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Redmond walked into the room. In there, Sora was tied to a chair, but his hands were free. This allowed him play the game of Halo 3 with his friends. Stephanie and Redmond flanked him on either side. "Now remember, no talking to Kairi or any of your friends." Stephanie said sweetly. "Or…" Stephanie pulled out a syringe. It was filled with nothing but water, but Sora was deadly scared of needles.
Redmond had called Tom on Sora's mobile. "That's right, Tom. We're still playing, just from a different location. Where we are is no concern to you. Don't tell anyone, or I'll tell Xemnas about the time you… You won't tell then? Splendid. We have an agreement." Michael hung up the phone. "All is well. Tom will not tell."
Stephanie smiled an evil smile. "Excellent, I think this is cause for celebration. Choose a song to play." Sora flipped through the songs on the CD player, and found his favourite song.
"There's a lady who is sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven."
Redmond quickly tackled Sora, with surprisingly inhuman strength, onto the sofa and proceeded to sit on his chest, his hands keeping Sora's hands pinned. Stephanie shut off the CD player. Sora looked at her in disbelief. "No stairway, denied!" He said, not believing that anyone could not like Stairway To Heaven. Sora gasped for air when Red shifted, so that his feet held Sora's hands in place, and he held Sora's head in his hands. Stephanie walked over to Sora, leaned down to him, and kissed him on the lips. Sora began struggling furiously, but Redmond already had his hands tied and his head held in place.
"No stairway, denied." She said, while Sora looked away, a look of shame on his face. "Stairway To Heaven. The song that bonds you with Kairi. I've learned enough from Riku to know everything about you and Kairi. There will be no Stairway in here, right Redmond?"
Redmond nodded in approval. "Just as long as I get my-"
"You will get your lollipops. And if you and I win the Halo fight, I'll support you a 2 litre carton of chocolate milk." Redmond licked his lips. Stephanie leaned in and kissed Sora again.
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"Team10 has logged on." The screen read as Sora, Kairi, Namine, Roxas, Riku, Stephanie, Redmond, Axel, Saix and Tom logged on to the special Halo 3 server simultaneously. A person's Halo characters could have stripes going down their helmet, feet-armour and hand-armour. Sora's character was Black with Yellow stripes, Kairi's character was pure pink, Namine's character was pure white, Riku's was purple with yellow stripes, and Roxas' was yellow with black stripes. Saix's with light blue with black stripes, Axel's was orange with black stripes, Stephanie's was brown, Redmond's was green, and Tom was red.
Everyone also had their signature weapons. Tom's was the Shotgun (close-range powerful weapon), Kairi's was the Assault Rifle (just a rapid fire rifle), Namine's was the Battle Rifle (3 rapid shots at a time), Roxas was wielding a Plasma Rifle (rapid-fires plasma) in one hand and a Spiker (shoots very fast and has blades on it) in the other. Axel had a Flamethrower. Saix had a Gravity Hammer (devastating at close-range). Riku had a Sniper Rifle, Stephanie had a Carbine (shoots weird green plasma bullets), Redmond had a Rocket Launcher, and Sora had an Energy Sword.
"The Energy Sword. Interesting choice." Tom said to Sora. "You do know it takes a certain amount of skill to use it properly. Do you have that skill?"
Sora brandished it around. "Tom, I'm like a fucking Jedi." Suddenly, a message flashed across the screen: Game Begin. Riku immediately ran up to a cliff, While Roxas proceeded to move around the outskirts of the big canyon. The map was called Blood Gulch – it was basically a canyon with a base at either end, and a couple of cliffs and tunnels around the sides.
Kairi and Namine immediately ran towards the Mongoose, a quad-bike like machine with a position for a driver and someone on the back firing. Namine started driving. Tom, Saix and Axel immediately ran into caves – in such close quarters, their short-range weapons would dominate. Axel decided it was in his team's best interest to get a vehicle, and sent everyone on his team the location of a Scorpion (tank). By this time, Riku had killed about 5 people from the cliff, and was pinned down. Someone fired a rocket launcher, and it exploded near him, taking off a little bit of shield and killing someone who had been going up to get him. The enemies immediately stopped, thinking they'd got Riku. Riku looked up at the opposite clue, to see someone with a Beam Rifle (basically a Sniper Rifle, but with plasma) pointing at him. He and the enemy shot at the same time.
