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The Ocean's Tears

by hanyou-samurai

Chapter 7

Sam's POV

I stepped out into twilight. The heat from the day had faded and it was growing cold. I walked to the paupu tree on its own little island and sat on it, staring at the ocean. When I still had my magic, I could go into my own mind, and meditate, with the ocean beating in my ears, my mind, and my heart. But no more.

I couldn't cry. I couldn't cry anymore. I had given up my emotion maker (I hesitate to call it a heart) and left it with a man. A man who probably hated me right now.

I leaned my head against the trunk, and watched the waves slowly beat against the shore. I wondered what it would be like to swim and not be able to breathe. I wondered what it would be like to die in the thing that used to occupy my soul.

The branch I was sitting on shook slightly as someone sat on the other side of her. I looked over, and there was that jerk, Eric.

"Hey."

I glared at him. "Go away, Kairi stealer."

"I didn't steal her from anybody. She didn't have a boyfriend."

"Yes she did, but for her happiness, her boyfriend erased her memory."

"Then she didn't have a boyfriend."

I stared at him in shock. "You are so stupid."

"Her boyfriend can have her back. I don't want her anymore."

I stared at him again, this time in disgust. "You can't just throw her away like an old, used sock!"

"A sock?"

"The item in the analogy doesn't matter. You can't just throw her away!"

Eric smirked at me. "She was just for fun. The one I really want… is you."

"What?" Eric pulled his short sleeves up. On his right shoulder he had a flame tattoo, and on his left, a teardrop. Exactly like mine, except opposite sides. I gasped. "Why do you have those?" Eric smirked.

"Poor, poor little nobody."

"I am not a poor nobody!"

"You do not understand, do you? You wonder why I have these tattoos. I will explain to you. You are betrothed to me."

"What!" I jumped off the tree branch and whirled around.

He smirked. "Do you remember anything of your human life?" I shook my head. "I do. You were betrothed to me. These tattoos were done as a sign of that. You are not allowed to touch any man once I start the bond. I hadn't done that yet, which is why you could touch that blue haired man." His smirk widened, and he jumped off the branch too, grabbing my upper arms and holding me close to him. "I now begin that." He pressed his lips against mine. The flame on my shoulder burned, and the drop of water froze. He broke the kiss and I dropped to the ground, suddenly exhausted. I couldn't move. He laughed cruelly. "You are now mine, Samantha."

Zexion's POV

"We have to find her!" said Roxas as soon as Xemnas was gone. The rest of the men all agreed.

"Where should we start looking?" asked Axel.

"The Destiny Islands," I said, feeling Sam's heartbeat through the pendant.

Roxas, Axel, Riku, and Sora gave ma an odd look. "Why?" they asked in unison.

"Sam remembered a few things when we were there. I think she used to live there."

"Sora, do you remember a girl?"

"Kairi?"

"No, there was another one. She was older than us. I think I was eight or nine, and she was sixteen or seventeen. I don't think she had any friends her age, so she hung out with us a lot. She also knew things before they happened. For example, that time you broke your arm, she had told me earlier that you were going to get hurt that day. I forgot about her till now."

"Now that you mention it, I remember her too."

"That's Sam," I said. "She's a seer."

"To the Destiny Islands we go then," said Axel, chakram appearing in his hands. Roxas gave him a weird look.

"Why are your chakram out?"

"I don't think Sam will come back on her own. We might have to use… force."

I shook my head. "Nobodies don't have hearts. We don't have a heartbeat." I clutched the necklace. "But this necklace beats with her heartbeat. I think… I think the thing that allowed her to actually have emotions, and not just pretend to have them… is this. I think her heart is in here. And she left it with me." I wanted to throw something. I was disgusted with myself. I should have tried harder to stop her from leaving, but I was shocked and hurt. I suddenly remembered Sam's vision. "I need to go to the armory." I opened a portal and stepped through it, leaving the two nobodies and the two humans standing there.

Looking through the swords, I found one that spoke to me. Looking closer, I saw that it had a teardrop shape on the handle, and I knew that Sam had forged this. I took it, fastening the belt and sheath around my waist before teleporting back to the others. I opened another portal to the Destiny Islands and stepped through without a word, the others following me.

The portal opened on the paupu islands. I walked out, just in time to see Eric open a portal, holding Sam bridal style in his arms. He smirked when he saw me.

"Ah, the blue haired one. Zexion, was it?"

I growled. "Let Sam go."

Eric shook his head. "Uh-uh. Sorry Zexion. When she was human, she was betrothed to me, and now, I am making sure that she will remain mine."

I jumped forward as he backed into the portal.

"The training room in the Nobody castle Zexion. There, we shall fight for this little Nobody." The portal closed, and I landed in the sand. I made another portal as my first one disappeared. I was halfway through it when somebody grabbed me. I whirled, ready to hit whoever had stopped me. It was Riku.

"What do you want?" I hissed.

"Sora and I want to come, but we have to bring Kairi's memory back first." I glared, but consented.

"Be quick."

Riku nodded, and he and Sora ran off. For gangly teenagers, they were quite fast. Well, Riku wasn't gangly. He was all developed muscle. Sora, on the other hand, was gangly. All arms and legs. He still managed to have a few muscles though. Just as they were about to cross the bridge, the girl in question came up to them. She ran weird, in my opinion.

"Riku, what's going on, and who is this?" she asked.

Riku took her hand, and Sora's hand. He mashed them together, then said, "Both of you, close your eyes." They shrugged, but did so. In a flash, Kairi remembered everything, especially Sora. She jumped on him with a hug. They walked back to me, where I was tapping my foot impatiently.

