"Sh-Shit" "Shit" Shit" it echoed around me. In the pitch black I couldn't see anything but I could hear Meg cursing to herself.
"Meg calm down!" Wanessa's commanding voice came from right next to me. I let out a yelp of surprise and accidentally smacked her arm. She smacked me back.
"Does anyone else get the feeling their falling?" I asked, rubbing my stinging arm. I got a murmur of a response from Nessa and another swear from Meg. "Because that light down there seems to be coming closer."
"Maybe we died." Nessa said in wonderment.
"Well death is boring," Meg complained. And we floated downward for a really long time.
"That thing kind of looks like Belle." I looked around and now noticed I could see the outlines of my two friends. A few more minutes passed and we could make out Belle in her beautiful yellow dress on tinted glass. There were three pedestals spread across the circumference of the circle.
I thought we were coming up on the glass really fast, but when my feet touched the surface I felt weightless. I looked around and the pedestals were just plain silver. There was a blue Mickey Emblem on each one.
"Okay…" Nessa said, thinking logically, "who hit me on the head?" Meg and I looked at each other and then back at her. "You were fighting over the water now someone has to have accidentally knocked me in the head and now I'm dreaming."
"Well that would make sense," I started off quietly, "IF WE WEREN'T HERE TOO!" I knocked her in the head lightly. She sighed and we continued to discuss it.
"Where the hell are we?" Meg was standing on the edge of the class circle looking down. She stepped back and looked at the two of us.
"There has always been a battle between darkness and light." We all jumped, searching for the source of the deep voice that suddenly pierced the silence. It was a calming voice, deep and soothing. "There have always been three warriors fighting alongside those who already exist." Three chiming noises echoed into the blackness surrounding us. Above the pedestals a sword, a shield, and a magic staff appeared. "Choose your weapons wisely. For not only do they decide your fate, but they are also a part of you."
We were all silent for a moment, each of us looking at the weapons. Immediately Meggan ran toward the staff and tried to pull it out of the air. Her hand would pass just below it. Then she jumped up and her fingers clamped around it.
"Wait! Meg!" Her fingers slipped through the staff once more and she landed on the glass. Nessa and I ran up to her. "The voice said to choose wisely. You just can't run up and pick something at random!"
"But this wasn't at random!" She complained. "I feel something from this." We looked at her skeptically. "Go and stand between the other two!" She said and returned to her jumping.
Standing in between the sword and the shield with Nessa was interesting. In a small way I felt a tug towards the shield, but the sword was tugging at my heart with most of its force. "Do you feel that?" I whispered. Nessa nodded. I started walking towards the sword and to my surprise she was headed towards the shield. With the same birthday I thought we would feel a tug towards the same one.
I reached the sword and stood underneath it. The pedestal reached up to my hips and I put both hands on it to climb on top. I reached up and grasped the golden hilt of the sword. It felt good in my hand and immediately the full weight of it was released on me, but I could easily hold it.
I turned to see Meggan finally get a grasp on the magic staff. The top glowed bright blue and I could see her face glowing with power. Wanessa was strapping the shield to her wrist. It fit easily over her arm and rested lightly on it. I jumped down and walked to the center of Belle's dress and waited for them.
The ground started to shake and from the edges of the glass a loud cracking sound erupted from the darkness. The glass was shattering. Along Belle's head a glass stairwell appeared.
"RUN!" I called to them; they were closer to the exit than I and they reached it before I did. I ran as fast as I could to the stairs but I could feel with every step the weakening glass cracking even more.
"RACHEL RUN FASTER!" Meggan yelled. I put my head down and pumped my legs harder, my sword moving in a blur with my arms. I jumped onto the stairs at the last second; my one foot catching into the black abyss below, but I pulled it onto the stairs.
"Good job!" Nessa patted me on the back. I nodded and half smiled at her.
"So…" I said, "we go up the stairs?" Another crack in the glass answered us.
"I would say yes," Meg took off running up them, followed closely by Nessa and myself.
At the top of the stairs there was a huge white door. We walked tentatively towards it. My heart was thundering in my chest but I didn't want to turn back yet. Meggan grabbed the handle and pulled it open. A black fog spilled out and immediately spread around us. It curled up around my head and an enticing aroma filled my nose. I leaned into is foggy caress and breathed it in. I heard Meggan and Wanessa choking, but I couldn't seem to clear my head.
Before I opened my eyes I saw the image of silver hair moving through a dark hallway and shadows closing in behind the person. Then a disgusting face made of shadows and blood crossed my vision and I opened my eyes.
"Get away from the door!" I called. Meg and Wanessa jumped back immediately. I stood with my sword ready to strike. I squinted into the shadows, waiting for it to appear.
A huge shadow, approximately the size of a 20-story building squeezed through the door. Its huge head was right in my face and the breeze blew back my hair. I lifted my sword up and slashed it across the forehead. If this had been a video game the electric guitar would have come in already a band would have began slamming on their instruments. The shadow screamed and wretched the rest of its body through the door and stood up.
Throwing back its head it shot glowing balls of purple and black darkness from the hole in its stomach and they shot directly at the three of us. Wanessa held up her shield and knocked them back at it. Meggan dodged the magic and started to close her eyes and focus on a power that I couldn't see. I jumped between the moving legs and sliced through the particles of darkness. I cut deep into the shadows gooey center and kept going, though the screams and roars that escaped its lips were enough to make anyone curl up in a ball.
There was a loud moan and someone was pulling on my shirt, dragging me away from the underside of the shadow. It was coming down. I fell back on the person just as it crashed to the ground. It's fist gathering darkness from the ground.
"Thanks Meg!" I called and jumped back into the battle. My new skill was amazing, the power flowing through my sword filled me with strength. I lunged forward and cut into the shadow's hand. Wanessa and Meggan were right next to me. Wanessa knocking away and beating the smaller shadows in the head with her shield. Meggan was somehow shooting flames and ice into the mixture, making my left arm burn and freeze. I let out a howl and sliced through the hand and suddenly the world moved in slow motion.
The shadows moved around us like water, every droplet of it visible. The motionless world only lasted a few seconds. The monster screamed and the stillness shattered. The darkness dissolved and we were left standing on a rainbow of glass in front of the white door.
"I think its safe to go through now," Meg said. She propped the staff on her shoulder.
"That was a heartless," Wanessa said, looking dazed. I turned around and looked at her, realizing what she just said. "You guys," She whispered, being extremely serious, "I think we're in Kingdom Hearts."