Kingdom Hearts: Intertwined Souls
By AnimeDutchess
Chapter 7: Realization of Destiny
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So, time to get to the OTHER chapter I've been excited to write for a while! Enjoy, all! Oh, and a warning: slight angst possible!
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Lilith groaned in annoyance as she slept. After that strange dream, she'd been dreaming about living in a city called Las Vegas and gambling for light bulbs with a short pirate named Sanchez who spoke with an Irish accent and liked to drink lemon-pickle juice. They were winning, until the dream started to fade away as her body started to wake up. She could sense the sunlight streaming into her eyes as they were closed. She shut them tighter.
It isn't this bright in Kairi's room she thought. She snuggled into her strange-feeling pillow…that seemed to have a heartbeat…
Lilith gasped and opened her eyes. She could see the window across from wherever she was had its shades drawn back, and the sun was streaming through, clearing away the cloudy remnants of the storm the night before. She could see something on the floor; it looked like two people sleeping. As her eyes adjusted, she could make out Sora and Kairi. Kairi had her head on Sora's chest, and Sora had his arm protectively around Kairi's waist. Both their clothes were still intact and on their bodies. Lilith then vaguely wondered where she was. She could remember sitting with Riku on his bed listening to music, and then he laid on his bed and seemed to nod off. Lilith had then suddenly felt extremely sleepy, and…
Lilith's senses immediately went into overload as she realized where she was, and that her pillow wasn't a pillow; it was Riku's chest! Her face turned cherry red and she tried to get up, but she then noticed Riku's even breathing.
I don't want to wake him up Lilith thought, resting her head back onto Riku's chest. His heartbeat was comforting, and Lilith closed her eyes again, but didn't fall asleep as she lay still and listened to the melodic rhythm of another's heart…
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Riku slowly blinked his eyes open, the sun giving him a glare as it shone onto his wall. He turned his head and saw Sora and Kairi sleeping on the floor. He smiled; he hadn't had a sort-of sleep over with them since before…then. He then noticed that something-or someone-was on top of his chest. He saw black hair in pigtails, and blushed. He knew that Lilith had fallen asleep on him last night, but it was still a slight shock to find someone sleeping on you. Lilith stirred and propped herself up on her hands; she was already awake and had noticed the slight change in Riku's breathing. She gave him an exhausted smile.
"Morning," She said, "Did I wake you? I'm sorry."
"No…I'm alright. You know what time it is?"
"Nope," Lilith said. She pushed herself up and off of Riku and the bed. She looked at Riku's desk where his clock was, but she saw something else and smirked evilly. Riku raised an eyebrow at her strange face. He went over to Lilith and looked at what she was looking at, and then joined her in smirking evilly.
There was a can of shaving cream on Riku's desk for some reason. The two teens looked at each other conspiringly, and nodded. Lilith started to cover Sora and Kairi with shaving cream, while Riku went to get his mom's digital camera. When he came in, he took many pictures at different angles. Once he was done, the two of them put the shaving cream away and carefully wiped the shaving cream off of the two sleeping lovebirds without waking them up.
"We're luck these two are heavy sleepers," Riku said. Lilith nodded in agreement. They stood there, both trying to suppress their laughter. Riku then got a great idea. He took Lilith's hand and brought her to the computer in his living room. He decided to print the pictures on the camera and save them on the computer. As he set things up, Lilith watched him. The computer was one of the things Kairi showed her, and she loved how it could do so many things. When Riku finally got to the picture thing and saved all the pictures on the camera to the computer, he checked them out.
Beach…being dragged to the mal…whoa! Where did this come from?
Riku was staring at the many pictures of him and Lilith sleeping together. He saw the many angles and such. Right after those he saw the pictures of the prank he and Lilith pulled, but he was more focused on the ones with him and Lilith. She, too, was staring at the pictures.
"Well…good thing we can blackmail them…" She said. Riku broke out of his shock from the picture from those sneaks Kairi and Sora at Lilith's statement.
