Chapter 11

Sorry for the lack of updates, have been busy with school and getting kicked in the ass by my calculus class. But instead of hearing my ranting against the school system, here's chapter 11. Enjoy!

Rain looked around uncomfortably in the darkness. He had never been too fond of the dark, the only reason he was not freaking out was that he had spent so much time near it. The heartless world was completely surrounded in darkness, but not to the point that he couldn't see in front of him. This room was pitch black. Rain suddenly had an idea. Placing out his hands he began to feel the ceiling again, trying to find the button. Surely he could control how much the door opened, he would only open it a little so some light could get in. As his hands searched he felt something. Confident it was the button he pressed it, and a bright light flashed in front of his eyes. The heartless gave a startled cry and fell backward, clutching at his eyes. As his eyes began to adjust to the light, he looked up and saw that the ceiling was suddenly throwing out sunlight. He frowned and reached up to touch the light, and flinched back as he felt an intense heat.

(Strange. Well at least I have light.) He said happily.

"Dock Officer, how are the shields?"

"Sir, shields are at thirty percent power, I'm not sure we can…"

There was a loud rumble throughout the ship as the vessel shook.

"Engineers what the hell was that?!"

One of the engineers looked up with a pale face, "Sir, they dropped a payload. It got through the shields."

"Shit, contact the guards in section forty, have them stop the breach, send out an alarm to the panic rooms! We need to be ready."

"Damn, couldn't even be in the general vicinity. Oh, we know the way, we won't get lost. Complete bullshit."

An alarm sounded catching Robin by surprise.

"All personal, be warned a payload has been dropped. Repeat, payload has been dropped."

Robin slapped her face, "They probably don't even know what a payload is. Wait, calm down Robin, they went over it the week before, don't panic. Besides, they can't be that stupid to have forgotten already."

"Kevin what's a payload again?" Mara asked.

"I don't know, beats me." He replied shrugging.

As Robin rounded the corner, she heard metal clanging. Peeking around the corner she saw two seniors and there jutting out of the wall was the payload, a shuttle with an open entrance which heartless were streaming out of. She looked and saw that one of the keybladers was completely surrounded by heartless; the other was slashing through the mob attempting to get through to his comrade.

Robin took a deep breath, and jumped out, calling to her keyblade. A sinister black and purple blade appeared in her hand. She swung it in the air and a black arch of energy fired toward the group of heartless cutting those down caught in its path. This was enough to distract the heartless around the keyblader and allowing her to escape. The three stood side by side and faced the mob. There was a slight pause before the many heartless charged forward. The trio swung their blades, slicing heartless left and right until soon the corridor was empty. The two turned to her and the male spoke, "Thank you for your help, but you need to get to a panic room junior."

"I'm looking for two fish, they were supposed to meet me near the red room, but they didn't show, you haven't seen them, have you?"

"I'm sorry to say we haven't, we came from sector forty and saw no sign of them."

The girl spoke up, "We would like to help, but other breaches have occurred. We need to cover those areas."

They then ran around Robin and ran down a corner, disappearing from sight.

Robin sighed, chose a hallway, and continued on.

"This is going just great!"

"Shh, Kevin, they'll hear us!"

Kevin and Mara looked around the corner yet again and saw the same wyvern heartless guarding the hallway.

Kevin began to pace, "Dammit, nothings there! Are they retarded or something! Retarded fucking heartless."

"They sense us Kevin, and once we get our blades, they kill us in an instant. We need to wait until they leave."

"We can take them down Mara, it's not like there two hundred of them, there are only two, we have a fair fight."

"I don't know Kevin, what if they call…"

"They won't if we take them out fast enough! Now are you with me, or do I go out alone."

Mara frowned, "Fine."

"Okay, one…two…now!"

Both ran out and jumped up to the flying heartless. While the heartless had been caught by surprise, they had quick reflexes and flew up causing the warriors to miss their targets. One of the wyverns raised its head and let out a loud screech.

"Shit!"

"Run!"

As they raced down the hallway two shadows sprang up, blocking their way. Five air pirates appeared as well as two wizards.

"Um, Kevin? What do we do?"

Kevin frowned and held out his hand, his blade appearing in it a second later. He quickly got into his battle position, "We fight!"

