DiSCLAiMER ;; I rock, I PWN! And know this I don't own! I don't own Diddly-SKWAT! 'Cept for the plot; that's mine. 3
Like I promised, (or what Roxas promised), there is going to be a big secret let out during this chapter!
Enjoy! D
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I could feel my mouth drop open when Roxas mentioned the Valkyr Forest. I quickly shut it though, and turned to face Roxas. He let me go and sat down, pulling me down with him. Sitting in front of him at last, he began.
"The Shapeshyfter from those weeks ago…" he began as I listened with all ears. "He's part of a group called O.XIII. The cloak he was in, that's their trademark. They steal humans and treat them for their own pleasures. Kill, eat, torture, turn them into a slave and so forth."
"So you mean, like vampires almost…?" I asked softly.
"Not entirely. Shapeshyfters have the ability to transform into anything, even inanimate objects, such as a stone, or a puddle. They can also transform into anyone, including you—seeing as how the man that tried to rape you those weeks ago was one of them. He could've told everyone in O.XIII about you."
"I don't really understand why I'm so important…"
"Naminé… I know everything about you. The day you were born, the moment you were born, all those fights between your real family—"
"Wait! Kairi and Olette aren't my real siblings?"
"They are. You three are different girls. You, Kairi and Olette, your parents… they aren't Cloud and Tifa… They're… Leon and Riona…"
"So you mean… my sisters and I… we're... the King and Queen's children?"
Roxas nodded. I could feel myself go dizzy, "H-how do you know all of this?" I asked him.
Roxas inhaled deeply. "I'm one of them…"
Frozen. I was completely frozen. I felt my heart skip three beats. "You're part of O.XIII?" My heart was racing, my head was spinning, the entire tree house seemed to be a fast moving carousel; an I was in the middle of it all.
"Yes. But understand, I've been going against their orders, doing things I shouldn't be doing. I don't want to be a part of them anymore. I'm rebelling against them because… because… they have my cousin, Sora…"
The room finally stopped spinning, but my head was still throbbing.
"You're cousin?"
"Yeah… my Aunt Aerith was extremely sad when she found the note on his bed. It wrote,
'Dear family of Sora,
We have taken your son away for several reasons. He is the only one left that can destroy us, so if he is our slave, there will be nothing he can do to stop us.
O.XIII'
So you see; it's really hard for our family. And a loss to the entire city of Yuunit. Sora was our light, he was the prophet. He's been gone for three years now…"
"But I thought the prophet was supposed to come from Alder…?"
"Aerith was born and raised in Alder. Sora was inside of Aerith's stomach when she left Alder. He was born here in Yuunit. So he did come from Alder, he just wasn't born there."
"So he is the prophet! The Prophet of Alder… but… then how is this all tied together?"
"I can't tell you right now, but I need to bring you back home. If you stay here, then you'll get taken away as well. And trust me, if a girl get's taken, they don't ever come back the way they were. O.XIII is ruthless, and the rape the girls. Most the time they kill them, and rape the corpse. It's not a pretty sight."
"Oh… but then, will I see you again?"
"Maybe, I don't know. Just whenever you feel lonely, just remember I'll be watching."
I nodded as Roxas picked me up and we walked back to his house. His parents weren't home; Pence and Hayner were playing ping-pong. Looked like Hayner was loosing though.
"Oi, Roxas!" Hayner called out. "Luxord went for a walk, he said he was gonna visit some friends in the city."
"Thanks Hayner! I'm going to take Naminé home," he began. "She misses her sisters."
After a few hours of getting some stuff together, I gave my farewells to Hayner and Pence and told them to give my good-bye's to Eli, Ansem and Luxord.
X.x.X
As we arrived at Witu, I looked around. Something didn't seem right. I held onto Roxas's hand and pulled him towards my house.
Once arriving to there I looked at Roxas and smiled. He pulled me into an embrace. "I hope to see you soon, Naminé," he whispered into my ear as he kissed my cheek.
He pulled away and then kissed me for maybe the last time on my lips. I quickly returned it. "This isn't goo-bye though," I began. "We'll see each other again, I promise."
And with that, I let go of Roxas and turned to walk into my house. I opened the door and turned to talk to Roxas, but he was already gone. I sighed and walked into the front room.
