I'm back everyone! This chapter is going to be part 1 of 2 just so you know. And I'm not going to put a 'story so far' thing into this chapter since I kinda just posted one yesterday… Ok so since I forgot a random question of interest in the last chapter I made sure to add one this chapter at the bottom! But read the chapter first. So I'm getting a lot of new reviewers (yay) and…yeah. No questions though so go read the chapter before I start pointing out more pointless things.
*Lauren*
There was nothing but silence as everyone waited for me to explain. The silence stretched out farther and farther.
"Are you planning on talking anytime soon or are we just going have to stand here?" Riku said, glaring at me. I couldn't blame him for being mad. We were supposed to be dating after all, and I had kept a lot of secrets from him.
"I'm just trying to think of a good place to start…oh I know! I'll start right after I died" That seemed like as good a place as any.
"Wait you died?!" Sora exclaimed, as everyone else voiced their shock.
Did I really forget to mention that?
You may have forgotten to tell them that.
"Ok well then maybe I should start before I died but after my world was destroyed" I suggested and was once again faced with shock. "Oh come on you guys must've figured that out by now!" I snapped
"Well…in all honesty we really don't know hardly anything about you. We don't even know how old you are." Kairi said, and a few people nodded as she spoke.
"Well I'm pretty sure I'm sixteen…a lot of my memory went away after I died" I explained, noticing that Riku brightened up a little when I mentioned my age. "Why don't I just start from the very beginning then?" I suggested and finally people were nodding in agreement to what I was offering.
"Well" I began, my voice sounding wistful as I thought of my life once upon a time. "I suppose I could bore you with all the tragic details of how my childhood was so awful and was the worst time of my life but in all honesty it wasn't. I had rich parents who I saw maybe once a year, twice if I was lucky. I got everything I could ever want as long as I didn't get arrested or do drugs. The house was always filled with a variety of people who took care of the house and who took care of me, and when I wasn't at home at was at the private school I went to that was maybe ten minutes or so from my house. Of course, going down the driveway took about five minutes alone…" My voice trailed off as a vision from my memory played before my eyes.
*Flashback*
"Time to get up Ms." Nancy, the women who was pretty much my permanent babysitter, gently shook my shoulder, telling me it was time for another day. It was pathetic, a forty year old women calling a sixth-grader Ms. Lauren, or some other proper title like that which you would give your superiors.
"Alright I'm up" I said, pulling back my sheets and getting out of bed as Nancy backed up.
"What would you like for breakfast Ms.?" Nancy asked me and I tried not to roll my eyes.
"Same as everyday" Nothing
"I'll have your breakfast ready when you come down" Nancy said before backing out of the room. Everyday she would ask me what I wanted and I would always say the same thing. Everyday she would put food out on the expensive dark wood mahogany table and it would sit there until after I left for school and would be tossed into the trashcan. A mom or dad may try to make their child eat, worrying about their health and their weight. But my parents might as well have been non-existent for the place they held in my heart.
The people who worked around the house, keeping it in shape and taking care of me knew better then to force me to do something. They could bribe me and beg for me to listen but everyone knew better than to force me. If they did a bruise would appear on my arm, I would make a phone call to mom or dad, saying that particular person had hurt me, and the next morning I would wake up to someone new in that position and the previous worker in jail for child abuse. Things could happen that fast when your parents had enough money to buy Hawaii.
*End Flashback*
"So it sounds like you had a pretty good life…other than the fact that your parents practically pretended you didn't exist." Sora stated. I nodded
"I always figured I was an accident child so my parents threw themselves into work so they wouldn't have to spend time with me" I said it without blinking but noticed that Kairi, Selphie, and even Riku flinched at my words. It was the world I had grown up with. I didn't know what having actual parents felt like so I couldn't feel like I was missing out on anything.
