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Full Summary: It has been 200 years since Sora left Riku, who is now the Head Vampire. The world has turned into utter chaos and is falling apart into a million pieces. Humans have found out about the vampires, which leads to Slayers who are people paid and dedicated to kill vampires. During a fight, Riku encounters someone who is identical to someone he knew a long time ago. This person happens to be a Slayer and is set out to finish the last of the vampires. Will Riku be able to keep himself and his clan alive while trying to get the Slayer's memories back or will he and the others die for mistaking him for someone? Sequel to Hagane Shinzou and in Riku's point of view. Enjoy!
Sora finished his steak and sat by me at my computer which was set up on the other side of the room. I looked at random places in the town to see if there was a better place to hide out. None popped up so far.
"Riku, why don't you just take them to the cave at the shoreline?" Sora said.
"It's not the shoreline any more. Most of the ocean is gone, but I think you might have a wonderful idea. It's well hidden and just big enough for all of us to go. We'll move later though. It's not safe now that Xehonart has probably figured out that you're missing. He probably has other Slayers out looking for you as we speak."
Sora nodded. "I'm sure he does, but they're not going to get me. I'm not going back there."
I looked at him and knew that we would have to go back in order to get rid of the Slayers. As for the Oni, they weren't our top priority any more. Slayers were more lethal and skilled making them more of a threat. Sora's eyes told me that he knew too.
I stood up and walked over to the door. Night was nearing and that meant it was almost time to track down the Slayer's headquarters again. It'll be like walking right into a death trap, but there had to be a way. There was no way in hell I was going down without a fight. The Slayers will be destroyed and exist no more. I'm sick of hiding and fighting. There was a time when everything seemed to be in order. Was it a dream or was it real? It was too long ago for me to truly remember.
"Sora, we need to get rid of the Slayers. Are you willing to help us? We can't do this without a Slayer's help."
"Riku, that place is rigged with all sorts of traps. You and the others will all get caught in less than ten minutes. Normal humans can't even cross there without being caught."
"That's why I ask for your help! You're a Slayer and you know all of the traps and where they are set up."
"The last time I had to help you, you stabbed and killed me. This is just stupid!"
I glared at him. No matter how many times I say it, no one believes me. "I told you before that I didn't do it! Why can't you believe me? Do you know what I've been through to try and prove that I didn't do it? There is absolutely no evidence left of him! I can't believe you don't believe me. I know Xemnas did it to try and get to me. It worked and made everyone turn against me, Sora. It's so obvious, yet Roxas doesn't even believe me. He only follows my orders because I am the head vamp and the best chance they have!"
I opened the door and stomped out of the door, infuriated. I thought I had put all of that behind me. It looks as if I was wrong. Sora didn't even believe me and that hurt. I had learned to hold my emotions in a long time ago. It sometimes helps with battle and whenever I need to just calm down and think about things.
Sora ran after me and grabbed my arm. I turned around to look at him. "Riku, you're the stupidest vampire I have ever known. You get yourself captured and tortured by me without saying much. Then you kidnap a Slayer and take him to your little post. Now you are asking that same Slayer to help you destroy the only thing he had remembered for a long time. Riku, I'll help you, but this plan better work because if it doesn't there will be no such thing as vampires any more and it'll all be myths and fables to tell little children."
Nodding, I turned back around and summoned every vampire in the building. Everyone appeared at the same time. I had a plan, but whether it was going to work or not was a different story.
"Sora has agreed to help us defeat Xehonart. I have a very risky plan, but it involves help from everyone. We are outnumbered by about fifty to one. Are you all willing to go through with this? We may not make it out alive, but I refuse to go down without a fight. I'm tired of hiding and I'm tired of fighting. It's time we make our move! Are you with me?"
I looked around at the others and saw Zexion nod and step forward. "Yes." Others did the same and soon the whole room was ready to kill Xehonart.
"Good. Here's what we do..."
