File 27: What Are You Willing To Lose » Volume 1
Title based on the song of the same name by Lucero.
For those of you who did not read last chapter due to the spoiler warning, do not worry because there are NO SPOILERS in this chapter from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. I carefully hid it in some way.
Here is a non-stop action packed chapter because this will be the last one to feature it. I think it pretty makes up for the lack of action for the entire volume.
Thanks for the reviews you guys!
Genre: Adventure/Romance
Disclaimer: The following characters of "Secret Agent Kairi" are from the video game, Kingdom Hearts. Square Enix and Disney rightfully own them. The setting-taking place in the story is original also and does not exist anywhere in Japan. The story, plot, and maybe some original characters are under my name. There will be some references to the game. Don't attempt to copyright.
"Attention all citizens of Tsuki City! The city is under lockdown! All exits have been sealed off! Please find shelter and safety!" a loud female voice says through out the city from a speaker. The city has been completely sealed off from civilization, as the situation was getting worse. There is no cover up story going on, as this was worldwide news now. It was on every news station on the air including radio stations and social sites. Some parts of the city were ghost towns while other parts were a war zone.
"Check it out, we are number one on Twitter," Olette points out showing her friends her Blackberry. "It's so weird. It reminds of the Chile earthquake back in February or that tsunami in Hawaii. What is with the world these days?"
"Plus, the gulf oil spill. What about those poor animals and sea creatures out in the ocean?" Xion protested about. "It would be mad if they don't fix this by the time we start a new year at school."
"That's if it even we start at this school," Pence asked busting out his digital camera.
"Dude, do you always have to have a camera with you?" Hayner asked.
"If I want to be a photographer, then yes I do have to. I love capturing moments in photos because you know one day you are going to look back on it," he explained taking a picture of his friends. "See? Our first picture of this disastrous day."
"Too bad Kairi, Yuffie, and Roxas are not here. I hope they are okay," Namine hoped with sincere.
In the city…
Kairi back flips dodging a large swipe from the Berserker's weapon and jumps back away from an incoming blow from it again. "I hate these moments where I only use my fists and kicks to hurt someone!" she complained trying to look for some sort of weapon. There were dead police officers litter around and saw a few handguns on the ground and decide to go for it. She turns to the Berserker who takes another swing at her, but she dodges it by jumping onto the Nobodie's weapon and then jumps off rolling in midair. She lands tumbling on the ground and rans for the weapons. "I may not know how to really use a gun, but it's better than nothing!" She bents down a little to grab two handguns and grips onto them, pulling the triggers as soon she takes an aim at the monster, making the bullets fire and empty shells come out. "That's right!" But then the Berserker roars and swings its T-shaped claymore at a nearby car sending it to her. "Oh crap!" she worried running away as it came down crashing near here exploding.
Yuffie kept jumping from roof to roof trying to lose the Dragoons who kept appearing at of nowhere from above trying to take a hit on her, but she manages to always avoid it from hearing the sounds leaving it only to miss and make dents on the rooftops. Once this pattern kept on repeating, she decided to run backwards this time and holds onto her shuriken. A Dragoon appears coming down with its lance as she immediately throws her weapon striking a critical blow and catches it as it comes back. "Don't these things ever give up?" she yelled jumping down on a lower elevated building, but got surrounded by a group of them in a circle. "Come and get me!" she taunted as all eight aims with their lances at her quickly, but she jumps and lands on their group of weapons spinning in a circle hitting all of them as they disappear.
Roxas was busy handling the Snipers deflecting every shot they were throwing at him. "Man! Do you guys ever run out of bullets!" The more they kept coming, the more he kept on moving back from them as they kept on moving toward him. "I need reinforcements here!" he yelled and saw Kairi come to his aid around the corner of a block bringing along a friend chasing her while it takes a hit at her, but misses and ends up hitting part of a building.
"Hang in there Roxas!" she shouted trying to run away from the Berserker. Kairi looks for something to help her friend and saw a car leaking gasoline behind her blonde friend. While running, Kairi was wondering how much bullets she had left, but did not know how to check the ammunition in the guns. She takes a few shots looking back and meets up with her friend as they are back-to-back.
"Got any ideas?" he asked still deflecting the shoots.
"I got a few, but how do I check the ammo for these guns?" she asked watching the Berserker approach them.
"Just pull out the clip from the handle and you will see," he answered. "Better hurry up cuz I do not know how long I can keep this up!" Kairi did what Roxas told her and checks the clips from both handguns.
"This is great, I only have one bullet left per each," she said worried. Soon, she draws her attention of an empty dark alley to their right. "Follow me!" she ordered dragging him from his clothes.
"What about that huge crowd?" The two get into the alley and Kairi gives Roxas' one of her guns.
"I've seen enough action films to know how to do this," she said holding the handgun with both her hands trying to get a precise shot on the leaking car. Once she spots it, she pulls the trigger as it sends out the bullet and hits the gasoline causing a trail of fire to the car. The Nobodies came by close enough to the car. "Good night." She smirks as the car explodes into flames making them disappear. She puts down her gun down feeling like a pro.
"I'm impress you know how to work a gun," Roxas said with flattery.
"I don't, but I know it is simple to shoot one," she replied throwing the empty gun on the ground making a 'clank' noise. "Let's go! We have to find the leader of the group!"
"Right." The two then run off to find Xenmas in the city.
