Chapter V: Reveals a plenty: Part 1
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I found myself on the weird platform, but I something that confused me. One of the outer circles had the picture of Sunset and the rest of the girls. When I looked at them I felt a warmth in my chest. 'Wait... What is this feeling? Is this... Happiness? But... How?' I thought. It should be impossible for me to truly feel, I am a Nobody after all. Yet I'm currently feeling true happiness. Then the cloaked figure from before came into view.
"I see you've made some progress. Shouldn't be too long now," The figure spoke as she looked around the platform. I was confused at this comment.
"Shouldn't be long for what?" I asked the figure. She giggled a little.
"You will find out very soon. For now, I might give you something, in the form of a lost memory," She said as a memory started to come to me.
'Hey (????)! Come over here!'
'What is it (????)? Is it a new mission?
'Yes. Your mission is with (????) over there.'
'(????)? Sure. At least its not HER.'
'You say something?'
'Nothing. So, when will the mission start?'
'As soon as she is ready. Ah, speak of the devil.'
'...I'm ready...'
'Good. Now you will be going to a world that has a big heartless. Make sure you take care of it. We will be able to get a lot of hearts to complete the goal. Now, time to get you over there.'
'We will complete the mission without fail.'
'You better.'
Once the memory was over, I looked at the figure standing there. "That was one of the missions we went to do together. Not the only one, but one of them," She explained. There was one question that was at the back of my mind.
"If you don't mind, could you tell me your name? I don't mean to impose but, I would like confirmation on who you are," I asked her. She looked a little nervous.
"Well... Okay, but this is the only time I'm going to, so you better memorize it," She said while tapping her head. I chuckled.
"I will. Honestly, the way he kept repeating those to words, Its bound to get stuck in your head," I responded. She lets out a sigh as she got ready to give it to me.
"My name is... Xion," She said as I felt some sort of headache coming.
"Ugh... Stupid fucking headache... Wait... Xion? Why does that..." My sentence got cut of as the headache got worse. I fell onto the ground grasping my head. Xion rushed to my side with worry. As soon as she did, memories of the past started to flood my mind. (Not going to do them now, but later.) As soon as my trip down memory lane ended, I felt tears form on the corners of my eyes. I killed her with Roxas. I know we didn't have a choice but I just wished that it didn't have to come to it. After what felt like minutes of softly sobbing, I got up, and looked at her with sorrow in my eyes.
"Xion... I'm... so sorry. I wish there could have-" I got cut of by Xion as she hugged me, then said.
"It's not your fault. I knew that I didn't have much time left and... I didn't think that you were around. I was only after Roxas, but you got caught up in our fight. So, for what its worth, I'm sorry," She said as she bowed her head with sorrow.
"Hey, don't worry. I understand. No need to do that, were friends, right?" I said as I hugged her tighter. She was surprised by this and slowly embraced the hug more. We stood there for a couple minutes, after which we separated from each other and she started to lift her hood of. She looked like she did after all this time. Still the same short straight black hair and beautiful blue eyes. Although she had gained a little more of a bust than the last time I saw her. She also looked a little older, somehow, and with that, looked even more stunning.
"Wow... You look... a lot more grown up. But I know looks can be deceiving, so I'll have to keep my guard up, just a little," I said as I gave another look at her. Without her hood on, I could see a clear blush form on her shocked face. I still had my hood on so she couldn't see or know what I was thinking. I saw a mischievous grin. I gulped as I felt a chill go down my spine.
"You know. You could remove that hood of yours. I want to take a look at your face to see if its still the same as it was all those other times," She said as she advanced towards me. I started backing up.
"No. Not just yet. I already have a face reveal planned, you can see it then," I said as I backed up more and more until I was at the edge of the platform.
"Oh come on. Can't you let me see early? I mean, I am a resident in here now, so you might as well," She said, getting ever closer. I decided to start running away from her. She was ever so shocked at this, but quickly gave chase. "You know you can't run forever!"
"I can at least run till I wake up, which I estimate, is very soon!" I shouted back and as if on cue, the platform started to crack. She stopped and gave me a glare. "I won't let you get of so easily. Next time you are back here, I will have my revenge," She said as the part of the platform under me broke and I fell through.
(stop music)
Sunset's Apartment
I woke up as I fell of the bed. I hit the floor with a thud. This didn't go unheard by Sunset as she got into my room and saw me face first on the ground.
"Are you okay?" She asked, trying to hide a snicker. After a little bit I pulled my head off of the ground and looked at her with a serious face, not that she could see it.
