Chp 4: Bow to Thee
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~*Mya's POV*~
I was trying hard to keep up with Riku. We were running to his island and even though he was holding my hand so I wouldn't lag behind, I was using all my strength to even attempt to keep up with him. For the most part, he was dragging me as he ran. It was always hard to keep up with him....but then again, it was hard for anyone to keep up with him. My brother is so strong..I wish I could be that strong. I envy him so much. He's so handsome and brave and smart...when I get older I wanna be just like him!
"Riku why are we going so fast? It's not like the worlds are going to disappear!"
"Just come on...hurry!"
He continued to run just as fast as he had been going with no sign of slowing down. I sighed and tried my hardest to run. When we finally got to his island I collapsed onto the sand in exhaustion.
"So you've decided to join us.." I heard a strange woman say. At the time I was too tired to lift my head up so I ignored it.
"Yes I have," I heard Riku reply. Ok, now I'm confused. I lifted my head up and opened my eyes. At first my vision was blurred but when it was cleared I saw a scary woman standing there. My skin crawled in fright as I quickly backed away from Riku and the sinister lady. She had pale green skin and freaky green/yellow eyes. She was wearing a long black dress with strands of pink and purple here and there. She had a weird headdress on her head that made it look like she had several long devil horns. All in all she looked like a raven...a really scary raven, and I didn't want anything to do with her. She frightens me so much...just looking at her makes my hairs stand on end. I she moves even the slightest centimeter towards me I'll scream like grim death.
"A wise decision Riku..I'm glad you see it my way.." the scary lady said.
"I'm not doing this for YOU!" Riku said back to her forcefully. She smirked at his statement and went along with her business. I was starting to get scared by their conversation.
"Riku...what's going on?" I asked. Just then the raven lady snapped her fingers and a weird space ship like object landed by the shore.
"This is what we'll be traveling in," she said to Riku. Ok..somebody isn't telling me something. I stood up.
"Riku! What is going on?" The scary lady stepped inside the ship. He turned around and faced me.
"I told you that we were going to explore the other worlds out there. Well....," he paused for a few seconds almost as if he was thinking, "..she's taking us."
"What?! No way! I'm not going anywhere near her! I won't...I refuse!" I plopped myself down on the sand and folded my arms in a stubborn way. It was once in a very blue moon when I wouldn't go somewhere Riku was going..but this time there was no way I was going onto that ship with that scary bird lady.
"Mya! You wanna go see other worlds don't you?"
"Not like this Riku! Not with her! If I go with you, I want it to be in an environment where I'm not scared to death of the people that go with us and I can't get to sleep at night because I'm having nightmares about a freaky lady coming in my room and hexing me or something!" Riku looked around anxiously.
"Come on Mya! This is our only shot out of here!"
"I wouldn't go with in that ship with that lady if Destiny Island was infested with killer cockroaches and her ship was the only way out!" Riku started to get mad. The expression on his face went from panicked to stern as he clinched his fist. He walked firmly over to me. I must admit this was the first time I had been scared of my own brother. When he reached over to me, he picked me up off the ground and threw me over his shoulders and started walking with me towards the. I couldn't believe it. At first I was unable to speak I was in such shock but I recovered quickly.
"Riku put me down! I'm not going in there! Riku STOP!" I shouted as a squirmed the best I could and beat on his back. But it was no use, he kept a firm grip on me as he neared the entrance to the ship. I started to cry. I didn't want to go in there.
"Riku please! Don't make me go!" I shouted through my tears. He continued to ignore me and entered the ship. The inside of the ship was almost as scary as that lady. There was no light inside. It was all black and gloomy and scary statues of gargoyles and demons graced the long, black hallways. I cried harder.
"Riku, I'm scared! I don't wanna go in here!" But as loud as I cried and as hard as I beat on his back he wouldn't stop. Why is he doing this to me? Why won't he think about how much this scares me? I cried softly as I tried to figure out what was wrong with my brother. He took me to a door that the raven lady was standing in front of.
"This is where her chambers will be..." She opened the door. We stepped inside a humongous room that didn't have a shred of light anywhere. Everything was black from the wallpaper to the bed sheets on a very large bed with a black silk canopy. The room looked fit for a Gothic Princess....there was even a black throne in the middle of it all. Riku walked me over to the throne and set me down on it. The lady snapped her fingers and three very frightening imp like creatures scampered into the room. I screamed in fright.
"Give her whatever she wants.." The lady said to the creatures. Then she left. I started to cry.
