YAY!!! I finally got this chapter finished!!! I am so happy!!! This one reveals a bit more of Xion's backstory, as well as featuring a bit more from the Organization XIII members. Enjoy!!
Chapter 6: Confusion among the Books
Within an hour of Zexion's barrage of calls, fourteen of the seventeen people needed were in the library. Zexion was of course there, staring absentmindedly at one of Naminé's drawings that had been with the research while sitting at the desk. Demyx was sitting in the corner, softly strumming his sitar to the tune of "Stairway to Heaven", along with Axel and a rather pissed off looking Xigbar, who was sporting an eyepatch. Saíx was in another corner of the alcove, reading Twilight, much to the horror of everyone else present. Zexion only kept the books in the library as he couldn't not offer a book sanctuary among the shelves.
Lexaeus was scanning the shelves on one of the bookcases, looking for anything new on mountaineering. Xemnas was reading a Star Wars novel called Star by Star while leaning against a section of wood paneling in between two of the bookcases. Marluxia was closely examining a book on botany, while Larxene was using some crack pot device she picked up on eBay to send electric shocks zipping after people as they walked throughout the alcove. Luxord had set up shop on one of the tables outside the alcove and was collecting the money that people owed him on the Sora/Kairi bet. So far he had obtained about $1500 in Australian currency, and that was just from the people in that room. Many more in town still had to pay up.
Xaldin was trying to knock a fly out of the air by throwing toothpicks at it, and would have achieved this feat a while ago if Larxene hadn't made it her goal to intercept his toothpicks with bolts of electricity. Small piles of burnt wood scattered about the floor proved her to be quite successful in that venture. Vexen had stumbled upon a shelf full of texts on chemistry and physics and was studying them with an intensity that was quite frightening, taking notes at such a rapid fire pace that the paper almost combusted on several occasions.
Donald Duck, Scrooges nephew, was sitting on the floor, enthralled by a book on magic that he had found. Next to him sat his best friend, Goofy, who was reading a book on medieval knights and chivalry. Sora, Kairi, and Riku had yet to show up.
After a few more minutes of waiting, Xaldin lost it.
"Where the hell are those three!! Zexion, I thought you said you called them first, so what the hell!!"
Zexion just sat there, silent as only those who could sit for hours on end reading a book could be. Then, they heard a shout from outside the alcove.
"What do you mean you had a betting ring on us getting together? Damn it, Luxord!!! We want half the profits, then. Ok? Otherwise I am going to grab that deck of cards and…"
"Sora!! What is wrong with you. Sorry Luxord. We want two thirds of the profits, please."
Those who were in the alcove quickly gathered around the entrance, struggling to get a view of what was happening outside. What those lucky enough not to have their vision obstructed saw was Kairi and Sora standing in front of a rather frightened looking Luxord. Kairi had a smile on her face, but it was not a pleasant smile. It was more the smile a demented demon clown from a Stephen King book might wear on it's face. A smile that promised the person on the receiving end a painful fate if some specific demand was not met.
"Ok… you'll get your money once I collect the rest from those bloody drunks in town. Just stop making that damned face!!" Luxord cried, shuddering with fright.
"Thank you, Luxord. I wuv you!!" Kairi said in a sweet voice as she ran up and hugged him that poor Luxord almost collapsed into tears from terror at the fact that she could change from sweet and innocent to death threats in a matter of seconds.
Suddenly, an enormously loud crash came from another section of the library. Zexion, assuming from experience that Sora had something to do with it, turned and shot him a glare that was both a question and a promise of eternal damnation. Sora looked at Zexion and shrugged, his face wearing a confused expression. This glare ended when an ear piercing scream filled the air, followed by very loud shouting.
"RIKU!!!! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!!! I'VE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH BLOOD IN MY LIFE!!! I DIDN'T KNOW YOUR ELBOW COULD BEND LIKE THAT!!!" a voice cried out from the direction of the crash.
At that, Sora, Kairi, and Zexion broke out into a run towards the cries of agony, with Luxord not far behind them, as Riku owes him money. After about a minute of running, they came skidding to a stop. Before them lay a mess the likes of which they had never seen before.
Books were strewn about in a manner that suggested a miniature hurricane had passed through the area. Two bookcases were lying on the floor, and a red fluid seemed to be leaking out from under one of them. Upon closer examination, that substance proved to be blood. On the other side of the bookcase, a teenage girl was kneeling down next to what seemed to be the source of the stream of blood.
"RIKU!!!" the girl shouted, her voice cracking with emotion. She looked up over the bookcase and saw Sora, Kairi, and them standing there in shock.
"Come on!!! He's trapped under there!! Help me get him out!!" she cried, her face filled with a guiltful sort of anguish that comes when one inadvertently causes pain. Quickly, Sora and his entourage rushed over to see what exactly had befallen the unlucky Riku.
When they got over there, they were stunned at what they found. Riku, it seems, had been next to the bookcase when it had fallen, crushing his body underneath the solid wooden object. His left arm was badly broken, the bones sticking out of the skin near the elbow, and he seemed to have lost consciousness.
