Sorry for the awfulness of this chapter! This is the second to last, before the sequel! Soon you get to find out what Burning Sanctuary even is!
Axel and Hiero ran down the hundreds of corridors of Hollow Bastion castle.
"We are never gonna find them!" Hiero yelled in annoyance to Axel, but he kept running.
"Can't you just make a portal?" Hiero pestered. Axel stopped abruptly.
"If I could make a portal to bring us there, I would. But I can't make a portal to a place I don't know. So please, shut up." Axel yelled, basically going to attack Hiero.
Suddenly, a familiar sound echoed through the halls. Hiero turned. A portal appeared in the center of the hallway, and a tall figure walked out. Dressed in a N.O.B.O.D.Y. coat, their face was covered. They walked out of the portal, and laughed. It was the laugh of a man.
"No….." Axel gasped.
The man reached a gloved hand back and through off his hood. His blue hair fell down to his spine.
I have a debt to be repaid, Axel.
Axel turned and began to run. "Run Hiero!" He screamed. Hiero tore after him.
The man cackled and shot his hand forward. A dark ball of energy formed on his palm, and it descended through the air, colliding with Axel. He flew forward into the air, and landed on his face.
Just like you, I have come back from the abyss,
Axel stood up and summoned his chakram. Hiero caught up with him and did the same with his own weapon.
Revenge is the only thing on my mind, Axel.
The man laughed and disappeared, reappearing in front of Axel. Axel slashed at him, but an object appeared in the man's hand and deflected it. It was a large claymore, which became a semi-circle at the top with spikes jutting out of it.
He jumped into the air and came down on Axel, who blocked the attack. Sparks blasted out everywhere. He kicked Axel into the air, and he broke right through the ceiling. The man jumped into the hole Axel had made.
Damn. Hiero thought. He ran down the hall, looking for some stairs.
Eventually, he came to a large marble staircase. He ran up it, and came out at the second floor.
Axel and the man fought on a large platform elevated over a bottom-less pit. Many arches lined the walls, open to the outside.
The man roared and brought his claymore down, which Axel blocked. The man pushed down more, and Axel's chakram were brought to his face.
Die.
"No, I don't feel like it." Axel snickered, and kicked the man back. The man, dazed, barely blocked two flaming chakram aimed for his head.
Axel caught his chakram while he jumped at the man. He slashed down with one, and then spun around, slashing with the other. He continued this dance for a while, looking like a flurry of dancing flames.
Hiero ran up the stairs to the platform and summoned his scythe. He ran at the man, who was too busy with Axel to notice.
He ran behind the man, raising his scythe. He came down, the scythe connecting with the man's shoulder blades. He hollered in pain, and Axel came down on his with his burning chakram.
They connected with the man, and was sent crumbling to the floor. He gasped for breath.
A portal formed around him, and he quickly disappeared.
"Who the hell was that?" Fired Hiero, dismissing his scythe.
"Saix, former number 7 of Org. XII. Sora killed him, though."
Axel pondered this, when another portal appeared across the room. Two figures walked out.
Dexsis and Xuna laughed and clapped their hands. "Well well well, this should be abnormally easy." Dexsis snickered.
Axel and Hiero got into a fighting stance and summoned their weapons.
"We don't want to fight." Xuna blurted, in her sinister voice.
Hiero tightened the grip on his scythe. "That sucks, cause we are still fighting you." Dexsis made a soft tsk tsk sound.
"We just need to bring you back to Xehanort so he can begin the first phase in our plan. We would appreciate if you just surrendered." He said evilly.
Axel snorted. "Go burn you empty shells of people!"
Xuna and Dexsis both laughed. Suddenly, strands of darkness ripped up from the ground and wrapped around Hiero and Axel, pulling them to the ground. Hiero struggled to free himself, but more strands just appeared. One wrapped around his mouth, another one wrapped around his eyes. The last thing he heard was the evil laugh of Dexsis, before all went black.