Alice panted and smiled over at him, "And you think...using a Kurusan Sentai move didn't? They don't teach you that in any normal acadamy. I had to climb a lot of mountains to find the one man who could teach me that and after he did....both he and the mountain disappeared. And I obtained the Vir." The black vines reappeared on her arm, as thick as ever and they shivered on her skin and Axuran's strips of his jacket fell away from her body. Her wounds were healed now but she looked ready to fall over.
Renee slapped his hand away and snarled, "Don't touch me!" she flinched and clapped a hand over her mouth, "S-sorry, I guess the time away has made me different....it'll pass, I'm sure. Everyone who's touched me in the last....however long I've been gone, hasn't been nice." she remembered Xenree and Vanitas trying to kill her repeatedy in each new world. Xion stifled a gasp and stared at him, wide-eyed, "Riku...?" she said in a warning tone. Bellatrix brought Xenree and Vanitas, now healed slightly, to Oriaon's rooms. The lady-in-waiting was still fuming but as she saw Xenree's glittering silver eyes she smiled again and patted her dragon's heads, "Good to see you're alive and well, young Xenree." Xenree growled, "I'm not young. Not anymore Oriaon! You did this! You gave her that power just to mess with me!" Oriaon laughed but remained silent.
Alice forced her anger to melt and fuel a different kind of power. Her Keyblade glowing brightly, she forced the armor Heartless back and tore off her sleeve. Two thick bands of dark vine tattoos covered her arm down to her fingers. "Kurusan Sentai Number Two! Wrath of Vir!" The thick vines unraveled from her arm and rushed toward the Heartless, both of the Heartless' arms exploded and disappeared. Armless, the Heartless staggered. Alice lifted her Keyblade over her shoulder and dashed forward. It seemed as if she'd never even touched the Heartless as she moved past it, though her Keyblade had swung in an easy arc. Barely five seconds after she'd stopped, the Heartless split into two and it's heart floated away. Alice thrust her Keyblade into the ground and leaned heavily on it.
Alice felt her mind being pulled from the fight. Axuran stood too close already. Alice barely had time to realize she was bleeding again. The Heartless attacks from earlier had caused damage to her body that she'd yet to attend to. The armor stood again, and smashed it's fist down on Alice's Keyblade, "A Keyblade Master never asks for aid in a battle." Though I may have thrown the battle already... she thought mournfully. Not wishing to have the one Nobody she'd met so far in her time with this generation to see her fail, Alice pushed back against the Heartless, despite the fact that blood now dripped steadily from her arms and a long cut on her back. The Heartless from earlier had tried to claw out her heart from her back. Not a smart decision as it would take longer, but it didn't matter now.
Renee hesitated, "Huh? My...cheeks? What are you talking about?" Her eyes blinked rapidly and almost seemed to narrow on him. Xion looked startled, "Huh? Something for me?" More at ease with herself, Xion relaxed slightly and excitedly waited for him to show her what he had. Aella and Bellatrix smiled. Their sister was safe as always. Though with her type of weapon how could she be anything but safe? Bellatrix didn't use weapons herself, but rather relied on her brute strength and whatever weapon she could get her hands on. Aella held a larger and longer version of Xaldin's lances. She also had knives in her armored cuffs on her wrists. Dina....well it wasn't something you'd expect a woman would hold.
Alice ducked as the other two parts completed their transformation and barreled toward her. Rolling out of the way, Alice slashed at it's hard body, cutting a line across it's arm. It turned and shot it's arm off in a rocket toward her. Crashing into the ground where Alice once stood, she fell from the sky after having jumped into the air to dodge it and landed on the arm as it retracted back. She allowed a brief smile before dragging her Keyblade across the Heartless' face. She kicked it's face and landed behind it as it toppled down toward her. Closing her eyes, Alice held her Keyblade vertical to her body and focused her energy. "Solar Flare!" A burst of white light errupted from her body and knocked the Heartless away from her, landing on it's front instead of crushing Alice behind it.
Renee shook her head quickly, "Mmm mmm, you being who you are is what makes you unique Raoxthu. You have your own name and your own life. Don't you cherish those things?" Her question was odd and didn't sound much like Renee herself. Xion bowed her head as she stood in the bedroom with Riku, "It's all my fault Riku. I told Roxas and Axel to come with me. I asked them and pleaded. When they came, I didn't feel so alone anymore. My courage failed me, my strength failed me and my will to live, even inside that room left me. I wanted to die. I wanted to piss them off so they'd kill me. Either Roxas and Axel or our captives."
Alice dived headlong into a battle. A large piece of a suit of armor dropped down in front of her and her Keyblade flashed to her hand. "Hmph, if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get. You've been tormenting this town long enough! As and Elder Key your death is now top priority! My name is Master Alice, and your demise is inevitable!" Alice usually didn't do the usual talk before a fight like this but something in it reminded her of her master and she needed the strength.
Renee pulled away and smiled, "Sorry, I guess all of this is kinda frightening to you." she took a deep breath and started to explain, "You see, when we were in Xenree's castle, after you left or were rather teleported away, I was left all alone with her and then this voice in my head just started chanting some words and told me to repeat them. After I did....well this hole opened in the floor and swallowed Xenree, Vanitas, myself and Lucretia. Everyone was gone. We all...lost touch with anyone we knew outside of ourselves. Like you and Nuthead and everyone...even Roxas and the Organization. Xenree and Lucretia said I'd done this and had to put them back. We were fighting for what felt like centuries....before I could rememeber the words to bring us back this woman wearing blue showed up in front of me and told me all this horrible stuff about myself. She said I was flawed and that my flaws would kill me if I wasn't strong. She said she'd hurt you Raoxthu, if I wasn't strong enough to pass her test. She showed me what I was most afraid of.....and I don't really remember the rest. It's all blank...gone.... All I know is that story and then the words. They brought us to several different new worlds and then...finally back home." she paused, letting it all sink in. Xion let him pull her along, half her mind still occupied by Oriaon's words, "Riku...where are we going?"
