Axel and Reno: Thanks to ?(Seriously, your review blew me away. I was like...woah...you should write a story about that!), -Randomness- KuNoIcHi-KhFaN, Ellie, Deliahgirl and Oathkeeperafor making sure that we got our supply of oxygen! We tight from now on. Call us and we got your back. BUT NONE OF YOU OTHER READERS GET THAT PRIVILEGE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SAVE US SO HA!
FF Cast: -leaves-
KH Cast including Reno and HnH: Bye FF Cast! See ya later!
Axel: Wait, Reno, you stayed?
Reno: Yeah, 'cause I wanna know what Kairi knows.
Kairi: Hehe...the only thing I'm saying is that Sora Roxas my Soxas.
Roxas: I am SO offended by that it isn't even funny...
Riku: -massages his YET AGAIN broken rib-
Sora: Wait, when'd you break your rib the FIRST time?
Riku: Remember, in the end of KH2 that HnH DOESN'T own, along with everything else in this story, when Xemnas-
All: -look at Xemnas-
Xemnas: Marluxia had yet ANOTHER affair with Sephiroth, so I was cranky, alright?!?
Marluxia: Don't be hatin'.(Reno:...) That's how Riku was born.
All: -look to Riku-
Riku: -spazzes out-
Angels in Flight: Towa no Shirube
Chapter 21: Trapped in a World of Delusions
-Day Three-
(Roxas' POV)
I shook my head and was surprised when I saw water fly. I was wet and still functional? I was about to touch my hair and see, but I couldn't move my arms. I tried to move them again, but I felt something restraining me. I figured it out by looking at my surroundings. I was by myself in a room that was made out of some type of old, blue stone with dust seeping out of the cracks, and there were some vines growing out of them, too. There was a steel door that looked reinforced and I could hear someone pacing on the outside. I was in a prison.
"Is he awake?" I heard someone speak from outside my cell. It sounded familiar, but I was a bit groggy so it didn't click with me.
"I believe he is." Said another person, presumably the guard. I heard the sound of locks being unlocked, and barriers being removed. I guess they knew me pretty well. The door then opened and in stepped-
"Seifer!" I now was as alert as a fox. I had this natural alarm that made me more wary whenever he was around, and for good reasons.
"Looks like you and your redheaded friend can't measure up to Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo." He said, then added, "Oh yeah. I'm assuming this is for you. Naminé spent a good majority of a day doing it for you." He loosened my chain just enough so I could stretch out my right arm half it's length. He then gave me the piece of paper.
"So...how is Naminé? Where is she?...If she's with you(which I knew she was), tell her that I miss her." I spoke, having some difficulties opening the paper. Once I did, I just stared at it for awhile. I made it a little lighter so I could see what she did for me. It was a picture of the sky, and in the distance it looked like there was an angel flying. There were angel feathers floating from the sky into the calm sea, where only small waves were visible. There was a space between the sky and the sea, where Naminé wrote something in very pretty handwriting.
'The waves and the sky...they all fit together...
Can you carry me away as light as a feather?'
On a cloud in the top of the page, she wrote, 'Dear Roxas', and in the branches of the trees I could make out, 'Love, Naminé'. I looked it over and noticed something was written upside-down on the sandbar that was in the middle of the sea. I flipped the page around so I could see what she wrote. In writing that looked like someone had taken a stick and carved it into the sand was 'Raison d'etre'. My systems translated it as 'Reason for Life'.
"Naminé's at my home. She's doing pretty well, and I'm going to be honest(I never knew he had it in him) with you: She wants to see you. I told her that if she was a good girl then I'd let her see you. Now she's all cheerful and upbeat around me." He said, crossing his arms.
"Why are you telling me this?" I asked. I didn't think it was the truth because usually Seifer would lie and say something like 'She's deeply in love with me and has forgotten all about you'.
"Because I feel like she actually likes me now. Though I know she's faking, it still feels good. Naminé's a really good actress...it feels like she actually cares about me." He said, a big smirk now on his face. "I was always so jealous of you..." There was something a bit out of place here. He looked proud of himself, but he was confessing to me his true feelings and I knew from experience that that would seriously wound your pride.
