Author's Note: Lame title? I know. I couldn't think of anything else! If you have any suggestions, I'll take them! (And give you credit)
Ok, so these crazy California wildfires nearby got me out of school for a week, and I got inspiration for this fic. I don't know how far it will go, but I still like it…
Truth is, I just want an opportunity for fluff and lemon other than one shots. XD
Inspiration: My day at school on the Monday the fires were going on. Yes, we had school. About half of this is based on that. No, my school didn't set on fire, I just fantasize.
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING!!! Got it Memorized? (I don't even own THAT!)
Note: For those of you who are concerned, I'm fine and didn't have to evacuate. Well, don't. ON TO THE FIC!!!
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Wildfires and Wild Love
Chapter 1: Stupid School
BRRRRRRINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Ugh… stupid alarm…" Axel Hisaki grumbled sleepily, wiping his eyes. Crawling out of bed, he stumbled to his bathroom. He washed his face in the sink to wake himself up and looked in the mirror.
Green hair and red eyes, check. Wait. What!? Axel panicked in his head.
He rubbed his eyes looked in the mirror again.
Phew… just hallucinating. I still look as hot as ever. He nodded to himself.
Well, he did! Those green eyes contrasted to his flaming red spiky, gravity-defying hair are enough to make any fangirl swoon. His tear-drop shaped tattoos located under his eyes stuck out against his pale skin. He had the body of a swimming god, but wasn't much of one. He was more partial to heat and fire than cool and water. That's half the reason that he decided to live in San Diego, California.
Walking back into his bedroom, he could hear the TV in the living room. That was way too loud.
"Oi! Demyx! Turn it down!" Axel yelled at his blonde roommate.
"Ax, you gotta see this!" Demyx yelled back. He sounded panicked.
Gah. Probably sees something about sea animals again or something stupid… he thought, frustrated.
Axel shuffled down the hall to the living room. On the TV screen, he saw flames.
"There's wildfires all over the county and schools are closing!" Demyx explained. He crossed his fingers. "Come on, say Oblivion High, San Diego Unified… Oblivion High, San Diego Unified…" Demyx prayed as the list of schools were announced.
Axel's interest was perked as well. Missing school, for a fire or not was always a good thing. He sat down next to his roommate and begged to the unknown with him.
"All schools in the San Diego Unified School District are open except…" the announcer shuffled through his papers. "Radiant Gardens High. And that's it for school closures."
"Fuck!" Axel and Demyx shouted, standing up.
"We're open!? There's smoke in the air, people are evacuating, and we're gonna have school!?" Axel shouted, outraged.
"Well, there's no fighting it. Let's get ready. The bus comes at 7:45." Demyx said glumly.
Hmph. No backbone. Just goes with the flow, like his precious water… Axel grumbled as he went to his room to get ready.
He rummaged through his closet and various piles of clothes in his room and finally put together an outfit. He looked in his room mirror, nodding approvingly. He wore an extremely slim-fitting black "Got it Memorized?" t-shirt. It was customized especially for his hips and hourglass body shape. He wore his favorite pair of black jeans, the one with all the chains and buckles. His black boots and silver chakram necklace completed his look. He slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked out to the kitchen, where Demyx was already ready, in a blue hoodie and black jeans.
"And… It's off to hell we go." Axel sang sarcastically, grabbing his cell phone, keys, and wallet.
"Shouldn't we bring like, shades and masks? Just in case?" Demyx asked worriedly.
"Got it covered." Axel said, tossing a pair of blue sunglasses from Axel's special stash. He had a thing for collecting as many cool shades as humanly possible. He was almost there. One thousand and counting. He took some sleek black ones for himself, and waited for Demyx by the door.
"Ok, let's go." Demyx said, opening the door.
When the two stepped out, they were greeted by a burst of smoke. Fine particles of ash flew around them. Demyx immediately started cursing and coughing. Axel wasn't as bother by it. He loved fire, and all aspects of it; even the smoke and ash. Demyx covered his nose and mouth with his hoodie, and the two began walking to the bus stop.
They came to the bus stop, where a group of people waited for them.
"Hey Larx." Axel said. Larxene was wearing a black long-sleeved jacket with intricate gold designs on it. With that, she, too, wore black jeans with safety pins in them and black shoes. Her short blonde hair was as is, and her bangs were standing up like antennae as always.
"Axel." Larxene nodded.
"Zexy!" Demyx threw his arms around the neck of a shorter, slate-haired boy wearing a black trench coat and boots.
"How many times must I tell you, the name is Zexion!" he hissed. Demyx only giggled at his response.
