Sanger Sister
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 @ 04:25pm
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Story Never Told, 1
DAY 1Light footsteps echoed against the hollow floor of a vacant, silent hallway; only one of many in the long-standing metal city. The city itself had stood for many, many years yet had remained unoccupied for a very long time due to unknown reasons. Now, the only inhabitants were a group of shady characters whose faces were unknown to the public. As if they didn’t actually exist. In fact it was possible that even to this day no one knew the city had become populated again. They had merely chanced upon this city and claimed it as their new found base. Each of the many rooms contained a computer and each computer was linked to the central core; the very core that kept the city functioning as it should.
The footsteps began to speed up little by little until they reached the point of a run. Argent Cava’s breath came in short, fast intervals as she rounded the corner, nearly tumbling over another Organization XIII member in her haste. “Watch it!” Larxene snapped. Ignoring her, Argent continued on down the hallway. It was still unclear as to why she was in such a hurry, but as soon as the voices from down the hall floated to her eardrums her already brisk pace became much faster. “So your other little puppets fell down on the job and you want me to pick up the slack, is that right?” It was Axel’s voice. She came to a halt in front of one of the doors, peering through a slight crack in the ajar door. “Yes. It’s becoming a problem and we’ve already lost Xigbar and Xaldin.” And that voice belonged to Saix. Argent’s eyes narrowed at the tall man just as she heard Axel let out a small chuckle. “I’m not anyone’s puppet. Got it memorized?” She allowed herself a small smile as she watched Axel tap his temple with his pointer finger. Saix almost looked taken aback, but he didn’t rebuttal. “Just see to it that you don’t fail,” were the last words Saix spoke before the darkness enveloped him and he disappeared.
Without thinking, Argent launched herself into the room and latched her arms around Axel’s waist. It was the most she could do considering their height difference; she was too short to do anything else really. “A-Argent?!” She was silent. “What’re you doing?” “It’s called a hug you idiot,” she snapped. “I know that, what I meant to ask was why? You’re uh, kind of panicky.” Argent breathed in, steadying her frantic heartbeat. It was hard for her to remember that Nobodies didn’t have Hearts and therefore couldn’t feel the same way she and countless others could. The way that humans and demons could. “Sorry.” Still she didn’t let go. “What’s wrong?” Axel finally asked. “I heard Zexion and Demyx talking about the mission Saix decided to send you on. It’d be a challenge even for a daemon like me.” See, Argent wasn’t completely human. Not anymore. She’d given up half of her humanity when she died.
While trying to protect her blind elder brother from an enraged demon, she’d lost her life and fell into the ocean. There, she was brought back by a koi fish who exchanged his life so that she could live again. Every animal on the Earth has the choice to give up their life so that a human who has died can return to life as a half-demon. Later on her elder brother was brought back as well since she had been unable to protect him from the demon.
Argent sighed internally. What was wrong with her? The things she was feeling now were things Axel couldn’t hope to understand without a Heart of his own. She moved to pull away when her eyes shot open and she stopped.
Axel’s arms were wrapped around her back. Her silver eyes shot up to meet his green ones. “Apparently this is what you’re supposed to do to comfort someone.” It was funny how unsure he sounded. “At least I think I’m doing it right,” he added, frowning. This forced her into a smile. One of her hands reached up and she curled her fingers around his forearm. “There’s an 83% chance you could die I hope you know,” she stated bluntly. It was Axel’s turn to smile. “I’m the best fighter. Got it memorized?” Argent sighed and pulled back. She cared for Axel, really she did, but sometimes he was a bit too overconfident. “I should go then,” Argent said, “It’s probably not smart to keep Larxene waiting,” she mumbled. Without another word she opened the darkness and vanished with it.
Axel rubbed the back of his head, still trying to figure out exactly what had just happened. “That was…different,” he finally said. He shook his head as if he was trying to shake out a thought. Still feeling as though he were missing something, his hand sliced through the air and he let the darkness swallow him up.
It didn’t take more than a few moments for Argent to arrive in the Grey Room where she found only Saix and Demyx who was, as usual, lazing around on the couch with his sitar. Larxene was no where to be found. Argent gave Saix a questioning sidelong glance, her face stoic. “Larxene has already left. She got tired of waiting for you,” he said simply. “She’s in-” “Twilight Town. I know,” she interrupted. “We’re looking for the giant Neoshadow.” Saix narrowed his eyes. “See that you don’t keep her waiting any longer,” he ordered, but the words were spoken on empty ears. Because Argent had already left.
As expected, Larxene was ever so pissed when she finally showed up. “What the hell took you so long?” she demanded, leaning into the hand on her hip. Argent huffed, swiping out her staff. It was about as tall as she was and made of an elegant blue-silver. At the end it opened and widened, sloping outwards. A transparent, pale blue crystal floated in its center. It served as her magic’s outlet and a weapon in hand to hand combat as well. “Just keep up,” Argent snapped, turning on her heel to face the sandlot. “Tsk, fine. Where should we look?” Larxene muttered. Argent turned her gaze to the sky. It was still around afternoon, she decided, from the way the shadows were thrown against the town. “From what we know the Neoshadow isn’t sensitive to lighted areas. If anything that’s where it usually is. So we should try the station plaza.” She didn’t wait for her bitter teammate to comment, turning her direction toward the plaza.
On the way there were few Heartless and the ones that did show were weak and easy to dispose of. Pity. Argent had been hoping for more of a challenging mission than this. Was Saix trying to tick her off or was he just naturally this annoying? And when it came time, the Neoshadow too was quickly and quietly disposed of. Her staff vanished into thin air, her hand falling to her side. Argent gave Larxene a disapproving glare. “I’ll have to tell Saix to start letting me do solo missions. You aren’t any help at all,” she rebuked, practically snapping out the last few words. Larxene flinched angrily. “You little-” Argent didn’t give her the time to finish her rant. “Go home. I’ve go something to take care of.” Moving her attention for the tram common she walked towards the ice cream store as Larxene’s angry glare seared into her back.
In all honesty she hadn’t relaxed like this in a good long time. Argent’s feet dangled over the edge of the clock tower as the setting sun threw wild, warm colors across the sky and bled into the faraway ocean. She took a lick of her sea salt ice cream while the sky darkened. “Oh, hey Argent.” Argent looked over her shoulder. “Hey Xion. Roxas with you?” Xion took a spot next to her friend, regretfully shaking her head as she licked her own ice cream stick. “He’s working late today. Speaking of our friends, I haven’t seen Axel all day today. Do you know where he is Argent?” she asked unexpectedly. Argent paused mid-lick at the question, but quickly resumed diminishing the ice cream and took another lick. “I think Saix sent him on a really important mission,” she mumbled around the popsicle stick, “He may not be back for a little bit.” Xion responded with a grin. “Good for him~ I’m sure he’ll be back really soon,” she said optimistically. Argent returned the grin, but couldn’t put any meaning behind it the way Xion seemed to. Spitting out the empty stick, Argent sighed as she got to her feet. “I just remembered that I was supposed to RTC immediately after the mission was over. Saix’ll have my head if I’m not back soon,” she lied, rubbing the back of her head with a sheepish laugh. Xion chuckled. “Alright, you go on ahead. I’ll head back in a little bit.” Argent nodded, waving goodbye.
Still, as she walked away, Argent felt the guilt of lying to Xion like that set an anvil on her chest. She guessed that old, wiser-than-you-might-think saying was true after all. A Heart really was a heavy burden.
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