A/N: Sorry you guys for not updating for a while I haven't been feeling to well.
Anyway I'd like to thank my readers and reviewers once again. Also if you have any ideas or suggestions put them up and I'll look into it, I promise.
Xejicka: Thank you so much for the review buddy! It means a lot coming from you.
Rozen-senpai: Thank you very much for taking your time to review. For now though I think it'd be better if you e-mail me her biodata since I'm going to have limited time on the computer. I will use the Compass of Chaos and Order soon. Other than that I'm glad you like the story so far, and happy readings and reviewing, until later!
From Xejicka to Amaterasu: I saw a few picture on the internet of Sora and Riku in compromising positions, how do you feel about that? I know I would freak out. (Everytime I see them I wish I was blind)
Amaterasu: Hey wait... What? I don't think it's Riku in those pictures though to be honest with you, though I know for a fact Kairi's going to be very mad, but still... I don't think anything of it though because I love him...
With that on with the story!
Chapter Four: Meus oculus volo video vidi visum a ray of lux lucis
"Amber Pacific," one figure said staring at the projection that was placed before their eyes. "This is where they're at from what we can tell then," the figure said staring at the other figures dressed in black. "Their presence is faint…" the figure said.
"It really thought that it could really hide these two from us…" another one said crossing their legs for a moment. "How cute," the figure said sarcastically.
"What about him?" someone else asked, the feeling of concern was emphasized in the speech.
"He's not there," another figure said feeling rather shy to speak out amongst the other number of peers.
"It created a fake world just for those two," a slightly tall figure said pointing to the world known as 'Amber Pacific'. Several other images were either above or below the world. "It's bordering between the world of In-between and Light."
"Wow… You figured that all on your own, Xehart?" another voice called out teasing the slightly taller figure.
"Shut up, Xiaga!" the one know as Xehart growled.
"Ya know, this doesn't feel like a very organized organization."
"Number 8, hold your tongue!"
"I'm just joking, number 5."
"…" the figures looked back at the one that seemed to be in charge, and they each gulped.
"Sorry, Superior," the four figures sad in unison.
"Now let's try and focus." Someone said near the superior.
Sora and Amaterasu
'We can't win…' the Keyblade's 'Chosen One' thought, feeling a palm connect with his chest.
"Sora!" a familiar voice called out. Sora's body connected with the white pure ground, and he skidded across the ground several feet away from the attacker. Sora turned over slowly on his stomach, and slowly picked himself up. He looked to the left and noticed an apparition of a certain female acquaintance.
"Ammi?" he blinked, still finding her transparent image near him. She had her hands on her knees and leaned forward. The girl, Amaterasu was relieved to see him stand up. She gave him a tired smile. "What are…?" he didn't have time to finish his question, as he saw her jump back to avoid a kick from the left of her own attacker.
"Sora, move!" she cried out noticing him get distracted by her presence. He looked up and noticed Dark was coming in fast. He barely had time to roll to the side, noticing that Dark wasn't going to be a pushover. The elemental figure growled for a moment and looked back at Amaterasu for a several seconds and smiled.
"They're projections, see Amaterasu can see you the way you see her. It's just to see how your partner is doing, that's all." Dark said dusting herself off, seeing as the last attack failed. "Anyway try and not get distracted, this is an important fight, and well, even though I'm fighting in your element, it doesn't always mean you'll win, understand?"
Sora ran forward and tried to punch the being known as Dark, but she seemed to move to fast for him for reasons unknown to Keyblade wielder. "Why can't we use our Keyblades?!" he boy asked lifting up his knee to block a low kick. Her attack collided with the boy's shin, and the feeling of pain registered into his mind, but he chose not to act out on it. Sora winced slightly and watched as the elemental figure pulled away and chuckling for a moment.
"We control everything that goes on in this place…" Dark said stretching out her arms to demonstrate the magnitude of what she meant by, "That goes the same for the Keyblades, they are our creations so to speak… We're what make up the heart, and the world, light and shadow…" the element said. Sora noticed that her eyes held a sort of malice within them.
'Damn… She's strong, and that means that Ammi isn't doing so well either…' he thought jumping back, avoiding a dark aura from striking him down. 'Remember the Keyblade isn't your only weapon…' it was Dark's voice. Sora's blue eyes shot up at Dark, 'why are you helping me?' he asked her running forward. 'Because, you're the Keyblade's " Chosen One" and we don't want anything to happen to you…' she replied and brought her fist forward.
