Someone said they couldn't understand who was speaking what, and I don't really like to play that he said she said thing, It's not very appealing to me… So just remember that the person that does the action before the dialog is usually the one speaking.
Disclaimer: Sigh… No, I do not own it.
Chapter 3: Moonage Daydream
All too unrealistic, the sun setting; what a beautiful setting. The situation; unrealistic. Such a small peaceful county turned into the last place Kairi wanted to be. Sora on the other hand wanted to take care of business, he was going to trash that guy, no matter what. No matter what, he would avenge Kairi; he didn't think of it that way though, no, no he couldn't think, not right now. So upset, so furious, so disgusted, outraged with red hot anger spilling out from every pore on his body, truly sickened and appalled at what was happening here, under his nose, with him lost in the dark shadows of it all. Not only was he appalled that the father had done such a despicable and vile thing and to his own daughter for that matter, no not only that, but he was framed for it all! Although he would come to realize this later, for now he was concerned with Kairi.
He stood a few feet in front of her facing down the path and the sky was changing into darker tones by the second. Her face, lit up by the descending sun, was flushed with damp eyelashes that were the riverheads to the warm streams still running down her face. Her eyes clamped shut, head hung low; she whimpered silently. Sora walked towards her and grabbed her hand,
"C'mon," His front was not in the light flooding from the weak sun, now hiding deeper beyond the horizon. No, he was in shadow, in the dark, then and since this whole thing had begun. Kairi resisted the light tug at first,
"Kai…" She exhaled a shaky breath and surrendered. As they walked down the road, the sun would disappear and Sora's pace would increase. It was silent, all around, like just before a tornado would hit… But neither of them recognized this, they were very much, very much in deep thought. Sora began to think about his condition, he still had his arm wrapped; thankfully it was very thin and he knew that Yuffie was probably just taking extra precaution. He needed to unwrap the bandages but when he tried to send the signal from his brain to do so, his arm would not budge. Kairi fastened her hands tightly around his fingers and resisted the pull. He kept his head turned to the side, locking onto her eyes that cast downwards. But she did not look up; instead she felt him watching her and very slowly released her grasp, letting her arms drop to the side in a weary fashion.
Sora didn't say anything, for nothing could really comfort her now. He rubbed his bandaged arm and was satisfied to feel no or little pain. He continued walking and began to unwrap his arm. After only a few layers the cool air began to tingle the covered area, it felt very nice to be rid of all those bandages. He grabbed Kairi's hand again and continued down the road, remembering that he was aiming for revenge tonight.
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Soon the house was in sight. When Kairi picked her head up to realize this, she stopped and tried to resist moving any further; yet Sora wouldn't let this happen. She had a look of fear in her eyes as she gazed at the house. Her expression looked numb; hiding her emotions. In her mind she had remembered what she had said to Sora that one day at the train station, when she saw her Marisa off,
'I'm not going to cry anymore.' It echoed in the back of her head; 'what a lie.'
Kairi stopped in front of the house and refused to move any further,
"C'mon," She tried to pull Sora back but instead he focused on the house. He ignored Kairi's comment and with rage in his eyes he silently entered the house.
He kicked the door in and looked around the house, searching for the father…
Kairi stood before the steps and held onto the ramp, afraid of what was going to happen, her eyes widened as she felt like sinking to the ground. She didn't want be here, she just wanted to run off, be somewhere safe and secure, live a healthy life but most of all she didn't want Sora to get hurt again, she couldn't take the same guilt twice.
"You," a low groggy voice said from the hall, he walked in from the doorway towards Sora,
"I told you not to be messing with my daughter," He staggered across the room and Sora with a disgusted look planted across his face, could tell that he had been drinking, some empty liquor bottles spotted out of the corner of his eye verified this. Sora stood in the middle of the room starring him down as he walked unsteadily over to him. He came about to feet close to Sora and spoke,
"It stops here." The father raised an arm wearily and had to pivot to the left to catch his balance, supporting himself on a decorative shelf. When he looked back to see if the boy was there, a fist met his face. It forced him back causing him to lose his balance again and knocking over many items on the dresser, they smashed into the floor; bursting into a million shards. Kairi's father grabbed his face and angrily tried to swing back blindly, but Sora had the upper hand in this fight.
