• The Never Ending “Dream”


    As I opened my eyes, I realized that… I was in my bed, in my room, at home? “Hmmm, I guess it was just an odd dream.” Hmm… I’m really hungry, I better go get some breakfast. I got up and walked to my door to find that, it was locked? So then I ran to my window and opened the shade and instead of seeing my backyard, I found another white room with nothing in it except for a white chair with another Organization member in it, but which one? And…wait a minute, “Hey you! I thought that the Organization was destroyed!”
    “It was Xemnas that found a way to bring us back.” Saix said with a bit of an evil laugh.
    “How?! And what does the Organization want with me?!”
    “All you are to know is that you better get a lot of rest.”
    “Why should I?!”
    “You see those metal-wired wristbands on your arms, legs, and neck?”
    “Yeah.” but when did I get them?
    “They drain all of your power, and you will soon grow very weak.”
    Power huh? If I have power, then maybe I can get out of here. But how?… The light? But how do I make a portal? Let’s see… so then I focused all of my energy and thought of the light. Soon I felt a strong power building up inside of me,… Hey! I see a white portal opening! It worked! I ran through the portal and as I did, all of the metal bands fell off. I think that I heard someone yell for me, but all I wanted was to escape. But now the question was… where will I end up?
    * * *


    “Hey Riku!”
    “Now what?”
    “It’s my Keyblade, it won’t show up!”
    “Are you sure about that?”
    “Positive. I don’t even feel its power in me anymore!”
    “hmmm…maybe we should have a dual.^,^”
    “This isn’t funny Riku!”
    “okay, okay, calm down.”


    Then… I woke up…again (I have got to stop passing out like that). Now where am I? But before I opened my eyes, I sensed someone else in the room sitting next to where I was laying, but who was it? So I opened my eyes to find a bunch of rusty brown pipes on the gray ceiling. So then I looked around the room and it looked very poor. The walls were gray as well and had some pictures all over them. The room had only one window where a bunch of sun was bursting through and two beds, one of which that I was on. The blankets, pillows, and nightstand lamp shade had a dark red and white plaid pattern. I still couldn’t figure out where I was, but somehow, I felt as if I’d seen this room before. So then I turned to see who was sitting next to the bed and found… “Cloud?”
    “Huh? How do you know my name?”
    “Uuhhh… I, uh, heard about you, uh, hero news spreads fast, uh, to other worlds.” Oh. My. Gosh! Here I am talking to a Final Fantasy character!
    “hmm, so you’re from another world huh. Where are you from?”
    “Ummm… I, uh, kinda forgot” the truth is that I knew exactly where I was from, but if my world was disconnected from the others, then he might think that I’m crazy.
    “Oh I’m sorry, well, you can stay with me until you can remember” OMG! I get stay with Cloud! “You know, I think that we have met before, what’s your name?”
    “It’s Keya. Keya Buraidu, but I don’t think that we have met before.”
    “Oh. Well then, are you hungry?”
    “Yesss”
    “Well that’s good because I made plenty of food downstairs” said Tifa as she entered the room. “Oh, and by the way, my name is-”
    “Hold on, don’t tell her your name. Keya, do you know who she is too?”
    How could I lie to that sweet face again.
    “it’s Tifa, isn’t it?”
    “Yes! Cloud, how does she know?”
    “She said that she heard about us in her world.”
    “oh she did, did she?”
    “It looks like she knows a lot more than names” said the dark voice of none other than Vincent. “tell us; what else do you know.”
    “I, uh, uhhh” I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t want them to think of me as some kind of a memory witch like Namine.
    “Here, let me take a look at your eyes” Vincent said as he walked over to me and lifted my head up with his normal hand under my chin as if I was some sort of dog or something. “She’s from a world disconnected from the rest. I do believe that it is called Earth, am I correct?”
    I was stunned. He figured out all of this just by looking at my eyes!
    “A disconnected world huh.” Cloud responded, “tell me, Keya, what’s it like there?”
    “Well it’s…” So then I told them basically what I knew about earth “… and your worlds are only video games and there aren’t any odd creatures to fight off with a sword or anything like that.”
    “Does that mean that you don’t know how to fight?!” Yuffie asked as she entered the room after eavesdropping.
    “Nope; all I know about fighting came from my video games.”
    “Well then, we’ll just have to fix that” she said
    “You mean that you’re going to teach me?”
    “Sure” said Tifa, “but first, me and Yuffie are going to find you some better fighting clothes.”
    So then Yuffie, Tifa, and I went to another room and got to work on my new outfit. Whatever it looked like, it had to be better than my white nightgown. Of course, to make my outfit quicker, they used magic to make most of it. Then, when they were done, I tried it on to see what it looked like all together. First of all, the shirt was dark violet and was diagonally cut at the top and bottom. It had one strap that was three fingers wide on my left shoulder and a spaghetti strap for the other and attached to the straps was a dark violet hood. My outfit also included a pair of jean shorts and separate jean bellbottoms that had an opening with fabric that matched my shirt and black laces criss-crossing all the way up the split. I also had what was like a black cape only it was worn at my hips and it had pockets in the front, just like Tifa’s. This was way more exotic than any outfit that I have worn before, and I loved it! And then it was on to the ruins of the slums.

