Aya! So many reviews! And all positive… I'm so happy! I'm sorry I took so long to post this, I've been a little busy with school and stuff. My final exams are coming up, so it's full speed ahead. As usual me no own Kingdom hearts. Surprise, surprise!
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Chapter Three: …And fly.
Sora was only slightly aware of his name being screamed as he floated gently through the night air. This was his adrenaline rush, this feeling of blood coursing through his veins, making him feel again. He felt weightless, an amazing feeling by any stretch of the imagination… and he liked it. He distantly heard footsteps, and ragged breathing… this for him was his stand still of time.
For Riku… Riku wished that time would stop, just for a fleeting second so he could reach the brown haired boy. He chanted his mantra in his horror filled mind, that everything would be ok… that he would reach Sora in time… but slowly the mantra was fading, the horrors of reality beating it back.
He jumped, heart in his throat, and slid across the grass to make up the distance his legs would not carry him along. His eyes were blurred with unshed tears as he reached out, aimlessly searching for a body part, something he could grasp… something he could save.
He thought he had failed for a millisecond, ready to bow down his head to the floor in defeat… ready to cry out in agony and pain… heart wrenchingly so. Then he felt the extra weight that he held in his hand, and it jerked his lying body forward… he'd grasped Sora's arm…
This was his chance, he had to save him. He couldn't let him fall, not now. Not when he knew how the other felt. He reached out with his other arm, gripping tighter around the dangling boy's arm. He could see, barely, over the cliff edge… could see Sora's trance dazed eyes. That was when Riku knew, knew the only way to save Sora was to break him out of it.
"S-Sora…" He choked out, tears filling his voice, "Sora please… please listen," he was begging, the almighty Riku was begging. Yet Riku cared not for that minor fact, the only thing he cared for was getting the teenager back onto solid ground… and if that failed. Well let's say Riku was willing to dive in after Sora, if not to drown and freeze in the arms of the person he loved the most. Yet, it didn't have to come to that yet, as Sora's eyes became… knowing and frightened, this own tears pricking at the sides.
"Riku!" He gasped, flailing a little, "Oh gods!" Sora said, his voice rasping at the edges. Riku didn't know at that point how glad he was Sora had replied. He just knew, knew Sora didn't want to fall… his voice told him this.
His tears dibbled down flushed cheeks, and a small smile graced the silver haired teens mouth. "So-ra, I thought we'd been through this before," he said, nervously laughing. It was more to take their minds of the current situation.
"Riku…" Sora whispered, closing his eyes. Riku sighed, trying to tug the boy up, finding he couldn't made him panic slightly, but his rational mind told him to stop… to be calm.
"Sora, I need you to reach for my other arm… then brace yourself against the side!" Riku rushed, releasing one arm from his metallically solid grip. He could feel icy fingers brush against his free arm, trailing up, trying to reach for him. He leant his arm forward ever so slightly, clenching his hand around Sora's other arm.
He felt the weight lighten slightly, as a more calm Sora braced his feet against the cliff. Riku pulled, strength of the damned he's say, more like the strength of a petrified teen. He managed to pull the brunette back onto solid ground, both toppling into a… compromising position.
The unshed tears flew now, freely, down both of their faces. Riku pulled Sora into a loving hug, rocking his back and forth, tears momentarily slipping from his face.
"I'm so sorry, so… sorry," Sora was whispering now, cool breath at Riku's ear, Riku laughed tearfully, holding the young boy tighter.
"No Sora," more tears, "I am."
And that was how they stayed, in each others arms, for hours it seemed under the glittering moonlight, wrapped in the comfort and safety that was each other. This was when Sora realised he'd been wrong… Riku didn't love Tidus. How pathetic he'd been to think so…
He was glad his angel had come to the rescue, wingless yet heroic, and Sora knew… knew that this dream didn't need it's wings to take flight. It just needed them.
That was when he learned to truly fly.
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*Sniffles* That's it! Such an ending too, so short, yet fulfilling, don't you think? Please review, I'd love to hear your comments. I know that this was a really short story, all I wanted to do was get the feelings across. I think I accomplished that, ne?
