(A/N: Due to CERTAIN people bugging me and calling me a peasant, I am updating two today! (JK, I was bored. They bugged me after I started. ;D)
To Ultimate Black ace, whom I couldn't reply back to: I know, but I hate Riku, so I'm going to trap him constantly. :D
Anyways, Enjoy!)
The Hunchback Nobody of Twilight Town
Chapter 6: Trapped!
Axel and the guards searched for Xion unsuccessfully. She was, in fact, disguised again with the goat as the old man. She snuck into the Clock Tower. Axel saw her and recognized who it was, so he followed her in alone. As he came up behind her, she turned and grabbed his sword.
"You!"
She forced him to the floor, holding him there with the tip of his sword at his chin.
"Easy, easy … I just shaved this morning," he said carefully.
"Oh, really? You missed a spot."
"All right, all right. Just calm down. Just give me a chance to apologize."
She hesitated. "For what?"
As she let her guard down for a split second, Axel grabbed the sword from her hands and turned it on her.
"That, for example." He smirked slightly.
"You sneaky son of a-"
"Ah, ah, ah! Watch it: you're in a church!"
Xion picked up a staff with candles on top. "Are you always this charming, or am I just lucky?" She swung the staff at him, who blocked it with his sword.
As she continued to swing at him, he said, "Candlelight … privacy … music … Can't think of a better place for hand-to-hand combat! You fight almost as well as a man!" he appraised.
"Funny," she sneered. "I was going to say the same thing about you."
"That's hitting a little below the belt, don't you think?"
"No. This is."
She swung one end of the staff at Axel's crotch. He blocked it with his sword, and she quickly hit him in the face with the other end of the staff. He shook it off.
"Touche!"
The goat butted him in the chest.
"I didn't know you had a kid," he said jokingly.
"Well, he doesn't take kindly to soldiers," she half-warned. They had stopped fighting by now.
"Eh, I noticed," he said as the goat glared at him. "Permit me. I'm Axel. It means 'sun god'," he said, trying to impress (and failing). "And you are?"
"Is this an interrogation?"
"It's called an introduction."
"You're not arresting me?"
"Not as long as you're in here. I can't."
"You're not at all like the other soldiers," she said, raising an eyebrow.
"Thank you."
"So, if you're not going to arrest me, what do you want?"
"I'd settle for your name."
"Xion."
"It's beautiful. Much better than Axel, anyway," he muttered, rolling his eyes.
As Xion stared at him, trying to understand this strange, different man, and Axel seemed to be distracted by the goat (who was giving him a very creepy glare), neither noticed Xemnas and the guards approaching.
"Good work, Captain!" praised Xemnas. "Now, arrest her."
Xion looked quickly at Xemnas, shock in her face, while Axel still had his back to the Judge.
"Claim sanctuary," he whispered to her.
She looked at him oddly.
"Say it!"
"You tricked me!" she cried, getting into a defensive stance. Her goat seemed to as well.
"I'm waiting, Captain," said Xemnas impatiently.
"I'm sorry, sir," he said, facing Xemnas at last and shrugging. "She claims sanctuary. There's nothing I can do."
"Then drag her outside at-"
He was interrupted by Archdeacon Mickey entering. "Xemnas!" he shouted. "You will not touch her!" He turned to Xion. "Don't worry. Minister Xemnas learned years ago to respect the sanctity of the church," he said, glaring at Xemnas. Only he knew his secret, after all.
Xemnas and the guards turned to leave, but the Judge ducked around a pillar and doubled back.
The goat followed the men and pushed Axel hard.
"All right, all right! I'm going!" he complained. Xion couldn't help but smile at the two.
As the remainder of the people passed, Xemnas jumped out, grabbed Xion's arm, and twisted it behind her. He whispered into her ear as she winced in pain.
"You think you've outwitted me, but I am a patient man, and gypsies don't do well inside stone walls." He paused, breathing deeply, smelling her hair.
"What are you doing?" she growled.
"I was just imagining a rope around that beautiful neck." He caressed her neck, but she pulled away.
"I know what you were imagining." Disgust was written all over her face.
"Such a clever witch. So typical of your kind, to twist the truth to cloud the mind with unholy thoughts. Well, no matter." He began to leave. "You've chosen a magnificent prison, but it is a prison nonetheless. Set one foot outside, and you're mine!"
He exited, pulling the door shut behind him. She rushed over to another door, only to find guards outside.
"Xemnas' orders!" cried the big-muscled guard. "Post a guard at every door."
Xion slammed it shut. The goat came back to her, finished pushing Axel out.
"One thing, Ventus: If Xemnas thinks he can keep up here, he's wrong," she said to the goat.
"Don't act rashly, child," Mickey said. "You created quite a stir at the festival. It would be unwise to arouse Xemnas' anger further."
"You saw what he did out there, letting the crowd torture that poor boy," she protested. "I thought if just one person could stand up to him, then..." She sighed. "What do they have against people who are different, anyway?"
"You can't right all the wrongs in this world by yourself," said Mickey sadly.
"No one out there's going to help, that's for sure," she scoffed.
"Perhaps there's someone in here who can," he replied, gracefully motioning towards the inside of the Clock Tower, then left. Of course, he meant Roxas, but she didn't know that. Not yet...
(A/N: Hey! Did ya catch the goat's name? Lol! He now hates Axel, for reasons completely unknown to even me. That guy has a life of his own...
Xion: Help meeeee!
Roxas: 8D I wiiiill!
Xion: O.o Uhh...
I love how I just made Mickey Archdeacon of a Clock Tower. Ya gotta have talent to do that!
Ew! Xemnas is creepy! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM XION!
BTW, I don't really know if Axel means sun god. I just liked that quote from the movie, so I kept it. ;)
BTW again, special thanks to AlwaysNinja, who motivated me just a little more (and a little less by calling me that)
Roxas+Xion: R+R!)