As always, I sadly don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters, including place names and stuff... only the story itself and the alternate universe.
Chapter 3: Pain from the Past (Part 1)
"Wooooooooooaaaaahhhh…. Just.. Just… AH! Just HOLD it RIGHT THERE young man!" Aqua protested as she clumsily stumbled over the cobblestones of Twilight Town, reluctantly being dragged by the arm by a strong long haired boy into the nearest dark alley.
"The situation's not going to improve if you continue to struggle Miss." The young man forced out politely as he refrained from snapping at her resistance, finding it VERY difficult to continue on bringing her to the destination.
"Fine then!" Aqua finally had enough of being dragged somewhere without knowing what's going on, so she firmly planted both feet down and successfully managed to make the younger boy stop in his tracks.
The teenager sighed as he finally turned around to look her in the eyes to calmly explain the situation to her, trying his best not to lose his shortened temper.
"If you still want to see your homeland in one piece without many innocent casualties, then don't struggle so much."
"Wait-WHAT?! You mean… Land of Departure is going to be involved in a WAR?"
The white haired boy merely nodded his head, his emerald eyes staring directly into her sapphire orbs with truth written all over it. The poor girl could only gasp from the realization of her fellow villagers being in danger of being slaughtered by foreigners from another world.
The boy's head snapped towards the direction of hurried footsteps running towards their current location, and without hesitation, he dragged the now dazed Aqua towards their current location as he continued to explain hurriedly of where he's going to escort her, and the decision to transport her in a coffin was settle in order for her to quickly reach the secret hideout of the rebellion group…
Riku palms his face when he realized Aqua was transported into the wrong graveyard throughout the entire time. God knows where her current location was… and now he's going to waste more time searching for her as the countries were inching their plans closer and closer to the violent conflicts soon…
The blue maiden couldn't help but to follow closely with Namine as they tread though the dark gates and into the towering castle that actually gave her chills. She actually couldn't help but have some feeling of paranoia around this strange environment, for she felt like she was being watched.
Unfortunately, the sight of the azaleas in the garden ended up exciting a gasp out of Aqua. It may have only been a few months that she left her village, but as of right now, the feeling of homesickness began to invade her heart, along with the memories of that shocking night. But Aqua quickly shook it off as Namine turned to give her a tiny smile before opening the main door to the castle.
Both girls continued to tread lightly through the empty corridor of the huge fortress, both holding hands to prevent Aqua from getting lost, and before the blue haired girl knew it, they had reached the servant chambers. Namine timidly opened her room door and allowed Aqua to enter. Just before Aqua could thank Namine for giving her place to stay for the night, Namine was already knocked out as soon as she hit the bed, not caring whether the prickly nettle was still in her small hand.
The older young woman gave an empathetic smile as she gingerly removed the nettle from her hand and placed it on the old bedside table on the side of her twin sized bed. After tucking the younger new friend into her thin covers, she quietly settles herself down on the chair next to the table and decided to continue sleeping for the remainder of the night as well…
Little does she know, her movements were actually monitored by that silver haired man, smiling devilishly as he finally had the beauty in his territory….
I KNOW guys... this chapter's going a bit too slowly and stuff... but the reference to azaleas here actually reflect something that Aqua and her best friend loved in this story, plus another inspiration to this story was an old Chinese song that I love XD
The beginning of this chapter was to explain why Aqua was hoarded to this graveyard in the first place... but yep... too bad so sad Riku, your efforts were wasted XD Sorry if I made HIM too OOC...
I will post the Chinese song soon as the chapters continue on, but please review to let me know if I have gotten anyone OOC and stuff.