Hello everyone, I have made a promise to write 2 chapters before the end of the holidays. I hope to god I get it done, or I will have fangirls to kill me, anyway, here you are.
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Before we go on, I just have to say this that you can never prepare yourself for this story. You may think you have this story all worked out, and then BAM. Something new is introduced that completely throws everything you thought about it up in the air, and you have to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about the 12 universe, so, always prepare yourself for every chapter, because you never know when something major happens.
So, now that that has been settled, enjoy the chapter.
Previously on 12
Sora, Roxas, Kairi and Namine are staring at a door.
"This is Haven's Elite,"
Roxas and Sora are sitting at a table.
"Seems like everyone is dancing with someone, except you,"
"Good observation,"
Tidus and Selphie arrive back home
Tidus is knocked out
Selphie is stabbed.
"One down, six to go,"
Sora and Kairi are about to go back home.
"Oh, and Kairi,"
"What?"
Sora smiles.
"Happy Birthday,"
Chapter 7
"I'm going to tell you a story,"
SPLASH!
This was the sound that Roxas made as his body hit the water. The water that had parted to make way for his body came towards Sora and Kairi. As Kairi shielded herself with her hands, Sora snapped his fingers, and the water became cold air as it harmlessly went through Kairi.
"Roxas, you annoying prick," Sora mildly yelled as Roxas's head broke the surface of the water.
Roxas slowly laughed, "Sorry bro, sorry Kairi,"
Kairi giggled, "Its cool,"
The four friends had decided to spend their Saturday afternoon at the beach. Kairi had decided that she wanted Sora and Roxas to see all of the places Destiny Islands had to offer during their holidays. Kairi had decided that they would visit her favorite place that day, the Beach in Twilight Town. Having finally been given a holiday without Homework or Assignments, Kairi had found it very easy to get to the places each day.
Sora and Roxas had been impressed with all the wonders they had seen so far. They had been to the sand dunes of Sunset Horizons, stared off the Peak of Eclipse Mountain, and had been impressed with the tall buildings and infrastructure of Dawn City.
"So, how have you been enjoying your stay at the Destiny Islands," Kairi smiled, she was wearing a pink Bikini with Black swimming shorts
Sora looked at Kairi, and said with a grin on his face, "It is brilliant,"
Sora was for once not wearing his black jacket, but instead was wearing a black t-shirt, and red board shorts.
"Come on Sora, are you coming in or not?" Roxas shouted from the water.
"Oh, all right," Sora shouted back, as he turned to Kairi.
"Coming in?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, sure," Kairi giggled, as she made her way down to the water.
Sora was just down to the edge of the water when Roxas shouted something out.
"Sora, your shirt is still on,"
Sora looked down, and said, "Oh, yeah, right," and he pulled it over his head and threw it to the side.
Kairi couldn't help herself but stare at Sora's perfectly tanned body, complete with a six pack and muscles. Kairi turned away suddenly and blushed, embarrassed, and yet, whether she liked it or not, was a little bit aroused.
Sora merely raised his eyebrow, "You ok?"
"Oh yeah, fine, just the suns in my eyes," Kairi smiled.
"Umm, Kairi," Sora slowly said.
"Yeah?" Kairi answered.
"The suns that way," Sora pointed to where Kairi was now staring.
Kairi stood still for a few moments, before she slowly said, "So it is,"
Sora chuckled, "Good thing Riku isn't here, or he would be asking some very embarrassing question,"
"Sora, what are you talking about," Kairi feigned confusion.
"Your staring at my body," Sora said in a singsong voice.
"What? No, of course not, why would you think that?" Kairi said in a defensive tone.
Sora sighed, "Man, it amazes me how so many people forget about the whole mind reading ability," and he walked into the water.
Kairi stood there completely stationary for a couple of seconds, before she muttered under her breath, "Damn it,"
Sora chuckled, "Kairi, the body is due to all those missions I've completed as a Guardian Angel, and it only serves to protect those who need protecting, and, occasionally, pissing Roxas off by showing it to girls he likes,"
Kairi giggled at this, her embarrassment and arousal completely gone as they continued wadding into the water, Sora's wings were beginning to sag with the amount of water they had attracted.
"Hey Kairi," Sora said.
"Hmm?" Kairi responded, as she continued to swim out into the water.
"What's that over there," Sora pointed to a vaguely seeable object, way out at sea.
"Oh, that's Midnight," Kairi said, and then she stopped.
"Kairi? Kairi, is something wrong?" Sora waved one of his hands in front of Kairi while the other hand kept him afloat.
"Oh, my, God, you guys haven't been to Midnight yet," Kairi said, as if she had made a huge mistake.
"Is there something wrong with not seeing midnight?" Sora asked, his eyes shifting.
"Yes, it's one of the most technologically advanced cities ever, everyone should see it when they come to Destiny Islands," Kairi said like what she had said was common knowledge.
"Alright, when shall we go?" Sora asked, smiling.
"We'll go tomorrow morning, catch the ferry at 8:30, and arrive at nine, and we can enjoy the whole day there, go see movies, go shopping, do anything we want, then come home around seven," Kairi quickly made plans.
"Ok, sounds like a day," Sora smiled.
"I'll have to call Axel, Yuna and Riku, and ask if they want to go," Kairi thought out loud.
"What about the others?" Sora asked.
"Oh, well, Zexion and Paine are going to her cousin Aurons in Sunset Horizons to do some quad biking, and Demyx and Rikku are going on a date in Dawn City," Kairi explained.
Sora sniggered, and Kairi looked at him.
"What is so funny?" Kairi asked.
"Zexion ridding a quad bike," Sora began to laugh, and so did Kairi.
"What's so funny?" Roxas called out, as Namine looked at the two with a weird look.
