A/N: Here. Two chapters. I'm probably going to rewrite the beginning chapters soon. As of right now, I'm too lazy.
CHAPTER 4
:Thrash:
The Heartless roared and threw its arm into the air. The sound shook the surrounding area. Bane continued to hold Myde as she looked at the creature in front of them. She and Myde were soaking wet but they didn't stir from their spots. "Demyx, don't let it scare you," she said. The Heartless charged at them. Bane let go of him. "You know what to do, Number Nine."
The look in his eyes changed as he held his hands out front. "I think so." Though the statement should have been one of uncertainty, his voice held a tone of confidence. Almost like he had expected, a wall of geysers rose in front of him. The Heartless rammed into it and bounced off.
The blue-haired girl grinned as the darkness in her heart poured into his. Finally. At this rate, Demyx is going to be back.
Back at the club, Lea came back to the table and sat across from Alana. Zees wasn't there and Lea assumed he was dancing. He looked at the Alana, sighing when he realized that she was ignoring him. He wanted to ask her for another dance but he had a feeling her answer would be 'no'. He was about to try but she cut him off.
"Aren't you tired of all this dancing?" she asked.
Lea scratched his head. "You want to go home already?"
"Yeah," she said as she stood up. "I'll see you tomorrow."
Lea got up and followed her to the door. "You're leaving?" He didn't want to leave the club yet but he didn't want her to go either. When she stopped by the door, he leaned on the doorway and looked at her.
Alana stared at him, trying to decipher his motives to no avail. "I have nothing else to do here."
He looked away, thinking about the situation. Then he came up with a solution. "I'll walk you back to your dorm."
Alana smirked. "Is this your way of hitting on me?"
Suddenly, Lea pinned her against the wall and leaned in. He grinned when he saw the surprised look on her face. "Maybe," he whispered. Before he could add something, Alana pushed him away.
"You don't have to walk me home."
"True. But I don't mind."
Alana stared at him, trying to wonder what his aim was. She thought about it and got nothing. "Fine," she said. "If you want to."
"Hey, Bane," Myde said. His eyes were on the Heartless as a dark fog engulfed it. Even though he had been attacking nonstop, the creature was still standing. He looked back at her and said, "My attacks aren't working."
Bane looked up from the curb. She shrugged and took out a nail file. She then tended to her claws. "I don't know how to deal with a Giant Body," she told Myde. Hell, I don't think any of us can deal with something of this magnitude. Everything Demyx tries bounces right off him. Maybe if he becomes a Nobody, his attacks will be stronger. How can I turn him into a Nobody?
Myde sidestepped to avoid getting rammed. The Heartless halted and looked around as if it was confused. "A Giant Body?" he asked as he prepared to rise another geyser. The Heartless was about to charge at him again.
Bane nodded. "That's what Renegade was fused with." She examined her claws at all angles before continuing her filing. She looked up to see how Myde was doing. He wasn't doing so great.
"Oh, I'm really the wrong guy for this job," Myde said as he avoided the Giant Body again.
"Keep trying!" Bane said. "Try summoning your weapon!"
"What weapon?!"
Bane rolled her eyes, not knowing what to do. Then she saw Lea and Alana coming in their direction. She gritted her teeth. Not now, she thought. She got off the curb and ran passed the fight. She leapt twenty feet forward and landed in front of the two on all fours. She stood up straight, her tail swishing behind her. "Hello, Axel." Her yellow eyes landed on Alana and she smirked. "Maiden."
"Maiden?" Alana repeated.
Bane laughed. "You don't know? We know a lot about you. Thrash told us all about the Maiden of Kingdom Hearts." Every time she said the title, there was a mockery behind it, revealing the hatred and despise in her heart. As if to reinforce that fact, her yellow eyes turned ice cold despite the gleeful laughter that had left her mouth. "Let me tell you the basic story.
"Once upon a time there was a stupid girl with a blue cube. She went around collecting Heartless. She lost the cube. Axel found the cube. Then he lost it. Soon some kid named Artemis came along and picked it up. Later, he became a scientist. Two years ago, the kid-who-turned-scientist removed six Heartless and combined them with six regular people. Then we were born. Individuals with two hearts, nearly dominated by the darkness. If I ever want to blame someone, it would have to be you, Maiden. Because you had the cube, you caught the Heartless, and then you lost it."
