Chapter Eleven: I'm Too Klutzy for my Chakrams
I AM FREE! Okay, that means, I am out of school for the summer! Yes, and you know what that means! More chapters! Yay! I'm still "patiently" waiting for my KH2 soundtrack, because once I get that, these chapters aren't going to stop! And for anyone who's interested, this story is somewhere in between 1/3 and ½ written. Chapter 14 or 15 or something like that'll be the half way point. So brace yourself. It may even be like, chapter 80…Haha, I'd torture you all and never finish it then. By the way, I am drawing chibi pics of what is actually happening in the scenes. So far I have one of me and Demyx, Marluxia, Xigbar and I'm finishing my one with Zexion's example as to how to carry a damsel in distress. Anyways, I'm going to get started now…Enjoy some pudding snacks and…you know the drill.
"You have to balance yourself!" Leon snapped when I kept falling over when I swung a chakram.
"I'm trying." I growled. "If you haven't noticed, I'm short. Axel was tall. He was like…almost seven feet? I don't know. But I'm short!"
Leon sighed, "You're better than you were at the beginning of the week though."
"You better give me kudos for that." I hissed, threatening him with a match. "I've made a lot of progress."
"A lot of progress for a—" I threw the match at him.
"You're mean." I sniffed, trying to balance myself again. "I bet that I could probably use these better than you."
There was silence.
"You're probably right." He took one of the chakrams from my hand. "Damnit, Axel, why'd you have to choose these to fight with. I mean, this is a really stupid choice. You could've even used a tank of gasoline and you'd be a hell of a lot stronger."
I grabbed the other chakram from him and attempted to swirl around with them both in my hands, only to bump into the wall with one of the chakrams stuck in place.
"One more time, and if you can't get it, you're done for the day." Leon sighed, as he yanked the chakram out of the wall, and handed it to me. "And if you can't get it by Friday, I give up."
"Come on!" I groaned in disbelief. "You've gotta have faith in me!"
"Just try swinging at me already."
Axel, if you are somewhere in my head…or heart…please help me, I don't know how to use these. You knew how to use these things, help…please?
"Balance yourself." Leon started. "And…now." I started to stumble forward, the chakrams at my side and I felt myself lean all my weight to one side and swing at Leon who through up the gunblade in defense. "Good, now try the other arm."
I shifted around a bit and swung my other arm with the chakram and linked it together with the first.
"How was that?" I asked, smiling, as I kept the chakrams in place.
"Now let me see you actually go in for hitting me." He insisted as I swung my arms around and off the gunblade. I groaned again. Doing that once was hard!
Leon held the gunblade at his side. "What, you want me to go first?" he asked, seeing that I was still standing motionless.
I shrugged. "If you want to." I said, breathing deeply. I know it was only training, but it didn't feel like that.
Leon took a few steps forward and swung the gunblade downward, causing me to lift a chakram to block the swing at my face.
"Could we do this tomorrow?" I asked. "I'm suddenly not in the mood." The chakrams disappeared and I headed out of the building and started to search for Sora and the others.
"Hey Anna!" I looked around, then upwards to see Sora waving down at me. "Come on! We want to show you something!" I ran up the stairs to where he was standing and headed off with him.
"What's going on?" I asked, catching up with him. "We're not getting attacked are we?"
"Nah, we're heading to what's left of Villains Vale." He said, in a really scary, cheery way.
I looked at him, eyes wide, and pushed up my glasses…I bet you forgot that! I have glasses! "Sora, that was really creepy."
"Sorry." He said as we walked into the ruins of the bailey.
"I didn't think it was still standing—Whoa." This world is so different from the one in the game. I mean, there was a deep hole in the ground from something, and in the distance, Villains Vale was still standing peacefully. It smelled like smoke and such, and it was really awesome.
"Come on!" Sora called, as he jumped down, avoiding the hole. I looked at him with a complete look of "Durrr"
"Uh, Sora, do you remember that I'm not as agile as you are and I need to crawl down there?" I called down, as I slid down a bit on the ledge. "Oof…Ow…You're really mean!"
"Sorry!" he called back, waiting for me. "Hurry though, Riku's gonna start accusing me of—"
"Cheating on Kairi!" I joked, as I got all the way down, wishing I could go back up again, afraid Sora might hurt me.
"Let's get going." He said, completely ignoring my awesomely witty comment.
I nearly feel off a cliff…four times. See, this is why I'm probably very out of place in Kingdom Hearts. I'm stumbling, can't use weapons, nearly fall off cliffs and am being kidnapped by the Organization…Okay that part is pretty normal.
"How'd practice with Leon go?" Kairi asked me as I got there with Sora. I sobbed and told her how much it sucked.
"Leon hates you." Riku joked, as I smacked him in the arm.