"Riku was killed by Tidus." "Tidus was killed by Riku." came up on the screen.
Roxas had just taken some heavy damage, and threw a grenade into the oncoming group. It would have killed all 5 of them, but then Redmond fired his Rocket Launcher into the group, killing them all. Roxas' grenade exploded uselessly. "DAMMIT REDMOND! THOSE WERE MY KILLS!" Roxas yelled, but Redmond just turned and shot a rocket at Roxas. "Oh snap." Roxas said before being blown 5 metres into the air.
Stephanie was shooting things left and right, but due to the weak shots of the carbine, was met with little success. Suddenly Axel come up beside her, burning about 6 enemies into a crisp. Stephanie got angry. She switched her Carbine with the Beam Rifle that Tidus had dropped when he died, zoomed in on Axel's head and shot, with the message "You betrayed Axel" Coming up.
"Teamkiller!" Axel said, and Stephanie felt shots from behind her, she turned to see Kairi shooting at her and Namine's Mongoose seconds away from her. Stephanie quickly dropped a trip mine, blowing up the Mongoose and killing Namine.
Kairi stood there with no shields left – a sitting duck. Stephanie aimed the Beam Rifle, but then Saix jumped down from above, with his Gravity Hammer, only to be sniped out of the air by Stephanie. By now, all of the other teams were dead, killed by the other teams, who had in turned been killed by one of them. Now, 95 people were just watching what was happening.
"Knock knock." Came Redmond's voice, and suddenly Redmond drove out in the last vehicle undestroyed, Axel's Tank. He pointed the main gun at Kairi, but quickly jumped out of the tank when he heard someone punching the cockpit. He jumped out of the driver's seat just as Tom threw a grenade in and jumped off – the tank exploded. Then Sora jumped out from above.
Tom and Sora protected Kairi. "We will not be broken." Tom said, while Sora turned to Kairi.
"Go the third floor down in the base. Use the weapon I put there before the match began." He said, and Kairi turned and left. It was two on two. Redmond charged to hit Sora's unprotected back and kill him, but Tom turned and quickly shot him with his Shotgun. Redmond's shields were knocked out, Redmond threw a Plasma Grenade (they stick to you) and landed on Tom's head. Tom quickly ran into Redmond, blowing him up with him.
"I know what you put on the 3rd floor of the base. The other Energy Sword. I have it here." Stephanie said, pulling out an Energy Sword. "Sorry," Sora said, "but you looked in the wrong base." Stephanie charged at Sora with her Energy Sword lashing out, while Sora charged with his. Both were one-hit-kill weapons, but Sora missed.
Kairi entered the room in the base, and found a gold, silver and black rocket launcher with a red light lying there. She picked it up, and the message "Picked up a Spartan Laser" came up. She discarded her spare pistol for it and ran upstairs to see Stephanie running towards her – that meant Sora was gone. "TAKE THIS!" She yelled, pressing the trigger. Nothing happened. The light got bigger, but nothing happened. She gave up, and merely avoided a beam rifle shot. She was about to pull out her Assault Rifle, but she'd forgotten she kept pressing the fire the button. A great beam of red laser shot from it and blew Stephanie to smithereens. "Game Over." A voice said, with a list of every participant who'd played and what position they came in. They all had a cross next to their name, except for Kairi, who had her symbol – a heart, next to hers. She had won.
----- Back To Reality
Kairi, Namine, Roxas, Riku, Tom, Axel, and Saix celebrated Kairi's victory, cheering wildly while Axel did a spontaneous dance on the victory of Team 10. Just as Saix pulled out a massive cake, Kairi called everyone else outside. Axel and Saix didn't care – just kept eating cake and dancing.
When they were outside, Kairi asked. "Did Stephanie, Redmond or Sora say where they were? Tom, you must know – you spoke to them on the phone."
