How She Feels (Marluxia Version)
A Kingdom Hearts Story
Chapter 2:
A Terrifying Dream
AN: Okay I'm back with Chappie 2 of the series for Marluxia. And seeing as Marluxia is the most "sensual" of the Organization four that I am using this will be a little more intimate. Nothing M rated will happen, it will just be a little more "steamy" so to speak. So why don't we get this started.
Previously:
Marluxia smiled a soft smile.
"Of course, I told you you this could be your room if you wanted it to be." he replied as he pulled more pillows down for them to lay on.
Spreading the pillows out more around the two of them, Marluxia also pulled the flat sheet up and around the two of them. Amaterasu scooted herself up against Marluxia and laid herself against him as Marluxia made himself comfortable against the pillows.
"Marluxia..." Amaterasu whispered softly.
"Hm?" he replied.
"Thank you...for everything..."
Chapter 2
Heartless...there were so many Heartless, as far as the eye could see swarming the area that the Organization had been working in that evening to collect hearts. Already most of the Organization's members had been quickly decimated by the Heartless and had to pull back. Both Marluxia and Amaterasu were trying their best to defend the Organization but as time passed, it was apparent to both Marluxia and Amaterasu that this was a battle they were quickly losing. Amaterasu grunted loudly as she had a Heartless claw at her side, pieces of her clothing and flesh being torn off. The gruesome sound of flesh being ripped echoed loudly in her ears.
Amaterasu let out a cry as she brought down her sword Cosmos hard on the offending Heartless, killing that one and three others. She cursed as she fell to her knees. Her breathing was shallow yet rapid and her head began to spin. She realized she had lost too much blood. Looking up too quickly reminded her how dizzy she was.
Even so, she was barely able to see. The blood from a blow to the head was leaking over her eyes and blinding her vision. From within a crowd of Heartless, she was able to make out her Rozu fighting vigorously. Her Rozu was struggling, fighting desperately.
"Damn it..."
Amaterasu was tired; she was frustrated; she was angry. But she had to continue fighting. She had to continue fighting for her Rozu.
"Get outta my way!" she shouted as she shot to her feet out of sheer will and swung Cosmos once more.
HSF
Amaterasu's eyes flew open and she pulled away from Marluxia's grasp, scooting her way off the bed she had been laying on and across the room. Her back hit the wall and her eyes looked around wildly. The vines on the wall slowly came to life around her and snaked around her body holding her in place as Marluxia raised his head off the pillow it had been laying on. Confusion was strewn across his face as he looked over at her with sleepy eyes. Amaterasu, still stuck in the lingering remnants of her nightmare, began to thrash and pull against the vines trying to get away from them.
Marluxia swung his hand at the vines holding her, silently telling them to loosen their grip on her so that she wouldn't continue to freak. Slowly the vines under Marluxia's command loosened and Amaterasu was able to pull away from them and she practically threw herself away from the wall. Her eyes wide and frightened, she trembled as she stared at the vines. Still it didn't seem like she was actually seeing the vines themselves. It was like she was seeing something entirely different.
Marluxia slowly slid off the bed and stood, walking over to Amaterasu, kneeling down behind her and sliding his arms around her. Amaterasu jumped in his arms and turned, shoving him away with a loud cry making Marluxia fall back. She scooted away from him and almost hit the wall again, but stopped before she did. Looking back and forth between Marluxia and the wall, she wrapped her arms around her knees and began rocking back and forth muttering to herself. Marluxia tilted his head and moved close to her again.
He reached his hand out and placed it on her shoulder. Amaterasu jumped again and her eyes fixed themselves on his. This time she actually seemed to see him and she flew into his arms and started to sob uncontrollably. Not understanding what happened, but understanding that she needed to be comforted, Marluxia wrapped his arms around her and let her cry against him, making soft soothing sounds to help calm her. After a few minutes, he figure he would ask her what had happened to make her so afraid that she would actually run from him.
"Amaterasu..." he said softly.
At the sound of his voice, Amaterasu shivered violently in his arms.
"Please...please don't die Marluxia..." he heard her whisper.
'Don't die? Where did she get that idea from?' he thought to himself.
"Why would I die?" he asked her gently.
"There was a huge bloody battle field here in The World That Never Was. All of the Organization was there. But everyone was either dead or was in the process of dieing. You and I were the only ones left. But...even we were starting to lose.
I was almost at my breaking point, almost at my limit. When I looked up, I saw you among a mass of Heartless. You were so injured, so hurt, and they were still attacking you. I couldn't do anything about it. I was too far away to even think about helping you.
