WEEEEEEEEE! It's the next chapter of Cold Fire! Thanks to all of the fans that are reviewing for this. XD
Now on to the tenth chapter! Only three more to go….
But before I go typing this next chapter, I want to say that I've been noticing that this story has been moving really fast. I'm going to try to slow it down a bit, but as you may know, I'm not very good at that kind of thing. So please forgive me for being so fast-paced in my writing! Thanx:)
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Chapter Ten: Lost Once More
Sora ran down the streets of Twilight Town along with Donald and Goofy, following the strange creature named Vivi. There was something wrong here, he knew it. Because this was his second time visiting the town, he actually knew where he was going now. Rounding the corner into the Sandlot, where someone from Organization XIII was standing. Immediately Sora whipped out his Keyblade, ready to fight. The cloaked man only swayed slightly and motioned toward it.
"You won't need that now," he said, waving a pointer finger toward it. "I'm only here to tell you some news about your beloved Kairi."
The man had a strange aura to his voice. It chilled Sora down to the very bone. At the mention of Kairi's name, he nearly jumped up in excitement and fear.
"You know where Kairi is?" he asked almost angrily, not trusting this man at all.
"Yes, I do," he answered. "But I'm sure you wouldn't like to hear exactly where she's gone to or why she's missing."
"Yes I do!" yelled Sora angrily. "Tell me NOW!"
'What a snarling brat,' thought Saïx to himself.
"Fine," he said in an uncaring tone. "But first, allow me to introduce myself."
He lifted a gloved hand up and pulled his hood back. He could see the horrified look on Sora's face as the boy looked up at his face. He smiled inwardly and flipped his hair to get it all out of his cloak.
"My name's Saïx," he said, bringing both of his arms to his side. "And you must be Sora."
"Cut the crap and tell me where she is!" he yelled furiously.
'Did his parents ever spank him?' Saïx wondered.
"Fine. A man named Axel took her in hopes of putting you in a trap. Axel was a member of our Organization, but he turned on us just recently to look for an old friend of his. You see, if he could be able to find his friend, he would need you to do it. And he knew about your love for Kairi, so he kidnapped her off of your beloved islands and tried using her as a trap for you."
"SO where is she?"
"She's locked away in our castle dungeon with no hope of escape," answered Saïx.
Sora glared at him.
"You people have a castle now?" asked Goofy.
"Yes, we do," said Saïx. "Is there a reason why you should care?"
"Well……..no…..not really," said Goofy.
'I would really like to know why the savior of the universe is a total idiot,' thought Saïx to himself.
"Listen," he said. "If you want to find her, then you must find Axel. And judging by how badly he wants to find you, it should be relatively easy."
Saïx tapped into the darkness and summoned a portal behind him that led to The World That Never Was. He turned around and started walking towards it.
"Wait!" yelled Sora. He summoned his Keyblade once more.
'What else does that nimrod need to know? Oh well. I'll just pretend to not hear him and back up slowly into the portal. That will get him annoyed.'
Saïx backed up slowly, still facing Sora. This made Sora and co. really annoyed, and Sora got angry because of it.
"WAIT!" he yelled louder.
He saw an evil smile from Saïx and the blue-haired man disappeared behind the black mist of darkness that was the portal.
"What a jerk," said Donald.
"Oh well," said Goofy. "You can't expect the bad guys to tell you everything you need to know. Let's just keep moving and get to Hollow Bastion."
"Yeah, I guess you're right," said Sora.
The three of them walked out of the Sandlot and walked down the street to Tram Common, ready to get into their Gummi Ship. They had no idea how hard the next mission would be…….
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Xemnas watched in anticipation down at the Great Maw, which was now filled with thousands of Heartless. All he needed now was the Keyblade Master to come and wipe them all out, giving Kingdom Hearts more power. It would be great to feel again.
All of a sudden Xemnas felt the darkness close to him. Looking behind him, he saw Saïx step out of a freshly opened portal with a triumphant, but evil smile on his face.
