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Hearts of Vengeance Chap 9

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CHAPTER 9

Marluxia sighed with exasperation as he watched the battle from Ansem’s computer.  “Blasted Steiner,” he grumbled, “He’s let me down!  I knew it was too good to be true!”  He slammed his scythe down irritably as he glared hatefully at the image of Roxas.  “How dare these weeds make their place in my future garden?  And THOSE weeds,” Marluxia ranted, pointing to Roxas and Axel, “are the most wretched weeds of them all!”

THE QUESTION IS HOW COULD YOU ALLOW THESE ‘CHILDREN’ TO DEFEAT YOU?

Marluxia turned to one of the side monitors to find out who the new voice was.  “Great, now what’s going on?”  He turned to the side monitor to see a youthful, beautiful woman with shoulder length brown hair walk onto the battlefield.  She was dressed in what looked like a white leather teddy, with a white leather cloak worn around it, nylon stockings and white leather boots on her legs and an eye patch over her right eye.  “Who the hell is she?” Marluxia wondered, before noting Steiner’s shocked expression.  “Oho, it seems Steiner knows her,” he said with an amused grin.  “Let’s see how this plays out.”

Back in Twilight Town, Steiner’s jaw was almost on the floor as he pointed to the newcomer.  “It’s you!” He exclaimed.  “Beatrix!”

“So you remember me after all these years,” Beatrix said in an uninterested tone, “I’m so flattered.”

“I thought...  I thought you were dead,” Steiner explained, “I searched everywhere for you, but I couldn’t find you ANYWHERE!”  Steiner struggled to his feet, using his sword to steady himself.  “But all this time, you’ve been alive and well.”

“Well!?” Beatrix suddenly lost her cool. “I was tortured mentally and physically and lost the use of my right eye!  YOU never bothered to do anything to help me back there!  I thought you loved me, Steiner, but it looks like I was wrong!”  Beatrix sniffed back a few tears before drawing her great white sword.  “Now, Save the Queen shall taste your blood!”

“No!  That’s not true,” Steiner waved his arms in panic.  “That accident wasn’t my fault!  I never wanted you to be harmed!  Please, Beatrix!  Hear me out!  If you’d just—”

“Shut up!  I’ve had enough of your lies,” Beatrix shot, and prepared to attack Steiner, “Normally; I would not attack a wounded man, but in your case—”

Roxas griped both Oath Keeper and Oblivion, as he stood in between Steiner and Beatrix.  “Now hold on a minute, here!  How do you know for sure he did it anyhow?”

Beatrix just glared at Roxas angrily.  “Be quiet, Keybearer,” she growled, “This is one of your concern!”

“It IS my concern now,” Roxas defied Beatrix, “since you’re being so belligerent and narrow minded.  After I fought Steiner, I’ve come to realize that he’s not a bad man and most certainly not the type to do whatever he did to you!”

Beatrix held up “Save the Queen” warningly to Roxas.  “I won’t say it again.  This is MY problem, and not something that the wielder of a Keyblade should concern himself with.”

“Beatrix…”  Steiner wondered if she was lost to him now.

“If you don’t get out of my way,” Beatrix threatened Roxas, “I will be forced to do this. STOCK BREAK!” “Save the Queen” shone with white light as Beatrix raised the sword up above her head, and struck it against the ground.

Roxas yelped in surprise as columns of light erupted all around him, threatening to engulf and burn him. He jumped and twirled about in the air, trying to dodge the light beams, before he got an opening and dived at Beatrix, spinning like a top and swinging his Keyblades around him, coming at her like a spinning missile.

In response, Beatrix jumped at Roxas and swung her sword at him with all her might.

CHING!

The sound of clashing steel echoed out as Roxas and Beatrix landed on opposite sides.  Turning around, they lunged at each other, Roxas with Sonic Rave and Beatrix with Climhazzard, and the sounds of metal upon metal echoed out as Keyblade met Knight Sword, and the two combatants grappled against one another.

As Roxas and Beatrix fought, Axel and Larxene lead Steiner to safety and ran off with him before Beatrix noticed.

“Hmph,” Beatrix snorted, “You’re not too bad with the Keyblade.”

“You’re pretty good with your sword,” Roxas commented, “But there’s one thing,” The Key of Destiny informer her.

“What’s that?”

“I’m still…BETTER!  FINAL BREAK!”  Roxas suddenly broke the grapple and struck Beatrix up into the air with the Oblivion, slamming her in the torso, before leaping after her and striking her two more times, raising her higher with each blow.

Before Roxas could strike a finishing blow, though, Beatrix recovered in mid-air and parried his final attack, knocking them both out of the air, and forcing them to land on their feet.

‘Damn, she broke my attack,’ Roxas cursed mentally.

Beatrix began to look around, noticing that they were all alone. “Wait a minute… Steiner’s not here anymore!  You tricked me boy,” Beatrix glared, gripping her sword, “Do you know what I do to interlopers!?”

“Fortunately for him, he’s not gonna find out, because YOU are not gonna do anything to him!”  A voice shouted out, followed by a shower of kunai.

