Each Organization member looked to Zexion and Vexen. The two froze. Akii marched and stood in front of them. "Are you two keeping secrets from Akii? You have my new friends' friend? Where is she!" Zexion looked away and Vexen sighed, "We're sorry Akira...we..." Xone grabbed Vexen, "You know where Ash is too, don't you! SPEAK!" Akii blinked, "...Ash...Acheron...? Even!" Zexion stood, brushing himself off. "Forgive me Akira. Why should we tell you guys anything. You very nearly killed us. We should demand a compromise." Ash pulled on his remaining restriant. "Don't worry, I'll get us outta here and we'll go save your mommy." Whoever that is... A woman...in a machine...? It reminded him of the girl he'd given up to fight for Neo in the Keyblade War.
Xone stopped, his fury burning behind a weak gate inside him. "What...did...you...call...me?!" Roxas cradled Xion against him, "Xion's...not exactly real. She's a replica created by the Organization to duplicate Sora's powers through me. She's not crazy...she's just...tired." Ash tiredly opened his eyes and clambered over to Claire. He was still chained to his own table by one arm and thus couldn't reach Claire with his keyblade to help her. "Claire....are you alright?"
Willow watched what the elder did and smiled, "Heehee, lookie who came..." she glanced at her other companion and back at the elder of the two, "He is just like our master. Wh...what did he just do? Protecting the Prince...is that was mages do in this Kingdom?" Zero turned on his heel, ducking under the bandit's swords and slamming his fist into one of their jaws and kneeing the other in his stomach. His eyes caught on Risit, his sword poised over one of the bandits that wasn't out cold. "What was that? I'm positive bandits wouldn't run from an elderly man like that. What did you do healer!" he demanded with more calm than he felt. Risit wasn't human, was he?
Nightmare sang along with Mage's humming. Xion flinched away from Ashir's hand, covering her face, "I can't go on like this! I deserve to die! I'm not a Nobody, I'm not anybody, I'm a replica they created!" Roxas's blue eyes darkened as he watched his friend suffer. "Xion...I'm sorry." he summoned Oathkeeper and hit her on the back of her head. Knocking her out cold. "You," he directed at Ashir, "Take her hand and let your mother flow from Xion to you. Xion's powers sealed Hestia in but unconscious she has no control." Mickey scratched the back of his head, embarrassed, "Oh, right. Gosh, that's embarrassing. Well we could try to wake him up. After a move like that he must be tired though. We all look a little beat." Xone slammed his fist against the wall, his angry glare touching everyone. "Fine, you all sit around here and wait for this guy to wake up. I'm going to find my friend!" he turned toward the open door and started to leave.
Willow chuckled lightly, "Oh? How come, just cause it's a prince and....some other wierdo out for a stroll? Or because you think the Prince is cute?" Willow was obviously joking...or was she voicing her own thoughts. To her, he was fiery and cold, and his looks weren't too shabby either. He was certainly attractive, but probably not her type for being the Prince of Blone.
Xion panicked, "I'm sorry, what else should I have done!? You were going to hurt my friends, my family! I can't let the Organization die!" Roxas squeezed her shoulder, his own pain reflected in his eyes. He knew he couldn't help his friend. Mickey looked at Kenneth and back to the rest, "Whadd'ya mean? Isn't Kenneth coming with us? There's no reason he shouldn't come." Most Keyblades purr to their wielders. Though I doubt you'd catch Neo's keyblade purring. I just like to purr. It makes us seem more alive. Nightmare thought her own answer was silly. She didn't really know why she purred, it was just something Nightmare did.
He jerked awake, sweat dripping from him and gripped Yuki's arm tightly. So...it never ends with the nightmares on my side either, huh? I'm such a pathetic shadow...
Zain slept uneasily. Shiv still invaded his dreams even though she was dead. Sweat beaded on his skin and he twitched, fighting through his dream. She still called him a betrayer of his kind. A pained whimper escaped his lips.
He relaxed, "Good, I'll see you again when the sun sets. You can ask Yuki for daytime training, but at night, I will train you as a shadow." He dreaded his own physical changes but if it was only to regain his humanity, he'd do anything. Leaving Toji, he fell on the couch and fell asleep.
Aye .