Bane took a deep breath and let it out, closing her eye s as she did so. Her eyes fluttered opened and she glanced over her shoulder to check on Myde. "How's it going - Huh?"
Myde ran passed the group, screaming, "Run! Run away!" He dove into a bush to avoid getting run over by the Giant Body. Bane quickly leaped into the air. Alana froze when she saw the thing coming their way. Lea grabbed Alana out of the way. The Heartless ran passed them and halted, looking confused once more.
Myde stuck his head out of the bush and saw Lea. "Oh, hey Axel. You're looking lively."
Lea stared, still clutching onto Alana. "Myde, what did you say?"
Myde blinked. "Um, I don't really know." There was a roar and he glanced at his left. He saw the Giant Body and winced. "Oh, I wish I was at the dorms right now."
"I though there were no more Heartless in Radiant Garden," Lea said as the creature faced them. When it charged at him and Alana, the two jumped in separate directions.
Two people were watching the scene from afar. One was girl. She had yellow eyes and tan, limp hair that was straight. Her hands were bandaged. Her tee-shirt and dark shorts tattered. The girl looked up at the tall man beside her. "I feel so bad for Renegade," she told him.
He shrugged. "I don't feel anything at all. Sort of ironic for a guy with two hearts."
The man, compared to the girl, looked rich. He had on a white suit. His snow white hair had a shine to it and so did his golden eyes. He looked normal except for his long arms. The man looked so well-kept while the girl didn't. However, they were from the same place and worked for Artemis.
The man sighed. "Stupid Bane. She always has to do something that jeopardizes us. Even Renegade joined her on her little escapade."
"How are we going to help him?" The girl asked.
"We'll take him down," he replied in a monotone voice. "Eliminate him. There's nothing else we can do, Warp. Of course, I'll need your help."
She nodded as she finally removed the bandages.
"Myde!" Alana said. "Watch out!"
Myde looked up and saw that the black aura was surrounding the Giant Body. It came toward him again and he rolled out of the way. The Giant Body ran through a fence. Myde stood and started running back to the water.
The Heartless turned around and chased after him.
Water splashed as Myde headed to the center. He turned around and faced the Heartless. Myde racked his brain, trying to figure how to do the trick again.
"Water?" The water remained on the ground. He started to panic as the creature got closer. "Um, dance?" He almost laughed at himself. Yeah, like telling water to dance would work. Now that the Heartless was less than ten feet away, tremors shot through the blonde's body.
Myde braced himself for impact.
Suddenly arms wrapped around him and he disappeared from the spot. He appeared underneath a nearby tree. He looked behind him and saw a girl. Although she had saved him, she looked unhappy. "I'm sorry about this," she said. She ran away from him and went toward the Heartless.
Myde looked behind him and jumped. A young man in a suit was leaning against the tree next to him.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to attack you," the young man said as he pushed off the tree. "I'm here for that despicable thing."
The girl looked back at the approaching man and then peered down at her hands. They were wither and limp as her hair. Her fingers were long and pale. She couldn't wait to wrap her hands in the bandages again. "I'm sorry, Renegade," she said to the roaring creature. She warped and appeared behind the Giant Body. Then she lashed out at its back. The creature cried in pain. Regardless of her feelings, she did it again. The creature fell on its knees, weakened by the attack while she felt refreshed and full of energy.
"Thrash, what now?" she asked as Thrash walked around the creature.
"Don't look, Warp," he replied. Immediately, the girl turned around and wrapped the bandages around her hands.
Thrash checked to make sure she had followed orders. When he saw that she had, he looked at the Heartless. His hands transformed into black claws. He got down and twisted his upper body. Then it unraveled itself. His claws hit the Giant Body's back several times, each swipe stronger than the last. The Heartless fell forward and onto its round stomach.
He stopped and checked on Warp. After he saw her back was still turned, he jumped up and ripped through the Heartless's back. Black fluid oozed out of the gashes. The Heartless then evaporated. Will that be our fates? he thought as his hands returned to normal. His golden eyes landed on the three people now underneath the tree.
"Warp," he said. "I need you to bring her here."
Alana and Lea had reached Myde just in time to see how the Heartless was defeated. The two were shocked when Myde had told them they, the guy in the suit and the Heartless, were on the same side. Now that one fight was done, there were two new people to deal with and Myde was not up for another attack.
