Concealed
By: Snakey
Chapter 6: Proof of Pain -------------------------------------
Sky looked around, and he couldn't see anyone there. He looked to the side, and saw trophies and a plaque.
'Told you I was a great fighter, but you didn't believe me.' said the voice of Sora, which was coming from Sky's head.
He grinned, but didn't notice that Selphie was staring at him and made a weird face when he did that. He looked back at her when he finally realized, and was a tad bit embarrassed. She continued her staring, but then turned away to stare at Tidus instead.
"Whoa! These belong to Sora?" Tidus cried, looking at the trophies.
"He's not only cute, but he can fight too!" Selphie yelled out loud.
Everyone stared at her after her statement. Kairi had felt a little bit of jealousy growing inside her, but then again, Selphie was always joking around. This could have been one of those jokes that got everyone's attention. She's been doing that quite a bit lately.
"Cute?" Riku asked, trying to be as brief as possible.
"Hey, I've got my reasons." Selphie replied.
"Looks like Kairi's got some competition." Tidus joked, but then got hit on the head by Kairi.
"It's not funny." She said.
"Hey, I won't take Sora away from you Kairi." Selphie smiled.
Selphie pulled Sky over, and took his hand a squeezed tightly.
"I'll just take Sky away from you instead." She stated.
"Okay, enough jokes. Let's check out what's on the other side of that door." Sky yanked, causing Selphie to release him.
Sky walked to the door, but then something pushed him back and he fell to the floor. Kairi quickly helped him up, and they looked to see the one that pushed Sky. They were a bit surprised to see that no one was there. Riku examined the door, and went through it safely. Sky stood up, and tried again. But something was blocking him, and he bounced off of it and slammed into the wall.
"What's going on?" Sky asked.
"I think it's some kind of barrier." Riku said.
Kairi took out her slingshot, and flung the rock through the door. But like Sky, it bounced off the invisible barrier and went flying to the wall. Sky ducked, and the rock missed his forehead by half a centimetre. They stared at the door, checking to see if there was some sort of device that could set the barrier off. Riku tried to walk back to the other side, but couldn't.
"Hey! I'm stuck here!" He cried.
"What's going on? Why's there a barrier here!?" Tidus yelled angrily.
"This is going to cause some delays.." Selphie said.
"Well, too bad, Riku. We've got to leave you here and continue our journey, bye!" Tidus announced.
"I'm going to smack you so hard.." Riku said, but was interrupted by Sky's fireball, which was sent straight at the barrier.
It worked, but the fireball hit Riku on the stomach. Riku fell down, but luckily Sky casted 'Water' on him before he caught on fire. Riku was soaked, and the only thing that was dried was his silver-grey hair.
"Oops.." Sky said as he went to the other side.
".." moaned Riku.
".I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that, I was just going to see if I could break that barrier.."
"At least it worked.." Kairi said before Riku was going to do something to Sky.
"Alright, we can get through!" Selphie yelled.
The group of teens stepped through, and helped the fallen Riku so he was back on his feet. He looked at Sky angrily, but then turned around and walked further away. Sky sighed in relief, because he thought for a moment that Riku was going to seriously hurt him. Tidus put a hand over Sky shoulder and gave him a little pat on the back, just to see if Sky was okay.
"I thought you were going to get flattened, Sky." He said.
"I did too, but he just looked at me very angrily."
"You know, I think Riku's got a heart after all." Selphie said behind the two boys.
"Everyone's got one. Riku's just not the type that shows it." Tidus said.
"Hey, if we continue talking about him, you think he'll get mad and come back to stomp us?" Sky asked.
The three stood there thinking about it, and decided to stop. Kairi giggled, and followed Riku from far behind him. They looked around the arena, but they couldn't see anyone. Sky walked up the steps, and felt the walls with his fingers. As he did his examination, the others continued looking for someone alive and willing to talk. Tidus got bored after awhile, so he sat on the steps and looked up at the sky. Sky continued to feel the walls, and then something sharp scratched his finger tip, leaving a small bloody scar.
"Ouch." Sky whispered to himself.
He looked at the point that had scratched his finger. He touched it again, and it stung him once more. It felt like a thorn on a rose. Sky looked closely at the point, and tried to find anything else near it. More points stung his finger tips. He started to wonder..
'Hmm.. It feels like thorns of a rose.. Maybe it is a rose.'
