AN: -cries many tears- I don't think I can stand being away from Ffnet for 10 days! Peoples will be updating but I won't be able to read! Wah! :( Oh well. I just know I'll miss Heather (HisLight), my twin, cause I know that I haven't been away from her even for one day! So, here's the chappie I promised! I'll miss you all! (When I get back I'm gonna have tons of updates to read, and from all three of you!)
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I can't think of any clever lines to use...
Chapter Three: Second Chances
Oh great, Sora thought. Now I gotta go against Vern. Well, I'll just hold on tight to my sword. I'll let out all my anger on her through my fighting. Well, that was one plan. At the beginning of the battle, Vern stood still, just like she did for Selphie. Sora ran up to Vern and was about to slash her with his sword when he suddenly stopped. He was staring at Vern. He slowly started walking up to Vern. Then he did something that was totally shocking....
He kissed her. It was very passionate, too. Obviously, Vern didn't hold back. They were still kissing after about 2 minutes. That's when Vern became the champion. Someone had punched Sora and knocked him out. It was Kairi. Of course, she was furious with what Sora did. Everyone was confused. No doubt Tidus was upset.
Vern and Kairi were the only ones on the pier at the time. Then things got dirty. It was an all out catfight. Kairi was the first to do something. She swung at Vern but missed. Then Vern and Kairi were just scratching and hitting and pulling each other. Wakka ran back up the pier and broke up the two girls. Kairi had some scratches, and Vern had a bloody nose. Sora was still lying on the ground, knocked out.
"What is with you too?! Cut it out!" Wakka said, holding Kairi back. Selphie, Riku, and Tidus came up the pier. Tidus held Vern back from Kairi while Selphie and Riku tended to Sora.
Kairi was clawing at Wakka, trying to break free and get to Vern. "That bi- "
"Hey, he came on to me, girl!" Vern yelled.
"Oh yah, and I'm sure you held back!" Kairi exclaimed sarcastically.
Selphie and Riku carried Sora off to the clinic. Wakka had to drag Kairi back to her home and lock her in there. Tidus stayed with Vern on the pier.
"Vern, what were you doing?" Tidus said.
"I-I'm sorry Tidus, I really like Sora." Vern said.
"Yah, but you weren't the one to make the first move. I don't know what made Sora kiss you. I-I should have listened to Sora. You're not who I thought you were." Tidus said, turning away from Vern.
"Tidus, I-"
"No, Vern. It's over." Tidus said. He walked past Vern without making eye contact. "I really liked you. I thought that we had something. Now, I couldn't have been more wrong."
Vern stood on the pier, alone again. She thought about all the things that had happened throughout the day. Was Vern actually having a change of heart? What did I do, Vern asked herself. She liked Sora a lot, but she still felt bad about mesmerizing him into kissing her. He wasn't kissing her because he liked her. He only kissed her because she made him. That was the worst feeling. And she felt bad that she had hurt Tidus, because at first she was only using Tidus, but at that moment, she realized that she really cared about him.
She decided she had to talk to a few people: Kairi, Sora (if he had gained consciousness), and then Tidus. She hoped that they would give her forgiveness. Vern figured that Kairi would still be mad at Sora, so she wouldn't be at the clinic. She began to walk to Kairi's house when she saw Kairi sitting in the water under the docks.
Kairi didn't notice Vern walking up to her, so she was startled when Vern spoke out. "Uh, Kairi, can I talk to you?" Vern asked.
"No." Kairi responded.
"Let me rephrase that: Uh, Kairi, we need to talk." Vern said. Kairi just sat in the water, motionless. "Listen," Vern said. "You shouldn't have punched Sora. You should have punched me instead."
"What do you think I was trying to do?" Kairi said.
Vern was annoyed by Kairi's snide remarks, but she wasn't about to ruin her chance at redemption. "Kairi, when I first saw Sora, I liked him a lot. He's really cute." Vern didn't want to carry on too much about Sora for fear of getting Kairi mad. "Anyways, I was jealous of you. So I mesmerized Sora. When he wakes up, he won't even know what happened. He didn't know he was kissing me."
Kairi looked up at Vern. "You mean you made him kiss you? It was all you?"