Zack and Aerith were working on analyzing the situation with the cameras set around the city in case something happen. Only Kingdom Hearts had access to this because they were the ones who set it up when Kairi and them first move here, but it was only used for emergency use only. The two were in a tent also sitting in front of huge monitor nearly with every camera shot. "I can't believe this is what our hometown has become!" she said distraught. She looks at every camera on the screen seeing the lives being lost.
"Did you find any of the organization's members?" her husband asked.
"No! That's the problem! None of them are showing up on any one of these!"
"Well some were lost during the attack."
"Yeah, but we need to find them pronto!" Zack's eyes widen at her reaction. Aerith got into hyper mood being all worried and just stopped for a second to think. "You know what, I am sending Cloud there. My daughter and her friends can't handle all of them themselves." She gets out of her seat leaving the tent with Zack following.
"Hold it honey!" he called out going around her and in front. "I will go instead. She is my daughter too you know."
"Yeah, but you have not been in battle for a long time. You didn't bother going to training classes because you thought you did not need to use them yet. So I am going to ask Cloud to do this one for me."
"Sorry, but if you are, then I am going with him." Zack replied with determination trying to convince his wife.
"No! I will not allow it!"
"You are not stopping me trying to protect our only child."
"I said no!"
"Why are you acting like this?"
"Because I do not want to lose you again!" she yelled back finally giving an answer. "Do you have any idea what was it like for me to hear that you died on a mission? Yet here we are again having you go to one that is potential a repeat of the past! I may sound like a hypocrite right now, but at least I know my daughter is out there trained to do this and survive!"
"She is my daughter too you know! Not only yours!" he fired back not going down without a fight. "I too have been trained the same thing as she has. I am just rusty on the battlefield."
"That is my point Zack! I do not want you to go there without feeling the least prepared and that you are ready to do this again."
"That is why I am telling you now to say that I am," he said grabbing the side of her arms, but he knew she did not like the feeling. "Look at me." Aerith looks at another direction. "Look at me Aerith!" He shakes her a little as she gave her attention on him. "You are not going to lose me again or Kairi either. We all have someone to help us out there when we need them the most. Isn't that the point of teamwork? We all are one big family here." Aerith just gives a scoff making a small smile on her face. "Now that is more what I like to see from you. To see you always smiling and happy."
"If I let you do this, you have to promise me one thing," she said.
"And what is that?" he asked.
"You have to help me with our garden for the year."
"Uhh… is there another one?" he asked not wanting to help, but all he got was a glare from her. "I mean, I love you and your garden, but I do not feel like doing all that digging and—"
"Take it or you are not going," she interrupted giving him the only option.
"Fine," he gave in making her smile.
Kairi, Yuffie, and Roxas walk together on the sidewalk feeling tired out already from their recent encounter with the Nobodies. Each one wanted to get away from the action for a little bit. The streets were filled with empty cars and bodies lying around and its as if the city was covered in some fog since it seemed hard to see what is up ahead. "I can't stand at the sight of this," Kairi said examining the area. "Seeing all these dead bodies and the cries of the city. One minute everything looks fine, then the next, this happens."
"Feels like we walked into a ghost town," Roxas adds.
"You can't stop things like this Kairi," Yuffie tells her. "Not everybody can be saved. You have to know that."
"I know, but not like this. Did you guys ever think about our friends? They could be out there somewhere and be in danger."
"Yeah, I'm worried too," Roxas
"Because of Namine," Kairi continued making him blush, but he had a helmet on, so the girl could not see it.
"No! My cousin and friends too you know!"
"And mainly because of Namine," Yuffie repeated Kairi's words teasing him.
"Shut up you two!"
"Anywho, I need to find more these guns," Kairi said looking at her weapon. "It kind of feels fun using these even if it seems unusual of me to be using them."
"Hasn't Tifa teach you good enough?" Yuffie asked her knowing Kairi's training on fighting was from Tifa.
"Yeah, but she kept all the good moves I saw her do to herself." Kairi then saw a barricade of police cars blocking the road with again, dead bodies littered around. She walks to it hesitating a little bit and stops. She bents down on her knees reaching out towards the man's gun in his holster on his right hip feeling her hand shake.
"He is dead Kairi. Not a zombie coming back to life to eat your flesh," Roxas notified her. Kairi then just grabs it and searches his body for some ammo finding at least five clips of bullets inside. Kairi disregards the clip in her current gun and puts a new one in it. "It would be nice if I had something to put these in."
"Look over there," Yuffie pointed to the others who had gun holsters on their legs. "It's better to have them on your legs than on your hip." Kairi leaves the man saying 'sorry' and goes onto to grab the other holsters on the other men's legs. She puts them on putting each one on her leg and put each gun in one of them. She also finds more ammo on the others as she put it in her small backpack. "I'm sorry, but I really need this," she said bowing down to them. Then an unexpected scythe came flying towards them. The three of them look to see Marluxia one of the building's roof smirking at them.
"Oh my god! It's flower girl!" Yuffie screamed pointing towards him.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Marluxia slowly descends on one of his Nobodies, the Assassin, coming down. "I really wish you would stop calling me that!" he growled getting on the ground walking towards them as Kairi draws out both her guns aiming at him, Yuffie takes out a small shuriken and reveal three in her hand, and Roxas takes out his katanas getting prepare.
"Why? Your hair and color of it gives off some vibe for me to call you that," Yuffie told him.
"Oh, and who is your new friend ladies?" he asked looking at Roxas, but is unaware it is him. "We have a new member too, if we knew where he is at the moment." With that said, the girls look at Roxas and back the pink-haired man. "Anyways, with your presence here and your operatives falling slowly as we speak, I have inform the others and they are coming now as we speak."
