The Magic of the Earth and the Sky

by Flare Haynekie

Disclaimer: …………

Warnings: AU, OOC-ness, shonen-ai

Author's note: In slight honor of my sister's fic, I named the fic before writing the chapter. I also have the name for the next chapter: Passion – after the battle –. Why? Because in the next chapter most of the stuff I imagined when hearing that song appear. Sad, but true.

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Chapter 32: Dearly Beloved – reprise –
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A large yawn. Then a chuckle and a soft cuddle. Sorae looked up at Rikue, smiling. It was another day. Another meeting. Another run away moment. Cloud was somewhere in the island with Squall, Selai was somewhere with Wolf and Irving. Everyone had someone they had met in the island.

"Are you tired?" Sorae asked.

Rikue cuddled the young heaven prince in his arms and lap. "Yeah. My father was being incredibly annoying last night and I had to go see what he wanted. That just kept me up all night."

Sorae blinked. "Do you want to take a nap? I'll be okay…"

Rikue just shook his head. "It's okay. I'll be fine."

With a smile, Sorae took out a white ribbon from his pocket, showing it to Rikue very proudly. "Look! I sent my brother to get this for me when he went out shopping the other day. It's for you!"

Rikue picked it up, shocked with the sudden gift. "Wow. I mean, wow. Thank you." He grabbed his hair together and tied it up with the ribbon. "Thank you. That's so sweet of you."

Sorae blushed, pleased with himself. "I'm glad you liked it."

"Like it? I love it! It's incredibly soft. But I don't have something to give you."

"It's okay."

"I know!" Rikue reached around the back of his neck to take off the blue necklace he had on. "I got this the other day when Irving and I went around the market. It seemed like such a strange creation that I just had to get it. It also reminded me of you." He held up the blue crystal moon hanging from the blue cord.

Sorae carefully took it in his hands, touching it very softly then holding it up to the sky to see how the light reflected through the moon. "It's beautiful."

"I'm glad. You can have it then."

"What?" Sorae quickly turned around, cradling the necklace in his hands. "But it's too precious to you."

"Nah. It's okay. Besides, it matches your eyes. It would be better off with you." He took it from the brunet's hand and placed it around his neck. "It definitely looks better on you."

Sorae leaned up, closing his eyes and softly pressing his lips to Rikue's. A soft kiss as a sign of deep gratitude. Then he quickly leaned back down and giggled. Rikue pressed his forehead to the brunet's and smiled. They both froze when they heard the high screechy gasp, then the question "What are you two doing here? Together!"

They turned around, coming face to face with Hikari. Both uttered a "shit" before looking up at each other then quickly back at Hikari.

"What are you doing here!" they asked her, quite horrified.

"What? Well, I was quite bored and as a whim went to visit Rikue, but for strange reason he had disappeared. Then I went to visit Sorae, and I bumped into that rude red-head with Roxaius, and they said he had gone visit some friends here. So I was looking around, and imagine my surprise! Both heirs to their enemy kingdoms! Here! Being friendly with each other!" She glared. "What is going on?"

Rikue got up, pulling Sorae with him. "Hikari. I'm going to pretend I haven't seen you. I need to talk with him alone. So just, go back home." And he walked off, pulling the flustered brunet with him.

Hikari stared at their retreating forms with wide eyes, shocked. He just blew her off. She glared. No one ever gets away with blowing her off. She got up and rushed back. She had a plan.

Meanwhile, Rikue reached the giant tree in the middle of the island and sat down, Sorae sitting in front of him.

"Let's go over this now." Rikue started. "I'm Rikue, heir to the earth kingdom."

Sorae blinked, swallowing the information. "Um, I'm Sorae, current heir to the heaven kingdom, and only because both Cloud and Ro dropped the title on me."

Rikue nodded, then paused. "Right, you had told me you were the third born." He sighed. "That explains how you know Hikari."

"I'm sorry. I had my suspicions, but I didn't want to believe it."

"You too? I had suspicions too!" Rikue smiled, making Sorae give him a small smile. "Well, there's not really much we can do about us being heirs."

"Except not marry Hikari."

Rikue laughed. "Yeah, except marrying her. God she's so whinny."

"To you too? She's pretends to be this perfect princess, but she's not." Sorae smiled.

