Of course, then again, I am quite desperate to get to the SERIOUS chapters. Starting with the next chapter will begin the series of 70's, which will answer ALL your questions…for the most part. There are some questions I leave for later but I assure you everything will be solved with the next handful of chapters. Of course, that involves some answering, too…
Lena-jade: I can't hate you for pointing things out I miss or ignore for the hell of it! Of course I'd hate it but I also appreciate it. You know what I mean…and inside the train he had trouble finding seats, remember all the evil old people? Plus, he's exhausted by then and would love to do nothing more than sleep…besides figuring out Zexion's message. As for A/S/K, you'll see. There's going to be a whole lot of confusion and complete misunderstanding. But you can already guess as to the misunderstanding. The whole Kingdom Hearts issue was actually living hell for me; I had no idea how to make Riku's side interesting and therefore tired the hell out of myself by the time I got to the real thing. Therefore, it's not as great. But look at it this way; what's really worth it: the end or the journey to the end? As for the whole DiZ issue, that'll be addressed later in a very confusing way; I need to look back and modify, thanks for bringing that up. Har har har, Ronsend is Darth Vader, har har har!
Aozora – AH-O-ZOH-RA (actual Japanese pronunciation)
ShebytheDogDemoness: No comment. Very scary. 0.0
FallenAngelStar: Well, you might have to be a bit more patient because this is Kairi's side of the story but I promise you: in the next set of chapters, Aozora will be appearing a LOT more often. Believe me. And the whole Aozora issue was that it bothered me that I put so much time and effort into writing fanfiction instead of using that energy to create my own stories (like I am for the fifth time in a row with the same world, same idea, and similar characters). Of course, then again I could just steal his character, can't I? And you were right to feel ready for a serious surprise; there are…three or four surprises? Somewhere around those numbers… Aozora-bashing? You want me to BACK OFF? The whole essence of his chapters is to show how much he suffers! Mentally and physically he has been suffering. But there is one more area that has yet to be touched and this will change the course of the story. Take a guess. Hint: the scar of a traitor. As for Shanks, I can't say too much…except it will be very painful. And yes, Sally is annoying. That is why I love her. I love ambiguity because it's so…frustrating. Yes I love torturing people, sue me! And Riku has a harder time making friends because of his ordeal. I mean, seriously, turn against your best friend and lock yourself in darkness and then…well, yeah. And yes, foreshadowing is heaven.
Cammy-world: I hope your butt gains back its senses. XD Yes Ronsend has his problems. That's why the Prophet's there. They may hate each other's guts but the Prophet knows as well as Sally does what needs to be done. Will Sora die or will Aozora die for him or will Riku or Kairi suddenly appear and die instead? Or will someone else die? Who dies? And I love pocky!
Kingdom Alchemist: I went back to my loyal base of KHU so I should visit KHI now, huh? Well, I'm updating now. So there you go! E-mail me if you want; I look forward to hearing from you.
Nirina Illuisar: Congratulations for the marathon reading of my story! What surprises me is the fact that people would sit through 68 (69 now) chapters. Then again, I do that, too…though I have yet to read a story as long as mine 0.0 And besides, this is school season! Yah! Well, I'm glad you like the Riku chapters. I hope you like the next one. No, seriously, everyone needs to pay attention: the next chapters are the finest set you will lay your eyes on. Hopefully they are less confusing than all the other chapters so far.
More to be said near the bottom concerning my predicament with my parents. Here's the story, though…
Secrets of Memories
Chapter 69: Silver Glass
Kairi shuffled through all the pages they had collected from their journey through In Between. One paper from Wonderland, along with a box; one from Deep Jungle; there was that weird one from Agrabah; and two from Deep Tranquility.
" She said that the path to the door of In Between would be here…but I don't see it anywhere…" Kairi remarked, shuffling and looking through the pile yet again. " Or rather, I haven't read them yet…anybody have any idea as to where the door of In Between is?"
" I bet you Merlin and Kenaii do," Selphie remarked, holding onto the box the Queen of Hearts had given them. " I mean, they are the know-it-alls…"
" Well, honestly, I don't know where the door is," Oracle Kenaii admitted, scratching his ghostly head and whatever stringy bits of white hair remained of it. " I mean, I don't even know what is looks like…"
He faded as he realized that Selphie was staring at him with an expression that was much like horror.
" Then what did you tell Hercules?"
