Chapter 10: Eden in Eden-FINALE ( www . youtube . com/watch?v=UYIAfiVGluk&feature=av2n)

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Darkness. Just that much could be comprehended by Zexion and Denex.

There was no telling if they had escaped.

Where are we? Denex thought, her eyes blinking open.

What the hell is going on? Zexion thought, his eye opening quickly.

Wait. Something's not right here.

Denex jumped up and looked around. Zexion was nowhere to be seen. She was completely alone, and she didn't even know where she was.

As she turned around, a path lit up in front of her, but she couldn't tell how. There was no floor or ceiling, and there were no walls. But yet, she seemed to be able to stand and move around in this strange darkness. And she could walk. So she did.

Zexion began to walk forward, looking around him. Denex was absolutely nowhere near him. He glanced to his left.

"...Denex...?" he murmured.

No. It was not her. But this girl he was seeing...looked a lot like her. Her face, and her eyes... But this girl had pretty red hair, and she seemed extremely confident, surrounded by her friends, both male and female. In fact, she was mostly surrounded by guys.

Zexion tried to call out to her, but she couldn't hear him. None of them could.

Denex looked at the young man to her right. He was quite attractive, with his pretty navy eyes and wavy blonde hair. He was dancing-more like spinning around-with a girl with long, black hair. She looked incredibly fit-very skinny, though-and extremely pretty...then Denex realized it, only because she was once one herself. This girl was a model.

Zexion stared at this red-headed girl, unable to keep his eyes off of her. She was beautiful, what with her pale, ivory skin and light blue eyes. Wait...those eyes...

"...Eden...?"

Denex watched the couple dance around like idiots. They were obviously intoxicated in some way or another. The girl especially had a wild, vivacious look in her dark, dark eyes.

After watching them dance for a while, Denex got bored and continued walking. Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she saw the couple teeter past her, and they toppled on top of a couch. She froze, stunned; she was not expecting this...

He wouldn't have! she thought, watching the two young people kiss. He's gotta be, like, fifteen!

This can't be Eden...! Zexion thought as he watched the girl swig down her fourth can of beer. Obviously wasted, she stroked the underside of one of the guys' chin. Letting out a shaky sigh, Zexion walked on briskly.

OH MY GOSH!

Denex felt her fingers gradually go numb from clutching them with the opposite hand.

He was just like me! she screamed in her mind as she watched the X-rated scene unfold before her. Is this what Axel meant earlier...? Because...because this is Ienzo!

I'm ignoring you, Zexion wanted to say to the scenes around him, showing Eden with guy after guy with sticky situation after sticky situation. He couldn't believe it...he didn't want to. Eden was just like him...only he had gone too far.

Denex ran on to another scene with the same couple. The guy's right eye was a strange, pale color...the frozen eye. His role was immediately locked in as Ienzo. As for the girl, there was only one new thing about her: she was definitely pregnant.

She and Ienzo were arguing in his kitchen. He was cutting up something for dinner or something, back to her. She was obviously screaming at him.

Suddenly, he turned around and yelled back, taking the fight to the next level. And then, without warning, he jabbed the knife straight into the girl's stomach. He pulled it out quickly, and the girl did nothing at first. She just glared at him with wet, stormy eyes.

"NO!" Denex cried, running away.

"NO!" Zexion shouted, staring at Eden's trapped, bleeding body. Her arm tumbled out from between the steering wheel and her body, hanging limply, while blood poured out of the car. What a way to die... Unable to bear looking at the sight anymore, he ran.

Denex didn't dare look at the scene of Ienzo's death. She knew how it happened.

Suddenly they saw each other at opposite sides of a "room." Both completely distraught and stricken with emotion, they were finally able to understand just how similar they really were.

So they ran to each other.

Eden's Pov

He was like Axel said! He was...like me!

"Are you okay?" Zexion murmured into my ear as we embraced. He sounded upset; had he seen my past as I had seen his?

"You...you couldn't have...!"

"It's not all what you think," he said quickly.

I didn't believe him.

I should've.