"Right. And her cousin, Naminé, she's so adorable. If only Hikari was that nice. It would actually make it pleasant to marry her." Rikue reached over and pulled Sorae to him. "Not that I would mind marrying you. In fact, I would love to. We could share my family's sacred royal vows…"

Sorae held Rikue tightly. "That would be nice. I would like it a lot. And we could share my family's royal vows. Although I think they might be the same vows."

Rikue chuckled. "Yeah, I think so too."

"STOP!" Came a voice, quite different from Hikari's, Yun's, or Selai's. "Don't kiss again!"

Both looked up, seeing a small girl jump from the branches of the tree and land next to them, quickly grabbing Sorae's arm and pulling him away from Rikue.

"What? What do you mean?" Sorae asked, confused and slightly scared of the little girl.

She pouted. "Stop doing stupid stuff!" she let go of Sorae's arm. "Anyway, hi! I'm one of the time deities. Future to be exact. My name's Clotho."

Two older girls came out from around the tree and waved at them.

The middle one spoke up. "Yes, hello. Sorry for the bother. I am Lachesis, present. And this," she pointed to the oldest one, "is Atropos, past. We are the deities of time, as Clotho has already said. We have come with a warning."

Clotho ran up to them, taking hold of Lachesis' hand. "Right, the warning. Sorry."

Atropos shook her head. "Anyway, I'm afraid to say that you two, as future heirs to your respective kingdoms, are not allowed to kiss each other as of… well, five minutes ago."

Rikue twitched. "What! Time deities of not, are you out of your mind!"

Lachesis chuckled. "No, we are not out of out minds. Quite in them, really."

"You can do something else, though!" Clotho exclaimed. "Like create a solid manifestation of your love!"

Atropos grabbed Clotho and put her hands over the little one's mouth. "Shut up. Just because you know what'll happen, that's not reason to tell them."

Sorae looked up. "A solid manifestation? Like what?"

Rikue inched closer, grabbing Sorae's hand. He noticed Clotho making a movement as if she was going to tackle him, but he shook his head. "I'm not doing anything but holding his hand!" he exclaimed, Clotho looking at him suspiciously.

But she let it pass. Instead, she answered Sorae's question. "Well, you could make a fruit that would normally be tasteless, but when shared with a loved one and a kiss your destinies would be intertwined forever and ever. And if you have that much love, you could just cross the time bridge and be reborn together."

Sorae quickly held the necklace Rikue had given him. He looked up at the earth prince with a smile. "It could be yellow and in the shape of a star."

Rikue smiled back. "And I know the perfect name for it too."

Lachesis smiled. "Then, it is settled." She motioned for them to stand. "Let us all form a circle around the Fate Weaver and concentrate our powers to create it."

"The Fate Weaver is the tree's name." Atropos cleared up.

They all did as told, each standing at a point around the Fate Weaver. They held their hands in front of them.

"Right." Lachesis approved. "Now, think of the fruit. Remember that it is star shaped and yellow. Preferably big enough to fit your hand, but not too big. Once you have the picture in your mind, concentrate your powers at the Fate Weaver. Any questions?"

"Oh!" Sorae quickly exclaimed. "Since when does this tree have a name?"

Clotho giggled. "Since a long time ago!"

"Exactly. Humans do not normally know it." Lachesis explained. "Any more pressing questions? Unrelated to the tree?"

"Yeah, I have a question." Rikue blinked. "Why is it that you're helping us? As far as I've been told, the time deities don't come out and help random people as a charity thing."

"Unfortunately, we aren't normally allowed to come here and help out like this, but your relationship was getting dangerous for the sake of the world." Atropos explained. "Are we making this fruit, or what!" she angrily asked.

"Yes." Lachesis said.

Finally, they all shut up and concentrated on making the fruit. Hours later of tough concentrating, there was a bright light in front of Sorae, everyone running to stand around the light to look at their creation.

"It's cute!" Clotho exclaimed.

"It is!" Sorae smiled, holding it up.

The Fate Weaver shone, a million little lights flying out of it and dispersing all around the island.

"Those are seeds." Atropos smiled. "The fruit will grow anywhere on this island. But only here. Anywhere else will kill it. But here, it'll thrive and make more. How cute."

