*****Ok, I know not many people like Riku/OC stories but I thought I'd give it a shot. If you don't like it, I understand. But if you do for some reason find it appealing, good for you. And for all you people that actually need to be told this, I don't own anything about PS2, Kingdom Hearts or anything else that you've probably heard of.
Chapter One
The sun was hanging over the landscape of a small suburb in Michigan. A soft breeze wound its way through the perfectly managed yards and into open windows leaving behind the fresh scent of morning. The small creek that ran behind the nearly identical houses created a relaxing sound when combined with the musical sound of birds singing in the distance. All was quiet since most of the occupants of the street were still slumbering in their clean homes. So peaceful…
"HEY BELLA-DONNA!" a boy screamed into his sleeping sisters ear, piercing the numbing silence.
Tumbling off the large mattress that served as a bed for the now very agitated sister, she sat up and glared flaming arrows at her younger brother.
"Get outta my room you freaky little nomb!" she yelled before collapsing on the pillows and mumbling. "Besides, its Saturday…no school."
"No duh bean dip. Auntie Albie needs you downstairs though."
"Well tell her she'll have to wait, cause there's no way in hell I'm gettin' up at…" she grabbed for the alarm clock to see what ungodly hour it was. "…7:34. Come back in about four hours, or leave a message after the beep. Beeeeeeep."
"No can do." he said and crossed his arms over his small chest. "And she gave me full permission to threaten you if you don't"
" 'You' threaten 'me'? What are ya gonna do? Give me an overdose of children's Tylenol and beat me with a rubber chicken?" she chuckled and teased while still laying face down on her pillow.
"Not quite…" the boy of ten walked over to the wall of his sisters attic room and tapped a finger on a small black box with some buttons and a speaker on it. It took the sixteen year old girl to a minute to figure out what he meant.
"If you don't get up I'll play that Simple Plan song you hate so much, over, and over, and over, and over…"he finished with a grin that was missing a tooth.
Bella let out a muffled scream into the pillow that signaled her brother had won. With a victorious grin, but also a bit disappointed that he wouldn't be about to torture his sister, her walked to the door that led back to the second floor.
"I thought so. But if your not down there in ten minutes…" he took a deep breath and started singing with his high pitched squeaky voice. "I'd do anythiiiinnngggg, just to hold you in my arrrrmmmsssss!!" his voice echoed through the house and he descended the stairs. The teenager pulled the pillow over her head trying desperately to block out the sound.
Bella-Donna's long slightly wavy hair, that was stained a charcoal black from her Egyptian ancestry, peeked out from under the milky white pillow case. Her naturally tan skin, that was also from her heritage, seemed a bit darker in contrast to the pillow she was currently hanging onto. After a few seconds, she lifted the feathery object off her head and sat up in her bed while looking around with half lidded eyes. Those eyes where painted a pale blue from her fathers American family.
Swinging her legs over the mattress and staggering to her feet, she made her way over the thick carpet of her room to the plain blue rob hanging from the closet door. Pulling the rob around her body that was already coated in large baggy pajama pants and old tank top, she looked at herself in the mirror.
She was around 5"8' or 5"9' and wasn't a stick figure like a lot of girls around her age were. Now she defiantly wasn't fat, but she wasn't really skinny. She thought her 150 lbs. form fit her just fine. Other than that, she had the face of her mother. Narrow with high cheekbones and full lips, with a slightly protruding upper lip. Her skin was smooth except for the four or five usual pimples that were placed here and there. But they were hard to spot because of her tan skin.
Running a hand through her messed hair in an attempt to smooth it down, Bella let out a sigh and followed suit to her little brother and walked downstairs.
The house she lived in was fairly clean except for the few glasses, cans, candy wrappers and laundry that were strewn in some places. On the walls hung numerous pictures of family and friends, but mostly Bella and her little brother 's parents off in some other country. Some of the others consisted of pictures Charlie had drawn when he was a little kid, and drawings Bella-Donna drew recently.
The hall way that she took to get to the stairs to the first floor had a shiny wooden floor. The girls footsteps sounded softly as she walked by the doors to other rooms in the house, meaning Charlie's room, the library, and one of the offices in the large house.
