HnH: Thanks to Jillie Chan, Numina-Namine(Thank you very much! I really appreciate the review, I just hope my story won't turn out to be disappointing), myxbeautifulxlove, Teh Pwnful Kiwi, babyangelwintergirl and Ellie0223! Hmm...I just did my research, and I'd LIKE this story to end at 27, because 27 plus 27 equals 54 and 54 is the number I need to get...-random nonsense-

Roxas: -is on edge ever since the convulsion- And WHY would you need to get to 54, huh?!? You know, HnH, it's YOUR fault that Naminé is obsessed with Reno! SUE HER! SUE HER!

Naminé: No, don't sue! HnH doesn't own ANYTHING!

HnH: For those of you who cannot grasp the concept of a 'Flashback' Chapter, it is a chapter based on the past of the story's timeline, but without italics because I don't feel like making everything italicized.

Kairi: Lazy bum...

HnH: Well...this chapter is kind of messed up. The parts that are the flashback(I guess?) are NOT in italics, but the parts that are taking place in the present ARE in italics. It's because I need to emphasis more stuff in the past and italicizing stuff makes a big impact on peeps. -nod- -nod-

Warning: Some of this chapter is really...violent and bloody. Maybe the weak of mind would rather skip this chapter and let me know you do in your review so I can give you a more...light-hearted summary, alright? You've been warned.

Angels In Flight

(Flashback) Chapter 7:Clarifying Memories

(Naminé's POV)

I went out everyday. I loved the outdoors! Elle Ciel was such a bright and beautiful place. I especially loved the outdoors because...well, I couldn't stand my home. You see, my parents have used really advanced technology to genetically alter some chosen people. I've seen the procedure before, on a Nobody, Sora...or, now called Roxas.

In fact, I've helped out with it. They replace all of your normal functions with robotic-like ones so you'll be able to live if you happened to get shot in a vital area. Of course, we don't have enough technology to replace EVERYTHING with robotic parts, so at least the Nobodies are...partly human. They don't even have hearts, either...

Anyway, we were testing out these new programs that gave you enhanced senses and special abilities. Since they needed to get inside his mind in order to install these programs, my parents asked me to do this task since I am the only person ever able to get inside the human mind. So I installed them within him, and the deed was done. The whole Tsugare Kingdom knew a war with the Tsukuyomi Kingdom, a Kingdom that's known for it's perpetual night due to it's sacred relic, the Byakuya, was inevitable. Since the Tsukuyomi Kingdom has technology that far surpasses our own, we needed something to back us up. That's where the Nobodies come in. They're like our secret army, our trump card.

Right now...there are many Nobodies. Some of them have their looks altered, and some are designed for special occasions. There are different types, but the strongest, the 'Generals' in the secret army are the first thirteen that they conducted the experiments on. The reason why this pertains to my dislike of my home is because today is the day where they're going to annihilate Number Thirteen - Roxas. He doesn't know it, of course, and it's not even his fault. If anyone should get the blame, it's the creators themselves. It's because of the five programs I installed in him. The first four were just safety programs that would automatically activate in a tight situation or if Roxas felt threatened. The last one...

After further inspection, my parents said that the fifth one was like a virus. It could activate anytime, and anywhere at all, and it would make him go berserk and not be able to think rationally. That's dangerous, and the only way to remove it is to kill him, because they say it's already affected him and there's no way I could remove it. For the time being, he's my bodyguard when I go outside. Right now...I'm outside. I looked up at Roxas, he didn't even know that he was going to die today. The plan was that we would just walk around a little until dusk, then we would go back into the castle, and...that's when it would happen.

"Naminé-hime...you don't like me, do you?" Roxas asked, completely out of nowhere. I stopped, then turned around to face him. I never really noticed it before, but he was really cute, so I was kind of stunned at this question. Umiri once told me that the feeling of stars falling into my chest was actually what all 'normal' fourteen-year-olds experience - a crush. Then she said that it could also be love but I really doubt it. It's not like I blush madly whenever he says my name or something. That's really love, right? Like you hope he likes you back and all that, not that you hope he'll protect you unconditionally, right?

"Of course I like you, Roxas! Why do you ask?" I smiled, trying not to let on that he would never live to see tomorrow.