Tom hung his head. "I'm sorry, Kairi, but Redmond threatened to tell Xemnas about the time I-"
"It doesn't matter!" Roxas said, cutting in on Tom. "We know where they are. Let's just go!" Everyone nodded, and Tom pulled off his jumper to reveal a sword in every possible hiding place. "Riku, here's your rapier. Let's go! I'll hand out the rest of the swords on the way."
Kairi burst into Stephanie's room in a fit of rage, seeing Stephanie kissing a tied-up Sora. She stormed across the room and slapped Stephanie viciously across the face. Stephanie quickly regained and began a fistfight. Riku ran over to Sora, cut his bonds, and got him to run out with Namine. In the other side of the room, Roxas and Redmond were circling each other like sharks. "So, my little brother, we meet again." Roxas said, drawing from a sheath on his back a real-life, super sharp and full tang metal Zanbato, an exact replica of Ichigo's from Bleach.
"It seems we are fated to fight." Redmond said, pulling out a real life, super sharp and full tang Bankai, the exact one that Ichigo also wields in Bleach. The two charged at other and clashed. Redmond followed up by sweeping the entire room with his Bankai, the twelve-year-old cutting deep scars into the wood on the walls and floor.
Riku looked at Stephanie longingly, and then realized that if he was to get her to like him, he should start by helping her in this battle. He ran over, only to be stopped by Tom, who pulled out his larconius (short, slightly curved sword). "Two on one? And one with a sword against a single girl? I don't think so! Let's do this!" Riku's super long rapier was easily being blocked by Tom's short sword. "You can do better than that!" Tom said.
Meanwhile, Roxas threw a strike at Redmond only to see that Redmond sidestepped the blow and hit Roxas, full force, in the hand with his sword hilt. Roxas cried out in pain and dropped to the floor, Ichigo's Zanbato clanging beside him. Redmond quickly jumped on him, pulled out some of the rope that Stephanie supplied him with, and tied Roxas' wrists, legs and bound his mouth.
Kairi and Stephanie stopped fighting simply for both of them to breath. Stephanie had a black eye, and Kairi had a small trail of blood trickling from her mouth. Kairi ran from the room. Tom, fighting Riku, quickly jumped to the side as Redmond stepped in with his Bankai. "Hold on a minute, let me even the odds." Tom said, pulling off his jumper, cutting it open, and pulling out a shield that must have been a metre and a half in circumference. He strapped it to his hands And the two charged at him. He blocked Riku with his shield, and stopped Redmond with his larconius. Riku shoulder charged Tom, knocking him to one side, where Redmond quickly kicked him to the ground and held his Bankai to Tom's torso. "Touché." Tom said, sliding his sword across the ground to Redmond's feet, and sliding his shield towards Riku's feet.
"Kairi!" Sora said, rushing over to her. "I'm sorry, but she threatened me with a needle… If I said anything, she'd make me go to sleep with Chlorophorm."
Kairi hushed him and placed her finger over his mouth. "It's okay, I know that you didn't do the kissing willingly, and that you wanted to tell me where you were." Sora nodded. "It's okay. Namine, let's get back to Sora's and my room. We'll set a plan there. I don't think our other two guys got out."
In Stephanie's room…
Roxas tried to struggle against his bonds, but Redmond was there, adding more and more bonds, tying up his legs about six times, his wrists about three, and tied his arms to his body about four times. Tom was lying in the corner, with Roxas' Zanbato, Riku's rapier, Redmond's Bankai and Tom's own larconius positioned so that when he was in his current position he was perfectly safe, but if he moved the swords would be there. He couldn't even slide under the swords. Riku was reading a book, but secretly was looking at Stephanie every chance he got. Stephanie was twirling Sora's crown necklace in his fingers. "Soon you will be mine." She said to herself. "Soon it will be our ballad, Sora."
----- To Be Continued
Oh noes! Roxas and Tom are in captivity! And now the Riku is on Stephanie's side, is there any chance for Kairi's side? Review if you want to find out sooner! Please!