Chapter 29

Crimson Winged Angel Awakens

Getting close to the end here from last we left off. Well let's get this chapter going.

Sora's POV

Haku took us to the back of the bathhouse quietly. No one seemed to be around except a few guards at the front door.

Haku was leading us to a bridge to it. "Now when we get to the bridge, you have to all hold your breath till we get across."

Adri looked confused. "Why hold it that long?"

"If you breathe all the guards at the bathhouse will see you are human." said Haku.

"Ohh..so we are invisible to them?" I asked.

"You could say that.." Haku began, "The thing I gave you made you not smell like a human or be noticed as one."

We all took a deep breath and started over walking calmly across the bridge. It was very hard to do I almost gasped for breath. I tried holding my hands over my mouth to keep me from breathing just before we hit the end. After we got over the bridge, no one noticed us, we went to the bushes behind the back door and let ourselves breathe. It was like never having air, it felt soo good to breathe normally again.

"Well now..." Adri started. "What do we do now Haku?

"You stay here till morning." Haku said.

"That will take forever. It isn't even close to morning." I said sorta worried we won't get out of here on time before the heartless takes over.

"Well you can try to help us get rid of the pests. That might help us out alot." Haku said.

"Then let's get going..."Adri said a little impatient.

Haku opened the sliding door looking around and walked in slowly. Then motioned us to come in. We got our keyblade's ready as we walked inside. It seemed quiet, not like a usual bathhouse where they're is usually a lot of ruckus and getting things done.

"Is there anyone here?" I asked.

"Not since the creatures came in. We had to have all the workers stay in their upper rooms and have the bathhouse closed to guests. Only ones that are here are mostly guards to make sure they don't get to the upper area." Haku said in a low voice. He peered around the corner. "Ahh I see they are around the bend."

"Well let's fight already." Adri said redying her keyblade for action. "I know we can take them."

We all readied our keyblades, even Kairi. It was really strange to see the girl i loved and knew for so long be a fighter like that. Well I guess she was changing like I was, growing up and becoming a different person than I knew her. Though I did notice one thing that she probably didn't was that since the last I saw her, her hair was growing longer. It made her look so beautiful. For a moment I felt like I could cuddle with her. I knew it wasn't the time, but I missed her so much. I looked around after daydreaming a bit and noticed Adri already was going out and slashing away on some heartless. I stood near Kairi and looked at her.

"Let's go Kairi.." I said as we readied our keyblades for battle.

We both at the same time ran in and started killing heartless. They seem to disappear quickly as we fought them. Kairi seemed to know how to fight with a keyblade. I really thought she couldn't, but it made me feel that she knew what I knew. Goofy and Donald were helping along with Mickey. We got rid of he heartless in what felt like a few minutes.

"That seemed a little too easy..." I said looking around.

"Maybe it was suppose to be that way..." Mickey stated. He looked out the window. "It looks like it is almost Dawn."

"WHAT? We couldn't have fought that long." I exclaimed.

"Well you can go and try leaving, thanks for your..." Haku stopped as he was knocked over by a creature coming through the wall. It was a gray creature unlike we ever saw before. It reminded me of when I went to Halloween town. It looked like a sewn up wyvern it reminded me of how Oogie Boogie looked like, but with wings that don't have any feathers. It made sort of a horrid screeching noise as it fully merged out and flopped to the ground. To me this made Haku look pretty pathetic.

Adri looked at the creature. "This is what we were waiting for to come?"

Haku looked over as he got up. "I never saw that coming...wonder why he is here."

"You know this creature?" I asked.

"Sure...he is a wandering torn spirit. Usually it happens to come around during the night, but it's morning."

"Oookay..so is he a good creature or do we have to knock the stuffing out of him?" Adri asked intently.

"He is a good spirit, but I dunno why he was screeching like that. Usually they are very calm creatures when they wander."

"Maybe we woke him from his sleep." I said. "With all the noise..."

"Well maybe...but usually nothing wakes him up that much to wander outside of a room." Haku seemed puzzled and wandered to the room the creature came out of and quickly closed the door like he was a bit scared.

"What's the matter?" Adri asked.

"You must leave now...there was a portal I saw a hooded creature wander into."

