Lord of the Castle
“Demyx!!!!!” Axel shouted right as Roxas hit him with the Keyblade. Demyx came into the room and ran over to Rixa.
“Donald!” Roxas shouted, dodging a chakram. “Get Rixa!” he landed another hit on Axel.
Donald ran over to Rixa, but before he got there, Demyx casted a water shield with his sitar, blocking anything from getting in.
“I’m sorry Rixa!” Donald called, turning around and casting a blizzard spell on Axel, knowing that it was his weakness.
‘If only I could get untied,’ Rixa thought. But she didn’t have anything that would help her. All she could do was sit and watch as her friends fought Axel and Demyx, who saw making water replicas of himself. Rixa was helpless.
Donald and Goofy were getting worn out, but Roxas had rage on his side. He kept hitting Axel over and over again, nonstop until Roxas delt such a strong blow, it knocked Axel to the ground. Roxas thought that he was dead, so he ran over to Demyx, trying to get him to loose the shield. He did, and Roxas went over to Rixa, trying to untie the ropes that held her to the chair.
“You came for me,” she whispered.
“Of course I did,” Roxas said. “I love you.” Rixa smiled and just happened to look behind Roxas and saw Axel struggling to get up. When he couldn’t, he grabbed one of his chakrams off of the floor and threw it at them.
“Look out!” Rixa screamed. Roxas turned around to have a chakram slam into him in the chest, sending him flying back against the wall. “Roxas!!” she yelled again. Anger flashing through her eyes, she looked at Axel, now standing on his feet. “You stupid son of a-“ she didn’t get to finish. Demyx had clamped his hand over Rixa’s mouth, preventing her from saying anything.
“I’ll get Roxas and the girl,” Axel said to Demyx. “You get the other two.” Rixa watched as Axel walked over to Roxas, picked him up and slung him over his shoulder. Then he went over to her and untied the rope that secured her to the chair, leaving the ones on her hands alone. “Come on,” he told her. ‘Let’s go.” Rixa got up out of the chair and followed Axel out the door, Demyx right behind her with Donald and Goofy.
Rixa didn’t know where they were going. Only that it was a long walk. By the time they got to their destination, Rixa was missing the chair that she has been sitting in for an hour and a half. They walked into a circular room with really tall chairs all along the wall. In the center of the room, was a circular platform with the nobody symbol on the floor of it.
“Axel, Demyx. Did you have trouble?” a man with a really deep voice asked.
“A little, Superior,” Axel said. “They were being….. uncooperative. Three are unconscious.” The Superior looked down at where Rixa was standing.
“And the girl?” he asked.
“She was the bait,” Axel responded. “Without her, Roxas never would have come here.”
“What is her name?” he asked.
“Rixa.” The Superior looked at Axel. He hadn’t said anything. Rixa stepped up. “I’m Rixa. And I know who you are,” she said. “You’re Xemnas, leader of Organization XIII.” Xemnas took off his hood.
“You are right,” he said. “Very smart girl. We should keep her. Such a waste that we have to get rid of the others.” He snapped his fingers and three other people in black coats appeared. Rixa looked from the others of Xemnas. “Sixa, Xigabar, Xaldin, bring them to me,” he said. They picked up Roxas, Donald and Goofy and set them down on the platform in the middle of the room. Xemnas raised his hand and they started glowing. Rixa somehow knew what was going to happen and she had to do something.
“Wait!” she shouted, jumping up on the platform with them. “If they go, so do I.” Xemnas sighed and looked at Axel, who grabbed her arm and pulled her down, grasping her in a tight embrace.
“Lemme go you big oaf!” Rixa said, struggling to get free. They started glowing again and Rixa went haywire. “Stop!” she said. “Stop it!!” Xemnas wouldn’t listen.
Rixa was filled with rage. She could feel the darkness from her heart expand and grow. Her necklace began to glow and she began to change shape. Black ears erupted from her head, black fur replaced her clothes, she sprouted a tail, and she had big, black paws. Axel let go of her and she landed on all fours. Everybody’s eyes were popping out of their heads and jaws were touching the floor.
Letting out rasping snarl, Rixa sprang up to where Xemnas was sitting and lashed out with her claws at his face. Xemnas got out of the way and jumped down to the floor to summon a darkness portal, unable to get one up where he was sitting.
Looking down upon everybody from Xemnas’s seat, Rixa saw Roxas move and sit up, Donald and Goofy doing the same seconds later. Roxas looked around and saw everybody’s jaws touching the floor. He glanced up and saw Rixa, standing on the chair, tail lashing back and forth, ears twitching. She leaped down from the chair, landing on Xemnas, growling. He looked absolutely terrified.
Without looking, Rixa sprang off of Xemnas and next to Roxas on the platform. Tilting her head back, she let out a fierce roar that shook the whole room. Terrified, the nobodies ran out of the room, yelling and screaming the whole way.
“Rixa?” Roxas asked. She chuckled and licked his face. Nudging her head under Roxas’s arm, she lifted him up and onto her back, running out of the room with Donald and Goofy right behind them.
Meeting no resistance, they ran straight out of the castle and through the deserted city surrounding it. When they got to the portal, the gummi ship was waiting for them, and they ran onto it, the door closing behind them. Exausted, Rixa flopped down on the floor, still in panther form. Roxas came and lay down next to her, stroking her fur.
“Ya know,” he said. “You look really good as a cat.” That was the last thing Rixa had heard before she sank into unconsciousness.
End of Chapter