Wayward

XII

"You're even more insufferable now than when we were nobodies."

Light swarm in your vision leaving only blinding colours in its wake leaving you unable to make sense of the world in front of you. Stumbling forward with arms stretched out there was a sudden sharp pain up against your hip making you hiss out in pain. 

The world around you slowly came back into focus as light blurred into spots and those spots became colour of the world around.  You glanced down to find the corner table that you walked into, glaring at it until coming to realize where exactly you were.

Of course no one in your rag tag team was inside a very large library.

Of course leave it to be to come separated from everyone. There were voices that sounded very close but you weren't quite sure who they belonged to. They felt familiar like a distant memory inside of your head but of course yet again you couldn't remember exactly where.

Bookcases filled the room towering high toward the ceilings. Windows were on each side of the room, beautiful colours danced across the floor from the stained glass pictures inside of the frames. 

You glanced down briefly noticing sea foam green and light teal colours washed over your lower body.  Looking to your right you stared at the stain glass picture. You were surprised to find the familiar image of The Little Mermaid crafted into fine coloured glass. 

But.. Ariel wasn't considered to be a Princess of Hearts though, managing to tear your eyes away from this stained glass you looked at the one to your left. Princess Aurora. Then Belle. Jasmine. Cinderella. Snow White.

Stepping to the next row of windows you were surprised to find two empty glass windows on each side. You had been expecting to find Kairi in one of them, she was the seventh after all.

There was a commotion on the other side of a very large set of doors in front of you. Flanked by even more bookshelves. Hesitantly you approached the doors before warily resting your ear up against the wood. The silence was deafening as you attempted to hear something else from beyond. 

Heartbeat from your own chest felt like it was echoing both within the library and beyond it to the point you were fearing that someone else on the other side could possibly hear you as well.

"Ah, c'mon. You really don't think that."

Words were muffled through the thickness of the wood that you couldn't recognize it. For all you knew there was a chance that it could be an NPC that wasn't in the original games. They were real genuine people here.

 Living a life just as much as you had been living one before all this.

Two sets of footsteps echoed into the library right up until they sounded just outside the door. Panic twisted like a knife in your chest, quietly as you could you scrambled away  from the door finding a small nook by the right empty stained window  where the bookcase didn't meet the wall.

Squeezing yourself into the nook was harder than you initially thought and had seen on TV. The issue was attempting to hide the gauntlet from any glittering light there was a secondary thought about maybe taking it off and squeezing into the shadowy part. Knowing your luck though something would probably happen that would require you to use it.

You brought your hand up and crossed it  over your chest in hopes that might do it. The sound of a door creaking open alerted to your very fear of someone walking in.

It was two set of footsteps that walked into the library. There was a piece of white that fluttered from your peripheral vision, finding a bit of course you nudged your head out to see a white lab coat that gently just grazed the shiny mirror surface of the tile flooring. Following it up there was long locks of silver hair that belonged to a familiar Organization XIII member, or ex member that is.