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Chapter 26
Roxas~
Ok, it's official. I thought, walking down the empty, locker-lined hall.
The school board hates us.
I mean, Christmas break starts on Tuesday and they're making us go on Monday. On top of that, I have to make up all my finals TODAY!
I was very mad. To say the least.
Xion and I walk into homeroom. The second I'm inside, Vexen basically tried to stab me with a ruler while yelling:
"Welcome back Fair!" Very sarcastically.
I rolled my eyes and walked back to my seat.
Vexen started calling roll.
I noticed kids staring at me, probably wondering where I'd been.
Or maybe Vexen had told them where I was, and they were surprised I was alive.
"Fair!" He called.
"Here." I said irritably.
Suddenly, every kid that hadn't been staring at me before nearly got whiplash turning their heads.
So maybe not.
"What?" I asked.
Vexen pointed his ruler at me. "You-you...talked...?"
He took a step towards the wall phone, like he was gonna call the police.
"Yup."
Then I noticed the kid to my left was looking around at everyone, a very confused look on his face. I'd never seen the kid before, maybe he had moved here while I was um...absent.
"Why were ya out so long, brudda?" A redheaded (more like orangeheaded) kid asked in a thick accent of some sort.
"Uh...I was...in the hospital." I really didn't want to go into detail.
Homeroom ended.
As I was packing up my stuff, the new kid stood over me.
I looked up. "Um...hi." I said awkwardly. I looked him over.
The boy had dark brown hair. He wore a blue hoodie and a Greenday t-shirt.
"You're...Roxas, right?" His grayish-green eyes were filled with a kind of calmness, like his life had been nothing but smooth sailing.
Lucky.
"Yeah, that's me."
He opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by a loud "Thomas! Come on!"
I looked at the door, the source of the voice.
I saw myself standing with Fuu. Except my hair was dyed black.
Wait.
"I'm coming Ven!" The boy-Thomas, I guess-called.
But instead, Ventus and Fuu walked over to us.
"Like my hair, Roxy? Not clones anymore eh?" My look-alike smirked.
"Don't call me Roxy." I growled. Ventus had sort of become private-enemy-number-one since he kissed Xion at the pool.
"I see you've met Thomas." Ventus reached over and ruffled Thomas' hair.
"Quit it." Thomas held his hand against Ven's face at arm length.
Then Ventus noticed Xion. He brushed Thomas' hand away.
"Heeyy, Xi." Ven tried to look cool by leaning on a bookshelf. But he missed it completely and instead fell flat on his face.
Thomas and I burst out laughing. Xion was laughing so hard tears poured out of her eyes. Even Fuu tittered.
"Shut up." Ventus growled, getting up. He stormed out.
"Excuse Ven." Fuu mumbled.
Thomas elbowed Fuu. He whispered something in her ear.
She turned bright red.
"M-math." She squeaked, then speed-shuffled out.
We stared at him. "What did you say?" Xion inquired.
Thomas grinned. "Oh...just that Ven should ask her out. Instead of you."
He looked at his watch. "Gotta go. See ya."
He put his hands behind his head and walked out.
"C'mon let's go." Xion said. I nodded and started towards the door.
"Fair!" Vexen barked.
I stopped. Xion, who was already at the door, stopped as well.
"You have to take your finals."
Whoops.
"But...I...have class..." I tried.
He smiled wickedly. "You are excused from the rest of your classes today."
Thinking-thinking-thinking-how-do-I-get-out-of-this?
"Umm...oh! Don't YOU have a class to teach?"
Vexen gave me a 'how stupid are you?' look. "Fair, the gardening club doesn't meet during winter."
I stared at him and said, as Xion got yanked into the wave "You teach gardening?"
He looked offended. "Yes! With Marluxia!"
"Good for you." I began inching in the direction of the door.
"Not so fast." He was at the door before I could blink. Vexen pointed to a desk and, as I was walking that way, swatted me on the back of my head with his ruler.
I sat down and he dropped a mountain of papers in front of me. The desk sank a few inches into the ground, I swear.
"Good luck." He sing-sang. I picked up my pencil and started on the first test.
~x~
As I was walking out of Vexen's class, numbers and symbols and squiggly lines danced in front of my face.
I walked out the front doors and, in my daze, nearly tripped over the girl sleeping by the door.
It was Xion.
I laughed softly and knelt next to her.
"Xion," I whispered. "Wake up.."
Her eye lids fluttered as she woke. She looked up at me and yawned.