Reaching the other set of stairs, she silently descended them while running a hand over the glossy wooden banister. As she made her way through the last hallway she had to travel through before she reached the kitchen, an odd smell lofted under her nose. Scrunching up her face Bella stepped into the kitchen to see her Aunt Albie sitting at the table with her brother next to her, attempting to spell out his name with the Alphabets cereal.
"Ah, good morning B.D. . Sleep well?" Aunt Albie questioned looking up at the girl from her paper work that was scattered across the table. Bella only nodded briefly in response and plopped down in the chair at the other end of the table. Looking from Albie to Charlie, she laughed when the boy dropped his spoon down in the cereal that was completely saturated with milk, and spilled a bit on some of her Aunt's papers. Albie however paid no mind to the little accident and continued on writing. Rubbing her forehead with her fingers, Bella groaned and broke the silence.
"So, what did you want me down here for again?" she questioned her Aunt. Albie looked up with a thoughtful look on her face, like she had forgotten why she had called her niece down there. Then it hit her and she snapped her fingers.
"Oh, yes! That! My dear, I was wondering if you would mind possibly loaning me something for a while." she asked and looked at Bella-Donna through her thick black framed glasses. Auntie Albie's name was actually Alberta Ressurea, but when B.D. and her little brother moved into her household they quickly came up with an easier name to call her by.
Bella-Donna and Charlie's parents had been architects. Traveling all over the world and barely ever being home for Christmas or Thanksgiving wasn't the right kind of life for parents. But they tried as best as they knew how. Bella even remembered being brought to several different foreign countries a few times, Charlie was too young to remember anything though. Most of the time they stayed with Auntie Albie until the two returned to them. They always had returned to them. Except for their mother.
Who would have guessed that the land where her ancestors lived would be the land where she died? The children's mother fell prey to the desert heat and the lack of water. Their father returned, but he was never the same. About three months after he came home, he also passed away. Many said it was a broken heart that struck him down.
"Depends on what you wanna borrow." Bella-Donna mumbled, still trying to fully wake up.
"Welllllll…you would really have to trust me." Albie said putting on a pathetic face. At least as pathetic as a 46 year old woman could get.
"Okayyyyy…what is it?" Bella asked narrowing her eyes a bit in suspicion.
"Your video game thingy." she said while she looked at her niece through the corner of her eyes.
"You gonnna have to be most specific than that Auntie Albie. I've got the original Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega…take your pick."
"Your Playstation 2?" Albie said and kind of backed away timidly waiting for the girls protest. But all the girl did was sit there and stare at her then calmly say.
"Buy Auntie Albie. That wasn't one of the selections I gave you." she replied with wide eyes, looking at her aunt like she was crazy for asking such a question. When the older woman didn't say anything, Bella only shook her head slowly and mouthed 'no'.
"Oh come now B.D. . I'll be careful with it. And if anything does happen to it, which nothing will, I promise to replace it." she begged the girl as she just sat there staring at her. Letting out a sigh, Bella came to a decision.
"Fine, fine! Take it, but you have to swear to get me a brand spankin' new one if you bust this one up." she said standing up and pointing a finger at her aunt.
"I swear to you I will buy you a new one if I 'bust this one up'." she said impersonating her niece. "It will be first on my agenda."
"First on your agenda huh? Like…Charlie needs a new lung, but my Playstation comes first?" she asked with a grin and held out her hand to her aunt.
"Playstation before lung, every time my dear." Albie reached out and shook Bella-Donna's hand, but before pulling away she added. "By the way, I'm going to need to borrow one of your games."
"WHAT?! No, no, no. The Playstation fine, but the games?! What exactly are you gonna do any way?" she questioned her aunt and followed her into the living room where the games were stored, leaving Charlie to his cereal.
"I can't tell you that at this moment dear, but I promise I will fill you in as soon as possible." she bent over and began going through the numerous games that were scattered on the floor. Then seeing one of interest, she picked up her eyes wide with excitement.
"This one is ABSOLUTLY perfect! Oh, it's so exciting!" she said and gave her niece a little hug before running off down the hall. Bella only shook her head and looked down to the games. Deciding to be uncharacteristic, she began tidying them up and putting them all back on the shelf. Sighing, she sat back and looked at them all. They ranged from Spyro, to the Sims, to Jax and Daxter, all the way to Final Fantasy X2. But her absolute favorite was…gone? Wait…where? She didn't…
"AUNTIE ALBIE!!!"