Sky took out his left hand to reveal the shiny keyhole upon it.
"Fire!" he called.
A red light shone from his hand, and fire balls shot out of it and slammed into the wall. Surprised, everyone but Tidus looked to see what Sky was doing. Fire burned the wall, and it also burned something that looked like a rose. The tall rose fell detached from the wall and fell to the floor as it burned in flames. No one knew why it was there, so they wanted to find out, and ran towards Sky's position. They looked at the dead rose as the flames began to decrease. Tidus continued looking at the sky, leaning on the steps. But then, he saw something in the middle of it. A brownish dot was what it seemed like. It grew bigger and bigger, and soon Tidus shot up from his spot and looked shocked. The dot had spikes, and the spikes waved around as the dot grew bigger and bigger. That wasn't a dot, it was a person! Tidus ran up the steps so he could see the side of the person. A black shirt, red pants, yellow shoes, and brown spiky hair. There was only one person in the worlds that Tidus knew with that outfit.
"Sora!" he cried automatically.
Tidus ran directly below the falling friend and was worried that Sora would come crashing down leaving both of them dead. The others turned around, and saw Tidus attempting to catch something. Kairi narrowed her eyes to see who or what it was. Sky was shocked. That was Sora! Kairi found out too, and ran down the steps almost tripping. Sky followed close behind her. Sora was about to hit Tidus now. Tidus got ready, and was about to catch Sora. But that plan didn't work. Sora went right through Tidus, and hit the floor, shattering like glass. Kairi paused. Everyone started and Tidus with the shattered pieces around him.
"What kind of joke is this!?" Riku yelled in anger.
"Are you sure..?" Tidus looked at them, hesitating a bit.
Sky knelt down and picked up a piece from the floor. He eyed it, but no matter how he looked, all he could see was his reflection in that small mirror. Kairi wanted to see what it was too, but when she looked at her piece, she saw nothing but a white surface. Riku looked over Kairi's shoulder, and he saw the white surface slowly change into black.
"What's with these pieces?" Kairi asked without knowing if anyone else would know.
"I don't know, but it seems that every piece has something different in it." Selphie answered.
"Well, in this piece, all I see is my reflection." Sky said.
"This one turns from white to black." Riku pointed out about Kairi's piece.
"Well, let's put them all together so we can see all of them." Tidus said while sweeping the pieces to one spot.
Everyone copied Tidus, and pushed them all into the centre. When they finished, they all stared at the glass and were very amused. Each piece had a different ability, and some were like small monitors. [Author's note: Wouldn't you like to have a window made with that kinda glass?] Sky looked behind him, and saw that there was still one piece that was left.
"We forgot one." He said, going back to get it.
Sky bent over and picked it up, but he wasn't careful and got cut on his right hand.
"Ow!" He yelped dropping the piece from his fingers.
"You really should be more careful, Sky. It's still broken glass after all." Selphie lectured.
"Yeah.. I forgot about that.."
"Well, bring it over anyways." Riku commanded.
Sky's cut was bleeding, and a drop of blood even dropped onto the glass. Surprisingly, by the time Sky brought the piece over, it started to ripple in blood red. Selphie stared at it, and then looked at the rest of the pieces. They were rippling too.
"Oh my god.." She whispered.
"What did you do, Sky!?" Tidus yelled.
"Nothing, I just got cut by one!" Sky replied.
"I don't like this at all...." Kairi complained.
"Let's be prepared for whatever's going to happen next.." Riku said, taking out his blade. [Author's note: You know, that blade he's holding on the cover of the game.]
"This place just gets weirder and weirder!" Tidus cried as the pieces started to move automatically, building up on top of each other.
Everyone took out their weapons, and stood in position, ready to fight. The pieces continued to build, and created a human figure. The red started to change to other colours too, and now it looked like a duplicate of Sora.
"Another Sora!?" Tidus cried.
"What do these pieces of glass have against Sora!?" Kairi questioned angrily.
"This is for using my best friend's face!" Riku started the action.
He charged at the fake Sora, and cut it in half with his blade. Once again, the Sora shattered.
"What?" Selphie said in amazement.
"That was it?" Sky said beside her.
".." Riku was wordless.
"I expected something much more extraordinary.." Tidus murmured.
"Some fight." Kairi said looking down at the once again shattered pieces.
