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Xeiria Still
I walked right to the station, and quick too. If I didn't make it there on time, Sora would leave town, then Xemnas would kill me. On the way there, the kids that I had asked before ran right past me. They were going to the same place, I guess, because they went to the Station Plaza. I heard the clock tower ringing so I started running instead of walking. Once I got to the station I opened the door and walked into the middle of the room. Hayner, Pence, and Olette were standing next to a window, talking to a boy with cinnamon brown hair that was very spikey, spikier that Roxas'. That had to be Sora. There were two other characters with him too. One was a duck, the other was a really tall dog.
The bells rang again and I checked my pockets. Shit, I had absolutely no money at all. Well, that only gave me a reason to go over and talk to Sora.
"Um, excuse me?" I asked walking over to him. He looked over at me and smiled brightly.
"Hi," Sora said. "Can I help you?"
"I…I don't have any money, and I really need to catch a train," I rubbed my arm nervously. "I'm sorry…this is going to sound so stupid…but can I come with you on the train?"
His eyes got wide and he looked over at the other two 'things' he was with. "Oh…" he looked back at me, smiling again. "Sure, of course you can! By the way, name's Sora." Sora pulled out a money pouch and handed it to the teller. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Olette perk up and stare right at Sora.
"What is it?" I asked, turning to her.
She only tilted her head and dug into her pocket, then held out another munny pouch that looked exactly like the one Sora had been holding.
"They're the same," the dog said.
Olette nodded. "Yeah, they are,"
Sora looked at both of them, then shrugged. He turned back to the man in the window. "Four tickets please!"
The man nodded and handed him four tickets. He handed one to the duck, one to the dog, and one to me. The last he kept for himself.
"Okay, let's go!" Sora declared. We all went over to get onto the train when Hayner called for Sora to come back. He turned around and Hayner ran over to us.
"Are you sure I haven't met you before?" Hayner asked.
Sora seemed to think about it, but then shook his head. "No, I'm sure of it. Why do you ask?"
Hayner looked down and shrugged. "I dunno…"
I looked over at Sora and he turned his head to face me, then he smiled. A single tear fell down his cheek.
"Sora…" I pointed toward the tear. "Why are you…"
He looked away and wiped the tear off his face. "S-sorry…I don't what came over me."
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"Pull it together man," Hayner said laughing.
"Right…see ya," Sora whispered. I waved to Hayner and the others and pulled Sora into the train. We sat down across from the dog and duck and Sora pulled the money bag back out of his pocket.
"Y'know…" he said to himself. He opened the bag and a small blue crystal ball rolled out into his hand. "I'm sad, for some reason."
Instantly I snatched the ball out of his hand and stared at it. "No way…" I rolled it around in my hand for a moment, then smiled to myself. "So Roxas…you really are still here…"
"You okay?" Sora asked.
I snapped up. "Oh, yeah. Right. I'm fine."
"I never got you're name," he told me. "What is it?"
"Oh," I said. "I'm Xeiria."
Sora nodded. "Nice to meet you. This is Donald and Goofy," he motioned to the dog and duck.
"Nice to meet you too," I answered. "So…way are you three getting out of town?"
"We…um…." Sora was looking for a lie. It was actually kinda cute.
"Visiting relatives!" Donald chirped. I could barely understand a word he said.
"Cool," I said looking down at my hands in my lap.
"What about you?" Goofy motioned toward me. "Why are you leaving town, without your parents or anything?"
I looked back down and tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. "I…I'm running away…"
"Why?" Sora rested a hand on my shoulder. "Why would you do that?"
I shrugged. "I can't stand being in just one world…it seems so boring…"
Sora sighed and looked away from me, to Donald and Goofy. "How well can you keep a secret?" he asked me.
I turned my head. "Very well, why do you ask?"
Sora started to tell me everything about his journey before. How he'd gone to find Riku, Kairi, and Airie, only to find Kairi comatose, Riku lost in darkness, and to lose Airie. I couldn't help but feel bad for him of course.
"You have to keep this a secret," he told me.
I sighed and looked back at him. "Now tell me, how well can you keep a secret?"
"About as well as you," he told me.
So I started to tell him. "I'm Number XV in Organization XIII. Yes, I'm a nobody. But I don't want anything to do with them and I want them to go away, so in a way, I wasn't lying to you when I told you that I was running away. I don't know what I'm going to do once I get out of this town. I mean I love it here but it'll be to obvious if I stay here much longer," I summoned my bow and arrows. "I don't know how long I'll be able to stay alive, I know if I'm caught they'll turn my into a dusk or a samurai or whatever they please. I'm scared, Sora."
He stared at me in total disbelief until he nodded and clutched my arm. "Wanna come with us?"
I looked back over to him. "Where are you going?"
"I'm trying to find Riku still, and then I'm going to go home and see Kairi again. Maybe I'll even find Airie somewhere along the way…"
That was when she woke up and her voice whispered into my head. "You already found me." And almost as soon as she finished that sentence, she fell back to sleep.
"Yes, I'll come with you," I told Sora. "But I'm not able to collect hearts, just so you know, but I'll try to help you find Airie and the others.
He nodded. "Alright, let's go together!"
Yay! Normal length chapter today! Alright, I need to go rest my fingers before working on Quizilla. But I'm also thinking about making a kinda prequel to this, about Xeiria's life. Anyone in favor?
