Chapter 4

Darkness…

Where… am I?

Xion’s dead body falling to the ground flashed before his eyes and played over and over. The darkness must have gotten him as well. He deserved it, he couldn’t go through the portal to save himself, and now he lost Xion as well. Even though he had only know her for a small matter of time, he felt like he had lost a deep connection in his life. If he did summon the keyblade then… would he have had enough time? Or did he make the wrong choice when turning left? It didn’t seem like he would ever know.

Rox…as…

He thought he heard something in the darkness, how cruel, the darkness was tormenting him instead of letting him die. Having to see Xion die over and over was his punishment for even trying to run.

Roxas…

This time, the voice was clearer, it was definitely there, and familiar. What was it saying?

Roxas… keyblade…

Roxas? Keyblade? That much was hearable, but what was he supposed to do with it, summoning it, balls of light surrounding his hand, making it appear instantly. It was glowing bright, brighter than he had even seen it. His hand was heated slightly from the glow.

I don’t think even the light ability will work. If only I was next to Xion again.

Xion… Just once more, please.

The keyblade grew brighter, responding to the name. Roxas noticed this.

Xion… thought’s couldn’t be enough if I’ve had to yell before.

“Xion!!!! LET ME BE THERE BESIDE YOU ONCE AGAIN!”

His mind thought back to the choice of left or right…

Roxas’s eyes opened, he had Xion’s arm in his hand, running down the hall they came to a crossroad. He wasted no time on his decision, he didn’t stop running and continued to pull Xion onwards down the right hall.

“Keyblade!”

The keyblade appeared in his hand instantaneously, he was now prepared for the darkness that was chasing him. It was still glowing extremely bright as it did when he was in the darkness. The darkness was catching up quickly, he had no choice.

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“Xion, run ahead! Find a way out, I’ll fight it.”

She nodded and ran off down the hall. He couldn’t waste any time on this. The darkness took form and attacked in the same way, only this time there was one target to put all of its power into, just what he wanted.

“Light!”

The keyblade released a huge amount of light upon impact, destroying all of the darkness, hopefully down to the hospital room as well. Xion came back running as Roxas turned around to head down the hall.

“Left then right. Exit’s after that, let’s go.”

“Yeah.”

He was glad to have Xion back, even though he had only lost her for a short time, it felt horrible. One of these times he won’t be able to save her, he knew that, taking this power for granted is not something he should ever do, just this once he’ll use that, and that’s it. Namine once told him theories of time and space, and by what she said, it’s not good to mess with time at all, even slightly. If he had to use this time power that he had ever again, he would use it to save more than just one person, and in only an event that wasn’t his fault. They could now see the exit to the hospital, it was dark outside, he had no idea what time it was, but at least his home was close. He didn’t think Namine was home, if she was then he’d have quite a bit of explaining to do.

“Hey Roxas?” Xion glanced outside at the dark sky. “How far away is your house?”

“It’s not too far Xion, also Namine won’t be home.”

“That’s a shame… we’re really good friends in the other world, since I’m stuck here I’d like to get to know her.”

“Maybe some other time.”

The two exited the hospital and turned left towards Roxas’s house. A few cars went pass while they were walking, providing some light occasionally. One of the roads they went down had no light what so ever, no cars ever came down it either.

“Roxas!”

Except one…

“Roxas! Need a ride?”

It was Axel, he should have expected him to be out this late driving around.

“Yeah sure.”

Axel looked at Xion, then smirked at Roxas.

“So… who’s the girl? Taking advantage of the fact that Namine isn’t home to get some spice in?”

He sighed.

“Axel, shut up and get us to my place, you know that isn’t the case.” Then shaking his head and muttering, “After all, I’m not you.”

“Heard that! Ahh, you wish you could be though!”

Xion sat silently in the back, watching the two argue on and on for the whole ride. It reminded her of Roxas and Axel back in the other world, nothing was truly different here except that Sora was in hospital and they didn’t know her, if she even existed here. Axel stopped in front of a normal white looking house, she recognised this as one of the house they often passed on the way to school, it seemed so unimportant then. If she was to ever go back if possible, she’d make sure to take a look at it every morning and think of this time. They said goodbye to Axel, finally telling him her name with the obvious response of that he was Axel and “Got it memorized?” Yes, she was pretty sure she had it memorized. Roxas opened the door and she gazed inside, taking it all in. She saw that the place had a normal interior with a couch and a chair, coffee table and the kitchen bench was in reach from the couch. Upstairs seemed to be where the bedrooms were.

“Make yourself at home, bed’s upstairs, sleep in my room, I’ll be out here.”

“Huh, why?”

“Something just tells me I should. I’ll probably just be thinking about what happened today.”

“Oh… ok.”

Xion walked upstairs to the bedroom, leaving Roxas behind.

Why do I have this feeling to stay here?

Roxas heard the door handle moving, it stopped and opened. In walked a girl in a white dress, just like Namine’s dress she wore today, but he knew this figure to well. She was finally back to see him. The illusionary girl.