Chapter VIII; New Worlds
Yuki looked around the common room as she entered. Everyone was gathered into their usual groups. But it was quieter than usual. Yuki walked over to X slowly looking over her shoulder at the others, not seeing anything out of the ordinary. X stood by the moogle trading munny for potions.
"Why is everyone so quiet?" Yuki asked in a whisper. X glanced at her quickly then looked down at the ground.
"Lady Tayressa's here. We don't want to anger her." X said quietly. He walked to a couch and sat down. He took out his suplies and began organizing them. Yuki leaned over the couch behind him.
"Why is she here?" Yuki asked. She didn't dare look up to search for Tayressa.
"No idea. She almost never comes into the common room." X said still not looking up.
Yuki thought it was weird. X seemed to be afraid of Tayressa. In fact most everyone in the room seemed to be afraid of her. So afraid they changed their behavior to avoid angering her. Was that respect? Or was it something else? Was this a sign she was a good leader or was she a terrible leader?
"Number 13, come here." Yuki tensed hearing Aysui call for her.
"Uh-oh." X muttered under his breath. Yuki glared at X before standing.
Yuki walked over to Aysui cautiously. She clasped her hands in front of her, almost like she was praying. She stopped in front of Aysui looking up at her nervously.
"Yes?" Yuki said swallowing nervously.
"Lady Tayressa has decided you are to accompany her to a newly discovered world." Aysui said calmly. Her eyes locked onto Yuki in a way that could be described as cold.
"Yes ma'am." Yuki said. Internally she was panicking. She thought over anything she could have done wrong. But nothing came to mind.
"Do you have everything you will need?" Yuki heard Tayressa's voice. It was smooth like always with the hint of something else. Something dark.
"Yes ma'am." Yuki said turning and facing Tayressa. She looked up at Tayressa making eye contact with the leader. Tayressa smirked at Yuki before giving a smile filled with fake sweetness.
"Then I see no reason for us to delay. We shall leave right away." Tayressa said, her eyes filling with a dark light. Yuki did not like where this was going.
Yuki nodded her head with out a word. Tayressa motioned to the side, summoning a dark corridor. She motioned for Yuki to step through the corridor silently. Yuki stepped through looking at the ground.
On the other side the ground was sandy. Yuki heard waves and birds calling. She stepped forward and looked up. Behind her Tayressa came through the corridor.
The world was an island. The water was a clear blue, reflecting the sky perfectly. There were palm trees of some sort bending all over. Bridges conected the main island to smaller ones. There were one or two shacks on the island too.
Yuki looked around awestruck. In the back of her mind she got a strange feeling. The island was familiar. Like the way so many other things were familiar. She had been here before, that was certain. But she couldn't remember when or why.
"This world is called Destiny Islands." Tayressa said calmly watching Yuki. Yuki nodded and continued looking around.
"It doesn't look like there's any people here." Yuki said. She walked forward a little.
"This isn't the main island. The Somebodies are on a larger island not far away." Tayressa said.
"But kids come to this island to play." Yuki said. The thought had just popped into her head and seemed correct. After all there were structures built here. They had to be here for some reason.
"That's correct. A great hero once walked these shores. His home is safe. No Heartless touch this land." Tayressa said. Her voice changed when she said hero. Yuki could tell whoever this hero was Tayressa wasn't fond of him.
"But we're here." Yuki pointed out. If Heartless could not touch this place how were they standing there?
"We are a special case. We are different then our lessers. We can trespass on worlds they never could imagine." Tayressa said dramatically. Yuki tipped her head to the side.
"How many worlds are there?" Yuki asked. She looked out over the water.
"Look to the night sky for your answer. Every star is a world. A world that we will one day control." Tayressa answered. She too looked out over the water. Her eyes hardening with determination.
"How, that seems impossible to control so many places at once?" Yuki asked. The stars were uncountable. You could never reach such a high number, it would take too long.
"The power Kingdom Hearts will give us when it is complete. That's why you are so important. With out you and Y we can never hope to recreate Kingdom Hearts." Tayressa explained. She cast Yuki a glance from the corner of her eye. The young ravenette was pondering her every word but not speaking.
Yuki was lost in her own world of thought. All this about Kingdom Hearts. A place she knew Heartless feared. Could they really control all the worlds? Yuki thought for a long time. She had a friend who wouldn't like this. Actually a couple friends. Yuki bit her lip. More weird thoughts. Friends who she couldn't remember by name, or face, or voice but knew how they would think.
Yuki walked along the beach slowly as if in a trance. She heard laughter, but it was distant like very far off or maybe a memory. She heard voices to go a long with the laughter.
"No fair!"
"Who said this was meant to be fair? Only the strongest will survive, and if we're going to get off this island we need to be strong."
"Come on Sora! You can do it!"
"Kick his ass Riku!"
Yuki stumbled a little feeling dizzy and light headed much like she had in Twilight Town. She put her her hand to the side of her head and closed her eyes.
Tayressa watched from a distance. She waited to see if Yuki would faint or not. This world held many memories for her. Maybe just being here would trigger them. Yuki shook her head and turned to Tayressa.
"That hero you were talking about, how long ago was that?" Yuki asked. The voices had sounded young. Maybe it was a memory of the hero.
"Under a year. But not by much." Tayressa responded. She was shocked to see Yuki still standing. After she had fainted in Twilight Town where she had been imprisoned, Tayressa was certain she would have fainted here.