"Hmmm…you've got a point," he said. He highlighted a few of the pictures he took, and then had his mouse linger on one of the picture Sora and Kairi probably took. It was really good, actually; they had figured out how to get a 'bird's eye view' of them sleeping. Riku turned to Lilith.
"Wanna print one of their pictures? I'm just gonna put the rest of them and the ones we took in a file only I can get to so they're safe." Lilith nodded, blushing a little. As Riku set up the picture printing options, he put the picture with them on so it would print twice so each of them would have a copy. They came out in this order: Side view of Sora and Kairi, Top view of Sora and Kairi, Slanted view of Sora and Kairi, two Top views of Riku and Lilith. Riku gave one copy to Lilith and kept one for him. He then told Lilith to stay by the computer, and he quietly snuck into his room and hid the pictures of Sora and Kairi at the bottom of his sock drawer. When he snuck back to the computer, he saw Lilith sitting at it, typing away. She turned towards him and smiled.
"Sorry," She said, "But I just wanted to look at these 'Xanga' things. Kairi helped me get one. Do you have one?"
"Yeah," Riku said, coming over to Lilith and standing next to her, "I'll show you." He quickly typed in his login name and password, and hit login. His Xanga immediately sprang up, the black and silver back-round giving Lilith a slight deja-vu feeling. She read the title:
ImpureAngel's domain
ENTER AT UR OWN RISK
Lilith gasped after reading the title. "I've been on this one before!" She said. She immediately started to scroll down and read, to see if there were any new entries. Riku got more embarrassed as she kept reading. He had put some things on private, like when he vents his feelings about what happened to him, so people wouldn't think he was a freak. He had written about his 'habit', and…
…Oh hell… He thought.
Lilith's eyes went wide as she read one particular private entry about what happened to him during Kingdom Hearts, and it had a few…disturbing things on it. Riku quickly scrambled to get to the mouse. He grabbed it and 'X'ed out his Xanga. Lilith turned to face him, her face paler than before.
"Riku…" She said, but Riku didn't want to hear it. He ran into the bathroom and locked the door, slumping his back against the wooden portal. He spotted a razor by the sink. It looked as if it was waiting for him to come and see it, too…
NO! He thought. He picked up the razor and threw it into the shower, but he knew that as long as he knew where it was, he'd want to feel its cool metal against his wrist, to get rid of all the shame that had been clouding his judgment ever since…
Riku felt Lilith pound on the door, heard her cries of apology and her begging for forgiveness. He sighed.
I should have told her, Riku thought, I should have told them all…I'll explain to her tonight…I just…need to get away…
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"Riku! Riku, please open the door! You've been in there for almost an hour!"
Lilith had been trying to get Riku out of the bathroom. Her emotional state of mind was reeling and on overload. She hadn't meant to read what was Riku's business, but he had written such interesting things in his normal updates, and she had wondered why that entry only appeared on his homepage for it instead of the visitor's page. She hadn't meant to read it…
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This is the only way I can vent this out. I'm glad no one can see it.
I sometimes think I really AM an impure angel sometimes…all the things I've done…I want to repent for every single one…
I won't keep denying it. I hurt myself. I almost lost my light. I screwed up my destiny because of a little curiosity…
What do they say? 'Curiosity killed the Cat'? Well, I'd like to switch that around to: Curiosity got the cat beaten up, raped, and almost made the cat become lost in the eternal darkness forever.
I'm not kidding. All that stuff really happened to me. I'm not proud…I just act indifferent to mask my true feelings…I act cool and tough so no one notices how weak I really am inside…
-Riku
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Lilith couldn't help but cry as she remembered the exact words in Riku's entry. Each letter had made her sadder, sorrier, and more confused.
Riku, you shouldn't keep stuff like this from people who care about you, Lilith thought, I didn't keep anything from you…Don't you trust anyone? It's not like I'd shun you or anything!
She hadn't realized she had shouted her exact thoughts until she heard Sora and Kairi behind her, asking her what was wrong. She couldn't help but start crying and point to the bathroom door. Kairi gave Lilith a hug and started to gently rub Lilith's back, while Sora gently knocked on the door.
