Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts...you guys probably knew that. It's owned by Disney and Square Enix...(you guys knew that too)
Anyway I hope you enjoy the first chapter! Cuz I have no idea what I'm doing hahaha...
Xion felt her lips curl into a chilling smile. Her targets: Neoshadows, were nearby. She quickly materialized her keyblade and brought it down to whack the heartless, but when she sliced through, she realized there was just air. She frowned, as a blonde boy appeared in front of her and smirked. "That was mine." Xion said lowering key. "Was," he corrected. She rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed but moved on to the others. "I can handle this without you Number XIII," She said irritated. "You mean I can handle this without you." He taunted summoning his own key and approaching the other heartless. Xion's frown widened. She was tempted to summon a fireball and throw it at him but resisted the urge and continued attacking the other heartless, one after the other. She soon found that he was taking out most of her targets before she could reach them. Her grip around her keyblade became tighter as she increased her speed. He had done this in all her missions. She was minding her own business, getting her work done and then he would show up and do it for her. Then smile arrogantly.
Xion pushed herself up annoyed and determined not to let him beat her.
Roxas, Number XIII, looked at her determined face and smirked mockingly. He knew doing this annoyed her, and it gave him all the more reason. He sped up and quickly destroyed another Neoshadow, then another, then another. He took a quick glance back and saw Xion destroying her targets on a rampage back and forth. Calling upon more magic than she usually did. Roxas frowned and paused lowering his keyblade. She was going to tire herself out soon, he thought before bringing his key up again to block a sudden Neo attack.
Sweat dropped from Xion's forehead as she sliced down another Neoshadow. 'There's so many,' she thought counting 8 more. 'They are so strong.'
She took a quick glance at Roxas and frowned as she saw him slicing the Neoshadows effortlessly. She raised her keyblade again determinedly. 'I definitely will not let him beat me.'
She summoned her fire magic barely weakening the heartless. Then summoned lightening. Then fire. Then ice. They weakened with ice, she sighed relieved when she noticed they were not invincible and hit them with her keyblade. She summoned ice again, then hit them till they vanished. She heard a cry from behind her and quickly whirled around alert, her eyes searching for Roxas. She felt a small pang of worry. 'Where is he?' she thought and her eyes finally caught Roxas slicing another heartless. Her eyes narrowed as she focused her attention back to the heartless, she resisted the urge to go over and hit him with her key and feed him to the Neoshadows. 'Idiot' she thought pissed off before moving out of the way narrowly just in time to avoid another attack. Roxas looked back and saw her struggling as she summoned fire yet again. His eyes narrowed. 'Idiot' Roxas thought again with a frown concentrating on the heartless. More appeared before them challengingly, and their resolve grew firm. He resisted the urge to turn around as he heard Xion summon another spell and instead focused his concentration on the heartless.
'Don't get distracted'
They both thought charging to the enemies from opposite sides. They both decided in that moment the other had to fend for themselves. Then after a brief moment of the heartless seeming to pause they merged into one gigantic heartless. They watched in horror as their enemy got stronger and stronger. They had to take it out. Xion summoned more of her magic, pushing her magic energy more than ever before. She summoned ice. Roxas swung his keyblade to the heartless's arms, in hopes to weaken it. Xion saw the creature's other arm aim a swing at Roxas. Xion quickly pivoted in front of him blocking the attack. He did not thank her. Nor did she want any thanks they continued the long battle. The more and more they seemed to weaken it the stronger it seemed to get. They looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement. If this was gonna work they needed to work together. They went to opposite sites of the monster hoping to confuse it as Roxas summoned his limit form as she attacked back and forth, defending Roxas and attacking the beast for the finishing blow. Roxas attacked the heartless in limit form. 'This is the end,' Roxas thought determined, landing blows right and left. The heartless seemed to collapse to it's knees and slowly began to disappear. With the last of it's strength the heartless swung its arm at Xion knocking her unconscious into the hard cement. The heartless was destroyed and the heart went to the sky. Roxas sighed then looked to where the girl had fallen. He picked her up and opened a dark corridor.