"All me." Vern said.
"And I punched Sora. Gee, I feel horrible." Vern didn't know if Kairi was about to wring her neck, so she decided to let everything out.
"Before you kill me, I have more to tell you. I didn't realize the mistake that I made until after it happened. I really care about Tidus, but now he doesn't care about me. How can I tell him that I mesmerized Sora without letting out anything from my past?"
"I don't know how you can tell him something so out of the ordinary. He thinks that Sora decided to kiss you, so everything is gonna seem even weirder when he sees me still with him. I guess you'll just have to tell him the truth, that you had the power to do what you did." Kairi said. She splashed her feet in the water.
Vern hesitated a bit, then finally said, "Kairi, will you forgive me?"
Kairi sat there, silent for a long time. "Of course. Riku did some bad things, but I forgave him. He was able to come back to the light. You can do the same thing."
Vern smiled. "Thanks Kairi."
Kairi smiled back. "Yah, I know it's hard not to fall for a hot guy like Sora!" The two girls laughed and then hugged. Just a couple days ago, no one in their right mind would have thought that Kairi and Vern would be friends.
"Well, I gotta go talk to Sora now. Hopefully he's still conscious. You hit him pretty hard." Vern walked out from underneath the docks. She didn't sit down in the water so she only got her feet wet, which was annoying since the sand stuck to it. Vern walked into the clinic. Riku was in there, talking to Sora, who was lying in a bed. He had a huge white wrap around his head.
"Uh Riku, can you give us a sec?" Vern said, not making eye contact with either of the guys.
"Sure. See ya later Sora." Riku said, walking out of the clinic.
Sora sat up as Vern sat down in a chair next to the bed. "Did Riku tell you what happened?"
"Yah." was all Sora could say.
"Well, Riku didn't know this, but you might have guessed that I mesmerized you. Then Kairi got mad and punched you. I told her it wasn't your fault."
"Oh."
"Sora, I'm really sorry for what I did. I'm sorry for everything that I've done. I want to get out of the darkness and into the light."
"Well that's good Vern. Um, I know things are going to take time until things can be normal between us, but everything's gotta start somewhere."
"Thanks Sora."
"Just promise me one thing." Sora said.
"Anything."
"Never mesmerize me again."
Vern smiled. "I won't. You know, I don't even know when I got that power. And then somehow I knew that I had that ability. But don't worry, I swear I've changed my ways." Wakka and Selphie walked into the clinic. "Hey mon, you're okay!" Wakka said.
"I-I'll see you later, Sora. Tell them what really happened." Vern whispered. Then she left the clinic for Tidus' house. Vern didn't see Tidus outside his house so she knocked on the door. No one answered. She knocked again, but still no response. Then for some reason, Vern thought that Tidus might be in the secret place. He had shown it to her one morning and said that's where he went when he needed to cool off or think, so it was a logical place for him to be. Vern walked into the cave, and standing there was Tidus. She also took notice a certain drawing on the wall.
Tidus looked up at Vern. He looked scared. "They're coming." Suddenly the door opened and thousands of neo shadows crawled out. Vern screamed, but the sound was lost among the Heartless. Tidus and Vern are soon swallowed up into the darkness. Both of them were falling into the darkness but then they heard a voice.
"Do not worry. You're hearts are protected. They may take your body but they cannot take your soul."
Then Vern and Tidus realized they were back in the secret place. But there was a slight difference. Tidus had turned into a wizard. Vern had turned into a new Heartless, one that had never been seen before. Since she was the first of its kind, they called her a wyvern. All the neo shadows ran out of the secret place and spread throughout Destiny Islands. Many of them invaded the clinic, where Sora, Wakka, and Selphie still were. Sora pulled out the Oathkeeper Keyblade, desperately trying to fight off the Heartless and protect Wakka and Selphie. But there were too many neo shadows, and they slipped past Sora and engulfed Wakka and Selphie. Again they heard the same voice Vern and Tidus heard. When they emerged from the darkness, they had also become Heartless, and Sora saw it all with his own eyes. Wakka became a defender, and Selphie became a red nocturne. Then Sora realized that Kairi might be in trouble, so he exited out of the clinic, running along the beach.