*******
Two weeks it had been sense her aunt kidnapped her Playstation and video game. Of course if you hadn't realized it yet, that game was the wonderful Kingdom Hearts. Bella-Donna had tried to get any info about what in the world she was doing out her of aunt, but whenever she saw her she would only rush by mumbling something to herself.
At the moment Bella was laid flopped on her bed staring up at the ceiling, pondering what the hell her crazy aunt could be doing with her game.
Aunt Albie was a weird one alright, but she was great. Her husband had died before Bella-Donna was born and had left Alberta great sums of cash. And the fact that she used to be on a research team and was still getting money from that gig helped expenses a lot too. Bella had never seen her aunt work, just walk around the house writing notes and going out of the house for science conferences now and then.
Auntie Albie's usual ensemble was her thick black framed glasses, and a plain white lab coat which she hardly ever took off. Her hair was dark brown, and never seemed to stay in the same place long. Even though Albie was the adult of the household, it seemed that Bella-Donna was doing most of the cleaning and cooking, and she really didn't have a problem with any of it. She knew how important Auntie Albies experiments were to her.
Letting out a sigh when she heard her phone ring, she reached over and pushed the button for the speaker phone.
"Yeh?" she questioned groggily.
"Hey there Cleopatra." Bella-Donna smiled at her friend, Erin's, nickname for her.
"Hey Erin, how goes it?"
"Eh, as good as can be expected. Hey, I got a new game. Ya want me to bring it over so we can play?" she questioned. Bella shook her head at her friend. It seemed that every week that girl got a different video game.
"Sorry, no can do." she answered back, disappointed.
"What? Do my ears deceive me? Bell-Donna Ressurea says no to a game? What gives?!"
"Believe me I would, but Auntie Albie has the Playstation down in her 'secret lab'." Bella said, quoting with her fingers sarcastically.
"Why would she want your Playstation?"
"Believe me, if I knew I try to find her something else to do." Bella continued. "Although it be priceless if I found out she was just down there all day and night playing Kingdom Hearts."
They both gave a laugh, until a loud crash echoed from Bella's end of the line. Bella sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Hey Erin I better go and make sure the old bats still kickin' down there. I'll talk to ya tomorrow ok?"
"Heh, yeh whatever Cleo."
Bella clicked off the phone and hurried down stairs to her aunts 'secret lab' which was disguised as any other door, but was usually bolted shut from the inside. This time, however, the door was open and a bit of smoke leaked out of it. Charlie, who was currently glued to the T.V. made no attempt to look into the lab since this had happened many times before. However this time there was not only smoke, but there was also a triumphant cry from Albie.
"I did it! I actually did it! Oh, this is absolutely stupendous!" she cried and ran up the stairs of the lab to meet Bella by the door, who had a confused look plastered across her face.
"Bella!! I've done it!!"
"Should I even ask?" she replied with a raised eyebrow. Suddenly, Albie grabbed her arm and pulled her down the stairs to the lab, making sure the door shut behind them.
"Hurry B.D., we mustn't let Charlie see just yet." Alberta explained as the reached the center of the lab. The whole space was only about as big as half of a basketball court, but was crammed full of equipment. Glancing around, Bella-Donna noticed that several things had changed since she was last down there.
There was several new computers in the far corner, and many, many more papers scattered around. But the thing that caught her eye the most was the new…phone booth?
"Um, Auntie Albie is that the booth that went missing on Fourth Street?" she questioned and watched as the woman looked from her to the phone booth then back again with a shrug.
"All in the name of science my dear, all in the name of science. Now let me show you this." she said and guided Bella toward the equipment. Near on of the computer monitors sat the Playstation which was fully on and ready for play. Before she could ask any questions, Albie flipped some switches on the different types of machines and the whole room buzzed to life. Auntie Albie sat down on a stool and pulled an extra chair up and motioned to Bella to sit.
"Now Bella, I know you may think I'm a little crazy at times." she paused when a grin came on B.D.'s face, but continued. "But I'm not 'that crazy'. Now, I asked you to leaned me you game a few weeks ago without any reason why. And by the way thank you for that. Anyway, the point is that within every game there is a possibility. The possibility for being created, opened, the possibility for it to become a reality. The old games, I've found, weren't detailed enough. They lacked texture, warmth. But these new games." she held up the box to Kingdom Hearts.
