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"Witches can't cross running water. It drains their powers. That's part of the reason why they tied up girls who they thought were witches and threw them into water. " Demyx said.

"Demyx, those witch trials were fake and you know that. There's no such thing as witches or magic, or even, luck." Roxas said softly so he didn't aggrevate his friend.

"Roxas, yes there is!" Demyx objected.

"Demyx-"

"Hey guys! I found a potato!" Axel shouted triumphantly from the cellar.

The two boys stared at him and started to laugh. They didn't notice the eyes watching from the window.


Once the laughter died down, Demyx sighed and looked out the window. "Holy-!"

"What?!" Roxas stood up. He looked out the window and saw... "Nothing... Dem are you okay?"

"I'm fine... Did you see that?? There were these two big red eyes watching me from the window and-"

"Demyx, what did we say? No such thing. You probably just saw an owl or a cat." Roxas waved his hand dismissively. He then turned away.

"Roxas-" Demyx began to protest. Roxas stiffened.

"Shh." Roxas hissed. "I heard something."

Demyx sighed and listened. There was a scratching noise coming from the door. It was getting louder and louder until it stopped. Then, there was a scuffling noise and eventually, silence. "What was that?"

"I don't know. Maybe a cat? The same one at the window I guess." Roxas replied.

"Witches have cats..." Demyx muttered causing Roxas to groan.

"One more word-" He started angrily.

"Guys, there's something watching us from the window." Axel said as he walked up from the cellar.

"Told ya." Demyx said while turning to the window.

There was nothing.

"What...?" Axel blinked.

"I'm telling you, it's a cat." Roxas said.

"No it was human." Axel and Demyx said.

Roxas ignored them then grabbed the food that Axel found. He cooked some baked potatoes then they all ate in silence.

"Hey did you hear that?" Axel asked tilting his head towards the door.

Roxas shook his head. "I'm gonna look for somewhere to sleep." He walked up the stairs.

Demyx and Axel looked at each ither then ran up the stairs.

Just beforethey got to the stairs, Demyx looked at the ground and froze. "Oh no."

"What?" Axel looked down in fear and saw a bunch of cracks in the stone floor. "Oh god." He shook his head and pushed past Demyx. He walked across the cracks and up the stairs.

"You can't step on a crack!" Demyx shouted as he hopped over the cracks and ran up the stairs.

"Whatever." Axel shrugged.

When they got upstairs, they found a bedroom. They got ready for bed then got into three of the four beds. Just before they felll asleep, Demx insisted that they ushed a cbinet in front of the door for "extra safety measures".

"'Night guys." Demyx muttered.

"Goodnight." Axel and Roxas replied before they dozed off.

Demyx, however, lay in his bed staring at the ceiling. "No such thing." He whispered then sat up. "Guys?" They were both asleep. He sighed and closed his eyes.

After what seemed like hours, but was only minutes, later, he heard a noise. It sounded like a soft thumping. Coming up the stairs. He sat up and looked around. Axel and Roxas were asleep. The thumping was getting louder until it suddenly stopped. Now, there was a sliding noise. Something was being dragged across the ground. Or, someone was dragging itself across the ground.

The noise came closer. Until, scratch scratch. The same noise that was at the door. That was no cat.

If Demyx wasn't a nobody, he would say that he felt his heart hammering against his chest. Hmm. Kind of hard to say that when you don't have a heart in the first place. Demyx gulped as the door creaked. He was petrified with fear. he was too scared to scream, but he desperately wanted Axel and Roxas to be awake. He shivered in fright then forced himself to move. He shakily got to the edge of his bed. His throat felt tight and he was trembling but he slowly tip-toed across the wooden floor. Soon, he was halfway between the door and Axel's bed.

Demyx debated wether to wake Axel or check out what was at the door. The door creaked even more as the scratching grew faster and louder. He finally decided to go to Axel.

"Axel! Wake up." He whispered urgently while shaking his friend.

"What?!" Axel groaned then turned and yelled as Demyx clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Shh! Listen." Demyx hissed. The two boys froze as the scratching stopped. The doorknob was turning. The door was momentarily blocked by the cabinet but who knew hw long that would last?

"What is going on?" Roxas mumbled sleepily.

"Shh!" This time, it was Axel who said that.

Roxas rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and turned to face his friends. "What is going on?" He whispered.

"Something's at the door." Demyx whispered.

