yeah I'm back from the dead... I still have no beta and this will probabally still be as poorly edddeted as uasal... but hey I might have actually read this one more then once....
anywhoos... this chapter you actually find out somethings... its not just Axel trying to cover his trail and keeping Riku interested... it's to get him interested in other things... tee-hee...
READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY THIS IS A HEADS UP!!!!!!!
After writing this chapter, and re-reading my prior chapters, I plan on going back to fix a lot of the things (like in chapter one I said Riku was six when Sephiroth died, and now he's thirteen... hmm... awkward...).
Nothing too major will change story wise, but I thought I should tell you now just to give you guys some heads up.
I will put up an "Under Major Construction" chapter when I'm working on it, and I will replace it with a shinny new chapter when I'm done.
READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY THIS IS A HEADS UP!!!!!!!
ON WITH THE STORY!!!
Zexion's pov:
"Now I suspect that Axel has informed you on what is occurring?" I said standing in the corner of the cave.
"Oh... He was supposed to tell me something?" I can practily see the hatred the Angel has for Axel radiating in waves. "With as much as he tells me... I think I'm glad to at least know his name!!! First... he says he's a "fire demon", then I get attacked by a hideous psychopath, and my friend is missing... "
"Hang on... YOU STILL NEVER TOLD ME WHAT HAPPENED TO SORA!!!!!!"
I look to Axel he makes no move to interject, he simply sits there...
"Axel..." I say now somewhat curious myself.
Riku gets up and walks over to Axel "Well..."
He grabs Axel by the collar of his shirt, I consider interrupting, but my desire to stay alive far surpasses the need to intrude, "I'm tired of waiting! I've been dragged all this way to find out what I want to know, and now I get to... spill!"
Axel still makes no sound, and the Angel's temper is steadily rising, I interject to possibly stop a war from braking out "Axel... I think you should tell him..."
Axel brushes Riku off, he straitens his shirt and begins, "Your friend was taken by the guy that attacked us."
"WHAT!!!!" Riku slams Axel back against the wall, "How!"
For having no prior knowledge of his Angel powers, Riku is surprisingly strong. He has not only pined Axel, a full Fire Demon, to the wall, but is actually making it fairly difficult for him to breath. "My... My choice was to either save you or him... *gasp*... I chose you... got that memorized." Axel wheezed out. Riku held him there for a moment an Angels fury burning in his eyes, not really caring that he was practically killing Axel.
Riku let him go and Axel leaned against the wall, coughing and panting to regain the air he lost.
"What will happen to him?" Riku asked Axel in a solum tone.
"pant... pant... Knowing Vexen, and what he's done with my friends... Probably turn him into a vampire..."
"Axel... how could you let this happen?" I asked. For Axel this was very out of character, he was the assassin who could take on multiple enemies at once... but loosing to one Vexen... Isn't normal...
"He has Roxas and Xion..."
"What do you mean..." started Demyx slightly panicked.
"I MEAN, THAT HE TURNED THEM INTO BLOOD THIRSTY MONSTERS!!!!!" Yelled Axel as his own flame started radiating off his clothing.
"Wonder why they didn't come with me?!? He warped there minds, and turned them into ghouls... sorry if that put me a little off my game!!!" and with that, he walked off in a huff.
"Che... Bastard..."
"Watch your tongue Angel... He did every thing to help. You try to fight the two closest friends you have ever had..."
Riku said nothing, "Now that we have that out of the way- Hey!!! Where are you going?!" he was heading out of the cave at a quick march, "I highly advise-
"I highly advise leaving me be!!" Riku yelled back.
I didn't know what to do... I go could after him most likely leading in personal injury, I can let Axel deal with him... which may lead to the angels death... I just didn't know. Thank you for Demyx unmatched timing... "Well... that didn't go as expected...."
"Heh... No Dem... No it didn't..."