"Nothing, nothing," Both Kairi and Sora called out, and Roxas and Namine continued splashing each other.
"So, Midnight tomorrow?" Sora asked.
"I'll make the calls tonight," Kairi smiled.
Suddenly, Roxas and Namine swam over to Sora and Kairi.
"Guys, we're thinking of getting out soon," Roxas said.
Kairi looked at her watch, which did not only tell her the correct time no matter where she was, but was also waterproof, damage proof and could switch from analogue to digital. Kairi, who was too tired to see what time it said on her analogue, clicked her fingers over it, and the contents inside the watch mixed together, and rearranged themselves in digital format. Kairi read the time, which was 7:30.
"Yeah, I've got some things to plan, oh, do you two want to come to Midnight with us and a couple of the guys tomorrow?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah, sure, any excuse to go to Midnight," Namine smiled, and turned to Roxas, "You want to go too?"
"Yeah, might as well, nothing much else exciting happening in Twilight Town," Roxas stated.
"Alright, I'll call some people, see if they want to come," Kairi smiled, as they all exited the water, just as a large blast of wind went by them.
"Oh, that's cold," Kairi and Namine shivered, while Sora and Roxas stayed completely still.
"Think you guys could warm us up?" Namine asked.
Sora and Roxas turned to each other, shrugged, looked at the two freezing girls, and clicked their fingers.
At once a warm feeling came across them, and they both sighed in relief.
"Feel better?" Sora smiled.
Kairi smiled, graceful for the warmness, "Oh, yes," to which Sora smiled even bigger.
Sora and Roxas's wings shook, as all the water disappeared, and the wings returned to their natural position as shiny as ever.
"Come on, we better get these two home," Roxas said as he picked up his and Namine's towel.
"Yeah, your right," Sora stated as he picked up the remaining two towels.
"Well meet at the docks tomorrow at around 8:30?" Kairi said.
"Yeah, sounds great," Namine smiled.
"Until then, see you later," Roxas grabbed hold of Namine, and together they teleported back to what Kairi assumed was Namine's house.
"Come on then," Kairi said, as she held out her hand, and Sora took it, and spun her around into a hug, before they began to spin around, and in no time at all were in front of Kairi's
"You know, I think I'm finally getting used to the teleportation," Kairi smiled.
"Well, after a while your body gets used to it, like getting used to different times when you're overseas," Sora said as they walked up to Kairi's front door.
"See you upstairs?" Kairi asked.
"Actually, I just need to check something, I'll be along in half an hour, try not to get yourself attacked while I'm gone," Sora chucked Kairi her towel, which she caught.
"Ok, I'll make those calls now then," Kairi smiled, and watched as Sora's wings wrapped around him, and in a bright flash of lightning, disappeared.
Kairi giggled to herself, and she opened the door, and walked inside.
12------12
"Oh, come on Riku, why can't you come?" Kairi asked, pacing her room with her phone up to her ear.
"I told you Kairi, I have an assessment that is due the first day back at school," Riku said, his phone held up to his ear with his shoulder, while he was searching for a piece of paper.
"Oh, come on, it's one assignment, and we haven't spent a single minute together at all these holidays," Kairi whined.
"There is a good reason for that, Kairi, this science assessment is worth 30% of my final mark, which is important, and I'm also faced with one more problem," Riku said.
"What?" Kairi asked.
"I CAN NOT FIND MY RESULTS!" Riku screamed.
"Ok, ok, calm down, I didn't lose it, did I?" Kairi reminded him.
"It's my dad's fault, he's been giving me all these papers for Universities, he still wants me to go to Dusklight Academy, but I've still got at least a year and a half of high school to go, so, WHY THE HELL IS HE GETTING ME TO LOOK AT UNIVERSITIES!" Riku freaked out again.
"Ok, ok, so, your going to be spending tomorrow looking for your science results?" Kairi asked.
Riku chuckled, "I can hear the jealously in your voice,"
Kairi giggled, "Well, I hope you enjoy your fun filled day tomorrow,"
"Yeah, gonna be a real hoot," Riku's voice layered in sarcasm, to which he hung up.
Kairi giggled once again, before hanging up.
"Problems?" said a voice, and Kairi looked up to see Sora at her door, wearing his usual outfit, with a yellow shirt and yellow converse, leaning against the door with his hands in his pocket.
"Well, Riku can't make it but Axel and Yuna said they can't wait," Kairi shrugged, lying down on her bed.
"Well, that's something," Sora smiled, as he walked over to the other side of the bed.
"Do you mind if I lie next to you?" Sora said in a casual tone, but the sentence made Kairi double take.
"I'm sorry, did that make you uncomfortable?" Sora asked.
"Oh, um, no, yeah, you can lie down," Kairi said, shifting her eyes and shuffled over.
"Thanks," Sora sighed, and laid next to Kairi, unbuttoning his jacket, and looking at Kairi's wall, staring at nothing.
"Something on your mind," Kairi lied on her side and stared at Sora.
"Nothing," Sora said in a monotone voice.
"Would 'Nothing' have anything to do with where you went half an hour ago?" Kairi asked, smiling.
Sora chuckled, "Cleaver one, aren't you,"
"Yeah," Kairi laughed.
Sora then turned to his side, staring at Kairi, "Another Flame Flare was spotted around about a couple of weeks ago, and it's taken us this long to confirm it was a Flame Flare. It was near where Tidus is stationed, except this one was a lot longer than the other ones,"
Sora finished his latest short adventure story, but Kairi knew there was something else on Sora's mind.
"What else happened?" Kairi asked.
"Well, we detected low traces of Light and Dark Elements around Tidus's area,"
"Is something strange about that?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah, Light and Darkness are never close by, they are always opposite, which means, someone is obliviously using something that has Light and Darkness in it, which means there is someone with an extremely powerful item on them,"
"Anything to worry about?" Kairi asked.
