Hello all! Here I am, at last, with chapter 8. I'm working on chapter 14 as we speak...I'm learning a lot from my Writer's Craft class about creative writing and it turns out that I'm actually doing some stuff right. Who knew?
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Vilixa was curled up on the bed, knees to her chest, a million and one questions racing through her mind. Why was it that she couldn't open portals anymore? Was it because she denied the Organization? Did Xemnas find a way to remove her powers?
She raised her hand and summoned her Keyblade. "At least something hasn't changed," she sighed.
Then she heard a noise and felt a small gust of wind. She looked over and saw a portal closing behind a cloaked figure. The man lowered his hood to reveal none other than Saix standing before her.
"Hello, Vilixa," he said, grinning maliciously.
Her eyes widened. "Stay away from me," she hissed, jumping off the bed and gripping her Keyblade tightly in her hands.
"The Superior wishes to see you," he said. "And you will comply."
"I won't," she retorted. "I'm not part of this stupid Organization anymore. I'm not anyone's servant."
"Fine," Saix smirked, summoning his claymore. "Then I'll just have to eliminate you myself."
In a flash, Saix lunged at her with his weapon, the power of the moon increasing his strength by ten fold. Vilixa did her best to block Saix's attacks, but they were too rapid and frequent to dodge them all. The large spikes on his claymore sliced through her skin, leaving huge gashes all over her body. She fell limply to the floor, Keyblade disappearing.
She waited for death to come slowly until she heard another portal open.
"What happened here?" came Axel's furious voice. "What the hell did you do to my room?"
"This does not concern you," Saix responded calmly. "I have to eliminate the traitor. You know the rules better than anyone, Lea."
"Don't kill her," he urged. "She still has a Keyblade. She can still retrieve hearts--think it over, Saix. Just lock her in the dungeon for now. She can still be useful to the Organization."
Saix made his claymore disappear. "I don't like this, Axel," he said sternly. "I'll spare her life for now. But don't make me regret my decision." He turned to leave the room. "Clean up this mess...and take her to her prison cell." Then he walked out the door and slammed it shut behind him.
"He would make me clean up his mess," Axel growled. "Ugh. Come on, let's go."
Vilixa let out a small whimper and Axel sighed.
"He really did a number on you, huh?"
He gingerly lifted her up, and she let out a small cry as the wounds that had started to close were reopened and blood started dripping down, cascading onto the floor. Axel quickly teleported himself and the nearly broken girl to the dungeon in the castle's basement and placed her inside the giant cell. He took a potion out of his cloak's pocket and raised it to her lips, making sure that she downed the entire bottle.
The open wounds closed themselves, and the bleeding stopped. Vilixa, however, would not open her eyes. She laid limply in Axel's arms, unmoving and barely breathing.
"I'm sorry about this," he said sadly. "I never meant for this to happen."
The left the dungeon and immediately went on the search for Saix. He found him after about ten minutes of searching the castle. He was in Vexen's old laboratory leafing through some of the scientist's journals.
"Saix!" Axel barked. "What do you think you're doing? You almost killed her!"
"That was the point," Saix said calmly. "The Superior wanted her to be dealt with."
"Then why didn't he just do it himself?" he demanded.
Saix huffed, "The Superior is very busy. He cannot be expected to do everything on his own."
Axel crossed his arms over his chest and let out a low growl. "You still didn't have the right to nearly kill her. She's just a kid."
Saix eyed Axel curiously. "She may just be a 'kid'," he replied, "but she is still a threat to the Organization. She has a hidden power that she seems to have just discovered...she needs to either rejoin the Organization and prove her loyalty to Lord Xemnas, or she must be eliminated before she discovers how to control her powers."
"Powers?" Axel asked, confused. "What powers? She wouldn't hurt a fly."
Saix let out a dry laugh and shook his head. "Lord Xemnas and I sent one of my Nobodies to dispose of her, but it seems as if the tables were turned. She has the ability to harness light--much like Roxas, if she became aware of her abilities and how to control them, she could destroy us all."
"I know her," Axel insisted. "There's no way she'd be able to destroy us. She's not a violent person. Why else would she be so insistant on not using her Keyblade?"
"If she's so useless, then why did you make me spare her?" Saix asked, an eyebrow raised.
Axel sighed. "She may be a traitor, Saix, but she's still my friend."
Saix turned to leave. He opened the door to the laboratory and said as he left, "Remember where your loyalties lie, Lea. With the Organization, or with a broken puppet."
The door slammed shut, leaving Axel alone with his thoughts. "She's not a puppet," he muttered. "And she's not broken."
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Vilixa's eyes slowly opened, but her arms and legs felt like they weighed a hundred pounds each. She managed to raise herself up to her elbows before collapsing back onto the ground. She let out an involuntary cry as pain shot through her entire body, and she looked around at where she was.
The cell was tall, with heavy bars blocking her only way out. There was a long, hard bench across the back wall and a large lock that kept the door shut. She tried to summon her Keyblade, but it wouldn't come. She was about to ask herself why when Saix appeared from a portal.
"You can't use magic in here," he said tauntingly. "The confines of this cell completely strip you of any powers or abilities that you have. Including summoning your Keyblade."
"Vexen's only useful invention, right?" she muttered scathingly.
Saix only grunted. "Do not speak ill of your former comrades," he said. "You're walking on thin ice as it is."
"Why didn't you just kill me when you had the chance?" she asked.
"Do not think of me as a merciful being," he stated. "It was Axel's choosing. He felt that you could still be useful to the Organization. But I don't believe that you'd be useful with heart collection in the field...but perhaps we could use you...as bait."
"Bait?" she repeated. "What do you mean?"
"The Keybearer," Saix grinned. "He'll be out looking for you, won't he?"
Vilixa glared at Saix with a burning hatred. "You leave Sora out of this."
"We'd love to," he answered, "but alas, he is the only one who can collect hearts for us now that Roxas is gone and you have defected. We need him...for now. But soon, the amount of hearts he has collected for us will be sufficient enough to complete Kingdom Hearts."
"You'll never win," Vilixa spat. "Sora will defeat all of you."
Saix just scoffed. "I'd like to see him try."
I hate that blue haired elf.
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