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I Am Nobody
Chapter 14
"New Mission: Track Down Namine"
"Are we almost there yet?" I ask annoyingly. Riku was silent. "Hey Fakey, did you hear me? I asked are we almost there?" I said this time more sternly to get his attention.
"What does it matter?" he shot back.
"Because we've been walking for fucking ages! I know this castle is big, but damn it shouldn't take this long!"
"Will you stop shouting at me? We're almost there!"
"I won't stop shouting until we are there!"
"Well someone's cranky." A voice said behind me.
I turned around to see none other than Axel. "Axel!" I shouted and ran to him to give him the biggest hug.
"Uh, what's gotten in to you? You sure the castle didn't get to your head." he asked very confused.
I quickly let go of him and gave him a nervous laugh. "Sorry the castle is kind of lonesome."
"Yea it can mess with your head." He smirked. He looked at the fake and gave him a simple nod. All three of us walked into the room, where the others were. Marluxia leaned against a wall, he had a frustrated expression on his face, and this can't be good. Vexen on the other hand looked off balanced and fidgety, nervous maybe? But what for? Everyone assembled in the middle of the room when I came in. In the middle was an orb where you track everybody throughout the castle. I could see Sora walking with Donald and Goofy to the next level of the castle. I looked around the room only to find someone missing.
"Where's Larxene?" I asked. I didn't really care where she was, I was just curious.
"She's dead." Marluxia said softly.
All in all, most people would think I'd be happy that she's gone and to be honest I was, but it still bothered me because as much as I hate admitting it, Larxene was a good fighter, one of the best I might add. So finding out that she's dead was quit shocking. Then another question popped into my head. "Who killed her?"
Marluxia pointed at the orb. "That retched kid, Sora."
"Sora? But that's-" I quickly stopped myself. If anybody heard what I was about to say I was going to be screwed. But I couldn't help it. I didn't think Sora was capable of killing someone. It's not like we're evil or anything. Marluxia still looked very upset.
"That damn kid…he such an unnecessary distraction."
"Look on the bright side," Vexen said nervously. "His old memories are almost erased." Why the hell was he so damn nervous? Then something caught my attention.
"His memories are getting erased?" I asked.
"Never mind that now," Marluxia walked in front of me and held my shoulders firmly. "You did and excellent job getting Sora distracted. It was my fault that I underestimated him. You did better than Vexen." He said looking over his shoulder where Vexen was. He took a deep breath before continuing. "I have another job for you, Xina" oh great another mission. You know I was really getting tired of doing things for people. I guess that's the price I have to pay for being so damn awesome. "I want you to track down Namine and bring her back here. If she's with Sora then this whole operation will be a disaster." I nodded understanding. I patted Marluxia on the shoulder.
"Don't worry Marly, I got this in the bag."
He smirked. "I can count on you." I smiled back, until I noticed Axel with an unpleasing look. Now why was he upset? I walked out of the room only to be followed by Axel. We went to another level of the castle to make sure no one would listen to us.
"What have you found out so far?" I asked.
"Our speculations were right earlier. Marluxia is the rat in the Organization. Larxene just followed. Vexen is another rat that I need to catch. Marluxia is going to take a little bit longer."
"So that's why Vexen looks so nervous?"
"Yea, he knows I'm going after him. He just might tell Sora the truth."
"The truth?"
"That his old memories are getting erased and this whole thing is a trap. And some other things."
"What other things?"
Axel hesitated. "Well, I mean it's not that important, Xina."
I frowned. "Axel don't do this to me. Tell me what else you found!"
"No! For your safety it's better you don't find out!"
"My safety?" I began to shake. "Please, Axel"
Axel looked at me and could see I was heading to a nervous breakdown. He walked up to me and did something I'd never think in a million years he would do. He hugged me and it wasn't one of those quick awkward hugs. It was very sincere and I could tell he meant it. "Just hang a little while longer. I promise you that everything will go back the way it was before we left Castle Oblivion." He said sternly.
"You mean that, Axel?"
He gave me one of his signature smirks. "You bet!"
I smiled brightly. "Thank you…"
He nodded. "Now go get Namine so we can get out of here and see Roxas and Xion again."
