stranger just lifted his two Keyblades and got ready to attack. He leaped up into the air and did a flip while crossing the Keyblades over his chest. The young Keyblade Master stared in amazement as the guy performed stunts that he had only learned a while ago.
He did a few more flips and landed at the base of a neon building. There he ran up the side of the building, killing Heartless along the way. Sora stared in disbelief as the guy literally defied the laws of gravity. Then, he saw another guy who looked like Riku, jump off of the roof of the building. The original guy threw one Keyblade up to the one who was falling. As he caught it the guy running up the side of the building took out another Keyblade and..
Donald slowly snapped out of his "trance" and grabbed Sora.
"Wait!!! I want to meet those guys!!!" Sora cried after his companion.
"No you don't, Sora! Something is terribly wrong here! Those guys aren't normal!"
"But, one of them could be Ri."
"No! There's no way he could've escaped Kingdom Hearts without the Keyblade and you!"
Sora realized then that Donald was right and they continued to walk on in silence. Of course, they weren't alone in the neon city. The duel-wielding Keyblade Master followed them. He had told the other Keyblade Master to stay behind after his dive off of the building. He wished to speak with Sora.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Hello? Are you okay? Are you even alive?" An exasperated voice said into Christa's ear.
It was hot on the beach and Christa's eyelids where heavy. She couldn't open her eyes and she just lay there moaning. She was hot and sunburned, badly. The rain was still falling from the clouds above. It wasn't a cold, refreshing rain, but a hot and sticky rain.
"Hey! I found someone and I hope. I mean, think she's alive!!!" The voice said to some other people.
Destiny Islands had gone through a hurricane. The islanders were out searching for Kairi. She had been lost in the hurricane and they still didn't know where she was. They found Christa instead.
"Aye! Selphie! You certainly found someone, yah? But who she be?" Another voice said followed by a huge thunder crash and a flash of lightning.
"We'll figure that out later. Right now, we have to get her inside." The first voice said.
The islanders lifted Christa up and brought her to a house there they laid her down on a bed and began to treat her badly sunburned skin.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Your Majesty, do you think that young woman is alright in that storm on the planet you sent her to?" A handmaiden asked the queen.
She was in the Library still, watching a large screen, which showed the hurricane that hit Destiny Islands and how large it was. The queen was worried but decided that Christa can do anything she wanted if she put her mind to it.
"Of course she's alright, I'm only worried about Kairi. Christa will survive anything you put her to. She's determined. Right now, Kairi's missing, and that's all that they need to jeopardize this mission." She replied.
"What is the mission, ma'am?" Daisy said as she walked in.
"You of all people should know that. We have to find Kingdom Hearts again. There we'll fight the greatest battle ever prophesized. I just hope Christa can find the Keyblade within her in time."
"Well then, we all should hope she finds it. But why is this battle so important to you and this prophecy?" Daisy asked yet another question.
Minnie didn't answer the last question; instead she walked towards the door to the Library and looked back at the women standing in the room. Every single face was filled with a scared, confused, and sad look. She could only say one thing:
"We'll see when the time comes."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Darkness. Darkness was all upon him. All he could see was darkness. The Keyblade to his side was the only thing that could be seen. Its golden glow seemed to fend off the Heartless in this place. But what was this place?
He couldn't remember anymore. He knew he had another companion, but that person left a long time ago. He sat and stared into the never-ending darkness, trying to remember what had happened and who he was.
All he could come up with were the words 'Kingdom Hearts.'
'I guess this is Kingdom Hearts then. This darkness is Kingdom Hearts.' He thought.
Then another memory popped into his head. Another name came back; 'Sora.'
Then once again another name, which he concluded was connected to the last one; 'Kairi.'
'Good. Now at least I can search for something.' He got up and continued to walk through the darkness.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Uncle Ansem! Uncle Ansem? Where are you?" The little girl ran through the dark halls in Hallow Bastion.
She sees her parents going down into the waterways and realized how dangerous it was down there. "Don't leave me alone here, please! I don't want to be alone!"
She stumbled down the stairs after them "Hey!!! Come back!!! Don't leave me!!!"
The darkness finds her, abandoned and alone. The Heartless tear away at her then leave. She sees her heart slowly fly away. Then her form starts to fade.
"I..don't want to..go away!!!"
Ansem appears above her. He slowly backs away and sides with the Heartless. The symbol burns into his chest. In her last breath, she cries..