"Any news?" he asked the blue-haired man.
"Yes," he answered. "Axel was planning to kidnap Kairi from her islands in hope of setting Sora into a trap. However, he didn't realize that his teleportation had been warped and he sent her into our world, where a group of my Nobodies is watching her."
"Good. And where exactly is Axel going?"
Saïx looked at his master for a second.
"I believe…..he's going to Hollow Bastion," he answered, obviously unsure of himself.
"Excellent," Xemnas answered. "We can all wait for him here. I'll notify the rest of the Organization."
Saïx bent down and bowed, leaving to find the renegade Axel.
Xemnas just simply adored Saïx's loyalty.
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(Axel's POV)
How could his calculations have been so wrong? She was supposed to land in the fake Twilight Town, not the real one! He mentally cursed DiZ for ever creating a simulation one of the most beautiful towns on the map.
He sighed and summoned up a portal, leading directly to where Kairi should've landed. Stepping in, he saw all of Roxas's so-called "friends" gathered around her, just talking. As soon as they noticed him, Axel felt completely freaked out. He hated it when every single pair of eyeballs was focused directly on him. Sure, he liked being the center of attention, but just having so many people staring at him really freaked him out.
"Hi, my name's Axel and I'm here to crash the party," he said in his usual teenager-replicating tone.
And they just stared. Axel was getting more freaked out every passing moment.
"Look," he said. "If you're not going to do anything but sit there like a bunch of retards and stare at me, then I'll just take the girl and leave."
He could see everyone's faces light up. He knew he said the right thing to get them going.
First of all, the small blonde-haired kid jumped up and tried to attack him. Of course, Axel was much stronger and experienced than him and shoved him out of the way with a simple wave of his hand. Next, the fat kid waddled over to him and made a pathetic attempt to try and knock him over, but Axel repeated what he did with the other one and shoved him out of his way. Now, Kairi and the other girl were sitting there all alone, both looking completely innocent. Axel smirked. This was possibly the easiest thing he had ever done since the time he convinced Demyx that he was a fish (A/N: okay, so that was a bit random).
He stepped forward and grabbed her arm, looking over at the pathetic girl that was sitting helplessly beside her. The living were so boring.
"Let go of me!" yelled Kairi angrily.
"Nope," answered Axel, dragging her towards the portal.
"I hate you!"
"Join the club, we've got jackets."
Kairi seemed a bit confused by this remark because her struggling stopped abruptly. Axel practically threw her into the portal and they both disappeared. Hayner, Pence, and Olette stared at the dissipated portal in disbelief. That could've possibly been the weirdest thing that had happened in their pathetic little lives so far.
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(Saïx's POV((before))
Saïx was walking down the Hall That Is Not Really Here when suddenly he heard a wail coming from the direction of the end of the hall. It sounded like a girl's wail. There hadn't been a girl in this place since Larxene lived here. He completely forgot what he was doing and ran down to the end of the hall, where a redheaded girl was laying on the ground, begging for help. It wasn't until he got a little bit closer to her that he realized that it was the one and only Kairi. Saïx smiled evilly as his eyes burned an even brighter shade of neon orange.
Kairi saw some kind of movement out of the corner of her eye and turned towards it, but nothing was there. She turned around again, confused about why she was in this place and that "movement" when she suddenly saw a tall man standing above her, with an evil little smirk on his face and eyes burning orange. It was about the scariest thing she had ever seen and she screamed because of it.
Saïx was terribly annoyed by her scream and immediately silenced her by putting a hand over her mouth. He felt her little teeth bite into his hand and he squeezed harder around her mouth, making the blood flow to her face stop. Her bite didn't hurt at all, just because the leather on his gloves was so thick. Otherwise, he would be in berserk mode by now. He summoned a portal around her and sent her to the Dungeon That Is Just Part of Your Delusional Mind.
'She should be safe there,' thought Saïx. 'I'll have to go and tell Xemnas about this.'
