Chapter 12: Mission Impossible? (Part 4)
Rexial stood in the midst of the darkness with a sinking feeling. Something wasn't right.
She couldn't sense her Tsuin anymore. Although she didn't know where she was, she still felt the connection, but now…
"I'm not picking up any scents…" Zexion announced slowly as everyone else paused in their futile searching. "Just ours." He finished, turning to the others who all went completely silent.
"Maybe, maybe she wasn't here to begin with?" Demyx suggested, trying to lighten up the heavy tension.
"Maybe…" Zexion said, looking as if he were thinking.
"This is all my fault!" Marluxia exclaimed dramatically. "I should have, I should have… I don't know! But I should have tried to track whoever it was then!"
"Now isn't the time to worry about whose fault it is." Rexial spoke up, looking towards where the ground should have been. She looked up, eyes scanning around to everyone. "I have a bad feeling, I'm never wrong about these feelings. It's… kind of a power… and I lost connection with Tryxel."
"Connection?" Roxas asked. Rexial glared at him for a milli-second, then nodded.
"We have these… senses for each other. They still aren't that strong though." she explained.
"This is not looking to our favor." Zexion said, Axel nodding in agreement.
A figure abruptly appeared before them, in a black cloak like theirs.
"It was you, wasn't it?" Marluxia shouted, summoning his Graceful Dahlia.
"What was me?" the guy asked, nonchalantly.
"Are you one of us?" Demyx asked happily, apparently forgetting that their suspect was disguised as one of them. The mysterious man scoffed.
"No way am I one of you. I'd never sink so low. Though, I have no clue what you're talking about."
He walked around them, seeming to be looking for something.
"Oh, I see. You want the girl. Well, where is she?" he asked.
"Good question. What did you do with her?" Rexial asked stepping forward.
"Ah… two new ones huh?" he said.
"Riku?" Zexion stated, snapping everyone out of their intense glares. The figure looked at Zexion.
"Shit!" the guy swore, looking slightly as if he gave something away.
"So you are the little Keyblade Master's friend!" Axel said, stepping towards him.
Riku took off his hood, looking Axel in the eye.
"So what if I am? I'm defending my best friend and his honor. He will not be bought down by the likes of you, sleeping or not." Riku said, icily.
"What is he talking about?" Rexial asked in confused, though also angry.
Everyone was fucking around while her Tsuin was off missing somewhere, not to mention her sense of something being wrong had increased.
"My friend, the Keyblade weilder." he paused to chuckle. "You mean, they didn't tell you?"
"Shut it Riku!" Axel said in a threatening tone. "Everything is told in due time."
"What is everyone talking about?" Rexial demanded, voice raising. She started to feel warm all over.
But the moment was interrupted when a high pitched buzz sounded throughout the area.
"Wh-What is that?" Demyx
"Gah, make it stop!" Marluxia yelled over it.
Everyone's hands were tightly clasped over their ears to block out the offending noise. The ground began to shake and glow a mysterious lime green color.
The group was now standing in total darkness, save the green ground, that began to melt into a goopy, slime-like substance.
"What the- hey! What's going on!" Roxas yelled, trying to pull his feet free. As he did, a claw reached out from the slime and grabbed hold to his ankle, violently twisting it in an odd direction. Roxas gasped in pain and fell to the ground.
"Roxas!" Axel called out, attempting to head over to him. A slime wall appeared behind him, along with an oozing chain which wrapped around his neck and feet.
Demyx was struggling to retrieve his sitar from slime tentacles, Zexion was hanging upside down, perhaps trying to draw up n illusion to distract the goop, Riku was being forced on a bright blindfold, making the dark redundant, and Marluxia was being swallowed whole.
Somehow, Rexial was standing above it as if it were solid ground.
She scanned the room, in a slight panic that she'd be helplessly attacked next, and quite pissed that everyone was being attacked by- green slime.
Axel happened to summon up some fire, but the slime swiped it away, thus sending fire balls around the area.
'Ha ha. You should have been first number 14, but Tryxel needed an escape.'
"Huh? Where's Tryxel!" Rexial demanded, stepping forward menacingly.
'She is safe, for now, but you, my dear, need to help your friends. It is your turn to learn how to use your element.'
Rexial looked around, everyone was to busy struggling to notice the voice she was hearing. She looked back up into the nothingness and gulped.
"What is it that I need to do?"
'Fire, anger, darkness, and fear. These are what will release your full ability, but you must remember this chant:
The flame's intense heat
The fear in a heartbeat
The darkness inside
Pyro's power, fueled by the dark side'
Rexial nodded in determination and began to recite:
"The flame's intense heat…" The fire balls paused and change direction toward Rexial. She watched as they approached her, forming a ring around her.
"The fear in a heartbeat…" She began to hear a thump of a heart somewhere nearby.
'Wait… I thought we didn't-' Her thought was cut off by a shriek from Demyx being knocked over by the tentacles.
"The darkness inside…" she continued, seeing her veins glow red with thick black, glowing outlines, her eyes taking on the same appearance. The flame circle whirled around her, creating a warm wind which blew through her hair wildly.
"Pyro's power, fueled by the dark side!"
It was as if a dynamite had been ignited. A burst of red, orange, and yellow shone around the Nobody, gathering the other's attention.
As if on cue, a giant slime creature emerged from the ground, violet eyes protruding from its head, four of them. It opened its mouth, omitting the high screech they'd heard earlier.
Rexial's eyes narrowed as she faced it.
'You have the power, fresh in your veins. You can defeat anything'
"I can defeat anything." Rexial repeated. She smirked, veins glowing, as two fangs appeared from the corners of her mouth.
A/N: Two words...
EPIC CLIFFHANGER :3
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