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War on My World
Chapter 16: Goodbye is One of the Hardest Words for Me to Say; Part 1
"Alright, everyone, hang on!" Luffy shouted. They had just figured out a way to get the ship moving towards the castle. Luffy wound up one of his arms. The other one was holding onto a lamb post. "Gomu Gomu no ROCKET!" Luffy shouted, his arms stretching amazingly to the top of the castle. The ship flung itself to the castle. It went upside down at many points, and everyone was glad they held onto something.
They got to the castle after the ship crashing into one of the spires, though. They were all glad that the back of the ship crashed into the spire, and not the top, or else they'd all be crushed and discombobulated. Anyways, there was a little balcony on the tower they crashed into. They all filed out onto that.
"Ok, everyone! Let's go inside!" Chihiro shouted, pushing the doors open. Inside were two people. One had black hair that was Jamaican styled, and the other had an eyepatch over one eye.
"Xigbar and Xaldin!" Roxas shouted. Xigbar gave them a peace sign.
"Yo, Roxas. Haven't seen you in a looong time, dude? How has the waves been treatin' ya, little bro?" Xigbar asked. Roxas' keyblades appeared in his hands, and Sora's Kingdom Key appeared in his right hand. Riku had his Way to Dawn and all three were in a battle stance.
"You guys wanna fight so soon? Well, if you want to, then let's GO!" The sharpshooter shouted, getting out his guns. Xaldin took out multiple spears.
"Roxas and Sora, I have a feeling you have experience fighting these guys. You two and Riku team up on Xigbar. Zatch, Kiyo, Kolulu and Lori help them. Everyone else after Xaldin! Let's do this thing!" Chihiro said. They all were in a circle(one of Roxas' keyblades disappeared)and Chihiro put her hand in the middle. Haku put his hand on top of hers, and everyone else followed their example.
"1...2...3.." Chihiro counted, and they all shouted, "FOR THE WORLDS!" As their hands went up. Now, they got to their designated battle positions. Chihiro didn't fight, she was too busy acting as a healer to people who got injured.
In one movement a laser shot from Xigbar's guns pierced her shoulder. Chihiro fell down and clutched it. Xigbar smiled and shot another laser. Chihiro got up and moved with great celerity, but, she saw that she was not going to get out in time. So, she faced the laser and placed her hands in front of her. The laser reflected back at Xigbar, and made him fall down. Sora, Riku, Roxas, Kolulu, and Zatch pounded on him then.
"I hate being able to do all that." Chihiro said to herself, and looked at her hands. She reflected the laser, but her hands were covered in blood. Some of the laser must've hit her. Haku, in dragon form, came over to her.
'Stay still.' Haku commanded in his spirit voice. Chihiro obeyed. A wave of water seemed to sweep over Chihiro, and she looked at her hands. They were no longer covered in blood, but they still ached a little. She then looked at her shoulder. It ached less.
"Thanks, Haku!" She said, bowing with gratitude to the dragon. Haku nodded, and watched as she ran off. Then, a spear that was coming at him snapped him out of his thoughts as he smoothly dodged the spear. All the injured people were bandaged, thanks to Chihiro. Chihiro then looked around to see how the fight was going. The tables were tipping in their favor. She looked at Haku who was blowing fire at Xaldin. Then, she looked at Xigbar who was getting pounded on by Roxas and Sora. A plan formed in her mind.
"Hey, Roxas, Haku! Come over here for a minute!" Chihiro said. The two came over.
"Yeah?" Roxas asked, taking a quick glance at Naminé to make sure she could handle herself. Once he saw that she wasn't hurt any, his attention was back on whatever Chihiro wanted them for.
"In your opinion, who's stronger? Xigbar or Xaldin?" Chihiro asked Roxas. Roxas seemed to think for a minute before deciding.
"Definitely Xaldin." Roxas said. Chihiro nodded.
"Alright, I have a plan..." She said, and the two came closer to hear what she was planning. Haku and Roxas nodded every now and again, ina gesture that they understood what she said.
"Ok. Sounds good." Roxas said, running behind Xaldin and placing his keyblades in a guard-position. Haku was in front of Xaldin. With a deep intake of air, Haku blew a forceful stream of fire at Xaldin, knocking him back. Roxas then spun around, his keyblades hitting Xaldin's back multiple times, and causing him to fly forward. Everyone who was fighting Xaldin backed off and went to Xigbar.
