Here comes my first chapter.
Chapter 1: Destiny Islands
Part I. Introductions
When I woke up again, I was underneath a tropical-type tree that had on it a cluster of yellow star-shaped fruits. Just then a blonde girl about my age (16 years old) wearing a blue headband, a yellow shirt with a zigzag pattern, matching jogging pants, and sneakers of the same color, passed by and noticed me. When I looked at her face, it resembled that of Naminé (even though she doesn’t exist at this point of the story; I mentioned her only for description purposes). As she approached, I noticed I was holding a slingshot on my left hand and a few stones on the right. Then, she asked what my name was. When I answered, she said “My name’s Florina.” Then when she asked if i was hungry, even if only a bit, I aimed my slingshot at the fruits above and shot a stone at them. The stone hit with perfect accuracy and after a few of the fruits fell (oddly, without any bruises), Florina said “That fruit is called a paopu. Try one.” I did and it tasted, to me, like a mix of mango and banana. When Florina walked away from me, I stowed my slingshot and stones in my pocket, gathered the rest of the paopus, then followed As I walked and ate another paopu, we came to an area where we saw these kids:
Tidus
Selphie
Wakka
Kairi
Riku
They were “lounging around” or doing friendly duels with one another. She approached Wakka and asked if he can spare a duel with me (I winced at the thought). He twirled his “Blitzball” and said okay. He and I went over to the “battle area” (which was the beach) and everyone else went under the shade of the trees to watch. Then Florina stood up and called out “Begin!”
Part II. Versus Wakka
At the moment “Begin!” was heard, Wakka tossed his ball towards me and before I knew it I was struck. (Oddly, I did not feel pain on any specific part of my body but rather it spread out all over evenly so there was little pain in general.) Just when I recovered, I saw Wakka running for his ball. As a response, I took out my slingshot, loaded a stone, then shot at Wakka, who received the hit but soon recovered quickly and continued for his ball (He must be having the same ‘pain’ condition as I, and perhaps everyone else has that too). I ran around him and when Wakka got his ball, he tossed it at me and I slapped it back and it stunned him . Then I ’shot’ away at him and he signaled defeat when I saw stars flying around him. When I want over to Florina, Sora came over to Wakka, gave him something to drink, then Wakka was back on his feet again, then the 2 began to duel as Kairi called out “Begin!”. Just then, another guy with hair as white as Riku’s came over to us. He wore a silver shirt with a volleyball decal, grey pants, and black boots. As he combed back his clean-cut hair with his hand, Florina introduced me to him as Windelle and she also introduced him to me (by my name, of course). Before he can say anything else, I heard Sora call out victory as Wakka (given the same drink as before) walked to our “spectator area” (which was under the shade of the trees)and Selphie came over to the “battle area” and called out for me to battle her and Florina nudged me over to the “battle area” then called out “Begin!”
Part III. VS Selphie
At the sound of “Begin!”, Selphie lashed out her jump rope and, unlike last time, I was ready and caught the end of it with a bit of difficulty. Naturally, she tried to tug back her ‘weapon’, then I let go of the end I was holding and is lashed back at her and she was hit. I then took out my slingshot and shot away at her but she was not to lose so quickly for she lashed out at me again and, this time, I was struck by that blow. She was about to strike again when Sora called out that he wanted to fight her. She consented and I was ’switched out’. As the 2 battled, and as I ate another paopu, Windelle said to me, “You know, I never saw you around Destiny Islands before.”
Florina said, “Maybe he came from somewhere else, like Kairi had.”
“Kairi came from another world?”
“Yes. At least Sora and Riku say so.”
“Okay. Seeing there is a ’second’ case something like this happened, I’m inclined to believe you, even if Kairi and he don’t know one another since maybe they aren’t from the same world.”
Before either of the two can say anything else, Sora claimed victory once again and this time, Tidus asked me to battle him. Like before, I was ‘persuaded’ to enter the ‘battle area’ with him as Sora and Selphie (rejuvenated by the same drink he gave to Wakka when I had defeated him) returned to the “spectator area”. Then Florina called out “Begin!” once more.
