A Journey to Find Myself

Chapter 10

Preparations Soiled

Selphie's POV

My head hurt from the amount of sugar I had to burn off, which would last me for the rest of the day. Demyx and Emma both had to carry the unconscious Amara to the benches. It was a straining effort because of Amara's wings but they eventually sat her against a tree. Axel awoke, seeming to be hardly as much injured as Amara and he limped over to a tree, as far away from Amara as he could get.

"Selphie and Wakka, your next." Mr. Strife said. I skipped to the battle field, my energy bubbling while Wakka just dawdled up there. I summoned my skipping rope and held it ready in my hands, waiting for Wakka to act.

Wakka summoned a blue and white ball, the size of his head, into his hands. He spun it on his fingers before holding it steady.

I began by starting to skip, everything around me slowing. Wakka was trying to watch me carefully as I skipped around him. He began to spin, poison building up around him in a green aura. I hit him with my rope and backed away, he seemed confused as his attack was stopped.

He tried six more times to get it to work but I continually stopped him. Then he just stared at me, or where he thought I was. I just watched him for any sudden movements.

Suddenly I was thrown back by his blue and white ball, a blitzball I think he called it. Before I hit the ground, I wrapped my rope around his leg and he fell as well.

I heard Shay giggle from the bench but it was cut short by Mr. Strife's demanding voice.

"Good spar next is Demyx and Emma."

I got up painfully, as well as Wakka, as Demyx and Emma walked up to the battlefield, almost afraid to fight each other.

Emma's POV

I didn't want to fight Demyx. We'd been going out for three months and we'd always stayed together. The thought of hitting him made me want to scream but it needed to be done, we needed to improve our powers.

Demyx looked sympathetically to me and whispered in my ear a short "sorry." He summoned his sitar and looked to me, waiting for my next move.

I summoned a bow equip with arrows, the tips swimming with Water.

Demyx stung some tunes from his sitar and large, watery objects bounced and jumped around. I strung back my bow and struck them, they seemed to be multiplying by the second though and my attempts were futile.

An idea struck my mind. I aimed my bow just over Demyx's shoulder and shot an arrow, being careful not to shoot him in the process.

His attention waned and his watery objects dispersed. I kicked him behind his knees he fell to the ground. When he hit the ground he sent a whip of water to trip me, which I blocked unsuccessfully and fell face first into the dirt.

As soon as Mr. Strife was about to call us over, the doors were blown open. In crawled the Heartless, thousands of their black bodies swarming inside the training ground.

"Come on! It's started sooner then we thought!" Mr. Strife yelled over to his pupils. He summoned a large buster sword wrapped in bandages and charged his opponents. Mr. Hatire changed into his Thunder elemental and struck down numerous foes with his lightening.

Axel, Amara, Shay, Zexion, Kairi, Sora, Selphie, Wakka, Tidus, Naminè, Demyx and I all retreated to the back corner to figure out a game plan.

"We should all separate into the groups Mr. Strife put us in." Demyx said to the large group. Reluctantly for some, they all nodded.

Axel and Amara ran off to the left and into the trees, Shay and Zexion ran to the right near the benches, Kairi and Sora stayed near the back but attacked with range attacks, Selphie and Wakka charged through the middle, Tidus guarded Naminè as she searched through the Heartless' minds and killed them mentally, leaving them helpless and Demyx and I rode on a bubble of water over the fight and sent down water at any who seemed suspicious.

The battle finished questionably quickly. With little to no battle wounds, everyone met near the benches.

"We must act quickly. There will no doubt be more break outs and we must be prepared to move." Mr. Hatire said. He rolled out a map of the school. "Axel, Amara, you'll move in through the already broken Lunch Room window; Demyx and Emma, you'll go in through the front doors, Shay and Zexion, you will come in through the schools greenhouse, Naminè and Tidus will go through the back doors with Selphie and Wakka. Kairi and Sora, you will go through the emergency window in the History classroom. Everyone, you need to somehow get to Gym 1, where me will most likely find the most Heartless but we will also find Riku and stop the spread of the creatures. Once you find him, try and distract him until everyone is there. Mr. Strife and I will try and keep the Heartless away from you. Any Heartless inside is your problem."

We all walked out of the training room. My heart was pounding in my chest.

One mistake… and I could die… I thought, looking to all the teenagers. They all shared the same face. I may never see them again, and some I've only met for awhile and I feel like I've known them or a long time.

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Amara's POV

"Axel, I'll fly you in through the window. Be prepared for a fight. When I broke the window, there were teams of Heartless in there. It would be wise if you get your weapons out, in case they're still there." Amara whispered to him from behind the bush they were hiding behind. We were the last ones to go in and we needed a plan.

Axel summoned his chakrams into his hands and nodded approvingly.

My wings protruded from my back, cutting my skin, sending black blood down my back. I stood and grabbed Axel's arm as I flew into the air.

My wings found their rhythm and we were soon at the broken window, with no signs of the small black beasts. I flew cautiously into the window, careful not to cut my wings on the broken glass.

I dropped Axel over a table, which he landed on steadily. The Lunch Room was deserted, no sign of the Heartless. Axel looked to the place where I was hovering in the air and raised and eyebrow. I shrugged back and flew over to the broken door and looked inside. The hallways were empty, to my confusion.

"There are none... where are they?" Axel said, more to himself. He heard a small squeak from above him and looked up in horror.

Millions of Heartless were all on the ceiling, none of the white of the paint was seen. I checked the ceiling of the hallway to find it too was covered in the beasts.

"Come here!" I yelled and jumped into the air, grabbing Axel's arm and flying through the broken door. Some of the Heartless jumped of the ceiling and scratched and clawed at my skin. I yelped as one of the beasts cut one of my muscles and I nearly ran head-on into the wall.

In the rush to Gym 2, I noticed that every one of the ceilings were crawling with Heartless. A Heartless had finally gathered some brains, to the expense of me, and cut into my back.

I screamed in pain as I collided with Gym 2's door, taking Axel with me...