||Episode 2 - Part V: Lost, All Alone||
*Where is This?*...[Hollow Bastion]
His entire body was aching when he opened his eyes. Pulling his fingers close to his palm, Riku groaned and got up to his feet. Whoa... He gasped, catching himself before he could fall back to the ground. Riku shook his head and breathed carefully. Though his legs were recovering from weakness, he could still stand on his own two feet without support.
Riku put aside his pain and glanced around with worried eyes. He was in a canyon of some sort, surrounded by a lot of water. It was strange to see the water rising upward instead of falling like the typical waterfall. Large bubbles floating in the air above the water. Neither of the phenomenons made any sense to him, but Riku had no particular interest in the science behind them.
"Where... am I?" The silver-haired boy muttered to himself, and he looked down at his clenched fists. "Where..."
Eyes wide with realization, Riku turned himself all around to look for the others. They were nowhere to be seen. He last saw Sora and Lu back at the island, but now they were no longer by his side. That was unless they might have ended up somewhere else in this world.
"Sora! Kairi!" Riku shouted loudly. His voice echoed through the canyon, bouncing off the walls of water until they were dimmed by the roaring water. He waited a moment for them to answer, but it was no good. Not even bothering to call for Lu, Riku dropped his head in terrible disappointment. They're not here... I'm all alone. He reminded himself. "Did I... make a mistake? Her hand. If only I grabbed her hand before..."
The boy sighed and looked down at his hand as he thought about Lu, who he almost got to go with him through the darkness. What happened? He could have sworn that he had her right behind him, but then he found that she was missing. If only he grabbed her hand when he had the chance. She would be in this strange world with him, then he wouldn't have to be all alone. Sora and Kairi were likely in a similar situation. At some point, he would have to find a way off this world to find them, too.
"Well, well, well." A woman frowned to herself as she stepped out from her domain. There was a light falling from the sky not too long ago, and it landed somewhere outside the castle walls. She wandered out until she was at the peak of the rising falls. From that point, she could see to the bottom. "My, now isn't this interesting."
A lone child standing there amidst the falls. What a depressing air that she could feel from where she stood. Such a darkness she found to be... tasty.
"Not the typical trespasser, I suppose," she said to herself. "Perhaps he can be of some use to me."
*Music End*