You
know, it’s pretty weird getting used to the physical body after leaving it
unconscious for quite some time. Like the way he grabbed my arm and running up
these god awful stairs it all just feels so weird. Like I’m not used to my
skeleton running like this. I’m not used to my skin, my muscles, my cells…my
anything, to be honest. I mean, how could you get use to this? You’re told this
is your destiny, that the reason why your brother was pulled out of his world
was to follow his destiny that you don’t exist and that you are someone who’s
supposed to lead and guide people out of a war started by your birth parents
and all this other shitty stuff that I honestly would think that a whack job
with no life would what so ever created this sort of scheme. What’s more is…I
can’t get used to the fact that someone who freaking hated me is trying so hard
to be nice to me. Like why? Why now? Why is it now he wants to be all nicey
nice to me? Is it some sort of pity game or some form of redemption scheme? He
hasn’t even tried talking to me ever since he pulled me away from the lobby.
All he’s done is sit me down on this bloody ledge, which by the by this is a
freaking thirty-five story building (and I might be exaggerating or I might be
totally correct and question why he had me climb up so many god awful
staircases) and stared out into the oblivion of the sky. Not even a single
bloody word.
I
can’t really rule out the theory that he actually feels something for me because
to be quite honest, I don’t look like adorable material who causes others to actually
fall for me and seriously this guy used to hate me. Being stuck within my
sub-conscious, I sort of opened up a wound that was there and all it was were
these horrible moments where I was out-casted by him and his friends and where
I was singled out for like the shittiest of reasons. And when they finally
figured out the type of person I am, they just sort of dropped it. You’re just
going to push some girl of the edge and when you realize that’s wrong then…what
the actual heck man?
He
let out a huge sigh, still watching the night sky. Down below was really dark,
I’m guessing some fireworks are going to start soon. I didn’t really want to
peer into that sea of darkness, too afraid that if I fall it’ll feel too much
like a dream. But maybe that wouldn’t be so bad because…just dreaming about
this all would make a lot more sense than anything. I looked at him gazing out
into the sky. Words wanted to crawl out of my mouth but with us being high into
the sky and all of those rotten memories still trying to fill the holes,
letters didn’t want to form into words and coherent sentences. Isn’t that just
my luck?
A
small squiggly white line with a bag in its…teeth?...flew up towards us,
handing Lee the bag. I looked at it with curiosity, “Uh…what’s that?”
“Sea
salt ice cream.” He handed me a sky-blue popsicle, “This was sort of the first
thing you got when you first arrived here…thought you might want some…”
I
took the popsicle, still looking at the creature.
“Oh,
you mean her.” He introduced me to Courage, a petit dragon with long whiskers
and short spikey hair. She slithered towards me, curling up. “She misses
you…but…I guess that’s not what you want to hear from me…huh?”
“To
be brutally honest…no.” I looked at him, “I want to know why you would drag me
out to this festival, why you would put so much effort into not only coming to
get me from the islands but also showing me my past and rescuing from the deep
part of my subconscious mind when you could have just sat back on a lawn chair
and drank some iced-tea and watch me suffer under the weight of all of this
hoopla.”
Lee
looked at me with a broken straight face. He tried really hard to keep his
laughter in but couldn’t, “I’m sorry, it’s just you really still have poor
diction. You’re supposed to be this whole elite captain yet you still talk as
if you’re a kid.”
My
face flushed with rage, “I am a kid you dumbass. So are you! So is practically
everyone else I’ve run into! We’re all just a bunch of kids running around
playing hero!”
“If
only.”
I
rolled my eyes, “So are you going to tell me or should I just take the shortcut
down?”
“Even
if you fall off this ledge, most likely I’ll catch you and bring you back up.”
“Why?
Why would you go through such lengths for me? Why would you do so much for a
person you hate?”
“Ah…so
you saw all of those?”
I nodded. (Since none of you are totally aware
of what happened while I was stuck there let me give you a bit of a summary.
You see when I came here with Alexis and Karin, I was purposely singled out. And it wasn’t because I was the weird girl
with her hair and eyes matching the same shade of red because to be quite
frank, there’s a kid with straight up blue hair and it’s freaking natural like
what the hell? But in all seriousness, both Alexis and Karin had family here
and because their blood relatives were friends with these other kids, they just
sorta took them away from me and I had to put on an act like I was okay with it
because…I guess…I was really happy for them. They’ve always wanted to know who
their families were and if they were still alive and when they finally found
them I didn’t want to pry their happiness away from it. So I let it happen. I
let them bully me while I silently harmed myself because I couldn’t do harm
unto others and I didn’t want any sort of problems. And when they finally found
out, they were horrified but not only what they did but what they couldn’t see
behind an already broken mask. I hardened my heart. Taking nothing from them
and consequentially isolating myself from the only two people who actually gave
a damn about me. Maybe that’s the reason why I can’t remember all of that
because probably deep down inside, I wished I could change it all…)
He let
out another huge sigh, “I don’t know. Why would I do all of this for a girl I
probably don’t like? Maybe it’s because I feel bad for what I’ve done.”
