Inverted Sky: KH 358/2 Days
Chapter 7
"S-Sora..." Axel whispered out while trying to break free of the state of shock he was left in.
"Yes and no." came the girl's response, her smirking lightly toward the pair in front of her.
"I'm still Xion, but I'm also Sora." she continued, yet she soon let out a heavy sigh when neither of the two appeared to understand what she was talking about.
"It's mainly thanks to the use of the Magic Blitz spell. It uses magic in its purest form, and combining the fact that Namine had given 'Xion' her spell of manipulating memories, it forced 'Sora's' memories to merge with 'Xion's' mind. Which is kinda a big problem since it might no longer be possible to simply extract 'Sora's' memories from 'Xion' at this point." the girl said, yet quickly sighed heavily.
Saix narrowed his eyes to this, to which he placed a finger and thumb to his chin while tilting his head down. "It's because of the fact that your memories won't 'recognize' your sleeping mind and continue to be drawn to a conscious one, correct?" the blue-haired man more or less stated.
'Sora' turned to him with a nod, her letting out another heavy sigh while unsummoning her weapon and crossing both arms. "Yes...and since 'Xion' was created as a replica of 'Sora', that means 'Sora's' memories perfectly fit into 'Xion', and might never be able to be fully separated." she whispered silently with a silent groan of frustration.
"Right...but..."Axel started as he looked to the teen with a raised brow, him gaining her attention quickly.
"Why are you referring to yourself...or yourselves, in a third person?" he finished, causing the girl with groan and look to the side.
"Because it's too hard to try and figure out which one I am at the moment. And the more I think about it...the more confusing it becomes." was the response she gave, her having an almost defeated tone.
"Sounds tough." the red-haired man commented with a sweat drop, him now regretting his question.
"So in order words..." Saix started, to which both of the others turned to him; "...you need to strip the memories of Sora from Xion's mind, while also providing them a conscious and compatible mind for them to go to during said process."
"That's basically it. But the only person who could do it would be Roxas...and he's the last person I want to involve in all this. It's best that he didn't know about 'Xion's' origins, nor even about the fact that he's 'Sora's' Nobody." the teen stated, her eyes and tone being quite firm as she shifted her gaze down.
"Not only would he feel betrayed at the fact that everyone knew about it except for him...but he might even grow to resent both Xion and Sora." she finished, to which Axel looked at her softly before tilting his head toward the ground.
"Unfortunately..." the red-haired man started while slowly lifting his gaze up to look at her; "...it might already be too late."
'Sora's' eyes narrowed in response to this as she looked back to him, yet she quickly turned to Saix as he spoke up. "It's the whole reason I wished to speak to Axel to begin with."
"Xemnas has discovered the location of the crystal ball Axel hid in Castle Oblivion." the blue-haired man continued silently, him slowly closing his eyes.
Immediately hearing this news, the girl's eyes widened in shock as she briefly ground her teeth together. "Then that means..." she whispered, yet didn't need to finish as Saix simply nodded to the implied words that would have followed.
"It was only a matter of time after all...there was no way Xigbar wasn't going to discover where the chamber that Sora had been kept in." he said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"It was only fortunate for you that Namine sensed the danger and moved the pod to another world before then. However, since the crystal is bound to that castle, it would be impossible to move it anywhere else." the man continued silently, to which his eyes slowly opened once more and turned to the teen.
"But now that everything has been discovered...Vexen, Larxene, Lexaeus, Zexion and Axel will all be branded as traitors, and hunted down without remorse." Saix finished in an almost firm tone as to see the girl's reaction.
Of which was somewhat hidden as she had her head tilted down and her hair seemed to cover most of her features. However, as she took in a shaky breath and opened her mouth to speak, Axel interrupted with his own words. "Meh...that's no big deal." he started with a small grin toward the teen.
"We've had almost a year to plan for when this happened. You didn't think we wouldn't have something in mind by this point, did you?" the red-haired man continued, to which he waved a finger at the girl while keeping his grin.
"Ye of little faith." Axel added with a confident huff; "Go on ahead to Namine. Let her know what's going on, she might have an idea of what to do."
'Sora' blinked to him many times as if trying to figure the man out, yet she slowly smirked and nodded her head in response. "Right!" she announced with a nod before rushing off on her way and disappeared in the forest with a dark portal.
The teen knowing how to use it thanks to Xion's memories of the Organization members trying to explain it to her. This being the moment when they found out that Xion couldn't use the power of darkness. However, she briefly paused when going through as a wave of nausea washed over her, as if she knew something horrible was about to happen. But despite this, a second wave had hit her after going through the portal. This one being from the understanding that no matter what she chose to do at this point, she can't prevent any of it from happening.
All the while, Saix glanced to Axel after the teen had vanished, to which his eyes narrowed slightly. "You don't have a plan, do you?" he whispered silently, not wanting to be heard by anyone who might be around.
"Of course not...against someone like Xemnas, even a plan that's been in the works for ten years would be useless. But honestly...all five of us were prepared to disappear the moment we agreed to keep her a secret." the red-haired man said, a soft smile curling his lips.
"That remains me..." the other man spoke out with a slightly raised brow, yet his other features remained mostly unchanged.
