A/N: Roxas's P.O.V. Enjoy and review kindly please. I'm tired, so go easy on me. Oh, and this chapter is dedicated to RoxasTheWriter. Since she's been wanting a chapter to Roxas.
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"So what's the plan?" I ask, my eyes never leaving Vanitas. "We need to somehow disable him, give ourselves the upper hand, we need to knock him down, weak him." Riku says. "But how?" asks Sora. "I'm not sure.." Riku admits. "I think I might know how." says Master Aqua. "Really?" I ask, looking at her now. She nods,"I did it once. His X-Blade, that's how you get him, you have to get it from him. break it, and he's powerless."
"Sounds like a good idea to me." I say. "But how do we go about doing that?" asks Sora. "Knock him down, then get the blade." answers Master Terra. "But how do we get him down?" asks Kairi. "Leave that to me." I say, smirking lightly. Sora looks at me, "What are you going to do, Roxas?" "That's a secret." I say, summoning both my Keyblades. I'm going to need all the help I can get. Light, don't fail me now.
"Alright, Roxas," says Riku, "We'll work off of your move. If you can knock him down, we'll take care of the rest. Any objections?" "Nope." grins Sora, "Let's kill this bastard." "Got that right." Master Terra mutters. I snicker, "Let's do this." Riku nods, "On your call this time, Roxas." I nod, swinging my Keyblades in a full circle, and once they are laying out behind me, I take off running for Vanitas.
He laughs and shoots Darkness at me. I easily dodge his attacks, and once I get pretty close to being under him, I jump as high as I can get and swing both my Keyblades at him. I grin, successfully knocking his blade from his hands, and knocking him to the ground. "Go!" I scream as I do a back flip and land on my feet, right next to Vanitas' weapon.
I let my Oblivion Key disappear as I picked the X-Blade up off the ground. I smirked at Vanitas, "Not so tough without your weapon are you?" He growls at me and shoots, but I block it and laugh, "Really not so tough." He growls and reaches his hand out to me. I look at him and suddenly the X-Blade starts to disappear from my hand. I try to draw it back, but it disappears and appears in his hand. He quickly gets back to his feet, but not before Master Terra gets behind him and slashes down with his Keyblade, knocking Vanitas right back down.
Vanitas growls and swings at Terra, but misses and Riku strikes him down again. I get up next to Sora, summoning Oblivion back. "So, what's the rest of Riku's plan?" I ask him. "Kill him." Sora says. I nod, "Sounds good to me." He nods. Riku jumps back from Vanitas as he tries to stab him. Aqua shoots ice at Vanitas, freezing part of his side and his whole left arm. He glares at her and shoots Darkness at her, which she blocks with her Keyblade.
Vanitas stands and tries to rise back into the air. "Oh no you don't!" Kairi growls, shooting Light at him, knocking him down to one knee. I shoot at his hand, the one holding the X-Blade and it knocks his blade from his hand. He hisses in pain and Terra grabs Vanitas' weapon and throws it down, stabbing it with his own Keyblade. Vanitas gasps and growls, "Are you insane?!"
I snicker, "Now your weaponless." The X-Blade had shattered, and I was loving the angry lost look in Vanitas' eyes. "You'll pay for that! I am still enough to kill you!" he growls, shooting Darkness at me. I smack it away with Oblivion and laughed again, "Now who's pathetic, Vanitas?!" He growls and Terra pins his arms behind his back as Aqua freezes most of his body.
Riku smirks, "You've lost. Got any last words?" "Go to hell." he growls. Riku's eyes harden, "I've been, didn't like it, so I came back." Sora tries to keep from laughing at Riku's words. Terra glares down at Vanitas, "I say we just end him now so we can go home. I'd like to mourn my friend with my master." "I respect that." Riku sighs, letting his Keyblade disappear. I let mine disappear as well, Sora, and Kairi do as well.
Lea, who had been staying back the whole time, opens a portal, "I got our way home, let's go before someone else shows up." There's something about his voice. Something hit him hard inside, he's...different now. I'll have to ask about that some time soon.. Aqua sighs and lets her Keyblade disappear. She takes a few steps back, "You do it, Terra. I don't think I can right now.." She covers her face and turns away from Vanitas, walking over to the portal, with Sora and Kairi.
Riku waits by the portal, still facing Terra and Vanitas. I wait where I stand. I want to see that mother fucker die. He killed Ventus. He sent that replica after Namine. He deserves to die. So I wait. "This is for Ven." Terra breathes, bringing hi Keyblade up and to the side. I had to look away when he swung the thing to the opposite side. Vanitas' body crumbles to the ground, disappearing in Darkness as his head rolled across the floor, also disappearing in Darkness. I think I'm going to be sick.
