A/N: Thank you once again readers and reviewers!
Xejicka: I'm glad you liked the chapter, and it's all right about the late review.
Sonic13: You hit all of those ideas right on the money! I'm pretty glad you know who they are now, and well just don't tell anyone! But about your idea of the new beings, you'll just have to read this chapter to find out, won't that be fun?
Now with that, on with the story!
Chapter Five: The poena inside adveho incedo vos
"Damn it!" Light was thrown into the air by an unseen force. The pressure around him was beginning to change as the force took hold of its physical appearance. The shockwave of the approaching figure caused the sides of buildings to cave in slightly. As the figure walked forward footprints came into view. "Show yourself!" Light cried out catching himself in midair for several seconds. He landed on the ground and ran forward to the presence that seemed to be approaching in the northern direction. He had nothing to fight with except his bare hands.
Dark watched from the rooftop of a nearby building, scanning the area for anymore signs of people in black hooded coats, but she found nothing of the sort. She peered down and noticed that Light was on the ground yelling at something unseen so far. Dark's eyes looked forward and noticed a strange thing, a veil was slightly transparent, but soon a silver figure appeared quickly, swiping its clawed hand at Light. 'It's silver!' Dark thought quickly jumping down from the building. 'So then, this is what that guy was talking about,' Light thought jumping back from time to time to avoid the crushing feet of the enemy called 'Twilight Thorn'.
Reperio the infirmitas illae vulgus hostilis
"But where is the weakness?!" Light asked shouting at the sky overhead. "That's not helping!" he said failing to notice the giant clawed hand coming down. Dark flinched slightly and made a mad dash forward to try and save him from being crushed like a pancake.
"Move!" she cried out knowing she wouldn't be able to reach him in time. Light looked up quickly noticing the shadow that engulfed him. He started to move, but soon he noticed something came crashing down on him with almost bone-crushing force.
"Aaarrrrggghhh!" he cried out trying to get away from the powerful grip the giant Nobody had on his body. It was no use for right now, each time he moved more weight was added to the attack. 'I can't hold on…' he thought noticing his vision was starting to fade in and out now. Dark panicked, 'no, he can't die! We made a promise…' she thought growling in as she watched the Nobody hold her friend down like that. Something in the back of her mind told her to look for a weakness as well. 'But where?' she thought feeling her legs move her body forward. She started in a slow sprint, and upon hearing Light cry out in pain once more she moved as fast as she could. 'Hold on,' she thought noticing the pained look on her good friend's face.
A burst of wind pushed her backwards as the fist from the giant Nobody caught her off guard. "Ugh…" she brought hers arms up to cover her head slightly and looked up at the Nobody of giant proportions. "Let him go!" she shouted at Twilight Thorn, and the Nobody seemed to take in some pleasure knowing that the person in its grasp meant something to the young female teen. It tried to swat the girl away, but she evaded the attack to a certain degree, with almost fast reflexes, but still the force of the attack hit her, sending her several feet away from her friend.
In all the commotion Light was able to free himself, noticing that the Nobody had let its grip decrease in a certain amount of time. He picked himself up hastily, before getting knocked into the air by another devastating attack, it missed him by several centimeters. The Nobody brought down both of its fist, creating a shockwave on the ground, and in the wake of the attack several Dusks came out, moving towards the two figures quickly, trying to be swift as possible. 'Regular attacks won't work with them…' the two figures thought moving back slightly.
"We have to…" Dark said softly moving for the back pocket of her green cargo pants. Light placed his hand on her arm, quickly restraining her from moving her hand any further. "But, we're going to be out numbered…" she said with some concern, looking at the Dusks as they formed a circle around them. Light shook his head and looked around for a moment trying to think of a plan.
"We have to go for the main source," he said pointing to Twilight Thorn. "These guys will just slow us down, you know that." Light said, his companion noticed that he eyes were starting to change color slightly, and his body was turning as black as night. He jumped into the area, avoiding the jagged beams of darkness and light the higher ranking Nobody produced. Dark looked around and prayed for a moment to herself, quietly. 'I'll find a way to go home with him…' she thought once her prayer had been said, 'just wait for us…' she thought running forward following Light in suite.
