Damion Strife

"Oh baby your gonna love it! I know this place that makes great peach cobbler!!" he said smiling wide. "Wait...you lived in Charleston? Did you know Randle White the mayor? That's my second cousin," Felix said with a grin. Scott smirked. "Not bad...they're all dead and in less time that I required. We can skip the next steps. Kill the accountants," Scott said coldly.

Felix looked around at everyone, they all seemed really excited and ready to move out. He just hoped that none of them would ever be in any trouble. "Alright, as soon as everyone has gotten into their teams we'll need to go over the final phase...different directions. I'm thinking my group will head down to my home state...good old South Carolina," Felix said smiling.

"Yeah...he's gotta die...no matter what," James scowled.

James looked at him closely. It all made sense now...Felix was evil. He had to stop him, and Ethan was as good a man as any to help him take Felix down. "Alright Ethan. You've got yourself a partnership...I believe you. Just one request...none of the girls get hurt, and Joy is mine," James said in a low tone.

"You sure Callum? I mean, I'd love to have you and all, but...you and Joy are bros!" Felix said looking at the two of them, "but I guess it's ok. I need two more people...I guess we'll just forget voting huh? I mean...the only people I've ever voted for are family members..." He smirked...he hated politics any way. Seichi looked around and then made his decision. "I'd like to be with Jayson's group...he just needs to decide on a lieutenant, but I know he gets three other people..." Seichi said smiling.

"I think Jayson could be the fourth...hear me out now. He's new, but he's a good driver and a nice guy. He also helped us all get to the hospital when he could've said no, and that takes a lot of good to do something like that," Felix said. His old friend would never go for the whole leadership thing...not unless it was forced on him. "Alright, so...if there is none opposed I'll select my lieutenant...Rebekah," Felix said grinning at her. James shook his head. "No lies...I don't believe you've been telling me the whole truth. I just want to know if you and Scott were the ones who kidnapped Keilani...I also wanna know what all you three planned. I mostly want to know if Alexis loved me..." James said looking straight at Ethan.

"Ummm...err...yeah! I can do both actually!" Felix said standing up, "Yeah, well first off thanks for coming I know it's been a long night. Secondly, I'd like to inform everyone on what I got from Alexis...or Paige the black haired psycho lady that killed everyone in the building we're in. Don't believe me? Look in the men's restroom. Alexis told me that she, Ethan, Scott, and apparently James...were all cooperating together. Scott and Ethan had a falling out, and apparently so did Alexis and James. Now Scott's with Alexis, and James is with Ethan. They're bad news, tough, and can sense out a large group of us inhabiters without a problem. Their inhabiters are Hades, Marluxia, Larxene, and Sephiroth/Riku. Now....down to buisness...I was thinking...that in order to keep ourselves from being tracked down all the time we instead split up. Four captains who are at the driving age and have licenses, their lieutenants, and then three people to go with each. Transportation is easy...we just go out to the dealership...which opens in two hours, and I'll buy the captains a car. Joy, once I give you the money for the leg....I'll be out of cash for a while. I suggest everyone have someone on their team who can use a dark portal, that way we can reach eachother quickly....and the captains will need eachother's phone numbers. Now there is only one thing to do...nominate captains." He then walked over to Joy and nodded. "I nominate Joy and myself. Is there anyone who disagrees with these nominations or this plan entirely?" he asked. James shook his head. "No...I don't want any more lies, please spare me. I've already left them for you, now you have my power for as long as you see fit....if you will give me the straight and honest truth. What were you and Scott planning, and does Alexis really love me?" James asked. Seichi shook his head, he couldn't think of any reason it shouldn't be that way. He just wished that James hadn't left. Scott smiled. "That was actually higher than I expected...you might be at 300 or higher before we're done," Scott said. He walked over to the balisitc dummies. "Alright. This test will show how accurate you can throw your knives. I want every knife you throw to be a kill shot, but you're being timed. Thirty seconds to 'kill' each dummy," he said as he moved to stand behind her, "Go."

James blocked too late, and his arm was cut. He accidently dropped the keyblade, and just stared at it for a while. Like it or not...James had promised. So he helped Joy up. He pulled out a roll of paper, jotted down an address, and handed it to Joy. "Alright...just tell him James sent you. You might want to stick around...the liar wants to tell ya'll something..." James said pointing to Felix. "Alright Ethan..let's get the Hell out of here," he yelled.

James blocked, but he almost lost his grip on the keyblade. "Woah...you got close," he said smiling, "I've wanted to fight you for a long time Joy!" He back hand held the blade and slashed down at Joy's chest...

James jumped quickly to avoid the slash, and then kicked at Joy's leg. James landed beside Felix, and kicked off of his abdomine to rush at Joy as he prepared a hasty slash...

"I'n your soon to be paraplegic dreams," James laughed. He rushed at Joy and swung three times. 'Just wait Ethan, I'll get out of here with you as soon as I'm done,' he thought.

