Secret Episode: The Gate to Midnight

"Lord Crive?"

The man growled at the appearance of his servant. Could he not get a moment's peace to brood in this forsaken place?

"What is it, slave?" He seethed angrily.

The woman gulped, shying back, and Crive smirked in arrogance.

"Lord Orpheus is here, sir." She stuttered, before leaving his office.

With a sneer, Crive looked to his side table. It still had the remnants of glass and burned paper from days ago.

"Slave." He called. The woman appeared in the door silently. "Get someone to clean this up." With a shy nod, she disappeared. Sighing, Crive closed his eyes.

Vous ne m'entendez pas dire svp


Le bébé d'Oh, ne vont pas

Orpheus strode into the room, dark and moody as usual, and sat across from his master. Crive looked him over.

"News?"

Without a word, Orpheus threw a file onto his desk, crossing his legs and waiting. With a glance to the boy, Crive picked the file up delicately.

"It has to do with the other mission." Orpheus muttered.


Simple et propre est la manière dont vous faites m'à sentir ce soir


Il est dur l'a laissée disparaître

"Simple et propre est la manière dont vous faites m'à sentir ce soir, Il est dur l'a laissée disparaître," Crive read aloud.

"It was found near the gate, scattered papers with the same song, written in many different languages. Some of them were still only half translated. It was as if someone had taken one song and begun translating it into many different languages, and then simply given up and thrown them away. Look at the signature", Orpheus pointed to the bottom of the page.

"Sulhadahne" Crive spat, sneering at the name. Looking back to his servant, he spoke. "What is the song in English?"


Vous me donnez trop de choses


Récemment, vous êtes tous que j'ai besoin


Vous avez souri à moi et avez dit,

"The daily things that keep us all busy…" Orpheus sang very quietly, without emotion.


are confusing me, that's when you came to me and said


Ne m'obtenez pas faux je t'aime


Mais ce moyen je doit-il rencontrer votre père ?


Quand nous sommes plus âgés vous comprendrez


Ce qu'ai voulu dire je quand j'ai dit le "non,


Je ne pense pas que la vie est tout à fait celle simple "

"Could this song of hers have to do with…?" Crive began. Orpheus nodded.

"Definitely. It's all she ever works on, from my studies. The gates, and nothing more. Much like yourself..." Orpheus chuckled emotionlessly.

"Well…" Crive smirked. "Like father", He sneered at the name Sulhadahne. "Like daughter."


Quand vous marchez loin


Vous ne m'entendez pas dire svp


Le bébé d'Oh, ne vont pas

"What is your purpose… master?" Orpheus asked, quickly adding the title to try and woo an answer out of the older man before him. Crive sneered.

"Midnight's Gate, of course." He muttered.

"Of course."


Simple et propre est la manière dont vous faites m'à sentir ce soir


Il est dur l'a laissée disparaître

"Why? Why the gate? Hinode was after the same with the Door to Sunrise, was she not?" Crive laughed.

"That fool?" Chuckling, he stood. "Hinode too, now, thanks to Sulhadahne, is behind the Gate to Midnight. I must find my way into it."

"What of Organization XIII?" Orpheus pleaded, dying for answers.

"That is none of your concern." Crive warned, not easily giving in.

"Please, sir. If I am to betray his trust, give me reason to!" Orpheus begged.

si simple et propre


Les choses quotidiennes comme ceci et celui et ce qui est ce qui


Cette subsistance nous tout occupés


Est embrouillant je


C'est quand vous êtes venu chez moi et avez dit,

With a sigh, Crive stood and looked out his window, leaning against the wall near it.

"Can you see it, all of it, out there? The universe as a whole?" Crive wondered in awe. Orpheus did not respond. "Can you feel the heartbeat of the stars?"

"No, of course you can't. But they tried. In a way… they did. The ones that passed the gates. First, the two known as Diluviare and Xehanort passed through the Gate of Midnight to this side. When this occurred, Sulhadahne", He growled. "Passed through the same gate to the other side. Then, later, the six apprentices went through the Door to Darkness. Riku and the King did later on."


Le souhait I a pu s'avérer je t'aime


Mais ce moyen je doit-il marcher sur l'eau ?


Quand nous sommes plus âgés vous comprendrez

"All of them, changed forever. Seeing what no others have seen. I want that. I want… many things." Crive, clenching his fist, turned to Orpheus.

"I want revenge." Sneering, the large man began closing in on Orpheus. "I want what is due to me. I want to see them bleed. And I want my daughter, my Victoria, back."