"Were you like worshipped at school because you were rich?" Tidus asked, smiling in spite of himself. He had seemed like more of a materialistic person. I smiled
"Everyone at my school was rich actually. They worshipped me for a different reason…"
*Flashback*
"Don't they ever get bored of staring at us?" I asked, turning to my one and only friend. We had always been best friends and were actual friends with nobody else. Sure people looked at us with envy and tried to get in on what we had, but nobody else really understood us like we understood each other.
"Maybe it's because of the skeleton walking down the hallway" My best friend Erika joked, elbowing me in the side. Her green eyes sparkled and she tugged a dirty blond strand of hair off her lips as it got stuck to her pink lip gloss once again. I once again thought about how if it wasn't for her cut up wrists every guy within one-hundred miles would probably be tripping over themselves to go out with her.
"Or because the girl next to her looks like her wrists just came out of a pencil sharpener." Yeah that was us, the anorexic and the girl who cut herself. We were given endless opportunities thanks to our parents but upon being ignored all that pain and abandonment worked up in our systems and made us do these things. Erika's mom had died giving birth to her and her dad all but abandoned her. Every month a huge amount of money would just show up at her house, which was why she lived in such a nice neighborhood and could go to such a nice school. But deep down I knew she felt like it was her fault that her mom had died.
Girls looked at us with envy, which I didn't understand. Maybe what we did was cool in their eyes. The girl who worked out every night but just couldn't lose those last few pounds glared at me and the girl who wanted to complete her Goth look but got queasy at the sight of blood glared at Erika. Whatever the reason we turned heads every time we went down the hall.
So since its Friday are we having a sleepover at your house tonight?" Erika asked as we entered our science room, both sitting down at one of the lab tables and sitting our books down on the cold black surface. I took a deep breath as we sat down and Erika looked at me, concern in her eyes. Yes I was anorexic and yes I had passed out and woken up in the hospital before. Sure now I was pretty good at keeping myself conscious but hey, mistakes happen. Once upon a time I was able to play sports but I just couldn't anymore, it was too exhausting.
"Of course! Just like every Friday" I said with a smile. "Bring your appetite though." Whenever Erika was at my house she would always eat at least some of my dinner for me so it would look like maybe having Erika around helped my condition, so I would never be forced to stay in the house until I ate or anything drastic like that. Erika nodded
"I sure will. Can't have my best friend looked up in the hospital with food fed to her through a tube now can I?" She asked and we both laughed, knowing nothing like that would ever happen.
*End flashback*
As I finished telling that part of my life I blushed at the stares I got. It was just school a long time ago. Riku, who was now standing next to me wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close to him. I heard Kairi and Selphie both give little "Awes" at the scene and I gently laid my head against Riku's chest.
"I have to keep going you know." I told Riku and he looked down at me.
"Does it get worse?"
"No. It gets better" Because in an ironic way, the Heartless were the ones that saved me. Once I had to start fighting for survival my anorexia became a thing of the past.
*Flashback*
I am on my roof. I pressed the send button on my phone before sliding it back into my jacket pocket, being sure that it wouldn't slip out and fall off my roof. A moment later my phone vibrated and I took it back out. The screen read: Message from Erika. Two options were below the title which was View Now and View Later. I pressed the View Now with my finger and a response from Erika came up.
Wat?! You cant b serious! I smiled before replying
I am! Im up on my roof and it's a very nice view. Don't worry I wont fall! I looked back up at the full moon and pointed out different constellations to myself. I was in the middle of tracing Orion when Erika responded.
Ur crazy! Ur so gonna fall off ur roof and then your dog will have nobody to take care of it…and no I dont want ur maneating dog! He'll eat me!
Lmao
Poor max the giant german sheppard wont have anyone to love him anymore :'(
Ok ok I'll get down! I did like it up here tho…. Oh my god :O
Wat? Did u fall?! I told u so!
No theres something in my driveway. *gulp* I think it's a person.
Get down from ur roof and call 411!!!!!
Do you need a local listing?
