Chapter 2: An Angel's Descent
He was falling. Falling into darkness that was slowly devouring him. It was cold… and oddly wet…
Am I dead? He thought not daring to open his eyes in fear of what was becoming of him. After drifting for some time, he summoned the courage to open his eyes.
"You can wake up now Sora."
The brunette blinked, what looked like an angel was hovering over him, the strange thing was it looked awfully like him except blonde hair. "Am…-ow- I in heaven?" Sora asked blinking once again having a dumbfounded look on his face. "Heaven..? More like hell…" the blonde replied looking around cautiously.
"Weird… you sure you aren't an angel?" the brunette's vision still was a little blurry but he could see that the angel was of the male gender. Suddenly his head started hurting out of nowhere and he cried out in pain as the headache grew noticeable. "You must have hit your head pretty hard back there… no I'm not an angel I'm your nobody, Sora. Though I didn't think I would be telling you this now… oh here I'll look for pain killers in this first-aid kit." The blonde hurried to the first aid-kit that he'd found on a table.
Still not aware of where they were, Sora squirmed as his head throbbed in pain. The blonde came back with a bottle as well as pain killers thanks to the first-aid kit. "Sora you're going to be having to sit up to take these." He instructed helping Sora to sit up. The brunette opened his eyes to notice that he was sitting on a semi-damp sofa and the boy, who he thought was an angel, wasn't really an angel at all. He blinked and rubbed his eyes, his head still hurting but only slightly. "You aren't an angel…"
"No I'm not. Here take this, it will make the pain go away" the blonde said handing Sora the bottle then the pills. The brunette looked at them for a second then put them in his mouth drinking them down with the drink. The liquid burned his throat slightly which made him cough. "W-what did you give me…? (cough) It sort of tastes like- (cough) -alcohol or something…" He managed to set the bottle down on the table in front of them.
"Yeah I think its beer or something along those lines; sorry I could find anything else." The blonde replied looking around not letting his guard down for a second. Sora looked up at him and stared "So you're my nobody? Aren't you supposed to be inside of me? How… did this happen?"
The blonde scratched his head "Yes, I'm Roxas. I think when you took that nasty fall off the railing I sort of separated from you. It really freaked me out when at one moment I was in you and the next out in the world. When I saw you knocked unconscious on the ground I panicked. I knew that I had to protect you, so I carried you out of that room and found this one. It looked comfortable enough so I laid you down on this sofa and well here we are." The blonde explained while Sora sat and continued to stare. A little annoyed and uncomfortable at the brunette's stare he poked his in the forehead. "Quit it Sora! It's kind of rude to stare, plus it freaks me out." Roxas complained as the brunette rubbed his forehead. "Heh, sorry you just interesting to look at… Thanks for pulling me over here. It's weird that you just separated from me just because I took a fall. I've been beaten senseless by heartless and you didn't jump out of me before… Something is definitely up with this place…"
-x-
One of the two girls from before was looking upon the boys from the shadows. Ash studied them and knew that she had to let her partner in crime know that there were two of them rather than just one now. She smiled deviously at the thought of just killing them right then in there. It would be quick and easy, but the odds were against her. She just decided to leave the two be for now, deciding it would be best if Erica were with her when the time was right. The blonde left the two boys, withdrawing into the shadows of the abandon metropolis.
The two girls weren't the only ones who knew of Sora's and Roxas's arrival, the big boss man himself was watching them with his video cameras planted all throughout the city. Ryan didn't like the fact that two boys were in his city. "Spies…" he spat."No good rotten dogs from the government above trying to take my secrets for their own selfish reasons. Damn those ignorant bastards."
He continued, staring at the screen that showed the two boys. Then his frown turned into a smug smile "but they won't last too long in my forgotten city." He muttered moving his hand over to a red flashing button. Ryan pressed the button and held it while he got ready to talk into the microphone that was in front of him.
-x-
The two boys were sitting in silence, tons of things going on in their heads. Suddenly, a loud beeping noise came on over the intercom that was so pleasantly placed in a corner on the ceiling. This made Sora jump and grab onto Roxas's arm. The blonde looked at Sora who let him go quickly, the brunette's cheeks flushing a bit in embarrassment. Roxas continued to look at Sora until his attention was diverted to the intercom. The brunette's attention was also put onto the intercom as a man started to talk. They both immediately recognized the voice. It was Andrew Ryan.
"Welcome my young guests to my forgotten metropolis! How it was that you stumbled across its greatness is beyond my comprehension. Being a few leagues under the sea makes this city pretty hard to find, though with that lighthouse it is pretty easy? Never mind that though," Ryan paused while he collected himself for his true intentions of this broadcast. "How you managed to get here isn't important, what is important is who sent you here and how am I going to deal with troublemakers such as yourself?"
