Chapter 2 - Confused & Helpless
Submitted July 12, 2006 Updated July 12, 2006 Status Incomplete | A story That I've worked on for a while. I have more to add but as for now I am working on some pics to go with it so bear with me.
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Chapter 2 - Confused & Helpless
Chapter 2 - Confused & Helpless
As I slowly begin to gain my conscience back, I noticed my vision was blurred. There was no feeling to some parts of my body including my hands and legs on through my feet. Last but not least I noticed that I was waking up in a secret waterway. With clothes and hair soaked I began to cough gasping for air with water compressed in my lungs. I began to wipe my eyes and try to clear my vision; I sat up on some rocks lying just beneath the water. Lying on my stomach, unconscious in the water hadn''t helped with the pain of each breath I took slowly. "Aerith, Yuffie GO!!! Get out of here!!" I heard an alarmed voice shout as I managed to stand up out of the water. My vision finally cleared. "Leon! I never get to stay and fight!" I heard a higher pitched voice, a girl, "Yuffie just go I can take care of this!" The argument went on.
~~~~~~~~~Me~~~~~~~~~~
I began to think back to the stories that Sora had told me about his adventures to other worlds, as we both would stand in the shallow part of the ocean on Destiny Islands. "Yea I met a lot of people in Traverse Town. Leon a fighter, Yuffie a ninja, and Aerith a nice friendly person. I thought she was the analyzer or the brains. A little too nice actually. You know me and you know that I''m used to people who are very distant and secretive. People who don''t open up easily. Remember when we first met? How I was? Closed off from the world?" Sora said to you. "Yea, Sora I think you''re the only person I can or could’ve opened up to. I have always been very distant. I lost trust for people a long time ago." The conversation goes on” I like girls like that. We need some girls with a backbone on this island. Keep it up and hang with me and you won''t have any problems out of anyone." We both shared a smile and looked up into the sun.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I got up and remember the names being called. ''Yuffie, Aerith, and Leon'' Sora knew them and maybe" I thought "they can help me find him." I began to stumble through the water. "Leon she doesn''t look so harmful." "Maybe not but we can''t be so trustful. The heartless can come back at any minute possibly in any form." I got up once again and finally made it to the dryer rocks where Leon, Yuffie and Aerith stood. The fall from where ever the vortex took me after I got separated from Sora, had really given me a headache. All the colors, the bright mixing with the darkness, the oxygen that slowly goes away and caused me to black out, and the speed you know, goes so fast but seems so slow. I look up at the man with the gun blade as he slowly raised it up. "Leon NO!! She''s not going to hurt you!" I saw a girl with short shorts, belly shirt, long stalkings and weird shoes scream at him. "Come on let’s just go. No harm done here so it''s fair." Another girl puts a hand on both of their shoulders. Wearing a long pink dress and boots. They began to walk in this place with stairs. Everything comes back to me, sight; hearing was completely back, smell, feeling, memories. "Wait!" I said with a raspy voice *cough* "Wait!" I began to cough up some water and I could breathe regularly again. "The name''s Leon right?" I stood up and dusted off my soaked jeans and tank top. "And you guys. You’re Yuffie and Aerith?" They walk up to me with concern. "Yea how did you know that?" Leon spoke for all when he asked you that question. I gave them all a glance then a cold wind blows through the waterway and I began to shiver. Leon steps forward, “Your cold. Come with us. There''s a hotel in the second district. You can tell us the story later." As I began to walk up the stairs slowly, looking back to see if the dark purplish warp hole was there. Aerith looked back at me and then I smiled and looked back down. I noticed Yuffie and Aerith staring at me again. "What?" I asked. "Here hopefully this warms you up. We should get to the hotel pretty soon." Leon takes off his jacket and wraps it around you. "Thanks." I said feeling confused wondering why they were staring at me and why Leon had given me his jacket. Suddenly I was feeling really sick, cold and hot, sick and fine, headache, chest was still recovering from the water, everything’s going black. As I''m inches from hitting the concrete stairs, Leon catches me. "Whoa! You guys we need to hurry!" "Oh, God is she alright?" Yuffie is alarmed. Leon picked me up and carried me the rest of the way, "We need to find out what''s wrong and if she''ll be ok."