Narrative 20/9

As we traversed across the make-shift bridge to the other side of the murky river, we were forced to hold on to the barrier, which my best friend, Kairi, wasn’t happy about. She was a bit of a butter-fingers. Luckily, her boyfriend, Sora, was right behind her. I began to remember the times when my friends and I were like, 4, and we would always swim in the formerly crystal-clear water. 10 years later, it looked like this.

The town we lived in was destroyed by Vanitas. He was hunting us down as we spoke. We had to run away to ensure our safety.

Roxas, who was in front of me, started jumping around. So I pushed him, nearly knocking him off the bridge. “Namine!” he exclaimed. “If you do that, you’re going to knock someone else off!” I retaliated. Then I saw a random leg floating in the air. Axel was climbing the barrier! “Axel!” Roxas and his best friend, Xion, exclaimed. As Xion grabbed his leg, Roxas’s twin brother, Ventus, was pushing around his older siblings, Terra and Aqua. Riku trudged along at the front, as he was very fast-moving.

Suddenly, the bridge jumped, and we all heard a shrill scream. We looked down to see a black-clothed figure with black hair fall.

“XION!” we all shouted. Roxas almost caught her, but he was too late.

When we finally arrived at the end, Roxas and Axel were standing by a tree and talking. I knew what they were talking about. Xion. She was their best friend, after all. Sora, Riku, Kairi, Ventus, Aqua, Terra and I all walked to the river to check if she was still out there. Just as we lost hope, we heard a muffled “Namine!” I turned and saw Xion trying to swim to shore. Sora, being the only person who can swim, swam out to get her.

When she returned, Axel and Roxas were overjoyed to see her. However, she was freezing, so Roxas offered her his jacket. I was rather mad when she accepted, due to the fact that I have had a crush on Roxas for a long time.

As Sora grabbed wood for the fire, we all sat around shouting random things we heard on strange videos we all watch. “Wait, wait, wait, hehe!” said Roxas, before saying one of our favourite vines. “I guess Toy Freddy is kind of a… a dumber version of Freddy-BRUH” We all laughed. “NO NO NONONONONO NO NO NO!” shouted Sora from a distance. We all cracked up laughing. It was from another vine video. “Wait, I think I have my kazoo in my pocket… hahaha!” I laughed. “Go Nam!” shouted Axel. Using my kazoo, I played Megalovania from Undertale. I stopped when Terra fell off his chair laughing. “I want my airhorn.” announced Aqua. We all chuckled. “What?” she exclaimed. “We all know what you would do do with it!” Ventus noted. We all nodded.

Riku decided that he would get up during the night.

“OUCH!” we heard. We all ran outside to see Riku sitting on the ground laughing. “What did you do?” asked Terra. “I… I walked into the tree.” Riku laughed. We all cracked up. Then a distant voice shouted “DARKNESSDARKNESSDARKNESSDARKNE-”, before another voice shouted “SHUT UP AXEL!” We all knew it was Axel and Xion.

After we had been there for a couple of weeks, we knew we had to go back across the bridge. After what happened last time, Xion was scared. However, Roxas and Axel reassured her.

As we traversed back across the bridge, I yelled “PIZZA, PIZZA YEAH, FOR YOU AND… MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!” I made the ‘ME’ sound like a jumpscare from Five Nights at Freddy’s. Kairi almost fell off the bridge laughing, but Sora and I caught her and pulled her back up. “Okay, no, don’t do that!” Kairi laughed. “I’M SORRAY!” I exclaimed.

As we arrived at our destination, Terra, who was desperate to show how glad he was to be back… faceplanted on the ground. Xion began running toward her house, before tripping over and laughing.

Oh yeah, did I mention we have powers? That’s why Vanitas was hunting us down. Sora can freeze time, Kairi controls light, Riku controls darkness, Roxas can summon these beings he calls “Nobodies”, Xion can absorb the powers of others, Axel can control fire, Ventus can control wind, Aqua controls water, Terra controls earth, and I can manipulate the memories of others.

The person who caused all of this, and our arch-enemy, Vanitas, was walking down the road. We knew there was no running this time.

We had to fight.

Aqua trapped him in water, before Kairi shot balls of light at him. I tried to access his memories, but he noticed and tried to attack me. Kairi taught me gymnastics when we were kids, so I just had to cartwheel out the way. Sora had a special form that he can access if he goes REALLY agro. He had to go into this form to beat him.

As Sora changed form, he completely changed. His outfit was silver, he had 2 floating swords behind him and he was now floating. His spiky brown hair wavered in the wind.

Sora charged toward Vanitas, hitting him multiple times. However, Vanitas jumped out the way and went for me. I didn’t see him coming, and he hit me straight in the head, and I got knocked out.

As I floated around in this strange place, I thought I was dead. The happy memories of my friends and I were embedded in the wall. I heard the screams coming from the outside world. “KAIRI! SORA! Anyone…?” I shouted. I thought I was dead for sure. But I needed to help my friends! I couldn’t let them die…

I wouldn’t.

I woke up to see Roxas lying on the ground with his 2 swords next to him. Sora was injured, and everyone else was out cold. I grabbed one of Roxas’s swords and ran towards Vanitas. I sprinted, holding the sword in 2 hands. He was facing Sora, which gave me the perfect opportunity.

Vanitas cried out in pain as the sword struck him. He fell to the ground. Just to make sure, Sora stabbed him again, before reverting back to his normal form. “Wow.” I panted. “He’s a lot weaker than we thought.”

A few months later and everything was back to normal. Xion was now living with Axel. She wasn’t interested in Roxas anymore. I was living with Roxas, Ventus, Aqua and Terra. Riku, Kairi and Sora were also living together. We had a party at my house most nights.

And things haven’t changed.