Chp 9: The Floor You Can't Fall Below
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Disclaimer: I don't own KH or "WthYou" by Linkin Park
Note: Sorry this took so long!! And I wrote a certain part of this (you'll know when you read it) after I had my first kiss so please excuse the girly fantasies..but it is kind of relevant now that I think about it...And another thing...brace yourself...this is REALLY long!
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Without me there is no you...
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//No, I won't let you control my fate
While I'm holding the weight oh the world on my conscience
No, I won't just sit here and wait
While you wear your options
You're making a fool of me
No, you didn't dare try to say that you don't care
And I solemnly swear not to follow me there
No, it ain't like me to beg on my knees
Oh please, oh brother, please
That's not how I'm doing things
No, I'm not upset
No, I'm not angry
I know love is love, love
Sometimes it pains me
With or without you
I'll always be with you
You'll never forget me
I'm keeping you with me
No, I won't let you take me to the end of my rope
While you burn and torture my soul
No, I'm not your puppet
And no, no, no, I won't let you go//
~*Sora's POV*~
We had searched long and hard for them. They're a difficult crowd to catch. They play many mind tricks. But we found them. I'll finally be able to see her again..to catch a glimpse of her..to know she's ok..to return to her salvation. Kairi and I stared at Hallow Bastion, thoughts racing through our heads. Was she ok? What was going on with Riku? Is she still alive? Kairi broke the tension.
"Great..there's only a million and one places they could be." This was actually the last thing that was on our minds. We were both scared to death for Mya. Even though she had done us wrong in the past, we would not see a girl we cared about so much of the mere age of eight suffer under such corrupt circumstances. We both loved her with all our hearts. Who wouldn't? She just has something about her that you just can't help but want to take her in your arms and hold her until the end of time. Kairi and I both felt that way about her..we just didn't want to say it out loud.
"I'm not worried..." I stared down at my friendship bracelet that Mya had made for me all those years ago, "Mya is a part of me..she's a part of us....I know that wherever she may be we will find her..." Kairi smiled.
"Yah..you're right.." She didn't have to tell me I was right...I already knew.
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~*Mya's POV*~
I wish you could see..I wish that you could be cast out far into the deepest, darkest depths of the earth. This is how it feels to be me..this is how it feels to be alone and not believe...
I sat waiting..that's all I have left to do. Just to wait..wait to die...wait to live..wait for an absolution that might not even come. I lied on my black satin queen sized bed and gazed and the mural painted above my silk canopy. The painting was like staring at a mirror of my life. The picture was dark and sinister filled with elaborately painted demons and ravens and serpents all swarming around in their haunting glory. But in the middle of all of these dark images was a single white rose...simply reaching out through all the darkness trying so hard not to be swallowed. I know how that rose feels...to feel so helpless in the midst of such evil...to feel so out of place among such darkness...and to feel like you're the only innocent one in a crowd of so many. I am an innocent rose..why did you have to pick me from my heavenly field of splendor?
I sat and thought about what would happen if the darkness did swallow me whole..if Riku handed my life away in just a mere breath. What would become of me? Would I never get the chance to fall in love? Will I never be able to taste the sweet nectar of a girl's first kiss? Will I never be able to feel the strength of another man holding me in his arms...feeling me...wanting me..loving me...And will I never have that special guy pull my hair behind my ears and be able to feel his hot breath against my neck as he whispers to me telling me everything will be alright? I've seen Sora and Kairi together...they way they look into each other's eyes, the way they hold each other's hands, and the way they kiss so softly and tenderly. When I see them together, part of me wants to spring at them like a tiger thirsty for blood, rip them apart savagely, and spit at them for the undying pain they are bestowing among my brother. However, another part of me can't help but sit and stare and watch in wonder as they kiss so softly. I wonder how they feel as their lips meet. As Kairi's lips slowly begin to caress Sora's do his lips immediately ignite with an uncontrollable tingling sensation? And as Sora opens his mouth and lets Kairi taste him do shivers start running up and down her spine as sea biscuits racing for the very end of the finish line? Before Riku knew how to hold all of his pain in, I used to see him cry at night for the taste of love that I long for. He longed for the taste of Kairi's love..I bet the forbidden fruit of love tastes even sweeter. I asked Riku if he had ever even considered loving anyone besides Kairi. He told me that while he was trapped in Kingdom Hearts he had kissed a girl he met, but he knew he would never even come close to caring about her as he did Kairi. I wonder how it must feel to move someone so much as Riku does Kairi...but that's his style. Me? I just want to be like those girls in the movies..to have a man so in love with me he falls to his knees whenever he sees me and he'll never ever leave me. I'll even be on his mind as he sleeps at night...I'll haunt his mind forever...
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I slept on my bed all alone..away in a peaceful dreamland where no one could hurt me..where no one could see me cry..and where I could lie inside myself for hours and watch my purple dreamland sky fly over me. I knew that now the only refuge I had in my world of darkness was in my dreams. I wish one day that I might fall asleep and never wake up. That way I know I would always be safe. I was torn away from my sleeping dreamland by a Heartless brutally shaking me awake. I opened my eyes softly.
"What do you want?" I asked sternly.
"It is now time.." he hissed in his sinister voice. I didn't like the way he said that.
"Time for what?"
"Time for you to unveil the Door to Darkness for Ansem...darkness shall soon swallow this world whole my Princess.." He grabbed me by the arm and started to lead me towards the throne room. I started to panic.
"What do you mean? Who decided this? Where's Riku?"
"Don't worry about the whereabouts of your precious brother...you won't be seeing much of him anymore.."
"What do you mean?" I shouted, tears starting to form in my breath, "He was supposed to take me away from here!"
"Your brother is the one who told Ansem to commence with his plans!"
"WHAT?!" My whole body went numb. My head started to spin. I felt like I was going to vomit. Everything was crashing. I lost all touch of my senses.
"He was supposed to rescue me..he was supposed to rescue me..I'm not alone..I'm not alone.." The Heartless smirked evilly as he continued to escort me down the hall with his nails digging into my arm.
"Oh but you are alone Princess..you are so very alone..no one can save you now.." Tears started to form in my eyes. This isn't happening. This is all a dream. No wait...my dreams are the only pleasant sanctum I have...this is my cold bitter world. No! I won't believe this..I'm not alone..I'm not alone...
"What's gonna happen to me?" I asked with tears of brokenness and sorrow streaming down my face.
"After you bring the Door to Darkness from its slumber who knows?..Ansem may kill you since you'll be useless after this...but I heard you're about to undergo the most painful thing the human body can feel..you may just die anyway along the way.." I couldn't take this. I let out a scream that rang throughout the castle and tried to get away from the Heartless, but he caught me by the waist and began to carry me down the hall.
"NO! NO! NO!" I screamed as I cried hysterically. "I'M JUST A KID! LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD DAMN IT!!" But no matter how hard I pleaded or how loud I screamed or how much I cried it wouldn't help me. So this is how prisoners must feel like on Death Row while walking to the chair? But through this all I only had one thing on my mind..I had come to God in a way I had never come to Him before and he denied me..I put everything on the line and offered it to him and he just stared back at me and didn't do anything. I know now that no one, not even the Lord, will hear me scream. It's so cold when you realize that you truly have nobody..not even God.
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~*Sora's POV*~
Kairi and I prowled through the balconies and empty hallways trying to find the girl we loved. Everything just seemed so empty. It was like the castle was a baron wasteland. The only other life form that accompanied us as we walked through the lonely castle were ravens sitting hauntingly on the statues. Kairi walked slowly in front of me.
"Are you sure this is where they are?" Kairi asked.
"Positive..our gummi ship led us right.."
A piercing scream rang throughout the air.
I quickly ran over to Kairi and clamped my hand over her mouth.
"Damn it Kairi! We don't know who might be here and we may get seriously..OH MY GOD!" I saw what had made her scream. We were standing on a balcony that had dried up blood everywhere. There were bloody hand prints sprawled out as to where it looked like someone had crawled out to here on their hands and at the very edge of the balcony there was a humongous splatter to where I imagine that particular person spit up blood at. It was disgusting. It was as if the very face of corruption and death had been painted before us in blood. Kairi couldn't take it. She got out of my grasp and went behind a wall and vomited. I felt so sorry for her. She had been in this situation before. She had seen to much blood spilled upon the earth before her. It could always get worse. See could see something that could make her break down and lose all sanity. I prayed that happening would never occur. Kairi stumbled back to me. Her face was as pale as a ghost with bags under her eyes and her hair was a tangled mess. She wiped the remaining vomit she had away from her mouth and stood beside me. She didn't say a word. The look she had on her face was the most hauntingly distant face I've ever seen in my life. I wish she'd say something, anything to make me feel as if everything would be all right.
"..Kairi are you ok?"
"HEY!" A voice shouted aggressively from behind us. Kairi and I turned around. It was a very large and muscular Heartless.
