-You think you can beat me. Wow, how deluded you are.
~She looks like an angel, but she sure as hell doesn't act like one
-Like a moth to a flame, I keep coming back to him, again and again.
~She's my guiding light in the dark……
*please note that this follows my own story line. It Sorta goes with CoM and Days. Sorta…….
Translations: Nani?-What? Chotto!-Hey! Hai, mochiron. - Yes, of course. Watashi no namae wa Ixchel- my name is Ixchel. Mata? – Again? Tenshi- Angel. Jigoku - Hell
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~A Light in the Dark~
Chapter 2: 'It's not a 'Light thing' it's more like a 'me-being-cursed-and-damned' thing.
The thing about waking up in TCTNW –The Castle That Never Was, I'm gonna just abbreviate it- you can't tell weather it's night or day. I have to admit though, the giant heart-shaped moon is interesting.
Another thing, it's creepily silent in the hospital wing.
Well, I guess that most –If not all- of the Orgy. Members know how to use healing magic. I don't know squat in the normal magic department.
I lightly peeled the sheets off of me to find myself in the grey tank-top and shorts I had worn underneath my cloak any my wounds fully bandaged.
I blushed at the thought of one of the members taking my robe off and bandaging me. Especially Xigbar. That man was-and there was no better word for it- a pedo-leecher.
"Hey! You're up!" I heard someone exclaim. I turned my head to see Demyx –with his sitar in tow- smiling.
"What do you want?" I asked, ice dripping from my tone. I don't take abuse well in the long-run.
"I wanted to apologize." He said, shrugging.
I though for a bit. "Let me play a few songs on your sitar and we'll call it even." I smiled.
He walked over and handed me his sitar. I plucked a bit, getting a feeling for the instrument, and fine- tuning it.
I smiled and started to play. I saw Demyx's eyes widen in realization of the song.
"Go on and sing." I breathed. He took a deep breath and complied.
I wanted you to know
That I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain …away
I keep your photograph
And I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
I joined him
Be-cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Just Demyx again
You've gone away
You don't feel me here....anymore
I took the next verse.
The worst is over now
And we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn
And no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
We sang together again
Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
It was an interesting combination, our voices. They melded and yet they were different. But I noticed that my voice overpowered his a bit. I smiled at Demyx and he smiled back.
We started singing again.
Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone [Demyx]...away
Both of us
You're gone away
Just Demyx again.
You don't feel me here....anymore
I sighed and started playing again.
Seems like just yesterday
You were a part of me
I used to stand so tall
I used to be so strong
Your arms around me tight
Everything, it felt so right
Unbreakable, like nothin' could go wrong
Now I can't breathe
No, I can't sleep
I'm barely hanging on
Here I am, once again
I'm torn into pieces
Can't deny it, can't pretend
Just thought you were the one
Broken up, deep inside
But you won't get to see the tears I cry
Behind these hazel eyes
I told you everything
Opened up and let you in
You made me feel alright
For once in my life
Now all that's left of me
Is what I pretend to be
So together, but so broken up inside
'Cause I can't breathe
No, I can't sleep
I'm barely hangin' on
Here I am, once again
I'm torn into pieces
Can't deny it, can't pretend
Just thought you were the one
Broken up, deep inside
But you won't get to see the tears I cry
Behind these hazel eyes
Swallow me then spit me out
For hating you, I blame myself
Seeing you it kills me now
No, I don't cry on the outside
Anymore...
Anymore...
Here I am, once again
I'm torn into pieces
Can't deny it, can't pretend
Just thought you were the one
Broken up, deep inside
But you won't get to see the tears I cry
Behind these hazel eyes
Here I am, once again
I'm torn into pieces
Can't deny it, can't pretend
Just thought you were the one
Broken up, deep inside
But you won't get to see the tears I cry
Behind these hazel eyes
I handed Demyx back his sitar and asked the question that had been weighing on my mind since I had woken up. "How long've I been out?"
"About six days." Demyx shrugged. That meant the full moon was tonight. Crap. Now for the next question.
"Where is my cloak?" I asked. Demyx simply gave me a look and pointed to the coat-rack right next to my bed.
I shrugged my cloak on. "I'm sorry but I have to leave for a few days." I sighed. I opened up one of my portals and stepped through into Halloween town. This was where I always went. They knew me here.
I sat on top of the curving hill in the pumpkin patch. I waited until the moon had almost fully risen, then I went into the graveyard. I took off my cloak and folded it carefully and set it on one of the graves.
