Well,here I am,back with chapter two, hopefully less than a week after the first. Anyway, I don´t have much to say this time...hopefully this chapter will be better than the first. It is packed with much more action, angst, and tragedy, which are all synonims of great to me. The title really bugged me, I had hard time choosing it and even so I think it isn´t good enough... too bad. Oh and by the way, this and further chapters are to include answers to reviews and previews of the next chapter...
As the first chapters, KH2 and CoM spoilers. Watch out. Demyx-Zexion, Axel-Roxas as far as the game took it. All OOC regarding Demyx is intended. You should know all that already...
Disclaimers: I don´t own Kingdom hearts, Square-enix, Disney or any of their characters.
Answers to reviews:
DemonSurfer: My first and only review as I write this. Glad to know my first chapter of my first story was a positive review. Sorta. And from an experienced author. About the Axel thing, Xenmas said: "Also, I am keeping an eye on everyone involucrated in the incident of Castle Oblivion. That means you...etc", there he was talking to Axel. And yes, Oblivion Sky is a pioneer of the Demyx-Zexion pairing.
That was it. Long answer for only 1 person! Feel special, DemonSurfer...Now the story!
"Words" is for talking, "Thoughts" is for thinking
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Rebirth Again Chapter 2: For a precious no one
By: The guy who never was.
It had started as a rather normal day in Destiny Islands; Sora hanging out wih Kairi, while Riku either accompained them, trained, or watched the horizon. This day he was doing the latter, when he saw a bottle going in and out of the Ocean surface. He went for it, and read a paper it had on the inside. After reading it, Riku dashed to find Sora.
The sunny day was replaced with a gray, cloudy sky.
Sora was watching the skies and thinking of what he had won and lost on his way. Sure, he had his old life back, but he didn't see Goofy or Donald anymore. Not even one of his friends from other worlds. On top of that, the heartless and nobodies were still out there, stealing hearts and destroying worlds while Sora was there daydreaming. The only thing the keyblade master could do was not to think about it. He sighed.
"Sora!" Riku was running his way. Sora awoke from his thougths, and immediately noticed the now cloudy sky.
"You have to see this," Riku said, between gasps, and showed him the paper. It had only one word, obviously written in a hurry or in panic by looking at it. The disturbing thing about the message was not the word "Help!" itself, but the seal it had. The king´s seal.
"It also had this," Riku said as he showed a small black orb to Sora.
"What is that?"
"I think I know," Riku violently threw the orb to the ground, breaking as crystal. A black-purple mist came out from the the pieces.
"What was that f-" Riku interrupted him.
"Observe!" Sora did, and was astonished. The mist was expanding and taking off the ground, slowly taking the form of a perfect circle. After taking a perfect form, the mist vanished in the air, to reveal a dark passage.
"Let's go," Sora was still bewildered, so he simply nodded. Riku entered without problems, but Sora instead hit an invisible barrier. He was sent flying behind, until he crashed with a rock. Riku laughed a little.
"That´s not fair! How could you pass?" Riku thougth for a few seconds...
"´cause I´m not a loser."
"Rikuuu!" Sora had a fix of feelings. He was annoyed by that commentary, he was worried about Riku, and he was dissapointed to lose a chance for real action. His normal life was no longer enough for the former adventurer.
"Don't worry. I'll be back, I promise,"Riku said, turned and left.
Minutes later, Sora was still at the beach, without anything else to do. The time passed, and a dark passage opened.
"Riku, you're ba-" The warm breeze of the beach was replaced with cold, harsh winds.
"Hey there! Long time no see!" Demyx was, or at least looked happy...
"But you're-"
"Death? Nobodies don't die, we just stop suffering," Zexion muttered uninterested.
"Axel! Why are you with them again?"
"Come with us, and no one gets harmed!" Axel ignored his question, smiled and waited for an anwser.
"Never!" You´re surely the ones behind the king´s help message!
"We may have something to do," answered Larxene, desiring a Q&A of indirect answers to drive the poor boy desperate.
"Your friend Riku is too troublesome. So we forced a card to get him out of the secene," Axel intruded. Larxene looked dissapointed. Sora held his arm in the air, and his keyblade, Sleeping Lion, apeared in his hand.
"Wait wait wait! We don't want a figth, rigth?" Demyx took a few steps back after his question.
"Demyx is rigth," Axel never thought he would say that, "give yourself a vacation from that oversized backyard key." The last thing Axel wanted, was to figth Roxas. Even if Roxas was only a small part of Sora now...
"Thanks, I already have." Sora didn't even like the idea of living a common life any longer. A few seconds after his remark, he spotted something quickly coming towards his face, but he blocked it with ease. He saw the sand under his feet, it had been a Kunai.
"Let's get this over with," Larxene already had her hands holding eigth kunais.