Haku whipped around and hit Xaldin with his tail, causing Xaldin to go back again. This time Roxas stabbed him directly in the back. It did the trick. Xaldin disappeared forever and ever. He wouldn't come back again. Now they all pounded on Xigbar until he died.
"How many more people are in here, do you think?" Chihiro asked, a tear slipping out of her eye as he checked the pulses of the people who had got knocked unconscious during the fight. Unfortunately, that would be the last fight they would ever be in. "Everyone, let's just pray for everyone who died here's soul to go up to heaven." They said, as there was a moment of silence to pray for them. The pyreflies surrounded the dead people, and they disappeared.
"Well, I know for a fact there's..." Sora seemed to count how many people were left that were their enemies, after the silence had died down. Kairi giggled and placed a hand on Sora's shoulder while she answered for him.
"9 people. We know for a fact there's 9 people left. There's probably Gray and Maleficent, so that's 11." Kairi said. Laura nodded.
"And Sesshoumaru. That's 12." Inuyasha said.
"And there's Lawrence, but I think he died at Heart's Rhapsody. I didn't mean to kill him, but I think that world disappeared forever." Laura said sadly. Chihiro nodded and whispered a quiet 'Yeah, it did disappear.'
"12 people? I think we can all handle twelve people, right?" Chihiro asked, everyone nodded. She then turned to Roxas. "Do you know how to navigate this place?" He shook his head, but Naminé raised her hand and waved excitedly. She was happy she could be of use to them. She knew her way around this strange place.
"I've been here before! I don't remember when, but I do know my way around. This was a place where all the Organization members would come for their meetings." Naminé explained. Roxas stared at her.
"I don't remember this place..." Roxas said, tapping his chin. Naminé sighed.
"Remember the meeting room with all the different-sized chairs? Well, that room is in this place. You probably don't remember this castle because you've only been to the meeting room. Axel and you were too busy prank calling everyone and messing up my drawing to go anywhere." Naminé said, remembering that Axel and Roxas had done almost everything together, Naminé was jealous of that. But, not anymore, she wasn't. Because Roxas was right beside her, always.
"Oh, yeah! Axel would make the portal here and he and I would just go right in! I remember this place now." Roxas said. Naminé nodded and smiled. She pointed towards a specific direction.
"That's the meeting room. I think there's someone in there. Let's check it out!" Naminé said, waving at them to hurry up as she broke out into a run. Chihiro and the others followed. However, Chihiro got there first and she swung the door open. The little rainbow-shooting stars(which were called pyreflies) were flying around in the room. Different people were on chairs.
Larxene was on the highest chair, Demyx was on her right-hand side, and on her left was...
"Zoey!" They all shouted, waving at the girl. And beside Zoey was... "Koji! Why are you with them?" They all asked at the same time, in their own ways. Zoey was wearing a black cloak, and her hat was gone, and Koji was wearing a black cloak, and his bandana was pure-black.
"We would've died if they had not spared us. We are the replacements for the 13th and the 1st member of this Organization. Even though it is disbanded, we are still members of it. What do you all care, anyway?" Zoey asked darkly.
"You guys are our friends! Of course we care!" Chihiro said. The four laughed.
"Time to show them what we're made of." Larxene said, and the kunais appeared in her hands as electricity cackled around them. Demyx's sitar appeared, and Zoey transformed into a darker version of JetSilphymon, CorruptFlurrymon(Note: I made that up). Koji transformed into a darker version of Beowulfmon, ContaminatedWolfmon(Note: I made that up too, just imagine both forms look more evil than whatever you thought they looked like before).
"Dark Zephyr!" CorruptFlurrymon shouted, and pirouetted. A purple-tinted whirlwind surrounded her as she went into the air, acting as a shield and deflecting some attacks that Chihiro's teammates cast at her. She then held her pinwheel up.
"Divine Vacuum!"CorruptFlurrymon then said. Her pinwheel started to spin, and the purple-tinted whirlwind seemed to get sucked into the pinwheel.
"Thunder!" Larxene shouted, holding a kunai in the air and the electricity coursed through the windmill.
