Miku: Hey y'all! Sorry I haven't updated for such a loooooooooong time… I'm just lazy and never find the time…. Stupid school and all. Thanks for those who reviewed… and those who didn't… That's ok. As long as you read it… I hope you liked it too, but I can't be selfish! ANYWAYS… I WANT you to review, but if you don't I'm not forcing you too… it WOULD be nice, and it doesn't even have to be long. One word works too ya know! (hint hint) Oh no! Selfishness level rising again!
Riku: Aren't you ALWAYS selfish anyways?
Miku: (bonks on head) Stupid smexy pretty boy…
Sora: What's smexy?
Kairi: Er… sexy?
Riku: (slyly) Like you?
Sora and Miku: (Bonks on head again) Dummy…
Kairi: (blush blush)
Riku: (rubs head) Ow… you and your stupid bonkingness…
Sora: Is that a WORD? o.0
Miku: Hmm… let me check…. (Takes out dictionary and flips through it)
Kairi: Can we please get to the story? I want to know what happens too ya know!
Sora: Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah! (Grabs a bowl of popcorn)
Miku: (sigh) I guess the dictionary will have to wait…. Ok, R&R! I hope you like it… my writing skills are a little rusty after that writing break.
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Sora pounded furiously on Kairi's door, but there was no response, only the rustling of Kairi's feet against the wooden floor. Then for one, eerie moment, there was no sound emanating from the room. Suddenly, without Sora even touching the door, the oaken door just flew open by itself, as if it had been commanded to stay shut for only a few seconds. Wary of what might lie ahead, Sora peered into the room, only to find bedraggled blankets on Kari's bed, and foot imprints against the dusty floor.
Hoping to find Kairi, and thinking this was some kind of joke, Sora followed the footsteps to the other side of the room, finding that the footsteps halted right beneath… a long, body length mirror. Grinning, Sora said, "Ok Kairi, enough hide and seek. Really, I would have thought you would have stopped being so childish."
When there was no giggle as he had anticipated, he stared into the mirror, examining his reflection. Sora seemed to grow a few inches in the past years… and his usually unkempt and spiky hair was the same, only a bit longer. When Sora looked a little closer, he almost saw through the mirror, as if there was a passageway on the other side. Looking to the back of the mirror, he realized that it was stuck to the wall… or was it? On the other side of the mirror, there were hinges… now why would they have that?
Thinking that the mirror was some kind of door to a passageway, Sora tried to pry the 'door' loose. When there was no avail, Sora observed the room in search of a hard metal disk of some sort. He then realized that the candle on the little table beside her bed was still burning…why didn't she blow it out if she had expected to be out? Frowning, Sora continued his search… but he still found nothing.
As frustrated as he was feeling, Sora turned around again to concentrate on this door. Noticing the mold and other crusty fungi making the door shut tight, Sora had an idea. Taking a water pitcher on Kairi's bedside table, he began to pour the crystal clear fluid along the crack between the wall and the mirror, softening the disgusting mildew and other disgusting things.
The idea worked to perfection, and Sora managed to open the door with unfamiliar ease. What Sora found was not a mere closet, but a long passageway followed by twisting stairs leading to who knows where. Determined to find Kairi, Sora began to walk down the passageway, only to find a long, bare arm secure is shoulder. Sora whipped around, only to find Aerieth with a stern face, unlike her usual kind features.
"What are you doing?" Sora whispered fiercely, although he had no idea why he was whispering.
"Stopping you from doing the most foolish thing you can do," replied Aerieth calmly, but still had the hard features etched in her face, not suiting her at all.
"What do you know about this passageway?" Sora said suspiciously, as if the world had turned against him.
"Enough to know that if you are searching for your friend, following the Phantom is not the wisest decision." Aerieth whispered softly, as her features softened also.
"The Phantom!" Sora exclaimed, as Aerieth hushed him, "I've heard rumors, but I never thought there really could be… a phantom…"
"He's real Sora," Aerieth retorted, "And if you want Kairi to come back alive, (or uninjured at any rate) I suggest you don't follow her… who knows what the phantom would do to you if you did."
Frowning at the idea of leaving Kairi with the dreaded phantom, he decided that he would rather have her back alive than injured in any way possible…
Sora sulked back toward the guest room… as he vowed to atone for what the phantom did to him tonight… He didn't even care if the phantom was Riku himself… or did he?
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Kairi woke up as if she had been asleep… with her teacher sitting on a wooden oaken bench as he bent down in concentration, as if composing a piece. But, there were black bodies of darkness all over the walls… heartless… infecting them as ants would raid a kitchen. A pair of lifeless yellow eyes (or should I say orbs) stared up at Kairi as if it would rather suck her heart out more than anything else. The disgusting little creature started to grab onto the floor and slowly stalk up to her with jerking movements, before it started to feel her with its antennas. Angrily, the Phantom roared as he sent a blast of cold air to the cretin, as it fell backward, and into the dirty water just underneath her.
