The Twilight War
Chapter Three: More than What Meets the Eye
Written By DarkDeSkull (: D)
Plot By Axel--Of--Flames (The dashes! They burn!)
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Roxas sat up, shocked and drowsy. He had unintentionally fallen asleep. Standing up, he yawned, and looked around.
"Looks like the others aren't back yet." He said, scratching his head sleepily. "I should probably go clean up the stuff I threw around in my room."
Groggily, he summoned a portal, and stepped through it.
"What was I thinking, throwing all that stuff around? I'm such a-"Roxas jumped back a bit, startled to see a Soldier heartless standing by his bed. Reflexively, the Keyblade summoned itself in his hand, and Roxas swung out at it, expecting an easy kill.
However, a small Shadow jumped out in front of the Soldier, and Roxas stumbled back a bit, surprised.
"Shadows and Soldiers?! I should probably tell the others." He said, and as he swung out, more heartless appeared, swarming him. Having no choice, he ran into the hallway, hoping he could destroy them one-by-one as they crawled out.
When he arrived in the hallway, he stumbled with shock. A Darkside stood there, patiently waiting for him.
As he began to devise a plan to escape, another Darkside appeared, bringing with it a massive army of heartless. The first Darkside opened up a large, dark, oozing hole in the floor that began to have even more heartless crawl out of it.
So, that was the moment Roxas considered all of his options. Very quickly, he deemed escape impossible. At that same rate, he decided something. He would need to fight.
As he summoned his Keyblade, he felt a large hand pick him up, and it began to try to crush him in its hand. Roxas, however, would have none of this. Jerking the Keyblade down with his right hand, he slashed at the creatures fingers, causing its grip to loosen.
Seeing his chance, Roxas stabbed at the creature's arm. Dragging a long, bloody gash down it. It let out a pained roar, and Roxas jumped out of its grip, landing lightly on the floor. He turned to a group a group of shadows that were slowly advancing towards him, and began to cut at them.
Dodging a random claw, he cut wildly at the crowd. The random bursts of darkness around him told him that even more were arrived.
"It's endless!" He muttered to himself, as more advanced toward him. Random Shadows tried to latch onto his legs to keep him still, but he either shook or cut them off. One, however, got a good hold of him, and made him stumble a bit. Still he pushed on, fighting for his life.
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It seemed as though it were hours later as Roxas rested, using his Keyblade as support. The heartless were still coming, with there being no signs of retreat.
A Yellow Nocturne floated toward him, preparing to strike, and Roxas barely batted it out of existence. Panting, he raised his Keyblade again, and ran at the crowd. His leg, bloody from where a Neoshadow had decided to hang on by digging its claws and teeth into his skin, was slowing him down just a bit.
However, he kept at it, still slaying more heartless. Still, fighting for hours at a time does wear one out, and you can't run on pure adrenaline for that long.
Exhausted, Roxas fell to the floor. All seemed dark, and he struggled to get up.
Suddenly, something came crashing through the window.
"Honey, I'm home!" Said someone, firing on the crowd. Roxas briefly wondered how Xigbar had burst in, six stories off, came to the conclusion that he manipulated space to jump in, and pushed himself up.
"Xigbar!" He said, getting up. Xigbar glanced over to him, and smiled slightly.
"Hey little dude, I- Roxas, duck!" Xigbar yelled to Roxas. Roxas began to turn, and-
A large claw ripped through his back, sending him crumpling to the floor. Blood poured out of the wound quickly, and Xigbar began shooting the heartless that gathered around Roxas.
Two portals opened one the other side of the room, revealing Axel and Demyx.
"Holy shit!" Said Axel, neither Axel nor Demyx noticing the wounded Roxas. Yes, there were that many heartless.
"…Woah!" Said Demyx, stumbling as a heartless lunged at him. He summoned his sitar and began quickly playing, summoning water clones. The began jumping on random heartless, drowning them.
Axel made a large wall of fire, cutting through the crowd, and narrowly missing where Roxas was.
"Axel!" Yelled Xigbar, "Protect Roxas!" He then turned his attention to the crowd of heartless closest to him.
"Where is he?" Yelled Axel, who was slightly annoyed to be taking orders. Xigbar jerked his head to his right, and towards a pile of heartless. Axel, lighting his chakrams aflame, threw them at the crowd, knocking a large section off, revealing an unconscious Roxas. Axel gasped a bit when he saw him, and began hacking through the heartless to get near him.
"Axel," Yelled Demyx, one the other side of the room. "Behind you!"
Turning, Axel slashed at a Blue Rhapsody, effectively killing it. He ducked, and felt a bullet whiz over his head, killing another heartless. He looked up to find Xigbar running upside down on the ceiling, firing bullet around the room.
Demyx, who had been busy drowning heartless, watched with horror as a Xigbar fell to the ground with a yell after a Soldier got him in the back (After being thrown by a Large Body).
Apparently satisfied with having slain two members, the heartless retreated.
Axel bent down to check on Roxas.
"This isn't good," He muttered to himself. "-He's lost a lot of blood."
"Axel, Xigbar was hit!" Demyx yelled to him from down the hall. It's a very long, long hallway. It would have to be, with thirteen rooms.
"Same with Roxas!" Axel yelled, mentally cursing Zexion for having gone to the 'Hospital' room. Zexion, you see, was a bit of a medic.
"We have to get them to Zexion!" Yelled Demyx.
"Can you carry Xigbar?" Yelled Axel. Demyx nodded. "Good, let's go!" Axel yelled, and both stood up, carrying the bodies.
Both summoned a portal, Demyx needing to use a bit more concentration, and headed to the 'Hospital' room.
