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Disclaimer- I don't own any copyrighted material I use.
So, on we go. Oh, and by the way, the fighter is made up, he's my OC, so it's not Wakka :p
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"Where the hell did you get that sword?" I shouted at him, I was mad, that was Riku's sword, why did he have it? The boy turned to face me, he was about my age, maybe a little older, but he was taller than me by about 2 heads, even with my hair.
"Whoa, what's the fuss?" He asked, holding his arms out questioningly.
"Where did you get that sword?" I repeated, staring into his cold eyes,
"My old man gave it to me if you must know." He looked at me like I was a psycho, and I certainly felt like one at that moment in time.
"Oh, sorry. Someone I knew had a sword like that, and I thought that maybe..." I trailed off, looking at the floor.
"Hey, it's alright," he patted me on the back, seemingly reassuringly, but I noticed his gaze wandering and I knew he didn't mean it. "So, who are you exactly?"
I looked up at him, "I'm Sora, you're supposed to travel down here with me, to the brink or something."
"Oh yeah, that old bag said something about that, I'm Glenn." He stuck out his hand. I didn't shake it, after noticing the scars on his wrist. He followed my line of vision.
"Ok, so life wasn't so peachy for me, but what you gonna do?" He pulled his sleeve down, looking embarrassed. "We better get going," he stated to the air, rather than my face, shouldered the familiar blue and red sword and walked off down the hill.
I looked after the 'fighter', he looked like he was better at speaking, but I suppose they put you at a disadvantage here, to prove yourself. Seeing as how I had done a lot of fighting before, I guess I had to think things through now. After all, if I had learned to think things through, maybe I wouldn't be here now... I followed him down the hill.
The view was pretty spectacular, now that I bothered to look. The path was made of gravel, but it seemed to glow as the sunset descended into the hills in the distance. The sun's golden rays bathed the surrounding fields in golden light and small chaffinches flew out of the towering trees and dancing around the sky. It was perfect here. Maybe this was heaven...
I followed Glenn down the path, he was striding ahead, confident enough to know which way he wanted to go, but maybe too shy to talk to me. I reckon he was just being cautious. He marched off down the path, moving at top speed, his black trainers barely making a sound, but kicking up small dust clouds as he travelled quickly.
I took longer, just dawdling down the path, admiring the beauty of the nature around me. Not that I'm some tree hugger or anything, but I was amazed that I'd never once noticed how great nature was... I occasionally checked where Glenn was, just in case he decided to ditch me, but he didn't.
Glenn acted quite differently to how I had imagined from the picture of him I saw in the office. I thought that he might be awkward or irritating, but he wasn't like that. Despite his appearance, he seemed to be ok; maybe it was just his eyes. They looked so cruel, but he wasn't like that at all. Oh well, looks can be deceiving. Then a shout interrupted my thoughts,
"Oi, Sora! Come over here." I looked up, dragging my eyes away from my surroundings to jog over to where Glenn stood. He now had both of his long sleeves pulled down. "There's something up ahead, and it doesn't look pretty."
I stared into the distance, until I saw what he was referring to. A huge shadow loomed across the road. The object's huge body was blocking the light out from the sun. It was moving towards us at an alarming rate, despite its size.
"Ok, what choices do we have?" I asked, looking round at Glenn, who was biting his lip.
"Erm, well we've either gotta talk to it, or fight it." It was getting closer now; I could see a manic expression on its overly large face and steady drips of drool falling from its monstrous mouth to the ground.
"It doesn't look very friendly..." I watched it approach with increasing fear, when I had been fighting with the Keyblade, maybe I wouldn't have been scared, knowing that I had a weapon in my hand. Then it would have been just another fight, but now I was weapon less and this thing didn't look like it had a big enough brain to string two words together.
"Yeah, well good luck." Glenn backed off just as the creature reached us. I turned around to protest, but I found myself being lifted up off the ground by a huge sticky hand. I turned to face the creature and flinched.
Its head was easily three times the size of mine, with a huge mouth stretching the whole width of its face. The mouth was filled with thousands of shiny pointed teeth, all covered with saliva. A huge purple tongue hung limply out of its mouth, dripping with spit. As it brought me closer to its mouth, a huge glob of saliva landed on my arm, I yelped and tried desperately to brush it off. My arm went cold and I bet it was due to the saliva.