Twilight Thorn made a strange noise, as if it was going to roar. The two adolescent Heartless like figures hovered in the air for a moment, and Light took the led attacking the Nobody head on. Dark went back to the ground, circling the Nobody for any signs of weakness. 'Think, think…' she looked around noticing the silver flesh of the Nobody, it seemed to have no weakness at all, even with her careful examination. 'No wounds, right?' she thought moving back in a hastily fashion as the smaller Nobodies attacked with their strange movements. Something in her mind said that she was dead wrong, and so she attacked several of the silver creatures that held strange markings, and watched as they fell to ground and started falling apart, back into nothingness.
Light ran up the arm of Twilight Thorn, trying very hard not to get swept back by the brute force of the attacks, even if they didn't hit the wind from the force of the brutal assault would come back and get him with just enough force. Twilight Thorn tried desperately to get the little black coated Heartless off of its being, knowing that it did pose a threat. Dark was to preoccupied with finding the weak point of the Nobody, seeing as how she now felt that there was some sort of weak spot on Twilight Thorn. She noticed that there were more Dusks gathered to one side, and from logic she assumed that the source was around that area somewhere.
Silver zipper mouthed bodies jumped into the air trying to protect the larger body of the one in charge, but her determination would not falter, and neither would her companion's. 'Don't waste time with the smaller Nobodies, I've told you before, just concentrate on finding the vital area!' Light voice echoed loudly in her mind, scolding her slightly.
'That's what I'm trying to do, but it makes it a bit harder!' she answered back angrily stabbing her clawed hand into the chest of a Dusk, it disappeared back to the nothingness soon after. More and more were starting to form around her in a circle, and soon she noticed the vital spot from the tall Nobody known as Twilight Thorn, behind the calf a faint purple slash was no visible to her. More Dusks jumped her, overpowering her soon after. They made hissing noises, and soon before she knew it pain jolted from her back. Light looked back hearing her cry out in pain, and cursed at himself for leaving her alone like that. He failed to notice the silver hand above him.
Sora and Amaterasu
"So then, you're saying that when a Nobody is killed it leaves behind something else?" Sora asked looking at Light and Dark. The two elemental figures nodded and looked back at one another with concern.
"Even though Nobodies aren't suppose to exist," the dark elemental began to speak, her yellow eyes looking up at the afternoon sky over their heads, "they are filled with life so to speak," Dark said softly looking back at the blue eyed teen and the dark brown eyed female. "And the three things that consist of life are…?" she wanted to see if the two were paying attention.
"A heart…" Amaterasu said softly counting off with her finger.
"The body…" Sora responded, and Amaterasu had two fingers up now.
"And the soul," the two teens said in unison. "The three things that make up life," Amaterasu said counting them off again with her fingers.
"Yep," the white elemental being said nodding slightly. "Heartless and Nobodies have one goal, which is the heart." Light said his white hands produced a small projectile of a heart. "Heartless seek the greatest heart of all, Kingdom Hearts." His blue eyes stared back at the two teens. "Nobodies seek Kingdom Hearts to feel complete again."
"One heart that fulfills all hearts," the dark elemental began to speak, taking her brother's place. "And all hearts lead to the same heart. Kingdom Hearts, which is the place where the mightiest heart lives, and where the darkness is endlessly deep…"
"When Xehanort's Heartless opened Kingdom Hearts, Sora you saw that darkness was coming out from it, right?" Light asked, and noticed the nod. "Though, because of your strong will to believe, you turned that darkness into light." The white elemental figure said watching the fabricated heart hover about in his palm. "Everything is made up of light and darkness, including Kingdom Hearts; it's either light or darkness depending on the wielder."
"It has no free will of its own," Dark said feeling some remorse for the heart of all hearts. "Anyway, the soul," the yellow eyes stared back at the two teens, "Since a Nobody has a body that means it has a soul as well, but no heart. Meaning that it only has two elements to the essence of life, it's not complete."
"But since the others have a heart and soul, with a body, and since a Nobody is half, the other and the Nobody have half of what makes them complete." Light said, hoping that it would make sense to the two teens.
