Yeah, yeah, well that's just how I am buddy. You knew that. :lolface: How've you been?
I take that offensively. No, I'm not dead. I'm better now thanks. *growl* I ain't dyin' until I'm a hundred.
Aella vanished again, further away from him, "You think that cheap parlor trick is going to work on me like it did my sister? You're a sad little boy aren't you? Tell me, Raoxthu? How well do you think Renee would take it that you kissed another woman?" her blue eyes were taunting and oddly hateful. Renee laughed weakly and frowned, "I see that. Wheatley...how did you get down here? Did..." her eyes lightened and a hopeful look entered them as she looked around, "Did Raoxthu bring you? Is he here?" Xion helped the now heartless and now again Nobody Roxas to his feet and they both entered the dark opening. Encountering the same maze as Raoxthu. "Let's do this." Roxas nodded and followed the path, Xion on his heels.
Like the wind, Aella moved out of the way and reformed her body behind him again. She held her lance, the same lance that had impaled a clone of Renee, and now twirled it over her head, moving to bring it down on Raoxthu to strike him. Renee threw up away from Wheatley and weakly jingled her chains, "There's...a woman...further down in the darkness....she was singing before....please....find her too. She doesn't want to stay here." Roxas and Xion bravely faced the dark opening. They were about to move forward when Roxas stopped, "There's still something I need to do." "What's th--" Xion started to ask as she turned and heart a sickening noise. In full view, Xion watched Roxas release his Keyblade and watched his heart fly out of his body. "ROXAS!" she screamed, grabbing his heart and holding it close to her chest, "Roxas why?!" He smiled up at her from the ground, "It'll make it easier to deal with....everything. Just give me a minute." Xion felt tears slip down her cheeks and his heart meld with hers. "I'll keep your heart safe for when you want it back."
Alice, dazed, watched the colors of the darkness pass by, "You were....a lot more help...than you realize...." Her shoulder still hurt from the blade and Nova had exhausted herself.
Alice and Nova broke apart. Rather, Alice broke apart and Nova remained gone, inside Alice. She wavered on her feet and dropped toward the ground, trailings of light and darkness fleeing from her body as she fell.
Aella bent backwards (matrix style) and a lance wedged into the ground before her, taking and absorbing the Thundaga. "You don't know who you're messing with boy. Give it up!" Renee tilted her head as all her memories came rushing back to her. M.O.O.K, Xenree, and Shadow Star all in one painfully dark flash. "Oooh..." she groaned and shut her eyes to the gruesome images and feelings she was getting from Xenree again. Roxas and Xion stood, side by side staring at the dark entrance to the Realm where Aella held Renee and Martel and now Raoxthu. "What do we do?" "What can we do? We can go in there and die fighting....or stay here like cowards...." she looked over at Roxas and hugged him, "Whatever happens, Roxas, remember...you're my best friend. That's the truth." Roxas remembered when she'd spoken those words before, "Thank you...Xion. I'll never forget it."
Aella's clones disappeared from the Blizzaga and the real Aella appeared behind Raoxthu silently and flung the hilt of her short sword toward the back of his head. Renee rattled her chains as she tried to reach out to Wheatley, "That sounds awful. You poor thing...." She whiped away her tears and managed a small smile, "Where did you come from?" she looked around, but due to Aella's illusion, she couldn't see anything despite the fuss Raoxthu and Aella's fight was causing.
Aella growled fading from in front of him. The other clones started to laugh, "You believe one of those stupid fruits is going to keep her with you? A Princess of Heart with a filthy Nobody!? How pathetic!" The vines released Raoxthu's legs and Aella's clones formed short swords in her both of her hands. "Then you'll die believing that!" They all rushed toward him. Renee jerked her head up and stared at Wheatley, "Who....are you?"
A clone of Aella appeared in front of him and glared at him, "Wouldn't it break your heart if she left you!? Wouldn't you just die if she fell for someone else?"
Me to, me to, me to! I care too! (felt like I hadn't posted in a long while)
Alice forgot her wound and summoned her Keyblade. "Nova!" Nova unsheathed her long katana, "Alice! For Ciel!" Nova and Alice moved as one as they melded together. Alice kept her body, though Nova's hair mixed with Alice's and made an interesting silver color. One eye was golden and the other was silver. Nova's seven black wings protected one of Alice's white wings. Alice and Nova's weapon had a Keyblade hilt and the blade itself was still Key with the exception of the katana protruding from the tip of the Key. "Your life is ours!" Nova/Alice dashed forward and stabbed Istar even through his hand trying to block her weapon.
This room was dark too. Renee, the real Renee, sat slumped on the floor, chained to a black rock. Black vines wrapped around Raoxthu's legs, holding him fast on the spot. Several copies of Aella danced around Raoxthu, stroking his cheeks and chest, "You love her and yet....are you sure she loves you? What if she found someone else...someone...better than you? Would you let her go? Could you continue to live knowing the woman you love loves someone else?"
The symbol glowed faintly. Or rather, pulsed with a dull light. Enter here and face your nightmare.... Conqure the nightmare and your dream is made reality. a voice echoed to Raoxthu and the A.I Core.
Alice used him as her crutch and breathed deeply, "That's a silly reason not to fight. Just because I don't look like I'm in a condition to fight, doesn't mean I can't." She smiled and four delicate transluscent white wings sprouted from her back. "I'll show you what I can do. Nova's not the only one with power." As she spoke, Nova's seven black wings unfolded from her back. "C'mon Alice, we don't have all day." Alice nodded and stood on her tip toes, gently pressing her lips to Auran's.
Renee's chains gained slack and she slid to the ground, looking up into Aella's hard face, "Why....are you doing....this?" Aella didn't answer. The door Raoxthu picked disappeared and turned into a section of plain wall.
Alice's eyes widened, "You....you what?" Nova snarled, even as Istar's arm was lobbed off, and shattered Auran's time stop. "You b*stard! How dare you insult my sister!" From her sheath on her hip, her sword returned and she drew it again. "You'll pay.." Istar grinned, glancing at his missing arm. "Is this supposed to slow me down?" Green flames covered the stub and when they faded away, his arm flexed as if it was never missing. "Much better." Nova scraped her sword on the sheath and slid it back into it. "Alice!" Alice pushed herself up, "Istar, your fight is with me...enough games...." She'd lost a lot of blood and her vision wavered.
Alice looked up at him, "And...?" Nova smiled, her dark blue eyes pure silver. Lifting one hand, the spiraling blades stopped and dropped uselessly to the ground. The air seemed to develop silver lines like cracks in reality. Nova snapped her fingers together and blue electricity covered her arm. She disappeared and reappeared in front of Istar about to punch his face in. Istar grabbed her hand and pulled her close to him, "Nova...you're so beautiful. Why I had to settle for Alice, I'll never understand." Nova's eyes widened in shock.
Inside the door Raoxthu picked, three snow tigers growled. Their chains had been broken and now roamed freely through the room. Saliva dripped from their mouths and apparently they hadn't been fed in a long time. The blue eyed Fate and Saix stepped out of a portal into Neverland. The empty world made Saix feel rather sad. "Mage....."
Alice's body had lifted upward with the blade as Auran pulled it out. Her head now rested on his shoulder. "You shouldn't have...come....Auran, why?" Nova lithely moved aside as three swords stabbed the air in front of her. "To little to sloooowww!" she dragged out the word slow to mock Istar. He growled and lifted his hand, five different blades twirled around his hand before he made a throwing motion and the blades came spiraling toward Nova.
