A New Story A New Hope ch.12

I sat up in my bed and rubbed the back of my neck. I climbed out of bed, got dressed and then head toward the kitchen. When I got there I noticed the only other person there was Luxord. "Luxord, what time is it?
He looked up "About 5:00 am." He said and then went back to sipping his tea. Wow I'm up pretty early. I walked over to the fridge and took out two eggs. I got a frying pan and started cooking the eggs. I fried the eggs sunny side up. When they were done I took my seat at the long white table. I saw that Lexaeus and Vexen had woken up and were also seated at the table. Slowly the other members started filling the seats. I made myself some coffee and then sat back down. After a while Zexion came in and sat next to me.
"I heard you and Larxene were attacked in Twilight Town yesterday." He said pretty casually.
"Yeah it was the weirdest thing. We were attacked by two people wearing these black cloaks that went down to their mid thighs. One of them called me Miranda."
As soon as I finished talking Zexion looked me directly in the eye and said "Alex I think that those people were members of ASSASIN." Oh my god he was right. Urg how could I be so stupid. He and I went to join the others in the grey area. Saïx was standing in the center of the room holding a clipboard in his hands.
"I'm only going say this once so pay attention; when I'm done come get the exact information from me. Axel and Larxene go to Pridelands, Xaldin and Luxord go to the Land of Dragons, Marluxia and Vexen go to the Olympic Coliseum, Alex and Zexion go to the Castle of Dreams, Xigbar and Lexaeus go to Halloween Town, and Demyx you'll be doing recon in The Enchanted Domain." me and Zexion exchanged looks before walking over to Saïx. He handed Zexion a note card then turned to talk to Luxord. Zexion said nothing and open a portal.
We walked up to a huge elegant white castle. Zexion looked at the card Saïx had given him the read it out loud "You are to collect several elemental emblems and destroy whatever heartless you come across".
"Sound easy enough, right Zexion." I said making my voice sound as cheerful as possible. I summoned my keyblade and walked into the palace. Zexion fallowed close behind me. After walking around for a while we saw a woman in a light blue dress and a man in a formal suit talking to another man in a blue suit. Zexion pulled me behind one of the pillars.
"Oh it's so wonderful to be home don't you agree darling." The woman said.
"Yes I do Cinderella. Home, sweet, home." The man I assumed was her husband. All three walked away continuing the discussion. I jumped slightly when I felt something scurry over my feet. I looked down and saw some mice running through the halls. You'd think a place like this would have some pest control. I saw something shinny on the ground and went to pick it up. I looked it, it had a lightning bolt on one side and on the other was some writing I couldn't understand. This must be one of those elemental emblems Saïx sent us to get. Then a pack of soldier heartless showed up and surrounded me. Zexion used several spells I had never heard of while I sliced through the monsters with my keyblade. They were all destroyed soon enough, but along with the little pink hearts and munny, two of the heartless dropped two more of those element emblems. I looked at them, one had fire on it and the other had snowflakes on it. Why did Saïx want us to get these anyways?
"We can leave now."
"Huh?"
"We got all the emblems from this world."
"Oh."
Zexion created a portal and we both stepped through. We were in the grey area again and Saïx came over. "Zexion, did you get the emblems?" Zexion looked at me and I took the three emblems out of my pocket and gave them to Saïx. He took them and then went back to his usual spot. When I saw that his back was turn I mustered up all the courage I had and pecked him on the cheek. I felt my cheeks burning and looked away to hid my blush. Before he could say anything I walked away to find Axel and Demyx. I was acting calm but on the inside I was screaming. I found them in the rec room.
"Hey guys, what's up?"
"The ceiling." Demyx said and Axel hit him on the back of the head.
"That's not what she meant Dem. Alex why is your face so red?" i mentally cursed myself.
"Umm, it's nothing. I-I-I ummm it was just hot in the Castle of Dream and me and Zexion had to run around a lot." I mentally cursed myself again. I used to be able to come up with great lies on the spot and that last one was the best I could do. Ugh stupid, stupid.
Luckily Axel just shrugged it off and changed the subject. "Ok, wanna go get ice cream with me and Dem."
"Uh sure ok."
Axel made a portal and we all went through. Me and Demyx headed up to the tower while Axel got us the ice cream. He got back and we all ate our tasty treats. After we were down we walked around twilight town for a while and talked. Then a dagger hit the wall in next to us. I looked over and saw the girl from the other day and she wasn't alone she had two other guys with her. One had black hair that covered his left eye and the other had brown hair that was in a buzz cut. She smirked and said "Round 2?"
Then one with the black hair put a hand on her shoulder. "Now, now Lilli you mustn't be so rash."
"Shut up Tatsumi." She groaned "we can't all be as perfect as you can we." I heard all the bitter sarcasm in her voice but I don't think he did.
"I know right but you could at least try. I mean everyone know they'll never be as good as me. I'm perfect."
"Whatever. Anyways she needs to learn that no one and I mean no one, beats me and gets away with." She held up her daggers. Tatsumi pulled out a Katana and the other guy got out a hammer. Me, Axel and Demyx summoned our weapons.
Then the other guy talked for the first time "Whoa, their weapons just appeared out of nowhere. How'd they do that?"
"I don't know Marcus." Tatsumi said.
Lilli must've gotten tired of waiting because she started running towards us, only to be stopped when a wave of water hit her. The other two came running at us too. Axel took Marcus and that left me with Tatsumi. We both exchanged blows and he started laughing.
"What's so funny?" I demanded while avoiding slashes from his sword.
"Oh nothing, I'm just happy you were able to beat Lilli that's all."
"Why are you happy that I defeated your college?"
"Oh don't get me wrong. I'm just happy someone beat her ass, the bitch had it coming."
I sent several blizzaga spells at him then continued to hack and slash at him. It irritated me that whenever I failed to hit him he would laugh. Ugh I hate this guy so much. I would attack he would dodge or block, he would attack I would barely block. I was trying not to lose my temper, I saw the damage that could do it battle yesterday. The next thing he said did it for me "You're nothing but a pathetic loser, just like your mother, she couldn't fight either. The boss's interest in her still baffles me to this day. She was of such little importance. But she was willing to do anything to protect her precious little baby. She did some nasty things, didn't she?"
"Shut up." I screamed and sent a flurry of attacks and spells at him. I made sure though to keep thinking and not just blindly throw attacks at him. He continued laughing and turned around.
Both Axel and Demyx had the upper hand in their fights. Lilli was soaking wet and you could see the burn marks on Marcus's clock. "Hmm this isn't looking too good for us. Well bye bye Alex see you again soon. Lilli, Marcus lets go now." I saw on the back of his clock the number four printed in blood red ink.
"What was that?"
"Those were ASSASSIN members, Demyx