I ran to the door and opened it slightly taking a peak. The figure was already through the door I just noticed his foot go through it, it looked to go to a castle I saw earlier.

I turned to everyone, "Hey..I know that castle...I think we should follow through the portal and go there."

"Wait..what about the ships we brought over here?" Adri asked. "We would never be able to fly them again to get back to our homes."

"We might not be able to get there fast enough in our ships though." I said opening the door the rest of the way. "Kairi...Let's go together through. The rest of you can take the ships over if you want to. I want to be there before this castle is attacked."

Mickey looked at me. "I will come with the ships as fast as we can fly them. If anyone wants to be in more fighting go with Sora. I can handle bringing the ships over there Donald could help too."

"Yes your majesty." Donald said promptly saluting.

"Well Adri are you coming with us?" Kairi asked.

"Adri smiled. "I am always up for a good clobbering. I will knock the stuffing out of those creatures that even want to get rid of the door to the light."

"Well Haku it was fun helping out around here, but we all have to get out of here." I said walking through the portal holding Kairi's hand. I saw Haku wave goodbye as I saw them disappear and coming through to a dark outside to a castle.

"What is this place?" Kairi asked looking around at the broken angel statue resembling someone familiar. The whole castle seemed to be run down, but still seemed lived in. I walked over to the front door and knocked.

Axel's POV

I helped Sephiroth with filling up the bottle for Yazoo and watched Yazoo drinking it. I was still cradling Kadaj and was holding his bottle as he drank the milk. I noticed Reina looking at Beki like she knew something, but maybe it was just me.

"Looks like Yazoo is almost finished with his milk." I said watching Yazoo. "These babies really are growing fast...before you know it they will be going to school."

"School?" Sephiroth was stunned. "I don't think they will grow that fast."

"Mmmm...you never know Sephiroth. Weirder things have happened. Weren't they born in the Twilight Zone world?" Reina asked.

"Mmm...yes they were. I remember that all too well." Sephiroth said looking down at Yazoo. "It was a time when I felt both happy and horrible I even did that."

"What came over you when you saw Beki? Hmm?" I asked. "Let me guess...it was love."

"I wasn't sure what came over me. I felt when I first saw Beki here...she seemed to be like I was meant for her. I saved her and felt that if I didn't show my love for her at that point, which well it was apparent I did, that she would fall for someone else and I wouldn't get a chance to get her back."

Beki smiled. "I also, when I saw him, really knew that I loved him. When he rescued me I thought he was like the angel I never had. He does have one wing and it sorta made me attracted to him and also the way he looked at me made me feel he was the one. Though I know it was wrong to did what we did, but looking at our boys I would never say I regret having them. Though at one point I felt my darling was going to leave me and the kids. He did the right thing coming back and taking responsibility for his new family."

Sephiroth came over and with his free arm hugged Beki and kissed her on the lips. Their kiss was very passionate and loving. It made me feel like kissing Reina again. I knew love very little unlike some people in the room, but I knew I had feelings for her. I looked down at Kadaj and he was about done with the bottle. I took the bottle from him and put him on my shoulder and patting his back lightly I tried to burp him. Just as I heard Kadaj burp I brought him back down from my shoulder and cradled him. He seemed content for now and was yawning.

"Aww..looks like Kadaj needs his sleep after his big meal." I placed him gently in his crib and he started to fall asleep. "Night little one.." I said smiling.

I walked over and watched as Reina was finishing feeding Loz. I came up putting my arms around Reina.

"You know I am so glad I met you.." I said feeling so much warm love inside me. "You really mean a lot to me Reina. I probably wouldn't have had a chance with you if I didn't learn from Demyx about how to treat princesses." I kissed her cheek and saw her grin and blush a little.

Not too long after that the other two boys were finished with their bottles, got burped, and were sound asleep in their cribs.

"Oh so you learned it from Demyx, Hmmm?" Reina said looking at me. "Figured it would be him that taught you."

"Why do you say that?" I asked.

"Since he knows how to treat a princess and even just a woman. He was very polite to me and courteous the way a man should treat a woman. You on the other hand I noticed when I first saw you you were more hot-headed about things when it came to showing off."

"Well I promise you now I won't be that way again." I said looking into her brown eyes. "You will always be my princess."

