This challenge belongs to the awesome WishingDreamer5, fifty pieces, involving the world Radiant Garden, also known as Hollow Bastion. I own nothing, all Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Tetsuya Nomura and Square Enix. Ifalna and Elmyra Gainsborough belong to Final Fantasy VII and their creators.

Author's Note: Aerith is practically the embodiment of flowers in Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. I just couldn't resist!


2. Flowers

It had been her great grandmother's idea to begin planting blossoms around Radiant Garden. Aerith had been told, by way of Elmyra and Ifalna the stories of the sprawling gardens that covered the once glorious Radiant Garden as a little girl.

So, she decided, one day early in the stages of restoration that she would continue the legacy, by replanting flowers in the cleared off sections of Hollow Bastion. At first, it began with a pair of white flowerboxes in the windows of Merlin's home, lilies waving from their spots in the soil. They flourished, despite the darkness, clinging in the air and water, an aftereffect of Maleficent's prolonged presence.

As she could not fight as effectively with only her magic, nor help her friends with the mechanical part of the restoration, the flower girl took comfort in nurturing her flowers. Granted, she was a key piece of the Restoration Committee, having the best healing skills out of all the fighters, she took on the role of battle medic.

With time the flowers spilled over the wooden boxes and onto any patch of land farmable, Aerith branched out into other varieties, snapdragons and pansies, bluebells, lilacs and miniature roses crowded gardens and bordered walkways.

Yuffie would joke that flowers and Heartless don't mix, but Aerith would shrug it off, sticking a yellow rosebud in her friend's hair as the ninja traipsed out the door.

Secretly, she believed that the flowers made the world feel more like home.