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Chapter 28: A Shadow's Bond and A Flame's Affinity
Xemnas continued typing at his computer as Demyx peeped over his shoulder. The screen suddenly began flashing with several different files that seemed to be in Japanese.
Xemnas stared at it, eyes widening before he jumped up and away from the giant computer, nearly knocking over Demyx in the process.
"What did you find, Superior? Is that mean voice really your child?" he asked curiously. Xemnas spun around and grabbed his shoulders.
"Number 9, I need you to do me a huge favor. Gather up everyone you can find and meet me in the Naught's Skyway. Whatever you do, do not look at the Kingdom Heart. This is your sole mission right now." he said very seriously.
Demyx stared at him in shock.
"M-Me, but what if I mess up Like what if I can't find everyone. I-" Demyx began to shiver a bit in fear. He wasn't cut out to have this much responsibility.
"It's okay IX. Do all that you can, please. For the sake of the Organization."
The blonde had never seen his Superior like this. This wasn't just any mission that he could slack off on.
The boy gulped and nodded in determination before he and Xemnas ran from the Computer Room, missions in focus.
His eyes opened and he glanced around in confusion. It was dark, it was dusty, and kind of chilly.
What was he doing here? Last he remembered, he was doing recon when the spiky haired brat and his friend came along. Now, he was lying on the ground.
He stood up and dusted himself off, deciding he should report back to the castle. The bigger member of the Organization opened a dark portal, not at all expecting what was within the space.
"You are aware that if this is a trap, I'll take the most pleasure in killing you slowly by torture right?" Sora said as he stared up at the huge castle.
"Yeah, yeah. Come on." Rexial started to walk but stopped abruptly at the familiar voices in the distance.
"Hey, Roxy. Have you made your decision?" Axel asked while airborne.
Roxas looked exhausted. He'd been warding off the Assassins for about an hour now, knowing that he'd most likely be fainting in a few minutes. For now, Axel had stopped his nobodies, allowing the boy to respond.
Roxas collapsed to the ground, gasping for air.
"Axel, please. Why are you doing this?" the blonde pleaded. Axel was above him in seconds, pinning him to the ground.
"You're right. I can just finish the job myself, after all, I still haven't gotten my full revenge."
"Axel!" a voice shouted. Roxas took this opportunity to wiggle free as the possessed redhead turned to see who yelled his name. He growled as the blonde ran to her.
"Aw, you made my prey run off. Go away, you're messing up my plans." he said dismissively, gaze seemingly locked on Roxas.
"No Axel. Stop this. Listen, you're not being yourself." Rexial said stepping forward.
"Ai yai yai, what's all this 'you aren't yourself' nonsense. I am 100% Axel, got it memori-"
Before he finished, a fireball flew into his mouth, successfully shutting him up. He went to react but was instead met with a shiny blade of steel. His gaze shifted up the katana to the hand holding it.
"Listen to me Axel, you are not being yourself. You're being a major dick for no reason. Yeah, Roxas did something that I'm still not sure about, but whatever. Snap out of it. You're being controlled."
She tilted the blade sideways so that Axel could see his reflection.
"Just look at yourself. Someone told me the only way to snap you out of it is to hurt you. I don't want to do that, but you're hurting Roxas, you're hurting me." She continued.
Axel looked up at her, his eyes turned their normal emerald.
"R-Rex…" he started.
"Ah! You idiot! You can't let anyone get to you! Gosh, boss is gonna be pissed." another redhead yelled from near by.
"You!" Roxas scowled and summoned his Keyblade. Sora looked at his Somebody in confusion then summoned his Keyblade too, face set in determination towards the intruder.
"Where did you come from?" Sora questioned.
"Outer space, kid," he responded, ruffling the brunette's hair much to his disproval. Roxas made a slight growl, gripping his Keyblade tighter.
"What do you want, Takeshi? Go away." Axel said, standing in front of Rexial defensively. "Aren't you like, bonded to that place up there anyway?"
Takeshi looked away from him.
"Kohaku is in your castle." he mumbled.
"What?" Axel nearly yelled.
"He's in your castle. I came down here, to get him."
"How can we believe you? You wouldn't give that kind of information if you really were helping." Rexial added. Takeshi faced her with a serious expression, one that you can't bring yourself to doubt.
"Who says I'm helping him?"
Zexion, Larxene, Xigbar, Marluxia, and Luxord rushed through the portal and into a corner of the Gray Area in the castle.
"Do not look at the Kingdom Heart, it is quite dangerous." Zexion told the rest of the group once they were all out of the portal.
"Then why would you send us here, Eistein?" Larxene asked.
