Chp 2: Mya's Song
Disclaimer: I don't own KH (Just Mya ^_^)
Note to Sweetie: I'm really sorry for disappointing to, but when I began writing this story I became completely absorbed in it. If you liked it so much you should've said so in your reviews because it seemed like not that many people liked it all that much (except for Ari Powwel). Well I'm really sorry that I disappointed you, but consider this story as my way of making it up to you ^_^)
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//It's the little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you smile
And it's flying without wings
Cause you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings
You're the place my life begins
And you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings//
When Riku said he'd spend the rest of his life making up what he did to Mya...he wasn't lying. Riku and Mya spent every single moment of every single day together. They never left each other's site. They didn't spend even the tiniest fraction of a second with anyone else but each other. And why would they? All they needed was each other so why should they spend their time with people they don't even like? It was clear that Riku no longer cared for anyone else he had been with in the past, but Mya didn't like anybody on the island either. Before Kairi came she liked everybody, but after she came she had reason to hate everybody. She hated Kairi for keeping Riku away from her and not seeing that he loved her dearly, and she hated Sora for standing in the way of Riku's happiness with Kairi. And she never particularly cared for Tidus, Selphie, or Wakka. Riku or Mya never spoke to anybody else on Destiny Island now. They segregated themselves from everyone else. No one on Destiny Island had talked to either of them in a week. And they saw Riku and Mya..but Riku and Mya didn't see them.
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Sora, Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka were playing wiffleball together as Kairi sat quietly aside and watched Riku and Mya play together happily off in the distance. They looked like they were having the time of their lives.
"All right, home run!" Tidus cheered as everyone else groaned. He ran the bases happily as Selphie and Wakka threw their gloves at him. Sora laughed and then turned his head around looking for Kairi. He saw her sitting on a rock looking very sad as she gazed off into the distance. He walked over to her and sat down beside her.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Huh?" she said as he broke her gaze away from Riku and Mya.
"Well you seem kinda sad, and I was just wondering what's bothering you." Kairi sighed and then gazed back at the two playing happily. Sora looked out into the horizon and tried to find what Kairi was staring at. Then he saw Riku and Mya playing together.
"Oh them?" he said. Kairi nodded her head quietly. Selphie spoke up.
"Yah, they do bother me..their whole family does!"
"Why?" Sora asked.
"Because look at them! Every person in that family looks like a super model! I'm so jealous!" Selphie said breathlessly. Sora and Kairi looked at each other and laughed.
"Yah, you're right." Kairi said.
"Hey Selphie, you gonna come back to the game no?"
"I'm coming!" she yelled as she ran back to the game. Sora laughed.
"But seriously, why does that bother you?"
"Well...they're just ALWAYS together!"
"So? Why should we be bothered by that? He's just trying to make up time in which he practically abandoned his sister in."
"Yah, well doesn't it seem kind of annoying?"
"No not at all. Why should we be annoyed by their happiness? I know I haven't seen either of them that happy in a long time."
"Well, I mean doesn't it seem kind of annoying that they're ALWAYS together and they haven't even acknowledged any of our existence since they first saw each other."
"No I don't! If Riku wants to spend all his time with Mya and completely wash us out then that's fine!" he said aggressively. Kairi knew Sora was feeling the same things she was when he said that. She knew that they were both hurt by Riku never spending time with them. She put her arm around Sora.
"Well Sora, It's just like you said....Riku hasn't been this happy in a long time...we should be happy for him...we shouldn't be angry at his happiness."
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The sun was just about to set over Destiny Islands. The sky was majestically painted with pink, purple, and orange and the setting sun lit up the water like a sparkling diamond. Sunsets like these came along only a few times in one person's life.
Riku and Mya had just got finished with their day full of laughter of happiness together. They were walking along the shoreline together as the water occasionally brushed up against their sandy feet. Mya skipped happily ahead of Riku. He smiled at her. One person had never brought him so much joy as she did.
~*Riku's POV*~
I love my sister. I love her more than life itself. She has made me happier this past week than I've ever been probably in my entire lifetime. Now I don't even want to fall asleep because I don't want to miss a single moment with her. I'll never forgive myself for leaving her like I did. It's like a weight that I'll forever hold on my shoulders.
I watched my Mya danced as she skipped..the wind blowing through her pale blonde hair and her smile lighting up everything around her. I smiled at her and watched her in all her careless and free splendor. I envy her. I wish I felt as free as she did. I wish I felt how people do when they were kid....young and hopeless, golden and pure, simple and clean. All these feelings were stripped away from me over the years.
I looked out at the painted sunset before me as I watched the waves crash as the sea breeze blew through my hair. Mya turned around.
"Come on Riku!" She cried out cheerfully. I smiled at her.
"I catch up with you in a minute, ok?" She just smiled and skipped away. I didn't need to tell her why...she already knew. She knew I needed time to myself to think every once in a while. She knew this because she wasn't just my sister...she was me. She looked so beautiful as she skipped away with her hair flying gracefully in the air. I'm so lucky to have her as a sister.
I stood on a rock and watched the ocean waves as I thought about my life right now. Any other person in my situation would think 'what's there to think about I've got all I need right here'. But I'm not any other person. I've been damaged too much and everything good in my life always gets taken away. A regular person wouldn't question a thing in this situation but I question everything. Can me..Riku..the guy who screwed everything up for himself really be living this life? And will it last? Maybe I'm just afraid to let anything good happen to me. Maybe I SHOULD be afraid to let anything good happen to me. Maybe I've just been so numb for so long that I've forgotten how it feels to feel so alive. Maybe I'm just paranoid and should stop contradicting myself. Maybe I shouldn't think so much. My head is spinning in every direction and I have yet to catch it. I've never felt so alive and yet I've never felt so hopeless. I'm so confused. I should just stop thinking about myself and concentrate on the only person who really matters...and that's Mya.
"Riku.." a voice said softly. I jumped. Someone had broken me from my trail of thought. I turned around. It was Kairi. I frowned.
"What do you want?" I said coldly. Kairi was looking at the ground and folding her hands nervously.
"We haven't seen each other in a while Riku..."
"Yah...and what's it to you? You found out Sora isn't all he's cracked up to be and looking for someone ELSE to be your boy toy?" I said bitterly as I stepped off the rock and began to walk away from her.
"Why won't you talk to us Riku? You haven't talked to any of us in a week!" she said as she began to follow me.
"What the hell makes you think I WANT to talk to any of you?"
"Because we're your friends!"
"Correction: WERE my friends."
"Well you can't just ignore us forever!"
"Can and will toots," I said in a very Godfather-like way.
