Chapter 94: Fairest Night
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The halls of Ever After High were a wreck as Apple was panting heavily. In front of her was the cloaked Organization member who wielded the Centurion.
Picking up her staff she looked down the see the bodies of Hunter and Ashlynn lay on the ground causing her to gasp when suddenly three figures ran past her.
Looking up she saw Raven, Briar and Roxas attacking the Organization member who blocks Briar's sword and Roxas' keyblade.
Raven fires a powerful blast at it but the member jumps to avoid it and brings Centurion down on her sending Raven crashing to the ground.
"Raven!" Apple screams.
"Why you!" Briar swings her sword wildly at the Organization member who dodges and strikes Briar down.
"Briar!" Apple screams.
Roxas slams on his bracer activating his keyblade armor drawing both Two Become One and Pirate King. Swing both keyblades he clashes with the Organization member.
Picking herself up Apple runs over to try and help. "Stay away from him! Triple Plasma!" Firing three large balls of electricity they fly towards the Organization member but at the last second, it strikes Roxas knocking him in front of the blasts causing him to scream in pain. "Roxas!"
Dropping her staff she runs to him and holds him as she takes off his helmet. "Roxas please stay with me. I can't lose you." Apple sobs.
"Apple." Roxas groans.
"Now you two will perish together." The member said charging to strike when Apple blocks it with her staff.
"I'm gonna kill you!" Apple yells swinging her staff which smashes against Centurion again and again. "Firaga Burst!"
Swinging Centurion the Organization member slashes it in half they were about to move in to attack when suddenly Apple heard another voice.
"Apple, Apple, Apple!" Waking up Apple saw Patamon next to her with Impmon nearby and Raven walking in from the bathroom.
"Apple are you okay?" Patamon asks.
"You sounded like you had another nightmare." Impmon said.
"Apple, is something going on?" Raven asks concerned.
"I don't know, lately all my dreams are so scary." Apple sighs.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Patamon asks climbing into her lap.
"I-I really don't want to talk about it." Apple said picking up Patamon and putting him down before going to get dressed.
"I've got a bad feeling about this Impmon." Raven said.
"How so?" Impmon asks.
"She's been having these nightmares for days now. I think it's starting to get to her." Raven said.
"Well what can we do? She doesn't want to talk about it." Impmon said.
"Hey isn't her birthday in a few days?" Patamon asks.
"Oh yeah maybe if we give her some good memories she'll calm down." Impmon suggests.
"It's worth a shot." Raven shrugs.
Soon Apple's birthday arrived and Roxas was walking back from Book End with a small wrapped present for Apple.
"I hope she likes it." Roxas said as he arrived at the party where a bake off was being prepared.
As cakes were being made Roxas saw Briar standing across from all of them.
"Hey why aren't you participating in the bake off?" Roxas asks.
"I'm not allowed to help out. I pulled a stunt earlier that got me banned from ever helping with baking." Briar said.
"Yikes. What you do?" Roxas asks.
"I put a potion in Raven's cake which turned Blondie into a phoenix and me into a turtle." Briar said.
"Where was I when this happened?" Roxas asks.
"This was before Legacy Day when we all wanted Raven to follow in her mom's footsteps." Briar explained.
"Well I'm gonna go find the birthday girl and bring her to the party." Roxas said.
"Be sure to take your time so we can get everything ready. Remember the party starts at sunset." Briar reminded.
"I will." Roxas nods walking away.
In Apple and Raven's room, Apple was sitting at her desk struggling to keep her eyes open. Because of her nightmares, Apple had tried everything to keep herself from falling asleep, so for the past few days, she had been pulling late nights doing whatever she could to stay awake.
At her desk, Apple was laughing at what she thought was a comic, but it was just a blank screen on her mirrorpad.
"Uh Raven, Apple's starting to creep me out." Impmon said.
"Yeah me too she's been laughing at nothing for an hour." Patamon said.
"Maybe I should try talking to her." Raven said walking up to her. "Uh Apple, is everything okay?"
"Oh Whisp, what are you doing out of your lamp? Shouldn't you be with Roxas?" Apple asks.
"Whisp? Apple it's me Raven your roommate." Raven said a little freaked out.
"Now you're not Raven's right over there." She said pointing to the black coat hanger in the corner of the room.
"Uh Raven, Patamon, a word please." Impmon said as the three of them walked out of the room and closed the door. "Okay clearly she's lost it."
"This lack of sleep has really gotten to Apple. We have to help her get some sleep." Patamon said.
"I could cast a Sleep spell on her." Raven suggests.
"No, then she might have another nightmare and she'll be even worse than before." Patamon said.
"Well we have to do something. We can't have her go to her birthday like this." Impmon said.
"Yeah but if she thinks a coat hanger is me what is she gonna think everyone else is?" Raven asks.
"Hey Raven, Impmon, Patamon." Roxas said walking down the hall making them jump.
"Uh Roxas, what are you doing here?" Raven asks nervously.
"What do you mean? I'm here to distract Apple while you guys get everything ready for her party." Roxas said stating the obvious.
"Uh oh." The three of them gulped.
"Roxas, you haven't seen Apple these past few days, but she's not exactly in the best shape." Raven said.
"Is she sick?" Roxas asks.
"In the head." Impmon mumbles before Patamon nudged him. "What she is."
