Phase 2: Log No. 2
"Come on! Let's go!" yelled Elenai, half dragging me to an unmarked door. As Elenai left the shop, she grabbed a long black coat from a rack. I finally regained myself, and my balance, ran ahead of her, and dashed inside the door. We could hear savage growls from the other side of the door, and the Heartless scratched crazily at the door. "That was close..." said Elenai in relief. We turned around.
A garden was all that was covering the district. Various flowers bloomed around us, trees of every type climbed to the highest reaches of the ceiling, and jade-green ivy nimbly climbed the walls.
"Hey, Ana, since we aren't running from Heartless right now, can I ask you a question?" Elenai asked, seeming to ignore the bright greenery around us. She put on the coat that she had been holding and sat down on a park bench.
"Sure," I answered.
"Why do you hate Ember so much? You barely even know her, and yet you still want to kill her more than I," she asked.
"I"ll answer if you let me ask you a question." She nodded. "She reminds me of someone who I knew, but yet I don't know at all. She's so dark... Okay, my turn for a question: Why did you defend Ember back there?"
Elenai looked down. "I have a honor code about situations like that. I don't believe in hurting or killing someone when they are wounded in some sort. It kinda feels like cheating. And, talking 'bout Ember, where is she?"
"Why should I care? She could be eaten by the Heartless for all I care,"I said. Elenai stayed silent, and instead of answering she walked further into the greenery. "Hey! Wait up!" I yelled after her, and ran to catch up with her. I found her staring ahead at a small field of tiny blue, teal, and violet flowers.
-Flashback-
"He's been taken by the darkness. There's nothing you can do now," says an old, man in a dusty white robe.
"Koiya..." I whisper, placing some of the blue and teal flowers on the altar. "You always said you liked these flowers, so I hope they reach you... wherever you are..." The priest – for that is what I assumed he was – lifts a candle, and lights the flowers. They disappear in a blue-green smoke.
"Sir!" yells a man, running into the chapel, breaking the silence. "The door...!"
"What? Not now! It can't happen!" says the priest worriedly.
"What's happening, Father?" I ask. He turns toward me, sadness in his gray eyes.
"The door... It has opened."
-End Flashback-
"Hey, wait... What was that?" I asked myself in a whisper, "It felt familiar, but I can't place the feeling."
"Hey, Ana, was that door there... the entire time?" asked Elenai.
"Without us noticing? No chance!" I replied.
We slowly advanced toward the door, but there was a strange shield in front of it. "Strange..." said Elenai.
"Why can't we get through!" I asked to no one in particular, trying to push myself through the barrier.
Suddenly, Ember appeared, sitting on a tree stump nearby, and muttered, "Atrum Ostirin," causing the barrier to disperse. She disappeared right after I crashed onto the floor.
"Ow..." I said, getting up. "What the heck did she do?"
"She opened the door..."
"Then come on! Let's go!" I yelled, and pulled the door open. It was like we appeared in midair, and then we dropped into a huge square, with the walls covered with electrical lights and bright paint.
"The Third District..." said Elenai.
"Amazing" I was cut off by a huge rumbling in the ground, and giant pillars shot up from the concrete, closing off every exit we could see.
"'Bout time you got here. I've been waiting a long time for this," said a sarcastic voice from the shadows. I had heard this voice before, I thought. At the sound of the voice, Elenai reached for her sword.
"Wait, where's my swo" she started.
"There's no time for that!" I shouted, pulling out my axe. "Show yourself!" A mysterious person with a black ankle-length coat walked out. He had jet-black boots on, and a hood covered his face. A few strands of bluish looking hair hung in front of his face.
"Heh."
"You!" said Elenai coldly. Quickly she reached into her coat and pulled out a gun, pointing it at the man. The gun was shiny and black, and it looked brand-new.
"Who are you?" and all of a sudden, time stopped. Only me and the man were moving; Elenai was frozen. "What the heck did you do?"
"Little sister, don't you even recognize a simple time spell?"
"Little sister...? What do you mean?"
-Flashback-
"Nah, Nah, nahnahnah. I have your dolly!" said a black-haired 5-year-old boy as he danced around a small crying 3-year-old girl, holding her doll by the hair.
"Give it back, Koi!" whined the little girl. A middle-aged woman with a long dusty-blue dress covered with a white apron walked in.
"Koiya, give Ana back her doll," she said sternly.
-End Flashback-
"Koi... ya...?" Time once again started, and Elenai jumped up into the air.
"You idiot!" she yelled, and fired three bullets in succession.
"Vicis!" he yelled. Time stopped, the bullets Elenai had just fired seemed to float in midair, only a foot away from his head. "Little sister, don't you remember?"
I shook my head. "Not... really..."
He walked up to me. "Little sister..." He then did the most unexpected thing I could imagine. He hugged me. I dropped my axe in surprise, and he let go of me. He took his hood down.
-Flashback-
Koiya and I were sitting at a table in a little cottage, with a checkerboard in front of us both. I concentrated, and a red piece moved. Koiya's blue piece then moved, jumping three of my pieces. "You always defeat me, Koiya!" I exclaimed. Suddenly, a horn sounded out.
"It can't be..." said Koiya, getting up.
"Wh—What's going on, Koi?" I asked.
Koiya stayed silent, and grabbed my hand an pulled me out of the door. Fires burning in the distance, smoke filling my nose, burning my lungs, making it hard to breathe. A Neoshadow runs toward me, it's claws sharp and ready to kill. Koiya jumps in front of me, and fights the monster off. "Come on, Ana!" he yells, and pulls me toward the road.
"Where are we going?" I yelled.
"To a safe place. Hurry up," he answered.
"What about Mom!" I asked, near tears.
"She's unimportant."
I froze in shock. Koiya had loved our mother far more than I had, it seemed. He turned around and took me by my shoulders. "Look, I need to keep the keys from falling into the wrong hands. You must understand."
"What are the keys?" I asked, but he didn't answer, only pulled me toward the town a few miles away.
We finally reached the town, but the only thing left standing from the Heartless invasion was a church. As he carried me inside and shut the door, Neoshadows scratched at the windows. As he set me down on a pew, darkness – seemingly unaffected by the holy nature of the church – grew on a select spot on the floor, and a person rose up from it. He wore a jet black ankle-length coat, with a hood covering his face. He held his hand out to Koiya, and Koiya went into a trance, slowly walking toward the figure. When he was withing reach of the figure, the figure grabbed his hand and the darkness engulfed them both.
-End Flashback-
"Cunno," said Koiya, and a huge energy blast engulfed everything in dark.
-Cunno Sorry-
Elenai sat outside of a house in the second district, while some people talked inside. A shield kept the shadows from entering the area. Elenai sighed and her eyes flashed. "Not again. Please no..."