"What are you doing here?" he barked at us. Kairi didn't say anything and just turned her head down. Great..I was gonna have to tackle this on my own..I had no clue what to say..
"Uhhh...well...umm.."
"Trespassers will be dealt with by our Lord Ansem.." He grabbed us by the arms and started to drag us into the castle.
"Wait! We're looking for someone....her name's Mya...is she in here?" The Heartless got a stern look on his face.
"There is no Mya here..only our Princess of Heartless.." That made me so mad. They didn't only strip her of her pride but they stripped her of her human rights as well.
"Where is she?" I gritted through my teeth trying to hold back my anger.
"The Princess of Heartless is about to fulfill her purpose. She is about to unveil to the Black Hearts the Door to Darkness."
"And what will happen when that happens?" The Heartless smirked evilly.
"All darkness in the world will return and this world will be swallowed whole. No mortal will stand a chance!" After he said that, most would be worried about the fate of the free world but I didn't...I was only concerned about Mya then.
"And what's gonna happen to Mya?" I asked in a worried tone.
"If she lives through revealing the Door then we shall see won't we?...If she lives...." I started to panic.
"You can't do this! This isn't right! She's only eight years old!"
"Yah and what's that to me?" God..what is the world coming to?
"Where's Riku? He's fucked up right now but he wouldn't let you do this over his dead body!"
"Well you're gonna have to take that up with him because he's the one that gave us the ok to proceed with our plans."
"WHAT?!" I screamed. Even Kairi popped her head up and looked at the Heartless in shock after he said that. The Heartless laughed.
"Looks like your "friend" is loyal to the end, huh?" I couldn't believe it. This was all happening so fast. Why did if have to be like this? Oh Mya..please don't die. The Heartless walked us into the throne room. Ansem was sitting in the throne as Malificent and every enemy I had ever faced stood around him. Riku and Mya were nowhere to be seen. Ansem looked into my eyes with venom and smiled.
"Well this is interesting..the boy that shattered my plans and our very own Princess of Heart. How ironic it is that you would show up today of all days?"
"Lord Ansem," The Heartless that carried us spoke up, "They were trespassing in your castle sir."
"Trespassing, huh? Naughty little devils the two of you..You always seem to be getting yourselves in trouble.." he smiled at us evilly. I had enough of this.
"Where are Riku and Mya?" I demanded.
"Oh I wouldn't worry about Riku..I don't think you'll be seeing much of him anymore...but as for Mya.." I gritted my teeth and dug my nails into my fists. I didn't like it when he fucked with my mind like this.
"Your punishment for the many times you have disturbed in my plans shall fit the crime.." he snapped his fingers. A Heartless came out carrying Mya. She screamed loudly and tears streamed down her face like raging waters. She kicked and squirmed like a tiger trying to get out of the Heartless's grasp. I was at a loss for words. How could this happen. Did this really used to be the girl with the soft blonde hair and sapphire eyes that was the most pure and innocent being in the entire world? I looked at her now. Her ink black hair was a wild, tangled mess. Her black eyes were blood red from crying so hard and black eye makeup streaked down her face so hard it went to her chin. Her mouth was so red that I couldn't separate the blood from the deep rouge lipstick. I started to cry. Mya was the face of the Earth. Everything started out pure and flawless but then became a corrupt world of darkness and death. Why did Mya have to be this face? Why not somebody else? She didn't deserve this. Everything falls apart..even the people who never frown will eventually break down..Mya caught my eye.
"SORA!" she screamed out at me. Her face..I'd never seen anything more beautiful or sad in my entire life. This was sick. I wasn't going to stand for this.
"MYA!" I screamed as I tried to run out to her. But then Ansem quickly raised his hands and it felt as if invisible hands of Greek gods had grabbed both Kairi and I and slammed us up against the wall. Iron clamps then bonded our hands and feet to the wall.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" I screamed. Ansem laughed out loud at me.
"As your punishment you both shall stand and watch as your friend unveils the Door to us in the most painful of all human processes!" I froze. Everything was crashing. The weight of the world was falling on me and I can feel my neck breaking.
"NO!" I screamed as I squirmed and struggled with all my might in a meaningless effort to break free of my chains. In the middle of my struggle I looked over and noticed Kairi wasn't doing anything. She wasn't even moving. She just stared glassy eyed at the floor in front of her.
"KAIRI WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" I screamed, suddenly growing insane. "ARE YOU JUST GONNA SIT BACK AND LET THEM DO THIS?" Kairi closed her eyes tightly. If I was in my right mind I never would've said that. She didn't say anything back. She began to twitch and cry bitterly. We were both dying from the inside. We were dying on a stake that we couldn't escape. Ansem bestowed upon the worse punishment ever..to live at this moment.
Mya continued to scream piercingly, shattering the hearts and windows of our souls. Tears streamed down her face like rivers of despair.
"TIE HER ON THE STAND!" Ansem barked at the three Heartless carrying her. The dragged the sobbing beauty over to a diamond stand in the middle of the room so everybody could stare in wonder at what torture was about to commence. She stood up with her head towards the heavens, tears streaming down her face, as her hands were being tied to the stand.
"I..want...my...mommy.." she stuttered in the midst of her flooding tears. Those four words cut me deeper than the sharpest knife that any human could carry. I let go of all male pride in me and began to sob like a little baby along with Kairi.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS RIKU!" I screamed through my sobs.
"QUIET!" Ansem yelled at me. Mya could feel the end of everything creeping on her. I could see it in her eyes. She's only eight God...she's only eight...
"AND HOW PRINCESS, UNVEIL TO US THE DOOR TO DARKNESS!"
A piercing scream rang through the air...
It was the most awful sound I'd ever heard. The windows shattered she was so piercingly loud. Everyone in the room covered their ears and groaned in agony, but Kairi and I were chained to the wall so we had to hear the scream in all its full-frontal hellacious glory. My ears started to ring like hell's bells, but the pain I experienced with my ears was nothing compared to what I'd have to witness through my eyes.
Mya's entire body froze and she went of into a trance as her eyes turned yellow. Her body started to glow and the room was filled with a light blue tint. I began to think that maybe this wasn't as painful as Ansem said. Maybe he was just trying to freak me out. But I was dead wrong. Mya being frozen in what seemed to be a painless wonderland quickly turned into a thrashing, hellish, torture-fest. Mya screamed painfully and then her eyes turned a blazing red and she began to scream harsh, stabbing screams. Her body began to bend and twitch in all directions. Her screams became louder and louder, and her body began to writhe faster and faster. The room started to glow in a hurricane of black, green, and purple. I couldn't watch. To see her fragile, petite, eight-year-old body writhe and bend in pain was more than I could bear. Then she dropped to her knees and let out an earth-shattering scream. Her eyes now were very wide and her pupils very dilated. She began to breath as if she were giving childbirth.
She's only eight..She's only eight..
She was in so much pain she couldn't even scream anymore. She just continued to breath and cry and her whole body went numb. And slowly, she began to unveil the Door. The door became clearer and clearer as Mya grew even more pained.
"YES! YES!" Ansem cried out. The door was about to be completely unveiled. Mya couldn't even cry anymore her body was in such torture. She shed her last tear and let out her last scream and then her entire body was whipped backwards like a speeding bullet, ripping out of her chains and through the stain-glass door.
"MYA!" Kairi screamed out through her tears. I was too shocked for words. My eyes refused to believe what they just witnessed. Was she alive? Where is Riku? What am I going to do? Ansem laughed menacingly at the door that she had just unveiled and the black-hearted ones were about to assemble around the door and his plan was about to be complete. But at the time I could care less. My heart and mind was completely hell bent on Mya. I couldn't see her. I tried so hard to break my chains. I wanted so much to run to her and take her in my arms and never let go. This was killing me. I didn't even know if she was alive. And if she wasn't then it would be more than I could bear. My mind was completely blank. Everything was falling. Nothing was clear.
"AND NOW BLACK HEARTS, OPEN THE DOOR AND SUBMERGE THIS WORLD IN DARKNESS!" The black hearts, all lined up in two rows along each side of the door, closed their eyes as their hearts began to appear. They all formed together in one giant cloud of black and began to seep through the keyhole.
"Yes...Yes!" Ansem cried. Evil was soaring through his veins. The door, ever so slowly, then began to open.
"YES! YES!" Ansem continued to roar. We watched in horror as the darkness from the inside began to spill out onto the floor and everything became numb around us.
"YES! YES!" He was ecstatic. It was almost as if he had suddenly gone mad. He had the frightening look of triumph in his eyes of a wolf after he killed his prey. He was jumping around like a wild hyena. The darkness creeping out of the door became closer and closer. It began to touch my skin. I screamed loudly as it did. My body was filled with such a blistering frozen sensation that my skin started to bleed. This is the end, I thought. This is how I shall die. It's the end of not only mine, but the whole human race's world as we know it. It is time for me to be reclaimed and I shall join the departed souls of my forefathers before me. At least I have the honor of dying beside Kairi..