Sry typo. I ment 911! Seriously get down!
Ok I'll txt u once the guy gets arrested…or eaten (if I send max on him)
I leaned a bit closer over the peak of the roof to try and get a better look at the thing. The lights at the front of our house only showed the person's shadow. But as the person crept further into the light I realized it was only a shadow!
"What the…" The shadow-creature looked up at me and blinked with its big yellow eyes and three more shadows appeared out of the ground! I heard a loud clap of thunder and looked up to see a he dark orb with different colored lights flashing around it like lightning. In the very center of the orb was a large red glow.
"What is that thing?!" I exclaimed, quickly picking up my phone to call 911, but before I could press call a huge jolt shook the entire roof and the phone fell out of my hands, falling down the roof side before tumbling over the edge to the ground five stories below it. The only problem was that I was well on my way to sharing my phone's fate. I gripped the black shingles but recoiled reflexively as one of my nails was torn off. I rolled backwards down the side of my roof, frantically trying to get a hold on anything that could stop me. Maybe if I was healthy I would've been strong enough to stop my falling before I fell over the edge of my roof. But I would never know because suddenly I was standing upright on a large platform made of stained glass…
*End flashback*
"It was your Awakening!" Sora exclaimed, looking to me to confirm his thoughts. I nodded.
"It was my Awakening and somehow it saved me from getting crushed five stories below. But if it hadn't come sooner I probably would've lost my heart to the Heartless that night. At first I just ran, but when a Heartless came out of no where I automatically tried to defend myself, which was when the Keyblade appeared. I tried to work my way back to my house but it had been sucked into the giant black orb. A tree was uprooted and my shirt got caught in one of its branches, which took me up too. I woke up in a new world, and met Cloud." I saw as everyone's eyes widened and I continued with my tale.
*Flashback*
I groaned as my eyes finally opened to show me a dark alley that smelled like trash. Probably because the alley had multiple trash cans in it but who knows. I looked down to see the mysterious blade in my hands, staying there like a faithful pet. Keyblade…the words echoed in my head and it seemed to fit the weapon. Shakily I got to my feet only to crouch back down as the sound of gunfire echoed just outside the alleyway. I heard loud shouts coming from the streets and more gunfire before giving way to silence.
"Hey Cloud check the area. I think everyone cleared the area before the Genesis copies attacked but just double check." (For anyone who doesn't know what Crisis Core is and doesn't know what a Genesis copy is-Genesis is a guy who was good then decided that the good side was too lame for him so he turned evil and made evil copies of himself and sent them to go attack people O_O) A young guy's voice reached my ears ad I shrank back, no sure if I wanted them to find me or not.
The person who I presumed to be Cloud walked right by the alley…before backing up and staring down it. I flinched as he took off his helmet and took a step towards me.
"Hey Zack! I think I found someone…it's a girl" That's when I got up and ran. Cloud called after me "Hey wait! Come back it's not safe!" Suddenly something dropped down in front of me. Without even thinking I swung my Keyblade only to have it blocked by a huge sword.
"Well now someone's a fighter." The guy said, grabbing my arm before I could run away again. Cloud came up behind us panting.
"Good you caught her. Sorry Zack I didn't expect her to run off like that" Cloud told Zack
"It's fine Cloud. Now are you ok?" Zack asked, looking me in the eyes. His eyes were an electric blue and I found myself getting sucked into them. His jet black hair was spiked up in some strange fashion and his well muscled arm still gripped his huge sword.
"The shadows killed everyone" I whispered before collapsing to the ground, sobs racking my body. "They killed everyone and my world fell apart!" I sobbed, my face hidden in m hands. I felt Zack's hand around mine and I was gently lifted back up. I wiped my eyes and looked at Zack. "Have you seen any shadows?" Zack shook his head.
"Just Genesis copies mainly." I blinked in confusion and Cloud stepped in a bit closer, but before he could talk I asked Zack another question, wanting be absolutely positive that this wasn't just some distant part of my world.
