Ok new chapter of this story. I've never done a kind of romantic scene so tell me how I did on the review. Hope you enjoy this chapter
5 years later…
Once heartless took over Radiant Garden, everyone was evacuated to Traverse Town and began to rebuild there lives. Aira was leaning against the wall of a small shop with a spaced-out look on her face and humming a melody. Over the years, she hadn't changed much except that she let her hair grow down to the middle of her back. Reaching out, she unconsciously grabbed the gold heart-shaped locket that was around her neck.
Aira's POV
It has been exactly two years since everyone was evacuated from Radiant Garden and moved to Traverse Town. However, not everyone made it onto the evacuation ships. On the way to the ships, many people perished under the heartless and had their hearts taken. Today was the day that I lost my boyfriend, Isa, and his best friend, Lea. I can remember that day very clearly.
~Flashback~
Isa and Lea had just gotten to my house and we were rushing to the ships to Traverse Town in the fountain courts. All of our parents had been taken by the heartless a month ago so we lived by ourselves. Lea and Isa asked magician in town, Merlin teach them some magic so they could defend themselves. We were all running through the town square when a group of what we called solider heartless appeared before us. Lea cleared them away using a Fira spell and we continued running. Before we could get far though, a heartless grabbed my leg and I tripped. I constantly kicked at it but it wouldn't come off. "Let me go you monster!" Isa saw this and used an Aero to get the heartless off me. "Come on we have to hurry there are more and more heartless coming as we speak." My boyfriend grabbed my hand and we ran as fast as we could.
We were almost toward the fountain court when we heard Lea scream. We turned to see him being surrounded by heartless. Isa went to take out some of the heartless giving Lea time to escape. Just as Isa was about to run, a heartless came from under him and scratched him in the face. I saw that it had given him an X-shaped cut, one that would leave a scar. "Isa! Are you alright?" Isa grabbed the middle of his face to try to stop the bleeding and ran with us. "I'm fine. Come on we have to hurry!"
We continued running when Lea turned his head to see the increasing number of heartless "Aw man, there's more coming and fast. We have to stall them and give Aira time to escape." Isa agreed and stopped in his tracks. Once I heard this, I stopped as well and had tears in my eyes. "What? There is no way that I'm leaving you two. You're going to be killed! I don't want to lose you two." Isa grabbed my arm and pulled me into an embrace. "Look I love you and I don't want to lose you." I blushed when I heard Isa confession and started to cry. "We'll keep the heartless busy while you get to the evacuation ships. If I don't make it I want you to have this." He took my hand and put a small box with a bow in it. Before he turned to help Lea, I grabbed his arm and pulled him into a kiss and he kissed back. The kiss was short yet passionate as we put all of our feelings into it since this maybe our last kiss. When I let go, I ran as fast as my legs could take me to the fountain court.
I saw that two ships were left and people were rushing in. I hurried to one of the ships and boarded it. Once the ship took off, I took a seat in the many chairs in there. Remembering the box in my hand, I wiped my tears and opened it up. In the box was a card in Isa's handwriting saying 'Happy 3rd anniversary' and a golden heart-shaped locket with a star in the middle. My hands shook as I opened the locket up and I gasped at what I saw inside. On one side was a picture that I and Isa took together with his arms around me as both of us smiled at the camera. The other side had an engraving in it that made me burst into tears again and bring the locket to my heart.
Inside the locket said, 'I'll love you forever -Isa'
~Flashback End~
Ever since then I've been looking for them but there are still no leads. I'm not giving up hope though. Hopefully they'll miraculously appear and it'll be like old times. I just hope that it will.
3rd POV
Aira was remembering all the good times with Lea and Isa when something stopped her train of thought. "Hey Aira! Sorry I took so long, did you wait long?" She turned her head to see a friend of hers coming out of the shop. Her friend had long red hair tied up in a high ponytail that went with her dark chocolate eyes, a white halter top covered by a black jacket, dark ripped skinny, and grey boots giving her a somewhat punk look. Aira smiled and stood up. "No, I didn't wait long, Miki. So how has business been?" Miki groaned as she walked her friend. "Same as usual, I amazed how much of a jerk my boss is. He made me clean up the place after rush hour ALONE! He really needs to hire a janitor or something." " You can't blame him though, with the low staff and all, he needs employees to do other jobs too."
Miki worked at a small café but only few people were working today due to heartless incidents. The place was popular so it was a tiring day for everyone. Today Miki was to one to close up shop since everyone apparently made a rush back home. Aira, being her best friend, met up with her so she didn't have to walk home alone.
The two girls were walking when Miki noticed something. "Hey Aira, what's with the long face? Something happen today?" Aira sighed as she grabbed to locket again. "Today was the day I left Radiant Garden. The last day I saw them." Miki realized what she meant and had a sorry expression on her face. "Oh I didn't realize it's been two years since you got here. Don't worry though, I'm sure you'll find them someday." Aira smiled as Miki patted her on the back. "Thanks Miki and I know they're out there somewhere. I can feel it. Plus, I'll hook you up with Lea, you'd be perfect for him." The two girls giggled as they continued walking. What they didn't realize was that they had taken a wrong turn into 3rd District, the smallest, yet most heartless infested, area in Traverse Town.