"My scanners indicate that you're intensely worried about something. I also sense that you do not want to be with me right now." He said blankly. I forgot that he had those analyzer-eyes, that could detect any motion at all, I bet he could sense a tidal wave on the other side of the Earth if he wanted to.

"It's just that I..." I needed something to come up with, quick. "I..." Oh no, I couldn't do this. The past few weeks he's been my bodyguard he's never let anything happen to me, and he didn't deserve this death! "I don't want you to go!" I yelled, not able to hold it in any longer. Tears started to bubble up in my eyes. "You don't deserve to die...it's not even your fault...you haven't done ANYTHING wrong, Roxas! Yet they still...they still..." I turned away, and bit my lip.

"I'm not going to die, Naminé-hime...who is telling you that? Who is causing you distress?" Roxas was too...robotic. It was like he already had responses for everything, like he didn't have a personality...he was just an empty, cold shell. That made me scared. Even though it didn't seem like he couldn't care or feel, he's still go out there and take care of whoever was bothering me, whoever was making me feel sadness, pain or fear.

"But you are...you're going to die! For everything you've done for me, they still want to kill their creation. Everyone's saying you're a failure, a mistake that should have never been made...and now that want to eradicate you..." I said, not wanting to face him. I could already imagine his face already, dead pan as always. I could just imagine him saying, 'If they want me to die, then that is my destiny.' Or something like that. "And it's not even that you've done anything wrong! Even if you have, I still - "

"Here." I gasped. It looked so...real! But there was NO way that was a real angel feather! He had held out a black-as-night angel feather to me. I took it in my hands and studied it for a minute or two before turning around to face him.

"Roxas...it seems so real! I can just feel the holy power radiating from it! Where did you get this?" I asked, and it was true. Just holding it, even though it was probably the feather of a fallen angel, made me feel calm and serene. I really felt better, so I knew why he gave me this. I then noticed that the ground had some feathers scattered on it, too. "It's just like they fell from the sky! Wow!" I was awed. Imagine, if everyone had an angel's feather, how peaceful the world would be?

"I...found it on the ground. I sensed that they were real, but I didn't want to believe it." He said, looking down sadly at the feathers. If he could feel...sadness. When I went into his mind I experienced first-hand what these weapons felt like. Very empty and lonely, cold and unloved...I didn't want to stay in there and search his memories so I just installed the programs and got out.

"But angels are wonderful, Roxas! Just think - if you do good deeds on Earth and die without committing any fatal sins, you'll become a sacred angel! If you do enough good deeds in Heaven, just think - you could be a praised Seraphim!" I said, smiling. "Maybe...maybe we'll both go into Heaven together, Roxas!"

"I'd never be able to go into Heaven. Do you think they could accept a person - no, I'm not even a person, a nobody who's killed? Killing is taboo in Heaven. Even if it's just an accident...Heaven can never have any accidents. No, they have to blame somebody, to make it look believable. And for that, many angels become wrongly incarcerated..." He said, then shook his head. "Even if I could go into Heaven...I wouldn't want to go. They had no right...to make me into this...monster. Heh...I guess Heaven really does hold grudges."

"But I always learned..." I stopped and shrugged. I didn't want to push the matter anymore than it needed to be. We simply had different opinions, that was all. Since I was still holding the feather, I felt like I couldn't cry or anything. Even the fact that Roxas would die once we got back to the castle didn't phase me anymore, and I felt terrible about that so I gently put it down. "What are we going to do now? You...you could run away! That way they would never find you!"

"They'd know you gave me that idea. After all, they designed me so that they would know where I was." I had no counter for that. Instead, I just grabbed his hand. I was about to say something, but I closed my mouth and said nothing. "Come on, Naminé-hime, we should return to the castle now."

"What about you? What's going to happen to you? I don't want you to go..." I said, then I brightened up. "Since you're a weapon made for war, shouldn't you be especially configured so that you won't die?" Roxas didn't answer.

"Now that you mentioned it, Naminé-hime, I'm not too sure that I can die. Part of me is a machine...and that part built over the part of me that was human...and the other half..."He looked up at me. "Nevermind. You wouldn't understand..." I tilted my head and looked at him. He just placed a hand on my shoulder. "If I do die, promise me that you won't get mad at the people who killed me. Okay? They were just trying to protect their kingdom, their people...I don't blame them for that."

