Kingdom Hearts 2: another story

Chapter 3


Michael: Welcome back to KH2: Another story. This will go through events of Days 74 to 254. Day 255 will be when the C.O group will return to the Castle that never was, so there will be many Days spoilers and a change in Xion's character. Please review


Chapter 3: As the days go by


Day 74


Roxas sat at the clock tower eating sea-salt ice cream, as he always does. Roxas thought about yesterday and the events of that day: Axel's sudden return, the new girl Namine, and the C.O team's betrayal to the Organization. Roxas remembered what he asked to Xemnas.


Flashback

Xemnas was in the throne room when Roxas entered by a corridor of darkness. Xemnas was surprised by Roxas' sudden appearance.

"Roxas," he said a calm voice. "What beings you here, weren't you on a mission?"

"Yes." Roxas said, "But Axel's return and he brought her with him."

Roxas pointed to the ground where Xion walking in with Namine by her side. Xemnas was stunned.

"How did Namine and Axel get to you, Roxas?"

Roxas added to the superior, "Hard to say, Axel tells me that Marluxia and Larxene have taking over someone and plan to use this person to overthrow the organization."

Xemnas' yellow eyes narrowed after Roxas explanation. He spoke again. "Roxas, I leave you with an important task. I want you to stay close to Namine and keep her safe. When they return to the castle, they will come back for her soon enough."

"Right, I understand." said Roxas. Roxas left the throne room via a corridor of darkness. Xion guided Namine from the room as Xemnas watched the two friends leave. Xemnas eyed Xion and noticed her hood was down.

"That is the first time I've seen Xion's new face. When I first saw it, it was a boy, now it's the person from my memories. How are that person, Xion, Namine, Roxas, and Sora connected?" The superior thought.


End Flashback—


"Think about anything Roxas?"

Roxas looks to see Namine, Axel, and Xion appearing beside him, each of them with sea salt ice cream in hand. Roxas simply smiled. "Nothing, I was just thinking about what I said to Xemnas." The blond haired nobody looks to Xion. "You feel okay? That lizard heartless took a real number on you."

Xion sighed. "It's nothing Roxas." Xion then took a bit of her ice cream. "Still, I've got a lot of practicing to do with my keyblade. Didn't you hear, everyone who's sent on missions is pulling more weight, knowing Marluxia and Larxene will come back soon?"

Axel looks to Namine. "Don't you worry Namine; the three of us will protect you from them and that's a promise."

Namine smiled sweetly. "Thanks Axel."

Roxas, Axel, Namine, and Xion continued looking into the sunset.


Day 96


From days 74 to 96, Roxas wenton missions with Xion to help her with her keyblade skills. She was getting really good now. After their mission in Beast's Castle, they met Axel and Namine already at the clock tower, eating ice cream. The four talked about Xion's success at her and Roxas's mission.


Day 149


Back in the Castle that never was, Xion was pacing in her room, thinking of something. Xion sighed deeply. "What did he mean I'm a sham?"


Flashback from Beast's Castle—


Xion faced a man wearing a black coat; He had silver hair with a blindfold over his eyes. Her keyblade lay on the stone ground as she kneeled in pain. The silver hair boy walked up to Xion and grabbed her hood. He pulls up his blindfold to see her face and gasped. He stepped back in shock.

"Your face… It can't be... Who are you really and why do you have a keyblade?" he demanded.

Xion pulled down her hood and said, "Why would I tell you. But why are you dressing as one of us?" her tone was full of anger.

Riku walked up to Xion's keyblade and picks it up. "To find my friend and save him from the organization's clutches. I don't know why you have my other friend's face, but you can fight fire with sparks… this keyblade is a shame, worthless." He examines it, and tosses it to Xion's side.