" Whatever I knew. Regretfully, I did tell Hercules….that boy does need more help than you think…well, I guess I'll have to take a look at the reports. Merlin?"
" What?" the wizard asked, scratching his own head with his wand.
" Care to handle the pages? I'm not exactly physical am I?"
" Well, there are things you can do…"
" Get over here, man! Life and death hangs by a thread thanks to these pages and all you can talk about is my ghostly state?"
" Right, right, right…"
Iago stared at the two. " They are featherbrains."
" So are you."
" Tidus?"
" Yes, Selphie?"
" Shut up."
The blond man sighed and scratched his head. " So…some things never change, eh?"
" Obviously," Selphie remarked as the ghost and the wizard-in-PJs huddled over Ansem's Other Report with Kairi.
" Hey, wait a minute…" Kairi realized. " They're all one-sided!"
" And your point is?"
" Flip 'em," Kairi shot back, flipping each page.
Merlin uttered something incoherent. Oracle Kenaii glared at him.
" I never see these before!" Oracle Kenaii exclaimed. " How strange…and how very convenient."
" Mayhaps if all the pages are together, then we can see these…writings," Merlin thought. " I mean, I really don't recall seeing any of this…"
Kairi flipped over the first page, the one about the brothers, Dragon and Phoenix…
Silver is the glass
Upon which you will pass.
The next page, about Ronsend and Mickey…
Dawn will take you home
Where the darkness roam.
Written on the next page was about the Heartless and the Nobodies…
Night will take you down a path
From which you will never come back.
Then there was that odd note about the behavior of the Keyblades…
Twilight is the hope that is true
If you know what's right for you.
Then there was that odd prophecy that Iago found in the belly of the Guardian of the Cave of Wonders…
The moon will pass into silver
And the circle will close forever.
And right underneath that was a sketch, well-shaded and immaculate in detail. It was a part of a world, with a path leading out of it beyond…
" It looks like a path made of some metallic stuff," Merlin noted, peering at the page.
" That part of the world, doesn't that look familiar?" Tidus asked; he, Iago, and Selphie had joined the others in reading the papers.
" That building looks familiar…" Selphie pointed out. " And that tree."
" That looks familiar, too," Iago agreed. " Wait a second…isn't this Deep Tranquility?"
Everyone looked up and around them. All they saw were tree stumps, some straggly dead trees, and plenty of ruins.
" Yeah, I agree. Iago's right; look over there!"
Everyone looked at where Tidus was pointing.
There was that tree, next to the ruins of a building that looked remarkably similar to the one in the drawing. And just beyond that, they saw something shimmer…
Oracle Kenaii began walking there as fast as his ghostly feet could take him. Everyone stared at each other, shrugged, then ran after him. Kairi jumped over a fallen tree in the process of reaching that lone standing tree next to the ruins of the building Selphie had noted and Tidus had identified.
There, just beyond a group of hills, was something that shone silver. Liquid silver.
" What is that?" Selphie wondered, peering at the strange scenario.
" A path?" Iago suggested. " That weird writing suggested it."
" Silver is the glass/Upon which you will pass. He must be right," Tidus thought.
" Let's take a closer look," Kairi suggested. " Never hurts to do so."
She began walking for the hills.
" I wonder what we'll find," Merlin mused as the hills grew larger and the slope of the land became noticeably steep.
" Some pretty strange stuff is my guess," Tidus offered his two cents.
" Isn't that kind of obvious."
" Hey, he was wondering. I'm just answering."
Oracle Kenaii shook his head, then strode forward after Kairi, who was several feet ahead and pretty determined the conquer the hills.
" You know, I've been thinking about the lines of that poem."
" So have I," Kairi admitted as they topped the first hill. " I don't like how it sounds…"
" I must agree with you on that. Something tells me that poem does more than guide us to the door of In Between. My guess is, Kairi, that poem's warning you. Of what, I don't know."
" Warning me?" Kairi gestured to herself. " What can happen?"
" The second stanza is talking of a path of light. It will guide you home, perhaps Destiny Islands, but it adds in that line "where the darkness roam". Think about it. That line is basically saying that your home is full of danger."
" Then why is it telling me to take that road?"