~Normal POV~
Riku walked out of the cave into the light, cool mist coming off the small water fall beside the cave, the moon still shining half full in the sky. Riku and Sora always played on the little island mock fighting, racing, playing... though Riku could never imagine having to fight Sora to the death, Riku could still hardly believe what is happening to him. The one and only thing that forces him to believe what is happening, is something his father said to him before he died...
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~FlashBack: 7 years earlier, Riku Age: 13, 3 months before the "Accident"~
(If you feel like you just missed something... look at the "Heads Up")
It was a rainy day in Hallow Bastion, the streets were empty, and night was apon the town. Though in one home, a young boy was pestering his father on the back porch...
"Come on Dad. You have to let me come to work with you, I really want to see what you do!!! Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo have all seen... pPPLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAASSSSSEEee?!?!?" A young Riku was begging and pleading at his fathers side, with the biggest teal eyes he could possibly manage. For he knew he was the only one in the family that make his father cave so easily... well next to his Mother.
"Oh can those eyes get any bigger." Sephiroth slid down on the small bench to let Riku sit and stop pleading.
"Why do you want to see where I work so badly?"
"Because..." Riku shrugged.
"Because...?"
"Yeah because..." Riku said with a the playful innocents he only let his parents see.
"You will need a better argument than that my boy..."
Riku was silent for awhile thinking about what he could say, but he really couldn't think of a why... it was just something he really wanted.
"Hmm... don't have a better argument, do you?"
Though all Sephiroth got as a response was a pout and a huff from the young silver headed boy. Sephiroth could only laugh, he knew how much his youngest son looked up to him, and how much Riku wanted to be like him.
"...Why wont you let me come?" Riku asked genially hurt.
"Now who said I wouldn't let you come?"
"Well the way your acting..." Riku looked down at his feet swinging them trying to distract himself.
"Riku there is nothing I would want more then to have you come with me..." No words could describe how happy Riku was, his face was glowing with such a smile he could have put the sun to shame, "... But I don't want you living my life..." and no words could be used to describe how crushed he could be.
"Why not?!? Your job is SSOOOOO COOL!!! You Are a military general, and you're an awesome scientist! Why wouldn't I want to live your life?!?"
"Riku there is more to me that you would ever wish to know..."
"Like what...?"
Riku's questions were getting harder and harder for Sephiroth to answer... it was almost as bad as "The Talk" with the triplets.
"Riku being a man with my knowledge and abilities I get, bothered by many people, and I get dragged in to many fights."
"With who dad?"
"People who want to kil---- Kidnap my research..."
Riku was confused, and his father knew it... "Look Riku... there's something I want to tell you about my side of the family...Your mother and I have been considering it for years, and I think you should know before anything happens to me..."
"What would happen to you dad?"
"Nothing you should be worrying about... Now if I tell you you can't speak until I'm done... and you say nothing to your brothers... Promise?"
"Yeah, yeah I promise. Now what's the big secret?" Riku was so excited that he was going to learn something from his father. Maybe he had superpowers or one of his family members had a third eye, or Riku would grow another toe, and the thought only made him more excited. His father had never told him anything about his family, his past... and Riku really wanted to know.
"Riku my family is very... Mysterious and very powerful."
"Yeah weren't you like millionaires or-"
"Do you want me to finish?"
Riku zipped his mouth close ad through a way the key. "Thank you... were not ordinary, we have... special abilities. Though these... abilities... are unstable..."
"Honey, Riku... Dinner!!!!"
"In a minute Jenny..."
"NO NOW!!! Riku has to set the table, and help me in the kitchen."
"But MOM!!!"
"Don't "but mom" me mister... Inside with you..."
Sephiroth was somewhat relieved when his wife came to call them in for diner. Riku was upset when his father had to stop the discussion. Though Riku was ecstatic to hear that his father would take him to work when he got off school for break.
~End FlashBack~
That was the real last talk the two of them had before the "Accident". Riku never found out what his family secret was, but for some reason he felt like this new world was a part of it.