Sora felt his body turn cold for a moment, as Dark's punch collided with the side of his face. 'Stupid…' he thought mentally cursing at himself for not moving fast enough. Another collision from a kick and he was lifted up into the air, staring at the white sky above him, it was the same color as the ground below him. 'I can't win, no matter how hard I try… without the Keyblade…'
Operor non credo adeo in mihi
'Who are you…?' his mind asked the voice, and the voice chuckled. 'Don't rely on me so much… Show her what you're made of…' the voice said going back to Sora's native tongue. Sora's eyes flashed from blue to yellow as he made his way down to the white pure ground. 'That voice sounds familiar…' Sora thought as he landed on the ground like a cat. Dark seemed pleased by the reflex Sora seemed to be demonstrating, and chuckled for a moment. Sora growled menacingly and stared at Dark with his own yellow eyes. The element known, as Dark, knew that she was going to have to push the boy to her limit to awaken the power locked within his heart.
Sora growled once more running on all fours as his body began to turn dark. 'All right kid; let's see what you got…' Dark thought crouching in a defensive position. Her claws were sharp and ready, and her own dark skin and eyes seemed to be on par with Sora's Anti-Form. She grinned watching Sora leap into the air, bring his clawed hand back, roaring as loud as he could to show her he wasn't going to hold back.
With Dark and Light
"Light…? Helllllooooo?" someone was trying to grab the teenager's attention, but he didn't seem to flinch or anything of the sort. The person sighed and looked back at the other people that were with them. "He's gone you guys…" the person said chuckling slightly.
"Let me try…" someone said stepping up to bat, so to speak.
Smack!
"What was that for?!" Light finally snapped out of his daze and looked up at Dark, she gave a smile and stuck out her tongue at him. Light rolled his eyes and covered the injured area of his head with his hand, having little tears form around his eyes. "That hurt…" he said whining for a moment.
"You zoned out on us pretty quick…" Aqua said.
"Sorry," Light muttered. Dark met Light's gaze, noticing that he was glaring at her for a moment. Dark gave him a small pleasant smile and her companion frowned for a couple of seconds. Aqua scratched the side of her head, and chuckled. 'What was it that we were talking about anyway?' he tried his best to remember but it seemed like it was no use. "Anyway, erm…" he scratched the side of his cheek and gave a big smile.
"Oh yeah!" Ventus sat up straight, in his chair. "We're going to the mall, remember you guys?" he looked back at Aqua, Terra, and their two new friends. Light and Dark looked back at one another and shrugged, they had completely forgotten about the plans they had made with Ven and his friends. "Don't tell me you guys forgot?" Ven's blue eyes looked back at Light and Dark.
"Sorry, Mr. Brooks has us working really hard," the female known as Dark said apologetically. She twirled her thumbs around in a circular motion and sighed heavily. The young teen crossed her legs and looked down at her white tennis shoes.
"We just… sort of lose track of time," Light said looking up at Ven. The others sympathized with them. It had been at least a week or so since Light and Dark moved from Ms. Ser's home to Mr. Brooks's vast abode. "Anyway, come on, let's go!" Light said energetically jumping up from his seat.
"All right then, let's go!" Ven said standing up from his seat. Light and Ven high-fived each other and looked back at the other three people with huge smiles plastered on their faces. Light grabbed Dark's hand and pulled her up from the seat. Ven held out his hand to Aqua and accepted the offer. Terra shook his head, laughing and stood up walking out the door with the two couples, so to speak.
All of the teens walked out of the familiar café and strolled down the sidewalk aiming for a longer path to tread on. For some reason, to Light and Dark, this world had an amber tinge to everything, every time they walked by a building or something like a fruit stand, or even a hot dog stand. The cobbled sidewalks from certain areas were grey with amber, at least it was something. Besides that the two new people within the group thought that the world seemed like something out of a fairytale, except for the Heartless attack that happened several weeks ago, it had almost been a month since the attack.
"Hey let's go to the beach later on…"
"Beach?" two voices asked.
"Yeah, there's a beach…" one hand pointed to the far west. "We've got to take a train though…"
"We don't have anything for something like that…" the two familiar voices said feeling left out.
"I can lend you something, Light."
"Thanks Ven…"
"Yeah I can lend you something, Dark."
