Unlikely Ally
Xion slowly backed away from the guard that was advancing towards her with his spear leveled at her chest, looking behind her as she did so to see if there was a way for her to escape if needed.
'If worse comes to worse I can try to fight my way out of this, put I'd rather not hurt such cute looking ponies,' she thought to herself as she held up both her hands and slowly backed away, not noticing that she was still holding the horn that the pony had given her. "I don't want to hurt any of you. If my...face bothers you so much, I can just leave and then everything will be fine, right?"
"Perhaps you are right..." the guard muttered before his horn began to glow and a light shined on Xion, but the moment it touched her it turned a smoky black color which caused ponies to yelp with fear. "No dice creature! You have the same magical energy as King Sombra! That means that you might be one of his creatures!"
"No! Wait!" she tried to reason, but the guard let out a roar and lunged at her with his spear aimed at her chest. With no other option left to her she extended her left hand to summon her keyblade, yet only then realized that she was still holding onto the broken horn. She quickly switched hands and summoned her weapon just in time to deflect the strike in a flash of light.
"What magic be this?" the guard asked before Xion pushed him back with a burst of strength. Figuring that she would have to fight her way out of this situation, she placed the horn in her pocket absentmindedly before taking up her fighting stance. "That's a bizarre weapon you wield there, being of darkness. But it won't help you. You're outnumbered a hundred to one!"
Xion looked around her to find that a large number of armored unicorns and Pegasus had just arrived to the battle, almost completely surrounding her from every angle. "Boys, time to put what you practiced to the test! Unicorn's! Barrage this creature with light spells!" All the unicorns took aim at her with their horns as light based spells appeared on the tips of them, all taking aim at Xion. "FIRE!"
"Reflect!" Xion yelled in retaliation as she slammed the tip of her keyblade into the ground before her, sending a barrier of magic around her that deflected the bombardment of light spells in every direction but back at the ponies. But upon realizing how bad her situation seemed, Xion figured she had no choice but to fight her way through the ponies, at least until she reached the main gates. That was her plan until a voice spoke in the back of her head.
'What a curious weapon you wield there. Very well, you have gained my interest. Turn and run, I shall lead you to an escape!' Xion didn't know where the voice came from, but as her barrier fell and guards were given the order to rush her, she figured she had no other options. As fast as she could the Nobody turned and sprinted into the streets, pushing her way past ponies as she ran while retracting her keyblade.
'Take a left at this upcoming turn. It should lead you into an alley!' the voice spoke once again and this time Xion was able to hear some of the power it held, as well as a hint of royalty. She followed the voice's instructions and found that indeed the turn lead her into an alley...and right into a crystal dead end.
"Great! I listen to a disembodied voice and it gets me trapped," she grumbled to herself as she turned around at the sound of hooves galloping towards her.
'Fool! It only seems like a dead end! Now hurry and push the top left brick before they see!' the voice demanded. Having no other better options, Xion turned and pressed the brick. A moment later all of the bricks faded away as of they were never there to begin with, revealing a small staircase that descended down into nothingness.
"Whoa. Secret passageway! That's so cool!" Xion smiled as she tried to find where the bricks had vanished to.
'Hurry you waste of my time! Before they see!' the voice ordered.
"Okay, okay! Jeez, you remind me of Saix," Xion grumbled as she slipped into the passageway. The wall reappeared a behind her the moment she entered and through the wall she he could hear the faint sounds of hooves coming to a stop.
"It vanished!" she faintly heard a voice say.
"It she's one of Sombra's then she must be loose somewhere in the empire! Search every nook and cranny until you find it!" another voice bellowed before the hooves took off, leaving everything quiet a moment later.
'Hah, the Crystal Guard for you. Check everywhere except the last place the pony vanished,' the regal and dark voice spoke out with a laugh. 'Completely useless.'
"Uh, thanks for the help back there," Xion said to the darkness, looking around for whoever had spoken. "Where are you and why did you help me, if you don't mind me asking?"
'Don't thank me, you're not out of this yet,' the voice spoke again with a interested air. 'If you manage to make it through this place alive not only will I tell you why I saved you, I will grace you with the honor of knowing my name. Now chop chop, time is wasting.'
