He strolled down the sandy pathway on the lit Main Street of his neighborhood.

The night was warm and the air was fresh. His eyes were blurred, hazy, and empty. His lips slightly apart.

He sat down on the cool sand of the beaches' low tide Listening to the crashing of the waves. Sometimes the seafoam brought up seashells and pebbles from the tide.

Sometimes it brought up the molted skin of crabs.

He threaded his fingers through his hair. Folding into himself so much that it hurt. He pulls hard on his soft locks trying to tear out his hair, His mind, his thoughts, his soul, his body, and his heart.

The physical pain couldnʼt calm his inner pain.

His emotional, mental pain.

His heart feeling scattered.

He was alone now, he was truly alone.

One by one they were taken from him. His brain couldn't process that his friends were gone.

His family was gone.

His lover was gone.

His very ambitions, hopes, and dreams scattered in the wind just like his heart.

Everything was gone, gone, gone -

GONE.

He howled in the night sky, raising his arms and hitting the sand in strangled frustration.

Tears of frustration and sadness poured into the dry sand, splotches are heard.

He hits his hands repeatedly on the sand, getting them cut and bloody from the sharp edges of rocks and seashells.

"They're gone... they're gone! I couldnʼt protect them! Now Iʼm alone! Worthless! Powerless! A pathetic loser!"

"A PATHETIC WORTHLESS LOSER!"

He yells into the night.

The stars shone in the night sky as if offering their sympathy with him.

"Please, take me. I canʼt take it anymore. This feeling is crushing me! The cost was too much! It shouldʼve been only me! Now... now! Riku! Kairi!... the king... t-there all gone because of me!" He cries.

Sora dips his head onto the surface of the sand sobbing his heart out. The salty taste of sand getting in his mouth doesnʼt deter him from his self-loathing.

"I-I sacrificed e-everything f-for pah-peace. F-for my family! For my friends! F-for my lover!" Sora rips out a handful of his hair repeatedly. He scratches his scalp harshly until it bled. The pain wasnʼt enough so he starts to scratch his skin off. Peeling the white translucent skin with his nails.

He continues his self-loathing even when he hears his name being called. The voice is frantic and worried. "Sora!" He could hear the voice. The sound of the weight of those feet and the sound of their voice familiar. His skin is burning. Burning.

Burning.

He lies down, not caring how he looks. He feels a sick satisfaction as the self-inflicted pain takes out the edge off of the emotional pain in his heart. His eyes are still watery. They leak from his dull eyes as they stare blankly into the sky.

"Sora!?"

He could feel two warm hands on his wrist, shaking him trying to keep him awake.

The hands slide up and down my arms trying to warm him.

The voice is annoying.

He could hear a muffled call of what he thought was his name amongst the other gibberish.

They keep shaking me but my body is heavy and all I want is to sleep.

He could see from the corners of his eye the edges of my vision were starting to darken.

It was harder to breathe in air all of a sudden. His chest felt restricted. He couldnʼt breathe. "...ora! ...a! ...w...ke...p ...youʼ ...I have! ...!"

He didn't want to be awake any longer. He didn't want to feel the pain within any longer.

He wanted to feel this bliss of not feeling anything so nothing could hurt him anymore.

He wanted to be nothing.

Everything hurt.

-0-

"I'm sorry, he has fallen into a coma. There's no telling how long he will be in the coma. It could be one to two weeks or it could be years."

The shock from the news had Roxas and Ventus plummeting into the uncomfortable hospital chairs with the help of aqua and lea.

Their shoulders shake as they sobs at the news.

"I'll leave you for a moment to re-compose yourselves as I know this is shocking." the doctor speaks again.

"Can-can we s-see him?" Ventus asks as he wipes some tears with his sleeves.

"Of course" the doctor responds as he points to the room that sora was in.

The group, namely Aqua, Terra, Lea, Isa, Roxas, and Ventus move into the ICU unit.

They watch in horror that their friend was in.

Sora was hooked to many wires but the mainly obscene one was the tubing lodged in his throat helping the hero breathe.

They could see some colossus starting to form on his lips due to the plastic tubing.

Roxas and Ventus go on either side of his bed and hold soras hands and silently cry and say words of encouragement.

They take turns kissing him on his cheeks and the crown of his head begging him to wake up.

Lea grips Isa's hand as his heart lurches for Roxas and his friend.

Isa grips back in comfort as he looks at his friend in concern.

-o-

"Sora!"

"Huh?"

Sora turns to the sound that was calling him.

He was in a field of golden maize. The sun was warm, the birds sang and there was a cool breeze rustling through his hair.

"Sora!"

His name is called out playfully by two familiar voices.

"Riku? Kairi?!"

He strode through the field of maize making a pathway chasing the voices that were calling for him.

He reaches a cliff but in the open space inches away from his feet he sees his friends in a beautiful white toga and dress with beautiful white angelic wings flying within the space.

"Common sora! It's so much fun here!" exclaims Kairi.

"Yeah sora, now we can play all day. We don't have to listen to a dumb mouse or fight some dark force. Were free!"

Smirks Riku.

Soras eyes light with excitement but the crumbling weight under his feet reminds him of the far plummet of the trench below. He could see the remains of humans and animals below. He steps back from the edge of the cliff.

"G-guys, I-I don't have wings!"

Exclaims sora.

Riku scoffs at sora as he flies to the edge right in front of sora and crosses his arms across his chest.

"When has that ever stopped you?"

"Common you lazy bum!"

Kairi exclaims.

Sora steels himself as he prepares to jump.

"This'll be just like never land."

He backs up and closes his eyes and spreads his arms.

"I just need… faith, trust, and…"

Sora runs off the edge of the cliff.

"A little bit of pixie dust!"

-0-

I let you speculate how things end friends.

AC