"Though, I think…" Amaterasu bit her thumb for a moment trying to piece together information, it seemed like a chaotic jigsaw puzzle, pieces that you thought went there, didn't go there but somewhere else, and to make matters worse she knew for a fact that pieces were missing from her mental puzzle. "The soul though, it doesn't just die…" she said looking back at the blue eyed male figure, and the yellow eyed female figure.
"Right, so the soul from the Nobody has to go somewhere." Light and Dark said together. "If the will of the Nobody is strong it can create a separate entity," the dark elemental figure. "It's hard to explain because people confuse the heart and soul as being one."
"The term soul…" Sora put his thoughts into the conversation. "I remember a book described it as it containing the essence of life." The spiky hared teen said looking back at Amaterasu and others.
"Essence, the attributes that make an object what it is…" Amaterasu said sighing for a moment. "This… is giving me a headache," she said feeling her head spin for a moment.
The light brown skinned teen fell back on the cool grass, staring up at the sky of the fabricated world around them So many thoughts were going around, not even her mind could grasp the certain knowledge that the two elementals knew, for they were as old as time itself, making them one step behind from the great one himself, God. Only that great deity knew the answers to which Sora and Amaterasu so desperately wanted to know.
Sora yawned for a moment and looked back at Ammi, since she was closing her eyes. "Hey don't sleep!" he said poking her stomach slightly. "Come on, we're learning here!"
"But I don't get what the two of you are trying to say," Amaterasu said the honest truth as she sat up once more, groaning for a moment in exhaustion. "The heart, soul and body are three different things. The heart contains emotions, and it's made up of light and darkness. The body is the physical appearance of a human, and the soul… is the core?"
"If it weren't for the ideals of so many humans…" Light said shaking his head. "Those philosophers and idealist created their own meanings for the soul…"
"Because we still don't know what a soul is." Sora said feeling a bit fed up with all of this. "Just tell us what we want to know, please you two."
"…there are three enemies," Dark said changing into her orb like form. "Heartless, Nobodies, and…"
Destiny Islands
"…" a small whimpering sound was coming from the gray bed sheets. Turquoise eyes looked up from the mess on the floor, the sheets were shaking. The figure ceased it's whimpering and walked over to the edge of the bed, a young hound's face was visible now from the gray bed sheets, and it seemed to calm down a bit when Riku had entered the room. "You're here," the animal said happily for a moment.
"Making a mess are we?" Riku said looking down at the plastic water bottles on the floor, several pencils were broken in half, and newspaper shreds were in one corner of the wooden floored room. "I thought I told you to stay calm…"
"How can you stay so calm with a thunderstorm?" the silver hound asked burrowing itself deeper in the gray bed sheets. To Vieh, the silver hound, the sheets had a sweet scent, which came from the fabric softener Mrs. Fonovi had used when doing the laundry.
Riku chuckled at the behavior of the once proud beast. "A couple of months ago you took Maleficent dead on, and fought with Sora. Yet here you are afraid of thunder, hiding like a scared kitten," he said noticing the slight bare fangs from the small silver coated hound.
"I haven't acquainted myself with the weather…" Vieh said softly looking away from his master. "Anyway, I'm sorry for the condition you found your room in, but I can't help you clean it up, even if I did cause it, I don't have thumbs." He said standing up on his hind legs.
"…" Riku sighed and started by cleaning up the room. He grabbed several chewed up plastic bottles and dumped them inside the green wastepaper basket by the edge of the night stand. Vieh watched with attentive yellow eyes, noticing that the black carpet was becoming visible now as all the debris was being cleaned off of the dark floor covering. "Just don't do this again, all right?" that was all he asked of his furry companion. Vieh nodded slightly and shook once more hearing the 'sound of the gods' as the beast called it.
"When the weather gets like this in most stories, or in videogames," the small silver beast began, "something always happens…" Vieh said looking outside the window of the wooden floored room. "The calm before the storm…" he said, his tail went to the side for a moment in a swishing. "I'm worried for the two of them," he said referring to the two companions left behind. The beast looked back noticing what his master was wearing; he wore black sweat pants and a gray under shirt.
