Hello, one and all! Welcome to another one of Kawaii Overdose's messed up, fluffy Demyx fics! WOO!
Anyway, this is just a little idea I came up with not too long ago. If you like it, I would advise you to put it on your Alert list right away. I don't plan on working on it at a constant pace, as Kingdom Hearts: Advent Children and The Melody That Never Was are my top priorities at the moment, but if I ever do update this, you'll know. And now that you know that... please don't yell at me for not updating. I gave you a reason, please don't forget it.
Enjoy!
Demyx, Xigbar and all related characters are (c) to Nomura, Disney, and Squeenix
...This is a story that takes place on Hollow Bastion... a world well on its way to its former glory...
...It is a story that is spectacular in some ways, and at the same time, quite ordinary...
...And it begins... with two cloaked men... on a roof...
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"...Xig?"
"Yeah, dude?"
"Why are we doing this again?"
Xigbar sighed. "Man Demyx, you're such a spaz. We're here to keep tabs on that Restoration Commitee."
"I know that." Demyx replied curtly. "I just wanna know why we're doing it and not trying to stop the Keybearer kid like the others."
"Oh." Xigbar said. "I guess Xemmy thinks we can find that kid's weakness through these chumps. No clue why we're the ones doing it though."
Demyx sighed. Things had been like this for the past few weeks now. Everyday he and Xigbar would go to Hollow Bastion and spy on all these people. What a stupid idea, he thought. They didn't even know any of these Restoration guys!
Well, that wasn't entirely true; he and Xigbar had made nicknames for all the members so it was easier to remember. The guy with the long brown hair was named "Wingy", due to the small red wings printed on the back of his black jacket. The short haired girl with the headband was "Ninja", since on many occasion they had seen her practice with a shuriken. The other guy with the short blonde hair was "Toothpick"; he always seemed to have one in his mouth. And the really old guy with the beard was simply "Old Guy".
The only one they did not name yet was her. She was a beautiful brunette, her slimming figure showing through her pink and white dress. At first, she was just "Pinky", a name Demyx came up with and thought was easy to remember, but Xigbar argued that it wasn't "creative" enough. After that, she was "Bo", since they had seen her cleaning off and practicing with an old metal bo staff in her room, but the two Nobodies both agreed it made her sound like she was a guy. Then her name was "Healy" for her healing techniques, but then there was fighting over how to spell said name. Finally, they discovered her love of flowers, making her name "Marluxia's Ideal Girlfriend", but when they remembered that Marluxia was dead and they could get no milage out of it, they gave up and called her "No-Name".
Now, Demyx never liked these tab-missions, but if he had to spy on anybody, he'd spy on No-Name. She had to be the sanest one of the Restoration Commitee (which said a lot about the Commitee, and he had good reason to believe that after he and Xiggy were nearly stabbed by Ninja's wayward shuriken), and she was also very social, much more so than Wingy. She had youth at her side as opposed to Old Guy, and she didn't speak in a somewhat annoying accent like Toothpick. And she was so pretty as well...
"Dem! No-Name's makin' a break for it!"
Xigbar's yell caused Demyx to leave the realm of fantasy and back into reality. He looked back to the door. No-Name wasn't trying to escape like Xig had made it sound; by the small basket of flowers in her hand, it seemed like she was just going on some errands, probably to sell said aromic plants.
"You want me to go after her?" Demyx asked his superior.
"Why not? You never seem t' have anythin' better t' do than stare at 'er anyway." Xigbar laughed, slapping the Nocturne on the back.
Demyx grumbled; he knew full well that he shouldn't look at No-Name all the time, especially with Xiggy around to poke fun at him. But then again, the Freeshooter wasn't one to talk. He had been keeping his good eye on Ninja a lot lately... creep. Oh well. It was Ninja's problem, not his.
Demyx hopped down from the roof of the building, landing in the alleyway as to not grab the attention of his prey. He silently followed after No-Name, hiding in the shadows, until they reached the abbey. It wasn't like No-Nae had noticed her wannabe-stalker when she got there, and even if she did, Demyx would always just rip up a portal and run like a maniac. Or he could do as the Legend of Zelda games had taught him: "When in doubt, play a song. It won't do anything, but the enemy will think you're too crazy to attack".