Zain growled at the thought of having Yuki fight shadows. "She's my sister. I cannot ask her to put herself in harms way for me. You on the other hand, mean very little to me. It'll be alright, they are like fighting people, but with sharper claws, fangs and other strange extremities. I will teach you." Zain stood, his red eyes dull from staring and sniffing at the herbs all day.
Mickey nodded and lifted his Keyblade high, "Then lets go!" Xone stepped up behind Mickey, "If Ash is in there, I'm going too. I won't break another promise I made to him." Nightmare purred in Mage's mind. She could feel Sharpflash nearby, but finding his wielder and him would be a challenge. Sharpflash's conscience had fallen into a strange rhythm. Xion sighed, "Then you can get her out of my head. Get her out of me. I can't take this anymore." Roxas stood beside Xion, his hand protectively on her shoulder.
Vexen rubbed his arm like a stubborn child, "I thought it was impossible. None of the other experiments gained hearts. They couldn't. I didn't know." he lowered his head and pushed himself into a more comfortable sitting position. Everyone did. They felt exhausted and confused. "Hold on just a minute....we...we have no tied feeling of alliegence to anyone. The darkness held us to Xehanort and we were with Xemnas since day one. Who do we follow now?" Saix sounded depressed and Akii rubbed her cheek against his. "You will follow your hearts now Isa." Xion sat, her blue eyes searching the boy's face, "Your mother is...Hestia?" Xone looked around, "Where is Ash? He said he'd find me again, but I don't see him around here." Mickey thoughtfully nodded, "What do we do? How can we stop something like this without knowing where the other Lair is?"
Zain sat back after they'd all been added to the cure, it nearly smelt the same, but the blood of the shadows was what he'd need next. Zain remembered what they smelt like, but he remembered also how much of a fight they put up. To get their blood, he'd need a lot of help restraining them. "Toji...how well do you fight?"
Sam hid out in her apartment, she hadn't personalized it since she wouldn't be staying long. It's bare walls depressed her as she curled up in a ball on her bed. One day...I'll go somewhere were I'm appreciated. I just wish I had a friend to do it with. Her eyelids drifted closed for a while. One a minute or two, she swore to herself and immediately broke that promise. Falling asleep to the sound of rain.
Xion frowned, backing away from him slightly, "Why...? Who are you, what do you want with me?" Vexen looked baffled until Akii started to giggle. He frowned, remembering what he'd said, "But...a heart...in you? That couldn't be possible. But it matters not now." MIckey frowned at what the Prof. was saying. "That doesn't sound too good. Is there a way to stop it?"
Mickey, suddenly becoming alert to everything perked up, "And what's this about Eternal Geneisis?" Vexen pushed his lank blond hair out of his face and looked at Mage, "Yes?" Nightmare sighed heavily and let Mage do what she wished to get it out of her system. Xion pushed herself to her feet, blood still coming from the corner of her mouth. "I'm Xion."
Mickey and Roxas nodded, lifting their arms like the others. Marluxia looked surprised as he backed away. The original members cooing over Akii's cuteness and cuddling her. Xion shifted so Roxas wasn't in her line of vision and stared at the newcomers. Mage and...some little boy. Xion let Hestia see, though she was still exhausted from trying to get Banjo to kill her.
Saix's face smushed into the floor as Ashir fell on him. He growled and Marluxia and Xaldin helped Ashir up and off their growling comrade, "If you're here to fight us, you should at least explain." Xaldin sounded tired. "Are you alright little boy?" Marluxia seemed like a creeper, patting Ashir's back and touching his hair. Roxas looked at the door, "How do you propose we get it open?" Xone and Akii made a much more normal entrance. The dark corridor opening near the Organization members and they stepped out, frowing at Mage and Ashir. "Mage..." Akii ran to the Organization members, hugging and kissing their cheeks like old members of her family and calling them by their old names. "Dilan, Isa, Lea, Braig, Aleus, Ienzo, Even! You're all okay! I was so worried, don't you dare do that again!" The Organization looked up at Akii and bashfully smiled and apologized, "We're sorry Akira." "We didn't mean to worry you. Y'know how Xemnas is, we had to do a bunch of things and then..." Akii held up her small hand and silenced him, hugging him tightly, "It matters not now. You're safe."
