Chapter 5: Rain and Blood
Sora was awakened that night by a loud crack of thunder. He didn't hear any rain so he figured the storm must be on its way. He got up out of his bed and walked over to the window. "Pitch black… Almost a little spooky…" The back of Sora's neck twitched. He looked down to notice the tiny goosebumps rising on his arms. Sora heard nothing but the steady wind as he looked tirelessly out the window into the black of the stormy night. "This storm's gonna be bad…I can feel it…" He whispered to himself. He saw another streak of lightning fly and heard the crash of thunder that followed closely behind it. It started to rain…
It was raining hard and Sora could barely hear anything but it. He paced across the room. "I almost wish I had someone here with me…" he said aloud, feeling lonely. Sora wondered how everyone was doing in town. "I hope everyone's alright…" CRACK! Another loud thunder… "I got a bad feeling…" Sora walked over to his keyblade, taking it by the handle, somehow feeling safer. "You have a tendency to do that, don't you?" He carried it over to the window again watching the rain forming to puddles in the yard. His house was surrounded by trees. "I wonder…" He walked out onto the porch feeling the cool wind in his face as he opened to front door. It felt good. Sora walked over to the chair and sat down enjoying the cool air blowing in his hair and face. He closed his eyes and listened to the steady patter of the rain on his porch roof… He suddenly decided building that roof was a good thing. CRACK!
"Well… I don't guess this storm's gonna let up anytime soon. I better get back to sleep." He decided. He grabbed the blade and made his way toward the door. He was just about to open the door when he thought he heard something. He turned around and saw the last thing he would have wanted to see… A heartless was running right at him… "This is starting to get annoying…" Sora waited for the heartess to get a little closer… He shot like a bullet, slicing the heartless in half, spraying blood at least 10 feet further… "Somehow, I don't think that was the la…" Sora turned and sprayed another pint of blood as he cut the heartless that was attacking from the side… "This can't be good…" Sora started running… "I gotta get to town…Noone will expect this attack…"
Sora was running almost blindly in the wind and fierce rain slashing his face. He squinted to see where he was going. He was almost out of the woods his house was in. Two more heartless came at him from all sides. His training had given him far greater skills than last time. He never slowed up for he was slicing them right and left as they came at him. Blood drops had stained his clothes and he wreaked of it… Sora finally made it to the beach where he turned and headed for the east side of the island where town was. Another heartless was closing in on him fast from behind. Sora looked back and noticed the follower and got a plan. He took his keyblade and pointed it backward. Holding it to his side, he planted his feet in the ground and came to a dead stop. The heartless, however, couldn't stop quickly enough and ran itself through the keyblade. With blood already dripping from the point of his nose, Sora smiled, closed his eyes, twisted the keyblade, and jerked it out of the heartless, spraying himself with blood.
"Only 2 more minutes at least," Sora hoped, and took off again. Slashing a couple more heartless, he wiped the blood and water from his eyes. "Why do these things just quit?" He asked himself. Another one stepped into his path, but not for very long. Sora could see the town in the distance, he was getting closer. He couldn't tell from the distance he was what was going on but he hoped everyone was okay. "Just a bit further…" He stepped up the speed as much as he could running on sand. "Sora…Sora…Sora…" "…whispers?" Sora wondered. And then he heard them again. "Sora…Sora...Sora…"
"Where's that coming fro….AHHHHHHH" a high pitched ringing sounded in his ears. He dropped his keyblade, then landed himself right next to it collapsing in the sand holding his ears. The ringing was unbearable. Ringing…Ringing….Never stopping…Sora pounded his head on the ground, screaming in pain. Blackout...