Sorry that I haven't updated in ages, I've had writer's block. ick. There's probably only going to be two or three more chapters on this, unfortuantly, but then I can start on the prequel, where we get to watch (coughcoughREADcoughcough) Nami and Riku beat each other up! Isn't everyone's favorite part when they were kids? Thank TheMagicalTapeworm for the awesom idea. ) Enjoy and review!
Riku's POV
I thumbed through yet another book in Ansem's library. I had traveled there for the simple reason that my library sucked. I growled angrily, and shoved the book back in place. I had searched all mythology books, and records of sorcerers, and still was coming up with blank!
All of the monsters in the mythology books hadn't been seen or even heard of for the past hundred years, and every sorcerer had been banished and so far had stayed back. But there was nothing that pointed to
'It is not what it seems'
WHY OH WHY couldn't Ansem just tell me what he meant?! I t would have made life a WHOLE LOT EASIER, but NOOOO, he had to just had to give me a riddle worthy of a sphinx. Now I'm ranting. Joy.
"Uh, Riku? You're muttering." Sora said, poking his head out from behind the next aisle.
"I know."
"Er...all right then." I ran a hand through my long hair. What was I going to do?
Sora's POV
After I had told Riku he was muttering, I roamed the gigantic library. There was no one there at all. I grabbed a blue book off of a shelf, and idly flipped the pages, and got a big paper cut.
"Ow!" I exclaimed, and dropped the book.
"Hey, are you okay?" I heard a musical voice ask. I looked up to see a pretty girl with beautiful blue eyes looking at me nervously.
"Um, yeah…I'm fine." I stammered.
"Good." She smiled, and looked at me closely. "Are you Sora? Namine said you were Sora's friend." She bit her lip when she said this, probably thinking about Namine's disappearance.
"Yeah, I'm Sora. What's your name?" I asked.
"I'm Kairi, Namine's best friend. It's nice to meet you Sora." She smiled, and started to walk away, tracing her hand across the bookshelves as she went.
I couldn't help but stare after her as she left. I sat down on a chair.
Riku disturbed my silence when he walked in.
"Who was talking?" He asked, looking at my dreamy face.
"Er, there was this really beautiful red head that came in…" I flushed when I realized how stupid I sounded.
Riku's POV
He's hooked.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
Kairi's POV
After meeting Sora, who was really, really, really hot, I decided to start reading the book I found when I was researching animals/sorcerers/anything I could think of that could have taken Namine. As I looked through the pages, I glared at the muddled words.
"ARG!!"
I slammed the book, and rubbed my eyes.
This sucked major league.
Major.
League.
I shut the book, took a deep breath, and calmly opened it again to a random page. I scanned it, and grinned.
Bingo.
AGAIN WITH THE FEW MINUTES LATER...
"A T'Morphus?" Riku asked incredulously, "They don't exist."
I looked at him with cold eyes.
"It fits." I reasoned, "Ansem said that it wasn't what it seemed, and a T'Morphus is a creature that doesn't hold one form, it can turn from a mouse to a monster in seconds."
"But why wouldn't he just say that?" Sora groaned. I grinned.
"Because he's Ansem." I replied, and Sora smiled appreciatively.
"All right." Riku said, taking the book, "Sora and I will get going then."
"I don't suppose I have a choice…?"
"Nope."
A FEW HOURS LATER
Riku's POV
"Riku? This is creepy!"
"You don't think? They call this place the Dark Woods, did you expect it to be filled with jumping ponies and butterflies, OH, and maybe a rainbow with a corny smiling sun winking happily in the background?"
"Maaaybe."
"You're hopeless."
"Isn't it great?"
We warily picked our way across the dark, not-so-creepy-as-Sora-makes-it-out-to-be woods. We separated, and I looked around. Nothing…trees, darkness, trees, shadows, trees, a random flash of gold, trees…
Hold up.
A random flash of gold?!
Sorry Axel, I really wasn't paying attention when you taught me to pay attention to my surroundings. Little bit of irony there.
I narrowed my eyes, and 'observed' the land around me. I saw a swan.
