With Riku-Ansem beating her, I had a feeling this scenario would happen!
Day: 177
A girl was sleeping in a room where she is currently alone. She started to open her eyes and look around her room. "Another dream," she said slowly, "about her." She looked at the closed window, turned to it, and opened it.
She was looking out her window and noticed that she was going to enjoy her day today. She quickly got dressed, which was a simple light blue shirt with a dark red knee-length skirt, and raced across the Sandlot of Twilight Town as she headed to the 'usual spot'.
"Maybe," she said breathlessly, "today we'll finally hit the beach!"
Then she slowed down until she stopped to catch her breath. When she went inside, she saw a rose, which is familiar to her as she picked it up and placed it in her hair. "Only," she said, looking at herself in the mirror, "seven more days to go. And then summer vacation's over!" Then she noticed a certain boy with spiked blonde hair behind her using the mirror. She turned to him. "Roxas!" She said to him.
He turned around and noticed her, then came over to her. "Hey, Yexum!" He said, kissing her. "Ready for the final days of Summer?" Roxas was wearing black pants with a matching shirt that has a zipper, a white vest, and gray shoes with red laces.
"You bet, Roxas!"
"You even look prettier with that rose on your hair!"
She blushed. "T-Thanks, Roxas. We better get going, or Hayner, Pence and Olette will get worried!"
They left their usual spot, then went to the Sandlot, where they saw the gang being surrounded by a different one!
"Well, now." Said one of them when they turned and saw Roxas and Yexum. "Care to join your friends?" He was wearing a blue vest and brown bagged pants and a white, long coat, even though he leaves it open.
"Seifer," Roxas called out. "Why go after our friends?!"
"Because of the _, you know!" Another man called out. He was wearing black sweatpants with red stripes and a number 8 on them. He has black hair in a toupee style. He also has a red shirt with a black imprint of somewhat a dragon, with a chain that has a lightning symbol in the middle.
"Because of what, Rai?" She asked him.
"Uh, never mind!" Seifer said, and charged after them. Roxas got between Seifer and Yexum, and got a blow instead of her.
"ROXAS!" She cried out and rushed to him
"And now," Seifer turned his attention to her. "You'd either tell us, or suffer like him!"
Yexum looked around, then saw three Struggle swords. One looked likes a staff with a star tip. Another one has a hand guard. And the last one looks like a light-weighted club.
She got up on her feet, then charged after Seifer, which was a feint move to grab the hand guard Struggle sword! She picked it up, then faced Seifer with the sword held up.
Seifer pulled out an identical one. "Kneel, LOSER!" He called out and approached her, but she easily got out of his range, then struck back. Seifer grunted in pain by the hit.
"Yexum, focus!" She looked and saw that Pence was told her to stay focused. She nodded, then continued her hit-and-run strategy: Hitting Seifer a couple times, then run for it!
After using her strategy, she realized she needs to change up because Seifer has been expecting her more and more often, and has been able to hit her a few times.
"Quit playing around and fight for real, girly!" That brought up Yexum's temper, and decided to go on the offence, preventing him to counter attack. With enough hits against Seifer, he dropped his Struggle sword and got down, when his gang got between the two.
"Seifer's," Rai said, "not feeling so hot, you know!"
"Tournament decides!" A girl responded as well.
Pence took out his camera, and when Yexum looked at him, he snapped a photo, only to have the camera stolen by a mysterious white figure that looked like it had no bones!
"Hmm," Yexum said thoughtfully, "maybe that strange creature is the thief, I bet? But there's only one way to find out about that!" She started chased after the creature, entering the Trans Comm, only to see the creature entering the woods.
She continued following the creature into the woods, finding it with nowhere to go at a Mansion. She stopped and looked at the creature. Then she heard something strange. "We have come for you, my liege."
"Huh?" Then she heard a zipper being moved, and the creature made a small screech, and attacked her.
She easily got out of the way, and tried to attack the creature with the Struggle sword and fight it, but the attacks go right through the creature, not hurting it! "It's no use," Yexum jumped back, aware that the creature can't be defeated.
She felt something different on her hands. "Huh?" She looked and noticed that the Struggle sword is gone, and both hands were covered by what looks like bronze bracers! Immediately, her hands were pushed towards the creature.
"What are these?!" She noticed something different about these, then continued fighting the creature, to realize that the creature is flinching.
"HAH!" She attacked once more, and the creature was destroyed, leaving many slips of paper, and her bracers vanish. She walked over to the papers, and saw that they were the missing pictures!
She picked them all up, and returned to the usual spot, which was under the train tracks, and saw her friends; Roxas, Hayner, Pence, and Olette are there. "About time, Yexum!" Hayner exclaimed. "I thought you were missing."
"We were all worried about you! Why were you-" Olette tried to say, but Yexum came closer to them and presented them with the pictures.
Hayner took one of them, and saw a picture Yexum and Roxas in front of a store. "Hey, what's this about?"
"That''s taken," Roxas explained, "when me and Yexum were his first two customers when he opened the store. So we all took a picture then!"
"That's a nice photo, you guys!" Olette complemented, then gasped when she said 'photos.'
"Huh, I guess the thief really did steal the word, after all! What did the thief look like, Yexum?"
"I," she replied, shaking her head, "don't know anything about it because the pictures were just lying there."
"So," Hayner said, "how can we tell everyone that we weren't the thieves?" He found another picture, to see one of both Roxas and Yexum smiling and looking at each other, holding hands, and both of them blushing, Roxas blushing harder than Yexum. "Huh, I don't remember this one being taken!"
"Because you weren't there, Hayner!" Olette exclaimed. "That's when Roxas confessed his feelings to Yexum, and started dating together. They sure are happy in this one! Even when they're in love as well."
Yexum blushed. "O-Olette! What did I tell you about that moment?!"
Olette giggled. "Sorry, Yexum, but Hayner had to know. He's our friend, after all!"
"Hey!" Pence said, making them all jump because they forgot about him. "Doesn't it come back to you guys that all of these photos involve Roxas and Yexum?"
"So I guess," Olette confirmed, "that's why everyone was pinning it at us."
"I guess," Hayner added, "that's also why Seifer didn't accuse us as well?"
Yexum and Roxas turned to Pence. "They're really about us, Pence?"
"Yep, ever since Roxas confessed his feelings to you, you two have been taking photos together." Pence showed them another one, which showed them with an old lady in front of a store. "And sometime, it shows when you two were supporting each other!"
Pence showed her a different one, which was when Seifer beat Yexum and Roxas was far behind, looking worried at Yexum, as though he was cheering her on, but still lost.
"Wow!" Pence showed her one more, which was the whole gang in front of the locked gate that leads to a mansion, with Roxas and Yexum next to each other and secretly holding hands behind the gang, and stealing a kiss. "Every single one we're in and about our love with each other."
"I wonder," Pence guessed, "if the thief would want to steal the real deal as well?"