"They have all that. People put in so much detail and realism to these games that those possibilities I mentioned become greater. The only thing that is stopping these possibilities is people not willing to try them. But B.D., I've found that if one puts the time and effort into this, that those possibilities can become reality."
Auntie Albie finished and sat back looking at Bella's face for any kind of reaction. All she found was a blank stare.
"What are you trying to say here Auntie?" she questioned, almost afraid of the answer. Had her aunt actually lost it?
"Now I know your not that dense dear, come, come." Albie motioned her to the phone booth, and next to that was a blank computer screen. Pushing the button on the screen, it flashed on showing the beach of Destiny Islands. But with no Sora in sight.
"Hey, that's…" Bella started but was interrupted when Auntie opened the booth and placed a piece of paper in it. Making sure the door was shut tight, the woman stepped back and looked around the booth before punching in some numbers on a key pad that was installed.
After a moment of silence, a whizzing noise echoed through the lab and a bright light passed over them. When the light had retreated and the noise died down, Bella opened her eyes and looked back at the booth. Her Auntie Albie said nothing, just waited to see if B.D. would catch on.
'Well its still a phone booth', Bella thought to herself. Hold up. The paper, where's the paper? Bella squinted her eyes and moved closer to the booth before opening the door, finding to trace of the paper that Albie had place inside. Looking up at her Aunt for some kind of answer, she only saw the scientist smile and point toward the monitor next to her.
Slowly Bella-Donna turned her head toward the screen afraid to see what might be there. It couldn't be. Nothing was going to be there, right? Wrong. Very, very wrong.
It may have proven every other scientist in history wrong, but there on the beach of the one and only Destiny Island was the same piece of paper that was laying in that old phone booth.
Bella turned back toward her Aunt trying to find something to say, but couldn't find the words. Finally she stopped and regained her composer, then spoke.
"How?"
"Like I told you. Every game has the possibility, all I had to do was give it life."
"The paper…it's…" Bella stuttered then asked the big questioned. "If the paper…then can…we?" she asked and gulped.
"Yes girl, yes."
*********Ok, there. My first Kingdom Hearts chapter. Now, REVIEW!!!!
Chapter One
The sun was hanging over the landscape of a small suburb in Michigan. A soft breeze wound its way through the perfectly managed yards and into open windows leaving behind the fresh scent of morning. The small creek that ran behind the nearly identical houses created a relaxing sound when combined with the musical sound of birds singing in the distance. All was quiet since most of the occupants of the street were still slumbering in their clean homes. So peaceful…
"HEY BELLA-DONNA!" a boy screamed into his sleeping sisters ear, piercing the numbing silence.
Tumbling off the large mattress that served as a bed for the now very agitated sister, she sat up and glared flaming arrows at her younger brother.
"Get outta my room you freaky little nomb!" she yelled before collapsing on the pillows and mumbling. "Besides, its Saturday…no school."
"No duh bean dip. Auntie Albie needs you downstairs though."
"Well tell her she'll have to wait, cause there's no way in hell I'm gettin' up at…" she grabbed for the alarm clock to see what ungodly hour it was. "…7:34. Come back in about four hours, or leave a message after the beep. Beeeeeeep."
"No can do." he said and crossed his arms over his small chest. "And she gave me full permission to threaten you if you don't"
" 'You' threaten 'me'? What are ya gonna do? Give me an overdose of children's Tylenol and beat me with a rubber chicken?" she chuckled and teased while still laying face down on her pillow.
"Not quite…" the boy of ten walked over to the wall of his sisters attic room and tapped a finger on a small black box with some buttons and a speaker on it. It took the sixteen year old girl to a minute to figure out what he meant.
"If you don't get up I'll play that Simple Plan song you hate so much, over, and over, and over, and over…"he finished with a grin that was missing a tooth.
Bella let out a muffled scream into the pillow that signaled her brother had won. With a victorious grin, but also a bit disappointed that he wouldn't be about to torture his sister, her walked to the door that led back to the second floor.