"Yeah well, the three of us can take you guys down!" Kairi said.
"I wouldn't be too sure of that," he replied smirking as all types of Nobodies appear around them. "Attack!" All of them jump at once to the three as they prepare for the all-out-attack.
Up from above, someone drops a grenade in the middle of the attack and explodes in midair canceling the attack while a huge gulf of smoke sweeps the area as with everybody down below covering their faces from it. "What was that?" Kairi said looking up to see a helicopter flying above them when wires became dropping down to them. Then she saw something spinning down, but not at them, at Marluxia instead. He dodges the hit as it turn out to be a huge sword and then she saw her father, Cloud, and Tifa sliding down the wires and landing calmly.
"Keep your hands off my daughter," Zack solemnly said taking out his huge sword from his back and facing it toward the pink-haired man. "This sword may seem heavy, but it is actually light enough to carry for me." He tightens his grip on the handle and lifts above his head with the tip still pointing to Marluxia. "And it can hit you a mile away."
"Yeah, that was not a fair game I say," Cloud said walking towards him to get his weapon. "I'm surprise you manage to avoid my attack." He grips the handle and takes it out the ground putting it behind his back. "Of course this is only my main blade from my fusion one.
"Can't wait to kick your ass," Tifa said adjusting her gloves when she heard something from a distance as her eyes moved to its direction without moving her face and immediately ducks. A pair of kunais came at her and instead impaled a tree. Tifa stands up to look behind to see Larxene appearing with Axel and Saix right behind her.
"You guys never hold still do you?" she snarled. "Why can't you guys be more like mannequins?"
Tifa walks to the tree removing the kunais and taunts, "As you say Savage Nymph." Tifa counter attacks by throwing Larxene's weapons to her, but she manages to catch it. However, while this was happening, Tifa used it as a distraction as she charged at her knocking her down. "Not so fast are you now," she said winking at her.
Marluxia grabs his scythe and swings at Cloud, but he blocks the attack from him.
A group of Nobodies consisting of Assassins, Berserkers, Dusks, and Creepers appear from the sky and drop to the ground behind Axel and Saix. Kairi, Yuffie, Roxas, and Zack get prepared as they approach them.
"No… not now," Roxas thought.
Back at the high school, there was nothing but an apprehensive atmosphere hanging above in the room. The sounds from the city kept on reminding the others they were in a disaster. They all were just sitting in silence with nothing else to talk about because no one seemed to bring up a topic to talk about anymore. There was about the Twitter and the news breaking out, but even that has its limits on what to say.
"Can we at least do something guys?" Pence suggested. "I do not want to be sitting here doing nothing."
"What is there to do?" Namine dully said. "Our hot topic that we were talking about earlier got old fast."
"Come on guys, how bout… what do we all want to be? I know it may seem we are young to be thinking this, but… I do not think there is much time left for us. When we leave high school, we are going out in the world to find ourselves. And if we don't, we could lose ourselves, so it is best to think now," he told them trying to enlighten the mood. "I'll go first. Photographer."
"Basketball player," Hayner answered. "I want to be shooting some hoops and possibly go to America to join the NFL."
"Artist," Namine said. "
"Fashion designer," Olette continued. "Me and clothes are like this." With that, she put her middle finger above her index like they were wrapped around each other.
"Doctor," Xion said with smile on her face. "I love to help people."
"Detective," Riku said. "Investigating stuff is really intriguing to me."
"To be honest you guys, I really do not know," Sora tells his friends and all eyes were on him. "I know I have job at my family's company, but I really don't want to follow in their footsteps. You guys have all these goals set—"
"But you are on the swim team Sora. That has to mean something," Xion said trying to cheer him up.
"Yeah, but I never did take swimming as something I wanted to do in the future."
"Well, what do you like?" Namine asked.
"I'm not sure, but I always like being the one in those spy movies to give out information to the operative. It feels fun observing the situation because they have to count on you on what's up. I do have a keen eye on things and already am working with computers and what not at my job."
"That really is interesting. So you like to be the 'behind-the-scenes' kind of guy?" Hayner replied amused crossing his arms. "Maybe you should—" Hayner stopped when he heard the sound of glass breaking from a distance. "Did you guys hear that?" Everybody immediately gets up as Riku and Namine cling to each other close. "I am hoping that is not what I think it is."
"I'll go check it out. I'll be right back," Olette told them, but Hayner tries to stop her.
"No! Do not be one of those stupid girls in those horror films saying 'I'll be right back' because you won't be back," he explained to get her out of it.
"Oh, like the result isn't the same if a guy went," Olette pointed out crossing her arms. "Then you mine as well come with me. You too Sora."
"Are you sure I can't just stay here?" Sora asked rubbing the back of his ear. "With the others…" he trailed off. "To you know… supervise. I said I like working behind the scenes."
"No, you are coming with us. I may be a girl, but I still can be a tough one." The three decided to check out the noise and leave the room while Pence, Xion, Riku, and Namine stayed inside the classroom.
Elsewhere…
Kairi and Tifa do continuous back flips dodging every kunai Larxene kept throwing at her as it kept hitting the ground. On the last turn over, in midair and upside down, Kairi pulls one of her guns from her right holster to deflect a kunai and lands smoothly putting it away. She runs towards her punching at every Nobody coming her way. She saw a fire hydrant by the blond pigtail and bust out her guns and keeps on shooting it. "Where the heck are you aiming?" she moaned.