"Riku..what's happening? Why did you bring me here?" He didn't answer.
"Then what are those scary pygmy things?"
"They're called the Heartless...they'll give you whatever you want."
"Riku, hurry up. We need to discuss our plan.." the lady called out to him.
"What plan Riku? What's going on?"
"Don't worry about it...now I have to go." He began to walk away but I quickly grabbed his arm.
"No Riku, don't leave me! I'm scared!"
"You don't have to be scared! You..Heartless..bring her some toys.."
"Riku, toys aren't going to help...I need you!"
"Mya I told you I have to go!" He pulled his arm out of my grip.
"Riku, but I'm scared of the dark and this room has no light!" I cried as he had placed his hand on the door. He turned his head toward me.
"I'm sorry Mya...I promise it'll be ok later." And then he closed the door leaving me in the middle of my dark room. I had never been more scared in my entire life. What was he doing to me? Why did he force his upon me? Why was getting me on this ship so important? My head was spinning with questions. But the most important question was 'what happened to the brother that I love?' I threw myself onto the bed and cried bitterly.
"What did I do to you Riku?"
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I sat on my black throne staring blankly in front of me as the sea of toys in front of me sat quietly, untouched. I held a brown bear with a black bow in my hand. Among the sea of toys were toy bats, a few gray bouncy balls with black stars on them, a black jump rope, and a dollhouse that looked like a castle fit for vampires (complete with equally vampire-like dolls). I stuck out like a rebellious teenager in a school full of conformers amongst all the blackness surrounding me in my white dress and the pink bow in my hair. Why had all this been shoved upon me so quickly? Why was I pulled out of my sunny beach island into this Gothic Wonderland? I hopped down from my throne and set my bear neatly in my place. I noticed a wardrobe out of the corner of my eye and I decided to investigate. I studied the wardrobe first...It was a black iron like material and it had incrested serpents sliding down the rims. I opened the wardrobe and found several black dresses and capes fit for a princess. If this is my room then why did they give all this to me? They were pretty dresses but I always wear color. I closed the wardrobe and puzzled on my thoughts.
"Well if Riku won't tell me what's going on then I'll just find out for myself!"
With that I pushed opened the doors to my Gothic princess room and walked down the long halls of the ship. Everywhere you turned the next room would always be just as sinister as the next. I pulled my hair behind my ears and listened for any sounds of talking that could let me know why I'm here and why Riku is acting so strange. I opened the many doors in the ship and looked inside but mostly I found rooms like mine, but not exactly fit for a princess. Then I heard voices speaking ever so softly. My skin jumped and I quietly tried to find the door with the voices behind it. I wasn't that surprised when the voices were coming behind the door that was the most elaborately decorated. I tried pressing my ear up against the door but all I could hear was faint mumbling. I held my breath, praying I wouldn't get caught, and opened the door ever so slightly. At the first glance of the room I could tell it was raven lady's room because her room wasn't fit for a Gothic princess...it was fit for a Gothic queen! I thought my room was dark and scary but it's a meadow with flowers compared to this room. I snapped out of my fixation of the room and remembered the REAL reason why I was here. I looked around and saw Riku sitting on a table while raven lady walked around as if she was looking for something.
"....Ansem drew our plan out and it is quite simple to follow..," she dropped what looked like a map on the table. "We'll start gathering the ones we need in Wonderland and we shall work down the map like so.."
'The ones we need'? Ok, did Riku join us in some kind of cult?
"What about Mya?" Riku asked. I jumped as I heard my name mentioned. "What do we do with her?"
"She can not release the power within her like she is....we have to unlock her heart so she'll be able to achieve for us what we both want.."
'What we both want'?! What am I doing here? I'm a pawn..a scam..a ticket...a whore to get what they want! Why oh why Riku would you do this to me? Maybe it's all in my head...Riku wouldn't use me in any way to get what he wants...would he? What was happening? What was coming over him? Was this whole thing a setup for him to achieve some stupid desire? No..this can't be...I can't think these things...Riku loves me...he wouldn't do such things to me..
I quietly closed the door to the lady's room and I ran out, trying to banish my evil and absurd thoughts that Riku would voluntarily shove myself at this strange woman so I could be their tool to get something they both want..it's crazy..unthinkable..is it?
Just in case I frantically ran around the ship trying to find someway to escape...no luck. I was trapped. I'm so confused...I shouldn't be thinking these evil thoughts..I need to banish these thoughts, but at the same time they make such sense...I won't believe it...Man, I just don't know what to think anymore..