"Shit… what the hell happened to him?!"Sora asked, his mind racing to figure out a way to get Riku out from under the massive collection of dead tree pieces forming a structure used for storing literature.
" I wanted to see a book on the top shelf of the bookcase, so I climbed up the shelves and went for the book. But then this loud cracking sound happened, and suddenly I was like woosh and I fell and then the entire book case fell. Riku ran and pushed me out of the way of it and it fell on top of him. He screamed like a cat with its tail stuck in a blender filled with nails and vomit, then he fainted. Then I shouted, and you guys came!! Is he going to be alright? I don't want him to die!!! Not for a useless thing like me!!!" the mysterious girl blurted out, with the stream of words turning into sobs at the end of her rapid fire monologue. Sora and Kairi just stared at her for a moment, glanced at each other, shrigged, then got back to the matter at hand.
As they tried and failed to rescue their silver haired friend from his imprisonment, the other people in the library wandered over to see what was going on. Eventually, they got Riku out from underneath the bookcase by battering it to pieces with Lexaeus's tomahawk. He was in a condition that can be best described as being like that of someone who had just been trampled in a bull run.
Zexion got to work searching for books on treating grievous injuries, while the others attempted to treat Riku's wounds. The girl who was with Riku, whose name turned out to be Xion, kept her head hung in guilt and depression. Sora tried to approach her, but she just scooted away from him into a corner, beginning to cry.
Suddenly, a burst of forest green light filled the section of hallway where they sat, blinding them for a couple of seconds. When their vision cleared, they all stood up and looked around blinking, trying to figure out what the hell had just happened. They heard a groan from the floor in front of them.
"RIKU!!!!!" Xion shouted, jumping on top of his miraculously healed body. Everyone else just stared in shock, except for Zexion. Ever since his visitation by Naminé, his eyes had felt slightly different. When Xion had started crying, he had seen a faint green glow begin to radiate around her, culminating in the flash of green light they had all seen.
"Xion… if you ever do something like that again… I will fucking kill you." Riku said, his eyes fluttering open. She responded to that by hugging him.
"Get off of me!" Riku snarled, uncomfortable with the amount of attention he was getting from Xion. Grinning from ear to ear, she leapt off of him. Riku got up from the floor and dusted himself off.
"Um… hi, guys… this is Xion." Riku nervously said, suddenly aware of the other staring at him in shock.
"B…but… you were just..." Sora said in awe, his eyes wide.
"Cousin Sora!!!!" Xion shouted, tackling Sora to the ground.
"Wait… cousin!!! What the hell, Riku? Your new girlfriend is Sora's cousin!!!!" Kairi giggled, her confusion at Riku's sudden healing .
"She's not my girlfriend!!" Riku defensively said, his cheeks flushing with blood.
"Cousin Kairi!!" Xion screamed, leaping up from a stunned and very confused Sora to pounce on Kairi.
"What is going on here!!!!!" Sora screamed, his mind snapping from the inexplicable events that have happened over the past half hour.
"Well, you see, I am kind of the daughter of Ventus and Aqua!!! One of their scientist friends named Yensid combined their dna to form me!!! And apparently I have a special destiny of some sort, as well as some weird powers that he gave me to help me!!!" Xion said while still on top of Kairi.
"She is right." A voice said from everywhere and nowhere, a voice familiar to Sora. The voice of his brother Roxas. Quickly, Sora turned around, and lo and behold behind him was his brother.
"Roxas!!!" Sora cried, running up to his brother and giving him a bear hug.
"Sora... its good to see you again. Listen, I do not have much time. You guys must read the research that Naminé brought Zexion. All will be revealed in there."
Zexion, a rather interesting expression on his face, half cold rage and half affection, walked up to the pair. Sora, realizing that something was going to happen, quickly got out of the way.
"Why?" Zexion asked.
"Because I was there, and she needed somebody. She had been there for a year and a half with no familiar faces, and... well, i've always had feelings for her. But... she misses you everyday. Their is a void in her that only you can fill, and you cant. I will try my best, but she chose you. She didn't chose me." Roxas replied, tears in his eyes.
Zexion stared Roxas right in the eyes, then did something that nobody in the very tense space expected: He hugged Roxas.
"Take care of her. Keep her safe. Her and I... we were not meant to be. I thought she always belonged with you, not me. I've always felt more comfortable being her friend than her lover. You have my... my blessing." Zexion said, his voice muffled by emotion and Roxas.
"That... means alot. Thank you Zexion." Roxas said, his face torn between happiness and sorrow.
"Read the research. Discover your destinies. And who knows: we might meet again someday, in another time, on another world." Roxas said.
He turned around and slowly walked away, disappearing into a swirling black vortex. Then, he was gone.
Please review. It tears my heart to do this to Naminé, Roxas, and Zexion, so please heal my heart and review. Til the next chapter, then. Oh, and over the next 24 hours, i will be editing and reposting the previous chapters. With actual titles instead of chapter numbers for the names. Enjoy!!