"Somehow, it feels like we just got insulted." Sky stated.
The others nodded at his statement, and continued looking at the pieces to see what else they would do. Suddenly, a piece from behind Kairi shot up, and cut her hand. Now the pieces started rippling again, and formed a Kairi.
"Ok, so is this all it does?" Riku started at the fake Kairi.
"Ow, that hurt!" Kairi complained, staring angrily at the duplicate.
"Let me get this one." Tidus said, taking out his stick.
With one hard wack on the fake Kairi's head, it started cracking, and then broke apart. Tidus rested his stick on his shoulder, and looked at the pieces again.
"This is just dumb!" He cried.
"Someone dig a hole and bury these insults." Riku said.
The pieces just lay there now without a movement. The gang got tired after staring, so they decided to leave without cleaning up. Of course, they had to continue their journey. All 5 teens hopped into their gummi ship, and Sky did a few repairs before they took off. When they left the Coliseum, they didn't realize that they unlocked something that shouldn't have been touched. But without knowing, the happy teens continued on peacefully.
*---Meanwhile: back at Coliseum---*
Dark figures came out of a portal, and one of them knelt down to see the shattered pieces. The figure stared closely at the largest piece, and made a statement to those behind it.
"This is all the proof we need." It said calmly.
"Should we hunt him down now?" The men said.
"No, there is still something I must ask him privately."
"Then we'll stay back until later on and await your orders."
"Fine, go back then."
"Yes mistress."
The dark men stepped back, and vanished. The only one that remained was a girl. She gathered the pieces into a sack, and stood up. She looked about checking to see if she missed anything. After the examination, her face turned from black to white. And then the brown hair that went to her shoulders, and along with it, the blood red eyes.
"Run Sky.." She whispered.
But after one whisper, her face went pitch black once more, and she stepped through a portal to gate out from the Coliseum.
To be continued in Chapter 7..
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Snakey: Oh my god.. This chapter took WAY too long to finish! _ I'm sorry! I was playing so much that I completely forgot to finish this chapter.. (Must shut myself away from Ragnarok Online..) Anyway, at least it's up! So please people, READ AND REVIEW! (please ^^u)
~July 25th, '03
Chapter 6: Proof of Pain -------------------------------------
Sky looked around, and he couldn't see anyone there. He looked to the side, and saw trophies and a plaque.
'Told you I was a great fighter, but you didn't believe me.' said the voice of Sora, which was coming from Sky's head.
He grinned, but didn't notice that Selphie was staring at him and made a weird face when he did that. He looked back at her when he finally realized, and was a tad bit embarrassed. She continued her staring, but then turned away to stare at Tidus instead.
"Whoa! These belong to Sora?" Tidus cried, looking at the trophies.
"He's not only cute, but he can fight too!" Selphie yelled out loud.
Everyone stared at her after her statement. Kairi had felt a little bit of jealousy growing inside her, but then again, Selphie was always joking around. This could have been one of those jokes that got everyone's attention. She's been doing that quite a bit lately.
"Cute?" Riku asked, trying to be as brief as possible.
"Hey, I've got my reasons." Selphie replied.
"Looks like Kairi's got some competition." Tidus joked, but then got hit on the head by Kairi.
"It's not funny." She said.
"Hey, I won't take Sora away from you Kairi." Selphie smiled.
Selphie pulled Sky over, and took his hand a squeezed tightly.
"I'll just take Sky away from you instead." She stated.
"Okay, enough jokes. Let's check out what's on the other side of that door." Sky yanked, causing Selphie to release him.
Sky walked to the door, but then something pushed him back and he fell to the floor. Kairi quickly helped him up, and they looked to see the one that pushed Sky. They were a bit surprised to see that no one was there. Riku examined the door, and went through it safely. Sky stood up, and tried again. But something was blocking him, and he bounced off of it and slammed into the wall.
"What's going on?" Sky asked.
"I think it's some kind of barrier." Riku said.
Kairi took out her slingshot, and flung the rock through the door. But like Sky, it bounced off the invisible barrier and went flying to the wall. Sky ducked, and the rock missed his forehead by half a centimetre. They stared at the door, checking to see if there was some sort of device that could set the barrier off. Riku tried to walk back to the other side, but couldn't.
"Hey! I'm stuck here!" He cried.
