… The princess of heart… we must awaken her…
"I will find your heart Kairi! I will! Even if it means turning against Sora…… I …… I will…… You're everything to me, Kairi………"
"Don't you understand? Her heart was inside of you all along! She rests within you!"
"Ka… Kairi's inside me?"
"… Sora!"
"Um.. Kairi? You all right?"
"Huh?" Kairi snapped out of it, and looked down to see a slightly concerned Donald.
"You seemed to be out of it for a minute there."
She shook her head. "Yeah, I'm fine, just… a little zoned out… heh heh…" She quickly regained her composure. "So, um, why are we here?"
Donald looked confused. "Maybe you DIDN'T hear me earlier. Sora said that he wanted to go to Hallow Bastion before he…fell asleep. I'm not sure why he wanted to come here, but he did."
"Oh… that's odd." Kairi said, slightly curious.
"Yeah… Well, we're about there; I'm going to go get Goofy. Will you check on Sora?"
"Sure."
Kairi headed back to the living room, rubbing her temples as she walked. When she was in Hallow bastion, without her heart, everything was so cold…. Yet so warm. It was weird to describe; sometimes she would tap into Sora's surroundings, feel the warmth of his heart…. and hear what he heard. Other times she could hear where her body was. But mostly she was in pure darkness. It was like one, long, awful sleep…
The times when she could hear Riku were the strangest. She could hear people that she didn't know and that she never met, people that called themselves things like "Oogie Boogie" and "Hook". Yes… she remembered Hook well, for some reason. Yet, one time, she heard just Riku talking to her. When, where, or how it happened, or if it even DID happen, she didn't know. But Riku sounded almost like he was in tears… he said she was everything to her…
But that was all in the past. Now she had to focus on waking Sora, and going back there.
When she got to the living room, she was surprised to see Sora wasn't there.
"Gosh, so you feel fine now?"
"Yeah… I have a headache still, but I feel pretty normal." Sora and Goofy were in the kitchen having a soda.
Goofy gave a huge grin. "That's good to know. Why did you want to come here anyways?"
"I'm supposed to get… medicine from someone. It's supposed to make me stop fainting like that…" Sora mentally added an 'I think.'
"Well, you gave us quite a scare! Passing out like that… making Kairi carry you all the way to the ship…. "
"We're here!" Donald came into the room, announcing their location. "Sora! You're awake! Are you feeling better?"
"Yeah! Feeling fine… Wait a sec, Kairi carried me?" His face looked crestfallen. "She's here?"
"Yeah," Donald said. "I think she's in the other room, she should be here in a minute. Lucky she was there to take care of you, too. Otherwise, who knows what would have happened!"
Sora's mood quickly changed. "We can't land." He said firmly.
"Why?" Goofy asked.
"Because I say so!" Sora snapped.
Goofy frowned. "Oh no we don't, not if we're supposed to be getting you medicine! We'll pick it up and then leave. Honestly, you've been having mood swings more than a-"
Donald interrupted. "Oh, medicine! So that's why we're here."
Sora was getting annoyed. "We've got to go back, we've got to go to Traverse Town, I-"
"Sora..?" Kairi came in through the automatic doors with a look of concern on her face. "Is everything alright in here? I thought I heard yelling."
"..K.. Kairi…"
Sora expected himself to yell at Kairi for coming on the ship. Even though he didn't really know what happened, he figured he would just blow up in her face, in Donald's face, and even in Goofy's face, and that after he was through yelling, they would go back to Traverse Town and drop Kairi off whether she liked it or not.
This is not what happened.
As soon as Sora laid eyes on Kairi, all of his frustration and fury seemed to drain out of him, and he felt unnaturally relaxed. Too relaxed. His eyelids seemed to droop and his jaw dropped to the extent that he had trouble forming words. Instead of "Kairi, you shouldn't be here," all that came out was "..K.. Kairi…"
Everything blurred.
"Oh.. we're ready to land. Quick, sit down and buckle up, we keep seatbelts in the kitchen for instantces like this." Donald said this is a normal voice, but it sounded so far away…
He sat down in one of the near chairs, partially by instinct, but partially because he felt like he was about to fall over if he didn't.
"Here we go!"
…where were they going again?
Goofy laughed. "Haha, this is the best part, right Sora?"
Sora? Why did that sound so famailiar?