"Uncle Ansem, save me!!!!!!"
Her eyes snapped open and everything was dark.
"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!" Christa screamed in the dark room as she jolted up into a sitting position. She realized it was just a room and her dream was only her memories of Hallow Bastion.
"I still can't believe all that happened to me!" She said to herself, reflecting on her life in the giant castle.
The door opened and a girl only two years older than Christa walked in. She had brown hair and green eyes. She was wearing yellow and carried a worried look on her face.
"Are you alright? I heard a scream and didn't know what to do.." She said.
"I'm fine, thanks. I'm sorry I screamed. I thought my dream came true and I. well."
"That's okay. You don't have to tell me everything. How do you feel?" The girl asked.
"I guess I'm alright, but what's with all the bandages?"
"Oh! You were sunburned and we treated you. Unfortunately for you, you now have freckles on your face." The girl cheerfully replied, "By the way, I'm Selphie. I'm the one who found you on the beach."
"Then, I guess I should thank you. Thanks, and my name is Christa."
"What brings you here, Christa?" Selphie asked.
"I'm supposed to be looking for someone. Is anyone missing right now?"
"How did you know?" She asked another question.
"Well I heard someone say they were looking for someone.. Kairi, I think?"
"Yeah, Kairi's been missing since the storm started. She might be in the secret hiding place, but we haven't been able to look."
"Oh, okay." Christa said, ending the conversation. Selphie got up and moved towards the door.
"If you need anything, please yell for me." She said before leaving.
Christa laid back down as the door shut. She thought of what she was just told and what she heard about that girl named Kairi. The name seemed more familiar than she thought. However, she couldn't put her finger on it.
Christa drifted back into sleep with these thoughts in mind. Her memories faded to the back of her head where she felt they belonged. She woke up minutes later and sat up in bed examining the bandages on her arms.
It was then that she realized her skin was hot and burned when she touched it. 'I guess this it what a sunburn is.' She thought.
Christa lay back down and stared at the ceiling. 'That Selphie girl seems really nice. I hope that she'll be my friend. That Kairi person seems so familiar though.'
"Kairi..." She whispered to herself as she drifted back into the dream world.
*~*
~I can't look around~
*~*
~There is no true paradise. Just a world near perfect~
She rolled over on the raft and moaned. Her red hair got caught in her eyes and that made her feel worse. The sun was beating down on her and it was especially hot today. She wasn't sure how long she had been on the raft but she knew that it had to be more than a week. She ran out of food two days ago and hoped to find land soon.
Her name was Christa and she considered herself to be the most foolish person in the galaxy for accepting this job.
This all started two years ago, when a 14-year-old boy left his world to search for his friends after the barriers broke down. He only had a Keyblade and a belief that he would find them.
Christa had heard the story thousands of times while she was at Disney castle. But never knew that he was looking for the king as well.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
It was a cold and rainy day at Disney Castle when Christa was told what she had to do. The queen had summoned her to the Library. As Christa walked through the large hallways, she remembered all that she'd been through. Everything that had to do with her uncle and her best friend had already hurt her enough.
Now she was supposed to do a job for the queen on another planet. As soon as she came up to the door and knocked, it swung open to let her in.
Christa walked towards the queen on the red carpet still reminiscing about her horrible past. She had been at the castle since she was 12; ever since her uncle opened the doors in Hallow Bastion. She remembered how he slowly lost his sanity and how she watched him toil away in the darkness. Ansem was the only family member left for her and he seemed to slowly die right in front of her, like her parents did. That's what threw her into a depression.
Her only friend had been sent away before that, too. So, all day she would wander around the waterways of the castle to see if there was anything to do. Unfortunately, Christa's heart got buried and covered in the darkness that consumed her uncle. The Heartless down in the waterways never went after her heart because she was so closely tied to the darkness.
Christa fell into the darkness, but was rescued by a king who came to her planet many times to talk to her. And when things in Hallow Bastion got worse, the king took Christa with him to the Disney Castle in secret. Queen Minnie had taken care of her after that and that's probably why Christa listened to her the most.
"Christa? Christa, are you paying attention?"
She realized she was daydreaming again and snapped out of it. Just in time to hear her mission.
"Okay, now. Christa, did you hear what I said?" The queen questioned her like a child.