"Just peachy."
"Hey, at least you are alright. Now come on, I made breakfast," She said as she left to the kitchen. I got up myself and walked after her. When I arrived at the table, I saw something that made my mouth water. Pancakes. My absolute favorite thing to eat. I quickly took my seat and started to eat the pancakes after I poured some syrup on top of them. Sunset looked surprised at the speed I was eating my food at.
A few moments later, the plate was empty. Where there was pancakes once, was now empty. I sighed with contempt. She just cleared her throat to get my attention. I looked at her, as she tried to hide the surprise in her voice.
"Well, you seamed to enjoy them. You like pancakes?" She asked.
"Like them? I love them! They are one of my favorite things to eat, right next to sea-salt ice-cream," I said in a matter of fact tone.
"Oh. You like sea-salt ice-cream? Me to!" She said happily. I smiled. I took a glance at the clock to my left and saw that it was about 9:35 AM. "What day is it today?" I asked.
She looked at the clock as well. She looked shocked that it was that late. "Oh shoot! I forgot! We were supposed to hag out with the girls today!" I remembered as well. We were supposed to gather in front of the school at 10:05 AM today. She got up and went into her room and started to get dressed up. I was already dressed, as I didn't take my cloak of. In case you are wondering, I do have clothes under the cloak, I just don't take it of, like, ever. Except when I absolutely have to clean it. But that's a rarity.
Sunset soon came out of her room in her casual clothes (minus the ears) and went to the front door of her house with me close behind. When she got her shoes on we left the apartment and headed out to the school. It didn't take long for us to get to the front of the building in question. We did note that the others had already arrived, and when we got there, they were relieved.
"Finally! Your here! I was starting to get bored and worried," Dash proclaimed.
"What took you so long?" Twili asked with a worried expression.
"Oh, we just woke up and ate. Didn't realize it was so late," I explained.
"Well that's understandable. Even the author of this story doesn't want to wake up at 6:00-6:30 AM every weekday!" Pinkie said as she did a Pinkie. "Pinkie, I do hope you don't do this too often. I don't think my brain can handle trying to write you doing things like this too well." "Oh come ooonnn! Conversations like this are rare! You know that!"
(stop music)
The rest of the group looked at Pinkie in confusion, even this was weirder than the normal levels of Pinkie weird. Even they heard the "authors" voice. After that mishap, PINKIE, the group started to head towards the cafe Pinkie (sigh) worked at known as Sugar Cube Corner. When they headed inside, the owners of the establishment greeted Pinkie.
"Hello Pinkie! How are you and your friends..." Mr. Cakes question derailed as he saw me. (Xuku, Not me. I'm still in the nothingness.)
"Hey there! We are doing fine! Oh! This is our new friend, Xuku!" Pinkie answered as she introduced me.
"Nice to meet you," I reply simply.
"Well... It's nice to meet you too... I must ask. Why the hood?" Mr. Cake asked.
"I'm... not exactly fond on showing my face, so that's why," I answer simply.
"Okay. It's understandable. Now, what would you like? Since you are Pinkies friend, I'll give this one on the house," He said.
"Oh... Okay... Well, I'll just take 3 slices of chocolate-vanilla cake. And meaby an apple cider on the side," I ordered. The others ordered their food as well. We walked over to a window seat. When we sat down, we started to talk about various things. As our "food" arrived, the conversation turned into a Q n A from, you guessed it, me.
"So, Xuku. What exactly are you doing here? We know the basics but, is there a deeper reason to it?" Twi asked me.
(Pause music, switch to this one)
"Well. Let's just say-" I started as I snapped my fingers to create a soundproof barrier. "-I'm here to run away from something," I admitted. They looked at me as I expected. Shocked.
"B-but... W-what are you r-running away from?" Shy asked me.
"Sorry, but I can't say. Yet. It's something of a rule there that I will keep a hold on, even if I'm no longer a part of said something. Until I know they are truly gone, will I reveal my secret," I responded with finality on my words as I didn't want to reveal something that could put them in danger.
"Putin' that aside, what about your hood? Ah' don't mean to impose, but could you let us see whats under there?" AJ asked.
"Ah. That. I did plan on showing you, but not here. Once we are somewhere private, like the school gym, then I'll show you," I answered as I mentally prepared for what they would say. I did start to trust them at this point. From what I gathered, they were trustworthy.
