Meggan's Story: Part 3

Skillet-Falling Inside the Black

Evanescence- My Immortal

Someone was behind me. I had made it down three floors before anyone had even shown up. Then all of a sudden I was face to face with a laughing Xigbar as he shot his tornado poles at me, forcing me down a back hallway and off my planned route. I ground my teeth in frustration and threw a three card combination into the door before me.

The world I was in was mountainous and cloudy. WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS? I shrieked in my head, not daring to speak out loud. I could not think of a single instance where any world like this had shown up. A little black bird flew past, faster than my eyes could keep up. The door was slowly fading behind me.

I heard a loud, girlish laugh, Larxene! She was putting her cards in the door, a bit slower than I had. She still had to figure out the combination I had put in to get into the same room as me.

I hated doing this but I cast aero around myself and jumped off the cliff.

As I plummeted downward slowly, propelling myself by using my mind to control the air waves I made a good distance from the cliff until I could see the glowing white outline of the door far on the other side and bottom of the ravine.

But of course my flight could not be so easy. Thunder clouds started to gather above me and the hairs on my am started to stand up. Larxene was in the same room as me! The air became more and more charged and soon my hair on my head stood up in every direction like I was touching a charged metal pole.

I flew myself lower to the ground and closer to the edge of the ravine, hoping to be missed by a direct spell. If Larxene couldn't see me she would be less likely to hit me, which would be wonderful! I made in three-quarters of the way to the door before the lightening started charging the air.

Bolts of lightening lit up the sky, one after the other. I thought through every spell I know trying to come up with a way to combine them and block the lightening. I could see Larxene from my hiding spot and I raised my staff.

"GRAVIRA!" I shouted through the thunder. Larxene couldn't hear me but with a great rush of blue she went slamming into the ground. I re-cast aero around myself and shot through the door, landing in another room of white.

"Oww." I moaned as I face planted on the ground. I heard wind rushing past as the door closed slowly behind me. I looked around and ingrained in all of the white where little hints that this was floor three. That was nice of Xigbar, I thought to myself. I slowly stood up. I did not have any wounds, my hair was now lying flat on my arm and hopefully Larxene was still trapped behind the door.

I started to breath in to catch my breath but before I could I heard Larxene cackle once more and started sprinting down the next hall way. I started to feel the heavy darkness of heartless the closer I got to the next door. Throwing in another combination of cards that would make this world serve as a ladder down through the castle, I slammed into the door, pushing it nearly off its hinges to open it. Larxene cackled again, I could see her racing down the hallway.

I threw all my weight against the door forcing closed. The heavy door slammed into place, throwing me back on the ground. The slots for the cards started to light up as Larxene put in her combination.

"NO!" I shouted hoarsely. I leapt off the ground and sent a fiery jolt into the circuits connecting the magic, freezing up the door. I then quickly turned to the side and slammed the handle of my staff onto the handle of the door, breaking it off. As it crashed to the floor I stood up.

"No way," I muttered to myself with a small smile. The room was an intense maze of stairs going in every direction. They stretched into the darkness below me creeping up the walls and ceiling. I took a deep breath and raced towards the edge with every intention of jumping down.

A giant gray cloud pushed me back and slammed me into the door I had just broken. Larxene was still on the other side shrieking and pounding on it. The air in my lungs was forced out as I faced my attacker. Attackers.

Zexion and Lexaeus. Their faces were twisted into smiles of complete glee. Zexion raised his fist to throw another black cloud at me.

"GUARD!" I shouted and rolled to the side only to be attacked Lexaeus and his 'sword'. The sharp points on his weapon bounced off my shield and the black cloud encased him in depressing thoughts. I took a swipe at his feet, sending him falling on his back, smothered by the black cloak.

"Come on Meg! Give it up just let us kill you, it's best for everyone," Zexion cooed from far away. He was not known to fight when words could bring the person down even further. I kept my distance though, I did not know what chemicals or untested experiments he had hidden under his cloak.

Lexaeus got to his feet again, having recovered from his attack by the cloud, the anger rushed into his face faster than his attack. He leapt high into the air raising his sword to smash in my skull. When he was only a few feet higher than me I twisted right and jumped off the edge.

I landed several feet down on another set of stairs. I heard Lexaeus roar when he realized I was gone. He raced to the edge and leapt down after me. I ran to the edge of these stairs and threw myself into the darkness below. I kept going, Lexaeus always just one floor above me, not sure which way I had disappeared in the labyrinth of stairs.

"Nice try, Meg." Zexion was suddenly in front of me and I was trapped in his black fog, my legs and arms unable to move. "You know, I think I will like it a lot better when you are no longer around. Axel has sure gone weird with you running about."

"Yeah," Lexaeus dropped to our level with a heavy 'thud'. "He was going to help us overthrow the Organization so he could get his friend back."

"What did you say to him Meg?" Zexion had stepped closure, I could see his hands fumbling inside his cloak for something, probably poison. "What did you promise him with that would make him change his mind so swiftly?"

"TELL US!" Lexaeus shook me severely, his hands bruising my arms and shaking my head enough to make my vision blurry. He hit me in the back with this sword.

The water came rushing onto the beach so rhythmically and relaxing I never wanted to leave. The sky was calm and the sand felt warm beneath my shoes. Axel stood next to me explaining the different combinations of cards and how they would react together. He told me about every member of the organization in order and how he had hated his first years here, lost and alone with no memories of his life before.

He glanced nervously at the ghostly images of Nessa and Rachel staring across the water. They had not moved once since we arrived, not even their chests rose or fell with breathing.

"Then, there was Roxas."

"Was Roxas?" I asked. His face became curiously sad.

"He left. He said he had some errand to do that involved Sora, the Key Bearer, and we never saw him again. I tried to stop him from leaving, but he went anyway. I'm getting him back though. The guys from the basement and I have a plan."

"Open up!" Zexion's hand was pushing my cheeks together, forcing my lips apart but I would not budge. Lexaeus came around next to him and pinched my nose. I held my breath as long as I could, not daring to open them. The flask of whatever Zexion was going to force down me smelled awful, like the darkness on Rachel when she was possessed.

My lungs ached from the lack of air and I couldn't hold it any more. I opened my lips just a crack but Zexion's flask was at my lips pouring the disgusting liquid down my throat. I choked and spit it back out but it tore down my throat with a hot malice and one goal.

"MEGGAN!" I became very heavy, feeling the darkness at the far stretches of my mind taking over. I wanted to float into that oblivion and never have to worry about another problem.

Only faintly did I feel myself collapse on the floor, my vision became worse and worse. Fire streaked through my line of vision, only briefly warming my skin before I sank back into the darkness clouding my mind. Someone picked my head off the hard ground and was cradling me in their lap.

"MEGGAN!" their voice was too far off I couldn't connect it. My eyes tried to focus on the red swimming before my eyes but they would not focus. There was a soft touch on my lips and I was nothing.