The smell was horrendous, this monster was breathing down my neck and I was choking on a smell that I couldn't even pinpoint. Why wasn't Glenn doing anything? Then I realised what the woman had said, 'This is important. The speaker and fighter must NOT interfere with each other's business.' I decided to do something, rather than accept my second death.
"Umm, ex-excuse me..." I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and continued, "Y- You're in our way and we'd like to get past. I opened my eyes and looked at the monster carefully. It lifted me up so I was level with its tiny yellow eyes, which were stuck just above its mouth. It seemed to be considering what I said. "We have an erm...important banquet to attend, and if you let us go, we'll bring you back food."
I waited for a minute, just waiting for the monster to eat me, and then it dropped me to the floor so suddenly I gasped as I landed painfully on top of my leg, which was at a funny angle, apparently you still got hurt here. I dragged myself backwards, just as it sat on the floor, nearly crushing me. A smile was playing on its lips, as it opened its mouth wide,
"Fooooooooooooooooooooooood," came out of its mouth in a huge rumbling breath that knocked me over backwards.
"Uh-huh," I said weakly. I sat up, "Lots of food, if you let us pass." It bowed its head down, which I took for a nod and assumed that this was over, seeing as how the monster was snoring. "Ugh..." I collapsed on the floor.
"Well done," Glenn came over and knelt down next to me, he dragged me up to a sitting position. "Lets get going, I'm sure you don't wanna sleep by that thing," he gestured over to the monster that was still snoring.
"Ok," I agreed, but my arm still felt cold and numb and my ankle hurt. I dragged myself up with my good arm, using Glenn as a support and hobbled off down the road. When we were out of earshot of the monster,
"Hey, where exactly are we going to get loads of food from?" Glenn asked me, turning off into a side road, which had a large tree at the bottom.
"I dunno, by the time it wakes up, it'll probably have forgotten about us anyway." I added, sitting down by the roots of the tree. It was dark now and the stars were out in the sky. After a while, I turned my head towards Glenn, who was staring at the sky as well,
"Why are you here?"
"What?" He looked puzzled,
"Well, the lady said people are here for lots of different reasons, and I thought you might not actually be dead or something,
"Oh, well I am. It wasn't a peaceful death either," he added, he paused for a minute, as if debating whether to carry on. "I had a big argument with my dad one night, which ended pretty badly." He lifted his beanie hat to reveal a huge bullet wound which was encrusted with blood. Parts of his hair had been singed off and it looked like the back of his head had been blasted open. He quickly replaced the hat on his head.
"Yeah I looked like that when I first saw," He noted, looking at the shocked expression on my face, "but it's alright now, it doesn't hurt. I just wish I had hurt my dad too." He looked at me, "So, what about you?"
"Well, I got stabbed, but you can't see it unless I take this top off, which I'm not going to." Glenn nodded, "I got lost in darkness, and I had no-one left, then I gave up and this sword came right through me and I ended up here."
"Oh...when you say you had no-one left, what do you mean?" I thought Glenn was being a bit nosy, but seeing as how I was going to have to travel with him, I thought I'd tell.
"Erm, someone very special to me, came here as well, about a day before. The person who killed them got me as well." I looked down at the floor, now I really didn't want to have to talk about it.
"So, who is it?" I looked up at him, "The lucky girl I mean." Uh-oh, how was I gonna explain this. Kairi found it weird enough. At first, she refused to talk to me, then told everyone she knew. News travels fast and then it was just me and Riku, alone. I'd known her for so many years and she couldn't accept it, so how was this guy I met today gonna understand.
"Erm...well, y'see, it's not...what I mean is...oh forget it." I closed my eyes, not looking at Glenn, feeling myself blush.
"It's ok if you don't wanna talk about it. I'm sure we'll find her." I didn't have the heart to correct him, when he was trying to understand. I just nodded and turned my head away, as if to signal the end of the conversation.
I heard Glenn sigh and slide down to the floor and hopefully sleep, which was something I didn't do all night.
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Woohoo, ok, cos the hols are nearly over, I'm gonna update every weekend, well as much as I can, so watch out for another update soon.
Feedback is always appreciated.
xxx The one-winged Pegasus xxx
Disclaimer- I don't own any copyrighted material I use.