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I felt the blood run off my head as Sora dragged me onto Slayer turf. He had blindfolded me so that way if I were to escape, I wouldn't know where I was going. My left arm kept making a sickening noise with every move Sora made.
Sora walked right through the entrance and was greeted by Xehonart. "I am sorry to have left like that, Master, but Riku had escaped. We fought and as you can see I won, but I needed to rest so I tied him up and slept before coming back. I hope you are not mad, but I did what I had to do in order to get this bastard."
"I am not mad. I was just worried that you had been captured and used as a hostage. Take him to the cells and chain him up. I'll deal with him after we have talked of what had happened in the past few days."
I had to act like I was unconscious or else risk having a sword sticking out of me. No one could really tell since I had a blindfold on.
I heard the door to the cell open as Sora continued to drag me. He threw me against the wall and I winced as I landed on my left arm. He gripped both of my wrists and chained them up to the wall just like last time. Sora then left and locked the door behind him.
"Teams One locked and ready to go." "Team Two has managed to get past the guards." "Team Three in position." "Team Four ready to kick some ass!"
We had decided to split into four groups with three people in each. Teams One and Two were going to face the Slayers head on at the entrance. Team Three was headed down to the computer room to stop all transmissions from going out while Team Four was to come and get me out when the time came.
Alarms sounded and I realized that it had begun. All I could do was wish them good luck as I could here footsteps and metal clanging against each other. Something inside the building made it impossible to make a portal this time, meaning the fourth team was going to have to find another way in.
I heard footsteps enter the dungeon and opened up the door to my cell. Someone walked up to me and held my throat. Judging by the horrible breath and ear splitting voice I knew it was Xehonart.
"HOW DID THEY GET PAST MY DEFENCE SYSTEMS?" he yelled in my ear.
"I...I don't know. Maybe they figured it out."
"No one can just figure that out! It's impossible."
"Doesn't look impossible to me." Okay, so maybe smart mouthing the guy wasn't a good idea. I felt a fist hit my jaw with a sickening pop following. Was it possible to have any more of my bones broken? Wait, forget I said that. I don't want to jinx it and have my neck broken. I gritted my teeth together which gave me even more pain now.
"When the hell are you getting here Team Four!? I now have a broken jaw! Hurry your asses up!"
Three minutes later I heard something loud crash through the wall. Well, they arrived and they even arrived with style...
I heard Demyx playing his sitar as I felt a sort of mist flow past me. There was no doubt in my mind that his water clones had crashed through the wall.
"What the?! Sora, stop them!"
I could hear the Keyblades being summoned. "Sorry, Xehonart, but I have chosen a different path and that path is with Riku!"
"You have turned on me!? Well, a fight it shall be." Xehonart summoned something and I guess they were Keyblades.
Demyx ran over to me and I felt the chains break free. I pulled off my blindfold and gave a quick thanks to Demyx. Sure enough, Xehonart had two Keyblades.
"Sorry about the delay, Riku. We got held up by the Oni."
"Oni!? What the hell are they doing here?" I asked summoning my own Keyblade to enter the battle and help Sora.
"Team Three found a whole room where he creates them while on their way to the control room. Xehonart is the one behind the Oni!"
So Xehonart was the one controlling the Slayers and the Oni. When the vampires refused to go under his control, he set out to destroy them and make us look bad. He did a damn good job of it too, until now.
I quickly healed my jaw and my arm. Before we had set out, Sora and I wanted to make the story look believable so we sparred. In the process he cut my head and broke my arm.
"Demyx, Sora and I will handle Xehonart. You go out there and kill the rest of the Oni and then make sure your team helps One and Two up at the entrance."
He nodded then quickly left through the hole. I ran up and almost slashed Xehonart when another Slayer appeared. I got behind him and yanked the hood off. I hesitated when I saw who it was.
"Xemnas!" I yelled, swinging my blade at him. He blocked it with his own Keyblade that he now had and grinned.
