Kingdom Hearts II The Untold Chronicles
Prologue
Their eyes looked at each other's as they lay bond tightly on the cold, steel operating tables. They were on their bellies with their backs in the air. They only had the classic white medical gowns—open in the back. It was simple; however, they had angelic wings bursting out from where their shoulder blades met.
One girl was of African American decent. On her wrist was a hospital arm band that read:
"Alias: Ashley—Occupation: Key—Captive for observation."
Her eyes were a deep maroon and her hair was short yet bone straight. Adjacent to Ashley was her close friend, Shuku. Shuku had grey, eyes and long auburn hair. Her hair was kept tied loosely at her bottom. Her arm band read just the same, but different names of course.
Men and women wearing light green medical scrubs hovered over the two young ladies. Ashley and Shuku couldn't see any faces because they were covered with surgical masks. They were embarrassed, more than anything they were shamed by their backside exposure. They hear the slap of the so called doctors putting on latex gloves. Shuku cringed. She was allergic to latex. Every time the doctors touched her, she broke out in hives.
"We're 'clipping' their wings today in a test to determine if they will grow back." A doctor announced to a nurse. "Could you sedate them?" The tables both shook violently.
"No you can't! You can't! We've passed all your pointless test! Leave us with what gives us identity!" Shuku cried out.
"They won't come back! If I hacked off your leg it wouldn't come back, either! It's the same logic! You don't need to do this!" Ashley argued with Shuku.
There was a sharp pain in their derrière. They had been sedated via the butt. Ashley and Shuku fought the heavy sleep. Ashley watched Shuku slowly close her eyes, and Shuku in turn watched Ashley close hers…
Ashley touched Shuku's scars in their dark and morbid cell. It smelled like mold, blood, and the tears that they cried. There wasn't even a nub to remember their wings. Ashley turned her back to Shuku and she observed. Shuku didn't have much light to see since their window was a tiny square with bars. Even their lofts were small and they couldn't sleep on them anymore. The beds had become covered in blood from the recovery of the operation.
"This is the straw that broke the camel's back." Shuku sneered.
"We're breaking out?" Ashley whispered.
"Yes, and we are going to do it tonight," Shuku glanced out the window "the moon is full. Our powers will be at their strongest."
"Where should we begin?"
"We will start with the very same window that mocked our freedom." Shuku slipped on a sadistic smile. She was on the brink of insanity. She held out her hand and began to summon her hidden abilities never exposed to give her a trump card when the day for escape was to come. Ashley joined in the summons, preaching Shuku's summon spell.
"O Leviathan, I summon you. Fulfill your obligation to me and appear before this spiritual offering! Incrementum Aqua Deus!" They recited together. The room filled with a holy blue light. A large dragon crafted of water emerged from Shuku's hand. It kept flowing and flowing into the room. Shuku directed her anger at the icy stone wall. Leviathan tore through as if it were paper. The bricks went flying every where putting a breeze into the foul smelling cell. Ashley looked over the edge and they had their work cut out for them. They were on a small island and eight stories above the ground. Their first task would have to be getting out of the cell and down the castle-like structures walls without their wings. Shuku closed her eyes to hide her powers once again, but suddenly an alarm went off and announcements were made.
"There has been a breach in the rear wall from cell 13! All personnel report to that area immediately! Subjects pose an extreme threat! I repeat…" A feminine voice declared.
"We've gotta jet!" Ashley said grabbing Shuku. "Do you think we can catch a ride on Leviathan?"
"No. I can't control him that well, but I can try and ease us to the ground with Leviathan's water cannon." Shuku said looking over the edge.
"We don't have anything to lose now! I'll take the risk…" Ashley said wrapping an arm around to her scars.
"Right!" Shuku responded and pointed her hand at the ground. "Water Cannon!" She invoked. A gust of beautiful water rushed out of her hand. Ashley jumped into the gust riding it down. She struck many dead tree branches, ripping her gown and causing her to lose her balance. Ashley landed on the ground a little damaged. She stood up and called for Shuku. "Leviathan, protect me." Shuku prayed. She took a leap of faith trying to maneuver her hand to use the bed of water to break her fall. Ashley caught Shuku by the hips to keep her from being rushed away in a raging river of water.
Orderlies dressed in white looked over the edge from where the two had jumped. Shuku and Ashley waved and turned around slapping their backside, daring them to try and pursue. They smiled at one another as if they were reborn again from the excitement. Ashley and Shuku rushed off into the Dead Forest with only the moon to guide them.
Ashley and Shuku made it to the sandy beach. The sand felt good between their bare feet. They had been running on rocks and twigs for at least half an hour. When Shuku looked down she could see the blood coming out of both of their feet.
"The salt water is going to hurt our feet." Shuku noted. Ashley shrugged.
"This freedom is worth it." Ashley sighed out. "Why us?" The ground shook with no mercy. THA-THUMP! THA-THUMP! A heavy instrument was drawing near. Shuku looked over her shoulder with wide eyes. Her delicate mouth slowly dropped.
"BERSERKER! Run for it! They sent a Berserker!" Shuku shouted.
It was a strange looking white beast called a 'Nobody' with a large anchor as a weapon. When provoked it would drop the anchor on a victim over and over. Sometimes it caused unconsciousness, but that was if one was lucky. Most times it inflicted death.
The girls darted to the water, an element in which Shuku thrived but for Ashley she did not. Shuku assisted Ashley into the open water. Ashley doggy paddled to the fullest as the dark place that imprisoned them became a speck in the distance.
"Shuku… Shuku…" Ashley was starting to drift "I'm getting a cramp…"
"Shut up, don't tire now!" Shuku scolded.
"I'm sleepy." She said with a yawn. Ashley swallowed up some water with the yawn. She coughed.
"We're close to land, I promise. I can feel the void in the water."
"I feel so sick, this water and cold temperature is getting to me, Shuku." Ashley strained.
"I promise, we're close." Shuku started to turn back to Ashley, but her powers were going out of control due to the fatigue. The water around Ashley started to boil keeping Shuku a distance away. The final symptom would be her bursting into flames that did not consume her body but kept burning in the water. She started to sink. "What are you doing?" Shuku said trying to swim over to her but the flames were too intense. Ashley's serious fatigue seemed to amplify her dormant powers.
"Some things… Got my leg." Ashley said as a tidal wave started to crest over her head. Shuku stop treading water to push back the wave with her own abilities. Since Shuku was out of practice she wasn't able to control it. The wave collapsed over Ashley, extinguishing her flame, but silencing her. Shuku's eyes became saucers as she came to her senses.
"The energy void in the water wasn't land—it was a tidal…." The white cap waves smashed against Shuku sending her away. Shuku was knocked unconscious and separated from Ashley…