So, on we go. Oh, and by the way, the fighter is made up, he's my OC, so it's not Wakka :p
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"Where the hell did you get that sword?" I shouted at him, I was mad, that was Riku's sword, why did he have it? The boy turned to face me, he was about my age, maybe a little older, but he was taller than me by about 2 heads, even with my hair.
"Whoa, what's the fuss?" He asked, holding his arms out questioningly.
"Where did you get that sword?" I repeated, staring into his cold eyes,
"My old man gave it to me if you must know." He looked at me like I was a psycho, and I certainly felt like one at that moment in time.
"Oh, sorry. Someone I knew had a sword like that, and I thought that maybe..." I trailed off, looking at the floor.
"Hey, it's alright," he patted me on the back, seemingly reassuringly, but I noticed his gaze wandering and I knew he didn't mean it. "So, who are you exactly?"
I looked up at him, "I'm Sora, you're supposed to travel down here with me, to the brink or something."
"Oh yeah, that old bag said something about that, I'm Glenn." He stuck out his hand. I didn't shake it, after noticing the scars on his wrist. He followed my line of vision.
"Ok, so life wasn't so peachy for me, but what you gonna do?" He pulled his sleeve down, looking embarrassed. "We better get going," he stated to the air, rather than my face, shouldered the familiar blue and red sword and walked off down the hill.
I looked after the 'fighter', he looked like he was better at speaking, but I suppose they put you at a disadvantage here, to prove yourself. Seeing as how I had done a lot of fighting before, I guess I had to think things through now. After all, if I had learned to think things through, maybe I wouldn't be here now... I followed him down the hill.
The view was pretty spectacular, now that I bothered to look. The path was made of gravel, but it seemed to glow as the sunset descended into the hills in the distance. The sun's golden rays bathed the surrounding fields in golden light and small chaffinches flew out of the towering trees and dancing around the sky. It was perfect here. Maybe this was heaven...
I followed Glenn down the path, he was striding ahead, confident enough to know which way he wanted to go, but maybe too shy to talk to me. I reckon he was just being cautious. He marched off down the path, moving at top speed, his black trainers barely making a sound, but kicking up small dust clouds as he travelled quickly.
I took longer, just dawdling down the path, admiring the beauty of the nature around me. Not that I'm some tree hugger or anything, but I was amazed that I'd never once noticed how great nature was... I occasionally checked where Glenn was, just in case he decided to ditch me, but he didn't.
Glenn acted quite differently to how I had imagined from the picture of him I saw in the office. I thought that he might be awkward or irritating, but he wasn't like that. Despite his appearance, he seemed to be ok; maybe it was just his eyes. They looked so cruel, but he wasn't like that at all. Oh well, looks can be deceiving. Then a shout interrupted my thoughts,
"Oi, Sora! Come over here." I looked up, dragging my eyes away from my surroundings to jog over to where Glenn stood. He now had both of his long sleeves pulled down. "There's something up ahead, and it doesn't look pretty."
I stared into the distance, until I saw what he was referring to. A huge shadow loomed across the road. The object's huge body was blocking the light out from the sun. It was moving towards us at an alarming rate, despite its size.
"Ok, what choices do we have?" I asked, looking round at Glenn, who was biting his lip.
"Erm, well we've either gotta talk to it, or fight it." It was getting closer now; I could see a manic expression on its overly large face and steady drips of drool falling from its monstrous mouth to the ground.
"It doesn't look very friendly..." I watched it approach with increasing fear, when I had been fighting with the Keyblade, maybe I wouldn't have been scared, knowing that I had a weapon in my hand. Then it would have been just another fight, but now I was weapon less and this thing didn't look like it had a big enough brain to string two words together.
"Yeah, well good luck." Glenn backed off just as the creature reached us. I turned around to protest, but I found myself being lifted up off the ground by a huge sticky hand. I turned to face the creature and flinched.
Its head was easily three times the size of mine, with a huge mouth stretching the whole width of its face. The mouth was filled with thousands of shiny pointed teeth, all covered with saliva. A huge purple tongue hung limply out of its mouth, dripping with spit. As it brought me closer to its mouth, a huge glob of saliva landed on my arm, I yelped and tried desperately to brush it off. My arm went cold and I bet it was due to the saliva.
