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On with the story...
Chapter Seventeen: Out of Form
Riku sighed for a moment and looked up at the ceiling of the plain colored room. 'It's been three days…' he thought to himself as he moped. 'I'm not really in the mood to do anything…'
He turned over in his bed and decided the next best thing was to sleep again. Just as he had gotten comfortable he heard a loud knock on his door. He growled in frustration and stood up to answer the door.
"Riku!" Sora said smiling at his friend. "Whoa… You've got bed hair…" the brunette said pointing at the messy silver hair.
"You know what time it is?" Riku said yawning.
"Yeah it's noon." Sora said nodding to himself reassuringly.
And with that last word Riku slammed the door leaving the young Keyblade wielder with a shocked look on his face. He told the blue eyed boy not to disturb him, and he could hear Sora mutter something as he left, it was something about training.
He slipped back under the covers and rested his head against the light colored pillow. He closed his eyes and sighed enjoying the silence that fell on him.
'I'm not sleepy… Just don't feel like getting up… I might as well sleep some more.'
Riku turned over again trying to go to sleep once more, but he couldn't now. Sora had scared off his sleepy mood. He yawned loudly, but still stayed under the covers. 'I wonder what she's doing right now.' Riku thought for a moment before frowning. 'Him…' he thought, not wanting to mention his name.
'You're jealous of a dead guy…' the Heartless said laughing at Riku's flaw.
"That's the sad part." He sighed looking at Xehanort the Heartless. "Surprisingly I wish he were alive."
'Again, it's because of her. I keep telling you but do you listen? No, of course you don't… Why the hell am I giving you advice on this…? I'm going soft.'
With that the Heartless went back into the far corner of his heart. Riku sighed slightly burying himself deeper within the blanket and listened to people walk down the hall outside of his room.
Traverse Town…
"She did a number on you Leana!" Gabriel said again for the fifth time laughing at the woman wearing a cast. "I wish I had been there to see that fight."
"Oh shut up!" Leana said punching Gabriel with her good arm. "I'd like to see you fight her when that little black heart shoes up."
"She really froze your arm and weapon?" Gabriel asked stopping her from crossing the street. Leana growled slightly and pushed Gabriel's hand away from her. "Hey come on, I mean… Was she really that strong? Hey… Leana…" he said chasing her down the street.
"Just shut it… My goodness… Yes, she did. I could've killed her if she didn't tap into the artificial heart at that moment… I'll get her next time." She said turning her head to look at the brown messy hair.
"There won't be a next time for you… You're out of commission until your arm's fixed." Gabriel's purple eyes stared at the cast for a moment. "Which mean I'll get to have some fun this time. By now, Yomigami knows we're still alive too."
"…" Leana rolled her eyes at the mention of the others name. "It's sad, but I feel just a little bit bad about doing this… Still if we want to bring back him back we've got to steal those spheres…"
"Let's hit 'em where it hurts them both then." Gabriel said forming a malevolent smile.
Leana arched an eyebrow noticing the look on her partners face. She blinked in confusion.
"What's the one thing most important to them?" Gabriel asked the honey eyed female.
"Their family?" Leana said pushing back her brown hair.
"Exactly…"
"When?" Leana asked looking at the purple eyes of her partner.
"How about right now?" he said stretching out his hand. "You want call out the Heartless to Radiant Garden?"
Radiant Garden…
"Amaterasu. Get. UP!" Tachigami said trying desperately to pry the covers off her young sister. "Come on, it's 1 o'clock in the afternoon! Get up!" she said amazed at the strength Amaterasu had.
"NO!" the young one said burying herself deeper into the covers. She held on tighter to the covers closing her eyes tightly. "Just go…" she said.
"Wake up!" Moegami said knocking loudly on the wall. He was in the other room.
Tachigami managed to sweep the covers off of her in a rapid motion, and Amaterasu covered her face with a pillow. The older sister sighed and sat on the bed.
Amaterasu heard the bed creak at the rising number of weight added on to the sleeping item. She muttered out lowly to Tachigami that she was getting fat, but the 19 year old said nothing.
