Kingdom Hearts - Destiny Islands - Day 2
by Chaos0110
Author's Note:
Hello, I've wrote all the first three chapters in one day now. I edited each one. Usually, I never write this much unless I have to, but I'm feeling spunky. I hope you like this last chapter for Destiny Islands. I think that's why I'm writing so much, I want to get to the part where I add in stuff that wasn't in the game.
On with the next chapter! ^_^
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Sora rowed the little boat as fast as he could to the kid's island. As soon as he had tied his boat to one of the dock's posts, he jumped to the dock where Selphie, in her usual yellow dress that ended below her hips, watched him intently.
"Slept in late again, huh Sora?" she asked, knowingly. He nodded to her and she gave him a malicious smile. "How will you, Riku and Kairi ever get finished with the raft if you're always sleeping on the job."
He looked at her, aghast. "Who told you?"
"Kairi, she told me yesterday as we rowed home, but made me promise not to tell. Didn't I tell you that noone can keep anything from me," she said smugly to him.
"If you know so much, where are Riku and Kairi now?"
"On the other side of the island, building the raft, of course. They couldn't do it on this side of the island because someone else might find out."
"Why should it matter? If you know, then all of the people living on the islands will know by tonight," he told her as her face grew red with anger.
"I can keep a secret!" she shouted, and stomped off towards the old shack where she threw the door open and then slammed it once she was inside.
He smiled, she was funny when she got angry because she would always go hide while she pouted. 'Kairi's going to be mad too,' he told himself, and started off towards the door to the other side of the island. He pushed the door open once he had reached it.
He walked through to see that Riku was standing on the rocks on the edge of the area that was held up by wooden boards. The only way to get farther along the island was to climb or jump across the wooden platforms next to the entrance, but you could go through the water too, if you didn't mind getting a little wet.
Upon hearing the door creak open, Riku had walked towards the opening door, where Sora now stood. "So, you finally woke up and decided to come help did you? Well, I've done built the raft by myself. But the raft still needs a name. Let's see... How about Highwind? What would you call it?" he asked.
"Uh... Excalibur!"
"Hey, how 'bout....," Riku began.
"The usual?" Sora placed for him.
"Yeah, let's do it."
"You guys at it again?" a voice behind Sora asked. He turned to see Kairi standing on one of the wooden platforms that led to the end of the island. "All right, I'll be the judge."
"The usual rules apply: Take any route you want.... First one to tag the tree with the Paopu fruit on it and make it back here wins," she ordered.
Sora turned to Riku after Kairi had listed the rules that were made so very long ago. "If I win, I'm captain! And if you win...," Sora said, making a gesture with his hand to indicate that he was talking about Riku.
"I get to share the Paopu with Kairi," he finished for Sora.
"Huh?"
"Deal? The winner gets to share a Paopu with Kairi," Riku said, turning to look at Sora just as Kairi approached to referee the race.
"Wha... Wait a minute..."
"Okay! On my count:" Kairi began before Sora could reply. She raised her hand in the air with a small smile.
"1, 2, 3, Go!" she shouted, her arm slicing down through the air as she finished.
Riku shot off towards the platforms that led to the watch tower. Sora took a different route. He jumped down to the water, soaking himself and took off towards the steps that led to the same area that the platforms did. He heard a creak from Riku's direction and turned to see what was happening. Riku had stepped on the end of a platform that had a weak link and it had fallen, Riku just barely making it to the next platform without falling himself.
Sora reached the sand and marched up a pair of stairs that led to the watch tower, but Sora didn't head that way, he knew Riku always went that direction. So he went beside the watch tower, and jumped to the ground below where the newly forged raft that they had planned was docked in the sand so that the water couldn't carry it off, its white sail billowing in the breeze.
He passed the raft and the many coconut trees that grew in the area and climbed up the ramp that led to several grassy platforms that took you to the tree with the Paopu. Riku always used the watch tower to get there quicker by sliding down a wire that was hooked to a pole that was placed in the middle of the coconut trees where he could land on a wooden board. From there, he always jumped atop the coconut trees, found his way to the tree with the Paopu, tagged it, and used the coconut trees to make his way back beside the watch tower again.
He might have won with the same strategy this time, except that he had to waste his time when the weak part of one of the wood platforms had caused him trouble.
Sora jumped to the grassy ledges once he had reached the top of the ramp. He saw Riku jumping from the pole to one of the coconut trees and was heading his way. Sora jumped to the next ledge and the next until he was at the tree with the Paopu, where the second entrance to this part of the island was placed as well.