"Riku, you can't just drown out everyone except Mya for the rest of your life!" When she brought Mya into this I stopped dead in my tracks..I knew what was going on. I turned around and faced her, looking directly into her eyes.
"You're jealous of Mya." Kairi froze up.
"No I'm not!" she said very fast.
"Yes you are! Why would you say these things to me if you weren't?"
"Because I'm..." she stopped in her sentence. I smirked. This was all too great.
"Because you're jealous!" I finished, "You couldn't think of any other reason so that means you're jealous!" This is priceless. If I'd known I could've used Mya to make Kairi jealous I would've started a long time ago! This is all falling out perfectly! Now SHE gets to know what it feels like to need ME!
"Riku I.." she began. I raised my hand up to silence her.
"Kairi, you may miss me but I don't miss you so why should I car if you're jealous?" Yes! Perfect stab! Kairi got real quiet after I said that. Oh, this is all too perfect! After she still hadn't responded after several seconds, I smirked and turned around to walk away. This was all to good to be true! Finally things are starting to go my way!
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I walked up to my house with a little bounce in my step. Everything was finally falling out like I wanted it too. I was smiling in selfish satisfaction, but my smile was quickly erased when I looked up at my house. The only person inside of our house was our father and you could hear everything that was going on inside as Mya was standing outside staring at the house as if it were her greatest enemy. She wasn't moving. She was remained perfectly still under the dark blue sky as the heavy wind blew through her hair. She was scared to go inside, and I knew exactly why. We were always scared to go inside the house after what had happened. I ran over to her and kneeled down beside her. I held her hands.
"Is he?...." Mya knew what I was talking about and nodded her head sadly. A look of panic spread my face as I looked back at the house.
"How long have you been out here?" I asked quickly.
"About ten minutes," she said softly. I felt like shooting myself in the head right there. I'd devoted my life to making sure hers was perfect, and I wasn't helping her right now because I was too busy being selfish!
"I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner Mya," I said as I took her in my arms and held her tightly. Mya started crying softly on my shoulder. She deserved to cry all she wanted to. She was too young and innocent to deal with the shit we had to go through at home. A lot of people were to young and innocent to go through the shit we went through at home.
~*Flashback*~
"IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR ALWAYS FILLING THOSE KID'S HEADS WITH ALL THAT SHIT ABOUT OTHER WORLDS KIRA!"
"IT'S NOT SHIT RAYE! YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO'S SHIT"
"YOU CAN'T TALK LIKE THAT TO ME!"
"OH YES I CAN!"
Riku was thirteen
Mya was five
Their parents continued to fight bitterly downstairs while the two kids just sat calmly upstairs even thought their parent's fighting was so loud everyone in Destiny Islands could hear them. Riku was lying on his bed as he drew, acting like this was just another dull moment, but Mya sat sadly in her chair as she listened to her parents fight.
"Riku, why do mommy and daddy have to fight so much?" Riku looked up from his drawing. He sighed.
"Because they aren't happy to together," he replied.
"If they aren't happy together then why did they get married?"
"Because they were stupid and married the first bimbo that said hi to them," Riku replied with his teeth gritted. Mya got quiet. She didn't like it when her brother got tense. Riku put down his drawing and knelt down beside the chair Mya was sitting in. He took her hands in his.
"Mya, you have to grow up you won't end up like mom and dad. I want you to be happy unlike them! You have to promise me that you will actually find someone you love instead of marrying the first bimbo you see ok?"
"Why would I wanna do that Riku?"
"Just promise me, ok?" Mya smiled.
"I promise Riku." He kissed her on the cheek and went back to his drawing.
*A Few Minutes Later*
The fight downstairs had grown even more intense. The screaming was louder and you could her glasses break. Riku continued to remain calm as if what was happening downstairs was the most natural thing in the world. Mya however, was getting scared. There were frightened tears in her eyes and she cringed each time she heard a glass break.
"Ummmm..Riku," she said in a really shaky voice.
"Yes?" he said as he looked up from his drawing once again.
"Ummmm...they're fighting pretty bad." Mya was twitching nervously and sweating. She was folding her hands frantically.
"Mya don't worry....this same thing happens everyday...they fight brutally and then one of them eventually cracks and then sobs at the other's feet telling them they're sorry and that they'll change..but it never works out like that and the next day they just pick up where they left off and the same thing happens again until the day they die..some shitty parents we have huh?"
"Uh..yah," but she continued to remain like she was. "Riku...I have a bad feeling about this.."
"Mya, just chill! They may say they hate each other and that they never want to see each other again but they're just talking shit...there is no action just talk."
"No Riku..you don't understand I REALLY have a bad feeling about this!"
"Mya stop worrying! I...." A blood curling scream cut him off. The scream came from their mother. Riku quickly stood up a look of panic spread across his face. He looked over at Mya, tears were streaming down her eyes as he looked at him.
"I told you I had I bad feeling about this.." she whispered in a deadly tone. As she whispered this Riku could've sworn he saw her eyes turn yellow. He ignored what he saw and concentrated on the scream. Riku and Mya didn't even breath they waited for a single sound of reassurance that didn't come.
"Oh my God..." Riku said with tears on his breath. Both Riku and Mya darted out of their room and ran downstairs. Mya ran ahead of Riku.
"Mya don't! Stay behind me pl...."
A piercing scream rang throughout the house
"MOMMA!" Mya screamed as she ran over to her mother's dead limp lying on the ground. Blood was blossoming out of her chest. Their father had stabbed her. Riku just watched Mya lie on their mother as she cried hysterically. He was paralyzed. He couldn't even move. He couldn't think or breathe. He just stopped functioning. His head was spinning violently. He refused to believe what was happening. He stumbled over to his mother's cold body. He didn't want to believe it. He wanted to see her and touch her. Then he would know if this was all just a dream. He bent down beside her. Mya continued to cry hysterically as she lied across her mother's body. Riku glanced at his broken sister as a tear fell down his cheek.
"This is not happening.." He touched his fingers lightly on his mother's chest and heaps of blood slipped onto his fingers. Then he knew that this was all real. White hot tears formed in his aqua eyes. His soul was burning with rage. He looked to his right and there lied the bloody knife that had torn though his mother's life....now it was time to find the soldier that had drawn that knife. Riku grabbed the knife and got up off his knees quickly. He stomped into the room where the assassin was...unafraid and steady. He kicked open the door to his parent's room and his father was running around the room frantically trying to find a bag to hide his victim's body. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw his son standing in the doorway with icy eyes full of vengeance and his murder weapon in hand. Riku's father didn't say anything. He was petrified with fear. Finally Riku let it all out.