"Mom! Dad! Kairi, Olette!" I called out. No one answered. I spelt something fowl that burnt my nostrils and made my eyes sting. I didn't want to see what it was, but it quirked my interest. I followed the smell.
I got into the living room and saw some kind of liquid. It was crimson. I wanted to turn back, but I kept going. I turned the corner by the couch and there they were.
Mom and Dad, deceased, rotting, and lost all their blood. Everything seemed to spin again. I covered my mouth with both hands, to hold back my scream. This couldn't be happening! But it was!
I saw a note over on the couch. I tried to dodge as much blood as I could. I began to read the note. It was messy, and was written in red.
'Dear Naminé,
I heard everything between you and our thirteenth member Roxas .Maybe you could've learned something if you had just let me rape you. But no, Roxas had to come and rescue you.
Well that's too bad, because we know who you are, Naminé… and we have a surprise for you. Kairi and Olette are with us, and do you want to know what else, they will be our slaves unless you can try and defeat us. But that won't be possible. You couldn't even get past Roxas's attacks, how will you get past ours!
O.XIII No. I, Xemnas
P.S. This note is written in your parent's blood.'
I dropped the note. I began to back up, not caring if I stepped on blood anymore. They had my sisters! And they would probably kill them! I turned around to be face to face against a man with spiked red hair, dark green eyes, and a triangle underneath one of them. He wore the O.XIII's robe.
"Hello there," he began. "Princess Naminé of Fruy!"
I screamed at last, and as loud as I could. I brought my fist up to punch this guy, but he had my wrist before I even lunged it foreword.
That speed!
Before I could say anything more, he had a fist on my head and everything went black.
X.x.X
Running… is that all I could ever do? Just run everywhere, anywhere, and hide.
Hiding, that wasn't the best idea on my behalf. They were everywhere, anywhere.
Screaming… it's all I could do when they got me. I screamed until I couldn't feel my lungs.
Dying… I could hear my name… "Naminé… Naminé… NAMINÉ!"
I bolted up right and looked around, holding my heart. I didn't recognize this place. It had walls of white, floors of white, everything was white! And it blinded my eyes.
I looked around, seeing a boy with somewhat spiky brown hair, and deep blue eyes. His skin was bruised, cut, and burnt anywhere I could see bare skin. He stared at me, his eyes swollen in pain, but he smiled.
"They got you too, huh?" the boy said.
"Why're you smiling like that?" I asked him.
"After three years of pain and agony, you get used to it…"
Three years! He's gotta be Sora! That's how long Roxas told me that Sora was gone!
"You're underwear is showing…" Sora said and chuckled.
I felt myself blush and close my legs. But then pain shot through my entire body. I looked down to my ankles, and saw shackles. They were there upon my ankles, wrists and neck.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Naminé," I said simply. I saw him smile again. He was so brave. "And you're Sora, right? Roxas told me about you."
"Ahh, so you know Roxas?" he smiled again. "That's good."
"Have you seen Olette and Kairi?" I asked. He nodded.
"They're probably being interrogated right now by the O.XIII. Say, you resemble Kairi a lot, you sisters?"
"All three of us are... and we're the daughters of Leon and Riona too…"
"So you girls are the princesses… That's what Xigbar and Xaldin keep rambling about…"
I nodded. The door opened as Kairi and Olette were thrown in. I felt something tug on my neck. It was a chain attached to the collar. "Get up," a man with blue hair and an X across his nose said. His voice was monotone, and dark.
I refused to move, I needed to tell my sisters I was sorry. But the man pulled again, throwing me onto the ground. I stood up, and strained with all my might to stay where I was.
The man pulled again. I dug my heels into the hard floor, attempting to resist. So far so good. But not with him. The man was getting very angry, and it showed.
His eyes began to turn a darker amber than they already were and he was growling. I only showed determination on my face, but deep down inside, I was scared as hell.
I was finally forced into going to wherever this place was. And this guy would be glaring at me in the corner of his eye. I could feel his deathly gaze upon me, and it made me shiver.
I was thrown into the center of a large white room, with several different thrones' that rose above the ground, placed in a circle.
