Chapter Tweleve: Hollow Bastion
He found them in the hall, all of them were wearing scowls, but their expressions changed as they saw Xemnas. Xemnas didn't have a calm look on his face as he had minutes before, instead it was an angry face, "All of you, I want you to find Axel and kill him."
Sora glared at Riku, his blue eyes flashing. Didn't Riku understand that Kairi was in troubkle? Did he even care? "Just shut up, Riku. I have to find Kairi and I'm not going to let you stop me!"
Riku tensed and argued, "You don't even know where she is. You've waited before Sora, so you can wait one more time. Leon wants to take us to Hollow Bastion with everyone else, we can look for her there, but you can't just get up and leave."
Leon stepped up and rested a hand on Sora's shoulder, "Sora, you found her before, twice infact, you'll find her again, but you're too inexperianced at the moment. Come on, let's go to Hollow Bastion." Leon was calm and he tried to comfort Sora.
Slowly, Sora begn to relax and finally nodded. With that settled, Leon and the others headed back to the apartment.
Kairi's eyes opened slightly. She saw an unfimilar room around her and her eyes flew open. Where was she? She then remember Xemnas was around here somewhere. Blinking, she stood up, wondering if she could warn Sora in any way possible. She picked herself up, feeling very stiff. She wasn't very sure how she had gotten here, or when she had, but she would not be the bait again!
Kairi saw that Xemnas was no where to be seen and quietly walked over to the door. It was nothing more than a ray of light, but when she touched it, Kairi immediantly drew back. Electricity shot out from the blue ray and shocxked her hand. "Ouch!" she muttered to herself.
"Now what?" she questioned herself, walking over to the window. She looked down and gasped at the sight. The city was masked in darkness and streets lights and bulidings were the only thing that lit the city up. She could see Shadows and Nobodies crowding the whole city.
She could just make out a few dark figures racing along the streets. She craned her head over about an inch and saw what they were running for. She saw a hooded figure running about ten feet in front of them. The figure carries red disks. Kairi knew that it was Axel. He was in trouble!
The Roganization XIII members were catching up to Axel quickly. Kairi pressed her hands against the thin glass, hoping Axel could escape. Just when they were about to run him into an alley, Kairi saw another figure appear in front of Axel.
Axel ran past the other hooed figure and towards the wall. Kairi could have sworn he said something before vanishing. The other figure held out a hand and there was a flash of light before a long, thin blade appeaered. The handle was silver and the metal were the blade hooked with the hilt, was swirled, sticking out. The figure raised the sword and with his free hand, ordered the Organization XIII to leave.
Kairi guessed that it was Scalvatrx, helping Axel. When the Organization XIII didn't listen and attacked Scalvatrx, a new blade appeared in his hand. Kairi was surprised to see it was a Keyblade, similar to the one Sora carried when he was in his Dark Form.
The Organization members halted, and their own weapons appeared. She could see Xaldin's blade-like spears swirling in the air as they struck out at Scalvatrx, but Scalvatrx deflected them before following Axel into the dark portal.
"Do you like my city, Kairi?" came Xemnas's hollow voice.
Kairi spun around, anger flaring within her, "You'll never hurt Sora!" she snarled.
Xemnas cast her an uncaring glance before responding with a smile, "That just proves how little you really know, Kairi."
Saix and Luxord were near Merlin's house, speaking quietly. "How do you suppose we get close enough without them detecting us?" Luxord asked Saix quietly.
"Simple, all we have to do is one of us goes on the roof, while the other goes over to a side window, and slides it open. That way we can hear what they're saying."
"Why does one of us have to go the roof?"
"Because one of us will make noise, which will destract them. My guess is that it will bring them outside. Once they're out, the person by the window, will go inside and shut the door, locking it so they can't get in, and access their computer. In doing so, we will be able to steal info from their computer, using this." Saix within a disk from his pocket.
Luxord nodded, "Clever. But one will have to stay behind so when the others eventually break back in, we can get any extra information."
"Exactly, now lets go." Saix ordered, rushing over to the house, "Luxord, you're on the roof."
Riku summoned a dark poratl for everyone to go through so they could reach Hollow Bastion. Sora was the first to go through, then Leon. Riku was the last. Stepping through the dark portal, he didn't look behind him, and if he had, he would have saw Demyx standing there, he should over his shoulder. Demyx was smiling as he vanished into his own dark portal, ready to tell Xemnas that Riku, Sora, amd Leon were coming.
Riku reached the other end of the dark portal and found the others standing in the middle of the Bailey. Sora turned around, a grin on his face, "Not very accurate are we?"
Riku smiled, knowing that this was Sora, his old friend, not the darkness, but the light. "Guess not, but I'm just glad I have my powers back."
"Why do you have them back anyway? You lost them when you turned back into yourself." Sora asked.
Leon gave no time for the others to speak as he said, "No time to chat, come on, the others are waiting."
Saix watched as Luxord hit the roof was his weapon. He heard the crack in the roof as Luxord threw Saix his weapon back. Saix hid on the side of the house next to the alley. He glanced inside the window and saw that everyone was coming outside to see what had happened. Luxord quickly hopped down and on the other side where they couldn't see him.
