Acacia: Man I'm gettin' bad at updating.
Roxas: Or you're just gettin' lazier.
Acacia: Hey!
Roxas's POV
"That's the last of it!" I said, shutting the trunk.
"Alright! Lets hit the road!" Ven said, eager to get home.
...
I stared up at the stars, lying on the rooftop. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect for stargazing. I couldn't help but smile at the memories of the time me and Ven would spend up here. He would point out the constellations and tell me the stories behind them. Then we would point out to each other what pictures we would see in the stars, and make up our own stories for them.
*cue flashback*
"Hey, Ven?" I asked, seven years old.
"Yeah?"
I sat up, "Do you think Mom and Dad are up there?"
Ven sat up, "Yeah, I just wish we could find their stars."
"Do you think they're watching over us?"
Ven lay back down. "Yeah."
"Do you think they'd come down here and ground us?"
"Nope. Once you're up there, you can't come down."
"Oh." I lay back down.
"Hey! It's a shooting star! Make a wish!" Ven said, pointing straight up.
*end flashbck*
"I thought I'd find you up here." I sat up and turned to see Ven sitting on the edge of the chimney. "It's been a while since we've been up here, huh?"
"Yeah."
Ven came and lay down next to me.
Namine's POV
I made my way to the kitchen. Roxas was out running errands, and Ven was probably out with Axel, Wakka, or Hazel. I just wanted breakfast.
The kitchen had a grey, tiled floor, garnet counter tops, and cherry wood cabinets. I stopped in my tracks and stared at the figure sitting at the table. "Xion, what are you doing here?"
Xion's eyes narrowed. "To see Roxas of course. Though I didn't expect to run into you here."
"Well Roxas isn't here right now, and there's no witnesses here so," I grabbed a large knife and tested the edge, "no one will know if you were killed right here, right now." I charged.
She only smiled jumped over my head, and to the other side of the room. She pulled a dagger from her boot and charged at me. I jumped back as she swiped at me, and I got a closer look at the blade. As if it wasn't bad enough I didn't have a proper weapon, but her dagger's even dipped in poison! I kept on blocking, trying to find an opening.
I jumped up on top of the cabinets. Come on, a poison-dipped dagger against a knife made for cutting vegetables! Huh? What are these doing up here? Next to me were a pair of knuckle knives. What are the odds? I'll ask Ven when he gets back. As far as I know, the only weapons he knows how to use are the keyblade and long-range weapons. This is close-range. Oh well.
"What? Are you scared? Come down here and face me you bitchy scaredy cat!" Xion snarled. I discarded my knife and slipped my fingers into the other knives hilts. I jumped down and slashed her arm.
"What? Surprised? Didn't expect that from a human?"
She tried to stab me, and almost got my arm. I took my chance and knocked the dagger out of her hand. Grabbing it in midair, I said, "This is mine now."
Xion only smiled. "Oh well. I don't really need it." She summoned her own keyblade. Is everyone a keyblade wielder now? After this is over I should try to sum- Ow! Xion's blade connected with my stomach and threw me against the wall.
I charged. She kept jumping back at every hit. Soon Xion was back to back with the door. Right when I was about to get her throat, the door opened and she fell back, making me plain out miss.
"Really!" I shouted, clearly annoyed. You can't be serious! Just when I almost had her. Almost.
She didn't hit the ground. Instead she fell right into Ven. While she struggled to get out of his grasp, his grip was getting tighter and was twisting one of her arms. I heard a crack, followed by an earsplitting screech. "Namine!" He yelled, "I may want to kill her myself, but I'll settle for at least helping with her death. Go ahead! Slit 'er throat!"
I was just about to do so, then guess what happened. Smoke filled everywhere, and both Ven and I were coughing like crazy and couldn't see anything! When the smoke cleared, Xion was gone. "So close." I said, devastated.
"I'd say." Ven responded.
"So what. I'm the one who blew it. What's up with me? Before I had passed my dad's skill and took down fourteen vamps barehanded! Now I can hardly take a single pureblood with a weapon! What's going on!" I dropped to my knees.
Ven's eyes focused on a spot on my upper right arm. "I don't know, but that doesn't look so good." I turned my head to see what he was so fixated on. A sudden wave of pain went through me. I sucked in my breath. She got me after all. The cut was very shallow, but that's all you needed for poison. It was even surrounded by a green puss. "Come on. Best get ya inside."
"Must be the type of poison that has a delayed effect."
"Much to Xion's distaste." Ven helped me inside and sat me down at the table. I gasped as cold water washed the puss away. As soon as the puss was gone, Ven went right to sucking out the poison.
As he did so, I looked around the room to check out the damage. Amazingly, only a few things were knocked out of place. Ven finished sucking out the poison and spat it and the blood out in the nearest sink. "Those knuckle blades were my mom's. She had close range weapons hidden all over the house. To this day, I couldn't find any of them. Where did you find those?"
My gaze drifted to them on the table beside me. "I found them on top of the cabinets."
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