(An: SORRY! It took me sooooooooooooooo long to update! Exams were crappy and then worst of all I have Biology this semester:'( So I'll try and update whenever I can. Thanx to EVERYONE who reviewed the last chapter. Sorry again for the wait. One review truly got to me….Ethan your review really got to me. I know it seems like I'm advertising but it's my way of explaining my rating uppage. I just keep getting better ideas then before. But I truly do love all these reviews. Arigatou all! Enjoy and keep them reviews a flowin!)
"JACK!" Sally screamed as Riku and Sora supported the frail skeleton towards the Halloween Town hall. She dashed towards them. Jack looked up; his eyes clouded and let a small smile cross his mouth.
"Sa…..lly." He said quietly. She smiled back and looked him over. There were gashes and slashes all over his body.
"Take him to Professor Finkelstein. He should be able to help." She said. They all nodded. Heading towards the laboratory of the little more then mad doctor, Sakura fell to her knees, crying out in pain.
"Sakura! What's wrong?" Kairi asked running to her fallen friend. Sakura's wrist, where the rotting bug had touched, was now swollen to the size of a tennis ball, blood still running out of it at an alarming rate. "That's not good!" Kairi said softly. Paine walked over and looked at the wound.
"It's infected. Come on, hurry." She said helping Sakura up. Paine's face betrayed her worry. She had never seen this kind of infection in her life. She was afraid…. Once more she didn't like this feeling.
Arriving at the lab, everyone crowded in. The professor began to work on healing Jack using multi colored potions and oozing balls of goo. These methods were primitive and disturbing to watch, but they seemed to do the trick for Jack. In a matter of minutes he was as good as new. Paine showed the mad doctor the wound on Sakura wrist. He tisked several times.
"Is it so much to ask to watch out for yourself. If bonds don't break why waste such precious skin over it?" he asked. He plopped some goo onto the wrist, receiving a pained screamed from the girl and wrapped it in a soft linen bandage. "Now, I want you to check every 3 hours to see if the swelling is going down." Ad with that he disappeared back to his lab.
"Odd man." Sora said. Riku nodded letting a small chuckle escape his lips.
"Didn't that feel like old times Sora?" Riku asked quietly. Everyone else was beginning to head back to the town Hall. Sora smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, it did. It's great to have ya back man." Sora said slapping his friends back.
"Come on boys, or you'll miss the big news!" Donald shouted. The two headed out towards the hall both with smiles plastered to their faces.
Axel watched from atop the laboratory as the 7 companions headed towards the town hall. He had watched as one of Oogie's bugs had landed in the blonde's raw and bloody wrist. That bug contained Oogie's essence, his absolute evil.
"Is it done you wack job. Did you infect her with the slime of Darkness?" Axel asked as the sounds of an electric chair approached. A small maniacal laugh met his ears confirming his question.
"Yessss. It has been done Axel. Go and tell Ansem what I have done. I want a reward, I want anything! And they are none the wiser!" Finkelstein laughed. Axel smiled.
"Why share the reward? Goodbye old man, you've served your purpose." Axel said finally looking over at the tiny frail looking old man in the electronic wheel chair. Taking out one of his blades, Axel placed it to the old mans throat and slashed it brutally sending blood all over the roof and himself. "When I can have it all to myself."
With that, Axel opened a dark portal. He'd already taken off his zombie costume, or rather shed his skin. Ansem would be very pleased to know that they now had a spy and a means to send Riku back to the darkness on his knees. And all he had to do was wait the 24 hours and she would be his. And he could do whatever he pleased with her. Stepping through his portal he let out one final menacing laugh.
"Tidus!" Yuna said. Her arms still wrapped around him as if her life depended on holding him. Who was she? Why did he want to hold her too? What was she to him! He felt a searing pain grab him. He let go of the mystery woman and gripped his head.
"You lied to me Tidus, and for that, I will make you my body. You will be my vessel here on destiny islands. You have no more free will." Ansem's voice said inside his head. Tidus tried to fight him, tried to keep his mind.
Yuffie, Rikku and Squall all appeared at the scene. Rikku nearly fainted at the sight of the man before her. He seemed to be fighting an inward battle. Squall began to get goose bumps. This was not good. Something bad was about to happen. He tried to tell them, tried to at least say something. But his voice seemed stuck in his throat. No sound escaped.
