Behind Those Blue Eyes

Chapter 2: The Storm

By: Rika Yuki Hikari

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Okay, this is the rewrite of chapter two. Once again this used to be just a paragraph long cause I wrote it when I was in like Middle School. So please read this updated chapter and review the newest chapter of BTBE which I had just posted a few days ago please, I will begin writing new chapters when I am finished rewriting all of the chapter before the most recent. But for now this is Chapter 2: The Storm. Enjoy!

Love always,

Rika Yuki Hikari

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Rika stirred in her sleep because of the pounding of the storm, rain hit the window panes near her room and the wind whipped at deafening speeds, lightning splayed across the sky and thunder rumbled fiercely. She got up and headed to her window to see how the storm was blowing over. Her eyes widened at the right of seeing a huge ball of darkness above the small island where they were earlier this morning. Her brother rushed by her bedroom door which was left open.

"Riku?" Rika said as she saw her brother rushing to get his shoes on. "What's going on?" She asked again.

"I need to go to the island, we forgot about the raft. I want you to stay here, I don't know what's out there but it seems dangerous and I don't want you getting hurt." Riku said like and adult.

"But I want to go with you, I don't want you to get hurt either, I know how to defend myself Riku, I wasn't just sitting around when I was with father." Rika retaliated as se rushed to get her shoes on and she followed her brother out the door.

"Rika, you need to stay here!" Riku yelled at her to get back into the house when he saw her come out after him, the last thing he wanted was her getting hurt, she was the last of the family that he had.

"No, I'm coming with you!" She yelled as she headed towards the dock but before she knew it Riku was rowing away in the boat, she just stared at him as he started rowing, she walked back to the house to the door and placed her hand on the doorknob but quickly turned away from it and started running towards the dock at full speed with no intent on stopping, Rika dived into the chilly water that was cooled by the storm, swimming as powerfully as she could to get to her brothers boat.

"What are you doing!?" She heard her brother say as she was swimming towards him, the waved knocked into her and she spit out the water that it forced into her mouth she continued swimming as fast as she could, she wasn't going to lose her brother; he was also the only family that she really had left. Riku started rowing towards his sister hoping to get her into the boat, it was safer than the cold ocean, he couldn't believe that she could be so foolish, soon he had caught up with Rika he grabbed her arms and easily got her into the boat. Rika's hair was plastered to her body, she panted for breath because of using so much energy to catch up to her brother.

"What were you thinking?" Riku said to her as he rowed towards the island. "You could've been killed, don't you care about that?!" he questioned angrily as he fought to look into her eyes but she looked down to the bottom of the boat.

"I was thinking that you're my brother and you could also be killed being out here so I wanted to help you…" Rika said trying to defend her actions as best as she could but it wasn't really working.

"That doesn't mean anything, I would rather me be hurt than you. There's something going on at the island and I don't think it's a good thing, and I don't want you to be a part of this." Riku said to her as he continued to row the boat angrily.

"Well, I am a part of this Riku, whether you like it or not. You're my twin brother; we do everything together. I want to make sure your okay because you're the only thing that I have left." She continued but he soon cut her off

" You're the only thing I have left too, my only family and you mean the world to me Rika, I would kill myself if anything would happen to you on the island…" He said looking at the island which was getting closer and closer with each row.

"I know…" Rika said looking down to the bottom of the boat again. "But I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself and defend myself, I just want to make sure that you're okay." Rika said as they pulled into the dock. Riku noticed Kairi's boat was attached to the dock also he wondered where she could be on the island.

"Look, you stay here on the dock, don't move a muscle, there's something going on here and I don't like it." Rika nodded at him but as soon as he left to check out the other side of the island she began looking around the beach for Kairi because she had never met her before. The wind and rain whipped at her face as she walked across the island in search of the girl that she had yet to meet.

When Sora awoke he went to his window to see what was going on with the storm, there had never been a storm this big on the islands. He saw the huge ball of darkness and he remembered about the raft and he ran downstairs and out of the house to the dock and his rowboat. He quickly untied the boat from its tether and hopped in it and grabbed his oars and started quickly rowing towards the island. As soon as he got to the island he noticed that both Riku and Kairi's boats were there. He tied his boat to the dock and ran onto the beach when he noticed these small familiar black things popping up right from the sand! "They're the things from my dream!" He said aloud as he grabbed his wooden sword and swung at the little beasts but his sword did no damage so all he could do was run from them as he looked around for his friends.

Riku walked all around the island trying to find Kairi, hoping that his sister would stay where he put her. She was still the same Rika, always wanting to do everything with him. Maybe it was the twin connection that made her want to be so close to him, he also wanted to be close with his sister but he would rather keep her safe than have her nearby when there was trouble like what was happening on the island right continued down the south side of the beach not being able to find Kairi anywhere. He headed back to the main island and to his own personal island, while there he looked to the dock to notice that her sister wasn't there anymore. "Damnit, why can't she just listen to me for once?" he mentally cursed at his sister being foolish once again. But he didn't have time to go looking for her; he just had to trust what she had said. "I'm a big girl, I can handle myself Riku." Her voice played over in his head as he looked up to the big orb of darkness in the sky. Maybe it was a portal to another world he wondered as he stared up to the sky. He heard steps coming from behind him; he turned around to see his best friend staring at him.