"I thought so. But if your not down there in ten minutes…" he took a deep breath and started singing with his high pitched squeaky voice. "I'd do anythiiiinnngggg, just to hold you in my arrrrmmmsssss!!" his voice echoed through the house and he descended the stairs. The teenager pulled the pillow over her head trying desperately to block out the sound.
Bella-Donna's long slightly wavy hair, that was stained a charcoal black from her Egyptian ancestry, peeked out from under the milky white pillow case. Her naturally tan skin, that was also from her heritage, seemed a bit darker in contrast to the pillow she was currently hanging onto. After a few seconds, she lifted the feathery object off her head and sat up in her bed while looking around with half lidded eyes. Those eyes where painted a pale blue from her fathers American family.
Swinging her legs over the mattress and staggering to her feet, she made her way over the thick carpet of her room to the plain blue rob hanging from the closet door. Pulling the rob around her body that was already coated in large baggy pajama pants and old tank top, she looked at herself in the mirror.
She was around 5"8' or 5"9' and wasn't a stick figure like a lot of girls around her age were. Now she defiantly wasn't fat, but she wasn't really skinny. She thought her 150 lbs. form fit her just fine. Other than that, she had the face of her mother. Narrow with high cheekbones and full lips, with a slightly protruding upper lip. Her skin was smooth except for the four or five usual pimples that were placed here and there. But they were hard to spot because of her tan skin.
Running a hand through her messed hair in an attempt to smooth it down, Bella let out a sigh and followed suit to her little brother and walked downstairs.
The house she lived in was fairly clean except for the few glasses, cans, candy wrappers and laundry that were strewn in some places. On the walls hung numerous pictures of family and friends, but mostly Bella and her little brother 's parents off in some other country. Some of the others consisted of pictures Charlie had drawn when he was a little kid, and drawings Bella-Donna drew recently.
The hall way that she took to get to the stairs to the first floor had a shiny wooden floor. The girls footsteps sounded softly as she walked by the doors to other rooms in the house, meaning Charlie's room, the library, and one of the offices in the large house.
Reaching the other set of stairs, she silently descended them while running a hand over the glossy wooden banister. As she made her way through the last hallway she had to travel through before she reached the kitchen, an odd smell lofted under her nose. Scrunching up her face Bella stepped into the kitchen to see her Aunt Albie sitting at the table with her brother next to her, attempting to spell out his name with the Alphabets cereal.
"Ah, good morning B.D. . Sleep well?" Aunt Albie questioned looking up at the girl from her paper work that was scattered across the table. Bella only nodded briefly in response and plopped down in the chair at the other end of the table. Looking from Albie to Charlie, she laughed when the boy dropped his spoon down in the cereal that was completely saturated with milk, and spilled a bit on some of her Aunt's papers. Albie however paid no mind to the little accident and continued on writing. Rubbing her forehead with her fingers, Bella groaned and broke the silence.
"So, what did you want me down here for again?" she questioned her Aunt. Albie looked up with a thoughtful look on her face, like she had forgotten why she had called her niece down there. Then it hit her and she snapped her fingers.
"Oh, yes! That! My dear, I was wondering if you would mind possibly loaning me something for a while." she asked and looked at Bella-Donna through her thick black framed glasses. Auntie Albie's name was actually Alberta Ressurea, but when B.D. and her little brother moved into her household they quickly came up with an easier name to call her by.
Bella-Donna and Charlie's parents had been architects. Traveling all over the world and barely ever being home for Christmas or Thanksgiving wasn't the right kind of life for parents. But they tried as best as they knew how. Bella even remembered being brought to several different foreign countries a few times, Charlie was too young to remember anything though. Most of the time they stayed with Auntie Albie until the two returned to them. They always had returned to them. Except for their mother.
Who would have guessed that the land where her ancestors lived would be the land where she died? The children's mother fell prey to the desert heat and the lack of water. Their father returned, but he was never the same. About three months after he came home, he also passed away. Many said it was a broken heart that struck him down.
"Depends on what you wanna borrow." Bella-Donna mumbled, still trying to fully wake up.
"Welllllll…you would really have to trust me." Albie said putting on a pathetic face. At least as pathetic as a 46 year old woman could get.
"Okayyyyy…what is it?" Bella asked narrowing her eyes a bit in suspicion.
"Your video game thingy." she said while she looked at her niece through the corner of her eyes.
"You gonnna have to be most specific than that Auntie Albie. I've got the original Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega…take your pick."