"Is she awake?!" the twins asked. Kazegami was knocking on the wall this time.
"Yes!" Tachigami hollered back.
Amaterasu tried to block out the noise coming from her family, but it was to no avail. She couldn't ignore the noise even if she wanted to, because she would miss the talking she called 'noise'.
"It's been three days…" Tachigami said pulling the pillow away from Amaterasu's face. "Get some fresh air, or outside or something… Take a shower…"
"I took a shower today in the morning…" she said covering her eyes with her arms. "Just leave me alone, okay?"
"Suit yourself… But you're going to have to talk to him someday…"
"No one asked you…" Amaterasu said at the same time as her older sister was speaking.
With that Tachigami closed the door to her room, leaving the girl alone, without any covers. She mumbled again looking up at the beige ceiling.
"Are you awake?" it was Gekigami's voice.
"Yeah…" she answered.
"Are you decent?' he asked.
She looked down at to what she was wearing, navy gym shorts and a black t-shirt. "Yes…" she said looking at the door to her room. Gekigami stepped through the doorway. His hair looked horrible, it was messy with the back part looking like a afro of some sort.
"Yomigami's worried about you, ya know?" he said sitting next to her.
Amaterasu breathed in for a moment, and exhaled slowly. She nodded and turned over on her side, away from her second big brother.
"Listen… He's pissed off at the fact you fought Leana on your own. What were you thinking?!" he whispered.
"…I wanted to protect the sphere, and them." She said fixing her gaze on an empty flower vase by the nightstand.
"Fine, just next time…" Gekigami placed a gentle hand on her head, "don't go off doing things on your own, okay? That heart won't work every time… Anyway I hope you didn't forget today's the day those three start their training…"
"Ugh… See now I don't want to get up…"
R i k u
It was an arena of some sort with pillars from old buildings scattered about. In the distance was an old decaying chapel, and a paopu tree could be seen through one of the window openings.
"All right then…" Yomigami was wearing black cargo pants and a white shirt. "Today's the day of your first training session."
Amaterasu was standing next to her brother. She was wearing the same thing as he big brother.
"Any questions?" he asked the three of us. Sora rose up his hand, but he had already somehow guessed Sora's question. "No, there aren't any bathroom breaks for the next three hours…"
"All right then, on that note…" Amaterasu stepped forward. "The three of you are going to spar off against the two of us."
"But that's a 3-on-2 match…" Kairi said frowning for a moment. "It's not really fair for you guys."
"We'll deal with what's fair for us…" Yomigami said stretching out both of his hands. Two Keyblade like weapons appeared in mid air before he caught them. "I'll take Sora and Kairi… I like 2-on-1 practices. Ammi, you can take Riku."
From the look on her face my guess would've been Yomigami had picked something else, and changed it at the last minute. Amaterasu nodded slightly and pulled out two Keyblade looking weapons, but they had no keychain. For a moment I thought she was going to pull out the other Keyblade.
"We can use the environment however we please, but we can't go past the chapel…" Amaterasu said pointing her weapon in the direction. "Is that clear?"
We all nodded, and pulled out our Keyblades.
"We won't hold back…" Sora said getting into a defensive stance.
"We ask that you don't hold back…" Yomigami said twirling both of his weapons. "Are you guys ready now?" we all nodded. "One…"
"Two…" Amaterasu said getting ready to move.
"Three!" we all yelled, running forward to our opponent.
An hour into it…
Kairi barely had enough time to dodge Yomigami's mid air attack. Sora placed a Reflect spell on her as Yomigami's weapon was within range. She breathed in ready to prepare herself for the pain, but the spell had worked.
Yomigami threw his weapon towards Sora and the boy did a back flip, his leg had missed the weapon by an inch. The blue eyed boy panted heavily, and dashed forward bringing his weapon over his arms.
Yomigami blocked the attack with ease, and then side stepped to the right feeling Kairi's presence in back of him. The two of them weren't a match for the veteran, but they'd eventually read his fight patterns soon enough.