"I promise I won't Roxas..." I just blabbed the secret I was supposed to keep! I felt so horrible for disobeying my friends and family. But Roxas didn't seem mad. I knew he wouldn't...he couldn't slaughter all the people I cared about, in exchange for his life. I knew I meant more than that to him, right? ...Right?

So, in silence we walked, side by side, to the castle. Finally, we reached there, and Roxas opened the door, then looked at me. "Where is the...murder supposed to be taking place?" He asked. Why was he so willing to go out? Maybe it was to - Oh. I knew I why, now. His sensors could indicate anything, and surely they could indicate that I had a 'crush' and since he couldn't possibly ever return my feelings, the best way to not hurt my feelings is to go out by death. That was the only reason why I could think he wanted to go out willingly...

"The ballroom." The reason why it was taking place there, of all places, is because there was an upper floor that had a hole(well, not really a hole, but that's the only way I can describe it) in it so people could stand on the second floor and look down to see the people on the first floor. The people who would take his life would be there. And so, we walked there, too, but before he opened the door he held out his arm, signaling for me to stop.

"You said that they were going to kill me later, yes?" He asked, looking back at me. I nodded, hesitantly. "Were you lying when you said that to me?"

"N-No! I wasn't lying! Why would you think that?" Why would he think I was lying? I would never lie to Roxas! Of course, I'd try to, but I don't think I could successfully...

"I can see that there are people in there. They must have known you would tell me, so they lied to you..." He said, analyzing the situation on the spot. I frowned.

"I'm sorry, Roxas." I apologized, but he just shook his head and opened the door and walked through it. I just stood out there, I didn't want to die in the crossfire. Then, I saw the bullets rain down on him as someone yelled 'fire!'. He fell to the ground, and I couldn't help but run to him. "R-Roxas! Oh no!" I wailed. I knew he was dead, so I didn't bother checking.

"I just wanted you to know, Roxas...even though you can't hear me know...that I really liked you, despite being a weapon and everything." I just felt that he wouldn't be able to rest in peace unless I told him how I truly - when his eyes snapped open I knew he would not be resting at all. I immediately noticed there was something wrong. His outfit had changed. It was silver, blue, red, black and yellow, with different designs on it, it was a cloak with chains on it. His eyes had changed to an eerie dark, dark blue color.

There was red electricity around his hands, and he had a silver glow around him. When he got up, I could see there was this blue glittery stuff following his footsteps. He held out his hands - and the Oblivion and Oathkeeper appeared.

"Wh-" I was about to ask what was wrong(since I certainly thought he didn't look as normal as he possible could be) but he turned around and gave me a sinister glare.

"Thought you could get rid of me, did you? Well, I'll tell you that I'm nowhere near finished!" He snarled, striking me with his keyblade so I flew backwards and slid on the floor before I came to a complete stop. I wasn't that badly injured, but I found myself only able to watch in horror as the... 'accident' came about. He took his keyblade and cut off a lock of his hair. A white wing and a black wing sprouted from his back and -

-Back In the Present-

I requested Roxas to stop the image, so he did. "Roxas, how did you get wings? I thought you were only able to summon them from Oblivion and Oathkeeper." He smiled.

"When they made me into a machine, Naminé, they already knew I was half-angel. You see, when I was little, Seifer was my best friend. Eventually, we grew up and when I was able to wield Oblivion, he was still my friend. So, naturally, I told him the whole story. He turned on me and told his parents, and then they told your parents, who got the whole idea of genetically altered weapons." Roxas said, glaring at Seifer who had this sweet little innocent look on his face, as if he didn't - and couldn't - do anything wrong.

"I was the first person who was made into a Nobody. What you saw was when they upgraded me and repaired me and all that. They thought I would be able to handle the five programs so they sent you to install them in me. I'm called the Last Nobody because I'm the last one who joined the Organization, all that was left of the Nobodies after I killed the rest of them." He said. I nodded slowly.

"So then how are you able to manifest wings?" I asked, looking back at the image, which was not moving. "Why did you cut your hair?"