"Oh hey...Roxas..." She smiled.
I laughed as I pulled her up. "C'mon Xi. Let's get home."
She started to nod, but stopped halfway. "No! We have to-"
She grabbed my hand and yanked me to the sidewalk. Several books flew out of my worn-black messenger.
"Where are we going?!" I yelled.
Xion laughed. "You'll see!"
I was half-dragged through Market Street and the sandlot into the Tram Common. We-mostly she-chased after the tram.
"Wait!" Xion yelled. "Cid!" She called, but the tram didn't even pause.
"CID! WAIT!" She screamed.
Finally, it stopped. We boarded the tram panting like old dogs that had just run a 5-K.
The driver, a grouchy-looking man with blonde-streaked grey hair, glared at us.
"Wut?" He demanded.
Xion leaned down and said something in his ear.
He looked annoyed. Well...even more annoyed.
"Why should I? And who are you anyways?"
"Xion Strife." She sounded proud.
"Strife?" The driver looked surprised.
"Yup. My dad's Cloud Strife."
His eyes grew wide. "He's still alive?"
"Uh...yeah. And you owe him. So drive." Xion smirked.
"Damn that Strife." He grumbled as he switched gears and started driving.
"So, if Cloud's yer dad, Aerith must be yer mother." He reasoned.
We were both blown away by that.
"Uhm...no...no she's not." Xion blabbered.
He looked surprised. "No? Huh."
He looked back at me. "And who'er you?"
"Roxas Fair." I told him.
"Fair? Zack yer dad?" He asked in that funny drawl.
"Uh...yeah..." I decided not to mention that Dad was dead.
"And yer mom iz...?"
"My mom is Aerith." I told him.
The man leaned back. "Zack an' Aerith. Hm."
Xion and I inched awkwardly to the back.
"Who is that? How does he know your dad? Where are we going? Why does he owe Cloud?" I started firing off question immediately.
She stared at me for a second. Then: "His name's Cid Highwind. Apparently they fought in some war or something. Uh...dad won't tell me."
"Oh."
Xion smiled. Then she scooted closer to me, leaning her head on my shoulder.
She yawned and held my arm close to her.
"Night, Xion." I mumbled.
Then I rested my head on her's and fell asleep.
~x~
"Heyy love burds!" A gruff voice rang through my subconscious.
I lifted my two-ton head and blinked in the blinding light.
And ended up face-to-face with Cid Highwind.
"Ah, good. Yer awake." He said, nearly poking my eye out with his foot-long toothpick.
He strutted to the front of the tram as I gently woke up Xion. Once we were both only semi-asleep, we got off and looked around.
The tram was parked on a grey cobblestone street that was missing parts of both the cobble and the stone. Everything seemed to be colored different shades and tones of gray.
Then I saw the church.
It was brown and white, with a tall steeple. I felt...drawn to it.
I was so mystified, I didn't even notice Cid driving away, laughing like a maniac.
"Whoa..." I mumbled. Next to me, Xion beamed. She slipped her hand into mine.
"C'mon!" She whispered, tugging me up the crumbling stairs and into the church.
Third Person~
The blonde and the ravenette ran into the church. Light from an indistinguishable location shone on a small garden of white and yellow flowers.
The two walked to the edge of garden, trying to be quiet. As if, by being too loud, they would wake the flowers.
"Oh!" Xion suddenly exclaimed. "You've gotta see this!"
She let go of Roxas' hand and ran around the collection of flowers, towards the altar.
Roxas chuckled lowly and took a step forward.
And he was immediately paralyzed.
Roxas fell into the flowers. Suddenly, his sense of hearing left him. His vision fogged as a soft, white petal tickled his face.
"Roxas?" Xion, at the altar, look around for her friend. She saw him lying in the plants, his eyes half opened.
"Roxas!" She cried, running to him.
She knelt next to Roxas, one hand under his neck.
"Roxas...what happened?" She asked, terrified.
"Xi...on..." He murmured, his eyes closing.
Suddenly, a burning pain erupted up her arms and neck.
She let out a whimper of pain and fell to lay next to Roxas.
Visions of digital blue shapes and whitish cells spun and pulsed in front on her.
The pain was as if her flesh was on fire. Xion could've sworn she saw some of her sleeve melt off and burn the flowers below.
"Is this...it?" Xion wondered as her consciousness disappeared.
The last things she saw before black were Roxas' dead, blue eyes.
X
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