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Ok, one, this is a short chapter...not really but kinda shorter than the others...actually, it's kinda long. I apologize for it but I have to put something up since it will be a while before my planned chapter is put up.
Here's some important things…
1. If anyone would like to draw a fanart of something for my story—please do. I really would like to show everyone and then say who did it. If you do, send me a message telling me where to get it, or a link to it. I stink at drawing so I can't do it myself. I tried, it didn't succeed.
2. This is chapter 20. I want everyone to celebrate. I've never ever ever forever never ever have stayed with a story this long before, so give me a pat on the back or something.
3. I wanna know if you guys have noticed anything in the chapters I put up. I put in some secret things, two that I can think of, in the past 7 chapters. You have to use your head to see these things. Message me if you think you have an idea. :)
4. Does anybody have any idea how to link something. Like on my profile (by the way, does anybody read the updates on my profile, just wondering), I have pics set to go to my photobucket account. Do you know how I can just put a word on there so that I don't have to link the whole webpage name? I think it looks messy the way it is. I have a mac computer, so if anybody knows who can help me with a mac, please do.
5. I really do apologize for this being a pointless chapter. I wanted to get on with it but—here's the problem. I had to go back and play the game over again to see what happens in what order, right. Well, my level isn't very high so I can't get past this one place. So I have to wait and raise Sora's level first. My apologies. Also, you know the world after Olympia and to go through the gummiship thing you have to fight that pick ship thing. How do you get past that?
Please if you can help me with any of the above things I would really appreciate it. Message me or put it in a review. Thank you very very much. Now on with the chapter!! Yay!!!
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I brought my keyblades down as hard as I could. Sora had placed his keyblade up to block my attack though. I swung sideways at him but he also got away unscathed by that. I got better at this though. I began hitting harder and harder.
Sora noticed the golden medallion on the ground. Demyx must've dropped it. I noticed too. We both dived at the same time but he got to it before me. He absorbed its power. Now I was left with a weakness. My strength was now lesser than his.
However, this didn't change the fight much. We stayed about even with the fighting. In fact, I was actually better seeming. I hit him several times, not even giving him time to recover. I hit him so badly that he flew backwards and out into the cave he entered from.
He came back in at full speed and brought his keyblades down upon me. I little sting trickled across my cheek and a warm liquid began to form at the skin.
The fighting became more and more intense as it went on. I swung one keyblade around and hooked Sora's neck around the dip of the blade. I pulled him close with it. I smirked in his face then spun the blade around in a circle. He, being stuck to it, spun as well. I lifted the keyblade, causing him to fly to the wall once more.
He lay motionless on the ground. "You know, it's not really fair with the uneven amount of weapons?" he said sighing deeply on his back by Donald and Goofy.
"Fine," I said. "Pick a color."
"Choosing a keyblade?" he asked sitting up slightly. I nodded. "I pick black," he said. "I'm not gonna fight the light," he spoke relating to my white keyblade. "I'll fight the darkness."
"You don't get it, do you, Sora?" I said. "You think Nobodies are of the darkness. We're not. That would be Heartless. We are neither because we don't exist," I said. Sora gave me a curious look. "But if that's you want…" I said making the white keyblade disappear.
I lunged at him with one weapon. He jumped up as I neared him and we continued our duel. The tables turned at this point. I was doing well for a few more minutes but then Sora cheated. "Sora, use your Drive!" Donald called from the sides.
Sora and I paused and looked back at the duck. I raised an eyebrow. "Drive?" I said. "What's a Drive?"
It was answered for me. Sora stood back and threw himself into the air. A flash of bright colors surrounded him. When they faded, he was standing on the ground again. His clothes were now red and he carried two keyblades instead of one.
'So what? He's got another keyblade. I can take him,' I thought. I was wrong though. Sora dived at me all-too-quickly and struck me hard with his weapons. Apparently, he had gotten faster with this Drive of his.
I flew back wards and hit my head hard on the cave wall. I slid down and rested on my back. I couldn't open my eyes or move for that matter. "Giving up?" Sora asked.
My eyes flashed open. "Not a chance," I said. I stood up and stabbed my keyblade into the ground. Sora watched me as I removed my cloak and threw it to the ground. I took of my gloves and threw them on top of the cloak. I glanced at my fingernails.
'Eww,' I thought. The paint on my nails was now reduced to small blotches of paint in the center of each nail. 'I'll have to take that off,' I decided.
I dived at him just as he had, and attacked him with the greatest strength I had used yet with him. He did the same. He hit me several times causing several quick shots of pain to sear through my body. After several minutes of nothing but pain occurring to the two of us, I got bored.