This really got me excited and I gave him an excited nod before heading off to wherever Namine could be. Of course I couldn't walk throughout the castle in peace, not with a Keyblade anyways. I fought and fought and fought. I couldn't sense any other life forms other than Heartless. Even when I retraced my steps they still popped out of nowhere! After at least an hour (hard to tell time in Castle Oblivion) of searching I felt a small spec of life other than Heartless, but it was very small. I had to practically run just to get to its location. When I finally did get there was nothing there. Just debris everywhere, but I could tell I was getting close, because I could hear noises close by. I ran to the next level and quickly regretted it. I had ran so far in that I couldn't just run back, I knew they'd noticed me. Well, Donald, Goofy, and Namine did. I looked directly at Namine. She didn't seemed fazed that I was here. I looked at her suspiciously.
"Hello, Xina." She said kindly.
"Uh hello."
"Xina! You're okay!" Donald said happily. Goofy laughed in delight. Wow these guys were really worried about me, but I continued to look at Namine.
"Its good to see that you're okay." She said.
"Wait you know her, Namine?" Goofy asked. I balled my fists up to prepare for a fight I wasn't looking forward to.
"Of course I do! Me and her were captured together!" she said enthusiastically.
Donald and Goofy had a face of disbelief and so did I. Did she just…. lie for me? I was sure she would rat me out! But she didn't say a thing. Then I realized an important factor was missing.
"Where the hell is Sora?" Donald and Goofy gasped in surprise!
"oh no, Sora!" they said in unison. Did they honestly forget about Sora? My plan was to wait till Donald and Goofy leave the room to ask Namine some very important questions, but they both grabbed my hand and dragged me towards the other room before I had time to protest. Namine followed close behind. When we entered another level. The fake Riku and Sora were fighting fiercely.
"Sora!" I called out to him. Sora looked over with a surprise expression and was caught off guard. The fake Riku hit him dead in the face with his weapon. Sora held his face in in pain while I put my hands over my mouth in disbelief.
And that's when the anger came in…
"Hey! You leave Sora alone!"
The Fake Riku gave me a smirk. "You can't do anything to me!"
"The hell I can't!" I ran up to him so fast he didn't have to time to react. I grabbed his neck and slammed him on the ground. Then I used my keyblade to pin him down.
"I'm telling Marlu-" I used my Keylade to shut him up.
I don't care who the fuck you tell, you're not gonna hurt my friends anymore!" I whispered. "Now I think its time you disappeared for good."
"No…" he whispered to himself. "NO! I'M NOT GOING TO LET A MERE NOBODY TAKE AWAY MY EXSITENCE!" Darkness begins to radiate off his body. Then it completely explodes sending me to a wall away from everyone. The fake Riku walks towards Sora, who is still injured and can't move. He walks closer and raises his weapon about to deliver the finishing blow.
"Sora! Get up!" I shout still dazed and not able to move. He was really close now when something weird happened.
"Stop!" Namine shouted. When she said that something must have triggered in Riku's head because he stopped and held his head like he was in pain and then he collapsed on the ground. Namine, Donald and Goofy ran over to Sora to see if he was okay. Sora responded by giving everyone the biggest smile and telling them not to worry. Sora walked over to me.
He had helped me up, and I had to hold on to him for a few minutes so the room would stop spinning.
"You okay?"
"Oh yea I'm just dandy!" I say in a sarcastic tone.
Sora nods to everyone else. " She's okay guys!" he said accepting my sarcasm. Donald and Goofy shouted with delight while Namine smiled. I walked over to where the Fake Riku laid. I poked him with the toe of my boot. He grunted and pushed my boot away almost making me fall over. I immediately willed my Keyblade as did Sora and the others. Namine jumped between both of us holding her arms out.
"Don't hurt him!"
"But he hurt us!" I shouted.
"He's not like that anymore," Namine looked at the ground in disappointment. "I erased all his memory."
"What?" Donald and Goofy said in unison.
"No way…You can do that?" Sora added.
"So that's why Marluxia wanted you back so badly." I said to myself. With that kind of power he can erase anybody's memory. Riku grunted some more and finally got up. When he did, his face no longer shown anger, but worry instead.
"Namine are you alright?" he said
"I'm fine Riku." Everyone's face had a look of shock.
"I don't get it" Sora said in frustration, probably from confusion.
