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Hey there. I've been mobbed by three muse bunnies at once and this is the first one to get me. I don't own Kingdom Hearts or anything except if I decide to throw in a few OCs but for right now no OCs. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1. The First Time I Laid Eyes upon You.

Some say the world will end in fire.

Roxas was your everyday high-school freshman. Okay, not really. He was a blonde kid with sk8ter punk fashion and no interest in skirt chasing like his older brother Demyx or boy gawking like his twin brother Sora. Roxas just wasn't into love. He was into acting. That's why he was in Hallow Bastion High's drama club.

And that was what he did after school from 2:30-5 PM everyday. He joined his friends Zexion, Pence, Olette, Hayner, Seifer (not so much a friend but he was in the club), Namine, Riku, and Kairi. With them were their teachers for drama and advanced English, Ms. Larexene and Mr. Xemnas.

It was getting around time to find the play for the winter drama they performed for the town every year. Now it was quite a cool fall day in early October when Roxas got two bits of good news…….

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Roxas was sitting on the stage, bored as ever when Olette came running in shouting, "Guys, Guys I finished it!"

Pence looked up from his Nintendo DS to ask her, "What?"

Hayner turned his head from mindlessly looking over the empty chairs in the audience to look at her from where he was draped half falling off the edge of the stage and asked, "Yeah, what'd you finish?"

Olette beamed and held out her arms which held a stack of papers and said, "This."

Kairi and Namine looked up from Kairi's I-pod, an ear-phone in one ear a piece and both asked, "What is it?"

Olette just smiled brighter.

Zexion looked up from his book, which he was reading just slightly off to stage right, with a raised eyebrow and asked, "Are you going to make us guess?"

Without giving her a chance to answer Seifer stood angrily and said in an irritated voice, "Just tell us already."

Olette beamed and exclaimed, "It's my script! I'm going to have Mr. Xemnas look over it to see if we can do it for the winter drama!"

Roxas perked up, "Way to go Olette! With your writing skills it's bound to get chosen."

Riku agreed, "Yeah I'll bet it'll be a hit too."

And then the room rang with everyone's agreements. They all knew Olette had a creative streak four miles long and anything she wrote was bound to be good. Hell her writing made the history of cheese interesting (Roxas remembered that from a report they had to do for Science class in seventh grade).

And then Mr. Xemnas walked in with Ms. Larexene, seeming to bring more good news.

"Alright my little drama-junkies I've got a surprise for you." Larexene perked. She was really cool unless you pissed her off. "We've got a new member starting today!"

"You can come in now Mr.--?" Xemnas told the new, boy apparently (the Mr. gave it away).

And out of the stage left wings, opposite of where Roxas was sitting, came such a being that Roxas thought he had to either be and angel just for him or his own personal devil bent on his undoing. The god that came out of the wings had flame red hair, spiked to give the illusion of fire. He such brilliant venom green eyes as well. He wore baggy black jeans that cut off just under his knees, covered in decorative belts and chains (sorta like the Hot Topic style). He also had on a plain red T-shirt under his sleeve-less black hoodie that was background black with a flame decal coming up from the bottom. On his feet were black, lace-up, combat boots. And he was wearing earrings. Well he just had piercings in general. A lip (ring on lower left side), two eyebrow (both on his right eyebrow), nine cartilage on his left ear, four on his right ear, and that was all without including the main dangling earrings. They were what caught Roxas' interest the most. They were red and silver spiked disk-like things dangling from the usual place people have earrings. But even that wasn't the weirdest thing about his sexy demon/angel/god, the guy had tattoos. Two of them that Roxas could tell. ON HIS FACE. Two black upside-down tears marked right under each eye.

And Roxas could only think of one word.

'DAMN….'

Ms. Larexene turned again to the red-head and said, "Well are you going to introduce yourself or should I do it for you?"

The boy spoke up, "Name's Axel. A-X-E-L. Got it memorized?"

And Roxas almost melted because he had such a sexy voice.

Ms. Larexene turned to the new boy and said, "Tell use something about yourself Axel." Roxas was mentally praising his drama teacher 'Thank you Larexene now I get to hear his voice again!'

Axel shifted his stance. He put most of his weight on his left leg and put his left hand (which had a ring that Roxas had not noticed earlier) behind his neck. His expression was a mix of 'this is only slightly uncomfortable' and 'what is there to say about me'. "Well there isn't anything too special about me." Then his eyes lit up and his expression grew mischievous. "Well, except maybe, that I got kicked out of my old school for setting the locker room on fire. Though they couldn't prove anything so there's no arson charge so don't worry." He laughed a little, a laugh that sent chills though Roxas, and soon everyone was laughing, Roxas and teachers included.

Ms. Larexene took charge again, "Let's all start off by introducing ourselves to Axel." Her smile turned venomous, "Hayner why don't you go first." Apparently she was still upset about the water balloons three days ago.

Hayner sighed and said, "Yeah, yeah. Hayner Laizu, school prankster."

"I'm Pence Kire and I once beat 'A Link to the Past' in three hours."

"My name's Namine Hika, and I enjoy drawing very much. I did that mural in the lunchroom."

"Hi! I'm Kairi Lew and I'm the leading Soprano in our school's chorus."

"Zexion Sakushi. I read."

"Name's Seifer Hogosha. I'm leader of the School Defense Force."

"Riku Kurai's my name and I'm also on the swim team."

"And My name's Olette Mishia and I love to write! Speaking of which Mr. Xemnas, Ms. Larexene I have a finished script I'd like you to look at."

"Let's see it Olette." Mr. Xemnas said and everyone gathered around Olette and the teachers. So no one noticed Roxas was still sitting where he was, stunned. No one but Axel who had snuck over to see the spiky hairded blonde in the corner.

Roxas had no idea until Axel was right next to him. "So you have a name blondie?" Axel asked, a smirk in his voice to match the one on his lips.

Roxas jumped but responded detachedly, "Roxas Hikari."

Axel leaned down, "Roxas huh? And what do you like?"1

"Not like it's any of your business but I skateboard." Roxas bit out coldly.

"Cool maybe we can shred sometime Roxy. Later." Axel waved as he left to join the group of excited teens gathered around their directors.

And that was Roxas' first encounter with Axel.

1. The original line here was "Roxas huh? And what do you like other than me?" But I changed it cause it made Axel seem more of an Asshole then the cocky pyro we all love.

Well that's the first chapter. I don't think I did too bad but what do you think? Please note that all flamers will be maimed by an angry bear! Review and you get a cookie!

-Ta