"What's going on? Why's there a barrier here!?" Tidus yelled angrily.
"This is going to cause some delays.." Selphie said.
"Well, too bad, Riku. We've got to leave you here and continue our journey, bye!" Tidus announced.
"I'm going to smack you so hard.." Riku said, but was interrupted by Sky's fireball, which was sent straight at the barrier.
It worked, but the fireball hit Riku on the stomach. Riku fell down, but luckily Sky casted 'Water' on him before he caught on fire. Riku was soaked, and the only thing that was dried was his silver-grey hair.
"Oops.." Sky said as he went to the other side.
".." moaned Riku.
".I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that, I was just going to see if I could break that barrier.."
"At least it worked.." Kairi said before Riku was going to do something to Sky.
"Alright, we can get through!" Selphie yelled.
The group of teens stepped through, and helped the fallen Riku so he was back on his feet. He looked at Sky angrily, but then turned around and walked further away. Sky sighed in relief, because he thought for a moment that Riku was going to seriously hurt him. Tidus put a hand over Sky shoulder and gave him a little pat on the back, just to see if Sky was okay.
"I thought you were going to get flattened, Sky." He said.
"I did too, but he just looked at me very angrily."
"You know, I think Riku's got a heart after all." Selphie said behind the two boys.
"Everyone's got one. Riku's just not the type that shows it." Tidus said.
"Hey, if we continue talking about him, you think he'll get mad and come back to stomp us?" Sky asked.
The three stood there thinking about it, and decided to stop. Kairi giggled, and followed Riku from far behind him. They looked around the arena, but they couldn't see anyone. Sky walked up the steps, and felt the walls with his fingers. As he did his examination, the others continued looking for someone alive and willing to talk. Tidus got bored after awhile, so he sat on the steps and looked up at the sky. Sky continued to feel the walls, and then something sharp scratched his finger tip, leaving a small bloody scar.
"Ouch." Sky whispered to himself.
He looked at the point that had scratched his finger. He touched it again, and it stung him once more. It felt like a thorn on a rose. Sky looked closely at the point, and tried to find anything else near it. More points stung his finger tips. He started to wonder..
'Hmm.. It feels like thorns of a rose.. Maybe it is a rose.'
Sky took out his left hand to reveal the shiny keyhole upon it.
"Fire!" he called.
A red light shone from his hand, and fire balls shot out of it and slammed into the wall. Surprised, everyone but Tidus looked to see what Sky was doing. Fire burned the wall, and it also burned something that looked like a rose. The tall rose fell detached from the wall and fell to the floor as it burned in flames. No one knew why it was there, so they wanted to find out, and ran towards Sky's position. They looked at the dead rose as the flames began to decrease. Tidus continued looking at the sky, leaning on the steps. But then, he saw something in the middle of it. A brownish dot was what it seemed like. It grew bigger and bigger, and soon Tidus shot up from his spot and looked shocked. The dot had spikes, and the spikes waved around as the dot grew bigger and bigger. That wasn't a dot, it was a person! Tidus ran up the steps so he could see the side of the person. A black shirt, red pants, yellow shoes, and brown spiky hair. There was only one person in the worlds that Tidus knew with that outfit.
"Sora!" he cried automatically.
Tidus ran directly below the falling friend and was worried that Sora would come crashing down leaving both of them dead. The others turned around, and saw Tidus attempting to catch something. Kairi narrowed her eyes to see who or what it was. Sky was shocked. That was Sora! Kairi found out too, and ran down the steps almost tripping. Sky followed close behind her. Sora was about to hit Tidus now. Tidus got ready, and was about to catch Sora. But that plan didn't work. Sora went right through Tidus, and hit the floor, shattering like glass. Kairi paused. Everyone started and Tidus with the shattered pieces around him.
"What kind of joke is this!?" Riku yelled in anger.
"Are you sure..?" Tidus looked at them, hesitating a bit.
Sky knelt down and picked up a piece from the floor. He eyed it, but no matter how he looked, all he could see was his reflection in that small mirror. Kairi wanted to see what it was too, but when she looked at her piece, she saw nothing but a white surface. Riku looked over Kairi's shoulder, and he saw the white surface slowly change into black.
"What's with these pieces?" Kairi asked without knowing if anyone else would know.
"I don't know, but it seems that every piece has something different in it." Selphie answered.
