Here's the next chapter. Please offer constructive criticism. I need it badly. Enjoy.
It's been a day since the Castle Oblivion incident. Axel was just laying on his bed, in his room in the Castle That Never, with nothing to do except think about what had happened. The Organization had almost been taken over by Marluxia. If he hadn't let Naminé go, he wouldn't know what might've happened.
Can't help but think of what could've happened, Axel said to himself. Axel heard a dark corridor open. Axel looked around his room until he saw another person. He was wearing a black coat and had had spiky blonde hair and had blue eyes. It was the new guy, Roxas.
"Uh…" Roxas said uncertainly.
"What do you want?" Axel questioned him.
"Xemnas said that I was supposed to get some training."
"So why come to me?"
"Well..."Roxas hesitated.
"What?"
"Everyone else is kinda frightening. And Demyx is a little weird."
Axel laughed a little bit. "Don't get me started on Demyx." Axel leaped up from his bed and said, "Well what are we waiting for?" Axel opened a dark corridor behind Roxas. "Go on through." Roxas turned around and went into the corridor and Axel followed.
Axel and Roxas were at the bottom floor of the Hall of Empty Melodies. "A little competition?"
"What?" Roxas said confused, looking for where the voice came from.
"Who said that?" Axel said just confused as Roxas.
"Mind if I join?"
A dark corridor opened and out of it walked someone in a black cloak with silver hair covering the right part of his face.
"Zexion?!" Axel said shocked.
"Expecting someone else?"
"How did you-"Axel started to say but Zexion cut him off.
"Let me explain," Zexion said. He then held up his fingers and snapped them. Ten black spirals started to appear from under Zexion's feet. The spirals then started to circle around Zexion until he couldn't be seen. After a few seconds, the spirals were gone but Zexion wasn't there anymore. Instead there was a person in a skin tight suit. The upper torso of the suit was purple with a black heart outlined with a red line. The sleeves were blackish gray sleeves up to the forearms, which were red and the fingers were purple. His lower torso was also black, down to the knees, where the rest of the legs and the boots were purple. This figure had long silver hair and green eyes.
"What?" Axel said.
"Could someone tell me what's going on?" Roxas asked.
"Gladly," Zexion said in a different voice. "Vexen created a replica of a very gifted person called Riku. He was a boy who wielded the power of darkness and had strong ties to the keyblade. We created the replica so that the underground members would have a chance to save the Organization. However, In order to do so, Naminé re-wrote his memory to be like the real one in order to challenge Marluxia's would-be-puppet. But because of Axel, the plan fell apart. The replica's heart was destroyed.
"What?" Roxas said shocked.
"It's true. He was lost, with nothing but false memories.Then, Axel found him. They then found me and the replica killed me and absorbed my power. However, he also absorbed my soul. So, I took over his body. And here we are. So, Axel," Zexion said, pointing an accusing finger at Axel with his left hand. "It's time for you to die." Zexion started to walk forward toward Axel and Roxas.
"Stop right there!" Roxas said. He conjured a sliver keyblade with a yellow handle in his right hand and started to charge at Zexion. Roxas jumped in the air and held his keyblade back, preparing to slice Zexion, but Zexion shot a burst of darkness out of his left palm, hitting Roxas in the chest, sending him backward. Roxas fell on his back and his keyblade dematerialized.
"Now that that's over," Zexion said, conjuring the Soul Eater in his right hand." It's time to end this." Suddenly, the replica started to split into four of itself, each holding a Soul Eater. Axel called forth his chakras in each hand preparing himself for battle. All four replicas vanished into thin air.
"Huh?" Axel said. But before he knew it, a replica appeared a few feet above his head his head. It was diving towards him with the sword head first. Two more replicas started to charge at him, one from the front and one from the back. Axel just smirked and threw one chakra at each of the replicas charging at him. They weapons went through each replica and they both exploded into bubbles that quickly popped. Axel then caused his right hand to glow reddish orange, held it up, and shot a Firaga spell up at the replica above him. The replica then exploded into bubbles. "Come on, Zexy! You can do better that that!" Axel said laughing.
"How's this?" A voice said, and then a Dark Firaga ball shot out of no where and hit Axel square in the chest, causing him to fall over. Then, another replica appeared out of nowhere right in front of Axel, holding a Soul Eater at his throat. "Don't worry Axel. It won't hurt…me!" Zexion said. "But before I kill you, answer me this question."
"Sorry, Zexy, I just don't feel that way," Axel said, laughing at his tastless, gay joke
Zexion, ignoring Axel's joke, put more pressure on his neck with the sword in his hand. "Why did you kill me?"
Axel just sat there and laughed. "Sorry, Zexy. Xemnas' orders.
"Oh Axel. Just as Zexion was about to jam the sword into Axel's throat, a voice called out and said, "Hey!" Zexion looked up and saw a beam of light heading straight toward Zexion that hit him square in the chest, causing Zexion to fall to the ground like a weight. Now, Zexion was in the same position that Axel was in a few seconds ago; on the ground with Roxas holding his keyblade close to his throat. "This is what you get for betrayal, Zexion." But before Roxas shove his keyblade into Zexion's throat, Zexion started screaming like a banshee.
"GAAAHHHH!" Zexion shouted. "Roxas, now very puzzled, dematerialized his keyblade and stepped back, afraid of what might happen. Zexion's arms were now starting to struggle to move on their own. His head then started jerking in all directions. He then tried to get on his feet, but it was difficult because he was loosing control of the replica's body. When he finally got up he let out another scream. "GAAAHHH!" Zexion's body then started to glow a whitish, bluish color and a white, ghostly Zexion started to appear over the replica with a white tail that was connected to the replica's back. "No. I'm losing control." the figure said in Zexion's normal voice.
"Get out of my body!" the replica said, starting to regain control.
"No. I need it and I'm not going to go away that easily!"
""Alright, then!" The replica started to glow very bright purple and Zexion's figure started to do the same. The replica then called forth his Soul Eater and turned in so it was pointing toward Zexion's tail. The replica shoved his sword into Zexion's tail, cutting it off and freeing Zexion. The replica turned around and held out his free, open palmed hand, which was glowing purple. Zexion now had a purple aura around him. The replica smirked and closed his hand a little bit, causing Zexion to flash purple for a second.
"What's going on?!" Zexion questioned.
"I'm sending you back to darkness!" the replica replied, as he closed his hand more. Zexion flashed purple again, only it was longer and Zexion screamed in pain.
"GAH!" Zexion screamed in pain. "No, this can't be!"
"Obviously, it is!" the replica said, closing his palm fully. Zexion flashed purple one more time, and slowly, Zexion's ghostly formed started to fade out of existence, but before he did, Zexion said one more thing. "You will pay for this." And with that, Zexion was gone.
"Hmm. I doubt that." the replica said. He then opened up a dark corridor, walked through it and left.
I know, the last bit was a little comical. I just had to do it. R&R! Constructive criticism accepted. One more chapter to go!
