Merry early Christmas! or Kwanzaa! or Hanukkah! I am SO sorry for not posting anything in such a long time! This chap took me much longer than expected (thank you homework, homework, and more homework -_-), sorry!
Oh, and this is the first big fight scene I've ever written, so it's probably not that good ^_^'. I did my best, though! Come to think of it... It's the first 3rd person I've done in a while, too!
All right, on with the story! Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or the scenery.
Forgotten: Our Fight (3rd Person)
Xion gasped at the paper she held in her hand.
"No..no. Th-this can't be true!" she staggered a few steps backward out of shock. She shook her head as if that would make the written report say something else. But it didn't lie. She read it over again, feelings of sorrow, worry, betrayal, and anger churning inside her. The strongest feeling, though, was guilt. She was the reason they were planning this. She was the keyblade wielder they chose. She was the one who would be Roxas's end. She was the cause of all this. The report made it clear. Xion felt tears forming in her eyes. Not Roxas. Not her best friend. Not him.
"No... They can't make me do this!" Xion yelled to the report. She failed to hear three pairs of shoes walking into the room.
"Oh yes, we can," a deep icy voice snapped Xion out of her shocked state. In a moment, Saix pounced on her and pinned her to the floor as Vexen snapped something onto her wrist. Xion furiously growled and managed to kick her captive hard enough to let her go.
An enraged Saix was about to counter-attack when Xemnas's voice boomed through the lab: "Enough, Number VII. We need her alive to do this." That got Saix to back off. Xion glared at Xemnas, who was nearing them, as she tried taking off the weird, thick bracelet Vexen had clamped onto her wrist. No use, it wouldn't come off.
"Whatever you do to me, I won't let you carry out your plans!" she shouted at them angrily. Her defiance was only met with a malicious chuckle.
"Oh, I think you will, Number XIV. You see, all I have to do is this," Xemnas snapped his fingers and a black cocoon abruptly surrounded the struggling girl. When it disappeared, Xion instantly fell limp. "and you'll be under my control," he finished with an evil grin on his face. Saix and Vexen also smirked as Xion got to her feet and looked up at them, her dulled blue eyes clouded by bits of gold.
Later that day, Roxas sat alone at the top of Twilight Town's Tower, his, Axel's, and Xion's hangout place. He had a tough day and was looking forward to talking with his friends. Only problem was Axel was really pissed off at him today and Xion went MIA after lunch. He still couldn't figure out why Axel was so mad at him, but the minute the redhead saw him that afternoon, he tried to set him on fire. In the very unfriendly sort of way. Roxas tried to think of something he did to upset his best friend, but nothing came to mind. So now he found himself sitting alone, depressed. Roxas buried his face in his knees when he heard footsteps approaching. Hoping that it was Xion or Axel, he curiously turned around to see a cloaked figure that seemed to be his height. There was only one person who was that short.
"Xion? Is that you?" he asked hopefully, cheering up a bit as she sat down next to him. As if confirming his question, she handed him a Sea Salt Ice Cream she was holding while she ate one herself, a small smile gracing the bit of skin her hood didn't cover. Roxas was a little curious on why she was wearing her hood up, but he figured she must be in one of her moods again. And it usually took a while to get her to talk. He'll just wait for that time. Roxas ate his ice cream in a comforting silence as the two stared into the glowing sunset. He didn't know why, but being with her always seemed to make his day better. And hanging out with Axel, that always gets his mood up.
He was almost done with his ice cream and Xion had already thrown her stick away, but the silence still remained. Roxas wanted to ask her where she had gone off to earlier, but she still hadn't uttered a word. So he just let the silence continue. Man, if Axel were there, he'd probably find some way to get Xion to speak or laugh when she's like this.
A few minutes passed, but still no response from Xion. Roxas was starting to get worried. Her mood doesn't usually last that long. By now, she usually starts talking and it took forever to get her to shut up. She is a girl after all. So why isn't she saying anything?
"Xion? You there?" he asked, curiosly poking her (still) hooded head. Suddenly, Xion stood up, causing a startled Roxas to almost fall off the Tower.