"Same here," Riku said feeling something make his heart sink a bit. "Though, I'm sure they're doing fine," he tried to uplift the mood a bit. Something in the distance caught his attention as a light from the blue mp3 device turned on. 'That's the alarm…' he thought for a moment. "It's already 5 o'clock…" he said to himself and looked back at Vieh.
"I doubt that she's going to look for them in this weather." Vieh said making himself rather cozy in the gray bed fabric.
"You'd be surprised…" Riku said. "Nothing's ever stopped Kairi before."
"I see…" the beast said for a moment yawning. "The heart is a very strange thing," the silver furred hound said leaving one eye open.
In the distance a yellow umbrella was laying against inside wall of the roofed bus stop. Kairi sighed watching the light in the distance that was created from the lightning. Not even the rain could stop her, she would watch out for them no matter what, because she cared for the two of them. 'I can't get caught in the middle of the storm though,' the crimson hared teen thought picking up her yellow umbrella from the yellow stripped, roofed, bus stop. She walked down the sidewalk in casual wear that consisted of blue jeans and a black hooded sweater with pink stitching and pink tennis shoes. Kairi sighed for a moment and trudged along the concrete pathway thinking about the good days when they were all on the island together.
"We were all so happy…" Kairi said softly against the sound of the rain. The smell of the earth filled her nose, bringing back a calm feeling, and a sense of nostalgia. She could vividly remember the day when it rained in Radiant Garden.
"Come on!" a young girl around the age of twelve said, jumping up and down trying to catch the attention of the others. A young girl with red wine colored hair followed after the older children and smiled. The rain started to fall lightly and she looked up with at the gray sky. Curious blue eyes watched the sky as it let the 'teardrops' touch everything on the ground.
"Kairi, you're going to catch a cold…" someone said in a sweet voice, taking the young girl by the hand. She looked at the gentle hand, it was adorned with several metallic bracelets. The gentle hand had emerald eyes, and brown hair with a pink bow tied to the back. Kairi smiled feeling safe with her, and looked in the back, a young teenager with blonde followed behind with another teenage boy with black hair, the two of them had almost the same style of hair.
"Aerith…" the twelve year old girl said looking back at the one who held Kairi's hand. Aerith looked at the speaker and smiled slightly.
"I know…" the girl said softly. Kairi noticed that she smelled like flowers, and she found it strange, she often called her 'flower' rather than Aerith because of her smell.
"It's been a while since it rained," another teen said standing next to the twelve year old girl. He was a bit older than all the other children, and he had brown hair.
"Squall has a point," someone said smiling near Aerith. Kairi looked back and noticed the girl with brown highlights.
"Rinoa…" Squall groaned, he didn't like being called that name. Kairi knew, because she called him 'Leon', but she noticed that he didn't get so mad when Rinoa called him 'Squall'.
"Hey where's Ames?" someone asked from behind. Another teenage boy, with noticeable red hair, walked alongside the two others teens that were in back of Aerith and Kairi. He was talking about getting something called 'tattoos' near his cheekbones. Kairi looked up at Aerith, with questioning eyes, Aerith was able to read her thoughts from the look in her eyes.
"She'll come soon," Aerith said patting her head softly, she liked her warmth, again it made her feel safe.
"Here I am!" said running from behind. Kairi remembered the strange colored hair she had, but other than that, she knew that 'Ames' was a good friend.
Kairi broke out of her daze, and soon reached the steps of her home, and she smiled. Then she looked in back of her, and watched as sea turned a bit chaotic; it was because of the rain. She had a clear view of the effects and she sat on the porch, watching the scene unfold from the rain.
"I hope it clears up soon," she said softly closing her eyes for a moment. "Naminé…"
"Yeah?" a gentle voice called out from her mind.
"I'm worried…" Kairi said softly, as the rain pitter-pattered against the exposed are of the porch, and the ground.
"Don't worry, I'm sure they're fine," Naminé sounded so sure about it.
"You aren't worried about Roxas?"
"A little…" Naminé said softly, matching the same tone of Kairi's voice. "But, Amaterasu's with the two of them," she said softly, in a chuckle, "I wouldn't worry."