I held her chin in my hand and tilted her head towards my face getting so close and looking gazing in those eyes like I could fall into them. I smiled. "I could never treat a gem like you so badly anymore."

Reina looked into my eyes like she as falling for me as well. We were so close to each other we looked as though one of us would kiss.

Just then Sephiroth broke the love moment."Mmmm...love. Maybe I should leave you two alone, or shall you guys find a room in this castle?"

I turned to Sephiroth blushing. "I don't think I need to do that. Not just yet. She after all needs to marry a prince which I am not really a prince to take her heart away."

"I would rather wait till I marry till I stay in the same room with you sweetie." Reina said with a sorta glow in her eyes staring at me.

"I can handle that. Anything for you my sweet angel." I said smiling at her.

Then there was a knock at the door. Sephiroth took one look at us and could tell we wouldn't answer it.

"Well don't all get up at once to answer it." He said as I heard him walking out of the room.

"Does my princess want to dance?" I said without thinking of what I was saying.

"I would love to Axel." She said. "Where is the ballroom and the music?"

"We don't need a ballroom for dancing. Though a bit of music would make it better for dancing." I said. "Maybe I could looks around to see if I can find a piano or something for someone to play."

Sephiroth came up to the room. "Sora and his friends are here."

"Oh.." Reina said sorta feeling down from the sound of her voice.

"What's wrong?" I looked at her and asked. "You sound disappointed."

"Well...just I didn't want for this time to come."

"What time? Are you going to turn back into a pumpkin or something?" I asked.

Reina shook her head. "No, just the prophecy and all I don't know what will happen to me or Beki."

Sephiroth had to speak then he heard that. "Beki? What about her?"

"It's hard to explain." Reina said. "It's like you know something bad will happen soon, but you can't explain what will happen. I have a feeling the door is calling to me. Which means this will all end."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Sora said coming in the door. "I thought the door to the light will make all the heartless go away again."

"True..." Reina said. "Not according to the prophecy...there will be a battle before opening the door."

"That's bound to happen isn't it?" Kairi said putting an arm around Reina. "We can make it through it together."

Reina smiled. "Least we have everyone here..except Mickey, Goofy, Donald, Leon, Cloud, and Aerith."

Sephiroth left for a moment from the room and came back frantically. "Beki is missing!"

Reina, Sora, and me said in unison. "WHAT?"

Aerith's POV

We all got into the gummi ships and headed out for the castle. I got in with Mickey, Cloud, Donald, and Goofy.

"Hope we get there in time." I said sorta worried. "Hearing about the prophecy makes me worried about Beki and Reina."

"What about them that worries you, Aerith?" Cloud asked. "They are pretty strong with their attacks and such. They should handle it fine without us for now."

"Well I have a feeling that them being strong may not really help at that door. Their will be more than the people we know at this door, one who has the power to make people turn on each other."

"Turn on each other?" Cloud seemed confused. "You mean..like a deceiver?"

"I am not sure who he is really, just I know he shouldn't be taken lightly."

Mickey was in the passenger's side next to Donald, who was driving the gummi ship.

"Everyone ready back there?" Mickey asked.

"Yes we are." I said as I got into my seat and buckled up. Cloud did the same along with Goofy.

"Alrighty then." Mickey said. "Away we go!"

Donald started the Gummi ship up and we headed out in hyper speed over to the castle.

Sephiroth's POV

"BEKI!" I yelled with everyone else wandering the castle trying to find her. I looked in the bedroom again, but all I saw was the empty bed. She wasn't in the closets or under the bed. I went downstairs frantically worrying about if she was ok. Beki had been acting strange for the past day and I wasn't sure what was wrong. I thought it might be something I did, but I scoffed it off cause it wasn't possible...or was it? I decided to run down to the underground town to see if she was wandering around there. The town was busy and people were wandering from place to place trying to get grocery shopping done and also just a lot of people wandering around.

I called out through the crowd. "BEKI!"

I then saw some of the crowd clearing and noticed a little girl waving me into this little house. I came up to her.

"Have you seen my Fiancé?" I asked.

She nodded. "Yes, she came here to the doctor. She seemed in terrible shape when she came in. Come inside..she should be with the doctor for a bit."