"Roxas... It's time. I will finish my mission and it will be complete." she said, but it didn't sound like her. It sounded dark. She looked down at Roxas and took off her hood. Roxas gasped when he saw her normally blue eyes flicker a devilish gold and the ends of her hair turned partially gray.
'Xion' only smirked at his shocked expression and summoned a strange keyblade. It had two crossed Kingdom Keys with a fan of spikes coming out of its sides and a long blade coming from the bottom of the crossing. For some reason, though, the whole thing was the color of burning wood and had parts that were chipped and broken. Roxas stared wide-eyed at it as Xion smirked. While he was distracted by the strange weapon, she swung.
Instinctively, Roxas summoned his keyblade and quickly blocked Xion's attack, startled that she had tried to slice him. The incomplete weapon remained locked with his, and its wielder pressed harder against Roxas' keyblade.
Xion leaned in close to Roxas's shocked and struggling face and said in the voice that wasn't hers, "And by defeating you, I will be able to complete it." An evil smirk formed on the girl's face as she unleashed a blinding light from her palm. Roxas shielded his eyes as the light engulfed them.
The light faded and Roxas was shocked to find that they had teleported to the ginormous Bizarre Room in Wonderland, one of the many worlds he had fought Heartless in. He didn't have much time to worry about his surroundings, though. As quick as light, he blocked a fury of strong blows from Xion, who was now covered in strange looking, pinkish armor. Attached to her back were two green spikes that were each connected by blue and grey cards, similar to Luxord's, to another green spike. They looked like wings. Floating under them were smaller yellowish spikes. Her weapon, instead of the strange keyblade, was a wicked long, thick, and sharp yellow-orange blade.
Roxas noted a dark aura glowing from her wrist as he jumped onto the enormous table, away from her attack. When she hesitated to attack again, the dark glow seemed to inch up her arm and rapidly sink into her skin. Now, there was no hesitation in running towards him, weapon ready. Was that... was that darkness making her do that?
But where was it coming from? Roxas set a Blizzaga trap when he saw Xion land on the table. The second she got to where the trap was, it exploded and encased her in solid ice. A bracelet on her arm glowed that dark essence. Was it coming from that thing? Maybe if he started hitting it, the darkness would stop. Roxas started hastily attacking it, hoping that breaking it would get Xion back to normal. He didn't get far when the ice started to weaken.
He was sent flying into the gigantic chair by the combined force of the ice exploding and an incredibly strong punch. When did Xion ever get this powerful? With a painful groan, he struggled to get up as Xion swooped over to him. She smirked at Roxas's condition and swung her weapon, aiming to finish him off. At the last moment, though, Roxas managed to roll away and swung at her with all the power he could muster. He felt his keyblade hit something hard and heard Xion scream in agony before they were engulfed into another blinding light.
This time, Roxas found himself at the outskirts of Halloween Town. The pain from his previous crash had already dulled, but he reached for a Potion so it wouldn't bother him. From his unprotected side, a black blade sliced his left arm. Wincing in pain, he blocked another attack before rapidly shooting fireballs at his attacker. Once the smoke obscured her vision, he ran to the nearest boulder. Crouching behind it, he downed his Potion and analyzed his friend. He noticed that her armor had changed.
The pinkish armor was still there, but the 'wings' were gone and her arms looked darker than usual. That dark bracelet thing was still there, releasing that dark aura, though Roxas was sure he had broken it. Surprised or not, he quickly made note of her weapon swinging towards him. Her weapon was now a scythe like Marluxia's but was shaped similarly to a Tentaclaw Heartless. The long ranged weapon made quick work of his hiding spot. The boulder shattered, hitting Roxas with a shower of piercing stones and leaving him vulnerable to attack. But he was ready.
Dodging her scythe-like weapon, he flew straight into the girl and easily knocked her down. He noticed she didn't even try to block him and hesitated enough for him to land. When she did attack, he easily blocked her weapon, which wasn't fit for close ranged attacks, and started smashing the glowing bracelet that was still attached to her. In a howl of pain and another burst of darkness, she knocked him away with a powerful swipe of her weapon. He recovered and landed on his feet.