"Where're Donald and Goofy?" I asked as we headed towards the platform to the castle.
"Goofy had to take Donald back to Daisy. She's been complaining about where he's been. They'll be back though." Sora clarified. "I told them to let the King know what's going on."
I clapped. "I've actually been noticed!" I chimed. "Aw, you guys are awesome."
"I think you might have competition, Kairi." Riku continued to joke, both me and Kairi hitting him.
"Riku, lay off her." Sora said. "I mean, we all know how much you like her."
We all started laughing, I mean, it was pretty funny. Riku did show all the signs of an elementary school boy when he likes someone.
I then realized we probably should've found Beth and invited her to come with us. Aww, I feel really bad now…But you never know, it might be a good thing that I didn't think of that sooner.
We all boarded the platform to the castle, and I stood at the edge and opened my arms, mimicking Titanic.
"Woooohooo!" I cried out, then looking back at the others, who I was surprised to see weren't looking at me with a 'What the hell is she doing.' Face. "This is so cool!"
"That great that you're enjoying it." Kairi said, joining me with her arms widespread, screaming with me.
FWMMM!
What? That's the only way I can describe the sound the platform makes when it stops.
"Come on!" Sora yelled as he dashed ahead of us, Riku close behind. "I beating you, Riku!" we could hear him say.
"Shut up Sora!" Riku yelled back at him.
"Wow…" I said, starting to walk forward. "I'm a glad I'm a girl." I started to walk up to the guys with Kairi. "I don't want to go home now."
"Why's that?" she asked.
"My mom is here. And all the members of the zoo." She looked confused. "I have six pets." Then suddenly…
VROOM!
Kairi had dashed ahead of me, and had caught up with the guys. "You're all really mean!" I shouted, noticing them all laughing.
"Show us your stuff, Axel!" Sora shouted. With that, I carefully extended my arm and slowly lifted my middle finger.
"That wasn't funny!" I growled as I got up to them. "I'm not Axel!"
"Come on, yes it was." Riku added. "The Organization thinks your Axel's replacement. That's pretty funny." I took off my shoe and smacked him with it. "Hey!"
"Don't look at me. I didn't sound mean to myself." Sora pushed open the doors to the ballroom of the castle.
"Enough already." Sora said, "Let's go in!"
I was just heading in when—
"Anna! We chose a new name for you!" I turned around, the others with me, to see Demyx a few feet away. "Okay, so we chose a few, but we want you to choose."
"I don't want a new name!" I whined, as my friends pulled out their Keyblades. "I like Anna!"
"We were actually thinking about Annax. So, your name'll be the same—Not you again!" Demyx said, cutting himself off when he saw Sora. He slumped and grabbed me by the wrist, and pulled me up against him like a hostage and covered my mouth. "You make a single move and she's mine!"
"So, negotiations are out of the question?" Riku asked. "What kind of terrorist are you?"
The four began to debate back and forth when I got the idea to…
CHOMP!
I bit down on Demyx's hand and scurried back a bit and took out the matches.
"Damnit!" he swore as he conjured his sitar. He groaned, seeming to remember how much he sucked at fighting.
I struck the matches and held them out in front of me, feeling something burning in my hands.
The others ran up to my side as Demyx began to approach me again.
"C'mon, it's not like we're going to hurt you." He said holding his hand out to me.
"This is gonna be like the who Roxas thing with me, isn't it!" Sora yelled at him. He pushed past the rest of us and stood up to Demyx. "Anna has a heart! She can't be in the Organization!"
Kairi and Riku were closer to the side of Sora, and me in the far back. The matches in my hands began to shake as Sora and Demyx verbally fought it out.
"Sora…" I started, feeling the burning sensation again. He continued to yell at Demyx. "SORA!" I yelled finally, getting his attention. "Get down!" Sora, Riku, and Kairi all went flat on to the ground.
The matches changed to the chakrams and they began spinning, spitting out a tornado of fire directed straight at Demyx.
Demyx rapidly began playing the sitar and what looked like a tidal wave rose, blocking out the fire. "Where'd your head go? You control fire, I control water. Axel wasn't even this dumb!"
"For the last time! I am not stupid!" I shouted, the fire erupting from the chakrams again, heading at Demyx. Instead of the fire hitting him, water shot back at me, slamming me against the wall.
Mother…fubber…That fricken' hurt!
Demyx ran up to me and grabbed me by the collar. "You ready to come with us?" he asked angrily.
"No." I hissed back at him, despite how much pain I was in. "And I said you I didn't mind."
"That's why they sent me, kid." He grinned, my hand getting bound by water like handcuffs.
"Let Anna go!" a voice called out. I looked past Demyx…And Sora, Riku and Kairi…I thought it was them! And I saw…
Axel.