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"He's..." Eraqus stutters, looking at the floor. Terra looks away, "Afraid so, Master." Aqua sat near them, crying, really sobbing, into her hands. Terra sighs and sits between her and Eraqus, rubbing Aqua's back, saying soothing words to her that I didn't really catch. I sigh, leaning back. What am I supposed to do? Cry? I didn't know Ven very well, but I know he was important to me. I know it. But, I can't make myself cry, I can't, I'm trying, but I can't.. What do I do...Xion?
I close my eyes, trying to picture her. Her long black hair, her deep blue eyes, sparkling like they used to. I can't. I can't even picture her right! I sigh, opening my eyes and leaning forward again, letting my head fall forward, my arms resting on my knees. I can't do anything right. I have nothing left really. Xion's dead, Lea's so distant, I don't know what to do about him.
Riku isn't really a close friend. And Sora? He's so occupied with trying to think of ways to protect Kairi to bring Xehanort down these days to care what I'm going through. But, I shouldn't even care, I shouldn't even have feelings, yet, I do. Sometimes I wish I didn't, just so I don't have to feel so empty like this. I hate feeling like this. It happens too often now, especially when I think of Namine or Xion.
"Hey.." I look up to see Lea standing in front of me. "Hmm?" I mutter, not exactly sure what's going on. He grins slightly and pushes me over so he can sit next to me. I half laugh and move a little more, so he has room on the long couch. "So.." I cough lightly, not sure what lea wants. "You okay?' he asks, looking at me, his dark green eyes studying me, "You don't look so good.."
"I'm fine." I say automatically. I lean back against the back of the couch and close my eyes. "You sure?" he asks. "Mhm." I nod. "Okay, Rox, I'm not dumb." he growls softly. I open my eyes and look at him curiously, he never uses my nickname, hadn't since that one time in the Organization, "What did I do wrong now?" He sighs, "That." "What?" I ask.
"That! Hiding what's bugging you. You always do that, so quit it." he says. I frown, "adn what about you? You've been bottled up ever since Xion-" I stopped myself, I know better than to go down that road. Lea's eyes narrow, "Go on. Say it." "Since Xion's death." I mutter quietly. He sighs, leaning back, "Yeah, I know. But I'm A-..Lea. I'm supposed to do that." "Says who?" I laugh lightly. He grins, "Says me, got it memorized?"
"Yeah." I smile. Then I remembered. "Hey, Ax-Lea?" I ask, shaking my head when I almost called him Axel. I know he isn't Axel now, but still, it's hard seeing him as anyone else. "Yeah?" he asks, messing with his coat sleeve absent mindedly. "What is it that has you all bottled up now? I mean, there for awhile after..after that, you seemed just fine, so why be all bottled up now?" I ask.
"Well," he sighs, looking at me now, "I guess it hasn't really hit until now that she's gone. That every time I know I need her by me, she won't be there. It's just.." I nod, "I know, it feels that way with Namine too. It makes me feel worse that I was locked away when it happened, that I didn't even get to say good bye.." He sighs, "I feel 'ya, kid. I wasn't even with her when she was.." I nod, "You don't have to say it, I get it."
He nods, then he stands up. I look up at him. He looks down at me and asks, "We are still friends right?" I scoffed, "Forever! Always! We promised!" "Whoa," he chuckles, "just making sure, kid, calm down." I grin, "Stop called me kid." "I will when you grow up." he teases. I frown, "Uh, I'm almost nineteen you idiot." He laughs, "That's the funny part." I growl, "You know, you really ruin every touching moment ever."
He grins, "Gotta liven in it some how!" I laugh lightly, "Not the time though, Lea, not the time." "I know." And then he left the room. I feel I should go after him, but, then again, I feel like I need to just leave him alone for awhile. So I stay seated and returned to leaning over, trying to figure things out in my jumbled up mind. I sigh, This never gets easier. Not ever. Now I know, fully know, what he's been hiding inside. And I'm sorry...Namine. I'm sorry for everything.
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"Hm..?" I yawn, sitting up. Lea leaves the room. Where's he going? I get up and quietly follow him out the room. I follow him all the way outside. Where's he going? And at this time of night.. I feel like I should call out and ask him, but another part of me wants to know what he's doing, without having him lie, like I know he would. I follow him out and hide by a bush. Man, I feel stupid doing this. Lea summons his Keyblade and turns it into his Rider, didn't know he could do that yet. What else is he hiding? He gets on the rider and I come out of my hiding place. "Lea?" I call, "Where are you going?"
"Sorry, Rox," he says, not even looking at me, "But I have something I need to do. I'll be back soon, I promise." Then he's gone. I wanted to go after him, but I didn't know how, he was gone before I even had a chance to summon a Keyblade. Just what's gotten into you Lea? Where are you going? Why the sudden ask of friendship? What's going on in your head right now? "Do I even want to know?" I breathed.