Xion anticipated this and rapidly swung her blade, effectively slashing his torso before he could block. Gritting his teeth, he quickly caught her next slice with his keyblade and blasted her away with Aeroga. While she recovered, he dove behind a boulder, panting from his adrenaline rush and preparing for the next attack. He quickly flew out of the way when a bunch of glowing balls crashed into where he previously was. In the air, he swiftly dodged all of them as well as Xion's swings.
He really needed to end this fast, though—flying was tiring. Sneakily, he zoomed up behind her and paralyzed the surprised girl with a powerful jolt of Thundaga. Unable to move, the enraged girl screamed as Roxas broke another part of the glowing bracelet. Soon, they were sucked into blinding light and teleported to a different world.
Looking around at the new area, Roxas figured they were teleported to the central chamber in the Cave of Wonders. In the middle of the chamber, the armored Xion was in her battle stance, but she didn't move to attack. This time, her armor extended into two pairs of yellow arms, each holding a wicked looking sword. Roxas quickly ran behind one of the raised platforms and cured himself. His pain dulled enough for him to focus, but his stamina was starting to drain. He was tired from those other fights and by the way Xion was panting, he could tell she was exhausted, too. He noticed the darkness was pulsing slowly up Xion's armor from the bracelet, now reaching her shoulder. What was that thing doing to her? Well, whatever it was, breaking off parts of it seemed to be working. Xion started to hesitate more each time a piece was chipped off. He drank an Elixer to restore his weary body and jumped onto the platform. A dark aura pulsed around her and with renewed strength, Xion whipped around to face him. The darkness must be healing her somehow. With speed rivaling light's, the heavily armed girl jumped, howling like a wild beast, onto the platform and sliced at Roxas. Roxas dodged most of the slightly slower hits before setting a trap and jumping onto the other platform. Hearing a bang, he turned around to see that it had succeeded in encasing Xion in a thick block of ice. He quickly hopped from platform to platform, setting up more traps as backup. Before he finished the last one, though, the ice around Xion exploded and she charged towards him, all four swords glinting evilly in the candlelight. The four weapons crossed-slashed at his legs and arms. Roxas heard the blades slice him before he could actually feel them. He managed to jump onto the other platform to dodge the rest of Xion's barrage, but the minute he landed, he doubled over in pain. Xion's attack left huge gashes on his body and each gash burned like the Arabian sun. Roxas's eyes were clamped shut in pain, but he was safe, for Xion was now caught in the Aeroga trap he set on this platform. Gritting his teeth, he managed to cure himself until the gashes ceased to hurt. He jumped off the platform and ran towards the middle, wary of Xion's likely counter once she was freed. The enraged girl yelled as she charged toward him, her weapons ready to kill. Roxas quickly ducked under the first two slices and rapidly struck her arms to block the next ones. Xion instantly recovered, slashing at him as he instinctively jumped away.
Landing on the platform behind him, he managed to escape a direct hit, but hissed at the burning cuts he obtained. Only a half a second behind him, Xion thumped onto the platform, only to be paralyzed by a bolt of lightning, one of Roxas' traps. Relieved, Roxas quickly drank another Potion to restore his energy and set to attacking the darkly pulsing bracelet until Xion broke free. By the time she recovered, he had jumped back to the middle, ready for a counter-attack. None came.
Xion hesitated to follow Roxas, not even brandishing her swords at him. Instead, to his astonishment, a darker light flared up around her, freezing her tired movements. With a burst of energy, she jumped to each platform, activating and then dodging each trap.
Shoot! She's using them all up! Roxas gritted his teeth as he jumped after her, trying to block her long enough to get her caught in the magic spells. After the last trap was wasted, Roxas could only dodge, block, and run from Xion's attacks. He had no more energy for spells and Xion was now moving too quickly for him to get in a hit. Shoot. The darkness was giving her too much strength and agility. He rapidly dodged and blocked and looked for an opening. Finally, he had one. Xion had clumsily missed him and left her bracelet right out in the open. Roxas took his chance and smashed that bracelet with everything he had. Another piece shattered instantly, bathing the relieved Roxas in blinding light.