That was Saix' cue, he busted the window with his fist and leapt inside, quickly runing to lam the door. He latched it and ran over to the computer. He shoved the disk in and quickly doawloaded as much data as possible. He heard banging on the door and loud shouts. He turned to look just as Yuffie's figure caught his eye at the busted window. Saix grunted as he looked back at the computer. 85 complete.
"Organization XIII!" Yuffie gasped as she began to climb through the window.
"I don't think so," Saix said, raising his weapon and sending a shockwave through the air straight at Yuffie. Yuffie was forced back and jumped away just as the blast broke off the rest of the shards of hanging glass.
Saix looked back at the computer. 98 complete. He heard Yuffie yell something towards one of the others. Saix turned around to the door just as Merlin busted it down with magic. "100 complete." Came the computer's voice. Saix ejected the disk and waved, "Thanks for your time." Then he vanished into a dark portal.
Meanwhile Luxord was watching down below as Merlin yelled, "The Organization took our data!"
"This is not good…" Yuffie muttered.
Tifa sighed, "Leon just had to leave, didn't he?"
"Yeah, but who else would we send to find Sora?" Yuffie sighed, going over to the computer. She sat down in the chair and began searching foor ll the files that Saix had obtained.
She clicked on one, recongizing it.
City Protection System
Upgraded to 10 more power.
Traces of Heartless-501.78
Heartless Destroyed-0
Enmies located at-&$#
Control System-On/Off-Off"
"Oh man!" Yuffie groaned, "Merlin, come over here. Look at this! The system's turned off and the place where all of the Heartless are located at, is curupted!"
"What? How many Heartless, wht is the percentage?" Merlin asked, walking over. "Oh no! 501.78! Did you turn the system off?" Merlin demanded to Yuffie.
"No! It was like this when I opened the file!" Yuffie swore.
"Open another file," Merlin commanded.
Yuffie did so. This was a message from Leon
Yuffie, Merlin, Tifa,
I've found them and I plan to leave tommrow at dawn. I have some bad news though, Sora, he has a dark side to him now. For some strange reason that no one can figure out, he has, everytime he became like this, attacked Riku. We have discovered he wields a new Keyblade in this state.
The Keyblade is powerful, you can tell just by looking at it. It was Kairi who stopped Sora from killing Riku. I am not sure how, but she did. The reason we figure he became like this, turning into his Dark Form at this time, I mean, is because of Scalvatrx.
I've never heard of Scalvatrx, but it seems that Scalvatrx ticked Sora off.
Just moments ago, Kairi and I discovered Riku speaking with Axel. Neither of us saw Sora anywhere, and we never knew what Axel and Riku were discussing because Axel left, but Riku tried to stop him and failed. When Sora appeared, he was curious about what Axel had told Riku and seemed rather upset.
Riku forced Kairi and I to leave, and now I am waiting for them to finish talking. Kairi is outside at the moment practicing with her Keyblade.
Yuffie noticed nothing was wrong with this message and continued to scroll down. All at once she came to another, newer message from leon, this one was messed up so badly, Yuffie could barley read it.
Oh 9n! #& h#s Kairi! So& is ve#y a#r& w!h us for &ot le#$$# him go and se$a&& for her. Ke&p your $$$$ open fo any sign of Org!iz&tion XIII!
"Merlin, can you read this?" Yuffie asked, she understood pieces of it, but the rest was gibberish.
"I think it says, 'Oh man! Blnk has Kairi. Sora is very blank with us for not letting him go and hmm…ah, search for her. Kepp your blank open for any sign of Organization XIII.' That's all I can read." Merlin said.
Sora was racing towards Merlin's house with Riku and Leon behind him. As he neared it, he spotted a fimilar person. Luxord was standing outside the window, looking in, but he turned around at the sound of foot steps. "Luxord!" Sora yelled, "Where's Kairi?"
Luxord grinned, "I didn't expect you so soon."
Riku raced in front of Sora, his Keyblade appearing, "What have you done with Kairi?" he demanded, his voice harsh with anger.
"You really shouldn't be worrying about her. If you must know where she is, she's with Xemnas, but you have to figure the rest out yourself." With that Luxord vanished, leaving Sora, Riku, and Leon with questions and anger.
Suddenly the door to Merlin's house burst open as Yuffie came out with her own blades. She saw Sora, Riku, and Leon standing there, but no one else. She relaxed and said, "It's only you."
Leon, who had noticed the broken window, asked, "What happened?"
"Oh yeah? Well how do you know that when you take my friend's heart, that you won't obtain the dark side of him as well?" Kairi spat.
Xemnas looked at her and laughed, "Silly girl. Haven't you realized it yet? I'm the one who created the darkness in Sora's heart. The closer he comes to us, the more powerful and more common his Dark Form becomes. Eventually, the darkness will steal his heart from him, and that is when it is mine."
"Why do you act like this? I'm sure you were different before, wasn't Xanenort kind, any in the least?" Kairi's voice had become wondering and prickled with sorrow.
Xemnas moved away from her and said without looking at her, "I don't remember."
"Then try!"
"Why do you care for me? I do not waant to remember, and if you keep this up, I will be sure that you are not safe here." Xemnas growled.
"What!" Kairi gsped, pulling herself backwards in fear.
"Organization XIII paid us a little visit." Yuffie explained.