~*Malificent's Room*~
"Malificent please! Can't we just leave Mya like she is? I mean, what's wrong with her? She's not bothering anybody."
"Riku you're being mislead by your feelings for her...we need her to be in her true power in case we need to make any of those we need to come with us by force."
"That's not gonna happen," Riku said quickly.
"When you were five did you think the Heartless would happen and that you would lose all of your friends and that your world as you know it would now be dangling by a single thread and that thread lies within my hands?" Riku sunk his head to the ground.
"No...."
"Good...and besides if we don't do it now then we'd have to do it later and with these kinds of things it's better to get it over with now."
"Ok...well how are we going to change her?"
"With the Keyblade you used to unlock people's hearts."
"Oh...." Riku said uncomfortably as the mentioning of that Keyblade brought back cold thoughts.
"And YOU'RE going to do it...."
"WHAT?!"
"Riku, it has to be you who unlock her heart or it won't work."
"No! I refuse! You do it!"
"Ok fine then if that's the way you want it then you can just go back to your life of envy as you watch all of your would-be friends play together and fall in love and you're left out in the cold." Riku was silent for a few moments and then nodded his head softly.
"I knew you'd see it my way..." Malificent said with a smirk.
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I opened my eyes that morning and didn't see a bright sun shining down on me in my nice cheap, yet comfy bed....this morning I woke up and saw two yellow eyes of those Heartless creatures staring back at me, waiting to tend to my every need in my humongous, queen sized, canopy graced, Gothic bed. Just imagine...in a single day and night of misfortune that I would go from spending the best days of my life with my beloved brother to wondering if he is using me in some sick conspiracy. I got out of my bed and put my cold feet on the floor, as soon as I did three Heartless raced up to me. I screamed and quickly put my feet back inside my bed sheets. They all stared at me as if they were waiting for something.
"Uh..I'm fine thank you.." They still didn't budge. I wanted them to go away..they scare me...
"Well I was just going to get some breakfast but I...." Then they took off like lightening. I sighed. All this room service was kinda freaking me out. What's so special about me anyway? I don't know anybody on this ship besides Riku and I doubt we have very much in common..Why do I mean so much to them? Sometimes it even seems like they're more scared of me than I am of them. Whenever I take a step towards them they scatter like wildfire. I don't know why. I don't really find myself frightening or intimidating at all. The Heartless came back with a tray full of waffles and fruit. At first they hesitated to set the tray on my bed as if they were afraid I'd blow them smithereens or something. Eventually, the quickly slid the tray on my bed and then stepped far away from me. I looked at them strangely.
"Um...thanks, but you didn't have to do that...I can take care of myself." They jumped and then scampered out of the room. Oh well. I would go ask Riku why these Heartless creatures are treating me like a queen but I don't trust him that much at the moment...wait, what am I saying? I love my brother even in his darkest hours and I trust him...I know he'd tell me anything...I hope.
I walked out of my room and closed the door. Normally when people open or close their door they don't think about the actual door...but as I was closing the door a red flash appeared out of the corner of my eye. Their was something burnt with red-flame letters into the black door: Princess of Heartless...who's that? Is that who this room belonged to? I guess I have a lot more stuff to ask Riku now. I stomped down the long, gloomy hallways searching for him but I had no luck. It's funny to think that only a few days he would always be at my side waiting to protect me and make sure that my life was perfect even though his was miserable.
I was so caught up with my thoughts that when I turned a corner I ran into someone and got knocked on the ground.
"I'm so sor..." It was Riku. I was bursting with questions that came out all at once.
"Riku! Where've you been? Why won't you play with me anymore? What are you and that scary lady planning? Why are all these Heartless thingies waiting on my hand and foot? Who's the Princess of Heartless? Why is...." I stopped with my questions when I noticed the way Riku was looking at me. He had tears in his eyes and he was gazing at me as if I were about to die.
"Riku what's wrong?" I asked softly. He smiled at me and took my hand.
"Come on Mya..." He said. He was leading me somewhere. He didn't answer my questions. We didn't even say a word to each other, but that was ok. It felt nice just to feel the strength and warmthness of his grip in my hand. I felt safe and happy next to him..maybe things were back to normal now.
Riku led me into a huge throne room with stained glass on the windows and an enormous Gothic mural of demons and serpents painted on the ceiling. Sitting in the middle of this dark room in the immense throne was that lady. I gripped onto Riku's hand tighter and I hid behind his back.