" The poem also tells you of a road of darkness," the oracle reminded her. " Night will take you down a path/ from which you will never come back. My guess is that the things that will soon take place will change everything we have come to know and love about the Universe. Kairi, there are three orders in this Universe. The first is the Mythic Order, the time of Dragon and Phoenix Seiryu, of the Twins Halocanis and Shadowrenis, and the first appearance of the Keyblades. By closing the Door of Light, the Mythic Order ended and the Old Order began. We live in the Old Order. Once Sora finds and opens the Door of Light, the Old Order will die and the New Order will begin. Many lives will be lost and many worlds will never see the dawning of the New Order."
" So basically I will take a path from the Old Order to the New Order," Kairi realized as they topped another hill. The others were falling behind. " This…is really scary."
She turned to the Oracle and stopped walking. " Can I face it? Can I face these changes?"
" Your heart is strong, Kairi," the ghost assured her. " That is a strength already. Be brave. That is all I can say to anyone who expresses his or her doubt about the changing of the Order. The change will be violent, mark my word, but the brave and true will live to see the dawning of a new era."
" Oh…" Kairi looked down. " What about that other line?"
" Twilight is the hope that is true/ if you know what's right for you. That line puzzles me, honestly," the oracle admitted. " There are only two 'twilights' I know of: Twilight Town and our Guardian. He uses the Oblivion and the Oathkeeper. He is the middle ground between light and dark – Kairi, are you okay?"
The redheaded teenager had frozen at the mere mention of the Guardian.
" N-no, nothing's wrong…its just…there's something about his past that bothers me…"
" What else can bother you about him?" the oracle demanded. He smelled something fishy here.
" I…don't know," Kairi admitted. Bronze eyes flashed in her mind and she shivered.
The specter looked at her strangely as she walked on down the hill. " That's what she says…"
" What?"
" Nothing, really," the oracle quickly shot back. " But why would the twilight be the true hope? I mean, what's the big deal about Twilight Town? There's nothing big about Twilight Town, besides Kingdom Hearts-"
" What? What about Kingdom Hearts?" Kairi turned around quickly.
" Kingdom Hearts started jumping between Hollow Bastion and a place called Twilight Town a while back. But I don't know why it's such a big deal…"
Not for you, Oracle Kenaii, Kairi thought as she kept walking, a sense of foreboding in her heart. You don't understand, Oracle. Nobody does. I only wish people understood…but nobody would. Nobody ever would.
A tear left its trace in the gray grass of Deep Tranquility. Its crystal beauty glistened with the all its tragedy, with all her love and pain.
Nobody saw that.
''
" A path of silver, made of glass," Kairi remarked, standing and staring at what looked like a dripping walkway of silver that led up somewhere into the skies, curving as it disappeared into the grayish clouds. Silver dribbled off like water pouring from the middle of the walkway. " How beautiful…"
" This is our pathway?" Selphie demanded as the others finally caught up to Kairi and Oracle Kenaii. " That's so amazing!"
" We're traveling in style," Iago grinned.
Kairi giggled. Selphie stared at her. " Are you okay?"
The teenager smiled. " We get to go back, Selphie…and I'll see Sora again!"
The brown-haired girl scratched her head. " Well…thing is, I never heard you giggle in such a long time."
" I guess that's what happens when you finally see a light at the end of the road," she replied. " You feel…happy."
" I gotta agree with her; I feel swell knowing I can go back to my friends," Iago agreed as Kairi took the first step onto the rippling silver. The silver rippled around her foot in waves of glass.
" And I'll go home…to Spira," Tidus sighed. " I wonder how Yuna's doing…"
" Lover boy, let's go," Selphie slapped him on the back as they all began to follow Kairi up the spiraling staircase.
Alara watched them as they all made their way up that path to the Door of In Between.
" Oh Kairi, when will you understand that your heart will break in two? Wherever you go, a trail of pain and sorrow will follow you…"
She bent down and gently picked up the droplet of crystal from the blade of gray grass.
" May luck follow you, whichever path you choose to take."
''
" Well, now what?" Iago demanded.
" Gee, like I'd know?" Selphie snapped back.
" This is perplexing," Merlin commented, perplexed.
" I have to agree with you on that," Oracle Kenaii admitted. " This is really confusing."
" Shit, well, now what do we do?" Tidus demanded.
Kairi fingered the keychain that she kept hidden in a pocket in her skirt. " I…don't know."
Before them was a room full of silver. Cascading from high above them rippled glass. Their reflections bounced off, distorting in the continuous waves of the colors of the moon.
" I don't see much of anything…"
Dawn.
Night.
Twilight.
Kairi blinked. The words repeated in her head.
Dawn. Night. Twilight. Why?