"Not unless they reach the shores of the Destiny Islands, I was just there to research, and make sure I know everything I can,"
Sora took a deep breath and smiled, "But we don't have to worry about that, we have a very exciting day tomorrow, so get some rest, so we can wake up early tomorrow," Sora smiled.
Kairi shivered in her bed, "It's so cold," Kairi stated.
"Here," Sora smiled softly, and his right wing slowly moved under Kairi, and wrapped it around her, keeping her warm.
"Goodnight, my sweet princess," Sora whispered into her ear.
"Goodnight, my Guardian Angel," Kairi whispered to Sora, before she took a deep sigh, and her mind went blank as she drifted off to sleep.
12------12
It was around 8:20 in the morning. Sora and Roxas were on the docks, having both left notes for Kairi and Namine that they would meet them at the docks. Sora dressed in his usual with a maroon shirt with matching converse, while Roxas had an orange shirt and white runners. They were having a conversation about what Sora had looked into that night.
"Sora, just because you found a couple of flame flares, dose not mean any trouble, we always get flame flares" Roxas shook his head.
Sora groaned, "Yeah, once in a while, but since when have we got a continuous rhythm of them, look at the facts Roxas, Ever since we were assigned to the Girls, more Flame Flares have been appearing all over the world, then, we get one that lasts for about 15 seconds, longer than ever before, the exact same night Tidus and Selphie go missing, shown to be where Tidus is positioned, and around the exact same time the Light and Dark Elements were found in the area, are you still calling that a coincidence?"
"Look, maybe they went away?" Roxas suggested.
"Where? To another dimension? In the last couple of weeks, we have found not one trace of Tidus or Selphie on this planet," Sora pointed out.
They both stayed quite for about a minute, before Sora said something else.
"Have you heard Cloud's hypothesis of what a Flame Flare could represent?" Sora asked.
This time Roxas groaned, "Sora, please, Cloud is insane, if he saw 5 people conversing in the street, he'd think it was a conspiracy,"
"Roxas, it makes sense, if we assume that Cloud is right, and that Flame Flares are Demonic Teleportation, than we can also assume that he is trying to get those girls," Sora said.
Roxas took his brother by the shoulders, "Sora, listen to me, they are trapped in Hell, they can't get out, all pathways between Hell and Earth are closed off, there is no way they can get here, it's impossible,"
Sora moved his arms up and placed them on his brother, "Roxas, The Father put us here for a reason, he obviously doesn't believe that those girls are completely protected, and who's the one person that would know that those girls are important?" Sora asked his brother.
Roxas shook Sora off, and made his way to the edge of the pier. Sora stood there with his hands in his pockets for a few moments, before Roxas said something.
"Did you tell Kairi about Tidus and Selphie?" To which Sora chuckled sarcastically.
"Course not, no use scaring her…why, did you tell Namine?"
Roxas turned to his brother, "Course not, how was I gonna say it, 'you know that girl you met? Well, she's disappeared off the face of the earth, and so has her Guardian Angel'?"
Sora genuinely chuckled, "Point taken,"
Suddenly they saw a car pull up. Sora and Roxas looked up to see Kairi and Namine get out of the car. Kairi was wearing a pink shirt, and black jeans with pink shoes, while Namine was wearing a grey shirt with dark blue jeans and white sandals. They both said goodbye to Kairi's mum, and they walked towards the two guys.
"Where were you two this morning?" Kairi shouted, as they were halfway apart from each other.
"Well, as it said on the note, we were going down early so we could go for a bit of a walk," Roxas chuckled.
The two girls walked up to them, and hugged both the guys, before they began to talk about their final term of Year 10. They didn't have to wait long before Axel and Yuna arrived, smiling hand in hand.
"Jeez, you guys took your sweet time, almost missed it," Kairi pointed to a ferry that was heading towards them. It was bright red, with two levels. As the boat reached them, a wooden bridge lowered down, and Sora, Kairi, Roxas, Namine, Axel and Yuna all crossed, and went inside, where they sat on six seats, and talked about what they had done during the holidays, and half an hour later, the ferry slowly came to a spot, and the captain informed everyone that they had reached their destination.
The group walked out from inside the ferry, where it was connected to a tunnel. Sora and Roxas were given the privilege of going first. They slowly walked began to walk through the metal tunnel, and they could just see the light at the exit.
"This reminds me of dying," Roxas chuckled, to which Sora rolled his eyes.
After about 5 minutes, they finally reached the end. The light blinded them temporarily, and when they were finally able to see, both the brothers gasped.
Buildings, higher then they could possible see, all across the city were monorails, stores, fast food shops, classy shops, movie theatres, arcades, every type of shopping place you could think of, giant TV's with news channels on it, the sun shined on the buildings, everything looked so clean, the parks, the streets, Sora and Roxas were amazed. Kairi walked up to Sora, and smiled.
"Welcome to Midnight," She giggled at Sora's reaction.
"You read the history of this place, but it just doesn't quite live up to actually being here," Sora was looking up at the giant buildings.
"Well, really it would be better if you saw this place at night, the entire city shines due to the buildings in the moonlight, and for one whole minute, it glows, viewable by every resident of the Destiny Islands, that's how the city got its name,"
"It must be beautiful to see," Sora turned his head to Kairi, and she giggled.
"Yeah, It is," Kairi smiled at Sora.
"So…" Roxas walked up to the two, "…We have the biggest, brightest city for ten hours, got anything in mind?"
Kairi, Namine and Yuna looked at each other, "SHOPPING!"
Sora, Roxas and Axel turned to each other, "Shit," they all muttered.
