Hey guys sorry this took so long to put up. I've been busy and Fanfiction was having issues and I couldn't get it to go up on the site. Sorry but ok, here we go.
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I had never felt this numb in my life. All the times that I had lost someone couldn't even amount to the dead feeling that hung all throughout my body. I was cold, but hot at the same time. Everything went blurry. I tried to lift my head, but it dropped back on the cold ground in an instant.
I heard a 'whishing' sound next to me. Although my eyes were open I couldn't see anything. Someone had appeared next to me from a portal. I tried desperately to make the blurs turn back to people. A pair of black leather boots came into focus in front of my face. A long black cloak brushed the top of the boots. Xemnas?
"The Organization!" I heard King Mickey say. He must've just run up.
He bent down and rolled me over so that I was lying in his lap. His hood was up but I could see clearly who it was. "What do you want?" I said harshly with the only strength I had left.
"I've come to help you," he said pulling me more upright.
"I don't want your help, Riku," I said angrily, pushing his hands away.
"Shhh," he threatened. "Only the King knows that it's me," he said.
"Get your hands off me! I don't want anything to do with you guys!"
"I thought we were friends," he said with the voice I remembered belonging to him…not the one that belonged to Ansem.
"We can't be friends—not after what your people did to me!" I said trying to move away from him but failing miserably and falling onto the ground once more.
He placed me in his lap again. "They did this to you? Sora did this?" he said placing his hand on one of the wound on my stomach. I nodded glaring at Sora. "Come on, Raene…" he said quietly, hiding his voice.
"Let's take him down too!" Sora yelled.
"No!" the King said.
"Your Majesty?" Donald asked.
"He's not here to fight, I mean. I think he's just trying to help her. We'll wait till another day for them, ok guys?" he said.
"At least let me take you to your people," Riku said picking me up and holding me.
"Put me down, you snake!" I hissed.
He obeyed and placed me on the ground. "I'm still going to get you home, ok?"
"Whatever," I said quietly. He draped my arm over his shoulder and wrapped his arm around my stomach. He had to crouch slightly to be around my height.
Suddenly there was an explosion. Riku and I both turned and looked up. High above our heads, where a battle was taking place, a large boulder had been knocked off the cliff and was now hurdling towards us. We turned to see who was in its path and saw King Mickey, who was walking away with Sora and the others.
"Your Majesty!" Riku yelled. He immediately covered his mouth because he had forgotten to disguise his voice. Goofy noticed the boulder heading towards the King. He lunged forward and pushed the King out of the way only to have himself hit in the head by the massive rock. He was knocked back and landed, motionless, against the opposite cliff.
Donald and Sora ran over immediately—King Mickey watched nervously from behind. It was obvious by their cries—he was dead.
"The fool deserved it!" I said half laughing. Riku grabbed my other arm and twisted it painfully. "Owww!" I winced.
Riku summoned a portal and walked me through it. It opened up on the cliff where Riku had knocked me out the first time we met. Xemnas was standing at the edge watching the battle below him. Maleficent's castle stood across the valley, not too far away. I looked at him and then up at Riku. It was like being around the same person.
Riku set me down. Xemnas had failed to notice our presence at this point. "Do you want me to stay and help?" Riku asked.
"I pulled my knees to my chest and placed my chin on the top. "I never want to see you again, Riku," I said not looking at him. "Not after what Sora did. I realized that I'm never gonna think twice about you guys ever again. You are my enemy! Every time I had the chance to kill one of you guys, I always held back because you were my sister's friends. Because I was once one of you guys. But, as I made it clear to Sora, if you lay a hand on any of Organization members, you will pay! We're getting stronger everyday and soon we'll be able to eliminate all of our enemies! So get lost, Riku! We once could have been friends, but now, that relationship is over. Leave!"
"As you wish, Raene. I hope you change your mind," he said disappearing into a portal.
"Who's your friend, Xarene?" Xemnas asked after a moment of silence.
I turned to look at him. He had his back to me and his hood was up. "He's not my friend!" I whispered angrily.
"What's he doing here, then?" he asked.
"Probably here with his murderous friends trying to win the battle," I said looking out at the swarms of Heartless and Nobodies.
"Where is Demyx?" he asked. I gulped and then stopped breathing. "Well?" he said turning around. My eyes were wide and watery. They were slowly darting across the valley trying to focus on something that would take my mind off of Demyx. "I asked you a question," he said turning back around.
"Superior…he—he didn't make it," I stuttered out.
He sighed. "So the Keyblade Master has taken another one away, has he?"