Kairi shuddered in disgust as the Phantom stopped playing the organ and signaled her to sit beside him on the bench. The Phantom began to comfort the frightened Kairi, for she was pale, stroking her hair as she started to sob into his chest. Enjoying his moment of triumph over that other boy, the Angel started to stroke her hair more, and then when her sobbing turned into mere sniffles, Kairi said, "Teacher… you remind me of one I loved very much as a child… but now, he's long gone, away into the darkness…"
Here, she paused to look up at him again and then continued, "Do you think I'll ever see him again? I barely even remember his face… but I remember his silvery white hair… just like yours teacher."
Smiling slightly, the Phantom replied, "Perhaps… when the time is right."
Kairi laughed to his surprise as she said, "Teacher, you never say much… but all the same… I love you very much," Then Kairi looked up at him and smiled a sweet pure smile, "Like… a piece of me I've been missing for all these years…."
But, she only loved him as a father… and a brother. Kairi peered at what the magnificent phantom was composing as she inquired, "What is this, teacher? It seems like… a play."
He smiled wryly as he replied softly, "Yes… a play. A musical composed for my one and only beloved pupil."
Kairi remained silent as her teacher got up from his bench. Curious, Kairi got up also, only to follow him into what seemed to be another room of his… lair? Leading her, he stops in front of a beautifully decorated mirror… one congruent to Kairi's, but this one was better furnished.
"Look…" the phantom whispered seductively, "And tell me what you see…"
Kairi looked strangely at her teacher, who kissed her softly on the cheek, then the neck, lovingly; as if she was a little bird that he would never let go.
Kairi turned around to face the mirror squarely, and at first all she saw was herself, and the Phantom tenderly kissing her neck, but then the image swirled… to form a new one.
"Now what do you see?" the Phantom whispered with satisfaction.
Kairi's eyes widened in horror as she saw herself in a white dress… a wedding dress. With one last piercing scream, she fainted… into the Phantoms arms, as he caressed her gently, his piercing blue eyes staring at Kairi's closed eyelids, but still he held her like a groom would to a bride. Laying one last passionate kiss on her lips, he could feel her warmth seeping into him… sweet warmth, warmth that he hadn't felt since… darkness had enveloped him. It was like the sun peeking out in the morning, its light enlightening him. And yet, he let out a cruel laugh.
"As you shall wish it, so it shall be," Riku whispered, as stalked into the darkness, carrying the only person who meant anything to him.
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Kairi had woken up hours later, only to listen to deep notes ringing in her ears and echoing in the cave. Kairi opened her eyes a tiny bit, to find her Phantom playing the organ beautifully. His fingers moved swiftly and deftly, a beautiful yet frightening tune was playing. Realizing that her teacher didn't realize she was awake, she decided to take advantage of this moment… to find out who her Phantom really was…
Walking nimbly behind her teacher, he stopped for a second, as if he realized she was awake. Trying to think of a distraction, she suddenly came up with a simple idea…
Trying to walk at the same pace, here Angel began to play his heavenly music once more. When Kairi was in an arm's distance, the Phantom was about to turn around and grab her, but was stunned when he found Kairi rushing to him, grabbing his arm as if to dance. Frowning slightly he stopped as Kairi smiled at him, advancing nearer to him. Just when he was so close, he could feel her heavenly warmth again, and closed his eyes in preparation for another sweet kiss, Kairi ripped his mask from off his half angelic face.
The Phantom looked at her in wide-eyed horror, his head shaking and eye twitching slightly, as he swiftly put his hand over the area his mask should have been. He gave her one last betrayed stare as he snatched the black mask that she was holding in shock, as he turned around to adjust it on his face.
"Let us leave," he hissed is seething anger and horror. He was truly horrified that his only love would betray his trust… to see his hideous side…
Kairi walked up to him and whispered sadly, "I am… sorry… I shouldn't have betrayed your trust to see something you are so obviously trying to hide from me…"
The Phantom said nothing as he grabbed her arm and led her to the mirror. His icy fingers caused Kairi to flinch, but she followed him as he opened the mirror and to the passageway that led her back to her world… above the academy…
"Remember that I'm always with you," the Angel said softly, but pushed her into the passageway, but not to heard as he sang a quiet song, sweet but sad, ringing in the passageway Kairi was in, and she couldn't help but cry from the lyrics.
'I give you my heart,
You give me your smile,
You betray my trust,
But I love you all the while…'
The lyrics of the song began to fade as Kairi began to run, not wanting to listen to anymore of the sweet and melancholy song…
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Miku: End of Chapter 4Sora: It looks like SOMEONE is sore at Kairi!
Riku: (sulkily) I hate you sooooo much…
Miku: Shhh! I'm still looking up bonkingness!
Kairi: Uh, I don't think that's a word…
Miku: Yes… HAH! There is no bonkingness! So there Riku!
Riku: Shut up.
Sora: Who's the dumb one now?
Everyone: You
Sora: That's so MEAN!
Miku: Yes, yes, we know.
Riku: You know what is a word? LOVE is a very well known word too you know…
Kairi: And your point is…?
Sora and Miku: BURNED!
Riku: (sulkily) Leave me alone… Review everyone. Because my macho smexyness tells you to.
Everyone: (sweatdrop)
Sora: Isthat a word?