"Get real, Pence!" Hayner said. "Who would ever want Roxas or Yexum? They seem worthless in my eyes."
"Uh, hello!" Yexum countered jokingly. "We're right here, and heard every word!" And then they all laugh.
Day 178: Restoration at 12%!
Yexum got up quickly, then held out her hand, as if she had a dream about a certain blade. "Key… blade?" She said to herself. She got dressed then head to the usual spot, but stopped when she headed to the back alley.
"Hmm, Keyblade…" She said thoughtfully, then looked and found a stick, She picked it up, and used it as a sword. "HA! Heh, what a waste!" She tossed the stick to her side, then continued walking inside the usual spot.
She came inside, and saw everyone eating ice cream. Roxas got up and gave a bar to her. "Thanks, Roxas!" She bit into it, tasting the sweet and salty kind.
Pence looked up. "Are you guys sure," he said with concern, "that we'll always be together like this?"
"I hope so," Olette replied.
"Where'd that come from?" Hayner asked him.
"Oh, uh," Pence hesitated, "just thinking out loud! I just have a little bit of doubt that we'll be together all the time."
"Part of growing up, right? It's about how often we see each other, and think about each other, right?"
"Came from a fortune cookie, right Hayner?"
"No more ice cream for you anymore!"
"Come on, Hayner! Besides, today's just been a drag, and nothing exciting happened yet. Just don't want this vacation to be over, that's all."
"Then maybe," Hayner called out, standing up, "we should all head to the beach! And the reason why is because we've gone nowhere since this vacation started! Blue seas, blue skies. We can just, jump on a train and go!" He turned around and saw the in one place, standing.
"You may have forgotten, Hayner," Yexum said, "but we're dead broke!"
"And you," he countered, "forgot that I happen to be smart!" They all ran out, and saw a flier for a Struggle Tournament in Market Street. "Just two days away, you guys."
He turned to Roxas and Yexum. "You two would have to make it to the finals. I've seen both of your skills, and they're proven enough that you guys will make it to the end! So, no matter which of the two you'll win, the prize munny is split anyways with the five of us!"
Yexum smiled. "You got it, Hayner! And count Roxas in, too." The gang was giving them comments on them to win it.
"Now, down to business!" Hayner said. "A ticket is worth 900 munny per person. And there's five of us, so that makes…"
"4500 munny total!"
"With 300 to spend there. What's that for everyone?"
"1500," Pence calculated. "With a total of 6000 munny!"
"For what?" Yexum asked.
"Pretzels. What else is there?"
"Watermelons?"
"They're 2000 munny a piece, that's too expensive!"
Roxas nodded. "Pretzels it'll be!"
"Now, how much does each of us have? Our target is 6000 munny!"
"I've got 800 munny." Pence said.
"650," Olette added.
"150, sorry!" Roxas said.
"I have…" Yexum checked her pockets. "…Wow! 1500! Enough for the snacks."
Hayner did the calculations in his head. "That makes 3000! We are halfway to our target. So, let's find some odd jobs and earn some more! And our target is 600 munny each, and we have until the train leaves."
Hayner went towards the Station, but not before telling the others to come there with cash ready. So the rest of the gang started with some odd jobs, all the while making munny for five tickets for the beach.
When everything was finished, Pence and Olette working separately and Roxas paired with Yexum, they all gathered at the Station Plaza where Hayner is.
"About time, too! Let's see what the new amount is! Roxas, Yexum, anything new?"
Both of them searched their pockets, then calculated the total. "We earned more than expected, that's for sure!" Yexum took it all and showed it to Hayner.
Hayner saw how much. "Great job, you two! I knew that you'll both make a great team together!"
Olette had two hands behind her back with all the munny. "Nice work everyone. With all the money we have, it should total now…"
She pulled out a handmade small bag. "TA-DA! 7500 munny!"
Yexum took the pouch, and Olette was persistent to get to the beach, so she and Pence went inside the Station, leaving the other three behind.
"We can't stay together forever!" Hayner implied. "So, we'd better make the time we have so we do have something we can remember." He walked inside the Station.
Yexum and Roxas looked at each other before heading towards the Station, and Yexum thought that she'd hit something, preferably a wall, but it was a person in a black coat! She was knocked onto the ground.
"OOF!" She looked up, and saw the man. "Sorry about that!" The man turned around and picked her up by the arm. She blinked, but the man was gone. She just shrugged, and went inside the Station.
"Five students!" Hayner said.
"Yexum, the money."
"Hang on!" She checked all of her pockets, but couldn't find it! "Huh? I can't find it!" What if that guy took it?! She thought, then went to the entrance of the Station.
"Where are you going, Yexum?"
"You remember when I fell, right?" Roxas nodded. "I think that guy in the black coat took it!"
"Uh, who?" Hayner asked unsure. A whistle was blown, and the train that was supposed to take them to the beach left.
"No one… was there?" Yexum asked herself slowly.
The gang left the Station, bought some ice cream, and went up on the clock tower to eat them. Yexum, however, wasn't feeling right, and heard four words that bugged her. "Can you feel Sora?" When she was picked up, the black coated man said the same words to her.
Day 179: Restoration at 28%!
Yexum woke up again, this time slower. She had more dreams, but she felt a different presence in her room. She quickly looked there, but no one is there!
She got dressed and went to the Usual Spot, where she found Roxas with a note. He turned around and when he saw her, he handed her the note.
"Meet us at the station. We're going to the beach - and don't sweat about the munny! - Hayner." She looked up. "So, now what, love?"
"Let's go over there." Roxas said, and they both went to Station Heights of the Market Street, where they saw Pence and Olette lower down when they turned around.
"Morning, Pence! Morning Olette!" Roxas and Yexum said together.
"Morning," Olette replied. She and Pence started walking, but time seemed to stop except for Roxas and Yexum.
"What's going on?" Yexum asked her boyfriend, but he shrugged. They both wanted to see what's wrong, but a girl in a white dress and blonde hair down to her neck with blue eyes was in front of them.
"Hello, Roxas! Yexum!" She greeted them.
"Hello, Naminé."
"ROXAS!" Yexum exclaimed. "How do you know this girl?! Have you even-" She didn't say any further because Roxas covered her mouth.
"Sorry about her, Naminé. She'll think I had a second girlfriend, but I've meet you before."
"I see, Roxas! I just wanted to see her in person at least once."
Yexum stopped yelling in Roxas' mouth, and he let go. "Now, will you stay quiet?"
"Sure, Roxas." She turned to Naminé. "Why did you want to see me for?" Naminé said nothing, but turned around and left them. Then, just as suddenly, time flowed normal again.
"Olette," Pence complained, "dragged me to go shopping!"
"Wanna join us, you guys?"
"I would," Yexum said, "but me and Roxas were going to meet Hayner at the Plaza!"
"Okay, see ya!" Olette and Pence ran off.
Yexum looked in the direction Naminé went. "Did she head to the mansion, Roxas?" He just shrugged, so the two decide to follow her, coming upon the Trans Comm and sees her. They followed her further into the woods, but they lost her.
