Chapter 4 - The Key
I started to cry in Mylo's arms. I can't believe this, they're after me, and after going here, I was actually relieved, for the first time in my life I felt safe knowing they won't get me.
"Laya calm down, " Mylo said reassuring me to calm down. He then started to pat my head. "How did you figure out that they're coming for you?" Mylo asked. I kept crying still trying to find the words to describe my vision. I figured since I was marked as the head that I'm going to gain new abilities, both spiritual and physical. I guess the whole "you will see the past and future in your dreams" power came faster than the rest.
"I had a vision that Tyson had a hold of my bow and used a tracking spell on it. At the end of the vision it had Tyson, gramps and someone else left the world through a portal, from what I learned from the last vision I only have maybe an hour or two to do something," I sniffled still holding onto him. He then started to pat me on my head. Only until now I noticed that he was holding me by my waist and back and I'm pretty much plastered close to his body. I'm also a little bit off the floor, dang it he's still a little taller.
"Laya it's ok, it's all probably a dream..." Mylo said in a kind tone, probably trying to calm me down. All of a sudden I hear a bang behind me, maybe the door behind me is open.
"Master Yen Sid, I just had a vision that intruders are on their way to obtain the key," I hear a voice from behind me, sounds familiar, it's Salycia! "Oh hey Laya, Mylo..." Salycia continued.
"Thank you for the warning Salicia, but I think Laya beat you to it," Yen Sid said. For some reason I was still crying because the tears kept on falling down and onto Mylo's shirt.
"What the hell is going on here?" I hear another voice in the room that also seems familiar. I open my eyes, yeah for a while I didn't notice that they were closed. Behind Mylo was a desk with Yen Sid behind it, a white duck in blue, and a black dog in green, I can't pinpoint details because my vision is blurry. I then look to the side and I see...Roxas. I quickly unwrapped my arms, ducked and moved from Mylo's grasp. Walked around him, called my Keyblade and I grabbed the top of Roxas's shirt, pinned him to the wall and pointed the tip of the blade at his throat. Damn I'm fast, no one probably saw me move.
"Why are you here Roxas?" I asked in a growl.
"What is it with people mistaking me for this Roxas dude?" He said out of frustration. I then look at him weird, my vision then starts to clear up. I think I made a mistake, this dude has the piercing light blue eyes but he has dark brown hair. Wait this is the kid that I ran into in the hallway.
"You're the kid in the hallway..." I said letting go of my grip on him. I then heard multiple people in the room let out a deep breath, I think they thought that I was really going to kill them. Embarrassed I walked back to Mylo and grabbed his hand. My Keyblade disappeared and everyone had their eyes on my.
"Yes, thank god you remember, I thought you were going to kill me!" The kid said. "Do you remember my name, you ran away in a hurry..." He said. I shook my head knowing I turned a shade or two red. "My name's Sora, and this is Donald and Goofy," Sora said pointing to the duck then the dog. Donald just stared at me while Goofy waved at me with, a goofy smile.
"Since we finished our greeting we have a more urgent matter on hand," Salycia said walking around us with an armful of scrolls. She puts them on the desk and placed her hands on the desk and looked at Yen Sid closer. Salycia looks different, she's wearing a white dress that seems to fit to her slender body. She seems to be fit, maybe a four pack? "We have to get the key out of here, she is in danger if she stays," Salycia said.
"Why do you say that?" Yen Sid said playing dumb. What are they talking about?
"I've been looking through these scrolls so I could fix the ward surrounding this island, but since we portaled here it's been disintegrating at an alarming rate. I don't think that we could secure her safety here," she said.
"Mylo what is Salycia talking about?" I asked for some reason he flinched when I asked him. He then looks over to me and there seemed to a mixture of fear and guilt.
"Yen Sid, we cannot protect the key here, she has to leave as soon as possible so she and her world won't disappear like the other worlds!" Salycia yelled bringing my attention back to them. What is she talking about?
"Um excuse," I said raising my voice and everyone looks at me again. "Well what are you guys talking about, what is this 'key'?" I asked and then they looked at Mylo next to me.
"So I guess you didn't tell her yet, well I'll let you explain Mylo," Yen Sid said and Mylo looks over at me and then to Yen Sid and then back to me, he looks scared. He then faces towards me and grabs my shoulders like if I were going to run away... I'm starting to get scared.
