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Alexis : Chapter Six
( "Hey, Alexis." )
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Tick. Tick. Tick.
Bang. Bang.
Two o'clock – two hours from when I woke up after falling pitifully asleep on one of the beds in Riku's and mine room.
One hour since I gorged down on the surprisingly good food they had here for lunch.
Thirty minutes since Maleficent ordered us to meet here for an 'important' meeting.
What are we, a club?
"So…" I started, staring blankly at the Disney villains seated across from my new roommate and I. There was Captain Hook – he tried to kill me, by the way, when I remarked that Jack Sparrow was way more awesome than he was – Ursula, Oogie Boogie – I tried not to focus too hard on him; the bugs were very disgusting – Jafar in all his glory (see the sarcasm there? I really don't like him) and Hades – that guy practically burned me when I asked for a hug. But we all still love him. Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah. Some weird dude who didn't show his face in a cloak was sitting some ways off beside us, but I tried to avoid him. He was too freaky for my liking.
"I still can't believe we are to work with brats," I heard Oogie Boogie mumble, and shot him a glare.
"What's wrong with us?" Challenged Riku. Mental hug to him.
Oogie scrutinized us with his hole-eyes things. "I mean, look at you. Ya're scrawny little kids." I narrowed my eyes and pushed my glasses higher up my nose.
"You don't look too good yourself," I snapped. The sack of insects scowled and shook his tiny little fist at me.
"Why you—!"
"Enough."
We all turned at the sound of Maleficent's voice as she emerged from the shadows of the room, her crow sitting on her shoulder and staring at us plainly. Maleficent glared at us from under her horned hat.
"You have not all gathered here to fight. That can be done later after we've finished." Nodding, I sat back in my chair, sulking. That bag of insects called me a brat.
"Seeing as you've all met each other, there will be no need for introductions. Turning to our next main point;" she turned to look at Riku and I. "Your training."
I blanched.
"You will all be paired up against Heartless of yourselves, their powers depending on yours."
I frowned. "But won't the Heartless take our hearts?" I've been given 'the talk' on Heartless when I first entered.
"They've been ordered not to." Was the curt reply.
Riku nodded beside me and crossed his arms. "Why should we listen to you?" I rolled my eyes at his question. What could we do but listen to them? Escaping was not an answer.
But, as it turns out, Maleficent was prepared for this. She smiled gruesomely and snapped her fingers. "Because of this."
Kairi's lifeless body appeared in front of our table and Riku was up from his seat and beside her in mere seconds.
"What happened to her?" He yelled, checking her pulse. Maleficent shook her head but from where I was seated, I could see her hide a smile.
"The poor thing has had her heart stolen." She walked towards Riku. "But if you help us, we could get it back for her."
Casting one last look at Kairi before she disappeared again, Riku narrowed his eyes. "What do we have to do?"
"Hey!" I cried from my seat, standing up and stalking to the silver-haired-gone-crazy teen. "You didn't even ask me!" I smiled sweetly at Maleficent and dragged Riku to a corner. "We'll be right back."
"What do you think you're doing?" Riku hissed to me, venom burning in his eyes. I mentally flinched but glared back at him.
"What do you think you're doing? We don't know what that witch is planning!" My companion scowled.
"So you don't care what happens to Kairi?" My shoulders sagged slightly.
"Of course I do." But something's wrong.
"Then agree to their plans."
I watched him as he walked back to the table with the villains, nodding to Maleficent. Sighing, I followed him.
But these were villains. Whatever they wanted, it couldn't be good.
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( Normal PoV )
"Ha! Take that!"
Maleficent watched from her balcony with Ansem, observing the blonde girl below them as she swung the stick she found on the perimeter of the castle. Sighing as Alexis missed the antiform yet again, she turned away from the smirking Ansem – who, for once, had his hood off.
"I thought you said she'd do just fine."
She scowled at his remark, her now-cawing crow on her shoulder the only thing betraying her frustration.