When he got to the Grey Area carrying Xion in his arms the organization members laughed. "Did it break again?" they sneered. "Had to pick up the puppet?" "How is your little girlfriend?"
Larxene came up to him unamused. "Yo pipsqueak. What happened?"
He gave her a smug smile. "I destroyed the heartless again."
Larxene roughly took Xion from his arms and swung her over her shoulders walking to her room. "What's wrong Larxene? Cat got your tongue? Are you upset that your little apprentice just is not cut out for this sort of thing?" Roxas taunted as Larxene picked out a knife from her pocket and threw it at his face. "Shut it twerp, or we'll see who is not cut out for this sort of thing." She said before closing the door. Roxas was lucky he was fast enough to barely dodge.
Xion opened her eyes. "What...?"
She was greeted with a slap. "Why did you fail?!"
"H-he got there and-," she was struck again as Larxene got her by the collar and began to choke her. Larxene stopped, then smirked and started electrocuting her.
"A little pain won't hurt you."
Xion cried. Tears slipping out of her cheeks. "You aren't cut out for this job. Useless puppet. After I spent all that time training you too. Leave. You're an embarrassment." she said throwing her knifes at her. One barely missed her eye. One stabbed her left side and another on her thigh and leg. She trembled holding her thigh in pain, Larxene pulled the knife from her leg and stabbed into Xion's arm. She screamed as Larxene grabbed her by the hair and tossed her out. She ran out with what was left of her strength and left The World that Never was.
She did not know where she was headed she just knew she needed to leave.
Stupid.
She had been so stupid!
How could this happen?!
She ran further into a forest and heading toward a mansion.
She was bleeding heavily and she collapsed on the gate. A silohette appeared and in came a girl from the forest in a white dress.
She smiled coyly. Xion looked at her from the ground in fear. "W-who are you?" she asked shakily holding her bleeding arm.
"I'm the reason your still here." She said playfully.
"What do you mean?" she asked, clutching her side. It was bleeding.
"Sora."
Her eyes widened.
The girl smiled widely.
"Sora is not here anymore. He does not exist."
"W-what are you saying?" Xion asked the girl that had a crazed look in her eye. "My name is Namine. Do you want to go to another world? I can make one for you. Now that Sora is not here. Now that Kairi is not here. I can create a world where the organization doesn't exist. I can create a world in which they suffer immensely. Especially that Roxas fellow. I can do anything."
This girl was crazy, Xion thought but she was willing to believe in anything at this point.
"Take me to another world, Namine."
The blonde girl smiled.
"What type of world do you want?" Namine asked. Xion clenched her side. "Any world other than this one!" "Hmm...not very specific are you? Are you sure that's what you want? What if the world you go to is even worse than this one?"
Xion was slowly losing consciousness. "I don't know...nothing can be worse than this...some place that's not here...some place where people won't hurt me."
She saw Namine small wider before her vision went blurry.
"I can do that. Have a good trip, Xion."
Roxas blew the hair out of his face. Stupid Lea had made him go to the store and get him 5 pounds of ice-cream. He'll never see why he likes that stuff.
He walked out of the store in his sleeveless black zip up shirt and khaki pants. He pulled out his keys and smiled. At least he can drive now. He was 17, finally old enough to drive an air scooter, most people walked or used a train. Not Roxas. He had a scooter. Even though people are legally adults at 15, they still have certain age restrictions to vehicles. They couldn't ride cars until 24 and even then, it was only if you had enough money to buy them and if you had a license and took lessons, so scooters were the safer option. He walked back ice-cream in hand and looked for his brand new scooter. It was not there. His heart dropped.
'Crap no! I just got that scooter! I left it right there! Wher-?'
Laughter interrupted his thoughts as he heard some people turn on an engine. His scooter! He ran in that direction and got a glimpse of Hayner, Pence, Olette on his brand new scooter riding away in the distance. "Loser," he heard Hayner say before Hayner, Pence and Olette were out of hearing range. He kicked the ground in frustration.
He glared. He would get them back and make sure they payed. Roxas with a mellowed expression began walking back to the direction of his house, distraught.
'This sucks' Roxas thought glum. He looked to the ice-cream. 'It's gonna melt before I get there.'