He hit the Paopu and jumped across to the coconut tree nearest to him, with Riku watching scornfully. He jumped across the trees until he was beside the watch tower again, the only difference being that he was on the opposite side.
He ran to the wood platforms and climbed onto the first, and then jumping across the others until he reached Kairi standing place, Riku not far behind.
"For winning the race, I award you a stone that I found on the beach. It's very beautiful," Kairi said, handing him a light purple stone that he stuffed into his pocket.
Sora done his usual jump in the air while shouting, "I won! That's one to zero!" as Kairi giggled at him.
"Man, lighten up. It's just a name after all," he said, not repeating anything about Kairi or the Paopu fruit. Sora gave him his best glare, which didn't turn out to well, and followed Kairi as she retreated back to the raft.
"So, Sora, since you weren't here to help build the raft you get to collect provisions for our trip!," she said as Sora groaned. "You can get a seagull egg, which I saw this morning, a few mushrooms, all the coconuts in about five trees, and as many fish as you can catch, since you're already soaking wet," she said to him. She was right, he had soaked himself with water when the race began.
"Oh, and fill up these 6 bottles with drinking water," she finished, and reached down, picked up the six bottles and pushed them into his hands along with a large bag, to carry the other things in. "Good luck."
He walked over to the palm trees, laid everything in his hands down and pulled the wooden sword he used for duels out of his pocket. He looked up to see that this tree only had three good coconuts. He banged the tree's trunk until all three had fell, and he stocked them into the bag Kairi had given him. He did the same with the next four trees, until he had gained all the coconuts he needed.
He went to the exit that was beside the tree with the Paopu and carried his things through it, careful not to drop or break anything as he jumped down to the rocky paths below where he could see that Selphie had returned to her seat on the dock. He walked around the tower that he had found the cloth in the day before and hurried toward the spring to fill up all six bottles. Once he had placed the bottle caps back onto the now full bottles he looked to the shadowed doorway beside the spring.
It was the Secret Place, although everyone knew about it. It was a cavern filled with rocks and brambles. The children used to scribble on the rock walls. He remembered seeing that mushrooms grew there too when he had scribbled something on the wall with Kairi when she had first arrived on the Islands.
He left the bottles behind as he went into the Secret Place with the bag of coconuts, he would be coming back out anyway so that there was no point in taking them with him. He walked along the thin path into the largest area of the Secret Place. All the walls were covered with white scribbles with tree's roots sprouting from the walls and stretching out awkwardly so that they surrounded the boulders before plunging into the soil of the ground.
He looked to the back of the tunnel where a door stood. He noticed it the first time him he had ventured in here, which was with Riku, and they had tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge. Beside the large, brown door, that was outlined with a golden yellow, was the picture that he and Kairi had scratched onto the wall of the cavern.
They weren't very detailed, but you could tell who was who. As he stood there thinking about earlier, when Riku had talked about sharing a Paopu with Kairi, he felt that maybe he would want to share a Paopu with Kairi himself. He sat down, picked up a sharp edged rock and began to scratch a small star into the area between their two pictures. It was a Paopu that was held by the hand of Sora's picture to the picture of Kairi, as if he was truly sharing a Paopu with her.
Behind him, he heard the rustling of someone's footsteps. He stood up and turned around to a figure cloaked in a brown cape, that completely covered the man's body, standing at the entrance. It had the symbol of a large heart that had curls at its end and had an X over the surface on his robes. The hole where his head should be was completely engulfed in darkness, giving no details of who it was under the cloak.
"Wh-Who are you?" Sora asked nervously.
"I've come to see the door to this world," a deep, sultry voice replied.
"Huh?" Sora asked, confused.
"This world has been connected."
"Wh-What are you talking about?" Sora asked, still befuddled.
"Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed," the hooded man continued.
"Well, whoever you are, stop freaking me out like this. Huh?" he asked, the man's words finally sinking in. "Wh-Where did you come from?"
"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door," the hooded man responded, acting as if he hadn't heard a word the boy had uttered.
"So, you're from another world!" Sora cried in amazement.
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little," was the man's reply to his outburst.
"Oh, yeah? Well, you'll see. I'm gonna get out and learn what's out there!" Sora shouted, his anger rising.
"A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing," the man retorted.
There was an airy moan in the cavern and Sora turned to the brown door, where the moan had originated and, when he turned back, the man, the heart, and the brown cloak were all gone.
