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Chapter 10
Amy had been away from Yuffie, Leon, Cloud and Aerith for about 11 months now, but it felt like so much longer. It was almost her 17th birthday now, just after Riku's and they had a lot to talk about.
"So, where are we off to?" asked Amy, to no-one in particular.
"To face our destinies, er. again" replied Leon.
"Ah. But where exactly are our destinies leading us?" said Amy, stroking her chin mockingly, although she wasn't quite sure why she was mocking. But she could see where they were going by now. "back to that ship? Oh god, the décor there was just horrific" she made a stupid face. She knew now why she was being so sarcastic, it was nerves. But the others obviously hadn't got that. They all looked at her in a shocked manor, surprised at how quickly she had got over her death.
"Uh, Amy, are you alright?" Aerith asked.
"Yeah, sure" said Amy, shrugging "I mean, why shouldn't I be? We're only going back to the very place where I died" Everyone looked at her again, now understanding why she'd acted the way she had. But after a while she said. "But why should I be afraid? I died there once, but this time I'm not gonna die. Because if I die, they win, and that isn't going to happen. They aren't good enough for that. Its time to face my fear, and I can beat it. There's no point in running away from it my whole life."
"You really feel strongly about this, don't you?" Yuffie said, in a sort of rhetorical question type-way. (A/N me not making sense again!)
"Yes." Said Amy, not realizing. "but what about Riku, I mean it just makes me so mad. I mean he made one wrong move, and snap, now he's fighting on the other side?" She clenched her fists.
"That's just how the game's played" said Cloud. "but you must remember, that dragged along with evil might not have been his plan, it's very easy to do. You just have to lose sight of reality for one second, that 1 second where you want something so bad, all you can see is that thing, and they just pounce on you, and take advantage of your state of mind."
"We're here." Said Leon, in a voice that was supposed to calm, but shook a little.
They stepped out onto a platform, and walked through a black door. They walked along a dark corridor that led into a vast empty room, with a few candles just floating about in mid-air. Someone stepped out from the shadows.
"We've been expecting you, but not this soon, obviously we gave you too little credit." The voice said. Amy stepped forward.
"Riku?" she spoke to the darkness "is that you?"
"If you want to know, you'll have to catch me first." Said the voice, and they heard footsteps in front of them, fading away, then a door opening and slamming.
"Looks like we have no choice but to follow it." Said Leon, pulling out Lionheart and running after the voice. They ran straight ahead, and soon came to a door. They opened it and stepped cautiously through. Heartless attacked from all around them. But this time, Cloud kept Amy protected and when they had killed all the Heartless, they walked on. They walked into the middle of this huge room, bigger than the first one, and darker too. Suddenly, little candles flickered everywhere. More Heartless attacked, but Amy had spotted something way over the other side of the large room, and sprinted towards it, winding through all the Heartless, which promptly tried to attack, but just got kicked or punched.
"Riku!" she shouted, as she drew level with him.
"Hi." Riku said, as casually as if they had just bumped into each other on Destiny Islands.
"Riku, why, and how, are you here?" Amy asked him.
"Because I realized that I might as well join with the side that's clearly going to win."
"Even if it means-" Amy paused "killing me? Doesn't the fact that I'm supposed to be your friend mean anything?"
"Oh, come on" said Riku, smirking. "we all know your end was going to be untimely and bloody"
"That's not you talking" said Amy, trying desperately to fight back tears. Riku smirked even more.
"Well who is it then?" said Riku, knowing that Amy wouldn't have an answer. "oh, come on, you're boring me" he went on, drawing his sword. Amy knew he was serious, and looked frantically around for something to defend herself with. She thought to herself 'I need a weapon, if I don't, I'm dead' and just as she thought it, a sword which looked to be completely of light appeared in her hand. She gave Riku a quirky smile, her confidence almost returning.
"Hey, you cheered up!" said Riku, sarcastically, but he said it as though he did care
"Well done. It'll make you a bit more enjoyable to kill than before" he jabbed at Amy, and she closed her eyes, ready to feel a cold rapier blade pierce her side, but instead she felt the vibrations, and heard the clang of metal-on-metal, as she had raised her sword without meaning to. But she was glad. By this time, the others had defeated the Heartless which had attacked them, and Yuffie stepped forward to help Amy, but Cloud and Leon stopped her.
