Challenge 301: Friendship

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

Title: Alone
Challenge [301]: Friendship
Words: 225
Notes: Argh.  This feels unfinished, but whoops todays the deadline.

Friendship comes to Sora as naturally as breathing.  In fact, before all of this…mess, he had never met someone he couldn't call a friend.  He didn't know what it was like to not have someone’s back, to know that someone didn't have his.

Those first few cold hours in Traverse Town are some of the loneliest he’s ever spent.

*~*~*~*

Sora reflects, later, that he hadn't had any idea what loneliness was.  True loneliness is what he feels after fighting Riku off at Monstro, knowing that maybe they weren't friends at all anymore.

It simply isn't in Sora to deny a friend anything; perhaps this is what allows Riku to steal the Keyblade more than anything else.

Sora learns that maybe there are worse things than loneliness

*~*~*~*

It is when he has only one friend left that Sora gets desperate.  He doesn't know how to survive without someone beside him – he will fight with everything he has to get back to her, keyblade or not.

His friends are his power.  If anything is going to take him out, it won’t be darkness.  It’ll be Riku staring him down, spitting his worthlessness to his face.  It’ll be Donald turning away, Goofy quiet at his side.

It’ll be Kairi, blank and silent forever.

Sora would rather face darkness with his friends than light without them.

Comments

[rikushair.livejournal.com]

This brings me back to Kingdom Hearts one! The good old days! It doesn't feel unfinished at all. I like what you did here, and it feels longer than 225 words. It's a good inner monologue! Good job!

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

Thankies! Hard to believe it came out so long ago!

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

AWESOME drabble! Well done!

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[spoke.livejournal.com]

Sora would rather face darkness with his friends than light without them. That gave me chills in the best way! It's a wonderful look inside Sora's head.

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[selphiebooyaka.livejournal.com]

d'aw sora. I loved it

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

:D

[iki-teru.livejournal.com]

(pssst, i think you has a typo in the line He didn't now what it was like to not have someone’s back)

sora is very much a social creature isn't he? I think you captured him perfectly here because he is definitely at his weakest when he's left on his own.

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

Argh, yes. LJ has been randomly deleting letters for some of my posts. I thought I had caught them all!
Thank you for pointing it out.

Your comment. <3

[synchroshatter.livejournal.com]

This fic had me really nostalgic for KHI, because despite all the terrible things Sora’s been through during the series, having his best friend betray him and turn to darkness was probably the worst of the lot. I think you captured Sora really well here, especially in the last section. Good work!

[silvertsuki.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :3 Congrats on your win!