Chapter 4
Sephiroth's breed of heartless
The castle had long since disappeared now and Kairi was crying on Sora's shoulder and Riku was pacing with and angered look on his face.
Sora watched him he knew what his friend was pissed about, "It isn't that bad and not like we chose our family."
Riku turned back and was about to say something when a loud roar interrupted his thoughts.
"What was that?" he asked Sora hoping he would know.
Sora never got to answer because Riku got his answer when a huge dragon came tearing out of the abyss.
The dragon was one of those snake-like things, red, and pissed about something on his back he could not reach.
Riku got back a good distance before pointing at it, "What is that and what's his problem?!" he said with a terrified look on his face.
The dragon was constantly trying to reach back and bite the thing causing it's irritation, finally realizing it couldn't reach far enough and whipped it's head hard throwing something in the air.
The something turned out to be a someone who flipped over backward catching himself with one hand and turned around in the air to land on his feet, the maneuver was also an unmistakable move of Xemnas'.
Kairi jumped and ran over to him; needless to say she startled him a bit when she jumped on him in fact he fell on the ground because he wasn't expecting it. She ignored it and wrapped her arms around his neck tighter, nearly in tears again.
Xemnas sighed and rested a hand on her head, "Are you forgetting I'm heartless, no feelings, no…" he was interrupted by a knee hitting his stomach hard, and he narrowed his eyes, "What's that for!!"
She cuddled up against him, "Don't talk I was scared I thought you died."
Xemnas' anger melted right there, "I'm here now." He said.
The dragon however was focusing dead on him.
Xemnas didn't realize till it was already coming at him, immediately instinct kicked in and he flipped over, and used himself to shield Kairi, "Not again!"
Just when it seemed to be all over again, fate handed Xemnas another saving grace, which was running up making the sky turn black as he ran.
"Moon shine down!!" the phrase was shouted, followed by a loud crash-like sound and a loud pained roar.
Xemnas looked back at his rescuer who had blue hair, an odd-looking weapon, and a wild look in his eyes.
The person was of course Saix and he was at the start of his berserk state, he charged the massive dragon and burned his berserk mode out on it.
After that ran out Saix ran back toward his superior and dragged him to a safer area, he never noticed Kairi or the others chasing him.
Once they got to a safe spot, he stopped to take a breath and noticed his past enemies around him.
"Xemnas since when do you associate with these." Referring to Sora and his friends as if they were nothing more then trash.
Xemnas grabbed Saix's shoulder before he could attack, "They are my teammates and you will do nothing to harm them or anger them."
Saix raised an eyebrow as he turned and stared at his leader wide eyed, even more so when he saw Kairi holding on to him and Xemnas only encouraging it, "Sir, you must be mistaken!"
Xemnas narrowed his eyes at the berserker, "Do I look like I'm mistaken Saix?"
Saix went to speak but his voice got caught in his throat, he could believe what he heard but regardless he would obey and let his weapon vanish to let Xemnas know that.
"Two years and you still obey every word he says." Marluxia said practically challenging Saix to do something drastic.
Xemnas hated Marluxia's smart-mouth that seemed to come out of nowhere at anytime it pleased, "And I hear you obeyed orders very well at castle oblivion didn't you, even got yourself killed too." He grinned at the assassin just waiting for a reason to strike at him.
Marluxia went pale white and nearly passed out at what else Xemnas had to say once he was free from Kairi.
"And if you answer incorrectly I will strip you of whatever reason you have left to live for." He now had that pissed-off-beyond-believable-standards look and it was directed right at Marluxia.
"Huh, no I didn't obey but don't kill me again!" Marluxia materialized his scythe and held it in front of him.
Sora saw that Xemnas was going to kill him regardless and grabbed his arm, immediately he wished he didn't because the look he got was anything but kind.
Amazingly Xemnas managed to calm himself, "Fine I won't tear him from his own existence, but if he betrays me again there will be no second chances."
Marluxia slowly lowered his weapon knowing now that his life was spared, but why was it the same person that had once brought down the final blow was the same who saved him from death. For now he would not question and just be grateful for life.
Xemnas on the other hand was to busy thinking about the dragon from the abyss, Dark had said his heart was coming. It didn't take him long to put two and two together and once again took off down the dark street.
Saix just watched him but part of him was more concerned about the dragon, "Why would someone create a heartless of that size and more importantly how?"
Sora's eyed widened, "Heartless! That thing is a heartless, but I thought we got rid of them two years ago!?"
Saix grinned wickedly, "And you believed that? You really are not the keyblade master you perceive yourself to be. If your goal in life is to destroy all heartless then consider it a life-long job."
Riku glared at the berserker, "I thought Xemnas said not to make us mad."
"I am only telling you the truth, the fact that you are angered by it is your own fault."
Sora groaned as Saix walked out of the alley they were in to follow Xemnas, he then immediately turned toward Marluxia who was hunched over holding his scythe, "What's wrong with you?"
