Easter Chapter
Bunnies were for girls, especially the pink ones. That's why Xion and Kairi liked them so much. But he hated them, the jumped too much and according to Vanitas, they had a billion babies every 2 days. That was way too many babies.
"I'm going to draw a bunny on my egg Roxas." Xion said. See? Girls loved bunnies.
"Well I'm drawing a shark on mine." Roxas picked up the white crayon and started to draw. He couldn't see what he was drawing yet but once he put it in the dye, everyone would be able to see the shark.
"You know Easter is for bunnies and eggs." Aqua said.
"Bunnies don't lay eggs." Roxas said, "Right Ventus?"
"Right, so I don't understand why they have rabbits and eggs together." Ventus mumbled.
"Because both rabbits and eggs can symbolize life. Bunnies have a lot of babies and eggs hatch babies." Aqua said.
"Eggs hatch babies?" Roxas asked curiously, he dropped his egg into the dye and waited, "How come we eat them then?"
"Well the eggs we eat aren't babies." Aqua said. Roxas sat back in his chair and looked around, Sora was coloring all over his egg with the white crayon, Ventus was playing with his phone, Xion was still drawing her bunny and Vanitas was eating something.
"How come you're painting your egg Aqua?" Roxas asked, "Why don't you dye it?"
"Because it will look beautiful if you paint it." Aqua said.
"And they'll be ugly if we don't paint it?" Sora asked absently.
"Well, not exactly." Aqua said, "They won't be as detailed." Roxas slid out of his chair while everyone was listening to Aqua, he was so bored. He hurried out of the kitchen and into the dining room.
"Roxas!" Xion came up behind him, "Look at my egg!"
"Shhh!" Roxas put a finger to his lips, "We need to be quiet or they'll make us go back in there."
"But look, my egg is finished." Xion held out her egg, "Isn't it pretty?"
"Hmm, there's a baby in that egg." Roxas took it, "I want to get it out."
"Get it out?" Xion reached for the egg, "No, it can't come out."
"Why not?" Roxas stepped back, "All babies can come out of wherever they hide." he shook the egg up.
"No stop!" Xion snatched it back, "You're doing it all wrong. You have to make the egg comfortable and keep it warm, it it feels safe it will come out. But if it's scared it'll die."
"How to we make it comfortable?" Roxas asked.
"With pillows and blankets." Xion set the egg down carefully on a chair, "I'll get a blanket, you get some pillows." Roxas nodded and went to find some. He couldn't use the living room pillows, they were covered in beads and designs. Ventus' pillows were too flat because people slept on them too much. But Aqua's pillows were fluffy. She hardly ever slept on them because she worked a lot, they would be perfect. He rushed up the stairs to Aqua's room and grabbed as many as he could. He saw Xion going into the storage closet and he rushed back into the dining room. He threw the blankets down and walked over to the chair that held the egg.
"I'm going to name you Alowishus." he whispered. What would the baby look like when it was born? A bunny? A bird? A person? He hoped it was a person. . . . People babies were really cute. He saw one when Ventus took them to the skate park. It couldn't walk by itself but it was really cute and he wanted one.
"Roxas, I couldn't find blankets so I just got towels." Xion dumped the towels by the pillows and started to arrange them for the egg, "How long will it take to hatch?"
"I don't know." Roxas shrugged.
"Hey why'd you leave the kitchen." Sora walked over, "Your egg finished Roxas." Sora held out his egg and Roxas ran over.
"We can hatch this one too." he put it next to Xion's egg and looked over to Xion, "Is the bed ready?"
"Yes, bring them over." Xion stepped back and watched Roxas place the eggs in the nest she'd created.
"Hey I want to hatch my egg too." Sora held out his egg, "I want a baby."
"Then put him in the middle." Roxas pointed, "and Xion go find a book to read to them, that will make them really comfortable." Xion nodded and hurried out of the room to find a book. Sora sat down near the eggs and sighed.
"Oh I bet they'll be pretty." he said.
"You have no idea what they'll look like." Roxas said, "But mine is going to be handsome just like Ventus is." Xion returned with the book and handed it to Roxas. "Why are you giving it to me? I don't know how to read."
"I don't either." Xion said, "But I bet Sora does."
"No, I can't." Sora shook his head. Roxas bit his lip and thought. Maybe if he just looked at the pictures he'd be able to tell what it said.