Opening the door Roxas walks in and a few seconds later Apple lets out a scream and Roxas is sent flying out of the door and smashes into the wall.
"Roxas!" They gasped when Apple came out with an enraged look on her face and her staff in her arms.
"I don't know how you got here, but you will haunt my nightmares no longer!" Apple said pointing her staff at Roxas seeing the Organization Member that's been haunting her dreams.
"What the? Apple it's me, your boyfriend." Roxas said.
"Liar! I won't let you hurt my Roxas!" Apple growls.
"Run Roxas Run!" Impmon yells as Roxas rolls out of the way of a Blizzaga and ran down the hall with Apple chasing after him.
"Oh no this is bad, this is fairy bad." Raven cringes as they ran after them.
In the gym, Roxas had summoned Two Become One and was using it to deflect Apple's attacks.
"Apple stop! I want to help!" Roxas said in a panicked tone.
"Quiet! I won't let you hurt me or anyone else ever again!" Apple snaps releasing Zero Graviga causing Roxas to float in the air.
Swinging her staff Apple whacks Roxas into the ground causing him to groan in pain. Looking up at her Roxas saw the tired and angry expression on her face. 'Apple? What's going on?'
She was about to strike him again when Roxas raised his keyblade blocking the attack.
"Boom Bubble!" Looking over Patamon fires a blast of air separating Apple from Roxas.
"Roxas, this way!" Patamon said leading him out of the room.
"Patamon, what's going on?" Roxas asks.
"Nightmares. Apple's been having them nonstop to the point she refuses to even sleep anymore." Patamon explains.
"What? Why hasn't she told any of us about this?" Roxas asks concerned.
"Because she's scared. We have to snap her out of it." Patamon said when they turned a corner to see a dead end. "Uh oh."
Turning around to run away they came face to face with Apple who had an enraged look on her face.
"Apple please you have to calm down. I don't want to hurt you." Roxas said.
"No, you just want to ruin my dreams every night! Well no more!" Apple said blasting Roxas with Thundaga knocking his gift for her to the ground. "Time to finish you off." Apple steps forward and steps on the gift causing something to cling getting her attention. "Huh?"
Bending down she picks it up and opens the box to see it was a heart shaped necklace that had the inscription R+A. Rubbing her eyes she looks to see a picture of Roxas and Apple together smiling happily.
"R-Roxas?" Apple said snapping out of it.
"Apple?" Roxas said unsure if she was still going to attack him. Tearing up she runs over and hugs him sobbing into his shoulder. "Hey, hey it's okay. I'm here now."
In Roxas' room, Roxas was sitting down with Apple with Raven, Impmon and Patamon nearby as Apple explains the dreams she's been having.
"And this Organization member keeps haunting my dreams. I see him attacking all my friends and I can't do a thing to stop him." Apple said.
"Does this mean Xehanort has a new member?" Raven asks.
"I'm not sure. I don't know anyone in the Organization who attacks dreams." Roxas said.
"I don't know what to do. I'm scared." Apple said.
"Apple first things first. You need some sleep." Roxas said.
"But what if that Organization member comes back?" Apple asks.
"Don't worry I'll be right here next to you. If anything happens I'll wake you up." Roxas said.
"You promise?" Apple asks.
Smiling Roxas takes the necklace he gave her and puts it around her neck. "I promise."
Pulling him into a hug Apple looks to Raven, Impmon and Patamon. "I'm sorry to tell you guys this, but do you mind telling the others my party is off?"
"I'm sure they'll understand." Raven nods as she and Impmon walked to the door.
"I'm sorry I attacked you Apple." Patamon frowns.
"You were doing the right thing Patamon. You only did it because I wasn't myself. I'm grateful to have a Digimon like you who looks out for me." Apple smiles.
Hearing this Patamon smiles before flying up to Apple and nuzzling her before flying out with Raven and Impmon.
Laying in bed Apple looks to Roxas who sits down next to her and holds her hand. Closing her eyes Apple drifts off to sleep.
In her dream, Apple was at her birthday party with all the Forever After Fighters having a great time when the Organization member appears just as Apple was about to blow out her candles.
In his room Roxas suddenly felt Apple's grip tighten around him. "Come on Apple." As he squeezes back a small light flows from him to her.
In her dream, the Organization member charges about to strike down the Forever After Fighters when Apple feels the light from Roxas flow around her causing her to glow brightly.
Summoning Save the Queen, Apple blocks the attack by herself. "You won't hurt my friends anymore!" Apple yells as she fires blast after blast knocking the Organization member backwards. "Faith!" Creating the pillars of light, the Organization member disappears in an explosion of darkness.
As all her friends cheered Apple looks to see Roxas walking over to her. "Way to go Birthday girl."
Leaning in he kisses her on the lips causing Apple to smile outside her dream.
"Looks like her nightmare has turned into a good dream." Roxas smiles when suddenly he feels Apple yank his arms in causing him to lay down next to her as Apple wraps her arms around him resting her head on his chest causing him to blush, but deep down he really liked this.
A few hours later the moon was high in the air when Apple wakes up feeling better than ever. She was about to get up when she notices something was holding her. Looking to the side she saw Roxas asleep next to her as he held her waist not wanting to let go causing her to blush.
'Well…I guess I can spend the night here.' Apple thought enjoying the moment with her boyfriend.
