It was a dark hallway, and she hated dark hallways… Almost as much as she hated the dark in general. It was cold, and lonely, and she hated them for making her stay in it…
She stopped as she reached the stairs, all around her dark. Slowly she taps each one, walking down them, her hand brushing against the side of the wall. "Xander…?" She calls out softly. She smiles. "Alexander…"
Suddenly, the girl loses her balance, stumbling forward and rolling down four other steps, before hitting the concrete at the bottom. Torches suddenly became lit, with the new emerger that had entered the dungeon. The girls blue eyes lift slowly. Her long, blonde strands of hair hang over her face, brushing her cheek. Her lips, curious.
"Get up…" Comes a soft voice, but not gentle… It sounded weakened… Sad, and hurt. "We have work to do…" The blonde stands, a short strapless black dress, black cloves, a silver necklace and black boots, making her attire.
"Come here Mikaela…. I wish to see you for myself…" Come another voice from the other side of the room.
The girls turns her head at the other voice quickly, taken back by surprise. "Xander…?" She whispers questioningly….
"Go…." He whispers from the conrer of the room, not emerging to the light at all. The blonde haired girl slowly approaches a watering well that stood in the center of the room, atop three stones steps.
Placing her hands on the rocks making the well, she leans over, to stare into the water. But she saw nothing… She takes her fingers and runs them smoothly over the surface of the water, and the effect it had on the water next shocked the girl.
There was a man… In the well… Yet, it was him…
She steps back. "Where are you?" She calls out. For a moment, all is silence, but the girl ets out a gasp, frightened by the cold hand that grabs her from behind. The girls turns her head to face him…. And it was him…
"Marcus…?" She whispers. He smiles upon her, all that is visible by the light are his lips, and his nose. She stares though, her eyes in disbelief.
"Then….Who-- ?" She steps towards the well again, leaning over the reflection deep inside the water, the man looking as though he is drowning.
"They call him Sora…." Comes the first voice, louder now, and approaching the girl.
"Sora..?" She questions softly.
Alexander, the man, nods. "Keyblade wielder and protector of Kingdom Hearts… A knight of the King's…" He finishes, her eyes looking soft.
"Why is he here…?" She asks quietly.
Alexander smiles at her. "Why is Marcus here?"
She stares. "What did you do?" She asks, shock almost in her voice.
Alexander, an older looking man, approaches her on the stairs to the well.
"You see Mik… The only way to bring brother back…was to capture a pure heart… One whom believes in the power of light…" he whispers.
She glances back at him. "Why?"
Alexander smiles. "Brother's soul was safe…. But his body has been long gone Mikaela…"
"Gone…" come a whisper from the left of the girl.
"But I saved him…" Alexander continued. "This foolish boy is not dead… His heart is just eclipsed in total darkness…"
Mik blinks. "The darkness…? What do you mean? How is he in the well, you have to be bodyless to be in the well of Foutnette!"
Alexander smiles, grabbing the girl by the shoulders and forcing her to turn. He cries out a little, frightened. This was no like her borthers… not at all…
"Open your eyes…." Alexander hisses in her ear. And she obeys… afraid to disobey him..
But what she saw next would haunt her forever. A man stood before her. He looked to be about 18… He was tall, and muscular.. he had the softest Blue eyes she had seen in awhile, and Brown hair that spiked in every direction about his head, yet, the spikes lied down upon his forehead… She gasps.
"Marcus…?" she asks timidly. The man smiles at her. This was her brother, no doubt… But…. She knew that this was not her brother's body…. This…. Was Sora….