Chapter Twenty-Nine: I AM NOT A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS!
I think this story is going to have three more chapters, so brace yourself. Everything is going to occur this chapter and the next one. So, read!
Demyx quickly regained his composure and we were out of the building and after Sora and the others. They were somewhere in town, we knew that, they wouldn't have stranded me here with Demyx…or would they? AHH! HELP!
We ran through the First District, using the 'hack and slash' method from many classic video games…I want Demyx's sitar now. That weapon is awesome!
It was pretty funny, two hideously bad fighters, fighting our way through Traverse Town killing Heartless and Nobody's while we wore ourselves out.
By the Third District, we had no idea as to where Sora could be. But then I remembered I memorized the map of Kingdom Hearts and dragged Demyx to the hotel and out to one of the balconies.
"Down there." I pointed to the water way. "That's where they are, the secret Training ground. Wooo." Demyx looked at me as if I was out of my mind. "What? I like to make 'wooo' noises!"
He rolled is eyes and picked me up and jumped down. Uh, you know, by the end of this story, I'm gonna have a bitch fit at someone about carrying me and picking me up. This is becoming a pain in my ass.
The two of walked into the Training ground as we came across the rest of the group. The two of us collapsed into a heap on the ground as we both lay there for a moment panting.
"What did you two do?" Axel asked, cracking up. "I mean, we all had slight suspicions that something might happen, but never did we expect something actually happen!"
I whacked Axel with on of the dull sides of the chakrams and returned back to being wiped out. "We were kicking the crap out of—" Demyx interrupted.
"And running from."
"Heartless and Nobody's." I finished, glaring at Demyx for the smartass commentary. "And we're tired!"
Axel sighed and lifted me up and put me over his shoulder. "Fine then, shnuckums, I'll carry you." He scoffed jokingly, seeming to enjoy it.
"What about me?" Demyx whined from a crumpled position on the ground."
Sora looked at him and dropped a little green jug at him. "You're a tough guy, take this and you'll get back on your feet."
Demyx took the potion and held it as he stood up and began following Axel and me. "I never quite got the concept of potions. I mean, they're a strange green liquid that makes you feel good…Is this stuff Absinth!" I think only me, Axel and Riku got the joke to that. "I hope I don't pull a Eurotrip moment here and start talking to a green fairy…" He shivered. "I was around enough druggies back in the Organization!" he paused. "Well, at least Xigbar was."
There was a bit of laughter but it quickly died as I explained to the guys about Dimples being Zexion. Sora cheered.
"That means that none of them know about the plans we made during the break!" he announced. Sora stayed still for a second and performed a little victory dance.
Kairi gasped. Riku hid. I averted my eyes. Axel laughed. And Demyx died…Alright no he didn't. He danced too.
Our plan was actually really simple: Kick the crap out of them. Mostly because the author was running out of ideas for this story that she wasn't already planning on using.
We all headed over to the part of the Training Ground where a mural was on the wall. A keyhole showed up on the mural as Sora took out the Keyblade and held it to the keyhole, waiting for the little click.
The mural broke apart and a door opened up, and I yelled out "ENOUGH WITH ALL THE WHITE!"
Because we were indeed back in a giant white world. It was like a hallway but it was outdoors and everything was white the grass, the trees, the sky: everything. But it was all different shades so there was at least a sense of direction in it all. Axel set me down and I braced myself, as did the others.
"Welcome." Said the voice of both Xemnas and his Heartless. Ahead of us, they were both standing seeming one hundred percent prepared to fight. They were both translucent and their voices seemed to blend together when they spoke. "I can assume that you are all quite prepared." They both tossed up the little sac that my memories were stored in. "And you're willing to sacrifice it all for that girl." The both point at me and seemed to glide right up to me.
I was picked up. And I had had enough.
I squirmed away from the both of them and shouted out, "You know, I was fine with all the picking me up at the beginning of all this, but this is going to far! I can't walk ten feet without someone picking me up! I was hoping I was going to lose some weight from all this and I won't unless some people learn to let me actually walk around on my own! I'm SICK of this! I know I've been complaining about how to carry a Damsel in Distress, but let's get something clear! I AM NOT A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS!"
And then, I heard a clapping…slow at first, and they loud and vibrant. The boys began whooping at me and cheering and I groaned and shouted. "ENOUGH!"
And somehow, "Enough" was the word that signaled the beginning of the battle.
My last battle in Kingdom Land.
Both Xemnas and his Heartless dashed at me with remarkable speed. Lucky me for having the chakrams out already, I threw them up in defense to block any such blow they were going to force on me.
"All for these?" they both said, waving the bag of memories in front of me. I swung at the bag causing a single strand to fall from it.
The others ran forward to help, hopefully one of them caught the memory and was holding it for me. I couldn't focus on getting it now.
Sora and Kairi somehow were both having difficulty getting within attacking distance of Xemnas and his Heartless. And thank you Axel for being cunning.
"Let Roxas and Namine out!" he shouted at them, using his own pair of chakrams to force Xemnas away who was taunting Axel on his choice of allies.
Sora and Kairi looked at eachother, and grabbed the others hands. A surge of light erupted from them and in their places was Roxas and Namine…Roxas immediately began yelling at me for being an idiot. Axel told him it wasn't the time.
Roxas managed to get over to me at one point and handed me my memory strand. He muttered something about how he felt like Sora would have done that. When this is over with, I'm going to smack him!
I took the memory strand and shoved it in my mouth, finding this one hard to swallow.
Xemnas and his Heartless pushed everyone away from me, except Axel.
"Axel, I see you've been training her well." They said. "But what about both of you together?"
"Xemnas!" I snapped. "Leave Axel the hell alone for a minute." He looked at me with an expression of disgust.
"You're more rude than I remember you." He hissed. "What is it."
I looked at him with a pure sense of anger and fury in my eyes. "Where the hell is Lizzy?"
Yeah, I remembered her now. And I wanted some answers.