Then the moon was at it's highest point in the sky. Searing pain exploded from my back as great raven-black wings unfurled, leaving blood gushing down my back. The pain was excruciating because my spine had to re-arrange itself.
When the pain had ebbed away I dried the tears that had spilled over and took flight.
My orange hair had grown longer, it reached my waist, and was now the same color as my wings. Yes, it kept messing with my vision, but I was used to it.
As I was flying I sensed Saïx nearby, only he wasn't quite himself. I stopped and hovered, watching Saïx going crazy.
"Funny, he resents me but we are both cursed by the full moon." I shake my head.
I keep flying until I'm over the Town square. There was no one there so I sat on top of the fountain.
"Lawl, I feel like a gargoyle." I laughed to myself. I started humming again. Then I started singing outright, but in Japanese. It's funny this 'part' of me spoke Japanese fluently.
Donna toki datte
Tada hitori de
Unmei wasurete
Ikite kita no ni
Totsuzen no hikari no naka me ga sameru
Mayonaka ni
Shizuka ni deguchi ni tatte
Kurayami ni hikari o ute
Imadoki yakusoku nante fuan ni saseru dake kana
Negai o kuchi ni shitai dake sa
Kazoku ni mo shoukai suru yo
Kitto umaku iku yo
Donna toki datte
Zutto futari de
Donna toki datte
Soba ni iru kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi o mitsukeru
Mayonaka ni
Urusai (When you turn my way) toori ni haitte
Unmei (Take it all the way) no kamen o tore
Sakiyomi no shisugi nante imi no nai koto wa yamete
Kyou wa oishii mono o tabeyou yo
Mirai wa zutto saki da yo
Boku ni mo wakaranai
Kansei sasenaide
Motto yokushite
WAN SHIIN zutsu totte
Ikeba ii kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi no SHINARIO
Utsushidasu
Motto hanasou yo
Mokuzen no ashita no koto mo
TEREBI keshite
Watashi no koto dake o miteite yo
Donna ni yokuttatte
Shinji kirenai ne
Sonna toki datte
Soba ni iru kara
Kimi to iu hikari ga watashi o mitsukeru
Mayonaka ni
Motto hanasou yo
Mokuzen no ashita no koto mo
TEREBI keshite
Watashi no koto dake o miteite yo
I sighed as I finished. It was the first song I sang in front of Axel and Roxas. I was dragged out of my thoughts by someone walking below me.
"Nani?" I muttered and looked closer. This certain someone was holding my cloak in their anorexic noodle arms.
"Chotto!" I yelled, jumping off of the fountain.
"Do I know you?" Axel asked, for of course it was him.
"Hai, mochiron," I shrugged in reply.
"Well, what's your name?" he asked, playing along.
"Watashi no namae wa Ixchel." I smirked.
I laughed out loud as Axel did a double take.
"So, it this like a 'light thing'?" he asked.
"It's not a 'Light thing' it's more like a 'me-being-cursed-and-damned' thing." I shrugged, not speaking in Japanese anymore.
"You see, whenever I'm in this form, I have all of the knowledge of the past Lights. Apparently it only happens once every 50 years or so, so I'm 'special'." I shrug.
"Yes you are." Axel laughs.
"Shut up!" I exclaim, whacking him with my left wing. Axel lunged as if to push me, but I swiftly took to the air.
We acted like children for quite a while, until we heard voices and bailed.
Axel opened a portal, into his room I supposed, and we collapsed, still laughing.
"Axel?" I heard Roxas call and knock on the door. "Why are you laughing so hard?"
Axel got up to get the door and I whacked him with my wing again.
He chuckled, and opened the door. I gave Roxas a little wave as he walked in and Axel shut the door behind him.
"Who are you?" Roxas asked.
"Mata?" I muttered. "I'll give you a clue." I smirked and ruffled his hair, successfully messing up his spikes. "You're such an innocent kid." I smirked.
"Oh!" he exclaimed. "What's up with the hair and the….. Um…. Wings?" he asked.
"Personal issue." I shrugged. "Chotto, is there a piano around here?"
"Uh…." Axel pondered, "Yeah, there's one in Zexion's library."
"Yay!" I exclaimed, getting up. "Um…. Where is that?" I asked sheepishly.
Axel sighed and grabbed my wrist and started towing me through the castle.
I memorized the way, incase I wanted to get to the piano again. But sadly, I never got to the piano. We were intercepted by Luxord with a message from Demyx.
