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Chapter V.I: The Road to Juno: Part Two
Sora's POV:
I can't believe I almost gave in to that yucky temptation. Now Roxas will tease me and will probably think I'm gay! He dragged me along into the black portal that opened after we faced the last temptation. The new place was nothing like the first one. It was a barren wasteland with storm clouds over it. It gave me the creeps. He held on to my hand still.
"Where are we?" he asked.
"How should I know?" thunder sounded and his grip tightened.
"What's wrong?" I asked, starting to get worried.
"I... don't like thunder" the sky got darkened and there were flashes of lightning. His grip further tightened.
"We should walk" I said, I never released my grip on him.
After a few minutes of thunder, Roxas was already shaking. I never knew he was this afraid of thunder. But the situation got worse when thunder hit a few steps behind Roxas. He yelped and curled into a little ball and started crying.
"Shh... Roxas, it's gonna be fine" I embraced him to show that I was there.
"B-but.. I'm... scared" he whimpered, crying on my shirt. I got an idea.
"Climb on my back" he did and I walked on. He was crying for a few minutes and suddenly stopped.
"Roxas?" he was sleeping. His breath was tingling my neck, making the hairs the backs of it stand up. Yet, I was oddly comfortable in this position, so I walked on. The thunder stopped clapping and the lightning stopped too. But the cave was still gray and gloomy though. Roxas started to moan and wake up.
"Sora..?" he said
"Yup?" I ask cheerfully
"Thanks" he said, I could feel him smile.
"For what? You're heavy and you owe me for this" he chuckled and slapped the back of my neck and jumped off.
"Not more thunder?" he said. He shook his head. We reached some kind of place where there were statues of each of the worlds. I touched Radiant Garden's statue and asked myself how everyone was doing. Suddenly, the statue began jerking and started crumbling... as though answering my question. The Land of Dragons, Beast's Castle, Halloween Town and all the other statues started crumbling too.
Does that answer your question? An eerie voice was heard. I fell to the ground and started shaking and crying uncontrollably. Roxas came to my side.
"Sora, don't loose hope!"
"B-b-ut! The thing s-said..." he slapped me hard across the face.
"Pull yourself together Sora! Have Trust in Aladdin! In Mulan! You know that they can protect themselves! Right?!" his eyes were hard on mine. But they softened and he hugged me tight.
"I'm afraid of lightning... You're afraid of loosing your friends... So this must be" he stopped
"The cave of fear" I continued. I stood up and led the way, forgetting what happened.
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A few more minutes we walked until at the opening of a black hole that was on the ground.
"Should we jump?" I asked his opinion
"No... something's telling me we shouldn't"
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Roxas' POV:
Just then, I felt as a strong jerk on my body and I was floating above Sora and me. I was, or my body was bleeding and Sora was trying to use Curaga on me, but It didn't seem to work. He was cradling my unmoving but still breathing body when a mirror image of me in Organization XIII clothes showed up.
"You know what to do" it said and stabbed itself with Oblivion and faded away. Sora summoned Ultima Weapon and did stab himself on his heart. My eyes snapped open and lying beside me was a bleeding Sora.
"Rox- as..." he said, a trickle of blood leaving his mouth and his body went limp and the warm light on his eyes vanished.
There's nothing worse that losing a friend... I passed out.
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"Roxas! Roxas!" he slapped me, thus, waking me up
"Wha?! Whu??" I was confused... Sora was supposed to be dead.
"You passed out 10 minutes ago!" So it was just a fear showing up.
"Oh.." just then, the black hole on the ground flashed white and I got the feeling we should jump.
"Shall we?" I gave him my hand
"We shall" he chuckled and took it and we both jumped.
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We were standing in front of a long cemented road which led high into the clouds. I looked at him and he nodded and we went on. We walked for about 20 minutes but what we saw at the end of the road took our tiredness away. A magnificent city floating above the clouds, divided into three large floating islands that were connected. Emblems on the gray marble floors that emitted mysterious blue lights. Statues of old wise looking men carrying staffs and books stood high and emitted blue lights. People all around us carried staffs and wore uniform clothes, men wore chocolate brown jeans and cream shirts and cream colored robes and rings around their shoulders, women wore robes that barely covered their bodies that would make a perverts nose bleed. Majority of the people we saw wore glasses. Everyone looked really smart, no wounder it was called the city of sages. This was Juno, The City of Sages.