Sora stood staring at the blank wall where the man had once stood and wondered what he had mean't. But then his mind strayed back to Kairi and he remembered that he was supposed to be searching for provisions. He looked around the cave and found a patch of mushrooms growing together underneath a tree root. He uprooted the mushrooms, threw them into the bag and ran out of the cave to the safety of the sun's light.
He wiped his brow, and picked up the bottles, heading down to the shore. He sat his things on the sand and looked out to the ocean. He'd have to wait until a school of fish were near to get enough to satisfy Kairi. He was lucky enough that he didn't have to stray to far before he saw a shadow moving in the water. He jumped at the spot as fast as he could before the fish noticed him and managed to catch five, and found a sixth sprawled on the shore, already dead.
He looked up to the bridge as he passed and noticed a seagull flying out from one of the coconut trees. Where there was a seagull's nest, there were eggs. He raced up the stairs in the old shack and towards the tree he had seen the seagull leave. There was one large, oval egg stored in the nest. He hit the tree in the same manner as he had when he was getting coconuts, and the egg fell with him jumping up to catch it.
He put it gently into the bag once he had walked back to shore. He collected the bag and bottles and carried it to the door just pass the bridge where Tidus was practicing for the day.
He walked through the door, passed Riku, jumped across the platforms, by the watch tower and down to where Kairi leaned against the sail of the raft.
He layed the provisions he had found or captured onto the wood of the raft. He looked up at Kairi who was concentrating on several seashells she was holding. "What're you doing?" he asked.
She glanced at him quickly before focusing back on the shells again. "This? I'm making a necklace of thalassa shells. In the old days, sailors always wore thalassa shells. They were supposed to ensure a safe voyage," she replied, and then stuffed the shells in to one of the pockets of her skirt.
"Oh, thanks, Sora!" she said after looking through the provisions he had brought. "I found something for you today when I went to the tower on the other side of the island to get some thalassa shells," she said and pulled a small, black chain onto his neck. "It's a chain made for protection, it has an aura that surrounds you. It raises your defense against attacks. I figured you could use it more than I could, since I don't duel."
"Thanks," he said, looking down at the chain that laid atop his other silver chain that had a three spiked crown.
"So, you ready to go home?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, tomorrow's the big day. We should rest up!"
They marched towards the entrance, where Riku stood, Sora wishing that he had had time that day to duel Tidus to see if he had got any better at it, but the sun was already beginning to set, and Selphie had began to row home last time he was on the shore. The others had probably left already anyway.
When Riku saw them approach he started out the door. Kairi and Sora soon, right behind him. As the older boy climbed into his boat and quickly rowed away, Kairi stopped Sora at the dock.
"Can I talk to you?" she asked.
"Sure," he said and they walked to the edge of the dock and sat down.
"You know, Riku has changed," she began.
"What do you mean?"
"Well...," she sighed.
"You okay?" he asked, concerned.
"Sora, let's take the raft and go--just the two of us!" she shouted suddenly.
"Huh?" he asked in suprise.
"Just kidding," she giggled.
"What's gotten in to you? You're the one that's changed, Kairi," he laughed.
"Maybe...," she whispered sadly. "You know, I was a little afraid at first, but now I'm ready. No matter where I go or what I see, I know I can always come back here. Right?" she asked, turning to face him.
"Yeah, of course!"
"That's good," she whispered once again. "Sora, don't ever change," she said, standing up beside Sora. "I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great."
"Well, let's go home!" Sora said, jumping up to the smiling face of Kairi.
They both untied their boats and rowed on home, close together, without speaking.
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That night, in Sora's messy room, clothes strewn across the floor, where Sora though about Kairi's earlier words.
'You know, Riku's changed. I know I can always come back here, right? Sora, don't ever change.' The words ran through his mind as he stared up to where a miniature model of a boat with two toy plushies, a boy and a girl, sat looking out over Sora's room.
'I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great.'
He smiled and turned to look out the window, where a bolt of lightning flashed in the distance.
"A storm?" he asked himself. "Oh, no, the raft!" he shouted, and scrambled out his open window.
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He jumped aboard the dock, having rowed as fast he could to the small island. He looked up in the sky where the source of the lightning floated in the air. It was a huge globe of darkness with bright orange shining outwards from its middle.
"What's that?" he asked aloud. He looked down at the dock posts where two other boats were tied. "Riku's boat. And Kairi's," he recognized. Looking up, he stifled a shout as two dark shadows lifted out of the ground. They were shaped strangely like ants and their glowing yellow eyes turned to him.