There by the docks was Riku and Kairi. Riku was fighting off the Heartless, with the Oblivion Keyblade! He had gained back his Keyblade when he went back into the light. Of course, Sora kept his Keyblade, too. He ran to them and helped fight off the Heartless. He did not want Kairi becoming one. Finally they defeated all of the neo shadows (all 5,000 of them). Riku and Sora collapsed in the water. They were so tired, that Kairi had to drag them out of the water, because they would be too tired to swim and would drown. Then the three friends turned around and saw four Heartless approach them: a wizard, wyvern, defender, and red nocturne.
"Oh great, more Heartless!" Riku said as he gripped his Keyblade. Sora held Riku back.
"Wait, don't attack them just yet. The defender and red nocturne are Wakka and Selphie. I saw them change after the Heartless attacked them. But I don't know about the other two." Sora explained.
"Tidus and Vern." Kairi said.
"But, we can't just stand here. Sora, they're Heartless now, they're gonna attack us!" Riku said. The Heartless had come closer to them now. Then something very scary happened.
"Sora," Wakka said sadly, "What's happened to us?"
Kairi, Sora, and Riku nearly died from fright. A Heartless talking was something very out of the ordinary.
"You've become Heartless-the creatures made after you've lost your heart." Sora explained.
"But we can talk! And I don't feel like killing anyone." Vern said.
"Maybe it has to do with Iqui." Kairi wondered.
"Iqui?!" Selphie exclaimed.
"Yah. Um, I guess it's a good time to explain everything to you." Sora then told Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie what happened to Iqui. "Since she became a Kingdom Heart, maybe she was protecting you guys, so you weren't completely engulfed in the darkness."
"I heard a voice talking to me. Maybe it was Iqui." Tidus said. "We heard it too," the others said.
"Cool, I can fly!" Vern said, surfing the air.
"Hey, me too!" Selphie said, bouncing around in the air.
"We can't fly, no fair!" Wakka pouted.
"Wait, I can fly too!" Tidus said, floating in the air.
"Man, just my luck! I gotta be a big ugly creature that can't fly!" Wakka said.
"Weren't you always like that?!" Selphie teased.
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Sorry I kinda left you at a weird part, but I had to stop somewhere! Anyways, this chappie was really long, so I'm proud of it. Ja ne!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I can't think of any clever lines to use...
Chapter Three: Second Chances
Oh great, Sora thought. Now I gotta go against Vern. Well, I'll just hold on tight to my sword. I'll let out all my anger on her through my fighting. Well, that was one plan. At the beginning of the battle, Vern stood still, just like she did for Selphie. Sora ran up to Vern and was about to slash her with his sword when he suddenly stopped. He was staring at Vern. He slowly started walking up to Vern. Then he did something that was totally shocking....
He kissed her. It was very passionate, too. Obviously, Vern didn't hold back. They were still kissing after about 2 minutes. That's when Vern became the champion. Someone had punched Sora and knocked him out. It was Kairi. Of course, she was furious with what Sora did. Everyone was confused. No doubt Tidus was upset.
Vern and Kairi were the only ones on the pier at the time. Then things got dirty. It was an all out catfight. Kairi was the first to do something. She swung at Vern but missed. Then Vern and Kairi were just scratching and hitting and pulling each other. Wakka ran back up the pier and broke up the two girls. Kairi had some scratches, and Vern had a bloody nose. Sora was still lying on the ground, knocked out.
"What is with you too?! Cut it out!" Wakka said, holding Kairi back. Selphie, Riku, and Tidus came up the pier. Tidus held Vern back from Kairi while Selphie and Riku tended to Sora.
Kairi was clawing at Wakka, trying to break free and get to Vern. "That bi- "
"Hey, he came on to me, girl!" Vern yelled.
"Oh yah, and I'm sure you held back!" Kairi exclaimed sarcastically.
Selphie and Riku carried Sora off to the clinic. Wakka had to drag Kairi back to her home and lock her in there. Tidus stayed with Vern on the pier.
"Vern, what were you doing?" Tidus said.
"I-I'm sorry Tidus, I really like Sora." Vern said.
