Here is the newest chapter of the Angelic Siren! This is going to be the first chapter that really involves romance. This is my first time doing something like this so if it sucks please don't get mad.
If people are curious, Xaria's keytar is called Fallen Angel and her limit break, which is featured in this chapter, is called Siren's Melody. I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters involved in this chapter except for Xaria! They all belong to Square Enix. Hope you enjoy this chapter.
3rd POV
It had been a week since Xaria had joined Organization XIII. Right now, she was heading towards the Grey Room, ready for her next training mission. When she arrived, she saw Saix, Axel, Xigbar, Demyx, and Zexion already in the room.
The first thing she did was head over to Axel, who was leaning against the window and say hi. "Morning Axel, your head doing ok?" Axel turned his head toward Xaria to show that his forehead had a fading bruise on it. "Hey Xaria. Yeah, it's getting better. I better make a note to never mess with you guys again." Xaria sighed remembering the event Axel mentioned.
The day after Xaria had joined, Axel was showing everyone the picture he took of Saix carrying her back to her room, when Number XII caused the injury on Axel's face.
~Flashback~
Xaria came walked into the Grey Room to see everyone except Xemnas, Vexen, and Lexeaus crowding around one of the couch sets. Saix was standing in the back of the crowd, with a pissed off expression on his face and a somewhat demonic aura around him. Remembering the note from yesterday, she rushed into the crowd and saw Axel, sitting on the couch, waving the picture around.
"Gather around everyone! I have one embarrassing picture of these two lovebirds for all eyes to see."
Demyx looked at the picture and began to laugh. "Haha! Man I can't imagine Saix being such a big softie. Though I could see since you three are all friends." Xigbar came up behind Demyx, scaring him. "As if! There has to be something more between those two right Axel?"
The flame-head nodded with a huge grin on his face. "You are correct Xig! You see Xaria and Saix's others had been together for about three years before we joined the organization. Got it memorized?"
Everyone in the room, with the exception of Axel, Saix, Xaria, and Zexion, were all surprised at the statement Axel just made. Demyx noticed Xaria and pointed at her. "How did Saix manage to snag a girl like Xaria? I mean, can you really imagine Saix being lovey-dovey with her?"
Everyone else sort of agreed with Demyx comment while Axel just laughed. "Oh I swear, he comes the embarrassing part for Saix. See the locket in this picture?" Everyone leaned over to see Axel pointing to Xaria's locket coming out of her coat in the picture. "That was a gift from Saix just before we got turned into nobodies. Inside there's an engraving in it that says 'I'll l-' GAH!"
Before Axel was able to continue, both Saix and Xaria hit Axel in the head at the same time, causing him to fall over and hit the table. This caused Axel to drop the picture, which Saix caught, and giving him a small bruise.
After putting the picture in this coat, Saix spoke. "Axel that is enough talking from you. You have a mission to do." Xaria came up with a small scowl on her face. "That's what you get for messing with Saix and me. Not to mention what's in my locket is private."
Once that whole fiasco was over, everyone went back to what they were doing before or went on their mission.
~Flashback End~
"You did go too far with the locket part. How did you even know what it said in it?"
Axel rubbed the bruise as he spoke. "Well the day Saix, or should I say Isa, I was there with him and heard him say it when they asked for the message inside the locket."
Xaria just nodded her head understanding before she spoke. "Well I'll see you later Axel. Today Saix is helping me with learning my limit break for my mission today."
As Xaria left Axel seemed very surprised at what she said. 'Saix hardly goes on mission. Heh, probably just wants to spend time with his girlfriend. Wait, what if he turns into that while with her? That may not end good.'
Xaria's POV
Saix and I came out of the Corridor of Darkness to end up in a dark town. I looked around to find that we were in what looked like a town square. The thing was though, the fountain in the middle of the spewed out green water and there was a huge guillotine next to it. The rest of the square screamed Halloween.
I turned my head to Saix ready to ask a question. "Where are we Saix? This place reminds me of when we use to dress up for Halloween when we were kids." Saix was looking around when he responded to my question. "We're in Halloween Town, a world that the organization discovered not too long ago. The heartless here are suitable for learning about the limit break."
I just nodded asking how to use a limit break. "A limit break is like a last resort attack. When you are have lost a large amount of energy, you can unlock large amounts of power for a small amount of time."