Beatrix stared in confusion as a circle of kunai surrounded her, followed by the blonde “antennae hair” woman from before landing in front of her.  Suddenly, the kunai began to spark with electricity dangerously before suddenly igniting and trapping Beatrix in a cage of electricity.  “What’s going on here!?”  Beatrix demanded angrily and tried to reach out of the cage.  BZZT!!  Beatrix was shocked instantly and drew her hand back quickly.

“Larxene!”  Roxas exclaimed as the Savage Nymph came in.

Larxene landed on the ground in a hand stand, her pleated skirt flipping and flashing navy blue laced panties. “Heh, you didn’t think we’d actually leave you here do you?” Larxene asked rhetorically with a wink and smile as she flipped onto her feet and produced another set of kunai in her hand.

Beatrix growled and gripped her sword angrily.  “How dare you!  You can’t do this to me,” she exclaimed angrily.

“I already have,” Larxene smirked, “so now it’s time to go.”  She clicked her kunai, and the electrical cage started to shrink around Beatrix.

Beatrix got down on her hands and knees, before huddling up on the ground, to try and avoid the electricity from the shrinking force field, but it was no use as she soon felt the sting of electricity on her back and rump, before her entire body was engulfed in electricity and electrified.  Beatrix screamed in agony and reared up as electrical energy pumped through every nerve and muscle in her body, paralyzing her.  But as quickly as it came, it quickly went at the same time.  Beatrix gasped for air before passing out right on the groaned with a defeated moan.  “Steiner…”

“Sheesh,” Roxas sighed, “And I thought YOU were a psycho bitch.”

“Hey!” Larxene bopped Roxas across the head for his remark.

“Ouch,” Roxas grunted and rubbed his head, “Anyway, what do we do with her?”

“Leave her to me,” Steiner suddenly appeared before them, “She’s my responsibility, and I’m sorry you had to get involved in this.”

“What’s up with her, anyway?”  Larxene asked.

“She’s an old flame, long thought dead,” Steiner told them, “And her “death,” was my entire fault.  It all started during a job together, when we were hired by a man named DiZ to exterminate a group of Nobodies loose in Twilight Town.  When we finally confronted the white creatures in the tunnels—”

FLASHBACK

Steiner was underneath Twilight Town, in the connecting tunnels as Dusks and Creeper Nobodies were coming at him from all sides.

“FLAMETONGUE!”  Steiner’s sword ignited into flames as he rushed at a group of Dusk Nobodies, before he swung his flaming blade at them, cutting right through the white creatures and destroying them.  Another group of Dusks started to come up behind him, while he was preoccupied with his own group and prepared to strike him, when—

“STOCK BREAK!”  In a flash of light, the Dusks were eradicated.

Steiner turned around just in time to seen his sneak attacker vaporized.  “What in blazes—”

“Steiner!”

Steiner turned around to see Beatrix running towards him.

“Be careful!  There’s another wave of Nobodies coming this way!”  Beatrix yelled in warning, unaware of the Creepers materializing behind her, transforming into swords to stab her.

“Beatrix!  Duck!  THUNDER SLASH!”  Steiner leapt into the sky and slashed through the air, shooting a wave of electricity Beatrix’s way.

Beatrix yelped and ducked, as the lightning wave blasted the Nobodies behind her.  When she stood up she looked over to the nearest tunnel to find the next wave of Dusks and Creepers coming towards them.  “No,” she gasped, “they’re already here!” She held her sword tightly.

“Stay close to me,” Steiner told Beatrix as they stood back to back, Nobodies surrounding them.

Creeper and Dusks were coming from different sides as the two warriors swung their swords at any creatures that got too close.  But no matter how hard or fast Steiner and Beatrix cut down the Nobodies, the white creatures just seemed to re-spawn.  Steiner and Beatrix found themselves in a tight spot, as an ocean of Nobodies seemed to surround them.  Things looked like they couldn’t get much worse.  But they did, more so than Steiner could ever realize.

Suddenly, through the sea of Dusks and Creeper, a lone Dancer Nobody leapt out and grabbed Beatrix.

“AH!  Unhand me!  Let me go!”  Beatrix flailed about, trying to break free, but the Dancer tightened it’s grip before throwing Beatrix out to the lesser Nobodies, who swarmed over like flies to a piece of meat.  “Get away, before I cut you to ribbons!”  Beatrix yelled out, but the Nobodies kept swarming her.  “S-Steiner!  I need help!”  Beatrix’s cries were muffled Dusks and Creepers piled on top of her.

“Beatrix, no!”  Steiner yelled out in horror as he watched his partner become swamped.  Determined to rescue her, he gathered up all of his energy into his sword, which sparked and glowed with intense power.  He concentrated all of his focus and energy into this one attack, before leaping into the air and releasing it at the Nobodies.  “SHOCK!”  Steiner brought his sword down and an intense explosion of energy erupted from the sea of Nobodies, engulfing the entire area with light.  

Underneath the heavy pile of Nobodies, Beatrix’s vision was suddenly obscured by the intense energy storm.  “Th-That attack…  Is that “Shock?”  She suddenly felt the energy intensify as the Nobodies began to disappear, while still hiding onto her.  “Steiner...” Beatrix called out before everything went white.