"I…" Kairi bit the bottom of her lip. "I really wish I got to say thank you to her," she said looking down at the pink tennis shoes on her feet.
"Why?" the Nobody asked. In Kairi's mind she could picture the blonde Nobody tilt her head.
"She made Riku very happy, besides she helped us out, remember?" She responded feeling a smile on her face.
In Castle Oblivion several minutes ago
Below in the basement of the castle one lone lightbulb flooded the seemingly empty area of one room. In the distance a wooden table was covered with two pairs of hands seemingly taking some sort of food from the bowl located in the middle of the table. A figure seemed to move through the shadows to the two pairs of hands. The two that were maneuvering their hands stopped and looked up noticing another fellow member in their presence. The approaching figure lowered their hood and sat down away from the other two members, soon the room was visible, taking away the dark dreary setting.
"You felt a presence in that place?" someone asked.
"Are you sure its wasn't those Heartless?" another figure asked.
"Well then, come on tell us, Xiaga."
"Wait before you do, how do you like my homemade pickles?"
"I don't care about your pickles!" a senior voice said.
"Anyway…" Xiaga took a bite out of the pickle. "There was a scent from those wretched Nobodies…" Xiaga took another bite out of the pickle. "Hey Ruxsud you out did yourself this time."
"…" the senior's eyes twitched. "Stop focusing on the food!" he said banging his palm on the table. The figure known as Ruxsud smiled slightly, and focused his mind on one of those Sudoku puzzles.
"I can't help it if Ruxsud cooks well, Shimasax," Xiaga said smiling slightly for a moment at the rest of the uneaten pickles, he did enjoy number 5's cooking.
"Just focus, number 6," Shimasax said looking at Xiaga's black messy hair for a moment.
"It seems that Xauqa and others are on the move now." Ruxsud said looking up from his puzzle.
"And that other scent belonged to…"
"I can't believe those guys are off sneaking around! So much for being called an organization!" Shimasax said in outrage. "AND TALK ABOUT NO RESPECT!"
"Um… May I continue, please?" but Xiaga's voice was drowned out.
"NOT A SINGLE 'HOW-DO-YOU-DO' FROM THOSE BUMS!" Shimasax continued. Xiaga looked to the side and noticed that their goal of the month was to give proper greetings. "Which is why for this month we're going to-"
"Hurry up and get it over with!" Xiaga said giving Shimasax a deadly look, Xiaga didn't like being interrupted so much, especially if it was because of Shimasax felt disrespected and he felt the need to let it all out. "Now then…" number 6 said as the room grew dead silent. "As I was saying The other scent belonged to Te-"
"HIM?!" Shimasax said almost spilling the small liquid container in his hand. "But… But he left! We all saw him leave that day!"
"I'll look into it," Xiaga said trying to get the Chilly Academic to calm down. "Just keep in mind that his scent is extremely similar to the Superior's."
"Maybe… they're using the same cologne?" Xiaga stumbled forward at Shimasax's suggestion.
In Amber Pacific
A young teen walked down the street slightly, with strange brown hair. He wore a black coat, but he preferred to have his hood down, rather than up. His black modified boots thumped against the concrete sidewalk of the seemingly calm town. 'I know now, why she seems so familiar, and him too…' the teen thought happily for a moment. It brought joy to his heart, but he ceased the emotion quickly just as soon as it came. 'I can't get to worked up with it though,' the teen thought sitting down on a black metallic chair, he gazed at the people that walked past the patio of the café shop.
The fragrance of darkness has been infused into your bones…The teen tugged at the collar of his hood and took in a small whiff, but he couldn't find anything different with the scent, it smelled like it had just been washed today. "Heh… ha, ha. Infused into my bones, huh?" he let go of piece of fabric. "I guess then that there is no turning back."
My kind friend…"Ames… you really think I can go back to the light?" the figure said looking up at the sky. Time had stopped within the world, this was her work. "But what… what if when I finally wake up all that will be there is darkness?"
Don't let go of yourself! The teen looked in front of him and noticed a young teenage girl with silver hair and light brown skin. Forget about that stinky old fragrance! Believe in yourself, and don't forget to brush your teeth! And then after that take a long soak in that tub of yours, till you feel all squeaky clean again! The teen blushed slightly and looked away from the girl with the silver hair. Her eyes were the same shade of blue as his, yet her physical appearance was slightly transparent.