"What's this place called?"
"It's called Midgar" Zack replied evenly. I held back another sob, so I really wasn't home and I really wasn't ever going to go back again.
"Why don't we take her to Aerith? I'm sure she can help." Cloud suggested and after a moment Zack nodded.
"That's a good idea. Alright let's head to the slums then. Hopefully she'll be at the church…"
*End flashback*
"So Zack and Cloud taught me how to fight and I met Tifa, Yuffie, and Aerith. There's still one thing I don't understand though. You see, Yuffie was younger than me… and I was the same age as Tifa…but now I'm…younger"
*Flashback*
Zack had died. It didn't seem possible. I had spent a year training along side Cloud to become a part of Shinra (a big company that supported the entire world but was using the planets energy at the same time. They had a lot of enemies and were experimenting with a substance called Mako which could create above-average soldiers. Which is where people like Zack and Cloud came in. Once you were admitted to Shinra in project SOLDIER you were injected with Mako energy which made your fighting become incredibly kickass amazing.) Zack had been killed in battle and Cloud had run off, leaving me alone on the battle field. I would find him eventually but for now…I just needed time to take it all in. I think Cloud did too. He and Zack had been best friends after all. I walked slowly across the battle field, dead people everywhere. I looked down sadly at the Keyblade and almost walked right into a giant mass of swirling blackness. It looked almost like a giant portal. I sensed someone behind me and spun around to attack them but before I could I was pushed through the portal by a pair of hands.
*End flashback*
"So someone pushed you through a portal…but how does that explain the age difference?!" Kairi asked.
"Duh! She's a vampire!" Selphie exclaimed, like it should've been obvious.
"That's pretty hot" Riku remarked and I turned around and smacked his arm. He recoiled and his eyes gleamed with a look I didn't figure could be good.
"Easy now little vampire" Riku said before patting my head. Everyone laughed when I tackled him.
"I'm all for you beating up Riku but you have to finish your story first! When did you die and you haven't mentioned Demons at all yet" Sora pointed out.
"Well when I woke up I was in Traverse Town and I was twelve years old, the same age as when I went through the portal. But I found Cloud there in Traverse Town along with Yuffie and Aerith accept they were all older than me! We never did figure out who had shoved me but over five years had passed and I hadn't aged a day. We think that someone somehow suspended me in time but we weren't sure how that was possible. Until I found this place." I waved my hands in a circle, meaning the Realm of Nothingness.
"Wait so…you don't age here?!" Sora exclaimed, his eyes widening in shock. I nodded
"Someone trapped me in the Realm of Nothingness for over five years. I think I know why though."
"And why is that?" Riku asked, sliding back into his chair. The ugly part would need to be told though before I could give my explanation.
"Why don't I finish my story first?" I offered. Everyone nodded and agreement and I got up and left the room.
"I'll finish the story tomorrow! You may not age here but sleep is still necessary!" I called before going into my room, hearing the collective groans of everyone before the door slid shut.
Tomorrow the truth would be out and their choices would save them or they would die alongside me. But it was all up to them. They could choose to die with me but they would do so knowingly. I wouldn't keep them in the dark anymore. When you make an enemy with the leader of the Demons you die. Because Demons can't be stopped.
Part 1 of 2 is complete! Again people who don't understand Crisis Core I tried to make it as simple as possible. Oh and all you people that were like there's a giant time gap that's stupid pick another world! I laugh in your face (HA!) because I figured out a way around it…ok so I didn't really laugh in your face. I'm just not a laugh in your face kinda person. Let's just say…Fury laughed in your face. Yeah that'll work. Ok so anyone who 'Fury' didn't just offend review please! And anyone 'Fury' did offend please forgive her-she has anger management issues. Oh and here's the random question that I would like a logical or an interesting response to-
Why is Riku so damn tall?!