All of a sudden the blue of Tidus' eyes turned to deep black. The pupil changed from black to a deep and ugly green. A huge sword appeared in his hands. Only a second had passed when blood slapped Squall in the face. Two screams erupted. One he knew well. Yuffie lay on the grass, her stomach nothing but a bloody gash. Her eyes blank with death. The second scream had come from Rikku. She lay in a bloody puddle. Her heart had been pierced and her mouth seemed to explode with blood. Yuna looked over at Squall with fear and horror mixed in her eyes. He looked down at his arm. Where it should have been was nothing but a bloody stump. She looked at him wide eyed.
He felt no pain, he knew he should have. But her eyes were not wide with fear. She was sad. Tears were in her eyes. She turned towards the murderer. The Man who had killed her cousin and had killed his Yuffie.
"Tidus. Can you truly bring yourself to kill me! It's me, Yuna. I love you Tidus, no matter what you do. I will always love you." She said. She glowed. She was a summoner! It seemed to click now in Squalls mind. This was the great summoner he had heard of. And if she claimed to love this man, he was the warrior he had also heard of. Nothing made sense. But the man had killed Yuffie, he had to die now.
"Yuna get out of the way. He needs to pay for the deaths of my loved one and yours." Squall said. His voice was hollow and sorrow filled.
"No. He can be saved Squall. He can……….." she was cut off. Squall thought she had just lost her train of thought. Until he saw the end of a bloody sword protruding from her back. "Ti….dus……Why?" she asked as blood began to trickle from her mouth. There was a flicker of blue where the black was. Only a flicker. As soon as it was gone. Tidus (ansem) tossed the dead girl off of his sword.
Squall did the only thing one person could do, he ran to the ship to warn Sora. He began to feel the pain in his arm now. The pain of pending infection. The pain of loss. Yuffie was dead. And loss of his limb. Nothing could bring back his right arm; it had been chopped off just below the elbow. He ran towards the dock and he jumped into the ship. He was out of the world as fast as he could be.
The pain was now getting to the point of such intensity that Squall wasn't sure he could handle. He put the ship on auto pilot and turned on his communicator. No one in Sora's ship had picked up, so Squall would leave a message. He only hoped Sora would get it.
"Sora! It's Squall. Destiny Islands. A man named Tidus, he was controlled by Ansem, he killed…. Yuffie…she's gone…. And Rikku and Yuna….all dead. I … my arm, its gone Sora….it's gone….what the fuc………" he got cut off. Destiny Islands. The entire world was aflame. As Squall recorded the last bit, the world had exploded throwing his ship into a free fall onto the nearest world.
"And so for saving Jack Skelington and destroying Oogie Boogie we're throwing this feast in honor of the seven warriors! Now come and enjoy the festivities!" Sally said. Everyone had been allowed to shed their disguises due to there being no more emergencies. The party was amazing. Food from all over on dozens of tables. It seemed like every spook from Halloween Town had shown up to pay their respects to the heroes of the day. The music was being supplied by the best bands in all of Halloween Town; they had Tommy and the Ghouls, and even The Vamps.
"Gorsh this is amazing!" Goofy said as he and Donald looked around at all the foods laid out.
"Ya I know. Yummy! Trout!" Donald yelled dashing to a table full of different kinds of fish.
"Man I don't remember the last time I ate this much!" Sora said as he took another bite out of some kind of pizza.
"And all the booze!" Kairi shouted a bit drunkly.
"You've so reached your cut off limit Kai." Sakura said as she took another sip of the fantastic alcoholic beverage Sally had yet again recommended.
"You probably have too! I don't want you tossing you're cookies later tonight!" Paine said harshly although she had chuckled a bit.
"Ya, we should probably head back to Destiny Islands tomorrow morning nice and early. I wonder how mom is." Riku said softly.
"I wonder how Yuna is, and Rikku, I hope she's over that flu." Sakura said. Her face looked a bit sad.
"Well see em soon enough right?" Riku said sitting next to her placing his arm around her. She cuddled into the warmth his body offered so warm so comforting.