Namine's POV
Okay, so far, we're doing fine. Well, mostly anyway…and the plan pretty much sucks, but other than that, we're great! To recap, we (Leon, Cloud, The Stupidly Idiotic Frog-Boy, (AKA Pence) and I) had 'rescued' a map from Xemnas's possession, and were now following a path marked down to find him, and somehow lead him back to the lake in time for the moon to rise, or else there was a really good chance it would be for naught. In other words, we would need a hell of a lot of luck.
So I flew down into the Dark Woods with Leon, and used my keen swan eyes to scan the area. I veered over to Leon, who was doing the same thing.
"Anything?" I asked.
"A spiky-haired kid about a year older than you at six o'clock."
I looked where he described and saw, typically, Sora, breaking every rule of hunting.
"So do you know him?"
"Yeah, he's Riku's best friend Sora."
"Good, Riku can't be too far away."
"Knowing Sora, he's probably only come into the Dark Woods if he had to."
We scanned the area around Sora. I saw Riku's silver hair, and dived down. On the way down, my wing flashed gold in the sunlight.
…crap.
Riku's POV
The swan veered away, and I thought of what Kairi had said back at the library.
A swan was a bird of peace and tranquility, so what could be its opposite other than a monster?
I picked up my blade.
Namine's POV
I desperately flew away as Riku began to hunt me like…a bird. HA, HA, isn't irony brilliant in life-threatening situations?
"Well that didn't go exactly to plan, but…" Leon muttered,
"Oh hell, screw the plan, WE'RE BEING HUNTED HERE!!" I yelled, and veered out of the way as Riku the Great shot a beam of darkness at me. Wonderful.
"You sound nervous." Leon commented, as he flew into the rays of the sun.
"Do I?" I growled. "Now why do you think that?"
"If you start hyperventilating, you're going to make hell of the mission, and then Riku's going to shoot you, and you will transform into your human form just in time for him to see you die. I don't suppose you want that?"
I calmed down as I heard him.
"No, I don't."
I ducked a shot of darkness neatly as it was fired.
"Stay in the sun!" Leon shouted, "Keep moving! A moving target is harder to get!"
He was commanding as any good military person would be.
That was when the sunset.
Leon's POV
Brilliant. Just fantastically, wonderfully, indescribably brilliant. Our plan was scrapped, and as Namine had so tastefully put it, we were 'BEING HUNTED HERE!!' It would have been easy if Riku's vision was slightly impaired by the sun, and we could lead him to the lake safely, without anyone dying.
However, with the sun down, Riku could see us, and I have to admit, that kid was a pretty damn good shot.
Namine's POV
I was exhausted. I knew I wouldn't be able to hold up for much longer, and that I would fall if my wings gave out…
Leon screeched as the lake finally came into sight. Thank God.
I dove down to it, and skimmed over the surface of the water. Riku came into sight, and I settled onto a flat bit of water that I could stand in just as the moon shone on the water. My feathers rippled in the moonlight, and turned to my pure white dress, my hair cascaded down my back-finally, I was human, and no one was trying to kill me! YAY!
I lifted my sapphire eyes to meet his aqua ones. He dropped his Keyblade.
…that was a good sign, right?
I took a step forward.
Riku's POV
So let me get this straight. I was hunting the person I was looking for? How messed up is that? And she was a swan? A swan? If I was still a kid, (which technically I am…) I would be laughing at her. But I love her, so I don't do that.
When she stepped out of the water, I gave her a bone-crushing hug, and she hugged me tightly back.
"So you two went from hating each other to hugging each other?" An interested voice queried from somewhere behind Nami.
Without taking her eyes off of mine, Namine said,
"Shut up Pence, we're having a moment."
"But-"
"Shoo!"
I traced the edge of her face with my hand.
"I knew you were alive." I whispered.
She smiled.
"And I knew you'd come and find me. So I guess we were both right."
"Yeah."
We hugged again, and it was if the moon was smiling on us.
Wait…am I getting a sense of poetry? NO! This is not the moment to think about that. I'll hug Namine again instead…yeah…savor the moment, and hope that annoying frog doesn't interrupt again.
I didn't want to end this with Riku prattling on about poetry, but that's how it came out. Oh well, I kinda like it. ) Review and tell me how you liked it please!