I used alot of stuff from the old story in this chapter and it was kind of hard for me to go through and switch all of the I's to Soku's. Tell me if I missed any! thanks.
AWAKENING
"Silence is the nemesis of sanity." Soku sang out loudly but shakily to keep myself from going mad. Where ever she was , it was dark and most of all, silent. Two of her least favorite things, she found were in this place of mystery. "But how could I have known that you would leave me?" she sang again. It was eerie how there was no echo- with there being nothing to bounce off of, but there was an answer. From nowhere and everywhere at once.
"Soku?" came a familiar voice, so distorted that she couldn't really tell how familiar it was. "Soku, wake up." came the voice again, clearer than before. It was a boys voice that she had heard so many times but never really paid any attention to. "Soku..." Sora's voice echoed around her.
Wake up? She questioned. Then I must be asleep. Can't he just leave me be and sleep? I feel as if I don't want to wake up. I'll just stay here. The dark is better than that.
"Soku, please wake up." Sora half whined. He sounded nervous about something but it was so hard to tell in all of this darkness. God she felt alone. There was a tug at her shoulder, a familiar hand steadying her, and the darkness disappeared slowly then suddenly all at once. At first the light was sudden and blinding but slowly her eyes adjusted. Above her was a face. a worried face. Sora's face. She stared up dizzily at him and he sighed in relief, smiling. She smiled and snuggled her head into him as he leaned back against the wall that they had apparently been propped up against. Soku's head lay in his lap and he breathed deeply.
"Goodmorning..."she said in her hoarse morning voice. He let out a small chuckle before Soku's brain registered where she was and wasn't.
"Sora?" Soku asked, finding her voice. He looked down at her again and responded with a questioning tone.
"hm?"
"Do you mind moving your arm?" Sora looked down at Soku for a moment before looking then at his arm. His hand was resting on her stomach and the close proximity hadn't hit either of them very quickly. He smiled, laughed, and raised his arm from her abdomen. "Thanks," Soku mumbled, sitting up and scooting back against the wall next to Sora. She let out the stiffest laugh that she could muster and buried her face in my arms that she propped up on her knees. She hadn't spent much time thinking about Sora on the island. She knew that he was the one who had pulled her out of the ocean and that he was the one who was there for her when she first woke up with no memory. He was always smiling, which Soku admired, and he was always willing to spar with her. Being so close to him now she wondered where the beating in her chest was coming from. She looked around at their surrounding to distract herself. She could hear him talking next to her but she blocked it out. He was a little too close for comfort when they had this giant alley way to take up.
"-so I really don't know where we are." He finished whatever he was saying while Soku talked to herself in her head. She lifted her head and looked over to Sora, finally realizing how close she really was to him. The urge to scoot away from him passed over her but she resisted because she didn't know if she could stand being any farther away from someone who knew how confused and lost she felt right then.
"I'm sorry what?" she asked. He looked around to her and raised an eyebrow. "I have got to admit that I wasn't listening." Sora smiled a simple smile and propped his head up against his hand so that he was still looking to her but was twisted in a sort of strange way. Soku wondered if that was really comfortable, what with the ground being made of hard brick.
"I said I woke up only a little before you and pulled you up on to my lap, so I don't really know where we are." he explained with a smile. "what were you thinking about?" he asked tilting his head into his hand in an inquisitive way. Soku opened her mouth to respond but was luckily interrupted by the random occurrence of a dog scampering up to Sora and licking him clean in the face. An orangeish-yellow dog, with a green collar trotted down their alley, sniffing out their scent from maybe even miles away. He barked happily when his nose finally landed on Sora's knee and jumped in excited circles before running back out the alley the same way that he had come.
"How weird," Soku said rather slowly. She looked at Sora for a while before he stood up, shrugged, and held out his hand for her to take. Soku breathed a sigh of relief from the prior conversation being dropped. She didn't have time to second guess his gesture and allowed him to pull her up. They were off, Sora in front pulling Soku, on a search for information.
Where were they? How did they get there? Where did everyone else end up? The questions were universal in their minds as they wandered into what looked like the main square of a town. Large and open with a few small businesses tossed about, it looked like a friendly sort of place. A large sign on the wall read out what they could only guess was the name of the town.
TRAVERSETOWN
That was cool how that ended at the title right? siiiggghhhh i amuse myself too much it seems. Well, I hope someone likes this story and how its progressing. Have a wonderful life!