Then another Heartless blocked my view of you...and then...and then I heard you yell. Then I saw your weapon impaled in the ground and you not with it. I thought that you...that you had...been..."her voice trailed off as she looked up at him.
Her face was streaked with tears and her eyes were no longer a light ocean blue like Atlantica's waters, but a watery greyish blue that didn't suit her at all. Marluxia smiled down at her as she sat in his arms.
"You don't have to worry about that. I will never leave your side and I will never die. No Heartless is strong enough to defeat me. You should understand that now. I have complete control over every plant that has ever been created and they all bend to my will.
Any Heartless that comes near me will be swallowed up within them. There is no need to worry about me. And my plants will also protect you from any Heartless that comes near you. Any thing that comes near you as well, will be wrapped in my vines and pulled into shreds. Have no worries my love." he whispered to her, gently pulling her against him again.
A muffled sound came from the confines of his chest and Marluxia pulled Amaterasu away from him.
"What was that?" he asked her.
"Are you sure?" she repeated her question.
He nodded with a smile on his face.
"Positive." he replied.
Reaching up he delved his hand deep into her midnight hair and gently fisted his hand into it. He was going to prove to her that she didn't need to worry about him. He gently pulled back on her hair, exposing her throat to him and leaned down pressing his lips to it. Amaterasu's eyes went wide as she felt the gentle kiss Marluxia had pressed to her throat. A small gasp escaped her throat as he gently nipped the skin there.
Eyes slipping shut she surrendered to him and put her arms around his neck, pulling him close. A smile grew onto Marluxia's lips as Amaterasu pressed against him. He tightened his grip on her hair and her eyes flew open as a spike of pain flew through her and a short gasp escaped her lips along with his name. Her hands made their way to his hair as well and slipped into it giving a small tug telling him she was loving what he was doing to her. Nipping at her throat again, Marluxia moved down and nuzzled away the curve of her shirt exposing her collar bone.
Kissing the dip in it then working his way along it back up to her her neck again, he moved his way up her jaw and then kissed behind her ear and whispered gently into it.
"You'll always be with me, and you'll always be mine, my sweet flower. I will never let you go. No one will take you from me, and if they try, they will face my wrath. No one will touch you. You are a rare flower that is only seen once in a lifetime that everyone will covet, but no one will ever have because you belong to me."
"I am yours..." Amaterasu breathed in response, agreeing with him.
Marluxia pulled back then pulled Amaterasu into a soft kiss, telling her that though his words were possessive, he still would be gentle with her. Quite suddenly, an annoying buzzing filled the room. Marluxia pulled away from Amaterasu to glare over his shoulder at something near his bed. Releasing Amaterasu, he waved a hand at his bed and a vine rose from the floor and hit a box that was next to his bed and the annoying buzzing stopped abruptly.
"Damn it..." he muttered to himself.
"What is it?" Amterasu asked softly.
"Xemnas had something planned yesterday. An outing of some kind. But something came up and he reescheduled it for today. I forgot all about it. That was the alarm for me to get up so that I could get ready to go down there and go with him wherever it was he wanted to go." he replied.
"Where did he want to go?" Amaterasu asked.
"I don't know. He didn't tell us. All I got out of the meeting that he held about it, was that it was an outing made especially for you. So, I don't think that he'll let us get out of it. So we might as well get ready to go and get down to the Gray Room.
Damn though, really didn't want to go anywhere today though...I'll need to get something warm on, then I'll take you back to your room so that you can get something warm on too. Then we'll head to the Gray Room and go from there." he replied.
Amaterasu looked at him, her head tilted to the side. She was quite confused. Xemnas hated her. Why would he plan an outing just for her. Unless someone had begged him for it.
Amaterasu looked over her shoulder at Marluxia, who was currently collecting clothes from a closet across the room. He then turned and walked to the other side of the room and through a door. She then tried to think of anyone else. It could have been Zexion. Or maybe it was Saix.
There were a few others in the Organization that she got along with well enough. Maybe a number of them had gotten together and pestered Xemnas enough that he finally caved and told them he would take her for an outing if they would leave him alone. She tilted her head to the other side. She really needed to figure out who did this for her and thank them. It was rare that she got out of the castle, seeing that Xemnas wanted to keep her on a short leash.
She was aloud to go out missions, but she always had to be supervised when she did such. That was always a pain for her, cause she could never do what she wanted, and she could never use her full powers. There were some powers that she was holding back on using because she didn't want Xemnas finding out about them. It was bad enough that he knew about Cosmos, her sword that she got from her brother, though her brother was dead now. She hadn't wanted him to find out about that, but she really hadn't had a choice about that one.
