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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:47 pm
 "S-saix? I..er...I dunno really. I've been avoiding him since I last saw him...he wasn't too happy, and the kitchen table is kinda destroyed now...heh..."
Demyx sighed, fidgeting nervously.
"I...can't exactly make sure he stays away...he's not afraid of me...he er...he kinda keeps threatening to kill me if I get in his way...."
Ears flattened back, a brief thought floating through Demyx's mind It wouldn't be the first time he had something to do with my death....
"Saix seems to remember a lot more than I do..."
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:26 pm
Sora stopped. Dropping the book he held in his hands and hugged Larxene, clinging to her, not wanting to let go. The fear of losing anyone at this point was overwhelming. Sora started to sob.
Over the time the two of them spoke Sora just continued to remember the horror of the last few encounters he had with the other Organization members. Everything that happened to them in the past was his fault. Well...some of it. He couldn't do anything else, there was no other option at the time. Kill or be killed. He didn't want to do that again. Not like this...not now. Not after he'd made friends with them (the good ones anyway).
Sora's tears subsided. He was calm again. Still clinging to Larxene. "Don't go near him. Stay away from them. Saix, Xemnas, Xaldin, and Xigbar. Those are the bad ones. They did...very bad things." He released Larxene from the hug and looked at Demyx, his expression was one of someone who had just been dragged through the mud. "Saix killed Axel. Tried to kill most of you. Tried to kill me, my friends, everyone. It was all because of Xemnas' orders." Sora opened one of his pockets, pulling out a bunch of papers held together with a paperclip. "These are the reports I have from..." He shouldn't say that name. "The original heart of Xemnas. I don't have all of them. Just a few." He handed them to Demyx. "They are better useful to you then me now. Don't lose them."
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:53 pm
 Larxene frowned. So Saix remembers more, and he seems to be unpleasant, to say the least. That's not goo- The girl's thoughts were abruptly interuppted as Sora latched on to her. She gasped a little, looking at him as he burst into tears. Instinct led her paws up to rub his back as he cried on her and she murmured soothingly without saying anything in particular.
When he seemed to calm again, she pulled back ever so slightly to look at him again (though she didn't step away from his embrace). Larxene nodded solemnly at his warning, then stepped back further as he let her go. Xemnas. There was something familiar about that name, even if it was again, only instinct. She eyed the papers as he passed them to Demyx. "Do those ... he ... if he tried to kill most of us ..." She paused and frowned. "Does it say anything about me in those?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:10 pm
"W-w-what?"
Demyx blinked at him, sadness striking the sitarist as he watched the other Audio cry on Larxene.
"Sora?..."
Demyx stepped forward a bit, wanting to help comfort Sora but not having a clue what to do. He stopped, watching helplessly as slowly his calmness returned.
"But...huh? Xigbar was nice....and I dunno who Xaldin is. But you're right...Xemnas is downright creepy...and Saix is mean..."
The blonde male rubbed at the back of his head, cringing as he recalled the little fight in the kitchen.
"You...know what happened with Saix in the past?"
Sora's tears were gone, but Demyx's own eyes started to fill with water.
"He.....said he did stuff that led to me and Axel dying...but he never said it was Xemnas' orders! No wonder I feel weird around him...and Saix just constantly calls me useless and stupid and..."
He sniffled, using a glove to rub at his eyes. Mere moments later he found himself holding the reports. But instead of appearing joyous of this his expression was one of utter horror.
"W-w-what?! I can't t-take these! Xigbar..and Xemnas..and s-s-some of the others are l-looking for t-these! They'd h-hurt me...or worse...if they knew I was h-hiding them!!"
Demyx whined, trying to give the reports back over to Sora. It meant something that the other male trusted him enough to hold onto these, but it was just too dangerous!