"I'll read it." he took the book from Xion and sat near the eggs, "Get comfortable." He opened it up and looked over the first page. There was a spider, he hated spiders. But this spider was trying to walk up a really long gray thing. Maybe it was a pipe or something. It started raining and the spider fell off, probably because the pipe got wet. But why was this spider even trying to climb a pipe anyway? There were pipes under the sinks in the kitchen, were there spiders on there? No. . . because it rained in the book so there was no way that could happen in his house. He turned the page again and noticed the spider was climbing back up the pipe. Well, Aqua once said that if at first you don't succeed, you should try again. But the spider had no reason to be climbing all the way up a pipe.
Unless. . .
It was climbing the pipe to get to the sink that was holding the veggies that Aqua was washing for dinner! How dare that spider, if he was around, he would have crushed the spider before it could ruin Aqua's food. "Stupid spider. . ." Roxas mumbled.
"Your supposed to be reading out loud." Sora reminded.
"No, that book is dumb." Roxas closed the book and shoved it under the table, "Let's just wait for them to hatch. I think that's all we need to do for them to be born now."
"We have to sit on it." Sora said, "That's how the birdies on the TV do it."
"Well..." Roxas thought it over, "This isn't actually a bird egg. It's a people egg."
"People don't come from eggs." Sora said, "People are mammals and most mammals don't lay eggs."
"What?" Xion blinked, "What's a mammal? Do you mean animal?"
"No, I mean mammal. . ." Sora said.
"No, you mean animal. And animals do lay eggs." Roxas said, "Now, back to the first thing."
"Do we sit on it?" Xion asked, "It won't break will it?"
"Not if you sit on it, because you're smaller than the rest of us." Sora said. Xion nodded and walked over to the pile of blankets. She slowly sat down and waited. "I'm naming my egg Hubert."
"I'm naming Xion's Alowishus." Roxas said, "I saw that name on TV. It's for smart people."
"You can't name my egg!" Xion said, "Name your own."
"I did, I named it Sharky." Roxas said, "But I had to name yours too." Xion crossed her arm and shook her head.
"I'm naming her Lily." She said.
Roxas rolled his eyes, Lily was a girl name and all these eggs were going to be boys. "It has to be Alowishus because he's a boy and he's going to be a genius." He explained. This egg would grow up and get rich and take them all over the world, but it couldn't if Xion named it Lily.
"My egg is a girl Roxas." Xion said firmly, "I know because-" she stopped short and gasped. Her look changed from shocked to angry, then to sad. "Oh no. . ."
"What?" Roxas asked. Maybe she'd finally realized how dumb of a name Lily was and was upset.
"You didn't hear that Roxas?" Sora asked. Roxas turned to his older brother and saw he looked shocked as well.
"Hear what?" Roxas asked. Xion bit her lip and stood slowly, "Did they hatch?" he asked. He stepped closer and looked down at the eggs. His smile disappeared and he stepped away, "What happened?" he asked sadly.
"They died. . ." Sora shook his head.
"How?" Roxas asked. He fell to his knees and crossed his arms. How did this happen? He, Alowishus, and Sharky were supposed to go far and be millionaires. But now they were dead. . . "How did they die?" he asked again.
"I. . ." Xion started, "I squished them. . ."
Roxas glared at her, then Sora, then the eggs, then Xion again. "How? Sora said you couldn't because you were too little!" he stood up, "I'm telling!" He ran out of the dining room and into the kitchen, "Aqua!"
"Roxas, there's no need to shout. I'm, right here." Aqua said sternly, "Now what is it?" He ran over to her and hugged her legs.
"Xion killed my babies." He cried, "And now my life is over."
"You had a baby? With who?" Vanitas asked.
"Xion and Sora," Roxas wiped his eyes, "but it doesn't matter because Xion put her fat butt on them and they all died."
"Wait, where'd you get babies?" Ventus asked.
"They were going to hatch from our eggs." Roxas explained.
"I don't think so." Vanitas said, "Those eggs were boiled already so anything inside them were dead before we started dying them."
"Who boiled them?" Roxas asked.
"Aqua." Ventus answered. Roxas' eyes widened and he pushed himself away from Aqua.
"It was you! You killed my kids!" he shouted.
"Roxas, you really need to work on your inside voice." Aqua said. Roxas looked up at Aqua, she wasn't even listening to him, nobody was. Aqua just wanted him to shut up so she could paint, Vanitas just wanted to eat his food and Ventus was, well maybe Ventus was listening, he couldn't tell.