"You don't really have to, I'll just…"
"Nonsense!" Aqua said stopping from their little adventure to the mall. Dark sighed in defeat and they all continued on their way towards the mall. Terra walked next to Dark seeing as how the two of them were quite a bit behind the others. They all continued their little adventure down the sidewalks of 'Amber Pacific' and the two newcomers hoped that the journey to the mall would end soon, due to the fact that they were still sore from helping Mr. Brooks move and carry stuff from one area to another.
The sun was still high in the sky, which was a good sign to all seeing as how they could all hang out for a couple of more hours before going home. Light and Ven were talking about something called tempura, and Aqua was telling them to pipe down, seeing as how she was hungry, the two boys continued to tease her about food more and more. Terra and Dark laughed at the actions of their friends. Dark and Terra eyed each other rather nervously. 'She seems so familiar… but from where?' he thought getting lost in his contemplation for a moment. Dark titled her head for a moment and looked at Terra, 'he got lost in thought then… now wonder he keeps looking at me, or I think it's that he's looking past me…' the girl thought placing her hands in back of her head, and continued walking down the sidewalk.
"Come on Terra…" she said looking back at the blue eyed, brown hared boy. "We're WAY behind now," Dark said stopping for a moment hoping to catch the boy's attention. Terra broke out of his daze and followed after her and the others.
Light looked back, noticing that Terra and his close companion were walking together. He smiled slightly and sighed for a moment. 'In a way Terra is like him so I wouldn't be surprised, but still,' he sighed for a moment and tried to let it go. 'She's like her too, but you don't see me flirting with her…' Light forced a mind link with his close companion.
'Very funny mister… I don't like him like that…' Dark responded, her words echoing through the halls of his mind. 'Besides from what we know he thinks we're together…' she could help but laugh softly.
'Don't remind me…' Light gave a big smile towards the people that were catching up behind them. Dark jumped on Light's back, and he stumbled forward a bit. 'Don't say I'm heavy… I know you're thinking it, mister,' Dark rushed in her sentence, feeding it through his mind.
Light grinned and carried her anyway. 'At least you're not as heavy as her …' Light said and terminated the mind link as quickly as he could before Dark could get a word in edgewise. Dark growled for a moment and tightened the grip that was around Light's neck, he made a small noise. "Okay… Sorry…" he managed to mutter softly towards his companion. Dark grinned in triumph and Light let her go.
"Hey come on you two lovebirds…" Terra said looking back at Dark and Light. The two teenagers made a face and walked forward once more.
Somewhere in the distance a figure was fidgeting with a camera phone. "I can't believe they got me stuck doing this…" the figure sighed heavily and pushed back some strands of hair. Beside the figure was a black coat that hung next to an adjacent chair. The figure was sitting down outside of the area, watching people pass by the screen through the camera phone. "Come on where are you guys…?" the person talked to themselves slightly, whispering a little chant to get the awaited figures on the screen, "…nope…" there were two teenagers walking down the street, "maybe?" the figure zoomed in, looking at a one group of five teens running down the sidewalk. "BINGO!" the figure cried out triumphantly knocking their chair back. Several people stopped what they were doing and looked at the figure waving their camera phone in the air triumphantly.
Dark and Aqua both yawned for a moment and shook their heads. The heat from the sun was getting to them, and Ven reassured Dark and his good friend Aqua that the mall wasn't that far away now. "That's what you said thirty minutes ago…" the two females responded quickly, and Ven stumbled forward for a moment. Just up ahead there was a building that seemed to be of an enormous stature, this was the mall that Ven had been talking about earlier. "Wow… it's nothing like the one back home…" Light said looking back at the others, Dark gave slightly smile and looked forward. "Hey what do you think would happen if there was an earthquake of…?"
"Don't start with that again…" Ven said pouting for a moment towards Dark. "First with the flat screen, remember?" Dark chuckled remembering that event. "We got a new flat screen and the very first thing you said, imagine what would happen it, if an earthquake struck…"
Dark rolled her eyes and sighed heavily walking forward to get a better look at the building. Ven and Aqua walked after her and Terra and Light followed behind. Terra still couldn't help but think he knew these two for some reason, and it was staring to bug him for a bit. 'I can't ask them right now… Or even at all,' the slightly older teen thought looking away to a nearby open café, someone had dropped their chair for some reason. He shook his head and noticed that Light had stopped, looking at the incident for a moment. 'Something doesn't feel right…' Light thought looking at the person for a moment, 'maybe I'm just being paranoid…' he shrugged a response to Terra and the two of them continued to walk towards the mall.
