Salem, Gail, Akira, Faylin - Unwanted trust

Once the man saw that there would be no protests, he lifted his power from the four and stepped down to the ground; his clothes swayed to an invisible breeze and his hair fell around his face in perfect form. His eyes were cold and sharp. With a casual flick of the fingers, the four were lined in front of him, standing as still as statues with perfect posture-their bodies out of their control. With the voice of a faint echo, he began to talk. "There is not much within the hearts that dwell among the world's that would not be desired of such evils that roam in the shadows cast by light, and there is not much that is not of greater value to those who are capable of grasping it. Written in the scripts of fate, your destinies have been played out and depicted to one final destination, but it is of your own choice and will of how you arrive. You can take separate paths of destruction and end with failure, or you can work together, and end with success. The choice is left to your hearts, however, and I do presume you shall make the right one. But as I am not an all knowing being, merely a messenger, how am I to know of such becoming?" the man rambled on, a thoughtful look on his face. "Within your spirits' is hidden endless strength and power, and by my touch, I shall break the first of many hidden locks, and begin the process of unleashing it. It is a simple gift, really, but one that will benefit all of you in your journey." The man stroked each of their foreheads with his pointer finger. "I bid you farewell children, please, do make it easy for us who struggle for greater purposes that unknown to you." He bowed, and with a wisp of air, he was gone; the four stumbled and fell to their knees, weakened and weary of the man's appearance.

As soon as the spell had worn off on the four Salem ran straight for Gail. She clutched her mid region in desperation and a look of agony arose on her face. "GAIL OH MY GOD ARE YOU GONNA BE OKAY?" The young blonde shouted, panic painted in his voice. The two heartless seemed to be okay for the most part, their wounds if any healed almost instantaneously, but Salem barely noticed. His thoughts were racing a hundred miles a minute. She has to be okay, it's my fault she got hurt cause I wasn't strong enough. I couldn't protect her, I can't protect anything. Oh my god she just has to be okay. His hands shook as his own emotions began to get out of hand, however Gail sensed this and looked up at the frightened boy with a smile. "Don't worry Salem I'll be fine." She whispered and raised her hand to the sky. A bright green light began to flow in waves from her palm and the light showered on her damaged body. Tiny green sparks began to stream down to her abdomen and within seconds Gail's once horrific expression was replaced with one of relief. "Oh wow what was that?" Salem asked
"A rather ancient healing spell." A voice from behind him responded and as Salem turned around he saw that it was the man with white hair that had spoken. Each party tensed up with recognition that the two sides were still present. They stood in uneasy silence until finally the scary girl from before spoke up. "Who the hell was that Faylin?" It was hard to believe the brutal monster from before now stared desperately at her companion with fear in her eyes. The man only shook his head, unable to even speak. His eyes were clouded with deep thought and concern in his face. Gail stood, now fully healed from her injuries. Her stance one of full confidence even in the face of these murderous beasts as she remained in deep thought from the current events. He admired her for her bravery.

"What no one can answer me?" the girl continued, frustration growing on her delicate yet fierce features. "Ugh you people are so useless, if you two hadn't gotten in the way we could have taken him out!" the girl shouted obviously referring to Gail and him as being the weak links. This sparked a flame of irritation in Salem "Oh yeah I'm sure that's EXACTLY what would have happened since you were so powerless to do anything when he got here." The blonde smarted back. In a flash of a second the girl went from being ten feet away to a couple inches from his face, hand back and ready to slap him with all of her might. "WHY YOU INSULENT LITTLE BRAT!" The monster shouted as her hand came close to impact, however a voice interrupted her. "Stop!" The older companion said, it wasn't a shout or even in a yelling tone. But it was fiercely stern and was enough to stop the girl in her tracks. The intense rage from before simmered a bit as she swiveled around and paced back and forth to the side. Obviously doing all she could to obey the command.
It was then that Gail finally spoke "Well one thing is true, if we have any hope of defeating him or anybody like him…it's going to have to be together…" She eyed the two heartless with a suspicious glance, obviously wondering if she trusted these two well enough to work with them. After all they were still complete strangers. "My name is Gail" she continued. "Gail Reverte, I am the Tempest Blazere of King Mickey's High Court from a world named Disney Castle. This is Salem Moss, a keyblader here from Twilight Town. We were sent on a mission to collect information on the Unbirths that are ruining the balance between the worlds. If there is anyway either one of you could assist would be extremely helpful." The girl only rolled her eyes at the request and folded her arms over her chest. Geez someone is stubborn Salem thought as shook his head at the pretty heartless in front of him. The older man however seemed intrigued by such a humble request and stroked his chin in thought. A smile grew on his face as he spoke "My name is Faylin Moore and this young lady beside me is Akira Newborn. We are both heartless as I'm sure you could tell who have taken human forms. It would seem that you and I have a common interest my dear Reverte. We both desire information. Unfortunately I have none to give presently but I think I know of someplace that might." Akira's eyes grew wide in astonishment. "Don't you dare do what I think you're about to do!" she sounded like a mother telling her child to not touch an item right as they were about to grab it. Faylin raised an eyebrow to the girl "hush child I'm negotiating." He replied back "I'm NOT a child and I don't appreciate you making decisions as huge as this without me, I don't trust these people and now you want them to join us just because some random guy who kicked our asses told you to?" She has a point Salem thought to himself. How did they know these two heartless weren't going to eat their hearts the moment they turned their backs? Really that reality made more sense to the blonde than anything the mysterious man had spoken of. "You trust me don't you?" Faylin replied to the young Akira. Her face twisted in confusion from the unexpected response but then turned wary. "Mostly" she answered. Faylin chuckled, "then that should be all that you need. I won't let anything bad happen to you I promise." The girl rolled her eyes and then walked to the gate to lean her back against it in defeat. Both the warriors of light eyed curiously at the scene of the two. How it was that something that acted so evil before was so human right in front of them.