"We always end up figthing..." Demyx summoned his sitar
"Roxas..." Axel made his weapons come out from flames on his hands.
Larxene jumped over Sora, and threw four kunais. He blocked them, but a flaming weapon came out of nowhere and he had little time to block. His keyblade flew a few meters and dived in the shallow beach water. The water splashed, but then floated, mixed, and took a sharp form, to finally attack Sora. Sora was stomped with a huge pressure, if instead of sand there had been rock... He incorporated, but then felt something slicing through his flesh. He screamed in pain.
"What?" Then he understood it. The wounds were deep but not that much, they were meant for pain, not for a critical strike. Only one would do that; Larxene. Four wounds, four kunais sticking out of his back.
Sora was ready to unleash his strikes against Larxene, but he couldn't. His body didn't move.
"Why?" But then Sora saw him. Sora had completely fogotten about Zexion, who now held his hand with palm open at Sora. He had fell in his mind bind.
"Way to go, Zexy!" Demyx waved at him. Larxene let out giggles.
"Silence" Demyx stopped waving.
"And now, for the fun part..." Larxene smiled perturbed smile "Thundaga!"
"Aaaaahhh!" Sora would have fallen to the ground, but he was still binded. His skin felt an invisible fire, engulfing his body, after the ligthing.
"Don´t scream yet, we have only started." Larxene closed her face to his,and pulled out a kunai, which she licked. "Zexion, keep the bind!"
"Scary" Demyx thougth.
"Ungh!" Everyone stared shocked. Zexion fell and his face got planted in the sand. Behind of him, a shadowy figure was. Zexion tried to stand up, but a hooded creature with big ears appeared from nowhere, and swinged his keyblade in his face. Zexion landed on the ocean water, a few meters away.
"Sending me to the king wasn't the brigthest idea."
"Riku!" Sora could control his body again.
"Zexion!" Demyx could not control his body now, which took him to Zexion´s side. The water wasn't a problem, since Demyx could walk on it. Zexion was breathing, but barely, and his eyes (or the eye Demyx could see) were open, but looking at nothing. "Guys, I think we need to-" he was interrupted by a fireball heading towards him, followed by a thunder, a dark energy ball, and more fireballs again. He hardly dodged them, but then managed to get close enough to Larxene and Zexion.
"I think we should relocate because-" Demyx was interrupted.
"It has nothing to do with the fact your hair is burning, rigth?"
"´course not! Wait, what?" Demyx made a waterball turn his head off, before his hair was lost. "Anyway..."
"I think they're planning something...should we ambush them?" Sora told Riku and Mickey.
"You should rest, Sora, we'll handle them!" Mickey seemed worried.
"Don't worry, I am fine already," talking made his pain increase, so he didn't say anything else.
"..." The king didn't seem to convinced "In that case, you should use a drive to figth."
"But, your majesty, there is nobody here to fuse with!"
"That's rigth! I forgot to tell ya! When two keyblades are on the same world, one may borrow power from the other, to do things such as drives!" Sora was confused "I will explain more-"
"Explanation time is over. I hope you got it memorized." Axel, Demyx, and Larxene had agreed to separate.
"That habit of interrupting people is getting old, you know?" Sora said, "And that catch phrase is getting old."
"Oh really? I personally think its famous."
Axel dashed to attack Riku, King Mickey tried to help him, but was blocked by Larxene, then they were driven to other parts of the island.
"How lucky! I got the wounded one!" He shouted "...And can keep an eye on Zexion..." he murmured.
"Okay, here goes nothing..." Sora concentrated on Mickey´s keyblade, then slowly felt energy coming "Final form!" Sora´s clothes´s color became silver and black. Then a second keyblade, Oblivion, appeared by Sora´s side, his two keyblades floating, and moving on their own.
"...Maybe i'm not so lucky ater all..." Demyx smile was reduced to a nervous expression. "Dance, water, dance!" Demyx started to play his sitar, and a hundred water formed.
Sora jumped, and landed just at the center of the forms, water was not a problem since he could float a few centimeters. He closed his eyes, crossed his arms, and smiled. The forms began to attack relenlessly, but they couldn't touch him. The keyblades flew around, destroying the forms.
"Take this!" Demyx´s song changed, and the water below Sora became spikes. Sora jumped to avoid it. "You'll fall and die!" but he was wrong, as Sora glided up to him. Then he stroke Demyx with an avalanche of swings, finished with an explosion.
"That's just not fair! What good is water-walking against floating and gliding?" Demyx managed to say after a little self-complaining.
"You really are a weirdo..." Once again, Demyx changed his tune, this time for a faster paced one. 3 dragon heads spawned behind him.
Sora glided skillfully dodging them and then brougth them down one by one.
"Thundaga!"
Demyx was in real trouble now. Lighting maximized, conducted by water could, would be fatal. Demyx had to manipulate the water, he had a few seconds...