"Your Playstation 2?" Albie said and kind of backed away timidly waiting for the girls protest. But all the girl did was sit there and stare at her then calmly say.
"Buy Auntie Albie. That wasn't one of the selections I gave you." she replied with wide eyes, looking at her aunt like she was crazy for asking such a question. When the older woman didn't say anything, Bella only shook her head slowly and mouthed 'no'.
"Oh come now B.D. . I'll be careful with it. And if anything does happen to it, which nothing will, I promise to replace it." she begged the girl as she just sat there staring at her. Letting out a sigh, Bella came to a decision.
"Fine, fine! Take it, but you have to swear to get me a brand spankin' new one if you bust this one up." she said standing up and pointing a finger at her aunt.
"I swear to you I will buy you a new one if I 'bust this one up'." she said impersonating her niece. "It will be first on my agenda."
"First on your agenda huh? Like…Charlie needs a new lung, but my Playstation comes first?" she asked with a grin and held out her hand to her aunt.
"Playstation before lung, every time my dear." Albie reached out and shook Bella-Donna's hand, but before pulling away she added. "By the way, I'm going to need to borrow one of your games."
"WHAT?! No, no, no. The Playstation fine, but the games?! What exactly are you gonna do any way?" she questioned her aunt and followed her into the living room where the games were stored, leaving Charlie to his cereal.
"I can't tell you that at this moment dear, but I promise I will fill you in as soon as possible." she bent over and began going through the numerous games that were scattered on the floor. Then seeing one of interest, she picked up her eyes wide with excitement.
"This one is ABSOLUTLY perfect! Oh, it's so exciting!" she said and gave her niece a little hug before running off down the hall. Bella only shook her head and looked down to the games. Deciding to be uncharacteristic, she began tidying them up and putting them all back on the shelf. Sighing, she sat back and looked at them all. They ranged from Spyro, to the Sims, to Jax and Daxter, all the way to Final Fantasy X2. But her absolute favorite was…gone? Wait…where? She didn't…
"AUNTIE ALBIE!!!"
*******
Two weeks it had been sense her aunt kidnapped her Playstation and video game. Of course if you hadn't realized it yet, that game was the wonderful Kingdom Hearts. Bella-Donna had tried to get any info about what in the world she was doing out her of aunt, but whenever she saw her she would only rush by mumbling something to herself.
At the moment Bella was laid flopped on her bed staring up at the ceiling, pondering what the hell her crazy aunt could be doing with her game.
Aunt Albie was a weird one alright, but she was great. Her husband had died before Bella-Donna was born and had left Alberta great sums of cash. And the fact that she used to be on a research team and was still getting money from that gig helped expenses a lot too. Bella had never seen her aunt work, just walk around the house writing notes and going out of the house for science conferences now and then.
Auntie Albie's usual ensemble was her thick black framed glasses, and a plain white lab coat which she hardly ever took off. Her hair was dark brown, and never seemed to stay in the same place long. Even though Albie was the adult of the household, it seemed that Bella-Donna was doing most of the cleaning and cooking, and she really didn't have a problem with any of it. She knew how important Auntie Albies experiments were to her.
Letting out a sigh when she heard her phone ring, she reached over and pushed the button for the speaker phone.
"Yeh?" she questioned groggily.
"Hey there Cleopatra." Bella-Donna smiled at her friend, Erin's, nickname for her.
"Hey Erin, how goes it?"
"Eh, as good as can be expected. Hey, I got a new game. Ya want me to bring it over so we can play?" she questioned. Bella shook her head at her friend. It seemed that every week that girl got a different video game.
"Sorry, no can do." she answered back, disappointed.
"What? Do my ears deceive me? Bell-Donna Ressurea says no to a game? What gives?!"
"Believe me I would, but Auntie Albie has the Playstation down in her 'secret lab'." Bella said, quoting with her fingers sarcastically.
"Why would she want your Playstation?"
"Believe me, if I knew I try to find her something else to do." Bella continued. "Although it be priceless if I found out she was just down there all day and night playing Kingdom Hearts."
They both gave a laugh, until a loud crash echoed from Bella's end of the line. Bella sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Hey Erin I better go and make sure the old bats still kickin' down there. I'll talk to ya tomorrow ok?"