James blocked once again. Then shook his head. 'I can sense Ethan near by...I'll ask him to help me once I'm done here,' James thought. "Fine...I won't hurt any of you...I just want a chance to fight Joy," James said slowly. He then looked back towards Joy's leg and said, "If you can knock my keyblade from my hand. I'll tell you where you can get a new leg. Then I'm done. With all of you. The next time you see me...I'm your enemy, but nobody try to get between Joy and I or I'll have no problem taking down one or all of you." James could feel a rush as he pointed the One Winged Angel Keyblade at Joy. He'd finally be able to fight him alone...and maybe Mariah would....no. Forget her...

James jumped back from everyone and saw Joy standing there. "You...where's Alexis? I know you all have her...and I want her back. I'll give you ten seconds...then I'm going to help out whoever got ahold of you first...and take that other leg," James said with a growl.

Felix shook his head. "No I'll be fine I really just need a minute," he said quickly, "just don't get hurt!" Seichi had just ran through the door with Arina when he saw James fighting. He had to do something so he drew his keyblade and jumped at him slashing wildly. James blocked Seichi quickly, then slashed at him across the chest. Seichi took a tiny hit, but jumped back. Only his shirt had been damaged, but James wasn't done. Rebekah had just slashed at him, so he spun and kicked at her, then ran towards Felix, and prepared to decapatate him. Felix summoned up his chakrams and blocked, but the force sent him flying into a wall. As soon as he hit it, he busted into it, and was just kind of sitting in it. "Well...it aint no recliner...but it's a seat.." he said laughing to himself. "We'll start at the punching bags," he said walking to them, "Alright have you ever seen a UFC fight? Well they're boys can hit with the strength of 400lbs of force...while I with Marluxia's added strength can get..." Scott reared back, and punched the bag. The wall beside him glowed and 600 popped up. "Alright. Let's see what you've got," he said sternly, "Oh, and you'll need to be atleast 200 before your training with me is done."

James froze up, seeing all these faces again was bringing back memories, but he fought it off when he noticed Troy's attack. He blocked with the One Winged Angel Keyblade, and went in for a side kick. "I'm not calming down! I want answers damn it!! Where is she?!" he yelled. Seichi turned and went to follow the others. He was hoping that everything would be ok, and he hoped Joy could get the answers he needed. Felix stepped back. He was still winded...he'd only just gotten out of the hospital, and his muscles were starting to tense up again. He put away his chakrams for now, and fell to a knee. He'd have to wait...he just hoped Troy would be ok. Scott threw open the big brass doors of the combat room. Inside there were six to seven punching bags with sensors on them, nine balistic gell molds of human bodies, seven wooden kendo swords, and to top it off there were nine men dressed as ninjas standing in the back but they were wearing suits and had tags on that read 'IRS'. "Oh...don't mind them, they just came snooping around about some failed income tax reports. I told them I don't have a job, they didn't believe me, and so now they are your final test after we get through the course," Scott said with a dark smile.

Scott looked up then smirked. "Like I said...it's only a partnership. But there are mutual benefits. For instance, we get to hurt James a bit more, he'll then turn on Ethan, and then there's the fact that all this money....will be yours too. I don't really care if you listen or not, just remember I haven't trained you yet, and then...we're back to the fact that it is a mutual partnership...an almost unbreakable one. So you're problems are my problems, and me? I have no problems...I kill my problems. Plus if anything out there bothers you...I'd make it vanish. Imagine...I'm the guy who wiped out the CIA remember? What have you got to lose?" he asked. He stood up as soon as he finished eating, then walked over to the cheese cake, and began eating as much of it as he could. Once he finished he walked into a hallway and said, "Come...let's go to the combat room while you think it over." James grew tired of waiting for an answer so he stormed up the stairs fast, he could faintly smell blood, and there infront of him was Felix and two others. "Felix...did you kidnap Alexis?" James asked. "Well I didn't kidnap her...I kinda captured her. She and someone named Scott killed everyone in here," Felix said with a shrug, "but wait...you know her??" "She's my girlfriend!! Look, give her up and I won't kill you. I know you're lying because Scott's been dead for almost ten hours!" James yelled. "Woah, woah, woah! Don't go throwing around the 'k' word like that. Listen I don't know what's going on, but Mariah and the others will be here soon. Maybe you should stick around. We're going to talk about everything I found out while I interrogated Alexis, and Keilani here got kidnapped by Scott again so we'll talk about that too!" Felix said quickly. "Listen. Scott is dead! Ethan fought him, and then Marluxia killed the both of them in a sucidal jump. That and Scott and Ethan never kidnapped anyone! They were just travelling along with Alexis!! I met them in a spa and then..." James trailed off. The conversation was going nowhere. If Felix didn't answer right this time...he'd have no choice but to fight him until he got his answers. "James...Scott and Ethan WERE Keilani's kidnappers, she'll attest to that, and I caught Scott and Alexis dancing over corpses in here!" Felix said, he left out Rebekah...just incase James went crazy. "You shut your damn mouth...Alexis would never EVER do anything against me!!" James yelled. He immediatly summoned up the One Winged AngelKeyblade, and jumped at Felix. Felix drew out his chakrams and blocked, then kicked off the blade to back away. "I'm telling you! They're together!!" Felix yelled. That did it...James went into a flurry of hacks and slashes at Felix who blocked and dodged a few, but ended up getting his arm cut open a little. Felix's anger took over...he was now ready to kill just as much as James was...

