Chapter 2:
Demyx's POV
I waited for pain. I waited for darkness. I felt nothing. It took me a long while to realize I was lying on the ground, breathing normally. I opened my eyes and saw Roxas kneeling by my side. I slow sat up and saw the tentacle was off my neck. Not only that, Axel was standing in front of me, his Chakrams in hand.
"What happened?" I wondered.
"I heard a couple explosions, some growling, and cries of pain. I decided to come up here and I find you half-dead in the clutches of a monster, got that?" Axel explained looking over his shoulder to meet my eyes.
The monster laughed. "You think you can fight me! If your friend nearly died fighting me than what can you do!" It boomed, laughing.
Axel smirked. "You don't who you're talking too. The name's Axel, got it memorized?" He challenged the creature.
The monster jumped above Axel and swung its tail at him. Axel jumped above the monster and threw his Chakrams at the beast. The beast jumped up, avoiding Axel's attack and swung its tail at Axel. Axel quickly jumped up and grabbed his Chakrams as it flew back towards him.
Axel jumped above the beast once more, Chakrams blazing with fire, and threw them at the beast. One slashed across the beast's face while the other sliced the tip of it's tail clean off! The monster roared out in pain and swung its tail wildly. Axel didn't have time to react before the monster slammed its tail Axel, throwing him against a wall.
"Axel!" I cried.
Axel stood up slowly, scratched in a couple places. "I'm fine, don't worry," He reassured picking up his weapons.
He spun around a few times before throwing them at the creature again. One sliced right through its tail again and the other cut off part of its mask. The creature roared out in pain. I covered my ears to try to block out the sound. I saw Roxas jump above it while it was in pain and landed a direct hit on the monster's head with the Keyblade. The creature fell to the ground as Axel caught both of his Chakrams as Roxas landed beside him.
"Is it dead?" I asked as I stood up slowly.
"Pretty sure it's not moving or twitching. Guess its dead," Axel replied.
We all began to walk away from the creature down the path. I thought about tell Vexen about it, he would love to run all kinds of tests and experiments on it. My shoulder still ached and so did this one spot in my chest where I think I broke something. Axel and Roxas are chatting, as usual, leaving me out of their little conversation as if I'm not there. I can't help but feel something is watching us.
I don't have much time to turn around before something lifts me in the air by my foot, along with Axel and Roxas. The monster has awoken and its eyes are filled with anger and the blood on its face makes it look tougher and more challenging. It takes on look at us and laughs its deep booming laughter.
"You really believe you can defeat me that easily? You must be pretty stupid. You probably can't even use kido!" He laughs.
I don't know what it means, but it freaks the crap outta me. It starts swinging us around like crazy. I world flies past in a blur. I shut my eyes as I feel my brain spin around in my skull. It finally slams us into the ground at two hundred fifty miles per hour. I sit up shakily as I summon my Sitar again. It won't do much but right now I don't care how we win as long as we live.
Axel climbs to his feet with a hand over the right side of his face. I can see blood running down the side of his face from a shallow wound on his forehead. Roxas is leaning against his Keyblade painting heavily.
"We need a plan," He decides.
"But how do we kill it? My Chakrams aren't doing anything and Demyx's sitar can't do much either," Axel explains.
"If we can't use our weapons…we can use magic!" Roxas replies. "One of us can distract it, I can freeze it, then, and then we register the killing blow!" He exclaims.
"That's perfect, Roxas! Demyx, ya think you can handle it?" Axel questions giving a hopeful stare.
I nod. "Yeah," I answer even though my shoulder is killing me. "I'll distract it,"
"Demyx! You shouldn't do something that risky when you wounded!" Axel scolded.
"I feel just fine," I lied.
"If you're really up to it…then fine," Roxas sighed. "You can distract it, I can freeze it, and Axel can finish it off. Now, go!" He commands as if his leading an army (of two).
I grip my Sitar tightly is both hands and take off running towards the beast, I've done a lot of stupid thing in my life…but this is probably the stupidest. The monster charges at full speed towards me. I play I couple notes and turn at the last second as it barley misses me. It only has time to turn its head before a blast of tiny streams of water attack it like a machine gun is firing at it. It howls in pain and disappears in a blur. I turn around and it's standing right in front of me and I take off running again.
I'm pretty tried from running but if I stop I'm dead. I've never really been a runner before, but the landscape zooms past as my legs carry me as fast as they could. My chest his on fire and my heart is hammering in my chest like mad. I'm basically running in a circle while it continues to charge after me. I turn my head as a red dot starts building up in its mouth.
"Demyx! Look out!" I hear Axel scream.
Too late. It fires the beam at me. I feel pain shoot through me. The world is spinning past me like I'm flying through the air at mock one. Everything stops when I feel something slash against my side: the monster's arm. The world stops spinning when I slam against a rock hard. I spit out blood as I lay there gasping for breath. The world is getting darker and darker by the second. I see Roxas shoot a blue beam at the creature as Axel rushes to my side.
"Demyx! Are you okay? Can you hear me?" He panics.
"Yeah…don't waste your time worrying about me…focus on the goal…" I whisper barley able to talk.
Even though I'm half-blind I can see Axel's worried expression.
"Roxas! Finish it off and hurry! We need to heal Demyx!" He shouts.
I can't hear what Roxas said but I see him blast a fireball at the creature, finishing it off. I feel Axel picks me up and throws my good arm over his shoulder. He and Roxas take off running down the stone path, as the scene grows darker. The landscape zooms past me in a messy blur of colors. I can't stay awake anymore; I fall into a pit of blackness.