"Not at you! That's for sure!" Then she looked at Tifa. "Make sure you hit that fire hydrant." She nodded and left Kairi heading for it. With one final shot, water starts to leak out and once Tifa got there, she kicks it off as a big fountain of water explodes into the air and causes the ground to be wet. Kairi takes a slide on the ground sliding underneath Larxene and attempts to grab a piece of her black hood and pushes her feet off the ground and uses one hand to back flip and throws the evil girl into the air making her land hard.
"Argh! You bitch!" she screamed out. "You will pay for that!" She roars in anger coming back taking out a kunai and revealing several others in her hand.
"How much do you have of those things?" Kairi pulls back her hand as Larxene aimed for her head and then pulls back her right elbow, and hits her with it as a groan came out and she gave her another punch to the stomach. Then she later kicks her in the same area sending her in the air and lands hard. "Who's the bitch now, bitch!"
Zack and Yuffie were dealing with Saix in his raging mode as he swings his claymore at them grunting at each swing. "Does this guy ever take a break?" The two could not get a single open attack, but then they noticed he started to get slower and exhausted the more time passed. "He's slowing down!" Yuffie points out and takes out her shuriken as it comes at its full size and throws it at him striking a hit. Zack goes after swinging his sword, but it gets blocked when Saix uses his claymore to defend himself and counterattacks by deflecting it back at him.
Roxas and Cloud were dealing with Axel and Marluxia together, but Roxas was not fighting back other than defending himself at each strike Axel gave him with his chakrams. "What's the matter kid? Too afraid to fight back?" he taunted.
"No. I just do not want to hurt you," Roxas lamely replied.
"An agent from Kingdom Hearts not wanting to hurt someone? That's new," Axel said as he kept on throwing hits at him.
"Well, I'm just starting out in this agency."
"And what's with the helmet? Don't want anybody to know your hideous face?" Axel provoked.
"No!" Roxas stops in his tracks and decided to switch roles and attack. "I should at least to try he is my enemy," he thought as he started sway his katanas at him. "Cuz it was my father's! That's why!"
"Now that's more like it!" The two go at it fighting blocking off each other's attacks for a while, but the fighting stopped when everyone in the area felt the ground shake beneath their feet. There was nothing but silence, as the sound seems to be getting louder. Each person looks for the source and most jump when they see building debris fall out from afar crashing to the ground sending off a smoke of concrete dust. The same building later collapses making the smoke bigger.
At headquarters, many were in the surveillance room watching the scene. Aerith sits in her chair watching the scene with the live feed coming from a helicopter. "What is that?" Aqua said getting closer the screen. "Zoom in on that and make the image clearer," she ordered. Aerith moves the mouse clicking on that particular picture as the image zooms in. She types all sorts of stuff on the keyboard as the image starts to become clearer as a huge black silhouette in the cloud of dust appears.
Back at the actual scene, everybody sees the figure getting clearer as it heads towards their direction. Later, a giant Nobody slowly appears with blue tentacles flying around wrapped around its neck. Its shoulders were gigantic, diamond-shaped spikes, it's pointy hips, it's body fully white with a sliver zipper down the middle, and it's long pointed feet. Among it were the other organization members. "The cavalry has arrive," Axel said smirking.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
"What is that thing?" Kairi
"Say hello to the Twilight Thorn guys," Larxene told them.
At headquarters…
"Aerith, tell the others we are coming," Aqua said walking off. "And I am bringing Terra, Ventus, and Leon along with me. Make sure you inform him that."
"Aqua!" Aerith called out, but she had already left. Aqua walks through the crowds going to her tent. She looks through the place lifting and looking around for something of hers. Later on, she finds an extensive box carrying it over the ground. She clicks open each lock and opens it revealing a lengthy spear and grabs on it as she lifts it in her hands. It has been a while since she used her weapon never knowing when she was going to use it again in battle.
"Been a while huh?" She jumps at Terra's voice making her turn around while holding onto her weapon. "I got the news from Aerith. You sure about this?"
"Yes," she nodded. "They will need our help more than ever. I care too much of what might happen."
"Sometimes you worry too much about your friends."
"I know, but I need to do this. They need us."
Terra smiles and says, "Alrighty then, off we go. Leon is already waiting in the car."
"Then am driving," Aqua smirked.
Minutes later…
Aqua speeded through the roads of Tsuki of hummer, which got the guys scared of them crashing into something. "Can you slow down a little?" Leon asked. "This is not the Fast and Furious!"
"Yeah well, I need fast and furious! Not like you had much scenes this time around while including that principal of yours," Aqua said switching the gear as the engine roars. "You are luck I allowed her to stay at the camp with the others. You better take care of this yourself about this to her."
"Nah, I got Aerith for that." Aqua swiftly turns the wheel making the men scream as the hummer drags on a turn when the tires screech.
Marluxia, Axel, Saix, and Larxene run off from the gang and to their comrades. Kairi and the others gather as they watch all the organization members coming towards them. It is now truly the good guys versus the bad guys in a classic battle scene that is about to start. They all line up with each other in a pose. Zack hold his sword with both hands in front of him, Cloud has one hand holding his sword over his back, Tifa gets into fighting position, Yuffie holds her shuriken with her right arm to her side, Roxas holds his katanas in a reverse grip, and Kairi busts out her guns pointing both forward with one over the another, each sidewards. She later then drops it to say, "Hey! This feels like that one scene in X-Men: the Last Stand." They looked at her oddly. "Right, getting back to serious now," she said reverting back to the same position.