"Pssh...small fish in the oceans of my mind. You however are a great white...I need you in order for anything to work. I didn't think much of you at first...I thought you were just some...well that doesn't matter. Now I realize that in order for my plans to come to fruition...I need someone as cold and strong as me, and hopefully as smart. So...time to debrief...the man...who was interviewing you, his inhabiter was Axel. What do you think about him? The others too? You do realize that everyone you've seen thus far are your targets yes? The girl in the room was obviously his girlfriend, Keilani is Namine's host, and Felix...Axel. Those are your targets. What do you think it will take to kill them?" Scott asked. He cut his pork elagantly, and ate slowly. He felt at home in his house of finery...he was greatly appreciative of everything he had, and he loved flaunting it. If he were to rule the world this is the house he'd want to show off everyday as his subjects suffered, and who would show off the house? The girl across the table. "You can answer those questions later, but first I'd like to ask you something. If ever you were to look for...'the one' what would you want?" Scott asked. He took another huge bite of his pork. Then looked around the room and finished his thoughts out loud, "I'm only asking because I've come to the conclusion that I need a partner who won't fail me...and what's a life long companion if they aren't strong? All other women are weak...but there's you...a cold hearted, manipulative, self-centered woman who resembles me in every way. This is the only time I'll ask...why not me?"

"Good, because I had my cooks make some of the best food for us. Follow me," he said. He stood up and walked into a room that had a large chandelier, and a beautiful long dinner table covered with candles. "I know what you're thinking 'are you sure the Beast isn't your inhabiter?' yeah well, not all bad guys have to live in grime and dirt. I happen to prefer the finer things. Beautiful house, beautiful cars, beautiful weapons...and now," he said taking a pause. He grabbed up a wine glass, filled it up and pointed it at her then finished, "A very beautiful woman." Immediatly the table was covered with amazing foods. Three different kinds of cheesecake, a turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, four types of pasta, and then finally a whole barbaqued hog. "Dinner is served," he said with a smile.

Felix looked at his phone. He'd almost forgotten the bodies...then he gasped...Keilani...she'd seen them. Oh that would scar that poor girl for life!! He quickly began wrapping his coat around the bodies and dragging them to the men's room. Finally he'd gotten the bodies put away, and then he started washing the blood out with the water he would've drowned Alexis in. She was probably thinking of how she'd kill him...hopefully she didn't know how connected he was to Rebekah...he didn't want her to be used against him.... He then texted Rebekah. 'It's all picked up, see ya soon.' Seichi looked at Mariah and said, "He was flying down the road. He looked like he was in quite a hurry." Scott smiled and sat on one of the many leather couches in the room. "We train of course. I've got a lot of rooms here, there's a target room, a hand to hand combat room, and I took the liberty of turning my basement into a danger room...there are plenty of traps and things down there. I think first we should go with the target room. Are you hungry?" he asked. James landed. Right infront of the museum door. He walked inside and saw Jayson standing watch. "Where's Alexis?" he shouted.

"Alright...up the stairs...and to the left?" Seichi thought. He went up, and wound up beside Rebekah. "Hey guys! Guess who I just saw! It was James!!" he said smiling.

James launched himself into the air, he flew faster using Sephiroth's power, and finally found a familiar feeling right by a hospital. 'Hmm...Joy and Mariah are inside...no I'm done trying to win her over...I've got someone of my own now...don't I?' James asked himself 'Yes...she'll take care of you,' Sephiroth answered. James nodded and landed. "Alright, the people inside will help keep you protected. Just look for Joy," James said. He let go of the two of them, and flew down the road...fast towards the faint feel of Alexis. Seichi watched James fly away, he then looked at Arina. "Come on! Let's go find the others!" he said with a smile.

"Alright...grab my hands and we'll fly..." James said sternly. Seichi immediatly grabbed onto James and motioned for Arina to join him.

Seichi had finally reached where Kairi could be felt the strongest. Luckily, she was outside in the garden...alone. 'Dude, Seichi....it's a miracle!!' Sora thought. 'Or a trap...' Seichi replied. He summoned up his keyblade and jumped down. "Arina!! You need to come with me right now...we're getting out of here!!" Seichi whispered. James was flying above, his hate was strong, but not strong enough to keep Riku from feeling Sora and Kairi together nearby. 'Alright, listen...I'll let you two go on this dark crusade if you do one thing for me...help Sora and Kairi. They need to get away from that guy down there..' Riku thought. 'Fine...but just this time, and I'm only doing it because I feel that guy who fought us down in the prison,' James replied. He landed behind Seichi and said, "Hey you two. I can get you guys out of here quick fast and in a hurry. But don't make any noise...we'll be with our friends soon." Seichi spun around and said, "Hey! You're inhabited by Riku right? Well I've got something for you." He then handed the blade over to James, who scoffed, but took it anyway. He didn't have time for this kid, this blade, or this girl...they'd better hurry up and make a decision...otherwise he'd leave them high and dry.