Just because he's a very cautious little elfy, Saïx teleported himself down to the Dungeon That Is Just Part of Your Delusional Mind to check if she had actually made it into the humungous locked cell that he had desired her to be in. Surely enough, she was laying on the floor of the cell in a fetal position, crying and wishing that Sora was there. Saïx laughed at her weakness.
He walked over to her and noticed that she was trying to look away from him.
'What a loser.'
"Excuse me?" he said, now in front of the metal bars of her cell. She paid no attention to him. "When one superior to you asks for your attention, you respond."
"Go away," she said between tears.
'Oh my god, I'm SO scared.'
"I don't think so," said Saïx. "Now if you don't make some kind of eye contact with me I will claw out your heart, brain, and liver with my claymore as a weapon. Do you get the drift?"
"Yes sir," she answered. She turned around and faced him. "What do you want from me?"
"I want to slice every limb off of your stupid little body and drain all of your blood in the process. Of course, I want to give you a nice comfy room with many plushy pillows beforehand."
Kairi's eyes nearly bulged out of her head.
"Are you really going to do that?" she asked.
"No," answered Saïx. "I was kidding about that whole room with the plushy pillows thing."
Kairi was now even more terrified. Saïx smiled because he knew this and quickly summoned up some of his Berserker nobodies. He ordered them to stay there and guard the girl while he went and talked to Xemnas. He had heard this morning that the Keyblade Master was going to Hollow Bastion, where thousands of Heartless were awaiting him. Soon, he and Xemnas would be free. This thought pleased him.
He looked back at Kairi once more, who was now shock still because of fear. Everything was going great so far. He summoned a portal and headed for Hollow Bastion. For some reason, he had a feeling that Axel would turn up there also in his hunt for Sora. Too bad he wouldn't live to see the day when all of them reached salvation…..
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(Axel's POV)
Well, Axel felt totally stupid again. He had just messed up another portal and had lost Kairi. And the really sad thing was that now he had no clue where in the hell she landed. Last time, he knew that she had ended up in the real Twilight Town. Now he was sure that she was floating around in some alternate dimension. Or worse, she could have landed in The Castle That Never Was. She could be being held hostage by someone crazy, like Saïx or Xemnas. That would be a scary thought.
He looked out at the Great Maw, hoping that Sora would arrive here any minute. A few minutes ago he heard the cries of Demyx as he died by the blade of the Keyblade Master. He suddenly felt a small regret build up inside of him. He wished that he hadn't been so mean to the poor teenager. After all, all he wanted was a friend. And Axel couldn't blame him. He wanted a friend himself, too. That was why he had to find Roxas.
He saw the Great Maw deplete its Heartless level as Sora killed them all off. Before he knew it, every single Heartless was gone. But Sora didn't know what he was getting himself into. He was actually helping the "bad guys", he just didn't know it yet. Maybe he would see Roxas soon. After all, he was sure that Roxas was looking for him, too.
It was a beautiful day outside today. He wished that The World That Never Was was like this. He smiled as a warm breeze blew by him, even though the only thing he could really feel of it was the gust of air. He couldn't feel warmth, really. The only things he could feel were pain and anger.
Suddenly he heard a muffled voice echo behind him. It sounded just like a teenager's voice.
'Sora's here!' thought Axel excitedly. 'I've gotta hide!'
He teleported into a small enclosed cave behind the rocks, where he could barely see the outside. Suddenly he saw Xemnas appear on the ledge of the rock, obviously waiting for Sora.
'I sure hope he doesn't sense me here. He would kill me for sure.'
Axel crouched down lower in hopes of not being caught. He suddenly heard the crunch of gravel as Sora and his gang ran out near the ledge, along with King Mickey.
"Xehanort!" yelled the mouse angrily.
Axel laughed at hearing his old boss's name. He was sure Xemnas hadn't been called that since about five years ago, when he lost his heart to the darkness. He heard Xemnas laugh, too.
"Ah yes, I remember my old name," he started out saying.
'Cue the monologuing,' Axel thought to himself. The thought itself brought shivers up his spine.