I stepped back as I was about to take a blow at him. I summoned the white keyblade and pointed them at a familiar angle inward towards each other. "I wish I had my two favorite keyblades with me. You'd be begging for mercy by now if I had them," Sora said.
"Which ones would those be?" I asked.
"Oathkeeper and Oblivion," he said.
"I miss those two keyblades," I said.
"You have them?" he said.
"No…but I used to train against them almost everyday," I said. Boy, did I love confusing him.
His Drive had disappeared a few minutes ago, but he did it again and took a stance saying that he was ready to fight more. I just smirked at his gestured. I concentrated and then two beams of light extended out of the ends of my keyblades. They met in the middle and rested there for a minute.
"What the…?" Sora said to himself.
I was angry. I'm not sure why, but I wanted nothing more then to shoot him right where he stood and rid him from existence. I had some strange idea that if I did so, Roxas might—just might come back. Then we could be together again. Although I wanted to destroy him at the moment, I didn't. I did, however, shoot nonetheless.
As the light continued as one beam in front of me, I quickly tilted it upwards. The light hit the cave ceiling. Hundreds of rocks began to shower down upon Sora and his friends burying them, but not killing them. I smiled with my act and grabbed my other clothes. I slipped them on and disappeared into the corridor of darkness.
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I walked out of the portal into the main lobby. Demyx was there sitting at the base of the grand marble staircase. His right shoulder's sleeve was ripped off and laying at his feet. He was casually rubbing it from his injury.
He stood and walked over to me. "How'd it go?" he said.
"Good," I simply replied. I turned him around and placed both of my hands on his shoulders. I pushed my thumbs into his upper back. "Oww—ooh…it doesn't hurt anymore," he said. He rolled his shoulders while sighing.
He turned back around to me as I took a few steps back. He smiled thanking me. Then his eyes got wide. "Raene! What happened?" he said. He pointed to my waist.
I looked down. There was a huge gash in my side. It tore through the black material all the way to the skin where dried blood could be seen. I hadn't felt it at all. 'When did Sora do that?' I asked myself.
I carefully removed my cloak. It didn't hurt much, but I guess that was because I wasn't feeling anything at all lately. At least my memories were clear and I could feel emotions still. My shirt was somewhat soaked around the wound with dried blood.
Demyx told me to sit down so I did. I rested on the bottom step of the marble staircase. He knelt down in front of me. He pinched a bit of the fabric and pulled it away from my skin, examining the area. He then moved his hand to the bottom of my shirt. "Do you mind?" He asked.
I shook my head. He then lifted the shirt up just so he could see the wound. "That's strange," he said.
"What is?" I asked.
"The wound. It should still be bleeding for you. But look…" he said. He took the scrap of his shirt from the floor and pressed it against the cut. "Nothing happens. No blood comes out. It's as if there is no blood inside of you anymore. It's all dried now and the wound has started to create a scar to heal itself."
"You think it has to do with the fact…well, that I'm—wait," I said.
"What?"
"You do know that—well what's happening to me, right?"
"Yeah, I heard about it," he said.
"Well, do you think it has something to do with that?"
"Probably."
"Comes with being a Nobody, huh?"
"Come on. We better get something on this," he said. "Can you walk?" he asked.
"Yes, Demi. It's just a scratch," I said. He nodded and grabbed my cloak and his shirt scrap and we headed down the hall. I was about to turn down the hall that leads to the infirmary, but Demyx guided me down the other hallway. "Where are we going?" I asked him.
"There hasn't been any medicine in the infirmary for almost a year, we have to go to the source of our medicine," he answered.
"And where would that be?" I asked.
Before he could answer, he had opened a door and led me inside. The room was pretty simple from what you could see. It had a bed, a chair and a dresser. The room, however, turned around a corner. Demyx walked that way. I followed and found myself in a much more complex room. There was a desk covered with several flasks and beakers. Some were filled with several different colored liquids. Dozens of cabinets lined the walls. Inside were the same contents of the desk's surface. There were jars inside the cabinets too with unknown things filling them.
"Is this Vexen's room?" I asked.
"Yep," he answered rifling through the cabinets.
"It sure looks different," I said. I walked up to the desk and looked at it. Just like the library, there was a good inch or two of dust covering its surface.
"I got it," Demyx said.
I turned. "What?" I asked.
"This potion will fix that wound right up," he answered.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Last time you messed with these potions, you were in the infirmary for two months," I said.
"And it wasn't because of the potion itself, either. Xemnas nearly broke every bone in my body after he got cleared up," he said smiling.
