A small volts wagon pulled up into a driveway. A teenaged boy with spiky, chocolate brown hair stepped out of it.
"It's been a long time since I've been here!" he said to a middle-aged woman standing beside him.
"Home sweet home, eh?" She sighed happily, nudging her son.
I unpacked my belongings. 'Boy this is a strange place,' I thought, glancing out the bedroom window. Buildings jutted into the sky with odd designs on them. 'It sure is different from Destiny Islands.'
The teen sat on his bed, unpacking his things from moving boxes.
"Sora honey, here's some more." The woman said, handing him a box from the doorway.
"Thanks mum," Sora said affectionately. Sticking out of the box at an angle was a red skateboard. He smiled.
I heard a gentle knocking at the door to my room and my mum entered.
"Hey love, I know this move has been hard on you so I thought I'd enter you in a few things to help you make new friends," she said, sitting on the bed next to me.
"Thanks mum but there's really no need." The last thing I wanted was to be subjected to the company of others right now. I just wanted to be alone.
"Oh don't worry about it dear. I'm sure you'll love it. In about half an hour there will be a skateboarding competition."
"Okay, fine mum. Where is it?" I asked grudgingly. I really didn't want to be in a competition that I sucked at. And I boy did I suck at skateboarding. Admittedly, I'd only done it twice.
"Well it's easy to find. It's in the town square about two blocks from here. There are lots of signs pointing the way so you won't get lost. I have to go to work now but have fun Sora." She ruffled my hair and then walked out of my room.
"Bye mum!" I called.
I had a shower and then I was on my way to the skateboarding competition.
As I was crossing the street I noticed there was a group of people my age walking in the same direction. One of them was a guy with similar hair to mine, only it was blonde. There were two other girls, one with brown hair and one that looked remarkably like Kairi only she had blonde hair like the boy. There were two other boys. One of them was sort of chubby and he had a camera hanging around his neck, and the other had brown hair and his arms crossed over his chest. We both rounded the corner and I followed them to the billboard where a man was standing.
"I gather you're all here for the skateboarding competition?" the man asked in a booming voice.
"We are," the boy with blonde hair said, indicating to the brown haired boy. "But they aren't." the two girls and the other guy bid them farewell and took a seat in the miniature grandstand by the entrance I had come in through.
"What about you?" the man turned to me. The blonde and brown haired boys turned to face me. They frowned and studied my face. I could tell they were judging and sizing me up as their competition.
"Yeah I'm in," I said simply.
"Here are the rules then," the man then proceeded to explain the rules. It was fairly easy really. All we had to do was skateboard down from the station heights, which was our starting point, and do as many tricks as possible along the way. If we fell off the board then we were disqualified. There were judges situated at intervals along the course path. They would write down the tricks we did and judge them. The winner would receive a trophy and a prize of 50 munny. Easy enough. Right?
The three of us ascended towards Station Height. I didn't know where it was so I simply followed the other two. They didn't talk much, and certainly not to me, but from what I gathered the blonde haired boy's name was Roxas and the brunette's name was Hayner. A woman met us at the top with a checker racing flag in her hand.
"Line up boys," she said cheerfully to us. "You'll be going one by one."
Hayner went first. Then Roxas. Then it was my turn. I stepped warily onto the blue board and found it surprisingly comfortable to stand on.
"One, two, three!" the woman cried and I set the board in motion. I began the descent down to the town square.
I could barely direct the board, let alone do tricks on it. I hurtled past judges, their faces were just blurs on the edge of my vision. I think I might've been yelling, but it's hard to tell with the wind roaring in my ears. Just before I got down to the town square there was a stairway and a trick was unavoidable. I could feel myself and the board flying through the air. A sense of empowerment filled my body and I decided with some grim knowledge of the pain that would come even if I didn't do a trick, so I barrel twisted three times and did a 480 turn. I could hear the people gathered in the town square gasp and cheer. Then I blacked out.
"Hey man, you alright?" The boy, Roxas, stood over me.
"Wha-?" I asked in confusion. All I remember is skateboarding.
"That was an awesome stack!" The chubby boy had joined his friends.
"Not just the stack, Pence, the trick!" Roxas pumped his fist in the air. "If only I had the guts to do that!"
Sora placed the skateboard in his cupboard and picked up the next item. It was a blue leg cast.
I tried to sit up but my leg seared with pain. I sucked in my breath.
"You probably shouldn't be moving right now. The ambulance is coming to take you to Twilight Town Hospital," Pence told me in a matter of fact tone.
"What? Why am I going to the hospital? What's wrong with my leg?" Boy was I confused. Only then did I look down at my leg and see the horrible angle at which it was protruding. The pain doubled with my realisation that it was broken. "Oh," I said simply and blacked out again.
I woke up sometime later. Whitewashed walls surrounded me and I looked down at my leg that was covered in a blue cast. Several people sat around me.