"That's right. I'm back and it's all thanks to Xehonart! Did you honestly think that I was dead?" He threw a slash at me and hit my leg. I didn't have time to heal it so I just dealt with the pain and continued attacking.
Out of the corner of my eye, I could clearly see Sora and Xehonart still fighting. Taking my eyes off of Xemnas was a big mistake. He threw me to the ground and walked around me.
"Here's a little secret, Riku. I was the one who killed Sora. If I would have known that he would turn into a Heartless, then I probably would have rethought that."
He slashed through my shirt and hit my stomach. I grimiced in pain. Just as he was about to thrust his blade into me, liquid fell onto me. A quick look behind Xemnas told me that Demyx just saved my ass. Who would have thought?
Xemnas turned around and threw his blade at Demyx. It hit him right in the abdomen as he fell to the ground and blood surrounded him. I yelled and thrust my Keyblade right into Xemnas's heart. He looked at me stunned after he laughed. Xemnas had a confused face before he fell to the ground, dead.
I ran over to Demyx and looked at him. He was almost dead. Demyx looked at me and smiled as his heart stopped beating. Demyx was dead and there was going to be revenge.
I ran at Xehonart and started fighting him with Sora. It seemed impossible to stab him. Together, Sora and I stabbed him. He fell to the ground and looked up at the ceiling, unmoving.
We turned around and pucked up Demyx. I wasn't about to leave his body here. We were going to give him a proper burial when this was over.
When we got outside, the fighting was finished. The Slayers all lay on the ground, dead. Zexion ran up when he saw us carrying Demyx. Tears came down his face as we laid him on the ground.
I looked down as I told everyone what Demyx had done. We agreed that he get promoted to Head Vampire when I fell face forward. I looked at my stomach and realized that I had never stopped the bleeding. It was draining fast. I looked up at Sora who's eyes were really wide. I looked behind him and saw Xehonart standing there with his blade in Sora's back. Sora fell to his knees and then his stomach as he looked over at me.
Axel gripped one of his chakrams and threw it at Xehonart, cutting off his head. Everyone looked down at all three of us. Roxas turned us all on our backs and in a row. I looked up at him and he knew that he would soon be the new Head Vampire.
Everyone gave Sora and I distance as blood rushed out of us. There was nothing anyone could do. Even if a vampire were to heal Sora, he would still bleed internally. They could have healed me but then I would have denied. It was time that I go too.
I grabbed Sora's hands and looked at him in his clear blue eyes. "Too bad I won't be going where you will, but I'd rather you go anyways. You don't deserve to be in a place like Hell."
He just smiled and whispered, "Neither do you. Riku, I love you and I'm sorry it had to end this way...for the both of us.
"Yeah, I agree. It was my own mistake but I'm ready to get out of this place. It's worse than hell. At least I got to see you one more time." I noticed that it was getting harder to talk.
"Well, this makes how many times that I've died now?"
I laughed...well tried to. "This, Sora,...makes five."
He looked up at the sky and then moved closer to me. I wrapped my arms around him and kissed him. Even though we never got to live a very long time, it still felt like I knew Sora a long time. Tears rolled down my face as I saw that he was already gone. It's not the first time that he's died before me. I looked over at Demyx and then back at Sora. The two best friends anyone could ever have and they had both died before me.
I started remembering the first time I met Sora and the first time I met Demyx. It made more tears come to my eyes. A few minutes later, the sun had finally peeked behind the grey clouds that had been covering it up. Sora and Demyx were smiling down at me. Who knows, maybe I will get to join them.
I smiled and closed my eyes for the final time as I felt the sun's rays hit my face.
Authors Note: That is the end of Open Wounds. I know it was a lot shorter than Hagane Shinzou, but in this story the chapters were twice as long. No, there will not be a third one. Sorry. I hope you enjoyed the story. Review and tell me what you thought so that way I can make my other stories better. Thanks Vicky for all the help you gave me!!