"You came here just to get that all out?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. There was some kind of catch, I knew it.
"No, I've come here to thank you. I realized that if I lead her to believe that she'll see you if she's good, then I can get her to do anything I want. I've got Naminé wrapped around my finger because of you." He grinned when he heard me growl. I tried to break out of my bonds, but it was no use. It was obvious that the triplets just threw me in here, and the water probably dried on me which is why I'm not as strong as I could be. If I was, then I could break these chains no problem.
"If she becomes your sex doll, Seifer, I'm going to kick you-"
"Believe me, she won't. I'm not that cruel. Besides, I'm too young for that. I'm seventeen-going-on-eighteen after all. In a few years when she's finally accepted the fact that we're bound together and there's nothing she, or you, can do about it, maybe." He cut me off, still having that smirk on his face. All I was thinking of was how he had a sick and twisted mind...
"Bound together?" I asked, and I was so mad right now that if I wasn't chained down... 'I doubt that's ever going to happen...' I thought, but then thought back to the rings, and that spell Seifer had cast over them.
"Naminé and I are going to be married in two weeks! Don't worry, I made sure you weren't invited." Seifer said, and I could've sworn I saw his eyes glow.
"..." I had to keep quiet or else I would lash at him. If not physically, then verbally.
"Aw, I know poor little Roxie is feeling a bit angry right now." Seifer said in a fake-sympathetic voice. "I'm sure the Inquisitor will have a field day with you."
"Inquisitor? What information do they need from me?" I asked. But it made sense. Seifer came in here, and got me all riled up for the Inquisitor(who surely won't like my attitude) and then he'll most likely torture me until I give him the answers he wants...whatever they may be.
"You're an angel in a prison, in Hell. This is probably the only time they'll get to interrogate an angel who's chained up and can't fight back. What demon in their right mind wouldn't take advantage of this opportunity?" He asked. Well, I couldn't say he was wrong because he was right. "Well, have fun." Seifer smirked, then disappeared when he walked back. After he left I heard the door open again.
"Well, well, well. Look at what we have here. Some renegade angel, eh? This should be fun." I could tell from the voice that the Inquisitor was male. I couldn't see what he looked like, for he was wearing a mask. But I did see that he had a whip with him.
'Oh great. Just what I needed.' I thought, immediately tensing up. I knew I was designed for taking on whatever hurt someone could dish out but there was a limit to how much torture I could take before passing out. Somehow, I managed to stuff the paper in my pocket and look up at the Inquisitor.
"There's two ways we can get through this, kid. One way is the easy way. Where you can just answer the questions I ask and maybe if you're good I'll let you out of here. I heard from Seifer that your girlfriend would like to see you. I'm reporting to him in the end and he told me that if you're a good little boy, he'll let you see her. OR, the hard way where you can meet my best friend, Whip, here." The Inquisitor said, snapping his whip as he 'introduced' it to me. "What's it gonna be?"
It basically came down to this: Betraying my whole race and see Naminé, or be loyal to the angels and probably never talk to her again. So it was either my whole race or Naminé. What should I choose...?
'Do I even need to ask myself that?'
-
(Naminé's POV)
"Mistress Naminé, Seifer wanted me to tell you that he went to see...um..." Marlene seemed to be thinking very hard on something, "He went to see...um..."
"Who did he go see, Marlene?" I asked, kneeling down to her level. It was hard to believe that she was a vampire. She looked like any normal human. Brown hair in a braid tied with a pink ribbon, and brown eyes; she didn't look vampiric to me.
"Um...I can't remember..." She said, looking down at the floor. "...I think it was, um...something with an R..."
"Roxas?" I asked, tilting my head slightly. Marlene's face lit up as she looked at me.
"Yeah, that was it! It was Roxas!" She nodded her head and I frowned. 'Why didn't he take me too?' I asked myself. 'He knows how badly I want to see Roxas...' On that thought, a dark portal appeared and out stepped Seifer, looking quite smug with himself.
"Oh, Naminé, you're up! Nice to see you." He said. I forced my frown to turn upside-down. 'Keep up with the act, Naminé...' I thought.