The room was full of silver…The Moonbeam pulsed in her pocket, a glowing comfort in this moment of loss and confusion.
" I don't know what we're supposed to do…but maybe the poem as a say in it…" Kairi suggested, discretely pulling out the chain Aozora had given her so long ago…
" The moon will pass into silver/ And the circle will close forever," Tidus said quietly. He knew what Kairi was talking about. " Something about a moon, silver, and some circle…wait a minute, the circle's already closed! How can it close forever if it's already closed?"
" The circle means In Between." Oracle Kenaii was quick to answer. " If the door closes, then the circle of destruction will close forever and no worlds will ever vanish again."
" But what if the Heartless continue to destroy the worlds?"
" They go bye-bye. The dreams will never suffer like the ones of Celt Circle. Life would be short, sometimes painless, but the evils of In Between would never again exist."
Selphie thought for a moment. " Is that a good thing?"
" It depends," Merlin shrugged. " Suffer slow or suffer fast?"
" Let's not think about that," Oracle Kenaii suggested. " We're trying to get out of here, don't you think?"
" Well, look at this, Kenaii! All we got are cascades of silver coming from the heavens down on this floor! You tell me that's something right there!"
" Well, what in Atlantis am I supposed to do?"
" You're dead! You're supposed to know all the secrets by then!"
" Secrets? You fool, what's wrong with you? I'm not an omnipotent old man! I died in a catastrophe long ago as a raving lunatic!"
" Well, you knew crap when you were raving-"
Kairi thought of what Tidus had recalled for them. The moon will pass into silver…
He unclenched the hand that held the keychain and held it up.
There in the palm of her hand, was the Moonbeam, as Aozora told her. The pulsing silver light cast a halo around the moon, with the small head engraved into it. The emblem of King Mickey…Disney.
" The moon…and silver…" Kairi murmured. Then she looked up at the walls of silver. " Moon…silver…dawn…dark…twilight…"
Gray…
" Kairi, what are you doing?" Selphie demanded as Kairi strode to the cascading wall and pressed her right palm into it.
Light suddenly exploded from the palm of her hand, spraying out from between her fingers and ricocheting off the other walls. Light bloomed all around them, ripples of silver…silver light…
" What in Spira is that!"
When they could see again, when the light dissipated, they saw three keyholes. One was full of light, glowing with promise. One was dark, ominous, full of night. And the one in the very middle…was silver.
" What in blazes…" Merlin murmured.
" There are three!" Selphie noted. " Now what?"
Kairi stared, as she slowly pulled her hand away.
Once more, light flashed. Then it compacted into a handle of light. Kairi's fingers went around and grasped the handle. Slowly, but surely, she pulled out a Keyblade from the silver wall.
Gleaming bluish silver, it was warped with the idea of a nebula in mind. There was the main body, rising and curing into the head of a key. Two silver lines rose on either side, twisting and turning around the main body as it met the head. Shapes like a crescent moon, stars stuck out of it and deep in the center was a spinning crystal globe. The whole thing seemed to sparkle.
The handle seemed to be made of ivory, curving like the horn of a unicorn. The guards were crescent moons and the keychain…was the Moonbeam.
" That's…beautiful," Selphie gasped.
" Worth more than all of the Cave's crap!" Iago declared.
" A rogue Key…" Oracle Kenaii noted. " So that's what it is! Two rogue keys, two doors. The Oblivion is one, the Moonbeam is the other!"
" But which door do I close?" Kairi posed the question. She swung the blade expertly in her grip.
" That's what the poem should say…" Merlin mused. " Except for the fact that all three types of light…and the corresponding keyholes…really don't make sense at all."
" Twilight has the best suggestion," Selphie suggested.
" Yeah, that's true," Tidus agreed.
" We have to choose carefully," Oracle Kenaii warned them sternly. " That Keyblade may be used once. Close the wrong door…and that's it. We'll be stuck here…for who knows how long."
" We can't risk anything; we have to be careful," Kairi determined. " This…is dangerous, isn't it?"
" Very."
" Dawn is the road home where the darkness awaits us. Night is a path that we cannot turn back. Twilight is the road if it is right for you. But Twilight may not. So…what do we do?"
Tread your path with care.
Where will you go now, oh where?
Everyone blinked and looked around each other. " Did you guys hear that?"
" Whose voice is that?" Selphie questioned slowly.
" No one's. That voice…is one that we don't know."
" Good. For once nobody's playing a trick on us!" Selphie nodded happily.