"It was my first thought. My brain is… confused at the moment." the slate-haired boy answered.
"Those are not words of VI's choosing. Something must be wrong." Marluxia chimed in.
Zexion stiffened suddenly while everyone else asked what was wrong.
"The scents here… they match the ones back in the building we were just in." he said, "But they are mixed in with the castle's familiar scent, it's difficult to pinpoint where it is exactly."
"At least we can use our powers now, can't bloody beat me in my own home." Luxord said, summoning his cards.
Zexion suddenly tensed up again.
"XV."
He spoke in nearly a whisper and blended with the shadows, speeding off before anyone could comprehend what happened.
"Did he say XV?" Xigbar asked, trying hard not to be amused.
"Ugh, isn't that the annoying violin girl? What does he want with her?" Larxene asked, looking disgusted.
"The odds are 5-1 that he is going to see that his little girlfriend is safe." Luxord answered, studying his cards. The other three stared at him disbelievingly.
"What? When have my cards proved you all wrong? You've surely seen VIII and XIV." he said smugly.
"Oh thunder, it's true." Larxene said in wonder.
"As if, My Lady is way too hot for him." Xigbar chimed in. The rest of the group looked at him with disgust. "Oh you guys suck, let's find Xemnas and figure out what the fuck is up. I feel too helpless and I do not like the feeling."
The Sorcerer nobody was stronger than she had expected. Her notes were simply bouncing off of the red light boxes surrounding it. Before she could comprehend, the boxes surrounded her and closed in at the blink of an eye.
Tryxel sat up groggily. The nobody was standing above her, positioning its boxes just so…
The girl rolled out of the way just in time and jumped to her feet, prepared to fight back once again.
'Poor girl, just look at you. Quite conflicted are we? Huh, thought you were better than this.'
Tryxel paused and looked around. The voice was back again, one she hadn't heard all night. The Sorcerer seemed to pause to in an unspoken mutual agreement to take a break.
'I took you as one to lead, never follow.'
"I'm not following anyone." Tryxel said in a near growl.
'Oh but you are, too bad I can't help you. Yet.'
"What do you mean?" the girl asked. "Well?"
She was met with silence and felt she could just about scream until a buzz entered her mind making her freeze.
Get Xemnas. Remember your goal. That's all you're good for anyway.
"Kohaku. Who are you anyway?" she asked, looking towards the corner of the room.
Kohaku stepped out, his one visible eye narrowed.
"Can't you focus on a simple task?" he asked with malice heavy in his voice.
"Not for you apparently." she snapped back.
Kohaku began tapping into her mind, noting that it was already taken hold of. So what was this response then?
"What the hell are you?" he yelled at the girl who smirked at him.
"Whatever do you mean?" she asked innocently, and faded into the dark.
"Oh, the lot of you. Making everything so much more complicated." Kohaku said to himself. Continuing forward. "Fine. We'll do this the hard way then."
"Number 5! You're alive!" Vexen nearly squawked in shock.
"Yes I am very much alive." Lexaeus responded. "Why are you and III standing within a dark portal? You'll turn to dusks."
Xaldin shook his head.
"It's all part of the plan, this isn't a real dark portal, but some sort of… placebo? Blocks certain paths until the pieces are placed." he informed the other member.
"What plan?" the fifth member asked.
"How are you alive? You were dead! You're panel was red, this is illogical." Vexen ranted.
"I did not die. I am here at this very moment IV." Lexaeus spat, becoming quite annoyed at his pestering. "Now what is this plan?"
"In truth, we do not know exactly. One of the newbie's ordered us to sty here 'until the pieces are placed.'" the blonde said while air-quoting.
"However it is becoming quite boring and now that you're alive," Lexaeus growled at this, "uh, pardon, now that you have returned, I really feel we should alert the Superior." Xaldin said.
"Lets go then, we can handle ourselves." Vexen confirmed, while walking in a random direction. "Try different paths, she couldn't have blocked them all."
After a few minutes Lexaeus caught on to a free path and beckoned the others over to him. They gleeful rushed through, happy to find a loophole.
"Why hadn't we thought of this sooner?" Xaldin sighed once they were outside of the Superior's office before a giant rumble shook the castle.
"We should just go in. Things are too serious for order." Vexen insisted, opening the door.
The dim light was on overhead and the giant black, leather chair faced away from them.
"Superior, Number Fi-"
The chair spun around to reveal a man who was certainly not their Superior.
"Superior? That man is not superior to anyone. Just a false facade you idiots fall victim to."
"Who are you?" Xaldin asked, drawing out his lances.
"Let's keep this at a need to know basis." the man in the chair said. Two twin pistols faded in from thin air and flowed just before his bandaged face. He crossed his arms and grabbed them, pulling the trigger.
