"Hey guys!"
A young guy came in, dragging a large cooler. It was pretty clear he was straining to drag it in. "Pence are you ok?" Hayner asked. "Yes! I don't need help or anything like that-" He said sarcastically. He looked like he was gonna pass out.
"Oop. Should probably help you then" Hayner said as he got up to help his friend. "We don't want another person passing out today."
"Hm? What do you mean?" Pence asked. "Just looked at the couch-" Hayner said.
Pence looked over at it, and saw the the guy resting, still knocked out on the couch. "Oh... Um.. Who is that? He looks... Strange-"
"He doesn't look strange-!" Sora said. Pence looked at him. "I didn't mean it like that! I mean, he looks like he could be from one of those other worlds you travel to Sora" Pence said. Hayner was chucking to himself at the back. "You sure snapped at that didn't you Sora?" He said.
Sora's face went red. "Hayner shut up!" Sora yelled.
Hayner just laughed.
"Hey Pence, what's in the cooler?" Roxas asked. "Seasalt Ice cream of course! I thought Axel and Xion was coming over, so I bought a whole bunch. But now I can use some for this guy."
Pence found a small little cloth. He wrapped it around the ice cream bar. "This will probably help him wake up" He said. He walked over to the teen, and set the cold cloth on his forehead.
Hayner was watching. "Hey, that's not how you should do it-" He said. "Huh? What you mean" Pence asked. But before Pence could even say another word, Hayner had grabbed the ice cream bar from him. "This is the right way to do it"
Hayner reached over to put the cloth on the guys head. As soon as he did, though, the guy shot up awake, and unfortunately, for Hayner, the guys head slammed right into Hayner's.
The impact made Hayner fall on the floor. "OOF!" Hayner exclaimed.
Roxas was there watching the whole scene and couldn't stop laughing.
"Roxas stop it!" Hayner yelled with his face getting red from embarrassment.
The guy was now up, but he was looking around like he didn't know where he was. Which, was most likely true.
"You're awake!" Sora exclaimed. "Yeah? Well he nearly put ME to sleep-" Hayner said.
The guys eyes where locked on Sora. "S-Sora...? He said.
Everyone stared at him. They all where wondering how the guy knew Sora's name. "How... Do you know.. My name? Have... We met?" Sora asked. Sora was now wondering if this guy was one of the people he used to call on for help when he needed them. But he did not look familiar.
The guy made no response. He was still staring at Sora.
"Who is this loon-?" Hayner said. The guy snapped out of his daze from Sora, then looked at Hayner.
"H-HAYNER?!..."
Hayner's eyes widen. "You know me as well?!
The guys attention shifted to Olette, and Pence, and he seemed like he was about to pass out again.
"Please don't pass out again-!" Sora said rushing over to him, putting his hands on the guy's shoulders. The guy looked at Sora's hands on him, then looked up and saw how close Sora was to him, and his face went even more red.
"Yep its official" Hayner said. "This dude has some crazy crush for you" He said.
"How do your know their names?" Roxas asked.
The guys attention now went to Roxas. "...Roxas?"
Roxas nodded. "Yep that's me-..." He said.
Although the time at that moment was awkward, Olette still wanted to make sure that the guy was gonna get back home to his world safely. "Hey, where are you from?" She asked. The guy looked at her.
"U-um... Hi.. Olette-... Um... California.." He said.
"California? What in the worlds is that?" Hayner asked.
"We are gonna try and get you back home alright- You apparently got ejected out of some portal and-" Olette got cut off by the guy.
"Portal?" Then the look on the guys face seemed like he was remembering something. "...The portal... I.. Was sucked into my game!" He said shocked.
"Wait what?" Hayner asked. "You where sucked into your game? What do you mean?" Roxas asked.
"I... I don't know... I.. Was playing my video game-" He said. "Your game? And what game was that?" Olette asked. "K-Kingdom Hearts II" The guy said.