Suddenly, with no explanation, he pushed me away from him, and all I saw was a white light for a moment. I went numb, and the next thing I knew, I was falling. And when I looked at Zexion, he was too. His face matched my own, at a high probability.

We hit the floor at the same time. For a minute, all I could do was look at him, lying there, completely helpless. He just stared back, his one eye wide. What was this strange place that we were probably going to die in? I still do not know.

With the small amount of strength I had left, my limp arm tried to reach out to him, and he tried as well. But we were just the right distance apart that we couldn't reach each other.

He froze.

No...I don't...want to lose you... I thought, a genuine tear falling down my cheek. The last thing I saw was Zexion's beautiful navy eye closing.

"Who are you?"

Denex weakly opened her eyes, her entire body numb.

"Are you okay?"

She lifted her head to see two teenage girls hovering over her.

"What...where am I?" she asked, pushing herself up slowly. She looked around.

"You're all wet," one of the girls pointed out. She had light colored hair that flipped out at the ends. The other girl had red hair and pretty blue eyes. "Did you swim out here?"

"..."

Denex didn't answer. She couldn't remember swimming. In fact, she couldn't remember anything really.

"No," she finally replied.

"You must've washed up on shore," the other girl said, pulling Denex up. "Why don't you come with us? We'll get you dried off and settled."

"Thanks," Denex mumbled, and the three of them began to walk.

"By the way, I'm Selphie!" the girl with flipped-out hair exclaimed about a minute after walking away from the beach.

"And I'm Kairi," the other girl said.

"Kairi...!"

Denex stopped in her tracks. She recognized that name...but from where?

"...Do you know a guy named Riku?" she asked Kairi hesitantly.

"Riku! You mean you know him, too?"

Without responding, Denex ran off.

My name is Eden Alexandria McClain, and I'm eighteen years old. I died in a car accident and was kidnapped from my dorm room. I was forced into an Organization of Nobodies and I was sexually attacked twice. I befriended a fifteen year old named Riku, who came from Destiny Islands. One of the members made a replica of him, and...and...shoot! What am I missing?

She stopped at the seashore, staring in concentration.

How did I end up here...? she asked herself. That replica tried to kill me and...and-!

"Hey! Wait up!" Kairi and Selphie called out.

"NO!" Eden gasped, feeling tears clogging her throat.

"No, what?" Selphie asked, panting as she caught up to Eden.

"He's..."

Cupping her hands to her mouth, Eden shouted for him. But he never appeared.

She tried to open a portal, but she couldn't.

Damn, my heart is pounding-!

Putting a hand to her chest, she felt the steady rhythm of a heartbeat.

"Who were you calling for?" Kairi asked. "And how do you know Riku? Is he doing alright?"

...Zexion...is gone.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"

Zexion's one working eye shot open at the sound of that familiar voice. He jumped to his feet, surprisingly alert for just having come to.

"Where am I?" Zexion shouted into the air.

Someone in an Organization robe appeared before him.

"Does it really matter?" he asked Zexion. "It's not like you can escape."

"How...how long have I been here?"

"Ehhhh, two hours, maybe? I dunno. I've been here three months." The Nobody shrugged. "Once again, does it really matter?"

"...!"

He realized it then that she was gone. There was no mocking voice in the background. No trembling hand clutching his.

"Where's Denex?" he shouted.

"Psh, if I knew, you wouldn't be here right now, trust me," the Nobody replied, chuckling. "But hey, while you're here, you don't mind doing some dirty work for me, do ya?"

"You're a traitor and you know it!"

A hand met Zexion's face, causing him to fall back against the wall.

"And look who came out on top! Well, then, fine. If you don't wanna help, then , P.O.W.!"

Axel unhooded himself, laughing.

"Enjoy your stay. And I'm not just torturing you because I hate you. I'm torturing you because you're a Nobody, and I can get away with it."

Axel left the room, and suddenly chains bound themselves around the exit door.

"Damn it!" Zexion shouted. "Denex..."

His head was pounding in time with his heart...

Wait, time out.

"I can't...?"

What was that place...? he wondered, rubbing the side of his neck. ...I...have a heart?

THE END YO.