When he came to, he found himself sprawled on an invisible surface. He jumped from the shock as he looked down and saw he was lying above Twilight Town. Lying on air.
"R-Roxas...?" he jumped to his feet and turned toward the voice. He froze when he saw a giant sized armored Xion, floating so that her torso was on the same plane as his feet.
"H...help.." he heard her strangled voice say. She struggled to move, as if something was holding her back. But then, the darkness that now reached her neck swirled around her. Whatever she was trying to do stopped and she summoned her weapons. It was her Oblivion and the unfinished keyblade. The weapons had the darkness from the bracelet oozing over them. Roxas downed his last Potion and quickly summoned his Oathkeeper, ready for Xion's attack. There was a slight hesitation, but the giant-sized Xion rapidly swung her weapons at Roxas, who jumped and dodged both attacks. With slightly increased energy, he hastily charged at her, ready to destroy that cursed bracelet. He jumped onto her super-sized arm and hacked madly at the bangle. In what seemed to be a panic, Xion roughly shook her arm, trying to throw Roxas off. The blond boy held onto a bit of Xion's armor for his life and started attacking the bracelet fiercely. Thinking he was close to breaking it, he didn't notice Xion's other hand unleash a beam of light until it hit him right in the chest and he crashed onto the invisible platform. A ball of darkness engulfed and immobilized him, leaving him panicked and vulnerable. Out of nowhere, keyblades slashed at him, though surprisingly, failed to cause as much damage as he thought. They only nicked him. He instantly changed his mind, though, when a surge of pain swept through his body. Poison. The darkness around him dispersed, leaving him on the invisible surface, writhing as he tried to fight the venom in his body. His eyes were clenched shut, and he felt too much pain to hear the bracelet completely shatter.
Meanwhile, Xemnas, now openly watching and controlling Xion from the Tower, was smirking at the boy. In a few minutes, that miserable wretch will be dead and he'll finally gain the power of the x-blade. However, as a man who is used to getting what he wants fast, he wanted to finish the boy off now. Mentally, he commanded his puppet to attack. She didn't. Growling, he commanded again, only to meet resistance.
"I am not going to hurt him!" Xion growled in his mind, his hold over her weakening.
The Superior winced at the harsh voice, but snarled, "You will follow my orders, puppet! Finish him off!"
"NO." That simple, but forceful word caused Xemnas to stagger backward, temporarily breaking his control over Xion. Xion instantly transformed back to her normal self and, ignoring that Xemnas' controlling bracelet had completely shattered, quickly staggered to her struggling friend. Weakly, Roxas opened his eyes and mouthed her name questioningly. She shushed him and started to heal him from his wounds and poison. When she finished, Roxas shakily stood up and summoned his weapon. When he saw the darkness crawling up her tired face, his eyes widened.
"W-who did this to you?" he feebly demanded, for he was still weakened by the fighting. His question was only answered by a sad shake.
"Roxas…I'm asking you, as a friend, just…just finish me off." Her gaze stayed on the ground as her shaky, painful request was heard. Roxas' blue eyes widened at her soft order.
"Wh-what? You can't be serious!" he almost yelled in surprise and anger. Kill his best friend? No! Kill the person most important to him? NO! Xion met his shocked eyes with a pleading look.
"That darkness…You can't let him control me again. I…I might kill you next time!" she begged, "Please! Before he takes over!" She could already feel the pulsing darkness start to invade her being. Even if the bracelet was destroyed, the darkness continued to wrestle control.
"Wh-what? He wh—" Xion hurriedly interrupted him. There wasn't much time left!
"Roxas, plea-" The darkness reached the top of her head, cocooning her in the black matter.
"Xion!" Roxas desperately shouted at his trapped friend. He could only watch helplessly as the cocoon dispersed, revealing an armored, gray-haired, golden-eyed Xion. She stood in her battle position, very similar to Roxas', with the incomplete x-blade in her hands.
Please, do it for me. Xion's voice echoed in Roxas' mind as the girl started to attack. Roxas, fueled by anger and sorrow toward this darkness that controlled Xion, met each blow with a blow of his own. There was not way he was going to let whoever's controlling her win. The two keyblades clashed endlessly, each wielder refusing to back away. Running out of adrenaline, Roxas managed to fake an attack and caught the dark girl by surprise, striking her on the wrist where the bracelet had once been, hoping it would get her back to normal. The attack only seemed to enrage her and a rapid barrage came pounding on Roxas' keyblade.