"Now, where would she go?" Yexum asked, but out of nowhere, four creatures showed up, the same ones that Yexum saw. Two appeared in front of them, and the other two each tried to grab one of their arms, but they shook it off and ran!
They came to the Sandlot, where they saw Seifer's gang. "You guys, what's up!" Seifer called out to them, and then saw the creatures.
"Who're they?" The girl in his gang asked.
"I'm not sure, but they've crossed the line! Find a weapon!" Roxas looked around and saw two Struggle swords: A club, and a hand guard. Roxas did a side flip and picked up both swords. He tossed the hand guard one to his girlfriend and she caught it!
They all fought the creatures, but Yexum was getting seriously hurt, then tossed back from one attack while the others were unharmed, including Roxas, and the creatures had them all surrounded.
"Not good!" She exclaimed, and then time seemed to freeze, except for only her. The creatures walked around the gang and was ready to attack Yexum. She took a couple steps back.
"Yexum!" A voice shouted. "Use the bracers!" She was getting confused and looked around and saw Naminé on top of one of the houses nearby. But when she looked back at the creatures, one was charging at her.
"ARGH!" Yexum tried to block with her hands, but when she looked again, she was in a different place, one that's unrecognized by her. She looked down, and saw a panel of a familiar girl that she kept seeing in her dreams. She looked up, and saw three different weapons: A shield, a staff, and a sword.
She took a step closer to the staff, and she hears voices in her head. (This staff seems mystical, like just holding it will give you great wisdom.)
She stepped away from the staff, then approached the sword. The same results happen! (Just looking at this blade seems to give you great strength.)
She stepped away from the sword, then approached the shield. The same results is still there. (This shield is sturdy. A shield like this could block just about anything.)
She stepped away from the shield. She knew she had to make a decision, so she stepped towards the sword and grabbed it to confirm her choice. She heard a voice! (You've chosen the power of the warrior.)
The sword disappeared and was replaced by bronze bracers. And she looked around and saw the creatures entering the circle. She used the bracers to fight back!
When the last enemy was defeated, she saw a door appear. While she approached it, she heard another voice. (Be careful. Beyond that door lies to a completely different world. But don't be afraid. Don't stop walking…).
She entered the door, and many things were around her. She noticed that there are pillars with glass patterns like stairs. Yexum climbed them, defeating any creatures that she met along the way!
She entered another room, and she felt a different aura in this area. When she looked down at her hands, she noticed that her right hand is shaking! She felt she was not alone, so she turned around and saw someone in a black coat, only to see him transforming.
She saw what looked like long, blue tentacles! She was slowly backing up, to see two, two finger hands. And with two, oddly shaped feet in the symbol of a Nobody! She tried to run, but she stopped as she realized that she's at the edge and had to fight that thing.
She summoned her bracers, ready to fight! But there was a bright flash of light, preventing her to see! When she could see again, she was high in the air, unable to move!
She saw the giant creature move up, and went close on her, brought out its hand, about to strike her. But she noticed an advantage on this, and was able to move out of the way, and strike it with her bracers!
The creature spun, but stopped spinning. The creature stretched out its arms and grabbed Yexum! The creature zoomed on her and tossed her in the air, ready to hit her hard.
Yexum saw another advantage in this, and flipped just before the creature struck, causing it to miss! She struck the creature, knocking it over the edge. And before long, she felt the platform move as she was moved back as well!
She was able to stop falling by striking her hand on the platform, to see the creature with a huge ball! The creature dropped, and Yexum did, not even one second later!
The creature was about to connect it to her, but she yet again saw the advantage on it! She took off one of her bracers and tossed it at the ball, which caused it to explode, and rocketed Yexum back to the platform!
First she hit it on her back, then her bracer, and then the creature on its head! Yexum got up, grabbed her bracer, then punched the creature like her life depended on its defeat!
The creature got back up, and continued to attack her in different methods, but she was able to defeat it without anymore of a scratch!
The creature was about to fall! Yexum landed on her feet, but her bracers disappeared! She stepped back a few, but landed down on the platform, and got crushed by the defeated creature!
As she was being consumed by darkness, Yexum was reaching out her hand, hoping to be rescued, when she felt someone hold her wrist and a flash of light appeared.
She looked around, and saw the familiar girl that Roxas knows! "Y-You're Naminé, right?" She nodded.
"Yexum," Naminé said. "Do you know your true name?" She was about to reply, when a cloaked man with a hood up grabbed her arm!
"That is enough, Naminé!"
"But if no one tells her, Yexum will…"
"It's best she doesn't know the truth!"
She realized who this man is! "HEY!" She called out and he looked at her. "You're that pickpocket from earlier, aren't you?!" The man waved a hand. She turned around and saw a dark corridor opening. She slowly backed up, but the man pushed her in!
When she slowly got up, she saw Seifer striking poses. "What's going on?" She asked them.
"Those freaks," Rai explained, "in the white jumpsuits are gone, you know?"
"What were they?"
"Outsiders!" Seifer said, and she shook her head slowly. "And if they don't wise up to the rules around here, I'll have to take 'disciplinary actions.'"
Yexum looked to her side, and saw her friends and Roxas just entering the Sandlot! Hayner thought of something because he turned around and ran off, with the others running after him. "Hang on, guys!" She called out to them and started running.
"HEY! Don't chicken out of the tournament tomorrow!" Seifer called out.
Yexum caught up to them in the usual spot, and saw all of them eating ice cream. "Hung out with Seifer's gang today, Yexum?" Pence asked her.
"Hold on! It's not like that!" She turned to Hayner. "Weren't you all supposed to go to the beach today?"
"We never left," Roxas said handing her a bar, "because it would never be the same without you!"
"And," Olette added, "if Roxas didn't go, then it wouldn't be just as fun with you two!"
"Oh," Yexum said. "Maybe tomorrow! We can get the pretzels and…"
"I made a promise to be somewhere," Roxas said.
"Huh?" Yexum said, then that moment of the Struggle Tournament came back to her. "Right."
"See you tomorrow, then!" Hayner said as he got up and left.
Day 180: Restoration at 48%
Yexum had more dreams of a certain girl. This time, she woke up after hearing a promise. "That's right," she said, "a 'promise'…" She started waving her hand like she was using a Keyblade. "What a mess!" She also realized that today is also the Struggle Tournament.
She quickly got dressed, then head to the Sandlot, where she saw a huge crowd to watch this year's Struggle Tournament. When she looked up, she saw fireworks going off, and a man, the tournament promoter of the Struggle Tournament, was up on the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he announced, "Struggle-fiends of Twilight Town! It's time for summer's most sizzling clash!" He heard a loud cheer crowd. "That's right! Today is the day for the Struggle and title match!"
He earned even louder cheering from the crowd. "Whom," he continued, "will be the one to break through the ranks and take on our champion, SETZER?! And who'll leave today as our new Struggle Champion?!"
