Chakram

By: Axel

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Summary:

Wherever Sora goes, whomever he meets he always gets these mysterious 'key chains'.

The keyblade can't be the only weapon they work for though…

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Axel looked at Roxas pathetically. "Nobody would miss me," Roxas said nonchalantly, shrugging his shoulders as he walked away.

"That's not true" Axel yelled at him. Then he dropped his head and muttered, " I would."

Roxas grinned; though Axel couldn't see with his back turned. Roxas clenched the Oathkeeper, reminding himself of its name, and what that meant. "Axel" he called back, glancing back at his defeated looking friend.

Axel looked up at him, a puppy's questioning glance emitting from his eyes. "Catch" Roxas said. He griped the small charm hanging off of the Oathkeeper and ripped it off. He tossed it to Axel, who caught it clumsily.

Axel looked at the object in his hand, then at Roxas. "You're my friend Axel. I promises we'll see each other again before it's all over." He meant before one of them died.

Axel nodded, accepting that he couldn't turn his friend from his quest. "Don't keep me waiting" Axel retorted, his usual sarcastic grin reclaiming his face. "I hope you find what you're looking for."

"Same here" Roxas said, waving a small good bye before the tendrils of darkness engulfed him, carrying him to only he knew where. Axel stood for a while, watching mournfully as the last few dark vapors dissipate.

His hand clenched around the object Roxas had tossed to him, and then Axel looked at it again. The Oathkeeper. Axel felt a grin tug on his lips. He'd see Roxas again…he knew it.

He shoved the charm in his pocket and began walking back towards the castle. As he drew nearer and nearer he forced his grin to fade.

None of the others knew about Roxas's leaving. The last thing either Axel or Roxas needed was someone like Saïx shoving his nose where it didn't belong, which he would certainly do if Axel seemed at all happy.

Axel climbed the stairs of the castle up to his room. On his was up however he ran into Larxene, the last thing he needed.

"Where have you been? The Superior's been looking for you. He's pretty ticked off. He gave us a mission," she said, handing Axel a flashcard with there assignment.

"Us? What do you mean us?" Axel asked, glaring at the savage nymph.

She grinned wickedly and said " you've been doing so poorly on your missions lately he decided you needed a partner again. So he chose the person with the best record, who happened to be me of course."

Mission success rates were often determined by how many hearts one could secure. Larxene being the ruthless killer she was it was no surprise she had the highest record. Oh well, it was better than his last partner, Demyx. Axel had gotten better, but Demyx never improved much, so Axel was aloud to go it alone for a while.

"Should I go see him first? Or should we just go?" he asked, shrugging his shoulders.

"If you want your head bitten off be my guest. I know I wouldn't if I were you."

"Then I won't."

"Wise choice."

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Axel sighed leaning against the wall. " What are we doing again?" he asked boredly.

Larxene was peeking around the window, looking for something. "We're looking for the keybarer. Our job is to unleash some new heartless to collect some more hearts for us."

Axel sighed, the same as every mission. "Look, there he is now" Larxene purred, pointing down.

Axel wondered over to the window and looked down at the scrawny key wielding boy, sprinting down the streets of Agrabah. He hated him so much. He was the reason Roxas had left.

"I know just what to do" Axel said coldly. He summoned a party of bandits that all jumped Sora at once.

"Axel don't kill him. We need him," Larxene hissed.

"He'll be fine…" unfortunately Axel thought.

He watched Sora fend of the heartless easily for a while. Then they started to gang up on him.

"Cure" Sora's feathered companion called out, a healing light engulfing the boy.

"Thanks Donald" Sora called.

Axel gritted his teeth and summoned a handful of Air Soldiers. " Take care of the Duck," he snarled at them. They flew down and descended upon Donald, keeping him distracted. Axel wanted to see Sora hurt.

"I've never seen you enjoy hurting someone so much" Larxene said, a sadistic smile tugging at her lips.

"I'm not a fan of this Sora kid."

"why?"

"He bugs me."

"Because he's Roxas's Somebody?"

Axel went rigid. Just hearing the name made him upset. " No" he answered honestly.