"Hello, Lord Seifer! Glad to see you're back! I heard from Marlene that you saw Roxas. Why couldn't I come? I wanted to give him that hug!" I said cheerfully, and I saw out of the corner of my eye that Marlene slipped out of the room with a fearful expression on her face. It was now obvious to me that she was scared of him for some reason.
"Because I didn't want to wake my Sleeping Beauty." He smiled, and we both knew that wasn't the reason. He just wanted to torture me into knowing that Seifer can see Roxas, but when he does, he doesn't take me with him. "By the way, he said he misses you."
"When you see him again, tell him I miss him, too! But when you weren't here, I missed you more so no worries there!" I chirped, and he ruffled my hair.
"Heh. Good girl." I wondered why Seifer was being so nice to me ever since I started to act nice around him. We both knew(and Roxas probably knew, too) that I was just being cheerful around him because I wanted to see the other blonde. "By the way, Naminé, there's a party being held at Satan's place in congratulations for us. So you have to come with me. Marlene and Sarah'll be there as well."
'If Sarah's there, that means Gippal's there! Maybe he can get me out of this mess!' I thought. He seemed nice enough. Who knew who else would be there? If Gippal was there, then Lucifer'd be there, and if Lucifer was there, Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo were probably there so if the triplets were there, maybe their father(Sephiroth) would be there, too! I know Roxas said that Sephiroth hated him...but he seemed pretty nice around me! After all, he gave me the ability to see the supernatural!
"Okay, I can't wait! We make such a good couple, Lord Seifer, that we should show off to everyone, anyway!" I said, and he chuckled.
"Marlene'll help you get into this fancy dress my mother gave me one day to tell me to give it to my future wife. Since that's obviously you, might as well put it on now. So, Marlene, you can come back in the room now! I know you've been hiding behind the door." Seifer said, and Marlene came in the room holding the dress I was supposed to wear. "At any rate," He sent a shifty glance at the younger girl, "Call me when you're done." With that, he left the room.
"Do you actually like Seifer-sama, Mistress Naminé?" Marlene asked in a whisper. I shook my head and held a finger up to my lips, telling her to be quiet about it. She looked confused, "Then why...?"
"I'll tell you later, okay?" I whispered, and she nodded. She helped me get on my dress(I couldn't lace the back all the way) and she smiled.
"You look so pretty, Mistress Naminé!" She commented, and I smiled back at her and smoothed out any creases on the dress. The top part was a sparkly white complimented by an ivory sash. The bottom part was short, going up only to my knees. It was poofy(like any dress) and was also a sparkly white, splattered with gold glitter. My sleeves were long and reached my fingertips, they were a see-through white that had random specks of gold decorated throughout them. I don't know if it would look that well on my blonde hair-
"Oh! My hair! What am I going to do with my hair?" I asked, and even though I didn't want to go to this stupid party(because I did NOT want to be Seifer's wife, much less go to a party as a celebration for it) but I had to look good because what if Roxas somehow crashed it or something?
"I'll go get a brush!" Marlene offered, running out of the room. I didn't have a mirror with me so I couldn't see if I looked like an idiot. She came back, her hands full of ribbons and combs and brushes and hair ties and things I didn't even know the NAME for. Unlike most Princesses...I was fashionably challenged. "Can I play hairdresser, Mistress Naminé? I promise you'll look good!" I sighed and kneeled down.
"Okay. I trust that you'll make me look gorgeous!" I said, flipping my hair and saying the last part of 'gorgeous' with such flair that she knew I was kidding.
"Don't worry, Mistress Naminé, after I'm done with your hair, even the stars will be jealous!" Marlene sounded so excited, too. I couldn't' just say 'no' to her. Even if I looked like an idiot, I could tough it out.
-
"How do you like it, Mistress Naminé?" Marlene held a hand mirror in front of my face. My hair was draped over my shoulder like it normally was, except there was a big gold ribbon in my hair and after the ribbon my hair was one giant curl.
"I love it, Marlene! Thank you so much!" I said, and I did like it. It complimented my dress pretty nicely. She nodded and scurried out of the room to get Seifer. She came back with the other blonde in tow. He gaped for awhile, staring at me. Then, he shut his mouth and grinned, probably happy that he had possession of me.
"You're dazzling, Naminé." He held out a hand and I glided towards it, grasping it with my hand. I forced a smile at him.