Orpheus glared at the man looming over him.


Il est assez quand je dis ainsi


Et peut-être quelques choses sont celle simple

"You're mad." Orpheus whispered in confusion. Crive laughed.

"I'm just warming up." He challenged.

Quand vous marchez loin


Vous ne m'entendez pas dire svp


Le bébé d'Oh, ne vont pas


Simple et propre est la manière dont vous faites m'à sentir ce soir


Il est dur l'a laissée disparaître

Orpheus Diaries

Part One: Why am I here?

Dear Diary,

The man that has me enslaved continues to confuse me with his mood swings and unknown agenda. I have had so many missions, none of them truly giving me any insight to what he's really after.

My mission to retrieve information about the Gate to Midnight and the world beyond it is progressing quickly. The translations of that song, "Simple and Clean", I knew were not just any coincidence. I examined the gate again and found that song, with many others, engraved on it. It was repeated many times, in many languages. I wonder if the songs have anything to do with opening the gate.

My other mission is going smoothly. The organization has separated, and while it will make the job easier, it will also be more complicated. I can take the members easier if they are not grouped together, but it also means that when I take a group of them, news will spread and the other members will be warned.

For the moment, I am in Radiant Garden, spending my time watching the RGRC, who have now become important since they are in league with the Org.

I am quite disturbed at their… unique personalities. But nevertheless, they seem like a close family.

I only hope they will accept me into their family after the end of all this nonsense.


Tenez-moi


Celui qui se trouve au delà de ce matin


Est peu plus tard


Indépendamment des avertissements le futur ne m'effraye pas du tout


Rien aiment avant

Tenez-moi

Hold me


Celui qui se trouve au delà de ce matin

Whatever lies beyond this morning


Est peu plus tard

Is a little later on


Indépendamment des avertissements le futur ne m'effraye pas du tout

Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all


Rien aiment avant

Nothing's like before…

"I did it, I did it…"

Saix rolled his eyes and continued scanning the newspaper.

"I did it, I did it…"

Groaning, Saix set the paper down and began rubbing his temples.

"Let it rest, Saix, give him his moment." Mitsuka chimed, laughing at the boy's tomfoolery.

Demyx was skipping along in the kitchen, heading to the coffee maker as he grinned, humming to himself giddily.

"I take it you're hired." Axel smirked, watching as the blonde took a big, happy gulp of coffee and then got a big, happy burn on his tongue and screamed a big, happy scream.

"I am!" He chimed, getting over his burn, even though it slurred his words from "I am!" to "Ai lamb!"

"Congratulations." Mitsuka told him, as he whooped and punched the air.

"Thanks!" He told her, beaming.

Saix smirked at his childish behavior, and then pulled him down by the hood. "Sit, fool, we're having a meeting." Demyx, pulled down to the floor by the berserker, scrambled onto a stool happily as Larxene and Marluxia came into the kitchen.

"Well, it wasn't my fault, all right!" Marluxia yelled angrily.

"Ha! You're such an idiot! I can't believe I even acknowledge your existence!" Larxene snarled.

"Nonexistence." Over their cups of coffee, Luxord and Axel both chimed at the same time.

"Whatever!" Marluxia and Larxene screamed. The people in the room jumped.

"I thought you guys were whole again." Mitsuka told her brother.

"We have hearts, but we aren't really human. Besides, it's habit." Saix smirked.

"Just… just go fuck yourself!" Marluxia told her.

"Ouch." Luxord cooed.

"Go fuck a man! Seeing as you'd probably rather do that!" Larxene retorted.

"Wow." Axel grimaced. Saix was covering Mitsuka's ears, and Mitsuka was watching Demyx, who was mouthing the words to her.

"Would you two sit down? We have a meeting." Saix commanded them. As number seven, he was the highest in rank in the room.

The two, seething, sat far, far away from each other. Saix let his sister hear again.

"Now, until the end of our vacation, we don't have any true missions to accomplish." Axel cheered silently. "But… we still have duties and chores." Axel's cheer died.

Saix began instructing the others in their duties, and so we leave to a different world…

"Heads up!"

The crowd gasped and cheered as Roxas threw the ball higher into the air with another combo. Grinning, he spun, attacking the ball again, attempting to keep it from hitting the ground.

"Way to go!" A man in the crowd cheered when Roxas landed, jumped back up, and bounced the ball off a building.

When he landed, Roxas ran towards the ball, but it landed. Still, 76 wasn't too bad a score. The crowd cheered as it dispersed, congratulating him and wishing him well in Twilight Town.