"Demyx wants to hold another karaoke competition." He sighed. Then he turned to look at me. "Did Vexen's Hell Angel experiment work?"
I glanced over at Axel and mouthed 'hell angel experiment?' he just shrugged in reply.
We followed Luxord into a room with a stage set up and a karaoke machine. I self-consciously folded my wings in tight and put my cloak on, flipping the hood up.
I walked over to a corner where Zexion was reading a book and had a few propped up beside him. I recognized one of the authors so I grabbed that one and made myself comfortable on the couch across from Zexion.
After a song or two I snapped the book shut. Not a lot of things get on my nerves, but bad singing did. Apparently it got to Zexion too because he was grimacing.
"Screw this, I'm going next." I muttered, getting up.
"And like you can do better?" he asked skeptically.
"Hellz yeah." I told him.
I walked onto the stage and selected a song. Slow orchestral music came out of the speakers, and a violin pierced the air. I took a breath and begun to sing.
"We are the lucky ones. We shine like a thousand suns, When all of the color runs together.
"I'll keep you company. In one glorious harmony, Waltzing with destiny forever." The music picked up speed.
"Dance me into the night. Underneath the moon shining so bright. Turning me into the light." I smiled as I hit the high 'C' perfectly. I let myself sway to the mucisal intermission.
"Time dancers whirling past. I gaze thought the looking glass. And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven. Sacred geometry, where movement is poetry. Visions of you and me forever." Then the chorus again.
"Dance me into the night. Underneath the moon shining so bright. Turning me into the light." Another intermission. The violin seemed to be crying. I seriously loved this song. Dark with romance.
"Dance me into the night. Underneath the moon shining so bright. Let the dark waltz begin. Oh let me wheel – let me spin. Let it take me again. Turning me into the light." I hummed along with the violin, swaying with the melody.
When the applause died down, I went headed back to the couch but was intercepted by Xigbar.
"I haven't see you here before." He smiled at me lecherously, "We usually don't have females in the castle."
"I bet you're the reason for that." I muttered.
"What was that?" he smiled again. Ew.
"I said get out of my way, or I'll have to stab you." I told him, looking him in the eye.
"Really?" he seemed amused, "With what?"
"These." I smirked, showing him the five daggers I had pulled out from the stitching in my cloak.
At first he looked worried, but then he summoned his Arrow guns.
"Oh, you wanna play with ranged weapons?" I asked, putting back my daggers, "Well, let's play." I summoned my bow and arrows.
"You don't scare me." He smirked.
"Really?" I unfurled my wings, al 15 feet of them.
"Tenshi, why are you threatening Xigbar?" I heard Axel ask. I have no clue how he knew the word 'angel' in Japanese but I went with it.
"That's Jigoku Tenshi to you." I laughed as I folded back my wings. Axel just cocked an eyebrow. He was unusually serious.
"He was being a perv." I told him. Xigbar was still frozen with shock.
"Understandable." Axel smirked, "And, uh, Xemnas wants to talk to you."
"Why?" I squeaked. That man scared me! If he wasn't so scary though, I'd so pay him to narrate my life.
"Dunno, but he said that I had to go with you." Axel looked put off about that.
"Let's go, I want this over with." I muttered.
On the way there, we met up with Roxas and another girl Xion. She had black hair that was cut short, like mine when it was normal, and shocking blue eyes. we all walked silently, but from the looks of confusion on Roxas's and Xion's faces, they had no clue what was going on.
When we got there, Axel knocked on the door and we entered.
"VIII, XIII, XIV, Light," I looked up when Xemnas addressed me, "I am sending the four of you on an extensive recon mission to a new world we have just discovered. It is called 'Earth'. There are many places to investigate so you will be using a gummy ship. You will need to blend in for this mission; clothes have been left in your rooms. The Light's clothes are over there." Xemnas pointed to a corner that had a bag in it.
"You will be staying for a year to gather information on the cultures and the heartless. That is all."
I walked over and picked up my bag. Outside I was indifferent. But inside, I was overjoyed, ecstatic, stoked. I had grown up on earth and knew everything about it.
Roxas, Xion and I followed Axel to the gummy garage. Axel showed us the one we would be taking. It had 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen.
"Xion and I call this room!" I exclaimed from the (slightly) larger of the two bedrooms.
Xion and I high-fived as we heard Roxas groan. In the short time that I had met Xion, I really liked her. She just how to handle Roxas and Axel. She also was like me, not afraid to fight someone.