Aleisa yawned when she heard the door slam shut inside the airship. She had also felt it jolt moments before and stirred to see what had happened.
"Have fun with the play?" she asked.
Sora grinned. "You betcha. Things ended up quite nicely."
Garnet entered the airship at Sora's side. Zidane had yet to enter behind her. "Yeah, Sora was the real star of the show," she said, and nudged Sora in the side. "He was an awfully handsome princess."
Aleisa frowned. "You're who?"
Garnet blinked. "I am Queen Garnet til Alexandrios XVII. Have we not met?"
"I'm afraid we haven't. You're kinda young to be queen. You sure you're not bluffing?" Aleisa challenged.
"Uhm, Aleisa, you should be more respectful," Sora said.
"What's going on in here?" Zidane said, entering the airship. He moved to Dagger's side and rubbed her bare arms. "You need to get some sleeves on. It's getting cold."
Garnet smiled. "I will in a bit." She departed from Sora and Aleisa. Zidane followed, and the two left alone looked to each other.
"Aleisa, are you just asking for trouble?"
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"She's the queen of Alexandria."
"She's probably full of it," Aleisa said coldly.
"Uh, no, that's why we came here in the first place because Zidane wanted to meet up with her again."
"Then if she's queen, why is she leaving her post?"
"She's just accompanying Zidane, who's leading me to Terra."
Aleisa glanced behind her as she watched Garnet walk off in the distance down the hall. "She doesn't like you?"
Sora laughed. "Yeah, the queen of Alexandria likes me," he said sarcastically. "No, she loves Zidane. I have someone, remember?"
"Huh..?"
"I only told you about Kairi a thousand times," Sora said with a frown.
"Well, I didn't really care to listen," Aleisa said, moving her gaze away from him. "Sorry for being rude to her. I'm gonna go see where we are." She departed from Sora and walked out onto the deck of the airship. Sora scratched his head.
"What's her problem?"
After an hour or so, the airship had found it's destination lingered above small islands covered in patches of snow and white, and there appeared to be no civilization. The air temperature had dropped and the islands barely existed among the large ocean seas. As the airship neared the islands for landing, Sora felt gravity pull the ship in and panicked.
"Are we losing steam?" Sora asked Zidane as he joined him in the control room.
"What? Oh, you think because we're being lowered quicker that there's something wrong?" He pointed to the islands as they ventured closer. "Don't worry. Terra in under the islands. Another world. The waters that exist below the surface is merely a plasma, rather, a thick sheet of air compared to that of Gaia. You might find it a little hard to breathe there."
"So you're saying that since we're nearing another planet, the gravity of Terra is what's dragging us in?"
"Exactly," Zidane concluded. "This airship is so old, however, if we get near it, we probably wouldn't be able to pull it back away from the islands, so step out onto the deck for a surprise."
"Are you telling me we're going to jump that distance!" Sora exclaimed. "That's a few hundred feet!"
Zidane grinned, and walked away from the controls, leaving the room and descending for the stairs. "You'll see," he merely said as he headed for the deck. Hesitantly, Sora followed.
When Sora and Zidane stepped out onto the deck, they immediately were lifted into the air and floating. Sora gasped a bit, then laughed when he realized that there was no danger. Aleisa, who had been in another room near the deck, heard the doors slam and felt the airship jolt back into the sky.
"Oh, no, you don't," Aleisa mumbled, "you're not leaving me behind again," and she fled from the room and onto the deck as she watched the islands become smaller and smaller as the airship ascended back into the sky. She frowned, and hesitated when she saw how small Zidane and Sora had become, like tiny ants as they neared the islands to another world below. The airship hovered near five hundred feet above the islands and she walked to the edge, held her breath, and jumped. Meanwhile, Baku at the controls panicked.
"She's going to be in freefall for several hundred feet! What if she combusts!" he shouted.
"Kinda late to do anything now, huh?" Blank replied.
Aleisa was in freefall and winced at the friction that whipped against her clothing. Normal skydivers could prevent friction with equipment and clothing they wore, but her clothing didn't slow down the gravity, and she fell for near twenty seconds before the gravity of Terra pulled her in instead, but within ten seconds, she had fainted due to her fear of heights.
When Zidane and Sora had made their way to the ground safely outside of Terra City and stood before a large set of twisted web-like ladders and mirrors in an alien landscaping of resonating stones and ear ringing silence, Sora looked up to the sky towards where the airship had hovered.
"I hate to leave Aleisa behind, but-" He stopped short and saw something drifting slowly towards the surface of Terra. Aleisa was entered into the atmosphere through a thin membrane of plasma, and was gently pulled down to the ground. Sora caught her before she touched the ground, however.
"Is she okay?" Zidane asked when he noticed her eyes had been closed.
"We'd better find a place for her to rest," Sora said.
"I know where the city is in this place," Zidane concluded. "Follow me." With this, Sora followed Zidane through the strange terrain to a city in the distance that glew a mesmerizing blue.
(I am soo sorry that took so long. I've been busy and such '.'!)