"I did it!" Exclaimed Demyx, as, as the ligthing conducted by water burnt him.
"I...I can't understand. He could have saved himself, but he saved Zexion instead..." Sora returned to his normal form, when he spotted something. It was Demyx.
"How are you still here?" Demyx tried to stand up, but all he managed was to fall on his knees. He was still smiling.
"I don't know...maybe because I have something to protect." Demyx wanted to speak louder but he couldn't.
"You mean him? You don't have a heart! Then why?"
"Because" Demyx looked at Zexion, who was now watching--and probably hearing-- him."He cared"
The storm started, but the rain was ligth.
"When I was a child,my world was at war. People hid themselves and didn't care for others. My parents eared for their lives, so they sent me for food and water, and all the chores that involved being outside the safety of our home. People I lived and knew would always either ignore me, thinking of me as nuisance and labeling me as a guinea pig, or harm me, for being the only one with my hair color or for no reason at all."
Sora didn't know who he was talking to anymore. The only thing this Demyx and the other one shared was their smile.
"I remember one day in particular, I went to a river known for floods in a stormy nigth. It was dangerous, but I didn't care. That's when I fell in the river, but as soon as I did I got out. Then I saw someone. This man was badly beaten-even worse than me-but he shined in the darkness or one reason. His smile. A carefree smile, and a musical instrument. I thank him, but he said he didn't care. He said he hated me, for showing my suffering. He left, but he forgot his sitar. I froze. A smile could cover anything, so from that day onwards, I will smile, I will act carefree, to supress any pain."
He took a small pause.
"I noticed if I smiled, no matter what, people would get tired of hitting me. People would not ignore me, they would think of me as bothersome, but they would think of me. All the nigths, I used the sitar to play music under the moonligth, in a potential battlefield. But I didn't mind; I'd rather die happy. One nigth, the heartless reached our world. I saw them take the hearts of my parents. That actually meant something good for me, the main souurce of my pain was gone. Anyhow, I went to play under the moonligth, and the heartless came. I didn't run--they would get me anyway." Demyx could not remember ever saying anything like that before, and he had just thougth about it once.
"..." Sora did not understand. How could he have feelings? Why did he sacrifice himself? Of all his doubts, the one that impacted him the most, is that he had been killing things with feelings. With his own hands.
"The organization was the same. Everyone was too selfsih to care. They'd give me away in danger. Except or him. He protected me, and it is the only thing someone has ever done for me. A gift I value more than some lame non-existent life."
Another tear. But what did tears mean for a nobody? What did they mean for Demyx? Did they mean sadness or happiness? Or did they mean nothing? No, they meant something, Demyx knew it. They meant love.
"I will die one day anyway, so i like, you know, think I´d rather die for someone. To be exact, for a nobody. For a precious no one."
Zexion had watched, and heard everything.For a second, he could hear the thougths of Demyx. He could feel him. And a certain word echoed in his mind. Love.
But they both knew it wasn't. Not without a heart. It was but an artificial love. A hollow feeling. A fake.
"He is not too different fron me or Riku..." Sora thougth
"Hey, what's with the long face? You have to smiiile!" Demyx sounded as cheerful as he could.
Sora prepared his keyblade. Demyx knew he could not dodge it. He closed his eyes.
He opened them. The keyblade was there, a few centimeters, but it wasn't moving. Sora was carrying Zexion, which looked pretty annoyed to be carried around. He gave Zexion to Demyx.
"Go," Sora was unable to give the critical blow.
"Well,there goes my chance of an angsty dead," Demyx joked "yet... thanks" He threw one of the small black orbs, and carrying Zexion he entered the new dark passage. He could barely walk, specially while carrying Zexion, but the passage was short enough.
"Here we are Zexy, Hollow Bast- Wait! Radiant Garden? Are we lost?
"Idiot..."
"You talked! Good sign! Although I wonder how Axel and Larxene are doing...what do you think?"
"..."
"They really picked the wrong guys this time..."
End of chapter 2
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Tell me by reviewing if it was too crappy and I will rewrite it. Specially spelling mistakes, the first chapter was made about 60 percent in word and the rest in wordpad. But this time it´s all written in wordpad. As always, Reviews and criticism is gladly welcomed, and answers will be published unless there are too many reviews(I don´t think that will happen but...) in which case I will answer personally to you...for a precious reviewer! With that said, onto the preview.
Preview of next chapter:
Zexion and Demyx try to decide wether to flee from the Organization and become traitors or face the unknown punishment for abandoning the mission, when they run into a girl with a giant shuriken. . Meanwhile, Axel and Larxene try to stand against the keyblade wielders, when an unexpected, chilly guest arrives to wreak havoc upon Destiny Islands--Better than how it sounds, of course.