But in the middle of my thoughts of death something very peculiar happened.
"WHAT?!" Ansem shouted as his insane joy quickly put on pause. I watched in stunned amazement as the darkness that had been pouring out of the door began to fade..as well as the Door to Darkness that had emitted this.
"NO!" Ansem screamed as he ran towards the door. But he only ran a few paces before the entire thing disappeared entirely.
"NO!" he screamed again. He clinched his hair and began to breath very heavily. The black hearts began to fall to the floor in pain. They began to crawl toward Ansem's feet.
"Master! We grow weary!" They cried.
"SHUT UP YOU USELESS MAGGOTS!" He yelled in frustration as he kicked them away from his feet. But then he became especially frightened at what happened next. They all started to burn and crumble into ashes just as the door did.
"WHAT?!" he shouted. I could see the crippling fear in his eyes as his followers started to burn and disappear one by one. Then I could feel the chains around my arms and legs starting to loosen and then Kairi and I were set free as the chains binding us disappeared as well. What was going on? Then I looked over at Ansem he was staring wide-eyed at the floor letting all that had just fallen sink in. Then he turned his head and looked directly at me. We stared blankly at each other for a few seconds and then he nodded. And with that Ansem burned into mere ashes just like the ones before him. Kairi and I looked around at everything that had crashed and burned before us.
"What happened?" Kairi asked softly.
"I don't know.." I said, "But whatever it is I have a bad feeling that Mya isn't safe right now..." Kairi looked to the ground sadly.
"Ok, here's what we're gonna do..Kairi, you go and find Mya and I will look around for wherever the hell Riku is...ok?" Kairi nodded.
"Ok..." I began to take off but I ran a few paces and then stopped in my tracks. I turned around and looked at Kairi. She was standing still in her spot and looking down sadly at the floor. I turned around and walked slowly towards her. I lifted her chin up and gave her a hug.
"I know you're sad now but you can't be afraid..Mya needs us now..." She wiped the tears away from her face and nodded. And with that she turned around and exited through the shattered door that Mya was sent sailing through.
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~*Author's POV*~
Kairi walked slowly down the long hallways of Hallow Bastion, looking in every doorway for Mya. In the back of her head she didn't want to find her. She was too scared of what she would find. She had seen to much corruption and blood. She couldn't take it anymore. Everyone had their point where they would loose all sanity in them, and Kairi was about to reach hers. She tried blocking out the bad thoughts in her head knowing that she loved Mya and she would do anything to find her. Kairi heard her step on something on the floor below her. It was blood. Kairi froze and everything inside of her shivered up.
"It's ok..." she reassured herself in a shaky voice, "She was sent flying through a stain glass door. When that happens everyone has to bleed a little bit, right?" But she was still petrified in fear. She tried to find a good thought to make her move even the slightest inch. She looked farther down the hallways and saw even more blood. At first she became even more afraid, but then her fear was put on a quick halt.
"Wait... 'Everyone has to bleed a little bit'," Kairi repeated from her statement before. "That means..." Kairi ran the hallway following the trails of blood Mya had left. She followed the blood until it started to cross into a room..Mya's room. Kairi slowly walked inside, breathing very heavily. She couldn't see much because the room was very dark, but then she squinted and saw something lying in the bed.
"MYA!" Kairi yelled. She ran towards the queen-sized bed and sure enough, Mya was lying inside of it with the black covers covering her pale body.
Thank God.." she sighed, letting all her worry out, "She's just sleeping." Kairi took a step forward but heard something break. She lifted her foot and saw a large piece of the stain glass that Mya was sent through...in a large pool of blood. Kairi froze up. Her mind went blank and her entire body went numb. She closed her eyes and tried not to cry.
"She's just sleeping..She's just sleeping...She's just sleeping.." And with that Kairi pulled back the covers on Mya's bed.
A piercing scream rang through the air...
Kairi ran away from the bed screaming horribly. She was going insane. She had finally lost it. When Kairi pulled back the blanket she saw the most horrifying thing in the world. Mya lied in the center of the black bed in an enormous pool of her own blood. She had carved "ALONE" all over her arms. On the place where her original comfort message of "Not Alone" was replaced by her marking out the "Not" and underlining "Alone" three times. Mya was lying in a pool of red and Kairi couldn't take it. She continued to run and cry and scream in her horrified dismay. She began to take the candlesticks and pictures off the wall and throw them across the room. She then tripped on the rug in the middle of the room and began to cry and her body began to twitch and bend in all directions. Then someone walked in the room.
"Kairi?" he saw her screaming on the floor "KAIRI!" But it wasn't Sora...it was Riku. He lifted her off the ground and held her in his arms. She was still twitching non-stop and began to dig her nails into his chest.
"Not alone...Not alone...Not alone..." she kept repeating.
"Kairi what are you talking about?" he said becoming scared. She continued to scream and cry and even started biting his shoulder.
"Ouch! Kairi what is wrong with you?" he said as he shook her. Kairi then looked into Riku eyes and froze up. She then got the look of the devil in her eyes and started beating Riku's chest profusely.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S YOUR FAULT! WHERE WERE YOU? IT'S YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU!"
"KAIRI WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" She then pulled away from Riku grasp and curled up into a ball on the floor and started crying. Riku looked around and was very confused.
"What the hell is going on?" he asked himself under his breath. Everything was silent as Riku sat in dazed puzzlement.
"M..M..Mya.." Kairi stuttered under her heavy tears, "Your fault...not alone..not alone..."
"Kairi what is your problem? Where is Mya?" Riku threw his hands up in the air in frustration and when he brought them back down hard on the floor he felt something in his palms. He lifted up his fingers and saw the blood that he had yet to know was his sister's on his fingers. Riku stared at the blood for a long time and thought. He suddenly had a look of astonishing fear in his eyes.
"Kairi..what happened while I was away?" He asked in a very shaky tone.
"I don't know Riku!" Kairi shouted at him in her furriness, "Why don't you ask MYA?!" He was very silent after she said that. Kairi was getting annoyed with this.
"WHY DON'T YOU MIND TELLING ME WHERE THE HELL YOU WERE?"
"Well..Mya had asked me to take her away from here and I thought long and hard about it and I decided to just let go of the reason why I took us here in the first place..."
"Yah, and what was that stupid reason Riku?" Kairi spat out at him. He glared at her and took in the sick irony of her statement and then stared down at the floor. He didn't want to look her in the face and say what he had to say.
"Malificent promised me a life I always wanted. A life with just me, you, and Mya..no Sora..nobody else..that why you would maybe you would someday grow to love me like I deeply love you.." Kairi was silent. She stared at Riku with tears in her eyes.
"I thought you hated me after what happened..." Riku then looked her in the eyes. He wasn't so afraid anymore. He remembered what he had told his beloved Mya that day as the two siblings stared at their house that was not a home. 'Everything happens for a reason and we can't be afraid'.
"I tried to..I really did. But no matter how hard I tried I just can't stop loving you Kairi. My love for you flows through my veins and I've tried to physically cut it out..." Kairi grew white with horror at that statement. "..but I just can't.." Kairi started to cry softly. She started to feel like this was all her fault. If it wasn't for her then Riku maybe wouldn't have gone on this foolish escapade. It was hard to look him in the face when they were talking when just behind Riku's back lied his sister, numb and dead. Kairi turned her head away from him.
"What made you decide to let go.." She said, trying with all her might not to fall apart on the spot.
"Well I just realized that you would never feel the same why I do and I'm still struggling to accept that...So I was about to go get Mya and take us back to Destiny Island when Malificent came and told me that Mya was sleeping and refused to let me go see her. She then said that I looked very tired myself, and as much as I resisted, she made me sit down. She then fixed me a drink that tasted like the most heavenly hot chocolate anyone could ever have...and it was all kind of hazy from there. I remember waking up and hearing you scream and so I came to you..what are you doing here anyways?" Kairi didn't answer him. She couldn't. She couldn't bare it.
"Ok..well anyway..where's Mya..the three of us are gonna leave right now." This was killing Kairi. She started to tremble horribly.
"Um...Kairi, please tell me what is wrong." Then she lost it. She couldn't take it anymore. Kairi started to cry her soul out.
"Kairi! You're starting to scare me now where's Mya?"
"Do you really wanna know where Mya is?" Kairi said in a deadly whisper.
"YES!" he yelled. Kairi bit her lip and her eyes swarmed with tears.
"SHE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!" Kairi yelled as she let out an uncontrollable sob.
"Kairi what the hell are you talking abo..OH MY GOD!!!" Riku darted off the floor and sprinted towards the bed where his dead sister lied. He was shaking violently.
