Me: IIIIIIIIIIII'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM BBBAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Riku: Oh joy.
Sora: She's back.
Me: I JUST DRANK FOUR CANS OF MOUNTAIN DEW LIVE WIRE AND MY SELF CONFIDENCE HAS GONE THROUGH THE ROOF! THIS WILL BE THE BEST CHAPTER EVER! REALLY LONG! A LITTLE FLUFF! THROW IN SOME ANGST AND YOU COME UP WITH.... CHAPTER THREE!
Kairi: YAY!
Sora: Wait a second... what do you mean angst? Do I get tortured in this chapter?
Me: Eeeerrrrrrr............... read and review!
Sora: --
Destiny Islands
The sunlight shone through his tightly shut eyelids, and he finally opened them to reveal a blind-less window through which poured early morning light. Sora groaned, and attempted to pull of the heavy covers and tumbled out of bed; literally. He had gotten home pretty late last night, and after bearing through all of his mothers screaming, he wasn't very happy. His head pounded loudly as he dragged himself off of the floor and into the shower. He turned it on the hottest temperature possible and stepped in. He winced slightly at the heat, but it woke him up. After all of those fire spells he had endured the previous year, this was nothing.
All of a sudden, he was hit by a expolosion of memories... a giant three-headed dog lunged at him with bared teeth, cutting deep into his left shoulder... Kairi's lifeless body.... Riku sending countless enemies at him... millions of black shadows infested his island... pools of darkness swallowed him and Riku.... Keyblade... Keyblade.... But do not fear... For you hold the greatest weapon of all... And remember.... You are the one who will open the door... Sora's head snapped up, breathing heavily. He had never had so many of those memories come back to him all at once. "What the hell..."
After having that nice little happy reunion with his past, Sora crept down the stairs. His mother said last night that she would be dealing out his punishment in the morning, and he didn't want to stick around to find out what it was. He gobbled down a bowl of Frosted Flakes and hurried out the door. What he saw made his eyes widen to twice their size. "Oh no..."
The island was half destroyed from the storm last night. Rooves had been blown off, random things litered the ground, the pier had been destroyed along with the rope bridge. Large pools of rain and salt water lay every few yards. Trees had had there deep roots lifted out and some lay broken. "There's going to be one heck of a clean-up today." Sora muttered to himself as he looked around for an easy route to the hotel. He chose to hop across the cliff and landed into the two-foot deep water and waded over to the beach. It wasn't very uncommon to see islanders walking through the water with shoes on. Yuffie quickly noticed this and took the first chance that came at her to tackle Leon into the water. He wasn't very happy about that, but he always held back his anger when it came to Yuffie.
When he reached the shore line he trampled up to Riku's house and hammered on the door. No one answered. He tried again, but still no answer. "And he calls me a lazy bum," Sora muttered as he walked around to the other side of the house. He looked up and saw Riku's window. An idea came to him, and an evil grin spread across his face. He climbed the boards and lept lightly through the open window. Riku lay in a tangle of blankets.
Sora knelt down by his bedside, and whispered into his ear "Riku... ohhhh Riiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkkkkkkuuuuuuuu..."
"What?" Riku muttered, still asleep. "Who are you?"
Sora struggled to hold back laughter for a moment, and then continued. "It is me, Malifecent... I have come for you Riku.... join me in my quest for revenge against the keybearer..."
"No, leave Sora alone," Riku murmered, turning over in his sleep as if trying to run from the mysterious voice.
Sora snorted with laughter, and kept the rest of it back. "Then maybe your little girlfriend, Kairi, will help me." Sora had a purpose to this whole prank, and he was coming to it. Did Riku still like Kairi? He wasn't sure....
"Kairi's not my girlfriend," Riku said groggily. "She's Sora's"
"Really?" Sora asked. In his surprise he forgot to use his low, Malifecent voice and Riku jolted awake.
