Half-Heartless
Chapter Twenty
[Do I really like Storm?]
[Nah, I was just teasing.]
I sigh in relief and decide to just drop the topic for awhile. We managed to find a way up onto the deck, and we're patiently sitting hidden in the shadows of some barrels. I tilt my head back and look into the velvety navy blue sky, flecked with glimmering stars. There's no sign of the Gummi Ship. My legs are falling asleep. I sigh again, this one in exasperation. I'm scared tha we'll get caught, and impatient with Sora. He could have skipped right by us by now.
No, he wouldn't forget a world. But is Captain Hook's ship considered a world?
Maria pokes me and whispers harshly. "Stop moving around so much, you'll get us caught!" I mutter something to myself and slump against the wooden wall, which is starting to itch. I do believe there's a splinter in my tail.
Storm grabs both of us to keep us from toppling over when the ship lurches. He turns and looks up. "There's the ship. I think Hook's trying to hijack it!"
"Oh, no!" I cry. The red ship tries to fly away, but ropes with hooks are thrown around it, and a cannonball rams straight into the side. I cover my eyes.
A moment later, pirates shove Sora, Donald, Goofy, and everyone else forward. I hold my breath. The Heartless and pirates outnumber them and could easily kill them all; I can feel the power of the Heartless pulsing in the air. Captain Hook goes towards them, prodding Sora in the chest with his hook. The captain chuckles, but Sora just shoots him a death glare.
"A boy. A little boy, his bumbling magician, his ludicrously stupid knight, and a little batch of Heartless tagging along like Mary's little lamb." He laughs at the absurdity of it. "Do you think that you can really defeat the Heartless?"
"Why yes, yes I do." Sora snaps. Suddenly, there's a multitude of shrieks, and the Keymaster turns around to see that everyone is gone. I saw what happened; a trapdoor opened beneath them. "What did you do? Where is everyone?"
Suddenly, Riku seems to materialize out of nowhere. He walks up to his former friend. "Why are you asking where they are? What about... her?"
I crane my neck so that I can see who he's talking about. A girl around Sora's age is lying against the wall, head bowed, eyes shut, glossy auburn locks shadowing her pale face.
"Kairi!" The Keyblade bearer exclaims. He starts to run to the girl, but two pirates run forward and block him off with their swords. Sora looks sadly at her, then glares daggers at the platinum-haired boy. Riku doesn't seem to notice. "Riku... why? You can't do anything to help her!"
At that, a shadow falls over the traitor's almost unnaturally green-blue eyes. His eyes narrow, and he stalks towards Sora. Riku leans in and says one thing, teeth bared. "Yes. I. Can."
A trapdoor opens underneath the chestnut-haired boy. I shrink back from his distressed cries, fading into the hull of the ship. Riku just stands there for a moment, but turns when Captain Hook starts to speak with him. "Bring the Heartless up here. You can control them, can you not?"
"They're on Sora's side. They won't listen to me." Riku replies coolly. How can he be so calm when he just abandoned his best friend and converted to the Heartless side?
I leaned forward, hoping to hear a little bit of a plan or something, but unfortunately, Maria's thinking the same thing. My friend loses her balance and topples into me, shoving me straight out into the open. Riku and Captain Hook turn. I can feel a surge of Heartless power in the air. All is silent.
"Um... Hi?" I offer. Storm grabs me and lands on the edge of the crow's nest to avoid the prospect of me getting skewered; hundreds of Pirate Heartless just appeared. They kick aside the barrel to find Maria scrunched up against the wall.
"Des, you stay here." Storm insists. He unsheathes his amethyst sword and hops off the rim. I watch as he fights off the Pirate enemies. Captain Hook and Riku seem to have vanished.
"So, you're the little monkey-brat that's been hanging out with Storm." On instinct I summon the halberd and swivel around to block an attack. A female Air Pirate, definitely an odd sight after seeing Storm so often, backs away. Unlike the other Air Pirate, she has a glossy hair-like substance going a few inches past her shoulders. "Name's Chloe."
She holds out her hand. I just glare. Chloe shrugs and pulls two daggers from a bands around her ankles. They're similar to Storm's sword, only inverted - onyx blades with amethyst hilts. I study the way she holds them; loosely, in an almost casual manner. She's an expert at flinging those things with a flick of her wrist. I'll be careful.