"And so it begins," Roxas said when the Twilight Thorn extends its arms out lunging towards them. "Whoa!" Everybody gets out of the way, but one of them later grabs onto Kairi's ankle making her scream when she gets pulled.
"Kairi!" everyone screamed causing each one to run for me. Yuffie throws her shuriken as the giant Nobody's arm lifts up into the air with Kairi. The shuriken spins at the arm and take a direct hit detaching it freeing Kairi, but now the red head was now free falling. Kairi takes out her grapple gun from her bag and pulls the trigger sending out the hook as it latches onto the edge of a building a block away. Once the wire stops and it tightens, Kairi walks on the side walks on the buildings and takes out her gun shooting at the monster while her other handholds onto the wire.
Down below, Yuffie gets back her weapon and swings it again back like tire is heading for the group, which they dodge. Xigbar and his Snipers form a wall getting into position. "Fire!" he shouts as they all shot at the same time. The group grew wary as they split up either in the direction of left or right and jump into whatever store window dodging the bullets. Once it passes, they all get out and fight with the organization with their Nobodies serving as a distraction.
Roxas slashes his way through the crowd of Nobodies and meets Axel again. "Can't resist me huh?" he laughed off as he blocks his attack and counterattacks sending Roxas back with his feet dragging on the road and takes one his katanas pointing reverse stabbing a two Dusks at once as they disappear.
Tifa gets into a fight with the buff guy of the group, Lexaeus. It felt like an easy fight because the dude was slow with his weapon, which was an axe sword. "Not fast are you big boy," she said throwing a few punches to his chest, but he didn't flinch in pain and act like it was nothing. "But you sure are strong." She swings a kick, but he drops his weapon and grabs her leg. "Oh boy." He takes her leg and starts spinning her around. "Whooaa! Let me go!"
"Hmph." He does what she said and lets go of her where she hits a hard concrete wall with her back. She moans in pain having a few bruises on her.
"Tifa!" Cloud called out as he takes out Xaldin's lance out his hands and run to her aid. "Are you okay?" he asked helping her up.
"Y-yeah. I'm alright," she replied brushing herself.
Kairi pulls the trigger of her grapple gun as she gets on top of a building watching the scene. "What do I do?" she asked herself trying to find a way to take this giant down.
In the mist of all this, her friends were still at the school going to investigate the noise. Sora, Hayner, and Olette roam the halls of the school holding lame weapons they found in the janitor closet. Sora is holding a broom, Hayner is holding a trash golf club, and Olette is holding a dirty mop in their hands. "You know it is weird to find this golf club in the janitor's closet," Hayner whispered.
"Yeah well, one you are in a scary movie with a possible killer on the loose, always have a weapon and rely on your instincts," Olette explained turning around observing the area. Another sound of glass shattering went through the halls making them jump in fright. "Okay, I am officially scared!"
"You're the one who volunteer yourself."
"You're the one who agreed to come with."
"And you two are going to be the reason we are dead if you don't shut up!" Sora complained as they heard faint footsteps coming from downstairs. "Ssh. It is downstairs." Sora slowly and silently walks down the stairs and bends down and takes a peek on the left to see a strange white figure roaming the halls. "What is that thing?" he whispered getting closer.
"Sora! The point is to run away from the danger! Not go to it!" Olette yelled by whispering.
"Yeah Sora! You are already label as the stupid people who get killed in those slasher films," Hayner continued.
"Oh please, like we were ever in one before," he said reaching the first floor to see a couple of those things walking around. "Please, in my book, you two would be dead if this were one." Olette gasped ready to tackle him, but Hayner stopped her. However, one misstep caused the two to tumble down the stairs knocking Sora down. The huge noise caused all the mysterious white figures to look at them. "Shit! Run!" The three get off each other and run to the other side of the hallway. Later they make a turn at the corner to find a place to hide.
"Where do we hide?" Olette shouted shaking in fear.
"Try every door if it is open!" Hayner told them as the three attempts to go at every classroom door to see if any one of them were open. When one would be locked, they would groan and juggle the door and move on to the next one. Soon, Sora slides one open and tells them to hurry up. Once the three got in the room, Sora closes the door just in time when the strange enemies appear in the hallway.
On the second floor of the school, Pence, Xion, Riku, and Namine were worried when they heard their friends running away from something. "Oh no! Something has happen! We have to go—" Namine is then interrupted by her new boyfriend Riku.
"Hold up! We need to save ourselves Namine, so we will barricade the doors."
"But they slide open," Pence told him.
"Crap! I forgot!" Riku then noticed something through the class windows. It was the same open window and saw something fly inside, and later a few other that looked the same. "Get down!" he whispered taking Namine in his arms as all four stayed by the window, but out of sight in case somebody were to look at it. "I just saw something flew in that open window."
"So much for being safe here," Xion said bringing her knees close to her. "We can't hide anywhere else." Then they heard the sound of glass breaking. Some were whimpering in fear shaking fearing they would get caught. "If they find us, we either can run or fight back."
"I chose we fight. That way, when he throw a desk or chair at it, we will make a run for it," Pence chose. Namine was cuddle in Riku's arms and she never felt so protective before. She always imagined being in Roxas' arms and being protective by him, but that is not the case anymore. Out of curiosity, she wanted to take a peek.
"Namine! What are you doing?" Riku whispered against it.