"Yah, but you weren't the one to make the first move. I don't know what made Sora kiss you. I-I should have listened to Sora. You're not who I thought you were." Tidus said, turning away from Vern.
"Tidus, I-"
"No, Vern. It's over." Tidus said. He walked past Vern without making eye contact. "I really liked you. I thought that we had something. Now, I couldn't have been more wrong."
Vern stood on the pier, alone again. She thought about all the things that had happened throughout the day. Was Vern actually having a change of heart? What did I do, Vern asked herself. She liked Sora a lot, but she still felt bad about mesmerizing him into kissing her. He wasn't kissing her because he liked her. He only kissed her because she made him. That was the worst feeling. And she felt bad that she had hurt Tidus, because at first she was only using Tidus, but at that moment, she realized that she really cared about him.
She decided she had to talk to a few people: Kairi, Sora (if he had gained consciousness), and then Tidus. She hoped that they would give her forgiveness. Vern figured that Kairi would still be mad at Sora, so she wouldn't be at the clinic. She began to walk to Kairi's house when she saw Kairi sitting in the water under the docks.
Kairi didn't notice Vern walking up to her, so she was startled when Vern spoke out. "Uh, Kairi, can I talk to you?" Vern asked.
"No." Kairi responded.
"Let me rephrase that: Uh, Kairi, we need to talk." Vern said. Kairi just sat in the water, motionless. "Listen," Vern said. "You shouldn't have punched Sora. You should have punched me instead."
"What do you think I was trying to do?" Kairi said.
Vern was annoyed by Kairi's snide remarks, but she wasn't about to ruin her chance at redemption. "Kairi, when I first saw Sora, I liked him a lot. He's really cute." Vern didn't want to carry on too much about Sora for fear of getting Kairi mad. "Anyways, I was jealous of you. So I mesmerized Sora. When he wakes up, he won't even know what happened. He didn't know he was kissing me."
Kairi looked up at Vern. "You mean you made him kiss you? It was all you?"
"All me." Vern said.
"And I punched Sora. Gee, I feel horrible." Vern didn't know if Kairi was about to wring her neck, so she decided to let everything out.
"Before you kill me, I have more to tell you. I didn't realize the mistake that I made until after it happened. I really care about Tidus, but now he doesn't care about me. How can I tell him that I mesmerized Sora without letting out anything from my past?"
"I don't know how you can tell him something so out of the ordinary. He thinks that Sora decided to kiss you, so everything is gonna seem even weirder when he sees me still with him. I guess you'll just have to tell him the truth, that you had the power to do what you did." Kairi said. She splashed her feet in the water.
Vern hesitated a bit, then finally said, "Kairi, will you forgive me?"
Kairi sat there, silent for a long time. "Of course. Riku did some bad things, but I forgave him. He was able to come back to the light. You can do the same thing."
Vern smiled. "Thanks Kairi."
Kairi smiled back. "Yah, I know it's hard not to fall for a hot guy like Sora!" The two girls laughed and then hugged. Just a couple days ago, no one in their right mind would have thought that Kairi and Vern would be friends.
"Well, I gotta go talk to Sora now. Hopefully he's still conscious. You hit him pretty hard." Vern walked out from underneath the docks. She didn't sit down in the water so she only got her feet wet, which was annoying since the sand stuck to it. Vern walked into the clinic. Riku was in there, talking to Sora, who was lying in a bed. He had a huge white wrap around his head.
"Uh Riku, can you give us a sec?" Vern said, not making eye contact with either of the guys.
"Sure. See ya later Sora." Riku said, walking out of the clinic.
Sora sat up as Vern sat down in a chair next to the bed. "Did Riku tell you what happened?"
"Yah." was all Sora could say.
"Well, Riku didn't know this, but you might have guessed that I mesmerized you. Then Kairi got mad and punched you. I told her it wasn't your fault."
"Oh."
"Sora, I'm really sorry for what I did. I'm sorry for everything that I've done. I want to get out of the darkness and into the light."
"Well that's good Vern. Um, I know things are going to take time until things can be normal between us, but everything's gotta start somewhere."
"Thanks Sora."
"Just promise me one thing." Sora said.
"Anything."
"Never mesmerize me again."
