kh_drabble | Challenge [069] (Reply)

Challenge: [069] Heroes
Title: The Pieces
Word Count: 455
Spoilers: Minor spoilers throughout KH II.
Notes: Two voices and a meeting of the mind.

Mm… Okay. I got one. Fairies.

Since Neverland? Totally… Plus there are three of them trailing after Leon at Radiant Garden. They mean well, but they drive him bonkers. Yuffie thinks its hilarious. My turn. ‘Second Chances.’

A toughie. For heroes like you, yes. You’re a good person, so it’s not asking for too much. For a nobody like me, no. Most of us don’t have that luxury.

… Sorry.

Don’t be. Not your fault… what about mermaids?

Oh yeah. Seen em’ with my own eyes. There’s this place called Atlantis where there are hundreds of em’. They swim around this huge underwater castle all day and sing a lot. Sometimes they ask you to sing along too. Love at first sight?

You kidding? That’s so mushy. And nobodies don’t really have any business with feelings when they cant. Past lives?

I dunno. Never thought about it before… Too busy trying to save everyone in this one.

Thought you’d say that. Life after death, then.

You mean… like for a nobody?

Yeah.

Definitely. I mean… what do you call us? If we’re not an example of life after, I don’t know what is.

Funny.

Thanks.

Here’s a good one. Destiny.

Ooh. That is good. Though I’m kinda obligated to say yes.

The Keyblade. I get it.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t. It’s hard to ignore, especially when I’m knocking around heartless with it at every turn. You believe in it too.

The keyblade’s the reason I exist. Or don’t exist, depending on how you look at it. If you’d never been chosen, you’d never have walked into Hallow Bastion and lost your heart…

That must have been destiny too. I still lose myself sometimes. Echoes of that time in the dark.

Does it hurt?

You mean when I change?

It looks painful.

Only a little. I try not to feel too much when I’m like that. It makes it harder to turn back if I don’t focus on the light.

I can understand.

It must be hard being a nobody.

Well, I’m not sad about it, if that’s what you mean. But I guess that’s the point. What’s really hard is feeling again. Even now, I still have a little trouble being me. You. Us.

Maybe it’s not really that. Maybe it’s that all our pieces are here, but they don’t fit together right.

Tough to save people when you can’t save yourself, isn’t it?

… I have one last one.

Fire away.

Do you think we’re whole enough to still be heroes?

Hmm…after all the people we’ve met, things we’ve seen, and all the parts of us that we gave up along the way… I’d like to think so.

Yeah... Me too.