"BITCH!" Riku screamed at his father as he threw his bloody knife at him. He quickly jumped out of the way but the knife managed to cut across his arm and left a heavy indention in his skin. He buckled over in pain as he covered his bleeding arm with his hand. As he was bent over Riku let out an angry scream as he ran full speed at him and hurl his arms around his chest, knocking him onto the ground. When Riku had him on the ground he started punching his father with all his might. A thirteen year old was punching out his own father..a grown man. And he couldn't escape either. Riku wouldn't let him go. What he did to his mother released all his strength and no one was going to over power him. Mya heard what was going on and ran into the room shrieking.
"RIKU STOP!" she screamed. Mya tugged on the back of Riku's shirt with all her might to try and stop him from punching their father like she was. She knew he was going to get hurt.
"RIKU PLEASE STOP IT!" Their father was struggling hard to get out of the punching position Riku had him in. He started to shake Riku violently, which made Mya lose her grip on the back of Riku's shirt and fall backwards.
"Mya!" he shouted as he turned around from his punching. But right when he turned his face his dad punched him hard in the cheek that was turned away from him. Riku screamed loudly fell onto the floor in pain.
"Riku!" Mya screamed. She ran over to him. "Oh my God Riku you're bleeding!" But right after she said that their dad walked over to Riku, jerked him off the floor, and threw him up against the wall violently. Mya screamed.
"DADDY NO!" she shouted as she ran up to him and tugged on his arm.
"Stay out of this Mya!" he shouted as he pushed her away from him.
"HEY!" Riku shouted as he started to advance off the wall. But he quickly pushed Riku back into wall making Riku's back cause an indention in the wall.
"Now you listen...Both of you!" he shouted in Riku's face as he had him in a choking position against the wall.
"If either of you tell anybody...ANYBODY what happened tonight..I'll kill the both of you! And don't even think about just never coming home after this because I WILL find you..do you understand me?" Riku nodded slowly. Then his father threw him on the ground and walked out of the room. Mya let out the uncontrollable sob she was holding and ran over to Riku.
"Riku are you ok?" she said through her tears.
"Yah," he said hoarsely. But it hurt uncontrollably to talk.
"Oh Riku...you're jaw is hanging funny...did daddy break your jaw."
"Yah I think he did," Riku managed to say.
"Come on let's take you to the medicine women..." Mya said as she helped Riku to his feet. When he was to his feet Riku started to walk out the door but he noticed that Mya wasn't beside him. He turned around and she was frozen in her spot. Her head was cast toward the ground and her silky blonde hair covered her face.
"Mya what's wrong?" he asked softly. Mya lifted her head and you could see her eyes full of tears. He then realized that this was all too much for her...five -year-old kids should be care-free and their greatest concern should be being the fastest runner in their class, not whether their father will kill them one day or not. She didn't deserve this. She was better than this. Riku bent down beside her and put his hands on her shoulders. But she still couldn't put into words everything she had just witnessed at so young an age. These things can damage a kid for life. Riku felt so powerless amongst all this. Finally words came out of Mya's lips.
"Oh my God...Riku..WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" she shrieked. Riku wiped the blood away from his face and looked into Mya's blue eyes. They were so sad and helpless, looking into her eyes made Riku's own eyes swell up with tears. He took her in his arms and held her tightly.
"..I don't know," he whispered. "I do know that I'll never leave your side again..EVER!"
~*End Flashback..Still Riku's POV*~
We both stared at the house with fearful eyes as we held hands tightly. We could hear the drunk screeching and bottles being smashed...we could hear chairs being thrown and pictures dropping of the wall. It was at this point I realized I was truly a monster I left her with nothing to come home to but this every night. I had promised her I would protect her from my father at all costs, and I had failed. I dumped her with him. I truly abandoned her. This was far worse than leaving her hanging. Just thinking about the cruel thing I did made my hairs stand on end. I'm lower that pond scum..no lower...I'm the mucus that feeds on the pond scum....no I'm lower than that but I don't even know what comes next! I wiped away the tears in my eyes.
"Mya...I'm so sorry."
"For what Riku?" But she knew exactly what. She just didn't want to make me feel guilty. But I deserved to feel that way.
"Mya please don't play dumb with me...You know that I dumped you here with our abusive, alcoholic father after I swore I'd protect you from him! I don't deserve to live after what I did to you!" I said as I turned away from her in shame. Mya grabbed my arm affectionately.
"Riku don't say that. Yes I was broken and alone, but you're hear now and that's all that matters now." I smiled at her words. I bent down to her level and gave her a hug.
"I love you Mya." And I meant what I said too. She was so caring and loving. She was willing to forgive me of the most awful things without question.
"Yah...I love you too." We broke apart from our hug and turned our attention back toward the house that we were petrified to enter as we had been for a long time.
"So now what?" Mya said.
"We have to go in sooner or later. We have to be strong. Just remember Mya...everything happens for a reason and we can't be afraid." Mya took a deep breath and looked up at her brother and smiled.
"Ok, let's go," she said. And with that we both walked into the place we called our home.
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Since our father was drunk, we managed to sneak in unnoticed, but we knew it was only a matter of time before he would storm upstairs demanding them to get downstairs. I remained calm and was unafraid of the shit I was going to have to take from my father after he sobered up. Mya however was not calm at all. She was always so tense around the house after our mother was murdered. She had so much bottled up inside her. She was just as damaged as me but she was too young to deal with it. It's so sad. She shouldn't have been born in this family. She deserves better than this. I don't deserve to be her brother. I walked over to her and sat down beside her on her bed. She was crying softly.
"Hey...what's wrong?" I said affectionately. She grabbed my hand and held it tightly
"Riku....sing me the song mother used to sing to us." My eyes welled up with tears. I smiled at her and nodded.
~*Flashback*~
Riku was twelve
Mya was four
Their parents had yet another earth shattering fight. But at the age the two kids were, not even Riku knew how to deal with it. They both sat on Mya's bed holding each other as they wept bitterly. They had done nothing but cry right when the fight erupted. They cradled each other and cried through all their frightened sorrow. Just then the door was slowly opened. They both jumped in fear and Mya let out a small scream. Then their mother stepped slowly through the door.
"Hey..." she said softly, "..mind if I come in?" The two kids nodded. In between all the horrible fighting the only parent that showed them love and attention was their mother..their father didn't give a damn about them, so they were happy to see her. They made room for their mother on the bed they had both been crying on. They wiped their splotchy eyes and drippy noses. Their mother put her arms around both of them.
"Riku..Mya...I'm so sorry...neither of you deserve this." She said as tears fell softly down her cheek.
"Oh mommy don't cry," Mya said as tears were beginning to well up in her eyes again.
"Well I don't want either of you to cry either that's what mommy and daddy are making you do."
