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Roxas's last appearance :( I'm sad
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Chapter 8: Tears of a Nobody
Roxas raced through Twilight Town. He kept hearing DiZ's voice in his head telling him to go to Twilight Town. His whole life was perfect until he was told he wasn't supposed to exist, that this wasn't his life. He wasn't whole in this fake world.
'All of this…I'll be able to find out everything once I get to the mansion,' Roxas panted as he kept running. 'I have to know the truth! Who I am? Where I came from? Who is this Sora person?!'
The boy stopped in his tracks seeing Dusks surround him. In a blaze of light, Roxas made the Kingdom Key appear in his hands. He tightly held the keyblade which chose him for some reason.
"Outta my way!" Roxas yelled swinging his keyblade at the Dusks and kept running until he reached the Twilight Town mansion.
Roxas looked at the lock on the gate and tried opening it. He groaned in frustration as the lock didn't open.
"Don't call me here and lock me out!" Roxas cried out. He then turned around seeing the Dusks corner him. "Just great…"
"Roxas!" Levina called to him swinging her keyblade at the Dusks.
"Thanks…" Roxas smiled.
"We'll take care of them." Lira froze one of the Dusks in place and swung her sword at the frozen Nobody.
Roxas smiled at them and backed away as more Dusks appeared to bring him back to the Organization. The pale creatures were suddenly vanquished when another keyblade struck them. It was Riku. He was still possessed by Ansem, but was able to maintain his powers in wielding the keyblade. He held his Way to Dawn keyblade tightly.
"You're…" Roxas stammered as he saw Riku helping him. All this time he thought Riku was the one causing trouble for him and his friends.
"Go!" Riku ordered Roxas.
"But I don't have a key to unlock this gate…" Roxas then looked down at the keyblade. "Maybe…" It was as if he had done this before, Roxas raised the keyblade to the locked door and it opened. "It opened…"
"Roxas wait for us!" Levina called to her friend. She and Lira raced behind Roxas while Riku fought off the Dusks.
Once inside the mansion, the three discovered the mansion wasn't in any use. It seemed as though no one lived here. The furniture was covered up with white sheets, there was dusk everywhere, and cobwebs hanging around the walls and ceilings.
'Did Naminé know that I'd be here?' Roxas wondered.
"There doesn't seem to be anyone here." Lira said.
"This place is so empty." Levina added. She saw Roxas going up the steps of the empty mansion. "Wait…" She quietly followed him with Lira close in tow. "Why'd you come to this place?" She asked.
Roxas turned around and looked her. "I was told that I'd get answers here." He said.
"Answers to what?" Lira asked.
"Who I am." Roxas answered heading into the white room where Naminé was supposed to be.
"Roxas…" Levina lightly frowned following him inside. "Does it really matter who you are?" She asked. "You're a good friend and kind hearted person."
Roxas looked down a little. "Yeah, but with no memory at all of a life I was supposed to have or should be living."
"I know what that's like…" Levina sighed remembering how she had forgotten her friends when she was the Organization's prisoner. She looked at all the drawings plastered around the walls. They were all of Roxas or more so, his life and who he was.
"These are all drawings of you." Lira said looking closely at the drawings.
Roxas lowered his head. 'I wish she didn't draw these…' He thought looking at all the drawings. They were fragmented memories of his life in the Organization. There was even a drawing of him, Axel, and another girl who resembled Kairi and Naminé. 'Who is that girl?' He thought hard trying to remember Xion, but wasn't able to.
"Your mind's made up?" Axel asked.
"Why did the keyblade choose me?" Roxas said to him. "I have to know." He told his friend and kept on walking.
"You can't turn your back on the Organization!" Axel yelled. "You get on their bad side and they'll destroy you!"
Hearing this Roxas stopped.
"You'll go despite this!?" Axel asked.
"No one will miss me," Roxas replied. "Am I right? We're all Nobodies…right from the start." He held his keyblade tightly. "It didn't matter if we were happy or hurt, we couldn't feel it anyway. We only wanted to feel it…and in the end we can't without a heart."