Oh you're worried about this, don't sweat about it you dummy. I'm only using a bit of my power to talk to you, so I'm sorry if I came out looking fuzzy. Does it make me look fat? She asked spinning around. The teen couldn't help but chuckle at the young female teen's question. She walked over to the teen and sat next to him in the opposite side of the table.
"I…" the teen looked away from her for a moment.
"Listen, fight that darkness inside yourself, I know you can do!" she said pleading with him. "Don't beat yourself to death with that, you and I both know that in the darkest darkness there's a little bit of light! We've both seen it together, remember?" Ames said blowing silver strands away from her face. The young teen looked down, and Ames gave a sad look. "Hey come on don't-"
"Hey give me some credit, Ames, I'll be all right." The teen said looking up at her gentle blue eyes.
"Oh yeah. Ha, ha, ha…" Ames said giving him a soft smile. He had missed seeing her like that, just being cheerful. "Listen," she said outstretching her hand. "I'm going to find a way to reach you." She said watching the teen outstretch his gloved hand towards hers.
He gasped slightly noticing that his hand passed through hers. "You're still an illusion, my hand just passed right through," he said looking at his gloved palm.
"Hey but don't feel down, see in our hearts, we shook on it, so we're connected now, you and I. I'm always going to be by your side, all right?"
"Thanks, Ames…" he said rubbing his eyes slightly with his other hand. Ames smiled slightly and withdrew her hand to her lap.
"Don't cry… Rax. Anyway I can't stay to long, I'm doing this in secret, I'll try and contact you later again." She said, and with that time went forward once more, and she was gone from sight. Probably to a safer place than here.
His blue eyes looked up for a moment from the white table, and he noticed another rather familiar. He tried to pretend that he didn't exist, but still the noticeable figure with green eyes looked at him.
"It's been a while…" the green eyed figure said looking at the teen with the strange brown hair. "You remember me?" the male figure asked the young teen.
"Who are you?" the teen asked. He noticed that the two of them were wearing the same style of black coats. 'I can't go back with them…' he thought thinking back to the figures he now knew. 'I have to make sure that they're safe…'
"Are you saying that because you really don't remember, or you're trying to forget?" the blonde hared figure asked the brown hared teen.
"You take your picking…" the teen said in a rather cold tone. 'I don't have time for this…' he thought cursing himself mentally for this. People passed by, glancing at the two figures dressed in black, but other than that they went by daily routine. The citizens of Amber Pacific had no idea what was happening around their area.
"Number 4 ring a bell?" the blonde long hared male asked. The teen shook his head. "The Chilly Academic?" he asked again, referring to another title given to him. Again the teen shook his head. "Shimasax?"
"…" the teen felt his eyes widened slightly, but played it cool. "Ah… nope." He said flatly.
"…"
"You're wasting my time, weirdo…"
"She's been worried about you…" the older man by the name of Shimasax said, noticing the teen excused himself from the area, and with that he started walking away.
"Like I said…" he looked at the green eyed man. "You're wasting my time…" with that the brown hared teen walked away, raising his hood now, he seemed fed up with the 'Chilly Academic'.
In Castle Oblivion
Xejicka stared up at the white ceiling of the computer room counting off the pillars around her out of boredom. 'Nine… twelve… thirteen…' she sighed for a moment. "Thirteen, everything's thirteen…" Xejicka scratched the back of her head for a moment and looked in back of her. Nusvext was humming something happily, which for Number 8 could only mean that something bad was going to take place soon. The blonde hared figure looked back at Xejicka for a moment.
"It looks like their memories will soon take root," the blue eyed blonde said looking back at slightly hazel eyed teen.
"Just as we planned," Xejicka said leaning against the wall of the marble floored room. Books were propped up against the tables around her, and she thought about the number thirteen again, though something broke her thoughts. "Hey is Xauqa looking after it?"