"Laya," he said trying to stay calm. I know he's not close to calm, I could hear his heartbeat beat really fast. That and his pupils dilated. Wow, my senses are getting sharper. These powers are actually pretty cool.
"Yeah?" I said with a hint of confusion. I do not understand what they are talking about.
"Your... Your the key to our world," he said looking deep into my eyes. His look might be calm and collected but his eyes tell a different story, they seem sad and guilty. I felt my eyes widened, what, I'm the key...to my world.
"No," I said looking at him while shaking my head, "I can't be, I'm a total screw-up, how can I be the key to that horrible place, you guys are wrong, " I said still looking at Mylo, how can this be?
"No Laya you have to understand," Mylo said shaking me a bit, I must look fazed out.
"No, I must have a fever and I'm hallucinating, what ever you guys say I'm never going back there," I said and ducked, I got out of Mylo's grasp and ran out of the open door and down the hallway. I raised my hand to my forehead, no fever. No this all can't be true! It just can't!
"Laya!" I hear a voice from behind me, it sounds a bit dark, but familiar for some reason. I turned around and I see a person in the hallway, he has silver hair and dark golden eyes. Is this Riku? No he seems different.
"Who are you?" I asked looking at him.
"I'm Ansem, I'm here to help you, I know about your problems," he said and I just noticed that he was right in front of me. I flinched a bit and he looks at me carefully.
"What problems? I don't have any," I said lying, I do have a few, but I don't trust this Ansem yet.
"Well Laya, we both know that's a lie, I know your troubles on being a key for your world," he said and started to walk around me carefully, inspecting each and every detail about me. My mind said to run away but my body stayed still. He took a piece of my hair and let it go very slowly, making chills go down my spine very fast.
"How do you know?" I asked in partial horror.
"I know many things about you, like for example, your part demon..." He said and stood right in front of me looking into my eyes I tried to not keep eye contact but he then reached out with his thumb and index finger and tilted my chin up so then I was looking straight into his dark golden eyes.
"I don't understand how you know, I barely understand it," I said and he brought up his other hand so he could put a finger up to his lips. He then let his grip on my chin and stood back to look at me.
"Shhh, try not to say anything, I'll make you a deal. I can make it so then your connection with your world as a key is severed," he said and my eyes widened. I was about to open my mouth to say something but he shook his head. "Like I said don't say anything, you want to not be a key, and I'll help you, will you agree?" He said.
"At what cost, nothing comes free," I said looking at him. He doesn't want to help me for nothing, he wants something from me.
"I want your heart..." He said in a soft voice that was like water freezing into ice sheets very slowly. Shivers went down my whole entire body, no, he's not taking my heart. I felt adrenaline pump throughout my body and I felt a rush of fear following it. "So what do you say, deal?" He said and held out his hand. My hand very slowly started to move. Oh no. I look down a bit and I noticed that there were black stuff at my feet.
"What did you do to me?" I asked glaring at him. My hand then went to my side again.
"Nothing really," he said and gets cut off.
"Laya!" I hear Mylo from a ways away.
"Mylo!" I yelled again. Ansem looks at me in anger. I then felt something wrap around my body all the way up until it reached my mouth. It wraps around it and I couldn't speak.
"I am going to take your heart, even if I have to force it out... Laya Keyblade look one last time at the person who took you heart," Ansem said and my eyes widened.
"Ansem let her go," I hear another voice, Sora! I then felt the things around me tighten and constrict. It then started to hurt my back. I wanted to yell in pain but I couldn't.
"Sora," Ansem hissed and turned around. He also moved to the side so now I could see Mylo and Sora running towards us, they both had weapons in their hands. My eyes widened and I tried to break from the black stuff's grip, but when I try to move it tightens a little more. I felt it scratch into my skin very slowly and painfully. They were finally close and Ansem looks at me. "We will meet again," he said and in a flash he was gone, the black stuff were still there and they began to constrict even more. My eyes widened in pain. I tightened my hands into fists trying to not scream. My body fell to the floor and Mylo drops down to my side, his sword by his side.
He then grabbed the rope like stuff and ripped them like they were nothing. I screamed out from the pain and at the same time the relief of the black rope stuff off of me. Mylo wrapped his arms around me and I clenched my teeth trying to not scream anymore. His arms around me calmed me down a bit but the pain was so much.
"Dude she's bleeding," Sora said from behind me. Mylo carefully unwraps his arms but I grabbed his shirt in pain, it's not going away!