They were then grabbed by the girls, and dragged around to many clothes shops, jewelry shops, and shoe shops, while the guys waited outside, trying (and failing) to escape. When Sora looked at his watch, which read 10:46.
"God, do you know how long we have been doing this for?" Sora whispered.
"We need to find away to get them away from shopping," Axel whispered.
The three sat in front of the latest store the girls were visiting, thinking of a way.
"Hold on, I think I've got an idea," Sora whispered, as the girls came out.
"What?" Axel whispered frantically, as they got closer.
"Just follow my lead," Sora winked.
"So, where to next," Namine asked Kairi and Yuna.
"Well, there was this jewelry store down the road that I…" Kairi began to say, as they were walking towards the guys, but was interrupted by a very loud Sora talking to Roxas and Axel.
"You know, I hear that 500 Days of Summer movie is suppose to be a very interesting,"
"Oh, yeah, it is," Axel nodded in agreement.
Roxas, who had the gift to silently communicate with his brother, knew where to take it next.
"Well, I'll probably just sit there alone, without any one to hold, or touch, or kiss," Roxas stated.
"Yeah, I know," Axel did a good job at faking sadness.
And then their plan took off.
"You know, I'm feel like going to the movies right now," Namine stated quickly.
"Yeah, that 500 Days of Summer looks good," Yuna stated.
"What do you guys think?" Namine asked.
"Well, if you want to see it, I guess we can tag along," Sora shrugged, and with that Namine and Yuna left with Roxas and Axel, leaving a very confused Kairi standing there.
She then looked from Roxas, to Axel, to Namine, to Yuna, and then her eyes finally rested on Sora, and her face changed from confused to pissed off.
"Oh, you cunning bastard," Kairi shook her head slowly, to which Sora replied with a smile, a wink and 'click' sound made from his mouth, and he stuck his hands in his pockets and followed the two couples, followed by Kairi.
Sora, Roxas and Axel ordered the tickets for the six of them, while Kairi, Namine and Yuna bought popcorn and drinks. They all showed the tickets to the ticket man, who told them that there movie was in cinema 7. They all walked up the stairs, and located cinema 7 out of the 20 that were there. They opened the door and walked in.
The entire cinema was about the size of a basketball theatre, with seats in a circular direction, and in the middle was a screen that seemed to be double sided. They had entered at the side, were all they could see one long thin side of the two extremely large screens. The previews for other movies had already started.
"Interesting design," Sora muttered.
"It's the only kind in the world, they have theories that it will be like this around the world in about 10 years from now," Kairi whispered.
"Well, 11 and a half, but, same difference," Sora shrugged, and Kairi began to look for seats, but was grabbed by Sora.
"What?" Kairi asked.
"Well, you might want to wait until the others have found a seat, so we can sit somewhere away from them," Sora explained.
"Why?" Kairi again asked.
"Because thanks to the knowledge I posses, and my mind reading ability gift that is also at my disposal, I know for a fact that all Namine and Yuna want to do is to make out with Roxas and Axel, now I ask you, do you want to be in the middle of that?"
"No," Kairi said almost instantly, to which Sora laughed.
"True, very true," Sora smiled.
Sora and Kairi only had to wait a couple of minutes before Roxas, Namine, Yuna and Axel had chosen their places. Sora and Kairi then picked a place on the opposite side, and sat down in maroon colored soft seats, eating popcorn, and enjoying the movie, laughing at the funny parts, and in all that time, they had no idea how close they actually were. Sora would occasionally point to what the two other couples were doing, to which they would both laugh, and for one brief, tiny second, Kairi was jealous of the fact that Namine got to kiss her Guardian Angel.
Once the movie ended, Sora and Kairi got up, and joined the crowd in navigating their way out of the theatre. They were the first to reach the lobby, where they patiently waited for the rest. When they had all joined together, Namine questioned where the two had gone.
"Oh, we lost track of you," Kairi smiled as she lied her way out of the situation.
"Come on, I'm starving, lets get something to eat," Axel whined, and in agreement, everyone walked out of the movie theatre, down the street, and down a couple of stairs into an underground.
When they reached the bottom, Sora and Roxas were once again astounded. Every fast food franchise known to man was there, as well as some that had been originated on the Destiny Islands.
"Oh, god, you should try the Final Burger Bar, they sell some of the best chips on the Destiny Islands," Kairi stated, and the look on her face showed that she desperately wanted those chips.
"Well, I can't pass up an offer for the best chips on the Destiny Islands," Sora smiled, and with that he was dragged to one of the many food shops, where the group ordered 2 large chips. While Sora and Roxas waited, Kairi, Namine, Axel and Yuna went to find seats. As they sat down, Namine turned to Kairi.
"So, you and Sora, aye?" She smirked.
"What are you talking about?" Kairi asked.
"We saw you, talking, eating popcorn, hands touching," Namine giggled, as Axel and Yuna joined in.
"Oh, hark whose talking, you were making out with Roxas…" Kairi pointed her finger at Namine, before rounding it on Yuna and Axel, "…and you two, I'm surprised you saw the movie, let alone what me and Sora were doing,"
"Yeah, but there is a difference," Namine told her.
"Oh, and what is that?" Kairi asked.
"Well, we're already going out," Axel held Yuna closer.
"And me and Roxas are single," Namine smiled.
"What are you implying?" Kairi looked at them with shifty eyes
"You're already going out with someone," Namine pointed out.
"Namine, me and Sora are just friends ok, nothing more, nothing less, so would you please stop thinking that we will ever be anything more," Kairi angrily pleaded.
"Ok, ok, just for you, we'll stop," Namine smiled, as she hugged her best friend, just as Sora and Roxas walked over, carrying 2 paper bags. They greeted everyone, and placed the bags onto the table, where they opened them up, and joined them together. Sora and Roxas were given the honor to taste the first chip. They popped it into their mouth.