~~~~~~~~~~~~Hotel (Blue Room)~~~~~~~~~~“Leon do you think she’s gonna like this room?” Aerith asked him hoping to cheer him up slightly. “I don’t know. Hopefully she does.” Leon laid me on the bed carefully and motioned to Yuffie to go into the hall so that he could talk to her. “I need to speak to you Yuffie.” Yuffie looked at Aerith and then back at me as I laid sound asleep in this ocean blue room. “I’ll watch her.” Aerith quietly whispers. Leon standing at the door looking back at Yuffie with his hand on the doorknob. Yuffie walks towards him, “Aerith you can come too. I think we all might need to hear this.” Yuffie tells Aerith. As they walk out into the hallway I began to loose my color, and I’m getting colder, lips were blue and getting bluer, I felt as if I couldn’t breathe again, as I slowly slipped away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Ok Leon what’s this all about?” Yuffie asked with a look of confusion on her face. “Yea Leon what’s going on?” Aerith added. “It’s about her.” Leon admitted, “She looks like she’s from an island. The only world out there that’s an island is Destiny Islands….. Sora’s island.” Leon looked down for a moment. ”So you think SHE knows Sora?” Aerith said as she began to walk towards another door leading into the red room. “I don’t know but it seems as if she could. Actually I’m almost positive.” Leon began to lean against the wall and think, hoping Yuffie wouldn’t even try to understand the mystery, secrets and thoughts behind his eyes. “Leon….” “Yuffie please not now!” As Leon interrupted Yuffie he stormed off into the red room leaving Yuffie halfway in anger and halfway in tears, to notice Aerith standing with her back towards the door, not even trying to accompany or acknowledge his existence. “Aerith?” He said calmly after he slammed the door. Aerith turned around. Leon looked back at the door as Yuffie slowly walks in. “There’s no way. She can’t know Sora. It’s not even funny to joke about this Leon. Remember what Sora told us when we were at Hollow Bastion? After he sealed that keyhole it sealed the worlds. We don’t even know if Sora can leave Destiny Islands again. And besides you haven’t even told us how you know all of this.” Aerith looks at Leon straight in the eyes with anger, “You can’t just assume with no exact correct answer. You don’t even know her. And I’m tired off all your secrets!” Aerith finally finished her lecture and walked out on the balcony to sit and cool off. Yuffie started to walk back out into the hallway. “Yuffie wait.” Leon turned around to face her. “Not now Leon.” Mocking him she walked off. Leaving Leon confused and feeling guilty.~~~~~~~~~~~Back ~ to ~ me~~~~~~~~~ I lay there in the bed where Leon had left me. I looked around the room. I felt really cold as if I were dead. As if I had drown, (which I guess I could say that I nearly died back there in the waterway) but I didn’t feel like that had any affect on me. Considering the fact that I lived on an island, hidden away from everyone until Riku found me on the small island picking a paupou fruit. Selphie and her love of romance was griping about me and Riku overheard and had to go check it out. When Riku was at the center of the bridge he looked back to see if Sora and Kairi were behind him. I didn’t try to notice Riku, but I could feel a presence. Selphie, Tidus, Wakka, Kairi and Sora all joined Riku on the little island. “Hey you can’t do that! Unless you plan on sharing that magical fruit with someone special!” Selphie warned me concerning the paupou fruit. “Selphie calm down.” Tidus stated. As Wakka doesn’t look at all interested, he starts to walk off. “Who is she?” Sora looked amazed. “How did she get here? She could be from another world!” “Riku we already explored ‘worlds’ once. It wasn’t very great like we thought it would be. ” Sora said turning towards Riku. I just sat there on that tree listening, watching both of them talk. “Kairi No!” Riku said as Kairi began to step towards me. “Riku chill out she don’t look like she’s going to hurt us.” Sora scolded at Riku as if tired of Riku’s concerns and worries about every little thing. Kairi steps back listening to Riku. “So you, your name is Kairi?” I began to talk trying to get myself out of hiding or banned from this world. I didn’t want to be a loner anymore. I wanted to make some friends. “And you with the silver hair and aqua eyes, its Riku right?” I continued. “Wait how do you know us? ” Riku said. I looked at all three of them, “I guess I’m right. So Kairi, Riku…..” “Wait a minute! If you know us so well that means that you’ve heard about this island… and us!” Sora said to you with curiosity. “Well it sounds crazy but a couple of weeks ago I woke up in that weird little…. Place with the drawings on the rocks. I climbed up the tree house thing and began to make a room up there.” Kairi, Sora, and Riku and Tidus shared a long gaze. “So what’s your name?” Tidus asked, stepping up to be acknowledged, putting his arm on the tree trunk. I jumped down landing barely on the paupou fruit I had dropped. I picked it up and dusted it off. “Any of you wanna try it?” they all just looked at me. “What I’m just trying to be nice? It’s just a fruit.” I began to feel