"Laya calm down,ok?" Mylo said trying to calm me down, if only he knew! " I need to check you back..." He said and I for some reason shook my head. He puts his hand on top of my head and started to whisper something in a weird language, I can't really tell. Slowly, whatever he was doing started to go away, I un clench my teeth and then slowly my hands. I feel all numb and dizzy now.
"Dude, what did you do to her?" Sora asked from behind me. My head feels heavy and I laid it against his chest.
"Well as you can see she was experiencing pain, so I basically locked it up in a 'force field' but those things are doing something to her body so we have to get her to Salycia so she can help her," Mylo explained. Oh so that's what he was doing. Mylo then graben my shoulders and pushed me back a bit. He was then looking straight into my eyes, "you feel ok to walk?" He asked me.
"I really don't know, I just feel all dizzy..." I then felt a shiver go down my spine, it feels cold. Mylo noticed it and before I knew it I was in the air. He then started to run the other way leaving Sora behind. I looked up at him and he started to look fuzzy. My eyes started to droop and Mylo looks down on me.
"Laya, whatever you do, don't fall asleep," Mylo said and I shook my head trying to keep it clear. "Ok, if you start to feel any pain tell me," I then nodded my head a bit in answer. A little while later Mylo yells something, "Salycia!" I then look ahead of me to see Salycia flipping around. She then looks at me and her eyes widened, she then started to run towards us.
"What happened to her Mylo?" She asked. Mylo stopped running to talk to her. My eyes started to droop again so I shook my head.
"There was this weird dude that was with Laya and she was covered in this weird black rope stuff. When the dude disappear I ran to go and I rip them apart and then she started to scream. So it was doing something to her, then Sora noticed her back was bleeding but Laya was clenching my shirt so I had to do something!" He said in a rush and took a deep breath, Salycia raised her hand.
"I think I understand now..." She said and, looked at me carefully. "Mylo come and follow me," Salycia said and ran down the hall, Mylo followed and then the tingle in my back came back again, but it started to hurt a little bit. I just clenched my teeth to not scream, Mylo looked at me and started to run faster and then he reached up to Salycia. "In here," she said standing next to an open door. Mylo walks in it and there was a bed in the room and many cabinets. He placed me gently on the bed. The pain in my back continued to grow.
"Salycia, the spell is wearing off," Mylo said and stepped back. Salycia came over and check my temperature, heartbeat, and many other things, my mind going fuzzy so I can't tell.
"Help me sit her up," she said and they helped me sit up. Pain shot down my spine and into my legs. I clenched my teeth and scrunched my toes trying not to scream but only a whimper escaped my lips. "Oh, my god," Salycia said slowly and in shock.
"Told you she was bleeding," Sora said walking in, " oh, you don't look so good."
"Good detective work Sherlock," I said with a hint of dark in my voice. It was supposed to be sarcastic but nope.
"Sora, get me my kit right next to you," Salycia said and Sora looked and grabbed a bag from right next to him and gave it to Salycia. "Good now leave the room," she said and he looks at her.
"But I want to help," he said looking at us.
"Do you want to see a half naked girl and get punched in the face badly by Mylo, no, so get out!" She said with a growl, Sora then walked out the door and closed it right behind him. "Laya I'm a doctor so I won't say anything or do anything if you're worried..." She said and I cut her off.
"You're a doctor so just help me," I said in a growl.
"Ok, now Mylo, help me clean the blood," she said right behind me. They started to clean the blood and it actually felt like a cooling sensation that helped fight the pain.
"Laya, we can't get to all the blood, so we need to take your shirt off, want Mylo to leave..." Right now the connection to my brain and mouth doesn't have a "shut up", "don't say that", and the "oh my god what did I just say" filter, normally only one would only be malfunctioning, but in this case all of them are.
"It's fine, he'll probably see me naked later," I said and then realized what I said. For a few seconds I forgot my pain and I knew I was blushing. I knew he was blushing also because in the little time I knew Salycia, only a few hours, that she loves to tease, like back at the weird white rooms place.
"Ok, so Mylo, you know Laya she's in pain so she can't take her shirt off so..." She said and Mylo walked into my view.
"Sorry," Mylo said in a whisper that I only could hear. I don't hurt that much so I want to tease him a bit.