"He's never gonna stop calling you that, you know." Marluxia said knowingly. Marluxia was wearing a pink-ish shirt to match his piecy pink mane. His black jeans had hints of pink glitter, from a bad incident with an art project long ago. His boots were worn out, and a thorn could be seen protruding from a toe.
Axel sat down on the bricks surrounding the house they were standing in front of.
"So how messed up is it that we actually have school?" Axel asked.
"I know. We're all gonna die." Larxene said.
"I hope it doesn't hit my house. My flowers are just coming into bloom!" Marluxia cried. This earned some raised eyebrows from the group.
"SHH!!!" Demyx yelled, shoving his ear into the speaker of his phone. "The schools closure list might change, the radio is announcing the fire updates!" he set his radio to loudspeaker and everyone stuck their heads toward the speakers.
Always the optimist, that Demyx… Zexion thought lovingly.
"Radiant Gardens High. Repeat, the only school closed for the San Diego Unified district is Radiant Gardens High." The woman on the radio said.
Groans of complaint and protest were heard, and the giant yellow bus came.
"Nice try, Dem. But we're going to school, that's how it is." Axel said, boarding the bus. Larxene and Marluxia nodded solemnly. Zexion put a comforting hand on Demyx's shoulder as the blonde pouted.
"Let's go, Demyx." Zexion said.
They went directly to the back of the bus and took their seats. Axel took the farthest back by himself, Demyx across from him, Larxene and Marluxia in front of Axel, and Zexion in front of Demyx. The next stop came, and Riku and Sora boarded. Riku looked as passive as ever, with his shimmering silver hair fluttering by an invisible wind that always seemed to be around, making him look especially hot. He wore a black vest with a blue tank top inside, and a black tie tied loosely around his neck. He wore dark blue jeans and black sneakers with yellow laces. He sat down in the seat in front of Zexion while his lover, Sora sat next to him. Sora wore a black and white hoodie with a white key in the center with a black keyhole around it. (Outfit inspired by Sora by Anakris on Deviantart) His crown necklace hung around his neck, and his blue jeans were torn at the edges. He wore dark blue shoes with yellow stripes and red laces.
"Everyone already angsted about how jacked up it is that we actually have school today?" Riku asked the group.
"Yup." They said in unison. Sora simply pulled his hood over his chocolate brown spikes and sighed.
"Sora? You ok?" Riku asked, putting his hand on Sora's.
"Yeah. I just want to go home." Sora said.
"Why would you want to go home? All our other friends are up at school! If there's a state of emergency and we all might die, I want to be up there with them!" Axel yelled. Everyone nodded in agreement.
One in particular… Axel finished in his head.
"I guess…" Sora sighed again.
Some time passed, the other stops came onto the bus, and they were on the freeway when Axel's phone vibrated in his pocket.
Tell every1 2 meet up at rm 606.
From: Cloud
Axel began typing a reply.
Got it. Will do. See ya school.
He relayed the message to three other friends, laying in his seat. After a minute, the phone vibrated again.
Correction: media center
From: Cloud
"Gah! Son of a- Clown." Axel said, relaying the correction. He looked out the window. Traffic wasn't as bad as he expected. Actually, traffic wasn't bad, period. There were barely any cars on the road. After some time, Demyx began panicking.
"What if the fire reaches school and we all burn up?" he gasped, his eyes wide. "We're gonna die! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" he started screaming.
Axel leaned over and slapped the panicking teen.
"We're not gonna die!" everyone yelled at him.
"I bet, when we get off the bus, he's gonna run out yelling and screaming. 'We're all gonna die!'" Sora joked, trying to lighten the situation.
"Like Chicken Little, 'The sky is falling, the sky is falling!'" Larxene added. Everyone started laughing as they unloaded from the bus. Cries of 'Be safe' and 'Don't die' were heard as they went their separate ways. Axel covered his mouth and nose with his shirt and fast walked to the media center.
"Whoa. Talk about crowded." Axel gasped as he started scanning the heads for that familiar spiky sandy-blonde head. If Cloud relayed the message to everyone, he would be here. He found who he was looking for and walked toward him. "Hey." he said, dropping his backpack on the floor and sitting on the table, on account of there were no chairs anymore.
Roxas Unmei, a sandy blonde with the most beautiful blue eyes you will ever see looked up at Axel. He was wearing a tight fitting white button down shirt and navy blue pants with black shoes, the school uniform. To customize his look, he wore a red tie with his name labeled on it in gold.
"Hey. See Cloud sent you the text? He's not here." Roxas said, looking around.
"Eh. It's ok. You holding up well?" Axel asked, swinging his long legs.
Roxas pretended to check his body for injuries. He even placed his hand in various places for a pulse.
"No injuries, no pulse, no harm, no foul." Roxas shrugged, giving Axel a half smile. Axel returned it with more love than Roxas could see.