"Then why do you have to fight so much?" Riku said unafraid without hesitation, "Why can't you just be normal parents?!" This made his mother cry more. But he didn't care. She deserved every harsh stab she was getting. He was tired of putting up with his parent's shit.
"I don't know Riku..I would say we shouldn't have gotten married but then I wouldn't have had you two are the greatest joy I've received in all my life." Riku sighed. He still couldn't understand why his parent's had to fight so much.
"Riku...Mya...I know what you two are thinking now...I know how you must feel in this terrible home you have to come home to. But when things get unbearable, I just want you to remember this song I'm going to sing to you and hopefully it will help you get through anything.
~*End Flashback*~
I cradled Mya in my arms and sang the song my mother always used to sing to us softly.
"This world
This world is cold
But you don't
You don't have to go
You're feeling sad, you're feeling lonely, and no one seems to care
Your mother's gone and your father hits you
This pain you cannot bear
But we all bleed the same way as you do
And we all have the same things to go through
Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don't stop looking, you're one step closer
Don't stop searching, it's not over
Hold on"
Mya smiled as a tear fell down her face softly.
"Fell any better?" I asked her. She smiled and nodded.
"Yah."
"Good." I squeezed her affectionately and kissed her cheek as she giggled playfully.
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Our father had finally sobered up and now we were all sitting at the dinner table very quietly and cautiously as we ate. Dinner was probably the most tense time of the day for us, if one person even breathed it could explode into a full-fledged, run-for-you-life fight. And now it was twice as tense because I had obviously been gone for two years. He kept opening his mouth as if to say something but closed his mouth and continued to eat angrily. I tried to remain clam and pretend that we were just one happy family sitting down to a nice, happy dinner as I had been since I was four. Mya, however, looked like she would burst out into tears any second.
"So, you mind explaining to me why you were gone for two years boy?" he finally said. I shrugged when he said this. Not only did I not want to tell him but it also bothered me that he never called me "Riku", it was always "boy".
"Answer me boy!" he said louder. I saw Mya slightly jump in her seat in fear out of the corner of my eye so I tried to answer quickly for her sake but I didn't know what to say.
"You wouldn't understand dad," I said.
"AND WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!" he roared as he got up out of his seat, "Are you saying I'm stupid?" I deeply wanted to respond "yes" but I knew he'd kill me.
"...If you must know I was in other worlds trying to save Kairi's life and the world."
"YOU WERE IN WHAT?" he roared again, "DID YOU JUST SAY YOU WERE IN OTHER WORLDS?"
"Yes I did," I said more defensively.
"I don't ever want to hear you talk about "other worlds" again! That's that shit your mother always used to dump in your heads!"
"It's not shit dad!" I yelled back, "Mom was right, there are other worlds out there! So whose the dumb ass now dad?" My father let out a loud yell as the stomped over to where I was sitting and tipped me out of my chair hardly. He bent down to the ground and pinned me down by my neck as Mya screamed loudly and ran around the room crying frantically trying to figure out what to do.
"Don't you ever...EVER call me a dumb ass again boy," my father said in a deadly whisper, "Is that clear?"
"Crystal," I said with an attitude in my voice. He pinned me down to the ground harder at that. I grunted as he began to crush my ribs.
"DON'T YOU GIVE ME THAT TONE BOY! And you did NOT go to other worlds and you did NOT "save the world". And you wanna know why? Because you're nothing, you're useless, you're pathetic, you're just a waste of goddamn space you got that? So I don't ever want to hear you talking about saving the world or that little slut Kairi." I let out an angry yell and pushed him off of me so hard he landed against the wall. That was it, he could insult me all he wanted but he could NEVER talk about Kairi like that. I don't care how mad I am at her, he has never been able to talk about her like that and he never will. Mya continued to scream even louder.
"STOP RIKU, DON'T DO IT!" But I ignored her and stomped over to my dad who was still leaning painfully up against the wall and grabbed him forcefully by the shirt collar.
"TAKE THAT BACK BITCH!" I shouted. Then he got all of his strength together and punched me as hard as he could in the face. He punched me so hard I was forced back onto the floor as I put my hand softly up against my face in pain as I felt my shiner starting to form. My dad started to come at me but now I didn't have enough strength to get up so I just sat helplessly on the floor. Then Mya jumped in front of my dad.
"NO DADDY NO!" She screamed.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS YOU MAGGOT!" He screamed at her. Then he did something he'd never done before. He hit Mya so hard she was forced against our book o shelve. That was it. He had no problem slapping me around but he had NEVER hit Mya before, not like that. I screamed angrily and heaved myself at his chest, knocked him onto the floor and started beating him senseless. I was showing no mercy whatsoever. I didn't even give him time to breath between punches. I was beating out every bit of anger I had inside of me on my dad, and I liked it. I wouldn't stop. Finally, I realized that he had been unconscious for quite a long time so I got off my dad and ran over Mya who was crying softly against the book shelve. She had a shiner forming on her face just like mine. I sat on the floor next to her and held her tightly as she cried bitterly. I once again pondered on the haunting fact that this innocent creature crying in my chest didn't deserve this as I always did. I kissed her forehead and squeezed her tighter as tears started to from in my eyes. Mya and I were so bent over our problems that we didn't even notice when our dad regained his consciousness. He looked over at us in each other's arms and started to come at us with all his might. I heard his roaring and quickly snapped out of my thoughts and saw him coming for us. But he was now too close for me to get up and protect both my sister and me. So I held onto Mya and was prepared for the senseless beating we were both about to receive. Then Mya opened her eyes.
A piercing scream rang throughout the house
My father stopped in his tracks and I let go of Mya as I felt her skin starting to burn like red flame. We both knew something very weird was happening with her. Her body started to glow black and she was breathing as if she was giving childbirth. Both my father and I were starting to get a little freaked out. Then Mya let out a loud scream and I couldn't believe my eyes at what had just happened. A Heartless had emerged out of my sister and started attacking out father. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief and stared once again at the Heartless. I was stunned. Did what I just think happened really happen? I turned my head to Mya and she was slumped on the floor in exhaustion. She was breathing as if she had been running for miles and her eyes were glowing the exact vibrant yellow of the Heartless. I looked around at what had just happened. I now knew that what I had just seen wasn't my imagination.
"Mya...."
~*Another Time, Another Place*~
"It's time now....."