outcasted once again. “That fruit that you’re holding holds mysterious power.” Kairi begins. “So what? You mean it’s gonna blow me up?” I said sarcastically. The boys began to laugh and snicker astounded by your humor. “No not that kind of power. They say that the paupou if shared with someone that you really care for will intertwine their destinies. No matter what.” Kairi finished. “So you’re saying that if I was in love with someone and I shared this fruit with them that we would be together forever?” I asked no sarcasm in my voice this time. “Yes this fruit has been growing here ever since the first people who lived on Destiny Island fell in love.” Tidus said. “So have any of you tried it?” So many questions. So much that I missed out on. I felt home when I was on Destiny Island, even though I’m not from there. My cocky attitude goes away. I’m only cocky at first. They all have a welcoming look on their face. “You’ll fit in fine here. You’re just like us, one of us. You belong here. Don’t you guys think so?” Sora puts his arm around me and began to show me around the island as the others nod in agreement to his statement and question. I felt comfort in Sora’s arms. As he had his arm around me in that friendly way I could tell what his personality was like. Besides I never got caught eavesdropping. I heard conversations about anything and everything. But I was interested in Riku and Sora’s conversations the most. After I told them my name they accepted me… easily. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Courtney, you’re awake! Are you ok?” Yuffie walks in to check on me. “Hey you guys she’s awake!” Leon and Aerith come walking into my room. Noticing that I hadn’t answered or budged an inch, Yuffie was curios. “Courtney…?” Yuffie walked over to me. My eyes were open and my gaze was set towards one part of the room. “She looks really sick. Cold. Her lips are so blue.” Aerith seems concerned about me as she goes on, “Maybe some hot chocolate will warm her up. ”Aerith looks up at Leon and then at the door as a sign to go. “I’ll go get some for her.” Leon said as he began to head out the door and down the hall to the vacancy stand. I suddenly moved my gaze and began to look around the room as if I had some weird dream. “Courtney! I couldn’t get your attention you just kept looking at that spot like you were in some sorta phase.” Yuffie stated. “Are you ok now?” Aerith asked as Leon walked into the room. “Yea I’m fine.” I said “Leon thanks for this room. It feels like home with the blue of the ocean and the bed set that orange and red remind me of the sunset. ” I began to hold back tears and smile. “You’re welcome and thanks. ”Leon said walking over to the bed to give you some hot chocolate. “Thanks” I said kindly. Remembering the argument they had not too long ago, Aerith, Yuffie, and Leon shared a look of concern. “So Courtney, where were you before the vortex brought you here? ”Leon asked. Yuffie and Aerith awaited my answer. “With Sora… on Destiny Islands.” I answered then looked up at them as they all were speechless.
~~~~~~~~~Me~~~~~~~~~~
I began to think back to the stories that Sora had told me about his adventures to other worlds, as we both would stand in the shallow part of the ocean on Destiny Islands. "Yea I met a lot of people in Traverse Town. Leon a fighter, Yuffie a ninja, and Aerith a nice friendly person. I thought she was the analyzer or the brains. A little too nice actually. You know me and you know that I''m used to people who are very distant and secretive. People who don''t open up easily. Remember when we first met? How I was? Closed off from the world?" Sora said to you. "Yea, Sora I think you''re the only person I can or could’ve opened up to. I have always been very distant. I lost trust for people a long time ago." The conversation goes on” I like girls like that. We need some girls with a backbone on this island. Keep it up and hang with me and you won''t have any problems out of anyone." We both shared a smile and looked up into the sun.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I got up and remember the names being called. ''Yuffie, Aerith, and Leon'' Sora knew them and maybe" I thought "they can help me find him." I began to stumble through the water. "Leon she doesn''t look so harmful." "Maybe not but we can''t be so trustful. The heartless can come back at any minute possibly in any form." I got up once again and finally made it to the dryer rocks where Leon, Yuffie and Aerith stood. The fall from where ever the vortex took me after I got separated from Sora, had really given me a headache. All the colors, the bright mixing with the darkness, the oxygen that slowly goes away and caused me to black out, and the speed you know, goes so fast but seems so slow. I look up at the man with the gun blade as he slowly raised it up. "Leon NO!! She''s not going to hurt you!" I saw a girl with short shorts, belly shirt, long stalkings and weird shoes scream at him. "Come on let’s just go. No harm done here