"That's…!" Axel watched as Roxas made a dark corridor appear. He watched as his only friend in the Organization left him. "…Not true." He lowered his head and sighed. "I'll miss you…"
Roxas held his head slightly at the vague memory that he had recalled. "The….Organization…," He said slowly causing Levina and Lira to look at him. "Organization 13…"
"Roxas?" Levina asked. "Are you alright?"
"You don't look so good," Lira told him. "We should leave."
"Did you remember something?" Naminé asked.
The three of them looked over at the blonde haired girl sitting completely relaxed in the white chair.
This was the first time Levina ever saw Naminé. The blonde haired girl was kindly smiling at her.
"You're…" Levina said slowly looking at Naminé. "Who are you?" She asked.
Naminé smiled. "My name is Naminé." She introduced herself to Levina.
Levina smiled back. "I'm Levina."
"I'm just relieved I didn't take any part in restoring your memory," She said politely. "I wouldn't want to put you in any danger." She then looked at Lira. "Did you find your friend?" She asked.
Lira said nothing, Images of Zack floated into her head. She had no time to think about him, but her heart knew that something devastating must have happened to him after all these years. There was no way she would be able to find him.
Roxas looked at the blonde girl asking her, "What am I supposed to do?"
A small sigh escaped Naminé's lips. Xion asked her the same question before destiny laid her path in front of her. "Everyone is waiting for the key bearer." She said. "You need to go wake Sora and –"The girl lowered her eyes to her sketchbook. She knew that if Sora would be awake, Roxas wouldn't be here anymore.
"And?" Roxas asked.
Before Naminé could speak, DiZ appeared through a corridor of darkness.
"What are you doing?!" DiZ demanded.
"You're…" Roxas began and saw Naminé disappear right in front of him. "Bring her back!"
"She wasn't here to begin with, boy." DiZ told him.
'I don't think he's working for the Organization.' Lira thought closely looking at DiZ. 'Maybe the Organization is working for him?' She assumed by looking at DiZ and the power he was capable of.
DiZ looked at Roxas. "The answers you will seek are in the library." He told him.
"No! Bring Naminé back!" Roxas roared. "We were talking!"
DiZ ignored Roxas's request. "Go before I lose my paietnce with you and wipe you out for good!"
"What?!" Roxas exclaimed.
Just then Naminé appeared from another corridor of darkness. "Roxas!" She yelled running over to him grabbing the front of his shirt to get his attention.
"Naminé!" Roxas looked at her.
DiZ scowled. "Do you want to disappear so badly?!" He asked Roxas.
"You won't disappear!" Naminé told Roxas as DiZ pulled her away from the boy.
Seeing this Lira and Levina held their weapons in their hands.
"Do not be foolish and think you can strike me." DiZ told them. "Unless of course you want to endure the same pitiful fate as Roxas."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Levina roared angrily holding her keyblade.
"There is so much to comprehend," DiZ replied. "You understand so little."
"Roxas! You'll be whole!" Naminé shouted to Roxas. "You won't disappear!" She told him as DiZ clamped his hand over the small girl's mouth. Roxas wasn't supposed to know any of this, his plans would be a waste if the boy knew the truth. DiZ dragged her to a dark corridor. "Don't forget, we'll meet again!"
"You aren't getting away!" Lira leaped in the air and swung her sword, but DiZ had already disappeared with Naminé.
'Disappear?' Roxas thought gloomily.
DiZ carelessly threw Naminé into a small cell. "Your usefulness has ended," He told her. "Stay in there until I decide what to do with you." He lightly scowled at the girl. 'Riku was supposed to do dispose of you.' He thought.
As if on cue, Riku appeared in front of DiZ.
"I thought I told you to dispose of Naminé!" DiZ yelled.
"I'm not going to do that," Riku told him. "If you want her erased, then do it yourself." He looked at the man in front of him. "We've got bigger problems on our hands right now. There are too many Nobodies."