"Just hold on. I have to know," she said slowly lifting her head up to see through the window. When her eyes could see, she saw these small things flying around and walking on its hand rather than its feet. "This is so creepy. You guys have to—" Namine stopped when one stopped in one spot by her and she instantly ducks her head down. "There is one by the window."
Down below them, Sora did the same thing to take a look to them walking strangely and their mouths slowly opening up, but it opened up like a zipper. "It feels like we've stepped into a low cheap sci-fi action flick," he said ducking his head away from its sight. That is if they had eyes.
"Now we have to—" The glass windows burst as one of the unknown beings grabs Hayner from behind and Sora and Olette grabbing onto his leg.
"Hayner!" Sora called out as he and Olette were in a tug of war.
"Don't you dare guys drop me!" he said looking at the remaining portion of the broken glass enough to stab him if any of them were to drop him. "I do not want to die!" Sora and Olette grips were slipping off Hayner's legs as the white being proved to be stronger pulling Hayner and his legs got sliced from the remaining shards of the windows. He screams in pain as blood started to pour out.
"I am going to be wiping the floor with you guys!" Olette screamed jumping out the window and hitting it in the monster in the face. Sora comes out with his broom hitting the other ones in the process. "Oh my god Hayner! We have to get you to a hospital!" Olette said examining him dropping out of the fight. "Sora! We have to get him out of here!"
"Kind of busy!" Sora ducks at an attack and uses his leg knock off the fiend. He gets up hitting another with his broom, but breaks in half when he tries to hit it. So he decides to punch it sending it through a glass window of another glass. "Okay, lets get him out of here." Sora and Olette take Hayner's arms and pull him leaving a trail of blood. When they saw the mysterious creatures recovering, they decided to go faster.
Upstairs, the classroom door slowly opens. The fiend walks in only to have a desk chair thrown at it making it disappear. However, this drew attention to Riku and them as they flew through the windows sending small pieces of shards to them. Each one had a chair throwing it and kept on doing so until they were out. When they were and the creatures were twitching, they go out the door with Riku leaving out first holding onto Namine.
Inside the city of where the main battle was going on, Kairi looks at her surroundings hoping to help. She felt helpless watching her friends fight down below without knowing what to do. Plus, she did not want to use up all her ammo. Then she saw the leader on top the Twilight Thorn looking all high and mighty. "I wonder if that Thorn controls all the Nobodies." When she saw it walking again, it had its blue tentacles stretch and grab onto Roxas and Yuffie. "Come on Kairi! You can do this!" Without thinking, she ran to one end of the roof and sprints jumping off the building. "Roxas!" she called out shooting her grapple gun hoping he would catch the hook without hurting himself. When it reached him, he grabs the wire and grunts when the wire pulls hard with Kairi swinging aiming to knock off Xenmas off. She successfully does and gets on top the giant's head. However, she later too get wraps around from one of its blue tentacles with her arms in.
Roxas had one free hand and slices off the tentacles free falling and saw he still had the wire of Kairi's grapple gun. He swings his arm bringing the gun to him. Everything felt like it was in slow motion and as he pulls the wire in, he shoots it with the hook latching onto the edge of the building. He pulls it when a few Creeps and Dusk started to grab on him. "Get off me!" He tries to shake them off as some fell off. When one of them wouldn't give up while holding onto his shoe, he uses his free leg to kick it off as he flies on up the building.
Kairi and Yuffie struggle to get out of the monster's blue tentacles, but it was useless because they could not use their arms. "Can someone help us? Roxas!" Yuffie screamed out to see her weapon on the ground. Kairi was in the same position and heard a car from behind the monster to see its lights getting bigger.
"You sure about this Aqua?" Leon asked with the C4 remote in his hands.
"Oh I'm sure!" she said determine stepping on the pedal harder as she opened the door. "Get ready boys cuz we are diving on out! Get your weapons ready!" The four open their doors leaving a crack open. "Ventus! Give me the pipe for the pedal."
"Here you go," he said giving it to her. Aqua takes moving her leg from the pedal and puts the yellow pipe down using the chair to hold it in its place. As the hummer drew near, she kicks open the door.
"Now!" The four jump on the hummer rolling off the road as they saw it run straight to the back of the colossal monster. "Leon! Press the button!" When the hummer reached about an inch, Leon pressed the button as the vehicle exploded into flames making the monster groan in pain letting go of Kairi and Yuffie. The two land on its shoulders as Kairi busts out her guns and starts shooting at it. Yuffie jumps down to get her weapon swinging her leg in a circle when she lands. She takes her weapon and throws it hitting every Nobody. When it did not, she would throw it back.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Riku and the others walk down the stairs to see Sora and Olette pulling Hayner near the steps. "Oh my god Hayner!" Namine screamed.
"Now is not the time Namine!" Sora told her. "Help us bring him up!"
"But those things are up there too!" Xion informs him. "What do you suggest we do?" Sora looked at his black ravened hair friend and then his others to see it is his call now, but he did not know what to do in this type of situation. "Sora!"
"I don't know! There is no time to call for help, but to do it ourselves!" Sora yells out of frustration. He looks down the hall to see multiple shadows coming and heard more from upstairs. "Riku and Pence," he said looking at the two. "You two are going to create a shield for us cuz we are going upstairs. Namine and Xion, help Olette and I bring Hayner up. Carefully grab his ankles so it is easy to lift him up. Now lets go!" Namine and Xion were kind of grossed out by the blood, but their friend was in deep trouble. They slowly grab his ankles as he winch in pain as they lift him up the stairs.
