Kingdom Hearts: Time Matters

"Nothing. So why are you here," Nox asked, "what happend to you."

"Namine can you come closer," Roxas said.

 

Tai sighed out quietly. "I got sick suddenly... and I been like this for two days... that's what they told me..." She felt her stomach flip and turn, but didn't pay much attention to it. And she still felt pretty warm.
Namine raised and eyebrow, then she leaned closer to Roxas.

 

"A bit closer," Roxas wisperd.

"Did they tell you what you had," Nox asked.

 

Namine was kind of hesitant, but she leaned closer to Roxas.

Tai shook her head slowly. "No... not yet...."

 

Namine was right infrount of Roxas face. Roxas kissed Namine on the lips and wisperd, "I love you."

 

Namine blushed deeply. "I love you too," she said quietly. She kissed him on the lips and pulled away, standing straight up again.

 

Sora looked at Kairi, "maybe we should leave them to be alone."

"Thats to bad," Nox said.

 

Kairi nodded her head in agreement and stepped outside of the room. "Maybe we should check up on Tai..."

Tai nodded her head in agreement. She was scared... Scared that she was going to be forced to be Ansem's pawn again. She closed her eyes slowly, feeling sick to her stomach.

 

Replica was standing in the middle of the great maw "Sithos!!! COME OUT!!!!!!!!"

"Very clever boy... You now know what you will be once I'm finished with you!" suddenly Ansem left Riku's mind... Riku could tell because his scent had faded.

Suddenly a voice called out and echoed through the halls of the castle "Time's running out, Riku!" It was Luxord waiting for him.

 

Tai forced her eyes open. She sat up steadily, but shakily. Ansem still haunted her dreams. She couldn't even sleep anymore... she sighed out quietly.

 

Replica suddenly got a vision... of a women... he couldn't tell who it was... and he didn't know why... he was getting it... it had never happened before... He teleported back to the The World That Never Was and found this feeling inside him getting stronger... He took a step back and it got stronger... he took a step forward... and it got weaker... he turned around and started to follow this feeling.

 

Tai laid back on the bed. No use... she still was sick. She inwardly cursed Ansem.... curse him for getting her into this mess... influencing enough to make her give him. Wait... she just contradicted herself. She sighed and looked up at the ceiling.

 

Replica came at Tai's doorway and the strange feeling stoped. He checked the reason for her illness or hurt. He read it aloud "Darkness feeding off her heart... could be unstable... Darkness, curtoisy of Ansem... Ansem?!" Replica went inside and bluntly asked "What did Ansem do to you?"

 

Tai's heart nearly skipped a beat. She turned her head to look at... Riku? Wait... he was different. He was his Replica... she remembered now. "Ansem..." she looked down. She was stunned by the suddenly question. She decided to try again. "Ansem.... wanted to give me power...."

 

"Power...?" Replica looked down. He gave into the darkness for power... and he still is immersed in that darkness... But it can't harm him... If It could... He would have been sucked in by now "Why did you take it? What did you need to fight?"

 

Tai shook her head a little. "I dunno... I just..." She trailed off and sighed. "I guess I couldn't handle resisting it..." She blinked back tears. She wasn't going to start crying. She was going to take her own advice. What's done, is done...

Kairi leaned against the wall outside of Roxas' room. Now what were they going to do?

 

Suddenly like an echo in her mind Ansem's voice said "Nothing's done... except for your life!" He appeared before them and enclosed the room in a veil of darkness.

Replica yelled "YOU!!!!!!!!!" Replica dart at him with his weapon, Soul Eater.

But as He jumped up, Ansem extended his palm and stoped him in place... "This is what happens when you delve into darkness." He came over to Tai's bed and said "Now, I will finish the job I started!" He threw a blanket of darkness over her, and the darkness started to sufficate her.

 

Tai choked, unable to breath. Her face twisted up in pain. Not this again... Her thoughts were getting dimmer. She didn't have the strength to fight, even though she wanted to. A tear escaped and fell down her cheek while she was being strangled by the darkness.

 

Replica tried to escape. while unsuccessful he yelled "LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!!"

Ansem whispered in her ear... "there is a way to escape the blanket of darkness... it is simple... trust in it... believe in it... live in it... and accept it..."

 

Roxas held Namine's hand.

Sora grabed Kairi's arm and took her away.

"Ansem that Heartless leader," Nox asked. Nox could hear his voice. Not this one to.