With a content sigh, Roxas wiped sweat off his brow and sent the keyblade away, walking up to his employer. Only a short time spent in Twilight Town, and now he had a good amount of munny.

"Good job, kid." The man greeted, handing him 100 munny. Grinning, Roxas nodded.

"Thanks." He smiled, and turned away.

Hands in his pocket, Roxas couldn't help but contently sigh again, already so at home back in Twilight Town. Heading down the ramp to the Sand Lot, he wasn't surprised when he saw Seifer, Fuu, and Rai there awaiting him. Of course, he wasn't supposed to know who they were, was he?

Passing them by as the conversed, Roxas headed towards his new apartment near Sunset Hill. Seifer, seemingly knowing someone was walking behind him, turned to look the boy over.

"Hey. You." Seifer called. Rolling his eyes playfully, Roxas turned back around.

"Can I help you?" He asked politely, pretty sure he knew were this was going. He was right.

With a sneer, Seifer strode forward, looking Roxas over with a calculating eye. Roxas acted sheepishly, looking past Seifer to Rai and Fuu, Rai looking confused, Fuu… well, who knows what she was feeling.

"Why do I have the feeling I really hate your guts?" Seifer implored rudely, looking Roxas in the eye for the first time. With a smirk, Roxas shrugged nonchalantly.

"Maybe it's destiny." Roxas chimed. Seifer grunted.

"In that case, let's be friends. I don't feel like cooperating with destiny." Seifer told him.

Inside Roxas laughed, remembering a conversation so like this. Under his breath, very quietly, he whispered to himself. "When do you feel like cooperating with anything?"

Seifer could have sworn he heard the kid say something, so he spun around to look at him. But by that time, Roxas was gone.

"There it is!"

The door burst open, and Sora sped towards the front of the gummi, pressing his face against the glass front.

"Jeez, Sora, don't have a heart attack." Riku joked. Sora laughed, backing up.

"Hey, girls! We're here!"

Namine and Kairi came to the front of the ship. Namine, with a serene smile, looked to her friend. Kairi looked blown away.

"Home." She whispered happily. Kairi looked to Namine, and the two giggled.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Kairi cheered. Sora faltered a bit.

"Umm… umm…" He looked to Riku. The boy shrugged.

"Might as well get it over with." He offered. Sora groaned.

"All right." He sighed looking back to the planet before them. "Let's do this!"

A WORLD SOMEWHERE FAR, FAR AWAY

The man shuffled forward, breathing heavily, shifting his eyes across the dark alleyways around him. When had it turned that he was the one being hunted, not the hunter?

A slam as a trash can lid fell scared not only a cat in this night, but the man as he faltered and tripped, landing in water. When he looked down, he did not have a reflection.

But the man standing on the rooftop above him did.

With a yelp, the man in the puddle leapt to his feet, but the man on the rooftop was too quick. He leapt down in front of the man, and the man cowered in his presence.

"What – what do you want with me? Stay away!" The man bared his fangs, hissing.

Unfazed, the man from the rooftop sauntered forward, taking the shivering vampire by the collar.

"I was told you –"

"Told!" The vampire hissed.

"Yes, told. I was told you made to feed on a girl recently." The man began.

"How many girls are there in the world? What girl?" The vampire pleaded.

"The girl had blue eyes, and you tried to feed on her. She put up a fight; your dinner got away. Tell me were she went." The vampire trembled in his hold, but the man's piercing eyes did not falter.

"She put up a fight, all right, but I chased her. Hellsing intervened, I got away, and they took her to their hospital. Their hospital – in London." The vampire revealed.

"Hellsing?" The man wondered. "Would that have anything to do with a vampire Alucard?"

"Of course!" The vampire snarled. "The No Life King!"

"I can't blame you for running." The man chuckled. "But I can blame you for hurting the girl." The man raised the weapon in his other hand.

"Wait! Wait! I know more!" The man faltered in his attack.

"What?" He seethed.

"She wasn't alone. There was a younger girl with her, and the girl was injured. I heard her call the girl Sulhadahne." The man shrugged.

"That doesn't mean much to me." He told the vampire. "Unless you happened to hear the name of the other girl." He threatened.

Moaning, the vampire nodded. "R – Rinoa."

The man smirked, bringing his weapon forward as the vampire screeched. Dropping the now truly dead body as it convulsed, the man turned, his face finally revealed in the moonlight.

"Time to head east." Leon muttered, sauntering away into the night.