She had been cornered by that Heartless, and her partner on that particular mission was no where near enough to help her. So it was either lose her heart to that Heartless or use the next best thing other than her normal elemental powers. Her normal elemental powers wouldn't have hurt the Heartless, so Cosmos it was. It just so happened that Saix was the first to see her use Cosmos and she had made him promise not to tell Xemnas. She had had to beg him not to tell.
She had given him a small back story as to where Cosmos had come from. Though the truth she had told him hadn't been the real truth as to where it had come from, the story she had told had a little bit of truth to it. She had told him she had found it on another world and it had just felt like it had belonged to her so she took it. She had hated lying to him. But she just couldn't tell him the real truth.
He would have went straight to Xemnas and then shit would have really hit the fan then and there. Zexion was the second one to see Cosmos. At first he had thought it was an illusion, and she had been tempted to let him keep thinking that. But when Zexion had reached out and touched Cosmos, that had cinched it as being a illusion. He had demanded an explanation as to what Cosmos was, and she had given him the same explanation that she had given Saix.
But he wasn't fooled by that. He had asked her for a better explanation for the sword. She had tried to give something more along the lines of the actual truth, telling him that she had in fact gotten it from another world. But that someone had given it to her so that she was able to defend herself. Though it was only as a last resort.
That had seemed to satisfy him, and once again she had begged him as well not to tell Xemnas. Knowing that if Xemnas found out about Cosmos, she would be used as more than the tool than she already was and she would never be allowed out of the Castle ever again. She would be locked up, and Xemnas would try and use Cosmos's power for that of Darkness. Marluxia was the third one to see it, and Amaterasu knew that she would be playing with fire if she had tried to hide how she got Cosmos from Marluxia. When he had looked at her expectantly for an explanation, she knew she couldn't lie to him.
Sighing, she had sat down on a coffin in Halloween town and looked around herself making sure that they would not be ambushed in the graveyard that they were in, before sighing again and patting the top of the coffin next to her. Marluxia had walked over and sat down next to her. Amaterasu had called Cosmos to her hand and it appeared in a flash of sea foam green light. She offered it to Marluxia, allowing him to hold it and look over the dark emerald and black blade. He had done so with a great amount of reverence on his face, seeing as this was obviously something very important to her.
He had looked back to Amaterasu and saw a small smile on her face. She told him that she had come from another world, which he had already known. It was common knowledge between all of the Organization that Amaterasu had come from another world, however no one knew which one. She had never told anyone which one. She had always been very secretive about it.
However, now it seemed like she felt it was time to open up about it. She had told him what the name of the world was that she came from. That it had been taken by the Darkness. And that just before the Darkness had taken over the world, her brother, who the whole Organization had assumed she was lying about having when she told them she had one, had given her this blade. He had told her to keep it close and that it would protect her and keep her safe, no matter what happened to her.
At first, Amaterasu had told Marluxia, she had no idea what that meant, seeing that as soon as she took hold of the blade, it had disappeared from her hand, then the Darkness had taken over the world. She then had woken up in Port Royal and had been immediately attacked by Heartless. She had been at a loss for what to do, and when the Heartless had jumped at her to take her heart, she had raised her hand to shield herself, and Cosmos had appeared and simply repelled the Heartless. Then suddenly, out of the blue, she had known exactly how to use the sword to defend herself, even though she had never learned to use a sword, nor had she ever wielded one before that. But one by one as she had moved through the throng of Heartless they fell to Cosmos.
Then as swiftly as the group of Heartless had come, they were gone, defeated by the blade that Amaterasu's brother had given her. She had stared down at the blade in her hands, wondering how she had done what she had, until a shadow had loomed over her shoulder. Amaterasu had turned and gazed at what had been behind her, finding a Heartless that was much bigger than the others had been. She had known there would be no possible way that she would be able to take it down with Cosmos the way it had been. But then suddenly Cosmos had begun to glow with a sea foam light, and an intricate script had begun to write itself down the blade in beautiful, unknown letters.
She had had no idea what they had meant, but took it as a sign that the blade had become stronger and slashed it at the Heartless and the blade had cleaved it in two. The Heartless had fizzled away in little wisps of black. Amaterasu had taken the blade back from Marluxia and showed him the very same intricate letters that had lit up the blade when she had killed that particular Heartless. As Marluxia studied Cosmos as it had sat in Amaterasu's hands, he had wondered if her brother was where she had truly acquired this power of hers, or if it had been inside her the whole time, and her brother had just given her the blade as a medium to draw the power out. But once again, Amaterasu begged Marluxia not to tell Xemnas.