I looked around me, and counted how many chairs there were. Thirteen. Then I counted how many people there were… thirteen. Roxas was here. And he probably set me up for a trap as well. I didn't know if I could trust him anymore though.
The shackles popped off of my wrists, ankles and around my neck. "What do you want with me?!" I screamed. I didn't know I could have such rage inside of me. I was scaring myself.
One of them chuckled. I couldn't tell who it was though. When they spoke, they spoke with a dark and deep voice. "You stupid little girl," he began. I continued to look around to see who it was. "You really think that you, the first daughter of the royal family, could keep away from us?" the man spoke again.
I spotted Luxord; he glared down at me with those dark eyes of his.
"You know, Superior…" Luxord began to speak. "I would enjoy her in my quarters tonight. We have some, 'making-up' to do…" He chuckled.
I turned to the Superior, Xemnas. "No, Luxord," he began. "She will be with her sisters. After all, it's been over three weeks…" And then he laughed.
I could feel myself crying. I got down onto my knees, clasping my hands together in front of my chest. I began to mumble words that not even I could tell what I was doing. It felt like a spell almost. A prayer, maybe. Or it could just be a wish. I didn't know…
I thought I could hear myself get louder.
They noticed however.
"Let me be with the one,
The one of true desire.
Let be with the only one,
That could lift my heart higher."
I was sobbing now, trying the keep myself from tripping. I didn't even know where this came from.
"Let me be with the skies,
Soaring with the clouds.
Let me be with the moon,
So I won't hear anymore sounds.
Let me be with the one I desire,
Let me feel their pain.
Let me be with them once more,
Before I go insane…"
And then I stopped. I was calm, but I was still crying. I felt a hand on my shoulder as I twisted, screamed and ripped their arm away from me. I stood up, running. Is that all I could ever do? Just run from my fears, run from the true meaning of courage.
I ran to where my feet took me, and I ended up back in the room with Sora, Kairi and Olette. I ran inside, slamming the door behind me, and putting a chair in front of the handle so they couldn't get it open.
I slid back down to my knees and crawled over to the center. Kairi and Olette quickly got up and came over to me, bombarding me with "Are you okay?" and hugs. I whispered that I was fine.
"I'm sorry…" I said to both of them. "This is all my fault that I ran away…"
They hushed me as Kairi spoke, "It's not your fault Naminé," she said.
Olette continued what Kairi was saying. "It's ours," she began. "If we had been nicer to you, then no of this would've ever happened."
I could hear Sora shuffle over to us. "They're back," he said softly. He looked down at us and smiled. "I know a way to hide from them, so that they think we've run away."
We looked at each other and nodded to Sora. Grinning, he told us to manage to get up to the top of the cell. There is a ledge there that we could sit on, and it would hide us.
"I've been figuring it out for years," Sora said. "And I've finally got it down."
We nodded as we climbed up the walls and got to the ledge. We sat down, and placed our backs up against the wall so we were hidden.
The door flew open as the chair was thrown against the wall and shattered into splinters.
I held my breath as some of the O.XIII searched around for us. Throwing everything into the air.
I saw Xemnas walk into the room. "Superior!" the red head said. "They seemed to have gotten out."
Xemnas growled as he screamed loudly. "You think I don't know that? FOOL!" he shouted at the red head and pushed him against the wall, making the red head become unconscious. I didn't want to see him having a bad day…
"Larxene!" Xemnas called to a girl with green eyes and blond hair that had two pieces styled into antennae. "You, Xigbar, Xaldin, and Demyx search the outside! Everyone else, raid the city of Yuunit! Don't stop until you find them! All of them! Now, GO!"
I looked over at Sora. He seemed to be crying. For he and I knew that his family lived in Yuunit.
This could end badly…
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Fufufufufu…
I enjoyed writing this chapter actually. It was quite fun. I was trying to decide whether I wanted to have Naminé use a spell or make a prayer. Instead she recited a poem… oh well. Oh, and by the way, the thirteenth man in the seat wasn't Roxas…
If you wanna guess who it is, go right ahead. You might not know, or you might... who knows?
I think I'm gonna have a lot of fun with the fifth chapter!
MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (cough, cough, hack, hack)
:P