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Chapter Two: So Here We Are
"Hey guys…check this out!" Kairi ran over to her two friends Sora and Riku, who were sitting on their newly built raft. "A thalassa lucky charm!" she said excitedly, opening her hands to show them an unfinished craft. "Sailors used to wear these and pray for a safe voyage…in hopes of returning safely home from their journeys!"
"But there's nothing to worry about!" Sora butted in. "Let's go! We're gonna go see the world!" He turned to his friends. "Right?"
Kairi walked down the sandy path that lead to her beachside house, thinking about what happened that day. Looking out on the sea, she smiled and thought about the journey they were heading out on the next morning. They had most of their supplies, but they'd get the rest tomorrow.
Seeing a glint in the darkness, she thought that she'd seen a small shell on the coast to add to her collection. Smiling, she ran over to the shadowed area, listening to the waves hit the sand, the soft sounds of the night.
Moving closer, the glint had gotten smaller and smaller, until she saw an extra lump of a shadow attached to the ring shaped object. Kairi slowed from a jog to a walk, and her smile faded as she saw two damp figures lying on the shore, water slowly easing back and forth, the tide moving around their clothing, drenching their hair.
Two girls lay there, not moving. Kairi backed away, then ran to get her friends.
"SORA! RIKU!"
"Do you think they're…dead?"
Sora laughed as Riku flipped a hand behind Kairi's head.
"Course not, dummy. Can't you see them breathing?" Riku huffed, moving his hand back into his pockets.
Sora turned and smiled at him. "Do you remember when we found Kairi?"
Riku nodded. "Yup."
"Stop talking about me like I'm not here! I can hea-- AHH!" Kairi squealed as the eyelids of the black haired girl flickered and slowly opened. Moving a hand to her head, she moaned and looked at her surroundings.
"Where…am I?" she asked no-one in particular.
"We found you on the beach! But we got some of our friends to help bring you and your friend back here!" Sora replied.
The girl opened her eyes wide.
"Gulluh gush…"
Riku looked at Sora and raised an eyebrow. Sora shrugged.
"How long have I been out?" she asked again, turning from one face to the next, the morning sun reflecting of her bright turquoise eyes.
"Ugh…" Everyone ignored the unanswered question and turned to look at the second girl waking up. She opened her eyes.
"Neru?" The livelier one shook the slowly rising girl she called 'Neru'. Turning to the three spaced out people, she added quickly, "My name's Aly. This here is Neru."
Riku looked at Neru.
She was shorter and skinnier than Aly and her hair was light brown and wavy, unlike Aly's messy short black hair. He looked at her eyes as she opened them. Bright green. As she turned to look at him, he quickly looked away.
Neru turned to Aly. "AGH!"
Aly fell of the bed she was resting on.
"What the HELL, Neru!?"
Neru got up and shook her freckly face, letting her short hair spill over it, then looked at her hands. She looked at Aly. "Your hair looks SO COOL! You're…all GRAPHIC! And your eyes are all anime, KH style! Ooh! THEY'RE SO SHINEY AND BRIGHT BLUE...ey GREEN!"
Aly blushed at the sudden comment, not getting them too often. "Thanks…same goes."
Riku finally lost his patience, watching the two strangers talk to each other like this.
"Who the heck are you people!?" he asked, a strong and unfriendly tone to his voice.
Neru looked at him, then almost squealed with delight. "Ri-" She was stopped by Aly's hand going over her mouth.
"We don't know these people…remember?" she whispered.
"Oh yeah…" Neru curled her knees up to her chest, wrapping her arms around them. Her gaze at Riku never faltered, her face deepening in many different shades of red by the second.
Aly got up. "If you don't mind me asking," she said, looking at Neru, obviously wanting her to play along, "where are we exactly?"
A long explanation went on from this one question. They sat there for some time, Neru getting quite bored, and loud, making games up for herself involving trying to spot fish from Kairi's living-room window. Aly, of course, was fascinated hearing everything from the characters themselves, the real things. She knew all of what the children were telling her, but this didn't stop her from enjoying it.
Sora was most fascinated by her and Neru. Every chance he got, he asked one of them a question about their world, and what it was like. Their answers involved things like, 'I can't remember where I came from,' or 'it was definitely different from here…I think'.
Neru was very eager to take a look around Destiny Island, without the annoyance of bumping into invisible walls. Kairi was pleased to help. She was just as happy to have some interesting girls to talk to. Though she was left to talk to Neru only. Aly had rudely disappeared to run into the water and chase odd sea creatures that weren't found in the game or manga.
It was only later in the evening when Neru and herself could have a proper private conversation.
"Do you know when the Heartless are going to turn up, Neru?" Aly asked her when Kairi left to go talk to Sora and Riku about sleeping arrangements.
Neru shook her head. "You're the obsessed freak, not me. But when we got here, the raft was already made. It should be starting about now at least." She looked out onto the ocean from where she sat on the bridge to the smaller island where Riku spent most of his day.
"I think," Aly said, "that our appearance all together has altered the time patterns and everything like that. I feel really sad about what's going to happen to this place. Just being here changes my view on everything."
Neru looked on the verge of tears. "I really don't want Riku-kun to go evil," she whimpered. "Fucking Xehanort!"
Aly patted her shoulder. "If Riku doesn't go with Maleficent, then he'll be the Keyblade bearer. I'd prefer if you didn't change anything. If Sora isn't the Keyblade bearer, then everything might be destroyed, us along with it."
Neru nodded, and got up. She left Aly and scuffed her new extra-large, computerized feet to the tree Riku usually sat.
"Aly, look over here…" Aly turned her head over to face her. "A paopu fruit, live in the flesh." She smiled looking up at it. "It really does look like a wishing star, doesn't it?"
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