And Marluxia had understood why. There was a possibility that the power could be mistaken for something that would enhance the Darkness and Xemnas would take hold of it and use it to what he thought would be part of his plans. Amaterasu would be locked safely away, and she would never be free to see the light of day again. Once she had sent Cosmos away, Amaterasu had looked at Marluxia, her eyes pleading with him to help keep her secret, and had he agreed. Finally, Xemnas was the last to see Cosmos.
Amaterasu was horrified that he did. She had thought that her time of freedom in the Organization was over. However all Xemnas had done was watch how she had used Cosmos, and once she had gotten rid of the Heartless, he had nodded at her and then had opened a Dark Corridor so that they could go back to the Castle. He had never asked her where she had gotten Cosmos or what it could do. Amaterasu had been relieved beyond anything, and she had been almost sick because she had been so worried, but Marluxia had noticed her plight and made a concoction to calm her system.
That was actually where they had started to become closer to one another and where they had started to talk about his plants and abilities.
"Hey, are you still there?" Marluxia's voice cut into her thoughts causing her to jump nearly a foot into the air.
She turned around nearly glaring at him.
"Give a girl a warning next time. Damn, I nearly jumped out my skin.' she hissed at him.
"But if I warn you, then it isn't fun to see you jump. Now are you ready to go?" he smiled at her, just like the cat who got its canary.
"I swear sometimes..." she muttered, before speaking back up, "Yes, lets go."
Marluxia swung his hand out beside him and a Dark Corridor appeared next to him and he offered to let Amaterasu to before him. She looked at the Corridor apprehensively, then looked back at Marluxia. He walked to her and slid an arm around her.
"I promise, you're safe." he whispered, "I'm right here."
She nodded and walked into the Corridor, Marluxia right behind her, making sure she didn't feel that she was exposed to the Darkness in the Corridor. In a few quick moments they were through the Corridor and in Amaterasu's room. Marluxia released her and walked to her door.
"I'll give to the privacy to change then we'll go down to the Gray Room. I'll be right outside your door. Come get me when you're done." he told her and walked out into the hallway,c losing her door behind him.
She walked over to the dresser that held her clothes and started pulling clothes out. She didn't have very many warm things because she didn't leave the Castle very often and she didn't have much of a chance to bring things along with her when she left her original home.
Pulling out a couple shirts and pulled off the shirt she had worn yesterday and then pulled on the two shirts she had pulled out. They were long sleeved and heavy. They had been standard issue for the people that had worked for the military faction she had worked for. They weren't the most comfortable things in the world, but they did keep you warm. She then pulled out a set of warm pants that were also standard issue for the cold from the military faction.
She hated the memories that they brought back, but she wasn't going to get rid of them. They were too useful. Bad memories were easily forgotten, good clothes lasted forever. Well until they wore out at least. She pulled them on then walked over to the bed that she usually slept in.
Reaching under it, she pulled out a pair of military grade boots. They were warm and durable. However, though they were military grade and durable, they were also fashionable. They weren't big and bulky, they were slim and refined. More along the lines of what a woman would wear if she was going out on a date.
There was a low heel to them and they were slightly pointed at the toe. Pulling them on, she secured the buckles that held them together, making sure her pants were neatly tucked into them. Dubbing herself ready, she walked to her door and opened it. Marluxia was standing outside her door, a rose vine around his fingers playing with it, then quite suddenly a beautiful rose burst forth from the vine. Amaterasu smiled at the display from him. He was amazing when he used his powers.
"Hey..." she said softly.
His head snapped over to look at her and the rose immediately disappeared from his hand.
"You're ready?" he asked.
She nodded his head and Marluxia nodded in return. Waving his hand, another Corridor appeared and they both walked through it. After a few seconds of darkness they appeared on the other side and found themselves in the Gray Room. Amaterasu looked around seeing all the other Organization members in the room. Surprisingly, even Xemnas was there.
Marluxia walked her over to Xemnas and left her there taking a few steps back. Amaterasu looked back at him wondering what he was doing. Xemnas hated her and he was leaving her with him. What was he thinking?
"Amaterasu..." Xemnas said silkily.
Amaterasu's head snapped around immediately to look at him, not wanting to make him mad and somehow incur his wrath.