"I hear you put up a fair fight against Xavier, Destiny. And don't look at me like you're surprised! Everyone knows about you, you little traitor. As I was saying, I love a good fight. Do you wanna?" Black flashes white and I dive out of the way to avoid getting a dagger stuck in my chest. The small weapon quivers in its place for a moment, then is immediately grasped by an airborne Chloe. "You're a quick one, you are." The female Air Pirate gives me a sardonic smile.
"CHLOE!" She turns around. Storm is perched on the edge of the crow's nest.
Chloe shrugs and gives him the same bitter half-smile. She adjusts the daggers to a more able position. I tackle her to the ground before she can take off his wings. "Give it up, you monkey-brained freak." I narrowly dodge a throw from one of her weapons. It rips my bow to shreds. "Heeheehee! Now you look like a boy!"
"I won't when I rip off your hair and use it as a substitute." The halberd flickers to life in my hand. Chlore wasn't ready; she flies over the edge and crashes to the ground.
"HALF-HEARTLESS BRAT!" The Air Pirate leader screams back up at me. I control the surge of anger that threatens to take over.
Storm reaches over. "Why don't we go down there and teach her not to run her mouth too often?"
"I couldn't have said it better myself!" My friend scoops me up and we hover above the deck before landing. I get down and bring up my slingshot, hitting Chloe in the head with rocks. "C'mon, Chloe. Arencha gonna fight back? Or are you scared? Haha, loser!"
My mocking goes straight to Chloe. She snarls and throws her daggers at us. Her anger must've rendered them off course; they completely miss us. The female Air Pirate takes to the air and retrieves her daggers before storing them away. "Now, you little freak of nature, you're going to see the fruits of the Air Pirates' nearly constant training."
"Freak of nature?" I growl, more concerned about the insults than the threats. Chloe's got to learn to keep her mouth shut. But I realize that I should have been more alert - she's on me in less than a second, ripping and kicking and punching with every ounce of strength in her body.
Storm tackles her and they roll across the deck, nearly falling off the side. I brandish my wepaon and run at them, but the floor opens up beneath me and swallows me up. I hit ground.
Praise God, for 'tis the first time in this adventure that I didn't black out.
"Storm!" I call back up, but the trapdoor is closed. Stupid freaking trapdoor... I growl deep in my throat and make the halberd go away. Where am I? I look around. I'm in a tiny little room, a bit dark, but I can fiantly see because the light from my eyes is illuminating the place.
I spot a door and push it open. I arrive in a much more spacious room. A little ways away I can see a ladder stretching up to an elevated area. There are three doors leading to different rooms up there. I slip bak into the shadows - a stealth move that most Heartless can do - and sneak along, ducked down so nothing could spot me.
I peer about, then I take a bold leap right out in front of the ladder. The bursting noise reaches my ears as Pirates, Shadows, and various other types of Heartless, including the shocking Shadow Sora, appear out of thin air, there beady lamp-yellow eyes targeted on me. With an "eep!" I scrambled up the ladder, but a Shadow grabs my tail.
"Desssstiny," It hisses in the raspy voice of its Heartless species. "Come with usss. You won't regret it."
"Get OFF me, you freakish little lunatic!" I yell at it. My claws unsheath and I slash off its hand. The clawed, black paw disintegrates and a misty black substance spills from the creature's wound. I squeak in terror as the rest of the Heartless start to approach me and flip up to the elevation.
I turn to my right and burst right through that door, surveying the scene. I've been here before. It's the room above the Freezer. I walk around the room. Something tells me to go into one of the doors. Obeying the feeling, I crack it open. It's the Galley. I look up and spot a hole in the grating. There's still that nagging intuition.
I clamber onto the shelf and through the hole.
As soon as I enter the Cabin, I spot a ladder with a trapdoor above it. The feeling is pulsing with the beat of my half-heart now. Summoning my halberd for a reason unknown to me, I manage to climb the ladder with the flexibility that comes with being a monkey.
I hesitate before opening the trapdoor. What could be in there that makes me feel so firghtened? Finally, I force myself to go thorugh the door and narrowly escape the swing of Sora's Keyblade.
"Destiny?" The Keyblade master huffs. A blackened version of him with glowing yellow eyes stabs him with its version of the Key. I knock it off of him with my halberd.
Donald casts Stop on the Antisora to make it hold still for a moment. "Well, you little Heartless, since you're here just fight, oka- EEP! FIRA!" The Heartless gets blown back by Fira, then all of us plunge into the battle and go at it.