He knows how to read lips so I mouthed, "what you sorry about, it's not like you think about it..." I said and he started to blush even more. The pain then sharply came back and that was it for funny Laya. I clenched my teeth and he noticed. He then took my shirt off and I closed my eyes. Bad move, I felt myself rock and I felt someone's hands cupping my face.
"Laya open your eyes," I hear Mylo say aloud. I opened them and I could see Mylo right in front of me, looking at me with worried eyes. "You ok?" He said and I shook my head.
"Ok Mylo help me finish cleaning the blood," Salycia said and they started to clean them.
"There's also cuts on her sides," Mylo said.
"Then go clean them!" Salycia said and Mylo walked around to start cleaning the cuts on my sides. When they were finished Salycia threw Mylo a roll of bandages. "When I put the hydrogen peroxide on her cuts cover them with the bandages, so have a safe hold on her to keep her still," Salycia said and grabs my shoulder while Mylo grabs the other. "Laya, just keep calm ok, it'll burn so if you need to yell..." She said and I cut her off.
"Just do it already!" I yelled. She gently poured the substance on my cuts because they started to burn. I took her advice and screamed. I then felt Mylo wrap the bandages over them and they made their way around until they were done. Mylo finished tying the bandages and he went over to me and wrapped his arms around me. I wrapped my arms around his neck. Here we're almost the same height now.
"It's ok Laya," Mylo said softly in my ear. I nodded my head.
"You guys stay here, I need to go tell Yen Sid something," Salycia said and left the room. I then nuzzled my head by Mylo's neck and took in his smell, it's been awhile since I was this close to him. My ears were down so he could nuzzle his face into my hair. He then started to brush it with his other hand. He held me tight, but not so tight that it would hurt my back. I just wanted to stay like this for a long time. Then someone opened the door. My senses are back and my head is cleared so I knew who it was, Sora.
"Get out of here Sora," both me and Mylo said. The door then closed. I then smile and we both started to laugh.
"That was hilarious!" I said and we unwrapped our arms to look at each other. He was smiling and we did a high five. We then hear a knock at the door. "What is it Sora!" I yelled getting frustrated, he sure is dense and doesn't have that much common sense.
"I don't want to ruin your moment but they're here..." He said and shivers went down my spine. Oh no. Mylo went to one of the cabinets and took out a shirt. He gave it to me and I carefully put it on.
"We'll have to ask the fairies about the spell to fix this," he said holding up my shirt. I nodded my head. He then helped me get down and off the bed and it didn't hurt, maybe the pain was from the cuts. We the walk out the door and Sora was standing there.
"Are they really here?" I asked and he nodded my head. I wanted to see if I could run so I jumped from one foot to another, it feels pretty fine, maybe the cuts are healing. I can heal myself if the cuts were bloody or dirty, since its neither I'm healing. Both of them looked at me funny. "Well lets get going," I said and Sora raises his eyebrows. "You see these?" I said twitching my ears,"they help me so I'm like a superhuman cat..." I said and he mouthed the word, oh. I then look over to Mylo, "which way to the fairies?" He then pointed right. "We'll then let's go so we could quickly leave..." I said and started to run. They started to run and they caught up with me.
"Dang you two are fast," Sora said and I started to laugh. I then remember out of the blue about Mylo's bloodline.
"Well you have to be when you're the next alpha," Mylo said hinting about it.
"Alpha of what?" Sora asked. Mylo looks at me like if I were to tell him to shift or not.
"Your choice man," I said and he then shifts into a wolf and runs faster.
"Whoa!" Sora said and Mylo shifted back into a human with a flash backflip, and yes, his clothes are still on. "That's cool, so could you shift into a bird?" Sora asked. Mylo and I just looked at him weird, we stopped and I was going to answer him that Mylo could only shift into a wolf.
"No," we both said. "Only a wolf," we continued. I look at Mylo and he looked at me, we narrowed our eyes. "Jinx you owe me a coke," we both said again. We narrowed our eyes and we all got quiet. I then thought of something weird that I doubt he would say also, but I really hope he'll do it. "Wanna go on a date later?" We both said. We both got beat red, I slightly smiled at the thought that we both wanted to ask that.
"Awww, well isn't that sweet, well sorry for bringing you two back to reality but remember, Laya's family and mystery man are coming up," Sora said and our eyes widen, oh yeah! We then continue to run and I barely noticed that the shirt is too big for me. We continued to run until we reached a familiar door, Yen Sid's room, I stand there and pondered, what should we say?