"SORA!" Riku yelled. But Sora didn't have a chance to look scared. He was still surprised. "Why the hell did you do that?"
"You don't like Kairi anymore?" Sora asked. Riku had a puzzled expression on his face until it hit him as to what Sora had been saying to him in his dreams.
"Oh, that..." Riku muttered. "Well, no, not really. I mean, I've had my chance and I blew it by turning evil. And I think she considers me more of a big brother and not a boyfriend. But I've seen the way you you two look at each other. If there's anyone who's getting together on this island besides Yuffie and Leon, it's you and Kiari."
Sora's face turned beat red. "Oh..." he muttered. He cast around for a change of subject. "Well, anyways, we should be at the hotel. You coming?"
"Yeah, I'll be there in a minute. Go knock for Kairi," Riku said, waving a hand of dismissal. Sora hopped out of the window, glad to get away from all of the sappy stuff. Too much of it in one week.
Sora knocked on Kairi's door, and heard a voice call "Just a minute!" The door creaked open and showed Kairi with a skimpy towel wrapped around herself. Her face turned beat red, just as Sora's had. She quickly closed the door enough so that she could peak her head through without Sora seing her.
"Uhhh...ummm... ar-are y-you coming to the h-hotel?" Sora stuttered. The last time he had seen Kairi with so little colthes on was when she wore a bathing suit, and he couldn't help but stare then.
"Yes, I'll be out in a minute," she said, her face still that attractive color of red. She closed the door, and Sora sat down on the patio. He could still remember the first time he ever met Kairi... and it was one heck of a meeting, too.
Flash Back Time!
"Hey Sora, throw it here!" Wakku yelled. It was five years ago, and Sora, Riku, and Wakku were playing blitzball in the late afternoon, the sky turning into a burnt orange with tints of pink and purple on the horizon. Sora thought it would be more interestiong to kick, so he did... with all of his might. The three boys watched as it flew into the air and landed some ways into the ocean.
"WOO HOO!" Sora said jumping up and down. "That has to be a new record!"
"Oh yes, congradulations Sora!" Riku said clapping his hands, voice dripping in saracasm. "And your grand prize is... To get the blitzball out of the ocean!" Sora's face fell as he looked at the blitzball, slowly drifting out to sea.
"Do I have to?"
"YES!" Riku and Wakku yelled at the same time.
"Fine, fine!" Sora exclaimed. He walked up to the water and took his shoes off; he didn't feel like getting them wet and then having to dry them out. He waded through the water and around twenty yards in, it was waist deep. He reached out for the blitzball.
Then, a sudden gust of wind came from somewhere behind him, blowing the ball further out to sea. But when he got close to it again, it just blew away again. "What the..." Something strange was going on around here. "Sora!" someone yelled from behind him. He turned around to see Riku waving to him. "We'll be waiting at Tidus's house." With that, they walked away. Sora sighed and turned back to the current problem.
The water was soon up to his shoulders and he swam after it, but still it blew away.
Then it stopped. It went from high speed and then just sat there as if some invisible force was holding it there. Oh yeah, very strange.
That was when he saw it. Some further yards out, an old plank drifted in the water. But the plank wasn't the weird thing; it was the girl who was unconsience on it. Waves rocked her body gently up and down, thin wisps of red hair clung to her face. She was small and looked so delicate he thought she would break if he touched her. Her eyes were red and puffy and she had obviously been crying. She wore a white t-shirt that was ripped in places along with a skirt that had also seen better days. She looked so beautiful, but his vision of her was soon deleted as she slipped under the water.
Sora gasped. He took a deep breath and plunged under. A few moments he ripped above the water, the girl cradled in his arms. There was something very strange about her, but what isn't strange about a girl appearing in the sea from out of nowhere? He bagan to walk back torwards the shore when the girls eye's fluttered open.
"Hi!" Sora said happily, glad she wasn't dead.
"Hi..." she said softly. "Who are you?"