"Riku, you there? What's going on? Why's Lilith crying? Come on out!" Sora said. He turned the doorknob, which was surprisingly unlocked. He quickly pushed the door open. The bathroom was empty, and the bathroom's small window was open, the morning breeze floating in.
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"Riiiiikuuuuu!"
"Riku, where are you?"
"C'mon out, Riku! Stop scaring us!"
Sora, Kairi, and Lilith had been looking for Riku all day. They had looked all over the island, asked everyone if they had seen him, and all they had left to do was check Play Island for him. Selphie had told them that she had seen Riku take his boat there. She had tried talking to him, but he didn't seem to notice her.
"It's all my fault," Lilith said as Sora was rowing the boat the three teens were in to Play Island, "If I hadn't…and know…" She shuddered violently. Kairi immediately hugged Lilith.
"Why is it your fault?" Sora asked. He and Kairi had kept asking what had happened, but Lilith hadn't said a word. She shook her head, as to say 'I'm not going to tell'.
The sun was setting as they reached the dock on Play Island. Sure enough, Riku's boat was there. They decided to search the island. By nightfall, they had found nothing, and the wind was starting to pick up. Black storm clouds thundered overhead.
"We should get home," Kairi said, "Maybe Riku has already gone back on his own."
"No; his boat is still here, and it's a long swim from the main island," Sora said, "Besides, he'll come back home soon. There's no way he'd stay out on a night like this."
"No!" Lilith said, "I'm not giving up now! I caused this, and I'm gonna make sure things turn out right! Let's search the island one more time!" And with that, Lilith ran off to the cove to look for Riku. She couldn't hear Sora and Kairi yelling to her to come back because of the wind, and rain had started to fall. She searched every area of the cove, but found no one. When she came back to the main beach, she didn't see Sora or Kairi, but she did see movement over by that secret place the others had shown her earlier on in the week. She yelled for whoever it was to stop, and she ran in after them.
"Dang, talk about creepy," She said aloud as she stepped into the main chamber with the freaky door. She then spotted something by the door that she hadn't seen the last time she was here.
A white chalk picture had been drawn in the previously blank rock next to the door. It was highly detailed and really well-drawn. Lilith went closer to it to get a better view in the slight dimness. It looked similar to the drawing of the two heads on the other side of the door that Sora told her that he and Kairi had drawn, only the heads were the same style on this picture. It had a boy and a girl. The boy was holding a star-thing to the girl, and the girl was blushing. Only after seeing dark residue under the drawing did she figure out who the people in the drawing were, who had drawn it, and what it meant. She gasped and turned cherry red.
Riku…Riku LIKES me? Could he really? And, she took a closer look at the dark liquid smeared at the bottom of the picture, Did he do it again, after I told him not to?
…Oh man, Riku…where are you…I think I like you, too…don't you DARE do what I think you're going to do!
As Lilith turned to leave the secret place, she came face-to-face…with Riku. His eyes were covered by his bangs, and his wrists dripped bright vermillion onto the dirt floor. She could see silent tears roll down his face.
"I'm sorry," he said, "I should have told you…I should have told all of you…" He started shaking, and Lilith could tell that the blood loss was already taking affect. She hugged him gently and rubbed his back, trying to comfort him.
"It's okay," Lilith said, trying to hold back tears, "I forgive you. You have to tell Sora and Kairi about this when we get back, though, okay?" Riku was about to answer until he saw something behind Lilith. He gasped and tore away from Lilith, shaking his head in disbelief.
"N…no…" He said, his voice almost a whisper. Lilith gave him her 'WTF' look, and turned to what he was looking at: the door. It was giving off an evil-ish aura with a dark purple color. Lilith looked at Riku's face and gasped. His face was completely white, and his eyes were wide in shock.
"Lilith, you have to leave. Now," He said as calmly as he could, "The darkness is trying to come back. Go get Sora. Now." Lilith shook her head in clear protest.
