Chapter 5: The Return
It was finally the end of my shift when I got back to my house. It was super early in the morning and I was exhausted. I couldn't find the reason why we kept doing this, it's been well over two weeks since he disappeared. When I got into my room, I walked over to my bed. Not bothering to change clothes or anything, I fell face first into my pillow and I was out. I couldn't tell how long I was asleep for, but it wasn't long enough when someone started shaking me to get me up.
"Kairi come on, we don't have time for this." The voice called as he shook me but I just mumbled something unintelligible and fell back asleep. The voice sighed and said, "I wish it didn't have to come to this, but you left me no choice." and three seconds later there was a hard slap across my face.
"Ouch! Damn it Riku, why'd you do that?" I yelled as I jumped up and put my hand on my cheek.
Riku just looked at me and got off the bed. "We have a situation. I pulled out a change of clothes for you, put them on and meet us outside quickly."
"Fine." I sighed annoyed as I stood up to change. "I don't barge in the house and slap you." I mumbled to myself.
"Sorry, you weren't waking up any other way." he apologized as he left the room.
Even though I was angry with Riku and just wanted to crawl back in bed, I got dressed and quickly met them outside. Everyone was huddled together and talking in low whispers...everyone except Roxas.
"Where's Roxas?" I asked as I did a head count a couple of times to make sure I didn't miss him on accident.
"That's the problem, Roxas got kidnapped by Terra." Sora said sadly.
"What? How?" I asked shocked. I couldn't bring myself to believe that Roxas actually got caught.
"He was out doing his rounds this morning and he got jumped by Terra, he had no time to react and he was taken down quickly. I tried to save him but they were already gone." as Sora explained this I could see the pain in his eyes because he could not save his friend.
I felt numb knowing this new information. There was no way Roxas could be caught so easily. What are we up against? My mind couldn't take all this end. I felt my eyes flutter shut and my body start to fall, but I never hit the ground.
When I woke up I was on my living room couch and the sun was just starting to set outside the window. I sat up and looked around, wondering how I got here.
"You're finally up." a voice sighed in relief. I turned to see Sora standing behind the couch.
"What happened?" I asked, still confused about how I got here.
"Roxas was kidnapped, and when we told you about that...you sort of fainted." Sora explained, scratching the back of his head and laughing nervously. "So then I brought you here, everyone is else is looking for clues that will lead us to Terra. Oh and I'm supposed to take you to go see Selphie."
"Selphie?" I asked confused. I haven't talked to Selphie in a long time.
"Yeah, she wanted to see you." he said as he took my hand and helped me up. Even though the sun was setting it was still warm outside. Both Sora and I quickly ran out to the dock and jumped into his boat so he could take us to the island. We were both laughing like idiots when he started steering the boat the golden red water.
When we got to the island, Selphie was waiting on the tree Sora, Riku and I always met on when we were younger. We would sit there just to watch the sun set, talking about nothing important.
"Kairi!" Selphie shouted as she waved her hand in the air to flag us over. I looked at Sora and he nodded his head in her direction to tell me to go to her and he'd meet me there. I turned and quickly ran up to her, stopping a few feet away. "Come sit down with me. I haven't seen you in a while." She smiled as she scooted over so I could have a place to sit.
I smiled at Sora when he joined us. We both knew we were going to be here for a while, Selphie was the island's biggest gossiper. She talked about how everyone was doing, how she hated that Riku never looked at her, How Tidus and Wakka made the blitzball team and so on.
The sun was completely down when we all decided to leave. As Sora and I turned around, the warm night air turned icy cold and the wind picked up. In front of us was a tornado of darkness, which subsided to reveal Terra. Sora quickly took a defensive stance in front of me, but it didn't matter. I blinked and Terra was in front of me and behind Sora. I gasped and Sora quickly spun around calling his keyblade, but it was already to late. Terra caught Sora by the front of his shirt and hurled him into the tree. He stumbled to get up. I watched as his dead eyes tried to focus but failed every time. Within twenty seconds he was on the ground unconscious.
Terra smiled as he picked up Sora's body and he started calling the darkness to him. I glanced around and saw that Sora's keyblade never faded. I quickly called it to me and charged at Terra. The effort was useless as he used the darkness to send me flying back and crashing into the sand. When they got back up, they were gone.
"Sora!" I yelled, not knowing what I should do now.
"Just give it up Kairi." Selphie scolded. "He's gone, but at least Riku's still here." she sighed happily. She always had a crush on Riku.
Hot tears started running down my face. I hated Terra for taking away two of my friends. I hated Selphie, the dumb whore only cared about herself at the moment. I hated everyone for not being here when I needed them. I hated everything.