"Dark Crescendo!" CorruptFlurrymon shouted, landing on the ground and doing a pirouette with the pinwheel starting on the ground. Then, as she made more rounds, the pinwheel got higher. This caused another tornado to rise around the female digimon, this time black instead of purple. When she made five rounds, her pinwheel was pointed straight to the sky, and thunder then surrounded the black tornado, making it cackle insanely. Then, the tip of the pinwheel sparkled as CorruptFlurrymon put the pinwheel out in front of her. She pirouetted once more, letting go of the pinwheel as she did so.
When she stopped, the pinwheel kept going, absorbing the tornado. CorruptFlurrymon then grabbed it, and pirouetted once. The tornado came out of the windmill, going straight for our heroes. They all dodged out of the way.(even though the tornado covered three-fourths of the room)
"Transcending Light!" Shouted ContaminatedWolfmon, who had been a bit quiet. The claws on his right hand gleamed as he disappeared. The tornado then turned completely white as it expanded, covering the whole area. Everyone got caught in it, though CorruptFlurrymon kept Demyx and Larxene from getting electrocuted, as in the eye of the tornado was a great orb of light made of electricity, that the unfortunate heroes got attracted to.
More unfortunately, the evils didn't seem to notice Chihiro's wink at her friends and a holy light seemed to go with the whirlwind, but no one noticed that the holy light got attracted to the orb. People just hate paying attention these days, don't they?
After about five interminable and seemingly excruciating minutes, the tornado died down. Larxene placed a hand on her 'little sister's shoulder.
"I think you killed them." Larxene said, eyes glowing with pride. CorruptFlurrymon smiled at her fallen 'comrades' who now littered the floor like thrown-out garbage.
"Wasn't that our goal?" CorruptFlurrymon asked. Demyx nodded and played a little deaf tone on his sitar.
"Yeah. I'm glad I didn't have to fight. I seriously suck at fighting." Demyx said. The remaining breeze that was the aftershock of the tornado disappeared, and in the middle of the room appeared ContaminatedWolfmon. He walked towards his 'evil' comrades, avoiding the unconscious 'good' people. All of Chihiro's gang were fainted. Not a single soul was awake.
"That was so easy." ContaminatedWolfmon said. CorruptFlurrymon nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I'm almost...disappointed." She said. Demyx laughed.
"Disappointed? Gray's gonna promote us BIG time!" He said, playing a mini-version of 'Happy Days' on the sitar. Larxene smacked him across the head.
"We don't even WORK for Gray. We just owe him and Maleficent a favor for reviving us 'strong' Nobodies, and Demyx, I hate HAPPY days. Quit playing that tune." Larxene said, snatching the sitar out of his hands and threw it out of the window. Demyx's lower lip trembled as he began to cry.
"MY SITAR! MY BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SITAR! NOOOOOOO!" Demyx wailed, running to the window. As soon as he started to jump out of it, Larxene yelled,
"DEMYX! You can't fl-" Then Demyx was out the window,"Nevermind." CorruptFlurrymon had an eyebrow quirked, and ContaminatedWolfmon was gaping like an idiot at the window.(Which was quite out of character, I might add)
"Should I go after him?" CorruptFlurrymon asked, levitating using her jetpacks. Larxene shook her head.
"We're high in the sky. He can teleport if he's in real trouble." She said. The other female nodded and dropped to the floor.
"NOW!" Chihiro shouted, sitting up and punching the floor. This sent a shockwave and everyone who had previously fallen rose up with great haste. Larxene, ContaminatedWolfmon and CorruptFlurrymon gasped when they realized all of Chihiro's gang had fallen into a circle. Chihiro was in the middle of the circle.
"Ok, everyone, For the Worlds!" The Princess of Gate shouted. Everyone nodded and repeated their battle cry, standing so that one side was facing Chihiro and the other was facing their enemies. They all held out the hand closest to Chihiro, and immediately the pyreflies connected and floated down to the outstretched arms' of the people.
Then, the light cascading over everything. When the light disappeared, it revealed Chihiro glowing with a pure, holy white.. She was now the head of the circle. She was floating a bit, as was her hair. Her ponytail holder was sparkling more than it ever had been. Everybody in the circle was holding hands, and the two people on either side of Chihiro were holding onto her hands. Everyone besides Chihiro(in the circle) were each a separate color, making it look like a rainbow.