    * * *


    “Okay, first, we’ll start a bit easy, fist fighting.” said Tifa “first time around, I want to see how well you do naturally. Hyaaa!”
    And the fight began. She first swung her fist at my right shoulder, but somehow, my left arm was right there to block the punch. But then she swung at me with her other fist to hit my head and somehow, I bet backwards just in time, but now I had lost my balance, so I slammed my hands on the ground and swung my legs at hers to try to trip her. But she was too fast. She had already jumped up into the air. I quickly got to my feet and made an attempt to grab her ankle and pull her down, just like in the movie, but instead, she kicked me across the face and I was down. I was trying to get my senses back so that I could get up but, it was too late, she had her foot on my stomach which meant that I had lost.
    “Well, (huff), you’re a lot better than I thought you would be. I thought you said that you don’t know how to fight.” said Tifa, apparently out of breath.
    “Here are some potions you two.” said Cloud as he handed me one. I felt as good as new! I wish that it was that easy to heal yourself on earth!
    “I don’t know how I did any of that stuff. I mean, I couldn’t have been able to do all of that just from watching!”
    “Ok, ok, you have quite a bit of natural talent,” said Yuffie “are you ready to take on the Great Ninja Yuffie?”
    “Wait, I’m supposed to take on a ninja?! There’s no way! Ninjas are way too fast for me! At least teach me a little bit!”
    “Fine, you just need to think flexible, light, and let your body do whatever it can.”
    “Is that it?!!!”
    “Oh yeah, and it helps to try to slow everything else down with your mind!”
    Oh boy, this is going to be very hard. “Ok, but are we going to use any weapons? Because I don’t have any.”
    “Oh, right, here’s your ninja pack” said Yuffie as she tossed me a black leg bag. When I looked inside, it was filled with shuriken, kunai, and bombs. “Ready, set, Go!” and with that she flipped backwards and was already getting out a shurikan. Next thing I knew, there were several of them heading right at me. So I just let my body take control and hoped for the best, and it worked! I dodged all of the weapons and at the same time I was throwing a bunch back at her! I could see and calculate every move that she made. This went on for about an hour, both of us flipping, dodging, throwing, and bouncing off of every rock in sight until finally… I felt a searing pain across my forehead, I knew then that I was done for. I had lost again. It was a really good thing that Cloud had some potions because soon I was back to 100% again.
    “You’re pretty good! Of course, I was holding back, but you’re a really good first timer!”
    “uuhhh, thank you.”
    “Okay, next is me.” said Cloud
    “Bu-but your way too good! I won’t even stand a chance! I’ll probably just lose again. Why don’t you just teach me instead?”
    “Hmmm… nope. Here, you can use one of my swords. Come on, I know you can do it.”
    “… Alright, I’ll give it a try.” As soon as I picked up the sword, I felt almost comfortable wielding it, how strange. Anyways soon we began our fight. I actually took the first swing at him, but he blocked it, so then I pushed his sword away and jumped up and swung down at him. But he jumped out of the way of my attack. With this fight, I was offense, I swung at him with everything I had with him either blocking or dodging my attacks. Nothing was working so I tried some combo movements that came to mind. I then realized that all of my combos were from Kingdom Hearts II, and that I could do them with ease. I even gave Cloud a few small scratches! Then I felt some strange power surging within me so then I let it out through my sword. Next thing I knew, Cloud was burnt head to toe and had fallen.
    “How-how do you know how to use magic like that?”
    “I, I used… magic?!”
    “yeah, it was a firaga spell.”
    How did I do that? How did I do any of that fight? How did I beat Cloud?
    “Okay, it seems to me like you’re a warrior.” he said.
    “I guess so” I responded looking down at my hands with disbelief.