"Uh-huh," the other one said getting up from the computer chair. He stretched for a moment and smiled. "Well, well. Look's like it's my turn to go and play now." he said looking back at Xejicka. He caught the item that was tossed his way. "Oh yeah…" he flipped the Joker card for a moment, "I'm supposed to give these two little buggers this…"
"…" Xejicka sighed for a moment and pushed back some of the strands of black hair way from her face. She watched as Nusvext started to walk away. "Hey, listen, don't break them, Nusvext."
"Silly Xejicka…" Nusvext said smiling. "I don't break toys, I just go and play with them. I'm not stupid."
Xejicka was lying on the couch now staring up at the ceiling for a moment. "Then I suppose you don't mind the warning. Get this memorized, they are the key." Nusvext threw her a slight glare. "Even when we finish our little 'true objective' we need these two if we're going to take this place back."
"I didn't know you were in on it too…" Nusvext said with some slight interest. "Well then keep this under your hood until we get our prefect timing."
Xejicka watched as Nusvext disappeared from sight and she sat up walking over to the computer screen. She looked at the two figures, and replayed the last battle they had against Twilight Thorn, she chuckled for a moment. "Of course… But you know," she smirked watching the two teens take down Twilight Thorn, "you should've followed your own instructions, Nus…" she said, turning off the screen.
With Dark and Light
"This part of Amber Pacific… it's different…" Light said softly. The pressure in the area seemed slightly heavier then when they were within the plaza. "Hey…" he looked back at his partner. "Do you remember how we got here?"
"…" Dark was thinking about if for a moment. "You know I think with each day," she said softly, looking down at the streets below, "we forget…" she said rubbing her left wrist for a second. "I sort of understand what Xejicka was trying to tell us by that…" the two of them were sitting atop a building overlooking this part of the city. "I've been writing the events down in one of the journals that Terra bought, they won't catch him."
"But he could read-!"
"Messy handwriting!" his female companion said waving her left hand in his face. Light laughed for a moment and looked out into the ruined part of the city. Several minutes ago something known as a Nobody, called Twilight Thorn, which was of giant proportions, fought with the two individuals. Luckily the two were able to take care of the abomination before things escalated even further. Dark sighed for a moment and patted Light on the head for a moment. "Anyway… I remember that Mr. Brooks found us on the outskirts," she said sighing for a moment. "The good thing is that Terra said he won't read what I wrote in there anyway."
"You trust him that much?" Light asked, rocking back at forth for a couple of seconds, and Dark nodded in response.
"Something in my heart," she paused for a brief moment. "I feel like I've met him somewhere though, I just can't remember why I can trust him, or from where I even know him from." She said softly, looking down at the ground below them.
"You may no longer be you," Light said pulling out the Joker card, he flipped the card to the other side re-reading the neat handwriting. "I have a feeling that this place is stealing our memories." The teen said feeling concerned at this point now. "There's someone important to me," Light said softly placing the card back into the rear pocket of his pants. "Her name it's to precious for me to forget," he said placing his hand on his heart for a moment. "I do really miss…"
"Ames…?" Dark said softly, touching her lips slightly with her index finger. 'No, that's not her… It doesn't sound right,' she thought to herself.
"No…" Light said noticing the look of relief plastered on the face of his good friend. "Is that someone you know?"
"I think so…" Dark answered, although she herself didn't sound to sure about it. "Her name just popped up," she said shrugging. "Then again, you said this place messes with our memories."
"Yeah, but hey come on let's go home," Light said carefully balancing himself on the edge of the building. Dark stood up and dusted herself off for a moment. She looked at her hands for a second, noticing that she was holding a keychain. 'The Keyblade,' she thought placing it over her heart for a moment.
'Don't ever lose sight of what's important to you, okay?' a voice filled her head, and it made her smile warmly. 'I haven't heard that voice in so long,' she thought closing her eyes for a moment. Dark withdrew the keychain back to the side pocket of her green cargo pants. "What's wrong?" her friend asked.
Dark shook her head, "I heard a voice, it was from a good friend," she said in a soft tone. The voice triggered the image of a kind face, still she wasn't able to piece in the pieces to the kind voice just yet. 'The feeling I had when we entered this place, I know we would find something…' Light told his friend within the frame of the mind, she nodded for a moment and sat back down, Light followed in suite and sighed.
