Chapter Twenty-Five: I Love Miss Congeniality

Hey there readers, I thought I'd all bring you down and tell you that there are only in between 10-15 chapters left. (Haha I know, it's still a lot, but hey, all my other good ideas are saved for the ending and the sequel.) Yes, there will be a sequel. I've already told one of my readers about it, but she's not talking, so if you know who it is, don't pester her! Alright, we're back to unhealthy food again…get some ice cream

The others came running up the stairs and stopped, seeing how I was being held hostage.

"Let Anna go!" Kairi shouted from across the room. I began wiggling around while Saix kept his hold on me.

"I don't want to be a Nobody!" I shouted across the room. "Make him lemme go!" Saix quickly moved his arm and clasped his hand around my throat.

"I don't need a weapon to dispose of you." He hissed. I tried to stop breathing a lot…Maybe I wouldn't die that way.

"Saix let her go, now!" the strange man with red hair shouted, throwing one of…Hey! Those are my chakrams!…at him.

"If you want her back so badly, maybe you shouldn't have lead her to me." Saix continued, tightening his grip on my neck. "If I had known that this is what it took to get our hearts back, I would have objected to it long ago. This is too much of a hassle." I wished his hand was higher so I could bite it.

The three Keyblade holders weapons flashed into their hands as Donald and Goofy took out their weapons as well. Sora nodded at the others and dashed up at Saix. I began waving my hands frantically, attempting to say, "JEBUS CHRIS! He's gonna freaking kill me! Stop it!"

But they didn't listen. They just all slashed the best they could at Saix who was still not letting go of me.

"The more you fight against me, the more unlikely you'll be seeing her again with a heart." He snarled. I began to try and wriggle free, much to my disadvantage of being short and still unable to properly use chakrams.

I then realized something.

I can control fire.

Why don't I do that?

Well…I tried…It was worth a shot, right? Damn you Saix, not getting phased by anything!

The six people, yes, including the strange man with red hair, all stood, bracing themselves. Yeah, really, this is a definite point where Anna can't help herself, and really needs other people to save her.

Saix began to back up, as he opened a portal and backed into it. Oh come on, enough already! I've been through like a billion of these portals and I don't like it anymore! Just let me—

"Oof." I pouted as I fell to my stomach on the floor. Saix stepped into the portal and had vanished. "Quit doing that!" I shouted at the now portalless and Saixless staircase. "Quit running away from me! I wanna kick your ass already!"

"Anna, are you okay?" Kairi asked.

"She's bitching at Saix, of course she's okay." That strange red haired man said.

"He took my memory again! Of that guy!" I shouted, pointing at the man I didn't know. "I know I know him, but now I don't know how!" Riku distracted me for a minute and dangled a Hershey kiss over my head. I began reaching for it and every time it was in reach, he yanked it away. "Just give it already!"

"We've got to be careful now." Sora said. "Now they, or at least Saix, is after Anna's heart, so we've got to keep an eye on her…Anna?"

I was in the corner of the room with a little butterfly sitting on my hand. "I wonder how this little guy got in here. Awweh, he's so cute, isn't he Dimples?" I looked around. "Dimples? Holy crap! He took Dimples!" I let Mr. Butterfly go and ran up the stairs. "That bastard stole Dimples!"

"Anna, wait up!" Kairi called running after me, the others all behind her.

I really didn't pay much attention to her since I was screaming, "That bastard stole Dimples!"

"Anna, calm down!" Demyx shouted at me, running up ahead and shaking me by the shoulders. "Calm down, it was just a Heartless puppy!"

"He was not just a Heartless puppy!" I shouted. "It was my Heartless puppy! Something my dog Moose, actually liked!"

"You can find another, can't you?" he asked.

"No!" I shouted. "He found me! Not the other way around!"

"ANNA! DEMYX! SHUT UP!" the man with red hair shouted. A little ring of fire shot up around his ankles and he pulled me away. "Anna come with me! Demyx, stay with the others."

He led me into the corner of the room and began talking to me like it was a pep talk before a football, that's not soccer this time, if you're European. "Anna, try this time, do you remember me, you had your memory back long enough to know it was me, do you still know who I am!"

"I know you're my friend." I said, pointing at him note worthily. "But I don't know why you're my friend."

He sighed, "Try and figure me out, okay, kid?" he asked. "No more having you looking at me and screaming, 'Who the hell is that!'. That wouldn't be any fun for me." I sniffed.

"But what about Dimples?" I whined.

"I'll help you get him back…But first…" he paused. "Kairi! Keep going ahead with Anna, she needs to talk to someone she remembers!"

Kairi walked up to me and seemed to be a little disappointed. We began walking and she said, "I can't believe you forgot your best friends."

"I didn't mean to!" I replied. "I'm trying to remember them now. I'm focusing on the names. I know their names now, but I can't remember that they're my friends."

She sighed. "Just, try harder, please?" she asked calmly. "I don's see you as the type of person to forget their friends easily, even with your memories gone."

When I noticed we were a bit of a distance away from the others, I pulled her out of earshot.

"Kairi, do you honestly think that I forgot who he is?" I asked. "I know that that was Axel! Saix had me cough up a piece of dog fur! I still have some of my memories!"

She looked at me with this complete expression of you-actually-had-me-going-for-a-minute. "You can't be serious." She laughed.

I nodded. "I played you all for fools!" I cheered. "Now let's go find Saix and taunt him to death!"

"What about your other friends?" Kairi asked. I shook my head. "Still nothing?"

"Axel only was able to get my memory of him back…Selfish, isn't it?" I asked.

"Yeah, really." She added. "Are you okay with that?"

I nodded. "Yeah, because now I can threaten you and swear you to secrecy."

She blinked and scooted away a tiny bit. "O…kay."

"I like him!" I shouted. "I can't freakin' believe this! I like him! I didn't even think it was possible for me to get crushes on people anymore, Kairi! I like him! Then again, I have no idea if I really do, but I think I like him! HELP!"

"Who? Demyx?" she asked. "I mean, he did kiss you and everything."

"No!" I shouted. "Axel, I'm in this complete, 'holy crap, I can't like someone!' phase! But…my last tarot reading did say that the guy I date next won't be from around where I live, but this! This is crazy!"

"Anna, calm down!" Kairi began fanning me with her hands. "This castle's definitely doing more to you than I thought it was. It's screwing with your emotions! Oh god! You haven't become a Nobody, have you!"

I shook my head. "No, I'm serious! I think I like him, and I have no idea why! I should be liking Demyx, opposites attract, right?" Haha, that was a good joke. He uses water, I use fire. Nice one, Anna!

"Well, you've gotta tell him!" she insisted.

"You tell Sora how you feel first!" I came back. "Ha!"

"But…" she pouted. "What if he…"

"He definitely likes you back, don't even doubt yourself otherwise." I said, going into a Miss Congeniality moment. "I think you like him. You want to date him. I bet you want to kiss him. I think he wants to kiss you…"

"Okay!" she shouted, covering her face. "I get the picture! I'll tell him!"

"Good."

"On two conditions."

"Oh great."

"One, you never sing that again. And two…" she paused and flashed me a sinister grin. "You tell Axel."