"We thought Xemnas was never gonna come outta his room again—after what you did to his face," I said.
"At least we all got a good laugh out of it," he said.
I smiled. Demyx pointed to the bed. I sat down and lifted up the corner of my shirt. Demyx popped the top off the bottle. He was about to pour some one my wound when he placed a drop on my cheek. "You have a cut here," he said. He then let two or three drops fall against the cut on my waist. It didn't sting fortunately.
He placed the top back on the bottle and returned it to the cabinet. He went over to the desk and grabbed some gauze and tape and bandaged the wound while it healed. He left through a portal and returned a few seconds later holding up a shirt and cloak for me and a shirt for himself.
Demyx pulled the rest of his shirt and slipped the new one on. I motioned for him to turn around while I changed. He turned back around after giving me a reasonable amount of time to change and started for the door. I followed him feeling much better already—not that I wasn't before.
I followed him for a while, just wandering around. I soon began to feel really sleepy all of a sudden. I didn't believe that I was, since I shouldn't be able to feel at all. It was strange that, as we continued to walk, I felt as if I would collapse at any moment. My head began to spin and the room became a swirling tornado of white and silver and the occasional black of Demyx in front of me.
Then before I could react, I had hit the floor. My head smashed into the cold marble and everything went black. I could still hear, however. Demyx was calling my name. "Raene! Raene! Open your eyes!"
Then I heard another familiar voice. "Demyx! What happened?" he said. Axel… I opened my eyes to see two desperate looking faces above me.
"Raene! What happened?" Axel said lifting me up and placing my head in his lap.
"I'm—I'm fine, Axel. It's nothing," I said sitting up while placing a palm against the part of my head where I hit the floor. "I just got dizzy, that's all."
Axel didn't believe me and you could see it on his face. He turned to Demyx with a face saying 'Ok, what really happened?'
"She got hurt on the mission and we fixed it up with a potion from Vexen's room," he said.
"Demi!" Axel shouted. "Do you have any idea how defected those probably are? They're a year old?"
"I'm fine," I said again.
"I'm taking you to bed," Axel said picking me up. Demyx jumped up too and helped Axel bridle-style carry me. I was sandwiched between the two of them.
"No, no. I have to go with Demi and tell Superior about the mission," I said.
"You need to rest," Axel persisted. Demyx knew better then to join either side in the argument. Either side he decided to back up, the other one would get mad at him.
"No. Please, Axel. You let me go real quick then you can take me, ok?" I said.
He wasn't sure but he finally agreed, but with one condition—I wasn't allowed to walk; I would have to be carried. "I'll only have to carry you for a while anyway—the joys of teleporting," Axel said taking me completely in his arms and out of Demyx's.
"Might wanna take a rain check on that, guys," a voice said. We all turned to see Luxord walking up the hall. "The corridor is down, walking is the only way to go for now."
"You mean they don't work? They always work," Demyx pouted.
"Well lately it's been getting harder and harder to travel. It should be fixed momentarily," he said.
"Fine. Let's go Demyx; we gotta long walk ahead of us," Axel said starting to walk.
"Actually Axel, I need you help with something. You mind?" Luxord said.
Axel sighed and turned around again. "Nah, I guess not. Demyx, you think you can carry her until I catch up?" Axel said.
"Yeah," he replied. Axel placed me back in Demyx's arms. This was getting really annoying. I could walk faster than this. "She's not that heavy…" he said. I playfully smacked him on the chest with the back of my hand. Demyx started to walk and I slowly relaxed.
You know that feeling when you are slowly falling in and out of sleep? The feeling where you're in a loud room, and you could easily fall asleep? But every time you do, you jump back up because everything seamed really loud. Well that's what happened to me as he carried me—except it was silent besides the quiet tapping of his shoes against the marble floor.
This feeling I got made me feel lightheaded and sleepy. I wrapped my arms around Demyx's neck because it felt like I was gonna fall out of his arms. The feeling also made me think a lot. Was this feeling a real feeling? It shouldn't be—I'm not supposed to feel.—How long was it till I would disappear? How would I disappear? Slowly fade away like flecks of paper? Become transparent more and more? Or would one day I would be there then disappear like a popped bubble the next?
I tried to stop thinking this way but it all came back when I placed my head against Demyx's chest. It was quiet so I would be alert to the smallest sound. I was. All of a sudden, I heard a small thump, thump coming from inside of Demyx. A heart. Then I heard it over and over again. Why was I hearing this? Demyx didn't have a heart. Nobodies can't have hearts. So why was I hearing it?—Maybe I was just imagining it. The dizziness was making me hear things, yes, that's it.