" But still…it's telling us to be careful. And it's asking us…where are we going?" Tidus noted. " Except it's asking only one person."
He looked at Kairi. She gestured to herself. Me?
" You have the Moonbeam. You are going to close the door. And you're making the decision," Tidus stated with strong words. " It's your call, Kairi. I trust you will do the right thing."
" What?" Kairi asked weakly.
" I agree," Iago squawked.
" Where will you go now, oh where? But what does it mean?" Merlin pondered, staring at the three holes.
" We're about to find out. Kairi, show the way," Selphie snapped.
Kairi rubbed her face with her free hand. Why me?
Tread your path with care.
The days are numbered, the light shortens, the dark lengthens.
Where will you go now, oh where?
She saw Traverse Town…Sora, Donald, and Goofy had gone there…they were entering Cid's Accessories Store…
…and bronze eyes flashed into her mind.
" Kairi?"
She looked up. Everyone was staring at her with concern. " What? What's wrong?"
" I don't know but you suddenly gasped and started hyperventilating or something…" Tidus explained, looking at her worriedly. Oracle Kenaii was musing deeply. The others were simply staring at her…and Iago was staring at the Moonbeam in all its mithril-like beauty.
" I think I know which one."
This is my decision. This is my road. The others, they're only a part of it. I'm the one who will lead them…and I will take them out of In Between. But to where?
And then she remembered something an old woman told her long ago…
"The Universe will unfold like it is supposed to. Decide what you will; let everything else come naturally."
" This is my choice."
She held out the Moonbeam in front of the silver keyhole. An orb of sparkling light formed around the head…then discharged as a beam of white into the center of the keyhole of silver.
" Twilight," Oracle Kenaii spoke quietly, as light collected in the keyhole and began to spread. The whole keyhole turned white, then fingers of light streaked across the ripples, touching upon the other keyholes and causing them both to glow, too. All around them, white light spread its fingers, closing up in a cage of intricate white light. Curling, streaking, connecting, ricocheting, it was a fireworks of the kind none but Oracle Kenaii had ever seen before.
" What is going on here-"
Selphie never finished her sentence. In a brilliant and bold burst of light, consciousness was lost. The mist of sleep came over and everything simply vanished in that hot, pulsing illumination.
When will you understand that your heart will break in two? Wherever you go, a trail of pain and sorrow will follow you. But luck I wish you, whichever path you choose to take. Destiny is what you make.
""
" Now what?" Kobi demanded, relaxing in the only three-seating couch in Cid's shop.
" We wait," Leon said coolly, staring at the fireplace and the cheerful dance of flames inside.
" How long?"
" I don't know."
Yuffie had a smile on her face. " Is it cuz Rinoa hasn't come yet?"
Leon flushed slightly. " Not just that…"
" The others," Cloud said quietly, staring at some of the crystals the Moogles in the shop above Cid's synthesized. " Aozora, for one. Kairi, for another. Both of them have not come here yet. Because of that, nothing will happen."
" Then what do we do?" the ninja asked, sitting on the coffee table.
" Off the table, Yuffie!" Cid warned her.
" She's not going to break it," Lorien remarked, shifting in her seat and putting her booted feet up on the table. " So relax for once."
" Not with you hotshots sitting pretty here!" the man shot back. " What are you, lazy or something? Heartless, Nobodies, the Society, they're all roaming around here! And what are you guys doing? Asking each other what they should do now!"
" Well, nothing's really happened since a member of the Society was seen studying Traverse Town's Keyhole and people started coming here for safety," Aerith noted. " And the only danger is what Sora will face. We really can't do much until Aozora gets here."
" What is he, a power keg?" Kobi asked, with something not like anger. " Is he the alarm? Will the Universe collapse if he doesn't come here on time?"
" What are you so angry over?" Yuffie asked innocently.
" He has nothing to do…and Aozora has everything to do," Lorien said calmly, now withdrawing her sword and studying its sharp edge. " He's got nothing…and Aozora's got everything, whatever it is."
Her cheeks were tinged pink in the soft glow of the lights in the room.
" Shut up," Kobi snapped, turning his head away from her.
Yuffie was winking at Aerith. The look that passed between them looked something a lot like this: Puppy love!
The pretty brunette shook her head. Not now, Yuffie!
" How long is it gonna take for Kairi to get here, anyways?" Lorien decided to ask.