"This is a joke.."He said as he began to twitch, "This is all a joke..May's not dead...She can't be dead..We're going home right now..Everything is gonna be ok...Come on Mya wake up.." Kairi sobbed even louder.
"Wake up Mya.." Riku said again, growing insane, "Wake up..wake up...wake up!! GOD DAMNIT MYA WAKE UP WE'RE GOING HOME! PLEASE WAKE UP!" He said as he started to shake her cold, lifeless body.
"RIKU!" Kairi yelled as she pushed herself off the ground and tried to stop Riku from shaking Mya. "STOP RIKU STOP!"
"NO! SHE'S HAS TO WAKE UP SO WE CAN GO HOME!"
"SHE'S NOT WAKING UP RIKU! SHE'S DEAD!!!" Kairi screamed through her tears.
"DON'T SAY THAT! DON'T YOU FUCKING SAY THAT!" Riku screamed as tears of denial streamed down his face. He stopped shaking her and started to pull his hair as he cried violently. Kairi put her arm on Riku's shoulder.
"DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME!" He screamed as he pushed Kairi away from him and up against the wall. Kairi sunk to the floor and buried her face in her hands and cried uncontrollably. Riku started to pace around the room as he pulled his hair and dug his nails into his fists. He then stomped back to the bed, ripping off one of the bedposts and throwing it to the side, causing the whole canopy to fall down. He pushed the silk sheets of off his fallen sister and started to shake her again.
"DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH ME MYA! WAKE UP NOW!" He then noticed that he was getting blood all over his hands. He let his grip go underneath Mya's arms and turned her arms over seeing the bloody messages of "Alone" written on all corners of her arm. He screamed violently and fell over on his sister's body in sorrow. He cried for several minutes and then started to pound his fists onto the bed.
"I WAS ON MY WAY MYA! WHY DID YOU DO IT YOU STUPID, STUPID IDIOT! I HATE YOU! OH MY GOD, I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!!" He was going insane. He was losing everything. His head was spinning violently and everything was blurry. He started to pull his hair and sob loudly.
"WHAT...HAPPENED?..." He panted through his sobs. Kairi wiped her tears away and took a deep breath.
"They made her do it Riku..They made her unveil the door...they tortured her until she showed it and when she did she came here and.." Kairi bit her lip and started to cry all over again.
"They're all gone!" Kairi said in tears, "Everyone disappeared! I don't know why!"
"Without me there is no you...The Door to Darkness was inside of her. When she did this she took the Door to Darkness with her.." Kairi continued to sob. Riku stopped crying however. He went off into a daze. He simply stared of into the distance with no emotions in his eyes.
"I could've stopped them..." he said quietly. "I could've went past Malificent and saved her..I could've taken her as soon as she asked me to..this is all my fault.."
"DON'T SAY THAT RIKU!" Kairi yelled, "It's NOT your fault!" He didn't say anything back. He sat on the bed in his trance for several minutes. Neither Kairi nor Riku said anything. The only thing you could hear where Kairi's sons as Riku stared blankly into the distance while holding Mya's numb hand.
~*Flash Back*~
Riku and Mya stared in wonder at what they found in their dad's trunk. It was a 9 mm gun.
"I've never seen a gun before..." Riku said in awe, "Only in the movies.."
"I don't like it..." Mya sobbed, "It scares me..." she said as he buried her face in her brother's side.
"Don't worry Mya..It's not gonna.."
"WHAT ARE YOU KIDS DOING?!" They heard their father's voice boomed. They both instantly turned around. They couldn't say anything. Their fear made them mute.
"I SAID WHAT ARE YOU KIDS DOING?!" Mya started to clench onto Riku for dear life.
"Uhh..nothing," Riku said, his voice shaking in fear.
"NOTHING HUH? I'LL SHOW YOU TWO NOTHING!" He then ripped the three inch wide, 3 feet long belt with a 4 inch wide buckle from his waist and came towards the two kids.
"DADDY NO!" They both then trembled and held on to each other dearly as they prepared for the senseless beating they were about to receive.
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Riku finally spoke.
"This isn't worth it...none of this is worth it...I have no one.." he said softly.
"Don't say that!" Kairi sobbed. He wasn't listening he remained sitting beside Mya for a few more minutes. He then bent down and kissed her cheek and got down from the bed. he walked over to Kairi and bent down beside her. He then did something he had never done before. He looked deep into her eyes and cupped her cheek. He then did what he always longed for. He leaned in and gave her a kiss, not holding back at all and tasting her completely. At first Kairi was shocked out of her mind, but then closed her eyes and completely devoured Riku's kiss. When he pulled away from their heavenly kiss he stared straight into her eyes. Lavender met aqua.
"I love you Kairi, never forget that. But please try to forget this..." He then walked away form her and back by the bed. He stood in front of Mya's body.
"Riku..." Kairi said in a shaky voice growing very afraid. Riku then pulled out the 9 mm and put it to his head.
"RIKU NO!!!"
A gunshot exploded, and for the final time, a piercing scream rang through the air.
"NO! NO! NO!" Kairi screamed at the top of her lungs. Her whole body twitched violently and her legs flung in all directions. It was at that point when Sora came in.
"I thought I heard a gun sh..KAIRI!" He saw the girl the loved falling to pieces in the corner. He tried to hold her but her legs were kicking in the air at light speed and she was rolling around on the flooring screaming and tearing the heavy carpet beneath her with her bare hands as she began to growl viciously.
"MYA STOP!" Sora yelled. But he couldn't reach her where she was now. She was off in a place where Sora's voice could not be heard, only the voice of Riku's last words.
"WHAT HAPPENED?" Sora yelled, in a futile effort to reach Kairi. He then noticed out of the corner of his eye that the canopy in the bed of the room had been torn down. He ran over to the bed and saw the unforgettable sight...Mya lying like a dark angel with her arms spread out for the world to see her scars.
Alone...Alone..Alone..
And Riku's blood spilling out of the gun shot hole from his head and onto the black bed, as he lied across Mya's body with his hand clasping onto hers. They were finally together now...
Sora couldn't move..he couldn't breath..he couldn't think..He just stood and stared in wonder at the sacrifices that had been made before him as Kairi screamed and cried in the background on that night that everything fell..
Without me there is no you...
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~*Sora's POV*~
What can I say about what happened after that night...the night that decided my fate for the rest of my life. What I'd always feared would happen with Kairi played out like a great tragic novel fit for Shakespeare. Kairi went insane. She had finally snapped. She had seen too much blood, too much killing, too much of the people she loved being taken away from her right in front of her eyes. She was taken to the Traverse Town Correction Facility and is still there to this day. And what of Riku and Mya's bodies you may wonder? I took them outside onto the balcony where they had their very last talk at and cremated them both side by side..with Riku's hands still holding hers. I cried bitterly as I threw their ashes out into the breeze as one. They could now be birds together..free for all eternity..that's what they would've wanted. I can't help thinking that their entire family is dead now. Slaughtered..whether by their own hands, or the hands of someone else in the family...They're all dead..Riku and Mya are flying together through the wind, their mother is floating gracefully through the sea, and their father was left to rot for all eternity on the floor of the house that he destroyed with his cruelty. I wonder if they will ever met again in spirit. I'm just glad that Riku and Mya are together..that's all Mya wanted from the start..
And what about me? I stayed in Traverse Town waiting for the day that Kairi would come out of the hospital, which never came. I lived a life full of sorrow and despair from then on..alone....that's how I lived and that's how I will die. I wait for that day that I shall die with much anticipation. I won't take my own life away. Some sick part of me was still under the delusion that one day I would wake up and this would all be a dream and me, Mya, Kairi, and Riku would go out onto the beach and play together all day and never get tired. I lived under this delusion on until I grew old and gray. I never found out the fate of Kairi. I have no clue if she's living or dead. For her sake, I hope she dead...that's what she would've wanted. I think a lot about how all this happened. How did we get to the point where we mourn for death? That's all I have now..just my thoughts..that and the friendship bracelet that Mya gave me all those years ago. I look at it and smile, remembering the good, pure days of life. And I know that one day we will all be together again in sweet death...we'll all be birds together someday..Until then I will never forget those immortal words Mya said to me all those years ago..
"I'm the Princess of Heartless Sora..I can't build or bring things together...I can only tear apart.."
//Sometimes it feels like the worlds on my shoulders
Everyone's leaning on me
And sometimes it feels like the world's almost over
But then she comes back to me//
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*Wipes away tears* Wow...well that's the end of my story. I hope y'all go now and give your sibling a big hug. I'm sorry it ended this way, but this is a tragedy story..and sometimes things don't work out like you plan...Thank you for your reviews and if you would like to read another story I wrote then check our "Drops of Jupiter" (I have 99 reviews and hope to get 100) Well thank you for taking the time to read my story. Y'all rock!!
