Chapter 7

Time was frozen, he could see the hit coming, but it wasn’t moving. The dark figure was stuck, he couldn’t move either, but he was conscious. Apart from the dark figure, he felt another presence coming towards him, it was familiar, but no one came to mind. He felt himself getting lighter and lighter, he then saw his own body move from the position it was in and walk behind the figure and to Sora, who was cut up pretty badly. He recognised his surroundings now, it was the night where he and Axel had burned down the restaurant. Over where Sora was, balls of light came from the ground and his body walked back and into its original position. Roxas was now back inside of his body, viewing the area from his own point of view. Time had resumed and he blocked with his keyblade, unleashing its power and destroying all the surrounding darkness.

Roxas.

He heard a noise, someone calling to him. This happened too often for his liking, but at least it gave him a sense of what was happening.

Roxas.

There it was again, was it the girl? Or someone else? Whoever it was they were probably going to be saying his name until he responded.

“Roxas!”

He opened his eyes and saw that Xion was over him, looking extremely worried. He swore that it wasn’t Xion calling out to him but he didn’t care. Most of his vision was black, it must still be night.

“We have to go, now!”

Xion pulled him up off the ground, then he saw what most of his vision was consumed by. The darkness. His house was covered in it wall to wall. Creatures were forming in front of his eyes. They hadn’t attacked them yet, he wondered why. He looked around, but no one but he and Xion were in the room. The door was blocked off by the darkness, it was leaking through it into the house, the steps were still usable but they would have to get there quick. Xion saw that the staircase was usable and dragged Roxas with her over to it. Climbing up the stairs, the darkness followed, creating creatures as it covered more ground. They went into the bedroom and shut the door, hoping that it would slow down the darkness.

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“What do we do Roxas?”

“Only thing really is to fight. Stay in the corner and don’t move.”

Xion rushed over to the corner while Roxas summoned his keyblade. The familiar balls of light came from the ground and formed the blade in his hand. It was glowing bright, but not as bright as it was that night. The door burst open in front of him, dark creatures pouring into the room. He went straight into them, swinging his blade at them. For every one he killed there was another one to take its place instantly, but his keyblade continued to glow stronger each time he killed one. The darkness was throwing itself at him, only to get cut down and make him stronger. The keyblade was glowing almost pure white now, the darkness was getting weaker. He tried to stab his blade straight into it, however it formed an arm like shape and hit the keyblade out of his hands and across the room. Roxas retreated quickly, but it disappeared right in front of his eyes in a dark portal. Xion was yelling at him, trying to get his attention, she herself was getting dragged into a portal as well, he though he saw a white hand pulling her in, but before he could confirm that, Xion was through the portal. The darkness was closing in on him from behind, striking at him rapidly, he rolled to get out of the way. He was now in front of the same portal Xion had just got pulled into, it was now or never, save Xion or don’t. He ran into the portal, and to his surprise it closed behind him, leaving the darkness behind.

He watched her as she continued to piece together the junk from the pile, she was much colder than before, but she wasn’t stopping. He walked over to her and pulled on her dress, making her look at him.

“I’m fine, I can still move.”

He shook his head in response.

“You want me to go inside.”

He nodded.

“What about you? Are you going to look for more pieces?”

Another nod in response.

“Please, stay with me.”

He grabbed her hand, then letting go shortly after and began to walk into the distance hills. He stopped and turned around to face her.

I’ll be back soon.

Waving at her, she walked into the small house, away from the outside cold.

A bit short, I took an extra week to see if I could add more but nothing would fit. But at least the next chapter will be longer.