Chapter 10: Xaldin
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"Xaldin. You are next," Saix said.
The whirlwind lancer cringed in disgust at the task set forth for him, but approached in a slow walk towards his superiors. The dusk in charge of dumping water on him whimpered and shrank back as he approached, till he noticed the death glare Saix was giving it before it yelped and rushed to get the bucket ready. It grasped the bucket with it's snake-like arms and whooshed up to the beam above, careful not to spill any water.
"Are you ready, Xaldy," the-ever-trolling Xigbar asked ever so sweetly. Xaldin grimaced and glared at him.
"Shut up before I stab you with my lances," he threatened and Xigbar stepped away quickly. Six lances stuck all over his body= not good. The dusk, already becoming impatient despite having no emotions to feel with, immediately poured the water down on Xaldin.
The result was explosive.
Xaldin screamed, no, roared out in a mixture of shock and, well not exactly pain, but, let's say agony. For a second there, he became even more ferocious then the Beast. He was a black, dread-locked monster. His lances came out, all six lilac ones and he grasped three in each hand.
Wind suddenly began to blow from behind those who were looking straight at them. It grew harder and harder till the two keybearers had to lean on Axel, who was struggling a bit himself, to keep from flying forward towards the angry lancer. To make matters worse, sand began to be picked up in the air, forcing the Nobodies to closer their mouths and eyes to resist getting them stuck in.
If you were anyone standing away from the Nobodies and were on, say, a roof, you would had seen a swirling cyclone of wind and sand, much like a sandstorm. A few people, not necessarily on roofs mind you, saw the sand flying in the air and rushed into their homes or sought some shelter, hoping that the sudden sandstorm would pass without them getting caught in it. Xaldin roared again and the wind became even faster. the other Nobodies flipped up their hoods to avoid the wind lashing their cheeks. The dug their feet into the ground to avoid being pulled to the center if the winds, an extremely 'angry' Xaldin.
Suddenly, BAM!
The winds stopped immediately and a fair amount of sand suddenly plopped to the ground, since there was nothing holding it up. Everyone turned to a dizzy Xaldin lying on the ground, still with his lances, with a smirking Xigbar standing above him with Zexion's thick book in his hands.
"Haha, now it's your turn to eat sand, Xaldy," he teased mercilessly. Xaldin turned his face up and spat out some sand and narrowed his eyes as he heard Xigbar laughing even harder. Zexion walked over and snatched his book back from the sniper.
"Give it," he said before hugging his book to his chest. Xigbar lifted his hands up in laughing defeat.
"Ha, you treat that book like its a teddy bear or something," he heckled. Zexion sighed irritably when he suddenly turned his head to the shadow rising up behind Xigbar. He smiled.
"Xaldin," he replied cooly. Xigbar's lone eye widened in fear and he slowly turned around to face Xaldin. He lifted one of his hands up and waved slowly at him.
"Hi, uh, Xaldin. You doing okay," he asked quietly. Xaldin was not, by any definitions, okay. He was still partially wet and when he fell down, sand had stuck onto his face, hair in clothing and he was covered in the burnt-sienna and orange-tan grains. He was breathing heavily and looked super enraged. Oh, and did I mention he still had his lances on hands?
"Heh heh. Well I suppose I should really get out of here!" He screamed as the first lance came flying towards him. Xigbar leapt out of the way before it hit him, but unfortunately, the dusk that had dunked Xadin before was destroyed. Xaldin charged after Xigbar, forcing the rest of the Nobodies to move quickly out of the way and press themselves against the walls as Xigbar and Xaldin ran out of sight.
"Saix. Summon another dusk," Xemnas ordered. Saix nodded and from a portal in the ground came another dusk, exactly like the one before it.
"Man, Xigbar sure is getting a workout from all the chasing that's been going around," Axel remarked as he let the keybearers out of his arms.
"Thirty munny Xigbar gets stabbed," Luxord said.
"Forty says that Xigbar leaved Xaldin behind in the dust," Marluxia replied. The two Nobodies shook their hands together in agreement while everyone else just turned back to the leaders, already choosing through the last four slips of paper.
Who was it going to be next?
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