"Oh, these are delicious," Roxas said, taking another one.
"Actually, they're not bad," Sora nodded to Kairi, as he took another chip, and with that everyone began to dig in, talking about the movie, things that had happened in Midnight, and slowly, the chips decreased and decreased, until there were none left.
"Well, I'm stuffed," Axel patted his stomach in a satisfactory way.
"Yeah, lets go shopping again," Yuna jumped up.
"Actually, me and Roxas do need to pick up one thing," Sora stated.
"What?" Namine asked.
"We need to get some new phones, our old ones where broken in the trip," Sora explained.
"Well, the best place to go would be 4Ever, that's the main form of communication on the Destiny Islands," Kairi explained.
"Alright, sounds like a plan, me and Roxas will go…" Sora began, but was cut off.
"Forget it, we'll go with you, it'll be fun to go phone shopping," Kairi smiled, and with that they all walked up the stairs, into the busy street.
Yuna was quickly able to locate the 4Ever phone shop. A black building with '4Ever' in solid gold, with its slogan underneath, 'Communication that will last 4Ever' written in red. They all entered the shop, and observed the numerous phones mounted on the walls. Some were made from the Destiny Islands, but there were many others, from all over the world. Roxas took his time in finding a mobile, while Sora merely walked up to the counter, and asked to purchase an Black 32 gigabyte iPhone 3GS on prepaid, They gave him the phone, as well as a 4Ever prepaid sim card. Sora said that he would wait outside while Roxas chose his phone to the others. As Sora walked outside, Kairi said something about joining him, and followed him outside. Once she had closed the door, she saw Sora throwing away the sim card.
"You're going to need that for the phone," Kairi stated, to which Sora chuckled.
"Kairi, I'm an angel with the ability to bend reality itself into my will," and as soon as he said that, he clicked his fingers over the sim card slot, and instantly the phone activated.
"Hmm, I've never liked hard plastic," Sora muttered to himself, and he snapped his fingers over the back, and he back cover changed from black hard plastic to metal with a black thick line at the bottom, and a black apple symbol, identical to the original iPhone.
"You can't do that, others will notice," Kairi stated, to which Sora rolled his eyes.
"Please, they won't notice," Sora stated, before turning back.
"Now what else…oh, scratch resistant and invincible, as well as water resistant," Sora clicked his fingers and then dropped the phone on the ground, to which the distinct sound of metal hitting the ground could be heard. Sora picked it up, and Kairi looked to see no scratches on the side.
"No smudges on the screen," Sora clicked his fingers on the screen, then swiped his fingers over the bottom of the screen to unlock it. There wasn't a smudge on it.
"Signal increased to include signals from all over the World, including Heaven," Sora clicked his fingers over the top
"Wireless connection anywhere I go, including 3G cellular networking," Sora clicked his fingers over the bottom
"Increase memory to 9999 terabytes, should be enough," Sora said to Kairi, to which she laughed.
"More than enough," She smiled.
"Now, lets see, every song ever made," Sora clicked his fingers, and in a matter of seconds, songs began to appear in the iPod.
"Every movie, TV show, music video and podcast," Sora clicked his fingers, and like the music; the TV shows, the movies, the music videos and the podcasts began to fill up in his phone.
"Contacts of everyone on Earth, including phone numbers, emails and addresses, to be updated every year at this time," Sora clicked his fingers again, and Kairi only assumed that around about 5 billion people's information were being beamed into his phone.
"Anything else?" Kairi rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, 12 megapixel camera, including full camera functions, and, a couple of my favorite games that I'm thinking of right now," Sora smiled, as he made the finishing touches to his phone.
Kairi giggled, "Nice phone,"
"I thank you," Sora bowed, as he slipped the phone into his inside jacket pocket, just as Roxas and the others came out from the store.
"What you get?" Sora asked.
"A Motorola RAZR2 V9x," Roxas held up the phone box, showing a slick, thin black phone.
"I'll need you to have a look at it tonight," Roxas smiled, and winked at his brother, to which Sora smiled, and nodded.
"Ok, so, where to next?" Roxas said, as he began to take out his phone and place the sim card into the phone.
"Well, I wanted to check out one of the dress shops, I saw a beautiful blue dress," Yuna sighed at the memory of the dress
"But I want to buy that new Halo game at one of the game stores," Axel whined.
"Don't worry, look, me and Sora will go with Yuna to look at her dress, while Roxas and Namine can go with you to get the new game," Kairi said, to which everyone agreed it was a good plan (except for Sora at first). So, the 2 groups went their separate ways, one to the dress shop and the other to the games store.
In the dress store, Kairi and Yuna gazed at the dress for a full 10 minutes, while Sora sat on one of the chairs playing Super Monkey Ball on his phone. Finally, Yuna pulled it off the rack, and got dressed into it. When she stepped out, Kairi smiled so radiantly, and even Sora looked up from his game and smiled.
"Yuna, you look absolutely gorgeous, you should buy it, it suits you," Kairi smiled.
"Oh, I would love too, but have you seen the price, I can't afford it, its $2000," Yuna sighed.
Sora stood up and slid his phone back into his pocket, "Don't worry about it, I'll buy it for you," He smiled.
"Sora," Kairi was flabbergasted, while Yuna's mouth just fell open.
"Well, you said it yourself, that dress really suits her," Sora grinned.
"Sora, it's $2000, are you sure you can afford it?" Yuna asked.
"Yuna, I have enough money to buy the entire Destiny Island, as well as 64% of Earths companies, I'm sure I have enough," Sora smiled in a friendly manner.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you," Yuna squealed as she jumped up and gave him a hug, to which Sora gave an even larger grin.
