Night 18: M40 Hallway
Haru woke slowly, feeling disoriented and very thirsty. The past day or two had passed in feverish dreams and vague snatches of memories. He'd been aware of a nurse in the room once or twice, but other than that, he had no real recollection of what had gone on or how much time had passed. The dark room, however, left little question about what time
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When Sora offered him his hand, he couldn't help but give it a strange look. It wasn't exactly something that Roxas was used to. But he took it anyway, using it as leverage to pull himself up. That accomplished, he quietly slipped out into the halls.
"Again?" he repeated when he heard Sora's question. He vaguely remembered someone saying something about that, but he hadn't been there long enough to tell the difference. It was a little frustrating ot hear what little he knew about the layout of things had become obsolete, but it was nothing that couldn't be worked through.
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Thankfully, he was good at that sort of thing.
"Last time it was a lot more severe, though. The building got really damaged and we lost some people along the way..." He trailed off slowly, frowning as he started down the hall where he'd originally come from--the other direction would merely lead to more rooms.
He hoped everyone was okay. What if... what if Riku... or...
Well, he wasn't going to jump to conclusions.
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Managing to avoid a sticky situation by sheer luck, Axel had sprinted back the way he came from, not really paying attention to his surroundings until he finally realized that he had came back to a nearly identical looking hallway from the last two he had been in.
The redhead sighed, about to turn around and go back the way he came from when he heard a pair of voices spring up nearby. Usually, he'd just ignore them and continue on, but these in particular were uncomfortably familiar. And after a more thorough investigation it proved his assumptions correct.
"... Sora. Roxas." He attempted to show off his usual grin, but it kind of fell short and turned into a grimace instead.
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It didn't.
The boy frowned, glancing from Axel to Roxas and then back again. The way they were speaking was unnerving. He understood that Roxas had once been a part of Organization XIII, but the way they discussed this new member's presence made it that much more obvious. A lot of it was going over his head, simply because he wasn't a part of it.
It was slightly frustrating, but he tried to be patient. He wasn't welcome at the moment, or so he figured with the way Axel was acting. That didn't mean he was just going to fade into the background, though. Not when he had questions.
"Was he at Castle Oblivion?" he blurted out, eyes set on Axel even though the redhead was making him uneasy.
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Roxas's words did hold a good amount of truth in them, that the Organization was more disorganized than they really would credit themselves with. But there were other unlikely things he could imagine that he didn't know how it'd happen (For one, sacrificing himself for Sora's sake. But no one really clued him in on the events that lead to this noble act, so who knows.)
"Lexaeus? Yeah, he was at Castle Oblivion." The redhead started, not bothering to look up at the brunet and instead picked at the imaginary dirt underneath his nails. "You never saw him though. Probably too busy with Riku I imagine."
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It was pale, hard to see in the darkness, but the sound of its many legs clacking against the hall's hard floor was enough to allow its targets some idea of what it was--along with the sudden screech it emitted, some kind of animalistic battle cry. It was on its own, a small mercy for the patients, but its hard exoskeleton and the stinger that hung high in the end were enough to convince an onlooker that the coming fight would not be an easy one.
The scorpion finally came out of the darkness, vicious and oversized, as all things at Landel's were at night.
It gave one last cry before it moved, lunging towards the blond.
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It was so dark, though. There wasn't enough light, and Sora didn't work well in the dark. Gritting his teeth, he braced himself. He wanted the Keyblade to come, but it refused for the moment.
Once things got a little more dire, maybe...
The boy gasped when a huge scorpion suddenly approached. For a moment, he was too frightened to move--not something that usually happened to Sora. He tended to face things fearlessly, but... but...
He watched, horrified, as it slammed into Roxas, tossing the boy relentlessly against the wall. There was an easily audible crack as the blond's head met the wall and he crumpled to the floor, obviously unconscious ( ... )
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If Axel had the time to think he would've blamed the Institute for making him too calm about the place; about how he never believed what everyone said about 'monsters' until he saw one for himself.
And well, there was one.
"ROXAS!!" The next few seconds all came at a blur. His train of thought shut down as he dived over to the blond boy, not bothering to check if Roxas was okay but was more focused on just getting them the hell away from there. Axel had to literally shove down the instinct to shove Sora away (preferably at the Scorpion to act as a distraction), instead grabbing at the brunet's wrist and ( ... )
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The scorpion gave a hard shriek, rearing up on its back legs before falling back down again. Its enormous pincers hit the ground with the weight of twin anvils, rocking the ground with force enough to slow down the progress of its three prey.
It scuttled forward, quickly, stinger held high over its body as it finally lunged forward and aimed for the back of the taller of the three.
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Axel was better at running than Sora would have thought. (Maybe he'd picked it up from Demyx.) Seeing that the redhead was a good deal taller than him, it was difficult to keep up. His balance was precarious enough; the tremors caused by the scorpion was enough to toss Sora off his feet.
He hit the ground hard, but had enough sense to roll into the fall. His shoulder was still forced to take most of the impact, but it wasn't bad enough that it got dislocated.
"Keep running!" he yelled to Axel, watching with a gasp as the scorpion's stinger swiped in Axel's direction. "I can fight it!"
He could. Frowning, he concentrated, and the Keyblade appeared in his hand. Breathing hard, the boy started to pull himself to his feet, determined to make sure the other two ( ... )
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But all of this opened up a perfect opportunity for the scorpion to attack. Before the Nobody could even look over his shoulder the end of its stinger scrapped along his back; ripping his shirt and creating a long reddish trail over his back. Axel bit back a cry, turning around and stumbling back while holding Roxas's body close to him.
"Are you nuts?!" He shouted back at Sora, keeping an eye open for the scorpion's next attack. "Roxas would do a lot worse to me than this thing if he found out I left you behind!"
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The creature could smell it--could sense it--could feel it dripping from the barb on the end of its tail to the top of its pale back. It gave a cry that, although victorious, was not satisfied. No--it was programmed to rip and tear, to lash and stab until nothing was left of the prey that its masters had put in its way.
But now the red-head wasn't what the creature needed to pay attention to. It turned, multiple beady eyes focusing on the movement of the smaller, conscious patient. Was it looking for a fight? Trying to attack? The creature drew back a little, hissing as its barbed tail continued to hang in the hair above it, tensed and ready to strike. It coldly calculated the danger the boy posed and found it to be small, perhaps even absurd in the face of its own power.
It lunged at the young patient, one pincer sweeping forward to grab him and begin to lift him into the air with a vice grip of iron.
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