The three Organization members ducked, only to have mock bullets shoot out and attach to them, linking back to the pistols like tubes.
"Now, where is Xemnas?"
Before anyone could react, a scream was heard, echoing through the walls and shaking their eardrums.
Kohaku merely smiled.
Demyx wandered the castle at a slow pace. Somehow, he hadn't seen anyone and it was extremely eerie.
"I'm not finding anyone. I'm a failure." Demyx mumbled to himself until he caught sight of movement in the darkness of the castle. He whimpered wondering why the lights weren't on anyway.
"Is someone there?" he whispered into the space. No one could hear him in that voice. He cleared his throat and opened his mouth just as the castle rumbled with violence.
"Ah! Um, okay I'm gonna find you guys, as long as you are an Organization member. I don't wanna fight so, no bad guys, okay?" he said, running off.
He wandered down into the Proof of Existence Room, somewhere he always fled to, ironically, for comfort.
"Maybe if I go into one of these, I can find someone. These usually lead to them." the dirty blonde said aloud, wishing he'd stop talking to himself.
He had finally settled on going for Xigbar first when a sudden bone-chilling scream pierced the silent air.
Demyx feared what was going on at the sound of the voice.
Larxene, Xigbar, Marluxia, and Luxord had not seen Xemnas in his office and sought out to catch him in the Computer Room.
"Dammit, he isn't here either." Xigbar cursed.
"I'll say we go look for the issue ourselves. That wasn't just any old earthquake just a second ago." Marluxia suggested, his scythe already out and prepared for battle.
That is when the scream reached them. With a mutual look at one another, they bolted toward the sound.
The two redheads, the two brunettes, and the blonde stared toward the castle in horror. What could possibly cause a scream to pierce the pure stone walls of the castle?
"TSUIN!" Rexial yelled and made a dash toward the building.
"Rex wait!" Axel went to go after her but a huge brick wall appeared, blocking his path.
"Rexial!" Roxas called, going to hit the wall to no avail.
"Fuck.. Iwa…" Takeshi said in barely a whisper.
"Iwa?" Sora questioned. As Axel yelled in frustration and threw his Chakrams at full force into the wall.
"It's no use doing that. Iwa, let us passed." Takeshi demanding, stepping forward.
"Traitor. I will not listen to you." A voice said from within the wall. The bricks shifted and grinded together, sliding around until it formed the rock creature known as Iwa.
"Traitors are to be destroyed." the thing continued on.
"We don't have time for this, I have to go help Rexial." Roxas said, pushing his way around the rock. Axel grabbed him roughly.
"No, I can help just fine." he retorted. The two glared heatedly at each other when a flash of light broke through their vision.
Sora had pointed his Keyblade at Iwa and blew a hole through him, jumping up and flipping through the opening just before the rock formed together again.
"Iwa is NOT a door!" the rock yelled, stomping around.
"Iwa! Stop that!" Takeshi pointed his barrel gun and shot, knowing it was pointless.
"TRAITOR. I will not tolerate the traitor." Iwa lifted his foot, aiming it directly over Takeshi. The redhead looked over at Axel and Roxas.
"Kohaku wants revenge over Xemnas." Takeshi yelled out just before Iwa bought his foot down.
Zexion kept detecting Tryxel's scent with a familiar one added.
The man controlling her was here, in the castle, with his Tryxel. He had to protect her. He would not fail.
The shake had slowed him down a bit and added a new scent, but flying through the shadows caused him to loose scents fast. Before he new it, they were gone altogether.
"Number 15, I need to find you." the boy whispered to the shadows, hoping the message would somehow reach her.
He felt a shift in the air, got a whiff of a just there and missed scent that he hadn't caught. Before he knew it, a terrible scream rang out.
If he had a heart, it would have dropped at the particular moment.
The silver haired bastard stood in front of him in an instant, covered in blood and wearing a satisfied smirk.
"Though you were dead." he said casually. Zexion stared at him, unable to speak.
His chest ached. The shadows seemed heavier and filled with dread all of a sudden.
"Oh well, best to go one by one. Guess the new ones should go first huh?" Riku went on.
The scent on him. Although it was blood the scent of Tryxel was heavy. Tryxel's blood. Zexion stood there frozen.
"I really thought she'd be stronger than that."
Riku tossed a gray violin in front of the slate-haired boy.
Tryxel's violin.
And at that instant, white hot fury and animalistic rage jolted through Zexion and he lunged at Riku with all of his being.
TBC: Approx. April 27th,
It's a stretch but…
Hey… greatness takes time, and suspense must build