Within a few moments, they landed on the small planet with a thud, a very professional landing, Donald reminded them proudly. (even though it was on autopilot)
Everything… was so…. Distorted…..
"Let's go! … Sora? You all right?"
Who was talking so loud…. Just a minute ago it seemed so quiet…..
"Hellooooo? Sora! Snap outta it!"
God, they were so loud! Quit talking!
"SORA! C'MON!" Donald reached over and grabbed Sora's arm, trying to pull him out of the ship. Kairi and Goofy were already outside, waiting.
And… now… now they were touching him… how dare they…..
"Sora..? Sora! SORA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Donald came running out of the ship, wand raised in instinct.
"What happened?" Kairi asked sharply.
Donald took a few more steps back. "He... he attacked me!"
Sora emerged from the ship, walking a little more lopsided than usual. His head was hanging low so you couldn't see his face. He shuffled his feet slowly until he got outside, standing a good ten feet from Donald, Goofy, and Sora. His chest was rising and falling quickly, as if his heart rate had tripled within a moment.
There was a suspenseful pause, while Goofy held up his shield above his head, Donald raised his wand, and Kairi stood, confused.
She was the first to break the silence.
She attentively took a step forward. "So… ra…?" Kairi said this almost in a whisper.
He snapped his head up to look at her.
Who is that girl? Why is she talking to me?
"Are you alright?"
Why is she coming towards me… She is getting to close……
"Let's go get your medicine Sora…. Let's go…"
Donald started to open his mouth to yell, but Goofy hushed him.
She is much, MUCH too close……
Kairi was less than a foot from him. He still hadn't moved. Slowly, she reached her hand out to touch his. It was less than an inch away….
Sora suddenly lashed out at her, striking her with his keyblade. Luckily, Kairi was on guard, so she was able to escape with only a scratch on her.
"Kairi!" Goofy yelled, rushing over to her.
Kairi's face turned deadly serious. "Stay there!" She yelled. But Sora had already turned his attention to Goofy, and started to charge.
Goofy had been paying attention to Kairi, so he got hit full on, getting blasted on his back. Sora had a look of pure evil on his face as he stood over Goofy after he fell. Goofy was the first to notice that Sora's eyes were now an icy shade of blue, so light they looked like they were made of glass. It was almost unnerving.
Sora held his keyblade in away that it was obvious what he was going to do next. He was about to drive it through his chest, pointing it directly at his heart. Goofy was so shocked that Sora was about to kill him he could only lay there, looking like an idiot. Donald wanted to cast a spell, but he didn't want to hurt Sora. It was an awful predicament, having to suddenly fight a friend that you've become very close to.
Donald clenched his fists tightly around his wand, before forcing himself to cast a spell.
"STOPAGA!" He yelled, aiming at Sora. Sora's body instantly slowed to stop, and Goofy breathed a sigh of relief.
"Golly, that was a close one.." He chuckled, as if these things happened every day.
Donald, on the other hand, was still frantic. "MOVE YOU IDIOT! THAT WON'T LAST LONG!"
Goofy yelped and quickly jumped out of the way, running until he was next to Donald.
"What should we do…?" He said in a sad voice, now that he was staring at a frozen Sora.
Kairi was on the other side of Sora. "You two," she said in a commanding voice. "Go to the castle and ask anyone around if they know about this medicine shit. I'll watch him."
'Watch him?" Donald laughed. "You mean get KILLED by him. I don't know what's wrong with him, but hopefully this medicine will take care of it…"
"That's what I was thinking." Kairi said. "Now GO, and I'm better off by myself. Really, you'll just distract me. Quit looking at me like I'm crazy! GO!"
Donald and Goofy reluctantly turned and started running towards the castle, which, fortunately, they had landed right outside.
Kairi examined the still frozen Sora; the little timer above his head showing that he would be unfrozen in a few seconds.
She got in a fighting position. "I guess now we'll see what you're made of…" She thought at loud, as Sora started to make his first movement, turning his head in her direction. But she noticed his eyes now. They were filled with hate, anger… and lust.
Even Kairi was taken aback.
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Whoo, another chappie! Lol when I started this, I thought it would be, like, maybe ten chapters long, tops. But I'm not even halfway done…. sigh o well, r and r!
O, and my sn is sparx113xx, in case I forget to update and you want to yell at me. And I forget. Alot… --;;;
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