DiZ looked at the computer screen in front of him seeing Dusks filling up Twilight Town. They were looking for Roxas. "They are making one last move," He said staring at the screen. Organization 13 would never be able to get to Roxas, he would make sure of that. To this revelation, DiZ let out a laugh. It wasn't a laughter of happiness or insanity, but it caused Riku to question whose side he should really be on. "HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO SEE THE PRELUDE TO MY REVENGE!" He screamed.
'Revenge?' Riku thought.
Roxas, Levina, and Lira found themselves in the library of the Twilight Town mansion.
"Why did he tell me to come here?" Roxas thought out loud.
"Look." Levina saw one of the bookcases open up and pull back to reveal a secret passage way.
"That's a little cliché." Lira said. "What's next a giant computer at the bottom?" She snorted.
"It's leading down into the cellar…" Roxas said walking down the hidden steps. Once reaching the bottom of the steps the three of them saw a large computer. It was monitoring everything, from the moment Roxas woke up on his first day in this alternate Twilight Town.
The closer Roxas got to the computer his head began to throb. The memories he had abandoned from his life as an Organization member began flooding his head.
"Ah!" Roxas screamed in agony.
"Roxas…!" Leavina ran to him. "What's the matter?"
"M-My head…!" Roxas struggled raising his keyblade at the computer as he began to remember everything. All his memories were coming back to him.
"Good tidings friends," Xemnas spoke his Organization. "Today marks a momentous day, I am pleased to announced that a new comrade has been chosen to wear the coat.
Roxas stood in front of the Organization.
The members of Organization 13 curiously stared and grinned looking down at the small boy.
"Let us all welcome the keyblade's chosen… Xemnas said.
'Why me?' Roxas thought. 'Why did the keyblade choose me?''
More memories began pouring into his head.
"Roxas…" Levina looked at the boy in worry.
"Snap out of it!" Lira growled at the boy.
Roxas continued holding his head as another wave of memories flooded his mind.
"Why do you have the keyblade!?" Riku yelled.
"Like I'd know!" Roxas yelled launching at Riku again.
Riku blocked Roxas from hitting him. 'He's strong,' Riku observed. 'Her powers and Sora's memories…' He noticed Roxas take up a similar fighting stance to Xion. 'Could they have gathered within Roxas's body…?'' The Oblivion keyblade was suddenly knocked out of Riku's hand and reappeared in Roxas's hands.
"What's wrong Sora?" Riku taunted. "I thought you were better than that. Giving up already?"
"Huh?" Roxas panted hard catching his breath. "Get real!" He sneered angrily just like Sora. "Look which one of us is winning!" Roxas touched his mouth realizing what he had just said.
'So it's true…' Riku thought. 'He really is Sora's Nobody.'
"I'm not Sora…!" Roxas yelled. "I'm me!" He screamed running at Riku. "Nobody else!"
DiZ and Riku took Roxas to a secret room in the Twilight Town's mansion. This was where DiZ was monitoring everything, from Organization 13 to Sora.
"Naminé hopes we can squeeze in a little more time before Sora's memories are completely restored," DiZ said as he sat by his computer. "Until then we will transplant new memories to him…" He looked at the unconscious Roxas as he sat by a teleport machine which was hooked up to the computer. "And let him live in a simulated Twilight Town."
"That will throw off his pursuers – The organization." Riku asked as he spoke in Ansem Seeker of Darkness's voice.
"Once the time is ripe," DiZ Said. "We can dispose of him."
Riku looked at Roxas. "Poor thing."
"It is the fate of a Nobody," DiZ replied. "It is a luxury for him to live in a dream before his end – there is nothing better," He typed a few commands on the computer and Roxas slowly became digitized and transported with false memories into a fake simulation of Twilght Town.
In a fit of rage, Roxas let out an angry yell and smashed the computer in front of him with his keyblade.
"It was all a lie!" Roxas screamed. "I never had anything to begin with!" He continued smashing the computer until the machine couldn't function anymore.