" An angel's holy power is contained in their hair. The whiter an angel's hair, the more holy power they have. So, for example, if your great-great-great-grandmother was quarter of an angel and you're barely one, since your hair is whiter than mine you would have more power than me. When an angel cuts their hair, it releases their holy power. So when I cut my hair, I was able to manifest my own wings." Roxas explained.

"But couldn't your mother have done that?" I wondered. He shook his head.

"The Authority probably drained her holy power, thus making her hair black, but I'm not too sure if they did that, but that would mean she had no power to do anything whatsoever." He said. My mouth formed an 'o' as I understood what he was saying.

"Alright, I think I get it. You can...continue..."

-Return to the Past-

- instantly, he rose into the air, and landed on the second floor. Everyone started to shoot at him, but the bullets just...reflected off! Like he was impervious to everything. He brought down a keyblade on a shooter, and just like that he got de-capacitated; red splattered all over Roxas' face and clothes. Then, he went onto the next one, but this shooter was smart and managed to dodge every one of the attacks.

Then Roxas' hand glowed yellow as he charged forward and I squeezed my eyes shut as I heard a scream of agony coming the victim. Like I wanted to watch violence! I heard something plop on the ground, so I opened my eyes. There were two bloody lungs on the floor and an appendix, and of course, now the floor was in a wonderful shade of crimson. Lovely. I looked up at the second floor and saw that Roxas just ripped up the guy without two lungs and an appendix's heart, then whacked the guy, and his torso detached from the body and plopped on the floor. I was promptly disgusted, so no wonder...

"Non nobis, Domine!" Another one shouted, as Roxas rushed forward and cracked the person's skull open with an extremely hard knock with the Oblivion. The person rocketed back as his eyes dimmed, then blood gushed over their face, dripping down onto the floor I was on. A waterfall of blood...I shuddered, and was glad he hadn't killed me...

"Ave, ave Maria!" One of them had dared to try to make the sign of the Cross. Roxas just laughed at their pitiful attempt to save themselves.

"You think they'll save you now? They have no mercy for anyone!" He said, seeming to have tired of killing them all one-by-one. He held out his keyblades and narrowed his eyes. "Burn!" He shouted as hell seemed to upon up beneath all of the shooters' bodies. Then, columns of fire rose up beneath them and began to roast them alive, paying no attention to their screams of agony and pain. "Is that all they've got? Pathetic!" Then, he looked down at me and seemed to think for a moment before he jumped down to the first floor, stepping over someone's body and walked over to me.

I couldn't say anything...I was looking at the ribbons of blood dripping down the walls and sliding along the floor, finally dripping down here. He was about to say something when all of the Nobodies came in, save for twelve. Roxas frowned and his keyblades disappeared. Instead, he grabbed a gun left behind. He began shooting into the crowd of the ones just like him, and I backed up because a bullet had grazed my palm. After he was done firing, there were still some alive so he flew down and stabbed them with the keyblades. The tough Nobodies still did not die. Roxas, still handling the gun, then shot them all in the head.

Was he done? Oh, Lord, I hope he was. He then walked to me and grabbed my arm and dropped the gun. "Where is everyone?" He asked, not looking at me. I wondered if I should answer or not...if I didn't, he would probably kill me and find them anyway, if I did, he would be able to find them faster and may be able to spare me. Both options were lose-lose. So I went with the latter. I hoped he would snap back to his senses soon. After I told him where all the maids' rooms were, he went there and burst open the door. The maids were talking about who-knows-what, but they stopped when they saw Roxas.

"No! Don't kill them!" I yelled, but he paid no heed to my pleads. Some of these maids had been my and my twin sister's personal maids for years, and some of them were like older sisters to me. He slashed one with Oathkeeper, and the red liquid poured out of her side and stained the pure white blade an odd magenta color. She fell to the ground, drowning in her own pool of blood. The other maids screamed and tried to get away, but he just charged at them and got them right in their hearts, maybe trying to give them a painless death? Well, he was not showing any remorse! The maids' pale skin were covered in deep gashes, each and every one oozing with the thick, dark blood. I bet pain enveloped them before they finally died, what was the final reason? I do not know.