"It would seem," I started. Putting my hand on my chin showing that I was thinking. "that not only does Namine has the ability to erase memory. She can also reconstruct it at her will." Her expression only proved that I was right.
"I have done some things that I'm not to proud of." She said. She looked like she was about to cry. "It's because of me, Sora that your like this." Huh? Was there something that I was missing? "The memories that you have now are fake. We were never friends. This is the first time we have met." She said quietly.
"But the memories….They seem so real." Sora said. The room grew quiet. No one really knew what to say.
"I want to fix it." Namine said. "I want to fix all the bad things I've done. I won't let Marluxia control me like this." Instantly my mind flashed back to Riku;
"I ended up trying to kill my best friend. After I realized what I was doing I tried fixing it, and I've been doing it ever since. So far I haven't gotten anywhere."
So Namine is in the same situation Riku's in. Making a mistake and trying so desperately to fix it. The room fell quiet again and it was Riku (who had been sitting quietly for almost 5 minutes) broke the silence.
"I'll help you fix your mistakes." He said.
I don't know what came over me, but I agreed also. Donald and Goofy did the same thing. It took Sora a few seconds to finally forgive Namine and join us. So after all that we all walked to the next level of Castle Oblivion. We encountered a huge door. It was time to go to another world.
"But we don't have anymore cards." Goofy said.
"Really then what's that poking out if his pocket?" I said pointing at Sora's pocket.
"Huh? Where did this come from?" he asked. I Examined the card more to see if I could see a picture on it. The picture had been completely blurred out so I couldn't see what world if was for.
"Looks like we're going to a world blind." I said. Namine had a worried look on her face as for Riku his face showed determination. "I suggest we hold out our weapons, just in case?" They all nodded and Sora put the card in front of the door. A white light appeared and the door opened and the card disappeared. It looked really dark in there, which made us all even more nervous. All my sense we're heighten by my fear. If I heard anything I wouldn't hesitate to strike. We all walked through the doorway slowly. I decided to guard Namine with Riku. She stayed behind us quietly. When we went all the way through the door we we're blinded by a really bright orange light. Oh wait that's the sun. A trolley could be heard from a distance. I was sure that I heard that trolley for a thousand times now. We were in Twilight Town. Despite my anxiety, I smiled.
"It's been so long since I've been here!"
Sora stared in awe. "What is this place?"
I tiled my head to the side. "You mean you never been here before?"
"It feels like I have, but no."
"Are you sure?" Sora looked at both Donald and Goofy for confirmation. They each nodded showing they don't remember this place either.
"But that doesn't make since," I crossed my arms and pouted. "Those cards that you carried around are figments of your memory. So how could not know about this place?" Sora only shrugged. I turned to my left "Namine?"
She only shook her head. "Even I don't know this place. So how could I tamper with it?"
"Isn't it strange that Sora said he felt like he's been here before?" Goofy stated.
"When he's never set foot in here at all?" Riku finished.
I only looked at Sora before giving a frustrated sigh. "Ugh! Ever since I've met you guys, you've made my life complicated! I don't even know what's up from down anymore!" I immediately regretted my angry words. Yes, they did make my life a living hell, but it wasn't their fault. They are just as confused as I am. Then their was that small part of me that was glad that I met them. Like I wouldn't change this any other way. I sighed looking defeated, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell." Donald and Goofy patted my back
"It's okay, Xina. We get that you're frustrated." Donald said while Goofy nodded in agreement. Sora gave me one of his signature smiles.
"We'll do this together"
Despite how corny that sounded, I smiled. It felt nice to be around Sora. He was always so positive. He reminds me so much of Roxas…That tingly feeling distracted me from thoughts and I drew my Keyblade and got in a fighting stance. The gang looked confused. I had forgotten that Sora and the others couldn't sense Heartless like me and Riku could. I gave them all a serious look. "Stay sharp guys, they're Heartless coming." Heeding my words, the Fake Riku drew his weapon as well. He stood in front of Namine to protect her. Namine looked around in alarm. Sora, Donald and Goofy, however, still had confused looks on their faces.
"But I don't see any Heartless." Sora said looking around. The tingling feeling got worse.
"Something's coming at a us really fast! I think it's a big one!"