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I am SO sorry that took so long to post! I've just been really busy with colorgaurd practice. In fact, just yesterday I came back from my week long BAND CAMP. But it actually wasn't that bad. Last year it was like they sent me to prison camp but this year it was actually pretty fun. Anyway, please excuse me for the time lag and I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Plez R/R ^_^
Peace Out,
Kia Saphia
Disclaimer: I don't own KH (Just Mya ^_^)
Note to Sweetie: I'm really sorry for disappointing to, but when I began writing this story I became completely absorbed in it. If you liked it so much you should've said so in your reviews because it seemed like not that many people liked it all that much (except for Ari Powwel). Well I'm really sorry that I disappointed you, but consider this story as my way of making it up to you ^_^)
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//It's the little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you smile
And it's flying without wings
Cause you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings
You're the place my life begins
And you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings//
When Riku said he'd spend the rest of his life making up what he did to Mya...he wasn't lying. Riku and Mya spent every single moment of every single day together. They never left each other's site. They didn't spend even the tiniest fraction of a second with anyone else but each other. And why would they? All they needed was each other so why should they spend their time with people they don't even like? It was clear that Riku no longer cared for anyone else he had been with in the past, but Mya didn't like anybody on the island either. Before Kairi came she liked everybody, but after she came she had reason to hate everybody. She hated Kairi for keeping Riku away from her and not seeing that he loved her dearly, and she hated Sora for standing in the way of Riku's happiness with Kairi. And she never particularly cared for Tidus, Selphie, or Wakka. Riku or Mya never spoke to anybody else on Destiny Island now. They segregated themselves from everyone else. No one on Destiny Island had talked to either of them in a week. And they saw Riku and Mya..but Riku and Mya didn't see them.
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Sora, Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka were playing wiffleball together as Kairi sat quietly aside and watched Riku and Mya play together happily off in the distance. They looked like they were having the time of their lives.
"All right, home run!" Tidus cheered as everyone else groaned. He ran the bases happily as Selphie and Wakka threw their gloves at him. Sora laughed and then turned his head around looking for Kairi. He saw her sitting on a rock looking very sad as she gazed off into the distance. He walked over to her and sat down beside her.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Huh?" she said as he broke her gaze away from Riku and Mya.
"Well you seem kinda sad, and I was just wondering what's bothering you." Kairi sighed and then gazed back at the two playing happily. Sora looked out into the horizon and tried to find what Kairi was staring at. Then he saw Riku and Mya playing together.
"Oh them?" he said. Kairi nodded her head quietly. Selphie spoke up.
"Yah, they do bother me..their whole family does!"
"Why?" Sora asked.
"Because look at them! Every person in that family looks like a super model! I'm so jealous!" Selphie said breathlessly. Sora and Kairi looked at each other and laughed.
"Yah, you're right." Kairi said.
"Hey Selphie, you gonna come back to the game no?"
"I'm coming!" she yelled as she ran back to the game. Sora laughed.
"But seriously, why does that bother you?"
"Well...they're just ALWAYS together!"
"So? Why should we be bothered by that? He's just trying to make up time in which he practically abandoned his sister in."
"Yah, well doesn't it seem kind of annoying?"
"No not at all. Why should we be annoyed by their happiness? I know I haven't seen either of them that happy in a long time."
"Well, I mean doesn't it seem kind of annoying that they're ALWAYS together and they haven't even acknowledged any of our existence since they first saw each other."
"No I don't! If Riku wants to spend all his time with Mya and completely wash us out then that's fine!" he said aggressively. Kairi knew Sora was feeling the same things she was when he said that. She knew that they were both hurt by Riku never spending time with them. She put her arm around Sora.
"Well Sora, It's just like you said....Riku hasn't been this happy in a long time...we should be happy for him...we shouldn't be angry at his happiness."
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The sun was just about to set over Destiny Islands. The sky was majestically painted with pink, purple, and orange and the setting sun lit up the water like a sparkling diamond. Sunsets like these came along only a few times in one person's life.
Riku and Mya had just got finished with their day full of laughter of happiness together. They were walking along the shoreline together as the water occasionally brushed up against their sandy feet. Mya skipped happily ahead of Riku. He smiled at her. One person had never brought him so much joy as she did.
~*Riku's POV*~
I love my sister. I love her more than life itself. She has made me happier this past week than I've ever been probably in my entire lifetime. Now I don't even want to fall asleep because I don't want to miss a single moment with her. I'll never forgive myself for leaving her like I did. It's like a weight that I'll forever hold on my shoulders.
I watched my Mya danced as she skipped..the wind blowing through her pale blonde hair and her smile lighting up everything around her. I smiled at her and watched her in all her careless and free splendor. I envy her. I wish I felt as free as she did. I wish I felt how people do when they were kid....young and hopeless, golden and pure, simple and clean. All these feelings were stripped away from me over the years.
I looked out at the painted sunset before me as I watched the waves crash as the sea breeze blew through my hair. Mya turned around.
"Come on Riku!" She cried out cheerfully. I smiled at her.
"I catch up with you in a minute, ok?" She just smiled and skipped away. I didn't need to tell her why...she already knew. She knew I needed time to myself to think every once in a while. She knew this because she wasn't just my sister...she was me. She looked so beautiful as she skipped away with her hair flying gracefully in the air. I'm so lucky to have her as a sister.
I stood on a rock and watched the ocean waves as I thought about my life right now. Any other person in my situation would think 'what's there to think about I've got all I need right here'. But I'm not any other person. I've been damaged too much and everything good in my life always gets taken away. A regular person wouldn't question a thing in this situation but I question everything. Can me..Riku..the guy who screwed everything up for himself really be living this life? And will it last? Maybe I'm just afraid to let anything good happen to me. Maybe I SHOULD be afraid to let anything good happen to me. Maybe I've just been so numb for so long that I've forgotten how it feels to feel so alive. Maybe I'm just paranoid and should stop contradicting myself. Maybe I shouldn't think so much. My head is spinning in every direction and I have yet to catch it. I've never felt so alive and yet I've never felt so hopeless. I'm so confused. I should just stop thinking about myself and concentrate on the only person who really matters...and that's Mya.
"Riku.." a voice said softly. I jumped. Someone had broken me from my trail of thought. I turned around. It was Kairi. I frowned.
"What do you want?" I said coldly. Kairi was looking at the ground and folding her hands nervously.
"We haven't seen each other in a while Riku..."
"Yah...and what's it to you? You found out Sora isn't all he's cracked up to be and looking for someone ELSE to be your boy toy?" I said bitterly as I stepped off the rock and began to walk away from her.
"Why won't you talk to us Riku? You haven't talked to any of us in a week!" she said as she began to follow me.
"What the hell makes you think I WANT to talk to any of you?"
"Because we're your friends!"
"Correction: WERE my friends."
"Well you can't just ignore us forever!"
"Can and will toots," I said in a very Godfather-like way.
