The idea of actually doing my math was growing more and more inviting to me as I sat in my desk, close to falling asleep, though I had the strangest feeling that math wouldn't be all that important soon. I looked over at my friend, Shawn, to see any inclination that he was sharing the feeling of foreboding. But, alas, he was working, with a look of concentration, on his math. I decided to follow his good example and work on my math too, though the feeling kept nagging at me.
A wave of nausea swept over me as a bell started ringing over the intercom. I looked at the clock and saw that class wouldn't end for another ten minutes. And, yet, the bell kept ringing, loudly and distinctly, over the intercom. Something wasn't right, that much was obvious. I looked towards my math teacher, Mr. Poindexter, whom was closing the blinds and locking the doors, the proper procedure for a lockdown.
I looked over at Shawn with a worried expression and looked back with a confused expression of his own. The people behind me had stopped their talking and, when I looked back, appeared to be looking around with confusion. I looked back at Mr. Poindexter as he cleared his throat to get out attention. His expression was blank and unreadable expression, as usual, as he spoke. "No one panic, just do what we're supposed to do in the case of an emergency lockdown," he said in his usual monotone voice, making it seem like he thought it was just a drill, though it didn't feel like one.
We all did as we were told to and were, soon, sitting against an area of a wall that couldn't be seen from the windows and door, me under a lab table while Shawn sat beside the table, on his walker, so we could talk quietly, in an attempt to not get into trouble. "What'd you think is going on?" Shawn whispered as Mr. Poindexter turned off the lights and sat on the other side of the wall.
"I have no idea, but something seems… I don't know… really out of place I suppose," I whispered back.
I felt my heart stop suddenly as the doorknob, to the classroom, started jiggling with such force that the whole door shook. I whimpered quietly, feeling as though something horrible was outside it. "Shhh!" everyone shushed me, though it didn't help in the least.
The door suddenly stopped shaking as I notice that I was holding my breath. I quickly attempted to regulate my breathing but it soon turned into hyperventilating as a dark portal appeared in the already somewhat dark room. A tall, thin, somewhat masculine looking person in a black, hooded cloak stepped out of the portal and looked around at us. I couldn't really make out the person's face because of the hood covering it but, when the person spoke, the voice was deep and masculine enough to re-enforce my thoughts that it was a man in the cloak. "Which one of you is Marissa?" he asked causing me to stiffen up.
My eyes widened as I looked around at my classmates. I could only hope none of them would rat me out to the man. "Who wants to know?"
I looked in shock as one of the students I didn't particularly get along with spoke up. The man lightly chuckled before responding. "Who I am is no concern of yours. Now tell me, which one of you is Marissa?" I looked at my classmates with a pleading expression and, to my surprise, they all remained silent. The man waited for a minute or two before walking towards us. "Fine, if you won't tell me, I'll find her myself." He began inspecting each student and was soon to Shawn. I quickly covered my face with my hair, hoping he wouldn't even see me. Once he finished examining Shawn the man stood up, from his semi crouched position, to his full height, which was quite tall, and walked around to the other side of the table I was under. He then bent down and looked at me, a couple strands of pink hair escaping the darkness of his hood. I suddenly found myself looking right at him because of the sudden appearance of, what felt like, vines holding my face up so he could examine it. "Good," he said after a few seconds.
The man quickly grabbed my arm and forced me out from under the table as another dark portal suddenly appeared. "H-hey!" I yelled as he began dragging me towards the portal.
"Hey… um… I can't just let you take a student!" Mr. Poindexter chimed in as I began struggling.
The man let out a slight chuckle. "And what are you going to do about it?" he asked as he turned around and made it so I was pushed against the wall by more vines. He held his arm out with an open hand for the scythe that suddenly appeared in it. I stared in fear as I struggled to get out of the vines while Mr. Poindexter looked at the scythe with an expression of contemplation and panic. He stammered a bit before backing off and sitting back down. "I thought so," the man said before grabbing me and pushing me into the portal.
I looked around with fear before noticing that the inside of the portal somehow looked very familiar to me. When I really thought about it, the man seemed somewhat familiar too. Not in an I know him personally way but more of an I've seen him somewhere or in something before way. It was mostly the cloak, the whole vine/scythe thing, and the dark portals for transportation. I wanted to think about it more but the urgency of escaping seemed more important at the moment so I quickly started running away from the portal, hoping to find somewhere safe. I looked back and saw that the man wasn't even following me. He was just standing there with his arms outstretched towards me. I stopped running and looked at him with confusion. The ground suddenly began shaking beneath me, causing me to fall over, as vines broke through the ground in front of me.