Xion's tone turned much darker. "My keyblade's not a sham. You have no right to say that!" With anger building, Xion picked up her keyblade and ran with weapon in hand to attack the boy. The boy summons a wing like blade and held it at the ready. The boy cast a dark ball of fire at the rave haired nobody as she used her keyblade to swat it away before performing a horizontal swing at the silver haired boy. The silver haired boy dodged the attack and cast more dark fireballs at Xion, who then guarded with her keyblade. The fireballs bounced off as Xion held the keyblade down from her front. Anger still boiling, Xion made one quick movement and disappeared within a flash. The silvered haired boy looked around but couldn't see the raven haired girl as the 14th member appeared by his left side. With one swing of her keyblade, the boy was sent flying into one of the stone statues of the ground. The boy slid into the ground, feeling the pain from his back and hand. Blood trickled from his covered arm and stain his block gloves.

The boy panted in pain. "How'd you get that power?" The boy got up from the ground and held his hurt arm with his other, "Take my advice and find a new crowd. Those guys are bad news."

Despite all the pain, the boy walked away to the bridge doors. Xion yelled, "What about you, you're a real sham!"

The boy turns his head to Xion and said, eyeing the hooded girl. "Fair enough, you could say that I'm the biggest nobody of them all."

The boy walks from Xion's viewpoint and the raven haired girl was left confused and angry.


Present time—


Xion stared out into the window, looking at the Kingdom Hearts moon. "Why would I believe some imposter?"


Day 150


Roxas walked into Twilight's view to hear Xion talking to Saix. "And that's all I know from fighting him."

Saix turned, his expression not changing. "I see, I will inform the superior about how strong this imposter is." He looked back to Xion. "The next time you see him you are ordered to eliminate him, understood?"

"Yes." She nodded.

Saix left the area as Roxas walked up. "Hey, what happened on your mission?"

Xion look to Roxas and said, "Noting to worry about, I'll tell you someday. I have to go."

Xion walks away from Roxas as he headed to the grey room to receive his mission.


Day 152


Roxas met Xion in Twilight Town during her mission to defeat a heartless and his mission to collect organization badges. The two teamed up to finish their mission and return to the clock tower.

"Hey Xion, what happened on that mission you were assign too?" Roxas added.

Xion toke a bit of her ice cream and said, "You know that there's an imposter wearing our cloak. The others thought it would be Marluxia or Larxene, so they send me to do it. Figures a keyblade wielder could handle this. When I thought him, I almost lost, but when I decided to fight him again, I had the upper hand." She took another bite.

Roxas was impressed. "Wow Xion, you must really beat him. But he got away?"

Xion took one more bit of her ice cream. "My mission was to investigate the imposter, but of I meet him again, I must eliminate him."

"Oh." Roxas understood.

Xion held out her ice cream and asked, "Hey Roxas, why are we a part of the organization?"

Roxas replied, "To have heart of our own, right?"

"I guess, but do we really need it?" Xion replied back.

"I dunno, but that's what the organization wants to do. Besides, Xigbar said were both special." said Roxas.

Xion looked to Roxas and responded with, "Yeah we're special, but I have something that makes us different." She placed an arm around him. "And that is having you as a great friend. You are my best friend, so are Axel and Namine."

Roxas smiled brightly. "Thanks Xion."

The two were then greeted by Axel and Namine. The four friends watch the sunset together, eating their ice cream.


(A/N: I think I handle that well, don't you? I'm going to skip Day 171 since that day involves Sora sleep and Xion collapsing, all of us wanted that gone. And what they're doing to Sora hasn't affected Roxas and Xion yet, you'll see. Besides, Saix insulting is the worst, so we head to Day 193)


Day 193


Roxas, Axel, and Xion continued their missions after she returned from looking for the imposter in worlds she and Roxas have been to. Xion had found no trace of him. The trio had their mission together in Twilight Town; they were doing fine until Xion had a series of fainting fits after the mission that they return to the castle. Walking through Twilight's View, Axel was carrying Xion as Saix appeared.

"Well, that didn't take long. Did it break?" The second in commanded sneered.