"I'm sorry, but I wasn't paying attention." Was the response from the now 14-year-old girl. Her memories soon disappeared back into the depths of her mind.
"That's okay. Anyway, we will send this young woman down to where the first Keyblade Master's journey all began. She will get the princess of that planet and bring her on the journey to find the Keyblade Master." The queen said to her subjects, referring to Christa as the young woman (even though she was only 14).
With that the subjects left, leaving Christa and the queen alone to discuss her mission.
"I hope you don't mind leaving here in such a hurry, but we really need that Keyblade Master back where he belongs."
"I only have one question to ask you, your Highness." Christa replied.
"And that would be...."
"How will I be able to leave if the barriers are still up?"
"We have created a machine which will teleport you safely in the ocean of the world. It'll teleport a raft there as well so you can get to Destiny Islands safely." Queen Minnie told her as she turned to leave.
"Wait I have one more question!!!"
The queen turned around and looked at Christa.
"Why do I have to find only one Keyblade Master and not all four?"
"Well, first of all, you have a Keyblade locked within you." The queen said as Christa stared at her in amazement. "That's why we are sending you instead of anyone else. As for the other two Keyblade Masters, one isn't ready to come back and he's learning from the last of the Keyblade Masters."
Christa had taken this in and stored it in her mind for later use. She was surprised that she had a Keyblade and stared at her feet wondering why she never noticed before. She knew who that inexperienced Keyblade Master was. Christa had heard his name many times before and it was...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"RIKU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sora woke up from his nightmare sweating profusely and panting. Donald and Goofy also woke up from Sora's screams. The young Keyblade Master had been having the same nightmare every night for a couple of weeks now.
It started with him walking down a road and then seeing Riku looking for him. Sora would run up to Riku and the darkness would swallow him. Then, Ansem would show up with a Darkside, laughing. The Darkside would lift him up getting ready to kill him and he'd wake up screaming for Riku to come back.
It seemed that Ansem still frightened him after all that happened with Riku at Hallow Bastion and even at Kingdom Hearts. It had been two years since he last saw Ansem and his best friend. He thought that getting Riku and the King and going back to Destiny Islands wasn't going to take as long as it did.
"Damn!!! It happened again!!!" He said under his breath.
"Let me guess...uh... the nightmare?" Goofy said next to him. While Pluto sleepily opened his eyes and sat up.
They found Pluto on the road a while ago and read the letter he had from the king. It told of how he and Riku would have to struggle to get back out of Kingdom Hearts and how they would need Sora's help when the time came.
"Yea. It seems to get worse and worse every time I have that dream." He replied.
Donald looked out of the tent and frowned at the sign of daybreak, "We'd better get going!" The duck shouted to the others.
They got their gear and moved out to walk onward down the never-ending road.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
She rolled over again and opened her eyes. Those green eyes of hers adjusted to the dark. The air around her was finally cool and she sat up, staring at the never-ending abyss of sea around her. It was nighttime and she looked up at the stars.
"Every time I close my eyes, I wake up to find that it's a new day." Christa said to herself as she lay down again to go to sleep. "Tomorrow will be better. I'll hopefully find land and be off of this raft.
The night stretched on and she barely got a wink of sleep. A storm started at the horizon and she worried that it would reach her and capsize the raft. It also didn't help that she had gotten severely sunburned during the day.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
They walked onward. Hoping that they could reach the end of the road and find Kingdom Hearts. The dirt road turned to pavement. The dream was still within Sora's mind and he couldn't stop thinking of Riku and how much danger he was probably in. What if Riku and King Mickey have already been killed?
Sora was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't realize they had made it to a neon city. Donald tapped his shoulder to awake him from his daydream as they went to get a hotel for the night. Sora didn't care whether or not they got a room. He spent the rest of the day out in the market area, helping Donald in getting food and items for the rest of the trip. Knowing Donald, Sora expected to stay in the Hotel for two nights at the most.
While walking back, Sora couldn't help but notice the signs stapled on the walls of shops and stores. They talked of bounties on big crooks and escaped criminals. He turned to the duck beside him, who was staring and wondering about the condition of his friend.
They weren't watching where they were going and bumped into a big street gang leader. He towered over Donald and Sora. He was ticked off.
"Watch where you're going, you tourists!!!!" His booming voice rang in their ears. "You can't come down this way at night without paying the toll!!!!" He told the newcomers.
