Summary- Axel's life is boring. Simple. Everything that happened today, happened yesterday. Everything that happened yesterday, will happen tomorrow. Just simple. But everything will change once a blonde little angel falls into his arms.
Disclaimer- I, Luna, Do not own Kingdom Hearts. It belongs to someone with far greater power than me, so…I despise/love them.
Guardian Angel
He vigorously flapped his wings as he dodged the wind-like attacks. Blood was all over his body and clothing. He yelled as a hard gust of wind hit his back. The boy had no other choice, but to go to the 'World'. He stopped flapping his wings, arched them, and dived into the clouds. He dove steadily as he passed through layers and layers of clouds until they were all above him and he could see large buildings. The blonde began flapping his wings once again as blood flicked off of them and fell below. He knew he might be seen by human eyes, but he had to risk it if he wanted to live. Up in his land, they were all trying to kill him and were afraid to come down here.
He continued flying until he found a place where there were barely any humans. He arched his wings again and turned into an alleyway which was also a dead end. He floated there, watching the wall, and after a couple seconds, his wings stopped obeying him and he roughly hit the cement ground. He slowly tried to stand and used the wall for support as he limped over to the end of the alleyway to look outside to the street. Luckily, there was no one there at the moment so he began to run. As blood dripped off of him, it left a long trail. The teen kept running, but soon tripped. He barely walked because he'd use his wings oh so often, but since they were too weak he had to use his feet. Soon he was too tired so he ran into another alleyway and stopped moving. He panted roughly as he fell onto his knees. Then, he blacked out.
Axel sat on the railing of his friends' front porch as he smoked the last of his cigarette. There was a large party inside, but he wasn't in the mood. The redhead sighed and hopped off the rail, throwing the last of his cigarette on the ground, stepping on it. He slowly walked away, his hands deep in his pockets.
Life was always the same here in Hollow Bastion. Axel wanted something to happen. Not just something like an event or party, but something so amazing and crazy that it could even shock him. Axel was barely amazed at much since nothing would ever change. Everything that happens today, happened yesterday, and everything that happens tomorrow, happened today. Nothing. Changed.
Axel deeply sighed while walking down the familiar street, looking down at his feet as they dragged across the pavement. When he looked forward, he paused. Ahead of him was a long trail of blood, obviously still fresh.
"Holy shit…" Axel murmured as he followed the blood. It continued for a couple blocks and soon came up to an alleyway. Axel walked in and saw a body. He tensed up and gasped, but not because there was a body…because the person had large, angel wings attached to their back. At first, Axel thought they were real, but it was impossible. He ignored that fact and decided to think it was a damn, good part of a costume.
He slowly walked over to the blonde and flipped him over. He held onto his back and saw his beaten up face.
"Jesus, he's just a kid…" He said looking at the blonde's clothing which was only dark, baggy jeans and some sneakers. Axel took off his black coat and wrapped it around the teen. Axel flinched a bit as the wings somehow moved by themselves and wrapped themselves around their owner protectively. Axel picked up the blonde bridal style and began to walk home.
The winged teen laid on Axels' bed. Axel had cleaned him up and gave him some of his clothes, even though it didn't fit him too well. He also bandaged up his wounds which were mainly on his head, arms, and back. Axel didn't call the hospital. He couldn't. He was still confused about the 'wings' and didn't want to risk the damn government getting into this. He hated the government. They hide too much crap from everyone; all the exciting stuff. Axel thought of calling his best friend, Demyx, but he didn't think that he could keep this secret. So he sat on a chair next to the bed and waited for the blonde to wake.
(FLASHBACK) Roxas walked down the long, carpeted hall as he had heard he had been summoned by his grandfather. He silently and boredly made his way to his grandfather's study and sighed before entering the room. When entering, his expression changed completely into a happy, cheerful (pathetic) way.
"Grandfather, you summoned me?" He asked. God, he hated talking like this; all 'sophisticated' and 'perfect'. It was so…human to him.