Vern smiled. "I won't. You know, I don't even know when I got that power. And then somehow I knew that I had that ability. But don't worry, I swear I've changed my ways." Wakka and Selphie walked into the clinic. "Hey mon, you're okay!" Wakka said.
"I-I'll see you later, Sora. Tell them what really happened." Vern whispered. Then she left the clinic for Tidus' house. Vern didn't see Tidus outside his house so she knocked on the door. No one answered. She knocked again, but still no response. Then for some reason, Vern thought that Tidus might be in the secret place. He had shown it to her one morning and said that's where he went when he needed to cool off or think, so it was a logical place for him to be. Vern walked into the cave, and standing there was Tidus. She also took notice a certain drawing on the wall.
Tidus looked up at Vern. He looked scared. "They're coming." Suddenly the door opened and thousands of neo shadows crawled out. Vern screamed, but the sound was lost among the Heartless. Tidus and Vern are soon swallowed up into the darkness. Both of them were falling into the darkness but then they heard a voice.
"Do not worry. You're hearts are protected. They may take your body but they cannot take your soul."
Then Vern and Tidus realized they were back in the secret place. But there was a slight difference. Tidus had turned into a wizard. Vern had turned into a new Heartless, one that had never been seen before. Since she was the first of its kind, they called her a wyvern. All the neo shadows ran out of the secret place and spread throughout Destiny Islands. Many of them invaded the clinic, where Sora, Wakka, and Selphie still were. Sora pulled out the Oathkeeper Keyblade, desperately trying to fight off the Heartless and protect Wakka and Selphie. But there were too many neo shadows, and they slipped past Sora and engulfed Wakka and Selphie. Again they heard the same voice Vern and Tidus heard. When they emerged from the darkness, they had also become Heartless, and Sora saw it all with his own eyes. Wakka became a defender, and Selphie became a red nocturne. Then Sora realized that Kairi might be in trouble, so he exited out of the clinic, running along the beach.
There by the docks was Riku and Kairi. Riku was fighting off the Heartless, with the Oblivion Keyblade! He had gained back his Keyblade when he went back into the light. Of course, Sora kept his Keyblade, too. He ran to them and helped fight off the Heartless. He did not want Kairi becoming one. Finally they defeated all of the neo shadows (all 5,000 of them). Riku and Sora collapsed in the water. They were so tired, that Kairi had to drag them out of the water, because they would be too tired to swim and would drown. Then the three friends turned around and saw four Heartless approach them: a wizard, wyvern, defender, and red nocturne.
"Oh great, more Heartless!" Riku said as he gripped his Keyblade. Sora held Riku back.
"Wait, don't attack them just yet. The defender and red nocturne are Wakka and Selphie. I saw them change after the Heartless attacked them. But I don't know about the other two." Sora explained.
"Tidus and Vern." Kairi said.
"But, we can't just stand here. Sora, they're Heartless now, they're gonna attack us!" Riku said. The Heartless had come closer to them now. Then something very scary happened.
"Sora," Wakka said sadly, "What's happened to us?"
Kairi, Sora, and Riku nearly died from fright. A Heartless talking was something very out of the ordinary.
"You've become Heartless-the creatures made after you've lost your heart." Sora explained.
"But we can talk! And I don't feel like killing anyone." Vern said.
"Maybe it has to do with Iqui." Kairi wondered.
"Iqui?!" Selphie exclaimed.
"Yah. Um, I guess it's a good time to explain everything to you." Sora then told Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie what happened to Iqui. "Since she became a Kingdom Heart, maybe she was protecting you guys, so you weren't completely engulfed in the darkness."
"I heard a voice talking to me. Maybe it was Iqui." Tidus said. "We heard it too," the others said.
"Cool, I can fly!" Vern said, surfing the air.
"Hey, me too!" Selphie said, bouncing around in the air.
"We can't fly, no fair!" Wakka pouted.
"Wait, I can fly too!" Tidus said, floating in the air.
"Man, just my luck! I gotta be a big ugly creature that can't fly!" Wakka said.
"Weren't you always like that?!" Selphie teased.
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Sorry I kinda left you at a weird part, but I had to stop somewhere! Anyways, this chappie was really long, so I'm proud of it. Ja ne!