"Kingdom hearts?" Sora asked looking over at Roxas, who only just shrugged. "And... What's the game about?" Olette asked. "It's about a boy who wields a Keybalde to battle the heartless"
Sora gasped. "What? That sounds like...us?"
Olette nodded. "I think I understand" She said. "You do?!" Hayner exclaimed. "A few days ago, I over heard some kids talking in the bistro. They apparently play video games a lot, and one of them had said there is a special dimension that opens when a video game is made. And when that game gets created, you can travel to the world of the game. But, you can only get to it, by basically hacking a backdoor to breach your way into that world."
Everyone just stared at her. "So if what this guy says is true, WE are the video game world. And this guy somehow found a way to get here"
"How the heck you new all this before me-" Hayner said. Olette just smirked a little.
"So does that mean we are... Not real?" Sora said. Olette shook her head. "No. It just means our world was opened from something that was created in another world"
"Are you sure you over heard this, or where you in on the conversation?" Hayner asked.
Sora looked at the guy. "So.. Who do you play as? In... This video game.. That's apparently based on us?"
"You're the main character... And... You're my favorite-" The guy said. Sora blushed brightly. "Oh... I am your favorite?" He asked. The guy nodded.
"In other words, he has the hots for you Sora." Hayner smirked. The guy and Sora both blushed.
"But we still need to get this guy back. If the "video game" dimension really needs a "backdoor" to open, doesn't that mean it's something that shouldn't be tampered with?" Roxas asked. "Beats me" Hayner said.
"Hey, what's your name by the way?" Sora asked. With all the commotion no one even bothered to ask.
"Huh? Oh.. My name is Mark" The guy said. "Mark? Well that's a name I shouldn't forget"
"Why should you?" Roxas asked. "You're not at Castle Oblivion" He said. The look what Mark gave seemed to be confusion. "What is Castle Oblivion?" Mark asked. "Thought you said you played a game about us?" Hayner said.
"I only played the second game-"
"Why... Would you play the second game before the first..." Hayner asked very confused at that. "My.. Brother got the game for my birthday yesterday, and apparently that was the only one on the shelf" Mark said. "Oh happy belated birthday!" Sora said happily, and gave Mark a small hug, then when he realized what he did he stopped with his face red.
Hayner faced palmed. "Sora you are hopeless"
Mark just blushed and then quickly returned the hug back to Sora.
All Sora did was blush as well. "Awe you two cute" Olette said. Hayner still was face palmed.
Pence was rummaging trough the cooler. "I think I might have enough Sea Salt Ice Cream for everyone"
"Sea salt ice cream?!" Mark exclaimed. "Yeah, that you know" Hayner chuckled. "You like sea salt ice cream Mark?" Sora asked. Mark shrugged. "They don't exist in my... World. At least not publicly. Lots of people had made their own, but I never tried any.
"Well today will be the first time you'll try one!" Pence smiled. Pence got out one and handed it to Mark. Mark unwrapped the plastic off of it, reveling the light sea blue ice cream popsicle. He tried a lick of it.
The taste of salt... Then sweet.
It was honestly the best flavor combination he had ever tasted. "It's salty.. But sweet! I love it!" Mark said. Sora smiled and licked his.
"So how many games exist about us?" Hayner asked kind of curious about Mark's world. "There is... About ten... As much as I know"
"TEN?!" They all exclaimed. Mark nodded. "But half of them are un numbered. The actual game that ties the series together, is coming out next year"
"I'm guessing these games are about our past. Cause Mark seems to not even know about Castle Oblivion" Roxas said.
"Hey Y'all may I come in? It's hot outside the usual spot, and I'm burning, got it memorized?"
"Sure Axel! Come in!" Roxas said. "And since when does the heat bother you?"
"I have my limits with it. Hey who's the new guy sitting on the couch, weirdly to close to Sora?" Axel asked.
"That's Mark." Roxas said. "Well how do ya do? The name's Axel. Got it memorized?"
But Mark looked like he wanted to run.
"Are you alright?" Sora asked.