You can't dispel the darkness unless you finish me off. It's embedded too deep. Xion's desperate voice whispered in his head. Roxas shook his head, not wanting to believe that was the only way. The slight distraction gave the golden-eyed girl an opening. She slashed her weapon at Roxas' feet, successfully knocking him down. Before he could react, she was already on top of him, keyblade ready to pierce his heart. He clenched his eyes shut and braced himself for the blow. But, it never came. He warily opened his eyes to see Xion frozen in mid-strike, the keyblade poised inches away from his rapidly beating heart. She breathed shakily, from exhaustion and battling the darkness. In her narrowed eyes, bright blue warred with malicious gold, trying to regain control.
"Roxas...move..." Xion's voice struggled as she fought for control. Snapping out of his daze, Roxas quickly scrambled away just before the keyblade plunged into now-empty space. Xion, trembling to stay in control, stayed frozen in her position, exposing a small chink in her armor.
"Please, Roxas." she gazed at him sadly, but sternly. Reluctantly, Roxas firmly gripped his keyblade and started charging toward her. He gritted his teeth and jumped with his keyblade pointed at the chink exposing her collarbone. He clenched his eyes shut. There was no way he was doing this. It was a dream, right?
"Thank you. I'm sorry, Roxas." Xion's soft voice rang through his ears as he let gravity finish the job.
The minute the keyblade pierced her, the darkness exploded from her body like a bomb. Roxas was knocked back from the force, shock slapped on his face for what he had done. In almost slow motion, Xion's body slumped and started to fall. Roxas, alarmed, limped as quickly as possible towards her, silently crying her name. The pain from all his wounds was beginning to have its toll on him. Then, the invisible surface they were on shattered, sending the two falling towards the cement. Roxas struggled to keep himself afloat, feeling incredibly burned out. He looked around and immediately spotted Xion's unconscious form hurtling towards the ground.
"Xion! NO!" he cried out and with desperation and his last bit of adrenaline fueling him, he zoomed to her. He clutched her in his arms protectively, harshly panting as his fatigue started to take full affect on him. He couldn't handle the weight of one, let alone two.
N-no. I can't...can't rest yet. Got to get her down safe...safely. Roxas feebly fought back his exhaustion to try to slow their fall. The ground was nearing. He held Xion close to him, like one would to a treasure, and braced himself for impact. His feet roughly landed onto the hard, cemented ground, sending waves of pain through his body.
Trembling, he managed to drop Xion softly on the ground before crashing into the cement from pain and fatigue. Laying chest flat on the floor, Roxas couldn't budge—his energy and strength were totally depleted. He lay there panting and looking for any signs of life in his unconscious friend. There. He could see her chest barely, but slowly rise and fall. Relief washed through him. She's still alive—he didn't kill her. She's safe. Thank Kingdom Hearts.
He let out a shaky sigh of relief, letting his fatigue take full effect on him. His eyes slowly started closing, readying him for a well-earned repose. He took one last, relieved glance at his best friend, his eyes half open.
Before he completely closed them, though, he saw two nastily blood-reddened boots standing next to Xion and heard a dark voice sneering, "Thanks for the prize, Blondie."
The last thing he could think was how similar that voice sounded to Sora's. Then, the world went black.
Was it okay? Too long? Too short? Please let me know so I can improve my writing more!
Like I said, it's the first big fight scene I've written, so I'm pretty sure there's something I can improve on. ^^' Oh, and there's a reason why it's in third person and not just in Xion's perspective! It'll all be explained by the next chap, whenever I get done with it.
I honestly don't know when I'll get the chance to finish the next part of this story-I've been trying to battle a huge case of writer's block for all my stories and my teachers just love to overload me with homework. I'm slowly working on it, though.
And I know I'm pretty late with this, but thank you all who've reviewed and favorited my story! It makes me feel so happy when you do! And it inspires me to write more! Thanks! :D