TASOO: Chapter 7, Let's go!
" Umm... Maybe this way?" Noa hummed aloud as she pointed left. Bael smirked cockily.
" Noa, we took a left, then another left, then another left, this is our fourth left. Aren't we going in circles?" He asked, trying to muffle his laughs. Noa shot him a hard look.
" Shut it, I'm trying." She huffed as she crossed her arms. Bael smiled.
" Right... You weren't good with directions back in the real world, were you?" Bael asked Noa stiffening.
" Of course I was!" She lied, Bael chuckling as he patted her shoulder assuringly.
" Let's try a right this time." He said softly, taking that turn. It must have been luck because sure enough, they arrived at a door that led to an elevator. Noa looked behind her, her eyes widening.
" You hear that?" Bael whispered under his breath, Noa nodding. Footsteps. Quickly, she looked around kicked Bael's back, Bael stumbling to the floor with a yelp as Noa kicked him again, rolling him under a nearby table. Quickly she slid under one on the opposite side of the hallway as him, holding her breath.
Seconds after she done so, Aced came around the corner, pressing the button as the elevator opened, he stepping inside. Quickly, Noa and Bael got out from under the tables as they breathed sighs of relief.
" Let's hurry up and get out of here before anyone spots us," Noa whispered urgently, Bael nodding seriously as he watched Noa hurry over to the elevator and push the button, the elevator door opening.
" Let's go." He told her, grabbing her hand as the two stepped on the clock piece, heartless springing to life as the elevator rose.
" I thought heartless stayed away from the clock tower!" Noa gasped as she summoned her's, Bael sighing.
" Guess not." He told her. " I got the left, you take the right." Noa nodded.
" Just try not to break anything!" She called out to him, warping behind a heartless before killing it with one blow and warping to the next.
" I make no promises." He said more to himself as he lifted a medal, his keyblade appearing in a bright light as he slashed as fast as he could, knocking three large bodies into a pile before finishing them off with a single blow. Noa smirked from her side, that is until the elevator gave a sharp stop.
" Bael!" Noa hissed, Bael dismissing his keyblade as he raised his hands in the air with a scared smile.
" I didn't do it this time, Milady! I swear!" He told her, Noa's eyes widening.
" This time?!" She burst out, wondering what else he had broken while she wasn't around. His nervous smile morphed into one of seriousness as he watched the doors begin to open.
" We need to hide!" Bael hissed, Noa, warping over to him as she backed up from behind him.
" Where?! There isn't anything to hide in!" She whimpered in fear, Bael quickly scooping her up bridal style as Noa wrapped her arms around his neck.
" Wha-? Bael!" Noa squeaked as Bael leaped off the side of the elevator as soon as someone stepped inside. Riiiiiiiight, Bael was a strength type. Picking up his own weight and someone else's should be easy. He had one arm underneath her legs, and another gripped onto the side of the elevator.
" Keep hanging onto my neck." He whispered under his breath as the elevator started up once more, Noa nodding before he dropping his arm that supported her weight, Noa grunting as she dangled there. Quickly, he adjusted his grip and held both hands firmly on the side of the elevator, praying that no one would see his fingers.
" Don't look down." He whispered, Noa, nodding firmly as she squeezed her eyes shut. The elevator soon stopped as footsteps were heard before the elevator closed again, Bael lifting himself and Noa up as she let go of her grip, the two gasping out of breath.
" Let's take the stairs next time." She breathed as the elevator resumed again, taking them up one more floor, the two stayed silent.
" Noa, level with me." Bael finally spoke, causing Noa to look at him. " Why did you really come with me? It wasn't because I needed help. I obviously am better at directions than you, no offense." He added when Noa shot him a glare. " But still, I could have easily avoided the foretellers as well. You know that. There's something else, isn't there?" Noa hugged her arms as she looked at him.
" Well, of course, there is, dummy. I'm worried about you. I'm the only one that knows your secret, that knows what that Chirithy is capable of... About what you're capable of." Bael frowned at her.
" You know I'm gonna be okay... right?" He asked, Noa, shaking her head.
" That's just it. You say that but I've seen what that thing has done to you. What if you...?" Noa stopped cold when Bael took off his top hat and placed it on her head. He flashed her a smile.
" C'mon, Noa. You're seriously doubting my skills now?" Bael asked with a soft chuckle. Noa tipped the hat down as she looked at the ground.
