My Own Lost World.

Ch. 7

7 Wonders to Bore Over

'Oh God, just kill me now! Please with cherries? And Ice-Cream? I give you cookie!!!' My mind was reeling, and I was gonna be sick.

One thing was devilishly wrong with the look Olette was giving our little group of misfits.

She was contemplating which one of us to bombard. With Olette, there would be one reason for that kind of torture. And I could sum it up in one grotesque word. Homework.

I shivered, and she was clearly going to crash on me first.

Instead, she whirled on Hayner. Probably since he was our profound 'Leader'. Please, when we were little, (7 years of age, mind you,) Hayner could barely tie his own shoes.

Wimp.

"We have to get this project done! It's bad enough that there are only 3 days left of school! I'm not failing because you guys wanted to be lazy." She scolded us.

Oh. She meant THAT homework. Okay, good.

"Please. Don't look at me. I did the independent study assignment at the beginning of summer! I thought you meant something I had forgotten about." I sighed in relief.

"Wait, you're already done?!" Hayner whined.

"Yup. Looks like your not." I smirked.

Instead of turning back to me, Olette turned her gaze on Roxas.

"Did you finish it, Roxas?" She asked him.

I wasn't stupid, and I heard the imprinted tone in her voice.

Disgusted, I turned my gaze over to anything but the two conversing people.

Meeting eyes with Hayner, I received an apologetic look.

He knew what was going on. So did Pence.

Like me, Pence didn't care for it ether.

We all knew Pence liked Olette since preschool.

I felt sympathetic for him.

After all, I hated watching Olette goggle eye Roxas just as much as he did, only, for a different reason.

I was after Roxas, not Olette.

"Huh? Oh! No, I haven't done it." He replied, looking back down.

I wondered what he was thinking.

"Ya know, there are these strange rumors going around…" Pence went on about these really weird rumors about strange glitches around Twilight Town, and it was soon decided that they would investigate that for their projects. We split into two groups, Hayner and Olette, and Pence, Roxas, and me. (Hayner planned that part out. I love my brother!)

We met at the station, boarded the train, and set out for Sunset Hill.

Pence went on his own, looking for more rumors and mapping them, leaving me and Roxas alone.

"What first?" I asked.

"Pence said something about a wall that tosses balls at you. 'The friend behind the wall', Is what it was called.

"All right, where is it?" I asked.

He looked off. I guess he was still stunted by the fact he couldn't find the blue crystal orb from the Struggle Trophy.

"Hey, Buddy."

At the 'nickname' he looked back over at me.

I smiled at him reassuringly.

"Let's just get this over with so we can all go home, okay? We aren't getting anywhere moping around. Pull the frown upside down." I said softly.

He nodded, giving me an attempted smile.

"Since when did you start comforting people?" He asked playfully as we started walking.

I gave a light smile and playfully shoved him.

"Since I realized that you still needed my help to stand up on your feet." I said, somewhat seriously.

He laughed lightly, draping his arm over my shoulder and half hugging me.

We had just past the alleyway when something was tossed at us.

I saw it first, shoved Roxas out of the way and jumped back. A grandstander ball shot past us, and we both peeked down the alley.

Grandstander balls were materialized out of the wall, shooting past us.

"The friend from behind the wall…" I whispered.

"It's not very friendly…" Roxas replied.

I laughed breathlessly.

"No kiddin'. It just tried to kill us." I said back.

"Come on. Maybe if we touch the wall, it will stop." Roxas said.

I nodded, and we ran forward.

I got clipped on the shoulder, covering my mouth to keep from swearing aloud.

Jumping over the killer Grandstander balls, Roxas raced forward, touching the wall.

Dropping to the ground, I leaned my head on the wall be hind me and struggled to catch my breathe.

"You all right?" Pence had appeared at the alley entrance.

"Yeah, I am just fine," I stood up, almost tripping over my feet. "I feel lightheaded right now, so give me a moment."

"So the balls in the alley could have been kids playing Grandstander in the alley? I guess that was one mystery solved!" Pence said enthusiastically.

I was gonna tell the truth, that the wall had brutally attacked us, but something told me not to.

So I didn't.

We had six more wonders to go.

I had six more bruises to gain.

Sighing, Roxas and I continued to walk.

***

I swear, my eyes were playing tricks on me. How many Vivi's (Creepy Psychotic Midget) existed?

I mean, holy crap! Seriously!

The last one disappeared, and as usual, Pence showed up and made his own theory about the noises in the tunnel.

Apparently, it was Vivi practicing his struggling.

Gag.

Walking out of the tunnel, I turned to Roxas.

"I swear, I think that psychotic midgets been cloning himself." I told him.

"I'm thinking the same thing." He replied.

***

The trash bag jumped at me, and I dunked down.

Roxas jumped it and was jerked around.

Still holding on tightly to the bag, Roxas tried to stoop the bag of attacking terror.

Yeah, not working to well. He was being dragged around, and despite myself, I fell flat on my butt and laughed uncontrollably.

I couldn't help it. It was just too dang funny.

I laughed even harder when we found out what was inside the bag.

A dog. Golden Retriever, from the look of things.

"It wasn't that funny!" Roxas scolded me.

I was still surrounded by my bubble of giggle fits, and had no room to talk.

I nodded instead, trying and failing miserably to get my laughter back under control.

"S-S-S-Sorry!!!" I managed to get out.

And guess what?

Despite himself, Roxas started laughing as hard as I did.

"I-I-I m-must have looked s-so s-s-s-stupid!" We both fell into fits of laughter.

Still laughing, Roxas sat down next to me and I leaned my head on his shoulder, still giggling.

"Lying down on the job, I see."

Pence, Hayner and Olette walked up to us.

Still laughing, I stood up and struggled to compose myself.

When I turned back to them, I was much calmer.

Roxas was still on the ground but his laughing had stopped.

"We must have looked incredibly drunk." I said matter-of-factly.

"Yup. That's exactly what it looked like." Hayner said.

"There was a dog in the trash bag." I said. Pence nodded.

"Another mystery solved." He replied.

I sat down.

"I think its bed time now. I hadn't realized how tired I was until that point, and I fell into an unnatural world of darkness.

"Kiari?" A voice called.

"That's not my name." I replied.

"Then who are you?" The boy asked.

"My name is Aqua." I replied.

"Oh…I'm Sora. What are you doing in my head?" Sora asked.

"I'm…in your head?" I asked back.

"Yeah. At least, I think you are. I can't see you though."

"As if some one had turned a light switch on, the darkness cast away into a dim light and I could some what see.

A boy was standing about twenty feet away from me, and his back was turned to me.

"Turn around. I have to see your face." I said, overpowered by the sense of urgency to see the face of this person.

"Huh?"

He turned, and I inwardly gasped.

His facial features resembled Roxas's with incredible closeness.

He had the same crystal clear blue eyes, much like that of sapphire, but the inner expression was not as serious.

"You're Aqua." He stated.

It wasn't a question, but I nodded any ways.

"And you're his Other." I had barely realized I had said it, and even I barely knew what was happening.

His eyes widened.

"Who's?" He asked urgently.

"R-R-Rox_" I couldn't finish my sentence because everything faded away.

***

"Aqua!"

"Wake up already!"

"Aqua?!"

My name was being called…It sounded serious. But I couldn't think. I couldn't do what they wanted me to do…

I couldn't wake up.

I felt myself become material. I felt the fading of time. Suddenly, I knew I wouldn't wake up.

I was fading away.