Chapter Eighteen: She's a Demyx Fangirl

Okay, so I'm about at the point where I have almost as many reviews as I have chapter….-sighes- it's 16 reviews….But you know what, I still feel good, because this story is beating out one of my Cirque du Freak stories! (If you don't know what that is, it's a really, really good vampire series by Darren Shan) Anyways, It is my fifth day of summer and I'm bored out of my mind, these stories and beating the game on Proud Mode are the only things keeping me sane…and my new flip flops…and that the new Three Days Grace CD is coming out tomorrow….and I still need to send a letter to my friend in Iraq…but I'm not going to get into that. Alright, today we're all stuck with eating…Bubbles. I have no edible food in my house that isn't going to get me sick. By the way, in case any of you were wondering, Lizzy and Beth are actually my two best friends and I put them in this story as my way of saying "I lub you."

The King's letter told us all that it would be best if we all headed back to Hollow—gah!—Radiant Garden…I love the name Hollow Bastion so much more than Radiant Garden. It's all spooky-like.

We all headed into Merlin's house, now basically our own H.Q. It seemed like a bad idea since it was so obvious and out in the open. We should get like, an invisible headquarters…Ooo! Maybe we could build our own Batcave! Eee! That'd be so cool!

"What're we going to do?" I asked. "Xemnas is back, and I'm not sure if he's whole or not, or if he's just his Nobody, he can't be his Heartless, I already cleared that up with myself—"

"He's probably whole." Axel suggested.

"Didn't you say that Demyx said that he was almost whole?" Sora asked.

"Yeah, but I think he was lying." I continued. "Because if they were busy restoring Xemnas—"

"Then they wouldn't've had wasted their time in restoring his heart." Riku finished.

"Do you think he's trying to help us?" Kairi asked. "He's always following Anna around."

"Demyx likes her." Axel laughed. "Isn't it obvious?" He stopped a second. "Then again, he's a Nobody, so that's really defeating the purpose…"

"What are we going to do?" Donald shouted over all of us. "We can't just barge into their stronghold and take control."

There was a knock on the door of Merlin's house. Sora grabbed the door handle and opened it.

"Meep!" it was Beth.

"Anna, Beth's here." Sora called to me.

"I could tell by the squeak!" I called back.

"Uh…" Beth stuttered to Sora. "I wanna help."

"Come on in." Sora opened the door all the way, and Beth scurried in, followed by several Heartless. Dimples began to bark.

"Aw crap!" Beth shouted, kicking one against the wall, causing it to vanish.

"Tifa's back!" Riku laughed, getting up and disposing of a few Shadows.

"She is?" Axel asked, opening the door, and looking disappointed, and then sizzling up a Shadow as well. And it turned into a full blown free-for-all with the amount of Heartless gathered in the house.

And the final blow was delivered by Dimples. That is one cool doggy/Heartless/shadow/cute thing.

"So, Beth." Sora said, resuming the conversation. "What do you want to help us with?"

"Well, uh…" she sat down on the couch the Merlin had conveniently placed in the house for us. "Anything I can help with. Anna's one of my best friends…and you're guys are all so cool!"

"Aww, you're so nice to us all!" Axel grinned, hugging Beth. "But I bet you just meant me, didn't you?"

"Axel get off her. She's a Demyx fangirl."

He gasped and backed away, pointing a disobedient finger at her. "She's one of them!"

"Ignore him, I'm still not used to him either." Kairi recommended. "Keep talking."

"I know the game almost as well as Anna does, and I was hoping I could help with something related to that."

"That's awful nice of ya." Goofy said. "It looks like everyone just wants to help us this time."

"I thought that last time was going to be our last time." Donald squawked at Sora, in a sort of joking way.

"Good idea," Riku said, smiling at Beth—

"That's not fair!" I shouted, standing up and waving at Beth. "Riku's nicer to you than he was to me when I first met him!" I realized that I just looked like an idiot and sat down quietly muttering to myself.

Thankfully no one said anything about it, but I hope that I didn't just scare the crap out of them.

"Yeah, I think we could use someone back here to monitor the games." Riku continued.

"Do you think you could use Cid's computer and load the games into it? With Cid's help, maybe you could alter the forms on the computer and monitor the movements of the Organization." Sora suggested.

"But I'm bad with computers." Beth sniffed.

"Cid'll help ya." Goofy added. "He's a real genius with computers." Beth gave a smile that reminded me of a squirrel…Then again, that was normal for her.

"Shouldn't you guys be heading back to Twilight Town?" Kairi asked. "I mean, the alternate one. Isn't that where the Organization is working?"

"I don't wanna." I sobbed. "That place scared me…It was almost empty! I don't like empty places. I need social places, I need people." I began rocking back on forth on the chair.

