Kingdom Hearts II: Home Sweet Sanctuary

Chapter 2: The Thief

Chapter 2

Irix's POV

A few moments later, Seifer fell onto his knee and heavily took breaths. "Hmph."

I looked at Roxas with the biggest of smiles and ran up to hug him. Rai and Fuu stood in front of Seifer.

"Seifer's just not feelin' so hot, y'know!" Rai said.

"When is he hot?" I narrowed my eyes and my friends snickered.

"Tournament decides." Fuu stated.

"Hey, Roxas, Irix!" We turned to Pence, who was holding his camera. Roxas held the struggle bat over his shoulder and I hugged his neck. His free arm went around my waist. There was a flash and we relaxed.

"You two need to get a room!" Hayner commented and I glared at him.

Then a grey kind of creature came in and snatched the camera away in and the... thing... cartwheel around a corner.

"What was that?" Hayner asked.

"The thief." Olette stated and we started running. I ran ahead with Roxas not too far behind me. We got to the woods and looked around.

"There!" Roxas pointed at the thing and ran after it. I was about when I saw a guy in a black coat. He was just staring at me. I gulped and backed away.

"Who are you?" I asked and he opened a portal behind him.

"Piri..." was all he said and he walked through the portal. Did he know the girl in my dream?

Roxas's screams filled the air.

"Hold on! I'm coming, Roxy!" I ran towards the mansion. Roxas was on the ground with a key-like weapon and the thief in front of him. "Hey! What do you think you're doing?"

It turned to me. It was a creature with a thin and sinuous body shape, a large head and was a light grey.

"The Time Duchess has the last piece, according to Superior."

"...Pardon?" I asked and it roared at me. "Well, whatever! How dare you hurt my boy!" It ran towards me.

"Ice!" Roxas yelled.

I gasped and put my hand up for protection, "Stop!"

I waited for a hit from it but nothing came. I opened my eyes and saw that blowhard was frozen in time.

"Wha-" that's when another key-like weapon showed up in my hand. It was like Roxy's but mine was black and dark grey and on the end of the keychain was white star. The creature unfroze and just stared at me. I simply took the key and whacked it with it. I smirked as it hit the wall gates of the mansion and disappeared. Roxas walked up to me.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"What the hell just happened!" I shouted and he shrugged. I looked at where the thief was and saw the pictures. I picked up one and looked at it. it was one of me, Roxas, Hayner, Olette, and Pence. "Well, at least we got these back. Let's go."