The Playground
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     The day after the dream was so unreal to me. Everything made sense, i could feel everything. I began to notice things no one has the time to notice. The heat of the day, the amount of grains that were in the sandbox where the younger children were playing, the ticking of the clock of every second that could never be relived, a car aproaching---. I broke out of my trance and realized the adopting parents for the day were coming. They looked so happy together, I quickly gathered the little kids and told them to go inside and to be ready to meet someone. I stared at them as they walked in, I knew that whoever was chosen would have a happy life. Then as if by instinct I saw a little girl that was going to be adopted. She looked lonely and slowly went inside, I realized she had been playing alone.
     "Don't you wish you could get adopted?" I jumped as Kaethe spoke to me.
     "You scared me." I responded, "Don't do that..." she put her finger to my mouth to shush me. "I know that," she continued, "too bad we'll never get to know what it is like to have parents. Since no one will ever adopt someone over 10 years old" Kaethe looked at me with a small bright light in her hazel green tinted eyes, "did you have that dream too?"
     "That depends, which one?"
     "The one with the girl, the boy, and that fallen angel," I looked at Kaethe strangely, "I thought so," she walked to a bench and sat down. She beckoned me to sit next to her. "I just turned thirteen and you fourteen," Kaethe smiled at me, "remember the first day we discovered when our birthdays were?"
     "Yeah, I remember that day,"
     "I told you it wasn't a coincidence cuz we are exactly one year apart and now we have the same dream."
     "so what do you thin this means?"
     "I think that soon enough we're going to have to leave this place Keir," she stood up, "I know my brother is somewhere out there I know it and I know i'm destined to find him again"
     I looked at her with worry, her brother had run away from the orphanage without explanation. Kaethe had grown seriously sick that following week. She thought she wouldn't go one without her older brother. That's when I told her that she had a purpose, that all things are destined. She now lives off of this statement i had told her. All things have a purpose, whether great or small it still in necessary. That's all she really had left to beleive in, to hold. All she had was her truth, me, and the note her brother left that said: Far Away in this Land.
     "Well Keir?"
     "What?"
     "Let's get ready for tonight cuz i have a feeling we will be leaving tonight."
     "How? Because if you haven't noticed we can't drive or go anywhere without adult supervision unless it's school." Kaethe's long brown hair blew in the wind. I looked at her and realized that my Blue with blue edges hair was also blowing into my face. It covered my face that I could no longer see then for a second a split second, I saw Kaethe in white armor with silver and gold lining. She had a shining white aura around her and she looked beautiful. Suddenly i was back to reality.
     "See Keir," Kaethe continued, "We are already starting to leave." I got up and went inside, she followed me in. "I don't beleive it," I started to tell Kaethe, "I just simply can't."
     "Why not? Is it because you don't want to beleive it, Keir you saw it with your own eyes. You can't deny it, please be prepared."
     "NO!" I blew up i could no longer take it, "I have no time to dream to think of things like that, I've lost everything! EVERYTHING! All I have is this orphanage that I hate. I wish my father hadn't died, I wish my mother had never left me, I wish for a better life, I wish for an adventure! But Kae just because i wish doesn't mean it'll come true. Want to know what my purpose is? It's to live a life alone with no one to help me! Yes all things have a purpose but not all of these are happy little endings!" I stopped and realized Kae was beginning to tear, "Kae i'm..." i tried to console her, "Kae I didn't mean to--" she pushed me aside and ran off. "Kae! Kae!"
     I looked at the floor, anger began to fill every inch of me. I could no longer take any of it! "WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME?!!!" Suddenly an explosion occured and all I saw were red glares of light everywhere. I fell to the ground and I could no longer move, I layed there stiff as a person approached me. I tried to speak but nothing came out, something heavy hit my chest and i heard a voice.
     "What are you thinking?" it was Neome, "I've been helping you so that you are prepared for your journey, so was Kaethe. Why do you shun help when you need it?"
     "BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT!" I was suprised I could now talk and with power
     "Wrong! You do need it, which is why i have no choice but to send you early to the first world, alone."
     "What?" This confused me, what did she mean first world, "What do you mean?"
     "You could've stayed in your own world but now we must take you to a new world so that you may learn how this all works."
     "So where am i going?"
     "To Paris, 1830, it's not far from here." She tapped me on the head, I began to regain feeling. "What's on my chest?" I asked, "Where's Kae?"
     "Kae is safe don't worry, As for the thing on your chest their gloves, But not just any gloves. They will transform and become part of you, They will hide themselves when needed and they will guide you and provide you with what you need." I got up and looked at the gloves. They were completely Black with small silver and red stones that formed what looked like a curvy V, almost like a distorted heart.
     "What does this mean?"
     "It represents the altered hearts that you will soon fix. It is a symbol that you are there to help and not to destroy."
     "Alright. One more thing, what will i be going against? You said that sora fought heartless and Marina fought nightmares. What will I be fighting against?"
     "I'm glad you asked." I then realizd where I was, It was the Destin Room. Neome approached a dent and place her hand over it. Out in the middle of the room appeared a creature that had a human like figure only it was completely black and had no face, just the appearance of a human.
     "They're called Shadows. They can hide anywhere and are the exact counterparts of humans. This happens when a person dies. One of these are created, normally they die with their counterpart due to the balance of good and bad but now they don't die and are causing havoc. They can speak and perform normal human abilities. They can disguise themselves as their counterparts as well. The way you can thell they're Shadows is you cannot touch except with those Shadow Gloves."
     "I understand."
     "Are you prepared now to go?"
     "Yes!" Neome took her hand off the dent. I stared at it and slowly it grew to an inmense size and I could see what was ahead. Lights and colors dance around as I stepped forward and enter a new world. That marked the beginning of my journey."