Riku: O.o What's up with the whole 'Plants Need Air Thing'?
Me: I'm in a good mood at the moment. Okay so I'm tired because it's 5:16 Am but…Hey wait a sec, you're supposed to be asleep!
Riku: And so are you, go to bed!
Me: Okay…Well night peeps!
Chapter Eight
"Aurithia, where is he at the moment?" Riku asked her.
Aurithia looked at him and responded, "Not far from here, not far at all. And what's worse, is that he has everyone with him."
"Everyone? As in Maleficent, Xemnas, Saix, Demyx, Larexen, Marluxia, Zexion, Vexen, Lexaeus, Xaldin, Xigbar, Luxord, Axel, and Roxas?" Riku asked.
"Yep."
"Wait a second, aren't Axel and Roxas on our side and since when has Roxas become split from Sora?" Kairi asked.
"Who knows, but hey, that adds two. Leon, Cloud, Sora, Kairi, Aurithia, Cid, Yuffie, Tifa, and me. Nine against fifteen, how fair is that?" Riku said sarcastically.
"Hold up Riku, you can't fight, that makes eight!" Kairi pointed out.
"Well I can damn as well try and I will and non of you are stopping me!" Riku growled.
"Yes well that will make us have ten, not nine. You guys are forgetting my brother!" Aurithia said, smiling as a man walked in the room. He looked to be about thirty-four. He had black hair, cold blue eyes, and had a demanding authority about him. He was wearing a black robe with a really long sword in his head. "This is my older brother, Arkath."
"Okay, so now that that's settled we can figure out who's attacking who. Okay first, which two wants two people to fight?" Sora asked.
Cloud and Leon raised their hands as if in a class, they had no need to speak, so why speak? That would just waste their breath and give plants-oh blah blah blah back to the story! Anyway Sora nodded and then asked which two they would be attacking. "Any two I can get my hands on." Cloud grumbled.
"No, we have to figure out who's going to attack who."
"This is senseless!" Riku grumbled, leaning against a wall. Wishing they would hurry up and untie him, he looked at them expectantly, but was ignored.
"Yeah well we all know who you're going to-"
"Would you just shut the hell up already or so help me I'll come over there right now and rip your fucking head off!" Riku growled, his voice threatening and murderous. (heh-heh)
Everyone looked at Riku with very strange looks. Sora had taken a step away from Riku, blinking. Riku suddenly looked up at the people and saw them staring. He held up his hand shaking them, "Oh, just carry on, just talking to…him again, don't worry!"
Sora blinked and nodded, "Okay…but anyway, okay here's the deal, Cloud and Leon, you two will take Saix, Xaldin, Xigbar, and Luxord. Yuffie, you take Demyx. Tifa, you have your own pick just as the rest of you do. And the only reason why I'm assigning some of you is because 1. Cloud and Leon make a very powerful team and Yuffie, we need long-ranged attacks to defeat Demyx."
"I'll take Xemnas." Aurithia said loudly from where she stood next to Riku and Arkath.
"And I'll take Zexion." Cid told them.
"I'll take Lexaeus." Arkath told them
"I'm taking anyone who's closest." Kairi grinned, knowing that she really didn't care who she attacked.
"I'll tale Larexen and Marluxia." Tifa told them.
Sora blinked, he needed to learn to count. Anyway he nodded, "Then I'll take Maleficent."
"And I guess I'll take the jackass." Riku said, blinking and a smile played at his lips. It was fun to listen to Ansem sit there and tell him he'd better not call him a 'jackass' again.
"Well that's settled." Sora sighed, "Now-"
"Now, you need to go learn how to count." Kairi said. That made a chuckle spread around the room. Sora gave her a goofy grin and his smiled faded.
"Um…before any of this is to take place, Riku we need to unt-"
They heard a loud knock on the closed door close to where Sora, Riku, Kairi, Aurithia, and Arkath were standing. A line appeared on the wood before it splintered. Everyone had their eyes fixed on the door as shards of it flew off and it landed in five separate pieces on the stone floor. All at once Merlin appeared at looked at his door and saw the people in the doorway. (where has he been?)
Everyone instantly reached for their weapons as their enemies came in. Each side glared at one another until they rushed at each other, some being shoved through the door and some out the door. Meanwhile Riku was waiting against the wall. A man came up to him with silver hair. He was glaring at Riku with his orange-red eyes, smirking, "Told you it would end up like this. You can't even move because you're tied up!"
Wait a sec! I'm tied up, then how am I standing? Oh right, Aurithia helped me up without untying me first! Oh this is just great! Riku thought blinking, "Uh-oh…"
"Good grief, don't tell me you forgot!"
"Well between your jabbering and Sora's jabbering, your brain cells with start to die from listening to you two, so yeah, I would say I did forget." Riku replied, now glaring at Ansem. He struggled against the ropes binding his legs and arms, but damn! Sora or whoever tied these knots tied them tight! The only thing he accomplished was falling right to the floor. "Damn!" he snarled as he managed to somehow get the bindings off of his feet, but that was it.
Ansem smirked, "Having a rough time?"
"Shut the hell up you-" Riku felt pain explode in his side as Ansem kicked him hard in the side, making him grunt with pain. "Do not disrespect your elders!" Ansem growled, picking Riku up by the collar. (nooo! Poor Riku!)
Riku struggled to get away from Ansem, twisting and turning but without the use of his arms, he was virtually helpless. He could feel his right arm stinging where the gash was and flinched as he continued to struggle against Ansem. He opened his eyes to see Ansem glaring at him as he threw Riku into the wall. Riku gasped in shock and pain as he slammed into the wall, hitting his head. Stars exploded in front of him and he shook his head to clear the. He blinked; his mind was fuzzy after hitting the stone.
"Riku!" a familiar voice called threw the fighting. Riku looked around and saw Ansem was coming towards him at the same time as Aurithia. She was faster than Ansem and quickly took out a dagger. "Give me your hands." she ordered. Riku obeyed and Aurithia cut the ropes just as Ansem came up beside her.
"Damn girl! You don't know when to stop helping people that can not be saved!" Ansem growled, shoving her away from him. Aurithia grunted as she hit the floor but she quickly picked herself up, ready to fight Ansem along side Riku.
Meanwhile Riku had stood up, feeling slightly dizzy, but he quickly summoned his Way to Dawn and prepared to fight. Ansem glanced at Aurithia and said, "Shouldn't you be fighting Xemnas?" He wore a smirk on his face as Riku saw Xemnas creeping up behind Aurithia. He was about to speak when Xemnas bashed her in the back of the head with the end of his light saber. She crumpled on the floor below as Xemnas stepped up to Ansem and Riku. Riku looked down at Aurithia with a helpless look and then he looked up to face Ansem with a furious look. "You won't hurt my friends anymore!" he snarled, swinging his Way to Dawn.
The blade smashed into Ansem and flung hi away and Riku continued his assault, hitting both Xemnas and Ansem. "You hurt Mickey, you hurt Aurithia, and you hurt everyone I cared for, but not anymore Ansem!" Riku said between blows. He was beating Ansem down while Xemnas quickly got out of his way, looking at Riku with surprise at his sudden strength. Riku was even using his right arm now because he was using both hands on his Way to Dawn.
All at once Riku found himself thrown against the wall by an invisible force. He grunted as he slammed into it, the air gushing out of his lungs. He could not breath for a moment and when the air finally came, Riku was shaking from the impact and shock of it. He hadn't noticed at first, but when he found the missing weight of the Way to Dawn, he looked for it and found it in Ansem's hands.
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