"Hey! Guys! He's awake!" The blonde haired girl called to her friends. Then she held out her hand to shake mine and announced her name. "I'm Namine!"
"Hey man, I'm Roxas!" Roxas said to me. I smiled somewhat weakly. I wonder if I'm on Morphine. It would explain the Easter bunny that was standing behind Pence making faces.
"I'm Hayner," Hayner clapped me on the back.
"And I'm Olette!" the brown haired girl told me with a smile.
"I remember these!" Sora said, smiling fondly at two framed pictures. One was of him hurtling down the Tram Common and the other was of him doing his 480 trick.
"Pence!" The chubby boy said, holding his camera proudly. "I got some pictures of you while you were skateboarding." He held them out to me. They all gathered around to see as I held them in my hands.
I looked at the first one. I had a terrified look on my face as I hurtled down from Station Heights. We all burst out laughing.
"Have you ever skateboarded before?" Roxas asked between laughs.
I looked sheepish. "Maybe once or twice," I muttered and everyone burst out laughing again. The second picture was actually really good quality. I looked at it and felt dizzy as I realised I had to have been at least six metres off the ground, judging by the photo. Roxas and Hayner praised me once more.
"That was a seriously good skateboarding trick!" Roxas told me. The others agreed.
"You should've won," Namine told me. "No offence guys," she said to Roxas and Hayner.
"Oh yeah so who won out of you two?" I asked, suddenly remembering the trophy and prize munny.
"We both did," Roxas said.
"Awesome! That's so great, I wish I'd seen it!" I enthused. I was genuinely happy they had won. I mean normally I get all competitive and huffy when Riku beats me. Maybe that's cause he always rubs it in my face.
"Yeah," they said looking embarrassed. "But we decided that since we didn't do any spectacular tricks worthy of matching the one you did, it's only fair that you get the trophy!" Hayner held out the trophy. I stared at it in awe. It was made out of blue metal and had five crystals set in bars sticking out at intervals.
"No I can't accept this. You guys won it fair and square," I told them earnestly.
"Sora, we want you to have it. You deserve it more," Roxas told me in a no nonsense tone. I had the feeling that I couldn't win this argument. I'm getting the idea that Roxas is as stubborn as Riku.
"How about we share it? All five of us!" I looked around at all of them. That's right. I'm a genius. I broke off the crystals before anyone could object and gave one to each of them. Roxas had a blue one, Namine had a white one, Hayner had a black-ish one, Pence had green one and I got a red one.
"Thanks heaps Sora!" Olette said, and she and Namine gave me a hug while the guys held their hands in the air for high fives. I smiled at them all feeling happy and content for the first time in…well…a long time. Maybe Twilight Town won't be so bad after all.
The rest of the afternoon was spent playing cards and listening to music.
"Three three's," Namine said with a smirk, placing three cards in the middle. I sized her up. I had one three, so it's pretty likely that she's cheating.
"Cheat!" I said in triumph, sure of myself. Namine grinned wolfishly.
"Nope!" She exclaimed gleefully.
"Aw man…" I collected the pile of cards that had gathered in the middle.
A doctor came into the room just then and said that he had good news.
"Sora, you will be able to go home tonight," he said kindly.
"Alright!" I never liked hospitals, least of all being a patient in them.
"But you'll have the cast on for another month or so."
"Oh well! I'm just happy to be getting out of here!" I suddenly realised after I said it that I was being offensive, by accident of course… "Heh, heh, I mean, you know uh…"
"Don't worry about it, I understand perfectly," the doctor smiled. Maybe hospitals aren't so bad…at least, the people aren't. "You're mum is coming back to get you in about an hour, so perhaps it'd be best if you rested," the doctor said, looking pointedly at the group of teens.
Roxas rubbed the back of his head in a fashion similar to my own habit.
"We'd better get going Sora," he said.
"I had a really great day!" Namine told me.
"Where do you live?" Olette asked me. "Can we come visit you tomorrow?"
"Have you been shown the town yet?" Hayner asked me.
"What school are you going to?" Pence enquired.
I laughed at the bombardment of questions.
"I live at 5 Federation Court near the Town Square, I'd love for you to come visit me tomorrow, no I haven't been shown the town yet and I'm going to Twilight Town High," I finished, red in the face from being out of breath. "And that's in chronological order." They laughed and Olette looked excited.
"We go to Twilight Town High too!" I beamed at her. It's always nice to have friends at a new school.
They said goodbye and started filing out of the room.
"Pence! What about your pictures?" I called to him. He had left them by my bedside table.
"You can keep them!" he called back.
"Thankyou!" I don't think he heard me.
'What a nice bunch of people,' I thought to myself as I drifted off to sleep. "Goodnight Easter bunny."
I think they gave me another dose of morphine.
OK well this is a nice long-ish chapter for you all. i know there are lots of loopholes and sorry about that, but the main thing is that i didn't connect some things cause they're not important. and i've been good and updating regularly and quickly so please R and R:D and thanks to those who have:D really appreciate it