Peace On and Out,
Kia Saphia
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Disclaimer: I don't own KH or "WthYou" by Linkin Park
Note: Sorry this took so long!! And I wrote a certain part of this (you'll know when you read it) after I had my first kiss so please excuse the girly fantasies..but it is kind of relevant now that I think about it...And another thing...brace yourself...this is REALLY long!
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Without me there is no you...
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//No, I won't let you control my fate
While I'm holding the weight oh the world on my conscience
No, I won't just sit here and wait
While you wear your options
You're making a fool of me
No, you didn't dare try to say that you don't care
And I solemnly swear not to follow me there
No, it ain't like me to beg on my knees
Oh please, oh brother, please
That's not how I'm doing things
No, I'm not upset
No, I'm not angry
I know love is love, love
Sometimes it pains me
With or without you
I'll always be with you
You'll never forget me
I'm keeping you with me
No, I won't let you take me to the end of my rope
While you burn and torture my soul
No, I'm not your puppet
And no, no, no, I won't let you go//
~*Sora's POV*~
We had searched long and hard for them. They're a difficult crowd to catch. They play many mind tricks. But we found them. I'll finally be able to see her again..to catch a glimpse of her..to know she's ok..to return to her salvation. Kairi and I stared at Hallow Bastion, thoughts racing through our heads. Was she ok? What was going on with Riku? Is she still alive? Kairi broke the tension.
"Great..there's only a million and one places they could be." This was actually the last thing that was on our minds. We were both scared to death for Mya. Even though she had done us wrong in the past, we would not see a girl we cared about so much of the mere age of eight suffer under such corrupt circumstances. We both loved her with all our hearts. Who wouldn't? She just has something about her that you just can't help but want to take her in your arms and hold her until the end of time. Kairi and I both felt that way about her..we just didn't want to say it out loud.
"I'm not worried..." I stared down at my friendship bracelet that Mya had made for me all those years ago, "Mya is a part of me..she's a part of us....I know that wherever she may be we will find her..." Kairi smiled.
"Yah..you're right.." She didn't have to tell me I was right...I already knew.
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~*Mya's POV*~
I wish you could see..I wish that you could be cast out far into the deepest, darkest depths of the earth. This is how it feels to be me..this is how it feels to be alone and not believe...
I sat waiting..that's all I have left to do. Just to wait..wait to die...wait to live..wait for an absolution that might not even come. I lied on my black satin queen sized bed and gazed and the mural painted above my silk canopy. The painting was like staring at a mirror of my life. The picture was dark and sinister filled with elaborately painted demons and ravens and serpents all swarming around in their haunting glory. But in the middle of all of these dark images was a single white rose...simply reaching out through all the darkness trying so hard not to be swallowed. I know how that rose feels...to feel so helpless in the midst of such evil...to feel so out of place among such darkness...and to feel like you're the only innocent one in a crowd of so many. I am an innocent rose..why did you have to pick me from my heavenly field of splendor?
I sat and thought about what would happen if the darkness did swallow me whole..if Riku handed my life away in just a mere breath. What would become of me? Would I never get the chance to fall in love? Will I never be able to taste the sweet nectar of a girl's first kiss? Will I never be able to feel the strength of another man holding me in his arms...feeling me...wanting me..loving me...And will I never have that special guy pull my hair behind my ears and be able to feel his hot breath against my neck as he whispers to me telling me everything will be alright? I've seen Sora and Kairi together...they way they look into each other's eyes, the way they hold each other's hands, and the way they kiss so softly and tenderly. When I see them together, part of me wants to spring at them like a tiger thirsty for blood, rip them apart savagely, and spit at them for the undying pain they are bestowing among my brother. However, another part of me can't help but sit and stare and watch in wonder as they kiss so softly. I wonder how they feel as their lips meet. As Kairi's lips slowly begin to caress Sora's do his lips immediately ignite with an uncontrollable tingling sensation? And as Sora opens his mouth and lets Kairi taste him do shivers start running up and down her spine as sea biscuits racing for the very end of the finish line? Before Riku knew how to hold all of his pain in, I used to see him cry at night for the taste of love that I long for. He longed for the taste of Kairi's love..I bet the forbidden fruit of love tastes even sweeter. I asked Riku if he had ever even considered loving anyone besides Kairi. He told me that while he was trapped in Kingdom Hearts he had kissed a girl he met, but he knew he would never even come close to caring about her as he did Kairi. I wonder how it must feel to move someone so much as Riku does Kairi...but that's his style. Me? I just want to be like those girls in the movies..to have a man so in love with me he falls to his knees whenever he sees me and he'll never ever leave me. I'll even be on his mind as he sleeps at night...I'll haunt his mind forever...
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I slept on my bed all alone..away in a peaceful dreamland where no one could hurt me..where no one could see me cry..and where I could lie inside myself for hours and watch my purple dreamland sky fly over me. I knew that now the only refuge I had in my world of darkness was in my dreams. I wish one day that I might fall asleep and never wake up. That way I know I would always be safe. I was torn away from my sleeping dreamland by a Heartless brutally shaking me awake. I opened my eyes softly.
"What do you want?" I asked sternly.
"It is now time.." he hissed in his sinister voice. I didn't like the way he said that.
"Time for what?"
"Time for you to unveil the Door to Darkness for Ansem...darkness shall soon swallow this world whole my Princess.." He grabbed me by the arm and started to lead me towards the throne room. I started to panic.
"What do you mean? Who decided this? Where's Riku?"
"Don't worry about the whereabouts of your precious brother...you won't be seeing much of him anymore.."
"What do you mean?" I shouted, tears starting to form in my breath, "He was supposed to take me away from here!"
"Your brother is the one who told Ansem to commence with his plans!"
"WHAT?!" My whole body went numb. My head started to spin. I felt like I was going to vomit. Everything was crashing. I lost all touch of my senses.
"He was supposed to rescue me..he was supposed to rescue me..I'm not alone..I'm not alone.." The Heartless smirked evilly as he continued to escort me down the hall with his nails digging into my arm.
"Oh but you are alone Princess..you are so very alone..no one can save you now.." Tears started to form in my eyes. This isn't happening. This is all a dream. No wait...my dreams are the only pleasant sanctum I have...this is my cold bitter world. No! I won't believe this..I'm not alone..I'm not alone...
"What's gonna happen to me?" I asked with tears of brokenness and sorrow streaming down my face.
"After you bring the Door to Darkness from its slumber who knows?..Ansem may kill you since you'll be useless after this...but I heard you're about to undergo the most painful thing the human body can feel..you may just die anyway along the way.." I couldn't take this. I let out a scream that rang throughout the castle and tried to get away from the Heartless, but he caught me by the waist and began to carry me down the hall.
"NO! NO! NO!" I screamed as I cried hysterically. "I'M JUST A KID! LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD DAMN IT!!" But no matter how hard I pleaded or how loud I screamed or how much I cried it wouldn't help me. So this is how prisoners must feel like on Death Row while walking to the chair? But through this all I only had one thing on my mind..I had come to God in a way I had never come to Him before and he denied me..I put everything on the line and offered it to him and he just stared back at me and didn't do anything. I know now that no one, not even the Lord, will hear me scream. It's so cold when you realize that you truly have nobody..not even God.
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~*Sora's POV*~
Kairi and I prowled through the balconies and empty hallways trying to find the girl we loved. Everything just seemed so empty. It was like the castle was a baron wasteland. The only other life form that accompanied us as we walked through the lonely castle were ravens sitting hauntingly on the statues. Kairi walked slowly in front of me.
"Are you sure this is where they are?" Kairi asked.
"Positive..our gummi ship led us right.."
A piercing scream rang throughout the air.
I quickly ran over to Kairi and clamped my hand over her mouth.
"Damn it Kairi! We don't know who might be here and we may get seriously..OH MY GOD!" I saw what had made her scream. We were standing on a balcony that had dried up blood everywhere. There were bloody hand prints sprawled out as to where it looked like someone had crawled out to here on their hands and at the very edge of the balcony there was a humongous splatter to where I imagine that particular person spit up blood at. It was disgusting. It was as if the very face of corruption and death had been painted before us in blood. Kairi couldn't take it. She got out of my grasp and went behind a wall and vomited. I felt so sorry for her. She had been in this situation before. She had seen to much blood spilled upon the earth before her. It could always get worse. See could see something that could make her break down and lose all sanity. I prayed that happening would never occur. Kairi stumbled back to me. Her face was as pale as a ghost with bags under her eyes and her hair was a tangled mess. She wiped the remaining vomit she had away from her mouth and stood beside me. She didn't say a word. The look she had on her face was the most hauntingly distant face I've ever seen in my life. I wish she'd say something, anything to make me feel as if everything would be all right.
"..Kairi are you ok?"
"HEY!" A voice shouted aggressively from behind us. Kairi and I turned around. It was a very large and muscular Heartless.