The creatures from his dream. No, it couldn't have been a dream, it was real. As the creatures lurched at him, he held up his wooden sword to hit it, but the creatures phased through the sword as if it wasn't there and knocked him over.
He pulled himself up and took off to the old shack. In the shack, a circle of light had appeared on the floor beside the steps. It was the same as in his dream. He looked up the stairway and decided to go for the place Riku would most likely be.
Upon opening the door, more creatures appeared outside. He looked ahead of them and saw Riku standing next to the Paopu Tree. He rushed across the bridge, through the shadows, to where Riku stood.
"Where's Kairi? I though she was with you!" Sora cried in urgency.
"The door has opened...," Riku said, glancing at the orb floating in the sky.
"What?"
"The door has opened, Sora!" he shouted, turning around. "Now we can go to the outside world!"
"What are you talking about? We gotta find Kairi!"
"Kairi's coming with us!" Riku replied, Sora staring at him in confusion. "Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!" he shouted to the sky. He turned to Sora and held out his hand as he did in Sora's dream.
"Riku..." Sora said, frightened. With that said, a pool of darkness appeared below Riku's feet and it entangled itself around Riku's body. Sora rushed forward, careful not to step into the darkness, and reached, desparately, for Riku's gloved hand as the darkness grew stronger.
With a flash of light that made Sora almost fall forwards, Riku was gone and in Sora's hands was a grand, shining key that was atop a yellow handle with a shaking chain that had mouse ears hung on it. He studied the key and looked to the orb in the sky. The mysterious voice from his dream chanting, "Keyblade," in his mind.
Instantly, the ant-like creatures were upon him. They jumped, scratched, and kicked at him as he sliced through their bodies with his new weapon, the Keyblade. Once the creatures were gone, he looked across the bridge. He could see, in the distance, a glowing door where the entrance to the Secret Place should be.
He ran across the bridge, jumped from the shack, and rushed up to the door. A large group of the shadow creatures appeared in front of the door, determined to keep him from entering it. He spinned through the group, his arm holding the Keyblade outwards enought to cut through the creatures heads.
The creatures disappeared once again, and he saw that the door was the same as the one in his in dream. He touched the handles and the door opened itself. He rushed into the cavern, expecting to find only rocks and tree roots.
He looked toward the brown door and there Kairi stood.
"Kairi!" Hearing his voice she turned slowly, as if she was hurt or weak.
"Sora...," she whispered, reaching out to him. Suddenly, the door behind Kairi flew open, darkness flowing through a through a strong wind. Sora held himself in place, but Kairi flew at him. He opened his arms to catch her, but just as she was in his arms, she was gone. The wind, gaining power, pushed him back out of the cave.
As he landed on the sand of the island he opened his eyes, having closed them when the wind took him, and gasped. The islands were gone, everything was gone. The ocean, the fish, the people, the sand, the trees, the birds, everything. He looked out into the nothingness beyond the small ship of land he was perched on.
He stood up, to see if there was anyone behind him who had also made it off the island and was startled to find the creature that had been his shadow in his dream was the only thing on the small scrape of land.
He grasped the Keyblade in his hands and rushed forward to meet the creature, angry because of the loss of everything and everyone he loved all at once. He sliced at the creature's lowered arm. It was using the same strategy as in his dream.
It fell to its knees and held its arms wide as it released dark purple globs that chased Sora down. He struck the globs so that they flew back at the creature. The creature stopped and then stood up and plunged its hand into the ground so that several ant-like creatures were released, while Sora continued to slice at the creature's wrists and head, if he got the chance.
The creature lowered its body fully to the ground before plunging its arm deeper into the ground, which caused several ripples along the surface. Sora struck its lowered head, but the creature continued its action without taking notice of Sora. It produced a smaller version of the black orb that floated above, in the sky, out of the sand.
Holding the orb, the creature stood up again. Sora, tired of fighting the impersonating shadow, threw the Keyblade up, so that it struck the creature in the face and returned back to Sora's feet. The creature glared down at him, but was sucked upwards into the surounding sand until it disappeared into the huge orb floating in the sky.
Clutching a piece of driftwood that was stuck in the sand, Sora held himself to the ground until the wind pulled so hard that he was forced to let go and sent into the orb above, along with his deformed shadow.
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Okie, Dokie! Third chapter in one day! Well, I hope readers review on how good, or bad, my writing is. The next chapter is going to be more interesting, because I start addin' stuff in.