so it''s fair." Another girl puts a hand on both of their shoulders. Wearing a long pink dress and boots. They began to walk in this place with stairs. Everything comes back to me, sight; hearing was completely back, smell, feeling, memories. "Wait!" I said with a raspy voice *cough* "Wait!" I began to cough up some water and I could breathe regularly again. "The name''s Leon right?" I stood up and dusted off my soaked jeans and tank top. "And you guys. You’re Yuffie and Aerith?" They walk up to me with concern. "Yea how did you know that?" Leon spoke for all when he asked you that question. I gave them all a glance then a cold wind blows through the waterway and I began to shiver. Leon steps forward, “Your cold. Come with us. There''s a hotel in the second district. You can tell us the story later." As I began to walk up the stairs slowly, looking back to see if the dark purplish warp hole was there. Aerith looked back at me and then I smiled and looked back down. I noticed Yuffie and Aerith staring at me again. "What?" I asked. "Here hopefully this warms you up. We should get to the hotel pretty soon." Leon takes off his jacket and wraps it around you. "Thanks." I said feeling confused wondering why they were staring at me and why Leon had given me his jacket. Suddenly I was feeling really sick, cold and hot, sick and fine, headache, chest was still recovering from the water, everything’s going black. As I''m inches from hitting the concrete stairs, Leon catches me. "Whoa! You guys we need to hurry!" "Oh, God is she alright?" Yuffie is alarmed. Leon picked me up and carried me the rest of the way, "We need to find out what''s wrong and if she''ll be ok."~~~~~~~~~~~~Hotel (Blue Room)~~~~~~~~~~“Leon do you think she’s gonna like this room?” Aerith asked him hoping to cheer him up slightly. “I don’t know. Hopefully she does.” Leon laid me on the bed carefully and motioned to Yuffie to go into the hall so that he could talk to her. “I need to speak to you Yuffie.” Yuffie looked at Aerith and then back at me as I laid sound asleep in this ocean blue room. “I’ll watch her.” Aerith quietly whispers. Leon standing at the door looking back at Yuffie with his hand on the doorknob. Yuffie walks towards him, “Aerith you can come too. I think we all might need to hear this.” Yuffie tells Aerith. As they walk out into the hallway I began to loose my color, and I’m getting colder, lips were blue and getting bluer, I felt as if I couldn’t breathe again, as I slowly slipped away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Ok Leon what’s this all about?” Yuffie asked with a look of confusion on her face. “Yea Leon what’s going on?” Aerith added. “It’s about her.” Leon admitted, “She looks like she’s from an island. The only world out there that’s an island is Destiny Islands….. Sora’s island.” Leon looked down for a moment. ”So you think SHE knows Sora?” Aerith said as she began to walk towards another door leading into the red room. “I don’t know but it seems as if she could. Actually I’m almost positive.” Leon began to lean against the wall and think, hoping Yuffie wouldn’t even try to understand the mystery, secrets and thoughts behind his eyes. “Leon….” “Yuffie please not now!” As Leon interrupted Yuffie he stormed off into the red room leaving Yuffie halfway in anger and halfway in tears, to notice Aerith standing with her back towards the door, not even trying to accompany or acknowledge his existence. “Aerith?” He said calmly after he slammed the door. Aerith turned around. Leon looked back at the door as Yuffie slowly walks in. “There’s no way. She can’t know Sora. It’s not even funny to joke about this Leon. Remember what Sora told us when we were at Hollow Bastion? After he sealed that keyhole it sealed the worlds. We don’t even know if Sora can leave Destiny Islands again. And besides you haven’t even told us how you know all of this.” Aerith looks at Leon straight in the eyes with anger, “You can’t just assume with no exact correct answer. You don’t even know her. And I’m tired off all your secrets!” Aerith finally finished her lecture and walked out on the balcony to sit and cool off. Yuffie started to walk back out into the hallway. “Yuffie wait.” Leon turned around to face her. “Not now Leon.” Mocking him she walked off. Leaving Leon confused and feeling guilty.