Suddenly, Chihiro let go of her friends' hands, and everyone glowed white as she thrust he rhands forward, a beam of holy white light coming out of them, going straight towards the trio.
"For the Worlds!" They all shouted. The light seemed to go through CorruptFlurrymon and ContaminatedWolfmon, and they returned to Zoey and Koji and fell, everyone unsure if they were dead or alive. Larxene got hit head-on with the light, and fell, also.
When the light was gone, Chihiro ran towards her friends.
"Hey, you guys alright?" She asked, tapping Zoey, who was still cloaked in black's, shoulder. "Hey...hey, Zoey...you alive?" Chihiro asked. Suddenly, a new figure appeared in the windows...and it was none other than...Sanji!
Sanji, being the player-and-girl freak that he was, immediately rushed over to the fallen ladies.( Zoey and Larxene) One of his eyes immediately turned to a heart.
"Oh, the cruelty! Why must these beautiful ladies befall a tragic end? Why, world? WHY?" Sanji yelled. Everyone kinda stared at him.
"Yeah...Ok. Sanji, why don't you look after them?" Chihiro asked. The pirate crew stared at her, and all shook their heads.
"No, no, no! That's a REALLY bad idea, leaving Sanji with girls all by himself. I'll stay with him." Vivi volunteered.
"Alright, Vivi! We'll come back after we're done! Heeheehee" Luffy said, and laughed his creepy laugh. Then, just as suddenly, a black portal appeared and out stepped Demyx. He held out his sitar, and smiled, then realized that who he smiled at was not Larxene. Demyx got quite frightened, as everyone looked like they were going to murder him.
"I don't want to fight! I don't want to fight!" Demyx wailed, then realized that everyone was just giving him a death glare. He calmed down, and took a deep breath before continuing, "I don't wa-" Then he noticed the trio of fallen people, and stopped dead.
"OH MY KAMI THEY'RE GONNA KILL ME!" Demyx shrieked like a girl, and started to run around in circles screaming like a siren. It was so loud they all had to cover their ears and shout his name as loud as they could(which was REALLY loud) to make him stop acting like an idiot. Although, it was already too late for that. Demyx, after five or ten minutes, finally calmed down.
"Demyx, you control water, right?" Vivi asked. She assumed that the annoying musician's name was Demyx because of what Chihiro had told her. Demyx nodded and backed away, holding his sitar like a shield. He nodded his head cautiously, and took a little step back. "Well, come here. Don't worry, I have no weapons." Demyx looked around, and took little baby steps towards Vivi.
Chihiro sighed, ran around and pushed him. Demyx started screaming again.
"KAMI, JUST SHUT HIM UP!" Chihiro yelled, and they all covered their ears. Winry took out a roll of duct tape.
"HERE'S SOME TAPE!" Winry tossed the tape at Chihiro, who caught it. She quickly unraveled the duct tape and taped ALL of it on Demyx's mouth. Everyone removed their hands from their ears, and sighed from relief and serenity.
"Now, Demyx, I think these people need some water. Do you think you could generate some for me?" Vivi asked. Demyx nodded, and started playing his sitar. Water appeared in Vivi's now-cupped hands. Sanji, her and Demyx started to 'heal' their 'enemies'.
"Ok, we got it here. We'll revive them in no time, and Sanji can give Demyx a good kick if he doesn't cooperate. You guys make sure you return in One Piece, ok?" Vivi asked, winking at them. Luffy nodded.
"Ok, everyone! LET'S GO!" He shouted, walking in a random direction. Then they all looked at Naminé, who shrugged and followed.
"I think there's some people in that direction, too. But I'm too sure." Naminé said. Everyone followed them. Chihiro accidently tripped because Naminé stopped suddenly, but Haku caught her. Roxas crashed into Naminé because he was behind her, and Sora tripped over Roxas and Kairi crashed into Sora. Everyone else crashed into each other and tripped and whatever. In the end, only Haku and Chihiro were standing, Haku still having a firm grip on her arm. Chihiro took out a leftover digital camera and snapped a couple of pictures in different angles, then put it away.
"You guys look so funny. That was pure gold, I tell you. Hey, Naminé, why'd you stop in the first place?" Chihiro asked, as Haku let go of her arm. As soon as Roxas got off of her(and helped her up being the ladies' man he is) Naminé dusted herself and then told her why.
