Kidnapping for the Truth

Chapter 25

~Aria's POV~

Dawn slowly regained her health. Xemnas said she need to be healthy before the extraction of the data. Luckily, it was taking longer than he thought. But she was never the same after she heard the truth about our past. Even though Dawn was reunited with me (this time as her sister), she was still upset. She has gone through so much. I wished that she didn't have to know about this.

Xemnas came everyday to check up on Dawn's recovery. But today he was late. I wondered why. But I took care of my sister. She meant more to me than anything else. "Sky? I mean, Aria?" She asked. Both of us were still getting used to calling each other our real names. "Yeah?" I asked back.

"I wanna go home." Dawn said.

"I know." I replied. "But, I don't even know if we have a home anymore. We have been living under a lie, that I can't understand. But if was to keep us safe, until now."

"I know that you feel this way." Dawn told me. "For some reason, I can feel the pain myself."

"Oh please, you probably feel the same thing because we were hurt the same way."

"No, I felt it before I was captured again." she admitted. I turned towards her, holding back my tears, and being confused about her remark. "After the ambush, and I woke up, I fell into a deep depression." Dawn began to tell a story. "While I was in my depression stage, I could feel the pain that fell upon your heart. I couldn't tell what happened to you while this was going on, but the reason behind my depression wasn't because my notebook was nowhere to be seen, or because Axel was thrown into the dungeon to be executed. It was because I was separated from the one person who stood beside me my whole life."

"Dawn..." I said, feeling speechless.

"I learned that I can survive without a notebook, because my best friend...well, now my sister, is the only thing I can't live without." She finished finally bursting into tears. I ran up to her and cries my eyes out. "Dawn, I want to tell you that you are the best person I have ever known. I could feel that same pain you felt during your depression phase." I finally admitted.

"Wow, what a heartwarming moment!" a sarcastically familiar voice said, surprising both of us. We turn to see Xigbar. We weren't exactly fond of him being around us, but we knew that if he was around, he brought trouble. "What do you want?" I asked, furiously.

"It's time." he said, after a moment of silence. He opened up a passage in the darkness, and stood to the side. Was it really time for that? That meant we would have to watch...oh no!

~Roxas's POV~

We sat around, absolutely trying to figure out what to do. We learned that Dawn (Luna) had fallen sick and weak from her depression, which meant the data inside her could cause a virus to be spread throughout the extraction. So until Dawn was fully healthy, the day of mine and Axel's extermination would have to wait. Sora and Riku would have to stay in the celll during both the data extraction and the extermination.

"This is so...boring!" Sora complained. Riku understood why Sora is like this, because Sora likes to have fun. Riku on the other hand, just relaxed and went into a thinking mode. Axel, just sits in the same spot, waiting for the day he gets to see Dawn again. As for me, I don't even know.

I leaned up against the bars of the cell, thinking about what would happen next, when suddenly, Saïx appeared through a gateway. We all look at him, waiting for something to be said. He walks over and chains handcuffs on Sora and Riku, which attaches to one of the walls, and then puts handcuffs on me and Axel. "It's time." he says. That meant...oh no!

~???'s POV~

I can feel it. That sorrow coming from the castle. As I sat on the skyscarper, I knew that setting foot in there would be more dangerous. But I did train to be stronger. My friends are in there, because of me. How did I let this happen?

As time was withdrawing, I quickly embraced myself and headed straight towards the castle, I once called home.