The sight, and smell of death was great that I had to heave before looking back at the bloody corpses, but almost felt myself get sick again. I just took a couple of deep breathes to calm myself and keep myself from hyper-ventilating.

Next stop: the kitchen. The chef there was a very, very good friend of mine, and usually he worked alone. I liked him a lot, so I didn't tell Roxas about him, but the nearest room happened to be the kitchen.

"Please, Roxas!" I begged as he kicked open the door. "Not him! Anyone but him! He's like-!" I didn't finish my sentence before he whipped around and smacked me again, sending me into the wall.(Which I was close to) I gripped my arm as I watched in horror when Roxas brought down Oblivion and stabbed the chef right in the stomach, blood slipping out of his lips that he began to choke on. "Noooo! Roxas, why are you doing this?!? WHY?" I yelled, after getting sick again.

"Revenge." He said simply, grabbing my arm as we went to our next destination. My eyes widened as I realized where we were going.

"NO! NO, ROXAS! NOT THERE! STOP!" I screamed, planting my feet into the floor and grabbing onto his arm so tight bet I cut off his circulation. I heard his wings flap once before he stopped walking.

"They're the ones that did this to me in the first place. Therefore they deserve the most punishment, agreed?" I tried to stop him, I really did, but he was just way too strong. He knocked me off of him, and opened the door. Inside was my parents and Umiri! My parents turned and their mouths instantly dropped, they knew something was wrong.

"Do not take another step, Sora!" My father said, but Roxas just shook his head and did.

"I'm not Sora anymore..." He said, reaching inside his cloak for something. He pulled out a dog tag. "This looks familiar, doesn't it? Serial Number: ACW-E:SL-000001-4F-BV. I'm not some doll, either, like you designed me to be. I could have been my own person, but of course, you had to take away my life, too? Monitoring me, making adjustments on me whenever you felt like...genetically engineering me, even altering my personality once or twice...oh, I believe there's nothing you haven't experimented on me."

They were worried. I could tell. My mother had a staff out and it looked like she was trying to summon the Towa no Shirube itself, Shiva, the personification of ice and beauty. My father had out an heirloom that was originally in the Mizu bloodline, but after the last one died out, it transferred to the Tsugare family, the Mizu's closest relatives. Umiri didn't look like she was backing down and she had her own little special keyblade designed just for her. I called it the Paradise Key, but she called it some flowery name that I really didn't care to pay attention to.

"Roxas, please don't do this! They apol-" I whirled him around, and I saw a maniacal look in his eyes mixed with the slightest tint of bloodlust, and, of course, the need for vengeance. He didn't bother to listen to me as he charged toward my father(I think I'll use my parents' first names for reference from now on), and Tidus' Brotherhood clashed with Oblivion. Roxas brought up Oathkeeper and hit Tidus in the arm, continuing to swipe at him until he drew blood. Once he completed his task, Roxas jumped back and used his wings for balance, maybe so he wouldn't fall or something of the like. Then, Tidus ran forward, jumped and did a flip and held out the Brotherhood so it would come crashing down on Roxas' head.

Instead, he moved so that instead of his skull cracking open his shoulder was the target of the Brotherhood. I gasped when I saw the blood pour out from his shoulder and stain the base of his white wing red. Tidus pulled the Brotherhood out and looked at me, then at Roxas.

"You're going to die for hurting my daughter!" He yelled, Tidus backing up, getting ready to do that move again. He ran forward, and performed the move again. This time, however, Roxas was prepared and he flew in the sky when Tidus landed.

"The same move won't work on me twice!" Roxas said, letting himself drop. He was about to plunge the keyblades into his back, when a blast of ice shot him out of the way, and when Roxas landed, the hand wielding Oblivion froze to the ground. Tidus and Umiri hopped out of the way, because Yuna had summoned the Great Towa no Shirube, the Personification of Ice, Shiva. I knew I should have ran away, at least to the sidelines where I wouldn't get hurt, but I was just immobilized because of the past sights I had just seen. They were so sickening...