What a horrible day. As he walked he passed an alley and his eye caught something that made him freeze. It was a girl. She was unconscious in the alleyway. 'W-what happened? Did she get raped? N-no she has her clothes on...thank goodness...she's just a little girl...did someone beat her up? She does have bruises...is that blood? She's bleeding! W-what do I do?' Roxas thought panicked. If he got involved he could get into some trouble that was bad for him and Lea. What should he do? Should he just ignore her and walk away?
His mind flashed to Hayner, Pence and Olette.
He shook his head. 'I'm not them.'
He approached the sleeping girl and checked her pulse and sighed. "She's breathing." He picked her up and carried her. "I'm going to regret this aren't I?"
"Roxas...is sure taking his time with that ice cream," Lea said talking to himself as he switched the channel to the television. He was bored. He got up and looked the the kitchen's cupboards and grinned: Roxas's goldfish. He opened the package and begun chowing down. He heard a knock. "Come in." He heard the knock again. "Come in," he said again munching on the goldfish. He heard the door knock a little harder. "Oh for crying outloud, you don't need to knock Roxas! I ain't opening the door." He heard the door almost break and he heard Roxas knock again. Lea got up. "Oh for the love of-." He stopped when he saw Roxas carrying an unconscious girl in his arms and storm past him and lay her on the couch he was sitting. "...so...when'd you get married?" Lea asked. Roxas's felt his arm twitch to hit Lea but did nothing as he stared at the girl. She was bruised it seemed and was bleeding. "You didn't kidnap this girl from kidnappers did you? If so you can't do that Roxas! No matter how cute she is!" Lea observed her. She looked young. Younger than Roxas. About 14 or 15. "She needs first aide," Roxas said after looking for injures, he saw her pained expression as he tried to remove her coat. He carefully tugged the zipper and stopped. "What is it?" Lea asked as Roxas looked away after pulling the zipper back up. "I'm going to get the first aide kit since you obviously aren't being helpful."
After Roxas came back with the medical box he sat down and stared at her then the medical box. Then sighed. "What is it?" Lea asked curiously. Roxas pulled the zipper and quickly shut his eyes, Lea gasped. She was bleeding heavily, bruises were visible through the tears in her thin shirt. Roxas grimanced and slowly opened his eyes trying not to cringe. Roxas carefully pulled the coat off. "Lea, I'm going to need you to get a blanket. I don't think she'd appreciate me seeing so much of her body." Roxas said as Lea stood up. "Gotcha."
Roxas rolled up her shirt to see her stomach and bit back a cringe. There was a large gash to the side and a scratch than seemed inhuman. Roxas opened the first aide kit and dabbed a little alcohol on a piece of cotton and applied it to her wounds. She began moving in her sleep, tossing and turning uncomfortably. She seemed to be in pain. "Shh...hey it's okay...," Roxas said comfortingly, he gently cleaned her wounds and began adding healing oilment and creams. Once he was done, he began wrapping bandages around her stomach carefully. He smiled. "That should be enough for now...I wonder what happened to you...," he said looking at her sleeping face that no longer seemed to be in pain. He moved a strand of hair away from her face and stared. Lea was right, Roxas thought as he looked at her face.
She is cute.
Roxas got up when Lea entered the room with a small blanket. "You aren't going to undress her are you?" Lea asked as Roxas snatched the blanket with a fixed frown on Lea. "I'm not you, Lea. Unlike you, I have respect for women. " He said taking the blanket to cover her body. He ignored Lea's unimpressed face. "I respect women!" Lea protested, Roxas rolled his eyes. "In any case, I don't know. I think I'll have to call someone. Depending on how serious her injuries are will depend on whether I treat her or not. Hmm...who to call...?" Roxas wondered aloud. "You could call Larxene." Lea piped up as Roxas scowled. "No way I'm calling that bitch." Then a lightbulb lit in Roxas's head. "I'll call Aqua."