Riku and Pence go up throwing punches at the creepy crawlers and kicking some around because they were small. The others slowly bring him up, but when they reach the second floor, Namine got dragged down screaming. "RIKU!"
"Namine!" he shouted going down. Namine feels pain as she drops down each step and by the time she gets on the first floor, she is dragged down the hallway screaming. "SOMEONE HELP ME!" She looks behind her to see another type of creature pulling and back to see Riku running for her. "Riku!" She reaches out for him, but feels being lifted as she gets thrown through a glass window as it shatters. She ends up hitting a few desks and chairs pushing some away.
"No!" Riku runs towards the creature standing still looking at the scene and tackles it. He gets on top and gives continuous punches it in the face. "You bastard! You fucking bastard!" He kept on punching it until Sora, Xion, and Pence came to stop him.
"Riku stop!" Sora pulls him back locking him from behind as the strange monster disappears. The girls use their shoes to clear the leftover shards on the window and go over to get Namine.
"Namine," Xion said grabbing both sides of her, but she was unconscious. "Oh god. She is deeply injured." Xion looks at her body seeing the cuts and bruises on her and saw blood soaking up her blonde hair already. "We need to hurry to a hospital!"
Inside the battlefield, more help came as Aqua stabs a Berserker from behind causing it to disappear. She flips it back in a reverse grip to hit the ones behind her and swings it to the ones approaching her. Zack has a pack of Creepers jump on him at once, but he swings his sword in a circle sending each one far away and disappearing. Then he goes for Vexen, but he guards with his shield. Lexaeus spins Tifa around again and throws her to a wall, but this time, she lands on it smoothly and looks at him and jumps towards him and grabs him face sending him the air. She takes a quick jump and kicks him back to the ground.
Ventus took on Zexion and the Sorcerers. He had double swords in reverse grip and got irritated when the Sorcerers would create a barrier. Lucky Cloud came in to help, as his sword was big enough to take them down and slash each one. Zexion would just summon more Nobodies since he only seemed to be good at that. "This will never end!" Ven yelled.
Roxas thought of a plan by jumping off the building and stabbing the Twilight Thorn on the head, but before he could do so, Axel appeared on the same rooftop. "How'd ya find me?"
"I wanted us to have a private spot to fight, but how can I fight someone without seeing their face. Maybe they are hiding something," he explained to him. "Or maybe they are scared to hurt their friends." Roxas' eyes widen wondering where he is taking this now. "Isn't that right… Roxas. I know it is you hiding your identity." Roxas' cover was blown as he takes off the helmet revealing his true face. "Hmph, I was right after all. Your face sold it. Its too bad the others did not pick that up yet."
"So what, now you are going to tell them about my involvement with the agency you guys hate?"
"I don't really hate the agency Roxy boy. Do you not remember why some of my friends are doing this? Okay, but I will strike a deal with you to reveal anything about you," Axel said walking closer to him as they come face-to-face. "Bring down giant over there and this will all end." Roxas takes a look at the monster he is referring to and back at his red hair friend. "Then, help me, Arlene, and Isa get out of this. That is all." Axel (Lea) walks off heading for the exit.
"And how do you suppose I do that?" Roxas shouted.
"You have to figure that out yourself, got it memorized?" Then he finally disappeared.
Terra goes after Xenmas as the two starts go at it. "My, never thought I would see your face again Terra," he said taking his sabers to Terra in the back. Terra gets back up swinging his sword at him. "You definitely have gotten stronger."
"Says the guy who was part of our agency!" Terra grunts at each swing but Xenmas would just dodge his every move. "I can't believe we trusted you Xehanort!"
"Heh, the same as your father Terra."
From above, Xigbar got his scoop out trying to find someone to shot it. She squints his eyes to focus and takes a aim at Zack pulling the trigger as a few bullets came towards him. It manages to hit him through Zack's chest as blood starts to sweep through his clothing as he slowly falls to the ground as everyone in the crowd sees it, but had to continue on fighting. Xigbar smirks, but hears the shot of a bullet as it hits his weapon to see Kairi pointing a gun at him. "Whoa there lady! I see you know how to use that kind of weapon."
"You shot my dad!" Kairi grew in anger taking out her other gun. "I'm not afraid to shoot these guns and put a bullet between your eyes."
"Then go ahead," he taunted. "If you can handle the pressure of killing someone with a gun."
"You're not a person. You are a monster who has killed innocent people who did not deserve to die tonight." Kairi pulls both triggers but only aim closed to his feet threatening him.
"Maybe, but the Nobodies here did too."
"And I plan on ending it tonight!" Xigbar couldn't help, but laugh at her sentence.
"Haha, listen to yourself. The only way to end this mayhem is to destroy giant over there."
"Why would you give such crucial information to you?"
"That's for me to know and for you to dot, dot, dot. I have other plans than this stupid Nobody project."
"You stole that line from the Vampire Diaries," Kairi pointed out.
"I sure did." Xigbar falls back off the building with Kairi running towards him, but finds him floating back up on a small flying machine with him driving it. "If I were you, I'd worry about my father whose is slowly losing blood as we know it." With that he flies off into the sky leaving the scene.
At the school…
Riku comes over into the classroom stepping on the broken fragments of glass and picks up Namine bridal style. "Let's go to the cars now! Go get Hayner!" Riku walks away from the scene heading for the front entrance, but stops in his tracks seeing another swarm coming in.