"She has a power within her. She just needs to awaken it." Ansem raised his eyebrow and turned to watch the witch.
"Awaken it?" She nodded, her eyes kept on the ball on her staff for one reason or another.
"Death or life situation, or great depression – it will be enough to summon her weapon."
"Death or life? The girl doesn't seem to be one to take things seriously; much less to feel depression." Scoffed the man.
An image of an ebony-haired boy appeared on the surface of the ball.
Maleficent smiled.
"I will see to that."
She stalked out of the balcony.
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( Alexis )
I groaned as my Shadow avoided my hit. Scowling in frustration I turned to parry the attack I knew would be coming to my back, pushing with all my strength against the Heartless.
"Push from your legs, not from your arms!" Yelled Riku from the sidelines, currently coaching me in the art of swordsmanship. Shooting him a glare and jumping back as my opponent flipped back before running quickly towards me and dealing a major number of blows – most of which, unfortunately, hit – I cried in pain as it ripped its claw against my upper body, leaving three diagonal marks running all the way from my stomach to my chin.
Just for a few fleeting seconds I could feel something being torn away from me, but the feeling subsided as the Heartless suddenly disappeared, leaving me alone in the giant plaza with something black dripping out of my wounds. I scrunched my nose in disgust at the sight, feeling slightly woozy.
"Alexis!" I turned my head at the sound of Riku's voice, his footsteps echoing in the hollow room as he ran up to me.
"Hi Riku," I mumbled somewhat sanely. "Why are there three of you?"
The three Riku's eyes widened and I could feel him take my shoulders and shake me, but my vision started blackening until I could barely see.
I swore that a blurry figure of a man with long silver hair was watching from somewhere above me before the feeling of being trapped in a box intensified until I couldn't breathe anymore.
My body fell limp on the stone ground.
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White. White, white, white, white…
Wait, I've been here before, haven't I? Yeah, I have, back when Rachelle and I had just gotten here—
—Rachelle! What happened to her!? Oh god, she better be fine. Where was she? Did she get out of the Islands fine? …What happened to the Islands? Or Sora?
"They're fine."
I whirled at the sudden familiar voice. "You!" I cried, pointing a finger at the sitting figure of LK, everything except myself and him suddenly blurring, giving it a cartoon-y look. "You are real!" I continued babbling, staring at him with wide eyes. The angel-looking figure merely waved his hand in a bored motion.
"I'm real, I'm not real. Does it matter?" He smiled coyly at me causing me to snap my mouth shut and glare at him.
"I demand to know what's going on!" I yelled, clenching my fists at my sides and wishing for something to throw at him.
LK raised one of his eyebrows. "Do you have the right to know?"
I froze, staring at him once again. A scowl unintentionally rose to my mouth – oh no, not now, please – and I could feel anger bubbling up inside of me.
"What the hell is going on!?" I yelled, panting heavily both from anger and my outburst.
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Alexis's body twitched.
The silver-haired teen beside her raised his eyebrows in surprise.
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"Anger management, my dear girl."
I continued scowling at his serene expression. "I don't need anger management," I mumbled, glaring at him. "You're just one of those people who have the greatest power of pissing me off." I recoiled silently in surprise from my words. Where did that come from?
LK raised his other eyebrow gracefully. "Oh?"
I sighed, knowing this would not get me anywhere. Willing myself to relax, I spoke again.
"What happened to me?" I remember the feeling of something being taken – my heart? – and then blacking out.
LK shrugged carelessly. "You were unconscious for some time." He sighed mockingly, raising his eyes to meet mine in amusement. "My, you must be weak to let a Heartless with a rank as low as that one to take you out."
Pushing down the need to strangle the man before me, I spoke my next question. "Where am I?" …Why I haven't asked this earlier, the world may never know.
"You're in my abyss." I blinked. O-kay, I'll just ignore that weird sentence.