"What are you doing here?" he barked at us. Kairi didn't say anything and just turned her head down. Great..I was gonna have to tackle this on my own..I had no clue what to say..
"Uhhh...well...umm.."
"Trespassers will be dealt with by our Lord Ansem.." He grabbed us by the arms and started to drag us into the castle.
"Wait! We're looking for someone....her name's Mya...is she in here?" The Heartless got a stern look on his face.
"There is no Mya here..only our Princess of Heartless.." That made me so mad. They didn't only strip her of her pride but they stripped her of her human rights as well.
"Where is she?" I gritted through my teeth trying to hold back my anger.
"The Princess of Heartless is about to fulfill her purpose. She is about to unveil to the Black Hearts the Door to Darkness."
"And what will happen when that happens?" The Heartless smirked evilly.
"All darkness in the world will return and this world will be swallowed whole. No mortal will stand a chance!" After he said that, most would be worried about the fate of the free world but I didn't...I was only concerned about Mya then.
"And what's gonna happen to Mya?" I asked in a worried tone.
"If she lives through revealing the Door then we shall see won't we?...If she lives...." I started to panic.
"You can't do this! This isn't right! She's only eight years old!"
"Yah and what's that to me?" God..what is the world coming to?
"Where's Riku? He's fucked up right now but he wouldn't let you do this over his dead body!"
"Well you're gonna have to take that up with him because he's the one that gave us the ok to proceed with our plans."
"WHAT?!" I screamed. Even Kairi popped her head up and looked at the Heartless in shock after he said that. The Heartless laughed.
"Looks like your "friend" is loyal to the end, huh?" I couldn't believe it. This was all happening so fast. Why did if have to be like this? Oh Mya..please don't die. The Heartless walked us into the throne room. Ansem was sitting in the throne as Malificent and every enemy I had ever faced stood around him. Riku and Mya were nowhere to be seen. Ansem looked into my eyes with venom and smiled.
"Well this is interesting..the boy that shattered my plans and our very own Princess of Heart. How ironic it is that you would show up today of all days?"
"Lord Ansem," The Heartless that carried us spoke up, "They were trespassing in your castle sir."
"Trespassing, huh? Naughty little devils the two of you..You always seem to be getting yourselves in trouble.." he smiled at us evilly. I had enough of this.
"Where are Riku and Mya?" I demanded.
"Oh I wouldn't worry about Riku..I don't think you'll be seeing much of him anymore...but as for Mya.." I gritted my teeth and dug my nails into my fists. I didn't like it when he fucked with my mind like this.
"Your punishment for the many times you have disturbed in my plans shall fit the crime.." he snapped his fingers. A Heartless came out carrying Mya. She screamed loudly and tears streamed down her face like raging waters. She kicked and squirmed like a tiger trying to get out of the Heartless's grasp. I was at a loss for words. How could this happen. Did this really used to be the girl with the soft blonde hair and sapphire eyes that was the most pure and innocent being in the entire world? I looked at her now. Her ink black hair was a wild, tangled mess. Her black eyes were blood red from crying so hard and black eye makeup streaked down her face so hard it went to her chin. Her mouth was so red that I couldn't separate the blood from the deep rouge lipstick. I started to cry. Mya was the face of the Earth. Everything started out pure and flawless but then became a corrupt world of darkness and death. Why did Mya have to be this face? Why not somebody else? She didn't deserve this. Everything falls apart..even the people who never frown will eventually break down..Mya caught my eye.
"SORA!" she screamed out at me. Her face..I'd never seen anything more beautiful or sad in my entire life. This was sick. I wasn't going to stand for this.
"MYA!" I screamed as I tried to run out to her. But then Ansem quickly raised his hands and it felt as if invisible hands of Greek gods had grabbed both Kairi and I and slammed us up against the wall. Iron clamps then bonded our hands and feet to the wall.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" I screamed. Ansem laughed out loud at me.
"As your punishment you both shall stand and watch as your friend unveils the Door to us in the most painful of all human processes!" I froze. Everything was crashing. The weight of the world was falling on me and I can feel my neck breaking.
"NO!" I screamed as I squirmed and struggled with all my might in a meaningless effort to break free of my chains. In the middle of my struggle I looked over and noticed Kairi wasn't doing anything. She wasn't even moving. She just stared glassy eyed at the floor in front of her.
"KAIRI WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" I screamed, suddenly growing insane. "ARE YOU JUST GONNA SIT BACK AND LET THEM DO THIS?" Kairi closed her eyes tightly. If I was in my right mind I never would've said that. She didn't say anything back. She began to twitch and cry bitterly. We were both dying from the inside. We were dying on a stake that we couldn't escape. Ansem bestowed upon the worse punishment ever..to live at this moment.
Mya continued to scream piercingly, shattering the hearts and windows of our souls. Tears streamed down her face like rivers of despair.
"TIE HER ON THE STAND!" Ansem barked at the three Heartless carrying her. The dragged the sobbing beauty over to a diamond stand in the middle of the room so everybody could stare in wonder at what torture was about to commence. She stood up with her head towards the heavens, tears streaming down her face, as her hands were being tied to the stand.
"I..want...my...mommy.." she stuttered in the midst of her flooding tears. Those four words cut me deeper than the sharpest knife that any human could carry. I let go of all male pride in me and began to sob like a little baby along with Kairi.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS RIKU!" I screamed through my sobs.
"QUIET!" Ansem yelled at me. Mya could feel the end of everything creeping on her. I could see it in her eyes. She's only eight God...she's only eight...
"AND HOW PRINCESS, UNVEIL TO US THE DOOR TO DARKNESS!"
A piercing scream rang through the air...
It was the most awful sound I'd ever heard. The windows shattered she was so piercingly loud. Everyone in the room covered their ears and groaned in agony, but Kairi and I were chained to the wall so we had to hear the scream in all its full-frontal hellacious glory. My ears started to ring like hell's bells, but the pain I experienced with my ears was nothing compared to what I'd have to witness through my eyes.
Mya's entire body froze and she went of into a trance as her eyes turned yellow. Her body started to glow and the room was filled with a light blue tint. I began to think that maybe this wasn't as painful as Ansem said. Maybe he was just trying to freak me out. But I was dead wrong. Mya being frozen in what seemed to be a painless wonderland quickly turned into a thrashing, hellish, torture-fest. Mya screamed painfully and then her eyes turned a blazing red and she began to scream harsh, stabbing screams. Her body began to bend and twitch in all directions. Her screams became louder and louder, and her body began to writhe faster and faster. The room started to glow in a hurricane of black, green, and purple. I couldn't watch. To see her fragile, petite, eight-year-old body writhe and bend in pain was more than I could bear. Then she dropped to her knees and let out an earth-shattering scream. Her eyes now were very wide and her pupils very dilated. She began to breath as if she were giving childbirth.
She's only eight..She's only eight..
She was in so much pain she couldn't even scream anymore. She just continued to breath and cry and her whole body went numb. And slowly, she began to unveil the Door. The door became clearer and clearer as Mya grew even more pained.
"YES! YES!" Ansem cried out. The door was about to be completely unveiled. Mya couldn't even cry anymore her body was in such torture. She shed her last tear and let out her last scream and then her entire body was whipped backwards like a speeding bullet, ripping out of her chains and through the stain-glass door.
"MYA!" Kairi screamed out through her tears. I was too shocked for words. My eyes refused to believe what they just witnessed. Was she alive? Where is Riku? What am I going to do? Ansem laughed menacingly at the door that she had just unveiled and the black-hearted ones were about to assemble around the door and his plan was about to be complete. But at the time I could care less. My heart and mind was completely hell bent on Mya. I couldn't see her. I tried so hard to break my chains. I wanted so much to run to her and take her in my arms and never let go. This was killing me. I didn't even know if she was alive. And if she wasn't then it would be more than I could bear. My mind was completely blank. Everything was falling. Nothing was clear.
"AND NOW BLACK HEARTS, OPEN THE DOOR AND SUBMERGE THIS WORLD IN DARKNESS!" The black hearts, all lined up in two rows along each side of the door, closed their eyes as their hearts began to appear. They all formed together in one giant cloud of black and began to seep through the keyhole.
"Yes...Yes!" Ansem cried. Evil was soaring through his veins. The door, ever so slowly, then began to open.
"YES! YES!" Ansem continued to roar. We watched in horror as the darkness from the inside began to spill out onto the floor and everything became numb around us.
"YES! YES!" He was ecstatic. It was almost as if he had suddenly gone mad. He had the frightening look of triumph in his eyes of a wolf after he killed his prey. He was jumping around like a wild hyena. The darkness creeping out of the door became closer and closer. It began to touch my skin. I screamed loudly as it did. My body was filled with such a blistering frozen sensation that my skin started to bleed. This is the end, I thought. This is how I shall die. It's the end of not only mine, but the whole human race's world as we know it. It is time for me to be reclaimed and I shall join the departed souls of my forefathers before me. At least I have the honor of dying beside Kairi..