"Riku, what's going on?" Sora questioned him "The raft is gone, what are we gonna do?" He asked looking at Riku who had turned around to ace the sky again. Sora turned Riku around and shook his body slightly "You have to get back home it's not safe here Riku, there's something wrong with this storm, there's these creatures on the beach that I saw in a dream, this has to mean trouble."

Riku looked into Sora's eyes. "I finally see it now, we're not in danger, and the orb is the answer, that's our ticket to seeing other worlds, what we've all dreamed of for some long…. I'm not afraid of the darkness." Riku said as a pool of darkness appeared below his feet, gossamer strands of darkness wrapping his limbs wrapping him in a deep blackness. He reached towards Sora motioning for him to grab his hand and to come with him Sora reached for his hand but the darkness separated him from his friend and soon Riku was gone.

Sora was left with a mysterious weapon and an even more mysterious voice repeating the name of the weapon into his head. "Keyblade…" The voice said as Sora looked at the strangely shaped weapon. "Keyblade…" The voice said again as he looked at the blade that was distinctly shaped as a key. "Keyblade…" The voice said one more time as the monsters appeared and Sora swung at them defeating them all in an instant with the powerful weapon. After defeating the strange enemies he ran towards the secret place maybe Kairi was in there.

Rika ran across the main beach searching for her brother who she couldn't find now after being in the shack for a little bit to get out of the rain. The cold rain stung her face as she ran through the drenched sand looking for her brother she looked at the necklace and her eyes grew wide when she noticed how dim the light was. "He's not here…" she thought to herself, but her heart would not let her think that he was gone

"Riku!!" She called his name over and over again hoping for some kind of response, after so many years of being without her brother they were separated again. Rika headed up to the island where her brother usually hung out but to her disappointment he was not there. Rika headed over to the paopu tree and punched it hard and the island began breaking apart she looked at it until she noticed the pieces of the small island were starting to float, she ran across the bridge to the main island so she didn't have to get sucked up into the strange orb of darkness. She watched in fear as the small island was sucked into the darkness never to return but then headed back to the shack which seemed like a safe place for now.

Sora made his way through the entryway of the secret place he had a strange feeling in his chest, like something was wrong he got to the main part of the cave and saw Kairi standing by the door that they could never seem to open. She turned around and looked almost ghostly, her usually peachy skin was pale, her red hair had lost its sheen and her eyes had deep dark circles underneath them them. She looked at Sora for a little and then back to the door, she then reached her hand out to him "Sora…" She said soft and weakly that he could barely hear her and suddenly the door burst open and sent Kairi flying towards Sora, he braced himself against the wind so he could catch her but she ended up fading right through him he tried to fight the wind to get to the door and close it but soon he was flying backward through the secret place and out of it's entryway. When he was outside still flying through the air from the door in the secret place he just saw the island in pieces, and then he fell onto something hard and blacked out.

Rika peeked out of the shack to see almost all of the island in pieces, he looked over to the secret place where she hadn't looked yet and saw Sora laying about ten feet away from it, she ran carefully across the fragments of the island which were close enough together to get her to Sora she got to his body and knelt down beside him feeling for his pulse with her trembling hands. He was okay but he wasn't in good condition, she reached into her pocket pulling out a small stone tablet with a few glowing spheres in it, she touched one of the spheres and a white warm light engulfed her, her clothes changed in an instant into that of a white mage, a staff appeared in her hand and she instantly cast Cura onto him. A green light engulfed him and he started to come to, Rika knelt down to him helping him get up "Are you okay Sora?" she said as he came to

"Yeah, I'm fine… But Riku and Kairi, I don't know where they are…" he responded to her sadly.

"It's okay, we'll find them then, we have to find a place that's safe." She said looking for somewhere to go but while she was curing Sora the piece of island they were on started floating closer and closer to the dark orb. All of the sudden a dark figure began forming on the ground in front of them and a huge black creature that had a hole in the shape of a heart where it's heart was supposed to be appeared before them towering over them.

"Rika get back!" Sora yelled as he wielded his new weapon, the Keyblade. "Okay." She agreed and stayed back watching Sora fight the monster slashing at its hands and head. She healed him whenever his health was low. The piece of land that they were on was nearly at the orb of darkness now, there was no doubt that they would all be sucked up after the battle. Rika looked around frantically for something to hold onto. With one more powerful swing of Sora's Keyblade the huge monster was sucked up into the orb, Sora ran over to where Rika was, holding onto a plank that was imbedded into the ground his grip started slipping and Rika grabbed onto his hand holding onto the plank also but soon her grip started slipping too.

"Hold on Rika!" Sora encouraged her, Rika looked down she struggled with keeping her grip on the plank and holding onto Sora's hand with all her might but the suction from the orb started pulling them even harder and soon the plank ripped off the ground and they were pulled up towards the orb of darkness Rika held onto Sora's as if it were the only familiar thing left for her in the world. She looked into Sora's eyes seeing determination in them.

"We'll be okay Rika," Sora said smiling at her "Just hold on." He said as he looked up to the orb still holding onto Rika's hand and he looked at her one more time as they were sucked up into the orb, not knowing where this strange event would be taking them.

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Well that's the end of my rewrite for chapter two. I hope you have enjoyed it, Please Read and Review readers.

Thank you,

Rika Yuki Hikari

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