Hi! Oh I want to establish that all the FF characters in the previous chapter were indeed the older ones. Not the KH versions.
Uh...yeah don't own it.
Xion~
"Dad, what is going on? What do these people want with Roxas? What is a Keyblade? How does Roxas have one?" I pestered.
Dad sighed the I'm-exhausted-and-just-saw-two-of-my-best-friends-get-killed-being-a-dad-is-so-hard sigh. Successfully making me feel bad.
But Roxas and I deserved answers.
"They're trying to kill all the SOLDIERS. Roxas is a SOLDIER. It's a weapon of light-and sometimes darkness-granted to only some people. The only way to wield a Keyblade is by inheriting it from someone close to you when they die; Zack died and Roxas inherited his Keyblade." my dad answered bluntly.
Roxas~
I stood numbly by Xion as Cloud flipped out a thin silver cell phone and dialed a number.
"Hey, Tif-yeah yeah I'm sorry. We had an emergency."
Then he went on to explain what happened.
"I'm gonna call an ambulance."
Tifa said something.
"Don't worry; I'v got a plan." he hung up.
He dialed another number "Hey, Rude. It's Cloud."
I could hear the other man's voice "Really? It's a good thing you told me. I might've thought it was my mother calling on the emergency number I only gave you!" his voice was deep and serious.
"Whatever, listen; I need an ambulance for five. One injured, two dead and two passengers."
Two dead?
"What have you been doing, Cloud?" the man asked.
"No questions. Just get me a story and an underground room. Got it?"
"Yes." the man replied "Anything else?"
Cloud's eyes moved to the door, as if expecting someone to come in.
"Yeah. Can you...can you find out where Squall Leonhart is?"
"L-E-O-N-H-A-R-T?" the man spelled.
"Yep that's it." Xion's dad nodded.
"I'll ask Elena what she can find." the man told him.
"One more thing,"
"Yes?"
"Reno."
Aqua's boyfriend...?
"Last I heard, he's in Twilight Town. He's got a kid."
Cloud's face would've been funny on a normal day.
"Excuse me?"
"Don't worry; it's not like that. He found the boy on the streets a little after..." his voice trailed away.
Cloud closed his eyes "Right. Um...just get here soon."
"Soon? Look out the window."
We all turned to the window next to the door and saw a white ambulance outside. A man, not unlike the man who had informed Vexen of Sora's death, stepped out, unloaded two gurneys from the back and came to the door.
"Rude." Cloud said once the man was in the room.
The man nodded. Xion looked at me "Is that his name?"
I shrugged.
Rude picked up my dad and laid him on one of the gurneys. Cloud walked over to Jessie and put her on the other gurney.
Cloud and Xion got into the back seats in front of the medical hold, I took passenger and Rude drove.
He didn't try to make conversation, and I was glad. I didn't have my book and I just wanted to exist in a fog of sorrow for a few minutes.
We got to the hospital. Dad and Jessie were taken off to who-knows-where, Rude escorted me to the reception desk. A man with long black hair looked at us.
His name tag said Tseng, and I wondered how you would say that. Then I realized what a useless thought that was.
"What?" he looked at us as if our mere presence was a waste of his time.
"Strife." Rude said simply.
Tseng (Sang? T-song?) nodded and said "Top floor. Room 13."
We walked down a long white hall. White doors that held sick and dying people. On each door was a number.
We came to a white elevator that brought us to another white hall.
I noticed that the doors up here had roman numerals on them. Weird.
At the end of the hall, on the second-to-last door, was the number XIII.
Rude pushed open the door. It held a white room.
"A nurse will be here shortly." he told us, before abruptly leaving.
Cloud guided me to the bed. I sat down as they pulled a couple of plastic chairs up in front of me.
Xion tugged at the drawstring on her pajama pants. Cloud leaned forward, resting his elbows on his legs.
"Guys, these people know everything about SOLDIER and AVALANCHE. So there's no need for secrets."
We nodded and Xion opened her mouth to say something, but the door creaked open and a woman walked in.
She was gorgeous.
The woman had very long brown hair held up by a yellow ribbon, and chocolate colored eyes. Her name tag read 'Lucrecia'.
The woman was beautiful, and yet, she didn't know it. That much was obvious. Just by the way she carefully pushed the door open carefully, how she walked.
"Hello. My name is Lucrecia." she smiled sweetly and suddenly, I saw my mother. They looked just alike.
"I'm terribly sorry, but family has to wait in the Grey Area. That's the room at the start of the hall, to the left." she apologized.
Cloud nodded and gestured for Xion to get up. They moved the chairs back and left.
Lucrecia pulled a small notepad and a pencil out of her lab coat and handed them to me.
She took a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a napkin from one of the cabinets across from the bed.
"Did they do a mako infusion?" she asked, then began to clean my wounds.
I nodded, then winced slightly at the sting.
She sighed, looking up at me sadly.
"Roxas...that's your name, right?" I nodded.
"And you have Siceforia?" Lucrecia seemed to be analyzing me.
I nodded again.
"Hm...Well we might be able to fix that."
And with that inkling of hope, she left.
XxX
Later, another nurse (this one with auburn hair and burnt orange eyes) came in and handed me a bundle of (are you sitting down?) white cloth.
"These are the clothes you'll wear while you are here." she smiled and I stared for a second, until she blushed heavily and turned around.
I stood and immediately felt nauseous. I took a deep breath.
I put on the clothes; white cotton pants, white shirt of the same material. I was glad I wasn't expected to wear a hospital gown (shudder), especially considering the abundance of female nurses.
I tapped on the side table. The nurse turned. I read her name tag; Cissinei.
"We're going to give you a check up (what am I, five?). You're very young, so a mako infusion is incredibly straining on your body. Follow me."
I took one step forward, felt a sudden and overwhelming dizziness, and passed out.
Third person~
Cissinei heard a thud. She spun around and saw her patient on the floor, completely unconscious.
She knelt next to him and checked his pulse. Once she confirmed he was alive, she propped Roxas up on the wall.
His eyes opened. He looked around in alarm.
"You're awake." she breathed a sigh of relief.
Roxas knit his brow and began mouthing unintelligible words.
Cissinei put her hand on his shoulder "Calm down. You just passed out. Like I said, the mako infusion will put enormous stress on your body."
Roxas nodded, still feeling weak.
XxX
After his 'check up' Roxas staggered to his room and fell onto the bed.
He was exhausted after the day's events, and fell asleep immediately.
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Ok well, I'll try to update as much as possible over Thanksgiving.
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