A round swipe of its Keyblade knocks us off, but Sora delivers a powerful blow. With shock, all of us watch as the creature splits into a trio of Antisoras. The four of us go at them, and eventually the two false Antisoras vanish. The battle continues on.
I swing my halberd and wield my claws and slingshot. Sora uses his Keyblade and magic, Donald solely his magic, and a playful little boy that seems to have joined Sora, his own powers. Finally, the copy falls over and melts into the floor.
Sora wipes some sweat from his brow. "Wow, that was fun. I believe that was the first time you lasted in a battle, eh, Destiny?"
"Yeah." I reply, plopping onto the floor to rest. "I'm just glad. I think I'm getting stronger. What did you think of me, Donald?"
The stubborn duck grumbles something unintelligible and the rest of us laugh. In the middle of our laughter, I pause. I can hear a faint yipping sound. Getting to my feet, I wander over to a green box in the corner and open it. With shock, I realize that there are three dalmatian puppies inside.
"Sora... What...?" I can't get the words out. They're so dang CUTE!
"Dalmatians. Put 'em in the pack." Sora tells, leaning over to look at them. 'The pack' is Sora's term for his oversized pockets, where he keeps all of our items. "I've been finding them all over the place. When we get a chance, we'll return to Traverse Town and give them back to their mother and father."
I nod and hand the puppies the Sora. Instead of rolling about and mewling inside his pocket, they instantly settle down. Either that, or they fell into a pit. I don't know what goes on inside the Keybearer's bottomless pockets.
"Hey, guys, look at this." Peter (the boy) points to a hatch in the floor. The brown-haired fourteen-year-old walks over and squats down to peer at it. Then he undoes the latch and it falls open.
All of them jump into the room. Except me. "Sora, I'm scared of heights."
"It's okay, Des. I'll catch you." He holds out his hands. With a sigh, I let my legs dangle a little bit before jumping off the ledge and landing perfectly in his arms. We topple over and land with a loud thump, awakening a girl in the corner.
"Hello," she greets timidly. her light brown hair is gathered on the back of her head in a bun, and she has blue eyes. The girl is wearing a night gown that matches her eye color. "I'm Wendy."
"I know that." Peter remarks.
"I'm talking to the other three, you silly-head."
"Well, excuse me..."
Wendy smiles and tilts her head. "I presume you're the half-Heartless." She laughs at my shock. "Everyone knows about you now. You're just as famous as the Keyblade bearer now, my friend. Desiree, is it?"
"Destiny." Sora corrects her. He looks around. "Hey, where's Kairi? You told me yourself she was in here!"
The girl bows her head and closes her eyes. "That silver-haired boy came in here and took her away while you were gone. I just hope they don't come back for me this time."
"I'll make sure of that. I'm going to get you somewhere safer." Peter declares.
"Oomph- PETER!" He sweeps her off the ground. Wendy doesn't look very pleased.
The flying boy chuckles. "Don't be a pain, Wendy." He nods to the little fairy that's been following us. "Tink, stay with them. I'm going to take her somewhere safe."
Ignoring the brunette girl's protests, the boy flies off. Tinkerbell looks irritated, but then regains her stature and waves towards the open floor hatch. Then, to make sure I get through the little fairy sprinkles pixie dust on me. The others fly up, but I stay down, surveying the empty room.
Kairi...
Kairi...
There's a glimmer of energy in her name.
That girl is no average girl.
That girl is a Princess of Heart.
[Author's Note]
Maji: GAH! I did it again. I'm sooooooooo sorry. My only excuse is that I'm a lazy bum that actually has a life (Woe is me).
Storm: ...News on the pairing...
Maji: Oh, right. I have decided what's going on between Des and Storm.
Storm: Please say I die.
Destiny: Please say we fall in love.
(Both of them cross their fingers)
Maji: Storm and Destiny will NOT fall in love. They will remain alive, STORM, *glare* both of them, and instead of a romance scene at the end there will be a friend-shipping scene.
Storm: at least it's better than falling in love...
Destiny: At least it's better than Storm dying...
(Both of them glance at each other)
Storm: Do you do that to annoy me?
Destiny: What?
Storm: Wanting the exact opposite of what I do?
Destiny: Why yes, yes I do. ^^
Storm: *POed*
[Disclaimer]
Mary Sue: *kills lawyers with her WONDERFUL, MYSTICAL, MAGICAL POWERS*
Good Mary Sue. Hey, she has a use for something! *joy*
Chapter Twenty
[Do I really like Storm?]