"Aqua? Aqua is going to kill us!" Lea protested trying to stop Roxas from getting the phone. "Yeah well you don't seem to be having an brighter ideas Lea. Now give me the phone!" Roxas reached as Lea took it away from him. "Lea give me the phone!" "No way! You are not calling her!" "Well what do you want me to do?! Lea the girl is hurt!" "You strip her! Forget about calling Aqua!" "Lea I thought you were low before but now your significantly lower. Now give me the phone." Roxas was finally within arms reach of the phone and snatched running out of the house to call and locking the door behind him. "Hey uh Hi um Aqua? This is Roxas. I was wondering if you could do me a favor..."
Lea scowled. Great. Just great. Now Aqua was coming over...
Lea didn't see why Roxas went to the trouble when he could take care of her wounds himself. Roxas walked back inside. "I called her, she'll be here in twenty minutes." "Great." "In case you're forgetting Lea. This is a girl we are talking about. We can't just take off her clothes while she is sleeping. It's creepy and disrespectful." "Well aren't you proper? You're so shy, no wonder you didn't make through medical school. Situations like this get the better of you." Oops, Lea thought turning back to Roxas. That was still a sore subject. "If we can have a girl treat her wounds it would be more comfortable her. If Aqua can't get here I'll treat her wounds myself. I already stated that." Roxas said kneeling beside the girl again and giving Lea a pointed look. "Besides I don't think she would appreciate being naked in front of two complete strangers. That are both male."
"Shouldn't the life of the patient be more important?" Lea muttered under his breath annoyed slapping his hand over his forehead. "Her life isn't in danger. Aqua shouldn't take long and I'm treating some of her wounds now." Roxas muttered covering bandages around her arm. "Besides, I'm not a medical student anymore," Roxas sighed, Lea stared at Roxas then sighed as well. "My bad-," Lea began to apologize but Roxas cut him off mid-sentence. "Besides you probably wanted to see her naked while she was unconscious you creep, poor girl she must be like 6 or 7 years younger than you! Under my watch she won't be tainted by you. Now you were saying?" Roxas asked turning back to him with an innocent smile. "...I was saying that you can go screw yourself over," Lea rephrased, as his eyebrow twitched, he restrained himself from punching Roxas. "Hmm...," Roxas hummed thoughtfully. "I'd rather not." He finished up wrapping her hand. The light bulb illuminating the room flickered off. "Hey the light stopped working... I'll go fix it before Aqua gets here," Lea said exiting the house. Roxas used his phone flashlight to light up the room a bit and turned it to Xion. She was still sleeping. Roxas then heard Lea's scream outside. "What is it Le-," Roxas stopped. His breath caught in shock.
W-What?
All around them, surrounding the house were black creatures.
W-What are they? Roxas thought in fear, paralyzed. Roxas stared at them a bit longer, his head hurt a bit and he heard a faint voice.
Keyblade. The keyblade is here.
Roxas held his head. "Keyblade?" he muttered. "Roxas we need to get out of here!" Lea shouted. Roxas nodded and entering the house as Lea locked the door behind him, in a hurry he grabbed a coat and prepared to exit though the backdoor, then he remembered the unconscious girl and looked at Lea with a gaze that offered no debate. "She's coming with us." "She'll slow us down!" Lea argued. Roxas quickly grabbed a duffel bag and put in her odd coat and objects. "I don't care." He shoved in the first aide kit and a couple of bottles of water. "You ready Roxas?" Lea asked. Roxas nodded taking the girl in his arms and tossing Lea the bag. "Ready."
They quickly exited through the backdoor and jumped on a nearby roof. The more they got away, the more it seemed that the creatures were following them.
What are they after? Roxas wondered as he looked into his arms and felt the girl groan as she shifted in his arms. "Easy...shh...," he whispered comfortingly, he couldn't feel but smile gently. Then he gazed up at the crowd of creatures with a frown. He stepped closer to Lea. "Lea. The guns are in there." he said pointing to the bag. Lea took out an M-16. Then handed Roxas a handgun, a Glock-22. Lea quickly shot the creatures as Roxas put the girl down gently and started to aim at the creatures beside Lea. "Where is your scooter?" Roxas cringed. "It was stolen." "Stolen?!" "It wasn't my fault okay!?"
They aimed and fired shot after shot but their bullets seemed to have no effect. "Why aren't they dying?!" The creatures began crawling up the roof making Lea and Roxas retreat. "Let's go."