"Riku, you can't just drown out everyone except Mya for the rest of your life!" When she brought Mya into this I stopped dead in my tracks..I knew what was going on. I turned around and faced her, looking directly into her eyes.
"You're jealous of Mya." Kairi froze up.
"No I'm not!" she said very fast.
"Yes you are! Why would you say these things to me if you weren't?"
"Because I'm..." she stopped in her sentence. I smirked. This was all too great.
"Because you're jealous!" I finished, "You couldn't think of any other reason so that means you're jealous!" This is priceless. If I'd known I could've used Mya to make Kairi jealous I would've started a long time ago! This is all falling out perfectly! Now SHE gets to know what it feels like to need ME!
"Riku I.." she began. I raised my hand up to silence her.
"Kairi, you may miss me but I don't miss you so why should I car if you're jealous?" Yes! Perfect stab! Kairi got real quiet after I said that. Oh, this is all too perfect! After she still hadn't responded after several seconds, I smirked and turned around to walk away. This was all to good to be true! Finally things are starting to go my way!
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I walked up to my house with a little bounce in my step. Everything was finally falling out like I wanted it too. I was smiling in selfish satisfaction, but my smile was quickly erased when I looked up at my house. The only person inside of our house was our father and you could hear everything that was going on inside as Mya was standing outside staring at the house as if it were her greatest enemy. She wasn't moving. She was remained perfectly still under the dark blue sky as the heavy wind blew through her hair. She was scared to go inside, and I knew exactly why. We were always scared to go inside the house after what had happened. I ran over to her and kneeled down beside her. I held her hands.
"Is he?...." Mya knew what I was talking about and nodded her head sadly. A look of panic spread my face as I looked back at the house.
"How long have you been out here?" I asked quickly.
"About ten minutes," she said softly. I felt like shooting myself in the head right there. I'd devoted my life to making sure hers was perfect, and I wasn't helping her right now because I was too busy being selfish!
"I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner Mya," I said as I took her in my arms and held her tightly. Mya started crying softly on my shoulder. She deserved to cry all she wanted to. She was too young and innocent to deal with the shit we had to go through at home. A lot of people were to young and innocent to go through the shit we went through at home.
~*Flashback*~
"IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR ALWAYS FILLING THOSE KID'S HEADS WITH ALL THAT SHIT ABOUT OTHER WORLDS KIRA!"
"IT'S NOT SHIT RAYE! YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO'S SHIT"
"YOU CAN'T TALK LIKE THAT TO ME!"
"OH YES I CAN!"
Riku was thirteen
Mya was five
Their parents continued to fight bitterly downstairs while the two kids just sat calmly upstairs even thought their parent's fighting was so loud everyone in Destiny Islands could hear them. Riku was lying on his bed as he drew, acting like this was just another dull moment, but Mya sat sadly in her chair as she listened to her parents fight.
"Riku, why do mommy and daddy have to fight so much?" Riku looked up from his drawing. He sighed.
"Because they aren't happy to together," he replied.
"If they aren't happy together then why did they get married?"
"Because they were stupid and married the first bimbo that said hi to them," Riku replied with his teeth gritted. Mya got quiet. She didn't like it when her brother got tense. Riku put down his drawing and knelt down beside the chair Mya was sitting in. He took her hands in his.
"Mya, you have to grow up you won't end up like mom and dad. I want you to be happy unlike them! You have to promise me that you will actually find someone you love instead of marrying the first bimbo you see ok?"
"Why would I wanna do that Riku?"
"Just promise me, ok?" Mya smiled.
"I promise Riku." He kissed her on the cheek and went back to his drawing.
*A Few Minutes Later*
The fight downstairs had grown even more intense. The screaming was louder and you could her glasses break. Riku continued to remain calm as if what was happening downstairs was the most natural thing in the world. Mya however, was getting scared. There were frightened tears in her eyes and she cringed each time she heard a glass break.
"Ummmm..Riku," she said in a really shaky voice.
"Yes?" he said as he looked up from his drawing once again.
"Ummmm...they're fighting pretty bad." Mya was twitching nervously and sweating. She was folding her hands frantically.
"Mya don't worry....this same thing happens everyday...they fight brutally and then one of them eventually cracks and then sobs at the other's feet telling them they're sorry and that they'll change..but it never works out like that and the next day they just pick up where they left off and the same thing happens again until the day they die..some shitty parents we have huh?"
"Uh..yah," but she continued to remain like she was. "Riku...I have a bad feeling about this.."
"Mya, just chill! They may say they hate each other and that they never want to see each other again but they're just talking shit...there is no action just talk."
"No Riku..you don't understand I REALLY have a bad feeling about this!"
"Mya stop worrying! I...." A blood curling scream cut him off. The scream came from their mother. Riku quickly stood up a look of panic spread across his face. He looked over at Mya, tears were streaming down her eyes as he looked at him.
"I told you I had I bad feeling about this.." she whispered in a deadly tone. As she whispered this Riku could've sworn he saw her eyes turn yellow. He ignored what he saw and concentrated on the scream. Riku and Mya didn't even breath they waited for a single sound of reassurance that didn't come.
"Oh my God..." Riku said with tears on his breath. Both Riku and Mya darted out of their room and ran downstairs. Mya ran ahead of Riku.
"Mya don't! Stay behind me pl...."
A piercing scream rang throughout the house
"MOMMA!" Mya screamed as she ran over to her mother's dead limp lying on the ground. Blood was blossoming out of her chest. Their father had stabbed her. Riku just watched Mya lie on their mother as she cried hysterically. He was paralyzed. He couldn't even move. He couldn't think or breathe. He just stopped functioning. His head was spinning violently. He refused to believe what was happening. He stumbled over to his mother's cold body. He didn't want to believe it. He wanted to see her and touch her. Then he would know if this was all just a dream. He bent down beside her. Mya continued to cry hysterically as she lied across her mother's body. Riku glanced at his broken sister as a tear fell down his cheek.
"This is not happening.." He touched his fingers lightly on his mother's chest and heaps of blood slipped onto his fingers. Then he knew that this was all real. White hot tears formed in his aqua eyes. His soul was burning with rage. He looked to his right and there lied the bloody knife that had torn though his mother's life....now it was time to find the soldier that had drawn that knife. Riku grabbed the knife and got up off his knees quickly. He stomped into the room where the assassin was...unafraid and steady. He kicked open the door to his parent's room and his father was running around the room frantically trying to find a bag to hide his victim's body. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw his son standing in the doorway with icy eyes full of vengeance and his murder weapon in hand. Riku's father didn't say anything. He was petrified with fear. Finally Riku let it all out.