"I'll go get the dress off, so you can pay for it, I don't know how I'll ever repay you," and with that she rushed off into one of the change rooms.
Sora turned to Kairi and said, "Would you like anything, my treat?" to which Kairi began to laugh.
Sora paid for the dress with what Kairi could only see as a pure gold card. Before she could get a better look, he slipped it back into his back pocket.
As they set off down the street, Yuna, who had some sort of happy euphoria around her, swung her bag with her dress, and spun around.
"That was a very nice thing you did," Kairi nudged Sora.
"Hmm, I suppose it was, yeah," Sora smiled.
"Why did you do it?" Kairi curiously asked.
"Well, everyone deserves a break, every once in a while," Sora stated.
"Oh," Kairi nodded her head.
"Plus, she did look good in that dress," Sora smiled, and he laughed along with Kairi, feeling the same euphoria Yuna had.
How it ended so quickly.
The happiness blinded the three from the screams of the other people on the street, the tires of the van against the path, with tainted windows, painted blue, and going full speed. Sora was the first to know. His eyes widened when he saw that the Kairi was in the middle of the vans pathway.
"KAIRI!"
Kairi's smile disappeared when she saw what was coming towards her. A split second, that's all the time she had. It seemed to go by so slow. One minute she couldn't feel anything. The cool breeze, the hard ground. She couldn't hear anything, the screams of the people. She couldn't see the van, coming closer and closer towards her. Then she felt something, on her wrist. Warm, relief, the hands of her Guardian Angel, then the sensation of being pulled, the wind as she flung towards him, into his chest, her adrenaline matching his heartbeat. She looked straight away to see the van fly past her, and even though she was out of danger, her view continued to go in slow motion, because someone else wasn't out of the Danger.
She didn't even stand a chance. She hadn't even seen the van. Because she was too happy. Her final thought wasn't of fear, or sadness, or anger, but of happiness. To her it wasn't her last day; it was one of the best days of her life.
Kairi had always assumed that when someone died, it would be a sad day, with rain clouds, and darkness. It was almost as if fate were mocking this death, with the sunshine, clear air.
There was no more euphoric happiness in those three, there was sadness, and anger, and nothing, sadness at the death, anger at the death, and nothing, because of the death.
She didn't even feel the car buckle her. She didn't feel the concrete hit her head, or the tires run her over. She didn't feel her body bounce up and down as the car drove off of her. But her friends felt it. Kairi felt it in losing one of her best friends. Sora felt it in losing yet another person who mattered to him.
They both felt Yuna die that day.
Kairi ran from the comfort of Sora, he didn't try to stop her, he wouldn't. She ran to her body as she got down, seeing the blood pouring from her head. She rolled her over, to see a look of peace on her face. The look was not of fear, or sadness, but the look that would show her face forever was peace.
And then a new substance came in the form of Kairi's tears. "No, it can't be," She sobbed, holding onto Yuna's body, feeling her lifeless body, wishing that she could reverse it.
Sora merely stood there, silently, not a drop from his eyes came down. Instead, he reached into his pocket and withdrew the Reality Discontinuance Device, and pressed down. Instantly, everyone stopped, those who had not seen what had happened, had normal facial features frozen, while those who had, had faces of fear, or terror, or angst frozen on them.
Sora walked over to Kairi, bent down and took her by the shoulder. He brought her back up, and she instantly turned around cried into his shoulder.
"No, It's not fair," She sobbed, as she beat her arm against his chest.
"I know, and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Sora whispered into her ear.
"Why did she have to go?" Kairi cried.
Sora didn't have an answer for her, he just held her in her arms, his hand against her head.
"Listen, we haven't got long, I'm suppose to bring her up," Sora stated, pulling her away, and looking deep into her tear-ridden eyes.
"Up to where?" Kairi asked.
"To heaven," Sora said simply.
"You mean she's going,"
"Yes, but listen, I have a couple of minutes, do you want to say goodbye?" Sora asked her.
"What?" Kairi asked, as if she had heard wrong.
"Would you like to say goodbye, don't ask me how, just say yes or no," Sora said quickly and sternly.
"Yeah, yes, of course," Kairi said slowly, the tears slowly disappearing.
Sora then placed both his hands on her temple, and instantly closed his eyes. Kairi copied him.
"Open, Kairi, see her again, open your mind, and see your lost friend," Sora calmly said, and then he let go. Kairi opened her eyes slowly, and looked over to where Yuna's body was, and almost feinted.
There, standing next to her body, was Yuna, looking perfectly normal. Slightly scared, but other than that, she looked normal. Kairi reached out to touch her, but where her hands met her face, all she could feel was cold air, nothing.
"It isn't the real Yuna, that's just her soul. Your mind is portraying that image you want to see, all humans right now, if they could see the dead on earth would see Yuna exactly as she had been, whereas Angels, on Earth, see something different," Sora explained.
"What do you see?" Kairi asked softly, not taking her eyes off Yuna.
"Merely, a feint orb, in other words, her soul," Sora sadly said.
Kairi then said the only thing that was in her mind, "Yuna,"
"Kairi, is that you," Yuna looked in Kairi's direction, as if she couldn't see her.
"Why can't she see me properly?" Kairi asked.
"She can only see the dead right now, hold on," Sora then snapped his fingers, and instantly, Yuna's focus was directed to Kairi.
"Kairi, what's happened?" Yuna asked, fear in her voice.
"Yuna, your…your…" But Kairi just couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence; she could feel a new wave of tears coming.
"Yuna, you just died, you were hit by a car, you felt no pain, that is why you haven't realized yet,"
"Sora, how come I can see you, how come I'm talking to you," Yuna asked, still scared.
"I'm an Angel, specifically, I'm a Guardian Angel, I was sent here to protect Kairi, I'm sorry that I couldn't save you as well, but listen, shortly I shall take you to heaven, you will be introduced to the Father, and you will be taken into the care of your grandmother," Sora explained.