Riku's reflexes had saved him from wiping out on the floor as he used his free hand to push him up, in a sort of one handed flip. Amaterasu sighed for a moment before jumping back at the silver haired teen brought his Keyblade down on the ground.
Amaterasu used her own enhanced reflexes and was able to stand nimbly on the boy's Keyblade. Riku stared at her in disbelief, she was taunting him for a moment, and it was almost near to impossible to move the weapon.
'How can she stand on it?' the boy thought to himself as the girl disappeared from his sight. 'Shit!' he looked in back of him and noticed something lightly touched his back. He knew if it had been a real battle he most likely would've have died at this point.
Riku moved forward, and turned around pointing his weapon at the girl. She made no effort to protect herself, and sighed heavily as she got into a defensive stance.
It was apparent to Sora, Kairi, and Yomigami that the two of them still had some unresolved issues to work. Sora and their team had gone two hours into their spar, and Yomigami had won, since he had managed to unarm Kairi and Sora.
Riku brought his weapon up, and blocked both blades from hitting him. He started to strain under the force as both blades keep hitting his defensive again, and again.
"Funny, she's not even giving it her all…" Yomigami said thinking back to the wounds she had received a while back.
"Are you serious?" Kairi and Sora asked.
Riku brought his weapon down in mid air, and Amaterasu felt confident enough to kick it back. Riku was flung backwards and looked back at her. The girl ran forward with enough speed to catch him off guard, and as a last resort he hid his chest in back of his Keyblade.
Amaterasu's blade cracked and she cursed, disposing of the two weapons. She jumped back and brought out the other Keyblade she had. Riku moved back quickly as he saw the Keyblade being thrown towards him, he pushed it into the air with his Keyblade, and it was just enough to distract him.
Before long Amaterasu knocked him onto the ground, with her weapon dangerously close to his neck. She was breathing heavily, finally pinning him to the ground. Riku had been able to keep his weapon in the air, so that it could be called a draw. She looked at the weapon that was close to her neck.
Riku was breathing heavily, feeling some beads of sweat run down the side of his cheek. He gulped feeling the Keyblade lightly touch his neck. She if had gone any further he wouldn't be alive, at all.
'She was gong to kill me?!' he thought to himself trying to scan her eyes for a different answer. 'But it's a draw…' the boy thought to himself as his weapon lightly touched his opponent's neck.
"Not bad…" she said getting off of him.
Amaterasu winced in pain for a moment as she stretched her arms and legs. Riku sat up feeling his back hurt a bit. 'That's going to hurt in the morning,' he thought to himself. At this point Sora, Kairi, and Yomigami had gone back into the city.
"For some reason I thought he'd do something like this…" she said helping Riku up.
R i k u
The two of us ended up walking back to the city, and boy what a quiet stroll that was. It's killing me, I can't take it. I'm going to go insane if she doesn't talk to me. 'Talk to her you idiot…' my conscience said. 'Idiot…? …That makes you one too…' I thought to myself as I walked in back of her.
I was still worried about the fact she still had some bruises on her arms. I asked her if she was okay, and she said as long as she could walk she was fine. 'Talk to her… Hellooooo…? Are you even listening?' the little voice in my head was saying.
She looked back at me sighed for a moment. I still felt some tension in the air, and that was pretty much just about it. Her body was swaying to the side once in a while, she was tired.
"Ammi…" I picked up that pace and walked alongside her this time. She didn't look to good from where I was standing. "Amaterasu, you don't want to rest?"
"M-M…Maybe…" she said struggling to get the words out of her mouth. I caught her before she fell. "Can you get Yomigami here, please?" she asked me in a soft voice.
"It's getting dark I can't just leave you here…" I placed her arm around my shoulder. I knew she winced in pain, but I didn't want to just leave her there.
"I have another idea then…" she said stretching out her hand. A black portal materialized from out of thin air. "Just carry me on your back…" but that was the last time she spoke to me consciously.
I looked back at the dark portal for a moment and sighed. I didn't know where it would take us, but I knew I could trust her. I looked up at one of the buildings. Cement had broken off on one side of the thing.