[Nah, I was just teasing.]
I sigh in relief and decide to just drop the topic for awhile. We managed to find a way up onto the deck, and we're patiently sitting hidden in the shadows of some barrels. I tilt my head back and look into the velvety navy blue sky, flecked with glimmering stars. There's no sign of the Gummi Ship. My legs are falling asleep. I sigh again, this one in exasperation. I'm scared tha we'll get caught, and impatient with Sora. He could have skipped right by us by now.
No, he wouldn't forget a world. But is Captain Hook's ship considered a world?
Maria pokes me and whispers harshly. "Stop moving around so much, you'll get us caught!" I mutter something to myself and slump against the wooden wall, which is starting to itch. I do believe there's a splinter in my tail.
Storm grabs both of us to keep us from toppling over when the ship lurches. He turns and looks up. "There's the ship. I think Hook's trying to hijack it!"
"Oh, no!" I cry. The red ship tries to fly away, but ropes with hooks are thrown around it, and a cannonball rams straight into the side. I cover my eyes.
A moment later, pirates shove Sora, Donald, Goofy, and everyone else forward. I hold my breath. The Heartless and pirates outnumber them and could easily kill them all; I can feel the power of the Heartless pulsing in the air. Captain Hook goes towards them, prodding Sora in the chest with his hook. The captain chuckles, but Sora just shoots him a death glare.
"A boy. A little boy, his bumbling magician, his ludicrously stupid knight, and a little batch of Heartless tagging along like Mary's little lamb." He laughs at the absurdity of it. "Do you think that you can really defeat the Heartless?"
"Why yes, yes I do." Sora snaps. Suddenly, there's a multitude of shrieks, and the Keymaster turns around to see that everyone is gone. I saw what happened; a trapdoor opened beneath them. "What did you do? Where is everyone?"
Suddenly, Riku seems to materialize out of nowhere. He walks up to his former friend. "Why are you asking where they are? What about... her?"
I crane my neck so that I can see who he's talking about. A girl around Sora's age is lying against the wall, head bowed, eyes shut, glossy auburn locks shadowing her pale face.
"Kairi!" The Keyblade bearer exclaims. He starts to run to the girl, but two pirates run forward and block him off with their swords. Sora looks sadly at her, then glares daggers at the platinum-haired boy. Riku doesn't seem to notice. "Riku... why? You can't do anything to help her!"
At that, a shadow falls over the traitor's almost unnaturally green-blue eyes. His eyes narrow, and he stalks towards Sora. Riku leans in and says one thing, teeth bared. "Yes. I. Can."
A trapdoor opens underneath the chestnut-haired boy. I shrink back from his distressed cries, fading into the hull of the ship. Riku just stands there for a moment, but turns when Captain Hook starts to speak with him. "Bring the Heartless up here. You can control them, can you not?"
"They're on Sora's side. They won't listen to me." Riku replies coolly. How can he be so calm when he just abandoned his best friend and converted to the Heartless side?
I leaned forward, hoping to hear a little bit of a plan or something, but unfortunately, Maria's thinking the same thing. My friend loses her balance and topples into me, shoving me straight out into the open. Riku and Captain Hook turn. I can feel a surge of Heartless power in the air. All is silent.
"Um... Hi?" I offer. Storm grabs me and lands on the edge of the crow's nest to avoid the prospect of me getting skewered; hundreds of Pirate Heartless just appeared. They kick aside the barrel to find Maria scrunched up against the wall.
"Des, you stay here." Storm insists. He unsheathes his amethyst sword and hops off the rim. I watch as he fights off the Pirate enemies. Captain Hook and Riku seem to have vanished.
"So, you're the little monkey-brat that's been hanging out with Storm." On instinct I summon the halberd and swivel around to block an attack. A female Air Pirate, definitely an odd sight after seeing Storm so often, backs away. Unlike the other Air Pirate, she has a glossy hair-like substance going a few inches past her shoulders. "Name's Chloe."
She holds out her hand. I just glare. Chloe shrugs and pulls two daggers from a bands around her ankles. They're similar to Storm's sword, only inverted - onyx blades with amethyst hilts. I study the way she holds them; loosely, in an almost casual manner. She's an expert at flinging those things with a flick of her wrist. I'll be careful.