"What if it's some stray animal?" Roxas suggested sleepily.

"No! Can an animal do that?" Axel pointed at the slowly turning doorknob.

Demyx looked around. He had to think fast. Then, he saw it. If he didn't know any better he would have thought that this wasn't a coincidence and that his eyes were playng tricks on him; but sure enough, there was bottle of holy water on the table.

"No way." Demy grabbed it and shook his head in disbelief. Then, he tossed the bottle to Roxas

"What am I supposed to do with this?" Roxas demanded. Demyx motioned towards the door. "Hell no. I am NOT going near that... Thing." Roxas said shakily. Even he was getting freaked out by the thing which was currently scratching at the door again.

Axel bit his lip. "I'll do it." He said nervousley. Axel had always wanted to be a hero and this was the perfect time.

Axel took the bottle and opened it. Then, he edged towards the door and peeked through the crack of the door. What he saw made him suddenly feel cold. He saw a creature. It had the body of a human but instead of skin it had scales. It had eyes like a cat and they were red and piercing. Terrifying.

The creature had little wisps of hair that were so thin, he could see the skin of the creature's...scalp... If that's what you could call it. It's hands were nearly just bone and it was very skinny. It resembled a dead body that had been left in a dark cellar. Maggots and all.

The creature hissed venomously and a clawed hand extended through the opening of the door towards Axel.

"Axel! Get away from there!" Roxas hissed. Axel would have, if his feet weren't stuck to the ground and his mind didn't feel a hundred miles away from his body. Axel was frozen. His limbs wouldn't move.

'I've got you now. No use running' Axel heard the voice in it's head. It was as quiet as a whisper but it sounded more like fingenails being draggoed across a blackboard. He groaned and covered his ears but the voice kept going. 'Well boy, I'll give you a choice. You can either try and run. I'll catch you anyways and that will be worse for you. Or, you can stand perfectly still while I finish you off.'

Axel felt like he could move again. He immediately jumped away from the door as he heard a hissing noise in his mind which he assumed was laughter. Just as he reached the corner of the room where Roxas and Demyx were standing, he rememberd the bottle of holy water. He held it up for a closer look.

'Oh no! Don't use that on me I beg of you!' The voice sounded mocking and everyone could hear it this time. 'Do you honestly think I'm afraid of that? Oh no, you are sadly mistaken Boy.' The voice laughed.

"Demyx, what do we do?" Roxas whispered.

"Uh--I--Um. Have no clue." Demyx whispered back.

Axel heard their conversation and looked around the room. He searched for anything that could help. All he saw was a chest in the corner of the room that they hadn't opened yet.

"Distract her." He said. After a long internal battle which just happened to last for only a minute, he decided that it was a she not a he. Or was it a her not a him?

"Her?" Roxas asked. Once Axel nodded he sighed. "Boy you are weird."

"Okay stop calling me Boy!" Axel said in annoyance.

Roxas began to think of ways to distract her. "Demyx tell me evrything you know about... Whatever she is. I'm torn between a zombie and a witch."

The creature looked pissed off at that and began to drag her body across the floor by her claws.

"I'm thinking witch. She looks pretty weak but still too strong for us." Demyx whispered.

"Thanks to you." The witch said out loud thid time. Her voice was surprisingly normal if not a little hoarse. "I was once strong, beautiful and much smarter than people like you. I wasn't evil either. It was you and your friends who destroyed me captured me and tortured me. Burning all my possesions and destroying my home. You locked me up for six years in a concrete box under ground. Well now I'm free. I will take my revenge on those of you who did this to me and when my revenge is complete I will be whole again and free to live life the way I wish."

Roxas noticed out of the corner of his eye that Axel stiffened. He was about to ask Axel what was wrong until he noticed that this was the perfect distraction. "What do you mean? We didn't do this to you."

Axel was beginnging to sneak away. He opened the chest silently and searched through it.

"Hah! You are a lier. I know what you have done and nothing you say will change that."

"Well, I'm sorry if some people have done all this to you but it's not us." Roxas said.

"Oh really? I can hear your heartbeat quicken as you say these words. I can feel the fear of getting caught radiating off you're body. It's no use to lie to me now. Your body screams the truth. I sense your guilt but it will not help you now."

Roxas was confused. He KNEW he didn't do anything. "Demyx?"

"NO! LIke I would go anywhere near a witch."