"Well, when would you be able to let me take a look at your cloak? I'm dying to add it to the line of clothing for fall. I could even make designated cloaks for all of us!" Rarity asked excitedly.
"Only after I have revealed my face. Since my body is of the same as my face, you'll know what to expect," I answered. She seamed to understand.
"You don't look all that impressive. Have you got any muscle or do you do any kind of workout?" RD asked, her inner athlete wanting to have a challenger.
"Well, for that I have to say that my normal workout routine is nothing to scoff at. As for muscle? I don't really care for muscle, but I do have to be strong enough to do the things that I have done. If you want to see my workout sometimes, I won't turn you away. Just saying that no-one other than me is capable of doing it," I said. She looked like she wanted to challenge that statement, but opted to wait and actually see it before saying anything.
(stop current music, switch back for a bit)
After the QnA, we finished eating our food and then headed towards the school gym for my reveal. Little did I know that something else would be revealed along with it. It took us only a couple minutes to get to the school and the gym room. When everyone was at their proper spots on the benches. I walked in front of them and turned to face them.
"Just a fair warning, keep an open mind. I might not look like what you would expect," I said. They only nodded as their answer. I took a deep breath and reached for my hood. Slowly I start pulling it back.
(stop music)
As soon as it's fully of, I looked at the girls with my true face. Unlike what they were expecting to see, they saw something very unique. They saw a wolves face that had white fur, pointy ears, a snout, pearly white fangs and black irises with a purple sclera and white pupils. A very unique person(?) was in front of them. From what they could tell, I was looking at them expectantly.
"Well. What do you think?" I asked with a sad sort of tone. I never really liked how I looked. I was so different that even on my first conscious day in the Organization, I never took my hood of. Only those who I consider trustworthy I show my real form/face. My cloak also does a little transformation. It now allowed a tail to come from behind me. It was the typical wolf tail. The girls didn't really know what to think. It was such an unusual occurrence. No-one has ever in their world seen someone like me.
"Well... This is indeed an unusual occurrence, but I don't think it changes too much of anything," Sunset voiced after a little while.
"Yeah! I mean, we have been through some weird stuff already so, this isn't such a big thing," Dash added. The others nodded as well. This I didn't expect. I thought they were going to be just like the others, but not show it. You see, my eyes are special. They allow me to see through lies. Right now, the girls are not lying. This, made me genuinely happy. 'Wait. Happy? Am I truly happy? This feeling... Is it really happiness? I... think I could get use to this.' A small smile crept across my muzzle.
(stop music)
After a while of silence, a crash could be heard in the same room we were in. I quickly put my hood back on and turned to face whoever it is that did that. When I do, I see two people. Both of them were wearing robes. One was red, the other was purple. They did a combat roll to a crouching position then proceeded to stand up. They started to scan the room for someone. When their eyes fell on me, they recoiled and pulled their weapons out. The purple one summoned a claymore in a puff of blue flames and the red one summoned two chakrams in a puff of normal flames.
"You! Why are you here!?" The red one asked threateningly while pointing one of the chakrams at me.
"Whoa! Why the hostility?" I asked surprised.
"We got word that our master was here, but instead we find one of the Organization members! Where are you keeping him!?" The purple one shouted.
"Who? I didn't know they were keeping someone," I asked confused. They didn't seem to by it. The purple one started to dash toward me. I quickly reacted and cast a arena spell upon the area from behind me in a perfect circle in a 40 foot radius. They didn't care about what I did, while they saw the barrier, they knew it was to keep the fight to themselves. What they didn't realise was that I didn't do it to just keep the fight contained, I did it to protect my new friends.
When the purple one was close, I could only think of how to protect myself. In that moment, I could feel that a power answered my call. It formed in a chilling breeze. In front of me was the icy shield. Frozen Pride. When the shield formed, purple's claymore connected.
"So it is you, Vexen," She said with venom seeping from her words. As she did, the memory of my "joining" the Organization played again in my head.
"Don't you dare," I muttered under my breath.
"What was that?" She asked.
"Don't you dare call me that bastards name!!" I shouted while pushing her back. When she landed, I could read that she staggered a little as did Red.
"What?" Red asked with some confusion in his voice.
"Don't you dare call me that fucking bastards name! You don't understand the pain I went through because of him!" I shouted, which made the girls and my assailants flinch.