Roxas looked confused. "What are you talking about, Xion's not—"

Axel walked passed Saix saying, "Stay out of it and keep it to yourself."

Roxas followed Axel as the two nobodies were out of sight. Saix said to himself, "You've have changed… Something at Castle Oblivion changed you. Does the past mean nothing to you now?"

Axel and Roxas gathered at Xion's room as the black haired nobody was rubbing the back of her head. Roxas looks to Axel and asked, "Why you're so worried so much about Xion, Axel?"

"What are you talking about?" Axel asked.

"Doesn't seem like you?" Roxas replied.

"What do you mean?" Axel asked.

"You hate complications."

Axel fell silent. He finally spoke again. "Roxas… I meet up with you three to eat ice cream, why do I do that?"

"Huh?" Roxas wondered, cocking his head in confusion.

"I mean, when you think about it, I don't need to go out of my way right?"

"I guess not." Roxas said, stroking his chin.

"You wanna know why I do?" Axel said to him. "Because we're friends, the four of us… we're inseparable."

"We are?" Roxas said in a gasp.

"That's right— got it memorized. And you know what? Best friends are willing to deal with complications."

"Yeah… Yeah, you said it!" Roxas said smiling.

"Heh Heh." Xion said, giggling. "That was sweet Axel, thank you."

Axel rubbed the back of his hair to hide a blush as Roxas asked, "You feeling better?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry I worried you two." She said.

"Don't scare us like that anymore, huh?" Axel asked

"Yeah." She said nodding.

"And take it easy today." Axel said smiling.

"I will, Thanks." She said giggling once more.

Meanwhile in Namine's room, she was drawing a picture of Axel, herself, Roxas, and Xion. She looked to her fished drawing and sighed. "They're getting close, but will it be enough?"


Day 224


Namine sat in her room, thinking about Roxas, Xion, and Sora. "It's getting worse, I can feel it. If they continue to pour more into Sora, those false memories I help planted, what will that do to Roxas and Xion. Riku... DIZ… if you're out there, those preparation to safety take Sora's memories from them is ready… we are running out of time."


Day 254


Roxas, Axel, Namine, and Xion were sitting at the clock tower, when Demyx appears next to them. "There you four are, I've been looking for you."

"What's wrong, Demyx?" asked Xion.

"Well, the good news about Castle Oblivion. One of the dusks got into the Castle, but the bad news is that what they're doing in there is ready tomorrow."

The four dropped their ice cream upon hearing that that.

"What?" the four said.

"You've better head back to the castle that never was now." Demyx instructed.

Axel looks to his friends. "We better head back."

"Right." The three said together.


Back at the Castle that never was—


"You've got to be kidding?" roared Axel.

It wasn't a normal day when Axel would yell at most of the remaining senior members. Xigbar, Xaldin, and Xemnas were all in the grey room along with Luxord and Saix.

"Kidding, as if, we wouldn't be kidding when that dusk told us. Form what it knows, Marluxia and Larxene have captured Vexen, Leaxeus, Zexion, and some boy, and their little project is ready to go. You could have seen its face when it told us. So much power for a little project." explained Xigbar.

"Well, this will be an interesting game now." said Luxord, holding a pair of cards in his hands.

"So, what's the plan?" asked Xaldin.

The members look to Xemnas. The superior said, "We will welcome them on their little invasion. Roxas, Xion, Axel, I leave it to you."

"Yes superior." The three said.

The four friends left the grey area as everyone expect Saix and Xemnas were left. The Lunar Divider looked to Xemnas. "Sir, why risk our keyblade wielders to those traitors?"

Xemnas spoke in his monologue voice. "I want to see this boy's power once more. A year has passed when we crossed paths. Has they still remained, I want to know."

"Oh course sir." Saix said.


Michael: And that ends chapter three. This took me awhile to write and for god's sake I'm hungry. Next chapter is RAX's encounter with Marluxia, Larxene, and their newly controlled Sora. Please review.