"There's someone in these hallways, already. I saw him, so I stopped. I'm sorry, I didn't know it would be that much trouble!" She said, and smiled sheepishly, and rubbed the back of her head like Sora.
"Someone in the hallways? I didn't see anyone. Naminé, you feeling alright?" Roxas asked as he put his hand on her forehead in concern. She nodded.
"I was sure I saw someone." She said, then looked at Chihiro.
"Um, I didn't see anyone, either. I'm sor-" Then, something caught her eye. For a moment, just a tiny moment, she glowed a faint lavender, and at that moment she saw someone walk past. "Nevermind, I just saw someone. Naminé, who is that?" Chihiro asked, glancing at her. The said girl shrugged.
"I'm not really sure. I only saw her for a second." She said, looking around once more. Kairi stared at her other.
"I didn't see anyone! Why was is it that my other ca-" Kairi then glowed a faint lavender fora spilt second, and she saw someone walk past. "No...I saw someone too. Who was that?" Kairi asked. Naminé and Chihiro both shrugged.
"I don't know." Chihiro said. Roxas walked to the side of the room and waved over Haku and Sora. They both came over, and formed a little huddle.
"Guys, I don't know what's wrong with our girls, but something strange is going on." Roxas said. Sora and Haku agreed. As soon as they did, the three glowed a faint white and all three saw someone walk past.
"Wait! I saw it, too!" Sora said, scratching his head. Haku nodded, and so did Roxas.
"See! I told you, Roxas! But why doesn't anyone believe me?" Naminé said and sighed. Suddenly, she, Chihiro, Kairi, Haku, Roxas and Sora glowed a very strong lavender. Everyone stared at the six, but instead saw someone else. Then, the glow faded away and they all said they saw someone. After talking about it for precisely fourteen and a quarter of a half and a hundredth minutes, Roxas realized something.
"I think I know what it is..." He said. Everyone's attention quickly snapped to Sora's other. "Zexion, the person who has no weapon in the Organization, is called the 'Cloaked Schemer'. I think he's been casting an illusion on us, though I don't know what it's purpose is." Roxas said.
"Yeah, it does sound like something Zexion would do." Naminé concluded. Chihiro stood up with vitality, her fist clenched and a proud look on her face.
"Then let's get him!" She said. The others agreed, and followed the hallway until they came to a door. They opened it. Inside was a person with long, spiked purple hair, Axel, and Saix. Obviously the spiked-purple-haired person was Zexion.
"Ok, Roxas, you can handle Axel, right?" Chihiro asked. Roxas nodded as both keyblades appeared in his hands, and the weapons that everyone else had appeared. "Roxas, you go after Axel, and..." Chihiro turned around to survey her army. All the good fighters were still left. She pointed to one side of her. "You guys take Zexion," then she pointed to the other side, "You guys take Saix." Then, she pointed to the really weak people, "You back everyone up and heal people's wounds."
Everyone ran off and started to fight. She thought of the people that had died in the battle with Xaldin and Xigbar. Her army was slowly dwindling. But she knew that they good fighters like Lily, Haku, Sora, and Roxas wouldn't die. Besides, Chihiro had quite good healing powers, thanks to the Connection Wing. She remembered when she had begged for the Connection Wing to save them all in that black tornado of death that CorruptFlurrymon had caused, and the holy white light had protected them. As they fell, and no one had gotten hurt, she remembered she had contacted all of them...
Flashback
'Guys, the Connection Wing protected us. It looks like we're hurt, but we're really not. When I say 'Now' we all get up and attack like crazy. It looks like we're dead right now, so just pretend, ok? Besides, some of you have good acting skills.' Chihiro had put a little joke at the end of that sentence.
'Oh, and don't look around to see where I'm talking from. You'll see too suspicious that way. I'm contacting all of you through the Connection Wing. I have no idea how, but it's possible so be grateful or else we'd all be toast.'
End Flashback
Suddenly, memories of everything up until that moment flooded her mind. She didn't mean to remember everything, it just happened, and she couldn't stop it. It wasn't like her friends needed healing, anyway. When she had checked up on everyone, they were all fine.
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"HUZZA!"The victory cries rang through Chihiro's ears, waking her up from her flashbacks. She blinked and looked around, wildly.
"Huh? We won?" She asked. Haku, in human form, ran over to her, and picked her up and flew her around.