    * * *


    ‘Why, why do you have the Keyblade?’
    ‘There’s someone with a “key”-- the key to our survival’
    ‘and they’ll keep coming at you as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade.’
    ‘Now, let’s see that Keybade’
    ‘Those creatures that attacked you are after the Keyblade,’
    ‘First, we need that “key”!’
    ‘That’s right. The Keyblade.’
    ‘so… this is the key?’
    ‘The Heartless have a great fear of the Keyblade.’
    ‘The Keyblade chooses its master, And it chose you’
    ‘Well… That’s an interesting sword you’re carrying. I see… so that’s a Keyblade. And I suppose you must be its chosen wielder.’
    Keyblade…
    Keyblade…
    key, key,

    “Keya, Keya, wake up”
    “Huh? Wha- Cloud? What are you doing in here?”
    “I heard you yelling in your sleep, I thought that I’d come and see if you were ok.”
    “Oh, yeah, I’m fine; I was just having a strange dream.”
    “Alright then, goodnight.” Then he turned to leave the room.
    “Wait!” I whispered loudly “umm, I can’t sleep, I, uhh, want to talk to you, could you stay with me for a little bit?”
    “Uh, sure” he then came over to my bed and sat on the floor next to it. “so, what did you want to talk about?”
    “I was wondering, you have gone to Hollow Ba- I mean Radiant Garden, haven’t you?”
    “Yeah, loads of times. Why do you ask?”
    “Well, how did you get there?”
    “By Cid’s airship of course.”
    “Maybe I can go home by airship then! Just imagine what Makoto…”
    “Who’s Makoto?”
    “Oh, he’s, uh, a friend of mine, I can’t believe I forgot all about him. Anyways, I’ll finally be able to go home! I can’t wait to tell… oh, they probably won’t believe me anyways. Then I’ll just have to pretend that this never… happened. You know, this somewhat kinda stinks.”
    “How come?”
    “Well, I love hanging out with my favorite video game characters” especially you, FFVII rocks!“We’re your favorite?”
    “Well, yeah. You are especially popular among video game lovers.”
    “Oh really?”
    “yeah, you have a lot of fan girls”
    “fan girls, huh. What do you think would happen if I showed up around there?”
    “…a massacre of screaming, hugging, and kissing video game girls” We both laughed at this.
    “Well, I can’t miss out on that, I’ll go with you. Well, we will be leaving in the morning, goodnight.” then he turned to leave the room, and then stopped and came back toward me. “Oh, and another thing…” just then he kissed me on the forehead “just for the fan girl”
    “I, I n-never said that I was a f-fan girl.”
    “I know; you were just too obvious.”
    “oh” I said trying soo hard not to blush.
    “Awww, how touching, too bad something doesn’t belong in this beautiful picture”
    “Kadaj!? Get out of here” Cloud yelled.
    “Don’t worry Cloud; I’m only here for the girl.”
    “Me?! No way! I’m not going to let you take me back to the Organization!” just then, suddenly, there was a white portal behind me. I had no clue how it got there or where it led, but I couldn’t let myself get captured again. Plus, I couldn’t bear to see Cloud get hurt because of me. So then I jumped into the portal, and I was out of Midgar