"So then, where are you guys from?" Terra asked noticing that Light flinched for a moment as the question ended. Light scratched the back of his head and looked around for, hoping to jump to another topic but he couldn't think of anything at the moment.
"Someplace far away," Light said looking up at Terra for a moment. Terra laughed and shook his head.
"I know that…" Terra said walking forward once again. "I want to know from where."
"I… don't remember," Light said. Dark was within earshot and she sighed slightly for a moment. 'That's a lie,' she thought looking back at Aqua and Ven for a moment, and walked away from the conversation.
Destiny Islands
Vieh let out a slight yawn and peered out the window, seeing as how Riku was gone for the day. 'Ugh all he does is go, and go, and go…' the little silver hound thought jumping down from the edge of the window. His claws made a slight click sound as he walked across the room. The beat looked up and noticed that the door was closed. "That jerk probably locked it…" he said to himself and scratched the door with his paw, and began to whine. 'I hate doing this…' he thought to himself hoping that soon Riku's mother would open the door for him. He stopped his action upon hearing the door creak open and he looked up, noticing a woman with a slight smile and turquoise eyes.
"You'd think he'd figure out you hate being locked up, huh Vieh?" the woman asked walking down the hallway once more.
"Thank you…" Vieh said softly. The silver hound knew that the mother of his master knew that he could speak; she just never chose to stay around and chat. Vieh walked about breathing in the different scents that the home produced and he sighed for a moment. "I miss that smell…" he said softly carefully descending the stairs of the home. "Such a sweet smell… I understand why he likes being near her, because of how she smells, or maybe…" he jumped the last step, "maybe he does love her." He said softly to himself snickering for a moment.
'I wonder what that boy and Ammi are doing…? More importantly to me, where are they?' he thought walking around the house as he always did. He let out a sigh, and his ears dropped for a moment. He would get nowhere with just thinking about it, but still it was better than sleeping for the whole day.
"He's going to be late, Vieh," Mrs. Fonovi called out. Vieh's ears perked up. The woman, who is mother to his new master, descended the stairs, finding the silver furred hound resting on the sofa. Vieh's yellow eyes wandered to the door for a moment. "I wouldn't worry too much about it though," she said softly. Vieh sighed for a moment and curled up into a ball closing his eyes for a moment. "He misses her," she said sitting near the bundle of silver fur. Vieh flinched slightly and opened one eyes, yellow meeting with turquoise.
"Did… you meet her?" the hound asked softly. Mrs. Fonovi smiled sadly and looked into the distance of her home, watching a picture of her and her son. She nodded lightly and watched as Vieh sat up. He shook his fur for a moment, stretching for a short moment in time.
"I got to know her a bit better during a festival in a world called Traverse Town," she said smiling. "Amaterasu," she chuckled, "she had a hard time telling me her real name, she was," the woman paused for a moment and looked up at the ceiling, possibly trying to remember that day, "she was very shy, that girl. You know, I think it was more because of the fact that she found out… No, rather I told her that I was, and still am, Riku's mother." She said laughing slightly for a moment. Vieh looked up at the woman slightly and looked down at the silver furred paws that were from his given anatomy.
"I met her once," Vieh recounted that day, when the mistress of all evil met her fate, that's when he met the one known as the Atrum Procer. "She seemed really nice," he said softly, breathing in for a second. "Flowers, that's how they described her, she smelled of flowers," he said now looking down at the light colored couch. "When Riku heard that I was going to see her, he was so happy," the hound said softly. "It was… it was a happiness that would make almost any living human cry, I suppose that's how one would put it as," the hound said smiling slightly, showing his fangs for a moment, his ears drooped down for a moment, "But…" Vieh ceased his speech, his ears perked up; the door from the front entrance was being unlocked.
Mrs. Fonovi looked up slightly and noticed the white collared shirt and dark navy pants. Turquoise eyes met another pair of the same color, they seemed more youthful. The boy smiled slightly and looked down for a moment at his black shoes. "Hey," he said softly closing the door in back of him. His mother stood up and greeted him sweetly.
"So, how was school?"
"Boring," Riku answered looking down at the floor for a moment. Vieh sighed slightly and he looked up, his master's eyes caught him resting on the couch. Out of instinct the silver furred beast felt his tail wag, Vieh felt uncomfortable showing that sort of happiness, and he turned his head to the side, so as not to face his master once more.
