Dear readers,

YES! Sorry I didn't write sooner! I was working on another story, Forget Sleep! Anyways, here's chapter three! Thank you for the review I really loved them! And I so agree when you say who cares about spelling. Don't worry though I try to spell as best as I can:) I can't believe three people are reading this and I thank you so much!

Chapter 3. Edge

The body remained still as the tides of the water advanced closer to him, before being pulled back by the moon. Sloppy silver bangs brushed Riku's face, following the winds gentle breeze. His eyelids were peacefully closed, and the pained expression on his face was replaced with an emotionless frown. The sand around him, along with worn white vest, was stained crimson. Tattered and damaged, the corpse lay facing the jet-black sky, brightening a little, when grey clouds passed. Trees rustled, and the sound of footsteps grew near to Riku's unresponsive ear.

The man's attire matched the horizon and the dark sky. After removing the black hood he tasseled his long red hair, and cut the silence with his sharp kick to the body bellow him. Riku's body jolted up as he cried in agony, before collapsing once again on the moist sand.

Grey clouds brightened the sky showing more of this man's features. His green eyes squinted, gazing into the water from curiosity. The red head stepped over Riku's crumbling body and reached in the ocean to grab the shaded object floating in the water.

"What's this?" His lip quivered into a smile as he eyed the bottle in his hand. He shook the bottle causing a torn paper to slip out. The outlandish man unraveled the piece of paper and read out loud to the barren sea.

"Thinking of you wherever you are… sick! This is rubbish!" The man gagged and faced another man that just appeared with matching attire. "Hey Roxas, can you believe this shit!? 'There are many worlds, but they share the same sky, destiny, light'" The red head swooned lifting his hand to his ivory face and green lines painted from his eyes. Another grey cloud exposed Roxas's bright blue eyes, and childish face.

Roxas ignored him and walked towards the corpse. His blond hair drooped over Riku's pained face while the other continued to read from the poem, laughing after every sentence he read. As the younger man checked Riku's body, green eyes peered over at the silver haired fellow. The red head chuckled once more, and scratched with a pen on the backside of the poem. When satisfied with his passage, he bottled up the letter and threw it back into the sea. Tears welded up in Roxas eyes as he placed his hand on the corpse's sweltering forehead. Aquamarine eyes locked with Roxas's blue and to his surprise Riku's lips moved " S-Sora?"

Roxas stood up and clenched his teeth. "Is that all you see me as? Sora's other half?!"

The other man in black strides to Roxas and placed his gloved hand to the younger's shoulder. "Hey now. Take it easy"

"Shove it Axel!" Axel frowned and released his hand from Roxas's tense frame.

"Well Riku, where's Sora? Looks to me he left you and your darkness here to rot." Hollow laughter escaped Roxas's mouth, while Axel shuddered uncomfortably.
The blond kneeled and brought his face near to Riku's ear. Smiling deviously he whispered "don't worry we're here for you." Riku cried out before relapsing to his unconscious state.

"NOOOOOOOO!"

Sora jolted up from the sand he slept on. Tears fled from his face as he panted and absorbed his surroundings. He sat in the sand, shaded by an unusual shaped tree, covered in star-shaped fruit. Salty tears dripped to his face and chin, and his ears perked to hear sounds of people coming. Sora quickly wiped them away as his friends walked toward him.

"Hey Sora!" Selphie cheered.

"Hey guys!" Sora lifted himself from the ground and brushed sand from his clothes. Standing in front of Selphie, Wakka, Tidus and Kairi, he wiped his nose from his arm and smiled goofily. "What's up?"

"We were wondering where you went." Kairi's eyes locked with Sora's watery eyes. Sora looked away quickly. Tidus glanced to Kairi and then back to Sora. Wakka twirled his blitzball.

"Whoa. Sora your eyes are all bloodshot!" Tidus said. Selphie glared at the baffled teen as he mouthed back to her 'what?'.

"Yeah man they do seem red" Wakka pitched in. Sora opened his mouth as they spoke. His face felt hot and he looked around for some excuse or explanation to justify his watery eyes.

"I uh got some salt in my eye when I was swimming." Sora chocked out. Tidus shrugged and accepted, while Wakka shook his red hair.

"Then how come your hair isn't wet?" Wakka innocently asked, while Tidus stared at Sora's hair hoping it would respond.

The two thought for moments while Kairi and Selphie shifted uneasily. Selphie decided to take action by pinning the two boys to the ground. They screamed as she hit their heads. Kairi laughed, while Sora turned away from them and gazed back into the sea.

Selphie and the boys squabbled eventually leading to a full out toss into the ocean. Everyone except for Selphie fell in the water. Before jumping into the ocean herself, she laughed and twirling her jump rope cheered. "I'm queen of the island!"

They fooled around in the ocean. Kairi splashed Sora. Sora splashed Wakka causing him to cry out and throw a blitzball to Sora's face. Sora dove under water and pulled down with her. She cried out to Tidus for protection, but he was in the midst of being dunked by Kairi. Smiles formed their faces while they playfully attacked each other.

Eventually Sora swam to the shore, and following him was Kairi, Wakka, Tidus and Selphie, the worst swimmer of the gang. As she swam, her head hit a glassed object. She stood up and to her relief; she was close enough to the shore to stand. She picked up the bottle and eyed it. "Hey everyone! Look I found something!"

The group walked over to find their towels while Selphie ran to the sand grasping the bottle. She placed her hands on her knees to rest and called out to the group once more before opening the bottled note.

A petrified shriek left Selphie's mouth. Sora and Kairi turned around to see Selphie hands over her mouth and the paper slowly floated to the sand to join the bottle and cork.. Kairi, Tidus and Wakka Ran to Selphie, who was now shaking. Sora ran to the slip of paper brushing it from the sand desperately and examined the foreign note close to his face. Sora 's face lost color and hiseyes widened.

"Sora?"

The letter moved from Sora's face, and like a feather floated down.

"Sora?"

Scratched on the letter were ten words.

"Sora!"

Sora swallowed a lump from his throat. His mouth became dry and his face paled more.

'it's okay sor-sor, we did the dirty work for you'

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