Chapter 4

Confusing Predictions

Point of View: Kairi

Written by: Lvkishugs

Morning.

Selphie awoke on the beach, with a strange feeling that something had occurred the previous night.

"Ugh...what happened...?"

She looked around. She was alone. Searching her mind, she suddenly remembered Kairi's intentions.

"Oh no..."

She ran to the shore, her face stricken with fear. She called out into the sea.

"Kairi! Kairi!"

"Good luck..."

The last words I had heard before leaving Destiny Islands, Selphie's words. They began to sink in, more and more.

"You're a fool, Kairi, a fool..."

"Your whole life's on the line for this, Kai."

"You have no clue where to start, you have pretty much no experience on the seas, and, well, you have, like, no chances of finding them!"

I sighed. I was just on the beach, talking to Selphie and now here I was, heading somewhere I don't even know if it's out there. Was this all a big mistake?

I still had a chance of going back to the islands if I wanted to. I looked back and smiled.

No, my destiny was made.

So I watched till the islands got smaller and smaller, until they were but a dot which soon disappeared. I then averted my gaze to the front of me. Nothing.

There was nothing to see for there was nothing out there. I was the only thing-the only person in the ocean at the moment. I sighed.

"I might as well go to sleep..." I mumbled to myself.

I grabbed my blanket and my pillow, or rather, backpack. I made to the closest of what I could a bed. I lay my head down on the pillow.

I shivered slightly as the wind began to come, faster and stronger.

The waves also started to grow stronger. Soon water began to overflow my tiny raft, only to sink through the cracks of the logs.

"My Thalassic necklace will keep me safe." I whispered to myself as my fingers tightly clutched the tiny shells. The cold salty water continuously brushed up against my skin and the wind wasn't helping either.

I kept saying those words over and over again. Until finally, I fell asleep...

I opened my eyes. I was on...the Destiny Islands?

"What the...?" I mumbled softly to myself.

I stood up and began to dust myself off as my surroundings caught my attention.

The radiant sun sparkled down on the island, giving the water a silvery blue appearance. I smiled. It reminded of the time Sora had told me he and Riku had gotten their wooden swords.

"Look what Riku and I got wooden swords!"

As I began to look around even closer I noticed that no one else was on the island. There was no noise, but the sound of waves. There was no smell, but the scent of flowers. There was nothing.

"Selphie? Tidus? Wakka?" I asked as I began walking, searching for them.

"Hello? Anybody?" I cried.

That was when I heard a soft feminine voice ask,

"Where are we going?"

I turned around to face the first voice I had heard in moments. I gasped. I saw Sora with his long spiky brown hair and adorable cheesy grin plastered on his face. He was so handsome. Of course Sora was cute back then, but now he was just so handsome. I then took a better look at the girl that was in his grasp; her delicate hands covering her eyes. She had long red, almost auburn hair and wore a big smile on her face. She seemed quite familiar, but she was out of reach of my memory. But I soon realized that she was. Me.

"Somewhere special," Sora replied. The older Kairi's hand kept a tight hold on his arm, probably for security, but Sora wouldn't let her fall, he'd never let her fall.

"Can't you just tell me?!" The older Kairi pouted, all the while laughing.

"No!" Sora chuckled.

I watched as he led her up Paopu Island. Sora then let go of her and she tripped over the giant branch in the middle of the tiny island. Sora caught her with incredible ease.

"Careful, now," he warned good-naturedly.

"You're the one leading me here now..." The older Kairi said a sense of sarcasm and matter-of-factness in her tone. Sora ignored her comment and positioned her to face him.

A smile crept on the longhaired maiden as she gazed into Sora's beautiful eyes. She giggled as she began to embrace the tan warrior.

"What?" Sora asked suspiciously, eyeing her.

She giggled again and shook her head.

"Nothing."

Sora wasn't convinced and knew that Kairi was up to no good, but he didn't pester on. He then slipped away from her grasp and I watched as he slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out a small black box. He pulled her hand into his.

"Sora...?" the aged Kairi murmured as her eyes began to get watery.

"Kairi, I love you." Sora began to say as I began to feel dizzy.

My eyesight began to get blurry, as their voices became so distant. I began to stumble on the beach, and then everything turned black. A new 'prediction' was going to be foretold...

I reopened my eyes and screamed. The sound of flapping of bats' wings rung through my ears and I began to back up. Darkness consumed this place, there was no light to be found, but it's not like I was looking for it anyways.

The smell of corpse filled my nostrils and I backed up into a wall. I jumped slightly. It was so cold!

I started to make my way down the wall, when something heavy and hard appeared in my hands. I started to feel all across this foreign object. I felt a cold, yet warm water dripping from the ends of the blade. I suddenly realized what I was holding. The Keyblade...

"But how..?" I whispered.

Then a flash of lights appeared from out of nowhere. I gasped at what I saw.

Sora's body was being held up by chains and his head was drooping down in defeat His attire consisted of only black. His skin was almost a pale color of blue and he consisted of multiple injuries visible on his arms and legs. His hair had turned lighter, almost a golden brown color.

"Sora!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I let the Keyblade drop from my hands. I ran over to the lifeless body. His faces were cupped into my hands and I forced him to look at me in the eyes. He eyes were at the biggest they could be and they didn't dare blink.

"I'm sorry Kai..." he sad softly and that was the last he spoke, he just stayed lifeless. For the first time in my life I actually thought he had died.

"Sora..? Sora!" My voice began to get louder and louder as the seconds passed on. My hands began searching all over his body for something. Hopefully a potion or something. And then my hands came across a hole in his chest. The hole was in some sort of a key mark and then my gaze averted to the Keyblade that fell from my hands and back to the hole in his chest. Blood was dripping from both things.

"No..." I whispered as I stood up and started to back away from Sora.

"God no..."

"The future is in your hands..." a voice said from nowhere in particular.

As the voice ringed through my ears, chills went up and down my spine and goosebumps appeared on my arms and legs.

"Wh-what?" I asked choking on the words in my throat.

"The future is in your hands!" The voice echoed in my head, and everything turned white...

I finally woke up from my dreams. Just a dream...And then the unimaginable was happening. The raft was sinking and the salty water was filling my lungs...