"Yes son I have. It is about the 'World'…" He said getting up from behind his desk and walking over to his grandson.
''Bout time dammit!' Roxas thought.
"The 'World'? May I presume it is about the guardian?" He asked with a slick smile and an eyebrow cocked upwards.
"(Hm) You learn quickly. Come, I will show you the weapons." He said going down a hall at the back of his study. Roxas obediently followed until they entered a large white room. No one was ever allowed in here unless grandfather was there, so Roxas was secretly excited. There was a small pedestal in the middle of the large, white room where the old man walked over to. Roxas followed, remembering what his brother, Sora, had told him. The pedestal would show what weapon your guardian would have. Sora had gotten a dark type of blade, which he said was called 'Soul Eater'. When Sora had shown him the blade, Roxas got a shiver down his spine. It kinda looked like a bat wing, black and red.
Roxas pulled the thought away from his head of the demonic blade and walked over to the pedestal as the old man stood on the opposite end. They both stood there and watched as the pedestal burst into flames.
"Your guardian will have the element of fire. Here—"
Two circular shaped weapons appeared with spikes coming out of its edges.
"—are you guardians' weapons."
'Cool! Chakrams! My guardians' gonna be a pyro! Awesome!!' Roxas thought as he continued to act clueless about it.
"They are called chakrams. Grab them."
Roxas nodded and did as instructed, grabbing the weapons by the two intersecting bars in the middle. As he held them, they slowly disappeared and turned into hundreds of light crystals. The crystals levitated and spun around Roxas and soon quickly seeped into him painlessly.
"Now I will warn you Roxas, your guardian id destined for you. Maybe as a friend, acquaintance, even a lover, but it will not be your choice. Whether beautiful or unsightly, whether the personality is filled with hatred or love, whether it is male or female…your destinies will forever be intertwined.
"But—how will I know it's them?"
"After a limited time on the 'World' you will lose your ability to fly."
"They will disappear?"
"No. Only stop obeying you, nothing more." He replied walking through another long hallway. Roxas quietly followed.
"Your guardian will be the one who finds you. If more than one appears, the human who really cares for you shall be the one."
The man stopped at the end of the hall where a large window lied.
"That is all I have summoned you for. I'm sure you heard the lecture I gave to your brother, about this situation."
"Of course sir."
Roxas slightly bowed and jumped out the window, quickly summoning his wings.
"Be safe my child!" yelled the old man as Roxas flew away.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever…" He murmured going over to the small area where his friends waited.
(END OF FLASHBACK)
Roxas slightly moaned and turned his head sideways. He slowly opened his eyes, but quickly sat up, panting a bit.
"Woah, calm it down kid. Your wounds are still healing y'know." Roxas quickly turned noticing a redhead now standing next to him. He quickly jumped off the opposite side of the bed, pushing himself up against a wall.
W-Who are you? W-Where am I?" Roxas asked in a bit pf a panic. Even though Roxas had to look for his guardian, humans were still dangerous to their kind.
"Calm down. I found you in an alleyway. I couldn't have just left ya. "
The guy slowly stood up and began to walk over to him.
"H-Hey stay away from me." Roxas said angrily as he moved to another wall to keep his vision steady with the guy.
"I'm not gonna hurt ya." He said rolling his eyes and placing a hand on his hip.
"I'm serious dammit, stay the fuck away!" But he didn't listen so Roxas had no other choice but to use force. He quickly summoned his keyblades, Oathkeeper and Oblivion, and slashed at him.
Axel flinched and pulled his arms up, but calmed down a bit when he felt no pain. He slowly looked forward and noticed some sort of shield around him. It glowed a bright red and orange and slowly dissolved into the air.
"What…the hell?" Axel said, astonished. The boy came out of his fighting stance and sighed.
'Well, the old man could've reminded me about this.' Roxas thought.