As Robin continued down the hallway, she heard the sounds of battle. Her face froze, "Oh…please don't be…". Without another thought she raced down the hallway and saw Kevin and Mara on the their last leg, pretty much beaten into submission.

"Oh no Robin, you won't be a babysitter, you get to stay on the ship, nothing bad happens on the ship. When I get back Julias, oh you're going to get your ass kicked."

2 minutes later….

"…oh you get to rest all the time. There's no work involved at all my ass." She looked behind her and frowned, "Hurry up."

Mara and Kevin were following behind, sporting bruises and cuts. "Can't we…"

"No, ya'll are going to the medical center, now! Hurry up, we don't want to get ambushed!"

Mara and Kevin groaned as they trudged after Robin.

Rain sighed as he looked around, there was nothing for the heartless to do. He would have opened the door already, but Robin told him not to, so he didn't. He pulled his knees to his chest and wondered what he could do, he wasn't tired, so sleep was not an option. As he looked around yet again, he heard sounds outside. Rain paused and pressed up against the door, trying to hear what was going on, as first he heard noises, talking, and then cries of surprise. Rain pushed back from the door as he heard steel clanging against the walls and high pitched noises. The noise quickly died down and Rain approached the door yet again, he was pretty sure that whatever was out there was gone now. He groped around until he found the button and pressed it, the door whooshed open and light beamed in. Rain squinted his eyes and looked around, two warriors were on the ground; their bodies were not moving. As Rain reached for the button to close the door a black shape reached in and grabbed him by the throat pushing him against a wall in the small room.

(Well, well, well, if it isn't the traitor!)

Rain tried to break free of the grip but the shadow's hand tightened its hold, (Oh Rain, everyone died in the battle, everyone but you, so how come you're alive and well on a ship belonging to the light?)

The hand squeezed tighter, (You won't have time to answer I'm afraid, because I now will end you here and now.)

Rain twisted his face away, (Oh Rain, always scared, always whimpering at each order given to him, I am doing you a favor by ending your existence. Be sure to thank me.)

Rain struggled for freedom, (P-please Decimus. D-don't…), the hand squeezed harder, (Now, you will join your comrades in oblivion and face their wrath.) The shadow pulled back its hand ready to thrust it into the neoshadow's chest when it screamed and disappeared into a black mist. Rain looked up and saw a black blade where the shadow had been. Robin crouched down, "Rain, let's get you back to the cells, the battle's over."

Rain sat there, too shocked to move. Robin sighed and reached out to Rain, "Come on, the lockdown will end soon, and trust me, you don't want a good fifty apprentices slicing and dicing your body."

Rain looked up and grabbed Robin's hand pulling himself out of the room. Instead of heading back the way they came, they walked to a different door and Robin pushed a button on the wall, the door opened and Robin pushed Rain inside. Once both were in, Robin looked at rows of buttons that were inside the room and pushed one, the doors closed and opened, but to a different location. Rain looked around amazed, (How?)

"Teleportation system, can get you anywhere on the ship. It was shut down during the battle, to prevent heartless from spreading around the ship. Now just follow me."

Although Rain did not know where they were, all he did was follow Robin and pretty soon they had found the path that they took when running to- well, wherever they were going. As they walked in the older woman was in the room again, reading her book. "Alright heartless, back in the cage."

Rain nodded his head and stepped inside, the door was locked behind him.

Rain looked around, (Um, where's Mara?)

"She's in the clinic."

(The what?)

"It's a place you go when you're injured."

(She's hurt!?)

"Relax, minor bruises and cuts. She'll be out once we land at the academy."

Rain nodded his head again and sat down.

Robin turned to Ms. Pollock, "So, how far are we off?"

Ms. Pollock shrugged, "About a good two hours."

"Okay." As she turned to leave, Ms. Pollock grabbed her. "Oh no you don't, just because you're a junior doesn't mean you're exempt from guard duty. Now no leaving this room."

Robin sighed and grabbed a chair, an extremely annoyed look on her face.

"Not my problem that you decided to spy and see what was hiding in here. You know the saying, curiosity makes the keyblader work when she could play."

Robin groaned and dropped her head, "This is so going to be the longest two hours of my life!"