My eyes widened as I backed away from the vines, though I soon found it impossible to continue backing away from the sudden movement of the vines. "Hey!" I cried out, in a panic, as they wrapped themselves around me and lifted me into the air. "Put me down!"
The man silently walked towards me as I struggled to get out of the plants that were restraining me. "Did you really think you could escape me that easily?" he asked with a smug, arrogant even, tone to his voice.
I looked at the man with a mixture of fear and confusion as I continued to struggle. "Well, considering I don't even know who you are I couldn't really have an assumption, just a hope," I responded in the calmest and most nonchalant voice I could produce.
The man laughed as he removed his hood, revealing s very handsome face with two, bright, blue eyes and feathery pink hair. He looked really familiar but I just couldn't place who he was. "Don't know me? I find that very hard to believe Marissa. "
"You do look very familiar," I muttered quietly as I tried to place his face. Something in my mind suddenly clicked as I looked at the vines wrapped around me and the scythe in his hand. "Mar-Marluxia?" I asked in shock.
The man smirked and nodded. "Very good," he said as he made the vines wrap around me tighter.
I gasped and tried to struggle enough to make them loosen as I spoke. "But that's not possible! This must be a dream or something!"
"And why is that?" Marluxia asked as the vines loosened enough to let me breath with a bit more ease.
"Well… as much as I hate to admit it, you and everything you know isn't actually real. It's all part of a fictional video game. An awesome video game, but a fictional one all the same," I explained.
"A video game? Interesting. Is that what these are about then?" Marluxia said as he pulled out a copy of each Kingdom Hearts game, and even my copy of Crisis Core, from his cloak.
My copies in fact. The only indicator to that was the cover I had had to make for the first on since my brother had lost the original box to it. "Yea… you don't actually have anything to do with Crisis Core. Some of the characters in it are if the games you're in though. But… why do you have all my games?" I said with a confused expression, not feeling nearly as scared as before.
I felt more confused and curious than anything else at that point. "They were by when we appeared in, what I'm assuming is, your room," Marluxia replied with a casual tone as he examined the box of Re:Chain Of Memories. "Tell me, why is it that I'm on the back of this game but on none of the other games?"
"Well… aside from the regular Chain of Memories and a little bit of 358/2 Days you're not actually in an of the others at this point…" I said, not wanting to tell him why.
"And why is that? I'm just as, if not more, important as all the other members!" Marluxia exclaimed, looking more than pissed off at the news he'd been told.
"Well… um… I'd rather not say…" I said quietly as I looked away.
"Tell me!" Marluxia said angrily as the vines squeezed so tightly that I could barely breathe and, in a few swift movements, made it so I was looking directly at him.
I gasped with fear, remembering that Marluxia was a villain and to top it off he didn't have a heart. So, according to Ansem the Wise, he had no emotion and would, most likely, have no problem killing me off at a moment's notice. But it didn't seem to me that he didn't have emotions. I wondered how anyone could even consider Nobodies not having emotions with how angry he appeared to be. "W-well, you-you see, you sort of…" I gasped in an attempt to get Marluxia to loosen the vines. "You… you fade."
"I what?" Marluxia asked with a shocked expression as the vines loosened enough to drop me onto the ground.
"You fade into darkness… but you're not the only one that does in that game if it makes you feel any better…" I muttered as I landed and began backing away.
I gasped as I bumped into someone. I looked back and saw another hooded figure.
(So that's the beginning... yep... I do have a reason for why I wrote this story! My school had a lockdown drill recently and once it was over one of my friends and I started talking, We constantly talk about Kingdom Hearts and the Final Fantasy characters in the story so we got on the subject of what could happen if the school went into lockdown because Sephiroth and Organization XIII invaded the school. We both agreed that, despite the danger of that type of situation, it would be pretty cool so he asked me to start writing a story about it. Other friends found out about the story and a few wanted to be included in it. So, all in all, this is a story I'm writing for fun and to entertain some friends. Yes, different Kingdom Hearts, Disney, and (most likely only) FF7(this includes Crisis Core) will appear in the story. I have 40 or so pages written up so far so I need to transfer them from printed word to typed on the computer. But I hope if anyone reads what I have so far will find it somewhat amusing! Believe me, it gets some good, yet stupid, laughs later on.)