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Chapter 4: The Start of New Beginnings
[Setting: Radiant Garden?]
"Come on Sky! Let's go pick some more flowers."
Kairi was pulling at my arm wanting me to join her. After a few more tugs, I gave in and we walked towards the flower garden. As I was walking with her, the world around me didn't seem quite right. The town was jiggling, like a big bowl of gelatin was covering the city or seeing the reflection in a pool of water. Something didn't feel right about my world.
As Kairi and I made it to the flower garden, Kairi went over to the flower beds and started to pick flowers. I looked over to my right and I see some silhouettes facing the other direction. I rush over to them and find out that the silhouettes were Aqua and Mickey: the same two that Kairi and I were saved by not so long ago.
"Aqua, Mickey!" I cried out.
But they didn't respond back. So I called their names again.
"Aqua, Mickey? It's me, Sky."
But still no response from either of them. I ran up to them and I reach out for Aqua's right arm.
"Aqua, don't you remember me?" I asked her.
But before I could get an answer, she turned around and looked at me. When I looked up, I quickly jumped back away from her. What I saw wasn't Aqua, or at least how I remember her. Her face was darkened with black streaks on both sides of her face, her hair was jet black and her eyes were orange. Mickey also turned around and upon his face were black streaks similar to the ones on Aqua's face and his eyes were the same orange as Aqua's eyes.
"Aqua? Mickey?" I said with some fear upon my breath.
They looked at me, which only increase my fear. Then, Aqua moved her right hand down to her side and summoned her Keyblade while Mickey did the same and summoned his Keyblade. When I saw them summoning them, I knew that these weren't the same two people that I met months before. So, I turned around and ran back towards where Kairi was. But before I could reach her, Mickey came jumping above me and landed down just a few feet where Kairi was at. I stopped in my tracks, wondering what he was going to do. But then, Kairi started to disappear behind Mickey.
"Kairi!" I said as I reached out my hand towards her.
But it was already too late: Kairi was gone, leaving me with Mickey and Aqua, who had walked toward me. I looked back to see here standing near where I was. But as I looked back towards Mickey, an army of little creatures rose around me, closing off any path to escape. There were three kinds of creatures: one kind had triangle-shaped heads, the second kind had small bodies with antennas on their heads, and the third kind were like the second kind except they were taller.
"You will never escape the darkness." Aqua and Mickey said in unison. "All hearts begin and end in darkness."
By now, my fear paralyzed my body and I couldn't move. My heart was racing in fear; sweat was coming down from my face. As I looked on, I saw the town disappear around us, leaving only me, Aqua, Mickey, and the group of creatures surrounding us. I turned my head slightly to the left and find the sight of both my parents but before I could call out to them, they faded away. I looked over to my right and find Kairi standing there, but she also faded away.
That is when I knew that I was truly alone. I fell to my knees, feeling the pain in my heart, feeling the darkness taking my heart, making me start to fade away.
But just as my body was about to be fully faded away, a light came shining from above me and a beam of light hit the ground in front of me. The power of that light made the creatures around me along with Aqua and Mickey disappear along with the world around me.
I looked up and saw nothing but white. I rose to my feet and quickly looked around, trying to find anything or anybody.
"Hello?" I yelled.
But there was no answer.
"Where am I?" I asked myself. "How did I get here? More importantly, where is here?"
Just then, a figure appeared from behind me. I turned around and saw a young man, possibly in his early teens, standing there. This person had brown spikey hair with blue eyes, a red jumpsuit with a blue jacket, white gloves, and yellow shoes.
"Who are you?" I asked him.
"I'm the one that will open the door." The boy said.
Just then, a light came shining from his heart which blinded me. I placed my right arm near my face to shield me from the blinding effects of the light. The boy faded into the light as I did as well, but my eyes started to feel heavy, so heavy that they closed. But as quickly as they closed, I opened them again.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that I was in a room lying on a green bed. In this room, the walls were green with small pictures of oceans, land, and the sky all around along with a green clock over the door. I slowly sat up from my bed, wondering what happened to me. Then, I realized that this place wasn't my bedroom or any room that I could remember. The things that happened to me weren't real, they were a dream.
"What happened?" I asked myself. "Where am I?"
I hopped down off the bed and I walked over to the doorway. I opened the door and found myself in a hallway with 3 doors leading to different rooms and 2 sets of double doors leading outside. So I started walking towards one of the double doors and I walked outside. There, I saw a few shops across where I was standing, shops that were different from the ones from Radiant Garden. Over to my left was a big white building with 3 pillars rising from the top of the building and a bell tower can also be seen. Over towards my right was a water fountain with a mural of butterflies and flowers.
I was startled when I saw this new world. This world was different from my world, my home. I have always dreamed about heading to different worlds but I never would have thought that I don't have a world to return to. As I stood there, tears start to fall down my face, for the first time in my life, I didn't have anyone. Mom, Dad, Kairi, Mrs. Beaumont: nobody.
"How did I arrive here?" I asked myself. "The last thing I remember was Kairi and I being taken from our…" Then, I quickly looked right and left hoping to spot Kairi.