Toodles! ^_^
by Chaos0110
Author's Note:
Hello, I've wrote all the first three chapters in one day now. I edited each one. Usually, I never write this much unless I have to, but I'm feeling spunky. I hope you like this last chapter for Destiny Islands. I think that's why I'm writing so much, I want to get to the part where I add in stuff that wasn't in the game.
On with the next chapter! ^_^
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Sora rowed the little boat as fast as he could to the kid's island. As soon as he had tied his boat to one of the dock's posts, he jumped to the dock where Selphie, in her usual yellow dress that ended below her hips, watched him intently.
"Slept in late again, huh Sora?" she asked, knowingly. He nodded to her and she gave him a malicious smile. "How will you, Riku and Kairi ever get finished with the raft if you're always sleeping on the job."
He looked at her, aghast. "Who told you?"
"Kairi, she told me yesterday as we rowed home, but made me promise not to tell. Didn't I tell you that noone can keep anything from me," she said smugly to him.
"If you know so much, where are Riku and Kairi now?"
"On the other side of the island, building the raft, of course. They couldn't do it on this side of the island because someone else might find out."
"Why should it matter? If you know, then all of the people living on the islands will know by tonight," he told her as her face grew red with anger.
"I can keep a secret!" she shouted, and stomped off towards the old shack where she threw the door open and then slammed it once she was inside.
He smiled, she was funny when she got angry because she would always go hide while she pouted. 'Kairi's going to be mad too,' he told himself, and started off towards the door to the other side of the island. He pushed the door open once he had reached it.
He walked through to see that Riku was standing on the rocks on the edge of the area that was held up by wooden boards. The only way to get farther along the island was to climb or jump across the wooden platforms next to the entrance, but you could go through the water too, if you didn't mind getting a little wet.
Upon hearing the door creak open, Riku had walked towards the opening door, where Sora now stood. "So, you finally woke up and decided to come help did you? Well, I've done built the raft by myself. But the raft still needs a name. Let's see... How about Highwind? What would you call it?" he asked.
"Uh... Excalibur!"
"Hey, how 'bout....," Riku began.
"The usual?" Sora placed for him.
"Yeah, let's do it."
"You guys at it again?" a voice behind Sora asked. He turned to see Kairi standing on one of the wooden platforms that led to the end of the island. "All right, I'll be the judge."
"The usual rules apply: Take any route you want.... First one to tag the tree with the Paopu fruit on it and make it back here wins," she ordered.
Sora turned to Riku after Kairi had listed the rules that were made so very long ago. "If I win, I'm captain! And if you win...," Sora said, making a gesture with his hand to indicate that he was talking about Riku.
"I get to share the Paopu with Kairi," he finished for Sora.
"Huh?"
"Deal? The winner gets to share a Paopu with Kairi," Riku said, turning to look at Sora just as Kairi approached to referee the race.
"Wha... Wait a minute..."
"Okay! On my count:" Kairi began before Sora could reply. She raised her hand in the air with a small smile.
"1, 2, 3, Go!" she shouted, her arm slicing down through the air as she finished.
Riku shot off towards the platforms that led to the watch tower. Sora took a different route. He jumped down to the water, soaking himself and took off towards the steps that led to the same area that the platforms did. He heard a creak from Riku's direction and turned to see what was happening. Riku had stepped on the end of a platform that had a weak link and it had fallen, Riku just barely making it to the next platform without falling himself.
Sora reached the sand and marched up a pair of stairs that led to the watch tower, but Sora didn't head that way, he knew Riku always went that direction. So he went beside the watch tower, and jumped to the ground below where the newly forged raft that they had planned was docked in the sand so that the water couldn't carry it off, its white sail billowing in the breeze.
He passed the raft and the many coconut trees that grew in the area and climbed up the ramp that led to several grassy platforms that took you to the tree with the Paopu. Riku always used the watch tower to get there quicker by sliding down a wire that was hooked to a pole that was placed in the middle of the coconut trees where he could land on a wooden board. From there, he always jumped atop the coconut trees, found his way to the tree with the Paopu, tagged it, and used the coconut trees to make his way back beside the watch tower again.
He might have won with the same strategy this time, except that he had to waste his time when the weak part of one of the wood platforms had caused him trouble.
Sora jumped to the grassy ledges once he had reached the top of the ramp. He saw Riku jumping from the pole to one of the coconut trees and was heading his way. Sora jumped to the next ledge and the next until he was at the tree with the Paopu, where the second entrance to this part of the island was placed as well.