'This, is my guardian? You have got to be kidding.' He thought. After a couple seconds, Roxas finally realized that he was staring at the guy with a mean glare.
"Why are you lookin' at me like that? If it wasn't for me, you'd be dead in an alleyway by now!" He yelled.
Roxas hated to admit it, but it was true. He would be dead if it wasn't for this guy. Roxas slightly growled, putting a hand through his blonde hair and replied, "Look, I know ok?! It's just—"Before he could finish he noticed that there was different clothing on him. Well more than he remembered as a matter of fact. The shirt was extra large for him and the pants were baggy, yet wrapped around his waist nicely, which made it a great assumption that it was the guy's clothing.
"What the hell, did you change my clothes?!"
"…Dumbass! Your clothes were bloody as hell! 'Couldn't have kept them on ya!" He yelled. Roxas sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.
'Guess I'll have to introduce 'n' explain…' He thought.
He turned his head, not wanting to, but turned back with his hands on his hips.
"Roxas."
The guy cocked an eyebrow.
"My name."
"Well that was a change of personality…Name's Axel. Memorize it."
"Whatever…"
Roxas said walking passed him. Axel began for the door and finally asked, "So you mind telling me what the hell is going on here?"
Roxas boredly followed as the redhead walked down some steps to their right.
"sigh I have a lot to explain…" Roxas said to himself.
The two continued on until they reached a room where a table stood in the middle (obviously the dining room) and sat across from each other.
"In the skies of your world is where mine is. Humans can't see it because…well it was made that way." Roxas said flailing a hand forward.
"Soo, your some kind of angel or somethin?" Axel asked.
Roxas turned his head and noticed that the wings were still visible, coming out from the top of the baggy shirt. Roxas turned back forward and shut his eyes lightly, and then the wings disappeared with a small flash.
"I really don't know what we are. I don't think we're angels…but what I do know is that, sadly, you are my guardian."
Axel, once again, cocked his eyebrow in confusion.
"Guardian?"
Roxas sighed. "In my world, there are only…demon-like people, y'know, like kitty girls and mermaids—"
"Uh-huh"
"—but at a certain age everyone gets a guardian. They don't choose the person, just their weapons."
Axel looked away for a moment, and then turned back saying, "So—if I am correct—I'm not just hopped up on drugs. This is actually happening?"
Roxas just looked at him.
"Great, not only did I get some skinny ass, weirdo. I also got an idiot." Roxas said to himself, looking down at the black, patterned wooden table.
"Fuck you." Axel said, sticking up his middle finger. The two stayed quiet for a couple seconds before Roxas continued.
It took almost the entire day for Axel to finally understand half of what was going on. He just couldn't believe that something finally happened. He still thought it was all a dream.
After Roxas had finished the long, idiotic explanation, he got up and walked over to the other side of the table where Axel sat.
"Y'know, I thought these would go to some pyro." He said summoning the chakrams in one hand. He held them out to Axel as he slowly took them.
"(Tsk) Wow. Chakrams and a blonde lil' angel. What more do you want in life?" He asked sarcastically as he inspected the weapons. Roxas merely rolled his eyes and sighed.
Axel chuckled and held the weapons in front of the blonde.
"No you gotta keep'em. They're yours."
"Well, I can't just carry them around everywhere I go."
Roxas rolled his eyes and taught Axel how to de-summon the weapons, using his own. Axel politely listened to the instructions and soon got the hang of it.
"There's something I still don't understand though."
"What?" Roxas asked attentively examining his keyblades he hadn't used for so long.
"Why do you need guardians anyway? I mean, you guys got all this magic shit…You can defend yourselves."
Roxas looked upward, trying to think of a logical explanation. He slightly pouted and leaned his head sideways, adorably. Axel couldn't help but to smile, yet looked confused afterwards at what he just thought about.
"Y'know, I don't really know…All I know is that it's some 'destiny' crap cuz(x) some of my older friends had some guardians and they never usually separated."
