"Soft-hearted," Lady Rexikat answered darkly. "Such thinking will certainly get you killed someday."
I shrugged. "Those are my standards. I'd rather die following them than live against them."
Lady Rexikat glared at me but I just stared back.
"You simple-minded boy. Your thinking is so idealistic, it's a wonder if you've even managed to kill!" she started.
I felt somewhat of a pang to through me......Rexikat didn't understand anything..... and I guessed no one else did either....
"If our goal is truly to take down Organization Zero, you wouldn't be talking about evacuation in the first place. Hell, we wouldn't even be bombing the place; we'd be infiltrating it ourselves and seeing to each members' death personally! You're severely underestimating our opponents, Tamex, and it could be the death of you!" Rexikat continued.
I stayed quiet and couldn't meet Lady Rexikat's gaze anymore, so I moved my attention to the floor. Could she seriously talk of killing like that....
"Lady Rexikat," I started quietly, "perhaps...perhaps you think too much like a tigress, and not enough as a person."
I could feel the anger rising in Lady Rexikat, but I just continued to stare at the floor. I was suddenly very tired, and I didn't want to hear any more.
"I think like someone who wants to survive, like someone who doesn't want to be killed due to a preventable mistake. You think that Organization Zero wouldn't hesitate to take our lives?" Lady Rexikat asked. I could hear her foots steps move off towards the door. "Think again."
Lady Rexitak left, but I still didn't move. My body was tingling all over, and I couldn't control the sporadic movement of water in my cells.
"If she truely talks like that....and she means it......" I started. "Then......I guess I should be more serious....."
I walked over to the back wall and sat on the cabinets. Nobody said a word, but the pressure in my cells continued to build. A memory I had tried to fight off was comming into full view.
"Mat!" a voice called. "Mat! Get back to the University quick! Hurry! The heartless!"
The heartless swarmed like bees, and all Mat could do was back up. Fear was running through him like an electrical impulse. Mat looked back up the road towards the University and was caught between staring at my best friend and running.
"Mat dang it! Run!" Taylor said again. "Hurry! It's only a few miles!"
"Taylor......" Mat said not sure what to do.
"Come on! Just run!" Taylor yelled.
Mat turned and ran. Fear was driving him, and he ran as fast as he could back towards the University.
"You baka! How dare you leave your friend!" a voice rang inside Mat's head, but the fear over-rode it.
The heartless continued to chase Mat, and all he could do was run.
Soon the heartless had surrounded him completely. Mat was blocked off from any exit.....any way to get out of the mess.....no way back....
"I....I don't want to die....." Mat said. "And....I don't want to be a heartless.....I don't...."
A heartless jumped fowards, and in an instant Mat's heart broke. A wave of water crashed over the heartless. I stepped fowards. Mat looked at me fearful, and I just stared back at him.
"How dare you abandon your friend," I said angrily.
I summoned my scythe and charged fowards. All the heartless were destroyed in an instant, but I wasn't done. watter from the nearby sea came crashing fowards.
"Wait! What are you doing!" Mat yelled.
"Purging this land of the heartless," I answered. "And any more that can become heartless....."
"Stop! There are innocent people at the village and the University! Tamex stop!" Mat yelled, but I just looked back at him.
"Why?" I asked back.
The wave crashed over the land and drowned everything. As the water receded, I stood where I had been not moving. Everything within a fifty mile radius was dead.
Well.....someone was still alive.....I looked to see that my other was still struggling for breathe.
"Tamex....you killed.....them...." Mat said quietly.
"The land is purged," I answered.
"But...Taylor.....and Melony....." Mat answered back.
The image of both Taylor and Melony flashed through my head. I had killed them.......Mat's friends.....my friends.....I.....I.....
"You killed them.......they're dead.......dead....."
"Tamex?" a voice was asking. "Tamex......"
I didn't move.
"Dead," I answered the silence. "Dead."
Life is is fragile
Death is permanent