" No... I'm not." She breathed rather shakingly. " I wish you the best of luck... Sir Bael." Bael smirked at her as the elevator stopped, the door opening to a long hallway. They walked in silence, Noa hugging the top hat in her hands, Bael opening the door on the other side for her.
" This is it," Noa announced as she walked inside, Bael following close behind. The door shut with a small click, as they looked at the giant table in the middle of the room. The foreteller's study.
" We better hurry, all the foretellers come here to work all the time," Noa told him as she hurried over to the table, looking at the small purple Chirithy in the middle of the table with a frown. " Let me disable the forcefield." She told him, putting her left hand on the table as she accessed her menu with her right, accessing the table's pad as four screens popped to life. Bael raised an eyebrow.
" So this is your hacking ability?" He asked, Noa humming in response. Bael crossed his arms. " How did you even get an ability like that."
" It's not an ability. It's called a Trait. Many players get them, but not all. There's just about every trait imaginable. Mine's hacking." She told him just as she was finishing, the forcefield vanishing as the Chirithy stepped forward.
" Alright, let's go." Bael frowned at the Chirithy who chucked softly.
" I knew you would come for me, kid." The Chirithy's voice rang in his mind, Bael shaking his head.
" I can't have them find out you belong to me. That's all." Bael told him as he walked over to the window, opening it.
" I don't think so." The voice said rather calmly as Bael stopped cold. His whole body was numb, he couldn't move. " You chose to save me, you chose to become my slave of darkness. How foolish of you, you could have just let them kill me. Guess there is still some evil in you." A pounding headache entered Bael's head as he clenched his head with a scream, Noa hurrying over to him as she put a gloved hand over his mouth, muffling his words.
" What did you do?!" Noa hissed at the Chirithy who bared his teeth wickedly as he leaped off
" I would keep my mouth shut if I were you, pinkie. I have plans for this vessel and I don't you getting involved." He growled before lightly kicking Bael's side. " He's been in the light for too long, it made him weak. Nothing a little darkness can't fix." He smirked before disappearing in a puff of black dust, leaving Noa alone with Bael. She cast a worried glance toward the boy, who was groaning in his sleep. He looked in pain.
A saddened smile appeared on Noa's face. " You idiot..." She whispered. " I told you it was dangerous... and yet you still go and risk your life for me..." She sighed and picked his top hat, placing it back on his head where it should be before picking him up with a bit of effort and kicking open a nearby window, and leaping from roof to roof, landing down near the fountain square.
She sighed and picked his top hat, placing it back on his head where it should be before picking him up with a bit of effort and kicking open a nearby window, and leaping from roof to roof, landing down near the fountain square. She laid him down on the ground, summoning her keyblade as she opened a corridor of light, picking back up the boy as she carried him through the corridor. She ended back up in the Heaven's Knights fountain square, walking over to Baels house as she pushed open the door and laid him on his bed. She breathed a small sigh before walking over to the door, stopping by it and casting a hesitant glance back at him before closing the door, leaving him alone in the darkness.
Bael looked away from the screen that broadcasted what was going on outside his body. The Chirithy crossed his arms as the screen disappeared.
" So, you care about her. As do you with Maya and Heather." The Chirithy asked Bael raised an eyebrow at the purple cat.
" So what if I do, fleabag? You have nothing to do with them." Bael snapped, shooting a hard glare at the cat.
" Ah, but I do. You have hatred of me, do you not? It's deep within you, waiting to erupt. Waiting to destroy all." Bael showed no sign of emotion. He just frowned at the cat, allowing him to continue. " If only there was a way to cause that eruption, to release the darkness." Bael stayed silent.
" Oh, I know!" The Chirithy smiled, clasping his hands together. " With a little hypnosis, I can force you to snap each of your friend's necks, one by one! Starting with pinkie over there." Bael's eyes widened in fear.
" No, your right. Too traumatizing. I don't need you to be in a crying mess." The Chirithy sighed. " There are other ways, as I am sure you know. Why don't we start with the two weaklings?" The Chirithy grinned as he snapped his fingers, a screen popping to life. Bael's eyes widened. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.
" What? No! Maya! Heather!" Bael grabbed the screen and stared at it with panic in his eyes. He looked at the Chirithy. " What did you do?!" He yelled, the Chirithy shrugging.
" I have no control of anyone but you. This mess that they got themselves in is their fault. Or rather, another parties fault." He grinned wickedly. " You want to save them, do you not?" Bael nodding eagerly, the Chirthy bounced up and down.
" Then awaken my prince of darkness. For your story, is anything but over."