"I still don't see anything!" Donald shouted. The feeling was at it highest because I started to get a headache from it. One Heartless appeared in front of Donald. It caught him off guard and he fell over. Another one appeared behind Namine, but Riku quickly destroyed it. Then the sky its self began to darken.
"What is that?" I tried to get a better look and finally saw what it was. It wasn't clouds or a huge Heartless, it was an army of them. We all braced ourselves as the Heartless got closer and closer. I felt the urge to try to use my darkness to help us all out, but I didn't know how. I didn't have time to figure out either. Two Heartless aimed at my leg to try knock me over, but I managed to kick them of me and slash them with my Keyblade. Others launched themselves on my back so that they could form a pile up again this idea failed miserably and they all felt the wrath of my Keyblade. I was doing well with so many heartless at my wake, but Donald and Goofy on the other hand were being overwhelmed. I quickly ran towards them and hit some Heartless that were in my way. I also knocked out the ones that were approaching Donald and Goofy from behind.
"Hey you guys okay?" I asked. They looked banged up, but nodded nonetheless. I looked around to find Sora. He was slashing away like a pro, so I didn't bother running over his way. Another Heartless hit me on the back of the head. I grimaced and held my head for minute before lashing out on the Heartless. I felt my head throb with pain and I found it very difficult to stand. The ground wouldn't stay still. My vision finally cleared and I saw the fake Riku outnumbered. Usually I would have just left him, but because he had Namine at his guard I had no choice but to help him. I still needed to ask her some question and she would be no good to me if she was dead. I ran over there and flung my Keyblade at the Heartless like a boomerang, it went around in circles and hit all the Heartless that surrounded Riku.
"Why did you help me?" he asked as I got closer to him.
"Trust me, I didn't do it for u." To be hones I didn't like the fake Riku. I was still mad at him for hurting the real Riku and blackmailing me. Even though Namine erased all of his previous memories, it didn't change anything I felt towards him.
It looked like the battle was over turned to our advantage, things changed for the worse. Every time we defeated a group of Heartless, the group itself would double in size. It began to become too much for us.
"Guys I think we should retreat for now." Goofy called out. Oh Goofy how I thought you were slow until now.
"I agree we should move!" I said.
"But we can't leave now!" Sora said back.
"We keep this up, and we'll be dead before you know it,' I shouted at Sora. This was not the time to disagree. "Plus we have the others to think about." I said looking over to Riku and Namine. Riku looked warn out and Namine looked really scared. Sora saw what I was talking and nodded. I lead the way since I knew the place better than the others. I ran to an ally and there was what looked like a room. I had went there before once, but I saw that some kids hung out there so I didn't go back, now I had no choice. I quickly ran in and waited for the others to get in. They each got in safely and I did a quick count of people before closing the fence and curtains. I held my index finger to my lips to tell them to be very quiet, since this room wasn't sound proof. Well all collapsed on the ground breathing heavily. The adrenaline coursing through my veins slowly turned to normal. I took a deep breath to gather my thoughts. I hoped on a near-by couch and closed my eyes. Everyone else seemed to have the same idea and did the same thing. Next thing I know it's very quiet with the occasional snoring. Once in a while we could claws scratching on the ground. The Heartless were still looking for us. Whoever sent those ruthless Heartless wanted us dead. I decided to get up and be on guard sense we weren't completely safe. When I got up, I saw Namine was up also. She had a piece of paper and some markers that were on a desk. She looked like she was drawing something. I silently tip toed over to her. Sora, Donald, and Goofy were sprawled out on the floor, they were the ones doing the most snoring. Riku was in the weirdest position I ever saw, he was sitting up, but he had his arms and legs crossed. The weird part was that he wasn't leaning on anything.
