Child Of Promises

Chapter twenty-two

After Leon called his back up, Axel decided to give a call to Xion as well. Needless to say even with the two working in the restaurant together, both were surprised to find out the other was in on the mission. Xion already knew he was a a demon; his scent and the way he holds himself would tell her of that, but Leon had no idea she was a puppeteer mage and was quite surprised. The only way she could tell she had surprised him though was the miniscule widening of his eyes and the way he had tensed when he saw her, though Xion can't fault the demon soldier for being caught off guard; mage's are usually able to mask themselves as normal humans given the fact they were actual normal humans once upon a time, they are just raised to handle powerful magic.

"All right, I still think they're at the warehouses," Axel says when all the necessary people have arrived.

This team seems to comprise of a short haired higher assassin demon named Yuffie, a nature fairy named Aerith, and a fallen angel known as Cloud. Fallen angels are pretty common these days, but they usually tend to be loners; and don't often help unless they get good payment for it in varying ways depending on the job and person. Cloud however is Leon's other half, surprisingly enough, and because of this Cloud is willing to help pro bono.

"How do you know?" Cloud asks, "it's been a day, for all we know they could have been taken somewhere else."

"Where else would they take them?" Axel replies, raking his hand through his spikes and sending them into further disarray, "Xemnas wouldn't be holing up in a run down place like that if it wasn't for a good reason; I've been around him long enough to know that much."

"But you didn't find them when you went in," Kairi says, "where would they be hiding them then?"

"That's the thing isn't it?" Yuffie jumps in, "if they've been hiding there for some time, then they would have secret rooms and stuff like that, it's pretty much the only logical thing to go off of if they haven't moved to a new location."

Xion shakes her head, "I wouldn't know anything about secret rooms, I haven't been with them since I was fifteen."

Axel sighs, "I have no clue where their cubby holes are either."

"That's perfectly fine," Yuffie smiles, "you forget, I'm an Assassin; we can find things like that with relative ease. We also have a pretty powerful demon soldier on our side, so I'm sure we'll find them in no time."

"Don't be so confident," Leon warns her, "they could have special barriers around the rooms that can mask the boys."

"They might have members blocking the way as well," Cloud adds, voice quiet as he looks to the floor in thought.

Yuffie turns around and puts her hands on her hips, grinning down at them as she says, "oh, don't start being a couple of fuddie duddies; have faith in the Great Assassin Yuffie okay?" She fist pumps as she says this, confidence coming off of her like a strong torrent of wind. Leon sighs long sufferingly, far too use to the Assassin Demon's attitude while Cloud shakes his head with a miniscule smile, finding her confidence somewhat refreshing.

"So how do you think we should do this?" The latter asks.

Yuffie's smirk becomes more sheepish as her hand goes to scratch her cheek, "I was hoping someone else would have a plan for that..." the other members face palm at that.

"I think I know what we can do," Kairi jumps in. Leon nods, turning to face her.

"We're all ears Weather Maker..."

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Roxas groans as he comes back to consciousness, feeling as if he had been rammed multiple times by a large truck. He has his hands tied behind his back and legs tied together with some kind of chain and is laying in a dark room with several boxes around him. He moves his head and looks to the left, finding a large burly man sitting on a stool with an oddly shaped red hammer.