“I’m
not a bloody charity case.” I sneered.
“I
know I’m not making you to be one. But…maybe I’m just fed up about the way I
treated you. I of all people should know what it’s like to be out-casted and
treated like a monster yet I did that to you because I never even knew if you
felt that way. Because whenever reports about you came in, whenever we had to
seek out others and we could only observe you, Karin and Alexis before opening
up a pathway for you three, you always seemed happy. Genuinely happy. And even
if you had these weird powers, you seemed to make it out better than everyone
else. But I guess that’s what I get for not knowing you at all and letting my
envy take over me.”
“Why
would you bother saving me?”
“Because
maybe I just want to know you more. I want to be able to see all the other
sides of you Karin’s always talking about and maybe I just want someone to and
maybe I…” he looked at me, “Maybe I just want to take back everything I’ve done
and start all over again.”
“Y-You
mean restart our whole meting?”
“Yeah.
Leave the past behind and start out fresh.” He extended his and out, “Hi. I’m
Lee Psyne. And I really like the color of Ravend Lilies that make up your hair
and shine in your eyes.”
I
blushed a bit. I shook his hand, “H-Hi…I’m Monique Hyori and I want to know if
there’s something else you’re keeping from me.”
“Yeah…”
He smiled, “Our destines are intertwined. You’re the fragment I guard because I
am your guardian and even though that’s a fact, it’s not the reason why I want
to restart our meeting.”
“Wh-what
do you mean by intertwined?”
“That’s
probably something we’ll both find.” He turned to see the lights firing away,
“Seems like the show’s about to start.”
“Hm?”
I looked up and out to the sky. The fireworks started and it wasn’t the quite
typical fireworks I had in mind. You know, the regular kind where it just
regularly shoots up into the sky with the sparkle of flame blooming out. No, it
was way better than that. People with wings were soaring around in the star lit
sky. As the fireworks shot up and exploded in the sky, they bended the flames,
enlarging them and creating wonders of arts. Tiny fire birds and butterflies
soared along with hell butterflies across the towns. Colored flames morphed
into dragons and flowers and petals, all soaring across the sky and everyone
just took it as a normality that always occurs. No word could ever describe its
beauty the images created. And yet…it finally occurred to me why so many
children were here. Why no one older than like twenty nine are roaming around.
I have been told a world like this should not have existed because of what it
protects. Because of the faults of the god’s who couldn’t figure out how to
keep Kingdom Hearts better protected.
Because out of all the people it would be protected by, it is protected by a
bunch of kids who have lost so much but aren’t willing to let others lose it as
well. It is protected by a paradise for lost children with the purest of
hearts…all wanting to find a place to belong to and finding it within each
other…perhaps this is the destiny I was meant for…
~
.
..
…
And
perhaps she is right. Perhaps what Monique truly believes is the truth. But
perhaps it is just her two cents into the madness that it is just about to
begin. Yet, both her and Lee are not worried by it. Watching the colored sparks
in the sky was all that they needed. Something grand to drag them away from the
horrid road up ahead. For when tomorrow comes, the preparation for the Great War
begins…however even if something horrific as wars come and plague the sad lives
of the youth, there is something that always binds the people. Something that
even two young teens starting off in their intertwined destiny can share. It is
that of love. The journey it takes them on.
Perhaps
growing up, you read these types of literature where one person looks at their
beloved in a way everyone wanted to be looked at. As if their existence is the
only thing that fills up their view. Even if the two are in a garden, a forest,
in the middle of the lake watching paper lanterns dance in the sky, or watching
colorful flames paint the starlit sky, the only thing they see is their
beloved’s interest in the scene giving the observer all the more reason to love
them over and over again.
It is
like that for Lee.
Gazing
at Monique’s excitement of elements colliding or her excitement over the rows
of light streaming down below. That picture perfect moment where one looks at
another and the whole world just seems to disappear…leaving the two in a place
all of their own…that is the spark of something that keeps the people looking
forward to a brand new tomorrow. For even when the rages of war comes, they
will be ready to end it just to see their loved ones faces again…and again.
On a
world that was never supposed to exist lies the faces of orphans, who were either
left behind by their parents who found a place to belong to, who are meant to
keep the multi-verse in place. And though it is strange to leave it to these
youngsters, we must always remember that it is they who do not exist anywhere
else, they who act like shadows to keep the worlds in balance and they who will
finish off what was once left behind. For this is not only the start of their
intertwined destines, but also the destinies of others, even the keyblade masters
who disappeared from Destiny Island. When the time comes, it will all click in.
So let the waves continue to crash into the sand bed, for their journey is
about to set sail.
[Arc: End]
~Fin~
