Sydney:Hi! I'm back after being gone for so long. Turns out graduating takes a lot of free time and then there is all that school work I gotta do.
Roxas: Either way, she's back and ready for another chapter to be reviewed.
Sora: She is so sorry that she hasn't posted much.
Sydney: Either way, here we are, returning with the rest of Rise of the Guardians, though it's not much. I don't own anything but me.
Sora & Roxas: Enjoy, review, and rate!
Chapter 12: Sydney! Please be alive.
"Have I mentioned that this is kinda cool?" Roxas asked as we flew in Santa's cool sled. Bunny was having a major freak out which was all fine by us.
"I don't think you have." I said as we went through a magical portal to the tooth palace. Once we appeared, a number of dark clouds came hurtling towards us. I could tell that it was just sand for the moment but that didn't stop us from taking out our weapons.
"They're taking the tooth fairies." Jack stated as he watched one of them fly past us. Using the wind to propel him, Jack jumped into the air and grabbed on of the fairies. Once back in the sled, he ask the fairy if she was okay just as we rounded a corner to enter the actual palace. The moment we were inside, I could feel the emptiness and the quiet settle in. North handed the reins to Jack as he got up and slashed at one of the sand creatures. A couple of roles fell into the sled and Bunny pointed out the fact that they were stealing the teeth.
"Tooth! Are you alright?" North asked her after Jack almost tried to kill us.
"They took my fairies and the teeth. All of them! Everything is gone." Tooth replied as the other guardians went to her. The one fairy that Jack saved flew up to her which gave Tooth a small moment of relief.
"I have to say, this is very, very exciting. The big four all in one place." Pitch said from somewhere inside the palace.
"We also cannot forget about the Card Keeper and Keyblade wielders." Axel said.
"I'm a little star struck." Pitch said from above the four guardians. I looked over at Roxas to see him staring up at Axel with a look of pure hatred in his eyes. I've seen him with that look once before in the games but never in real life. In real life, you could actually feel the anger rolling off of him and spreading towards each corner of the room.
"Did you like my show on the Globe, North? Got you all together, didn't I?" Pitch said which made me wanna gag. He's a complete idiot but then again, his plan almost worked.
"Why are you doing this?" North asked after Tooth tried to make a threat.
"Maybe I want what you have. To be believed in." Pitch said and looked over at Jack to see that the hard lines of his face had softened a bit. "Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds!"
"Maybe that's where you belong." Bunny said. Before we could listen to their conversation anymore, Axel appeared before us.
"Now, now little welders. Wouldn't want to meddle." He said before lunging forward towards us. He managed to get me into a choke hold before any of the others were able to even summon their weapons. I could tell that Sora and Roxas were yelling at Axel but it was like I lost the ability to hear. Actually, it felt like I lost the feeling in my body as we stood there. The last thing that I remember is being thrown to the ground and then darkness.
Roxas's Point of view
"Let go of her Axel." I said as I summoned both Oathkeeper and Oblivion to my sides. He wasn't going to do this to me again. He just couldn't.
"Why should I traitor? It's not like you all have been taking care of her." Axel said and I could feel some kind of pain in my chest when he called me a traitor. It hurt to know that he thought of me like that as well.
"That's not true! Besides she is a huge part of us now." Sora said as he ran towards Axel with the hero's crest keyblade. He managed to get Axel to let go of her but then the two got into a heated battle. Donald and Goofy went to help Sora which left me to take care of Sydney. Dismissing my keyblades, I ran over to her and started to check if she was alright. The only visible damage I could see was bruising around her neck where Axel had been holding her. I picked her up and brought her away from the battle. As we sat out of the way, I couldn't help but thing about how we let her get hurt twice in a row without being able to do anything about it. Actually I was blaming myself more than anyone else. Sora tended to be a complete and total idiot most of the time which meant that Donald and Goofy would follow him because he is the keyblade master.
"Roxas, don't." I heard someone say. The voice almost sounded like Namine when you listen to it more clearly. "Don't blame yourself."
"Namine, is that you?" I asked as I moved Sydney around so she wasn't lying onto of me. I quickly got up and started to move around, looking for the source of the voice. For a few minutes, I continued to walk around looking for her but I never got a reply back. This wasn't normal, I know that this isn't normal, hearing voice from a girl who may or may not be dead. But then again, nothing is ever normal when you are the nobody of the Keyblade's chosen one. I went back to Sydney, hoping she would be awake. Turned out she wasn't but I could tell that she was still breathing. I placed her head back down in my lap as Sora, Donald and Goofy ran up.
"How is she?" Sora asked as he moved to kneel down next to her.
"I don't know, she's been unconscious since. Where's Axel? Did you get rid of him?" I asked as I looked down at Sydney's face. She looked so peaceful that it was hard to tell that she had been hurt.
"He disappeared into one of those black portal things after we did some damaged." Sora answered as he picked up Sydney's hand.
"Maybe Roxas should take Sydney back to the gummi ship." Donald suggested and the rest of us just nodded our heads, in no mood to actually speak. Sora let go of Sydney's hand and Donald managed to beam us up to the ship. Once on the ship, I picked Sydney up and moved her towards her bedroom. After placing her in her bed, I moved toward the control deck.
"What the hell am I feeling?" I said after this warm, fuzzy feeling disappeared from inside my chest. Since when did I have actual feelings? This is all so new and awkward. I'm not even suppose to be here. I was suppose to disappeared back into Sora before he, Donald and Goofy woke up.
"Why is all this so complicated to begin with?" I asked the air as I placed my head in my hands.
"Roxas!" Sydney yelled and I ran towards her room. I was scared that something had happened to her. Once I was in her room and stopped to notice the situation, my worry decreased. I saw beads of sweat roll down her forehead and she kept tossing and turning. It was only a nightmare but the underlying tone of panic and fear laid in her voice did not make me feel any better. I grabbed onto her hand and started rub it with my thumb. She started to calm down after a while but I still sat with her because of the fact that she might need me.