"No way!" She said, "I won't leave you like this; you're coming, too!" She grabbed his arm and pulled, but he wouldn't budge. She let go of his arm and looked towards the ground.
"Fine," she said, but just as she was about to leave, the door swung open, and a strong gust of wind blew out of it. The gust pushed Riku towards Lilith. She held her arms out to catch Riku, but at the moment of impact…Riku disappeared. Lilith gasped in surprise as the wind blew her out of the secret place. She landed face-up onto the beach and saw a big, glowing, purple sphere of energy with an orange core over the whole island. She got up and saw Sora and Kairi staring up at it. Sora looked determined, while fear was written all over Kairi's face. Lilith ran towards them.
"Guys, what's happening?" Lilith asked. Sora tore his gaze form the orb.
"We're in big trouble," Sora said, "Destiny Islands is about to be destroyed by the darkness. We have to find some way to leave." Lilith stomped her foot in protest.
"We can't," she said, "I found Riku, but he disappeared! We have to find him!" Sora blinked in surprise.
"If he's disappeared," Sora explained, "He's already left. We've gotta go, too…I just have no idea how…last time I left," he pointed to the orb in the sky, "I got sucked into something like that." Kairi whimpered next to Sora.
"Oh, how are we going to get away?" She said, her voice cracking with sadness. Lilith gritted her teeth.
"Man, if only Helena were here," She said, "She can make portals! With them we could leave!"
"Someone say my name?"
Lilith spun around quickly to see Helena standing a few feet away from her. She looked exactly like she did from Lilith's dream. Lilith ran over to Helena and squeezed her in a gianormus hug. Helena smiled at her friend's quick mood swings.
"How did you get here, portal?" Lilith asked. Helena nodded and looked at Sora and Kairi. She broke free of Lilith's hug and went towards them. She then bowed respectfully. Sora and Kairi sweat-dropped, while Lilith once again did her 'WTF' look.
"Pleasure to meet you, Keyblade Master and Princess of Heart," Helena said, rising from her bow, "I must now take you somewhere else, kay?" Sora and Kairi, weirded out by Helena's mix of formality and casualness, nodded slowly. Helena beamed and made a portal.
"Go through the portal and wait for me when you get to the other side, no matter what," Helena said, her voice serious. Sora and Kairi nodded and went through the portal. Lilith was about to got too, but Helena put her hand out.
"Lil," Helena said, "You've still go business here. Don't worry; we'll all end up on the same world. I'll look for you." And with that, Helena walked through the portal. Lilith ran towards the portal as it disappeared, asking what kind of business she had left. Once the portal was gone, though, a large black blob replaced it. Out of it rose the bat-thing Lilith had fought in her dream.
"Okay, what the heck is going on? You were just a dream! You're not…wait…if you're real…that means…"
That means everything my mother said was true…and that…I can do everything I did in the dream!
Lilith held out her right hand and felt the Key Staff materialize. She got in a battle-stance.
"You're going down this time. There's nothing here to take me away, make my staff disappear…nothing. So…you're dead."
Lilith let out a battle cry as she ruthlessly attacked the beast. It was basically the same pattern, except the monster could now stay in the air for longer periods of time, and he could shoot beams of energy that would follow Lilith for a short period of time. She slashed, hacked, and smacked away at the monster's back. The usual process kept going on and on and on until Lilith hit it one last time. Sensing its low energy, the creature started to fly towards the giant orb in the sky. As it went in, parts of the ground started to float up to it as well. Lilith tried to hold on to a piece of the dock, but she was pulled by a powerful gust of wind towards the purple and orange orb, and then…
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A/N: Ak! Was that bad? Was Riku too OOC? I hope it was good; I enjoyed writing the end part where Sora and Kairi were weirded out by Helena. I hoped you liked it!
Remember that reviewers get a digital cookie! Oh, and guess what: Monday is my last exam day, and then…NO MORE SCHOOL! WHOO HOO!
Ja Ne! -AnimeDutchess
P.S.: I (hopefully) made up another Xanga name for Riku! It kinda sucks, but I like it! Do you guys like it?