"Argh, why do I always get the bossy types?" Xion asked as she placed a hand on the wall and slowly began to descend into the darkness. About halfway down she found a torch glowing with a blue fire mounted on the wall, so she decided to take it to light her way. "Well, at least I can see now, though that really didn't change anything," she muttered as all the light did was allow her to see the brick that made the stairs and walls.
Nothing change the farther down she went except that things seemed to get darker, but when her boots finally touched down at the bottom of the stairs the faint light from the torch revealed a large, crystalized door that held a strange symbol in the center of it. She tried pushing against it with her shoulder, but it never so much as budged from her efforts.
"Hey voice, that door of yours is locked!" Xion called out into the darkness to no avail. "Fine then, I'll open it myself," she grumbled while holding out her hand, summoning her weapon forth once again. She spun it around so that the tip was facing the door before firing a beam of light from the end, piercing through the door and unlocking it in one motion. The ancient hinges finally yielded and swung back before her, allowing Xion to pass into the next room.
"Wow...this is...wow," Xion couldn't help but mutter as her eyes took in the massive cavern, where thousands of tiny crystals that shone with a multitude of different colors all hanging in suspended animation all across the cavern. She looked down to find herself standing on a very large, flat topped, green crystal that floated along with the others hundreds of feet above the ground. "I've never been to a world like this before! So many different colors and crystals! It's so...amazing!"
'No doll, what's amazing is that weapon of yours. That key sword,' the voice spoke again, though at the mention of the word "doll" Xion's temper flared. 'Able to open to door that I magically sealed shut...it seems to have quite the power.'
"Don't call me doll!" she yelled into the unknown, but all she got in return was a chuckle.
'Then would you prefer the mannequin? Or how about No Face? Because that is all I see when I look at you doll, I see a blank, faceless mask, much like the ones on a mannequin,' the voice darkly laughed, infuriating Xion all the further. 'It seems that the guards weren't entirely mistaken when they thought of you as a monster, but they guessed the wrong one.'
"I'm not a monster," Xion growled back as she took in a deep breath and ran to the edge of the platform, leaping off with all her might and propelling herself across the gap and onto the next floating crystal. "And I'm not a doll. Not anymore."
'Ah, but you are not sure of that, are you?' the voice asked the moment it heard doubt enter her voice. 'It would seem that you were a puppet or a doll before you came here, and you are not from around here or I would already know of you, and you're trying to piece together just what you are? How very curious.'
"Shut up," Xion growled as she leapt to another crystal, flipping up her hood so that the voice would have a harder time looking at her face. Another door greeted her at the end of that crystal, but this time a flash of darkness went off beside her and the door slowly creaked open, allowing her to enter.
"What is this place anyway?" Xion asked the voice when she found herself in a massive, underground library that went on until only darkness was all that she could see. Row after row of bookshelves that towered up towards the ceiling surrounded her and as she started to walk further in she started to feel claustrophobic. "Why is all of this underneath of a giant crystal city? Actually...where is this city anyway? What world is this?"
'I built all of this, incase I ever needed a quick escape or a place to hide out,' the voice spoke once again but this time with some pride. 'And even after a thousand years have passed it seems that no pony was smart enough to find it's location. Ah, it's grand being so brilliant.'
"Wait, you've been alive for a thousand years?! How is that possible?" Xion asked as she came to a dead end filled with a large pile of books.
'Lot's of ice on my joints. How about you doll? What's a creature like you doing in a world like this?' the voice asked with almost a devious tone, one that silenced anything that Xion was going to say in reply. 'Aw don't be like that, I'm just trying to find out more about my new best friend.'
"Best friend? Sorry, but I've already got two best friends and they..." Xion quickly stopped there as a wave of sorrow over took her, realizing that neither Roxas nor Axel remembered her anymore. "Besides, I don't even know your name and here you are calling us best friends? Don't be ridiculous."