Luce stood, shocked by what Scott had said. He spoke the truth and she knew it. Luce's silver eyes closed slowly and she closed her door slightly to hide herself. Hide....that's what I did today... I hid from a girl who knew similar things that I know. I hid because I worry about what she'll say to me. How could I be such a coward? Here I thought I'd left all that behind. she thought scornfully at herself. Balling up her fists, she touched the revolver gently and replaced it under her pillow. "Fine Scott....you want me to stop being who I am....but I can't do that. You'll have to settle for me as me. My family will learn that Luce Shadows doesn't play this game fairly." She hated herself and what she'd done all those years ago. That girl didn't need to die and those men didn't need to be paralysed and broken because they'd wanted her. Lightly hopping down the stairs, Luce cast an empty, broken look toward Alexis and snatched a glass from behind the bar. Pouring herself a glass from her own bottle of Jack Daniels, she swallowed the alcohol and shattered the glass in her hand, wincing from the glass cutting into her hand. "My bad..." Sliding the glass into her palm and throwing it away, Luce tended to her hand, pulling hair over her shoulder.
Roxas looked up at them and Axel sighed, heading into a seperate room to be alone, "Ah, right. I guess Oriaon just kinda frightened us a little too much to even think of partying." he smiled and stood. Xion quickly nodded, "Uh, sure." Renee wildly looked at him and touched his face as if he were about to disappear, "You...you're really real! Everything....is so real....she's not....here...." Tears of relief and joy fell down her cheeks and she hugged him close to her, "She's not here anymore...she can't hurt you."
Xion, Roxas and Axel didn't participate in the party. They felt worried about the events with Oriaon. "She was kinda....tweak like." Xion nodded, "Roxas...do you think her Guardians like Bellatrix wil lcome after us? She sent Aella to the Keyblade Graveyard, what do you think was there?" He shook his head, he couldn't begin to fathom that Xenree and Vanitas had been exhausted and now were in the same cell the three friends had been in. Aella frowned as she reported to Oriaon. Her Lady didn't speak much and sent her away without asking where Renee was. Bellatrix met her outside, "You failed to bring back the Time traveler. Aella....do you know where Renee is?" Aella shook her head, "Dina knows, I know she does. Dina knows everything. As is why she remains hidden." The two women nodded feeling for their bond with their sister. Dina... Dina.... Renee stirred restlessly in her sleep. Something kept nagging at her. A face, of a woman, who kept repeating the same thing over and over to her, "A sound mind and a sound body make a sound soul. Your heart is troubled and thus your mind is restless...your body is flawed. No longer whole without that one you hold close to you. I wonder what would happen if that one were to be removed from you. Raoxthu.... Renee jerked awake, Raoxthu's name on her lips along with a scream of terror.
Akira's mind was grappling to comprehend all of the information. Lighting stood still as a statue, staring at Shinryu. The Divine Dragon. He couldn't speak, he couldn't remember his actual name and he was a l'Cie for Lindzei?! Light nodded for him to go on with his story. As she found she had no questions for now. This boy shouldn't even exist....and yet, Light didn't want to kill him, he was just a little boy.
All of Kazzoie's Grenade Eggs struck an invisible barrier and yet each hit seemed to tire the lady-in-waiting. She panted and flung out her hand, shattering the barrier, "Enough! You fight well enough little ones. Your fates are twined with those of my Guardians now and my own. Our paths have not crossed by mear chance. Time will change and Darkness shall fall! When the door to the Dark Realm opens, all those who witness it's true form will perish. Or...." she secretly slipped down from her dragon and stood a foot shorter than Axel, "Will only one sacrifice herself to save thousands? A fate I must not tamper with and a future not even the Fates can see. For this story is uncertain and the characters are shaky. Go in peace, my friends and find my Guardians amongst you to test your courage, will and strength." Axel, Roxas and Xion clambered on board with Oriaon's odd words. "What do you think she was talking about? The door to the Dark Realm?" Xion frowned, "One will sacrifice herself to save thousands? Who could she mean?" Axel remained silent, the less he told them, the better.
Xenree felt slight admiration for the Nobody. Belle came running back to the Beast and they closed themselves off into their little love circle and Xenree cracked a small smile, "Hmph, impressive."
Xenree hung back, letting them do most of the fighting until she knew her energy was fully back to normal.
Roxas and Xion sighed with relief and scurried over to them. "About time. I mean, c'mon, take you guys long enough? How long have we been gone?!" Axel sighed, dodging the Ice Eggs that Oriaon deflected away from her. "We've been here for six months. At least, that's what it feels like to me. We've been gone for six months maybe more but to them...it's only been a few days." Oriaon started to laugh and the dragons growled.
So what do I tell her exactly? I'm bad at summing up stuff.
Mickey and Aqua felt terrified and Terra was reveling in his exileration. Roxas, Xion and Axel dodged the multipule dragon heads as they tried to eat them. "Maybe we can talk about this, Oriaon?!" She shook her head, "KILL THEM!" Roxas growled, "Great, I'm going to die because I fell asleep?! This is ridiculous!" Aella picked up the unconscious Xenree and Vanitas, looking around for Renee again. "Hmm? She's not here....where'd she go? Huh? Who are you?" she asked looking at X. He looked up at her and a glittering light blue core flashed in front of his body, Keep back! No Guardian of Fate is going to harm the Master of Centurions! the little light blue core shrieked to Aella. Aella smirked.
I'm alright. How about you?
