Chapter 4

Chapter IV

The Breakout

The plans were all set to break Sora out. Roxas was to distract the main guard and Cordillia was to request the queen’s audience uninterrupted. Alexandra was to get into the holding cell wing, break out Sora, and take him to a boat, ready to take them to the space harbor, where a ship was waiting to take them back to Meandiloc.

Alexandra felt a small pleasure in knowing that she would be with Sora once again, to see his smiling face, his green eyes. Just the thought of it made her tingle with delight.

When the time was right, Cordillia would send a signal to show Alexandra that it was time. She didn’t know what the signal was, but Cordillia told her that she would know it when she saw it. She sat on her balcony, looking at the stars.

A flashing light caught her attention. As she looked closer she saw the flashing was Cordillia’s mystic orbs.

She looked new that was the signal that Cordillia had sent for her. She stepped off of the balcony and into her chambers. She felt an electric buzz flowing through her body. A moment later she was looking at the world through the eyes of a tiger. She walked over to the open door of her room, peered into the hallway and saw that the coast was clear. She went through the hallway, down the stairs, and out the main doors. Her course was set for the holding cells. As soon as she was out the door, she began to sprint. The air rushing past her whiskery face felt great.

In what seemed like no time at all, she arrived at the holding cells and saw Roxas talking to the guards about twenty feet away from the door. She let out a low growl in frustration. Roxas looked up in surprise at the noise, but figured out where it came from.

He started talking to the guards faster, and began looking more worried. He had done the trick. He led the guards away from the door of the holding cell. Alexandra felt a burst of happiness when she saw this and knew that the plan would succeed.

She entered the holding cell and walked down the isle in between of the cells. The prisoners all backed to the farthest corner in surprise as a tiger walked among the cells. She peered into each of the cells, looking for Sora. She finally found him in one of the farthest cells back. He was sleeping on the old cot that was inside of his sell. She growled, just low enough for him to hear. He sat up, suddenly, every sense on high alert. He had a shocked look on his face as he saw the tiger standing at the entrance of the cell.

Her heart leaped when she saw his face looking into hers. The tingling sensation came back and she transformed into Alexandra once again.

“Alexandra,” Sora called out, “How...Wh-..” he mumbled.

“Shh,” she said, “I'll explain later. She pulled out a key ring and unlocked Sora's cell. He just stood there with a confused look on his face. Alexandra could see that he was debating on weather or not he should follow her.

“C’mon,” she said, impatiently. Sora looked at her still, without moving. She stepped closer to Sora and put her arms around him, looking directly into his eyes.

“Sora,” she said, “it is me. I promise.” She gave him a soft kiss and grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the cell. She stopped and looked at Sora.

“Umm,” she said, “I have to transform back and you have to ride on my back.”

Sora looked a little reluctant, but when she changed, he got on to her back. She took off towards the port, running at full speed. As she ran, she thought about recent events. Things have been pretty bad lately. There have been a lot of rumors going around about my moth…the queen. I do believe Rauros will be in a fighting very soon. The port was in the next city, so they had a long way to travel. They had a rest point in a cave that Cordillia had shown her on a map that they were to stop at.

When they got to the cave, Sora jumped off of Alexandra’s back very quickly. She changed back into herself and looked at him, a puzzled expression on her face

“What’s wrong?” she asked him.

He looked at her. He walked over to her, touched her hand to his, smelled her hair, felt her heartbeat. He looked into her eyes and asked,

“Is it really you?”

Alexandra’s eyes began to tear up.

“Yes, it really is me,”

Sora picked her up and carried her into the cave. He sat her down near the mouth and then sat next to her. She leaned towards him, resting her head on his chest. He put his arms around her waist.

“I thought that I would never see you again,” he said.

“Me too,” she said, snuggling closer to him. He buried his face into her hair. She felt warm tears on her head. She pulled away and looked into his face and saw that he was crying. She took his face into her hands.

“Don’t worry,” she said, “I will never be away from you again.”

“I know,” Sora said. He leaned forward and kissed her. They pulled apart and sat watching the sunset. Just when the sun had set she looked at Sora to tell him something, and she saw that he was asleep. She gently woke him up. He looked at her groggily and she led him into the cave so that they could sleep.

The next morning, when Alexandra woke up, she saw that Sora was not beside her. She began to panic. She sat up and frantically looked around the cave for him. She got up and ran out of the cave she scanned the surrounding area to see if she could spot him. When she saw him walking towards her from the woods with fruits in his hands, she relaxed and started walking towards him.

“You scared me,” she said.

“Sorry, but I thought that you would be hungry when you woke up,” he replied. She looked at the food that he was holding.

“Was that all you could find?” she asked.

He laughed, “Yea. Sad, I know.”

They walked back over to their camp site and sat and ate the fruit that Sora had found. As they sat and ate they talked. They talked about all of the transpiring events, and all of the past events. Finally, around midday Alexandra said

“We should probably get going.”

They packed up the camp and Alexandra changed and they were on their way.