"I hear you put up a fair fight against Xavier, Destiny. And don't look at me like you're surprised! Everyone knows about you, you little traitor. As I was saying, I love a good fight. Do you wanna?" Black flashes white and I dive out of the way to avoid getting a dagger stuck in my chest. The small weapon quivers in its place for a moment, then is immediately grasped by an airborne Chloe. "You're a quick one, you are." The female Air Pirate gives me a sardonic smile.
"CHLOE!" She turns around. Storm is perched on the edge of the crow's nest.
Chloe shrugs and gives him the same bitter half-smile. She adjusts the daggers to a more able position. I tackle her to the ground before she can take off his wings. "Give it up, you monkey-brained freak." I narrowly dodge a throw from one of her weapons. It rips my bow to shreds. "Heeheehee! Now you look like a boy!"
"I won't when I rip off your hair and use it as a substitute." The halberd flickers to life in my hand. Chlore wasn't ready; she flies over the edge and crashes to the ground.
"HALF-HEARTLESS BRAT!" The Air Pirate leader screams back up at me. I control the surge of anger that threatens to take over.
Storm reaches over. "Why don't we go down there and teach her not to run her mouth too often?"
"I couldn't have said it better myself!" My friend scoops me up and we hover above the deck before landing. I get down and bring up my slingshot, hitting Chloe in the head with rocks. "C'mon, Chloe. Arencha gonna fight back? Or are you scared? Haha, loser!"
My mocking goes straight to Chloe. She snarls and throws her daggers at us. Her anger must've rendered them off course; they completely miss us. The female Air Pirate takes to the air and retrieves her daggers before storing them away. "Now, you little freak of nature, you're going to see the fruits of the Air Pirates' nearly constant training."
"Freak of nature?" I growl, more concerned about the insults than the threats. Chloe's got to learn to keep her mouth shut. But I realize that I should have been more alert - she's on me in less than a second, ripping and kicking and punching with every ounce of strength in her body.
Storm tackles her and they roll across the deck, nearly falling off the side. I brandish my wepaon and run at them, but the floor opens up beneath me and swallows me up. I hit ground.
Praise God, for 'tis the first time in this adventure that I didn't black out.
"Storm!" I call back up, but the trapdoor is closed. Stupid freaking trapdoor... I growl deep in my throat and make the halberd go away. Where am I? I look around. I'm in a tiny little room, a bit dark, but I can fiantly see because the light from my eyes is illuminating the place.
I spot a door and push it open. I arrive in a much more spacious room. A little ways away I can see a ladder stretching up to an elevated area. There are three doors leading to different rooms up there. I slip bak into the shadows - a stealth move that most Heartless can do - and sneak along, ducked down so nothing could spot me.
I peer about, then I take a bold leap right out in front of the ladder. The bursting noise reaches my ears as Pirates, Shadows, and various other types of Heartless, including the shocking Shadow Sora, appear out of thin air, there beady lamp-yellow eyes targeted on me. With an "eep!" I scrambled up the ladder, but a Shadow grabs my tail.
"Desssstiny," It hisses in the raspy voice of its Heartless species. "Come with usss. You won't regret it."
"Get OFF me, you freakish little lunatic!" I yell at it. My claws unsheath and I slash off its hand. The clawed, black paw disintegrates and a misty black substance spills from the creature's wound. I squeak in terror as the rest of the Heartless start to approach me and flip up to the elevation.
I turn to my right and burst right through that door, surveying the scene. I've been here before. It's the room above the Freezer. I walk around the room. Something tells me to go into one of the doors. Obeying the feeling, I crack it open. It's the Galley. I look up and spot a hole in the grating. There's still that nagging intuition.
I clamber onto the shelf and through the hole.
As soon as I enter the Cabin, I spot a ladder with a trapdoor above it. The feeling is pulsing with the beat of my half-heart now. Summoning my halberd for a reason unknown to me, I manage to climb the ladder with the flexibility that comes with being a monkey.
I hesitate before opening the trapdoor. What could be in there that makes me feel so firghtened? Finally, I force myself to go thorugh the door and narrowly escape the swing of Sora's Keyblade.
"Destiny?" The Keyblade master huffs. A blackened version of him with glowing yellow eyes stabs him with its version of the Key. I knock it off of him with my halberd.
Donald casts Stop on the Antisora to make it hold still for a moment. "Well, you little Heartless, since you're here just fight, oka- EEP! FIRA!" The Heartless gets blown back by Fira, then all of us plunge into the battle and go at it.