They looked a little uncertain. They didn't think I had the capability to emit so much anger. I directed it at them. I thought that there was no other choice than to fight. I took this chance to take advantage and charge with my signature weapon. When they saw my weapon, they and the girls gasped. When I was close enough, I brought my weapon down upon Red, who had just enough time to bring his weapons to block. This brought the both of them out of their shock. While Red was under my scythe, Purple thought she could use this to her advantage, but she thought wrong. When she prepared her weapon to attack, I shot black and white thorns from my palm at her. She quickly reacted to this and brought her claymore to protect herself. She did it just in time, as the thorns connected with it and was pushed back a couple feet.
Red took advantage of this to push me off and threw his weapons at me as they were coated with fire. I summoned the shield back while my scythe disappeared. They took notice of this and started to do a combination of high precure attacks. I took notice that they thought I could only summon one of the weapons at once. They were mistaken. While they continued their barrage, they noticed just at the last second that I summoned six spears. Then they could only hear the sound of glass breaking. Red and Purple started looking around where I could have gone. The mistake they made was that they didn't look up.
I had summoned Skysplitter and started falling towards the two. When I was about 10 feet away from the ground they just noticed I was doing an attack. They brought their guard up but that would be their downfall. When the ground was in front of me, I brought Skysplitter to it. Once it made contact, it raised the ground from under them in a rocky spike formation. This threw them up in the air and fell harshly to the ground. I then disbanded Skysplitter and summoned Graceful Dahlia. I did take notice that they were bleeding, even if it was hard for others to see. That, and I could smell it.
"You going to give up yet?" I asked, feeling a little drained. Summoning their weapons takes a bit of my stamina away, but using their abilities takes my mana. Good thing I have a lot of it.
"H-how are y-you doing t-that?" Purple asked exhausted.
"W-why do y-you have t-those w-weapons?" Red asked equally exhausted.
"Heh, you can thank that bastard for that. I don't know how he did it, but for once I'm grateful for it," I answered. There was a period of silence. "Well? Are you done?"
"Before we answer, could you remove your hood?" Red asked a question I wasn't prepared for.
(Stop music)
"Why?" I asked.
"We would like to see the one who bested us," Purple answered. I hesitated. I didn't know why, but they felt familiar to me.
"Fine. Just this time. This is the only time I'm doing this. You should feel honored, since I don't usually do this," I said disbanding Dahlia and reached for my hood. When I pulled it back they saw my true self. "Make sure you don't forget this face."
From what I could tell, they took a step back while gasping. They looked at each other and did something I didn't expect. They bowed to me.
"We are sorry. We didn't know it was you," Red said.
"We thought you were someone else," Purple added.
"What? What are you doing?" I asked quite confused. At the same time the barrier faded.
"Master, don't you remember us?" Red asked looking at me.
"No? I don't. Should I?" I asked. It seamed like they recoiled at that.
"How can that be?" Purple asked in disbelief.
"It may be as simple as the fact that I don't remember about anything before what happened to me. Well for the exception of that," I answered. They looked like they were sheathing in anger.
"Taking our Master away wasn't enough it seams. They just had to wipe his memories as well. Curses!" Red said while punching the ground.
"Look, just... can you tell me his name? Meaby it could help?" I asked.
"His name is Uuk. Master of the Lunar Wolves," Purple answered.
"Uuk? That's close to my name. My name is Xuku," I gave them my name as an answer. They were, surprise surprise, shocked, again.
"Then... It IS you," Red said.
"No. I'm not him. If I look like him, then I must be his Nobody," I corrected.
"Then, if we destroy you, we will get him back!" Purple said while readying her weapon.
"Well you won't get me that easily, but I have had enough of fighting, at least for now. I can at least try to negotiate with you," I said while putting my hands up.
"Besides, we have no idea where his Heartless is," Red commented.
"Ugh, fine. But how do we know you won't go on a rampage here," Purple said while looking at me with suspicion.
"Why should I? I don't have anything to gain from it. Besides I already have a temporary residence and I don't plan on loosing it any time soon," I said unknowingly making Sunset blush. "And I literally have no interest in fighting anyone. This was not my fault. And now, many things that I didn't want to reveal, were revealed, in the span of, what, ten minutes?"
"What do you mean?" Purple asked.
"Well, first of, the group these clothes belong to, mentioning its name just summoned a hoard of Nobodies to come here," I said, and on cue, ten Snipers appeared around me. "Secondly, I am no longer a part of that group, so now I have to fight most Nobodies that aren't under my jurisdiction," I say as the Sniper take aim at me. In that split second I ready my newest weapon, Nobodies Puppet.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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