"Are you ready?" she asked Riku. That didn't sound good.
"Ready for what?" I asked Riku as I looked up at him with eyes full of fear. He sighed and then bent down on his knees and looked me in the eyes. He took my hands in his.
"Mya, remember what I told you....everything in life happens for a reason and you can't be afraid." I nodded in a confused way. He hugged me tightly and then walked towards the throne. He grabbed what looked like to be a large key. He started to walk slowly towards me.
"Riku..." I said as I was starting to get really freaked out, "What are you doing?" That look in his eyes...he's defiantly gonna do something with that key thing to me. I started to back away but the raven lady raised her hand and my arms and feet were bonded to the floor my black chains.
"Riku!" I said desperately. What's he doing? What's going on? I want to go home! Sora! Kairi! Anybody!
"RIKU!" I screamed as I started to cry. I strained for dear life as I tried to get out of the chains but it was no use..I was stuck and I had to face whatever Riku was about to do to me. I wept bitterly in all my sorrow and mixed emotions. Why was he doing this to me? What did I do? I thought he loved me! Riku finally was directly in front of me. I screamed.
"RIKU NO!" He closed his eyes.
"I'm sorry Mya...It'll all be ok..."
"RIKU!" I screamed through my tears. Then he drew his key blade back and jabbed it into my heart.
An earth-shattering scream rang throughout the air.
My body was instantly filled with a stinging coldness and a greater pain than I had ever felt before in my entire life. A burning sensation was racing up and down my veins at uncountable speed. Every inch on my body felt like it was being twisted and burnt in a roaring fire and all I could she was darkness all around me. My clothes that I was wearing evaporated off and my naked body was left to writhe in the coldness of the darkness surrounding me. I could feel my very spirit grow darker as invisible hands of the darkness laced new clothes on me. The burned sensation in my body stopped and I could see amongst the darkness again. The chains that were holding me down crumbled and then I collapsed onto the floor from all the pain my own brother had put me through. I lied on the floor breathing heavily, taking in everything I had just felt. Every Heartless in the ship crowded around and me and stared at me in all my pain. The lady, who I now knew was Malificent, stood up.
"This is your Princess of Heartless!" she shouted at all of them, "Bow down and stare in wonder at thee!" And they all did exactly as she said. They all bowed down to me even though I was lying helplessly on the floor. I finally got the strength to pull my upper body up. As I did, I saw Malificent leave and Riku was about to follow her but when he took a single step I bore my dark eyes into his. I could actually feel my stare stinging him as he turned his head towards me. I didn't move, I didn't blink, I just stared directly into his eyes. I didn't need words to express all the feelings of anger and betrayal I felt toward him. I just stared at him as I could feel all his guilt sink in, and he deserved every bit of agonizing guilt he felt. Then he just stormed out of the room. That bastard..he has the guts to bestow upon me the worst pain imaginable but he doesn't have the guts to take it. I hate him.
I stood up as I tried to find a mirror to see what I had become. As soon as I took a step all the Heartless scattered, and they should've done that because if they hadn't gotten out of my way I would've removed them out of my way. I found a large mirror and stared at what Riku had made me. My already pale blond hair had become even paler..it was almost white. My eyes had grown darker and wider. My eyes could either produce great darkness or great sadness. I had a black tea party like dress with white ruffles, a black headband in my hair, white-laced tights, and shiny black shoes. I looked like a Gothic Princess..and that's what I was...I was the Princess of Heartless, and whatever I was, Riku made me.
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I walked slowly to my room in all my darkness and despair..thoughts of Riku, both good and bad, flowing through my head. Aside from the dilemma from which my once loved and trusted blood selfishly placed me in...I knew that as much as I had scorned and hated those who lived on Destiny Island, they had good hearts and they would come look for me..Whatever they do will be a futile waste..they can find me, but they can't save me. No one can save me from the dark in which I was forced into.
I looked around for a small parchment in which I could write a farewell note upon to all those who would selflessly come look for me. I found a small piece on a nearby desk and I wrote on it with the ink quill lying right beside it. I wasn't sure of what I could tell these people to make them understand. They were all so ignorant of my situation. But in the end I came up with something that I hoped their ignorant minds would understand...