Finally I heard Axel's voice in the distance. "Hey guys," he said.
"Hey," Demyx said. "What did Luxord want help with?"
"I'm not quite sure. He made me go in his room and move like twenty boxes from where they were to like five feet away."
"Were they heavy?"
"No. Each box had like two packs of unopened packs of playing cards in each," he said. "Ya want me to carry her the rest of the way?"
"Sure, go ahead," Demyx replied.
"Can I try to stand?" I asked opening my eyes.
Axel looked at me with worried eyes. He waited a minute before finally saying, "Fine."
Demyx let me down. I stood for only a few seconds before spinning one hundred eighty degrees around and landing in the same position that I was in Demyx's arms only, now I was in Axel's. There must be something really wrong with me.
He lifted me up and started heading to the staircase in front of us. Demyx skipped ahead of us and started up the marble steps. Axel paused at the bottom to shift his weight and lift me higher in his arms before following the musician. I wrapped my arms around Axel's neck with the fear that I might fall out, which was impossible—Axel wouldn't ever let me fall.
I pulled myself up higher into a ball-like shape to feel more secure, nonetheless. I rested my head against him. My nose could barely touch his collarbone and my ear was placed over his chest. Strangely, I could have sworn I heard a thump, thump coming from deep inside of him just like Demyx, but I decided to let the thought pass.
Soon we came to the top of the steps and rested. We were in front of a large white oak door. Demyx stepped forward and knocked three times on the hard surface. We waited before a voice welcomed us. Demyx opened the door and we entered.
Everyone was there—Xemnas, Xigbar, Xaldin, Saïx, and Luxord—wait. Luxord? All five were sitting at the table in the middle of the old Meeting Chamber playing cards.
"Luxord? What are you doing here?" Axel asked. He placed me down slowly. I clung on to him not wanting to let go. He pulled my arms away from his neck and stood me in front of him. I felt like falling over but Axel placed both of his hands on my hips to steady me.
"It's funny. Right after you left, the portals started working again," Luxord said.
"So…how was the mission you two?" Xemnas asked.
Demyx was waiting for me to say something but I just gave him a look. He sighed before speaking. "We engaged the enemy, sir."
"You?" he asked. Demyx nodded. "And you, Xarene?" Xemnas asked. I nodded as well. "Well, that's good. We finally got to test the boy's strength. How is he?"
"Good, sir," I said. "He's quite difficult to fight. Demyx and I both barely made it out without serious injury."
"Well that's good," he said. He placed down three cards.
Luxord handed him a card. "Sorry Superior, but you were talking this whole time and you aren't the Mow Master," Luxord said.
"You were talking too," he said.
He handed him another card. "Yes. But I'm the Mow Master—not you." Saïx placed down a card then Luxord handed him one.
Saïx just sighed, took the card and continued to wait for the next person's turn. Luxord snickered and handed him another card. Saïx grunted and grabbed the card given to him. Luxord snickered again and handed him a card once more. "Silly, Saïx. You have to say 'Spam.'"
"What?" Saïx said.
"Just say 'Spam' and move on," Xigbar whispered to the blue-haired Nobody.
Saïx said 'spam,' Luxord handed both men a card for talking and continued on with the game.
Axel lifted me back into his arms while Demyx summoned a portal. We entered and found ourselves in my room. Axel set me down on the bed and pulled the cloak off over my head while Demyx removed my shoes, socks, and gloves. They then tucked me under the bed and prepared to leave.
"Wait…" I said reaching out to them. They turned. "Axel…will you sing me a lullaby?"
Axel looked so confused. "Why?"
"I need a lullaby right now," I said.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't wanna talk about it. But could you?"
"I'm sorry Raene, I don't know any lullabies," he said kneeling down next to my bed.
"Demyx?" I asked. Demyx kneeled down on my other side. He sighed and began to sing just loud enough for me to hear him. I couldn't understand the words because I was quickly drifting asleep. I heard Axel get up and wind the music box.
As the tune filled the room, Demyx stopped singing and they both left after saying goodnight.
I then slowly fell asleep. My mind wandered into the lovely world of dreams. Here, my fears melted away into oblivion and I wasn't scared or sad. The only emotions I could feel were ones of happiness. I fell completely asleep.
I went to my sanctuary of dreams…
My world of make believe…
My land of lullabies…
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So? What did ya guys think of chapter twenty? Huh? Huh?
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Chapter 21 will not be out for probably a month. I'm so sorry. But—that's life. I love you all! Thanks for reading!
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