Kingdom Hearts Fragment Volume 1

(Chapter 5: Peter and the Wolf Part 1)

(Chapter5: The Snowfall Acquaintance)

"Mmm..."Nozomi moaned achingly as she rolled over onto her side; her stomach was in pain. Rubbing herself gently, trying to soothe the dull throbbing aches, she mumbled drowsily with annoyance, "Whatever I ate last night... I am never going to eat again...."

As she continued this, gradually feeling the pain lessen, she began to feel really cold. The frigid temperature wrapped around her; it was so bad that her teeth began to chatter. "Why... is, is it so cold...?"As her mind began to come up with reasons, she realised it could only be one thing, "Don't...tell me the heating...has gone bad again!"For sometimes, the Dojo's weak old heater would putter out, which would mean she'd have to call Wairu over and ask him to help her fix it.

She really didn't want to bother him. She still felt tired anyway, and so reaching out for some comfort against this awful cold, she asked, "Where... where's my blanket?"

Then as Nozomi reached around herself for the feel of the soft fabric, her hand instead encountered something else that was soft, but it was wet and cold, falling through her fingertips as melted slush.

Puzzled, not understanding what caused this, she uttered, "What's...this?"Then finally opening her eyes partially, still half asleep, she saw a thick blanket of white substance all around her; she was half buried in the stuff as it rested all over her lying body.

"Oh? It's snow..." she uttered, then gently closed her eyes again to sleep some more...

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"WHATSNOW!?" Suddenly her eyes snapped open in alert! Quickly scrambling up, causing a flurry of the stuff to scatter off her. She was now wide awake, staring around with wide eyes; she was doing her best to hurriedly warm herself up as she rubbed her arms.

She was shocked as she began to gradually get some warmth back in her body. The space she found herself in was a place that was filled with fresh white, clean fallen snow and loads of tall blue pine trees. These were covered in thick snowy layers, revealing that they had just shed recently, and for all she knew, it was now the coldest point of winter as she continued to shiver.

Nozomi was absolutely confused, "It...was nowhere near Winter, back home..."Then as she uttered this, she realised quickly, "Wait! These aren't bamboo trees. How did I...?" Rubbing the side of her head, it had adull ache as she tried to regain some imagery to help her remember. But sadly, nothing came back, "What is going on!" However, no one was there to tell her... feeling depressed at this, she asked, "How did I get here?"

WHOOSH...

She shivered badly as a blast of cold wind hit her, causing her to rub her arms up and down. "Standing around is gonnado me no good; let's try and remember with a walk!" With that, she proceeded into this snowy world as she tried to remember what was going on, blowing some warm air onto her numb fingers.

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As Nozomi walked on, venturing deeper into the woods, she was finally gettingsome warmth back into her body, which was a huge relief! As she hugged her arms around herself, she tried again to think and asked herself, "Okay, what's the last thing I remember?"

Putting one finger to her forehead and rubbing it, she uttered, "Mmm..."Then as she looked at the grey skies, something began to come, "Okay, let's see... first of all, I remember waking up like usual," then thinking of this, she remembered the annoying wake-up call, "Then there was Wairu, being an alarm clock for me... lessons...."