Chapter 5
As soon as we got to the Third District, we instantly saw dad trying to help mom to her feet. "Mom!" Jeff and I exclaimed simultaneously. We sprinted over and embraced them.
"Thank god you kids are okay," Mom said through her pain.
"Us? What about you?" I said.
"You just got maimed!" Jeff finished my thought.
Leon and Yuffie ran over to us. "Are you guys okay?" asked Yuffie.
"What do you think?" Mom answered sarcastically.
"Come on," Leon said, "Let's go to the house and fix you up, Kairi."
"Do you have any idea how wrong that sounds?" I asked. It did! 'Let's go to the house and fix you up.' Especially considering that he's HER SISTER!
"Shut up. You know what I meant."
"Whatever," I said. Jeff, Polar, Dan and I cracked up.
"Let's just go!" Leon ordered.
"Right," Dad answered. He picked up mom and held her like a child.
Suddenly, we heard footsteps behind us. Everyone turned around and saw a girl with elbow-length, scraggly, black hair and skin as pale as snow. She wore a red belly-shirt with a Heartless insignia on it and baggy, black cargo pants. She also had a cloak that was red on the inside and black on the outside. The black part of it turned into a small over-shirt that covered that top of her shirt. Pulling her hair out of her orange eyes, she said, "Hello."
"Huh?" Dad answered stupidly.
When the girl summoned her red, flame-like sword, mom said, "She's an assassin, you moron," and grunted in pain.
"Not really," she said, "Assassins are paid to kill. I do it willingly." Her weapon ignited and there seemed to be something preventing it from getting to the long, black handle.
My dad whispered to Yuffie, "Get Kairi, Cid, and the kids to your house. Leon and I'll fight her off."
"Why can't I fight?" asked Cid.
"You don't have powers or a weapon," Leon explained monotonously.
"Come on, Kairi," Yuffie said, lifting her arm over her shoulders. I picked up Kara and followed.
"Oh, no you don't," the girl said, creating and invisible force field around the District. "You're not going anywhere."
"What do you want?' Dad asked.
"Revenge," she answered.
"Is it just me," Dan whispered to me, "or is this girl insane?"
"She's insane," I answered.
"What, exactly, did we do to you?" Leon asked.
"Do you know someone named Ansem?" she asked.
"What does that have to do-"
"Do you?"
"Yeah… he got killed by his own army yesterday," Dad answered confusedly.
"Definitely," I whispered back to Dan.
"LIAR! You were fighting him and he died because of it!" she exclaimed.
"And you care why?" Leon asked.
"He was my father!" She ran and attacked my Dad. He quickly put up the Keyblade and tried to block it. This seemed to work for a moment, but then her weapon sliced through his. He jumped backwards before her sword could even touch him. He picked up the piece of the Keyblade that fell off and simply touched it to the handle and it reattached itself. It then transformed into another form, and let me tell you, it was a hell of a lot cooler. It was pretty much all black and the chain at the bottom was of a black crown. The blade had a silver chain embossed into it and a blue gem on the handle.
"She's stronger than she's worth," Leon said. He threw bullets from his gun-sword at the girl, knocking her sword out of her hands.
"Wait a second," my dad said, "If your father's albino, how did you get black hair?"
"From my mother, you pathetic jackass," She answered, making her weapon levitate back to her. It ignited once more and the bloody battle ensued.
Meanwhile, my mom was starting to lose her mind due to loss of so much blood. She was cracking up when absolutely nothing was funny. When Yuffie tried to calm her down, she would always just laugh even more. At one point, she said "Yuffie, you have wonderful eyes," and went completely limp and unconscious.
"Oh, shit!" Yuffie exclaimed. "Give me your sweatshirt," she ordered Dan.
"Why?" Dan asked defensively.
"We need a way to stop the bleeding!"
"Give her the godforsaken sweatshirt!" I ordered stridently. Knowing me all too well, he took it off and chucked it to Yuffie, revealing his Chevelle tee-shirt.
Yuffie wrapped the sweatshirt around my mother's waist. To better secure it, she took off her scarf and tied it around her. "This'll have to do for now," she said. She carefully checked her pulse and said, "Oh, thank God she still has a pulse!"
Abruptly, the girl struck my Dad in the stomach with her weapon ignited. "Sora!" we all exclaimed except for Mom, who was unconscious, and Jeff and I, who just screamed, "Dad!" He landed next to Mom and grunted in his agony.
This is just great, I thought. As soon as I think they're alive, they die right in front of me. Jeff clenched his fists; I tried futilely to stifle my tears; Dan and Polar just stared at all that was happening, completely speechless— and I sure don't blame them!
Suddenly, I heard a mysterious voice. I didn't hear it—it was more like I felt the words somewhere in my heart. Keyblade… Keyblade… Take it. You are the one who will vanquish the darkness…
"What the—" I said, apparently louder than I had intended.
"What?" Yuffie asked while Leon tried to continue fighting the girl.
"Don't you hear that?"
"What?"
"That voice!" I answered.
The voice kept on whispering to me. Take it… Take it…
So I took it. I took the Keyblade and ran to strike the girl. I ignored several cries of "Rae, what are you thinking?" and "Dude, you're crazy!"
"Who are you?" I asked.
"My name is Aquaria," she answered, "and you're gonna die!"
"Wait! Why am I being killed for something you think my dad did?" I asked, blocking about five different attacks from her.
"To make him suffer," she answered. I raised an eyebrow at her and the battle ensued. I had no idea that I could fight like that! My reflexes were faster than I had ever imagined. It even scared me a little.
"I didn't kill your father, damn it!" my dad exclaimed.
"Yes you did!" Aquaria started to levitate, and a crow landed on her shoulder. "We shall meet again," she said, and disappeared before our eyes.
I ran over to where everyone was clumped together and said, "We need to get these two to a hospital, and fast!"