I got closer to Namine to get a better look at what she was drawing. It was a picture of Nia and I holding hands, but it looked like we were younger. There were other pictures scattered around her. One was of a old man, he looked really sick, but his eyes looked deadly. Another picture was of a woman, she was tall and she had long black hair that stopped at her back. She too, had blue streaks running down her hair and her striking blue eyes almost took my breath away .She also held a Keyblade in hand, she looked like a warrior. Then I realized it was Nia's mother. This was the first time I got to really get a closer look at her features because every time I envisioned her, she was always covered in blood. The last picture confused me the most. It consisted of people I've never met in my life, but they felt so familiar to me, like I've known them for my entire life. There were big bold letters on top that said Royal Guard and light bulb lit in my head, but I continued scanning the paper. Their were five people on the paper, four guys and one girl and each of them were standing in a single file line across there the paper. The tallest guy had striking red hair similar to Axel's, but more darker almost like burgundy color. Under him was name that said "Captain Nova Parker". The guy next him looked to be my height. He had brown hair and brown eyes. His hair was in a ponytail and it was shaved in the back. Under him was the name "Renzo Ryugamine". Next to him was a girl she was a little taller than Renzo, but not as tall as Nova. She looked boyish with her cargo pant and a Band-Aid on her cheek. Her hair was wrapped up in a messy bun with a headband. Under her was the name "Jiji". Last were two small little boys by which they looked to be the age of 10. They looked like twins, each wearing overalls with green eyes and green hair and same height. The only difference was that one of the boys had two missing front teeth and a Band-Aid on his nose. The other just had a Band-Aid on his chin. Under them were the names "Buu and Tomo Tombolt". Jiji and Renzo had the same skin complexion as me, while Nova, Buu, and Tomo had the same complexion as Sora.
"I'm pretty sure you have a lot of question you want to ask me." Namine said suddenly. I was do fixated on the pictures I hadn't noticed that she was staring at me this whole time.
"Yea I do," I gave the pictures back to her. "But first I would like to start out by saying you're a very good drawer."
Namine smiled brightly. "No ones ever commented on my drawing before."
"Well consider me the first." I smiled back, but it quickly turned back to a serious face. "Why did you lie for me?" that question had been bothering me since she did it. It was almost eating me inside.
She silently put stacked her papers on one side of her and put the markers back in the box. "It just seemed like the right thing to do." She said honestly.
"Well what does the mean?" I asked.
"I don't know yet."
"Do you know these people in your drawings?"
"Sort of. I see them in my dreams. I see a lot of things in my dreams." So she has dreams just like I do? Dreams that she doesn't understand? "You know," she started. "We're closer than you think, you and I." I gave a puzzled look and was about to ask her about it, but Sora and the others started to wake and I figured it wasn't safe for me to ask anymore. The questions she answered earlier didn't exactly satisfy me either. She was just as clueless as me.
Sora and co. were yawning and stretching their limbs. Sora walked over to me with a questionable look. "What's wrong?" I asked.
"Do you know where the mansion is?"
"Yea, why?"
"Something just tells me we need to go there."
I was uncertain. "Are you sure?"
"Yea I'm sure!" he was so sure of himself that I really couldn't disagree with him. I mean if it does turn out to be a trap we can always fight our way out, but of course that would mean we would have to find another place to hide…
"I'm assuming we have a plan?" Riku asked.
"Yea, we're heading for the old mansion."
"Why?"
"Because Sora feels we should go there." He was beginning to disagree when I put my hand up to stop him. "I don't want to hear your bitching either. Lets just go there and check things out. We don't have much of a choice anyway." He didn't say much after that. "Okay, so here's the plan," everyone got my full attention. "Those Heartless are still out there looking for us, as soon as we leave they'll spot us. So that means we're gonna have to fight our way to the old mansion," I crossed my arms. "That being said will be going out there in a single file line. I'll go first since I know how to get there and my offense is pretty good. Sora I want you to go next, because I'll need it. Donald and Goofy, I want you to protect Namine, Riku I want you to be in the back, to protect Namine and watch our backs. Can yall do that?" They all nodded with determine looks on their faces, we were ready. Those who had weapon had them in there hands. I easily slid out the fence doorway to see if the coast was clear. The others were right behind me and I gave them the signal to run. They did exactly what I thought they would, they spotted us as soon as we went by the nearby trolley. They were gaining on us fast, but we were prepared. The first one hit me dead in the fast and I almost fell over, luckily Sora was right behind me or they would have gained up on me. Sora knocked off my face and hit a Heartless that was right behind him. I got back into focus and started using some of my spells since I haven't used them in a while. It worked like a charm and I was knocking 5 of them out at a time. I looked behind me to see if Riku, Donald and Goofy were okay. They didn't seem to be in any immediate trouble and Namine looked safe, scared, but safe. This was a great time to move forward since we were stopped on tracks when the first wave swept through. I shouted for them to keep moving and they did as told. When we finally got close to the whole that lead to the woods, we were hit with a second wave. This one was worse because it consisted of fat and sturdy Heartless. Fighting one of them is easy, but when you got 10 of them coming at you all at once, it's a different story. Donald use cure on all of which eased the pain on my side. The gang and I had to find away to get to their weak spots, but they were so huddled together (and being in a small space didn't help) that we had to hit them in their stomachs (which was futile) to push them back. It worked and we eventually got to their weak spot. The waves kept coming and coming until we finally reached the mansion. We were so worn out that we didn't even notice Vexen standing at our only passage to escape. So he completely caught me off guard when I almost bumped into.
