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Kingdom hearts NO es mío. Jamás lo será! It will never be mine! Evur! (I'm too lazy for that)
III: The Friend and the Enemy
The young man and woman that appeared in the cave were standing ready to fight. Takeshi was a little confused at the sudden events. Alexa didn't even flinch as the other girl took out her rod.
"What are you doing here!" The pink-dressed girl asked.
"Why should I answer such a question?" Alexa grinned.
Half a second after she answered, Leon struck with his gunblade. Out of thin air, Alexa deflected the attack with light silver, one ribbon urumi, with onyx details on its crossed hilt. Again, Leon struck, and Alexa blocked holding her defense against his weight.
The other woman quickly ran to Takeshi, who backed up as she stops close.
"Stay back! I don't fight girls!"
"Did she do something to you?" The woman asked lowering her weapon.
"What are you talking about? We were just here talking until you showed up! Have we done something to you two; 'cause I don't remember."
"She was just talking to you?" She said confused. Both of them suddenly looked at the battle. Leon continued to strike as Alexa continued to defend, glancing now and then to the other girl.
"Why haven't you strike back?" The man called Leon quickly asked, backing up.
"Shouldn't you know?"
Leon gripped his weapon, changing it with a bright energy at its tip, and then releasing the powerful attack toward his opponent. Alexa raised an almost invisible shield dissolving the attack, but was surprised as Leon came right behind the attack. It was the first time she felt that way—impressed, maybe scared—she disappeared, revealing herself again behind him.
Almost as he knew, he turned his attack behind only to be blocked, and again they found themselves holding each others attacks.
"What's the Organization doing with the Heartless! What connection do you have with them!" Leon asked aloud.
"A connection…with the Heartless?" Takeshi whispered. He immediately thought that Alexa was the one to blame for the disappearance of his sister.
He quickly sprinted out of the cave, paying no attention to the fact that the Heartless were roaming around the Districts. For what he knows, it may have all been Alexa's doing.
"Takeshi!" Alexa said with wory, still holding off the attack. The other girl however, ran after the boy.
TTR
"Now what I should do?" Takeshi asked himself aloud. He was walking on the upper level of the Second District, where the Hotel was located. He though for a moment what that man suddenly asked to Alexa. Was it all true?
"Takeshi?" Someone called. He looked back and saw the pink-dressed girl.
"You again! Can't you just leave me alone!"
"You know they're Heartless out here."
"Somehow I don't care." Takeshi said as he leaned against the wall.
"That woman…is she a friend of yours?"
"We just met in the middle of nowhere, plus saved me from those things. Nothing special."
The girl opened the door of the Hotel and stopped midway. "We better get inside if we don't want to attract the Heartless. By the way, my name's Aerith."
Choosing what's best for him, he came inside the building as he saw some Heartless coming out of the alley's shadows.
"Why are you here?" She asked again, both walking to one of the many rooms.
"Searching for my sister. Are you worried that those two might kill each other?"
"No, they won't."
"Why's that?"
"I believe that that person may have a heart." She said opening the door to the Red Room.
"Alexa! She seemed kinda 'heartless' when she talked back at you."
"That's her name, right. You two look like friends."
"Yeah…right."
TTR
Leon fell to the ground on his back. Alexa stood over him, waiting for his next attack.
"You won't be striking back any sooner, I believe." He said.
"Now have you realized it?" She said, hiding her weapon away and backing up a few paces.
"I don't suppose you're here to negotiate." Leon said as he got up, still with his weapon in hand.
"I don't negotiate." She frowned, turning to leave until the man stopped her.
"Are you really with the Organization?"
"I prefer not to talk about it." She paused for a second. "There's something out here, and it's no ordinary Heartless. If you consider this your new home, you'll protect it." Alexa finally said before leaving the cave.
Squall Leonheart, his true name, didn't show any emotion. He almost never did. He had lost a few battles, this one being the first against an unknown, it wouldn't get him down. Leaving this though behind, he came out of the cave in search of this 'something' that woman mentioned.
TTR
"So did you end here too?" Takeshi asked.
"Yes. I escaped with Leon, Yuffie and Cid. You've already met Leon, and Cid's in the First District.
"What about Yuffie?"
"She's in another world right now, competing in some challenges."
Takeshi almost forgot about the other worlds out there, he was feeling more like in another town in his world. He was thinking about Alexa; maybe she was in the same situation as he was. And his early assumption might have been wrong. Suddenly, he could hear a far high-pitch roar, opening his closed eyes.
"Do you hear something?"
Aerith quickly looked out the window. Takeshi jumped off the bed, looking out the window.
"Where's it coming from anyway?" He asked, receiving no answer. "We better go someplace else."
Takeshi opened the door, with Aerith behind him. A sudden explosion coming from the end of the hallway sent Aerith back inside the room, and Takeshi a few feet ahead of the hall.
