Another chance, Another heart
Ch.8 Finally! Some answers.
Arnexia walked down the darkened, destroyed hall of the underground chambers in Hallow Bastion.
Where are they? They have to be here.
She tore and shredded through many different pieces of furniture through many different rooms, her frustration just kept growing as she kept looking.
Ok! They have to be here somewhere! Let's see… I've looked everywhere I can think of except…
She turned to look at a door that led the lower chambers in the secret facility; she walked over to the door and slowly turned the knob as she did, she grimaced as she saw the long spiral staircase that led deeper into the ground… she slowly started walking down the steps as memories came flooding into her mind.
"…Xehanort! Please… please don't do this to him! I will do this because it is his destiny! Please… aren't I enough for your foul experiments? I need somebody new now that you've become a nobody. But the memories are coming back! Please don't do this…"
She reached the bottom of the stairs which led into a hall full of chained doors on each side and a door with xemnas's symbol on it at the end of the hall; she slowly started walking down the hall.
"…xehanort I'm begging you he's suffered enough! Please stop!"
She reached one of the end doors that were unlocked; her hand was shaking as she reached for the hand scan.
"…Stop! Please stop!"
Her breathing had completely stopped as the hand scan had scanned her hand and the door slowly started to slide open.
"…please stop… father stop!"
She walked into the room which had a surgery-like table in it and a few book shelves with several books on them, it also had one mirror hanging on the southern wall, she looked around the room and found a box the size of a necklace box.
There they are.
She went over and picked the box up and lifted the lid, inside it were four little dark purple balls about the size of little bouncing balls, they were smooth and glossy and any shred of light would reflect of them, she put them in her coat pocket and discovered that there was one little whit ball that looked like milky glass.
I better take this just in case.
She slid the ball into another one of her coat pockets and looked into the mirror while lifting her hood up.
I will never be like you!
Her face became full of anger as she lifted her hand up to the mirror and using the power of darkness shattered the mirror into hundreds of pieces, she put her hood back on and ran out the door leaving the power of darkness slithering like many snake heads over the shattered glass.
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We've been to every elder in this city and they don't know a thing! Riku said in frustration.
Don't worry I'm sure will find something soon. Kairi said.
Ale do you remember anything that could help us? Sora asked.
I remember that my uncle had a lab deep underground; maybe we could find something there?
We've been there a number of times. Sora complained.
Well did you check down the spiral staircase?
Spiral staircase? There's more?
Yes… my uncle would do experiments down there.
Riku looked at ale in frustration.
And why didn't you mention this before?
Well… I really didn't think about it until now.
That's an honest answer. I told riku.
We all headed to ansem's lab, we looked for hours down the old destroyed hall.
I thought you said it was here? Riku said looking at ale.
I'm positive it's here, just look for anything out of place.
I leaned against a door that I thought was totally closed… I was wrong, the door opened behind me and I fell backward down some steps before I stopped, when I looked up I had found the spiral staircase.
Found…it! I shouted.
The others ran down the stairs and helped me up; we all looked down those stairs which made it look like they could go on forever.
Wow… that's…that's defiantly them. Sora said.
Ya think. I said as my back cracked.
We walked down the long staircase for which seemed like hours before we finally reached the bottom.
Well look at this place… what a jail cell. Sora said.
Sora! Kairi said hitting sora on the shoulder.
What? It's true.
Would you two love birds knock it off? Riku asked.
All of us walked down the hall without saying another word to each other, we came to an open door at the end of the hall which looked like a good place to look for clues.
Nope, nope, nothing, nope, nada.
Riku had many other ways of saying that there was nothing here as he kept quickly glancing at books then dropping them on the floor, that's when I found a bunch of shattered glass on the floor.
Hey guys, what's this? I asked.
They all looked over and saw the shattered glass.
Uh… I don't know. Sora said.
Well whatever it was, it's not happy now. Riku added.
Hey guys look at this. I said as I picked up a picture that was in the middle of the shattered glass, the picture had xehanort with two children standing in front of him, one was a girl that looked about 16 with a fierce face that looked just like xehanort's, the second was a boy that looked just like…
What is it? Sora asked.
I handed him the picture and he let all of them look at it except ale.
Ale… what is this?
Ale took the picture and took a good long look at it.
Well the boy is me, and the young woman on the other side is…
Who is it? We all asked him.
Guys… the girl in picture…that's arnexia. He answered.
Why that little cheat… she knew more than she let on! I knew it! Riku shouted.
We all looked at each other for a quick moment and then we ran out the door to find the one that curiously knew more about this than she had said.