CHAPTER NINE
The silver-haired man clapped his hands together, "Back to business shall we?"
"I don't get it…w-what are you planning to do, Ansem?"
"Ansem?! No no NO! I am not Ansem! Ansem is a FOOL! An incompetent, frightened little fool not willing to finish this amazing research just because of some petty little theory he gained. But NO! I am not that miscreant! I am better! I am smarter! I am Xehanort! KU KU KU KU KU!"
"A little conceded…eh?"
The man stomped over to Reno and stuck his face within' an inch of his captive's, then smiled, "Such a cheeky boy. For that, I shall let your friend go first! You get to watch." he moved away from Reno then ordered Laumair to join him. "The extractor."
"Of course, sir." Laumair reached up on a nearby shelf and pulled down a small device with a pointed top and a strange symbol on it that looked to be two symbols merged in one. Half of the dark symbol that had been on the creatures Reno had seen in townAnd the other half was half of a silver symbol similar to the other, but longer. Laumair walked over to Rude and aimed the top of the device at Rude's chest., then pulled back a small switch that was located on the device's side. A black ray shot into his chest and squirmed. Rude's eye's shot open, and he screamed out in pain.
"NO! WHAT'RE YOU DOING TO HIM!?" Reno shouted, struggling against the straps.
The black ray thickened in density, it looped up and twisted, then pulled out of it's victim's chest bringing with it a glowing heart. As soon as the heart was fully out of his chest, the darkness wrapped around it and swallowed it. Rude's eyes darkened, and his body went limp.
The room was quiet with anticipation.
Rude's body jolted, then shattered in hundreds of orbs of light that sparkled and disappeared.
"USE IT! HURRY!" Xehanort shouted to Laumair who popped open a small compartment on the device and pressed a button that had been inside. From the device, white orbs of all sizes shot out in every direction then froze. Hovering near the door in the air was a large heartless. "The heartless…where's the nobodie?"
Laumair noticed something small poking up out of the ground, "Is that it, sir?" Xehanort looked over at the object, which was a small silver spike sticking up out of the ground.
"Heh…his heart wasn't strong enough…just as I expected." He turned to Reno, "You're friend's heart was pathetic."
Reno clenched his teeth. The orbs faded and behind Xehanort the small spike flew up into the air, into a thin, whip-like weapon. Soon followed by a second. The whips wavered for a second, then stiffened and began frantically swinging ahead towards Laumair who jumped back, "Sir! Please stop it!"
Tiny violet diamonds shop out of nowhere at the nobodie, and from a darkened portal like before, another cloaked figure stepped out, "Dude, totally not cool. Attacking your master." The whips withdrew, then from the ground popped up a strange nobodie with a large upper body.
"Xigbar, enough." Xehanort said, watching the nobodie waver in it's spot a little, "Well, well…he may have been weak, but his nobodie is a species I've never laid eyes on before. This will prove interesting research for a little while. Xigbar!"
"'Sup?"
"Teach it who it's masters are, but don't kill it. Laumair, you take care of our other guest."
"Yes sir, but one thing. Should I just let the shadow go?" he asked motioning towards the crazed shadow that had become disoriented from the orbs.
"Sure, whatever, it's of no use to us."
Xigbar closed in on the newly born nobody, while Laumair brought the machine over to Reno.
"GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!" Reno retorted, but he was completely helpless to stop it. The black ray slowly began to burrow inside of his chest. He felt a flash of cold rush through his body, as if his blood had slowly begun to turn to ice. He felt the marks from the side of his face slither under his eyes as his goggles shattered and fell to the floor.
"Finally! Another worthy one!" Reno heard Xehanort say just as his eyes began to lose focus. He began to remember things from his past. Walking through a beautiful flower patch in a broken-down church, fighting against spiky boy and his friends, getting drunk at the Turks bar with his best bud Rude. Then his vision became dark and his head dropped.
Xehanort and Laumair watched as Reno collapsed on the table, a flash of light burst from his body, enveloping everything in white. When the light began to fade and their eyes began to re-adjust, they noticed the man on the table was no longer the Turk they had brought in, but a similar man with longer flowing red hair, and dark blue marks under his eyes. This new man slowly rose his head with a devilish look and grinned.
"The name's Axel. Got it memorized?"
Xehanort's face twisted with pleasure. He balled his fists then threw his head back laughing maniacally. His laugh seemed to reach outside of Hallow Bastion where Leon and the others looked up for a moment. Sadness filled the room as they looked at each other, knowing that they had just condemned two men to the darkness…
Well, hope you guysliked the story. Although it did give birth to my favorite character, I still feel this was a sad ending XD Thank you guys for your wonderful comments!