"Heh, yeh whatever Cleo."
Bella clicked off the phone and hurried down stairs to her aunts 'secret lab' which was disguised as any other door, but was usually bolted shut from the inside. This time, however, the door was open and a bit of smoke leaked out of it. Charlie, who was currently glued to the T.V. made no attempt to look into the lab since this had happened many times before. However this time there was not only smoke, but there was also a triumphant cry from Albie.
"I did it! I actually did it! Oh, this is absolutely stupendous!" she cried and ran up the stairs of the lab to meet Bella by the door, who had a confused look plastered across her face.
"Bella!! I've done it!!"
"Should I even ask?" she replied with a raised eyebrow. Suddenly, Albie grabbed her arm and pulled her down the stairs to the lab, making sure the door shut behind them.
"Hurry B.D., we mustn't let Charlie see just yet." Alberta explained as the reached the center of the lab. The whole space was only about as big as half of a basketball court, but was crammed full of equipment. Glancing around, Bella-Donna noticed that several things had changed since she was last down there.
There was several new computers in the far corner, and many, many more papers scattered around. But the thing that caught her eye the most was the new…phone booth?
"Um, Auntie Albie is that the booth that went missing on Fourth Street?" she questioned and watched as the woman looked from her to the phone booth then back again with a shrug.
"All in the name of science my dear, all in the name of science. Now let me show you this." she said and guided Bella toward the equipment. Near on of the computer monitors sat the Playstation which was fully on and ready for play. Before she could ask any questions, Albie flipped some switches on the different types of machines and the whole room buzzed to life. Auntie Albie sat down on a stool and pulled an extra chair up and motioned to Bella to sit.
"Now Bella, I know you may think I'm a little crazy at times." she paused when a grin came on B.D.'s face, but continued. "But I'm not 'that crazy'. Now, I asked you to leaned me you game a few weeks ago without any reason why. And by the way thank you for that. Anyway, the point is that within every game there is a possibility. The possibility for being created, opened, the possibility for it to become a reality. The old games, I've found, weren't detailed enough. They lacked texture, warmth. But these new games." she held up the box to Kingdom Hearts.
"They have all that. People put in so much detail and realism to these games that those possibilities I mentioned become greater. The only thing that is stopping these possibilities is people not willing to try them. But B.D., I've found that if one puts the time and effort into this, that those possibilities can become reality."
Auntie Albie finished and sat back looking at Bella's face for any kind of reaction. All she found was a blank stare.
"What are you trying to say here Auntie?" she questioned, almost afraid of the answer. Had her aunt actually lost it?
"Now I know your not that dense dear, come, come." Albie motioned her to the phone booth, and next to that was a blank computer screen. Pushing the button on the screen, it flashed on showing the beach of Destiny Islands. But with no Sora in sight.
"Hey, that's…" Bella started but was interrupted when Auntie opened the booth and placed a piece of paper in it. Making sure the door was shut tight, the woman stepped back and looked around the booth before punching in some numbers on a key pad that was installed.
After a moment of silence, a whizzing noise echoed through the lab and a bright light passed over them. When the light had retreated and the noise died down, Bella opened her eyes and looked back at the booth. Her Auntie Albie said nothing, just waited to see if B.D. would catch on.
'Well its still a phone booth', Bella thought to herself. Hold up. The paper, where's the paper? Bella squinted her eyes and moved closer to the booth before opening the door, finding to trace of the paper that Albie had place inside. Looking up at her Aunt for some kind of answer, she only saw the scientist smile and point toward the monitor next to her.
Slowly Bella-Donna turned her head toward the screen afraid to see what might be there. It couldn't be. Nothing was going to be there, right? Wrong. Very, very wrong.
It may have proven every other scientist in history wrong, but there on the beach of the one and only Destiny Island was the same piece of paper that was laying in that old phone booth.
Bella turned back toward her Aunt trying to find something to say, but couldn't find the words. Finally she stopped and regained her composer, then spoke.
"How?"
"Like I told you. Every game has the possibility, all I had to do was give it life."
"The paper…it's…" Bella stuttered then asked the big questioned. "If the paper…then can…we?" she asked and gulped.
"Yes girl, yes."
*********Ok, there. My first Kingdom Hearts chapter. Now, REVIEW!!!!