Blue Blood
Fired Up…Literally
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I was standing stock still towards the edge of the ring trying my best not to breathe…forget moving! The scene that was playing itself out on the other edge was rather disturbing, to say the least, and my breath kept getting caught not fully reaching the lungs. I could tell that Axel swung his oversized shuriken at Hades, but the swing was stopped by an invisible barrier halfway through…meaning Hades wasn't touched. In fact, the aforementioned old coot was smirking evilly at my obnoxious companion with a manic glint in his eyes. Have you ever had one of those moments when you just want to dig yourself into a hole and never come out? Yeah, well this would probably be the opportune moment for me to do just that. How the heck were we expected to beat Hades when he had a damn barrier around himself? I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown…could you tell?
Of course, my aggravation grew tenfold after what happened next. Axel, the dumbass, didn't move out of the way after his shuriken got stuck in the invisible shield. Instead, he stood rooted to the spot not flinching a muscle. What the heck was he thinking? At that moment my own body decided to spring into action on its own accord. I found myself running towards the pair with my shuriken raised and screaming something at Axel. I wasn't hearing myself and my actions were completely reflexive, but I was going to get my bitchy comrade to move out of the way before he gets slaughtered by Hades…I knew as much.
"Get your ass out of there you jerk!" I screamed hurling the shuriken towards Hades as best I could. If this wasn't going to work…well, I didn't really want to think about what would happen then. Of course, as usual, luck was not on my side; my shuriken rebound and flew at double speed towards me. Are you worried? You shouldn't be…I am the best female ninja after all. I dodged out of the way just in time.
"Stay away you stupid brat!" Axel shouted at me over his shoulder. He seemed perfectly calm. I know I've asked this a few times already but…WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON! I didn't even have time to get up from my kneeling position, after my less than graceful dodge, when the whole left half of the arena burst into flames (otherwise known as the half where Axel and Hades stood).
I sprang to my feet and ran towards the vibrant red trying to see at least something, but I wasn't getting any image. Axel couldn't have died…could he have? NO! That's impossible; he's too damn persistent to die! For some reason though, I hardly convinced myself with that explanation.
"Axel!" I could hear myself screaming to the dancing flames. "Axel, damn it!" 'Stay alive.' I thought desperately to myself. How could he though? The flames were starting to die out slowly, but still no Axel. They finally receded completely so the only figure I could see standing in front of me was none other than Hades. Did Axel…?
"What was that?" I asked the God in a dangerously low voice. He didn't give me an answer, but released streaks of fire in all directions through the ring. I dodged all of them grabbing my shuriken, which implanted itself in the edge of the arena, while rolling away from one of the aforementioned streaks. Still no Axel.
"The runt's ash, brat." I heard a cocky voice from my left. "No use searching for him." He sounded so casual, it was almost scary. I felt my blood starting to run cold. Why did I care so much anyway? I turned towards the owner of the voice to see him smoothing out the creases in his wanna-be clothes. At that moment I decided I didn't give a damn why exactly I cared, but Hades wasn't walking out of this ring victorious…no matter what I'd have to do.
I looked around myself quickly. The arena was still covered in fire and lava in different places, but leaving enough room for me to move around and dodge. I looked back at Hades. He must be creating the barrier; I doubt it's there naturally. So of course, all I had to do was draw his attention, the damn shield would be weakened. Good plan! How to accomplish it, however, was a different story altogether.
"Hey, old geezer!" I called, giving him famous Yuffie smirk. He rolled his eyes and muttered something that suspiciously sounded like 'another one', but I didn't concern myself with it. I threw two stars aiming for his right arm while running left. As I thought, he protected himself from the right and didn't pay attention to my shuriken, which was hurled at him, on the left. YES! It imbedded itself in his left shoulder going right through the week defense. My smirk widened. 'You're mine.' I thought triumphantly as I threw my third and last ninja star at his head. Unfortunately for me, it got hurled back instead of going through. 'Shit!'
It scratched my neck as I barely twisted out of the way. Now I was kneeling right opposite Hades with two of my ninja stars and the shuriken held firmly in his grasp. He pointed my own weapon at me with an evil smirk. Looks like I wasn't going to be avenging Axel after all. I snorted bitterly at myself. So he did die.
One of my stars was hurled at me soon after I managed to twist out of the way. I don't know for what reason, but I didn't quite see it. I more heard than actually SAW it wiz towards me. I rolled away from it just in time. My vision was clouding. What was happening? The second star was thrown towards me and I didn't have a choice but to simply fall down to my ass ungracefully with a loud thud. Heh…so I was crying. I'm not sure whether that was for my own life—or maybe for Axel—but now I could quite clearly feel the moisture in my eyes. No wonder I wasn't seeing clearly.