Yuki looked out over the water again. She tried to memorize the voices she had heard, but they slipped away from her too quickly, like sand falling through an hour glass. She couldn't remember what they had said or what they sounded like. She knew two names had been said but she couldn't remember what they were. All she could remember now was she had heard them.
"Why can't the little Heartless come to this world?" Yuki asked suddenly.
"It has a strange protection on it. I can not really say why heartless no longer come here. They once came freely. Perhaps this world is too full of light." Tayressa answered thinking. Yuki nodded thoughtfully.
"If this place is so full of light why are we here?" Yuki asked. She walked away from the water closer to the in land.
"Though this world held great light it also held great dark. Long ago true darkness was held on this island, a prisoner until freed." Tayressa said watching Yuki. Her eyes never left Yuki as she wandered aimlessly around the shore.
"True darkness? You mean a person had that dark of a heart?" Yuki asked confused.
"Yes, humans are where darkness came from. Or do you not know the story?" Tayressa asked curiously.
Yuki shook her head. "I've never heard any story like that." Yuki said. Tayressa gave an odd laugh. Or at least, this seemed an odd time for her to laugh to Yuki.
"Long ago all worlds were one. A single world bathed in light. But the humans became greedy, they wanted the light for themselves. They soon began to fight over the light, and darkness was born in their hearts. They were consumed in their fight and darkness swallowed the world. Light was thought to be lost for good. But it survived and was scattered." Tayressa explained, motioning as she spoke.
"How did it survive?" Yuki asked curiously.
"It stayed in the hearts of children who recreated the lost world in all the small worlds you see today. But the true light still sleeps in the darkness." Tayressa answered.
Yuki nodded again. The story had brought another case of déjà vu. She had heard it somewhere before. Someone in her family had told it to her. Yuki stopped walking and looked at the ground, deep in thought. Now she was remembering family she didn't have. What was this world doing to her?
"Why are we here?" Yuki asked, looking up at Tayressa.
Tayressa smirked. "We came here to learn. An experiment really." She said casually walking down the beach. Yuki narrowed her eyes at Tayressa annoyed. Tayressa didn't acknowledge the cold glare from the young heartless.
"An old friend came from this island. I was always curious as to what his home world was like." Tayressa said after a pause. Yuki's harsh glare softened at Tayressa's words. Maybe it wasn't so bad they were here.
*3*
Yuki sat up on the clock tower in Twilight Town looking out over the area as the sun set. After her and Tayressa's discussion they had looked around the island for anything interesting and found nothing. Yuki came up to the clock tower after returning to the castle.
X and Y came up together like they usually would. Yuki said their twin telepathy let them communicate when they were to finish a mission though they both denied it.
"So what did the boss want with you?" X asked sitting down next to Yuki. Y sat down next to get brother.
"She showed me a new world. It was an island world and was amazing. And she talked about how the darkness came to be and the amount of worlds in the multiverse." Yuki answered simply. She took a bite out of the ice cream she was holding.
"And here I was thinking you had pissed her off and were getting yourself killed." X said. Yuki couldn't decide if he was joking or not. He sounded serious but X always sounded serious. Yuki laughed at his words, joke or not.
"X were you worried about her?" Y asked teasingly. X just glared in response which made both Yuki and Y laugh.
"You two are hopeless." X declared glaring down at the ground.
"Did you hear one of the Nobodies was killed?" Y asked suddenly. She had stopped laughing and looked very serious.
"Really? Do you know which one?" Yuki asked concerned. She hadn't seen any of the Nobodies around lately, for some reason it worried her to think Axel might have been hurt.
"We'll have to ask Roxas and Xion if they know anything when they show up." X said calmly shrugging.
"Don't you know?" Y asked curiously.
"No, all I know is it wasn't Larxene. Unfortunately." X replied. Yuki smiled a bit at X's words.
"It was one of the humans running around the castle wasn't it?" Yuki asked. X nodded.
Y let out a whistle. "Looks like their plan back fired. If their 'toys' are killing them." She said almost mocking the Nobodies.
"Who's toys are killing them?"
Yuki glanced at Xion who had just appeared on top of the clock tower. "We were just commenting on the death of one of your comrades." Yuki said answering her question.
"Oh, yeah. I hope it wasn't Axel. That would really upset Roxas." Xion said sitting beside X.
"You mean you don't know who is?" Y asked shocked. Xion shook her head.
"Saix refuses to tell us. He claims he doesn't know but I think he does. And to make today worse Roxas collapsed on his mission."
"Collapsed? Why?" Yuki asked. Her mind brought up thoughts of her dizziness in Twilight Town or on the island today. Was Roxas going through something similar?
"No one knows. He hasn't woken up yet. Or at least if he has they haven't told me." Xion answered. It was clear in her voice she was worried about Roxas.
"I'm sure he'll be fine." X said glancing at Xion. Xion nodded but didn't speak.
Yuki looked down at the ground far below. Her mind tried to process what was happening. It couldn't be a coincidence, all this happening at once. There had to be a reason for it all. They may not know it yet but it had to be there. Yuki was convinced there was no such thing as coincidences. But with her limited knowledge she couldn't fit the pieces together.
*3*
Day 26- New Worlds
Tayressa took me to a new world today. It was an island and was so beautiful. I got this weird feeling I had been on the island before. Tayressa also talked about how there were thousands of worlds, a world for every star. One day the power of Kingdom Hearts will let us control them.
On another note one of the Nobody's was killed. Xion didn't know which one. And Roxas collapsed on his mission. I'm worried about him.