"Hello there," Thrash said as the girl beside him disappeared. He then approached them.
Lea and Myde stepped in front of Alana on impulse.
Thrash came to halt, only five feet separating him from them. He looked at each one of them. "The three former Nobodies."
"What are you talking about?" Myde asked.
"I'm not expecting you to remember as fast as I did. Unlike your hearts, mine is close to the dark. We could easily solve that problem but Artemis told us not to interfere." His eyes suddenly narrowed. "It pisses me off that he thinks he knows so much when he understands so little. Anyway," he said, changing the subject. "What has Bane been telling you?"
"A lot of things," Myde said. "Like about how you and her and others got this way."
He acted like he didn't know. " Hm . . . Now I remember. The Experimentations. Anything else?"
"What did Bane do to me?"
"Ansem the Wise did say that the heart is unpredictable."
Before the Myde could ask what he meant by that, Warp appeared with Bane. Bane jerked herself away from the pale girl. Warp sighed and walked up to Thrash. "Sorry it took so long."
His golden eyes landed on Bane. "It's okay, Warp. I just wanted to talk to her."
Bane glowered at Thrash. "Bastard. Sending her to do your dirty work." Suddenly she looked away from Thrash and stared at the ground. It's look like almost everyone is here. Only Gear and Shadow are missing. But chances are that Shadow will be here soon. She asked, "Why are you two here anyway?"
Thrash shrugged. "Why does it matter? Just know that if Warp wasn't here, I would have killed you by now." He looked at Lea, Myde, and Alana. He noticed Shadow coming out of the tree behind the girl. Always one step ahead.
Shadow's arms wrapped around her and Alana gasped. At that point, Lea and Myde turned around. Before the guys could respond, Shadow quickly pulled her into the shadows and appeared next to Thrash. She struggled in his arms but he knew she couldn't hurt him. Not when he was like this.
"Let go of me," Alana said.
"I can't."
Shadow saw anger in Lea's eyes and thought about what Alana had said in her sleep. He wondered if that was why he was angry, because he too had similar feelings buried deep in his heart. So it was not a surprise that Lea came running toward them along with Myde. He didn't care until the air's temperature went up. Fire?
Warp appeared in front of Shadow and started to bite her bandages off. "I"ll handle this."
Once the bandages were off, Warp ran toward the two guys. Her hands went through their chest and they stopped. "I can't let you hurt them," she whispered as she pulled her hands out of them. The two fell onto the ground, unconscious.
"Myde! Lea!" Alana fought harder to get free.
"Can I knock her out now?" Shadow asked. He was disguising his voice so Alana wouldn't recognize it.
"I want to ask her something first," Thrash said. He walked till he stood in front of the struggling girl. "Do you remember me?" Instead of answering, she glowered at him. This merely amused him and he turned away, smirking. "Does the name 'Dimitri' ring a bell?"
The look on her face turned from one of hatred to one of contemplation. "Should it?"
"Well, it is your fault I exist."
"Then again, it's her fault for a lot of things," Shadow muttered.
Alana saw that Bane was now next to Myde and Lea. "What is she doing to them?!" She demanded as Bane touched their backs.
"She's helping them remember," Thrash said. "Nobodies are beings of darkness. So the more enveloped their hearts are in darkness, the more they'll remember. That's why the new Demyx was controlling water not so long ago. It was something he use to do in his past life. Understand, Maiden? Now, I'm more curious about what the darkness would do to you."
Alana felt her heart grow cold and her body becoming numb. Soon, she felt like there were weights on her arms pulling her down an abyss.
Thrash studied her face. "Just close your eyes and relax, Maiden. Maybe you'll remember something."
Alana's eyes fluttered opened. Immediately, she sat up and looked around. She was back in her dorm room and according to the clock, it was already after 3 AM. Was that a dream? she asked. Images flashed in her mind and Alana reached for her forehead. She could feel a bad headache coming on. It couldn't have been. It was too real.
A/N: Since you all know by know, I'll tell you who is fused with who. Bane is fused with a Powerwild. Thrash is fused with a Wight Knight. Shadow is fused with a Neoshadow. Renegade was fused with a Giant Body. Warp is fused with a Search Ghost. And, finally, Gear (only briefly mentioned) is fused with an Air Soldier.