~~~~~~~~~~~Back ~ to ~ me~~~~~~~~~ I lay there in the bed where Leon had left me. I looked around the room. I felt really cold as if I were dead. As if I had drown, (which I guess I could say that I nearly died back there in the waterway) but I didn’t feel like that had any affect on me. Considering the fact that I lived on an island, hidden away from everyone until Riku found me on the small island picking a paupou fruit. Selphie and her love of romance was griping about me and Riku overheard and had to go check it out. When Riku was at the center of the bridge he looked back to see if Sora and Kairi were behind him. I didn’t try to notice Riku, but I could feel a presence. Selphie, Tidus, Wakka, Kairi and Sora all joined Riku on the little island. “Hey you can’t do that! Unless you plan on sharing that magical fruit with someone special!” Selphie warned me concerning the paupou fruit. “Selphie calm down.” Tidus stated. As Wakka doesn’t look at all interested, he starts to walk off. “Who is she?” Sora looked amazed. “How did she get here? She could be from another world!” “Riku we already explored ‘worlds’ once. It wasn’t very great like we thought it would be. ” Sora said turning towards Riku. I just sat there on that tree listening, watching both of them talk. “Kairi No!” Riku said as Kairi began to step towards me. “Riku chill out she don’t look like she’s going to hurt us.” Sora scolded at Riku as if tired of Riku’s concerns and worries about every little thing. Kairi steps back listening to Riku. “So you, your name is Kairi?” I began to talk trying to get myself out of hiding or banned from this world. I didn’t want to be a loner anymore. I wanted to make some friends. “And you with the silver hair and aqua eyes, its Riku right?” I continued. “Wait how do you know us? ” Riku said. I looked at all three of them, “I guess I’m right. So Kairi, Riku…..” “Wait a minute! If you know us so well that means that you’ve heard about this island… and us!” Sora said to you with curiosity. “Well it sounds crazy but a couple of weeks ago I woke up in that weird little…. Place with the drawings on the rocks. I climbed up the tree house thing and began to make a room up there.” Kairi, Sora, and Riku and Tidus shared a long gaze. “So what’s your name?” Tidus asked, stepping up to be acknowledged, putting his arm on the tree trunk. I jumped down landing barely on the paupou fruit I had dropped. I picked it up and dusted it off. “Any of you wanna try it?” they all just looked at me. “What I’m just trying to be nice? It’s just a fruit.” I began to feel outcasted once again. “That fruit that you’re holding holds mysterious power.” Kairi begins. “So what? You mean it’s gonna blow me up?” I said sarcastically. The boys began to laugh and snicker astounded by your humor. “No not that kind of power. They say that the paupou if shared with someone that you really care for will intertwine their destinies. No matter what.” Kairi finished. “So you’re saying that if I was in love with someone and I shared this fruit with them that we would be together forever?” I asked no sarcasm in my voice this time. “Yes this fruit has been growing here ever since the first people who lived on Destiny Island fell in love.” Tidus said. “So have any of you tried it?” So many questions. So much that I missed out on. I felt home when I was on Destiny Island, even though I’m not from there. My cocky attitude goes away. I’m only cocky at first. They all have a welcoming look on their face. “You’ll fit in fine here. You’re just like us, one of us. You belong here. Don’t you guys think so?” Sora puts his arm around me and began to show me around the island as the others nod in agreement to his statement and question. I felt comfort in Sora’s arms. As he had his arm around me in that friendly way I could tell what his personality was like. Besides I never got caught eavesdropping. I heard conversations about anything and everything. But I was interested in Riku and Sora’s conversations the most. After I told them my name they accepted me… easily. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Courtney, you’re awake! Are you ok?” Yuffie walks in to check on me. “Hey you guys she’s awake!” Leon and Aerith come walking into my room. Noticing that I hadn’t answered or budged an inch, Yuffie was curios. “Courtney…?” Yuffie walked over to me. My eyes were open and my gaze was set towards one part of the room. “She looks really sick. Cold. Her lips are so blue.” Aerith seems concerned about me as she goes on, “Maybe some hot chocolate will warm her up. ”Aerith looks up at Leon and then at the door as a sign to go. “I’ll go get some for her.” Leon said as he began to head out the door and down the hall to the vacancy stand. I suddenly moved my gaze and began to look around the room as if I had some weird dream. “Courtney! I couldn’t get your attention you just kept looking at that spot like you were in some sorta phase.” Yuffie stated. “Are you ok now?” Aerith asked as Leon walked into the room. “Yea I’m fine.” I said “Leon thanks for this room. It feels like home with the blue of the ocean and the bed set that orange and red remind me of the sunset. ” I began to hold back tears and smile. “You’re welcome and thanks. ”Leon said walking over to the bed to give you some hot chocolate. “Thanks” I said kindly. Remembering the argument they had not too long ago, Aerith, Yuffie, and Leon shared a look of concern. “So Courtney, where were you before the vortex brought you here? ”Leon asked. Yuffie and Aerith awaited my answer. “With Sora… on Destiny Islands.” I answered then looked up at them as they all were speechless.
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