"This is Amy's battle" said Leon. Meanwhile, Riku had thrown Amy across the room; she hit a wall, and landed in a crumpled heap on the floor. Riku sprang towards her, and Amy frantically tried to crawl away on her hands and knees, towards where her sword had fallen, but he was faster, and she fell. Riku put his blade up against Amy's throat. A platform rose up, like one she had seen before, and before Amy knew it, her legs and arms where bolted down once more. She shouted for the others, but it was no use. She heard a click, and glanced across the room, to see that they had been tied down.
"Riku, don't do this," Amy cried, unable to hold her tears in any longer.
"And why shouldn't I?" Riku asked.
"Because. because.." Amy was in a lot of pain, as somehow she seemed to have a deep gash in her leg. But it didn't matter anyway, because Sephiroth cut her off.
"Good work, boy." He said, smirking. He turned and saw Amy just lying there, looking helpless and heartbroken. He raised his eyebrows slightly in pity, but then shook the feeling away, he had never felt anything like that before.
"Because" Amy said, feeling she had to get this out, or at least had to try. "Because.. I love you." Amy struggled to speak, she had lost a lot of blood through the gash in her leg, but managed to look up to meet Riku's eyes, and saw everlasting nothingness. And for one moment, she didn't love him.
She hated him.
Riku saw the hurt in Amy's eyes, in her heart, but it was too late. Sephiroth pushed Riku, and he fell onto a hard stone platform, which had just risen up from the ground. Bars snapped down around his arms and legs, trapping them in place.
"Awww, Riku, she loves you. Do you return the feeling?" Sephiroth asked, sarcastically "oh, sorry, stupid question, we all already know the answer." Sephiroth snatched a silver chain from around Riku's neck. Aerith gasped.
"That's." she began, but Leon shushed her.
"Yes, the necklace containing part of this girls heart." Sephiroth examined it, then threw it on the floor. Everyone looked from him to the necklace, surprised. "it's useless. You see, when these two secretly fell in love, Amy's heart somehow bonded with Riku's."
"That means-" Riku began
"Yes, now I have to get your heart, too"
"You tricked me!" Riku yelled, struggling against the bars.
"Well, what was I supposed to do, just stroll up to you casually and say 'hey, Riku, you fell in love with the Pure Hearted one, and now I have to kill you.' Could I? you'd never come with me!" another shadow appeared and started that weird dance next to Riku.
"Looks like you'll never keep that extremely cute promise to your dead Mother" said Sephiroth, smugly, walking away.
"Take. that. back." said Amy, breathing heavily, still really struggling to speak. Sephiroth stopped, but didn't turn around, and laughed, a cold laugh, and then carried on walking. Amy was still struggling against the metal bars, and her eyes were clouded with tears. The tears stung her eyes, because of the many emotions they carried, pain, not just physically, in her heart, anger, betrayal, hate, but love at the same time. But mostly she cried out of sadness. She missed her family, her sister in particular. Eventually she gave up, and collapsed back onto her metal bed.
"Don't give up!" Aerith cried, a large amount of urgency in her voice. "Believe in yourself. Wish and you'll find a release!" Amy willed the bars to break. Wished with all her might. With a loud clang, the bars broke, shattered into a thousand pieces, and with great difficulty, she jumped up. Sephiroth turned around this time, a look of mild surprise spread across his face. He realized this almost immediately, and took it off, and replaced it with a smirk.
"You'll never defeat me." He said, still smirking
"I'd like to test that theory" Amy replied, returning the smirk, and to everyone's surprise, very well. She raised her right arm, and the silvery sword materialized once more in her hand.
"I think you've forgotten one teensy little problem-" said Sephiroth, a demonic grin, in fact, more of a leer, on his face. "you don't know how to fight! You demonstrated that fact very well on poor Riku."
"Ah, but I went easy on him. but you." Amy said.
"Really? It looked like you were just really crappy at fighting."
"You know, Sephiroth, if I didn't know better, I'd think you're frightened. I mean, why else would a respectable person like you natter on about utter crap, if you aren't afraid of an arse kicking?"