Roxas picked up the girl and and started to run to catch up with Lea. What Roxas didn't notice was the girl was not asleep anymore.
He felt a tug on his shirt and looked down to see a lovely pair of curious violet blue eyes.
Xion heard voices. They sounded familiar but she didn't want to wake up. No after everything that happened. She was so at peace, then she felt herself being lowered down.
What?
What is going on?
"-your scooter?"
"It was stolen."
"Stolen?!"
"It wasn't my fault okay!?"
"Why aren't they dying?!"
Light filled Xion's eyelids as they slowly opened. She heard bullets in the back ground as she took in her surroundings. Where am I?
"Let's go." She looked up and gasped as arms lifted her up carrying her over the buildings. Thier eyes met but he didn't seem to notice. He was distracted.
Roxas..., she realized but something about him seemed different. He seemed gentler...and he was holding her gently. Usually when Roxas held her it wasn't like this. Or was it?
Where was she?
She heard noise all around her but couldn't determine what it was. She tugged his shirt. He looked down in surprise. "Your awake." Xion nodded making direct eye contact. "Roxas what's going on?" She asked as he seemed to slow. She held onto his shirt as he moved. "You can let me down." His eyes widened. "Oh right, sorry." he apologized as he set her down. She looked at him in confusion. He hardly apologized. Xion didn't notice herself fall forward. He caught her much to her surprise. "You okay?"
Xion nodded slowly and stared at his face noticing something odd. He looked older and he actually sounded...concerned. "I'm fine. What's going on? What happened?" She gasped as she slowly remembered everything that happened yesterday and she held her head. She panicked.
"Don't panic. Calm down." he said soothingly. Xion was not convinced. As she remember the events from yesterday, she took several steps back.
"L-Larxene sent you to get me back!" Xion muttered taking a step back in fear away from Roxas. "Larxene?" Roxas frowned confused moving closer to her, trying to calm her down. She flinched lowering her gaze and soon covering her head as if he might hit her. "I'm not going back!"
"Hey! Wait!"
"Huh?" Xion muttered as he grabbed her shoulders bringing her closer to him in his arms as she struggled. She covered her face and began to tremble. He looked at her concerned. Xion's expression fearful.
The noise was louder now.
Roxas took her arm in a run as she struggled. She then looked for the source of the noise and her eye widened in shock. Heartless!
A few white creatures appeared too.
She heard their voice.
Keyblade.
Xion looked at Roxas. "Look I don't know what's going on but we have to run! I'm not going to hurt you okay?!" "Hurry it up Roxas!" she heard as several bullet shots were heard again. She looked to her right and saw Axel. "These bullets don't do anything."
Bullets?
That's when she noticed they had guns and not a single scratch on them. What's going on? She looked to the heartless then back at them and decided. She could take on the enemy. She reached for a potion but could not find any, or her coat for that matter. Axel or Roxas didn't have theirs either. "Listen we have to go!" Roxas demanded. "Do you have any potions?" she asked. "Potions?! What the-." "Where is my coat?!" she demanded. "This is no time to be worrying about accessories dammit!" Lea scowled as they began to run away from the heartless. Both Lea and Roxas running ahead. "Give me my coat!" "Is this really the time?" Roxas asked. "Why don't you use your keyblade Mister showoff?!" Xion snapped. "Mister Showoff? What did I ever do to you?" Roxas replied incredulously. Sweat began to form on his forehead, as well as Lea but this girl didn't seem to be breaking a sweat. Then again she barely started running. She rolled her eyes at him,pulling her arm away from Roxas and running ahead. "Seriously where is my coat? We don't have time for this!" Xion exclaimed. "I can't fight like this!" "We aren't going to fight!" Axel snapped shoving the guns into the bag. Her eyes caught her coat and she narrowed her eyes. "Why don't you use your Chakrams?" Xion asked. "My what?" Axel blinked. Xion took Axel's bag. "Hey girl-!" And took out her coat.
Just as I thought. It's mine.