"What's the toll?" Donald asked, suspiciously.
"All of your supplies and munny!!!!!!" The booming voice said.
The gang moved closer taking out their weapons. Donald and Sora both grabbed their weapons. "Here we go!!!!" Sora yelled as he leaped into the air to begin his attack.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The storm roared around her as Christa tried desperately to hold onto what little of the raft that was left. The rain and rough water choked her with every breath she tried to take. Christa tried hard to look around but every time she opened her eyes, another wave crashed over the raft. It was soon capsized and the large raft forced Christa under. Falling into unconsciousness under the water, she grabbed onto whatever she could to get to the top of the water.
The storm still raged above the water nearly flipping Christa under again. She tried to hold onto what appeared to be a log from the raft as the storm pushed onward, seeming to punish her for whatever crime she had caused in the past.
The storm pushed her under countless times until she finally let go of the log and lost consciousness. The storm went on like that until morning. That's when Christa's wish was granted.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
With the street gang and their leader defeated after a long battle, Sora and Donald went back to the hotel with their supplies. It had grown considerably dark all of a sudden and they rushed to get in before curfew. If they were caught out after curfew, then they would be arrested.
Sora kept his eyes in front of him, not knowing that Donald had stopped. When he didn't hear the duck's footsteps behind him, Sora knew something was amiss. He quickly stopped and turned around to see that Donald was five blocks behind him. He seemed preoccupied.
Sora sprinted back to the duck who was staring at a building. When he came up to the duck he noticed that his eyes were glazed over. It was like Donald was in a trance.
"Donald??? Donald, wake up!!!!" Was the shout that came from his friend. But no answer came from his mouth.
Sora looked to see what he was looking at and spotted a stranger on the street fighting off some Heartless.
"What??? Why are there Heartless in this world??? I'm sure I locked down their world." Sora wondered. He left his petrified friend to take a closer look.
The man was about to fight the Heartless surrounding him. They were different than the Heartless that he had previously fought. They seemed more human. The guy took out two Keyblades and used them both like he had used them his whole life. He had a black cloak and hood on and he used the same moves as Sora.
The Heartless kept coming like a never-ending army. The stranger just lifted his two Keyblades and got ready to attack. He leaped up into the air and did a flip while crossing the Keyblades over his chest. The young Keyblade Master stared in amazement as the guy performed stunts that he had only learned a while ago.
He did a few more flips and landed at the base of a neon building. There he ran up the side of the building, killing Heartless along the way. Sora stared in disbelief as the guy literally defied the laws of gravity. Then, he saw another guy who looked like Riku, jump off of the roof of the building. The original guy threw one Keyblade up to the one who was falling. As he caught it the guy running up the side of the building took out another Keyblade and..
Donald slowly snapped out of his "trance" and grabbed Sora.
"Wait!!! I want to meet those guys!!!" Sora cried after his companion.
"No you don't, Sora! Something is terribly wrong here! Those guys aren't normal!"
"But, one of them could be Ri."
"No! There's no way he could've escaped Kingdom Hearts without the Keyblade and you!"
Sora realized then that Donald was right and they continued to walk on in silence. Of course, they weren't alone in the neon city. The duel-wielding Keyblade Master followed them. He had told the other Keyblade Master to stay behind after his dive off of the building. He wished to speak with Sora.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Hello? Are you okay? Are you even alive?" An exasperated voice said into Christa's ear.
It was hot on the beach and Christa's eyelids where heavy. She couldn't open her eyes and she just lay there moaning. She was hot and sunburned, badly. The rain was still falling from the clouds above. It wasn't a cold, refreshing rain, but a hot and sticky rain.
"Hey! I found someone and I hope. I mean, think she's alive!!!" The voice said to some other people.
Destiny Islands had gone through a hurricane. The islanders were out searching for Kairi. She had been lost in the hurricane and they still didn't know where she was. They found Christa instead.
"Aye! Selphie! You certainly found someone, yah? But who she be?" Another voice said followed by a huge thunder crash and a flash of lightning.
"We'll figure that out later. Right now, we have to get her inside." The first voice said.
The islanders lifted Christa up and brought her to a house there they laid her down on a bed and began to treat her badly sunburned skin.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Your Majesty, do you think that young woman is alright in that storm on the planet you sent her to?" A handmaiden asked the queen.