As soon as Kairi had heard the crash she ran up the stairs, hearing many punches and groans, luckily none were recognized as Sora's. She tripped at the top of the stairs,
"Owe," She grabbed her knee, when she fell it had it hit and scrapped on the protruding plank that hung over the side of the top step. She heard muffled punches and small groans, along with another swearing aloud. She picked herself and ran inside, to see Sora sitting atop her father throwing punches upon punches and all landing about the face. Kairi ran over to him and tried to restrain his arms behind him. It wasn't really working,
"Sora, stop! You'll kill him!" Kairi didn't care for her father of course, it was for Sora. He slowly stopped and eased his way off of him. The father laid on the floor, unable to move, starring back into Sora's eyes that were locked onto his own. He breathed deeply in and out, and the ends of his bushy eyebrows cringed downward, casting an evil and angry look upon Sora and Kairi. He managed to say,
"You little slut," He coughed up as he store at Kairi, "Liar—" Kairi shoved a hoof into his side, giving all of her strength. He collapsed back on the floor with a muffled thump. A large gobbet of liquid landed on his face and Kairi leaned over him wiping her mouth with the back of her wrist.
"You took everything," She started and then Sora gained his senses back and laid a hand on her shoulder. She brushed it off and started towards the door, Sora gave one last look at the man sprawled upon the floor and followed. She stood outside the doorway and rested a hand on the pillar that held the roof over the porch. Her gaze reached deep into the night sky,
"What's gonna happen now?" Sora extended a hand of comfort when an unexpected arm reached arm and pulled him back. A lock was formed around his neck, he quickly clamped his hands around the width of the arm and tried to resume breathing, but it was no use. The grip got tighter and tighter, and it was harder to take in more and more air. Kairi spun around started by the sudden grunts,
"Sora!" His head was now forming in a strange arc in relation to his body and he was afraid it would soon become limp. Kairi shuffled among the items that were left unbroken and found an old antic candle snuffer. Sora couldn't take the lack of oxygen and the stress on his neck in this awkward position; he clasped his hands together in front of him and drove his elbow deep into his ribs. A dull crack sound and he immediately drew back and Sora, in return, descended to the floor, clasping his hand s around his neck he struggled for air. Kairi had her hands above her head; ready to strike but before she could do so, the father had regained enough stamina to knock her down. The candle muffler rolled away and Sora, glimpsing it out of the corner of his eye, grabbed it.
"Couldn't keep your mouth shut?" The drunken man blurted, as he grabbed Kairi by the arm, Kairi store back and spit in his face for the second time. Angrily, he mopped his face with his hand and raised I well over his head. Suddenly a loud crash came thundering down and a man was slump on top of Kairi. She scooted herself out from underneath him, Sora ran around and helped her up. They both clutched onto each other and starred at the motionless man sprawled about on the floor. Kairi gripped Sora's shirt,
"Is he knocked out?" Sora nudged the man's shoulder with the edge of his foot, he stayed still. Confirmed that he was now unconscious he knelt down and observed him. Kairi wrapped her hand around his neck and wrist,
"Uh, not breathing…"
The heavy candle muffler rolled across the wooden floor, creating a low rumble in the room filled with silence.
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"What are we going to do now? We just—I just killed a man!" He started to tremble. They stood on the porch him walking in circles, talking in them too,
"He's dead! I mean-- I killed him! Kai! I just killed your father!" With anger he grabbed his wild brown locks and just felt like pulling them out with frustration.
"Calm down!" Kairi shook his shoulders, "We both did this, both equally responsible, understand?" 'Its my turn to be strong…' She knew it was her turn now, but she really had no idea how they would get out of this, where they would go, when would someone check up on her father and find his lifeless corpse on the ground of his own home? Nothing like this ever happened in such a small and simple community, not Ptolemor. Neither of them really had any ideas. Suddenly one spoke,
"Well, we have to go." Sora replied ending a long thought.
"Huh?"
"We gotta go, we have to leave Ptolemor."
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Down the road they went, it was a long walk to the town.
"Kairi, we can't get a train, everyone knows us here they will be wondering what's up the second we ask for a ticket."
"Don't you think I know that?" Kairi huffed and puffed, trying to drag her own weight down the road, she carried a small bag on her back. She had never walked all the way into town before, even when going on sheep drives with Sora, they wouldn't ever go for this long..
"Then what are we doing? We don't even have D.L. passports…"
"We need to get rid of our files here."
"Files?"
"Well, you know what I mean. We can't be tracked down after we leave Ptolemor."
"Ah, you mean the police hall, the records." Sora was catching on, and was going to continue until one thought entered his mind, 'I wonder, will I have a record there?' He didn't know what they did with records of people that were born outside of Ptolemor… There couldn't have been above a handful that would actually leave their district to come here. Actually, they didn't even know how they were going toleave Ptolemor; they don't have a District Line Passports.
"That's right," Kairi continued, "As long as they don't have any official records of us in here, authorities can't prove that we are hiding out in another district, let alone existing. So we have to get into the records hall." Ptolemor had such a small population that it was possible to keep all records of every being born here in one building… It was easier, and even though a little disorganized, safer and more convenient for such a small town.
So they continued down the road and saw the town growing closer,
"Here, let me take the bag for a while." Sora offered and held out a hand. Kairi gladly swung it off her back and passed it to Sora.