"Aqua, why don't you care that you killed my only family?" He ran out of the kitchen before they could answer.
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"What the heck was that?" Vanitas asked slowly, "He had babies with Xion and Sora? How is that even possible?"
"Cut it out Vanitas, he's really upset." Ventus said.
"I think you have a bigger problem on your hands, Roxas thinks boiled eggs are his only family." Vanitas said.
"A bigger what?" Aqua asked blankly.
"Were you even listening to him? He was crying his eyes out to you." Ventus said.
"Does this look like a bird?" she held out her egg to him, "I was never good at painting birds." Ventus sighed, of course she hadn't been listening. He'd have to go up there and talk to Roxas himself. The kitchen door opened and Sora and Xion entered slowly.
"Vanitas. . . I got egg on my pants." Xion said quietly.
"What happened to Roxas?" Sora scanned the room, "Did he tell on us?"
"He did." Vanitas said, "Come on Xion, you need to change your pants." Vanitas took Xion out of the room.
"I didn't mean to squish them you know." Xion told Ventus as she left the room.
"She didn't, I told her too."
"You told her to squish those eggs?" Aqua asked. She set down her egg and paint brush, "Why would you do that?"
Sora put his hands behind his back and frowned, "Well. . . I saw on TV that birds sit on their eggs. So I got Xion to do it because she's little." he looked up to Ventus, "But I didn't know they would die."
"Well, people are a lot heavier then birds." Ventus said, "Hey, where did you guys try to hatch those eggs?"
"In the dining room." Sora said.
"I'll clean it up, come on Sora." Aqua stood up and led Sora away. That meant he had to talk to Roxas about his "babies" He stood up, grabbed one of the eggs he'd dyed, and left for his room. He'd have to show Roxas that these types of eggs were food not people.
"Roxas?" he entered his room and found Roxas messing around in his closet, "What are you doing?"
"I read a book about a spider climbing up a pipe so I'm going to go down into the kitchen and kill it."
"What?" Ventus blinked, "Um. . ." he stood in silence, should he remind Roxas of the eggs or just let him kill spiders? "Hey remember those eggs. . ."
"Yeah? They died." Roxas pulled a toy shovel bat from the closet, "And I'm hungry." Ventus rolled his eyes, how could he get over it that fast? "Can I have a boiled egg?"
"Are you serious?" Ventus asked, "Those are dead babies remember?" There was no way he got over the eggs that fast! Not even 5 minutes ago he was on the floor crying over the loss of his "babies"
"Um, Vanitas said they aren't. He said that the farm people only take the eggs that will never have babies so we can eat them and they keep the other eggs for themselves." Roxas said, "So these eggs were never babies."
"What?" Ventus sat down on his bed, "Vanitas told you that?"
"Yeah." Roxas said. He left the room and Ventus fell back onto his bed. He was supposed to tell him that. . .
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Sora stepped outside with the remains of his babies. He needed to hurry and have a funeral for them before anyone else showed. Any grown up people that is.
"I dug the whole Sora." Roxas said softly, "Put them in." Sora nodded and gently set the box into the hole.
"Now what?" Xion asked.
"We have to say words." Roxas said.
"Okay, I'll start." Sora cleared his throat, "They were beautiful eggs, mine was green. . . We will never forget the way they sat in the nest Xion made. . ."
"Or that Xion squashed them. . ." Roxas mumbled.
"Or that Aqua boiled them to death. . ." Xion added in her defense.
"Yeah, we won't forget any of that." Sora nodded, "But mostly we won't forget how brave I was when I rescued their squished bodies from Aqua's broom."
"This isn't about you Sora." Roxas said.
"No, it's not." Sora sighed, "Do you have anything to say Roxas?"
"I do." He stepped forward, "I want you to know. . ." he looked down at the pile of eggs, "Even though you were never born, I still love you." He sniffled and stepped back, "Xion?"
"I;m sorry I squished you. . ." she said quietly, "I just wanted you to be warm so you could be born."
"Are we all finished?" Sora asked, "We need to bury them now." Roxas picked up the toy shovel and began to cover the eggs with dirt.
"Here's the gravestone." Xion held out a rock, "We can put it right on top of the grave." Roxas nodded and took the rock. It was a large gray rock that she'd written on with pink chalk. . . pink? "We can't have pink words. They were all boys!"