Amaterasu and Sora
"Get up." Amaterasu heard two voices telling her to rise up from the ground. 'It hurts,' she thought straining to get up for several seconds. "Ammi, get up!" Sora's voice echoed out. "Come on, Atrum Procer," the elemental sighed for a second or two. The girl finally opened her eyes watching the elemental hover about her. 'My head,' she thought sitting up slightly. The elemental known as 'Light' sighed in relief for a moment.
"I thought I killed you or something…" he said with some concern. "Get up, I know you can still fight…" Amaterasu growled for a moment watching as how the elemental stuck out like a sore thumb in the area composed of darkness. 'This is my element though, how can he…' it didn't make sense to her, but somehow she knew that the light would always be one step ahead of the darkness, no matter how stronger the darkness became. She stood up, feeling some cuts and bruises become irritated as sweat rolled down for a moment.
The elemental known as 'Light' watched as she changed her appearance, and he chuckled, dodging an attack from a series of claws that tried to swipe his eyes out. Light jumped back, and Amaterasu wasn't about to let him escape so easily, her claws tapped the ground slightly, and the elemental felt a pair of 'tentacles' so to speak, pull him back down to the ground. 'Impressive, but it's not enough…' he thought breaking free from the grip of the darkness. The Heartless looking human look back in confusion, the yellow eyes that stared back at the elemental held no malice towards him. 'She's preoccupied with something else, this won't do,' Light thought rushing forward, and quickly thrusting her into the air. "WAKE UP!"
The girl looked up at the sky, it was as black as night, the same as the ground. 'I can't…' she thought noticing that she was going to collide with the ground at a fast rate. She eyed the white figure as he jumped into the air. 'Wake up…' she thought to herself, bring her arms up. Light dug his claws into her arm, and she let out hurt roar. 'If you don't pull yourself together, you won't get to see him… Do I make myself clear?' the elemental asked her as she pushed him back. Amaterasu growled for a moment gripping tightly to his other arm, her claws seemed to break some surface of 'skin' from the elemental being known as Light.
"I'm trying…" she managed to whisper in a series of low growls. "It hurts…" Amaterasu said trying hard not to growl for a moment. Light pulled his arm away, and the two of them landed on the ground now. Amaterasu crouched on the ground for a moment, getting ready to run forward. Light beat her to it and he ran first, Amaterasu ducked a punch from him and she was able to roll to the side, giving him a flesh wound with her claw. Light winced slightly and looked back at her with his blue eyes, the yellow eyes from her Heartless form stared back with emptiness. 'Huh, she's just fighting with instinct now, but even I can't keep this up, I have my limits… she tiring me out,' the elemental thought blocking a blow to the side, she snapped her jaws at him. She brought another fist into the opening, and the elemental blocked it with his palm.
Light winced feeling the shockwave from the impact hit several parts of both arms. 'Dark ain't doing so well either…' he thought feeling his sister's energy grow slightly faint. Amaterasu pushed herself away from the elemental being and growled. Light noticed that the human was bleeding from some of the attacks from earlier. 'They've shown so much strength…' he thought feeling something hit his back. Light groaned, and fell forward, the girl had tapped the dark solid ground once more. He could see her yellow eyes moving in at an alarming rate.
In the opposite end Sora wad panting for a moment, as Dark was toe to toe with him. 'He's pretty good, for being the bearer of the light,' she thought smiling for a moment. Sora jumped forward letting an aura form around his curled fist. Dark jumped back and pushed an aura from her own hand. Sora's fist collided with the opposing aura, and a blue visible line was created from the blast. It hit both Sora and Dark in their shoulders, rendering them out of action for now. Sora's body went limp for a moment after using so much energy, his body went back to normal, there were no black spikes of hair, or yellow eyes, just a 16 year old boy with hair that defied gravity and blue eyes. Dark moved back for a moment, and clutched her shoulder with her other hand. 'Dang, he had that much energy left in him,' she thought flopping down to the ground. At that moment the two lands of light and dark broke apart, bringing back the previous world that Amaterasu and Sora had created. Several black and blue winged butterflies fluttered around the area of the two creators.
The two elemental being quickly regained their strength and moved both of the two humans to a more comfortable area. Dark snapped her fingers and a bed seemed to sprout up from underneath Sora. Light snapped his fingers together and another bed seemed to form from the ground, grass twisting into metal, and the dirt molded, twisted, and finally it became as white as some plain bed sheets.