But in the middle of my thoughts of death something very peculiar happened.
"WHAT?!" Ansem shouted as his insane joy quickly put on pause. I watched in stunned amazement as the darkness that had been pouring out of the door began to fade..as well as the Door to Darkness that had emitted this.
"NO!" Ansem screamed as he ran towards the door. But he only ran a few paces before the entire thing disappeared entirely.
"NO!" he screamed again. He clinched his hair and began to breath very heavily. The black hearts began to fall to the floor in pain. They began to crawl toward Ansem's feet.
"Master! We grow weary!" They cried.
"SHUT UP YOU USELESS MAGGOTS!" He yelled in frustration as he kicked them away from his feet. But then he became especially frightened at what happened next. They all started to burn and crumble into ashes just as the door did.
"WHAT?!" he shouted. I could see the crippling fear in his eyes as his followers started to burn and disappear one by one. Then I could feel the chains around my arms and legs starting to loosen and then Kairi and I were set free as the chains binding us disappeared as well. What was going on? Then I looked over at Ansem he was staring wide-eyed at the floor letting all that had just fallen sink in. Then he turned his head and looked directly at me. We stared blankly at each other for a few seconds and then he nodded. And with that Ansem burned into mere ashes just like the ones before him. Kairi and I looked around at everything that had crashed and burned before us.
"What happened?" Kairi asked softly.
"I don't know.." I said, "But whatever it is I have a bad feeling that Mya isn't safe right now..." Kairi looked to the ground sadly.
"Ok, here's what we're gonna do..Kairi, you go and find Mya and I will look around for wherever the hell Riku is...ok?" Kairi nodded.
"Ok..." I began to take off but I ran a few paces and then stopped in my tracks. I turned around and looked at Kairi. She was standing still in her spot and looking down sadly at the floor. I turned around and walked slowly towards her. I lifted her chin up and gave her a hug.
"I know you're sad now but you can't be afraid..Mya needs us now..." She wiped the tears away from her face and nodded. And with that she turned around and exited through the shattered door that Mya was sent sailing through.
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~*Author's POV*~
Kairi walked slowly down the long hallways of Hallow Bastion, looking in every doorway for Mya. In the back of her head she didn't want to find her. She was too scared of what she would find. She had seen to much corruption and blood. She couldn't take it anymore. Everyone had their point where they would loose all sanity in them, and Kairi was about to reach hers. She tried blocking out the bad thoughts in her head knowing that she loved Mya and she would do anything to find her. Kairi heard her step on something on the floor below her. It was blood. Kairi froze and everything inside of her shivered up.
"It's ok..." she reassured herself in a shaky voice, "She was sent flying through a stain glass door. When that happens everyone has to bleed a little bit, right?" But she was still petrified in fear. She tried to find a good thought to make her move even the slightest inch. She looked farther down the hallways and saw even more blood. At first she became even more afraid, but then her fear was put on a quick halt.
"Wait... 'Everyone has to bleed a little bit'," Kairi repeated from her statement before. "That means..." Kairi ran the hallway following the trails of blood Mya had left. She followed the blood until it started to cross into a room..Mya's room. Kairi slowly walked inside, breathing very heavily. She couldn't see much because the room was very dark, but then she squinted and saw something lying in the bed.
"MYA!" Kairi yelled. She ran towards the queen-sized bed and sure enough, Mya was lying inside of it with the black covers covering her pale body.
Thank God.." she sighed, letting all her worry out, "She's just sleeping." Kairi took a step forward but heard something break. She lifted her foot and saw a large piece of the stain glass that Mya was sent through...in a large pool of blood. Kairi froze up. Her mind went blank and her entire body went numb. She closed her eyes and tried not to cry.
"She's just sleeping..She's just sleeping...She's just sleeping.." And with that Kairi pulled back the covers on Mya's bed.
A piercing scream rang through the air...
Kairi ran away from the bed screaming horribly. She was going insane. She had finally lost it. When Kairi pulled back the blanket she saw the most horrifying thing in the world. Mya lied in the center of the black bed in an enormous pool of her own blood. She had carved "ALONE" all over her arms. On the place where her original comfort message of "Not Alone" was replaced by her marking out the "Not" and underlining "Alone" three times. Mya was lying in a pool of red and Kairi couldn't take it. She continued to run and cry and scream in her horrified dismay. She began to take the candlesticks and pictures off the wall and throw them across the room. She then tripped on the rug in the middle of the room and began to cry and her body began to twitch and bend in all directions. Then someone walked in the room.
"Kairi?" he saw her screaming on the floor "KAIRI!" But it wasn't Sora...it was Riku. He lifted her off the ground and held her in his arms. She was still twitching non-stop and began to dig her nails into his chest.
"Not alone...Not alone...Not alone..." she kept repeating.
"Kairi what are you talking about?" he said becoming scared. She continued to scream and cry and even started biting his shoulder.
"Ouch! Kairi what is wrong with you?" he said as he shook her. Kairi then looked into Riku eyes and froze up. She then got the look of the devil in her eyes and started beating Riku's chest profusely.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S YOUR FAULT! WHERE WERE YOU? IT'S YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU!"
"KAIRI WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" She then pulled away from Riku grasp and curled up into a ball on the floor and started crying. Riku looked around and was very confused.
"What the hell is going on?" he asked himself under his breath. Everything was silent as Riku sat in dazed puzzlement.
"M..M..Mya.." Kairi stuttered under her heavy tears, "Your fault...not alone..not alone..."
"Kairi what is your problem? Where is Mya?" Riku threw his hands up in the air in frustration and when he brought them back down hard on the floor he felt something in his palms. He lifted up his fingers and saw the blood that he had yet to know was his sister's on his fingers. Riku stared at the blood for a long time and thought. He suddenly had a look of astonishing fear in his eyes.
"Kairi..what happened while I was away?" He asked in a very shaky tone.
"I don't know Riku!" Kairi shouted at him in her furriness, "Why don't you ask MYA?!" He was very silent after she said that. Kairi was getting annoyed with this.
"WHY DON'T YOU MIND TELLING ME WHERE THE HELL YOU WERE?"
"Well..Mya had asked me to take her away from here and I thought long and hard about it and I decided to just let go of the reason why I took us here in the first place..."
"Yah, and what was that stupid reason Riku?" Kairi spat out at him. He glared at her and took in the sick irony of her statement and then stared down at the floor. He didn't want to look her in the face and say what he had to say.
"Malificent promised me a life I always wanted. A life with just me, you, and Mya..no Sora..nobody else..that why you would maybe you would someday grow to love me like I deeply love you.." Kairi was silent. She stared at Riku with tears in her eyes.
"I thought you hated me after what happened..." Riku then looked her in the eyes. He wasn't so afraid anymore. He remembered what he had told his beloved Mya that day as the two siblings stared at their house that was not a home. 'Everything happens for a reason and we can't be afraid'.
"I tried to..I really did. But no matter how hard I tried I just can't stop loving you Kairi. My love for you flows through my veins and I've tried to physically cut it out..." Kairi grew white with horror at that statement. "..but I just can't.." Kairi started to cry softly. She started to feel like this was all her fault. If it wasn't for her then Riku maybe wouldn't have gone on this foolish escapade. It was hard to look him in the face when they were talking when just behind Riku's back lied his sister, numb and dead. Kairi turned her head away from him.
"What made you decide to let go.." She said, trying with all her might not to fall apart on the spot.
"Well I just realized that you would never feel the same why I do and I'm still struggling to accept that...So I was about to go get Mya and take us back to Destiny Island when Malificent came and told me that Mya was sleeping and refused to let me go see her. She then said that I looked very tired myself, and as much as I resisted, she made me sit down. She then fixed me a drink that tasted like the most heavenly hot chocolate anyone could ever have...and it was all kind of hazy from there. I remember waking up and hearing you scream and so I came to you..what are you doing here anyways?" Kairi didn't answer him. She couldn't. She couldn't bare it.
"Ok..well anyway..where's Mya..the three of us are gonna leave right now." This was killing Kairi. She started to tremble horribly.
"Um...Kairi, please tell me what is wrong." Then she lost it. She couldn't take it anymore. Kairi started to cry her soul out.
"Kairi! You're starting to scare me now where's Mya?"
"Do you really wanna know where Mya is?" Kairi said in a deadly whisper.
"YES!" he yelled. Kairi bit her lip and her eyes swarmed with tears.
"SHE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!" Kairi yelled as she let out an uncontrollable sob.
"Kairi what the hell are you talking abo..OH MY GOD!!!" Riku darted off the floor and sprinted towards the bed where his dead sister lied. He was shaking violently.