"Ya I guess you're right." And with that they continued to have fun and enjoy the exotic food, songs and dances.
"You've done well Axel. You've brought success out of failure. Name your reward you have earned it for this plot. Anything you want is yours." Ansem said contently. Axel smiled horribly.
"All I want for this, master, is the girl." He said simply. What better way to get back at Riku then taking the one thing he'd ever really loved. If that didn't hit a soft spot, Axel didn't know what would.
"Granted. Here take this. It will control her once the effects of Finkelstein's potion wear off." Ansem said tossing a small silver hair barrette. It was the shape of a pentagram, made of fine silver strand with blood red rubies set at each point and a garnet in the center.
"Master you are far too kind to me." Axel said. He took the barrette and headed back towards his room. Soon he'd have a pretty new toy to play with. Goodness knew how quickly his other toys had perished. He didn't want her to die that quickly. He wanted her to last forever….
"I'm so partied out!" Sakura said as she and Riku headed towards their Inn rooms. They had been the last to leave the party that night out of their little group. They had danced and drunk quite a bit. Probably too much of both. Now both exhausted and walking back to their rooms, it seemed to take for ever to cross the damn street to get there.
"Ya me too. FINALLY! Ok we're in the inn." Riku said with a sigh. He was most definitely as partied out as she.
"Well here's my room. Good night Riku." She said as she moved to open her door. He put his hand on hers and turned her face to his own.
"Goodnight Sakura." He said just before placing his lips to hers. As they broke the kiss her face shone with a rosy blush as she entered her room. Riku walked down the hall to his own room, a glow with joy. He was finally ridding himself of the darkness that had taken over his life for so long. He was finally feeling at peace.
"Did you really think I'd be that easy to kill girly?" the voice said high and strong. Sakura twitched her hands, only to find them bound to a playing card. It was just like earlier that night. In Oogie's place. But they had killed him.
"What….But you're dead!" she said softly. He smiled and laughed harshly at her.
"My body may lie in ruins but you've been infected by my bug little lady. And thanks to the goo the good doctor put on you, once you wake up, I'll control this pretty little body of yours for one day and then I'll die away." The voice said. Oogie appeared making Sakura scream with fright.
"No this is a lie. You're lying! You aren't REAL!" Sakura screamed. She tried to wake up, she tried to move her body, but nothing worked.
Can you feel me infecting you? From the top of your head to your…muahaha…" he laughed as he began to touch her. She let out a small yelp of protest. "Don't like to be touched there. Alright no big. But I can't wait for you to be the object of Riku's demise. I can't wait!" Oogie said in a terrible voice. Sakura's eyes began to tear.
"No…NO I WON'T DO ANYTHING YOU SAY!" she screamed. He simply laughed again.
"Nobody said you would. I'll have control of this body. I'll do it myself. I can't wait to see him suffer." And with that Oogie was gone.
"Riku…no. I have to warn them…why couldn't Yuna have taught me more magic. If I could use telepathy…anything. Damn it." Sakura was thinking hard, trying to find some way she could warn Riku. She didn't want to lose him. Not like this. Suddenly, thousands of bugs begin to swarm her. She is bound and cannot defend herself. They swarm and swarm until her whole body is devoured by them. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RIKU!" and then silence…
The next morning as everyone rose, Sakura slept in late. Paine had tried to wake her many times, only to get a groan and a reply of "5 more minutes". She had given up. They had all packed and dressed and now Kairi began to worry. What was wrong with Sakura?
"Sakura? It's Kairi, are you alright?" Kairi asked sitting on the side of her friends bed. Sakura's eyes snapped open, both a deep ugly green color. She began to feel up her body, lingering at her breasts, as a tiny smile rose to her lips.
"Yes, I've never been better Kairi, never been better." She said laughing with a haunting sound lingering. "Kairi, no don't believe him, save me!" the real Sakura tried to scream, but she was overtaken by the laughing of the maniacal Oogie Boogie. She had now lost her hope.
(Sorry for the wait yet again! I'll try and update ASAP. It gets good in the next chapter a lot of drama baby! Please read and review PLZ! Even though I've been a butt head and haven't updated in like 2 months! Thanx! Blade)