Hey everybody, here's the second chapter. Sorry it took two days to update, I was drowning in homework. Anyway, hope you enjoy it.
Oh yeah, forgot to put the disclaimer in the first chapter, so here it is: I don't own nothing. Not even this computer. It's my dad's, lol.
Traverse Town. Haven't been here for a while. Riku got off of the Twilight Road and looked around. As usual, the only light came from artificial means, not from the sky. The most annoying source was the obnoxious sign that was mounted just above the door to the accessory shop. That sign alone could have lit up the town square. He wondered, and not for the first time, why anybody would want to live here. But Riku wasn't here to wonder why some people lived where the sun don't shine. He was here to find Namine and Sephiroth.And the first place he decided to look was the third district.
"Hey, Diz! Where's Namine? She's supposed to be working on repairing Sora's memories, but I can't find her anywhere in the castle!" Axel seemed furious about something, but then again, he was always mad about one thing or another.
"She was kidnapped by the executioner you were sending Riku to." Diz sounded slightly amused, but only Riku could have picked it up. Diz was amazed at how fast the boy was picking up on what he taught him. Well, except for the language of the twilight realm. That was proving harder for Riku to learn than for the boy to defeat Sephiroth, which Axel had told him to do multiple times.
"Kidnapped? By an executioner? Which one? I want answers Diz!" Just then Larxene walked by and told Axel that he was beating a dead horse.
"Then you'll have to find them on your own. Unless you wish for more vague explanations, which your better would be more than willing to supply." Diz realized that Axel hadn't figured out that he had been insulted yet, so he left.
It wasn't until Diz had disappeared that Axel figured out that he had been insulted by Diz. "Hey! He just called me inferior! He's dead the next time we meet!" Axel thought about this, then added, "Maybe not."
Axel turned around and started to walk to the entrance hall of the castle. "So? Where is she?" Axel whipped around and drew his wagon wheel-like weapons, but only to find a knife at his throat.
"Oh, it's just you." Axel replied, recognizing the blonde haired teen that was pressing the blade to his throat.
"'Just me'? That's no way to talk to somebody who could kill you at any given moment." He pressed the knife harder into Axel's skin.
"That's not what I meant, Steel. I thought you were Sora." Axel visibly relaxed when Steel took the knife away from his throat.
"Who?" Steel didn't like to be compared to anyone.
"The last person to beat me in combat, other than you. As for your question, she was kidnapped." Axel cringed when anger flashed across Steel's face.
"You let someone kidnap her!" The knife was immediately back against Axel's neck, in an excellent position to slit his throat.
"Don't!" Axel was trying his best not to whimper, but he knew that Steel's knife began to drain it's victim's life force the second it broke their skin.
"Give me a reason not to." Steel growled, giving Axel a small cut on his throat.
"I know who did it! But if you kill me, you'll never find out who!" Axel hoped that this would work, knowing that if it didn't then that knife would surely kill him, and faster than the keyblade ever could.
"Alright, talk. Who kidnapped her?" Steel wasn't in the mood for games. Not that he ever was.
Axel kept his look of terror, but knew that his plan was working.
Riku slammed his fist against the stone walls. He couldn't find them anywhere! He had searched all over the third district, carefully avoiding the house that held the hyper active ninja that thought he liked her, and found no clue as to where Sephiroth was. Then he looked in the second district, and once again found nothing. Then he had searched the first district, and found nothing for the third time in a row. He was not having a good day.
There was only one thing left for him to do. He had to get some of Sora's friends to help him. They knew this town better than anyone else, and they would do anything for Sora. But Sephiroth was from their world, and Riku didn't know how much they liked Sephiroth or how much they would do for him. But if no one else helped him, at least the ninja would. She probably still thought he liked her. How she got that idea, he wasn't quite sure, but it would help him right now.
He knocked and waited to see who would answer it. He heard a deep voice inside tell someone else to get it, and then he heard the ninja's voice screaming something about always having to get it. Great, she's on a sugar high. Well, as long as she can control herself, I don't mind.
The door opened, and immediately Riku knew that the sugar high was a bad thing.
"Riku! It's great to see you! How have you been? I've been fine, and I found this great new thing called caffeine, and it makes me really hyper, but Squall doesn't like it, because he doesn't like me when I'm hyper, but I don't know why because it's really fun to be hyper, and-" Riku cut her off.
"Yuffie, I'm sure it's a lot of fun to be hyper, but I don't have time to listen to you rant about it. Listen, have you seen Sephiroth around here anywhere? And please answer calmly." Riku tried his best to be patient, but it was extremely hard with the caffeinated ninja bouncing up and down in front of him.
"I am talking calmly, your just talking to slow! Yes, I have seen Sephiroth, but he's really really mad, so I wouldn't look for him if I were you. Oh yeah, and there was this blonde girl with him, but I don't know why she was traveling around with him, because he's in one of his creepy modes right now." Yuffie was still bouncing, but she was getting higher with every bounce.
Like you? Riku thought, waiting for her to eventually hit her head on the top of the doorway. "She was traveling with him because she was kidnapped by him, and I have to get her back."
"What! Are you cheating on me?" Even though she was acting mad, she was still bouncing.
It's hard to cheat on someone that you don't even like. Riku was starting to get frustrated with her. "No, but she is the only one who can fix Sora's memory. If I don't get her back, Sora won't remember anything from his life, including you."
Thud! Riku just watched as she almost knocked herself out on the top of the doorway. She came up fuming.
"What do you mean he won't remember me! If it weren't for me, Squall might've killed him!"
"He won't remember anybody, not you, not Leon, Cloud, Aerith, or even Donald and Goofy. He won't even remember Kairi or me. I doubt he'll even remember his name." Riku tried his best to seem calm, but the thought hit him that he might have to tell Kairi about it, and if Yuffie was this bad, then he couldn't imagine what Kairi would do.
"Alright, I'll tell you where they are. But you didn't hear this from me, ok?"
"Ok." Riku listened intently as she told him where they were.
A few minutes later, Riku was swimming across the underground lake that was home of the wizard Merlin. Apparently there was a hidden cave on the other side of it, and the entrance was underwater. He quickly found it, and prepared himself for what he was about to face. Sephiroth was not an easy opponent, no matter how you looked at it.
He took a deep breath and entered the cave. After swimming underwater for about half a second, he found the actual cave. It was hard not to, since the light in there was the brightest in all of Traverse Town. He blinked a few times and then looked around. There wasn't much in the cave, other than the obviously magical light that floated just below the middle of the ceiling.
"Riku!" Riku spun around and found Namine tied up in a corner.
"Namine!" Riku ran to her and began to untie her.
"Riku, listen to me. You have to get me back to Sora." She seemed really anxious about something.
"I know. If I don't his memory will be lost forever, right?" Riku replied as he finished untying the ropes.
"No, Riku." She made him look at her. "If I don't get back in there and fix him in two weeks, he'll die."
"What? Namine, what are you talking about?"
"Exactly what she said." Sephiroth's voice said right behind Riku.
"Riku!" Namine's voice was the last thing that Riku heard before he felt Sephiroth's sword bite his back and send him falling into the bliss of unconsciousness…
Ok, just so that y'all know, Steel is not bhk. You will find out more about him in the next chapter. Until then, R&R and let me know how I'm doing. Like I said in the summary, flames accepted. And there is a reason Axel is acting so strange, and you will also find out more about that in the next chapter.