"Who are you?"
LK's eyes suddenly narrowed in amusement – does this man never take anything seriously?
"Time for you to wake up."
I stared wildly as things around me started to disappear. "Wait!" I cried, sticking out my hand towards LK. "You never answered my question! Who are you!"
LK's smile widened.
"Light—"
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I sat up suddenly, gasping for much-needed breath. Clutching the blankets over me for support, I glanced around.
I was back in my room.
"You were knocked out pretty bad… You've been asleep for four hours now."
I turned my head to where Riku was sitting on his bed, a book held open in his hands and staring at me curiously. Nodding slightly, I lay back down and sighed.
"What happened?" I watched as his shadow moved on the walls until he stood next to me. I shrugged tiredly under the covers.
Riku shook his head and nodded curtly towards an adjoining room – the bathroom, I think. "I bandaged the wounds around your stomach," I coughed in surprise and stared at him wide-eyed. "I had the decency to leave the wounds on your chest alone for you to bandage."
Oh. So that's what the pain was. Noting I was still clad in my earlier clothes, I rose out of my bed. "Uh, thanks." I said uncertainly as Riku shrugged, still facing away from me and instead looking out the window.
Shrugging to myself, I grabbed the roll of bandages that was lying on my beside-table and winced as I felt the still open wound protest at movement. Moving slowly towards the bathroom, I wondered as to how I was going to get the bandage to stay on. Why couldn't they just make huge Band-Aids or something? It'd make my life much easier.
Groaning resignedly to myself at what I was about to do after my seventeenth failed attempt to get the bandages tied properly on my back, I stuck my head out the door hoping that Riku was not asleep.
"Heyyy, Riku, do you think you could help me?"
I'm sure my face was very red by the time he got up from his bed after a few seconds of laughter and entered the bathroom. Of course, I did not miss the slight redness in his cheeks, ha ha.
I stayed very silent while he tied the knots on my back, staring straight ahead at the dark blue wall in front of me. When he was done, I thanked him very quickly and threw on my shirt and folded the hoodie over my arm. Brushing past Riku who was standing uncertainly at the other side of the door, I plopped carefully down on my bed and checked the clock hanging on the nearby wall.
Seven PM.
Greaaat. I don't usually fall asleep at least until ten, so with nothing do for another three hours – exploring, for now, was out of the question – was going to be a long time.
Thankfully – or not – Maleficent came striding in – after knocking politely, of course – a few minutes later and once seeing me sitting on the bed playing with the roll of bandages, motioned for me to follow her. I hobbled up after her, wincing every now and then.
"Where are we going?" I asked her after walking for what seemed like at least thirty minutes to me, but in reality was maybe ten.
"To get your weapon, of course." I cocked my head in curiosity.
"My weapon? You mean I have one?" Maleficent nodded as we turned another corner, stopping at a large, foreboding-looking door.
"You just have to awaken it."
She pushed open the wooden barrier and I walked in slowly, looking around curiously.
"Hey, Alexis."
My eyes widened in surprise – or was it horror? – at the boy clad in black, torn pants with numerous silver chains crossing almost everywhere, dark grey t-shirt, black combat boots, and a red frayed cloak. A pair of miniature black devil wings were stuck to the armor pads on his shoulders. Black hair fell over his ears and green eyes stared at me blankly, a smile on his face.
The reason for my horror?
The boy was completely covered in blood.
I barely felt the cold metal appear suddenly in my hands and turned deaf to the sound of a sword being dragged across cement as I stumbled back.
a/n: wee. I'm done. I was feeling depressed for some reason for the most part of writing this o-o.
What do you think LK's real name is? "Light—"? ;)
And who's the boy at the end, and how does he know Alexis? –smiles creepily-
And no, in case you're wondering, Alexis did not have her heart stolen, and no, I did not forget about her seeing the silver-haired man – three guesses who it is, the first two don't count.
Please review!