A/N: Yay, reviews! Bountiful, bountiful, glorious reviews! They make my day, y'know?…Ok, that last sentence was way too Rai, lawl! So, Christmas special for this story? Unfortunately, I don't think it will work out all that well with what I had envisioned ^-^; When I first started this story, I expected to be finished with it long before Christmas. But…unless you want me to make the Christmas special back when Axel was still Lea, and everyone was younger, I can do that, though it probably won't be all that great. I don't know, so….Well, I'll just have to see what my imagination says. Ah, so I got to thinking about what the hell I'm gonna do when it comes to the point where I have to….*sniff, sob* T-T write the terribly horrific chapter that has our beloved Axel's sacrifice in it. Ha! Is Axel going to die? HECK NO! I'm not telling you cuz it's a secret that my imagination has geniusly thought up! So…yeah. Enough of my blabbering! GO AND READ!
*Please note that this chapter was extremely difficult for me to write because watching walkthroughs is seriously and boringly painful *_* My brain hurts…Now you know what it was like to watch all those Days walkthroughs…*
Donald and Goofy both cowered together, looks of fear on their faces. I couldn't blame them. The place was a bit scary, in my view. What? Have you ever been in a place that has glowing green stuff at the bottom and souls flying all around you like ghosts? No? Didn't think so.
"Waaah…Oh!"
"I'm scared too, Donald."
Sora and I walked forward a bit, me standing a bit behind Sora, my hands on my hips, while Sora yelled. "Hades, come out!" Sora's voice echoed, and we got no reply.
We all looked up to see Hades quarters up ahead, and I sighed. "Lemme guess: We're gonna have to walk all the way up there?" Sora nodded, and I groaned. "Joy…Well, might as get this over with. The sooner we get to leave here, the better." I said, moving forward and leading, Sora, Donald, and Goofy right behind me. We weren't even halfway up the path when a couple of Creeper Plants and Rabid dogs popped up.
Donald and Goofy took one group of Heartless, while Sora and I took another, all of us quickly ridding of the heartless before moving on once again.
Finally, we made it up to where Hades was, only, he wasn't by himself, and he was red. "Look!" I exclaimed, pointing towards the mystery guy and Hades.
Hades was actually fighting this guy…Well…more like ATTACKING would be the word.
"Oh!" Sora exclaimed, his eyes wide.
"Hades!" Donald shouted, gaining Hades attention, the Lord of the Dead changing to the color blue.
"You again?" He asked, distracted by our sudden appearance and allowing the mystery guy to attack him, hitting Hades with his sword and knocking him back a good few feet before glancing over at us.
"Fight!" He ordered, before running forward at Hades again and bringing his sword down onto him, only to have Hades grab it and push him back, knocking him to the ground.
Sora and I ran forward, weapons in hand. Sora glanced back at the mystery man. "Get up!"
I frowned as I stared at Hades, who changed back to the color red. He was really mad. "Hmph! That's it!"
We all ran forward, Donald using thunder on him. "I got it!"
Goofy threw his shield at Hades, only to have it bounce off and come right back. Sora and I both tried slashing at Hades, only to find that nothing was happening. Finally, as one last attempt, I jumped back and clenched my fist, which fully formed the blaster edge that I had holstered onto my right arm. I pulled my arm back and than jerked it forward, the Blaster Edge flying off my arm and heading straight towards Hades. And guess what? It bounced right off of him and came right back to me, finding its way back onto the holster.
"Something's wrong!" Donald exclaimed, the rest of us nodding with him in a agreement.
"I feel kinda funny…" Sora stated.
"Make that both of us…" I mumbled.
Hades seemed to cool off as he smirked at our words. "That's right! See, that's the thing. In the Underworld, heroes are zeroes-comes with the territory." With that said, his hands became in engulfed in flames, and he lunged at us. I put my sword in front of me as means to defend myself, and shut my eyes. When nothing happened, I opened them to find that the mystery man was standing in front of us, trying to hit Hades, only to miss as Hades poofed away and ended up standing back a few feet.
The mystery man whipped his head in our direction. "Go now!"
"But we've gotta talk to Hades!" Sora objected, me nodding with him in agreement.
Hades put his hands to his ears, as if he hadn't heard correctly. "What was that?"
Sora ran forward, much to my objections that he stay put, but he was stopped by the mystery man, all of us watching as Hades hands became engulfed by flames once more. So, I made a smart decision. "Let's go!" I shouted, Donald and Goofy way ahead of me on the idea, both taking off, while I stayed behind with the mystery guy and Sora. "Sora, c'mon!"