"Why thank you, Lord Seifer! You're nothing to be looked down upon, either." For Seifer was wearing a very fancy version of his regular outfit. I noticed that Marlene looked up to snuff as well.
"Shall we go?" He asked, and I nodded. He snapped his fingers and a dark portal appeared. Seifer, Marlene and I walked into the portal. I, personally, didn't like that means of travel anyway. I guess there are no such things as 'cars' in Hell. We were in Lucifer's place in a flash.
"Hi, Seifer!" Sarah was conversing with the blonde as soon as we got there. She didn't talk to me, but I didn't blame her. If Roxas was getting married to some girl I'd hate her, too. Seifer and Sarah were engaged in conversation, but poor Seifer looked like he really didn't want to talk to her, and you could tell because Lucifer's daughter was doing all the talking, he was just nodding.
"Hello there, ladies." Gippal said coming towards us, bowing his head slightly to Marlene and I. The vampiric girl hid behind me, clutching onto my leg.
"Marlene, you don't need to be scared of Gippal! He's a good guy." I said, smiling at him. She didn't budge.
"Naminé, forget it. My father took her away from her father. It makes sense that she's scared of me. Anyway, so how's the situation with-" Instead of saying his name, Gippal just nodded his head towards Seifer. I sighed and shook my head.
"Not good. I don't know where Roxas is, and now Seifer's forcing me to marry him. I don't want to spend the rest of my life with him!" I whispered, not wanting him to hear me. Of course, I always jinx myself when I say stuff like that...
"What are you talking about?" I hoped that cold voice was not who I thought it was...when I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked up, it was. Seifer. 'Oh. My. God.' I thought, panicking on the inside. He probably heard us. Maybe he didn't, maybe I was just paranoid...he leaned down and whispered in my ear, "I'll deal with you later." He did hear me. I knew right then and there I was doomed.
"We weren't talking about anything, Seifer." Gippal said, sending him a shifty look. I briefly wondered who would win if they had a fight. The Lord of Darkness vying against The Demon Prince...I decided that would be a fight I would like to see.(If I ever wanted to see any fights, mind you)
"Hmm..." He gave me a look that I knew was a bad thing. I knew that I'd be punished for whatever I did. "...I'm sure."
"Okay, Gippal lied! We were talking about how good of a couple you and I are, Lord Seifer!" I said, though all four of us could tell that he knew I was lying. But Seifer decided to believe it anyway.
"Very...well." He said, and stalked off, only to be met by Sarah(again). I could hear him sigh in frustration that Gippal's sister didn't seem to notice, and she began to talk his ear off again.
"Is he why you have those bruises on your shoulders?" The blonde(that was yet another person to add to my list! Sarah, Gippal, Rikku, Roxas, Seifer and I were all blondes! Was it a fad or something?) asked, and I was a little surprised that he asked me at. I looked at my shoulders and you could faintly see the black-and-blue marks(that were tinged with red) through my sleeves. I nodded.
"Gippal, could do me a favor?" I asked, glancing at Seifer to make sure he wasn't whispering, "Could you get Roxas out of prison for me?"
"I'll do my best. I don't think they'll let me because he's an angel. In fact, I know they won't let me because they know I fell in love with an angel...so everyone knows I have a soft spot for those of Heaven. They'll probably think he's Rikku's brother or something." Gippal said, frowning. "Sorry, Naminé." I smiled weakly.
"It's alright...there's nothing you can do about it." I replied, and shrugged. He looked around nervously and we both could see Lucifer was staring right at us, but mostly at him.
"I better get back to my old man, he'll be mad I 'wandered off' again." Gippal said, emphasizing 'wandered off' with air quotes. Why Satan would consider wandering off being a couple of feet away from him, I don't know. He waved as he made his way towards Lucifer. After Gippal had left, I felt three cold presences hover over me. I turned around, and there the triplets were. Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo. Before I said anything, Marlene gasped and jumped into Kadaj's arms.
"Uncle Kadaj! Uncle Loz! Uncle Yazoo!" She yelled happily, hugging the short-silver-haired triplet. My mouth dropped.
