Long update wait again...sorry everyone! No real news lately, except that we have two new readers! Thank you so much to Kadaj and Nenah (My friend from school who doesn't have an account but she read this fanfiction anyway) I appreciate you both so much! Let's get to the chapter. Introducing, Chapter Five!
Leiko blinked. She blinked again. Her eyes grew wide staring at the open air where the stargazing tower once stood.
"R-Rika?" She shuttered, shaking from fright. "Hoku?"
Tears began welling up in her eyes, but they didn't fall. Pure shock unlike no other held them in.
"You guys, this isn't funny…" Leiko looked around, not realizing that she was talking to herself. "…just climb back up the wall and we can tell Hoku's father what happened…he can fix this…"
Suddenly, there was a loud bang coming from directly behind her! With a yelp, she somersaulted over the side and just barely grabbed the ledge with one hand. And then came even more shock. Her mouth hung open as the entire southern half of the building began lifting into the air!
"What the hell is going on here?" Leiko screamed, letting go so that she wouldn't be taken with the castle, wherever it was going. There was a strong upward wind blowing, but not strong enough to lift her off the ground.
Landing on her feet on the hard cobblestones below, she looked around to see that her home was being destroyed! The houses were askew and some of them were even floating individually in the air, but as she looked up at the houses, she finally noticed a large, floating ball hovering directly above her!
She was staring at it in awe when suddenly, she felt a strange presence behind her. She turned quickly to see three men standing and talking amongst themselves. One had fairly long white hair, another had black hair in no apparent style, and the last one also had black hair that came down in one part and covered his right eye. She couldn't quite make out what they were saying, or what they were doing here for that matter, so she moved a bit closer and could only make part of the conversation.
The man with the covered eye said, "She has to be here somewhere. We've searched everywhere else."
The man with the general black hair replied, "If she was, she would've been sucked up already. It's hopeless."
Leiko narrowed one eye in thought and tried to brush some stray hair out of her eyes, when the movement attracted the white-haired man, who Leiko now realized had a shocking resemblance to a snake. She froze as he whipped his head around toward her.
"Well, gentlemen, what have we here?" he said with a grim smile on his face.
The remaining two men turned toward Leiko and stared, but not with the same glare as the white-haired man.
"Whoever you're looking for, I don't know where they are." Leiko said in her own defense, trying not to show too much fear in her eyes.
"How long have you been living here?" Said the man with the covered eye.
Leiko shrugged. "I don't know…somewhere around eight years…"
The same man began staring vacantly at her like something about her was familiar. "Do you know anyone by the name of Shina?"
Yes. She's my next-door neighbor, but I can't tell these guys that.
She lied, "No. Are you sure you're in the right place?"
The man sighed. "Not anymore." He turned his gaze away from her and waved his hand as all three men stepped through the portal that appeared.
"Hey! Wait!" Leiko began running forward and jumped at the portal just as it closed. She went soaring through the open air and tumbled over onto the ground.
Once her head stopped swimming from the impact, she looked up to the sky, only to realize that the wind had grown strong enough to begin lifting her up into the air! As she struggled to grab a hold of something, she noticed that a woman with short blond hair was standing not fifty feet away from her. The men had missed Shina by ten seconds, and it was all her fault.
Leiko called out, "Shina! Over here!" But her voice couldn't be heard over the strong wind that was blowing, and that same wind finally sucked her up into the floating orb.
Yes, I know that ending is very cliche by now, but it IS a Kingdom Hearts fanfiction, so read again whenever I post a new chapter to find out where Leiko ends up! See ya later! And don't forget, if you are reading this be sure to post a review telling me what you think! Thanks so much! Bye!