In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up
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Hey y'all! Sorry this took so long..I'm back in school which suckz =P...Just a warning if you think it's bad now (bad as in harsh) it just keeps getting worse so brace yourself. Plez R/R ^_^
Peace Out,
Kia Saphia
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disclaimer: I don't own KH
Note to Annjirika: If you'd like a picture of Mya please leave your e-mail address in your next review, thankz!! (along with anyone else) ^_^
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~*Mya's POV*~
I was trying hard to keep up with Riku. We were running to his island and even though he was holding my hand so I wouldn't lag behind, I was using all my strength to even attempt to keep up with him. For the most part, he was dragging me as he ran. It was always hard to keep up with him....but then again, it was hard for anyone to keep up with him. My brother is so strong..I wish I could be that strong. I envy him so much. He's so handsome and brave and smart...when I get older I wanna be just like him!
"Riku why are we going so fast? It's not like the worlds are going to disappear!"
"Just come on...hurry!"
He continued to run just as fast as he had been going with no sign of slowing down. I sighed and tried my hardest to run. When we finally got to his island I collapsed onto the sand in exhaustion.
"So you've decided to join us.." I heard a strange woman say. At the time I was too tired to lift my head up so I ignored it.
"Yes I have," I heard Riku reply. Ok, now I'm confused. I lifted my head up and opened my eyes. At first my vision was blurred but when it was cleared I saw a scary woman standing there. My skin crawled in fright as I quickly backed away from Riku and the sinister lady. She had pale green skin and freaky green/yellow eyes. She was wearing a long black dress with strands of pink and purple here and there. She had a weird headdress on her head that made it look like she had several long devil horns. All in all she looked like a raven...a really scary raven, and I didn't want anything to do with her. She frightens me so much...just looking at her makes my hairs stand on end. I she moves even the slightest centimeter towards me I'll scream like grim death.
"A wise decision Riku..I'm glad you see it my way.." the scary lady said.
"I'm not doing this for YOU!" Riku said back to her forcefully. She smirked at his statement and went along with her business. I was starting to get scared by their conversation.
"Riku...what's going on?" I asked. Just then the raven lady snapped her fingers and a weird space ship like object landed by the shore.
"This is what we'll be traveling in," she said to Riku. Ok..somebody isn't telling me something. I stood up.
"Riku! What is going on?" The scary lady stepped inside the ship. He turned around and faced me.
"I told you that we were going to explore the other worlds out there. Well....," he paused for a few seconds almost as if he was thinking, "..she's taking us."
"What?! No way! I'm not going anywhere near her! I won't...I refuse!" I plopped myself down on the sand and folded my arms in a stubborn way. It was once in a very blue moon when I wouldn't go somewhere Riku was going..but this time there was no way I was going onto that ship with that scary bird lady.
"Mya! You wanna go see other worlds don't you?"
"Not like this Riku! Not with her! If I go with you, I want it to be in an environment where I'm not scared to death of the people that go with us and I can't get to sleep at night because I'm having nightmares about a freaky lady coming in my room and hexing me or something!" Riku looked around anxiously.
"Come on Mya! This is our only shot out of here!"
"I wouldn't go with in that ship with that lady if Destiny Island was infested with killer cockroaches and her ship was the only way out!" Riku started to get mad. The expression on his face went from panicked to stern as he clinched his fist. He walked firmly over to me. I must admit this was the first time I had been scared of my own brother. When he reached over to me, he picked me up off the ground and threw me over his shoulders and started walking with me towards the. I couldn't believe it. At first I was unable to speak I was in such shock but I recovered quickly.
"Riku put me down! I'm not going in there! Riku STOP!" I shouted as a squirmed the best I could and beat on his back. But it was no use, he kept a firm grip on me as he neared the entrance to the ship. I started to cry. I didn't want to go in there.
"Riku please! Don't make me go!" I shouted through my tears. He continued to ignore me and entered the ship. The inside of the ship was almost as scary as that lady. There was no light inside. It was all black and gloomy and scary statues of gargoyles and demons graced the long, black hallways. I cried harder.
"Riku, I'm scared! I don't wanna go in here!" But as loud as I cried and as hard as I beat on his back he wouldn't stop. Why is he doing this to me? Why won't he think about how much this scares me? I cried softly as I tried to figure out what was wrong with my brother. He took me to a door that the raven lady was standing in front of.
"This is where her chambers will be..." She opened the door. We stepped inside a humongous room that didn't have a shred of light anywhere. Everything was black from the wallpaper to the bed sheets on a very large bed with a black silk canopy. The room looked fit for a Gothic Princess....there was even a black throne in the middle of it all. Riku walked me over to the throne and set me down on it. The lady snapped her fingers and three very frightening imp like creatures scampered into the room. I screamed in fright.