"But-"
"We can't fight him here," The mystery man said, cutting Sora off. He tugged on Sora's arm. "We have to go-now!" With that said, we all took off after Donald and Goofy, missing the large fireball that Hades had shot at us, and exiting his chamber.
We all made it down the stairs, Goofy and Sora both going over to the large doors to the chamber and beginning to push them so they would seal off the chamber. The doors made a loud slam as they sealed it off, Sora and Goofy, leaning against them for a minute to catch their breaths. Poor Donald was hunched over, panting heavily while he stood next to me before jumping up slightly and turning around to face Sora. "Is he gone?"
"I think so…" I mumbled in response, hoping that I was right.
"Don't count on it." Mystery man said, surprising the rest of us.
"Huh?" Sora mumbled, all of us glancing to the his side, where Hades stood, staring down at Sora with a bored look.
"Leaving so soon?" He asked, several Shadows and Hook Bats appearing beside him.
I growled slightly, glancing over my shoulder at the exit out of here, before glancing at the others, summoning my sword again. "Why does everything always have to be done the hard way?" I mumbled under my breath, slashing down a Hook Bat that flew towards me, obviously not knowing what the meaning of personal space is.
"That all ya got?" Hades asked us, snapping his fingers and summoning more Heartless.
"I'll show you even more than what I got!" I exclaimed loudly, clenching my fist and jerking my arm forward, Blaster Edge flying off and slashing through every heartless before coming back to me and landing on the holster. The pathway was no longer blocked by that shield, and I ran forward, the others following after me. I actually thought we would make it to the exit, but another force field popped up and blocked us, Hades summoning more heartless. Lance Soldiers and more Shadows.
I grabbed onto one of the Lance Soldiers, the thing going crazy and flying all around, me hanging onto it before it headed to the ground and I jumped off, smirking as it disappeared. I looked over to see that the mystery guy was having a bit of trouble, so I ran over and knocked away several heartless, the guy and I back to back. "Need a hand?"
He scoffed. "Not really."
"Well, too bad, because I'm gonna help you anyway." With that said, I stomped my foot to the ground, a large whirlwind surrounding us and knocking the heartless back a few feet. Using different limit breaks with different people is so much fun.
The guy jumped around in circles, slashing at the heartless, while I dashed here and there, getting rid of some of them. When I felt the end of the limit break coming on, I jumped over to the man, and put my sword to his, spinning them both around before we jumped back, both weapons creating a large tornado and sucking in the heartless, instantly ridding of them.
The path way became open, and we all dashed forward. We were met by more heartless, and we ridded of them like we had done the others, before we finally made it to the exit and ran through it, ending up in the inner chamber, where we all collapsed, with the exception of the mystery guy. I laid on my back, staring up at the ceiling. "Please…tell me…we don't….have to…do that again…ever?"
Sora didn't respond to my question. He looked over to the guy. "You're really good. Are you some kind of hero?" Sora asked.
He shook his head. "No. I'm no hero…I'm just an…"
Sora and I both gave him questioning looks at his pause. "Huh?"
"…Auron." He said.
"Huh?" Goofy mumbled.
"My name." Auron said.
Sora shot up, "I'm Sora."
Donald jumped up onto his back. "Donald."
Goofy then jumped up onto Sora's back, apparently squishing Donald while he waved. "Goofy!"
Sora couldn't handle all the weight on his back, and fell, all three of them landing on top of me, earning a pained grunt from myself. "And the one being crushed is Hope…" I wheezed out, trying to move. Why did they have to be so heavy?
Auron stared down at all of us. "It seems we were fated to meet. Maybe you need a guardian."
Finally, Sora lifted himself, Donald, and Goofy, off of me. "Guardian? Thanks, but no thanks." Sora said.
"Besides, I'm their guardian." I stated, earning a surprised sound from Sora. I smiled at him and winked, pushing him up all the way and standing up, dusting myself off. Sora got up and began to walk away from us. "He just doesn't want to admit that he already has someone watching over him." I mumbled to Auron, who smirked in response.
"Are you sure that you're even old enough to be his guardian?"
"Hey, I happen to be 21, a legal age of being a guardian!"
He only chuckled lightly at my response before we followed after Sora and the others.
Whoever this Auron guy was, he wasn't really all that bad.
A/N: Well, hope you enjoyed! LATER TATERS!