Something didn't feel right, and the sooner we got out of here the better. Another small piece broke off as I felt my leg go through the portal. I had forgotten how cold this thing could be.
'She's pretty heavy…' I thought to myself as I carried her gently on my back. She was mumbling something, but I just couldn't hear what it was. At that moment I felt my whole body grow cold as I passed through the portal.
There was a bright light at the end and when we passed it, a beige colored bedroom was in full view. I looked around slightly, this was her room. I lay her gently on the bed, and there was an expression of pain on her face. 'Her back still hurts,' I thought to myself.
On her nightstand was a small bottle of pain killers for the aches on her back. It was still fairly full and I smiled at that fact, she didn't like taking pills at all.
There weren't any clean sheets on her bed, and I didn't want to look through the closet. I'm still kind of paranoid about this one time I had to look for bed covers in Kairi's house. Sora had gotten sick and threw up on her bed, lo and behold who did they ask to get extra sheets? Me. Did I find any? Let's just say I found something I shouldn't have.
Her hand felt cold though, and I didn't have a sweater or anything with me, so I would have to go find some clean sheets. I looked around in this bottom drawer that was attached to the bed and found a pink bed cover.
It's still a bit funny, she didn't like wearing pink, yet she had a pink bed cover. I covered her up, being careful not to hurt her anymore. With that I sat up against the bed, looking back at her as she slept.
"When you dream, do you dream of the past? Do you dream of him? Do you wish that sometimes the dream wouldn't end? Would you sleep forever to not face the pain?" I asked her that watching her turn over in her sleep. I knew it was pointless since Amaterasu couldn't hear me. She was out like a rock. "I really wish you could answer these questions…"
'I'm jealous of a dead man, and I wish he was never brought up in the first place. I'm pissed at the fact I can't talk to her like I use to. I haven't seen her laugh, or smile, or even get angry. I've seen her cry, but for him…' I thought to myself closing my eyes.
Civilian District
"They're here too?!" Moegami yelled pulling out his weapon. There were Heartless as far as the eye could see. Tachigami grunted under the weight of Heartless on her weapon.
"Where's Sora?!" Kazegami said breathlessly as he stood up leaning against his weapon.
"Stop…" Gekigami said freezing several Heartless in his path. "Didn't' Sora call this meeting here?" he struck his weapon through a couple of frozen Heartless.
Tachigami pulled back Moegami. He was really close to getting his arm bitten off. Kazegami blocked the attack from one of the Heartless.
There were the little Heartless, called 'Shadow' and the other bigger ones, the centaur looking ones. One of the centaur looking ones jabbed his lance forward, and Tachigami blocked it with some strain. Gekigami was thrown back as he had gotten to close to one of the centaurs. The two twins were trying their best to get rid of the smaller Heartless, but it didn't seem to be working.
Tachigami jumped up to one of the rooftops of a house and scouted around the area, Heartless covered about three blocks. 'Someone called them here… But why?' she jumped back at a flying Heartless was about to tackle her.
In the distance, there were several loud roars from a couple of Behemoths off to the west of the block. 'Something tells me we aren't getting out here alive…' that's what all four of them were thinking of.
The old Hollow Bastion castle
"So then…" Leana winced slightly as she moved her injured arm. "This is where most of his memory spheres are at?"
"Yeah…" Gabriel said looking down at the ground below their feet. "But only Sora can unlock them from that box… The problem is, is that thing's in those damn ruins."
The two of them turned around hearing the Behemoths roar once again. They chuckled slightly and jumped down the ruins of the old building. This was out of form for them, and yet they still did what they had to do. There was no turning back from this point.
These two were close to finding the spheres, but without a key to open the lock what was the point.
What was so precious to them that they had to go and destroy kin from their own ex-members?
A terrible secret would soon come out, and things would be thrown out of form.
For a modern myth of some sort? No, it was for the tale of the sealed truth. Darkness was soon going to overrun this world like it had done in the past nine years ago with Maleficent, but this time the Keyblade's 'Chosen One' would stop it before it was too late. Everything is being thrown out of form for memories…
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