He hit the Paopu and jumped across to the coconut tree nearest to him, with Riku watching scornfully. He jumped across the trees until he was beside the watch tower again, the only difference being that he was on the opposite side.
He ran to the wood platforms and climbed onto the first, and then jumping across the others until he reached Kairi standing place, Riku not far behind.
"For winning the race, I award you a stone that I found on the beach. It's very beautiful," Kairi said, handing him a light purple stone that he stuffed into his pocket.
Sora done his usual jump in the air while shouting, "I won! That's one to zero!" as Kairi giggled at him.
"Man, lighten up. It's just a name after all," he said, not repeating anything about Kairi or the Paopu fruit. Sora gave him his best glare, which didn't turn out to well, and followed Kairi as she retreated back to the raft.
"So, Sora, since you weren't here to help build the raft you get to collect provisions for our trip!," she said as Sora groaned. "You can get a seagull egg, which I saw this morning, a few mushrooms, all the coconuts in about five trees, and as many fish as you can catch, since you're already soaking wet," she said to him. She was right, he had soaked himself with water when the race began.
"Oh, and fill up these 6 bottles with drinking water," she finished, and reached down, picked up the six bottles and pushed them into his hands along with a large bag, to carry the other things in. "Good luck."
He walked over to the palm trees, laid everything in his hands down and pulled the wooden sword he used for duels out of his pocket. He looked up to see that this tree only had three good coconuts. He banged the tree's trunk until all three had fell, and he stocked them into the bag Kairi had given him. He did the same with the next four trees, until he had gained all the coconuts he needed.
He went to the exit that was beside the tree with the Paopu and carried his things through it, careful not to drop or break anything as he jumped down to the rocky paths below where he could see that Selphie had returned to her seat on the dock. He walked around the tower that he had found the cloth in the day before and hurried toward the spring to fill up all six bottles. Once he had placed the bottle caps back onto the now full bottles he looked to the shadowed doorway beside the spring.
It was the Secret Place, although everyone knew about it. It was a cavern filled with rocks and brambles. The children used to scribble on the rock walls. He remembered seeing that mushrooms grew there too when he had scribbled something on the wall with Kairi when she had first arrived on the Islands.
He left the bottles behind as he went into the Secret Place with the bag of coconuts, he would be coming back out anyway so that there was no point in taking them with him. He walked along the thin path into the largest area of the Secret Place. All the walls were covered with white scribbles with tree's roots sprouting from the walls and stretching out awkwardly so that they surrounded the boulders before plunging into the soil of the ground.
He looked to the back of the tunnel where a door stood. He noticed it the first time him he had ventured in here, which was with Riku, and they had tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge. Beside the large, brown door, that was outlined with a golden yellow, was the picture that he and Kairi had scratched onto the wall of the cavern.
They weren't very detailed, but you could tell who was who. As he stood there thinking about earlier, when Riku had talked about sharing a Paopu with Kairi, he felt that maybe he would want to share a Paopu with Kairi himself. He sat down, picked up a sharp edged rock and began to scratch a small star into the area between their two pictures. It was a Paopu that was held by the hand of Sora's picture to the picture of Kairi, as if he was truly sharing a Paopu with her.
Behind him, he heard the rustling of someone's footsteps. He stood up and turned around to a figure cloaked in a brown cape, that completely covered the man's body, standing at the entrance. It had the symbol of a large heart that had curls at its end and had an X over the surface on his robes. The hole where his head should be was completely engulfed in darkness, giving no details of who it was under the cloak.
"Wh-Who are you?" Sora asked nervously.
"I've come to see the door to this world," a deep, sultry voice replied.
"Huh?" Sora asked, confused.
"This world has been connected."
"Wh-What are you talking about?" Sora asked, still befuddled.
"Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed," the hooded man continued.
"Well, whoever you are, stop freaking me out like this. Huh?" he asked, the man's words finally sinking in. "Wh-Where did you come from?"
"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door," the hooded man responded, acting as if he hadn't heard a word the boy had uttered.
"So, you're from another world!" Sora cried in amazement.
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little," was the man's reply to his outburst.
"Oh, yeah? Well, you'll see. I'm gonna get out and learn what's out there!" Sora shouted, his anger rising.
"A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing," the man retorted.
There was an airy moan in the cavern and Sora turned to the brown door, where the moan had originated and, when he turned back, the man, the heart, and the brown cloak were all gone.