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"Traverse Town is a pretty quiet place at night, huh?" Kairi gently closed the door behind her, thinking of the two only guards they encountered on their nightshift. Sora walked blindly threw the dark cellar, fumbling for a chain of some sort. Kairi did the same; leaving the keys in the inside lock and patting the neighboring walls for a switch. After bumping into a few objects, and almost falling to his death after tripping over a stack of abandoned papers lying on the ground, the small chain hit Sora in the face and he lightly tugged on it. It triggered a single bulb to dimly light the cellar. The tug caused it to sway back and forth, bouncing the light around the room,
"Yeah, it will take those two cops at least an hour to get to Mrs. Hopkins's house." Lying about an old woman and her heart problems seemed pretty dirty, but it was the only way to get into the file room, er cellar located below the police hall. Sora turned around to face Kairi,
"Excellent acting, by the way… You really looked like you about to faint, but would that be for the old woman's sake or the long walk?" Sora smirked. Kairi started looking around the room, whose walls were coated with columns and columns of filing cabinets. Some even laid in the middle of the floor,
"Oh yeah? Well, nice emphasis on the, 'just pass-ing by'" Kairi started to laugh after she mimicked Sora's cracking voice. Sora messaged his throat and playfully glared,
"Okay, okay…" He turned to one of the filing cabinets and opened the second to top drawer, a handful of papers slid out onto the ground and Sora bent over to pick them up. Kairi began looking threw cabinets as well,
"It wouldn't kill them to put letters on these things?" After observing names like Weiwell and Wyent on the folders, she concluded that she was at the end of the alphabet, closed the cabinet drawer and moved down a couple to search through the S's.
Sora picked up all of the papers, "Yeah, I know. It's so unorganized… How are they able to find anything?" He placed the papers back in the cabinet and shut it. When it closed a pink flier stuck out underneath the metal drawer, reading;
"Twilight Town's Big Raul's; Office Supply Manufacturer Co."
'Huh, wonder where that is…' As he examined the small sheet a blend of unusual colors caught the corner of his eye. He looked up and lying in the corner shadows of the room was what seemed to be another dull cabinet, but the crooked yellow strip painted down the front made it more special. Sora strolled over to it and began looking in the second to top drawer again. It was half empty, showing that there weren't very many immigrants to Ptolemor. He pulled out some papers and immediately noticed that all of them had big red stamps across the top of each document, stating that it was green, or good. A few had "RED" printed and a large X crossing out all of the papers contents on each page. Sora continued to scramble threw the drawers until he came to R's; the beginning letter of his, well, Ansem's last name.
Finally he came across his file, Sora Reiluha. He recognized the picture of the seven year old boy, it was him. He wasn't really smiling more giving a scarred and confused look. Sora couldn't remember the details of that day but he would imagine being taken out of that nice priest's home and shoved into the care of a towering-yellow-eyed-crazy-man; yeah, that all could seem kind of scary. Sora snapped back from the past. He placed the papers back in the cabinet and took out the whole folder. He flipped back the rest of the folders, and was about to close the cabinet when an open folder caught his eye. A young girl with fiery red hair held a beaming smile. Amazed, Sora pulled out the file. Like the rest, it had a 'green' stamp, but Sora couldn't trust his own eyes when he read the name:
"Kairi Terrant." He softly spoke to himself. And as if on queue, Kairi announced,
"Hey, I found my File!" She was cross-legged on the ground with the bottom drawer opened in front of her. She waved a manila folder in the air.
"What?" Sora spoke out, really frustrated and confused… Kairi was puzzled by this,
"I said I found my file. Sora?" She got up from the ground and pushed the heavy drawer back in line with the others. As she walked over to Sora he slowly started to turn around with his eyes still locked onto the documents in his hands.
"Oh, found your file?" Kairi said cocking her head to read what he was holding, her happy expression slipped off her face,
"What's that?" Sora looked up to meet her eyes, licked his chapped lips and replied with;
"Your file."
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"So, he's not my father." Kairi hollered through the room,"This is great! Fantastic!" Kairi's mood took a 180 into total joy. She jumped up from the ground and spun around,
"Isn't this just, gee I don't know, AWESOME?" Sora chuckled at her sudden burst of optimisticism. She bent down to meet him face to face,
"Let's go, right now. I wanna leave this place and start over," She leaned back resting her hands on her hips, "start over new!" Sora pushed himself off the wall and rose from the ground He shoved the files into the bag. He threw it over his shoulder and looked back to Kairi,
"Alright, let's go." Kairi smiled back at Sora. But before they could even get to the door they heard thuds and bumps coming from the ceiling.. They both looked up and witnessed the plaster ceiling's shakes and wobbles.