Once I heard how I had to lose a great amount of energy I asked another question. "Wait how am I going to lose that much energy. You're not going to just let me get attack by heartless, are you?" Saix just shook his head his head in response.
"Don't worry we won't have to do it that way. All you need to do is block my attacks, which will reduce the amount of damage you'd get from an attack of mine, until you are tired enough." (A/N: I know that in KH: 358/2 Days you don't receive damage when you block but this way makes it easier for the story.)
I nodded my head and summoned my keytar preparing to protect myself. At first I was a little nervous, but calmed down realizing Saix would never severally hurt me. Once Saix saw me ready, he summoned his claymore.
When he was about to strike, I flipped my keytar so the back of it would receive the damage. After blocking for a while, I began to get tired and Saix stopped.
"Now you are prepared to use you limit break." Just after he finished speaking, a black humanoid heartless with long antennas appeared in the middle of the square. From what I had heard, that heartless was called Neoshadow.
I ran close to the heartless prepared to attack. After hitting the heartless a few times, I concentrated preparing to bring out my limit break. Once I felt a great surge of energy I spoke. "Prepare to see the powers of the fallen!"
Saix's POV
As Xaria activated her powers, her keytar disappeared, leaving black and white music notes in its place. She closed her eyes and began to sing a melody in a familiar, yet mysterious language. As she sang, some of the music notes began to circle the Neoshadow. As the heartless was about to attack Xaria, the notes disappeared and a pillar of light took its place. The pillar hit the heartless destroying it and sending it heart into the sky.
Once the pillar faded away, Xaria stopped singing and the remaining notes reverted back to her keytar. After putting her keytar away, she used a potion she had on her, and then walked toward me. "So how was that Saix? To be honest during the whole thing I sort of spaced out so I only saw the heartless get destroyed by a pillar."
I kept a calm face as I spoke. "You're limit break is very powerful from the looks of it. I can see why you are called the Angelic Siren." I saw Xaria grin and giggle after I gave her the compliment. "Now that you mission is complete lets return to the castle."
Just as the both of us turned, another large, humanoid heartless appeared. This one though, was clad in armor and had blue interweaving blades where its hands should be. It was blocking the location of the corridor, leaving us to fight the thing.
I summoned my claymore again as I prepared to face this new heartless. "Looks like we'll have to deal with this before we can get back." I saw Xaria nod her as she summoned her keytar.
The heartless was the one to make the first move as it ran towards us, ready to attack us. Both of us managed to dodge his attack giving us a chance to counter. While she managed to send some music notes at it, I hit the heartless in its helmet, causing it to step back.
It recovered quickly and went straight for me. I was unable to dodge the attack, letting the heartless cut me across the chest. I fell to the ground as I heard Xaria scream my name. The cut wasn't deep, but it hurt to stand up, causing me to use my claymore as a support.
As I looked up to see the armored heartless hit its blade against the back of her keytar. Xaria couldn't hold her ground any longer and she feel on her stomach. I knew she was tired from using her limit break and one more blow would take her out, for good.
If that were to happen, then she wouldn't get a second chance, she would just fade out of existence. It had been years since I've seen her and I don't want to lose the chance of seeing her again so soon. 'I'm not going to lose her. Not again!' I didn't want to show it around her, but it's a must to protect her. I have to go berserk right now.
Xaria's POV
I lost my footing after the heartless pushed against my keytar and landed on my stomach. With no way of protecting my self in this position, I braced myself for the next attack. The thing was though, the attack never came, but I heard the sound of metal clashing.
I looked up to see Saix standing back up blocking the heartless's blade. Before I could do anything though I heard a growl coming from Saix. When I looked at him, I saw that he appeared wilder, like feral animal. His hair had spiked up more, his eyes were all yellow, his scar had become bigger and jagged, and his claymore became bigger with the spikes becoming longer and sharper.
The heartless jumped back charging for an attack. Before it could though, Saix began to attack the heartless like there was no tomorrow. His attacks weren't like before, which were aimed and planned. It was like he was attacking the heartless every chance he had with real thought. I just sat there watching the wild animal I knew as Saix thrash at the creature.
After awhile Saix gave the finishing blow sending its heart into the sky. I finally stood up and called Saix's name, causing him to turn towards me. His face still appeared a bit savage but he looked like he was calming down. Once he was back to original state, he started to walk towards me.