"That's it" said Sephiroth, raising the Masamune "you asked for it." He lunged forward, his sword outstretched. Amy dodged it, jumped up, and kicked him onto the floor when he thrust his sword forward again. She jumped on top of him, punching him over and over on his face and in his ribs.
"Are you gonna kill me already?" Sephiroth gasped for breath, after having the wind knocked out of him, and through the blood which was streaming from his nose and cut lip. Amy stood up, and, placing her sword right on his heart, just stood there. Eventually, she sighed and said
"I cant do it"
"Awww, that's the disadvantage of having a pure heart. Too good to kill." Amy didn't respond, but just stood there. She glanced around the room. All she could think about was how much pain she could sense in the room, it was even coming off the heartless over with Riku. 'wait a minute' she thought to herself 'Heartless are devoid of emotion, how can that be' she slowly walked towards the Heartless, which had stopped dancing when it saw her approach.
"Laura?" she asked the darkness "Laura is that you?" the Heartless walked- or crawled, or however you could describe the jerky movements they used to advance- towards Amy, and Yuffie gasped loudly, and Cloud yelled "Amy! Be careful!" but Amy somehow knew what she was doing and wasn't afraid. The Heartless had obviously decided it was in a hurry and began running, or moving faster, or something, and Amy took a few steps towards it and-
****Flashback****
"Are you tired or something, you just drifted off"
"Yeah, I'm knackered"
"Well get to bed" And the smile she knew so well.
****End Flashback****
She ran up to Laura the Heartless and hugged her so hard she must have squeezed all the darkness away. And there she was, Laura, but she was crying.
"Amy, thank you." Her eyes were just streaming with tears, and it hurt Amy so much to see her sister like this.
"Laura!" Laura collapsed on the floor, breathing heavily.
"They got Scott and Mum, sis."
"I know, and they got you too."
"I'll be alright. I'm sorry. And Amy, I love you, I'll always be with you"
"Sorry for what? I." Amy shook Laura "Laura! Laura! Wake up!" she looked up. A shimmering heart rose up and faded away into the atmosphere.
But Amy knew she would never wake up. She was just about to give up when she thought of her sister's last words. I'll always be with you. In fact, she always had been, and the memories Amy had of her were just there to remind her of that.
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Chapter 10
Amy had been away from Yuffie, Leon, Cloud and Aerith for about 11 months now, but it felt like so much longer. It was almost her 17th birthday now, just after Riku's and they had a lot to talk about.
"So, where are we off to?" asked Amy, to no-one in particular.
"To face our destinies, er. again" replied Leon.
"Ah. But where exactly are our destinies leading us?" said Amy, stroking her chin mockingly, although she wasn't quite sure why she was mocking. But she could see where they were going by now. "back to that ship? Oh god, the décor there was just horrific" she made a stupid face. She knew now why she was being so sarcastic, it was nerves. But the others obviously hadn't got that. They all looked at her in a shocked manor, surprised at how quickly she had got over her death.
"Uh, Amy, are you alright?" Aerith asked.
"Yeah, sure" said Amy, shrugging "I mean, why shouldn't I be? We're only going back to the very place where I died" Everyone looked at her again, now understanding why she'd acted the way she had. But after a while she said. "But why should I be afraid? I died there once, but this time I'm not gonna die. Because if I die, they win, and that isn't going to happen. They aren't good enough for that. Its time to face my fear, and I can beat it. There's no point in running away from it my whole life."
"You really feel strongly about this, don't you?" Yuffie said, in a sort of rhetorical question type-way. (A/N me not making sense again!)
"Yes." Said Amy, not realizing. "but what about Riku, I mean it just makes me so mad. I mean he made one wrong move, and snap, now he's fighting on the other side?" She clenched her fists.
"That's just how the game's played" said Cloud. "but you must remember, that dragged along with evil might not have been his plan, it's very easy to do. You just have to lose sight of reality for one second, that 1 second where you want something so bad, all you can see is that thing, and they just pounce on you, and take advantage of your state of mind."
"We're here." Said Leon, in a voice that was supposed to calm, but shook a little.
They stepped out onto a platform, and walked through a black door. They walked along a dark corridor that led into a vast empty room, with a few candles just floating about in mid-air. Someone stepped out from the shadows.
"We've been expecting you, but not this soon, obviously we gave you too little credit." The voice said. Amy stepped forward.