"Come on, let's go through the back," Sora said bringing him to his direction as Pence, Olette, and Xion bring down Hayner down the steps as the group head out the back doors pass the office and stairs. They reach outside busting through the doors attempting to go around. "I bet the others are in a better situation than us!" As they continue to flee, Sora thought of something. "You guys go. I will distract them away from you guys."
"Are you crazy?" Xion told him. "Two of our friends are severely injured and we need you."
"Yeah and I will draw their attention."
"Please do not play hero Sora," Olette said, but he already was playing it seeing that he smiled at them while running off. Sora runs off back into the school and heads for upstairs as he drew in the crowd. He runs across the hall looking back to see the monsters looking at him, but then felt something in his stomach. He looks back in front to see on them formed to be a lance and had stabbed him. It pulls out and he falls to the ground holding the wound. Blood slowly starts to come out as Sora attempts to get up and use the walls for balance.
"D-damn it!" he said as he uses one of his hands on the wall leaving a trail of blood on it and the windows. Some came to him as he tries to fight them off by throwing punches at them, but he would miss and fall to the ground and groan in pain. He drags his body on the floor, but then one of them picks him sending him through the windows. Now he was in much more pain with his vision becoming a blur as he tried to move feeling the glass shards lightly impaling his back. "K-K-Kairi… where are you?" he called out. Then he heard the faint sounds of footsteps drawing near saw a few black figures above him as his eyesight went black.
Back in the city…
"Damn it! I've had it with this!" Kairi yelled jumping off the building and onto the giant monster shooting it to bring it down, but she then gets knocked off. "Oof!" Kairi lands hard on her back on the ground holding onto her weapons still and gets up to see her comrades trying to pull her father out of the area. She empties out her gun and reloads it and felt unstoppable for some reason. She points her guns and starts shooting every Nobody on the sight killing it in one shot. She walks while she does this as each empty bullet shell came out.
The place was cleared and only the bad guys were left. Kairi then sees Roxas jump off a building, from hearing him grunt loudly, with his katanas behind him and goes into a stabbing position. She saw this as in opportunity to take this monster down and wanted the others to help. "Cloud!" she shouts out for. "Help Roxas!" Cloud gets the idea what Kairi wanted and run towards the Twilight Thorn. Roxas saw a clear hit and stabs the head on the huge monster as it screams in pain as it starts to fall back.
Cloud jumps on it stabbing it with his sword and starts to climb up while splitting the monster in half. Tifa saw a rocket launcher from a deceased mercenary and runs for it. When she grabs it taking aim at the falling monster, she waits for the target to lock-on. Yuffie came to her to complain saying, "Aww! Can't I do it?"
"No because you got to use one before."
"But that was a long time ago!" The target successfully locks on and Tifa pulls the trigger sending off a rocket. Roxas and Cloud jump off the monster as it came at them and hits right in the middle exploding. Roxas and Cloud hit the ground and run as the explosion grew bigger and smoke later came in.
"No!" Xenmas screamed out. "Not again!"
"Oh yes again Mansex!" Terra smirked at him. "Your third name!"
"Then I mine as well do this!" Xenmas pulls out a gun and shoots at Aqua.
"No!" Terra tries to knock off the gun from his hand, but he was too late as the shot was fired towards. Aqua turns toward it, but then she felt someone push her out of the way and dodged the attacked. Once she hits the ground, she noticed it was Ventus who took the shot.
"Ventus!" She rolls him over to see he has been shot near the heart. Not directly at his heart, but close enough. "Oh my god! You did not have to do that you big dummy!" Ven chuckled at her friends. "Haha, why are you laughing? You just got shot."
"I'm laughing because at what you said. I guess people are stupid when it comes to love," he said making her tear up a little bit. Then around them, the Nobodies started to disappear around the city one by one as Kingdom Hearts rein victor in this battle, but they knew the real battle isn't over.
"Hmm… I guess that will do," Xenmas said bluntly walking off. "Vexen! Time to move to your next project!" The group start to walk away from the scene, but Kairi wanted to go after them except Yuffie and Roxas stopped her telling her no.
"Your dad is badly injured Kairi," Roxas told her. "We have other things to take care of now than them." Kairi leaves the group alone and attends to her dead as everybody waited for help to arrive. Kairi takes off her glasses and bends down her dad who was sleeping to save his energy.
"Dad…" she trailed off observing him and his wound, but then she heard her phone vibrate and forgot she brought it with her. She opens her bag to see the caller ID read: Olette. "Oh my god! I'm so glad to—"
"Kairi!" Olette interrupted, as she sounded very urgent and deadly serious. "You have to help us and meet us at West Tsuki Hospital! Hayner and Namine are terribly hurt and we do not know how much time they have left! They are loosing—put pressure on his wound Xion—blood."
"Oh god! Where is Sora? Is he okay too?"
Olette and Xion look at each other scared to tell her that they had Sora in the back of his car, but she had to know. Xion kept her eyes on the road with Riku following behind while Olette continues the conversation. "N-no Kairi. He's not okay. He too got brutally attacked from… something and he hasn't open his eyes since." Kairi's eyes widen and jaw drops as she realizes one of her worst fears has happen.
When first writing this chapter, it started off slow to write, but then I reach halfway and I couldn't stop typing on my keyboard! Just all these scenes and action sequences kept popping into my head. Of course, if you are a KH and FF fan, you got to see a few nods of some of the scenes that happen, such as Tifa's scene being brought from FFVII Advent Children.
I am going to try to give everything a conclusion while some storylines will follow into volume two. Get ready for the finale until the next update!
Now the question for next chapter will be: How will everything end and what will happen?