Sora stood staring at the blank wall where the man had once stood and wondered what he had mean't. But then his mind strayed back to Kairi and he remembered that he was supposed to be searching for provisions. He looked around the cave and found a patch of mushrooms growing together underneath a tree root. He uprooted the mushrooms, threw them into the bag and ran out of the cave to the safety of the sun's light.
He wiped his brow, and picked up the bottles, heading down to the shore. He sat his things on the sand and looked out to the ocean. He'd have to wait until a school of fish were near to get enough to satisfy Kairi. He was lucky enough that he didn't have to stray to far before he saw a shadow moving in the water. He jumped at the spot as fast as he could before the fish noticed him and managed to catch five, and found a sixth sprawled on the shore, already dead.
He looked up to the bridge as he passed and noticed a seagull flying out from one of the coconut trees. Where there was a seagull's nest, there were eggs. He raced up the stairs in the old shack and towards the tree he had seen the seagull leave. There was one large, oval egg stored in the nest. He hit the tree in the same manner as he had when he was getting coconuts, and the egg fell with him jumping up to catch it.
He put it gently into the bag once he had walked back to shore. He collected the bag and bottles and carried it to the door just pass the bridge where Tidus was practicing for the day.
He walked through the door, passed Riku, jumped across the platforms, by the watch tower and down to where Kairi leaned against the sail of the raft.
He layed the provisions he had found or captured onto the wood of the raft. He looked up at Kairi who was concentrating on several seashells she was holding. "What're you doing?" he asked.
She glanced at him quickly before focusing back on the shells again. "This? I'm making a necklace of thalassa shells. In the old days, sailors always wore thalassa shells. They were supposed to ensure a safe voyage," she replied, and then stuffed the shells in to one of the pockets of her skirt.
"Oh, thanks, Sora!" she said after looking through the provisions he had brought. "I found something for you today when I went to the tower on the other side of the island to get some thalassa shells," she said and pulled a small, black chain onto his neck. "It's a chain made for protection, it has an aura that surrounds you. It raises your defense against attacks. I figured you could use it more than I could, since I don't duel."
"Thanks," he said, looking down at the chain that laid atop his other silver chain that had a three spiked crown.
"So, you ready to go home?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, tomorrow's the big day. We should rest up!"
They marched towards the entrance, where Riku stood, Sora wishing that he had had time that day to duel Tidus to see if he had got any better at it, but the sun was already beginning to set, and Selphie had began to row home last time he was on the shore. The others had probably left already anyway.
When Riku saw them approach he started out the door. Kairi and Sora soon, right behind him. As the older boy climbed into his boat and quickly rowed away, Kairi stopped Sora at the dock.
"Can I talk to you?" she asked.
"Sure," he said and they walked to the edge of the dock and sat down.
"You know, Riku has changed," she began.
"What do you mean?"
"Well...," she sighed.
"You okay?" he asked, concerned.
"Sora, let's take the raft and go--just the two of us!" she shouted suddenly.
"Huh?" he asked in suprise.
"Just kidding," she giggled.
"What's gotten in to you? You're the one that's changed, Kairi," he laughed.
"Maybe...," she whispered sadly. "You know, I was a little afraid at first, but now I'm ready. No matter where I go or what I see, I know I can always come back here. Right?" she asked, turning to face him.
"Yeah, of course!"
"That's good," she whispered once again. "Sora, don't ever change," she said, standing up beside Sora. "I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great."
"Well, let's go home!" Sora said, jumping up to the smiling face of Kairi.
They both untied their boats and rowed on home, close together, without speaking.
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That night, in Sora's messy room, clothes strewn across the floor, where Sora though about Kairi's earlier words.
'You know, Riku's changed. I know I can always come back here, right? Sora, don't ever change.' The words ran through his mind as he stared up to where a miniature model of a boat with two toy plushies, a boy and a girl, sat looking out over Sora's room.
'I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great.'
He smiled and turned to look out the window, where a bolt of lightning flashed in the distance.
"A storm?" he asked himself. "Oh, no, the raft!" he shouted, and scrambled out his open window.
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He jumped aboard the dock, having rowed as fast he could to the small island. He looked up in the sky where the source of the lightning floated in the air. It was a huge globe of darkness with bright orange shining outwards from its middle.
"What's that?" he asked aloud. He looked down at the dock posts where two other boats were tied. "Riku's boat. And Kairi's," he recognized. Looking up, he stifled a shout as two dark shadows lifted out of the ground. They were shaped strangely like ants and their glowing yellow eyes turned to him.