"BITCH!" Riku screamed at his father as he threw his bloody knife at him. He quickly jumped out of the way but the knife managed to cut across his arm and left a heavy indention in his skin. He buckled over in pain as he covered his bleeding arm with his hand. As he was bent over Riku let out an angry scream as he ran full speed at him and hurl his arms around his chest, knocking him onto the ground. When Riku had him on the ground he started punching his father with all his might. A thirteen year old was punching out his own father..a grown man. And he couldn't escape either. Riku wouldn't let him go. What he did to his mother released all his strength and no one was going to over power him. Mya heard what was going on and ran into the room shrieking.
"RIKU STOP!" she screamed. Mya tugged on the back of Riku's shirt with all her might to try and stop him from punching their father like she was. She knew he was going to get hurt.
"RIKU PLEASE STOP IT!" Their father was struggling hard to get out of the punching position Riku had him in. He started to shake Riku violently, which made Mya lose her grip on the back of Riku's shirt and fall backwards.
"Mya!" he shouted as he turned around from his punching. But right when he turned his face his dad punched him hard in the cheek that was turned away from him. Riku screamed loudly fell onto the floor in pain.
"Riku!" Mya screamed. She ran over to him. "Oh my God Riku you're bleeding!" But right after she said that their dad walked over to Riku, jerked him off the floor, and threw him up against the wall violently. Mya screamed.
"DADDY NO!" she shouted as she ran up to him and tugged on his arm.
"Stay out of this Mya!" he shouted as he pushed her away from him.
"HEY!" Riku shouted as he started to advance off the wall. But he quickly pushed Riku back into wall making Riku's back cause an indention in the wall.
"Now you listen...Both of you!" he shouted in Riku's face as he had him in a choking position against the wall.
"If either of you tell anybody...ANYBODY what happened tonight..I'll kill the both of you! And don't even think about just never coming home after this because I WILL find you..do you understand me?" Riku nodded slowly. Then his father threw him on the ground and walked out of the room. Mya let out the uncontrollable sob she was holding and ran over to Riku.
"Riku are you ok?" she said through her tears.
"Yah," he said hoarsely. But it hurt uncontrollably to talk.
"Oh Riku...you're jaw is hanging funny...did daddy break your jaw."
"Yah I think he did," Riku managed to say.
"Come on let's take you to the medicine women..." Mya said as she helped Riku to his feet. When he was to his feet Riku started to walk out the door but he noticed that Mya wasn't beside him. He turned around and she was frozen in her spot. Her head was cast toward the ground and her silky blonde hair covered her face.
"Mya what's wrong?" he asked softly. Mya lifted her head and you could see her eyes full of tears. He then realized that this was all too much for her...five -year-old kids should be care-free and their greatest concern should be being the fastest runner in their class, not whether their father will kill them one day or not. She didn't deserve this. She was better than this. Riku bent down beside her and put his hands on her shoulders. But she still couldn't put into words everything she had just witnessed at so young an age. These things can damage a kid for life. Riku felt so powerless amongst all this. Finally words came out of Mya's lips.
"Oh my God...Riku..WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" she shrieked. Riku wiped the blood away from his face and looked into Mya's blue eyes. They were so sad and helpless, looking into her eyes made Riku's own eyes swell up with tears. He took her in his arms and held her tightly.
"..I don't know," he whispered. "I do know that I'll never leave your side again..EVER!"
~*End Flashback..Still Riku's POV*~
We both stared at the house with fearful eyes as we held hands tightly. We could hear the drunk screeching and bottles being smashed...we could hear chairs being thrown and pictures dropping of the wall. It was at this point I realized I was truly a monster I left her with nothing to come home to but this every night. I had promised her I would protect her from my father at all costs, and I had failed. I dumped her with him. I truly abandoned her. This was far worse than leaving her hanging. Just thinking about the cruel thing I did made my hairs stand on end. I'm lower that pond scum..no lower...I'm the mucus that feeds on the pond scum....no I'm lower than that but I don't even know what comes next! I wiped away the tears in my eyes.
"Mya...I'm so sorry."
"For what Riku?" But she knew exactly what. She just didn't want to make me feel guilty. But I deserved to feel that way.
"Mya please don't play dumb with me...You know that I dumped you here with our abusive, alcoholic father after I swore I'd protect you from him! I don't deserve to live after what I did to you!" I said as I turned away from her in shame. Mya grabbed my arm affectionately.
"Riku don't say that. Yes I was broken and alone, but you're hear now and that's all that matters now." I smiled at her words. I bent down to her level and gave her a hug.
"I love you Mya." And I meant what I said too. She was so caring and loving. She was willing to forgive me of the most awful things without question.
"Yah...I love you too." We broke apart from our hug and turned our attention back toward the house that we were petrified to enter as we had been for a long time.
"So now what?" Mya said.
"We have to go in sooner or later. We have to be strong. Just remember Mya...everything happens for a reason and we can't be afraid." Mya took a deep breath and looked up at her brother and smiled.
"Ok, let's go," she said. And with that we both walked into the place we called our home.
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Since our father was drunk, we managed to sneak in unnoticed, but we knew it was only a matter of time before he would storm upstairs demanding them to get downstairs. I remained calm and was unafraid of the shit I was going to have to take from my father after he sobered up. Mya however was not calm at all. She was always so tense around the house after our mother was murdered. She had so much bottled up inside her. She was just as damaged as me but she was too young to deal with it. It's so sad. She shouldn't have been born in this family. She deserves better than this. I don't deserve to be her brother. I walked over to her and sat down beside her on her bed. She was crying softly.
"Hey...what's wrong?" I said affectionately. She grabbed my hand and held it tightly
"Riku....sing me the song mother used to sing to us." My eyes welled up with tears. I smiled at her and nodded.
~*Flashback*~
Riku was twelve
Mya was four
Their parents had yet another earth shattering fight. But at the age the two kids were, not even Riku knew how to deal with it. They both sat on Mya's bed holding each other as they wept bitterly. They had done nothing but cry right when the fight erupted. They cradled each other and cried through all their frightened sorrow. Just then the door was slowly opened. They both jumped in fear and Mya let out a small scream. Then their mother stepped slowly through the door.
"Hey..." she said softly, "..mind if I come in?" The two kids nodded. In between all the horrible fighting the only parent that showed them love and attention was their mother..their father didn't give a damn about them, so they were happy to see her. They made room for their mother on the bed they had both been crying on. They wiped their splotchy eyes and drippy noses. Their mother put her arms around both of them.
"Riku..Mya...I'm so sorry...neither of you deserve this." She said as tears fell softly down her cheek.
"Oh mommy don't cry," Mya said as tears were beginning to well up in her eyes again.
"Well I don't want either of you to cry either that's what mommy and daddy are making you do."
