Guilty Soul

Chapter 3: The Deal

One day the king arrived to town and visited us. He spoke of a keyblade master who would be arriving soon, that we should find him as quick as we could. He said that we will know he's arrived when a star goes out once again... We promised to look for him and not too long after the star went out..

I met the king's servants and spoke with them about what happened while yuffie and Leon spoke with the keyblade boy... I heard the boy gave Leon quite a bit of trouble hehe that's quite a surprise seeing that he's just a kid.

I see yuffie slam the door and take off running so I decided to go after her, the heartless must have attacked again... at the worst time as usual.

I had to fight so many heartless looking for her but suddenly I saw a heartless standing still with bright blue eyes, it started chuckling and smiled. "Hello missy."

It made me jump, I've never seen a heartless like this except for the one who tried to kill me but that one looked like cloud not a regular heartless. The heartless said "I am hades... now I know what you're thinking, how could a heartless talk? Well I'm not one but I'm controlling one... So your aerith right?"

I grab my rod "How do you know my name?..."

He smiled "Il take that as a yes... well I hope you know your Mr. Tough guy is alive..."

"C..Cloud?...he's alive?... no...no...No! How do I know you're not lying to me?"

Hades smiled and the heartless hand caught fire then a holographic picture of cloud appeared… the real cloud…

My eyes went wide. "C...Cloud?... is that really him?...he's really alive?..." I reach my hand out to touch the picture but it fades.

Hades smiled "You really miss him huh?... well he's here with me missy, and he sure misses you too."

I tensed up "Cloud… he's there? Is he ok? You didn't hurt him did you?! Where are you?!"

Hades merely chuckled and paced around "He's fine missy, in fact he's looking for you too. You know I could take you to him if you want?"

I looked down and smiled. I could see him? I could get forgiveness after all! I looked up a few seconds later. "What's the catch?..."

The heartless had that creepy grin again… makes me sick every time I see it. "Catch? How cruel for you to think that I can't just do a good deed and allow you two to reunite."

I cross my arms "Well sorry if I'm not just going to trust a heartless or a person controlling a heartless…"

Hades just chuckled "Well you're smart I'll give ya that. I tell ya what I'll bring you here to him and all I ask is for a little favor whenever I ask ya for it."

I look down "I…I don't know…"

"Aww so you don't want to see him? Come on just give me an answer and I'll send you here quick!"

I stand there for a minute then sigh "I…I…choose…" before I could answer I heard yuffie and leon yelling for me. Hades sighed "Company… too noisy here I'll tell ya what, I'll give you a week to decide but by midnight next week you better have an answer!" before I could respond he was gone and the heartless was dead…

I meet up with leon and yuffie and we catch up to this keyblade master, his name was Sora. We all talked for a while, we gave him all the information we had.

Before he left I caught up to him. "Sora, wait!"

He stopped and looked up at me. "What is it aerith?"

I handed him my ribbon. "I...If you meet a man named cloud on your journey please give him this and tell him that I'm ok and will see him soon…"

Sora looked confused but just took it and left.

"I hope to see you soon… Cloud…"