Roxas was the first to understand what Ryan was trying to put out. "We weren't sent by anyone! We were somehow brought here!" he yelled at the intercom, but Ryan went on.
"Ha! Denying it won't get you anywhere, at least while I am in command here. Try and escape my city! You won't survive for long!" the intercom shut off with another beep while Andrew Ryan's voice echoed throughout Rapture.
"This is bad" Sora finally managed to say.
"You think?" The blonde replied while sighing deeply. "We should try to find a way out of this place…"
Sora nodded in agreement "Oh sorry about earlier. I am a little jumpy when it comes to these types of situations…." The brunette apologized smiling nervously rubbing the back of his neck.
Roxas smiled back "No problem, I know it's pretty creepy here. Well let's get moving" the blonde said getting up off the damp sofa gathering what was left of the first-aid kit.
"Do you think we will meet up with those girls again?" the brunette asked as they were walking from the tattered room they were just in. "I don't know, but I certainly hope not." Roxas replied as they walked into what looked like a rundown bar. "ugh.. Water and the smell of alcohol... "the blonde held his nose as they walked to the back of the bar. "Dead end."
"What's in here?" curious Sora peaked his head into the boys bathroom in the back area of the bar. Roxas almost felt like he was babysitting the almighty keyblade wielder "Be careful Sor—" He was interrupted by a yell from the brunette and ran in after him. In fear Sora grabbed onto Roxas "What is wrong?" the concerned blonde looked at the floor and found a mangled decaying body of a man. "Where in the hell are we Roxas?!" he almost yelled shaking the blonde. "We are in an underwater city where everything has gone to hell and people are either turning into monsters or dead…" he consoled the brunette with an semi-awkward hug noticed a hole in the wall "Oh look Sora, we aren't at a dead end." He went over and pushed some pieces of the wall out of the way "come on!"
There was a pause and the blonde looked back "Sora… Come on I found a way out." But he just stood there. "Sora, come on." He got up and pulled on his arm but the brunette shook him off. "I don't want to do this anymore Roxas…I just want to get out of here. Back to the gummi ship, back to where everything made sense…"
"I know you do, but we have to keep moving forward. We can't give up yet. We will get out of here… I'll… I'll make sure you're safe okay? We got to stick together because we are brothers right?" he smiled at the brunette and gave him another hug. "I won't let you die. It's my job." Sora smiled and hugged him back "thanks… and I'm sorry.. I should be stronger than this. I am the keyblade master after all…" with a deep breath the brunette felt a little better and followed his counterpart through the hole in the wall.
They ended up above what looked like a theater. The two boys were looking over a railing down to the "stage" below. Spotlights were shown upon a corpse and a little girl. "She look—"Sora started to say to Roxas, but the blonde put his hand over his mouth and held his index finger to his lips. The brunette nodded keeping his mouth shut as Roxas took his hand away from his mouth. The blonde looked out over the lighting shaft that went across from where they were to the other side. Roxas began to walk to where the shaft began and motioned Sora to follow. He nodded and began to follow Roxas across the shaft a little nervous though about being so high up from the ground.
He managed to get to the other side with little difficulty, though Sora on the other hand was having some problems. Turning around he watched as the brunette made his way slowly to the other side. He noticed something from where they had started making their way across the shaft. The lighting shaft itself was coming loose and the more Sora stayed on there the more it was ready to give in. Fearful that the brunette might fall he motioned him to go a little faster. Sora nodded a little bit annoyed how the blonde was rushing him.
Just as Sora was inches away from the edge the shaft gave way and slid down until it hit the floor with a loud crash. Roxas had reached out in time to grab the brunette's hand, who was now dangling from the edge. The little girl from before had screamed when the shaft came down. Pretty soon loud bangs, that sounded much like footsteps, where coming closer to the theater. "That doesn't… ugh… sound good…" Roxas said while still holding onto the brunette for dear life. "Wait… I've heard that stomping before… eh! Roxas! Pull me up hurry! Hurry before it comes!" Sora said panicked. His nobody did has he was instructed and pulled Sora up and onto the floor above. "Is something coming?" the blonde asked once the two were standing up. "Yeah… when I passed out I heard it right before I blacked out. Something is coming… something big."
And on the ceiling above them in the darkness, Ash watched them as they walked hurriedly down the stairs.
"Have fun with that Big Daddy…" she said giggling as she went.
To be Continued...
a/n: This chapter also has been updated for your viewing pleasure. Thanks for the reviews.
-Spookie-chan