'Hmm, you may have a point there. Very well, I shall grace you with my name and then you can tell me yours so I may promptly forget it,' the voice bargained with another laugh. 'I am Sombra. King Sombra. King Sombra the Ruler of the Crystal Empire and soon to be Ruler of the World. King Sombra the-'
"You add anything else to your name and I'm ignoring you," Xion threatened and Sombra laughed in reply. "...I'm Xion."
'Well hello there Xion, it is a pleasure to meet you...or rather, it is a pleasure to observe that weapon of yours,' Sombra replied with another laugh. 'If you don't mind me asking, just what are you exactly?'
"I'm a Nobody," Xion eventually replied, figuring that she didn't trust Sombra enough to tell him the truth.
'Well, you can't be a Nobody dear if you have a name. You are Xion, therefor you are a somebody.'
"No, I'm a Nobody. A shell of a former life," Xion tried to explain as she ran into another dead end, this time where a bookshelf had collapsed entirely.
'So am I my dear and yet I know I'm a somebody. Turn right here. Just because you are a shell of who you used to be does not mean you are a nobody,' Sombra explained, getting a growl from the girl as she turned the way he instructed and found the exit.
"No! I'm a Nobody! The shell that is left behind when a person loses their heart!"
'Ah, I remember when I first lost my heart. It was a warm afternoon and the sun was reflecting off her mane just right...'
"You're doing this on purpose," Xion sighed as she caught on.
'Not at all. Oh look, we're almost at the end. Now all that's left it to exit through this door and see just how good a fighter you actually are.' Xion was just about to ask what that meant when the door she had just walked through slammed shut behind her, causing her to turn in surprise. She spun around as torches began to ignite all along the walls, giving her more than enough light to see the giant mass of crystal that was curled up in a ball in the center of the room.
A loud groan shook the room and the mass of crystal began to move, uncurling itself to reveal a massive, almost armadillo looking beast made of crystal. It turned it's armored head towards Xion, glaring at her with emerald eyes as it uncurled it's equally armored arms and legs. It roared with fury at her as she slowly backed away from it, getting another snarl from it as it swung it's tail to reveal a large drill on the end of it.
"W-what is that thing?! That doesn't look like any Heartless I've ever seen!" she stammered as she tried to back away, only to realize that with the door shut she had nowhere to go.
'A Nobody who fights beings that are Heartless? You're world sounds really bleak,' Sombra commented.
"Not helping!" Xion yelled as she summoned her blade and took up a fighting stance as the creature got closer.
'Ah yes, the Armadrillo...what was it's weakness again?' Sombra muttered to himself as the creature rolled into a ball and barreled right at Xion, who rolled out of the way just in time. The Armadrillo kept going and slammed into the door, causing it to bounce out of it's ball and lay on the ground with stars circling it's head.
'Now's my chance!' she thought as she leapt into the air and slammed the keyblade down on the creature's skull, scoring a hit as she landed and followed up with an up slash to the jaw that snapped the creature's head back. She then grabbed hold of the hilt of her weapon with both hands and swung the blade over her shoulder, building up momentum so that when she struck down once again it would hurt.
"Take this!" she yelled as she swung, catching the Armadrillo right between the eyes with a loud crack. The creature roared with pain as it backed away from her, clutching at it's face with a crystal paw. With pain flashing in it's eyes it turned and roared at Xion once again, cracks spreading across it's face and revealing a red gem. Before she had a chance to take in what the gem was, the creature started up the drill on it's tail and used it to burrow into the ground, vanishing in an instant.
"Where did it go?" she asked Sombra as she started to look around the room for any place it would pop up, making sure to watch her feet carefully. Before Sombra could answer the Armadrillo busted through the ceiling above Xion, giving her just enough time to look up before one of the creature's paws swatted her across the room. Xion slammed against the crystal wall back first, causing her to cry out in pain as she collapsed to the ground.
'Ooooo, that looked like it hurt,' Sombra winced from the sidelines.
Xion growled with pain as she leaned against her keyblade, using it for support as she pushed herself back to her feet. The Armadrillo, sensing her weakness, curled back up into it's ball again and barreled for Xion, preparing to finish the girl off once and for all.
For a brief moment Xion pondered whether or not she should just let the creature finish her off. As far as she was concerned, she was already gone and the only reason she lived now was because of a psycho who just wanted to use her in a twisted experiment.
