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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments
Fragment 2-Destiny Islands
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The sun peeked slowly over the horizon, casting a gold light on the tropical trees of the island. The girl gasped to catch her breath and then calmed herself, looking around.
'Great.' she thought, 'Mom's gonna be mad at me again for staying on the island overnight.' she thought, climbing out of the tree. She quietly ran over the abandonned shore and to the dock, where her boat was tied. Hopping in, she pulled the rope free and began to franticly row to another island in the distance.
'Crap, crap, crap...'she though to herself. 'Crap...'
The girl's name was Cedeile, and she lived on Destiny Islands, a tropical paradise. She had long black hair that she kept back in a thick braid that brushed the back of her knees. Her favorite color was red, and it showed in her clothing style-red vest over a white t-shirt, red shorts, red and white sneakers, and a red bandanna on her head. Her hands her covered by fingerless black gloves, and she also wore knee-high,tight black socks. Her eyes were truely unique-they were a dark emerald green. She lived in the village with her mom, dad and grandfather, and presently, she could hear the wailing of her mother on the other island's beach.
"My baby is dead! She's dead!" her mom called out in between sobs. As Cedeile got closer, she could see the entire village standing there-including her friends Sora, Riku, and Kairi.
'Crap...mom's gonna kill me when she finds out I'm not dead.' Cedeile thought again. She sighed, knowing she couldn't escape the inevitable and rowed to the shore.
"She's drowned!" the black haired woman sobbed. "Not again! Not Cedeile!" she wailed, making Cedeile roll her eyes. The mayor came over to her, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Now, let's not assume things. We'll ask the children when they last saw-"
"It's no use! Start digging another grave on the cemetary island!" she yelled out, interupting him and nearly making the old man go deaf. Despite himself, Sora snickered, making Riku and Kairi glare at him. Cedeile smiled to herself as she saw her friends.
'There are funny ways to meet people.' she thought. Would you believe that Sora and her first met because of an empty milk carton? She was four, and little did she know that they lived next door to each other. One day Cedeile finished the milk in her fridge and brought the container out to the garbage. The garbage cans were kept against the fence in the backyard until garbage day. Anyway, the one was open, and she was standing in the backyard, some ten feet away. So, she thought, why not kick the milk carton into the garbage? Unfourtunatly her aim wasn't too good and it flew over the fence. Fourtunatly, it hit Sora in the head. She heard him go "Ow" and climbed ontop on the fence. From that day onward, the two of them were best friends.
Riku, however never seemed to like her too much. He and Sora were best friends since they were born practically, so he wasn't too happy when his number one pal started to hang with a girl. Cedeile and him often got into fights with each other. Sometimes, it wasn't pretty, and both went home to screaming mothers who lectured them while bandaging their cuts and stopping their nosebleeds.
Kairi, she was different. She wasn't born on the island like the others. In fact, she showed up one day seven years ago on the shore, with little memory of who she was or where she came from. All she could do was mutter something strange. The mayor and his wife took her in that day, and she had lived here ever since.
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"Sora! Get the ball before it goes in the water!"
"Okay! I'll be right back, Cedeile." The water splashed onto shore and Sora saw a flash of red. "Huh?"
He walked down the shore to a small inlet. The red he saw before turned out to be hair. The hair of a girl.
"Hey. Wake up." he said to her. He dark blue eyes slowly revealed themselves. "Who...are you?"
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Her boat finally hit the shore and she got out, walking over to her mother. The crowd looked in awe.
"Mom! Stop acting like this! I'M FINE!" she yelled. The crowded sighed.'Is this like the boy who cried wolf, or is it just me?' Cedeile thought, but before she cloud blink, her mom had her by the ear. "Ow ,ow! Let me go, mom!"
"Young lady! Do you know how worried I was? I stay up all night waiting for you to come home, but did you ever think of that?"
"Mom-"
"No! You never do think of others do you? You spent the night over on the island again!" Her mom began to drag Cedeile back to their house. "Honestly! Now the whole village is up at the crack of dawn!"
'Only because you woke them.'
"Are you listening? Really Cedeile, you act more like a boy than a girl!" her mother said, walking through the crowd. Cedeile looked over at her friends to see Sora exploding with laughter and unable to cotain himself, Kairi trying really hard not to laugh while she lectured Sora, and Riku, his arms crossed, shaking his head at the both of them.
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After Cedeile's mom was done yelling at her at some point in mid-morning, Cedeile headed over to the kid's island again. After securing her boat to the dock, she ran towards the cove on the other side of the island, where she knew her friends would be waiting for her. It was time to being work on the raft again.
The raft is what Sora, Riku and Kairi planned to use to go to other worlds. Cedeile wasn't really in on it, but wanted to help out anyway. Ever since she'd met Sora, all he could talk about was those other worlds. He'd tell her stories about them and how different they were from their own. And, although Cedeile had been awed and amazed that such place could exist, she wanted to stay right where she was more than she wanted to leave.
Snapping out of her thoughts, she reported to Kairi and the others, who were sitting on the nearly finished raft.
"Yo, guys, what's up?" she asked, sitting down next to Sora.
"Did your mom not ground you or did you sneak out?" Sora asked her, snickering.
"Aw, shut up! I accidently fell asleep on the island again." she grabbed his ear like her mom had done to her this morning. "YOU were supposed to wake me up, idiot!"
"Sorry! Ow ow ow ow, hey! Let go already!" she released him reluctantly.
"Well, I think if we work hard today, we'll finish before tommorrow, and can leave the day after that." Kairi said, thinking it throughly.
"That's great! We'll go see other worlds finally!" Sora replied, dreaming of what the other worlds looked like.
"You know..."Riku began, leaning back against the mast of the raft. "we need to name this thing. What's a ship without a name?"
"Who will name it?" Kairi asked.
"How about Cedeile?"
"Why me?" she asked, puzzled at why Sora had said that.
"You're not coming with, but you've been working on the raft anyway, with us. If you name the raft, it'll become something for us to remember you by." he said, looking at the sky.
"Sounds like a good idea." Riku agreed, surprisingly. Kairi stood up and brushed off her skirt.
"Then, lets get to work. Sora, gather these things on the list. Riku can get these...and Cedeile! You can go find a cloth to use as a sail." They all stood and went their seperate ways, going to complete the tasks set out for them.
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