She quickly slipped it on and tossed the bag to Roxas. She stopped running. They both looked at her like she was crazy. She took out a bottle filled with a green liquid and drank it. A green mist seemed to surround her. She then looked at them questioningly. "What happened to your coats or your weapons? I highly doubt you left the organization cause you missed me." She said harshly. "What's with you?! We are in danger of dying!" Lea scowled. Xion sighed shaking her head with an exasperated expression. "Wait here." She ordered walking ahead and adjusting her boots. "You can't fight in your condition! Bullets didn't do a thing against those creatures!" Roxas exclaimed stopping her by grabbing her arm. "It's too dangerous! Please!" His hold of her arm slid to her wrist. "You'll die." Xion took her arm back and glared. "What? You don't think I can handle it? Just cause I'm not as a strong as you doesn't mean I'm uncapable of this."
She summoned her keyblade and walked ahead not turning back.
I'll show you!
"This will be a piece of cake," Xion grinned at the surrounding heartless.
I'll show all of you!
Xion took a step forward and lunged at the heartless.
Roxas watched in awe as the mysterious-injured-seemingly-delusional girl destroyed the creatures effortlessly with her giant key. "Lea. Am I going crazy?" "If you're crazy then I am just as crazy." Lea replied in total awe.'Just...what have we gotten ourselves into?' Roxas thought with awe as he watched her.
She's amazing...
She was destroying those creatures seemingly effortlessly despite all her previous injuries. They seemed to have disappeared after she drank that mysterious green liquid.
It was when those white creatures attacked that things started getting out of hand. They almost sliced off her hand! And one was sneaking up behind her! How is she seemingly floating-?
"Hey! Watch out!" Roxas shouted. Xion whirled around and attacked but they were surrounding her.
"Lea we've got to help!" Roxas shouted. "The guns didn't do anything! What can we do?!" Lea yelled turning to him frustrated. "Well we can't just leave her to beat them up herself!" Roxas then looked down at the weapon Lea had tossed him again. "How about we distract them?" Roxas asked quietly. "And how are you planning to do that?" Lea deadpanned then panicked when he saw Roxas throwing his very expensive gun at the creatures. It hit his mark. "Whew!" Roxas breathed. "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" Lea demanded. "THAT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE!WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT WILL WORK ANYWA-?!" Lea paused when he noticed the creatures turning around and running towards them.
Xion whirled her head in alarm when she saw them headed for Lea and Roxas. "Rox-!" Xion was cut off when a heartless sneaked up behind her and jumped. Xion felt a bead of sweat fall down her cheek as she aimed her keyblade at the remaining heartless. 'I have to take care of these guys first!' Xion thought trying to catch her breath, swinging her keyblade left and right, there wasn't many left but she had to finish them off as quick as possible to-to...
...to what?
Why am I trying so hard to protect them?! They were nothing but cruel to me!
Xion screamed in frustration as she leapt forward to defend Lea and Roxas.
As the Nobodies leapt forward to attack Roxas and Lea she stood in front of them and took in the pain with open arms.
Why?
Why?
"...why...do I always do this to myself?"
Xion felt her eyes burn and vision blur. Tears slid down her face. "This is why I'll never be happy," she said quietly with a sad smile. "Why do I always do this?" she asked aloud to herself as she destroyed the Nobodies, and the pain from their attack started to settle in. Black dots filled her vision and she felt herself land to the floor, collapsing for the second time in two days.
She chuckled darkly. "Why...?" she asked one more time, barely making out the shocked faces around her. She smiled one last time. "Well done. You've won...so get it over with...".
She cringed picturing Larxene's sadistic face and the sneers of the organization.
I wonder if they'll finally dispose me...
Xion didn't look away from Roxas's eyes and met his gaze evenly. She didn't want to go back but she won't let him see cry again or see her defeated.
Why do I always have to do what's right?
Even when it causes me nothing but pain...
She continued to stare into his light blue eyes. She looked so calm as she said her next words.
"Do your worst."
Black finally enveloped her vision and she felt herself relax as she lose consciousness again.
Looks like I'll finally get turned into a dusk...
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I'm not sure if I should rate this M for violence and gore or just leave it at T. What do you guys think?
Currently working on second chapter~
If you guys notice something off please let me know so I can fix it.
Anyway, the second chapter is in the works so if you liked this look forward to it.
Title may change.