"Old name?" asked Mickey. "What do you mean 'old name'?"
Xemnas turned around and said something extremely blatant.
"Well, that's not my name anymore," he answered, matter-of-factly. "My name is Xemnas, if you really want to know."
"Xemnas?" asked Sora.
"Yes," he answered. "I am the leader of Organization XIII."
They all jumped back in shock as if he had just said a string of bad words.
"You are their leader?" asked Mickey.
"You make us sound like we're bad people," commented Xemnas. "All we want is our hearts back."
"Yeah right," said Donald. "You terrorize lots of people and disrupt worldly orders."
"Wow. You came up with that all by yourself? Good for you."
Axel laughed a little, but no one heard him. Sora was now fully aggravated and pulled out his Keyblade.
"What are you people up to?" he asked, stretching the Keyblade towards Xemnas as a threat.
"It's simple, really," he said, now moving closer to all of them. "We want our hearts back, but in order to get them, we need a certain amount of hearts. You see, these hearts that I speak of come from all of the Heartless you kill. Once a Heartless is killed, their heart is sent to the almighty realm of Kingdom Hearts. As soon as enough hearts are collected inside Kingdom Hearts, we Nobodies will become free and whole beings."
'Nice speech there, Xemmy.'
"You mean I've been helping you freaks all this time!" asked Sora angrily.
"Apparently so," said Xemnas with a sly smirk. "Makes you look like quite the loser, if I do say so myself."
Sora suddenly got really angry and ran towards Xemnas with his Keyblade ready to whack the crap out of something. But then, before he had the chance to, Xemnas summoned a portal around himself and disappeared. Sora stopped dead in his tracks.
"What do we do now?" he asked, looking behind him at his friends, expecting some kind of answer.
"I'm gonna go after him!" yelled Mickey, jumping through the barely opened portal.
"YOUR MAGESTY!" yelled Donald and Goofy simultaneously.
The portal suddenly closed and was gone. Sora sat down on the ground and punched it a few times in anger. Goofy walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay, Sora," he said. "We'll find him again."
"Yeah, but he knew where Riku was!" Sora complained. "Now I'll never see Riku again!"
"Don't say that. We'll find him if we keep lookin'."
"Yeah, maybe. But haven't we already looked enough?"
Axel decided this was his time to step in.
"You can never look hard enough for a friend you can't find," he said from the shadows.
The three of them immediately turned their heads back at the sound of this new voice. Axel had now teleported to the outside of the place where he was hiding and was leaning against the blue-colored rock in his usual teenage fashion. Sora and co. drew their weapons and got into a fighting stance.
"There's no need for that, guys," he said, pushing himself out of his leaning position. "I'm only here to help."
"But you're with them," said Sora almost disgustedly. "Why on earth would you want to help us?"
Axel sighed as he looked at his Organization XIII robe that was still on him.
"First of all, don't ever mock us. We are only beings that are incomplete. You can't blame us for that. Second of all, I'm no longer with them. They treated me like crap and I decided that I wanted to quit being in their group. Third of all, I want to help you because you know a very dear friend of mine."
"Who are you?" asked Sora.
"My name's Axel, got it memorized?"
Sora became angry again.
"You're the one who kidnapped Kairi!" he yelled. "Tell me where she is!"
"Well, frankly, I don't really know," he said.
"But you kidnapped her! You must know where she is!"
Suddenly a portal opened up in front of Sora. Out stepped Saïx.
"Holy crap, they've found me," Axel muttered to himself, now summoning a portal out of there.
"Wait!" yelled Sora, about to run forward. But he was stopped by Saïx's arm.
"Don't listen to him, Sora," he said in his creepy voice. "He's crazy."
"But he knows where Kairi is!"
And those were the last words he heard out of Sora when he disappeared. He sure hoped Saïx wouldn't hurt him…..
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Well, that was my incredibly short, extremely crappy chapter. Please shoot me if you're not satisfied. Half of this was written at a really late time.
Flames will be transferred to Lexaeus and Larxene, because they suck.
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