I swallowed. "I tried to—to avenge Demyx, sir," I said.
"Avenge a Nobody? You tried to kill Sora?" he said.
"Yes sir," I answered.
"Why would you try to kill our only chance to become whole, Xarene?" he said.
"I—I was angry. He took away someone close to me. I only have one more friend left, Xemnas. And—and I don't even know where he is," I said ashamed somewhat.
"You, being a Nobody, shouldn't attach yourself to someone else, especially another Nobody. You don't have feelings and therefore cannot care for someone. It's all in your head, Xarene."
"It doesn't matter, Xemnas. I failed. He's too powerful. I'm lucky to have gotten away."
He turned around again. "Sora did this to you?" I nodded still not looking at the wounds on my body. "You should get those fixed up, you look terrible," he said turning once more to the battle.
I grimaced and tried to stand up. He wasn't even gonna bother to help heal me. I painfully made my way to the cliff wall behind me and rested against it. I then looked down at my body.
The first major wound given to me by Sora was across my stomach. It was a huge gash and was bleeding. My arms and legs had lines of cuts going in every direction. My clothes were torn up and were stained. My shorts were almost completely red and my shirt had changed to a dark purple from the blood dripping off my shoulders, neck, head, and face. My skin was completely covered in dried up blood with fresh blood also oozing down. I could barely move my fingers to summon a potion. I through it in the air and relaxed as the soothing feeling coursed through by body.
The blood disappeared and the wounds stopped bleeding. Unfortunately, the scratches, cuts, and gashes were still visible as scars that were starting to heal and my clothes were still torn apart. I was able to move more though, and more easily and comfortably. I smiled as I rested against the cold wall.
Suddenly Mickey, Donald, Sora, and Goofy ran up behind Xemnas, failing to notice me. I thought the dog was dead. Man, now there's one more to take care of. I was about to start listening to their conversation but a portal opened up beside me.
I didn't look up but I could tell by the skinny legs and arms that appeared at the corner of my eye who it was. "Axel…" I said quietly. Xemnas was too busy with Sora and the others to have noticed the redhead next to me. If he had, Axel would be in big trouble. I didn't have to worry for right now—as long as he and I stayed it the shadows of the cliff, they probably wouldn't notice—and with all the noise from below, they most likely couldn't hear us talking. "I—I missed you," I said looking up at him. He looked tired. There were bags under his eyes and his spikes of red hair were messed up.
"Missed you too," he said not looking down at me. "You don't seam very angry with me."
I had almost forgot about what he had done. "Axel…I—I just didn't want you risking your own life for mine. I don't want Kairi to die in my place. As my best and last friend, I want you to respect my wishes. So why won't you just—"
But I was cut off. "Last friend?" he said looking down at me. "What happened to Demyx? You guys get in a fight or something? You look like you did and I bet you lost guessing by your torn clothes and wounds. Right?"
I didn't answer. I just sat there and prayed that I wouldn't have to say that Demyx didn't make it again.
"Raene…where's Demyx?"
"Uh-uh," I said shaking my said side-to-side once.
"Raene? What happened to him? What happened to you?" he asked getting on the ground next to me.
"No…" I said turning my head from his direction.
He grabbed me and turned me to him. "Raene," he said sternly.
"Don't make me say it, Axel. I can't do it," I said closing my eyes so I couldn't see his demanding eyes.
He pulled me into a hug and whispered in my ear, "Who did this to you? I'm gonna take care of this."
I pulled away and opened my eyes. I turned and looked at Sora. "Nobody," I said. "It's nothing. But Demyx is—is gone, that's all I have to say."
He stood back up. "Oh man…this is terrible." It was quiet for a moment. "I'm sorry for kidnapping Kairi, Raene. I just—I just care about you sooo much. You have no idea, Raene. I just…" he sighed and crossed his arms over his chest.
Xemnas disappeared into a portal and the King dived in after him. "I'm against the Organization now, Raene. You realize it was just you, Demyx, Roxas, and Naminé that I cared about. All of them are gone except you. I have nothing left to fight for with these Nobodies. I'm gonna disappear, so why bother. These people—Sora and the others, they aren't my enemy. Sora is just Roxas with a mask on. I should help him, right? If I'm gonna disappear and see the people I miss again it's not so much a bad thing that Sora and his friends killed them. I don't need to be whole again because I have nothing left. That girl from my past—you were right, she doesn't know who I am—I have nothing to return to. The only ones I care about, they have nothing to return to either. I'll see them again, so I should spend the time I have left to help Sora out—to help Roxas out—it's really him. I don't want to go against your wishes. I just wish you didn't have to have the fate of Nobody."