All that was left was the shuriken. I was tired…I didn't have enough energy. Besides that, I was sitting right at the corner of the arena with fire burning not too far off on both sides—I didn't have anywhere to dodge to. I could hear the wind as the shuriken was flying towards me as if in slow motion. It was so close; if I strained enough I could probably smell the metal and I closed my eyes. Your death coming to you in the form of your own weapon isn't exactly the most pleasant sight. So, it'll hit any second…any second now…any second…any second…why wasn't I dead already?
I chanced a look by opening one of my tightly shut eyes. And what do you think I saw? The damn asshole, in the flesh with not even as much as a scratch on his obnoxious persona, standing over me with a rather pissed expression.
"You son of a bitch." I growled at him from my sitting position. What was he thinking? What the heck happened to him after the flames went out…speaking of which, why is he alright exactly? He gave me a dumbfounded look.
"What did I do?" He asked innocently running his fingers through his hair before giving me a smirk "Besides save you, that is." I was fuming! Why that little…
"Oh, decided to come back have we?" I turned towards Hades.
"Right about now, I'd really like to know what happened." I told Axel with an irritated expression on my face. He was going to explain…now!
"Change of plans." He said simply grabbing me by the arm and starting to jump off the arena. I started protesting, but thought better of it…not exactly was I interested in staying anywhere close to Hades for even a single moment longer. I could hear shouts of 'stop!' and so forth not too far behind, but before they could get any close me and Axel somehow…faded. I don't know what happened, don't ask me. All I can remember is that I could see all black in front of my eyes (sort of like the first time I got taken away) and then white walls. We were in the castle that we originally left from. I pushed myself away from Axel and gave him an annoyed glare.
"Explain!" I said authoritatively pointing a finger at him. "NOW!" He only rolled his eyes and then gave me a contemplative look.
"Were you crying?" Talk about a one track mind…I completely forgot about my demand for information and whipped at my eyes.
"No I wasn't." I said harshly, turning away form annoying red head.
"You were crying." He stated with a note of amusement in his voice. I growled and turned on him.
"I am going to tell you once and only once…I was NOT crying!"
"You were crying." Remember what I said about him not dying because of his persistence? Well…it's the total damn truth! I sighed.
"Whatever." He smirked at me in a triumphant manner. Then gave me another curious look.
"What?" I asked him tersely. Now that I think about it…maybe it was better for him not to return and grate on my nerves.
"Because of me?" I snorted. Bravo, Sherlock. When did he get so insightful anyway?
"Obviously not you idiot!" I told him, pushing the arrogant prick out of the way and walking towards the couch.
"Aww, you don't have to cry from worry." He said sitting down next to me. I turned to him with a nastiest look before I pulled on his hair…HARD.
"I wasn't crying from worry! It was frustration."
"Oh?" He asked me, rubbing his head and smoothing down his spikes with no luck.
"Yeah, frustration that some lucky asshole would get to kill you before I got the chance to strangle your irritating persona." He put his arm around my shoulder in a friendly fashion and started messing up my hair.
"Madly in love with me then?" He asked nonchalantly. I don't know how it really sounded, but to me it was not a question. I batted his hand away with another death glare. Who does he think he is? Oh and…
"So what change of plans?" I asked again a bit more forcefully this time. He will NOT twist out of answering.
"I forgot one small detail. It won't turn blue until about another 1000 heartless later." I looked at Axel as if he was crazy. For all respects and purposes he really was.
"What won't turn blue? What are you blabbering about?" Axel looked at me puzzled for a minute before giving me a sheepish grin.
"I spoke out loud." I had to resist the sudden urge to slap my forehead. Maybe slapping his would be more beneficial, though. Maybe I can get those dead brains to spring back to life…highly unlikely, however.
"Hey Axel! Oi, brat what's up?" I wish I could say I didn't know who was talking, but unfortunately for…I knew all too well.
"Demyx, don't make me come over than and punch your lights out." I grounded out, huffing and crossing my arms over my chest. Yeah, yeah I know 'very mature'…I don't care! He was being annoying.
"The brat's in a bad mood. I have faith she'll go through at least walking over there." Axel said with amusement from his seat as I watched Zexion and Demyx enter the room.
"Zexion!" I screamed jumping up excitedly, receiving a weird look from both Demyx and Axel. "A normal person! Finally! I'm saved!"
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