Everyone was chanting for Setzer, which happened to be a man in a different outfit than everyone was wearing. Everyone continued cheering him on. "Yes," he concluded, "the crowd is fired up, so you know what comes next!"
"Alright, everyone." A different person announced. "Time to introduce today's combatants! The three bad boys and one girl who struggled their way through the preliminaries!
"Regular finalist and head of the Twilight Disciplinary Committee: Seifer!
"Completely out of nowhere, so who knew he'd make it so far in this year? Vivi!
"For someone who's been new to this Struggle Tournament and learned well for this year and one of my top customers: Yexum!
"And Struggle Number 4, who also happens to be my most favorite customer: Roxas!"
Each one who's been announced recieved a cheer from the crowd, Yexum getting more than the others! "Now," he said, "who will win this sweltering summer Struggle?! And who will take home the grand prize? The summa cud laude of Struggle: The Five Crystal Trophy!
"And a chance to take on our defending champion, Setzer!" The entire crowd cheered very loud as Setzer held up the Struggle champion belt!
"It won't be long now, folks! I suggest our challengers go over the official Struggle Rules before we begin!"
Yexum, Roxas, Vivi, and Seifer went to the tournament board to go over the rules and to recheck them. "You guys," he said, "may have already known them, but a refresher won't hurt.
"You've got 100 orbs, and you attack your opponent to have them drop their orbs! And that's it! But be careful because, if you get hit, then you'll lose orbs! And make sure to collect them because when the match is over, the participant with the most orbs wins! When you're ready, talk to the tournament promoter in the ring."
Yexum and Roxas came up on the ring as they were each given a Struggle sword. Yexum with the hand guard. And Roxas with the club.
Roxas turned to Yexum. "Look," he said quietly, "I believe you about yesterday, love! Let's put that aside, and let's Struggle!"
"Bring it on, Roxas! Because this time, I won't lose. Nor will I go easy on you."
"And now," the announcer said, "our first match of today's Struggle tournament will be between Roxas and his girlfriend Yexum!"
When the match started, Roxas decided to do a feint attack to land the first hit! Yexum, however, saw it coming and dodged the other way of the feint attack, causing Roxas to lose balance, giving her the advantage.
She kept switching between offense and defense strategies, and before long, she collected 199 orbs and Roxas is down to one, which he still has.
Yexum giggled. "Give up, Roxas! All I have to do is land one more hit and I win!" She charged at him, but he had other plans to return.
He waited for her to strike, then ducked down and strike her leg. Yexum hopped around on one foot when she felt pressure pain on her leg! She looked at the board, and saw that Roxas gained 9 orbs that she lost.
"AND TIME!" The announcer said, and looked at the board. "According to the scores, it looks like that the winner is YEXUM!" Loud cheers were heard from her victory. "Yes indeed, folks! Not even love will slow this girl down on her road to victory!"
Yexum then walked over to Roxas. "Hey, good one there!"
"Yeah! I thought for sure I'd get you with that feint attack! But you must've seen right through it." She giggled, then noticed Seifer close to Roxas. She turned and saw Vivi there. She was surprised to see him next to her without making a sound! Viv looked at her, and laughed.
Yexum and Roxas stepped off to let Seifer and Vivi some Struggle room. However, as Seifer was looking at Vivi, Vivi was staring at Roxas and Yexum.
"Don't mess with your elders!" Seifer called out and Vivi turned to him.
"Whew!" The announcer said. "Just look at those sparks fly! I guess Seifer didn't expect to battle one of his own boys!"
Seifer was planning his attack as Vivi was just standing there, when suddenly VIvi quickly approached him and he jumped back, avoiding the hit.
"How is he so tough?" Hayner asked them.
Vivi kept attacking Seifer, but Seifer managed to block every single attack, until he managed to counterattack, and have him drop an orb.
"You're mine!" He called out as he raced for the orb to win. But Vivi was way too quick for him to react as Vivi picked up the orb and struck Seifer, dropping some orbs, then hitting the floor!
"I-I'm not sure what happened, folks, but I guess the winner is Vivi! In a positively blistering comeback!"
They were shocked by what happened, when Seifer said, "That's not really Vivi!"
Yexum turned to him. "What about him?"
"Wipe him out!" Then he and his gang walked away from the Sandlot. She kept watching at Seifer, but then turned and saw Vivi's hat, her left hand shaking a little, meaning trouble is close by to happen.
Roxas turned to the promoter, who happened to be close by and looking at him. "Looks like Seifer's withdrawn from the Struggle match for third place."
"So, I took third?!" Roxas asked in surprise as the promoter nodded. "That's good to hear!" After some rest, Yexum went up on the arena to challenge Vivi, where she was given a hand guard Struggle sword, and Vivi gets a star-tipped staff.
"Keep it clean, fellas." The Mayor said, then stepped off.
"And now," the announcer said, "the moment you've been waiting for: Yexum VS. Vivi!" She immediately gets into position and waits for him to attack.
Suddenly, Vivi was so quick, she was unable to bring up her guard and was struck down! She grunted, but looked at the board to see that she lost 9 orbs! She struggled to regain them, but only 5.
She knew she has to go on the offense and fight back! She attacked Vivi, and in 25 seconds, she managed to have 178 orbs total and climbing after!
Before long, she has 199, the same amount she had when facing Roxas. She charged after Vivi for the final blow to be dealt, then time seemed to stop! She stopped her attack, then looked around. She saw Roxas still moving, and he climbed up to her. "What's happening?"
Yexum was about to answer, but a bright light coming from Vivi turned him into the creature they keep seeing, then more came! "MORE?!" They shouted together, then Roxas felt something different on his hand as a Keyblade appears, and Yexum with her bracers.
"Again?!" She cried out. Then she realized something else. They both started battling the creatures, and soon all were gone, but Yexum had a feeling that they weren't alone.
"R-Roxas! I have a feeling that we're not alone." Her right hand was shaking inside the bracer! They turned and saw a black hooded person, clapping his hands as if a good show came to an end.
"Well, that was a good fight, you two made, Roxas and Yexum!" He said. "Keep on fighting, just like some others I knew."
Why, Yexum thought, does he sound so familiar?
Before they knew it, the man was approaching them, but stopped when he said, "You really don't remember?" He took off his hood. "It's me! You know, Axel!"
"Axel?" She asked, although the name sounded really familiar to both her and Roxas. I'm not sure if I know a guy really named Axel!
"Talk about a blank with a capital B, Yexum. Wow! Even the Dusks aren't going to crack these two!" Axel had his chakrams out in a burst of flames each!
"What's going on, Axel?!" She asked him. But what she didn't know is that Roxas slowly stepped backwards without making a sound, but Axel saw this happen! Roxas just avoided until the right time for him to talk again.
"This town is her creation, right?" Axel asked completely to no one. "So that means we don't have time for a Q & A! You'll both come, whether you like it or not. Conscious or not, and that's when you'll get the story.