"Axel…" I said looking at him.
"I'm gonna do the right thing," he said.
"What are you gonna do?"
"Way to fall in their trap, Sora," he said loud enough for the others to hear him. They ran up and stood with their weapons at the ready. "Don't you get it? It's their set up. Xemnas wants you to destroy the Heartless. That's his plan," he said walking forward and leaving me sitting by the wall.
"Xemnas?" Donald asked.
"The guy that you all just saw. Organization XIII's leader," he said as if they were different people from him. I guess they were since he was kicked out but he couldn't help who he was. "Got it memorized?" he asked tapping the temple on his head.
"Why does the Organization want to kid rid of the Heartless?"
I walked up to Axel with a little difficulty. I leaned against his shoulder and laced his arm with mine. He looked down at me, frowned, and then turned back to Sora. "Your Keyblade, Sora. Every Heartless that you kill with it releases a captive heart. Those hearts are what the Organization is after."
"You act like they are different people from you two. Raene's with the Organization. We just saw her with another member," Sora said.
"I hope she changed her mind," he said looking down at me raising his eyebrows.
"What do they want with the hearts?" Donald asked.
Axel turned back. "Hmph. I'm not telling," he said.
"Tell us now!" Donald said.
"You! You're Axel. You're the one who kidnapped Kairi!"
"Yeah. That was me," he said.
I shuddered next to him. He pulled his arm away from me and instead placed it around my shoulders in a protecting way.
"Where is she?" Sora asked emotionally unstable. Axel looked down at me and closed his eyes, obviously upset by this conversation. "Please tell me," Sora said begging.
"Look, about Kairi, I'm sorry, but…" Axel began but was cut off.
"Axel!" Saïx's voice sounded.
"Uh-oh," Axel said summoning a portal as the blue-haired Nobody appeared.
"No, Axel!" I said trying to grab him as he stepped into the portal. "Don't leave me again!"
Sora ran forward to also try and stop Axel but Saïx held out his arm to hold back the brunette. Saïx said, "We'll ensure that he receives the maximum punishment. So don't worry, Xarene and Sora.
"I don't care about that!" Sora said. I tried to block out their voices as I kept my back to them and stared at place where Axel had been with me not two seconds ago. "Just let me go to the Realm of Darkness!"
"Don't worry about Kairi, Sora. We are taking very good care of her. That goes to you too Xarene. She's fine," Saïx said.
I turned around to look at them. "Please take me to her," Sora said.
"Is she really that important to you?" Saïx asked Sora but looking at me quickly before turning back to him.
"Yes. She's more important to me than anything!" Sora said.
"Show me!" Saïx said.
Sora stood still looking at the ground for a minute. He then bent down on the ground and sat there on his hands and knees begging to Saïx. "Please. I have to see her."
"Of all the things I've heard about you missing her, Xarene, I never seen you bow to me to see her again," Saïx said. I couldn't believe that Sora was on the ground just to see her.
"I can see that you care for her, Sora. But the answer's no," he said.
Sora jumped up in anger with his Keyblade ready.
"If you're angry with me, direct that rage at the Heartless," Saïx said summoning a group of them. "The hearts from these powerful monsters collect in Darkness and then they weave together and make Kingdom Hearts. When that time comes, we can finally exist once more."
Those were the last words I heard. I noticed that Maleficent appeared and began to speak with Saïx and Sora. I was only thinking of Axel. He had left again and I didn't know when I would see him again. What if I didn't? Time was running out before the battle that would determine our fate would begin. What if I didn't see Axel again before it was too late?
"Xarene!" Saïx said.
I snapped out of my thoughts. "What? Huh?" I said.
"We're leaving," he said summoning a portal. I didn't move. I didn't want to go back with them. I was still angry at Sora but what Axel said about helping them was staring to make sense. I was raised hating traitors but now I was considering being one. "Well?"
"I don't want to go," I said simply.
"Excuse me?" he said.
"I want to find Axel, I don't want to go back," I said more sternly.
"So you would rather be traitor and die along with your pyro friend?"
"Exactly," I said smiling.
But that didn't work out so well. Saïx grabbed my arm before I could react and dragged me into the portal. I was too weak to fight back. "It's time you learned your place, Xarene! We need you as much as Sora. Come back with me, and you can see your sister!" he said as the portal enclosed us.
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Hope you enjoyed. I'm sorry to say that this story is winding up my friends. Only a few more chapters left. But let's not talk about sad things. When the time comes for it to end, we'll face it together right? Right. Anyhow. Sorry about the wait.
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