"Shut up Triskix! All you care about is your order! You don't understand anything! So just shut up!" RaXi yelled.
I felt my skin crawl at the way she said it. I wanted to yell back at her that order was what made things run smoothly and that if she didn't want to be a part of this then she should just leave, but I stayed silent. Something told me this wasn't the time.
Xakiah walked ahead...completely oblivious to either of us. I sighed somewhat at peace with the fact that I wasn't going to fight two screaming women....
Finally I turned my gaze back to RaXi. I tried to find words that would express how annoyed I was about her running of and how childish it was that we were all apparently living in some fantasy about the past, but the words failed me. Finally I opened my mouth and waited for the right words.
"Just who is that man to you RaXi?" I asked. "He certainly is arrogant...and foolish."
"I...don't know." RaXi answered stopping the pace we had been going at. I stopped as well waiting for an answer to the question I had no expected to ask.
"Someone from your time as Ari?" I asked blankly.
I knew what a terrible nobody I was for terrorizing another nobody about old times. Long ago it was written into me not to ask about other's pasts, but this seemed a different case.
RaXi froze and glared at me. I sighed knowing that I had mistaken and was now going to get scolded for it. Even as the second-in-command....I made the wrong decisions.....whatever.....
"Don't you ever call me by that name again! You understand...Kristian?!" she growled, and I was sure she was planning the easiest way to slit my throat for it.
I felt my face move into a grin. It wasn't a smile it was a grin through and through. I was on the verge of laughing. That name meant so many things to me that I hated that I wanted to laugh but couldn't. RaXi knew my name just like I knew hers. I guessed it was only fair that she beat me with my name.....
"Fair enough. Though if he isn't someone from that time...what is your attachment to him?" I asked my face forming a frown again.
"You remember Axel's last words?" she asked.
Of course I knew them. They were written into my very being....and I hated him for it....
"I'm sure you do." RaXi continued "..you of all people probably replay them over and over in your mind. 'He made me feel like I had a heart..' I never understood that...I even mocked and laughed at Axel for saying something so foolish....but then I met Vincent."
A heart..... I thought coldly.
"So it was during the 10 years following the Organization's collapse..." I answered waiting for her to continue.
"Yeah...he found me and...told me I existed..." RaXi said. "I dunno. Call me foolish...just like that baka Axel...but...for that time, I thought I could actually TRY to live. Instead of just recklessly rushing towards my death. Until even he was stolen from me..."
I waited and RaXi told me her story. I wasn't surprised that something like that had happened. Time had worn us all to the brink of existence. I would know.
"So. Someone in Organization attire?" I finally said.
There was no more time for words. We caught sight of Nyx waving at us.
"Let me go Triskix." RaXi mumbled "I swear...I won't leave. We have to get back to Castle Oblivion. I understand that."
I looked at RaXi.
"You won't leave?" I asked.
My mind went off back to the idea of what time had indeed done to us all. I had learned a lot in the ten years that I wished had remained a secret to me, and yet if I had never learned them I would have remained ignorant.
I reached into my pocket and pulled out the cracked necklace.
When I first became a nobody....I was different...and when I went back to being whole....I was different....and now I am a nobody again.....but one thing I learned from Kristian in the time I was whole......he would do anything...I would do anything....for the sake of his....my sister...but now....I will not.....I will not.... I have other priorities now...the castle and order..............I will not.............
I sighed and put the necklace back in my pocket walking over to Nyx.
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XD Triskix is having will problems heh.....too bad his will is always bent by the Leader. Anways yes Triskix as Kristian had a sister (if ya didn't know) ^^ and yep he did become whole once and then spit away again. I'll write about it some time XD