However, just as he stood before me he collapsed. I rushed to him to see the cut he received from the heartless started to bleed a little more. Knowing that he wouldn't wake up soon, I grabbed his arm and dragged him to the open corridor. I hope that I could get back to the castle before Saix's wound became serious.
3 hours later…
After we returned to the castle, Saix was brought to the infirmary while I went to Xemnas to report from the mission. I also explained the situation when mysterious heartless attacked us. "Sir, I would like to ask, when Saix fought the heartless, he acted strange, almost beast-like. Do you have any ideas of why that may be?"
The superior sighed as if he knew something but didn't want to say it. "I think it will be best if you ask Number VII this yourself. You are dismissed."
After that, I hurried to the infirmary to only find Vexen, who acted as the organization's doctor. He told me that Saix's injuries weren't serious and he went to his room to rest. I made a sigh of relief to find out that he was ok.
Right now, I was standing in front of Saix's room holding a tray of food. Since dinner had finished, I offered to bring Saix's share of food. Axel and Demyx teased me saying I only wanted to go to see Saix. I just responded by making a small music note exploded behind each them, scaring them off of their seats.
To be honest, seeing Saix was half the reason I wanted to go. I wanted to ask him about his monstrous change.
I knocked on the door but there wasn't a response, so I just let myself in. I walked in to see Saix asleep on his bed without his coat or boots on and only had blue sleep pants on. His chest was covered in bandages, but I could clearly see that he was very lean but not overly muscular.
As I felt blood rush to my face, I shook the thoughts of a topless Saix out of my head. I put the tray of food on the stand next to the bed, and shook Saix awake. As he woke up, Saix groaned while putting his right hand on his head and his left as a support while sitting up.
"Ugh what time is it? And what are you doing here Xaria?" I sat on the side of his bed and pointed to the tray. "Dinner just finished and since you were asleep, I decided to bring you your food."
Saix nodded and brought his hand out to grab the tray. Before he could touch it though, I grabbed his hand, causing him to face me. "I also wanted to ask you something Saix. Before that armored heartless was about to attack me, you protected me and took it down. But during that, you acted savage, like you weren't you. Please, if you can, tell me what happened to you."
3rd POV
"Please if you can, tell me what happened to you." Saix remembered the events of earlier that day and knew that there was no way of ignoring that question.
He had Xaria let go of his hand as he placed both of his hands down on the bed. He sighed, knowing it'd be better to tell her. "You know that I have the power over the moon, correct? Well it gives me power and once I reach a certain amount, I go into what I call, a berserker phase. I gain amazing power and speed but at the cost of my self-control. I pretty much turn into an animal and my instincts guide me."
Xaria tried to comprehend all of what Saix had told her. "So in other words, when if comes to the moon, you are like a werewolf?"
Saix just nodded his head in response to her summary but he kept his head down. "The thing is though, I didn't wan to show that side of me around you. I'm like a monster when I'm like that and I didn't want you to be scared of me because of this power. It was the only way for me to protect you."
Xaria wasn't scared of Saix though, but she had to tell him that. She quickly grabbed his hand as she scooted closer to him. "Saix, listen. I'm not scared of you. You said it yourself, your instincts guide you when you like that. Your instincts told you to protect me and that's nothing to be ashamed of."
Saix looked at her, surprised at what she just said. Xaria held Saix's hand and smiled as she decided to continue her confession. "Besides, inside there, your still the guy that I know and love that would never hurt me"
Saix's eyes widened at Xaria, who had just confessed his feelings for her. Before he could say anything in response, he felt a set of lips on his. He realized that Xaria was kissing him. He closed his eyes kissed back, remembering how it felt when they had their first kiss before losing their hearts.
When they let go, both saw a hint of red on each other's cheeks. She let go Saix's hand and stood up. "Well, I guess I'll be going now. I'll see you tomorrow Saix." Before she went through the door, she turned towards Saix and winked at him. Once she closed the door, Xaria's face had turned as red as a tomato. She headed back to her room to sleep, where she'd have a long dream involving her and Saix. But that's another story.
Woohoo! Finished another chapter. Yep this is their first kiss as nobodies, I may have more kiss scenes but that will be a secret for me to know how many. During Xaria's Limit Break, I imagined her singing a song called Pandora Hearts from the anime with the same name. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and review if you want.