"Give her whatever she wants.." The lady said to the creatures. Then she left. I started to cry.
"Riku..what's happening? Why did you bring me here?" He didn't answer.
"Then what are those scary pygmy things?"
"They're called the Heartless...they'll give you whatever you want."
"Riku, hurry up. We need to discuss our plan.." the lady called out to him.
"What plan Riku? What's going on?"
"Don't worry about it...now I have to go." He began to walk away but I quickly grabbed his arm.
"No Riku, don't leave me! I'm scared!"
"You don't have to be scared! You..Heartless..bring her some toys.."
"Riku, toys aren't going to help...I need you!"
"Mya I told you I have to go!" He pulled his arm out of my grip.
"Riku, but I'm scared of the dark and this room has no light!" I cried as he had placed his hand on the door. He turned his head toward me.
"I'm sorry Mya...I promise it'll be ok later." And then he closed the door leaving me in the middle of my dark room. I had never been more scared in my entire life. What was he doing to me? Why did he force his upon me? Why was getting me on this ship so important? My head was spinning with questions. But the most important question was 'what happened to the brother that I love?' I threw myself onto the bed and cried bitterly.
"What did I do to you Riku?"
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I sat on my black throne staring blankly in front of me as the sea of toys in front of me sat quietly, untouched. I held a brown bear with a black bow in my hand. Among the sea of toys were toy bats, a few gray bouncy balls with black stars on them, a black jump rope, and a dollhouse that looked like a castle fit for vampires (complete with equally vampire-like dolls). I stuck out like a rebellious teenager in a school full of conformers amongst all the blackness surrounding me in my white dress and the pink bow in my hair. Why had all this been shoved upon me so quickly? Why was I pulled out of my sunny beach island into this Gothic Wonderland? I hopped down from my throne and set my bear neatly in my place. I noticed a wardrobe out of the corner of my eye and I decided to investigate. I studied the wardrobe first...It was a black iron like material and it had incrested serpents sliding down the rims. I opened the wardrobe and found several black dresses and capes fit for a princess. If this is my room then why did they give all this to me? They were pretty dresses but I always wear color. I closed the wardrobe and puzzled on my thoughts.
"Well if Riku won't tell me what's going on then I'll just find out for myself!"
With that I pushed opened the doors to my Gothic princess room and walked down the long halls of the ship. Everywhere you turned the next room would always be just as sinister as the next. I pulled my hair behind my ears and listened for any sounds of talking that could let me know why I'm here and why Riku is acting so strange. I opened the many doors in the ship and looked inside but mostly I found rooms like mine, but not exactly fit for a princess. Then I heard voices speaking ever so softly. My skin jumped and I quietly tried to find the door with the voices behind it. I wasn't that surprised when the voices were coming behind the door that was the most elaborately decorated. I tried pressing my ear up against the door but all I could hear was faint mumbling. I held my breath, praying I wouldn't get caught, and opened the door ever so slightly. At the first glance of the room I could tell it was raven lady's room because her room wasn't fit for a Gothic princess...it was fit for a Gothic queen! I thought my room was dark and scary but it's a meadow with flowers compared to this room. I snapped out of my fixation of the room and remembered the REAL reason why I was here. I looked around and saw Riku sitting on a table while raven lady walked around as if she was looking for something.
"....Ansem drew our plan out and it is quite simple to follow..," she dropped what looked like a map on the table. "We'll start gathering the ones we need in Wonderland and we shall work down the map like so.."
'The ones we need'? Ok, did Riku join us in some kind of cult?
"What about Mya?" Riku asked. I jumped as I heard my name mentioned. "What do we do with her?"
"She can not release the power within her like she is....we have to unlock her heart so she'll be able to achieve for us what we both want.."
'What we both want'?! What am I doing here? I'm a pawn..a scam..a ticket...a whore to get what they want! Why oh why Riku would you do this to me? Maybe it's all in my head...Riku wouldn't use me in any way to get what he wants...would he? What was happening? What was coming over him? Was this whole thing a setup for him to achieve some stupid desire? No..this can't be...I can't think these things...Riku loves me...he wouldn't do such things to me..
I quietly closed the door to the lady's room and I ran out, trying to banish my evil and absurd thoughts that Riku would voluntarily shove myself at this strange woman so I could be their tool to get something they both want..it's crazy..unthinkable..is it?
Just in case I frantically ran around the ship trying to find someway to escape...no luck. I was trapped. I'm so confused...I shouldn't be thinking these evil thoughts..I need to banish these thoughts, but at the same time they make such sense...I won't believe it...Man, I just don't know what to think anymore..