Then something was going on weird as time seemed to stop on Roxas, causing him to freeze, Keyblade gone!
Yexum is having a tough time thinking, so she took off her bracers. "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" She tossed her bracers away, only to have them return on her hands!
"Number 15, Yexum. The power of the bronze bracers!" He got in position for a fight.
Yexum looked at him, then at her hands and knew what she has to do! "No way am I coming with you until I get an explanation!" She was too fast for Axel to bring up his guard and got hit.
"OOF!" Axel grunted as Yexum's bracers disappear, and chakrams appeared. She noticed this, and realized that her bracers could copy weapons! She fought with them, only to find out that her skill matches his! She continued fighting and eventually, she was able to fend off against him as she felt another presence nearby! She turned and saw DiZ there, behind her! "So it was you." Axel called out as he spun his chakrams very fast and tossed them at DiZ.
They were close, but they didn't hit him as they were deflected. Then he turned to Yexum. "Yexum, this man speaks nonsense!"
"Yexum!" Axel called out to her. "Don't let that guy deceive you!" They each were calling out her name.
She clutched her head and whispered, "Hayner, Pence, Olette, Roxas." She shouted it out after whispering it. "HAYNER, PENCE, OLETTE, ROXAS!"
And instantly, as if nothing had happened, she was back where she was and saw Vivi on the ground, facedown. Does this mean, she thought, that I won?
Then, ever so surely, Vivi got back up on his feet and looked around. "Wha…? How did I get here?" He started getting off the platform just when Yexum's friends and boyfriend were running to her and cheering her on!
"Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "our new top Struggler is Yexum!"
After some time, while Yexum was waiting for Setzer, she was zoning out, thinking of what just happened, and wondered if she is who she really is! What if, she thought, I'm not who I really am? Does that guy, Axel, know the truth about who I am? Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard people screaming, "SETZER!"
She looked up and, sure enough, Setzer is in the arena, waiting for her, while the townsfolk were chanting him on. And she knew what she had to do!
She slowly got up to the arena, when she heard Setzer whispering to her, "If you throw the match and let me win, I'll make it worth your while."
As if that'll work on me! I'm known for my own charm, and Roxas is my only weakness, as long as I'm not going for the win, Roxas will be my weakness! She was handed a handguard Struggle sword while Setzer has a club-like Struggle sword.
"Play fair now, you hear?" The Mayor said. "You two are the top. And may the best man, or woman, win!" Yexum smiled because he was showing a bit of respect for her because she's a girl.
"And now the moment you've been waiting for! Yexum, our underdog heroin, VS Setzer, our defending champion! The winner of this match will show which one is the real champion, bragging rights for a whole year!"
"Whatever you think," Seter said, "is wrong, and that could be the biggest mistake you'll ever learn!" He charged straight at her, causing her to bring her guard up too quickly as he did a feint attack to her side!
But within 15 second, he's already at the 190 mark for orbs! Yexum realized that she needs to try her best because Setzer would be the toughest to beat, so she did just that.
After another 15 seconds in, she reached back her 100 mark and continued climbing to 175 before Setzer decided to do a counter block attack by raising his Struggle sword and crouching. She would know what would happen if she attacked him, so she waited for an opening!
When that moment came, she was able to strike him down and have a total of 196 orbs. She managed one more strike and then Setzer lost the last of his orbs! She quickly ran to collect the final four orbs, and managed to do so, winning this last match!
Everyone started chanting her name when she won against Setzer. Setzer turned at her for one last piece of advice, but her friends beat him to it by running to her, complimenting on a job well done against Setzer.
When the crowd started to calm down, the promoter handed her a belt, which shows her as a Struggle champion. As she took it and held it up high, major cheering was around as a sign of victory for winning the tournament.
After, though, Yexum and her friends were up on the clock tower as she had the trophy and saw that there are five different crystals colors: Red, green, blue, yellow, and purple. She took off the yellow crystal and handed it to Olette, who took the crystal.
Then she took off the red crystal and tossed it to Hayner. Then she tossed the red crystal to Pence. She took off the blue crystal and handed it to Roxas, who was sitting on the opposite side of her. She kept the purple crystal to herself.
With the setting sun, Yexum held her crystal towards the sun, letting out a purple sparkle on the crystal. Her friends did the same thing when they what was happening.
Hayner complimented that they had another treasure to keep, and Olette said that she a present for everyone and held out five ice cream bars! Yexum got up on the ledge, but she lost her balance as she was about to go over it, letting out a short scream!
A girl wearing a white blouse and a light-blue and white plaid skirt was walking, when she heard, "Nini! Wati up!" She stopped then turned around, who sees her friend in the same clothes and they continued walking together. "You wanna head to the island together? Tidus and Wakka are all wrapped up in their ballgame that they don't even notice me!"
"Sorry, Selfie, but not today."
Selfie stopped walking, then Nini stopped as Selfie caught up again. "Why not, Nini?" She asked, a little upset.
"You remember some people we've met on the island, right?"
"There was Sora and Kairi, as well as Riku and his son Tidus, right? I wonder what happened to them. Kairi seems okay, Riku has gone missing, and Sora has been unconscious so far!"
Nini looked up. "I know, Selphie. I'm pretty sure we'll see those two again: Sora and Riku. But it feels like I'm forgetting someone. A girl, who spends so much time with me. We played together on the island, and there was a boy, Riku's son, Tidus, who spent time with him as much as me. Her voice was always there, but I don't hear her now. Can't think of his face or name."
She looked at Selphie. "And I promised myself that I won't go back to the island until I remember everything about her!"
Selphie seems concerned about her friend. "You sure you didn't make him up?" Nini was about to respond, but she heard a girl's' voice in her head. "Naminé?" She brought a hand to her head as she heard the voice.
"Naminé," the voice said again, "what's going to happen to me?"
"Who are you?" Nini asked in her head. "And that's not my name! It's Nini."
"Nini," the voice said, "I know you. Your that girl's best friend, right?"
"Who, though? What's her name? Tell me!"
"I'm Yexum."
"Okay, Yexum, but can you tell me her name? The one you said I'm best friends with."
"So, you didn't remember mine?! Thanks a lot, Nini! But, I can give you a hint. The name starts with a 'Y.'"
Nini woke up on the ground, and slowly got up, to see Selphie crouching down at her. "You okay, Nini?" They both got up.
Nini looked at Selphie, smiled, then ran to the beach, with Selphie at her heels.
When they got to the beach, still in their school clothes, Nini kneeled down and placed a bottle, with a message inside, into the water as the waves carried it away from them. "What is that, Nini?" Selphie asked as she kneeled down next to her.
"A letter," she replied, "that I wrote yesterday. It was meant for the girl I can't remember. I said that no matter where she is, I'll be able to find her. And when I stopped writing, I remembered that we made a promise of something important. And I hope she gets it!"
"So, what's her name, then? This girl that you can't remember?"