"Riku?" she spoke to the darkness "is that you?"
"If you want to know, you'll have to catch me first." Said the voice, and they heard footsteps in front of them, fading away, then a door opening and slamming.
"Looks like we have no choice but to follow it." Said Leon, pulling out Lionheart and running after the voice. They ran straight ahead, and soon came to a door. They opened it and stepped cautiously through. Heartless attacked from all around them. But this time, Cloud kept Amy protected and when they had killed all the Heartless, they walked on. They walked into the middle of this huge room, bigger than the first one, and darker too. Suddenly, little candles flickered everywhere. More Heartless attacked, but Amy had spotted something way over the other side of the large room, and sprinted towards it, winding through all the Heartless, which promptly tried to attack, but just got kicked or punched.
"Riku!" she shouted, as she drew level with him.
"Hi." Riku said, as casually as if they had just bumped into each other on Destiny Islands.
"Riku, why, and how, are you here?" Amy asked him.
"Because I realized that I might as well join with the side that's clearly going to win."
"Even if it means-" Amy paused "killing me? Doesn't the fact that I'm supposed to be your friend mean anything?"
"Oh, come on" said Riku, smirking. "we all know your end was going to be untimely and bloody"
"That's not you talking" said Amy, trying desperately to fight back tears. Riku smirked even more.
"Well who is it then?" said Riku, knowing that Amy wouldn't have an answer. "oh, come on, you're boring me" he went on, drawing his sword. Amy knew he was serious, and looked frantically around for something to defend herself with. She thought to herself 'I need a weapon, if I don't, I'm dead' and just as she thought it, a sword which looked to be completely of light appeared in her hand. She gave Riku a quirky smile, her confidence almost returning.
"Hey, you cheered up!" said Riku, sarcastically, but he said it as though he did care
"Well done. It'll make you a bit more enjoyable to kill than before" he jabbed at Amy, and she closed her eyes, ready to feel a cold rapier blade pierce her side, but instead she felt the vibrations, and heard the clang of metal-on-metal, as she had raised her sword without meaning to. But she was glad. By this time, the others had defeated the Heartless which had attacked them, and Yuffie stepped forward to help Amy, but Cloud and Leon stopped her.
"This is Amy's battle" said Leon. Meanwhile, Riku had thrown Amy across the room; she hit a wall, and landed in a crumpled heap on the floor. Riku sprang towards her, and Amy frantically tried to crawl away on her hands and knees, towards where her sword had fallen, but he was faster, and she fell. Riku put his blade up against Amy's throat. A platform rose up, like one she had seen before, and before Amy knew it, her legs and arms where bolted down once more. She shouted for the others, but it was no use. She heard a click, and glanced across the room, to see that they had been tied down.
"Riku, don't do this," Amy cried, unable to hold her tears in any longer.
"And why shouldn't I?" Riku asked.
"Because. because.." Amy was in a lot of pain, as somehow she seemed to have a deep gash in her leg. But it didn't matter anyway, because Sephiroth cut her off.
"Good work, boy." He said, smirking. He turned and saw Amy just lying there, looking helpless and heartbroken. He raised his eyebrows slightly in pity, but then shook the feeling away, he had never felt anything like that before.
"Because" Amy said, feeling she had to get this out, or at least had to try. "Because.. I love you." Amy struggled to speak, she had lost a lot of blood through the gash in her leg, but managed to look up to meet Riku's eyes, and saw everlasting nothingness. And for one moment, she didn't love him.
She hated him.
Riku saw the hurt in Amy's eyes, in her heart, but it was too late. Sephiroth pushed Riku, and he fell onto a hard stone platform, which had just risen up from the ground. Bars snapped down around his arms and legs, trapping them in place.
"Awww, Riku, she loves you. Do you return the feeling?" Sephiroth asked, sarcastically "oh, sorry, stupid question, we all already know the answer." Sephiroth snatched a silver chain from around Riku's neck. Aerith gasped.
"That's." she began, but Leon shushed her.
"Yes, the necklace containing part of this girls heart." Sephiroth examined it, then threw it on the floor. Everyone looked from him to the necklace, surprised. "it's useless. You see, when these two secretly fell in love, Amy's heart somehow bonded with Riku's."