Larxene fell into silence out of puzzlement, watching Sora's valiant struggle against the heartless. They were staying just out of reach of the keyblade, attacking to quick for Sora to see. Without Donald to heal him he'd be a goner.

"Sora, here catch" Goofy called, tossing something to Sora. This object caught Axel's eye. He watched as Sora yanked off the little charm on the Keyblade and exchange it for a new one. The Keyblade transformed into a different weapon, though it was still a keyblade. It was longer though, and more powerful, enabling Sora to hit the heartless that had been dodging him.

So that's what those little charms were for. This caught Axel's interest.

The wave of heartless ceased and the trio of heroes regained their bearings. "Come on, let's get to the palace and make sure Jasmine's okay" Sora said in his normal chipper voice. He waved to the other heroes and took off sprinting down the streets towards the huge palace.

"Mission accomplished" Larxene said with a smile, slapping Axel on the back. " Wasn't so hard to do something right now was it?"

Axel didn't say anything, the image of the different keyblade still in his mind. That little charm held that kind of power to make the keyblade even stronger. Was Roxas's charm like that too? Did it only work for the keyblade?

"hey, who are you guys? What are you doing in my house?" a voice asked the pair of nobodies.

Axel and Larxene spun around to see a young man in an ugly purple vest and the stupidest red hat.

"Nothing" Axel said with an innocent grin, opening a corridor of darkness, stepping inside it. He grabbed Larxene's forearm and yanked her into it before closing it to leave the young man baffled.

Just as Axel and Larxene were departing he managed to get a last glimpse of the man talking to his rug, " Who ere those guys carpet?"

"Psychopath" Axel muttered, as the darkness carried them away from the desert world of Agrabah.

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Axel sighed, tracing the star shape of the charm. He had yet to get over what he'd see earlier that day.

When he and Larxene had gotten back from the mission Xemnas had chewed Axel out about being gone when he wasn't supposed to be, rather than congratulating him on a mission completed (though he did make a point of congratulating Larxene in front of Axel). Axel hadn't bothered to hang around and had immediately gone up to his room.

Now he was left with nothing to do but wonder about the mysterious power of these charms. The star shaped charm smiled at Axel and he had to wonder what sort of power his friend's token contained.

There was no harm in experimenting he decided and summoned one of his chakrams to his side. He took a small chain and chained the goofy looking talisman to his weapon. He was amazed when the chakram began glowing. He dropped it in surprise and it clattered to the ground. He reached down and picked up his chakram…only it wasn't anymore.

It had taken on a new form as he had seen the keyblade do earlier that day. It was still a chakram, but now it was white, sharper, and sleeker. It reminded him much of the Oathkeeper, which he supposed made since. He ran his hand across the weapon, then clenched the handle firmly, giving it a few test swings. It was faster, less resistant to the air with its new shape. He smiled, stroking the new chakram. "Amazing…" was all he was able to say.

He dismissed his new weapon, though was still in awe over his discovery. He wanted to know more about these mysterious charms, but Roxas would be the only one who would know anything about them… and he was gone.

"Oh well… at least I have this one" he said, grinning like a fool. He decided he'd name the new weapon Oathkeeper, just as Roxas had named his keyblade such. Even though Roxas was gone it was like through that charm they were connected.

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End Chapter One

Well this was an odd concept that hit me out of the blue one day. I decided that it needed to be made into a fiction. So tell me what you think about it. And if you have any requests for Key Chains feel free to drop them in the review box. I've already got a few planned.

A brief explanation of the setting:

I noticed while rereading this that it seemed like it was chronologically out of order. And while I know my logic I figured others wouldn't, so here it is. This takes place during Kingdom Hearts one. It's right after he saves Kairi, and hence creation of Roxas. Roxas decided he didn't like the Organization within a relatively small about of time, which is why he's already left the Organization. So that explains the part about Roxas. Because this is during KH1, none of the Chain of Memories events have taken place yet, so that's why Larxene is still alive. The reason Sora is running around Agrabah is because he decided before going off to fight Ansem he wanted to go back to all the worlds one last time and say bye to everyone… I guess. Sorry that its all kind of confusing, I didn't intend it to be.