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:20 am
Sora sighed. "Everything that's in those reports tells how Nobodies and Heartless are created. So I guess you could say we are all in there, Larxene." Sora stayed close to Larxene, not wanting to move completely away just yet. "The things in the past can be told like this. Heartless and Nobodies are created when a person loses their heart. As far as what happend to everyone...well..." Sora's eyes folded down. "It's as much his fault as it is mine. The way you are now...and the way you were before is very different from what I remember. Demyx, you weren't much of a fighter, but they made you come after me anyway. Things...just...didn't get resolved with words, if you can understand that." He sighed. "I'm glad you're all back though, things can be different this time. I don't hate you guys, I never did. Just...those people who made you do those things. It wasn't right, it hurt me, it hurt you, it hurt everything! Worlds nearly collapsed because of them!"
Sora rested his head on Larxene's shoulder. "Some days, I wish I never got these stupid keyblades. Everything that happened after that day hurt so many people."
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:10 pm
Larxene looked confused by Demyx's reaction to the papers. There must have been something pretty volatile in them. She was about to ask when Sora started to explain.
She listened curiously, looking slightly confused but trying to take it all in. The girl frowned, stroking Sora's ears with her tail as he rested his head against her shoulder. "Maybe we should just destroy those papers then. If people who are looking for them are ... not our friends, maybe we should make sure they can't get them back."
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:27 pm
Demyx tilted his head slightly, blinking at Sora in confusion. Things didn't get settled with words? What was that supposed to mean?
And...keyblades? Why did that---WAIT! Roxas had keyblades! And they had seemed to trigger some just out of reach memory for Demyx. So why did this Sora guy have them too?
"Things didn't get resol----you...it was you!"
Demyx backed away slightly, staring at Sora.
"You're the one! Saix sent me after you, but it was you that did it! I was supposed to find Roxas, but I found you instead..and..and..."
The sitarist threw the reports back at Sora, turning away in an attempt to get a hold of himself. It certainly didn't work... Ears flat and arms wrapped around himself in a hug, Demyx struggled to get a grip on what was happening.
"You...don't hate us? But...why did you..?"
Demyx whined, casting Sora a glance over his shoulder.
"Back then...you said we didn't have feelings. You're wrong, you got that?! Saix might not, but I do! And I remember just how much it hurt...when....when..."
He trailed off, turning to face the landscape instead of Sora.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:44 pm
Sora whimped as Demyx got mad. He knew it would get that kind of reaction. That's why he stayed close to Larxene. He and Larxene made a promise, no matter what happened, they would be friends.
"I didn't say you didn't have feelings, I said you didn't have hearts. And I am right...kind of. The papers say that Heartless and Nobodies don't have hearts. But that doesn't mean you don't have feelings. I knew you had feelings, you felt that I was something bad, trying to hurt you. But I wasn't! You were under the orders of someone who wanted to destroy everything, you were mislead. There is no getting your hearts back, it doesn't work that way. But you're alive now, you're here for a reason. I don't want to hurt you, cause that only hurt myself in the end." He sighed, taking a breath. This was all taking a huge toll. "I know that, even though they sent you after me, I was the one who ended up taking you out. But you didn't die obviously. You all ended up here."
Sora was sticking to Larxene like glue, he didn't want to go anywhere. He was to sad to move anyway. "And when Saix sent you to find Roxas, you found him. Roxas is my Nobody. I am Roxas. He is me. We are the same."
"Why do you think I'm here Demyx? I've been looking for everyone I lost along the way. My friends, and even my old enemies. I knew you weren't bad. You never really did anything wrong. I kinda thought that...well...before all of that Organization stuff came along, we could have been friends. I felt the same about everyone in your group. I've met you all...only some were really evil. Most of you were just...sad. Very sad. Like me. And I guess everyone who has lost a heart knows how that feels. So you can't tell me I don't know how you feel right now. I'm the same as you, as Larxene, as the whole group. Just because I'm still me doesn't mean that I don't feel lost sometimes. I think that's why we are here."
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:46 pm
Larxene flinched at Demyx's outburst, taking a halfstep back as the papers scattered. She was having a hard time piecing together what the other male was talking about though it was slowly starting to sink in.