"I'm Sora."
"I'm Kairi."
"Well Kairi, welcome to Destiny Islands." Sora said, giving her ones of his grins that could light up even the darkest of situations.
She smiled lightly, and then drifted off to sleep, her head resting on Sora's shoulder....
End Flash Back (Just tell me you didn't think that was cute!)
Sora smiled fondly at the memory. It brought something else to his mind, though. "She's not my girlfriend... She's Sora's..." He still couldn't believe Riku was giving Sora the chance... he was going to find someone else....this was too weird. Almost as weird as when he first met Kairi... of course, he now knew what was so weird about her. She was a Princess of Heart, and she had stolen his.
"Are you ready?" Sora whipped around to see Kairi standing there, fully clothed in a black silk mini shirt and a red japenese belly shirt (you know those shirts, the ones with the buttons down the front? I have one of those shirts, it's awesome!). She had put a small bit of make up on her face and her hair flowed down her back in a simple, but pretty manner.
Sora grinned. "Yup. Just waiting for Riku."
"Don't worry, I know you two could barely stand being away from my pressence for too long, so I hurried over," a voice drawed from the corner of the house. Kairi giggled and Sora just shook his head at his best friend. Riku grinned wickedly. "I'm sorry, was I interupting a special moment?'
Their faces turned red again and Riku just shook his head. "Come on, lets get to the hotel before Mickey comes out here and starts beating us with his keyblade."
They walked in silence the rest of the way. One of them may have said a comment about the damage, but no one was really sure.
They finally arrived and pushed open the door to reveal everyone sitting around table. Everyone was sipping their coffee excet for King Mickey, Goofy, and Yuffie; they were drinking hot chocolate.
"Morning!" Yuffie said cheerfully. sora just yawned, Riku glared at Leon for no reason at all, and Kairi poured herself for no reason at all.
"Why are you glaring at me?" Leon snapped.
"Because you lack the ability to keep your girlfriends mouth shut! My mom was yelling at me like there was no tomorow!" Riku yelled.
Aerieth and Yuffie giggled. "Anyway..." Sora began, breaking up the fight before it even began. "What did you want to tell us?"
"Ah yes, that," Mickey said, the worried expression that had spread acrost his face really not suiting him. "That..." He sighed, looking Sora straight in the eyes. "Sora, you remember how I said that there would always be a door, right?" Sora nodded. It had been half a year ago that Sora had finally found the door, which happened to be the one that lie in the secret passageway on Destiny Islands. "Well, there is also a door to the darkness. And of course, if there's two doors to the light, there's two doors to the darkness." Sora turned paler then the sand that lay on the beaches.
"No..." he began, shaking his head. "The heartless can't be back, there just no way. We made sure that when we found you in that door, we destroyed every last one of those heartless! There is no way we can fight them... not again...."
"Don't worry Sora, we did destroy those heartless," King Mickey said, causing for his face to gain back some of its color. :"But there are still some heartless wondering around the worlds. And they're being called back. The maps back at the castle have been tracking their movements, and as far as we can tell, then have gathered here."
He took a scroll out of his pockets, and spread it across the table; it was completely blank. But when he pulled out his keyblade and tapped it lightly. Color spread and show an are containing ten different worlds; Antlantica, Monstro, Deep Jungle, Traverse Town, Olympus Colloseum, Holloween Town, Wonderland, Agraba, and Hollow Bastion. There were tiny black dots all throughout the worlds, scattered every here and there. But the dots were moving, and they all seemed to be flowing in one direstion... Hollow Bastion.
"Oh shit..." Riku murmered. Kairi had small tears in the corners of her eyes, trying hard not to let them fall.
Sora was just plain stunned. After a moment or two of silence he finally asked "Why are they all gathering at Hallow Bastion? Do I want to no who's calling them?"