Shiva blew on the ground, and giant blocks of ice covered the ground. Unfortunately, I was stuck in one of them, as was Roxas. Only he noticed that I was still on the icy battlefield. I could've sworn that he has became bright again, and he whispered something, then his eyes changed back to the eerie stormy blue color. Then, Shiva snapped her fingers and the ice broke up into little shards. I was expecting pain because I saw the shards rip Roxas apart and make him bleed like no tomorrow. (His silver aura that had deflected attacks was slowly wearing away)

However, I felt none, but saw the ice shards that should have ripped me up, ripped Shiva up instead. Then, I realized Roxas had cast the Reflect spell on me so that I would not have gotten hurt! Maybe his old self was coming through? I know it was not his fault that this happened, but I still have to give him some of the blame.

He got to his feet after breaking the ice bond that kept his hand tied to the floor .His wings were torn up and bloodied, and so was he. As Shiva sent a wave of ice over towards him, he jumped over it, and threw the Oathkeeper at Shiva, which smacked her into Yuna. Taking this opportunity, Roxas readied himself and kneeled down, placing Oblivion on the floor like he was trying to unlock a key on the ground.

"Firaga!" He shouted, the ground seeming to open up, and the flames from down under engulfed the Oblivion. The ground closed up and Roxas got to his feet once more, running towards his fallen foes. Using Oathkeeper to knock Shiva into the air, he twirled around and slashed at her with Oblivion, followed by Oathkeeper, which sent her into the case that had held the now-tainted Keyblade. Roxas was about to plunge the firey keyblade into my mother, when Tidus ran over and did his 'Overdrive'(the running-jump-and-flip attack) the Brotherhood going into Roxas' back.

Roxas held out Oblivion and casted 'Firaga' again, this time the flames from his keyblade revolving around him and knocking Tidus off of him. Once Brotherhood got removed from his back, and Tidus backed away, Roxas once more went to my mother, ready to strike her with Oblivion, but Shiva managed to get up and encase him in a block of ice. She then snapped her fingers, and that's when he collapsed. I knew it was wrong, but I still rushed over to him first.

"Roxas! Are you okay?" I asked, and, deep down inside I felt torn. Here he was, probably going to die for real this time, and I couldn't stop crying. I didn't want him to die, but I knew that he had killed almost everyone inside the castle, all my friends, maids, servants, people I knew very well and treated like family. The only people he had not killed were my mother, father and sister. Of course, I don't say myself just yet because that was when he raised the Oathkeeper with such speed, it went straight though me, breaking my heart...literally.

-Back In the Present-

The image stopped, and Roxas flexed his hand, waiting for my reaction. My mouth was just open wide. I just saw him kill a younger version of me! Were we in Heaven?

"We can't be in Heaven!" I yelled, shaking my head. Roxas looked at me with an alarmed look on his face.

"Why can't we be in Heaven?" He asked, and I pointed to Seifer.

"Because he's here!" Needless to say, Roxas got a good laugh out of that, but I was serious! There was no way SEIFER could make it to Heaven! Well, he wasn't evil, but he was just so stuck-up, obnoxious and didn't possess any good characteristics.

"Well, thank you, Naminé, I know I'm too good for Heaven." He said. See what I mean? He only thinks of himself! He's consumed by greed and, and...I just hated that jerk!

"No...you couldn't have killed me, could you have? That's not all to the story, is there?" I asked. If this was Heaven, then this was nowhere near Paradise. Roxas shook his head and I felt relieved.

"But there's no way I can show you what's going to happen next...I'm not allowed to show the next events to anyone." He said. "I'm...forbidden to do it."

"By who?" I asked, "I'm sure it can't be that bad, and if you don't want to show it to me because you're afraid I'm not going to love you anymore, you really don't need to worry about that..."

"By the Authority himself. After this all happened, I had a dream where he told me, 'For breaking the second Sacred Rule of Heaven, you, Hikari Roxas, will die in the most painful way imaginable.' From then on, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't recreate the image of what I did." He shook his head. "I still remember what I did, however.."

"Then tell me what you did." I said, then added, "You don't have to go into detail..."

"I killed you, your parents, your sister, the Towa no Shirube, the Eien no Tobira, and then I used all of my divinity to revive you, your sister, and your parents." I nodded, but I didn't really get it. But when I just thought of what I just saw, I suddenly felt very lonely, betrayed and torn.

And for the life of me, I honestly couldn't remember why.