"Who cares?" Sora snapped, "You have no idea if it was a boy or a girl, you just wanted it to be a boy."
Roxas looked away and placed the gravestone, "Come on." Sora took Xion's hand and led her into the house. Roxas stayed behind and stared down at the gravestone, he could barely read any of it but that didn't matter, all he knew was that underneath the rock were his children.
He lingered a few minutes before walking back into the house. It was still bright outside but he just wanted to sleep. He hurried upstairs into Ventus' room. "Did you kill that spider Roxas?" Ventus asked. He was standing near the window and looking out.
"Yeah, I killed it." Roxas said quietly. He climbed into the bed and shoved his face into a pillow, "If you don't mind Ventus, I'd like to be alone." he mumbled.
"Alright." Ventus said. Roxas heard him walk out of the room and he sighed again. He never wanted to almost be a parent again. But maybe this was a blessing in disguise, he was way too young to take care of a baby.
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"He's weird." Vanitas mumbled, "They all are."
"And you're insensitive." Ventus said.
"Yeah? Well at least I'm not crying over eggs." Vanitas said, he noticed the glare Ventus was giving him and sighed, "Why don't we dye some just like there's and give them those I bet that would make them happy."
"That's actually not a bad idea. . ." Ventus sat down and took three eggs, "This shouldn't take long." and it didn't, they had the eggs dyed in less then 20 minutes. Ventus put them in a basket and carried them upstairs with Vanitas following slowly behind.
"They really had a funeral for eggs?" he asked.
"Yeah, and they looked pretty upset." Ventus stopped in front of his door, "Here, you give these to Sora and Xion." He tipped the basket towards Vanitas.
Vanitas took out the two eggs and went to find them while Ventus entered his room.
"I said I want to be alone." Roxas mumbled.
"Yeah well I have a surprise for you." Ventus closed the door.
"What?"
"Well I was outside and I found this grave," at that, Roxas shot up. He turned towards Ventus and bit his lip.
"You didn't touch it did you?" he asked worriedly.
"I did, and guess what I found." he held up the egg, "Turns out he wasn't dead, he just needed time to heal up."
"Really?" Roxas asked skeptically. He crawled out of bed and looked the egg over, "He's all better now?"
"He is." Ventus handed him the egg, "Now why don't you put him somewhere safe?" He patted Roxas' head and left the room. He felt a lot better now that Roxas wasn't crying his eyes out into his pillow. He headed back into the kitchen and found Aqua on the floor wiping up something. "What happened?"
"I dropped one of the eggs I painted," she said with a sigh, "Poor baby didn't even get to have its picture taken."
"Poor baby. . ." he repeated slowly, "Baby?" It all made sense now. . . "It's your fault they think these eggs are babies!"
"What?" Aqua stood up, "What do you mean."
"Whenever you're around food, you talk to it like it's alive. You influenced them and now they thunk food is alive!"
"What? Are you serious?" Aqua sat down, "I guess your right."
"I know I'm right." Ventus nodded, "Now you have to explain to them that food isn't alive anymore."
"Yeah, I probably should." Aqua stood up, "I'll do that right after I finish cleaning up in here."
"No way! You can't do it now! I just replaced Roxas' old baby, if you tell him now, he'll know I was lying!" Ventus explained, "You have to wait until he forgets."
"I think it'd be better to tell him now." Aqua said thoughtfully.
"No." Ventus said, "You can't."
"Stop acting so stubborn Ventus, you just don't want to get caught." Aqua resumed cleaning the floor, "But if you really think I should wait, I will."
Ventus nodded and left the kitchen, he'd dodged two bullets today. He saw Roxas coming down the stairs with the egg.
"Hey Ventus, I remembered that Vanitas said these kind of eggs weren't alive." Roxas said.
"Yeah." Ventus said slowly, It looks like he'd spoken too soon. . .
"And earlier, Sora said that mammals didn't lay eggs. He also said that people were mammals." Roxas continued, "So I was thinking. . ."
"What?" Ventus asked cautiously, he had a feeling he knew what Roxas would ask next.
"If people don't have eggs, then where do babies come from?" Roxas stood and waited for an answer and Ventus tried to prevent himself from running away, how did he answer this again?"
"Uh. . ." he started, "Trees. Babies come from trees."
To Be Continued. . .
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This chapter made me sad. . . I know there are so many gramatical errors but I can't bring myslef to look for them. :(