"But you've got Dimples." Riku laughed. "You and your little Heartless puppy."

"He's not a Heartless!" I whined, hugging Dimples. "He loves me!"

He does love me so don't say another word about it.

Sora ended up having to drag me back into the gummi ship and back to Twilight Town. I don't wanna go back to the spooky one! I don't want to face Xemnas again! He scared me…I wanna cry.

"We'll come with you this time…" Sora said. "Since you got stuck and all. Smart idea going through the darkness to get out though. Pretty gutsy though."

"I didn't like it." I whimpered. "I had no idea which direction I was facing, whether I was up or down, left or right. I could've even been upside down! I don't want to do that again!" Donald interrupted me.

"Shouldn't you be wearing that coat again?" he asked. I groaned loudly.

"I have to wear the coat again!"

"Put some matches in the pockets and you'll be alright."

"Shut up, Sora." I sniffed. "I need to Kyo bag…" I reached for it on the seat behind me, only for Donald to smack my hand.

The gummi shook, and we all looked out the window to find dozens of Nobody ships either clinging to us or shooting at us.

"Damnit!" Sora cursed, as I applauded him. I stood up and looked for the button that either said 'Fire' or 'Shoot.' And wanted to start pressing.

"Get us outta here!" Goofy shouted at Sora as he held on to his seat. Sora stepped down on what looked to be a gas pedal and floored it, just about crash landing us in Twilight Town.

The four of us stepped out and noticed right away…the normal Twilight Town was empty. I shivered and clung to the closest person to me…It was Donald.

"Okay, no one's here!" I squeaked. "Let's go home!" And I tried running back, only to be dragged back by Goofy and Donald. "C'mon, this is creepy, I don't like it!"

"Anna, calm down." Sora whispered. "I think they know we're here." I stopped squeaking and attempted to regain my composure. We all stood back to back when I felt a really, really uncomfortable breeze blow past us.

"Kind of make's ya feel like you're in one of those old Western movies." Goofy suggested.

"Almost." I added. "We're just not cowboys."

"But we're probably outlaws." Sora continued. "And the Organization are the sheriffs who're trying to take back what is there's."

"Sora, that was almost poetic." I laughed slightly. We broke the back to back circle and formed more into a square group, and headed towards the Sandlot.

Everything was clear in the Sandlot…for the moment. I took a deep breath. "This is really uncomfortable." I sighed.

"Don't let your guard down." Sora advised. "I don't think we're in the clear just yet."

We all stood still for just a moment before we noticed that we were still pretty vulnerable. Sora dug into his pockets and pulled out a keychain and clipped it on to the end of the Keybladem which quickly flashed to Fenrir.

"That's so cool." I grinned. The Kingdom Key appeared in his other hand and he clipped another keychain to the end, and it flashed to Ultima Weapon, only then did I notice that Donald and Goofy both had Save the King and Save the Queen out. "I feel so weak compared to you guys."

"Don't feel that way, I'm sure you're strong on the inside." Goofy said.

"Yeah, you're not a Nobody yet."

Oh now they show up!

Ahead of us, twelve portals of darkness opened up…Wait a minute…Twelve? They should only have eleven now that Xemnas is back. Axel shouldn't be over there.

The first six, Xemnas, Xigbar, Xaldin, Vexen, Lexeaus and Zexion…then seconds later, Saix, Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene…and…

"Lizzy!" I shouted out, as she tried to fight away from Xemnas who wasn't going to let her go.

"She's your friend?" Sora asked. I sighed.

"Can say, since 2nd grade?" I replied, the chakrams flaming into my hands.

"Anna, go." Sora demanded.

"Why?"

"I'll tell you when, and just run." I saw him focusing in on Xemnas and trying to watch Lizzy's movements. He mouthed something to me that was probably something like, 'I'll help her.'

Goofy and Donald quickly seemed to catch on to Sora's idea, ran forward beginning to attack the senior Organization members. Sora then opened his mouth as he saw Xemnas drop his grasp on Lizzy for a second.

"Anna run!" he shouted, dashing at Xemnas with both Keyblade/

"Lizzy!" I shouted, as she ran towards me, actually carrying Oathkeeper and Oblivion. "Hi Roxas replacement, glad to see you're okay." I said as we ran out of the sandlot.

"So that's what's going on." She said as we ran to the station.

"I told you something like this was going to happen!" I somewhat laughed.

We both stopped, dead in our tracks. I held the chakrams tightly, and Lizzy held a tight grasp on the Keyblades…lucky…because we knew something really bad was happening.

"Not again." I groaned, as…Xehanort's Heartless directed an attack towards both of us.

Well this sucks.