"Can we go now?" Riku nodded, and I jumped through the portal, the others following. The few seconds I was in the portal, I tried to wrap my mind around the fact that I, a nobody without a heart, was fighting for the woman I loved, whose heart resided with me.

The portal suddenly opened into the training room, and I stumbled out, not expecting it. Everyone tumbled out after me, landing in a pile with me on the bottom. Across the room Eric laughed coldly.

"Having fun, Zexion?"

I growled deep in the back of my throat and worked my way out of the pile. Once out, I looked around for Sam. Her hands were chained together with a long chain, and she was being held by… "Xemnas," I growled, ready to rip the superiors head off.

Xemnas smirked, arms wrapped around my brunette nobody. She was slowly waking up. Sam's golden eyes opened, and she looked around groggily. Her brow furrowed as she saw me across the room. She obviously thought that I was holding her. When she realized that it wasn't me, she looked up, meeting Xemnas' golden eyes. She glared and immediately began struggling to get free. Xemnas held her more tightly.

I walked forward a few steps. "Let her go, Xemnas."

Xemnas shook his head. "I believe your opponent is Eric."

I switched my ice-cold glare to Eric. He wasn't wearing a shirt, and he was stretching, sword on the ground next to him. He smirked across the room. "Come, Zexion. Don't you want your beloved back? Don't you want to punish me for hurting her, for making her cry?" He laughed. "Wait, I forgot. You don't have a heart, so you can't love."

"And you do?" I spat, fists clenched. Everybody behind me had finally stood up, and were backing me up.

Eric smirked. "Yeah, I have one."

"Really?" I asked sarcastically.

"Yep. I'm a heartless."

"Heartless don't use their hearts!" I yelled at him, temper lost.

Eric shrugged. "Too true, too true. Just because I don't use it, doesn't mean I can't use it."

"You don't use it!" I yelled.

"With Samantha I do. But love is not the emotion I feel for her. Lust perhaps?"

"You perverted, warped heartless!" I screamed at him, drawing my sword.

"Zexion, stretch, and take your sword belt and cloak off!" yelled Sam, before Xemnas covered her mouth with his hand. She growled and bit into the white flesh. Xemnas yelped and smacked her across the face, leaving bloody streaks from his hand. I took a step towards them before somebody grabbed my hood, nearly choking me.

I whirled, and punched. Axel staggered back, clutching his nose. I glared at him. "Don't try and stop me," I hissed.

"Don't attack Xemnas. If you do, Eric will fight you too, and you'll lose. Fight Eric first, then Xemnas," he explained, nose bleeding sluggishly. I nodded, then, without apologizing, turned back to the shirtless heartless. I took Sam's advice and removed the sword belt, then my cloak. I stretched, mimicking how I had seen Sam stretch before a fight. When I was done, I drew the sword from its sheath, and leapt forward, swinging it. Eric jumped forward, and our swords met with a clash, and grated apart, sparks flying.

Sam's POV

I watched Zexion fight. He was a little rusty, and a little clumsy, but still alright. Who am I kidding, compared to Eric, he sucked! My breath seemed to freeze in my lungs as I watched Zexion take hit after hit, hardly landing any in return. Finally, both men broke apart and sized each other up, panting. Of course, Zexion was panting harder than Eric was, but still, they were both panting. Zexion clutched his sword in his sweaty hand, wiping sweat off his brow with his other hand. Eric smirked, and slid his glance over to me. I looked at Zexion. His eyes were violet orbs of rage and hate. Eric smirked, and laughed.

"Tired, Zexion? I'm sorry. Perhaps you should have paused in your scheming at some point and played with a sword."

Zexion growled in the back of his throat, sounding like a feral animal. He jumped forward, brandishing his sword. I would have rolled my eyes if this had been a less serious situation, or a movie. But it wasn't. It was my life. Do you know why I would've rolled my eyes? Because Zexion sucked. I'm serious. He sucks at using a sword. He is horrible. Heck, Axel's probably better than Zexion. And he fights with chakram! I doubt he's ever even held a sword before!

As Zexion landed on the ground, he stumbled back, Eric's sword protruding from his stomach. He looked down at it, with a seemingly confused expression on his face. As if in slow motion, he fell to the ground. I dimly heard somebody screaming, and I realized it was me. I twisted in Xemnas' arms, but he held me tight. With the overwhelming sadness and anger I felt, I let out the inhuman shriek of a woman who had just lost her love. I slammed my foot onto Xemnas'. He let me go with a curse. I whirled around, slinging my chain around his throat, and tightened it, until he couldn't breathe. A thought in the back of my head thought it interesting that even though the Nobodies didn't have hearts, they still had lungs.

"Give it back," I said, somewhere between a snarl and a scream. "Give my freakin magic back!" He choked, clawing at the chain, trying to breathe. "Give it back, Xemnas!" Xemnas raised his hand, and a ball of water flew from him into me. I dropped him as the water entered my chest. I felt it. I felt the water magic rush through my body. It was the most wonderful feeling. It was back. I had my magic back.

I dropped Xemnas, and turned to Zexion. He was lying on the ground, a pool of blood spreading out from underneath him. He turned his head towards me, and smiled. Even though he was dying, he looked content and… happy.

"Sam, you proved to me that Nobodies do have hearts. Thank you. I love you. Be well." Zexion looked at me lovingly one last time, then his eyes closed, and his chest stopped moving.

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