"My grandmother?" Yuna asked, looking into Sora's eyes.
"Yeah, she is waiting for you, but Kairi wanted to say goodbye," Sora said, and with that, he took a step back, checking his watch every now and then.
Yuna looked at Kairi, who sadly chuckled, "Gosh, now I don't know what to say,"
"So, a Guardian Angel, hey," Yuna giggled, to which Kairi laughed, tears falling down her cheek
"I'm going to miss you, Yuna," Kairi cried, with a smile still on her face.
"I'm going to miss everyone, Kairi, make sure you say goodbye for me will you, and make sure everyone is attending the funeral, especially Axel," Yuna said, smiling.
Kairi almost gasped, Yuna never knew that Axel had been under mind control. She wondered for a moment whether to tell her the truth. For a split second, Kairi looked over to Sora, who was busy looking at his watch, but in that split second, Sora sharply shook her head.
He's right she thought; let her leave this world in love.
"He really loves you, you know," Kairi giggled with Yuna.
"Guys, you have one more minute, and I have to take her up," Sora called out.
The words stuck to Kairi, how was she suppose to say goodbye in one minute, and then she blurted out what she was wishing.
"I don't want you to go, Yuna," Kairi began to cry again.
Yuna sighed sadly, "I don't want to go either, but, my gran, Kairi, remember my gran?"
"Yeah, I remember her," Kairi sobbed as she shook her head.
"Now I can spend eternity with her," Yuna smiled.
Kairi swallowed down a bucketful more of tears, as Sora came over.
"Times up, we gotta go," Sora said sadly.
"Ok," Yuna said to Sora, and then she turned to Kairi.
"Goodbye, Kairi, I will always remember you," Yuna waved to which Kairi waved back.
"Kairi, I'll be back home tonight, I'll see you then?" Kairi's lip trembled as she nodded.
As they were about to take of, Sora looked down on the ground, to see the blue dress he had bought for her.
"Oh, one more thing," Sora snapped his fingers, and the dressed disappeared in a white light, and reappeared on Yuna.
"Because, you look really good in that dress," Sora smiled, and his wings appeared from his back, wrapped around Yuna, and a white orb appeared in the middle, growing, growing until they were shrouded in it, then it grew brighter for a second, before it disappeared, with Sora and Yuna inside it.
Then Kairi broke, falling to the ground, crying over Yuna's body, tears pouring down Yuna's body, coming from Kairi. She didn't even notice that time was running again, she didn't notice the crowd circle around her, or Axel, Roxas and Namine break through the crowd, Axel crying alongside Kairi, with Roxas holding Namine, a look of seriousness on his face, shown for the first time since he had arrived on the Destiny Islands.
And it was that moment, that moment as she was being led away by the police, giving them statements, her mother crying as she came in, to see her baby alive and well, being driven home, calling Riku, and telling him what had happened to Yuna and that she was alright, it was that moment that she finally came to truth about what had happened, and the outcome of the situation.
Yuna Smiles was dead.
12------12
Kairi felt sick. She didn't want to move, didn't want to eat. How could she eat, or even sleep, after what she had seen that day. All she wanted was to know how Yuna was going. Until then, she would lie on her bed, and wouldn't move an inch. Not even for whoever was knocking on her door at that moment.
"Mum, I told you, I don't want anything to eat, because I'm not feeling that hungry," Kairi called out.
The door opened, and Sora's had peered through.
"It's only me, hello," Sora said, as he slid through, his wing just coming through as he closed the door.
"Since when do you knock?" Kairi asked.
"Well, I didn't think you were in the mood for me to appear without letting myself be known," Sora said, as he pulled up a chair.
They sat in silence for a few moments, not talking, the only sound were the crickets outside.
"How is she?" Kairi asked. She couldn't even bring herself to say her name, for fear of breaking out in tears again.
"Fine, I brought her to her grandmothers, she seemed really happy, they were having cake when I left…"
"It's all my fault!" Kairi burst into tears, holding the pillow up to her eyes, to wipe the numerous tears coming out.
Sora instantly jumped up, brought her up to the side of the bed, and held her.
"No, no, no, no, of course not," Sora calmly said into her ear.
"If I hadn't suggested that stupid trip, then none of this would have happened," Kairi blubbered into her pillow.
"Kairi, listen to me, when you woke up this morning, did you think that there would be a risk one of your friends would be run over? Did you think there was a risk to taking her to Midnight?" Sora asked her.
"No," Kairi sniffled.
"Of course not, you don't assume those things, because they don't happen, If you assumed every possible worst thing that could happen, we would never get you out of the house, would we?"
Kairi stayed quite for some time, and liked being held by Sora. It was a comfort to know he had friends like Sora.
"If anything, it's my fault," Sora said, as he got up, and faced the wall
"What?" Kairi asked, not feeling up to standing up, as she hugged her pillow.
"If I had gotten over there, I could have saved her," Sora sighed.
"Sora, it was a spare of a moment thing, your mind could not have registered the situation, it was just going too fast," Kairi explained.
Sora chuckled, still facing the wall, "Maybe that's my problem, I try to save everyone, but when I let just one person down, everyone feels the pain,"
Kairi was about to ask what he meant by this, but Sora cut her off, "I'm going to tell you a story,"
"What story?" Kairi asked, and Sora turned around.
"The story of how I died," To which Sora sat down on Kairi's chair, and continued.
"Before we begin, it might interest you to know that I was not born last centaury, in fact, I wasn't even born in the last millennium. My brother and I were born on December 13th, 5538,"
"You were born in the future?" Kairi asked, shocked at this piece of information.