"Some of the other members have been pestering me to do this, not to mention to take you on this outing. I can no longer stand their constant pestering so I will relent to what they wish." he sighed as he pulled out a black bundle from under his arm and thrust it at her as if he didn't want to give it to her but had to.
Amaterasu reached out and took the black bundle in her hands and unfurled it, trying to figure out what it was, but was having a hard time. Finally Marluxia had enough of waiting and took the object from her hands and finished unfurling and shook it out before walking behind Amaterasu and slipping the object up her arms. He then walked around in front of her and zipped the front of whatever it was closed. He then stood back and let her take a look at whatever it was he had just put on her. Amaterasu took a look at what she was now wearing and once she realized what it was a loud gasp escaped her lips.
She was now wearing one of the Organization's leather coats.
"Why...why are you giving me one of these? I'm not part of the Organization." she asked softly.
Marluxia smiled at her.
"We all think you deserve one, even if Xemnas doesn't, and now you will be able to walk through the Dark Corridors without having to worry about the Darkness trying to hurt you. That coat wards off the Darkness. I personally thought it would be worth pestering Xemnas about, and so did a few of the others. So now you have one." he told her.
Past elated, Amaterasu lept at Marluxia and hugged him tightly.
"Thank you." she whispered to him.
"Hey are we going to sit here and play kissie huggy time or are we going to go on that outing that we had to pester the shit out of Xemnas for?" Axel asked, Xigbar adding his two cents from across the room as well.
Amaterasu pulled out of Marluxia's embrace and looked back at Xemnas, a question in her eyes. Rolling his own eyes, Xemnas waved his hand next to him and a Dark Corridor appeared.
"Few rules before we go." he groaned, clearly not happy to be going on the outing, "The location of this world will be unknown as well as the name of it, and anything else about it. If I find out any of you trying to find out anything about it, you will be severely disciplined."
"Got it!" everyone chorused.
Xemnas then walked through the Corridor with everyone quickly following him.
Quite quickly, the Darkness of the Corridor faded to bright white of snow falling all around them. Amaterasu raced out in front of everyone, eyes darting everywhere around her. To the right, a stand of trees. To the left, and open field. Up ahead, a frozen lake.
Too many options to choose from so she made due with one she thought everyone might enjoy right off the bat. Leaning down, Amaterasu scooped up some snow and made two snowballs and aimed one at someone she really shouldn't have. But she wanted him to get out of his bad mood, so she was going to take a chance. Launching her first snowball, it hit the back of a silver head and said head jerked forward from the impact. The world around them went dead silent as everyone realized what had just happened.
All eyes were on Xemnas as he turned to face Amaterasu, expression unreadable. Amaterasu smiled innocently, then brought out the hidden snowball from behind her back and launched that one too. This one hit its mark too, right in the middle of Xemnas's face. Still, silence reigned supreme. No one moved, no one even breathed.
Well except for Amaterasu as she gave a loud giggle and took off into the stand of trees and darted behind a tree. Xemnas reached up and wiped the snow from his face and looked down at the wet snow on his hand. Looking back up, his sun-set orange eyes focused on the tree Amaterasu had darted behind. A cruel smile spread across his face. Axel walked up behind Xemnas and gently placed his hand on Xemnas's shoulder.
"You know Superior, she doesn't know any better. You really shouldn't kil-" he began.
"Silence VIII." he hissed, leaning down and gathering some snow, "Whoever said I was going to kill her. She has asked for a fight. Who am I to deny her one. I only hope she is ready to deal with me. I will not make it easy for her to win."
A loud "meep" was heard from across the area that Amaterasu had covered in her run. She had most likely realized what she had gotten herself into...
AN: So here's Chapter 2 of HSF for Marluxia. I had a little fun with this one. I gave a little part of where Amaterasu got her weapon from. It really won't be explained much more than it has in this chappie. It might come up again.
Well actually it will, but just not in as much detail as it has in here. It will be seen in the second to last chappie when the REAL shit goes down for this story. I'm not giving much more than that as a give away for what happens. But yeah, Amaterasu's weapon Cosmos will be seen later on in the story in all four stories. But this is the one that explains where everything came from.
I know I should have done this in all of them. But this was just such a pain in the ass to explain and everything I just limited it to this one. So look forward to the next ones coming out. Just a little tidbit of info if you haven't already gathered from the way I have ended all of them already, there will be a huge snowball fight ensuing in each of them. So since I have all that down...that's kinda all I really have to say.
Other than reviews would be really nice. Keeps me happy and it lets me know that you like what I'm writing. C ya