Eventually, everyone else had come to them, and the media center soon filled up. An announcement was made over the intercom.
"Attention, students. The media center is closed, and all students need to find any open classroom to stay in until school begins. Also, today will be business as usual, no cell phones are allowed until we tell you and you need to go to your regularly scheduled classes. P.E. must report to the auditorium. Thank you, that is all."
Shortly after that announcement, the bell rang, and everyone began going to their classes.
"This is so messed up…" Axel murmured to himself, not noticing as Roxas picked up his backpack and left. He picked up his own backpack and started after him.
After much pushing and shoving, Axel made it out of the media center. The sun and sky were mucky colors, and he had lost Roxas. Sighing, he went to his Advisory class.
One very disturbing period later…
Axel came to the bottom of the slope to Mr. Sebastian's room. He was the music teacher.
"We have a sub today." Demyx explained, as they merged with the crowd to enter the room.
"Did you hear about the fire? It's coming closer. My parents are gonna pick me up next period." Some red-haired girl said haughtily. Axel gave her a dirty look as they entered.
"Today, you have to do something productive. So, I want a 1-page essay on your musical career, past, present, and future." the substitute explained. Everyone groaned. It was a "Who cares?" day, there wasn't supposed to be work! Eventually, everyone had to do it and finish, and began socializing and loafing.
Axel sat in a tall bass chair and put his hands behind his head. He looked around at the other Orchestra members. Roxas and Sora had a crowd around them, as usual. Many people were in their own little groups. You could see people pointing and whispering within the sections. It was amazing how discriminating people can be…
"Almost out of here…" Demyx sighed, gazing up longingly at the clock. Zexion looked at the clock and frowned.
"We have 20 minutes. How is that 'almost out'?" Zexion questioned.
"Well, I'm trying to keep from panicking so that Axel won't slap me anymore…" Demyx shuddered. "He slaps hard!" he whined, pouting. Zexion chuckled softly. He put his hand under his chin and lifted it so he could look into those beautiful blue-green eyes.
"Demyx, if I do something wrong, forgive me. I just…" Zexion bit his lower lip.
"Zex-?" the rest of his question was cut off when Zexion kissed the dirty blonde softly. Demyx felt fireworks erupt in his heart, and he cradled the slate-haired boy's face and deepened the kiss when he was about to pull away. Pulling apart, Demyx could see a genuine smile making its way onto Zexion's face.
"You were saying?" Demyx said flirtatiously.
"Iloveyousomuch." Zexion blurted out. What is wrong with me!? He chastised himself in his head.
"Ooooooo…." a small group of lower grade girls gawked in awe.
"This is getting good!" one whispered.
"You wanna see it get even better?" Demyx smirked at them.
He looked into Zexion's confused eyes and winked at him. Demyx grabbed the back of the boy's head semi-roughly and pulled him into a hard kiss. Zexion's body tensed in surprise, but he relaxed as Demyx slid his tongue into his mouth and began exploring every crevice of what was now his territory. The small group of girls sighed.
"Go Zex…" Axel murmured approvingly from afar. Zexion had confided in him about his feelings for Demyx. "It's about time."
Outside, the fire was at the music building. The students in the surrounding rooms ran out running and screaming from the sight they saw in the windows. Nobody thought to tell the students in the windowless music room.
"Wow, that's a lot of- Whoa my god!" Axel murmured to himself then screamed when he saw Mr. Sebastian's office light on fire. "Demyx, Zexion! Come up for air and get out of there!" Axel screamed as all the students began to panic.
"Everyone get outside! The substitute yelled, opening the doors wide. Demyx and Zexion felt the heat of the fire and ran out in a flash. Axel ushered the panicking lower graders out the back door. He looked over at the other door and saw Roxas taking on his leadership skills and doing the same.
"Roxas, you gotta help her!" the red haired girl from earlier sobbed to Roxas.
"What? What!?" he asked, trying to get her to calm down. By now, the fire had engulfed the whole back of the class.
"It's Naminé! She's still in the percussion section! Her skirt got snagged in one of the instruments! You gotta go get her!" the girl yelled, running out.
Roxas didn't even think. He covered his nose and mouth with his shirt front and ran into the smoke that now filled half the classroom. Nobody saw him run into the flames. Except one.
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Author's Note: Bwahaha! I decided to stop there because it was getting rather long. I don't like super long chapters. I will post the other half in a while. REVIEW!!!! REEEEEEEEEVVVVVVIIIIIIEEEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!
Yes, I did the stupidest thing and mixed together the real world and a strange AU. San Diego does NOT have a school called Oblivion High. Y.Y But the district is very real. If you have any more complaints, THEN REVIEW!!!