"This is a joke.."He said as he began to twitch, "This is all a joke..May's not dead...She can't be dead..We're going home right now..Everything is gonna be ok...Come on Mya wake up.." Kairi sobbed even louder.
"Wake up Mya.." Riku said again, growing insane, "Wake up..wake up...wake up!! GOD DAMNIT MYA WAKE UP WE'RE GOING HOME! PLEASE WAKE UP!" He said as he started to shake her cold, lifeless body.
"RIKU!" Kairi yelled as she pushed herself off the ground and tried to stop Riku from shaking Mya. "STOP RIKU STOP!"
"NO! SHE'S HAS TO WAKE UP SO WE CAN GO HOME!"
"SHE'S NOT WAKING UP RIKU! SHE'S DEAD!!!" Kairi screamed through her tears.
"DON'T SAY THAT! DON'T YOU FUCKING SAY THAT!" Riku screamed as tears of denial streamed down his face. He stopped shaking her and started to pull his hair as he cried violently. Kairi put her arm on Riku's shoulder.
"DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME!" He screamed as he pushed Kairi away from him and up against the wall. Kairi sunk to the floor and buried her face in her hands and cried uncontrollably. Riku started to pace around the room as he pulled his hair and dug his nails into his fists. He then stomped back to the bed, ripping off one of the bedposts and throwing it to the side, causing the whole canopy to fall down. He pushed the silk sheets of off his fallen sister and started to shake her again.
"DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH ME MYA! WAKE UP NOW!" He then noticed that he was getting blood all over his hands. He let his grip go underneath Mya's arms and turned her arms over seeing the bloody messages of "Alone" written on all corners of her arm. He screamed violently and fell over on his sister's body in sorrow. He cried for several minutes and then started to pound his fists onto the bed.
"I WAS ON MY WAY MYA! WHY DID YOU DO IT YOU STUPID, STUPID IDIOT! I HATE YOU! OH MY GOD, I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!!" He was going insane. He was losing everything. His head was spinning violently and everything was blurry. He started to pull his hair and sob loudly.
"WHAT...HAPPENED?..." He panted through his sobs. Kairi wiped her tears away and took a deep breath.
"They made her do it Riku..They made her unveil the door...they tortured her until she showed it and when she did she came here and.." Kairi bit her lip and started to cry all over again.
"They're all gone!" Kairi said in tears, "Everyone disappeared! I don't know why!"
"Without me there is no you...The Door to Darkness was inside of her. When she did this she took the Door to Darkness with her.." Kairi continued to sob. Riku stopped crying however. He went off into a daze. He simply stared of into the distance with no emotions in his eyes.
"I could've stopped them..." he said quietly. "I could've went past Malificent and saved her..I could've taken her as soon as she asked me to..this is all my fault.."
"DON'T SAY THAT RIKU!" Kairi yelled, "It's NOT your fault!" He didn't say anything back. He sat on the bed in his trance for several minutes. Neither Kairi nor Riku said anything. The only thing you could hear where Kairi's sons as Riku stared blankly into the distance while holding Mya's numb hand.
~*Flash Back*~
Riku and Mya stared in wonder at what they found in their dad's trunk. It was a 9 mm gun.
"I've never seen a gun before..." Riku said in awe, "Only in the movies.."
"I don't like it..." Mya sobbed, "It scares me..." she said as he buried her face in her brother's side.
"Don't worry Mya..It's not gonna.."
"WHAT ARE YOU KIDS DOING?!" They heard their father's voice boomed. They both instantly turned around. They couldn't say anything. Their fear made them mute.
"I SAID WHAT ARE YOU KIDS DOING?!" Mya started to clench onto Riku for dear life.
"Uhh..nothing," Riku said, his voice shaking in fear.
"NOTHING HUH? I'LL SHOW YOU TWO NOTHING!" He then ripped the three inch wide, 3 feet long belt with a 4 inch wide buckle from his waist and came towards the two kids.
"DADDY NO!" They both then trembled and held on to each other dearly as they prepared for the senseless beating they were about to receive.
~*End*~
Riku finally spoke.
"This isn't worth it...none of this is worth it...I have no one.." he said softly.
"Don't say that!" Kairi sobbed. He wasn't listening he remained sitting beside Mya for a few more minutes. He then bent down and kissed her cheek and got down from the bed. he walked over to Kairi and bent down beside her. He then did something he had never done before. He looked deep into her eyes and cupped her cheek. He then did what he always longed for. He leaned in and gave her a kiss, not holding back at all and tasting her completely. At first Kairi was shocked out of her mind, but then closed her eyes and completely devoured Riku's kiss. When he pulled away from their heavenly kiss he stared straight into her eyes. Lavender met aqua.
"I love you Kairi, never forget that. But please try to forget this..." He then walked away form her and back by the bed. He stood in front of Mya's body.
"Riku..." Kairi said in a shaky voice growing very afraid. Riku then pulled out the 9 mm and put it to his head.
"RIKU NO!!!"
A gunshot exploded, and for the final time, a piercing scream rang through the air.
"NO! NO! NO!" Kairi screamed at the top of her lungs. Her whole body twitched violently and her legs flung in all directions. It was at that point when Sora came in.
"I thought I heard a gun sh..KAIRI!" He saw the girl the loved falling to pieces in the corner. He tried to hold her but her legs were kicking in the air at light speed and she was rolling around on the flooring screaming and tearing the heavy carpet beneath her with her bare hands as she began to growl viciously.
"MYA STOP!" Sora yelled. But he couldn't reach her where she was now. She was off in a place where Sora's voice could not be heard, only the voice of Riku's last words.
"WHAT HAPPENED?" Sora yelled, in a futile effort to reach Kairi. He then noticed out of the corner of his eye that the canopy in the bed of the room had been torn down. He ran over to the bed and saw the unforgettable sight...Mya lying like a dark angel with her arms spread out for the world to see her scars.
Alone...Alone..Alone..
And Riku's blood spilling out of the gun shot hole from his head and onto the black bed, as he lied across Mya's body with his hand clasping onto hers. They were finally together now...
Sora couldn't move..he couldn't breath..he couldn't think..He just stood and stared in wonder at the sacrifices that had been made before him as Kairi screamed and cried in the background on that night that everything fell..
Without me there is no you...
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~*Sora's POV*~
What can I say about what happened after that night...the night that decided my fate for the rest of my life. What I'd always feared would happen with Kairi played out like a great tragic novel fit for Shakespeare. Kairi went insane. She had finally snapped. She had seen too much blood, too much killing, too much of the people she loved being taken away from her right in front of her eyes. She was taken to the Traverse Town Correction Facility and is still there to this day. And what of Riku and Mya's bodies you may wonder? I took them outside onto the balcony where they had their very last talk at and cremated them both side by side..with Riku's hands still holding hers. I cried bitterly as I threw their ashes out into the breeze as one. They could now be birds together..free for all eternity..that's what they would've wanted. I can't help thinking that their entire family is dead now. Slaughtered..whether by their own hands, or the hands of someone else in the family...They're all dead..Riku and Mya are flying together through the wind, their mother is floating gracefully through the sea, and their father was left to rot for all eternity on the floor of the house that he destroyed with his cruelty. I wonder if they will ever met again in spirit. I'm just glad that Riku and Mya are together..that's all Mya wanted from the start..
And what about me? I stayed in Traverse Town waiting for the day that Kairi would come out of the hospital, which never came. I lived a life full of sorrow and despair from then on..alone....that's how I lived and that's how I will die. I wait for that day that I shall die with much anticipation. I won't take my own life away. Some sick part of me was still under the delusion that one day I would wake up and this would all be a dream and me, Mya, Kairi, and Riku would go out onto the beach and play together all day and never get tired. I lived under this delusion on until I grew old and gray. I never found out the fate of Kairi. I have no clue if she's living or dead. For her sake, I hope she dead...that's what she would've wanted. I think a lot about how all this happened. How did we get to the point where we mourn for death? That's all I have now..just my thoughts..that and the friendship bracelet that Mya gave me all those years ago. I look at it and smile, remembering the good, pure days of life. And I know that one day we will all be together again in sweet death...we'll all be birds together someday..Until then I will never forget those immortal words Mya said to me all those years ago..
"I'm the Princess of Heartless Sora..I can't build or bring things together...I can only tear apart.."
//Sometimes it feels like the worlds on my shoulders
Everyone's leaning on me
And sometimes it feels like the world's almost over
But then she comes back to me//
~*THE END*~
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*Wipes away tears* Wow...well that's the end of my story. I hope y'all go now and give your sibling a big hug. I'm sorry it ended this way, but this is a tragedy story..and sometimes things don't work out like you plan...Thank you for your reviews and if you would like to read another story I wrote then check our "Drops of Jupiter" (I have 99 reviews and hope to get 100) Well thank you for taking the time to read my story. Y'all rock!!
Peace On and Out,
Kia Saphia