But no, instead, the Heartless had instead taken this shining opprotunity to come out of their little corner of darkness for din-din on No-Name's heart. They were two of Demyx's favorite types too; Soldiers and Red Jazzes. Maybe they had actually come to help him out and were just doing a terrible job at it. One could never tell.
It was your basic Heartless attack; the Soldiers surrounded the brunette, and the Red Jazzes swung in, making their not-so-little fiery bombs of almighty doom circle her as well. Being a water elemental, Demyx was about to give up his hiding spot in hopes of sending his water clones to protect poor No-Name from the transparent bombs, afterwords proceeding to run like all the Underworld was at his feet. But he soon noticed there was no need.
No-Name had removed a small metal rod from her pocket which extended like a telescope into her staff. Instead of attacking the Heartless head on, No-Name instead kept her rod close to her in deep concentration. In seconds water had slipped from the many cracks and fissures in the walls and ground and proceeded upward into a fountain. The Red Jazzes' bombs extinguished, and the said Heartless portaled out before they too suffered the same fate.
Demyx was in absolute awe as he watched from a safe distance, a wide grin growing on his face. He knew No-Name was special! He just found someone like him! Someone who resorted to their element than just sheer hack-n-slash techniques. And her element was water too! It was an added bonus!
It was at this point the Soldiers had began to attack. No-Name did not resort to her watery tactics. She instead twirled her staff in her hand, slamming it into one Soldier, then that Soldier into another, and so on until all Heartless in sight. No-Name swung her staff around and around, gaining enough momentum to the split second where she released the Heartless from her staff and sent them all flipping through the air like Eddie Gordo from TEKKEN when someone doesn't know how to do combos and are resorting to button mashing, far away and out of sight.
Demyx froze, his lips changing from the grin into a little 'o'. OK... maybe she wasn't just like him.
Oh well. She was still a water elemental. And pretty. Veeeery pretty.
This is where our little story here takes a turn. Demyx, still looking at No-Name, her back turned to him, soon saw that they were not alone. Due to No-Name's positioning, she did not see the Neo Shadow Heartless emerge from the ground and target her. Let's all think about this for a moment: Neo Shadows never appear in Hollow Bastion. EVER. We have no idea why, but they just never do. So why is this changing now, all of a sudden, you ask? I cannot tell you for the sake of the plot, and Demyx is also unable to answer on account of he is currently running out of his hiding spot in an attempt to save No-Name's life.
"LOOK OUT!" he screamed, charging at the Heartless with sitar at hand. However, this scream only ended up in the Neo lunging at No-Name, who only turned around in time to see the black creature slash at her.
No-Name fell to the ground, though no scream of pain came from her mouth. Demyx slammed his sitar into the Neo, causing it to disapate back into the darkness from whence it came. He turned his attention to the girl on the ground. "Hey, are you al..?!" Demyx froze mid sentence as he surveyed the scene.
The Neo Shadow had sliced No-Name's arm clean off, and now the limb was lying inbetween the two as silence overcame them. That on its own was enough to freak Demyx out, but no, the freakiness did not stop there. Even more so than the amputated arm was that fact that there was no blood coming from it, or from the stump on No-Name shoulder that said arm was previously attached to. And another thing, why wasn't No-Name a Heartless yet? That swipe should have been enough to send her to Kingdom Hearts come!
Then came the freakiest bit of it all. The arm slowly melted -yes, melted- into a puddle of water. And arms don't usually melt into water, now do they? Added to that, the aformentioned stump where No-Name's arm once called its home began to melt away as well, down to her shoulder and most likely to continue to spread, consuming her entire body.
Demyx took this moment to finish his sentence. "...right...?"
No-Name took this moment to run.
As No-Name scrambled to her feet and ran off into the alleyway section of the abbey, Demyx stood where he was, confused. He stared back at the puddle of water that had previously been an arm, as though he expected it to jump out and latch on to his face. "Wha...What just happened?!"
Gasped! What is going on?! But seriously though, this entire thing will make sense when the second chapter is up... I hope.