"Chihiro! We did it!" Haku shouted, then hugging her. Chihiro blinked once more.
"We won against Gray?" She asked, confused, looking up at him. He laughed and shook his head.
"No! Zexion, Axel, and Saix have been defeated! After all that hard work, and a lot of people got injured, we won!" Haku said happily. The air was still full of 'huzzas'.
"I...I zoned out. I didn't even notice. How long did the battle take?" Chihiro asked, getting out of the warm embrace and running over to someone who had fallen, and got to work as Haku came up beside her.
"It started when the sun was up, and it ended when the moon came up." Haku said, with a bit of worry evident in his voice.
"What? That long? Well...what was I doing all that time? Just standing there?" Chihiro asked, facing him. Haku thought for a moment.
"No...come to think of it, you acted like you normally would. You told us some plans, healed some people, fought some people, and everything." Haku said. "Why?" Chihiro took a deep breath.
"Haku, remember when they said that the power of the Connection Wing was a curse and not a gift?" Chihiro asked. Haku nodded.Chihiro took another deep breath and started to shake. Haku hugged her, but that didn't ease her fear. She didn't like the idea of anyone-whether it was powerful or not- controlling her actions while she was lost in her subconscious. "I think the Connection Wing is starting to take control over my body. I don't remember doing anything like that. I just remember thinking of how I saved everyone from that tornado and everything else."
"Was there anything different from me? Like, did I act strangely or anything?" Chihiro asked. Haku thought for a moment, looking down as he thought. Then the lightbulb lit up, and he nodded.
"Come to think of it, you were really quiet and didn't say a word. You seemed really out of it, and I think your eyes were a bit darker than they usually were." Haku said. Chihiro took a deep breath to calm herself, and when she stopped shaking(which took quite a while) she said what was on her mind at that moment.
"T-That's good. Whenever I'm like that, Haku, knock me out." She said, her eyes reflecting fear. Haku looked stunned, and he was. He didn't comprehend what she said at first, then snapped out of his stupor and recollected himself.
"I can't do that." Haku said. He didn't know why, he just couldn't. He would hate himself if he hurt Chihiro, even if that's what she wanted.
"But, Haku! I trust you the most! Please, do this for me? I-I don't mind!" Chihiro said, giving him a puppy-dog look. Haku sighed. How could anyone resist that sweet look? As if someone has took a picture of heaven and placed it on her face.
"Fine." Haku said. Chihiro smiled and hugged him really tight.
"Thank you, Haku! There's no one I'd rather it be than you!" She said happily. Haku sighed, and pulled her off of him.
"Let's go, everyone!" Naminé said. She was helping Roxas walk around, as the latter had a spike from Axel's chakrams stuck in his stomach.
"Do you...think we can rest here a while? I can't move." Sora said. Like Roxas, he also had an injury, but in his leg that disabled him from walking. However, Kairi was helping him get up and walk around.
"Yeah, I think we should take a breather. Hey, is anyone free right now?" Chihiro asked. Kolulu and Lori walked up.
"Me and my big sister are ready to help, and so are Zatch and Kiyo!" Kolulu said, smiling. Zatch and Kiyo also walked up to her.
"Good. Could you guys go check up on Vivi, Sanji, and Demyx? If they're done healing the three, come and tell me, ok? I hope they are. We need all the forces we can get." Chihiro said. The four saluted, 'yes ma'am-ed' and ran off. Then, they all sat around in a circle(it was difficult for some), and began to talk.
"Heeey...while we're waiting for them to come back, let's play a game!" Suggested Lily. Everyone stared at her.
"What game would we play? Most of here can barely walk, including you, Lily." Leona said. It was true. Most of the people in the circle had to be helped up by other people who weren't as injured to get in it.
"Truth or dare, duh!" Lily said matter-of-factly. Everyone didn't even think of that possibility. Then, they all looked at Chihiro to see what she thought of the idea.
"I'm all for it. Lily, you go first." Chihiro said. Lily nodded, smiled, and looked around. She tapped her chin for a moment before pointing to Chihiro.
"Chihiro! Truth or dare!" Lily said.
"Dare." Chihiro said, crossing her arms. Lily frowned, she thought Chihiro would choose 'truth'. However, Chihiro knew that Lily thought she would choose truth, so she chose dare.