Levina and Lira looked at Roxas in concern.
Roxas huffed catching his breath. He looked at Levina and Lira realizing who he really was. "Nobodies…," He panted. "Born between light and darkness…" He told them. "Beings that never were…" He said remembering the first day he was born. "One day I was born…outside this mansion…" He squeezed his eyes shut tightly trying to hide the tears that were in his eyes. "I felt nothing…everything was a blank." He had remembered what Xemnas had told him on his first day. Xemnas said he could give Roxas a purpose and meaning to his life. "So I was given a name…and a black coat…" His hands holding the keyblade shook. "I even made friends….people that I could be with all the time…" He remembered Axel and a vague memory of Xion filled his head. "I thought I could make more friends…" He thought of Hayner, Pence, and Olette. "But…I was so jealous of them…," He confessed. "I wanted to be a part of what they had together. A part of their friendship…" He lowered his head quietly wiping the tears that escaped from his eyes. "But…that was nothing more than just a dream…"
"Roxas…" Levina reached to hug the confused boy.
Roxas felt Levina's arms around him and he didn't budge. Instead he shoved the girl away from him. "Leave me alone!" He yelled. "How do I know you two aren't real?! My whole life has been a lie up until now! I'm not meant to be with people or feel anything!"
Levina lowered her head as she heard Roxas say those words.
"But we're your friends…" Levina told him trying her hardest to get through to him.
Roxas held his chest where his heart was. He felt a strange feeling inside, like his heart was hurting. "My heart hurts…" He said quietly. "But I'm a Nobody…I don't have a heart…"
"You're as human as anyone else that I know." Lira said to him.
"That's right, you've got emotions and a heart, just like us." Levina added and was about to say more when Axel appeared.
"Man you really did a number on this place." Axel said as he looked at the destroyed computer.
"Axel…" Roxas looked over at his best friend. He remembered everything about his best friend.
"You remember me now?" Axel asked making his chakrams appear. "I'm SO flattered!"
Roxas went flying as a wall of flames hit him.
"No!" Levina screamed as Lira held her back away from the flames so she wouldn't get caught in the middle of Axel's attack.
Roxas held his head and gripped the keyblade in his hand.
"I told you when you first left," Axel said to him. "I wouldn't turn on the Organization, not even for you" He said flaming his chakrams again. "If I let you go I'm a dead man, that's why I have to finish you right here."
'Even Axel doesn't want me around anymore…!' Roxas thought frustrated. He balled his fists holding the Kingdom Key keyblade which then transformed into the Oblivion keyblade. "I'M NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!" He screamed and another keyblade emerged in his other hand, the Oathkeeper keyblade.
"Two!?" Axel exclaimed.
"We have to help him!" Levina exclaimed.
"As much as I'd like to see Axel get killed by me, this is between them." Lira told her.
"But…!" Levina protested watching the two friends fight.
Roxas ran at Axel with both keyblades in his hands. He charged at Axel swinging his keyblade and Axel blocked with his chakrams. He didn't want to fight Roxas, but he was having the time of his life right now, even if they were on opposite sides fighting attacking and injuring each other, they were still best friends.
"That's the sprit!" Axel grinned. "Brings back old memories doesn't it?" He set the entire perimeter where Roxas was standing on fire. "This is just like the good old days!"
Roxas leaped in the air with his keyblades in hand. "We can't go back." He told him and struck Axel with his keyblades causing him to fall over.
Seeing Axel fall over in pain as he fell, his coat was nearly ripped, Lira became concerned. "Axel…are you…" Lira shook the feeling of concern for Axel and sneered, "That's what you get for wrecking our gummi ship, you jerk!" She and Lira put the flames out with the blizzaga spell.
"Ow…" Axel groaned, but he was smiling. "That was a nice move." He looked at Roxas as he slowly disappeared into a dark corridor. "Let's meet again," He told his best friend. "In the next life."
"Yeah," Roxas said with a small smile. "I'll be waiting."