Marluxia looked up not realizing anyone was looking at him and slowly stood up almost afraid to speak, "Nothing just relived that I'm still alive, though I know I'm walking on thin ice."
Riku leaned against a building behind him and seemed to still be agitated by Saix's words and his lack of any sympathy, "What the hell is up Saix's butt anyway?" he didn't seem to be able to hide is anger to well.
Sora took a peak outside, "Hey guys maybe we should help him, that dragon will squash him without our help." He said grinning slightly.
It looked like this was going to be another long journey, this time it wasn't just friends that would be taking the trip, no now their past enemies had joined them. Well they always say there is safety in numbers.
Regardless of history the others ran out to face what would probably be one of the toughest fights they would ever face.
Sora made it to the abyss first but noticed something was wrong, Xemnas was nowhere to be found, "Hey what happened?"
Riku walked over next to him, "I said we should have left him alone."
Sora was beginning to think he was right and held out his hand as the keyblade materialized in it, "Come on we're not going to go down without a fight!"
The rest got their weapons out and prepared for battle.
Sora was first to charge as the dragon struck down at him, once the beast's head hit the ground he jumped up, grabbed a horn on it's nose, and held on as the dragon swung it's head back giving Sora a harsh ride.
Riku had dodged and started up the side of a building shooting dark fireballs as he went.
Marluxia and Kairi headed around to the back and Saix was stocking up on the moon's energy.
Sora waited for the dragon to stop moving and started beating the hell out of it's horns, suddenly the dragon reared back and sent Sora flying through the air. He could feel the air rushing past his ears as he fell, on instinct he flipped himself over and swung hard when the dragon turned and snapped at him, the keyblade hit perfectly making the dragon pull back.
Sora grinned but noticed he was moving away from the abyss, curious he looked down to see he was riding on the wing of a gummi ship, but it was not theirs it was all black and twice the size of even the biggest ones he had made, "What the heck where did this come from." He watched as a small door opened on the side and walked in.
Inside the ship looked like a war ship, it had computers everywhere, and actually looked sort of pretty.
He made his way to the bridge which was huge having 3 seats in front and two on each side behind them.
"So what do you think?"
Sora was startled and looked around then finally noticed Xemnas staring down at him from an upper part, "Hey, I thought you left us to die, next time tell us before you do that!"
Xemnas grinned, "If I knew you would rush right into things I would have, I'll know better next time. For the meantime though I figured this dragon would be to strong to fight normally so we will use my ship instead."
Sora jumped up, "Cool can I man the guns, or some of them."
"Be my guest, it's not easy to do everything myself anyway."
Sora ran to the middle seat and grabbed the controls.
Xemnas went back to the pilot seat and grabbed the stick turning the ship around to face that dragon, "Sora remember find a weak point and concentrate on that spot."
At that they sped into battle guns aimed and ready for fire.
It didn't take long before Sora noticed Xemnas was a somewhat crazy flier, he looped in and out of the battle field always coming close making the dragon chase them relentlessly.
Sora shot when he could but the dragon didn't seem to have a severe or noticeable weak point, "This thing has no weak points!"
"Perhaps it's not gun fire that it's weak to but an element, it is a fire type of dragon anyway we will just have to go down the list, we will try the obvious choice first then see what else we can use." Xemnas answered then pushed some buttons first to add a little ice magic to the gun fire, "Let's see what this does."
Sora nodded as Xemnas flew back in close, the dragon lunged forward.
Xemnas grinned as he pulled back on the controls flipping the ship over, "Sora the rear guns, fire them now!"
Sora who was feeling the effect of the g-forces had almost passed out if it wasn't for Xemnas barking out orders, he shook himself awake an hit the fire button, a screen came on to his left showing a view of the rear guns as they sprayed out from the back.
The dragon got pissed by that and swiped at the ship with it's large clawed hands.
Xemnas glared back at the dragon, "Hey, I just got this thing running again! How dare you scratch it!" he growled and sent the craft into a vertical climb.
Sora gripped on the handles of the seat and held on for dear life as the ship reached it's peak in height and stalled.
Xemnas looked over and steered the ship around turning it toward the ground, now Xemnas had designed this ship specifically to be a weapon in itself, with wings designed with knifes in mind it could cut through nearly anything giving it was moving fast enough. Delta shapes were designed for that reason anyway right.
Regardless Sora was now getting a bit freaked out, well given the situation anyone would be.
The ship fell down as the dragon looked up to greet it. Xemnas grinned and hit the afterburners. Flames now poured out of the engines allowing the blade like wings to rip through the dragon's flesh.
Xemnas of course kept going down through the monster's body even as it started to vanish, "Where is my heart!?"
On a few buildings away watching the whole time was Sephiroth, "Creative methods I have to give him that, but that was just the first of many more heartless." He spread his wing and drifted upward, "Don't disappoint me after this performance." With that he disappeared leaving several black feathers behind.
