A/N: Hi, my second Kingdom Hearts fic, and I'm hoping that this romance fic is going to be better than my past failures, but I have high hopes for this one because Zemyx is one of my favorite couples. For the mandatory disclaimer: I don't own any part of Kingdom Hearts or any part of the franchise, no matter how much I wish for it to happen. I apologize for any grammer incorrections or spelling errors, I only have Notepad and it's a piece of junk. But it's my piece of junk so I'll deal with it until I can get Microsoft Word. Enjoy the fanfic, and please do not hesitate to review if you have the sudden urge to do so. My doors are open to all, whether they be a Nobody, Somebody, or something inbetween.
Summary: What happens when Axel dares Demyx to go into the abandoned castle at the edge of town during the night? And what do the rumors of vampires have anything to do with the weird lights and voices that come with the moon?
Demyx was strumming his fingers on his guitar when he heard his blue cell phone buzz with the sound of bubbles. In bright red text, the screen said AXEL. Flipping open to the message, he read, 'Hey Dem, wat up?'
'Hi Ax, jst plyng mah gitar. U?'
'Iv got a dare 4 u. Roxy me an Sai made it up. U hve 2 go that haunted castle at da edge of town. Got it memorized?'
Demyx got a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach, and it didn't feel like this was going to turn out right. 'I dnt no Ax. Sounds like bad news 2 me.'
'Come on Dem.' Demyx could practically hear the egging in Axle's voice go along with the message. 'I dare u.'
Unfortunately for Demyx, he could never turn down a direct dare from anybody, no matter how awful that the dare was. Which more than once got him into a heaping of deep trouble. His fingers were heavy with dread as he typed four letters. 'Fine.'
'Gr8t! :) C u 2night!'
7:00 at night, October 25
Demyx's feeling in his tummy hadn't lightened up at all since he agreed to the dare. When Saix, Axle, and Roxas had picked him up from his house, his parents hadn't thought anything of it. They just made sure to keep the first aid kit on stand-by. While they walked to the very edge of town two miles from his house, the ameture musician kept up his facade of readily able trouble maker for the amusement of his friends, the thoughts or worry and fear swirled around his mind.
'Those rumors,' he thought, 'They're just rumors right?' For years, before any of them were even born heck before their grandparents were born, the rumors of odd noises and weird lights happening at night strolled around the town with either fear or humor. Demyx was inclined to think of them in fear. When he was a little kid, he walked past the castle, and swore he saw the face of some pale faced figure in the window, but when he double taked there was nothing there. He knew it was silly, but the fear lasted all the way to now, when he was fifteen.
"Demyx? Are you listening to us?" The one in question was pulled from his thoughts by the concerned voice of Roxas, whose blonde, blue eyed angel face was the only one even remotely worried for the safety of his friend. "Are you sure that you want to go through with this? That old castle is really old. You might get hurt."
"He'll be fine Roxy," Axle assured his best friend *cough boyfriend cough* and slipped his arm around Roxas's shoulders confidently, "He knew that if he didn't take the dare than Sai here and me would forever label him as a scaredy cat. Right Saix?" The tall blunette nodded silently and said to Demyx, "You kneww what you were getting into and I want to know if that castle is really haunted."
"Then why don't you go?" Demyx asked indignantly.
"Because everything seems to happen to you and nothing to the rest of us. And just be gald that we're not making you do it on Halloween or then there would be real Hell to pay. The biggest stuff always seems to happen on Halloween."
The chosen unlucky teen frowned with his best kicked-puppy-face, whimpering, "Great. That makes me feel SO appreciated and special. You meanies!"
Roxas patted his shoulder consulingly while Axle snickered and Saix rolled his eyes. They continued like this for about a mile before they then travled in silence the rest of the way, all of them feeling nervous now, and paranoid. Those rumors were nothing to scoff at, no matter who thought so.
They stood silently in front of the haunted castle, almost letting the overwhelming presence of foreboding consume them. The castle was classic old European, with four towers at each corner of the establishment, with statuettes of broken angels of war and cracked stone walls with climbing ivy. Some of the broken windows still sported shredded curtains of some un-nameable color that must have been pretty years ago. The front doors were more like gates or pure wooden walls that tried to pass as doors, for they stood (rather crookedly) at easily twenty feet of solid wood. The only way in or out of the castle was by the huge gap in the door/gate that came from the fact that the right one had to lean up against the left to keep standing. An open expanse that was about the size of a small field was dressed in dead leaves that came from skeleton bared trees and accsesorized in fallen stone debris that had come from the castle. It was ancient, so old that it had its own memories and experiences, and developed its own presence. So old, that no one knew its name anymore.
"This is where we leave you Dem," Axle tried saying nonchalantly, but came out as a sort of strangled squeak.
"You have your phone on you right?" Roxas asked, noting the sweat dropping from his friend's brow as he nodded slowly. A moment of silence passed between the four friends. Demyx felt a little shove that took him by surprise. As he stumbled and looked back, Saix looked him straight in the eye sternly and nearly ordered him, "Come back in one piece Demyx, or I'll tear you apart." Knowing Saix's berserker rages, Demyx knew that that threat was very scary and might really happen. 'Better be careful,' he thought as he nodded back with his cheesy grin to his serious yellow eyed friend.
"Don't worry guys, I'll be fine!" And with that, the one known as Demyx walked away from his comrades and through the space between the doors, never to come back the same again. And he never even knew it.