Chapter 6
“Bring forth the other,
As once one is gone, he shall step forward.
If one refuses, a new story will birth.
If one accepts, twilights end will begin,
And destiny’s beginning will end,
For the empty, sorrowful world…”
Roxas felt like he had heard this before, it also sounded like it had something to do with her world, she had mentioned it being empty, and sorrowful. He himself might be the ‘other’ mentioned, as Xion asked him to come help his other self, but he pretty much refused as Sora is still in hospital sleeping, he can’t just leave him. So, he refused and a new story was born? If he accepted he would’ve gone to the other world, so that makes sense. What was the other world’s name though?
“What’s the other world’s name?”
“The name? Twilight Islands.”
Twilight Islands, somehow he recognized that, if he accepted then would that world begin to end? Or is that word just like this one with many other worlds in it, like Twilight Town? If it was like that, it wouldn’t be as bad, just having a world end on you with no alternative, but it would still be horrible, destroying peoples’ homes like that.
“Twilight Islands itself doesn’t exist, it is a place created from two hearts of worlds very similar to itself. If it were to end, the people on it would end up in either one of those worlds, depending on where they were there.”
Her comment had answered his question, but the only thing left to know is destiny’s beginning, and its end. So something will begin, thus ending something as it begins. Whatever that could be seems to have happened already if her world was gone, but it has to happen in the future if he’s the one to make the choice.
“It once had another name, I do not know it myself, but as it was created it formed some kind of illusion around it, making it look like two worlds at once.”
This would have been the two world hearts coming together to make it.
“Would any of the prophecy be here, or does Xion know any part of it?”
“No, I have not found anything in this world, and Xion does not know of it.”
If no part of the prophecy was here, then that means he couldn’t figure out anything else to base a decision on. Going to the world would start the prophecy for good, although, he was already living in an event stated. He felt like he just had to continue it, even if that meant Twilight Islands getting destroyed, she did say it would be fine after all. Roxas thought for a bit, trying to think along the lines of Twilight’s end and Destiny’s beginning.
To twilights end...
And destiny’s beginning...
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These words felt familiar, he knew them.
To twilights end...
And destiny’s beginning...
But from where? They were not words from this world, if they were from the other, why could they reach him?
To twilights end...
And destiny’s beginning...
A new journey, is born.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t figure out where these words were coming from.
Born in light...
Hidden in darkness...
To twilights end...
And destiny’s beginning...
A new journey, is born.
Was this the first stanza? Maybe so, then if the second stanza was what he had heard from the girl.
Bring forth the other,
As once one is gone, he shall step forward.
If one refuses, a new story will birth.
If one accepts, twilights end will begin,
And destiny’s beginning will end,
For the empty, sorrowful world…
There has got to be more, but after these two stanzas, he couldn’t think of anything else. If he was told the second, and thought of the first, then the third would have to be hidden somewhere in the other world. If so, he’d probably never hear it. Footsteps were heard from the stairs, he turned around to see Xion coming down them and into the room. She looked confusing, looking straight past him at the girl behind him.
“Y-you. You’re here?! Shouldn’t you be with Roxas? Or is he…”
“Roxas should be fine, I never left him either. I guess I’ve never explained anything clearly.”
The girl walked past Roxas and inside to the main room, heading towards Xion.
“You see Xion, to me, that event hasn’t happened yet, you have come here to this world to gather Roxas, but the portal closed correct?”
“Yes.”
“As much as I’d like to send you there now, I can’t. There are certain times where the worlds connect enough for a portal to be opened.”
Now Roxas was confused, she was going in-between this world, and the other whenever she wished. She had also said that she had sent Xion here to bring him to that world, and now she was saying that that event hadn’t happened to her yet.
“But you said earlier that you sent Xion to bring me to Twilight Islands.”
“I did say that, and I did send Xion here. I know that I sent her here because she said that I did. You didn’t see me, but I was in the hospital room at that time.”
The room went silent, who was she, and what was she doing? If she was trying to complete the prophecy then she must have information on some events that were happening across the different worlds, but if the event hadn’t happened to her then she wasn’t travelling through time, only space. The more he thought about this, the more his head hurt, it was too confusing for him.
“I’m going to lie down, Xion, I think you should head off to sleep too.”
She nodded in response, the girl began to walk away from Xion as well, letting Xion go upstairs. He watched her open the door and leave, his vision was blurry, he couldn’t see anything but her white figure moving, further, and further away from him.
He watched her as she walked towards him, pieces of junk in hand. The sky was whiter than any other day, clouds covered almost all of the sky. The wind blew colder each day as they continued to gather junk. With her help, some of the project was built, and more pieces had been gathered. A pile almost taller than him had been formed beside the project. He knew that this would take a while, but he felt like he was running out of time with the world growing colder. She had placed the pieces down and started to piece them together with the rest of the project. It was an odd shape, but if it worked, then they could leave this world together.
I got stuck around 690 words for a while… But words came to mind after a while.