Chapter Nineteen: This is the Short Chapter
I'm proud to say that this story right now is my only source of sanity. I mean it. Everything is not fun right now…I have to start going to Borders every day again. Yeah, read, get some spaghetti…I found food. Sorry this one is so short, I was really sleepy when I wrote this and it was about 1 A.M.
Xehanort's Heartless conjured the spear-like weapon that he used in the very final battle of Kingdom Hearts One. Lizzy jumped back and I threw up the chakrams to block the spear.
"Lizz, you have any experience here yet?" I asked, holding the chakrams as still as I could.
"I've been held hostage by the Organization for two months, what do you think?" she snapped back at me, attempting to push past me towards Xehanorts Heartless.
"Then run!" I snapped at her. "I've been in training! Go get Sora!" She looked at me, while Xehanort's Heartless threw more force on to me.
"You're actually taking the time to make sure she scurries off like a coward." He laughed at me, as I threw him back when I made sure, Lizzy wasn't to be seen.
"Lizzy's the last person I know who would turn down from a fight that she could get into." I spat. "She's not your concern. I'm your target. So, bring it!"
Xehanort's heartless…Oh damnit, I'm calling him Ansem…ran forward at me. I let the chakrams hover in front of me and begin spinning, gaining fire, they flew into my hands, and my arms seemed to move with them, outward as the chakrams continued to spin.
"Don't pull and Axel, don't pull an Axel…" I muttered, as the chakrams flew out of my hands and landed in the ground, sending fire up and all around me and Ansem.
I held myself in place, as I saw Ansem frozen in place. "Anna, get over here!" I looked through the fire, and saw Axel, waving at me.
"I thought you were told to stay back at…Radiant Garden…god, I loved Hollow Bastion so much more!"
"Riku suggested that I come and save this little Damsel in Distress of ours." He answered, walking through the fire, and grabbing me by the wrist, and starting to pull me through. "You're getting a lot better, you know." I yanked away from Axel.
"Tell me the truth!" I shouted. "First Xemnas, and now his Heartless, who else is going to come back! What have I done?" He shrugged.
"Only Xemnas really knows, I think." He told me. "But we can't have you fighting his Heartless right now. He could take your heart away before you could even blink." He said this while looking me in the eye and blinking. "And we can't let the Organization get full control over you yet."
"What do you mean by yet?" I asked, as Axel dragged me away again. He laughed.
"Don't worry, we don't have anything bad planned for you." He laughed, picking me up. I glared at him. "What? We can't have any Nobodies coming through the ground and taking you away."
"What's with you?" I asked. "You're not someone else pretending to be Axel, are you."
"If I was someone else, would I be wearing your shirt?" he asked.
"Again!" I shouted. "Which one?" I shifted around in his arms and unzipped the coat. "You're wearing my Silverstein shirt, you ass! That's my favorite shirt!"
"I'll take it off back at Merlin's place, 'kay my shnoogie muffin?" he laughed. "Don't worry, no one killed Dimples."
"Shnoogie muffin! You piece of shi…" and Axel ran into a portal of darkness before I could finish cursing at him.
"Where are we?" I asked, noticing we were floating around in what seemed like endless darkness.
"Sorry about that." A voice called out. "I forgot to leave the light on." A light clicked on, and we were sitting back on the couch in Merlin's house.
"Welcome back, you two, did you enjoy yourselves?" Riku asked, leaning over the back of the couch. "Sora's looking for you two. You've been gone for, about a day now."
"Holy crap!" Axel shouted. "Did I really take that many wrong turns?"
"You should know, you're the one in charge!" I growled at him. "You just had drag me down and force yourself into being in control and you just had to have it your way. If you had just let me do, what I wanted to do, we wouldn't have to face this kind of embarrassment!"
"Well, if you weren't all like, 'I don't wanna come.' Then everything'd be fine and I wouldn't have had to hear you moan the whole time!"
"Did we interrupt?" Sora asked from the back door. I just realized then that the entire argument I just had with Axel could have sounded really dirty…too bad it didn't happen. Fangirls! Who's with me!
"N-no!" I squeaked. "Pay no attention to the argument we just had. And let's talk about what happened in Twilight Town."
"Anna, is he good?" Beth asked from the computer.
"I didn't sleep with him, okay!" I shouted, waving my arms.
"What?" Sora asked, quizzically. I grinned and calmed down. "I just want to know if you got any of your data back." I shook my head.
"But, Xehanort's Heartless appeared, and he started fighting me." I added.
"And what about Lizzy?" Donald asked me. "Is she okay?" I shrugged.
"Xehanort's Heartless kind of seemed like he was targeting her, so I told her to get somewhere safe, so she's not with us, and I don't know where she might have ended up." I explained.
"So that trip got nothing out of it." Sora sighed. "Now what're we going to do."
"Can we please set her up as bait now?" Axel asked.
"No!" nearly everyone snapped.
"I'm going back for Lizzy." I said. "I don't care what happens now, Lizzy's one of my best friends."
"You're not going alone, are you?" Kairi asked.
"If I have to, I will." I replied.
"Well, you won't, kid." Axel said. "There's no way I'm not coming to help you."
"You've got us too." Sora assured, motioning to Goofy and Donald.
"If Sora's in, then I'm in too." Kairi added. Riku laughed.
"I might as well lend a hand here or there." He smirked.
"Want me to get you their location, right now?" Beth asked us.
"Sure, I think we could use it." Sora accepted. Beth clicked a few times with her mouse and a large sheet of paper printed out.
"There are stars as to where your main concerns are and circles for everyone else…Like Demyx." She pointed to Olympus Coliseum. "He's circled, so don't head to the Coliseum unless you want to waste some more time."