"Still I can feel it here," Light said pointing down to his heart, "in my heart, we have to keep moving, no matter what."
"…" Dark looked down for a moment and felt her heart sink for a bit. Light did have a point, it didn't catch her off guard since he did seem to be right most of the time when it came down to it. 'Still, I'm afraid,' she thought feeling uneasy about everything that had come to pass so far. "Maybe Xejicka was right, we're going to suffer for the rest of-"
"The hell we're not!" Light said bringing his fist down, Dark heard the thud as the closed palm connected with the concrete roof. "Stop talking like that, Dark!" he said noticing the pained look in her eyes. "Talk like that is going to get you nowhere," the tone in his voice changed, yet his partner could tell he was still a bit angry.
With Terra and the others
Terra closed the door to his closet and sighed, flopping down on the bed with his face buried into a pillow. He closed his eyes trying to forget certain events that happened today, but memories were something cruel to him, they couldn't be forgotten so easily, and some he wish he didn't forget.
"Rough day then?" Ven asked spinning around in the computer chair. Aqua shook her head and sighed.
"Where are Light and Dark anyway?" she asked looking back at the other two blue eyed males. Ventus shrugged for a moment and looked back at Terra.
"I think they're somewhere around the area…" Terra said, his voice was muffled by the pillows. "That's the second time they've missed their trip to the beach."
"Maybe they don't really want to go to the beach." Ven said as he stopped himself from spinning. "If I didn't know any better, I think they're avoiding us."
"But why?" Aqua asked looking down at the beige carpet in Terra's room. "That doesn't make since."
"Or maybe, someone's not letting them go," Ven then decided to say, remembering that those two were staying with Mr. Brooks.
"That's more likely…" Aqua said looking back at Terra's shoes for a moment, they were a mixture of black and white designs. "What do you think, Terra?"
"I think…" he ran his hand under his pillow, feeling something with a soft cover on it. 'That's her journal…' Terra thought. "I think… We should probably take them out for some ice-cream tomorrow." He said flipping over on his back, staring up at the dark colored ceiling of his room. "Something tells me they're going to need some cheering up…"
"Yeah…" Ven and Aqua said in unison with a defeated sigh.
With Sora and Amaterasu
"I'm going to give you guys a break though," Dark said flopping down on the grass, it seemed very cold to her touch, and Light looked at his sister for a moment. "I know it's a lot for the two of you to take in, so we're going to break it down slowly for you, till it's time for you guys to move on."
"We're leaving this place soon?" Sora asked looking around their fabricated world. It was a real shame to leave this place, he felt at peace with himself, which could be the same feeling Amaterasu felt as well.
"You're going to go and talk with someone who is half a rank higher than us." Light said lying on his stomach, the elemental propped his elbows up so that he could rest his chin on his hands. "Don't worry though, he's very nice, a little weird but nice."
"But we're still not done yet with you two, so just relax." Dark said turning the afternoon sky dark. Stars began to appear, one by one, the diamonds glimmered with the moonlight that painted the night sky. Sora looked up and pictured several shooting stars, and the dark hared teenager looked up, noticing the array of moving stars. "I'm sort of getting attached to the two of you." Dark said honestly.
"It's going to be a bit lonely without the two of you." Light said looking up at the moving stars.
"Then…" Amaterasu tore her gaze from the night sky, and placed her attention on the two elementals, "come with us!" she said.
"We are going to go with you, not physically though," Dark said smiling for a moment.
"Just don't think you're going mental when you're on the other side, we'll drop in from time to time." Light said yawning for a moment.
"Also, don't be surprised if you meet others like yourself, by that I mean those who wield Keyblades as well, just don't assume that they are all kind-hearted in nature…" Dark said, her yellow eyes starting up at the night sky. "I wonder if there will be another war for the two of you, when you two go back…"
A/N: You know what to do one review please!
poena inside adveho incedo vos- it translate to 'pain inside comes to awake you'. It's a 'tweaked' lyric taken from the song 'Satellite'. If you listen to it, you'll understand why this chapter deals with being a bit distant, emotionally and/or physically.