I came inside. It looked like a usual office with a front desk and a waiting room. The little girl sat down at one of the chairs in the waiting room. I sat in the fourth chair away from her.

"So mister.."She broke the silence. "Do you think she will be ok?"

I looked at her she seemed to be looking a bit down. I hated to see a little girl sad, so I decided to say what most people would tell little kids. "I think she will be just fine."

She perked up. "You think so?"

"I think so." I grinned down at her waiting patiently for Beki to come out of the room.

I waited for hours it felt like. What as taking her so long? The girl that was a few chairs away from me was reading a children's magazine of some sort. I was starting to fall asleep reading a house magazine about how to chose the right interior design for the best looking house. Oh so boring, but it was all that was there other than a few children's books, a fishing magazine, and some sort of health magazine. Then the door opened from the doctor's office and Beki came out looking a bit better.

"Now get lots of rest like I told you to, and you should be fine." The doctor said.

What a relief...thought there was more than just a sickness since the last time she was sick was when she had the 3 boys.

"Thanks doctor..for your help." Beki said.

"Congratulations..." The doctor said as Beki closed the door before he finished his sentence.

"What as he congratulating you about?" I asked as Beki came to me.

"I would rather not say right now." Beki looked up at me. "It's not the time to be talking about it. I feel the door to the light is calling to me."

"I would say it is important to me." I put my arms around Beki. "I care about you and I wanna know what's wrong."

"It's nothing really darling." She said looking up at me. "It can wait. What's important right now is getting to that door."

"You're sick though...you can't go like this."

"I..I can manage." Beki said trying to look like she was ok, but I could tell she as faking it.

I decided to pick her up and carry her back. "Well I heard what the doctor said about staying in bed getting a lot of rest, so for now could you please get some sleep."

I felt her as I carried her. She felt as if she had a fever.

"...but I have to get to the door.." She said softer trying not to cough.

I looked at her with a serious look. "You need sleep. Please darling you mustn't push yourself. It could be serious."

She giggled. "If only you knew..." She stuck her tongue out at me smiling.

"You won't tell me..." I began. "Please tell me, just whisper it if you must. Just somehow tell me I must know what's wrong."

"I suppose I could just say it, you will know about it eventually anyways, and I do want you to be the first to know.

She got close to my ear and said in a low voice. "Darling...I'm pregnant again."

My eyes widened and jaw dropped. "How?"

"Well we did do it a few times before, did you think it wouldn't happen one more time?"

"I didn't think it would happen again." I said still stunned. "How far into your pregnancy are you?"

"He said about a week or so. Good thing darling, it won't happen as fast as it did with the first kids."

I carried her out of the underground town and into the main room of the castle.

Reina noticed us and came over. "There you are Beki. Where were you?"

"She was at the doctors, has the door called to you, Reina?" I said trying to change the subject so Reina wouldn't worry about Beki.

"Yeah it has, why?"

"Well..Beki as talking about the door calling her as well, but I don't think she is in any condition to go there. She has a fever and she is really sick." I said carrying her up the stairs to our room. Reina was walking with us.

"Will she be getting better?" Reina asked as I put her on the bed.

"Yes, just it might be awhile till she feels completely better." I said.

Reina took Beki's hand and she looked over slowly at Reina. "Get better soon my friend."

Beki smiled. "Yes I will Reina."

I walked out of the room with Reina following behind. I closed the door.

Reina looked at me and asked. "What's wrong with her Sephiroth?"

I looked down, I wasn't sure if I should let her know just yet. I hesitated to say cause she might not want me to tell anyone yet.

"I don't know if I should tell you...she might not want anyone to know about it just yet." I said walking downstairs.

Reina ran up to me following next to me. "Come on..at least let me know she will be okay."

I stopped for a moment and thought. Hmmm...maybe I should tell her about it..or maybe she already knows. "Well..." I hesitated then decided I had to say or she would be pestering me about it all day. "She went to the Doctor and...she's pregnant again."

Reina smiled. "Well congratulations about being a father again!"

I looked at Reina really looking depressed. "Yeah...I guess so." Looking at the stairs beneath my feet I walked slowly down the stairs.

"Why are you so down? You should be happy about it." Reina said walking with me.