A little while later…
Axel's POV
"That should do it…for now at least," Vexen sighed.
I glanced at Demyx, who was deep asleep. He looked so frail and weak. His blonde hair fell over his face in tangled strands and he looked like a ghost. His chest and shoulder were bandaged and a white sheet is pulled over his feeble body. My hand crawls along the mattress and finds Demyx's. I gently hold Demyx's hand and looks at Demyx's peaceful expression.
"Don't worry, he'll be just fine," Roxas tried to reassure me. "Right, Vexen?" He turns towards number IV.
Vexen doesn't answer for a couple moments. "He will, but what did this creature to him? No Nobody or heartless has ever wounded one of our members like this before," He muttered to himself. "What happened?" Vexen turned towards Roxas and Axel.
"We're not so sure," I started. "We heard some explosions and cries of pain and we went to see where it was coming from. It lead up to the hot spring so we went to go check it out," I explained turning towards Roxas.
"When we got there this HUGE monster was holding Demyx by the neck," Roxas picked up. "It looked…well it stood on two legs and it was red. Its arms had sword extending from its elbows and a tail. It had on this weird mask thing and there was a hole in it's chest, like it was there its whole life," Roxas tried to describe the monster, it made him shudder just thinking about it.
"It could also talk to, like regular English…and it responded to us when we confronted it. It also fired this huge red beam at Demyx and slashed at him with its claw…thing. After Roxas and I defeated it and dragged Demyx back in here," I finished.
Vexen was silent for the longest time. I could hear him murmuring something, but I couldn't make out the words. He glanced at Demyx before he turned towards us again.
"You this creature fired a red beam at Demyx, right? Saix mentioned a creature repeating the same action at breakfast," Vexen started explaining. "It must be the same creature Saix was talking about. From its behavior, it doesn't have the potential to be a heartless or even a Nobody," He concluded.
"Then what is it?" Roxas wondered.
"I don't know…is the body still there?" Vexen asked.
"Yeah, why?" I wondered. A light bulb went off in my head. "Oh, one of your experiments, is it?"
"Of course, I'm a scientist!" Vexen replied. "Experiments-"
"Experiments are what you do, we get it," I interrupted.
"You don't have to-" Vexen was cut off when the door opened. Xemnas stood in the doorway his golden eyes staring at each of us like lazars.
"I would like it speak to all of you. Now," He demanded, a solemn tone to his voice.
Vexen mumbled something under his breath that sounded like, "What? Is today interrupt Vexen day?" I would've replied yes, if Xemnas weren't here telling us to follow him. Xemnas began to walk towards Where the Nothing Gathers, Roxas and Vexen trailing behind him. I took a last look at Demyx before I started after them.
A little bit later…
Demyx's POV
I don't know where I am when I wake up but I can definitely hear people talking above me. I don't know (or care) what they're talking about but it sounds pretty serious.
"…We still don't know what it is and why it's here"
"How come he's so much more beat up than you and Roxas?"
"Larxene! He was in combat longer than Roxas and I!"
I'm starting to wake up after what happened. Everything to me is just a blur of color. I really can't tell where I am but I'm laying on something soft. I blink a couple times as everything start's to clear up. I can make out Axel's hair, Vexen's face, and Larxene and Roxas's faces. My sore body feels like complete crap.
"Demyx? Hey, are you okay?" I hear Axel ask me.
I blink a few more times and everything becomes crystal clear. I'm lying on my bed, in my room with Axel, Larxene, Vexen, and Roxas my by my bedside. I slowly sit up, trying to make sense of what happened while I was asleep.
"Are you okay?" Axel repeats.
I nod as I rub my head. "Yeah…I think. What happened?"
"You don't know what happened!" Larxene shouted. "Geeze…where have you been?" She commented.
"He's been in Lalaland for the past five and half hours!" Roxas shouted. "And you expect him to remember what happen when he just reigned consciousness!"
"I know what happened and I wasn't even there!" She shouts back.
"Larxene…your voice sounds like a dying elephant…leave," I growl.
"You're not the boss of me!" She shouted back at me, giving me a headache.
"You're number XII and I'm number IX, so I'm superior to you," I smirk.
"…I hate you," Larxene grumbles as she walks out of my room.
A heavy silence falls over the room. My shoulder and chest are bandaged tightly and I'm in my bed. I rub my head as Axel sits next to me. I look at the ground glumly. I can almost hear what he's going to say: "What were you thinking back there? You could have died!" Instead of hearing that, I hear a joke that doesn't sound like Axel's mad or angry at all.
"Someone looks like a zombie," He commented.
I turn away from the floor and stare into his teal-colored eyes. "What happened exactly? The last thing I remember is getting shot with a red beam and passing out…" I ask him, my throat feels as dry as a dessert.
"Well…after you passed out Vexen and I patched you up and took you to your room," Axel starts explaining.
"After Xemnas called a meeting," Roxas picked up. "He wanted us to describe the battle in full detail to him. Then he said something about burning it and-"
"BURN IT!?" Vexen almost screams. "He can't burn it! I want to run some experiments on it!" Vexen objects running out of room like an energizer bunny that's been on steroids for way too long.
"As I was saying…" Roxas continues. "After we told him what happened he told us this twisted dream he had that involved that same creature and this other guy with brown hair that was dressed in black and white," He finished.
Axel clears his throat and picks up where Roxas left off. "We're not sure what it means yet…but Xemnas thinks a new enemy has arose," He finishes with a serious and dark look in his eyes.
Chapter 2! I got this up so quick because of your reviews! They motivated me to type this! Thank you so much for motivating me! I'll get these up whenever I get the chance to! Bye!