The energy storm seemed to last for about half a minute before it finally cleared down and neither the Nobodies nor Beatrix were found.  Steiner nearly dropped his sword in shock at what just happened.  “No…  It can’t be.  It just can’t!  Beatrix!”  There was no answer, nor would there ever be for quite some time.

END FLASHBACK

“Since then,” Steiner continued, “I looked all through the tunnels for any sign of Beatrix and the Nobodies but found nothing.  Eventually I presumed she was dead, until now,” he looked at Beatrix’s sleeping form and lifted her into his arms.  “Frankly I don’t blame her for how she feels.  I failed to protect her, and most likely my attack left her with one less eye.”

“What are you going to do?”  Roxas asked.

“What else?”  Steiner asked rhetorically.  “I’m going to do whatever it takes to make amends…”   He turned around, Beatrix still in his arms, and he began to walk off somewhere into town.

In Steiner’s arms, Beatrix began to stir.  “Mmmm…  What happened?”  She suddenly looked up to see Steiner above her.  “S-Steiner?  You’ve saved me?  I don’t understand…”

“Beatrix,” Steiner began, “just hear me out when we get back, please,” he looked at her with a stern, yet pleasing look.

“…Alright,” was all the Beatrix could say, before she closed her eyes and went into a state of rest once more.

Meanwhile from the laboratory, Marluxia was pretending to choke and make gagging noises at the scene he saw.  “Cough, HACK!  Oh how disgusting!”  Marluxia acted like a heckler in a theater audience before he switched the monitor that showed Beatrix and Steiner off in disgust.  “Bah!  That went terrible!”  He slammed the floor with the bottom of his scythe.  “It seems that I’m going to have to eliminate Roxas and his friends myself!”  He glared hatefully at the image of Roxas.  “Mark my words, Roxas,” he threatened the image, “I won’t allow you to mock and make a fool of me any longer!”  He took out a small vial of pink fluid from his breast pocket.  “It looks as though I may have to employ a use for this after all.”

When Beatrix awoke, she found herself in what looked like the inside of a fancy hotel room.  One would not expect the living quarters of “Faris’ Pirate Brig” to look so well kept, but Faris always insisted not to judge by appearances.  ‘A bounty hunter/mercenary,’ Beatrix thought as she lay upon one of the soft beds, her light brown hair spread out like a lion’s mane, ‘So this is the kind of life Steiner leads now, ever since that day.’  That’s when she realized how she felt a little light, on clothing that is.  Sitting up she noticed the chair in front of her bed, where her battle uniform/armor was draped, and that her hourglass body was clad in only her frilled light blue satin bra and panties.  She also had some bandages covering her slender legs and thighs as well as her stomach, no doubt to patch up lightning burns.

Steiner came in at that very moment, his torso armor and helmet off leaving him shirtless, his face showing concern as he brought in a warm drink for Beatrix.  “Ah, you’re awake.  How are you, Beatrix?”  He gazed at her beautiful face, and couldn’t help but feel regret as he saw her right eye which was white and pupil-less, signifying that Beatrix was permanently blind in that one eye.

“I’m…fine.” Beatrix felt a bit awkward in her position, as she watched Steiner deposit the drink on the side table.  “Steiner,” Beatrix asked as she took the drink in her hand, “Can I as you something?” She took a sip of her drink.

Steiner already knew what she wanted to ask.  “Do you want to know what REALLY happened, do you not?”

“Yes,” Beatrix nodded, “I thought that you had abandoned me and let the Nobodies take me away…”  She shuddered at the memory of her trapped in the darkness, a mere play thing of the Nobodies.  They had tortured and abused her physically and mentally, trying to reduce her to a catatonic state so they could extract her heart for their own.  The Nobodies sneered and jeered at her, filling her head with lies, and telling her that Steiner had abandoned her and left her to their devices.

Steiner shook his head and looked her dead in the eye.  “I tried to save you,” he told her, “I used “SHOCK” to try and drive the Nobodies away from you.  But at that very moment, it seemed as though the ones that held you captive escaped at the last moment.  I searched high and low through Twilight Town but couldn’t find you…  It was then that I thought they had killed you,” Steiner shivered, “I failed you.  I’m sorry.”

Ever since she had escaped, Beatrix had wanted vengeance against Steiner for his “betrayal” and “abandonment.”  But now, it was clear that she was merely manipulated by the Nobodies.  When she saw how sad and remorseful Steiner was, and how he looked her in the eye and told her the truth, she couldn’t be angry.  “Oh Steiner,” she whispered, a tear coming from her blind eye, “come here,” she motioned for him to come close.

Steiner moved in closer to Beatrix’s bedside and leaned over.  In one second, Beatrix’s arms were around him as she hugged him tightly for all it was worth, her body pressing up against his bare chest. “You’re forgiven,” she whispered in his ear, “I’m sorry too,” she kissed his cheek lightly.

TO BE CONTINUED
(Next chapter is on the way. I bet you’re all curious as to WHO the new character is. Well, you shall all find out soon. I don’t own Kingdom Hearts, or any of Square Enix’s characters or Disney’s characters.)
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