Clotho took the fruit just as Sorae was going to take a bite out of it. "No! No eating! You're not allowed to eat it!"

Sorae frowned and pouted. "What! That's not fair! It's my fruit!"

Then time deities got together. They looked at Sorae and Rikue, their smile gone, Clotho throwing the fruit up the tree, the fruit never coming down again.

"What did you do with the Paopu!" Rikue asked, glaring at Clotho.

"It was necessary." Lachesis started. "Just as you two are not allowed to kiss again, you are also not allowed to eat the Paopu fruit, the one you have just created. Doing so will cause the destruction of both kingdoms."

"You didn't say that!" Sorae exclaimed. "That's not fair!"

Clotho smiled. "It's okay! Hundreds of years after this, you two will be reunited. And your love will be pure, formed by a single meeting. Shaped by misadventures. It'll be really cute!"

Rikue sighed. "But I want to love him now. Why is that so unfair?"

The girls smiled, but disappeared, leaving Rikue's question in the air. Moments later, Selai appeared, grabbing Sorae's hand.

"I'm sorry!" she quickly apologized. "I know you told me not to talk about this when being here, but, there's trouble at the castle!"

Sorae looked at her puzzled. "I don't get it, what's wrong?"

"Hikari went to the king and told him you were being deceived into a fake friendship and/or love by the earth kingdom's prince." She exclaimed. "King Shion didn't pay much attention to that matter, so Hikari ran off and told the earth kingdom's king that it was you deceiving his son! Yun just told me!"

"And!" Sorae asked, fearing the worst.

"The earth kingdom's king has just declared war on the heaven kingdom, and King Shion's not backing down!"

"WHAT!" both princes asked horrified.

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To Be Continued!
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(Author's rants)
Gasp! I wrote this on one sitting. Took me like two hours to write this. Finally! The war! Whoot! Please read and leave a review on my sister's fic! (she only has one reviewer!) It's called "The Black King" and it's very amusing!


(Very important note!)
Other than that, I'm quite proud to say that Earth-Sky (for short) is officially finished as of August 3rd, 2006, around 10:08 pm. Now aren't I efficient? Other than that, I'm a lazy bum and I don't want to put all the remaining chapters at the same time. XD Oh, and, um… I forgot what it was now. Hehehehe. Oh well. I guess that was it. It's 34 chapters in total, plus a surprise. And partly ignore all the comments I wrote. Cuz I wrote them when I first wrote the chapters, and I have no idea what they say now! XD


(Things you should know)
The time deities are actually what it's called the fates. Each have the power to control a certain period of time. One control's the present, the other the past, and the other the future. Namely (past, present, future) Atropos (Urd), Lachesis (Verdandi), and Clotho (Skuld). Meow. I like mythology… XD Norse one in specific. But the names Clotho, Atropos, and Lachesis are not from Norse mythology. I can't remember from what mythology they were, actually (since I took it out of the book "Mythology for Dummies" which I had confiscated from a friend XD). But Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld are their Norse names (I confirmed it with the book "Gods, Heroes, & Kings")

I have weird books in my room aside from all the manga! Shocking, isn't it?


(Things I was hearing and/or working on while writing this chapter)
Was supposed to be working on the math book… but it's currently 1:25 am, Friday July 7th. I'm not in the mood to work. As a plus side, all I've been hearing is my Playlist on the Window Media Player… which has a whooping total of 62 songs. Is anyone interested in what songs are in it? I'll be happy to write them down! Or better yet… I'll write them down on my livejournal. That's better! XD


(Reviews)

1. The Shadows Hide All – Aww. Too bad about your account. Here! Update! XD
2. AngelicOrgueil – No, I have to write one XD. Sankyu for the reviews!
3. kingdomhearts222 – Yup.
4. Bonnie Mizuhara – Hehehe. Yes it is.
5. Prozacfairy – Ya!
6. Largo-sensei – Yes, Ro and Cloud are dicks… wee! Chocolate!
7. ShadowShapeshifterAndHerCat – I'm glad you like! Oooh, sugar! Wee! Macarena!
8. Ink2 – hehe, it's okay. Thank you!
9. pansypantelones411 – sure?
10. Mana-san – hehe, sure.