"Well, the name should start with a 'Y.'" Nini kept racking through her brain to search for any names she knew that start with a 'Y' until it clicked. "Yume, right?"
Day 181: Restoration at 79%.
Yexum suddenly woke up, as if she had a nightmare! She wasn't sure what was happening to her, but she's been dreaming again, she knows it! "But which parts," she asked herself, "are only a dream?"
She got dressed, then went to the usual spot, but she didn't feel like having a conversation with anyone yet, especially Roxas even though she couldn't find him.
Olette looked at her with her arms crossed above her chest. Yexum looked up and saw that, then looked at Hayner. "We have three days left before we return to school!" He said. "But don't even mention anything about the assignment."
"Hayner," Olette countered, "we promised to get it done together! And it's bad enough for Roxas to decide on bailing out on us!"
"Wait," Yexum said, "didn't I fell off the Station Tower yesterday?"
Hayner looked at her as though she was crazy. "You wouldn't be here if you did, right?"
"It was a close one," Pence added, and Olette came up to them.
"Stop changing the subject!" She warned them.
"Okay," Hayner called out, "we'll do it! So, who has any topics for the stupid independent study?"
I would've said, Yexum thought, for seeing what's wrong with me, but it seems like a crazy idea! Good thing to her that she decides to leave and get ice cream for them. This time, she's getting four bars!
She had no idea why, but thought that Roxas was less important than she thought in the first place. Perhaps I should break up with him at first chance because I felt no more love coming from him now.
"You know," Pence said, "there's been a strange rumors going on at the steps of Sunset Station. We use them, but without any significance. The rumor is that people are counting different steps going up and down."
"Really?!" Hayner exclaimed and Pence nodded.
"Yep," he explained, "there are seven stories total! Possibly the seven wonders of Twilight Town."
"It would be perfect," Hayner said, "to check those out for the school project! That is one genius mind, Pence!"
"There could be others, so why don't we split up? I'll be looking for the seven wonders!"
"Olette and I will find new rumors." Hayner said, then turned to Yexum, who has been silent this whole time. "Yexum." She looked up. "You go with Pence and figure out the seven wonders."
She nodded, then looked at Pence. "The best place to look is the steps, so we should head to the station!" She got up and followed Pence to the Station. "Time to look for the seven wonders!" Then she heard others coming and saw Hayner, Olette and, surprisingly, Roxas.
"Sorry, guys!" Roxas said. "I got a bit delayed with my parents. Of course I'd help you! I'll follow Yexum for the seven wonders."
They all got on the train and waited to discover the seven wonders. Olette reached into her pocket and took out the yellow crystal that Yexum gave to her when she won the Struggle tournament.
Hayner and Pence did the same, as did Roxas. Yexum searched her pockets for her purple crystal, but she couldn't find it! She sat down depressingly as she thought that something was wrong with her.
The train finally stopped at Sunset Station, where Olette and Hayner ran down the steps while Yexum and Roxas walked out with Pence and stopped at the top of the stone steps. "Aren't these," she asked Pence, "the same steps in the rumors? The ones that count different going up and down?"
"Actually, Rai's the one who counted the steps, and said that they were different every time! It actually seemed pretty stupid."
"He counted wrong," Roxas called out. "That's one wonder down, but there's still six to go! Right?"
He and Yexum looked around town, finding any place that seems suspicious, when they saw a back alley. Her right hand started shaking a little as she approached the wall and placed her hand there, only to notice that it's shaking. Only to see suddenly two balls coming out of the alley and heading towards Roxas! "ROXAS!" She shouted as she ran to him.
He easily jumped out of the way of the balls when she exited the alley, then turned back as she saw patterns and patterns of the balls! She realized that she needs to investigate the wall.
"Stay there, Roxas!" She warned him as she approached the wall, avoiding any balls that come her way until she managed to hit the back wall with her Struggle sword as one ball come out of the alley, then saw Pence running towards them!
"It's just you two. Were you two playing catch or something?"
"Pence," Yexum explained, "you know we wouldn't fool around. It must've been one of the seven wonders!"
They continued searching the seven wonders until they headed down inside the tunnels, where they saw Vivi there. They ran towards him, but instead of one, there's three! These Vivi's were quicker than the one she faced off against at the Struggle tournament and they managed to knock Roxas down.
"ROXAS!" She shouted as she take out the Vivi's until there was no more. She put away her Struggle sword, then run to Roxas, to see that he's sitting up. "You okay, Roxas?" Roxas nodded and managed to get up on his feet just as the real Vivi walked in.
"What's going on, you guys?" He asked and they turned to him, and then he walked towards them. "Did you need this?" He held up a Struggle sword. "Planning for practice, I bet."
"Not really, Vivi!" Yexum said. "There were so many of you."
"So, lots of me?" She nodded, but Vivi shook his head. "I don't get it. Anyway, see you both later, Roxas! Yexum! Take your time." He walked away just when Pence showed up, running to the duo.
Yexum explained about the third of the seven wonders. "So," Pence concluded, "the mysterious voice was Vivi practicing?"
"You don't get it, Pence! I had to face so many Vivi clones, and…" She kept telling him about it while Vivi changed into a dusk and slithered away.
All three went out into Sunset Terrace, then investigate the next of the seven wonders, which happened to be the waterfall nearby.
"I'll handle this, Roxas!" His girlfriend said to him as she went to the waterfall to take a closer look.
She kept an eye on the waterfall, not blinking, until her reflection started moving and then through her! She turned around as her reflection turned into a Shadow version of herself with a hand guard Struggle sword as Yexum pulled out hers and battled the Shadow!
She saw the tactics of the Shadow and used to her advantage and attacking at open moments, causing the Shadow to slowly disappear as Yexum got down, low on energy. The Shadow disappeared, then she dropped to the floor.
She slowly got back up, to see Pence and Roxas standing over her. Roxas held out his hand to her. "You alright? You kinda fell after some time later!"
Yexum nodded, then Pence looked at the miniature waterfall. "Odd. I could've sworn I saw somebody, but it was just my reflection. Maybe that's another one of the wonders!" He turned around and left with Roxas following.
"Another… me?" She asked herself as she followed her friend and boyfriend, unaware that her Shadow version was still there.
Roxas and his girlfriend went up to Sunset Hill to look for more wonders, when Yexum had a resemblance on this place. "Hey, Roxas!" She said. "I think I know this place. Is this the place where you confessed your love to me, right? It seems so familiar!"
Roxas turned around to look at her in eyes. "Yexum, I remember this place, to. I do remember confessing my feelings to you, and this is the place!"
They looked around for another one of the wonders when suddenly, the tan bag that was there, bounced. Roxas jumped back as Yexum jumped on it! "Are you crazy, Yexum?!" Apparently she's not, because the bag is moving so fast that she had to hold on to avoid getting hit by the trashcans spread around!
Finally, the bag stopped and flattened, by which Yexum got off and thought something bad would happen, but then a dog came out of the bag. And great timing for Pence to show up! "Oh, what a cute doggy! Did you guys let it out of the sack?"