It was near midnight when the girls stopped and looked around. "This doesn't look right. Miki are you sure we took the right path?" Miki began to worry and realized where they were. "Oh no, we're in the 3rd district, we have to get out of here." As the two were running the way they came until a giant heartless, known as a Guard Armor, stopped them in their tracks. Its limbs weren't connected to the body, which had a giant heartless symbol on its purple torso. Aira then used a Blizzard spell to temporarily freeze the heartless. "Miki, get away from here! This spell won't last much longer. Don't worry about me, I can hold this thing off until you get away from here." The ice around the Guard Armor began to crack as Miki began to run.
As soon as she turned the corner, the heartless broke free and went to attack Aira. She shot a Fire spell but it had no effect. Seeing as how all the other spells she knew would probably be ineffective she tried to escape. The heartless saw this and slashed her back, making Aira fall. She wasn't able to avoid the next string of attacks and the darkness began to consume her. One final attack from the heartless and she was knocked out. 'I'm sorry guys, I guess I won't be able to find you guys.' Just as she passed out, her heart flew up and disappeared to another world as her body was consumed by darkness and vanished.
Two members of Organization XIII were walking around The World That Never Was. The taller of the two, a young man with a dirty-blond mullet hairstyle, was groaning out of sheer boredom. "Ugh, Zexion why did the superior make us walk out here and why did I have to come with you? I just joined three days ago and their already making me do a mission." The other person, a short boy with steel-blue hair that covered his right eye sighed. "I told you the Dusk scouts notified the superior of a new nobody. And he had you come with me to find them, so we you would get to know this world more." "But, how will we find them? This place is huge. I mean it's not like they'll just pop out in front of us."
"Ugh, where am I?" Both boys turned around to see a girl, who was just shorter than Demyx, coming out of the alley. Since majority of the residence in The World That Never Was, except for the organization, were dusks, this was the person they were looking for. Zexion looked up at his partner's face. "You were saying?" Demyx panicked, trying to think of a comeback but resorted to something else. "Well, uh, hey looks like we found the new member. I'll go tell Xemnas while you explain to her what's happening right now." Demyx opened a corridor of darkness and walked through the dark portal.
The girl, who we know as Aira, was confused at what was happening and looked at the boy. "Umm where exactly am I and what did that guy mean by new mem- wait a minute, Ienzo, is that you?" The boy looked at the girl who had called him by his original name and sighed. "Yes, I use to be Ienzo but now I go by Zexion." Aira kneeled to the boy's level and put her hand on her shoulder. "Wow it's been so long, and you've grown. Do you remember me? It's me, Aira, I use to baby-sit you when you were about eight years old." Zexion then looked surprised to see the girl who was like a sister figure to him and got him into reading books. He smiled as memories of his time with her came into his mind. "It has been long hasn't it Aira? About your question from before, you are able to join the organization me and Demyx, the person from before, since you are a powerful nobody, meaning you're heart is gone."
Aira had a confused and shocked expression on her face. She touched where her heart was suppose to be but could feel nothing. "How is this possible? Having no heart means you have no emotions right? So how is it that I can be shocked right now?" "Although your heart is gone, your memories and body are still here. You can remember having an emotion and express it. It is just that you feel the emptiness." Aira stood and fell silent for a while, taking in what Zexion just said.
Another corridor of darkness appeared and Demyx came out of it. "Hey Zexy I'm back and I brought Xemnas." Zexion and Aira looked up to see a man with long, silver hair, wearing the same coat as Demyx and Zexion, coming out of the portal. The man turned to Aira and smirked. "I see that you must be very confused at what is happening. If you join Organization XIII, we will find a way to restore your heart." Aira thought about the man's proposition and looked up at him. "If I join your organization, will you also let me look for my missing friends?" "You have my word, miss." "Then it's a deal I'll join if you can restore my heart and find my friends."
Xemnas smiled and brought his hand out. "Perfect, now we must give you a new name." Aira's name appeared in front of her and began to spin around her rapidly. Once the letters were going fast enough, an X appeared with the letters of her name rearranged. Xemnas put his hand down and smirked again. "You will be now known as Xaria, the Angelic Siren." After looking at her name, Xaria had a curious expression. "What is with the Angelic Siren part?" "Oh you find out soon enough. Now, I must you your coat for you to use the corridor of darkness." With a flick of his wrist darkness twirled around her until she was engulfed in it. When it dissipated, her clothes were covered by the same type of jacket Zexion and Demyx wore. She also wore black leather gloves and high-heeled boots along with her new attire.
Demyx walked toward the girl and patted her on the head. "Nice it suits you. Oh and by the way my name is Demyx I just joined too so we're in the same situation." Xaria smiled as she began to fix her hair, avoiding the music barrettes in it. "It's nice to meet you Demyx." Xemnas coughed getting the three members' attention. "Come we must go back to the castle. I plan to have our new member introduced tomorrow. Zexion, I'll be having you show her around tomorrow after the meeting." Xemnas then walked into the portal as Zexion nodded his head in response and followed. Demyx and Xaria tagged along and went into the portal as it soon closed after. This was going to be a new life for Xaria and she knew it.