"Well, in this piece, all I see is my reflection." Sky said.
"This one turns from white to black." Riku pointed out about Kairi's piece.
"Well, let's put them all together so we can see all of them." Tidus said while sweeping the pieces to one spot.
Everyone copied Tidus, and pushed them all into the centre. When they finished, they all stared at the glass and were very amused. Each piece had a different ability, and some were like small monitors. [Author's note: Wouldn't you like to have a window made with that kinda glass?] Sky looked behind him, and saw that there was still one piece that was left.
"We forgot one." He said, going back to get it.
Sky bent over and picked it up, but he wasn't careful and got cut on his right hand.
"Ow!" He yelped dropping the piece from his fingers.
"You really should be more careful, Sky. It's still broken glass after all." Selphie lectured.
"Yeah.. I forgot about that.."
"Well, bring it over anyways." Riku commanded.
Sky's cut was bleeding, and a drop of blood even dropped onto the glass. Surprisingly, by the time Sky brought the piece over, it started to ripple in blood red. Selphie stared at it, and then looked at the rest of the pieces. They were rippling too.
"Oh my god.." She whispered.
"What did you do, Sky!?" Tidus yelled.
"Nothing, I just got cut by one!" Sky replied.
"I don't like this at all...." Kairi complained.
"Let's be prepared for whatever's going to happen next.." Riku said, taking out his blade. [Author's note: You know, that blade he's holding on the cover of the game.]
"This place just gets weirder and weirder!" Tidus cried as the pieces started to move automatically, building up on top of each other.
Everyone took out their weapons, and stood in position, ready to fight. The pieces continued to build, and created a human figure. The red started to change to other colours too, and now it looked like a duplicate of Sora.
"Another Sora!?" Tidus cried.
"What do these pieces of glass have against Sora!?" Kairi questioned angrily.
"This is for using my best friend's face!" Riku started the action.
He charged at the fake Sora, and cut it in half with his blade. Once again, the Sora shattered.
"What?" Selphie said in amazement.
"That was it?" Sky said beside her.
".." Riku was wordless.
"I expected something much more extraordinary.." Tidus murmured.
"Some fight." Kairi said looking down at the once again shattered pieces.
"Somehow, it feels like we just got insulted." Sky stated.
The others nodded at his statement, and continued looking at the pieces to see what else they would do. Suddenly, a piece from behind Kairi shot up, and cut her hand. Now the pieces started rippling again, and formed a Kairi.
"Ok, so is this all it does?" Riku started at the fake Kairi.
"Ow, that hurt!" Kairi complained, staring angrily at the duplicate.
"Let me get this one." Tidus said, taking out his stick.
With one hard wack on the fake Kairi's head, it started cracking, and then broke apart. Tidus rested his stick on his shoulder, and looked at the pieces again.
"This is just dumb!" He cried.
"Someone dig a hole and bury these insults." Riku said.
The pieces just lay there now without a movement. The gang got tired after staring, so they decided to leave without cleaning up. Of course, they had to continue their journey. All 5 teens hopped into their gummi ship, and Sky did a few repairs before they took off. When they left the Coliseum, they didn't realize that they unlocked something that shouldn't have been touched. But without knowing, the happy teens continued on peacefully.
*---Meanwhile: back at Coliseum---*
Dark figures came out of a portal, and one of them knelt down to see the shattered pieces. The figure stared closely at the largest piece, and made a statement to those behind it.
"This is all the proof we need." It said calmly.
"Should we hunt him down now?" The men said.
"No, there is still something I must ask him privately."
"Then we'll stay back until later on and await your orders."
"Fine, go back then."
"Yes mistress."
The dark men stepped back, and vanished. The only one that remained was a girl. She gathered the pieces into a sack, and stood up. She looked about checking to see if she missed anything. After the examination, her face turned from black to white. And then the brown hair that went to her shoulders, and along with it, the blood red eyes.
"Run Sky.." She whispered.
But after one whisper, her face went pitch black once more, and she stepped through a portal to gate out from the Coliseum.
To be continued in Chapter 7..
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Snakey: Oh my god.. This chapter took WAY too long to finish! _ I'm sorry! I was playing so much that I completely forgot to finish this chapter.. (Must shut myself away from Ragnarok Online..) Anyway, at least it's up! So please people, READ AND REVIEW! (please ^^u)
~July 25th, '03