~*Malificent's Room*~
"Malificent please! Can't we just leave Mya like she is? I mean, what's wrong with her? She's not bothering anybody."
"Riku you're being mislead by your feelings for her...we need her to be in her true power in case we need to make any of those we need to come with us by force."
"That's not gonna happen," Riku said quickly.
"When you were five did you think the Heartless would happen and that you would lose all of your friends and that your world as you know it would now be dangling by a single thread and that thread lies within my hands?" Riku sunk his head to the ground.
"No...."
"Good...and besides if we don't do it now then we'd have to do it later and with these kinds of things it's better to get it over with now."
"Ok...well how are we going to change her?"
"With the Keyblade you used to unlock people's hearts."
"Oh...." Riku said uncomfortably as the mentioning of that Keyblade brought back cold thoughts.
"And YOU'RE going to do it...."
"WHAT?!"
"Riku, it has to be you who unlock her heart or it won't work."
"No! I refuse! You do it!"
"Ok fine then if that's the way you want it then you can just go back to your life of envy as you watch all of your would-be friends play together and fall in love and you're left out in the cold." Riku was silent for a few moments and then nodded his head softly.
"I knew you'd see it my way..." Malificent said with a smirk.
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I opened my eyes that morning and didn't see a bright sun shining down on me in my nice cheap, yet comfy bed....this morning I woke up and saw two yellow eyes of those Heartless creatures staring back at me, waiting to tend to my every need in my humongous, queen sized, canopy graced, Gothic bed. Just imagine...in a single day and night of misfortune that I would go from spending the best days of my life with my beloved brother to wondering if he is using me in some sick conspiracy. I got out of my bed and put my cold feet on the floor, as soon as I did three Heartless raced up to me. I screamed and quickly put my feet back inside my bed sheets. They all stared at me as if they were waiting for something.
"Uh..I'm fine thank you.." They still didn't budge. I wanted them to go away..they scare me...
"Well I was just going to get some breakfast but I...." Then they took off like lightening. I sighed. All this room service was kinda freaking me out. What's so special about me anyway? I don't know anybody on this ship besides Riku and I doubt we have very much in common..Why do I mean so much to them? Sometimes it even seems like they're more scared of me than I am of them. Whenever I take a step towards them they scatter like wildfire. I don't know why. I don't really find myself frightening or intimidating at all. The Heartless came back with a tray full of waffles and fruit. At first they hesitated to set the tray on my bed as if they were afraid I'd blow them smithereens or something. Eventually, the quickly slid the tray on my bed and then stepped far away from me. I looked at them strangely.
"Um...thanks, but you didn't have to do that...I can take care of myself." They jumped and then scampered out of the room. Oh well. I would go ask Riku why these Heartless creatures are treating me like a queen but I don't trust him that much at the moment...wait, what am I saying? I love my brother even in his darkest hours and I trust him...I know he'd tell me anything...I hope.
I walked out of my room and closed the door. Normally when people open or close their door they don't think about the actual door...but as I was closing the door a red flash appeared out of the corner of my eye. Their was something burnt with red-flame letters into the black door: Princess of Heartless...who's that? Is that who this room belonged to? I guess I have a lot more stuff to ask Riku now. I stomped down the long, gloomy hallways searching for him but I had no luck. It's funny to think that only a few days he would always be at my side waiting to protect me and make sure that my life was perfect even though his was miserable.
I was so caught up with my thoughts that when I turned a corner I ran into someone and got knocked on the ground.
"I'm so sor..." It was Riku. I was bursting with questions that came out all at once.
"Riku! Where've you been? Why won't you play with me anymore? What are you and that scary lady planning? Why are all these Heartless thingies waiting on my hand and foot? Who's the Princess of Heartless? Why is...." I stopped with my questions when I noticed the way Riku was looking at me. He had tears in his eyes and he was gazing at me as if I were about to die.
"Riku what's wrong?" I asked softly. He smiled at me and took my hand.
"Come on Mya..." He said. He was leading me somewhere. He didn't answer my questions. We didn't even say a word to each other, but that was ok. It felt nice just to feel the strength and warmthness of his grip in my hand. I felt safe and happy next to him..maybe things were back to normal now.
Riku led me into a huge throne room with stained glass on the windows and an enormous Gothic mural of demons and serpents painted on the ceiling. Sitting in the middle of this dark room in the immense throne was that lady. I gripped onto Riku's hand tighter and I hid behind his back.