"Oh shit!—"
"Quick! Get out over here!" Sora whipped the keys out of the door and started for the one on the other side. He fumbled through the keys, testing every one of them for the back door. Kairi heard the two guard men talking upstairs, 'Doesn't make sense,' she thought, 'It's only been a little over an hour; they should have taken twice as long!' She started moving over towards Sora, he quickly lifted his head from his work and looked towards Kairi,
"I have it! Hit the lights!" Kairi stopped and turned back to pull the lights, but she tugged a little too hard and the whole chain dropped to the ground. In the darkness;
"Ah, damn!" she dropped the other end of the chain, still in her hand, and moved to the door as quickly and as cautiously as she could. Sora and Kairi raced up the stairs and burst through the second door. From behind the building they ran to the other side of the street and started heading down the road, with the town and their homes behind them.
"We forgot to shut the window.." Kairi reminded Sora,
"Oh well… they'll find out anyways when they see the keys behind the building.." Sora ended his sentence with a brief smile and then tried to come up with a plan to get out of here…
'What to do…'
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As the endless walk continued, Sora and Kairi began to grow tired… But they needed to keep going, staying in Ptolemor over night would not be a smart idea… It was also growing chilly, and neither Kairi nor Sora had much on. Kairi, wearing nothing but jeans and a loose fitting white shirt, was beginning to shiver. Sora though, wore cargo shorts, which was even worse and goosebumps started to run up and down his legs. Kairi looked over to Sora and extended a hand,
"I'll carry,"
"No, that's alright.." Sora sighed. Kairi dropped her hand back t o her side,
"Well, do you have any idea where we're going?"
"Uh, I've never been on this side of Ptolemor, So…. No." He placed his hands in his pockets and felt a small object prick his hand. With his fingers, he scanned the cool, smooth metal object and pulled it out of his pockets. It was Kairi's barrette. The once snow-white clip that glowed a heavenly new, was now dirty, scratched and broken. Sora frowned as he analyzed the connection between Kairi's condition and the barrettes—
"Sora, why'd you stop?" their backs were hit with a distant light. Kairi spun around to see a car moving steadily up the hill. Sora pushed her off into one of the small trenches on either side of the road. The car became a truck as it got into better view. Suddenly Sora came up with a brilliant plan,
"Quick, at the top of the hill." Him and Kairi rushed forward and ducked at the edge of the road; their eyes peering down the hill. As the car reached the top it slowed down and Sora quickly pushed Kairi forward.
"Okay, into the back!" Sora whispered as they both managed to jump into the back before it sped down the hill. The driver didn't question the sudden knocks and bangs, thinking it was just the jumping motor. In the back, Sora and Kairi caught their breath and settled down.. Trying not to make noise.
"Late trading for tomatoes, hmm?" On her knees, Kairi spun around to reveal two plump tomatoes, one in each hand. She passed one to Sora and slid the lid back over one of the open crates. They sat against the wall and began to chow down on the strong distinct flavor of red. The moonlight bounced though the edges of the open canopy that hung over the back of the truck. It shined on Sora and Kairi. When they finished everything but the stems they were sick to their stomach and tossed the remains out the back of the truck. It was silent and Kairi and Sora began to shiver again. Kairi brought her knees to her chest and scooted close to Sora,
"It's chilly tonight," Sora could feel the small warmth her body gave off and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. Kairi's shoulders went up in defense at the sudden grasp but then began to relax, she was feeling a bit awkward at first. She could feel the security and warmth immediately take place as she leaned on Sora, but this sudden environment made her feel embarrassed and she would keep her head up in an uncomfortable position.
"We better stay warm," Sora replied once he noticed her struggling, "Sorry."
"No, don't be. It's alright." Kairi played with her fingers.
"Oh," Sora removed his arm from around his shoulder and Kairi sat up, laying her legs to the side as he rummaged through his other pocket,
"Here," He pulled out a small chain, and at the end a small yellow sphere twinkled in the moon light,
"Your birthday is in a couple weeks, right?" Kairi looked at the necklace in awe and took it into her hands,
"Oh, Sora," She lifted it up by the chain and let the yellow orb twirl about, "Where did you get such a thing? It's so, so beautiful!"
Sora took it back and tossed it around her neck and fastened it. She turned around with her eyes still locked on the pendent delicately laying on her chest. Sora smiled. She feel back against Sora and his arm returned around her. She fiddled with the bright globe and was beginning to feel a connection to it, thinking how she ever got along without it.
Meanwhile, Sora tried hard to fight off a feeling that bubbled in the bottom of his stomach.
Chapter 3: Moonage Daydream… End
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Super-duper short chapter… I didn't really like it and I think I rushed it just to get it over with for the next one. Nothing really to say other than we will meet a lot of other characters now and plunge into crazy places, get ready!
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