"...why did each of you agree to keep her location a secret? You had only known her for a little more than a month, and she was supposed to be our enemy...so why did you do it?" Saix continued as his eyes slowly narrowed on the Nobody next to him.
"Hmph...'why' indeed." Axel muttered out while tilting his head up in deep thought.
"I guess it's hard to explain, but when I was around her..." he started, yet quickly shook his head and widened his smirk.
"No...when all of us were near her, we felt something." the red-haired man continued, him turning his gaze over to Saix.
"We felt like we were people again...like we still had a heart." he finished, causing the other man's eyes to widen in shock.
"You really were willing to let yourselves be destroyed in order to protect her." Saix whispered as he knew that 'this' was indeed a 'tell-tale' sign of a person with a heart.
"Yeah." was all Axel responded with before looking over where 'Sora' had disappeared; "Though...both Roxas and Xion kinda made us feel the same thing. So I guess, being around them every day sort of reinstated our desire to protect her on a constant basis."
After these words, Saix just started at the red-haired man for a long while, to which he glanced over to Xigbar as he was still unconscious on the ground. He then let out a sigh and turned to Axel with narrowed eyes; "Attack me now." was all he ordered out.
Though the other man was confused for a moment, he soon caught onto what the blue-haired Nobody was thinking. 'All Xigbar knows is that he was bringing me here for an unknown reason. But with his and Xion's fight, Saix can pass it off as a missed opportunity to kill off a traitor. So if we go with the story that I blindsided him in the confusion...he can continue in the Organization and take it down from the inside.' Axel thought quickly as he summoned his weapons in either hand.
"Brace yourself...it has to look convincing after all." the red-haired man muttered as Saix simply nodded, to which a massive wall of fire blaze over him and blasted the Nobody backward.
This attack had also knocked the blue-haired man out cold, to which Axel then used a portal of darkness to escape from the world. Yet since neither of the unconscious men would wake up til the next day, it gave 'Sora' plenty of time to find the mansion in Twilight Town. It had also allowed Axel to get to a far off world without detection, but since it was still one the Organization knew about, he remained on the move.
Meanwhile, Vexen had been watching much of this, thanks to the spy camera he fit into Axel's jacket. Him having equipped this to each of the Organization members in Castle Oblivion the moment they returned from said place. The platinum-blond-haired man wanting to make sure he knew the moment they were discovered and subsequently targeted by the rest of the Organization.
"Hmph! Looks like our time is up." he muttered silently from within his laboratory, yet never noticed the shadow coming closer and closer from behind.
All the while, 'Sora's' arrival in the mansion had sparked a great amount of confusion for Riku and Namine. Of which was only given more fuel when 'Sora' suddenly hugged Kairi and began whining of how much she missed her. The girl having stopped by to check on the blond's progress after her recent training with Merlin.
"I'm so happy to see you~!" 'Sora' all but cried out, the auburn-haired teen almost starting to panic in confusion of what was going on.
"Um...please Xion...er...Sora, could you explain exactly what happened?" Namine questioned with a light sweat drop as she cleared her throat.
After the raven-haired teen released Kairi and told each of the others about what happened, she then described the conclusion she and Saix came to. However, immediately following this, silence fell over each of the four. All of them seemed to be thinking about what they could do at this point, yet none of them really had any ideas. Save for Namine as she spoke up, but her reluctant tone showed right away that she wasn't sure about it either.
"The way I see it, since we don't have all of Sora's memories yet...there are only two options. And I'm afraid there really is no way to not involve Roxas in all this." the blond started while giving 'Sora' a sympathetic glace, yet soon raised a finger on her hand while continuing on.
"The first is to bring Roxas here so that I can slowly but surely removed Sora's memories from Xion's mind and place them inside of him. Then I can simply transfer all of them at once into Sora." she stated silently before tilting her head down, it being obvious that that her next suggestion wouldn't be as appealing.
"The second..." Namine began, yet took a moment to pause and solidify herself to say her next words.
"...is to have Roxas absorb the memories all at once. Then it would take a week before I could place Sora's memories back within her mind." she continued silently, however, there was a very clear consequence involved in the idea.
"But...it would mean Xion's essence would have to be absorbed as well." the girl finished in a sad tone, each of the teens around her having a hard gaze from what this meant.
"Which means..." 'Sora' whispered out silently as she looked over to the pod the brown-haired girl was sleeping in.
Though a silence stretched between each of them once more, they all seemed to come to the same conclusion. "We need Roxas no matter what, so it'll all be down to whether or not I can bring him here." the teen continued on as her eyes narrowed.
"I'm sure that he would agree to this...but..." Riku whispered as he crossed his arms across his chest.
"If the Organization already knows about this, they'll stop at nothing to make sure we don't get him here." Kairi finished while tilting her head down.
"Then we'll simply have to launch an assault." DiZ suddenly spoke from the side, to which the teens all turned to him.
Yet they blinked upon seeing King Mickey, as well as Donald and Goofy beside him. "We can do this...I know we can." the mouse spoke in a confident tone, a smile curling his lips to match this.
"Yeah." 'Sora' uttered as she gained a smile of her own, but deep down, she knew that something terrible was going to happen.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I've decided to put it a few extra things in order to extend this story to 10 chapters, but I'll make sure that it's as entertaining as possible. Let me know what all of you think in a review. Until next time everyone.