"Actually...I really wanted just to have the three we have now...thinking about her being pregnant again just makes me feel a little uneasy."

"Oh come on...you shouldn't be that way. Think of it as you will have more babies to cuddle. Seeing as the three are growing faster than usual..they probably will be toddlers by a month old. It will be months till she has the baby that she is carrying inside her. Takes usually about a year to have a child."

"Really? Didn't know that...maybe it will be alright then." I said a little relieved. Reina looked like she knew about it before I did. " So...you knew she was pregnant?"

"Yeah, just wanted to act surprised cause I knew if I told you you would not believe me."

Confused a little bit I leaned against the door. "I just don't know if I want to be a father more than three times. You know what I mean."

"I can understand, but still it will be awhile till then." Reina smiled. "I can help you babysit if you ever need it."

"Thanks..I might take you up on the offer sometime."

Suddenly while we were at the bottom of the stairs, Beki emerged from the room she was in. Like she was guided by something, she kept walking in a daze. I went up to her. "Beki? Where are you going?"

"Must...go..to door." She said as she got to the bottom of the stairs.

"Wait. You can't go...you are still recovering!" I said standing in her way. Then I noticed Reina was following her, but she knew that it was time.

"Sorry Sephiroth." Reina said. "I hear the door calling...and when the door calls us, we can't resist not going. Beki will be okay I promise."

"Well...oh alright." I said sorta unsure about it all. I followed since there wasn't anything I could do now. I looked back and noticed Sora was following along with the others.

The front door opened and Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Aerith, Cloud, and Squall came in. They ran over to me as I stood there.

"So...you survived Squall?" I said with a smirk on my face.

"I helped him heal." Aerith said looking stern at me. "It was your fault."

"My fault? Hahahaa! If you remember correctly it wasn't my fault at all." I said. "In fact it was more the fault of Judas than me. He was the one controlling the heartless."

"Suuure it was..." Cloud stated.

"Really this isn't the time to argue about who did what." Mickey said. "The door is close to opening and we all need to be there for it. Come on everyone let's go!"

We all followed without a word. Heading closer to the door and we saw everyone other than us were there. The room was bright white..the most whitest room you ever saw. There wasn't really a light source that I could see, but it was really bright in there. On top of the door was a statue of some sort of angel.

Squall, Sora, Kairi, Mickey, and Riku all put up their keyblades to open the door. It looked like it was the end, but then There was an earthquake and the angel on top of the door came alive. He had Crimson wings and a evil smile as he came swooping down from above and stood in front of the 5 wielding the keyblades.

"So you have finally come!" He said in a kid sounding voice. " I have been waiting a very long time for this moment."

"Who are you!" Sora blurted out.

"You think it would be that easy to get to the door to the light didn't you?" The angel snickered. "My name you really don't need to know, boy."

Beki's POV

Me and Reina came closer to the angel. As we did I could feel my wings come out like they were commanded to do so, but I didn't even think to bring them out and also I was still feeling very weak from not feeling good to try to prevent it.

"Come out my angels!" He commanded. "Come and lets the battle begin."

"Battle? Who am I fighting?" I blurted out holding my hand against my belly.

The angel Pointed at Reina. "There is your opponent, now fight!"

I stood up and tried to not show I was feeling sick and I felt suddenly an urge to fight. I drew my Dragon Blade as I saw Reina draw out her blade.

"Wait I don't want to fight my best friend!" I looked at Reina as I felt myself run towards her with my blade drawn out now I felt I was being controlled fully as I yelled. "You will DIE!"

Reina's wings were some bright red and some white feathers glistening in the light as we both flew toward each other fighting like we were great enemies. Our blades chinked as we hit our swords together.

"DIE!" I said as I tried swinging my blade at her as Reina ducked and blocked it. It was like a rage I didn't understand why I felt. She swung at me slicing some of the tips of my feathers off my right wing.

Meanwhile I could hear the angel yelling out at us. "Fight Fight FIGHT!" Like he was chanting for us to slit each other's throat. It distracted me and Reina rammed me into one side of the wall making my back crack from the force of the blow. I pushed her away and swung at her hitting her left arm just enough to give her a piercing cut.

What will happen next? Find out in the last chapter of HoD.