She was in the Library still, watching a large screen, which showed the hurricane that hit Destiny Islands and how large it was. The queen was worried but decided that Christa can do anything she wanted if she put her mind to it.
"Of course she's alright, I'm only worried about Kairi. Christa will survive anything you put her to. She's determined. Right now, Kairi's missing, and that's all that they need to jeopardize this mission." She replied.
"What is the mission, ma'am?" Daisy said as she walked in.
"You of all people should know that. We have to find Kingdom Hearts again. There we'll fight the greatest battle ever prophesized. I just hope Christa can find the Keyblade within her in time."
"Well then, we all should hope she finds it. But why is this battle so important to you and this prophecy?" Daisy asked yet another question.
Minnie didn't answer the last question; instead she walked towards the door to the Library and looked back at the women standing in the room. Every single face was filled with a scared, confused, and sad look. She could only say one thing:
"We'll see when the time comes."
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Darkness. Darkness was all upon him. All he could see was darkness. The Keyblade to his side was the only thing that could be seen. Its golden glow seemed to fend off the Heartless in this place. But what was this place?
He couldn't remember anymore. He knew he had another companion, but that person left a long time ago. He sat and stared into the never-ending darkness, trying to remember what had happened and who he was.
All he could come up with were the words 'Kingdom Hearts.'
'I guess this is Kingdom Hearts then. This darkness is Kingdom Hearts.' He thought.
Then another memory popped into his head. Another name came back; 'Sora.'
Then once again another name, which he concluded was connected to the last one; 'Kairi.'
'Good. Now at least I can search for something.' He got up and continued to walk through the darkness.
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"Uncle Ansem! Uncle Ansem? Where are you?" The little girl ran through the dark halls in Hallow Bastion.
She sees her parents going down into the waterways and realized how dangerous it was down there. "Don't leave me alone here, please! I don't want to be alone!"
She stumbled down the stairs after them "Hey!!! Come back!!! Don't leave me!!!"
The darkness finds her, abandoned and alone. The Heartless tear away at her then leave. She sees her heart slowly fly away. Then her form starts to fade.
"I..don't want to..go away!!!"
Ansem appears above her. He slowly backs away and sides with the Heartless. The symbol burns into his chest. In her last breath, she cries..
"Uncle Ansem, save me!!!!!!"
Her eyes snapped open and everything was dark.
"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!" Christa screamed in the dark room as she jolted up into a sitting position. She realized it was just a room and her dream was only her memories of Hallow Bastion.
"I still can't believe all that happened to me!" She said to herself, reflecting on her life in the giant castle.
The door opened and a girl only two years older than Christa walked in. She had brown hair and green eyes. She was wearing yellow and carried a worried look on her face.
"Are you alright? I heard a scream and didn't know what to do.." She said.
"I'm fine, thanks. I'm sorry I screamed. I thought my dream came true and I. well."
"That's okay. You don't have to tell me everything. How do you feel?" The girl asked.
"I guess I'm alright, but what's with all the bandages?"
"Oh! You were sunburned and we treated you. Unfortunately for you, you now have freckles on your face." The girl cheerfully replied, "By the way, I'm Selphie. I'm the one who found you on the beach."
"Then, I guess I should thank you. Thanks, and my name is Christa."
"What brings you here, Christa?" Selphie asked.
"I'm supposed to be looking for someone. Is anyone missing right now?"
"How did you know?" She asked another question.
"Well I heard someone say they were looking for someone.. Kairi, I think?"
"Yeah, Kairi's been missing since the storm started. She might be in the secret hiding place, but we haven't been able to look."
"Oh, okay." Christa said, ending the conversation. Selphie got up and moved towards the door.
"If you need anything, please yell for me." She said before leaving.
Christa laid back down as the door shut. She thought of what she was just told and what she heard about that girl named Kairi. The name seemed more familiar than she thought. However, she couldn't put her finger on it.
Christa drifted back into sleep with these thoughts in mind. Her memories faded to the back of her head where she felt they belonged. She woke up minutes later and sat up in bed examining the bandages on her arms.
It was then that she realized her skin was hot and burned when she touched it. 'I guess this it what a sunburn is.' She thought.
Christa lay back down and stared at the ceiling. 'That Selphie girl seems really nice. I hope that she'll be my friend. That Kairi person seems so familiar though.'
"Kairi..." She whispered to herself as she drifted back into the dream world.
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~I can't look around~
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