Riku always thought his mother was hiding something, and he knew his brothers didn't know. That is the only reason Riku has trusted the Red head thus far... He wanted to find out what his father was going to tell him.
Riku walked across the make shift bridge to the bent Paopu Tree, and there was Axel sitting there looking at the horizon.
"Don't... say... a word..." Axel said with a threatening tone.
"I won't... but something will have to be said sooner rather then later..."
That is how the two of them sat, to them what seemed like hours. Neither man knowing how to start the conversation or even willing to try. The two of them had been through so much with in the last twenty four hours. The loss of friends and tempers, kept secrets finally coming to the surface...
"I'm sorry I couldn't save your friend..." Axel said.
In all honesty, Riku was shocked. He never expected the flaming hot head to be apologizing to him.
"... I probably could have done something but... gah!" Axel fell back and layed along the trunk of the tree. "This whole thing just stinks..."
"heh... I was told along time ago you have to leave the past behind you and live for today. True I'm upset about Sora, but there is always a chance of redemption..."
"heh... what happened to the pain in the ass I met this morning?"
"He was stalked, attacked and questioned... you have any Idea how that affects a person." Riku said in a playful tone. Riku walked over to the tree and motioned Axel to move over and let him sit. "I may have some idea."
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"Why do you trust us so much?" Axel asked, crossing his arms. "Most other people we tell that they have some connection to a fantasy world full of vampires, demons and angels, usually tell us we belong in a padded cell... but you have willingly come along with all of this."
Riku put his hands beside him and took a long sigh, "Just before my father died he told me that his family was Mysterious, and powerful, and that the abilities we have are unstable. I just thought he was talking about how we think. My mom always said that by dads family belonged in a mental institution, and that always did explain why my brothers were so screwed up." Axel couldn't help but laugh, "Hey! I'm trying to be serious here!" Riku pushed Axel, not hard enough to knock him off but enough to make him stop.
"Haha... sorry Brat..."
"Huff... Where was I..."
"A mental institution..." Axel said with a catty grin.
Riku gave Axel a sharp quick glare but continued on either which way, "Dad and I never got to finish the conversation before he died. I for some reason think you guys have the answer." Riku looked at Axel hoping he could find some kind of answer in the acidic green eyes, but before he got the chance Axel looked back out to the sea. "My father said there were people after him. With everything I've already learned today, tied into my own assumptions, I have a feeling that it was for more then just his research."
Axel remained silent, not wanting or knowing how to answer Riku's question. Though he knows that Riku will find out sooner or later what happened to his father, and what will become of him.
"Alright, before I explain your life to you, do you have any questions?"
"Well... for a while their have been rumors spreading on the island, and now... I just don't want to feel like I'm going mad..."
"The rashes???"
"Yeah... How???"
"The Group I'm traveling with came to this island awhile ago... There are about four or five vampires traveling with us."
"I really thought that would be a more interesting story..."
"What! They would go the main land, but moving water is a bit of a headache for them... that it for the questions?" Axel would rather everything to be this easy, he knew that he wouldn't get his wish. He knew Riku would want to know exactly what happened the day of the "Accident" and he was the only one who truly knew.
Riku shook his head no and Axel began... "I'll start only after you have promised me one thing... You wont talk, and you wont freak out until I'm done." That was the same promise his father asked of him although years ago. Riku nodded and said he'll play by Axel's terms, this time.
"Your father was right about your abilities being unstable, and your mother was right about your family belonging in a mental institution."
Riku was puzzled but remained silent. "Sephiroth was a Shadow Angel, and so was his family line. The entire species of shadow angels are known to be unstable. They can control a weapon created from there heart and they have a very unique energy ability. The only down side that power drives them to madness. Many fall victim to there own power, but the few that survive the full transformation are very powerful forces to be reckoned with." Axel paused to regain his own thoughts and think out the next part of his speech with out making Riku try to kill him. He jumped down off of the tree and walked over to one of the standing Palm Trees closer to the water.
"Did my father?"