She flinched again at the mention of not having feelings. We don't have hearts. I don't have a heart. Her face fell as Sora continued explaning, the girl only half-listening now. No getting my heart back. Something to that resonated. It seemed, not so long ago, getting her heart back had been a very, very important goal. Her ears drooped as she continued sinking into her thoughts. We all ended up here ... after he killed us? Larxene looked sidelong at Sora, even as he continued talking to Demyx. Sora couldn't have actually ... killed me...
Her gaze drifted down to the papers which were flopping around in the wind now. Before she realized what she was doing, the girl found herself walking forward to kneel beside some of them, grabbing them up and starting to read. "This ... does this tell the whole story?" she murmured, not making it clear whether she was talking to herself or not.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:05 pm
Demyx turned around, blinking at Sora through tear-filled eyes.
"...right before we fought...right before I finally got serious and tried so hard...I swear all I wanted to do was run away...."
He stared at them both, watching their reactions to his little outburst. He didn't blame them for looking shocked, it wasn't very often he raised his voice anyway. He was always the timid one wanting to hide so he didn't get in trouble.
"I didn't want to go...I told them not to send me! But Saix insisted on me going....he was right...it was his fault...."
Demyx sighed, eyes moving downwards to watch Larxene gather the papers.
"I'm...sorry....for everything...."
And with that he flopped to the ground, quickly yanking his hood over his head and burying his face in his knees to hide. The sitarist's tail wrapped around his body, it's owner currently lost in the sea of his own emotions.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:18 pm
Sora could only watch as Demyx finally broke down and kept to himself, then watch as Larxene gathered up the reports.
"It tells everything. I'm in there. The Organization. Heartless. Everything. Go ahread and learn what happened. No one really believed me when I told them everything. Then when I showed them the reports, they really...didn't like coming around me much anymore. I think they were scared of the keyblades."
Sora realized he wasn't going to say anything that could make the situation any better. He sighed. I should go...staying would make things worse. His mind said this over and over in his head. So, as Demyx was lost in his own thoughts, and Larxene was busy with collecting the reports. He ran, he ran as far and as fast as he could, into the woods, hopefully to get lost and never be found.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:25 pm
Larxene quickly became engrossed in the papers, at first scanning for her name, then reading more carefully as other familiar names started to pop out. She sank slowly to sit down as she concentrated on her reading, for the moment not noticing what was going on around her.
Her tail swished slowly over the ground as she read. By the time she got to the fourth page, she noticed it was oddly quiet. She looked up sharply, antennae bobbing as she glanced around. Demyx seemed to have cocooned himself with his sorrow and Sora .... "Sora?"
The girl got to her feet fluidly, still clutching the papers. "Sora! Where are you?" She stepped over to Demyx and nudged him with her knee. "Where'd he go?!"
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:09 pm
Demyx yiped loudly as he was nudged, the reaction more from being startled than any actual pain. His hood fell back a bit as he lifted his head, tear filled eyes focusing up on Larxene.
"W-what do you mean?...."
Demyx took a quick look around, soon noticing Sora was nowhere in sight.
"Huh? But...I dunno where he went!"
He got back to his feet, fidgeting around a bit as he tried to locate some sign of where the other went.
"Sora? Come back! ....Please?..."
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:56 pm
Sora, using all his past abilities, had built himself an ice caccoon with the powers of his magic along with the surrounding trees in the forest. It was cold, it was quiet, it was lonely...and it was perfect. "There. It's thick so no one can see inside it. Though...I guess having ice in a forest would be weird." He sighed. "No going back now." He looked around and noticed the trees he used were fruit bearing. Lucky for him, he hadn't thought that he would need food inside there. Quickly summoning one of his keyblades he threw it at the tree, knocking a few apples out of it. An unwanted side affect was a loud crashing sound as the keyblade broke the ice caccoon. "No!" Sora screamed in dismay as the keyblade broke out. He summoned it back quickly and began repairing the hole. "Please...PLEASE tell me they didn't hear that!"
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:27 pm
Larxene quirked her head to one side at the sound of something from the woods. A ... smashing sound? What could be smashing in the woods? It sounded like someone'd knocked a china cabinet over. Someone clumsy.
Her ears perked up and she tore off in the direction of the noise without explaining where she was going. "Sora?! SORA!? Where are you?"
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