The creatures from his dream. No, it couldn't have been a dream, it was real. As the creatures lurched at him, he held up his wooden sword to hit it, but the creatures phased through the sword as if it wasn't there and knocked him over.
He pulled himself up and took off to the old shack. In the shack, a circle of light had appeared on the floor beside the steps. It was the same as in his dream. He looked up the stairway and decided to go for the place Riku would most likely be.
Upon opening the door, more creatures appeared outside. He looked ahead of them and saw Riku standing next to the Paopu Tree. He rushed across the bridge, through the shadows, to where Riku stood.
"Where's Kairi? I though she was with you!" Sora cried in urgency.
"The door has opened...," Riku said, glancing at the orb floating in the sky.
"What?"
"The door has opened, Sora!" he shouted, turning around. "Now we can go to the outside world!"
"What are you talking about? We gotta find Kairi!"
"Kairi's coming with us!" Riku replied, Sora staring at him in confusion. "Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!" he shouted to the sky. He turned to Sora and held out his hand as he did in Sora's dream.
"Riku..." Sora said, frightened. With that said, a pool of darkness appeared below Riku's feet and it entangled itself around Riku's body. Sora rushed forward, careful not to step into the darkness, and reached, desparately, for Riku's gloved hand as the darkness grew stronger.
With a flash of light that made Sora almost fall forwards, Riku was gone and in Sora's hands was a grand, shining key that was atop a yellow handle with a shaking chain that had mouse ears hung on it. He studied the key and looked to the orb in the sky. The mysterious voice from his dream chanting, "Keyblade," in his mind.
Instantly, the ant-like creatures were upon him. They jumped, scratched, and kicked at him as he sliced through their bodies with his new weapon, the Keyblade. Once the creatures were gone, he looked across the bridge. He could see, in the distance, a glowing door where the entrance to the Secret Place should be.
He ran across the bridge, jumped from the shack, and rushed up to the door. A large group of the shadow creatures appeared in front of the door, determined to keep him from entering it. He spinned through the group, his arm holding the Keyblade outwards enought to cut through the creatures heads.
The creatures disappeared once again, and he saw that the door was the same as the one in his in dream. He touched the handles and the door opened itself. He rushed into the cavern, expecting to find only rocks and tree roots.
He looked toward the brown door and there Kairi stood.
"Kairi!" Hearing his voice she turned slowly, as if she was hurt or weak.
"Sora...," she whispered, reaching out to him. Suddenly, the door behind Kairi flew open, darkness flowing through a through a strong wind. Sora held himself in place, but Kairi flew at him. He opened his arms to catch her, but just as she was in his arms, she was gone. The wind, gaining power, pushed him back out of the cave.
As he landed on the sand of the island he opened his eyes, having closed them when the wind took him, and gasped. The islands were gone, everything was gone. The ocean, the fish, the people, the sand, the trees, the birds, everything. He looked out into the nothingness beyond the small ship of land he was perched on.
He stood up, to see if there was anyone behind him who had also made it off the island and was startled to find the creature that had been his shadow in his dream was the only thing on the small scrape of land.
He grasped the Keyblade in his hands and rushed forward to meet the creature, angry because of the loss of everything and everyone he loved all at once. He sliced at the creature's lowered arm. It was using the same strategy as in his dream.
It fell to its knees and held its arms wide as it released dark purple globs that chased Sora down. He struck the globs so that they flew back at the creature. The creature stopped and then stood up and plunged its hand into the ground so that several ant-like creatures were released, while Sora continued to slice at the creature's wrists and head, if he got the chance.
The creature lowered its body fully to the ground before plunging its arm deeper into the ground, which caused several ripples along the surface. Sora struck its lowered head, but the creature continued its action without taking notice of Sora. It produced a smaller version of the black orb that floated above, in the sky, out of the sand.
Holding the orb, the creature stood up again. Sora, tired of fighting the impersonating shadow, threw the Keyblade up, so that it struck the creature in the face and returned back to Sora's feet. The creature glared down at him, but was sucked upwards into the surounding sand until it disappeared into the huge orb floating in the sky.
Clutching a piece of driftwood that was stuck in the sand, Sora held himself to the ground until the wind pulled so hard that he was forced to let go and sent into the orb above, along with his deformed shadow.
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Okie, Dokie! Third chapter in one day! Well, I hope readers review on how good, or bad, my writing is. The next chapter is going to be more interesting, because I start addin' stuff in.
Toodles! ^_^