Suddenly it clicked in his mind. Axel. He knew something.

He turned to ward Axel who was walking towards them. He had sprayed a line of something around the witch. It looked like... Hairspray!?

"Axel what the hell?" Roxas asked.

Axel merley snapped his fingers and a fire appeared in his hand. He used it to light the line of hairspray and Roxas watched as a circle of fire was created around the witch. "Let's get out of here." Axel said walking around the fire and out the door. "Hurry before the house burns down." He heard Axel say.

Roxas and Demyx ran out the door and to the front yard where Axel was waiting.

Roxas walked up to Axel. "Axel what was she-"

"Hey Demyx where do you think the witch came from?" Axel interrupted him.

"Well, they can't cross running water so somewhere between here and the bridge." Demyx replied.

"So if we get past the bridge we're home free?" Axel continued.

"Yeah I think."

"Axel listen to me!" Roxas said angrily.

"Well let's hurry." Axel walked away.

Roxas broke into a run with Demyx trailing after them.

"Hey wait up guys!" Demyx yelled.

Roxas grabbed Axel's arms before he could cross the bridge. "Axel, you're my best friend. I need you to tell me what she was talking about."

"Okay but not here." Axel sighed after a few minutes.

Luckily, by then the sun was going up so it was easy to go through the forest. They made their way to the Organization house. Or where it USED to be. Axel plopped down on the ground.

"Okay I'll tell you now. I didn't remember this until we saw the witch." Axel said. "It was six years ago. I was thirteen and you guys were eleven."

(A/N: I changed the ages for the story 'kay? Xemnas, Xigbar, Luxord, Xaldin and Saïx are 27, Axel, Larxene, Vexen, Zexion, Marluxia, and Lexaus are 19, Roxas and Demyx are 17)

" There used to be this girl who lived in the forest behind us. She was a weirdo. Freak. Loner. Whatever you'd call it. Anyways we always pulled pranks on her and did horrible things. Give me a break! I was thirteen and everyone else did it too."

Flashback

"Freak!" Marluxia shouted while pelting another stone at the house succesfully breaking the last intact window.

The house looked horrible. What used to be a lovely cottage with a huge garden was now a broken down shack with graffiti and broken windows and a trampled mess of weeds.

The tree in the garden used to have a lovely swing hangign from it and now the tree was chopped down and the swing was gone.

This had been going on for three years.

Teenagers came and sprayed horrible words all over the house, they Tp'd the house and trampled it's garden, smashed windows and stole items.

One day though, the girl fought back. She was around Axel's age and when she turned thirteen, she decided to fight them. SOme peopel disappeard. Other's went mad. SOme died of a misterious sickness. One day, the Organization members wh were thirteen at the time decided to end it all.

Larxene laughed and grabbed buckets of blood. It had been taken from the people who died. Vexen and Lexeaus dragged the girl out of her house and held her down while Marluxia pelted stones at her and larxene poured blood all over her.

"Why don't you fight back you witch!?" Larxene taunted as the girl began to sob. Axel watched this in horror. He had never done anything to the girl before. He didn't even know her. This was supposed to be his first night.

"Guys leave her alone! You've done enough!" Axel said as he ran over to them.

"Enough?" Larxene repeated. "This is only the beginning." They tied the girl with silver chains and tied branches from Rowan, Birch and Ash trees to her. Then, they threw slt all over her and held her down while Larxene set fire to her house.

Lexeaus held her face so she was forced to watch.

"No! Please!" She sobbed trying to get free.

"Axel, you guard her we're gonna help Larxene and Marluxia." Vexen and Lexeaus said.

Once they were gone Axel turned to the girl.

"Please help me!" She begged.

Axel wanted to. He really did but he knew he couldn't. He knew what Larxene and the others could do to him and he was to afraid. He turned away from her as Larxene returned.

"Now then." Larxene grabbed the chains and dragged her to a cement coffin. "These are your new accomodations you better get used to tehm. you will be here for a while." She laughed and pushed the girls into the coffin. Vexen and Lexeaus shoved the coffin face-down into a hole in the ground. It was around ten feet deep and just big enough for the coffin.

"The last thing Axel heard before they refilled the hole was her screams.

Flashback over

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And that's enough for now. I'm pretty tired and hungry even though It's 6:00 pm. Ah well, sorry I didn't post in so long. Please review! Thanks!