"Then why do you have to fight so much?" Riku said unafraid without hesitation, "Why can't you just be normal parents?!" This made his mother cry more. But he didn't care. She deserved every harsh stab she was getting. He was tired of putting up with his parent's shit.
"I don't know Riku..I would say we shouldn't have gotten married but then I wouldn't have had you two are the greatest joy I've received in all my life." Riku sighed. He still couldn't understand why his parent's had to fight so much.
"Riku...Mya...I know what you two are thinking now...I know how you must feel in this terrible home you have to come home to. But when things get unbearable, I just want you to remember this song I'm going to sing to you and hopefully it will help you get through anything.
~*End Flashback*~
I cradled Mya in my arms and sang the song my mother always used to sing to us softly.
"This world
This world is cold
But you don't
You don't have to go
You're feeling sad, you're feeling lonely, and no one seems to care
Your mother's gone and your father hits you
This pain you cannot bear
But we all bleed the same way as you do
And we all have the same things to go through
Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don't stop looking, you're one step closer
Don't stop searching, it's not over
Hold on"
Mya smiled as a tear fell down her face softly.
"Fell any better?" I asked her. She smiled and nodded.
"Yah."
"Good." I squeezed her affectionately and kissed her cheek as she giggled playfully.
~*~
Our father had finally sobered up and now we were all sitting at the dinner table very quietly and cautiously as we ate. Dinner was probably the most tense time of the day for us, if one person even breathed it could explode into a full-fledged, run-for-you-life fight. And now it was twice as tense because I had obviously been gone for two years. He kept opening his mouth as if to say something but closed his mouth and continued to eat angrily. I tried to remain clam and pretend that we were just one happy family sitting down to a nice, happy dinner as I had been since I was four. Mya, however, looked like she would burst out into tears any second.
"So, you mind explaining to me why you were gone for two years boy?" he finally said. I shrugged when he said this. Not only did I not want to tell him but it also bothered me that he never called me "Riku", it was always "boy".
"Answer me boy!" he said louder. I saw Mya slightly jump in her seat in fear out of the corner of my eye so I tried to answer quickly for her sake but I didn't know what to say.
"You wouldn't understand dad," I said.
"AND WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!" he roared as he got up out of his seat, "Are you saying I'm stupid?" I deeply wanted to respond "yes" but I knew he'd kill me.
"...If you must know I was in other worlds trying to save Kairi's life and the world."
"YOU WERE IN WHAT?" he roared again, "DID YOU JUST SAY YOU WERE IN OTHER WORLDS?"
"Yes I did," I said more defensively.
"I don't ever want to hear you talk about "other worlds" again! That's that shit your mother always used to dump in your heads!"
"It's not shit dad!" I yelled back, "Mom was right, there are other worlds out there! So whose the dumb ass now dad?" My father let out a loud yell as the stomped over to where I was sitting and tipped me out of my chair hardly. He bent down to the ground and pinned me down by my neck as Mya screamed loudly and ran around the room crying frantically trying to figure out what to do.
"Don't you ever...EVER call me a dumb ass again boy," my father said in a deadly whisper, "Is that clear?"
"Crystal," I said with an attitude in my voice. He pinned me down to the ground harder at that. I grunted as he began to crush my ribs.
"DON'T YOU GIVE ME THAT TONE BOY! And you did NOT go to other worlds and you did NOT "save the world". And you wanna know why? Because you're nothing, you're useless, you're pathetic, you're just a waste of goddamn space you got that? So I don't ever want to hear you talking about saving the world or that little slut Kairi." I let out an angry yell and pushed him off of me so hard he landed against the wall. That was it, he could insult me all he wanted but he could NEVER talk about Kairi like that. I don't care how mad I am at her, he has never been able to talk about her like that and he never will. Mya continued to scream even louder.
"STOP RIKU, DON'T DO IT!" But I ignored her and stomped over to my dad who was still leaning painfully up against the wall and grabbed him forcefully by the shirt collar.
"TAKE THAT BACK BITCH!" I shouted. Then he got all of his strength together and punched me as hard as he could in the face. He punched me so hard I was forced back onto the floor as I put my hand softly up against my face in pain as I felt my shiner starting to form. My dad started to come at me but now I didn't have enough strength to get up so I just sat helplessly on the floor. Then Mya jumped in front of my dad.
"NO DADDY NO!" She screamed.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS YOU MAGGOT!" He screamed at her. Then he did something he'd never done before. He hit Mya so hard she was forced against our book o shelve. That was it. He had no problem slapping me around but he had NEVER hit Mya before, not like that. I screamed angrily and heaved myself at his chest, knocked him onto the floor and started beating him senseless. I was showing no mercy whatsoever. I didn't even give him time to breath between punches. I was beating out every bit of anger I had inside of me on my dad, and I liked it. I wouldn't stop. Finally, I realized that he had been unconscious for quite a long time so I got off my dad and ran over Mya who was crying softly against the book shelve. She had a shiner forming on her face just like mine. I sat on the floor next to her and held her tightly as she cried bitterly. I once again pondered on the haunting fact that this innocent creature crying in my chest didn't deserve this as I always did. I kissed her forehead and squeezed her tighter as tears started to from in my eyes. Mya and I were so bent over our problems that we didn't even notice when our dad regained his consciousness. He looked over at us in each other's arms and started to come at us with all his might. I heard his roaring and quickly snapped out of my thoughts and saw him coming for us. But he was now too close for me to get up and protect both my sister and me. So I held onto Mya and was prepared for the senseless beating we were both about to receive. Then Mya opened her eyes.
A piercing scream rang throughout the house
My father stopped in his tracks and I let go of Mya as I felt her skin starting to burn like red flame. We both knew something very weird was happening with her. Her body started to glow black and she was breathing as if she was giving childbirth. Both my father and I were starting to get a little freaked out. Then Mya let out a loud scream and I couldn't believe my eyes at what had just happened. A Heartless had emerged out of my sister and started attacking out father. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief and stared once again at the Heartless. I was stunned. Did what I just think happened really happen? I turned my head to Mya and she was slumped on the floor in exhaustion. She was breathing as if she had been running for miles and her eyes were glowing the exact vibrant yellow of the Heartless. I looked around at what had just happened. I now knew that what I had just seen wasn't my imagination.
"Mya...."
~*Another Time, Another Place*~
"It's time now....."
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I am SO sorry that took so long to post! I've just been really busy with colorgaurd practice. In fact, just yesterday I came back from my week long BAND CAMP. But it actually wasn't that bad. Last year it was like they sent me to prison camp but this year it was actually pretty fun. Anyway, please excuse me for the time lag and I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Plez R/R ^_^
Peace Out,
Kia Saphia