The smell was horrendous, this monster was breathing down my neck and I was choking on a smell that I couldn't even pinpoint. Why wasn't Glenn doing anything? Then I realised what the woman had said, 'This is important. The speaker and fighter must NOT interfere with each other's business.' I decided to do something, rather than accept my second death.
"Umm, ex-excuse me..." I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and continued, "Y- You're in our way and we'd like to get past. I opened my eyes and looked at the monster carefully. It lifted me up so I was level with its tiny yellow eyes, which were stuck just above its mouth. It seemed to be considering what I said. "We have an erm...important banquet to attend, and if you let us go, we'll bring you back food."
I waited for a minute, just waiting for the monster to eat me, and then it dropped me to the floor so suddenly I gasped as I landed painfully on top of my leg, which was at a funny angle, apparently you still got hurt here. I dragged myself backwards, just as it sat on the floor, nearly crushing me. A smile was playing on its lips, as it opened its mouth wide,
"Fooooooooooooooooooooooood," came out of its mouth in a huge rumbling breath that knocked me over backwards.
"Uh-huh," I said weakly. I sat up, "Lots of food, if you let us pass." It bowed its head down, which I took for a nod and assumed that this was over, seeing as how the monster was snoring. "Ugh..." I collapsed on the floor.
"Well done," Glenn came over and knelt down next to me, he dragged me up to a sitting position. "Lets get going, I'm sure you don't wanna sleep by that thing," he gestured over to the monster that was still snoring.
"Ok," I agreed, but my arm still felt cold and numb and my ankle hurt. I dragged myself up with my good arm, using Glenn as a support and hobbled off down the road. When we were out of earshot of the monster,
"Hey, where exactly are we going to get loads of food from?" Glenn asked me, turning off into a side road, which had a large tree at the bottom.
"I dunno, by the time it wakes up, it'll probably have forgotten about us anyway." I added, sitting down by the roots of the tree. It was dark now and the stars were out in the sky. After a while, I turned my head towards Glenn, who was staring at the sky as well,
"Why are you here?"
"What?" He looked puzzled,
"Well, the lady said people are here for lots of different reasons, and I thought you might not actually be dead or something,
"Oh, well I am. It wasn't a peaceful death either," he added, he paused for a minute, as if debating whether to carry on. "I had a big argument with my dad one night, which ended pretty badly." He lifted his beanie hat to reveal a huge bullet wound which was encrusted with blood. Parts of his hair had been singed off and it looked like the back of his head had been blasted open. He quickly replaced the hat on his head.
"Yeah I looked like that when I first saw," He noted, looking at the shocked expression on my face, "but it's alright now, it doesn't hurt. I just wish I had hurt my dad too." He looked at me, "So, what about you?"
"Well, I got stabbed, but you can't see it unless I take this top off, which I'm not going to." Glenn nodded, "I got lost in darkness, and I had no-one left, then I gave up and this sword came right through me and I ended up here."
"Oh...when you say you had no-one left, what do you mean?" I thought Glenn was being a bit nosy, but seeing as how I was going to have to travel with him, I thought I'd tell.
"Erm, someone very special to me, came here as well, about a day before. The person who killed them got me as well." I looked down at the floor, now I really didn't want to have to talk about it.
"So, who is it?" I looked up at him, "The lucky girl I mean." Uh-oh, how was I gonna explain this. Kairi found it weird enough. At first, she refused to talk to me, then told everyone she knew. News travels fast and then it was just me and Riku, alone. I'd known her for so many years and she couldn't accept it, so how was this guy I met today gonna understand.
"Erm...well, y'see, it's not...what I mean is...oh forget it." I closed my eyes, not looking at Glenn, feeling myself blush.
"It's ok if you don't wanna talk about it. I'm sure we'll find her." I didn't have the heart to correct him, when he was trying to understand. I just nodded and turned my head away, as if to signal the end of the conversation.
I heard Glenn sigh and slide down to the floor and hopefully sleep, which was something I didn't do all night.
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Woohoo, ok, cos the hols are nearly over, I'm gonna update every weekend, well as much as I can, so watch out for another update soon.
Feedback is always appreciated.
xxx The one-winged Pegasus xxx