She nodded, and then the dog started trotting away from the trio. "So," she said, "that's another one of the seven wonders!"
They all met up on close to the station, when Yexum brought up the wonders again. "Well, those wonders aren't exactly wonderful!"
"I know," Pence said. "But this next one will be really great! Trust me." Then Hayner and Olette ran up to them, saying they have another lead.
"'Ghost Train Mystery,'" Olette explained.
"Everyone knows that, Olette." Pence said, but Hayner shook his head, saying that he hasn't heard about the wonder.
"So, where does the train run?"
"Well," Olette said to Yexum, who asked the question, "Sunset Hill is the perfect spot to see it!" They all traveled to Sunset Hill, with Pence explaining that the people say the train is empty, with no driver, conductor, or passengers. With the point of no return.
They must've waited for a long time because they all got down on the ground with Olette saying that they must get to the beach next year, with Hayner saying that they should get jobs the second vacation starts, when Seifer decides to show up.
"Well now! Got some slackers, huh?" They all turned to look at him. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Don't you even care that it is our business on whether to tell you or not?" Hayner countered, with Seifer saying he never did, then asked again what they were doing.
"Waiting for the ghost train." Yexum said, then Seifer started laughing, like it was a joke. She got up and faced Seifer.
"Why is it that everytime I look at you, it makes me feel ticked off?"
"I would have no idea, Seifer. Maybe it's all about destiny."
Destiny, Seifer thought. He wasn't the one to follow destiny. "Well, instead, let's be friends! Because this destiny stuff is something I don't cooperate with."
"When," Hayner said, "have you ever cooperated with anything?" Seifer just left, leaving them alone.
Yexum looked back and was suddenly at the fence. "Look! The train!" Sure enough, when they looked, they saw a blue train with a magician's hat on the front. "So it is true! No one is onboard at all! But there just has to be a catch about the train. We'd better head to the station and fast!"
They arrived, and there was the train that she saw. "Time to go in!" She advanced, but Roxas stopped her. "HEY! What's the big idea, love?!"
"You would get hurt!" Yexum looked again, but the train wasn't there. Then a different train showed up a little bit after.
Yexum was depressed on the ride home because no one believed her. "So, now to work on the paper." Hayner said.
"'The rumors are bogus. The end!'" Pence did a short summary about all of it in one phrase.
"We should put some more effort, Pence!" Olette said. "Maybe describe how we tried to uncover them."
Yexum suddenly stopped. "What about the seventh wonder? We've only done six!" Hayner just left.
"The haunted mansion is where the wonder is at," Roxas told her. Then the rest of her friends started running as she followed Roxas to the mansion. But surprisingly, she was the only one here.
"This must be the mansion!" Yexum said as she saw a big lock on the mansion. "But how is it even possible to get in if you have a key that big?!"
"Actually." A voice said behind her, making her squeal in surprise and turning around, seeing Pence. "We were planning on checking out the mansion tomorrow because it's the most suspicious." She agreed. "And the most surprising is, Hayner asked Seifer and his gang to help out and he agreed!"
She was surprised about that, but then turned towards the mansion, seeing a girl in a white dress from a second floor window. Naminé, she thought. "So, what are we supposed to look for, anyway?"
"Well," Pence said, "they say that there's been a girl staring from a second floor window, but the catch is that no one has lived here for years. She looked at the same spot, and suddenly, she could see what's in the room through Naminé's eyes!
She sees varias pictures, one of which was Nini and a paopu fruit, when she heard a voice. "Yexum."
She heard it and it was all too familiar. "Naminé? Is that you?" She saw another picture through Naminé's eyes, seeing one with three people she knew. "That's me and Roxas and Axel, right?"
"Axel was one of your best friends, but you still know that Roxas is your boyfriend, but pretty soon, he will disappear because Sora will wake up from unconscious tomorrow, so don't expect to see Roxas tomorrow!"
"That's very funny, Naminé! But tell me what I really know about!"
"Don't you want to know about your true self, who you really are?"
"Nobody knows me better than me, but many things have been happening lately!" More through Naminé's eyes, she sees another one, to which is very familiar of all three characters.
"You do know these three, right?"
"If I can count right, they must be Donald, Goofy, and that girl should be Yume, right? They were all in my dreams."
"I've been trying," Naminé explained, "to piece together Yume's memories, but it's been taken me almost half a year to do this! I've been putting them back together, but the process has affected you in some way, Yexum!"
"The dreams?"
"Exactly! You and Yume are connected. But the only way for me to bring back Yume's full memory is that she needs you!"
"Why am I needed, Naminé?"
"Not only that Yume needs you, Yexum, but you hold half of what she is." After a bright flash, Yexum is in a white room, looking at Naminé.
"Naminé," she said, "who are you really? Can you tell me?"
"I," she confessed, "am a witch, with the power over Sora's memory, as well as his daughter, and those connected to them! DiZ called me that. I don't know why I have this power, but I just do. And I'm not sure if I know a right way to use it!"
"Sorry, Naminé, but I'm afraid I can't help you there. But at some points," she looked at the picture of Axel and her with Roxas, "I feel like I'm not so sure of who I really am. What I really want to know, Naminé, is who am I truly. Can you tell me?"
Naminé wasn't sure on whether to tell her or not, but decided to give Yexum the straight out truth. "Yexum, you and Roxas were not supposed to exist!" She gasped. "I'm really sorry, Yexum, but the real truth is that you are Yume's Nobody."
"Yexum. Yexum!" A bright light occurred again and she's back with Pence at the entrance of the Mansion. "You okay there? You kinda zoned out for a bit."
"I saw her, Pence!" She pointed where Naminé was, but the window was empty save for curtains, except Yexum can still see her. "Over there!"
Pence looked. "Just the curtains, Yexum. Has to have a draft somewhere in there, by which I'm surprised!"
After a few more moments, Pence turned around. "Let's head back to the usual spot, Yexum, okay?"
"Sure." They returned, where they met all three, asking about progress from the seventh wonder. "Just a draft in the mansion that caused the curtains to be moved!"
Yexum wasn't sure about what to say, but instead went up to the clock tower with her friends and Roxas, and she knows she'll never see him again after tomorrow!
"Tomorrow," Hayner said, "we search the town, then the fair's the next day!" When Olette mentioned summer vacation being over, Hayner complained about having ulcers.
"Not if you explode from the ice cream first!" Pence said jokingly as Hayner looked at his bar with worry as Pence, Olette and Roxas laughed, but Yexum stayed depressed, because she knew she wasn't supposed to exist in the first place.
Day 182: Restoration at 97%.
Yexum woke up in bed, still having dreams about Yume going through her adventures with Donald and Goofy. She now knows what she has to do!
She got dressed, then head to the usual spot, but this time, she knew today Sora was awake and Roxas is gone.
"Wow, what a strange dream I had!" She said, but they paid no attention. "Hello?" She tried touching Hayner, but surprisingly, her hand went right through him!