"Yeah, we were, born in the 56th Century, by that time, other species have let themselves be known to the human race, we shared in technology, and we are spread out into 6 Galaxies. We were born on the beaches of Falsov VI, beautiful place, like what the Destiny Islands would be if it were just a world," Sora began to explain.
"So, you're an alien?" Kairi asked, to which Sora chuckled.
"Oh, no, we were born there, my Grandfather and Grandmother traveled there in their early steps of Marriage, died there on the beach as well," Sora nodded his head sadly.
"So, when you say that Roxas would have sex with anyone…" Kairi began.
"Yeah, anyone," Sora chuckled.
"So, that's why he's Bisexual," Kairi muttered to herself.
"What's a human male? When you can be with rock people, or goo people, or the Royal race of Polystax on the 3rd moon of petrabloc," Sora smiled at Kairi
"What about your parents?" Kairi asked.
"Ah, my mum and dad, such brilliant people. My father, James Jacobson, was an inventor, he built a device that could suck in Carbon Dioxide and change the element to Oxygen, solving the greenhouse gasses and stopped the holes in the Ozone Layer, made billions off of it. He called it the Rehabilitation Machine. Roxas wanted to call it the Zephyr Machine,"
"Why didn't you call it that?" Kairi asked.
"I don't know, I suppose at the end of the day, the Zephyr Machine just sounds like we took someone's name, and added machine to the end of it," Sora explained.
"True," Kairi raised her hand, indicating to go on.
"My mother, Natasha Jacobson, stayed at home with us, because, well, with the income we were making from the Rehabilitation Machine, she or dad never needed a job. Oh, the fun we had, we used to play on the beaches, swim in the water, and then we would go inside, and we would make dinner together, afterwards, we would all play bored games, or lie out in the sand. Interesting thing about Falsov VI, it's in a point in space that the sky always looks like a sunset. All the houses are fitted with screen shutters that block it out at night, make houses dim,"
Sora looked at Kairi to see that he was getting off track.
"Oh, right, well, anyway, it was around about 9:00, 25th April, 5555 when it happened. We were all sitting in front of the television, for once, watching a movie our parents had loved as teenagers, when we suddenly heard something. It was the sound of wood creaking. My dad instantly told us to get down into the basement, and to stay there. We were all going down the stairs when we head dad struggling with someone. I ran back upstairs, while Roxas pushed my mother down. I darted across, and hid behind one of the cupboards. I saw a man, dressed in black, holding a gun at my father, while I saw another run down into the basement. I knew Roxas would keep our mum safe. I saw the man click the side of the gun, and I knew what was happening. And then, I don't know, I just ran towards my dad, and as the gun fired, I felt the bullet pierce through my heart. I saw the man run, my dad holding me, crying, and then I blacked out,"
Sora stayed quite for a few minutes, as if in his mind he was reliving the memories of that day. Kairi gave him a few moments, hugging her pillow even tighter.
"What happened next?" Kairi asked quietly, and that seemed to bring him out of his trance.
"When I came to, I was dead, and I saw a future Cloud standing next to me, explaining what had happened. I was brought to the father, along with Roxas, being lead by a future Leon. The Father explained that due to the fact we had protected our father and mother, we were welcomed into the Haven's Elite. We were then told that we weren't needed in the future yet, but our place was in the past. We were brought along to a gap in time and space. We were told that we would be taken back to 1499, and we wouldn't see our parents for around about 4000 years. We didn't want to go, but we had to. We went through the gap, through time and space,"
"What did that feel like?" Kairi curiosity got the better of her.
"Time is a very strange thing and can do some very strange things to the body. We were both knocked out due to the power of the Time Cosmos. When we were reawaken, we both had beards, and our eyes, above all, looked older than the rest of us,"
"Oh," Kairi whispered.
"Anyway, the Father promoted us for doing something which most would not have done, to the rank of Two, and for 500 years, we have been protecting," Sora ended his story.
"All that you've been through, being taken away from your parents, not to see them again for 4000 years, oh Sora," And Kairi jumped up from her bed, ran to Sora, and gave him a hug.
"What you have been through," She whispered.
"You get used to it," Sora sadly said as he looking away.
They stood there alone, Kairi hugging Sora for a few minutes, before Kairi let go, and walked over to the bed, and got in.
"The pain you have been through," Kairi said, as a tear fell for Sora.
"Do not cry, Kairi, it does not suit you well," Sora walked over to Kairi, and whipped the tear away from her face.
"Goodnight, my poor Guardian Angel," Kairi mumbled as she fell to sleep.
Sora smiled at the beautiful girl, "Sweet dreams, my Princess of Heart," and with that, his wings wrapped around him, and in a flash if lightning, Sora disappeared. And although the sound had been loud, no one in that neighborhood heard it, that Poor Guardian Angel did not interrupt the sleep of the residents.
Next time on 12
A crowd of people gathers at a funeral.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today…"
Sora looks at Yuna's body.
"Sweet dreams, you beautiful girl,"
Sora and Kairi are yelling in a park.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU CRY!"
"BECAUSE I'VE SEEN ENOUGH DEATH IN MY LIFETIME!"
"You've forgotten what it means to be human!"
"I forgot what it meant to be human long before I met you,"
An angry Sora punches a brick wall in an alleyway
"She's stubborn, and hotheaded, and right,"
"Sora, what is wrong with you, you said you were going to control it,"
"Roxas, I don't know how long I can control it for,"
Guys, that was chapter one of the two stories I have to write, it was very dramatic that one, so, tell me what you think, did you cry, did you laugh, or was it ineffective to you what so ever to you, non-heartless and heartless people alike, tell me what you think, or if your theories of Sora and how he died were correct, so, please, review, review, review, I love you all, ok, bye bye, and look out for chapter 8, which should be up by next week.