"Man, Sora packs a punch…" Dark said looking back at her shoulder, there was no crimson stain. Her dark clawed hands ran through her dark hair. "At least they know that the Keyblade isn't the only weapon at their disposal…" she said looking back at her brother.
"Yes, but still…" Light found no stains on his white figured body. "It would've been a bit better had they woken up in the beginning." Dark rolled her eyes at the last word.
"You can't expect them too, they're young, not to mention human, it takes a while for them, remember?" Dark tried reminding her brother that those two are humans, not elementals. "It took us a long time, and Father was very patient, you know that." Light sighed, knowing his sister had a point. Dark smiled for a moment and watched as Amaterasu sat up slightly, rubbing the side of her head.
"This thing smells like dirt…" the girl muttered looking at the divan, she didn't know it was grass and dirt disguised as a bed. Sora sat up shortly afterward and rubbed his shoulder for a moment. He looked back at Amaterasu and sighed in relief.
"I guess we owe you some information then…" Light said sitting on the ground. The two humans noticed that their world had come back into view. It was dusk now, and everything had a sort of soft hue as the sun was beginning to descend, and soon night would follow. Sora and Amaterasu looked up at Light and Dark noticing that they had no scratches on their bodies.
"First of all…" Dark laughed slightly. "Congratulations to the two of you." She said softly and sat down next to her brother. "Anyway… there's something I want to talk to the two of you about, it's that form the two of you used."
"You mean, Anti-Form?" Sora asked. Dark nodded in response.
"Yes, you see this form is created, or rather one can use this form when they've been turned into a Heartless for the first time. You Sora, you became one when you turned the Keyblade on yourself, the one that was created from the hearts of the Seven Maidens." Sora nodded as Dark continued on with her explanation. "You Amaterasu, you know that day I'm sure of it. It was the first experiment done to you, the day your Nobody was created."
"Wait, you have a Nobody?" Sora asked quickly looking back at the dark skinned girl. She looked down for a moment, and sighed.
"I had one…" Amaterasu said looking up at the dusk sky. "That Nobody was destroyed a long time ago, to make room for the darkness they were going to give me, so I'd be just a body for a Heartless host, but you see I regained some of my heart back, so…"
"Yes, that's true, but that was twenty years…" Light said rubbing the back of his head. "I'm surprised you remember that."
"You're 37 years old?!" that was the first thing that escaped Sora's mouth, which surprised Amaterasu since he actually did the math in his head. Dark and Light both smacked the side of their heads. "You're a… Pedophile!"
"Shut your mouth, Sora!"
"You're an old hag!"
"Am NOT!" Sora was tackled on to the ground by Amaterasu.
"Wait, Ammi you never told them did you…?!" Dark asked trying to pull the Amaterasu off of Sora.
"I'm gonna rip your voice box!" Dark struggled to pull her off of him. "Just let it go!" Dark finally yelled getting Amaterasu away from him. "She can't age…" Dark said looking back at Sora, "it's due to being a host for the Heartless, so don't say anything. Anyway… That's the second thing we wanted to tell you, about when a Nobody dies…"
The figure in Amber Pacific
The figure sighed for a moment following the teens through the mall. So far the figure had witnessed the person by the name of 'Ven' eat about twelve hotdogs, the girl named 'Aqua' bought several things, mostly some shirts and a pair of sandals. The one referred to as 'Terra' bought a couple of journals and some pens. 'I'm still saying Terra's a girl's name…' the figure thought following the five teens from a distance.
"Dark…" Terra tried shaking the girl from her daydream. "Hey earth to Dark, hellooooooo?" he realized that she finally snapped from her daydream and she apologized feeling rather embarrassed. "Come on, let's go, we're already behind now," he said pulling her along. 'Uh…' she looked down at her hand noticing that he was pulling her along.
'Something doesn't feel right,' she thought trying to look back, something was staring to bug her. Light looked back at her and into the distance. 'You noticed it too?' he asked within her mind. Dark nodded slightly and sighed for a moment as she was forced to walk back to the others. 'At least we're done with the shopping…' she thought smiling slightly, though she smiled at the wrong time, seeing as how Terra looked back at her. 'NO!' she thought feeling her face grow hot for a moment. 'HAHA! That's what you get Dark…' she heard Light's voice teasing her. 'HEY, shut up!' she said.