King Mickey sighed again. "Sora, you've got to understand this. They're back. All of them. Ursela, Hook, Jafar, Oogie Boogie, Malifecent... the whole lot of them. They were reborn from the darkness in the second door. We need to get to that door and seal it shut... for good."
There was complete silence. "What do they want?" Leon grunted. Why the hell go through the trouble of getting back here? What do they want?"
"It's not what they want!" Donald smapped. "It's who they want!"
Everyone looked around at Sora who's eyes were haunted looking; he had known they would want revenge as King Mickey said that the heartless were back. "So in other words..." Sora began, letting the truth sink in slowly. "I am totally screwed." No one said a thing. Even Aerieth was quiet, when she usually would have yelled at Sora for using that language. No one knew what to say to him.
"Not entirely..." Mickey bagan. Maybe, if we cut back their sourse, then they won't be able to..."
But he was cut off by Sora's yelling. "OH COME OFF IT! THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN STOP THEM. I CAN'T GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO HELP WITHOUT GETTING CAPTURED! IF THEY TURNED EVIL RIKU, I HIGHLY DOUBT THEY'LL HAVE TROUBLE GETTING TO ME!"
More silence followed his words. They were stunned by his sudden outburst, and Sora was already beginning to feel a bit ashamed of himself. He opened his mouth to apologize, but Rike just shook his head. "It's okay Sora. We can understand it. But the one way they'll get to your heart faster is if you keep that attitude." Sora looked up. Riku was right.
"We'll just have to take this one step at a time," Aerieth said calmly. "Sora, if we can get you to the castle, you may be protected long enough for us to come up with a real pl..."
knock knock
Everyones' eyes darted to the door... someone was knocking to be let in. Leon stood up and slowly walked to the door. (Don't open the door you idiot!) There was something odd about the odd silence that had swept over the island. (Don't open the god damn door!) Leon's hand slowly drifted to the doorknob (You asshole, havn't you ever seen scary movies???? Don't open the fucking door!) His hand closed around it, and he pulled it open.... (NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!).... and there stood.... (Don't look!).... it was ... THE EASTER BUNNY! No, I'm just kidding. Malifecent stood, there, looking as deadly as ever. Her staff glowed with a black light, and she sent it slamming into Leon, sending him flying across the room and clearing her way to the entrance. Yuffie rushed to him to make sure he was okay. "Key bearer.... my time has come at last..."
They heard odd sounds coming from the corners of the room, and heartless started appearing like mad! They drew out their weapons and started attacking, but the more they destroyed, the more appeared. But the heartless didn't seem interested at all in anyone... everyone except Sora.
"AAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Sora cryed as he felt another set of claws slice themselves into his bared skin. They started to pil on top of him, stopping him from all movement. The others tryed to get to him ,but the shadows held them back.
"Sora!" cryed Kairi as she watched Sora dissapear beneath a pile of shadows.
A pool of darkness melted into view below Sora, and he could feel the cold darkness drawing him under! (Picture the cutseen in KH where Riku and Sora are both surrounded by that black smoke on Destiny Islands... thats what this looks like... only much more deadly )
"Darkness is here to take you Sora," Malifecent whispered, going down with him. "And you are going with it, whether you like it or not."
END
Me: WOOO HOOOOOO! I'm done chapter three! I'd just like to thank M. D Sora and Elagant Arrow for giving me so much confidence! I couldn't have fixed my self-confidence problem without you!
Kairi: Who cares about that, you just had my future boyfriend captured by evil forces! DIE!
Riku: Dude, you made Sora get captured... not cool.
Me: I'm sorry! bows deeply I won't do it again, I promise!
Sora: currently missing
Kairi: Come on Riku, we have to go find Sora!
Riku: Where are the others.
Leon:
Yuffie: Checking Leon
Aerieth: Healing King Mickey
King Mickey: OUCH!
Kairi: I wonder where Sora is...
Riku: Ask her points at me. She got him captured, she knows where he is!
All: Glare
Me: Uhh..... Read and Review!