"Well, well I see you made it." He said.
"Did you sic those Heartless on us!" I shouted in anger.
"That would be Marluxia's doing."
"What?" I knew I couldn't hide the shock in my voice or the look of utter astonishment on my face. How could Marluxia do this? Let alone to me? Then the answer popped into my head a second later. He doesn't know that I'm with Sora. How could he possibly know? I had completely lost sight of my real mission. I'm suppose to be taking Namine back to Marly. But I how could I do that now when I've gotten to no her? She wasn't this strange girl to me anymore, she was an possible ally to me and I won't let Marluxia treat Namine like he did before!
"Sora perhaps you should know the truth!" Vexen said.
"Oh no you don't" said a near by voice that I recognize all to well."
"Axel!" Vexen shouted in fear.
We all turn around to see Axel appear from the trees. "I believe you have said enough."
"No Axel please!" Vexen begged. Then it happened so quick I wasn't able to blink. Axel took Vexen out right in front of all of us. I gasped in fear. This is not how Organization XIII works…
"What was he going to tell me!" Sora shouted Axel.
"Oh you don't need to know!" he glanced at Namine, and me then opened a portal. "See you all at Castle Oblivion." He walked through the portal and disappeared.
I gripped my Keyblade. "We need to keep moving." I said. We all walked through the portal and had to walk up a few more flights of stairs. Donald made sure we were all healthy and made each of us drink an elixir, which was disgusting, mind you. It did make us all feel better, physically anyways. We walked up the last flight of stairs in Castle Oblivion and saw both Axel and Marluxia. Something was odd about them though. Axel was facing the opposite from Marluxia. So this is the time where we tell Marluxia we're no longer on his side. Axel did just that and Marluxia was somewhat shocked, but gained his composure.
Marly was so focused on Axel he hadn't even noticed us. "I didn't think the Keyblade wielder would survive, well done," He clapped a few times. "But I think it's time you become my puppet." Namine gasped behind me. What's going on? "Namine erase all of Sora's memories!"
"But if I do that-" Namine started.
"Then it will destroy him." Marly finished.
Namine immediately ran up in front of Sora and stretch her arms out in a defensive manner. "I won't let you do that!" she shouted. "I don't care what happens to me! Sora finally forgave me and I won't do that to him!"
"How heroic, to bad it will cost you your life!" Marly summoned his weapon, this made Axel summon his as well. He quickly ran towards him to make the first strike, but Marly quickly countered with his scythe. It pushed Axel a few yards away.
"This is to much for me." Axel said. He looked at me as to say it was time to leave, but I couldn't do that, not in a million years. Looked at Axel and mouthed the words "Come back later" he looked discouraged, but nodded nonetheless. He disappeared into a portal of darkness. Meanwhile, Sora was yelling at Marluxia for being so horrible.
Marluxia ignored him all together and looked at me instead. "Will you join me, Xina"
I willed my Keyblade and looked at Marly then at Sora then back at Marly. "No! I won't let you hurt my friends anymore!"
This simple action was really gonna bite me in the ass later….
Okay it is currently 10:55 as I type this and I'm butt tired. Sorry for such a long update, but I do appreciate the reviews, they keep me going.
Also I changed me pen name AGAIN! I believe this is the last time I will do this, so I apologize for any confusion I have stirred!
And last, my dream did come tru. FDP did meet up wit the Parle crew at Alcon! I had such a fangasm o.o
GOOD NITE EVERYBODY!
P.S This is a long ass chapter o.o 5652 words!
Ch. 15: Betrayal At Its Finest.