Part IV. VS Tidus
At that signal, Tidus suddenly charged at me with his toy sword, which was made of wood, and I barely dodged him in time by jumping to the left but he struck me successfully again since his toy sword was on his right hand. He managed to follow up with a 1-2-3 combo. I ran all the way to the shore and then pulled out my slingshot and shot away at him. However, Tidus swiftly (Whoa!) deflected my shots. He then reached me and struck me 1-2-3 again. Before I knew it, I was knocked out. Tidus then helped me up, gave that ‘healing’ drink (Tastes like Gatorade™ Blue Chill to me.), then Sora came over to substitute in my place and then called Wakka and Selphie to fight him in a 3-on-1 match. As I returned to Florina and Windelle, I saw 2 boys come over to us. One of them looked like Wakka, but he wore a green beanie hat, an orange undershirt under a green jacket, green jogging pants, and orange sneakers. The other guy had the likeness of Tidus, wore a blue beanie hat, blue T-shirt with a green vest over it, blue shorts, and green sneakers. I gave them 2 paopus to eat and after the short snack, the guy in green and orange, who called himself Gregorio said to Windelle, “So? How good is he?” (Referring to me, I suppose.) Windelle replied, “Not that well when it came to Tidus and I can’t determine if he would’ve won against Selphie had Sora not ‘tagged’ him out.” The other guy, named Yoris, then suggested that Windelle, Florina, and I do a 3-on-1 with Sora. I was surprised Florina fought as well; she pulled out a slingshot to prove it. Windelle then pulled out a slingshot as well. Just then, Sora proclaimed himself victorious and the three of us (myself, Windelle, and Florina) stepped up to “battle area” as the defeated 3 (Wakka, Selphie, and Tidus) went over to the “spectator area” as Sora waited for us while in his battle stance.
Part V. 3 on 1 Match
At Kairi’s signal, Sora started running towards me. As Florina and Windelle ran in opposite directions (I was between the two of them.), I acted fast and as Sora thrust his sword down towards me, I caught it and shoved hard as Sora kept bringing down his weight on me. Just then, I saw Florina and Windelle shoot at Sora and he received the blows real hard. He then tried to get his toy sword off my hands but I grasped on no matter how he moved it as my 2 teammates continued firing away. Soon enough, stars appeared over Sora’s head as he claimed defeat. Riku came over, substituted for Sora, saying, “You can handle 3 opponents with a ball. jump rope, and toy sword, but you can’t handle 3 ’slingshooters’? Pitiful, although it’s probably due to the new kid’s unorthodox maneuver.”, then he did his battle stance. Kairi then called out “Begin!”, and Riku rushed towards me like Sora had. Riku held his toy sword on his right hand compared to Sora’s doublehanded handling so I had no idea how to do what I had done with Sora so I fired away instead. Like Tidus, he deflected every shot and soon enough was striking me and was evading my teammate’s shots with little ease. Soon enough, I was KO’d and Riku started on Windelle next (In here, being KO’d doesn’t mean knocked unconscious as I was able to see the battle but under half-closed eyes and being unable to do anything). Though Windelle dodged quite well, it wasn’t long before he received Riku’s blows as well. Soon, he was defeated as well and I daren’t watch Riku bust Florina as well. A few moments later, Riku proclaimed victorious saying, “Piece of cake.” Kairi, Gregorio and Yoris came over to each of us and gave us that ‘healing’ drink and we were back on our feet. Everyone then walked off in different directions saying “See you later!” to everyone else. I followed Florina and Windelle as they walked together.
Part VI. Day’s End
As I walked with the two (It was about 3 PM), Windelle said, “Maybe you could use some training with that slingshot.”
I said, “Now you mentioned it, I guess I do need some practice.”
“All right then. Let’s get a few lessons started. Wanna go on without us, Florina?”
“No thanks. I wanna see you train him.”
“Okay.”
For 2 hours, I practiced “the art of the slingshot” and soon, it was sunset and Windelle said, “It’s time for us to go home. Wanna come sleep over with me?”
I don’t know why, but I quietly refused the offer and said, “Maybe I should continue training on my own.”
“Oookay. Will you be here tomorrow?”, Florina asked. I gave her a where-else-would-you-think-I-can-go look. The two then left and when they were gone, I treated myself to another paopu. Suddenly, I received a hard blow from behind that I was knocked unconscious. [Of course I had no idea who did it; (s)he probably wanted me to 'spend the night here' because when I woke up, it was daytime.]
