Chapter 7: Airship

PoV: Raye

I moan as I awake laying on my patio with blood stains surrounding me. The pain of my wounds is still surging through me, possibly even worse than before. There is a thick fog around the town and I can barely see anything in the distance. But I know that someone's there, I just do. I am right. I can see a silhouette through the fog. Familiar. It looks like him. Riku. But it couldn't be. He was my dream. My imagination. But was he?

As he walks closer and closer to me he seems to become more and more real. But is he? I begin to black out. The last thing I see is his face as he picks me up. I'm lying here motionless in Riku's arms. I can't see it, but I know it is happening. I can feel his hands on my back, supporting me as he walks, slowly. I open my eyes and look at him. I can feel his warm gaze staring back. My senses begin to fail me as I fall asleep. I wake up in a white bed. I can feel tight bandages over my wounds.

I just lay there in my bed for a while, or what I believe is my bed. Staring at the ceiling. I can feel another presence in the room. Pure to a strange extent. With the little energy I have left, I lift up my head. I see a girl with red hair in the corner. She looks around my age.

"Hello, my name's Kairi," she says, smiling. Kairi… The same one? From the book? She looks as her description in the book put her.

"My name is Raye. By the way, where are we?"

"We're on the Gummi Ship. Here, you can have my map of the ship, I've memorized all of the rooms, the ship is pretty huge after all."

"Thanks."

"By the way, if you need new bandages, just ask. And if you need new clothes, you can go to the clothes shop in Radiant Garden."

"Hollow Bastion?"

"You'll see." Kairi says while walking out of my room.

Hmm…Radiant Garden, where have I heard that before…? I wonder… Suddenly,I hear a slight bump outside the airship. An alarm rings in the back of my head; I know it must be the heartless, or the nobodies. I run out of my room immediately to find Kairi in the hallway.

"Sora and Riku both agree that you and I can handle this." She says "Now, follow me."

We run down various long winding hallways. I have absolutely no clue where we're going, but Kairi sure seems to.

"They're going to try to breach the ship at where we're headed." She says, not slowing down in the least. "You'd better pull out your keyblade, this is going to be quite the fight."

I pull out anguish and Kairi pulls out a white and gold keyblade. It has metallic wings on it's white handle.

"Here we are," Kairi says. "and look, the first wave already made it through."

I look toward the door to see a few heartless lurking toward us. Kairi and I run toward the black, shadowy creatures and attack. Many of these heartless are varieties I've never seen before. Some of these heartless can fly, creating a challenge. However, sometimes these heartless have weak points, as they only have a certain number of attacks. Kairi and I quickly take out the heartless and close and lock the door leading out of the ship. The rest of the heartless are taken out by the ship's lasers. I'm pretty wiped out from the fight, as is Kairi.

"We're about to land in Radiant Garden, so you'd better grab your things from your room and prepare for landing," Kairi says. "I'll see you outside the ship!"