"Um...I dare you..."Lily thought for a moment. David(who had not yet died, but was injured) leaned over and whispered something. Lily's eyes widened, then she clapped her hands excitedly, and since she was so excited she gave David a chaste kiss on the cheek.(Since David had his helmet off) David turned red, but Lily didn't notice.
"I dare you to...um, you know what? I'll just tell you." Lily said, and stood up, wobbled towards Chihiro and whispered something to her. Chihiro glared at her, huffed, stood up and walked out of the room. Lily sat back down and grinned from ear to ear.
"What did you dare Chihiro?" Haku asked Lily, shooting a quick glare at her and David, who a still pink.
"Nothing, really. Honestly, it wasn't that big of a deal." Lily said. A few moments later, Chihiro came back red in the face. "Did you do it?" Lily asked. Chihiro nodded.
"Do what?" Haku asked. Chihiro turned even redder.
"You don't want to know. I'm not even certified, and Lily makes me do it! I probably killed the guy! If I didn't, then Zoey's gonna kill me." Chihiro said.
"What did you do?" Haku asked again, gritting his teeth to stop from stamping his foot on the floor and acting like an immature child.
"Give Koji cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It was so disgusting. I'll never, ever, EVER do that again EVER as long as I live. Unless someone needs it, but I'm not certified. Vivi said I did a good job, though, and I think all three of them are coming around." Chihiro said, shuddering, before sitting back down.
"Err...what's card-palm tree resurrection? Is it some kind of card with a palm tree on it that can resurrect people?" Sora asked. They all laughed. "What? How am I supposed to know these things? I have the intelligence of a 14-year-old, people!" Sora shouted.
"Oh." They were all quiet, until Kairi spoke out.
"It's CPR, Sora." She said. Sora's mouth imitated a large 'O'.
"Ok, continue with the game." Sora then said. Chihiro nodded, then looked around. She then pointed to Riku. Everyone looked at him in surprise. They had seriously forgotten about him!
"Riku! Truth or dare?" Chihiro asked. Riku blinked. He thought everyone had forgotten about him, which was true, but Chihiro wasn't the type to forget a fellow comrade.
"Um...um...true?" Riku said. Everyone 'booed' at him, but Riku just shrugged. What was a guy to do? He didn't want to do anything embarrassing... 'Oh, crap! She can ask me a lot of embarrassing stuff with true! Take it back, Riku, take it back!' "Nevermind! I mean dare!" Riku said. Chihiro smiled cleverly.
"Alright. I dare you to give your turn to me and when I ask you 'Truth or Dare' you have to say truth. And I will give you your 'truth' in a command-form, but you're gonna have to deal with it for it's part of the dare." Chihiro said. It was hard to decipher what Riku was feeling right now. His left eyebrow was twitching continuously, and his arms were having spasms. His mouth looked like a spiral staircase. All in all, he looked like a distorted mess. Everyone laughed at Riku's funny position. Chihiro cleared her throat, which caused everyone to quiet down.
"Riku, truth or dare?" Chihiro asked. Riku gained his composure before answering.
"T-truth." He squeaked, hyper-ventilating.
"Tell us who you like." Chihiro demanded. 'Oh, no. That's what I thought she was going to say! Oh, Kami, what'll I do? I can't say I like...her...or else...Wait, stop for a second, self. Or else what? Yeah, or else what? It's not like she has a boyfriend or anything!'
"Kairi." Riku said, regaining his cool-ness and whatever else. Sora(without the help of Kairi) walked over to Riku, the Oathkeeper appeared in his hand, and smacked him over the head with it as hard as he could. Riku was left with a bump shaped like a key over his head, and walked back to his place in the circle.
"I-I'm sorry, Riku...I-I don't feel the same way. I love Sora, not you." Kairi said. Riku stood up, and turned into Dark Riku. Sora stood up, and the two charged at each other. Kairi was a bit flattered that they were fighting over her, but yet, still concerned. She knew very well how the two were competitive at Destiny Islands, and knew they could easily kill each other. However, it was an even battle, as both of them had injuries.
"Stop!" Kairi shouted, stepping in-between the two when they were paused. Bad move. Riku came rushing at her, and sliced her clean across the shoulder. With a cry of pain Kairi fell, and Sora's clothes became white and two keyblades appeared and floated as he charged at Riku. No one was a match for Sora's final Form, and Riku fell. Sora then changed back, and fell to the ground.