She was shocked about it, but then Hayner went through her again! Without Hayner, Pence and Olette noticing her, she felt very lonely, until she saw a picture. She picked it up, and noticed that her and Roxas were not in there. So it's official! She thought. I know what I have to do now!
She placed the picture down, then went outside only to find out that her left hand is shaking! Then she noticed two creatures in two ways, and then a dark aura behind her as Axel showed up.
"Look what's happened!" He said. "I've been given orders to destroy you, and only if you refuse to come back."
"We're," Yexum tried to ask, "best friends, right, Axel?"
"Well, yeah! But I'm not getting turned into a Dusk for…" He realized what's happened. "Wait! You remembered?!" She nodded. "You know, I'm just going to be pretty clear to make sure! So, what's our bosses' name?"
Yexum stayed silent, then Axel lost all hope. "I really can't believe this." He said as Yexum had the bronze bracers in her hands and started battling the creatures, which she now knows them as Dusks and pretty soon, she managed to defeat them.
Axel summoned his chakrams and prepared for another battle, but time stopped on everything just before he started swinging.
"Yexum!" Said another voice. "Head to the mansion, and quickly! It is time!" She decided to head the voice and left the Back Alley.
She soon made it to the mansion, destroying the Dusks on her way there. She's still wondering how to get past the gate when more Dusks shows up, but the lock suddenly was not there, and she was able to get inside!
She explored the mansion, wiping out any Dusks that stands in her way with her bracers. A room she entered was completely white, save for pictures that a child would draw, until she realized that she was in the same white room that Naminé told her that she wasn't supposed to exist.
She realized that a couple of these pictures were events that she went through herself! She turned around, and saw Naminé. "Organization XIII," she said, "that's a bad group! Right?"
"Bad or good," Naminé said, "I don't know. They are a group of incomplete people who wish to become whole. To that end, they are desperately searching for something. And that something is known as Kingdom Hearts." Yexum giggled. "Find that funny?"
She approached Naminé. "I think the real reason," she said, "I've been running away from the question I really wanted to ask: What'll happen to me, Naminé? That is only something I should know before I leave." But then, Naminé was gone, but DiZ took her place.
"No knowledge," he said, "has the power to change your fate."
"Even if it doesn't I just want to know and that's my right!"
"A Nobody," DiZ countered, "has the right to know anything! And it doesn't have the right to be, either!"
"What is a Nobody?! Tell me that!" Her question wasn't answered because a black coated man with the hood up teleported there.
"DiZ," he said alarmingly, "we're running out of time. Too many Nobody's!" THen suddenly, Naminé showed up from a dark corridor.
"Yexum," she said, "Nobody's like us are only half a person. You won't disappear. You'll be whole, instead!" Naminé couldn't speak because DiZ was holding her down and covering her mouth while the black hooded guy prevented Yexum from having contact with her.
At least she was able to speak again. "Yexum, we will meet again! And then I'll give you the full story! I may not know it's you, and you may not know it's me. But we will meet again. I promise!" She and DiZ disappeared in the dark corridor as the black hooded guy left in a way of teleporting out, leaving Yexum alone again.
She continued exploring the mansion after picking up some of Naminé's sketches. And pretty soon, she entered another room with a table that has a sketch on it. She walked over to it, and drew according to the sketch.
She realized what's happening with the sketch complete and ran off to the door, to see a secret downstairs place! She continued her way down to what looks like a computer mainframe. She approached it as memories flashed through her mind. She now knows what really happened to her.
She summoned her bracers and smashed the computer mainframe! She continued going the rest of the way when, out of sudden, more Dusks appeared! She battled with what she got for combat against them and won.
"Well done, Yexum!" Axel called out, appearing out of nowhere. "Very impressive."
"Axel!"
He stopped in front of her. "You really do remember me this time." He looked at her with an angry expression. "I'm so FLATTERED!" A ring of tall fire surrounded the two, preventing either from escaping. "BUT YOU'RE TOO LATE!"
Yexum noticed that her bracers were gone and were, instead, replaced with the Oathkeeper and Oblivion Keyblades.
"Two?!" Axel called out as he summoned his chakrams. "Come here, I'll make it all stop!" She just looked at him. "BURN, BABY!" Fire suppressed the floor. Axel was immune to it, but Yexum felt her energy being slowly drained by the flames as she battled Axel with all she's got!
She managed to remove the flames on the floor with clear light, by hitting Axel with force on the ground, which caused pillars of light. Then she continued striking him and finished him off with a heavy blow that dispersed the circle of flames! She just looked at him, and realized that he was only looking out after her. "Axel."
Axel seemed beaten by the heavy blows he received as a dark aura started covering him. He looked at her one last time. "Let's meet again, in the next life." She agreed, and the dark aura covered more of Axel. "Silly," his last words were. "Just because you have a next life…" He didn't finish as the aura made him gone for good.
She continued moving on, even after Axel failed to get rid of her, and saw two pods that are way too familiar for her to miss of who's inside. "Donald?" She looked inside another one. "Goofy?" She looked to her right and saw a door and decided to go inside it.
But what she sees is something different. She sees a large pod and DiZ. "The Keyblade's chosen one's daughter has shown up, at last!" He said, but Yexum wasn't knowing of this.
"Are you talking to me?" Yexum asked him. "Or Yume?"
"To half of Yume, of course, because you reside in darkness. Because what I need is someone who can move about the realm of light and destroy Organization XIII."
"If that's the truth, then who are you then?"
"I am a servant of the world." He laughed. "Of course, if I was the servant, then you should consider yourself a the tool, at best."
"Is it supposed to be joke, old man?" She would've summoned her bracers, but a Keyblade took their place instead! "BECAUSE I'M NOT EVEN LAUGHING!" She shouted out before charging at DiZ.
But what's surprising is that her attack went right through him! "Oh, I'm sorry," DiZ explained. "This is only a data-based projection." She realized he was telling the truth due to her first attack failing by hitting data.
"I have a feeling that I believe to believe you, old man. But the problem is, I'm not even ready yet to face the Organization!"
"Then perhaps," he said, "you should share that fate with Yume. She'll defeat them, I'm sure." He indicated the pod, by which Yume had forgotten, unaware that Data-DiZ left her.
The pod started opening, revealing a girl who looks like Yexum in certain ways: Same hair length, same features, same height, basically general characteristics, but different clothing.
Yexum looked at the girl and realized that she is the girl from her dreams. "Yume!" Yexum called out. "You're kinda lucky, to. Because it seems like my summer vacation…" She starts to disappear. "…is over!" She gave into the light and became one with Yume, becoming whole again.
Heartbreaking to know that you grew attached to her just to see her leave, right? This is a deja vu because Roxas did the same with Sora back in KH II. But the next chapter will be known as an epilogue, which means that this chapter could have any length of time skip!
Also, Yume, as mentioned, belongs to awsomeangel200's story, Daughter Of The Keyblade Master.