Roxas sat down on the edge of the table as Axel stood with his hands in his pockets.
"The one who knows most about this 'World' is my grandfather, who told us about it and the guardians, etc…. y'know he told me that the guardian can become anything to us…but usually they hook up in the end."
The two stayed quiet for several seconds.
"Hold up a sec, your saying that the guardian stay with the person? In a true relationship?" Axel asked.
"That's what I'm guessing, but I don't understand this."
Axel, once again, cocked an eyebrow.
"What do you mean 'this'?"
"Well, we're…umm…."
"Guys?"
Roxas' cheeks turned a light shade of red as he replied, "Well yeah…"
Axel smirked while rolling his eyes.
"You know they might be right…we could just be friends or something…" He said in an 'obviously' tone.
"Eh, probably. Can't say nothing until it happens right?"
Axel merely shrugged and sighed upward, blowing some hair out of his face.
The blonde deeply moaned and laid back on the table.
"What the hell's wrong with me?"
Roxas turned his head to the side with his eyes slightly shut.
"I feel…weak. I just wanna close my eyes and relax…"
"Um. I think you're sleepy."
Roxas tiredly opened his eyes and gave him a confused look.
"…sleep-y?"
Axel's eyes shot open.
"Don't you sleep?"
"moan what the hell is 'sleep'?" He asked sitting back up.
"Since I came to this new world, I'm becoming a bit like your kind."
Axel shook his head and walked over to the table and sat on the chair next to the blonde.
"Well um…sleeping is one thing in our horrid lives that keeps us healthy and alive. It's just like you said; relaxing with your eyes shut."
Roxas looked forward toward into the living room. He lightly yawned and then made another confused face.
"That's yawning. You do that when you're tired."
"Yawning…" Roxas said seeing the way it felt through his mouth.
He roughly jumped off the table and walked into the living room, unknowingly. Axel watched curiously as the blonde plopped onto the couch with a relaxed moan. He chuckled and made his way to the living room as well, sitting on the edge of the couch as Roxas laid down, taking up most of the space.
"How is it that your so healthy and cu-(ahem) and you don't sleep?"
Roxas moaned and replied with a shrug.
"Sigh Whatever."
Axel looked up at his cable box. (2:22) He quickly looked down to think of a wish. Every time all the numbers were the same (or 12:34) on the time, he'd make a wish. Usually Axel would never catch it because when he'd see it, a minute would pass. But, luckily, he caught it today. Still, he didn't know what to wish for...the one wish he'd been asking for has already happened. Well, at least he thought it did.
Axel looked back at the clock, making sure the time was still the same. He quickly closed his eyes and mouthed out a wish.
I wish that all that's happening is for real…Not that I'm dreaming or drugged up or something…
He softly opened his eyes and quickly glanced at the clock. After a couple seconds, a minute passed. He smirked and turned to the sleeping blonde. He looked cute when he slept. So innocent and relaxed…If this all was a dream, there would be a hot, half naked girl on the couch instead of this…so he assumed it probably wasn't. Still, no one can control what happens in a dream.
Ok, I'm stopping here for now. Please review and tell me what you guys think so far.
Axel- Well, hell they'll probably love it! I mean, I'm in it so its automatically good.
Roxas- shut up Axel
Axel- make me Roxy. blows kiss
Roxas-blush oh shut up ya loser.
ANYWHO!! Axel, would you mind telling everyone the prize for reviewing?
Axel- Duh...(Ahem) Any one who reviews gets a cookie with their favorite anime on it! and if you leave a great review you can get other pastries and my picture!
Luna- OK you can stop now Ax--
Axel- You can also see a shounen-ai comic with me and Roxy-poo!
Roxas-Wha??
Luna-ok Axel thats enough...
Axel-C'MON PEOPLE REVIEW!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT ME!! HAHAHA!!
Luna and Roxas quickly jump on Axel and hold him down, shutting his mouth