" Hell, like I'd know," Cid grumbled back. " I've got no messages from that damn dead man Kenaii and Merlin's been gone for ages since his little battle with that damn Noknight. I mean, where'd the hell did it come from?"
" One appeared in Coliseum to do battle with Hercules," Leon remarked calmly. " My guess is, they're being sent around for assassination attempts."
" Except nobody died yet," Cloud reminded the dark-haired man.
" That, too."
" Besides King Nedakh," Aerith said sadly. " The poor old man; if only he could have lived a little longer-"
" What's done is done. You can't change the past and you never will," Lorien interrupted briskly, with a voice devoid of emotion. " Life goes on and we have to face new challenges now. His death is a loss but what can we do?"
" Nothing…"
" Exactly."
Cloud was glaring at Lorien.
" You're not scaring me, Cloud," Lorien remarked, still studying her sword, " so stop trying."
"…"
Now Kobi was staring at her strangely. " Lorien, why are you so mean?"
The redhead blinked. She opened her mouth…and nothing came out.
" I mean, I know we've both been living a tough life and all but that's the most heartless speech I ever heard from you. King Nedakh was a good man, Lorien; how can you push aside his death so apathetically? We knew him, Lorien; why are you so harsh?"
She continued to stare at him. She opened her mouth again, in an attempt to speak-
Light exploded in the middle of the room, extracting shouts and causing mostly everyone to get knocked out of their seats. In the midst of the ensuing chaos, the occupants of the room happened to hear different voices yelling, followed by an "Oomph!", and the sound of splintered wood.
" My table!" Cid hollered as the light vanished as suddenly as it had appeared.
What lay before his eyes was a spectacle of nightmare proportions.
Leon was relatively safe, having stationed himself in front of the fireplace. So were Cloud and Aerith, as they were standing somewhere behind the ladder that led up to the Moogles' synthesis shop. Mostly everyone else, however, was in a state of pain.
Kobi found himself under a pile of people, a pile that happened to destroy the coffee table and knock off Yuffie onto the floor. Rubbing her head, Yuffie slowly got back up to her feet, as Kobi started shouting about not being able to breathe.
" What the f-" Lorien crawled off the overturned sofa, her sword flung a distance away.
" Well, well, well," Cid smirked. " Looks like they've arrived."
Leon strode over and proceeded to pull people off of Kobi. That included an old man with a long white beard, bespectacled and wearing what looked like a long blue dress. That also included a tall, tanned blond man who was squashing an indignant and woozy red parrot. Lorien offered to help by pulling up a shorthaired brunette girl with a yellow dress and a redhead wearing a white shirt and a purple skort. That left Kobi with a ghost on him. He didn't realize that until he got up and passed through the ghost in the process.
" Yah!" the silver-headed boy shouted, jumping away.
" Whaddya know, it's Oracle Kenaii!" Cid said happily. " He's brought the whole gang with him, too!"
" Merlin," Cloud stated, striding forward. " It's about time you got back."
" What are you talking about? It hasn't been that long, has it?" the old man replied indignantly, brushing at his clothing.
" Half a year," Leon said softly.
" Half…a year?" the redhead's voice quavered.
" Hello, Kairi," Aerith smiled.
" Oh shit," Lorien winced. " Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Perfect timing, Merlin! If that's Kairi….oh crap!"
" Why, what's wrong?" Kairi asked the other redhead in the room nervously.
" Sora just left," Kobi replied matter-of-factly. " He was here for a whole week. They're headed for Hollow Bastion."
" And the other bastard's not here yet!" Cid grumbled. " Aozora! I'm gonna kick the crap out of Cid! Grrr…."
Author's Endnote: I will attempt to update each one of my other stories over the course of this week (Thursday to Thursday) before I stop for the rest of the year. Yes, the REST of the year. I will continue working by hand in secret (and destroy all nerves in my hands in the process) but nothing typed will be uploaded until summer begins or my parents relax by the time winter hits. (hopes for the latter) Seriously, I had great stuff planned and EVERYTHING but they got in the way of EVERYTHING. I mean, the chapter scheduling was working out…perfectly, really….now its like…all down the drain. I will make similar announcements in my other stories, for those of you who like reading my other stories for some peculiar reason. Thank you for your understanding. Feel free to e-mail me, as long as you don't ask for the next chapters. XD
Chapter 70…
" What's wrong with you?"
Why don't you recall a part of your life, Sora?"
" There's always a light at the end of the road."
…Last Days