A round swipe of its Keyblade knocks us off, but Sora delivers a powerful blow. With shock, all of us watch as the creature splits into a trio of Antisoras. The four of us go at them, and eventually the two false Antisoras vanish. The battle continues on.
I swing my halberd and wield my claws and slingshot. Sora uses his Keyblade and magic, Donald solely his magic, and a playful little boy that seems to have joined Sora, his own powers. Finally, the copy falls over and melts into the floor.
Sora wipes some sweat from his brow. "Wow, that was fun. I believe that was the first time you lasted in a battle, eh, Destiny?"
"Yeah." I reply, plopping onto the floor to rest. "I'm just glad. I think I'm getting stronger. What did you think of me, Donald?"
The stubborn duck grumbles something unintelligible and the rest of us laugh. In the middle of our laughter, I pause. I can hear a faint yipping sound. Getting to my feet, I wander over to a green box in the corner and open it. With shock, I realize that there are three dalmatian puppies inside.
"Sora... What...?" I can't get the words out. They're so dang CUTE!
"Dalmatians. Put 'em in the pack." Sora tells, leaning over to look at them. 'The pack' is Sora's term for his oversized pockets, where he keeps all of our items. "I've been finding them all over the place. When we get a chance, we'll return to Traverse Town and give them back to their mother and father."
I nod and hand the puppies the Sora. Instead of rolling about and mewling inside his pocket, they instantly settle down. Either that, or they fell into a pit. I don't know what goes on inside the Keybearer's bottomless pockets.
"Hey, guys, look at this." Peter (the boy) points to a hatch in the floor. The brown-haired fourteen-year-old walks over and squats down to peer at it. Then he undoes the latch and it falls open.
All of them jump into the room. Except me. "Sora, I'm scared of heights."
"It's okay, Des. I'll catch you." He holds out his hands. With a sigh, I let my legs dangle a little bit before jumping off the ledge and landing perfectly in his arms. We topple over and land with a loud thump, awakening a girl in the corner.
"Hello," she greets timidly. her light brown hair is gathered on the back of her head in a bun, and she has blue eyes. The girl is wearing a night gown that matches her eye color. "I'm Wendy."
"I know that." Peter remarks.
"I'm talking to the other three, you silly-head."
"Well, excuse me..."
Wendy smiles and tilts her head. "I presume you're the half-Heartless." She laughs at my shock. "Everyone knows about you now. You're just as famous as the Keyblade bearer now, my friend. Desiree, is it?"
"Destiny." Sora corrects her. He looks around. "Hey, where's Kairi? You told me yourself she was in here!"
The girl bows her head and closes her eyes. "That silver-haired boy came in here and took her away while you were gone. I just hope they don't come back for me this time."
"I'll make sure of that. I'm going to get you somewhere safer." Peter declares.
"Oomph- PETER!" He sweeps her off the ground. Wendy doesn't look very pleased.
The flying boy chuckles. "Don't be a pain, Wendy." He nods to the little fairy that's been following us. "Tink, stay with them. I'm going to take her somewhere safe."
Ignoring the brunette girl's protests, the boy flies off. Tinkerbell looks irritated, but then regains her stature and waves towards the open floor hatch. Then, to make sure I get through the little fairy sprinkles pixie dust on me. The others fly up, but I stay down, surveying the empty room.
Kairi...
Kairi...
There's a glimmer of energy in her name.
That girl is no average girl.
That girl is a Princess of Heart.
[Author's Note]
Maji: GAH! I did it again. I'm sooooooooo sorry. My only excuse is that I'm a lazy bum that actually has a life (Woe is me).
Storm: ...News on the pairing...
Maji: Oh, right. I have decided what's going on between Des and Storm.
Storm: Please say I die.
Destiny: Please say we fall in love.
(Both of them cross their fingers)
Maji: Storm and Destiny will NOT fall in love. They will remain alive, STORM, *glare* both of them, and instead of a romance scene at the end there will be a friend-shipping scene.
Storm: at least it's better than falling in love...
Destiny: At least it's better than Storm dying...
(Both of them glance at each other)
Storm: Do you do that to annoy me?
Destiny: What?
Storm: Wanting the exact opposite of what I do?
Destiny: Why yes, yes I do. ^^
Storm: *POed*
[Disclaimer]
Mary Sue: *kills lawyers with her WONDERFUL, MYSTICAL, MAGICAL POWERS*
Good Mary Sue. Hey, she has a use for something! *joy*