Axel smiled back at his friend. He was happy to see him again even if it was for a short time. "I'll be waiting too." He disappeared into the waiting dark void.
"You can wield two keyblades?!" Levina asked Roxas eagerly.
Roxas looked at both keyblades in his hands. "Yeah," He answered. "I don't know how I'm able to do it. But I can wield two keyblades when my heart is set on doing something."
Roxas, Levina, and Lira entered a white room. In the middle of the white room were three flower-shaped pods.
"Donald…" Roxas said seeing Donald Duck asleep in one of the pods. He then saw Goofy right next to him in another pod. "Goofy…"
Levina looked at Donald and Goofy. It was such a long time since she had seen them. The last time she saw them was with Ven on the Mysterious Tower before her life crumbled and darkness claimed her home and friends.
In the middle of the room there was a large flower shaped pod. Inside it was where Sora was asleep.
"At last," DiZ said appearing before them. "The keyblade's chosen one."
Roxas hatefully glared at DiZ. This was all his fault, the reason why he was sent to live out a fake life. "What do you want!?" The boy demanded.
"The keyblade's chosen one will awaken soon," DiZ said. "You must return your existence to him," He then said something that almost frightened Roxas. "When he awakens…you will disappear."
"What?!" Levina exclaimed looking at Roxas. "That's insane!" The girl bit her lip. She didn't want to lose another friend. She lost too many friends already. She looked at Roxas. "You don't have to listen to him Roxas! You can stay with us! We'll figure this all out together!"
But Roxas had already made up his mind. He wasn't going to continue living out a fake life with fake friends. Disappearing was much better than being in a fake world.
"Why?" Roxas asked looking at DiZ.
"Because you hold half of his power," DiZ answered. "And because you are a Nobody. You aren't meant to exist."
Roxas angrily squeezed his fists. The Oathkeeper and Oblivion keyblade disappeared in his hands and in its place was the Kingdom Key. "Who cares!" He ran at DiZ swinging the keyblade at him, but the weapon just went straight through DiZ.
"My apologies," DiZ said in mock concern. He watched in amusement as Roxas kept on trying to attack him. "This is only a data-based projection."
Roxas caught his breath panting hard. "I hate you so much!" He yelled as tears trickled down his face.
DiZ grinned. "You should share some of that anger with Sora," He said. "The boy is too kind-hearted for his own good."
"NO!" Roxas screamed. "MY HEART BELONGS TO ME!" He then suddenly saw the flower-shaped pod slowly starting to open.
"Roxas…" Levina quivered as she saw the boy fade away.
"Looks like that freak in the bandages was right." Lira said slightly dis-heartened.
Roxas looked at Sora. The boy was happily asleep in his pod. The smile on his face never left. 'I'm not supposed to feel anything.' He thought. He thought of Hayner, Pence, and Olette. 'So why am I jealous of them?' Images of Sora, Kairi, and Riku together flashed in his head. 'These images of people I've never seen keep playing in my head…' He remembered having a conversation with Axel. 'Those memories are what made me doubt myself.' He turned to Lira and Levina. 'I wanted to know what it was like to be with someone special, but I'm not allowed to know what that's like.' He looked at Sora. 'He has a keyblade too,' He thought to himself. 'His name is Sora.'
Levina looked at Sora. This was the first time she saw the spikey brown headed boy. 'He looks exactly like…,' She thought remaining still, but she smiled at the boy. 'Even if he and Vanitas share similar appearances, this boy doesn't seem like he'll hurt us.' This was the Sora everyone spoke of. The one to balance everything the darkness had done to all the worlds and people.
"You're lucky Sora," Roxas told the boy still asleep in the pod. "I was supposed to have one more day left," He knew he didn't have much time left. "Looks like my summer vacation….," The boy started to become transparent, almost non-existent. "Is over…" He disappeared as if he never belonged in this world in the first place.
Roxas come back :(
Oh well at least Sora, Donald and Goofy are awake now. Time for world exploring shenanigans :D
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