"That means-" Riku began
"Yes, now I have to get your heart, too"
"You tricked me!" Riku yelled, struggling against the bars.
"Well, what was I supposed to do, just stroll up to you casually and say 'hey, Riku, you fell in love with the Pure Hearted one, and now I have to kill you.' Could I? you'd never come with me!" another shadow appeared and started that weird dance next to Riku.
"Looks like you'll never keep that extremely cute promise to your dead Mother" said Sephiroth, smugly, walking away.
"Take. that. back." said Amy, breathing heavily, still really struggling to speak. Sephiroth stopped, but didn't turn around, and laughed, a cold laugh, and then carried on walking. Amy was still struggling against the metal bars, and her eyes were clouded with tears. The tears stung her eyes, because of the many emotions they carried, pain, not just physically, in her heart, anger, betrayal, hate, but love at the same time. But mostly she cried out of sadness. She missed her family, her sister in particular. Eventually she gave up, and collapsed back onto her metal bed.
"Don't give up!" Aerith cried, a large amount of urgency in her voice. "Believe in yourself. Wish and you'll find a release!" Amy willed the bars to break. Wished with all her might. With a loud clang, the bars broke, shattered into a thousand pieces, and with great difficulty, she jumped up. Sephiroth turned around this time, a look of mild surprise spread across his face. He realized this almost immediately, and took it off, and replaced it with a smirk.
"You'll never defeat me." He said, still smirking
"I'd like to test that theory" Amy replied, returning the smirk, and to everyone's surprise, very well. She raised her right arm, and the silvery sword materialized once more in her hand.
"I think you've forgotten one teensy little problem-" said Sephiroth, a demonic grin, in fact, more of a leer, on his face. "you don't know how to fight! You demonstrated that fact very well on poor Riku."
"Ah, but I went easy on him. but you." Amy said.
"Really? It looked like you were just really crappy at fighting."
"You know, Sephiroth, if I didn't know better, I'd think you're frightened. I mean, why else would a respectable person like you natter on about utter crap, if you aren't afraid of an arse kicking?"
"That's it" said Sephiroth, raising the Masamune "you asked for it." He lunged forward, his sword outstretched. Amy dodged it, jumped up, and kicked him onto the floor when he thrust his sword forward again. She jumped on top of him, punching him over and over on his face and in his ribs.
"Are you gonna kill me already?" Sephiroth gasped for breath, after having the wind knocked out of him, and through the blood which was streaming from his nose and cut lip. Amy stood up, and, placing her sword right on his heart, just stood there. Eventually, she sighed and said
"I cant do it"
"Awww, that's the disadvantage of having a pure heart. Too good to kill." Amy didn't respond, but just stood there. She glanced around the room. All she could think about was how much pain she could sense in the room, it was even coming off the heartless over with Riku. 'wait a minute' she thought to herself 'Heartless are devoid of emotion, how can that be' she slowly walked towards the Heartless, which had stopped dancing when it saw her approach.
"Laura?" she asked the darkness "Laura is that you?" the Heartless walked- or crawled, or however you could describe the jerky movements they used to advance- towards Amy, and Yuffie gasped loudly, and Cloud yelled "Amy! Be careful!" but Amy somehow knew what she was doing and wasn't afraid. The Heartless had obviously decided it was in a hurry and began running, or moving faster, or something, and Amy took a few steps towards it and-
****Flashback****
"Are you tired or something, you just drifted off"
"Yeah, I'm knackered"
"Well get to bed" And the smile she knew so well.
****End Flashback****
She ran up to Laura the Heartless and hugged her so hard she must have squeezed all the darkness away. And there she was, Laura, but she was crying.
"Amy, thank you." Her eyes were just streaming with tears, and it hurt Amy so much to see her sister like this.
"Laura!" Laura collapsed on the floor, breathing heavily.
"They got Scott and Mum, sis."
"I know, and they got you too."
"I'll be alright. I'm sorry. And Amy, I love you, I'll always be with you"
"Sorry for what? I." Amy shook Laura "Laura! Laura! Wake up!" she looked up. A shimmering heart rose up and faded away into the atmosphere.
But Amy knew she would never wake up. She was just about to give up when she thought of her sister's last words. I'll always be with you. In fact, she always had been, and the memories Amy had of her were just there to remind her of that.