The figure sighed for a moment and soon the whole gang was out of the mall. 'I'm glad that's over with…' the person thought for a moment. The figure pulled down their hood down and sighed for several seconds, not losing sight of the two individuals mentioned on their list. 'Time to cut this short…' the figure thought watching as the two figure known as Light and Dark lagged behind. "We know you're there…" the two of them said looking back at the figure that had their hood down. The figure smirked and within their grasp the figure held a pair of circular weapons called chakrams. Light and Dark looked at one another, noticing that the chakrams had somewhat familiar markings. "We've been looking for you two for a long time…" the figure mouthed out two names.
"That's not us," the other two said looking at the playing cards for a moment. "So you've wasted your time," Light said making a move for the back pocket of his jeans. He felt something razor-sharp slit his wrist for a moment, a razor sharp chakram bathed in metallic silver and red landed right next to him. "You pull out that weapon of yours, and you know…" the figure said as they chuckled for a moment.
"We can't remember…?" Dark looked back at Light as he noticed a little line of blood fall from his wrist. Light growled for a moment and looked back, time seemed to stand still. "What did you…?" the girl looked around for a moment and noticed that everything was stand still.
"For no interferences, you understand…" the figure said. Both of the teens noticed that she was about slightly shorter than the two of them, which made her roughly about 5 feet and 4 inches. The figure had black hair that seemed to reach down to the waist, with slightly hazel eyes. Dark noticed that the female figure had a strange crest on her upper right cheek.
"What's your name?" Dark asked keeping a watchful eye on the figure.
"Xejicka…" the figure said chuckling for a moment. "I know yours, dear…"
Chakram flew around the area nicking Dark and Light with no mercy. The two teens struggled for a moment trying to fend off from the attack of the razor sharp weapons. 'STOP!' Dark thought holding out her hands, closing her eyes tightly. The chakram around her paused for a couple of seconds, and Light took the chance to run forward. Out of the ground something formed from the asphalt, a hug pillar of fire. Light was thrown back by the magnitude of the heat, he landed on the ground hurting his shoulder in the process, and he groaned in pain. "I'm no pushover…" Xejicka said rushing forward, throwing one chakram in Dark's direction. The girl panicked for a moment, 'this woman knows our names… What does she…?' Dark's eyes widened for a moment, the chakram stopped right in front of her face. Light had his hand stretched out towards his partner, he placed a 'Stop' spell on the razor-sharp circular weapon. The girl jumped back and disappeared from the figure's view.
Xejicka looked up and grinned, 'so predictable…' she thought bring more and more pillars of fire into existence. They rammed into the girl and Light ran forward to try and aid his fallen friend. As he stepped forward trying to catch her as she starting to fall straight to the ground he noticed a slightly change in pressure around Dark's body. 'Sorry kid…' Xejicka thought, commanding her wayward chakram to move straight into Light's path. Dark opened her eyes slightly staring at the ground that stared to come closer and closer towards her. 'Reflect,' she thought hearing something else connect with the ground. Light bent backwards narrowly avoiding the chakram from ripping his nose off. Dark's shield broke slowly, and when she looked at her body she noticed she didn't have any burn marks. 'It must of the shockwave more than anything… Or maybe it was that form,' Dark looked back slightly noticing that Light was having some hard time.
"Heh," Xejicka chuckled for a moment watching as Dark was pulling something from the back of her pocket. "You do that now, Messenger… And they'll be all over you!" Xejicka said pulling back her wrist, and both chakrams reappeared right beside her. "You wouldn't want that would you?" she asked sneering at her. Dark growled for a moment and withdrew her hands from her back pocket. Xejicka failed to notice that her nails were growing slightly.
"What do you want?" Dark asked circling Xejicka slightly, as she mimicked her movements.
"Just the two of you," she said simply throwing a chakram in her direction. She tried to block it, but Xejicka made the chakram ignite with fire. Light outstretched his arm casting a Blizzard spell on the fiery weapon. The figure growled for a moment and looked back down at Light for a second or two. "You guys are very special I hope you know that…" the woman, by the name of Xejicka, said looking down at the card she had hidden in her sleeve in her hand. Again she took her weapons back into position with the flick of a wrist. "We'll keep looking for you, no matter where you go, we'll be able to find you because of the weapons you each hold, so it's better you end your somewhat eternal suffering while you can."