"NO!" Roxas and Naminé shouted. They both looked at each other, and held hands.
"Roxas...I love you. I always have, and I want you to know that."Naminé said, smiled a sad smileand glowed white. The white spread over to Roxas, and he smiled a sad smile, too.
"Naminé...I love you, too. Now...we'll finally be our own people, and not shadows anymore." Roxas said, and leaned in for a kiss. As soon as his lips touched hers, they disappeared. Chihiro gasped as they disappeared, and Sora and Kairi's wounds healed immediately and jumped to their feet with new-found vitality, though they looked as depressed as an ocean when it's raining.
"I-I can't believe Roxas and Naminé gave themselves up, forever..."Sora said sadly. Kairi nodded. Chihiro looked at them both bewildered.
"What do you mean, 'gave themselves up'?" Chihiro asked. Sora sighed.
"They died so we could be alive." Sora said. Chihiro looked down.
"I-I see." Chihiro said. The spirit of the game was lost, as she continued to heal everyone, besides Riku. It was already too late for him.
"I'm so sorry. If I hadn't suggested we play Truth or Dare, this wouldn't have happened. I'm sorry." Lily said. Sora and Kairi shook their heads.
"It's not your fault. We didn't know. We didn't know Riku would get so mad over that." Sora said, shrugging slightly. Chihiro sighed, and spoke up,
"Goodbye was always the hardest thing for me to say, anyways."
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"Let's carry on." Chihiro said. They all trudged to the next room with heavy hearts knowing that their two best comrades were gone forever. Before they reached the door, Vivi collided into Luffy, who was the last one in the group. Luffy turned around.
"VIVI!" He shouted. This made them all turn around. They all shouted "VIVI!" besides Chihiro and a couple others.
"Guess, what, guys?" Vivi said. Everyone asked 'What? As soon as they asked, Zoey, Koji, Larxene and Demyx rounded the corners.
"Don't worry, we're not here to fight. We decided to join up with you guys. From what we heard from Vivi, we know you need it. No need to thank us, it was our pleasure." Demyx said, bowing. Larxene smacked him across the head.
"I guess we really do need it." Kairi said. Chihiro smiled sadly.
"I guess we do." Chihiro replied. Larxene gave Demyx a death glare.
"Demyx! Look what you did!" She hissed dangerously. "I'm sorry, Demyx didn't mean it that way. It was one of his idiotic moments, anyways." Chihiro shook her head, with that sad smile still imprinted on her face.
"I don't mind. It's true, anyways." She said, then they all were quiet as she opened the door. Inside the door was a white room, and inside that room were two people. One had pink hair and a pink scythe, and the other was a blonde.
"Whoa. I thought that Xemnas person was a pansy! Just look at him!" Ed said, cracking up. Larxene raised an eyebrow.
"Pansy? Oh, you mean Marluxia? Yeah, he looks like a girl with the pink hair, right? What's even funnier is he controls flowers!" Larxene shouted, rolling on the floor like Ed from hysterics. Demyx sighed.
"The other one is Luxord, the Gambler. Be careful, guys, they're gonna be tricky!" Demyx said, his sitar appearing. "Dance, Water, Dance!" He shouted, water replicas starting to dance around and swing their sitar-replicas at Luxord. Chihiro got in the fighting spirit.
"Ok, everyone, go after Luxord!" She said, put pointed to a couple of other people, "You guys go after Marluxia. Alright, everyone, move it!" She said. Haku passed her, and gave her a concerned look.
The Connection Wing was the main ventriloquist here, andHaku knew that. That was just the thing that worried him.
SORRY FOR THE HUGE CHAPTER! It was 17, count 'em, 17 pages on Word! But I just didn't know where to end this chapter! I could've continued, but I knew this chap was getting too long, so, yeah. Also, I think there might be two more chapters, thenmy other story, THEN my other stories which I have to get workin' on! Time's a'wastin'! Oh, and, sorry for not writing out the Saix and Axel battle scenes. But when you're under control of someone, you don't remember anything, right?
I don't know, but I'm guessing so. I know the deaths are sad, but...as g' ol' hanjuu says, completely necessary. Anyways, Review!