"U-U...Uncles?!?" I asked, regaining my composure and closing my gaping mouth. The triplets and Marlene nodded.
"These are Daddy's brothers!" She said. I looked at all three of them. I thought Sephiroth only had three children!
Wait.
I vaguely remembered Kairi and Sephiroth talking about how he had two other sons. Marlene's father had to be one of them. Then that would mean that along with being a vampire, she was also part angel.
"Marlene's our half-niece." Kadaj said, Loz and Yazoo nodding as to verify that fact.
"Surprised?" Yazoo asked.
"We hope so, because Vincent looks like Sephiroth's other ex-wife. His real wife died." Loz added, and I raised an eyebrow. What were they talking about...?
"Loz! Father said to never mention that!" Yazoo snapped, hitting Loz on the back of the head. Marlene giggled as the two began to wrangle.
"Uncle Loz and Uncle Yazoo are funny!" She said, then looked at me. "You know my Uncles?" She asked. I nodded.
"We didn't know you were friendly with Marlene, or we never would've played mind games with you." Kadaj said, looking back at his brothers and sighing. He probably wanted to do that whole 'we'll take turns in finishing other's sentences'(they seemed to like doing that alot) thing, but his brothers were too busy quarreling to do that. "We won't do it again now that we know you've been protecting Marlene from him." I knew 'him' was Seifer. I guess no one liked him. I couldn't blame them, whatever their reason may be.
-
After the party was long over, Seifer, Marlene and I portaled back to his home. When we did get back to his home, however, he glared at me and dragged me into a room.
"How dare you talk about me behind my back!" He yelled, punching my jaw with such momentum I fell to the ground. He hit me so hard that I felt like his fist was a hammer and my jaw had been made out of glass. Good thing it didn't crack out of place...but it felt like it! I tried to get up, but he stomped on my back, keeping me down. "Don't you ever talk about me to anyone ever again! Got it?" He removed his foot from my back and I tried to get up again.
"I said: Got it?" Seifer asked, kicking me in the side hard. So hard, that, in fact, I started to cough up blood. "Hmph. You're pathetic." He said, and turned around to Marlene. "You too. Maybe I'll see if you break as easy as she does." I heard her gasp in fear. I sighed inwardly, really hurting too much to do anything. But I reached out and grabbed Seifer's ankle to stop him from hurting her.
"Mistress Naminé!" I heard Marlene shout as Seifer bent down. I kept my grip as hard as I could on his ankle, though. I don't know what good it would have done.
"Let go of me." He growled, and I coughed up some more blood and shook my head.
"No...don't hurt Marlene. She didn't do anything to you..." I said. I wondered what had made him snap so suddenly. Seifer had been pretty kind now...but now? 'Does he get berserk too?' I asked myself, but honestly, I was too much in pain to care about him.
"..." He grabbed my wrist and wrenched it off of his ankle. Then, he bent it. It was like a shock running up and down my arm.
"What...happened...to...the old...Seifer?" I asked, grinding my teeth because I didn't want to scream. That would just give him more pleasure.
"Old Seifer?" He asked, sounding confused. His grip on my wrist loosened considerably. Along with the grip, the pain had died down as well.
"The one...that would...always try...and be...the hero..." I coughed out more blood and he dropped my wrist, "...even if...he was...wrong. Where's...that...Seifer?" He stood up and backed away from me. I saw his fist clench and all I was thinking was, 'Oh god, he's going to charge into me...' But no. He didn't.
"Dammit, Naminé! Why'd you have to fall in love with Roxas?" He asked, and he seemed angry. Not at me...but at...something else. Seifer stood there, staring at me. I knew he wanted an answer, and I couldn't say anything like 'because he's nicer than you' or any of the real reasons, because he'd just get angry. So I had to lie. Well...maybe not lie. Maybe it was the truth.
"Who else was there?"
-End of Day Three-
In her boredom of today, Kairi had made a plushie home for her Sora and Roxas plushies, and she had also made one of herself.(those things took a chunk out of the day) She didn't make one of Naminé because she was too busy making the Sora and Roxas plushies fight over her. Of course, if you told anyone Kairi played with dolls, she'd kick the living daylights out of you. Especially since Kairi knows that Past Sora had pediophobia, and Present Sora probably had that phobia too.
"Three weeks, two days." She whispered, hugging her Sora toy. Kairi glanced at the mini stuffed Roxas and frowned. She remembered what that lady had told her about L.A.X. the other day. "Maybe you shouldn't come back..."
-Day Four-
(Naminé's POV)
"Mistress Naminé, are you alright?" I heard Marlene ask. I opened my eyes and wished I hadn't. I was so dizzy I saw the room swirl around me. I shook my head and sat up. I was still on the floor, the place I had fallen yesterday. The first thing I noticed was that Marlene looked more vampiric than she had the last time I saw her. Her eyes were mixed in with a shade of blood red, and two of her teeth had been elongated to become sharp fangs.
"...I don't feel so good..." I mumbled, closing my eyes and shaking my head again. When I opened my eyes, everything was still blurry and swirling. I saw two Marlenes and everything was doubling.
"I gave you some of my blood because you looked really pale, Mistress Naminé...that's why you're probably dizzy." Marlene whispered, but her soft voice felt like the loudest shriek. I felt like two people were playing a match of hardcore, non-stop ping-pong inside my head.
"I'm not...going to turn into a vampire, am I?" I asked, pausing, shaking my head again. I felt like I had a hangover or something, or Seifer must have taken a sledgehammer and pounded my head inside-out. She shook her head.
"But you might feel a little strange for a while. It shouldn't last! I don't know what the side effects are." Marlene shrugged and smiled uneasily. "Are you mad?" I shook my head, desperately wishing she would be quiet.
"Of course not." I said, coughing again. I heard the door open and Seifer walked in. I heard every one of his footstep's, each sounding like an avalanche to me.
"Is she alright, Marlene?" He asked, kneeling down beside me. Marlene nodded and backed away. Seifer looked at me and he placed a hand on my cheek. "Are you alright, Naminé?"
"I'm...so...dizzy..." I mumbled, placing a hand on top of my ear to block out the noise. I didn't know why I was so dizzy and why my head felt like it would pop like popcorn.
"I know who'll make you feel better." Seifer said, picking me up, placing me over his shoulder. "Marlene, you stay here and watch over the home. I'll be back. Alright?" I saw her nod and she kept getting farther...and farther...away...
-
(Roxas' POV)
"Well, I think we've our fun for today, eh, angel?" The Inquisitor had what he liked to call his 'fun' with me. It wasn't fun to me. It was rather painful because I refused to answer his questions. I know I risked never seeing Naminé again, but believe me, when I get my full strength back, I'd break these chains and bust out of this prison. When I did, I'd search all of Hell to find her. I had no idea how bad I looked but I probably looked like I was dead. I felt like it. "Maybe I'll ask you one more time: What is the source of the angels' power?"
"..." I didn't say anything. Of course I knew, but I could never betray my whole kind. The Authority'd hate me for sure.
"Still keeping silent, angel? Don't worry, you'll break one day." The Inquistor said, lashing me across the face. He cracked his whip, about to hit me again when-
"Inquisitor. Leave. Now." I heard the cold voice that could only belong to Seifer say. He bowed to him, mumbled something, and left. "Roxas, you can fix her. I know you can and you can alone." I was about to ask him what he was talking about, when he dropped the shaking white bundle he was carrying on the floor before me. I recognized her face. Naminé's pale face... Seifer unlocked my shackles. "Terminar. Go heal her, I nulled the spell." As soon as I was no longer restrained, I dropped down by her side. Her eyes were open, and she reached out and placed a hand on my shoulder and weakly aqueezed it.
"Roxas...I'm so happy...you're here..." She smiled, then let her hand drop down to her ear. She seemed to be blocking out some noise.
"What's wrong with her?" I asked, noticing the bruises on her. They were red along with black and blue. "...I see internal bleeding..."
"A vampire gave her blood because she lost some of it..." He said, sounding guilty. I tried to do my best, but Naminé wouldn't let me, whenever I tried to touch her bruises to heal them, she muttered a 'no' and removed my hands from her.
"But, ultimately, you caused the damage?" I asked. Honestly, I don't know if I could healed her. She was too rebellious right now, and I didn't know why.
"Yes." He admitted, shifting. I narrowed my eyes. No wonder Naminé wasn't acting like herself. She got abused.
"I think you should leave, Seifer. She probably thinks you're going to hurt her again." I stated, and she shook her head.
"No. Seifer won't hurt me. You're here to...protect me from that, right...?" Naminé asked, and I nodded. She smiled, and tried to sit up. When she did so, she threw her arms around my neck and whispered, "Thank God..." Then, I felt her go limp. I laid her back down, glanced at Seifer, and began to start my work.
"Is she going to be alright? Is she going to be alright?" He asked as if he cared, standing over me and watching my every move. I gritted my teeth, fighting back the urge to strike out at him.
"Why do you care so much all of a sudden, Seifer? First you hurt her. Then you bring her to me to fix what you did. Now you're caring about her. If you truly did care about her, you wouldn't have hurt her in the first place!" I shouted, getting done with her shoulders rather quickly since there was no resistance. The bruise was still there, and it would probably hurt, but the internal bleeding was gone. "Now, where else did you hit her?"
"Punched her in the jaw...kicked her stomach...I stomped on her back...and I bent her wrist back." He said. I bit my lip to keep from turning around and hitting him as hard as I could. I bent down and kissed her, holding onto her wrists so she wouldn't struggle. I wasn't going to heal her–I was going to do something all machines are able to do. I figured there had been so much damage done to her already that I might as well do a Data Transfer, which is nothing more than transferring all of her irregularities(wounds) over to me. I could do it to a human because while someone like Axel whom was fully machine(well, he was human too, but you know what I mean) could only do that to another machine. It's our way of saving a machine who was dysfunctional. All the memories, knowledge, everything stored in their database got transferred to the one doing the Data Transfer. I could perform it on a human because I was an angel and essentially, I was healing her.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" I heard Seifer shout and I turned my head to look at him.
"You told me to fix her. So that's what I'm doing." I said, and he laughed.
"Yeah, sure. You're just absorbing all of her so-called 'Holy Power' to make yourself more powerful." He said, glaring at me. I had no idea what he was talking about, and it must've showed because he added, "You know, you're glowing." I looked at myself.
He was right. I was glowing a white that I hadn't noticed before. I also felt much stronger and rejuvenated...But that was impossible. Humans usually only had a meager amount of holy energy, and she'd die if I took that from her. But Naminé was alive, I heard her breath. So that must mean...
"The vampire that did the blood transfusion. Was it also an angel or something?"I asked, and he nodded. "Well, she must have transferred her angel blood over to Naminé...and now I have it." I stated, and noticed that her bruises had disappeared as well, which meant I now had all of her injuries. The Data Transfer was complete.
"But you healed her?" He asked. It was my turn to nod. "Thank you. I'll be taking her back." I stood up and glared at him.
"I don't think so. You're going to hurt her again." At this, Seifer whistled and the Inquisitor came in.
"Puh-leeze. You've done far worse." Then, he looked at the Inquisitor and nodded his head. "You know what to do."
"Wait." The Inquisitor said, and I could see him smile evilly even under his mask, "You said that the girl is important to this angel, right? Then this could be the opening the whole demon race could be wanting. Instead of torturing him, I'll torture her instead." I didn't even wait for Seifer to reply, I tackled the Inquisitor(which was quite a jump for me without my wings) to the ground and wrapped my hand around his neck, putting all of my weight into it, hoping to choke him.
"You. Will. Not. Hurt. Naminé!" I yelled, and Seifer just stood there, watching the interrogator get strangled by me, until I heard her voice.
"...Roxas?...Did you call...?" I heard the beautiful blonde say groggily. I got off of the Inquisitor and walked over to her. It was two against one, and Namine would be a severe disadvantage to me because I knew, despite all the crap Seifer said, they both wanted to hurt her; to hear her scream, to see her cry.
"Naminé..." I didn't get to say anything else, because I felt Seifer hold me back. Naminé jumped up and looked like she was about to say something when the Inquisitor grabbed her arm, holding her back. Of course I struggled and tried to do everything I could to wrench free of Seifer's grip but he was using his powers of darkness. I was still too weak, even with the strength I gained, to fight back.
"So this is your little princess, angel?" The Inquisitor asked, and he wrapped the whip around her neck so she couldn't move or else she'd choke, just like I had tried to choke him before. "Answer me!" He tightened the whip's grip on her neck, so I could hear her gasp for air. Before I was going to answer, the door broke down.
"I'm off for a couple of days and this is what I find?" It was none other than Axel! I didn't care how he got there or why, I was glad that he was there to even the odds.
"You! You said that if I let you go, you'd never come back here!" The Inquisitor yelled, unwrapping the whip from Naminé and shoving her to the ground. I wondered what had happened between them.
"Yeah, well, I just loved you all so much that I had to come back." Axel smirked, walking towards Seifer and blasting him away from me with a horizantal column of fire. "Long story, Rox. I went away from this prison for awhile and this crazed old lady told me she could make angelic relics. She taught me how so I had to come back. Figure you'd could use it." He stuffed a chakram-esque keyblade in my hands. "I call it 'Bond of Flame'." I held it out, and it became my wing. It was red and orange, and each feather was shaped like an flame. It was my natural wing(I could tell), but I still didn't feel revitalized. I now knew where four of my six wings were. I didn't care to contemplate on the location of the other two because I cared about the platinum blonde that was now on the floor.(No, not Seifer. I'd kill myself before I cared about him. Besides, we're both guys.)
An alarm went off and instantly numerous amounts of guards came in with buckets and buckets of water. Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo must have told them our fatal weakness. We looked at each other exasperatingly. "Not again!"
-End of Day Four-
Kairi looked at the time. Twelve o'clock. The literal end of the day and the beginning of another. "C'mon, guys, three weeks one day...you've got to come back! I'm so bored without you guys!" She said, taking her Sora toy and hugging the stuffing out of it. Kairi turned on the light because she felt stuffing all over her and hoped that she was just dreaming. But no, she did, in fact, squeeze the stuffing out of it.
"Oh no!" She gasped, eyes bubbling with tears, "I broke Sora!"
Kairi: -wails- No! Sora! Why'd you have to go! -sobs-
Sora:...Um...-pats Kairi on back- There, there, Kairi. I'm right...um...here.
Kairi: -has her eyes covered by hands so she can't see if Sora is Sora or not- Roxas! We all know you can't get your hands off of me-
Sora: Roxas? Kai, it's actually pronounced 'Sora'.
Roxas: Why does everyone get us confused? Especially the Organization! God, don't they know what their thirteenth member looks like anymore?!? Still...why?!?
Axel: It's because of the same reason people get Reno and I confused.
Sora: And that reason is...?
Reno: That we look alike.
Sora: Awesome. Roxas, you're now my stunt double/doppelganger.
Roxas: No way! Sora, you're my doppelganger!
Sora: Well, I'm 14 years older than you so respect your elders!
Roxas: I'm going to live longer than you so in hopes of not damaging my youthful body, you should be MY stunt double!
Sora: But I'm old and I have back problems and breakable bones so you should be MY stunt double!
Sora and Roxas: -argue with each other about who should be the stunt double-
Riku: See, Kairi? Look what you did!You started it, so finish it!
Kairi: Okay! I know a way! YOU, reviewers, are going to help Sora and Roxas shut up and get over their problems!
Nami-Hime: All you need to do is this:
Kairi and Nami-hime: Say in your review who should be the stunt double! Sora or Roxas!
Roxas: Well, we all know it's going to be me because I'm way cuter than Sora and I have more fangirls.
Sora: No! I have more fangirls because people can't resist my adorability!
Riku: No matter HOW many fangirls you have, I'M always going to have more.
All: ...
Kairi: When he's right, he's right.
Sora: KAIRI! I thought you were on MY side!
Kairi: Um...-puts away action figures and posters of Riku away and smiles nervously- Of course, Sora!
Reno: Well...if I was in Kingdom Hearts, I'd SO have more fangirls than ALL of you!
Nami-Hime: When he's right, he's right.
Roxas: -gasp- I thought you were on MY side!
Nami-Hime: -nervous glance- Um...
Kairi and Nami-hime : -simultaneously- REVIEW!
Axel and Reno: Talk about doppelgangers...
HnH:...I wouldn't be talking...