"They just keep coming!" He said as he got up and turned to have a better view. An arachnid Heartless hung from the ceiling. It's eight legs, colored in red, yellow and brown, moved signaling it's coming attack. On the arachnid's torso laid a strange mark of a crossed heart. "(And this one has to be big)."
Takeshi ran for the entrance door, as the spider rampaged through it. He finally opened the door and sprinted to his left.
Aerith came out of the room and came close to the edge where the spider came in.
"Leon! There's something out there! The boy's in trouble!" She said when she saw him starring at the scene; coming there as soon as he heard the explosion.
"I'm on it!" He answered, making his way out of the alley, fighting the appearing Shadows and Soldiers. Aerith turned back down the hall, taking out her weapon.
The arachnid was closely in tow from Takeshi, chasing him up the Gizmo Shop. Hoping to get inside the structure, he put all his energy and effort to reach it. The arachnid jumped at the sudden change of speed and landed on the entrance wall of the shop, roaring back.
"That thing can read minds?" He slid, trying to stop, turned around almost hitting the floor and sprinted back. The Heartless leaped back again blocking his way. Takeshi stopped right in front of it, jumping back and keeping distance.
He knew that he couldn't get away. "(Then I'll just have to trick you!)" Takeshi turned running, looking back to make sure the arachnid was following him. As soon as he saw it jump, he slid below the Heartless, passing close by it. But one of the legs managed to hit him fast enough, sending him against a wall.
Takeshi yelled in pain from both hits, falling flat on the floor. His body couldn't move away. He managed to lift his head and support himself with one arm. "Ok, it can read minds."
The spider was directly above him, with one of it's legs high in the air, prepared for a finishing blow. Takeshi flinched, closing his eyes, expecting the coming attack. For a few seconds, he though he was helpless. He opened one eye, to see Alexa right in front of the Heartless, with her weapon in hand.
"This is no nap break kid." She said.
"About time you showed up!" Takeshi coughed, standing up. "I don't want this bug squashing me." The Heartless was on the lower level of the District, not knowing its new enemy.
"Take this." Alexa said, breaking a piece of her weapon and giving it to Takeshi.
"How am I gonna use this?" He said. He felt the metal piece change in his hand. It extended to both sides, with a silver bronze color. He had in his hand a rod with arrow feathers blade at each end. "Cool."
"Move!" The unknown said. Takeshi jump aside from one of the spider web. "Takeshi, distract it! Go for it's legs!"
With little hesitation, he ran around the spider, going for its hind legs. The spider was following with its gaze; and he knew, as he felt the ground tremble behind him from another web ball.
Alexa shot at its eyes, blinding and confusing it, giving Takeshi enough time to swirl below the Heartless, taking out three of its eight legs. He quickly escaped the damage, making the arachnid lose balance and fall.
Alexa floated in the air, with her urumi firmly stretched. She threw herself and plunged her weapon through the arachnid's thorax. The weapon disappeared as soon as she jumped away. The Heartless didn't move as a bright light slowly engulfed it.
"(What?)" Takeshi thought as he ran away. The spider's explosion sent him again flying to the ground. "I need some kneepads."
"Takeshi! Are you ok?" Aerith came running to him with Leon behind.
"After surviving all that! Yeah! I think I am!" He said as he got up. "What kept you two?"
"We found ourselves dealing with 'some small fries'." Aerith answered, scowling at Leon, who was looking away.
"You did well, Takeshi."
"Huh?"
"For your first fight against a powerful Heartless." Alexa said.
"You think! It wasn't really powerful; just a bug." Takeshi answered, scratching his head in embarrassment. A second later, Leon's gunblade was pointing at Alexa's face, which looked back at him emotionless.
"We still haven't finished our encounter." Leon quickly said as Takeshi backed aside.
"Leon! Would you stop it!" Aerith lowered his weapon. "They did help get rid of that spider!"
"And you were the ones who started it after all!" Takeshi complained. Leon shed his weapon in defeat, and walked away, not leaving them far from sight.
"What's his problem?" Takeshi asked annoyed.
"Oh, he's just like that. Kinda reminds me of someone." Aerith answered. "We'll talk over at the Accessories Shop."
They all left the Second District. Before closing the door, Alexa looked up and stared at the top of the Gizmo Shop; then left.
A pair of black boots landed on highest point of the Gizmo Shop, looking at the entrance of the First District.
"Well this is strange." The young, shadowy figure directed to a red-dressed man. "They share something, and I can't point out what."
"You chose a path for identity. What will you choose to do, now that you have found what you were seeking?" The patched-eyed man asked calmly.
"Why do you keep popping out of nowhere! I already chose what to do! You just keep watching." The young shadow answered.
At last! My computer lives again! Anyway, 4 those of you reading, thanks for waiting. College's gonna start soon and I'm gonna be busy.
The urumi is an Indian "whip-sword" with two or four edged steel ribbons with a sword hilt