'Hey, the next time we have a day off...let's go to the beach.'
Xion's eyes widened as the words echoed across her mind. She didn't know where they came from or why they chose then to appear, but upon hearing Roxas's voice again and the mention of the promise made her realize something. 'We...never did get to go to the beach together,' she thought for a brief moment. 'And I...really wanted to...but it didn't happen...but...maybe now...I actually can.' She didn't know why, but that thought, the idea of going to the beach, filled her muscles with strength.
"Alright then...maybe I can go on a little longer!" she grunted as lifted her keyblade and took up her fighting stance once again. "At least until I get there! Reflect!" The Armadrillo slammed into the barrier she created head on, causing it to bounce off of her shield and slam to the ground. The creature uncurled once again as star's circled it's head, giving her the opening she needed.
"Gotcha! Strike Raid!" she yelled as she swung her arm and hurled the keyblade right between the Armadrillo's eyes, stunning the creature even further as the keyblade went straight up. Xion bolted forward so she could run up it's chest and leapt into the air over it's head, grabbing the keyblade out of the air. "This will end it!" she yelled as she pointed the keyblade straight down and drove it right into the skull of the Armadrillo, striking the gem on it's forehead dead center.
The creature didn't roar or make any sound as the gem shattered; all it did was lean back as it's body began to fall apart a piece at a time. Xion backed away as the Armadrillo fell apart before her, splintering into thousands of tiny shards that gleamed with light as they scattered across the room. Xion let out a sigh of relief as a door opened up on the other side of the room, giving her a way out.
'Oh yes now I remember, the gem on it's forehead was it's weakness,' Sombra realized at last, getting a grunt from Xion as she started to climb out. 'Well I feel like I contributed to this battle. Not bad by the way. I honestly thought you were going to die up until the end. So what changed?'
"Nothing," she quickly said as she started to ascend, getting a laugh out of Sombra.
'Oh you are an interesting one alright,' Sombra silently thought to himself as she climbed the final staircase. 'I look forward to finding out more about you...and that peculiar weapon that you wield, Xion.'
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ugh... I need to dig up my copy of 358/2 Days, now.
Dangit she doesn't need this asshole's fuckery either
Great just great. I hope someone will listen to poor Xion, but with how she got treated here and her past I doubt it sadly. She always seems to get screwed over by people she trusted, except for Roxas. Hopefully she can put an end to Sombra here once and for all.
Oh come on, that's her first ally?! Oh boy...this isn't going to go well, is it?
Good thing I have my copy~ Also, I'm not surprised that she thinks ponies are adorable. Will there be a female character that doesn't think ponies are adorable!?
I think I see what happened with Xion. Due to her nature, others can only see her in the context of who they are and their connection to her. Because she's no longer connected to Sora, she should be blank. But because she's no longer connected, her form needed to latch onto something to mirror, and unfortunately for her, that connection was the horn she was holding, and thus Sombra himself.
And Sombra, I think I can see you trying to get the Keyblade for yourself, but that's not going to happen. Keyblades are very picky about their owners. And even if he was one of those special ones that can wield a Keyblade, I doubt he could use a Keyblade of Light.
Changed.
In case, two words.
Its.
Your.
Sombra... You are a bro. I like you.
Great chapter, I really like how you're portraying Sombra. I wonder if Xion will end up becoming Sombra's new 2nd in command.
Sombra no.
Discord yes.
Shit, Discord shoulda helped Xion. Not that turd.
8133010 Or you could get 1.5 HD on PS3 or the 1.5 and 2.5 Single disc for PS4
8135038 .....no. Those don't even HAVE 358/2 days.
8135132 Yes they do. It's just been condensed into an extended cutscene.
8135161 and that's not the game.
8135245 You never specified that it had to be the game until now.
Sounds like Sombra may be a few muffins short of a basket.
Great... first Maestro, now Sombra? This is getting interesting
I wonder if sombra like a nobody in a way?
If I remember everything right, then it should be pretty clear to her that she is helping Mr. Evil
8134567
and yet it still looks like she would unlock some sort of Kinh Sombra emergency plan