"Kairi!" I cried out. But there was no answer from anybody. So I cried out here name again with the same results.
"Maybe she is in another part of this town. I better go look for her." I said to myself as I started to explore this new world.
I opened the big doors that lead out of the area and I found myself in a big plaza where a few people were at. I walked down to the plaza hoping to find her or at least figure out where I am.
"Ah, I see that you are finally awake, little boy; thought you might have been dead." A voice said behind me.
When I heard this voice, I turned around behind me and I see a woman walking down the stairs. This woman was wearing a black shirt with a white skirt and black high heel shoes. She also had blonde hair and cyan eyes.
"Are you talking to me?" I asked.
"Of course I'm talking to you. You and I are the one ones that are here." She said as she reached the bottom of the stairway. "So, what's your name?"
"Sky." I said with a touch of fear on my breath. "And you are…"
"The name's Arlene." She said. "So, Sky huh? That seems like a boring name to me. Where are you from, Sky?"
"Radiant Garden." I said.
"And now, you are here." Arlene said as she started to walk around me.
"Where is here?" I asked.
"Well, here is Traverse Town." She answered. "A world where lost souls come to when their world is gone."
"So, this is another world?" I asked.
"Do you have cotton in your ears? Yes, this is another world." She answered. "Man, you are a slow learner. Of course, if you were quicker, then you would have escaped the darkness."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I snapped back.
"Oh, nothing." She said. "It's best that you don't know. Now, I have to go take care of a few things, stay out of my way and you will be comfortable in this world. Cross my path when I'm busy, and, well, let's just say, you won't cross it again. Ta ta."
Then, she starts walking towards the doors where I came in through and left, leaving me by myself.
"Man, is everyone this mean in this world?" I thought to myself.
But before I could ponder another word, I heard another voice behind me.
"Don't worry about her, she is always like that."
I turned around and what I find was a girl standing near another set of doors off to my left. She was wearing a white top along with green pants and brown shoes. Her hair was light brown and rolled back into a ponytail. Her eyes were dark green.
"The name's Erika." She said as she walked towards me.
"I'm Sky." I said back.
"So, Sky, you are from out of town, huh?"
"Yes, I am. Though, I didn't really want to leave."
"We all don't get that choice."
"What do you mean?"
"You see," she started to explain. "I have been here in this world for about a year now. My home world was swallowed by darkness and like you, I ended up here where all people that don't have a home to go back to end up at. But it seemed that I was the only one to end up here. All of my friends and family are gone."
I hanged down my head in despair, hearing about her story made me believe that I lost everybody that I know forever.
"So, do you believe that you will return to your world again?" I asked her.
She stopped right in front of me and looked up to the stars overhead.
"I don't know if I will or not." She said. "But I still believe that I will. My grandfather once told me when I was younger that all hearts have invisible bonds that connect us together. And someday, those bonds would lead us back to each other."
"Sounds like your grandfather was very wise." I said.
"Well, he wasn't too wise, but he did care for all of us very much." She said. "I do miss him, along with my whole family."
A tear came running down her face.
"I hope that you do too." I said.
She smiled back at me and I gave a small smile back.
"So, do you have a place to stay?" She asked me.
"I don't know if I do." I said. "I just awaken just a while ago."
"Well, if you need a place to stay, I have just the place." She said.
"Okay, thank you." I said.
"Think nothing of it Sky." She said as she grabbed my arm and started to take me towards the doors that she was near when we first met just a bit ago.
As both of us were walking, I thought to myself about Kairi.
"Kairi, wherever you are, I hope you're safe."
[Location: Destiny Islands]
Meanwhile, on the faraway world on the Destiny Islands, a meteor shower can be seen from one of the outside islands. On this island were two young boys playing tag on the beach. One of the boys had short spike, light brown hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a white shirt with red shorts and brown sandals. The other boy was a bit older than the first boy. He had short, light silver hair with light blue eyes. He was wearing a yellow shirt, gray pants, and white shoes with a blue stripe running along the side of his shoes.
Just as the silver hair boy was about to catch the brown hair boy, he stopped and looked up to the meteor shower.
"Hey, Sora, look!" He said as he pointed up towards the sky.
Sora looked up and sees the fantastic sight of the meteor shower.
"Cool." He said while his eyes opened wide.
Just then, his eyes look toward the setting sun and on the shoreline, he saw a young girl lying on the beach. He gave out a gasp and he turned back towards his friend.
"Riku, look." Sora said as he pointed back towards the girl.
Riku looked to where Sora was pointing and saw the girl lying on the beach. He started to run to her along with Sora. Both of them reach her and Riku pulled her away from the water.
"Hey!" Riku cried out. "Hey, are you okay?"
The girl didn't respond.
"Sora, you stay here with her, I'm going to go find some help." Riku said as he turned back towards where a few adults were sitting at.
"Okay." Sora said as Riku took off.
What they didn't know what this girl came from another world: my world. You see, this girl is Kairi, who had fallen asleep right when both of us were separated. Her necklace was still glowing with a faint light, a light that will become a greater light.
Author's Notes:
Sorry for the delay, but here it is. Hopefully Chapter 5 will be up by either the end of this week or early next week.