"There's no way, we're going with you!" the two of the yelled running forward. Xejicka felt one powerful blow hit her on the back, and one hit her on the chest. Dark and Light punched the young woman with enough force to knock out several men. Xejicka winced for a moment and from her grip one card fell to the floor, encasing the whole field in a pure white light. Dark and Light covered their eyes quickly and noticed that the woman and her circular weapons had disappeared once the two were distracted, things seemed to go back to normal now. Light noticed something by his foot and bent down to pick it up, it looked like a Joker card of some sort. Dark noticed that on the other side something was written on it.
I know you guys aren't the type to take hints from strangers, let alone someone you just fought with right now. Anyway let me forewarn you two, when you guys get ready to leave here, with all that precious info, you may not want to go would you? Remember it all began with birth by sleep, don't forget about the fallen ones… You may no longer be you after this.
Dark blinked a bit and looked back at Light. "How did she know?" Light asked looking back up at the sky, night had taken its position in the sky now. "I don't know…" Dark said holding the side of her head, it was still bleeding. Light sighed for a moment and placed both of his hands on the side of her head, concentrating some energy to flow from his fingertips. Within seconds a pure white light encased his hands and soon her wound was closed.
"She's different…" Light said looking back at the card. "She could've killed us right from the start, and you know that," he said looking back at Dark. "Why didn't she?"
"She doesn't want her fun to end…" Dark said taking some time to thank Light for treating her wound. "We should get going now though, old man Brooks it going to wonder where we went."
"I doubt it… I mean he knows our names so…"
"So then, you think he knows about the day to day Heartless attacks?" Dark asked, watching Light nod in response. "You'd think he'd go easier on us then…" she said stretching for a moment. "This bites… I just want… to go home…" she said softly feeling a bit more down in the dumps as Light gave her a small hug. "I want to see them again… Is that so much to ask for?"
"Right now, I think so…" Light said pulling his friend along back to the place they had to call 'home'. "You know…"
Dark sighed for a moment as the two of them walked down the street. "Don't say it, we both know this isn't the last of them…" Light grinned for a moment knowing Dark had just finished his sentence.
"I'm starting to think we're getting too good at synching together…" Light said looking back at his good friend. It was strange, given some time ago, to say about probably several months into the past these two never would've worked together like that, but now with time beginning to set something huge into motion they needed one another for survival.
Castle Oblivion
A figure dressed in black was lying on a light colored couch surrounded with several tables that were lined up with books of all sorts. The figure looked up slightly noticing one of its members returned and casually walked in as if they owned the place.
"Those two kids are pretty intriguing," a male voice said softly, catching the returning figure off guard. "But why were you treating them so courteously, Xejicka?" Xejicka noticed that the figure was reading Marquis de Sade. "I would've kicked those two around some more."
"Distasteful cruelty isn't my style, Nusvext." Xejicka answered looking at the male figure that had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Nusvext closed his book slightly and placed his whole attention on the female looking figure before him. "So then… I take it you're just interested in them. Mainly on what makes them tick right? Especially the girl?"
"You know the heart is a mysterious thing, Xejicka…" another voice came into the clearing. Nusvext and Xejicka looked back noticing a hooded figure come into view. The hooded figure took off their hood; the scent of flowers seemed to fill the room. "But unlocking its secrets was why Organization XIII was previously created. This is why we exist anyway," the figure had light blue hair down to the shoulder and matching blue eyes. "If I remember correctly so long as I'm in charge of this area, we're following through with his plan, understood?"
Nusvext sighed for a moment looking slightly in the figures direction. Their leader was Xauqa, number 11 in the organization. Xejicka, she's number 8 in the organization. Nusvext, he's number 12 in the organization. Several others were within Castle Oblivion, but they were far too busy keeping other things in order to waste time like this.
"Hey, leader, so how was it?" Nusvext asked with a slightly smile.
"No problem," Xauqa answered pushing back some strands of hair away from her face. Xejicka eyed number 11 slightly. 'I'm making sure that's all you're suppose to do,' Xejicka thought crossing her arms over her chest. "Everything is under control." She said softly looking at Xejicka with a vague smile.
"When are they going to remember? About Ames…" Nusvext asked looking at the leader.
A/N: You know what to do one review please!
Meus eyes volo video vidi visum a ray of lux lucis, this is Latin for the sentence 'my eyes want to see a ray of light'.