"Are you ready?" she asked Riku. That didn't sound good.
"Ready for what?" I asked Riku as I looked up at him with eyes full of fear. He sighed and then bent down on his knees and looked me in the eyes. He took my hands in his.
"Mya, remember what I told you....everything in life happens for a reason and you can't be afraid." I nodded in a confused way. He hugged me tightly and then walked towards the throne. He grabbed what looked like to be a large key. He started to walk slowly towards me.
"Riku..." I said as I was starting to get really freaked out, "What are you doing?" That look in his eyes...he's defiantly gonna do something with that key thing to me. I started to back away but the raven lady raised her hand and my arms and feet were bonded to the floor my black chains.
"Riku!" I said desperately. What's he doing? What's going on? I want to go home! Sora! Kairi! Anybody!
"RIKU!" I screamed as I started to cry. I strained for dear life as I tried to get out of the chains but it was no use..I was stuck and I had to face whatever Riku was about to do to me. I wept bitterly in all my sorrow and mixed emotions. Why was he doing this to me? What did I do? I thought he loved me! Riku finally was directly in front of me. I screamed.
"RIKU NO!" He closed his eyes.
"I'm sorry Mya...It'll all be ok..."
"RIKU!" I screamed through my tears. Then he drew his key blade back and jabbed it into my heart.
An earth-shattering scream rang throughout the air.
My body was instantly filled with a stinging coldness and a greater pain than I had ever felt before in my entire life. A burning sensation was racing up and down my veins at uncountable speed. Every inch on my body felt like it was being twisted and burnt in a roaring fire and all I could she was darkness all around me. My clothes that I was wearing evaporated off and my naked body was left to writhe in the coldness of the darkness surrounding me. I could feel my very spirit grow darker as invisible hands of the darkness laced new clothes on me. The burned sensation in my body stopped and I could see amongst the darkness again. The chains that were holding me down crumbled and then I collapsed onto the floor from all the pain my own brother had put me through. I lied on the floor breathing heavily, taking in everything I had just felt. Every Heartless in the ship crowded around and me and stared at me in all my pain. The lady, who I now knew was Malificent, stood up.
"This is your Princess of Heartless!" she shouted at all of them, "Bow down and stare in wonder at thee!" And they all did exactly as she said. They all bowed down to me even though I was lying helplessly on the floor. I finally got the strength to pull my upper body up. As I did, I saw Malificent leave and Riku was about to follow her but when he took a single step I bore my dark eyes into his. I could actually feel my stare stinging him as he turned his head towards me. I didn't move, I didn't blink, I just stared directly into his eyes. I didn't need words to express all the feelings of anger and betrayal I felt toward him. I just stared at him as I could feel all his guilt sink in, and he deserved every bit of agonizing guilt he felt. Then he just stormed out of the room. That bastard..he has the guts to bestow upon me the worst pain imaginable but he doesn't have the guts to take it. I hate him.
I stood up as I tried to find a mirror to see what I had become. As soon as I took a step all the Heartless scattered, and they should've done that because if they hadn't gotten out of my way I would've removed them out of my way. I found a large mirror and stared at what Riku had made me. My already pale blond hair had become even paler..it was almost white. My eyes had grown darker and wider. My eyes could either produce great darkness or great sadness. I had a black tea party like dress with white ruffles, a black headband in my hair, white-laced tights, and shiny black shoes. I looked like a Gothic Princess..and that's what I was...I was the Princess of Heartless, and whatever I was, Riku made me.
~*~
I walked slowly to my room in all my darkness and despair..thoughts of Riku, both good and bad, flowing through my head. Aside from the dilemma from which my once loved and trusted blood selfishly placed me in...I knew that as much as I had scorned and hated those who lived on Destiny Island, they had good hearts and they would come look for me..Whatever they do will be a futile waste..they can find me, but they can't save me. No one can save me from the dark in which I was forced into.
I looked around for a small parchment in which I could write a farewell note upon to all those who would selflessly come look for me. I found a small piece on a nearby desk and I wrote on it with the ink quill lying right beside it. I wasn't sure of what I could tell these people to make them understand. They were all so ignorant of my situation. But in the end I came up with something that I hoped their ignorant minds would understand...
In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up
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Hey y'all! Sorry this took so long..I'm back in school which suckz =P...Just a warning if you think it's bad now (bad as in harsh) it just keeps getting worse so brace yourself. Plez R/R ^_^
Peace Out,
Kia Saphia