"No... your father was turning into one of the few exceptions. Though in the last few years he was alive, that was slowly being proved wrong... Did you ever notice that your father was becoming slightly more aggressive?"
"How Dare-!!!" Riku jumped off the tree and strode angrily over to Axel.
Axel turned to face Riku with no intention of backing down, "I'm serious Kid, I know you noticed something..."
As a mater of fact he did... his father never raised his voice to Riku or his mother, but he was easily set off by any and everyone else. Riku remembered a time where a neighbor came to borrow something and His father Nearly ate the poor man alive.
Riku's posture became less tense and he leaned up against a near by tree with Axel standing firm not 5 feet a way from him. "The power was beginning to get to him. Just like all of the others, and he knew it..."
"Will I..?"
"With some proper training I don't think so."
"How do you know all of this?" Riku looked over to Axel, not knowing what to expect at this point.
"If I didn't, your kind would have gotten the best of me years ago."
"What's that 'supposed to mean?" Riku was up and alert, he and Axel were face to face, neither wanting to be proved as the week minded one.
Though Riku lost his footing a bit when Axel continued. "I'm an Assassin, for the last one hundred years your kind have been my target"
"W-what...? N-no way... did you just bring me here to kill me!!!" Riku backed a way slowly, "Listen kid, thats not the whole-!" Riku furthered backed up hitting the tree, the young man was starting to look like a trapped animal, "Yes that is it!!! You stalk me, and you attack me then you bring me here to finish the job!" Riku looks around feverishly with Axel taking slow steps toward him. "Knock it off brat..." Riku sees the two wooden sticks that Sora and himself used as swords to play with.
"Angel..." Axel took another step forward.
Riku did a brief barrel role and picked up his makeshift weapons.
"S-stay a way from me!!! I know what your trying to do!!! Well I'm not going down with out a fight!!"
"I'm not going to-"
"Your right cause I'm not going to give you the chance!!!"
Before Axel had the chance to say anything more Riku was at his side attacking him with rapid whip like strikes to abdomen. Riku brings one of the stick clear over his own shoulder and swings with the full strength of his body coming down on Axel's shoulder, nearly causing the same damage an actual sword would do.
"You..." HIT!!!
"You know!!!" HIT!!!
"You" HIT!!!
"Know what happened," HIT!!!
"To my father!!!" With that last hit he hit Axel across the face with a sickening crack not only breaking one of Riku's sticks but probably Axel's noes. Axel grabs his noes and falls against the Paopu Tree trying to stop the bleeding.
"Yeah I do know." Axel said in a some what nasally voice. "But I'm not going to tell you now!"
"WHY NOT!!!"
"Because you won't LISTEN!!!!" and with that, Axel drew his own weapon. A disk like weapon with spikes on every point looking almost like a medieval fire snowflake.
"For the last 40 years I have done nothing but trying to restore the balance that I have helped to destroyed!!!" (A/N)
"LIER!!!" Riku came at Axel again, Riku struck with such power and accuracy, that if Axel didn't have the training that he did he would probably have more then just a broken noes.
"FIGHT BACK!!!" Riku ordered.
"NO!!! I made a promise to change history and killing you breaks my promise!!" Riku comes again slowly becoming more engulfed by his own rage.
Damn it all... Axel thought ...his Powers are starting to surface. If he releases them now I'll be forced to kill him.
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I'm not even going to go into the fact that I promised this chapter to you guys like 4 months ago.
ZOMFG!!! RIKU IS FINDING OUT THE TRUTH!!!!!!!
and I leave you guys with a cliffy of doom!!!
and again I am like totally sorry that I didn't up date sooner.
and talk about an emotional Roller coster for Riku...
First he's all apprehensive, then aggressive, then kind, then a fighter.
Will Riku succumb to his Shadow Angel powers? What will happen to Axel if he dose? And what ever happened to Zexion and Demyx?
(A/N:) And no this will not be a major pedo-fic. The age situation with the characters will be explained later.