Bloody Feathers

A fic by Naomi Wiflath

Chapter 3: Awakening

Theme: Anthem of our Dying Day by Story of the Year

Album: Page Avenue

The stars will cry, the blackest tears tonight

Lightning etched across the ever dark sky, and the rain intensified. It thundered on the Kiha Meijin's roof. Inside, the room was lit up by an eerie silver glow from a source unknown. The lightning flashed, and something that once wasn't there in fact, was. At the base of each statue, sat the fallen figure of what the statue's likeness was based. With another flash of lightning, reveled them covered in the blood that was once spilled.

"Walking this road."

One of them, slowly opened their eyes. Their eyes glazed like they were still in a dream. The lightning flashed again, snapping them from their daze. He took in a breath in disbelief, and slowly got to his feet. Twelve others follows suit in their own states of shock.

Somehow, the Keyblade masters lived again.

A girl with short red hair and deep blue eyes walked up to the boy who turned to her. She ran her hand across his cheek, and joyous tears fell from her eyes.

"Sora…" She whispered. The boy with that brown, spiky and gravity defying hair and the bluest eyes smiled.

And this is the moment that I live for

"Kairi…" He wrapped his arms around her in a hug. A girl with long brunette hair and hazel/green eyes walked up to them, her eyes showing that she was very troubled.

"Sora… What happened? Why… do we live again?" Sora let go of his hug, even though Kairi clung to him and whimpered in his shoulder.

"I don't know… We were fighting… we should all have…" Sora trailed off and looked away not able to admit the fact.

"There must be a reason for this." said a silver headed boy darkly, his aqua eyes also troubled.

"Naomi! We're alive! We're alive again!" Cheered another girl with short red hair and green eyes. She gave the brunette a big hug. A boy with short silver hair and icy blue eyes stood behind the red head.

"Good to see you again." He greeted, Naomi gave a small smile.

"I see you haven't lost your sarcasm, Zeke." She said.

"What do you mean, sarcasm? I actually mean it." He replied.

"Corrie, you can let go now." Stated Naomi. Corrie let go, but still smiled.

"It's good to be back." She said.

"I can't disagree with that." said a voice from below. Naomi looked down to see the mouse garbed in an unknown's coat. Another man with an unknown's coat with silver hair and green eyes walked over. He had a red piece of hair that liked to fall in front of his eyes. Behind him, stood A girl with long flame-like red hair and bright green eyes, another girl with short brown hair and brown eyes, a boy with black messy hair and silver/grey eyes. There was also the girl who looked like a humanoid white Siberian tiger and a humanoid Panther boy with bluish/silver fur.

"All of us… We're all alive. Sora, Kairi, Naomi, Zeke, Corrie, Iraki, Kiru, Phoenix, Varjak, Luka… and me." Finished Riku, looking even more concerned then before. "This isn't right, People don't just come back to life for no reason."

"Well, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say what I indeed feel the presence of darkness." said Luka, the Tigress. Her tail twitched agitatedly. All nodded to this.

"So someone has unsealed the darkness that we trapped." The brunette with short hair, Iraki stated unhappily.

"That must be why we were brought back…" Naomi started darkly as all eyes turned to her. "There was an imbalance, so we were revived to balance it again."

"She's right." Added the boy with short black hair and silver grey eyes, Kiru. "That has to be the reason."

"Well then who unsealed the darkness?" Mickey asked.

"That's what I'd like to know." Replied the girl with fire like hair crossly, Phoenix.

"How long has it been, I wonder." Varjak the panther asked, his gaze locked on the statues. The others looked to them, just noticing and awed.

"They're statues… of us." said Corrie in astonishment. Naomi pushed open the wooden doors, and jumped up onto the roof. Everything glistened in the night like it had just rained. The full moon lit everything up. She took a deep breath of the cool ocean air. The others followed after her and now stood on the roof.

I can smell the ocean air

"We're still at the Destiny Islands." said Sora. "How long has it been?"

Naomi looked to her friend sadly, knowing what was crossing his mind. Crossing everyone's mind. How has everything changed? What next? Do they even have homes to go home to?

Here I am pouring my heart out onto these rooftops

The little city that Sora, Riku and Kairi had once called home had turned now into a large metropolis.

Just a ghost to the world, that's exactly what I need.

The city lights glowed dimly below them.

"So what do we do?" Riku asked.

"We need to know… What's been going on here." Naomi whispered.

"The darkness… it's coming from our island." Said Riku.

"Then let's go then." Replied Sora.

From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire

And I'm here to sing the anthem of our dying day…

The boy's eyes shot open, and he sat up.

"Kenta!" Cried his mother in relief, giving him a hug. He could barely feel her arms around him. Kenta was soaked in cold sweat and couldn't stop shivering. It was hard to breathe, like he couldn't get enough air. continued to hug her cold and trembling son, herself on the brink of tears.

"Kenta, what on earth happened to you?" she whispered to him softly.

"It's all our fault…" Kenta whispered hoarsely, his mouth unusually dry. "It's all our fault…"

placed a hand on his wife's shoulder, and she let go of her hug. grabbed hold of his son's shoulders, forcing him to look back into his eyes. however, was frightened by what he saw. His son's aqua eyes were out of focus; as if they were staring at something far away that only he could see. And what ever it was horrified him.

"Kenta… Kenta, you gotta listen to me, ok? What happened to you? Who did this?" His father asked.

"Darkness… He was from the darkness… We never had a clue…" Kenta choked, shuddering as a terrible chill shot down his spine. looked to her husband fearfully. Kenta suddenly slumped forward into his fathers arms.

"Kenta! Kenta, stay awake just a little longer. Come on, Kenta!" His father called, gently shaking him. Kenta looked up at his father weakly.

"The Dark Keyblade master… He's here… he's…" He fell limp again, completely exhausted. His father laid him back down, extremely worried.

"D-dark… Keyblade master?" whispered in horror. "Impossible…"

"All the strange things happening… It being night for three days, the moon staying full. The black rain with no clouds. And now this… What the hell else could it be?" replied. looked sadly at her son, brushing some of his silvery hair out of his face.

"I'm going to visit Rei and Phoenix's parents. Maybe they were able to find out anything." spoke again, walking out the door. He went outside towards where the Chocobos were kept. To his surprise, the black rain had stopped, and the sky was starting to lighten to the coming of dawn. He quickly got his fastest Chocobo; Midnight, a male river Chocobo. With a high pitched whistle the bird took off with lightning speed, digging it's talons into the ground for better traction. It only took him fifteen minutes to get to the other side of the island at full speed. He jumped off the Chocobo, and quickly brushed its neck feathers in gratitude. It was breathing hard but was happily cooing. knocked on the Kunasaki's door. He was met by a tall and well built man with short blond hair and blue eyes.

"I expected you to come, Matthew." He said, motioning for him to come inside. They sat down at the kitchen table.

"Did you learn anything?" Matthew asked. Mark sighed, running his hand through his scraggily hair.

"She wasn't conscious for long. But she kept mumbling about how it was her fault and that there was a dark Keyblade master."

"I see… that's exactly what Kenta said." Replied Matthew. "And while he was unconscious, he would suddenly scream out like he was in a nightmare."

"I talked to Lucas just a moment ago. The same thing happened with Rei."

"Just what the hell happened to them? What do we do?" Matthew asked. Mark sighed.

"I don't know… I just don't know…"