"There is a secret room at the base of this mansion we have recently discovered." Faylin continued from before. "I don't know if it will have anything about the Unbirths but if you would like to check it out with us together I see no harm in it." "How do we know you won't eat us while we are down there?" Salem responded, the same amount of distrust the girl had had was harbored in his chest as well. "We will just have to have faith." Gail responded to her companion. The two eldest eyed each other warily, each one had a friend that they wanted to protect. And each sent a message with their eyes warning the other what would happen if their teammate were to be hurt. They both nodded to one another as if the agreement had been made, "Alright then follow me." Faylin said as he led the way into the broken down mansion up ahead.

The four of them walked down the concrete stairs to the secret room that was supposed to aid them all in their quest. The air was tense as they rounded the corner and walked through the open frame. All of the walls were made of metal and seemed to have electricity surging on the other side of it. Salem eyed the curious room wondrously, it almost looked like one of those laboratories you see on horror films, and somewhere around here there would be a cyborg, or an alien in a pod. However, instead was a huge computer with that lit up the whole room. "Woah this thing is huge!" Salem said in wonder "Yeah no kidding" Akira agreed with the same amount of awe in her face. "Let's see here." Faylin said as he was the first to sit down and beginning to examine the contents of the computer. "Do you even know how to work it?" Gail asked raising her eyebrow. "Well it seems the hard part has already been done for me." And sure enough there was already a file open on the computer just as he turned it on. Akira glanced at the screen and immediately turned towards the end of the room. There was something on her face that told him that something was up but Salem was too fascinated by what was on the computer to pay it anymore mind. The screen was titled HEARTLESS and there was the insignia they had all had craved in their brains that heartless always seemed to have on them. On the page were a long list of names that seemed to stretch forever. Many were crossed out, as if perhaps that person was either no longer a candidate for whatever this person was doing or just simply, didn't exist anymore. And then there were names that were highlighted. As Faylin scrolled down to look at all of the names, they found that his and Akira's name was one of the few highlighted.

"Well this doesn't help at all with the Unbirths problem." Gail said as she folded her arms over her chest in frustration. "Maybe it does" was all Faylin said as he clicked on his name to further investigate. It soon opened up to a page with all of his background information. Who he was, were all he had been, how he changed, what he'd done. It was all there in black and white. Rage and confusion took over the normally level headed man's mind as new questions and emotions sparked within him. Someone had been watching him, watching all of these people whom he could only assume were fellow heartless. But why? What could the purpose be for this type of information? However his train of thought was cut off by a scream. A familiar scream. "Akira!" Faylin shouted as he jumped out of the chair and searched everywhere for the young girl. The room suddenly grew completely dark and the three huddled around one another and faced outward so that they wouldn't be caught off guard. "So you found our little get away huh, you're so smart, but I'm afraid your little field trip has come to a close." A mysterious voice creaked from the heart of the darkness but it was impossible to locate a direct source. Then out of nowhere a hand came out and snatched Salem from the group and drug him into the darkness. "NO!" Gail shouted as she ran after the young boy in a desperate attempt to save him. "Wait no we can't split u…" Faylin was interrupted as something smacked him in the back of the head and knocked the poor man clean out.

GEM: Omg, dividing this story into appropriate sections is so tedious.
I hope it's worth it. c: