Ever Wonder If It's All for You?
Tine and Riku stepped forward to face their enemies. Kairi stepped in front of them. "Tine" she said. "Run as fast as you can. Don't fight them, they'll just capture you and run away as fast as they can. If Riku and I fight them, then they'll be occupied with us." Tine hesitated.
"But what about you and Riku?" she asked. "I'm not going to let these bastards kill you two because of me!" Riku opened a Dark Corridor and pushed her into it before she could protest.
"Let's get this party started!" Larxene smiled and began to toss her knives back and fourth from hand to hand. She turned to Lexaeus with a smile. "Why don't you just sit this one out, big man?" she said. "I'll enjoy taking these two on. The Keyblade Masters have gotten too relaxed in the past year. I think I can take these two on my own."
Lexaeus disappeared without hesitation. He could have stayed and ordered her to comply with the Superior's orders of two people for this mission, but he didn't. It might have had to do with her insult of Zexion earlier. If she was killed, he could simply say that she had deliberately disobeyed orders and that would be the end of it.
Larxene faced the Keyblade Wielders. "So which one of you wants to die first?" she asked. She looked at Kairi. "You seem like something. I'm amazed you crossed swords with that brat Nexumair and lived." She began to walk across the sand toward them.
"What was Zexion thinking letting you and your friends live?" Larxene said. "If it was I, I would have ordered that ship to shoot you down."
"You knew where we were, before we even arrived on the Islands?" Kairi cried in despair. Was any place in the universe safe from the intrusions of Organization XIII? Apparently not.
"I'm going to…finish this right now" Riku said. He began to walk toward the Savage Nymph. "I know how Sora feels now" he said. "I thought I did before, but I had no idea…I would rather die than let Tine be sacrificed by you!"
Larxene smiled. And then she flung her knives at them. Kairi and Riku dodged and ran at the Nobody. The Organization operative dodged and hurled a ball of lightning at them. It hit Kairi, sending her into the splintery dock. Riku fired a ball of blue flame at Larxene.
"Ugh!" it hit her and she backed up. And then smiled. "Sorry kids" she said. "But it will take a lot more than that to get me on my knees." The words had not even left her mouth, when she was hit by another barrage of Riku's dark energy. She deflected them with her knives, moving with amazing speed. "You're merciless" Larxene hissed with a cruel smile. "I guess that comes from being Maleficent's apprentice." She threw another flurry of knives at them.
"Damn it, Riku!" Kairi said, as she deflected the missiles with Welcoming Garden. "Don't you have a backup plan?!"
"No!" Riku said. He swung Way To Dawn at Larxene. The Nobody slashed out with her knives and severed the blade of his Keyblade. "M…my Keyblade…" Riku said as he looked at the handle he was holding in his hand. Then he gathered himself and leaped out of the way as a bolt of purple lightning struck the sand where he had been a few minutes ago. Larxene met him in midair and kicked him in the stomach, sending him to earth with a thud. Riku rolled out of the way of a flood of daggers. "Kairi! Cover me, while I think of a plan!" he yelled.
"Right!" said Kairi. She ran at Larxene
"Too slow, brat!" Larxene said, and sliced off the business end of Kairi's Keyblade as well.
Kairi and Riku looked at each other. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Riku asked.
"I am" said Kairi grimly. They both began to run toward the other side of the Play Island as fast as they could. "RUN!!!" they screamed.
"You won't get away from me, you little brats" Larxene smiled evilly. "I can drag this out all you want. It won't get you anything but a whole lot of pain for you, and a whole lot of pleasure for me."
Riku kicked down the door of the cabin that led to the hill faced "his" island. He and Kairi crouched in the shadows, listening to lightning explode objects around their hiding spot. They could hear tremendous clashes of thunder from the blasts.
"What'll we do Riku?" Kairi asked. "She'll either burn us to ash, or slice us up."
Riku looked grimly at the light coming from outside. "Humph" he grunted, sounding like his father. "That woman underestimates the Keyblade Masters. Actually this place should work out for my plan." He turned to Kairi. "Listen to me. When I say to run, do it. This isn't the time for heroics. If you stick around, you're going to get vaporized. And I don't feel like telling Sora that Kairi was killed because of her own stupidity."
"What are you going to do?" Kairi asked.
Riku pointed around the dark room. "This place is full of old gas tanks and cans that we used to power our lawnmowers when we looked for odd jobs, Tidus, Wakka, me….Sora…" Riku shook off the old memories. "It doesn't matter!" he yelled. "Just know that these are going to help us kill that Organization operative." He looked outside, and yelled. "NOW KAIRI!!! RUN!!"
Kairi jumped up the stairs and ran to the hill and to the door that led to the other side of the Island.
Larxene kicked open the door of the cabin, and saw Riku, leaning against the door to the outside. "Decided to face me and protect your Princess of Heart girlfriend?" the Savage Nymph asked. "What her name….Kai or something? Oh well, I'll ask her as I twist out her intestines. Killing girls is always more intimate and fun than killing men." She began to walk among the gas canisters. "I'll do you quickly and be done with it. That way you won't have to---"
"Do this, sick bitch" Riku said as he fired balls of dark fire at the cans around Larxene. The Savage Nymph had time for a cry of horror and surprise before the entire cabin went up in flames. Riku was hurled backwards by the force of the explosion, and almost fell off the hill to the beach below. Kairi stood at the doorway to the other side, the flames reflected in her blue eyes. The noise of the explosion echoed around the Island, making the man who was docking the white boat that Kairi had seen looked up in surprise.
"What're those kids up to now?" he muttered and hurried his preparations.
Kairi and Riku looked at the remains of the cabin. It was little more than a few blackened sticks now, and a lot of scorched sand. The smell of smoke drifted up into the night sky. A large crater surrounded the blast zone. "Do you think she burned up?" Kairi asked.
"She had to" said Riku. "No one, not even Xemnas himself, could survive something like that. That was one of the biggest explosions I've ever seen." Riku looked at the ruined Way To Dawn and Welcoming Garden. "We'll have to get back to the Main Island and deal with our broken Keyblades….and our parents."
"Oh God!" Kairi muttered. "I completely forgot about them! What'll we tell them? My folks believe me about Tine, but your dad…"
"Kairi muttered. "I completely forgot about them! What'll we tell them? My folks believe me about Tine, but your dad…"
"You deal with your parents, and I'll deal with mine" Riku said darkly. He opened a Dark Corridor. "Now let's get out of here----" he was interrupted by a strange thwacking sound and a small whimper. He whirled around to see Kairi fall to the ground, two of Larxene's knives in her chest and stomach, both embedded up to the handles.
"No!" he cried as the Organization member rose up from the ashes like a terrible phoenix. Larxene's ash blackened face grinned at him. "Good to see you again" she said mockingly.
"How…how did you…" Riku said.
"Did you think I was going to die from that?!" Larxene said. "I'm insulted." She pointed at Riku, sending a shock of lightning through his body. He screamed and fell to his knees, unable to move from the electricity.
"I'm off to find Tine" said Larxene. She pointed to Kairi. The girl was lying in the sand, blood pumping from her wounds and soaking her clothes, skin, and the ground. "Enjoy watching your friend bleed to death, silver hair" the Nobody teased. "I'm off to do some good old fashoned kidnapping. I'll be back to finish you off nice and slow later. I want to see the expression on Tine's face while she watches." She walked off, brushing the ashes off her robe.
"Damn you, you bitch!" Riku screamed. "Arrgh! Why can't I move! This isn't fair! Why is everyone getting hurt and I can't help them!" he struggled to move his body. But his electrified nerves would not respond. He screamed in rage up at the sky. Then, he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"God damn it boy, didn't I tell you I didn't want to get involved with people from the Realm of Darkness?"
Riku looked up to see his father staring down at him. Walker smiled tightly. "Now hold on" he said. "This is going to hurt like hell." He jammed a needle into Riku's neck.
"Aggggghhhhhh!" he screamed as he felt fire flow through his body. He fell to the ground, able to move again. He lay there, gasping. Walker went over to Kairi.
"Damn" he said. "She's going to be a bit more difficult. That's arterial bleeding if I ever saw it. Riku!" he yelled. "Go after the whore in the black robe. I'll tend to Kairi while you do it."
"T-thank you, Dad" Riku said, feeling tears trickle down his face. Riku ran off.
Walker bent over Kairi and began to bandage her wounds. "M…Mr. Walker?" Kairi asked.
"Don't talk girl" Walker snapped. "Just lay still, or you'll open these things even more then they already are." A Dark Corridor suddenly appeared in front of them.
"Shit!" Walker said. He had no weapons and knew that it was over. He blinked as Tine stepped out of the portal.
"Where's Riku?" she asked. Her green eyes glowed for a minute and then dimmed. "Is he alright?"
"He's fine" said Walker. "I think---" he stopped as he heard footsteps coming from the darkness of the beach. "There he is!" he said…and then choked in horror as Larxene stepped out of the shadows.
"Well, if it isn't the whole bunch" she said. "I think I'm going to have fun today" she said, eyeing Kairi and Walker. Tine stepped in front of them, her Riot ready. She aimed the guitar at Larxene.
"Stay away from us, Nobody. Get off this island and never come back. I don't belong to you. If you hurt my friends then I'll kill you."
"Tine…" said Kairi.
"I can't kill you" said the Savage Nymph. "But that doesn't stop me from inflicting a little pain upon you." She shot a bolt of lightning into Tine's body.
"Ahhhh!" the Kingdom Hearts cried. Her legs shook, but she stood back up. "You'll have to do better than that, bitch."
Larxene's eyes glowed with malice. "Oh, I will" she said softly and kicked Tine in the chest. While the girl staggered back, Larxene began to slash her with her knives. "Stay out of my way!" she said. Tine gritted her teeth. Blood began to rain down upon the sand, soaking it like a grisly tide.
"Oh, Tine, why don't you attack? Kill this woman!" Kairi moaned.
"She can't" Walker muttered. "We're right behind her. "I've seen her and Riku practice fight in the back yard" he said. "The energy wave will get us too. She's defending us with her body."
"I…I was…created by evil, for evil" said Tine through the waves of pain from blade that slashed her and lightning electrified her. "I hurt a lot of people. I want to make up for that. I don't want to hurt anyone else. I'm going to help my friends. Sora and his allies could have killed me, but they didn't. I owe them for that. And there's Riku. I love him, and I'll protect his friends and family until he gets back."
Larxene stopped attacking and started to laugh. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You'll be waiting a long time for that! The little prick's dead. I killed him a little while back while he was still searching for me in the dark."
Kairi felt her soul shrivel. Riku, dead? She couldn't feel his dark energy anywhere when she felt for it. "I…you're lying!" she screamed. Tine gasped in sorrow, but still continued to stand there. Kairi heard a rustle as Walker got up and stepped in front of Tine and faced Larxene.
"You BITCH!!!" he screamed. He pulled a gun out of his coat pocket---the same gun he almost killed himself with---and began to fire at the Nobody. A shield of electricity formed around Larxene, harmlessly deflecting the bullets. She watched, smiling as Walker cried and fired at her. "Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!" he yelled. "Die, die, dieeeeeee!" finally it ran out of ammo.
Larxene lowered the shield and raised one of her knives. "Are you finished, old man?" she asked. She brought the knife down on Walker's neck---when it was blocked by Tine's hand. Kairi winced as she saw the blade penetrate through the other side of Tine's hand. Blood flew everywhere. Tine gritted her teeth together in pain, but said nothing.
"What are you doing, Tine?" asked Larxene. "This pitiful old man wants to die! He failed his only son, ha ha!"
"Don't give up!" Tine yelled. "Walker, you keep living" she began to cry, tears sliding down her bloody face. "Live for Riku!"
"I like what you just said, Tine" said a voice out of the dark. Riku stepped into the light. "But please, don't talk about me like I'm dead."
"Wha---but---but…" Larxene stammered in shock. "But I didn't feel your energy! You cloaked your aura?!"
"You told them I was dead to get them to lower their guard, when I never even saw you out there!" Riku said.
Kairi suddenly knew what Riku was going to do. She reached into her heart and used its energy to form a shield, like she had with King Mickey.
"What are you---?" Larxene asked when she was hit in the back by a ball of flame. "Agggghh!" she screamed as Riku hit her with another one and another and another. She fell to the ground in a heap.
"You said you were so powerful" said Riku. "A powerful enemy deserves a powerful attack. So guess what?" Riku's eyes blazed red gold for a minute, the color of Xeonhort's. "You're on your knees Nobody." He hurled fireball after fireball at the Organization member. Soon Larxene was nothing more than a shrieking, writhing mass of blue flame.
"Agggghhhhhh! Ahhhhhhh! Gaahhhhhh!" it screamed with what was left of its mouth. It drew a half melted knife from deep within its burning body. "Wh…why…you…." it screamed and lunged toward Riku out of the explosions. The burning monstrosity had just managed to get the blade within inches of Riku's face, when small particles of darkness began to leak from its body. "I…hate…to…lose…" said Larxene. She regained her form, her robes torn and shredded, particles leaking as she disintegrated. "I hate to lose to people like you. Those eyes…I already said they were so full of love…" she said. "It makes me think of a young woman named Arlene who was a veterinarian and helped animals free of charge. She would have loved eyes like yours…so full of love and compassion." Larxene grinned nastily. "But I'm not Arlene. I hope that your eyes become dull with suffering and sorrow…very soon." With that, the Savage Nymph's body vanished.
"Riku!" said Kairi as the silver haired boy collapsed to the sand, his energy used up by the barrage of energy.
"Are you alright?" asked Walker as he hurried over to his son. He began to cry. "Oh my God, I thought I had lost you…we've got to call an ambulance boat to get you all off here…"
"Y…yes…" Riku muttered. "Call an ambulance boat for Tine and Kairi…"
"You fool" Walker muttered. "Just like your mother. Always worrying about others first instead of yourself. Well, get used to a long and hard life then." He gestured at the Islands. "Ever wonder if all of this was just planned out for you? No? Oh well. Let's get you patched up son. And then we'll talk about fortifications."
Well, Larxene's dead, good riddance. I hate her sooooo much. She was always my least favorite Organization member. All that sadist crap. Oh well, for the sake of the plot of the story, I gave her an interesting death. And Riku's father is nicer now! Yay!