My mom's grieving. My Daddy died 3 years ago today. Love you dad, love you bunches!
Anyway, onto the more interesting stuff, spring break's next week! Woohoo!
I ran back and found Sora, Donald and Goofy just fine. Yeah, Goofy was fine now, apparently. The mouse, the King I guess ran over to a figure in a black coat and I realize it was Xemnas. Oh no. He was here. What if he saw me?
"Xehanort!" The Mouse cried.
Xemnas only sighed. "How long has it been since I abandoned that name…"
"Out with it nobody! Where's Kairi? Where's Riku, Airie?" Sora demanded, and I ran over to him. He only nodded to me and continued watching Xemnas.
"I know nothing of Kairi," Xemnas insisted. "But Riku…perhaps you should ask the king…" he glared over at me. "As for Airie, you should consult Xeiria." Then he disappeared into a dark corridor, but not before the mouse jumped in after him.
"He's gone…" Sora muttered. He dropped onto his knees and slammed his hand again the ground.
"Sora, Goofy," Donald said looking off somewhere else.
"What's going on?" Goofy asked.
"Way to fall into their trap."
I turned around and saw Axel. Sora jumped up and held his keyblade up incase Axel decided to attack.
But he only sighed. "C'mon, it's a set-up by Organization XIII. Xemnas is using you to destroy heartless. That's part of his master plan."
"Xemnas?" Goofy asked, oblivious to my leader's name.
"The guy you just saw. He's their leader." Axel said. "X-E-M-N-A-S. Got it memorized?"
Our leader Axel. Our leader. I thought angrily. You're still helping.
"Organization XIII wants to get rid of the heartless?" Donald asked.
Axel rolled his eyes. "Man, you're slow." he pointed to the keyblade. "Every heartless slain with the keyblade releases a captive heart. That's what the Organization wants."
"So what is the Organization going to do with those hearts?" Donald asked. Jesus, no wonder Axel wasn't giving us many answers. We were asking to many questions.
"I'm not telling," he said, as expected.
"Wait, you're the one who kidnapped Kairi!" Sora growled.
"Bingo," Axel said, smiling. "The name's Axel. Got it memorized?"
"Where is Kairi?" Sora asked. Axel only scratched his head. "Please, just tell me!"
"Sounds like he cares more about Kairi than he does me…" Airie said, almost as if she was awake. But no, there was still a hint of sleepiness in her voice. But with that she drifted again and didn't wake up.
"Look," Axel said. "About Kairi, I'm sorry."
"Axel!" Darkness filled the space between us, but I saw Axel fade into a dark corridor and leave us. Saix came out of the darkness in between us and held his arms out so neither Sora or me could get to where Axel had been to stop him from leaving.
"We'll ensure he receives the maximum punishment," Saix told us, as if reassuring that he was going to hurt my friend. I clenched my hands into fists and glared up at him.
"I don't care about any of that! Just let me into the Realm of Darkness!" Sora demanded.
"If it's Kairi you're worried about, don't." Saix said. "We're taking very good care of her."
"Take me to her," Sora said.
"Is she really that important to you?" Saix asked.
"Yeah, more than anything."
That made Saix scoff. It was fake, of course, but there was a hint of hatred in it. "Oh please, you're so pathetic. You say that she's the most important thing to you, but whatever happened to Airie? Did she leave your mind Sora?" he pointed over to me. "Look at her Sora! She's right in front of you! And she's been there the whole time!"
Sora looked over at me. "What? Xeiria is Xeiria. Even if she's Airie's nobody she's still Xeiria!"
"You're missing what's important," Saix said. "And about Kairi, the answer is still no."
"You little-" Sora cut himself off.
"Are you angry? Well, take that anger out on these heartless!" Saix snapped his fingers and small soldier heartless appeared. He turned to them. "Pitiful heartless, mindlessly collecting hearts. The keyblade releases those hearts. They gather in Darkness, master less and free. Until they weave together to make Kingdom Hearts. And when that time comes we can truly finally exist."
"What in the world do you think you're prattling about?" I turned my head slightly and saw a woman with tinted green skin.
"Kingdom Hearts is mine!" she went on to say other things that I didn't listen to because Airie had an opinion on that that I was listening to.
"He doesn't care about me, you know."
"He does care about you Airie, he's just lost. He hasn't seen you such a long time, he's afraid you're gone."
"I am gone, Xeiria. You've taken over, and I want you to. I wouldn't be able to fight another battle after this. I don't have any strength any more."
"What do you mean?"
"My strength's being sucked away the more you use my body. And once all of it is gone…well, let's just say that you'll get your own heart, lucky you."
"Then I'm letting you out."
"You can't let me out, is the thing."
"Then I won't fight! I refuse!"
"Then I'll make you fight."
"Xeiria! Look out!"
I blocked the attack of one of the heartless, but blocking was all I was letting myself do. For Airie's sake.
"Hit it!" Sora pleaded.
"No!" I called, straining against the heartless attacks. "For Airie! I won't let her die!"
"Oh yes you will."
Before I knew it I was shooting arrows all over the place. Was Airie trying to kill herself? All of the heartless disappeared and hearts flew into the sky.
"Imbeciles!" The woman called.
"What?" I screamed back.
"You can't be trusted to do anything!" She held up her staff and darkness engulfed us.
When I opened my eyes again I was still standing up. There was nothing but Darkness around all four of us. Off in the distance was a man in the Organization's coat holding a white box. He disappeared and dropped the box. Donald walked over and picked the box up, only to have to taken away by Sora.
Sora opened it up and I walked over next to him. Inside was a photograph and a stick of sea salt ice cream. My stomach growled at the sight of it, realizing how long it had been since I last ate.
"It's the gang from Twilight Town," Goofy concluded. "Hayner, Pence, Olette, and um…"
I looked closer at the picture and see who the four person is.
"Roxas," I gasped. I looked over at Sora and noticed he had said the same thing.
"You know him?" Donald asked.
I nodded, but Sora shook his head and I was ignored. "No, the name just popped into my head. This is Roxas."
Donald picked up the sea salt stick.
"Do you really want to…?" Goofy started.
"It's safe to eat," I interrupted. "I've ate them before."
When the darkness faded I was back where we had been fighting before. But I didn't see Sora or the others anywhere. I called their names a few times but no one ever responded.
The response I did get wasn't very pleasant. Someone grabbed my and hoisted me over their shoulder and started carrying me somewhere. I started screaming and they put me down. There was a man with long brown hair and a scar in the middle of his face standing in front of me.
"If you want to be difficult…" he muttered. I saw him raise his hand high above his head. He brought it down against my head and my vision immediately blurred. The man lifted me off the ground and carried me into a building when the world went black.
I finally got Axel into this! Yay! Alrightly, I'll see y'all tommorow.