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Experiment VI:
"blah"-normal talking
'blah'-cat/Ienzo talking
The boy looked up, his vision blurred. A looming figure obscured him from seeing his surroundings, and immediately he was terrified. The large book bag on his back pressed painfully into his shoulder blades.
"…ok..?"
He groaned, not sure if he was hearing things or not. The voice he thought he heard spoke again, louder this time.
"Are you ok?" The boy sat up slowly rubbing his head, then glanced at the figure again. It turned out to be a boy about the same age as him, around 10, with dirty-blonde hair and bright sea-green eyes. He then realized the blonde was waiting for an answer, so he nodded. The other boy visibly relaxed then smiled brightly grabbing him by the arm and pulling him to his feet. The boy quickly stood up, looking around nervously before following. Just as he caught up, the blonde turned back to him,
"What's your name? I'm Demyx!"
"Ze-Ienzo."
"IENZO!" A voice rang out into the silence making the boy in question groan sleepily and roll over in his bed. The door burst open to let in Ienzo's best friend since he'd found the blue-haired boy on the side of the road. Ienzo groaned again and braced himself for the impact.
"Come on! It's time to get up; we're going to be late for school!" Demyx happily bounced onto his bed, starting to shake him. A loud hissing was heard and a grey cat untangled itself from the sheets. Demyx scratched its ears causing it to begin purring, immediately calming down.
"Sorry Fox." With his purpose fulfilled he departed, leaving Ienzo to start getting dressed.
'Zexion, tell him to stop doing that!' the cat hissed into the boy's mind.
"I have, he doesn't listen." Ienzo replied, "Didn't I tell you to stop calling me Zexion. It confuses me." He pulled on a shirt and adjusted his book bag on his shoulders, the same one he was found with. The cat hissed quietly and said,
'But it's your name.' Ienzo didn't reply, just stroked his cat's back and went downstairs to the kitchen where Demyx was waiting. The blonde looked up from his cereal to beam at his best friend. Ienzo gave a small smile in return as he sat down yawning. Demyx's mother, a kind woman who Demyx was the spitting image of, bustled over smiling kindly at the bluenette before placing a steaming bowl of oatmeal in front of him.
"Be sure to eat all of that, Lord knows you need to grow." She told him, patting his head, referring to his short stature. Demyx laughed, accidently spitting milk all over, causing his mother to give him a reprimanding look. Ienzo sighed then looked up as the sound of the front door opening entered their ears. A voice called out,
"Yo! What's up family?" Demyx smiled as their friend Axel walked in his boyfriend Roxas in tow. The younger blonde waved in greeting, choosing not to be loud. Ienzo waved back as Demyx motioned to the cereal box,
"Wa' bruh-fess?" he asked, his mouth still full of food. His mother gave him another look, then gave up. Axel stared at him, green eyes confused as he swept a hand through his red hair. Roxas, who had somewhat understood what he was getting at, just shook his head.
After breakfast was finished they all piled into Axels black Ferrari. The older boy came from a rich family, but chose to go to the public school instead of the private institution his parents wanted him to go to. Ienzo had always wondered how Axel still even had his car after all the wrecks he'd gotten in to. He believed it had something to do with his rich background.
On the way to school they passed a man walking his dog and Ienzo had to do a double-take, the dog looked more human than animal. The bluenette felt his chest constrict with fear, and Roxas noticed his suddenly horrified expression. He gave the blonde what he hoped would pass as a reassuring smile, but he knew it didn't reach his eyes. Before the blonde could ask, however, they arrived at Hollow Bastion High, home of the Heartless. What exactly a "heartless" was Ienzo had always wondered. There school was a quaint small town school that, in the words of Axel, was seriously in need of an "extreme school makeover". But Demyx loved the school and never let the red-head say anything bad about it in front of him. The group walked into the auditorium and a wave of noise hit them like a boulder rolling over them. Roxas huffed, being one to like peace and quiet, and left to find his brother. Ienzo agreed with wanting quiet, but not a trace of emotion showed on his face. Axel's voice seemed too immediately blend into the fray as he started up a conversation with another of their friends Marluxia. Demyx joined in after a moment once he realized Ienzo was lost in a book.
About halfway through the school day something happened to confirm Ienzo's fears. Another of the human-like dogs crept across the school's lawn, sniffing as if it was looking for something. He saw it from his classroom window, and in his mind he knew what he had to do. He told the teacher, a creepy man named Xigbar, he wasn't feeling well and fled, taking his bag with him. The entire way back to Demyx's house was murder on his nerves. Every bark was a human-like dog catching his scent, every footstep someone following him. Finally he sighted the house, and he had never been so happier to see it. He took off at a run and as soon as he got inside he collapsed against the door, his heart hammering in his chest. He tore up the stairs and emptied his bag of all his school stuff, beginning to pack stuff for a journey.
"We need to leave! Now!" he told the confused cat that was watching him from its perch on the bed. It tilted its head and mewed, causing Ienzo to glare at it,
"Don't play stupid! The Dogfaces are here and I'm not about to bring this fight to where my friends can get hurt." His speech startled the cat into hissing out,
"Dogfaces! Zexion, how'd they find us?" Ienzo didn't answer, instead he kept on packing. A moment later a second pair of hands began helping. Ienzo looked up into the face of his cat-turned-human, and smiled. The whole packing process took about five minutes, then the younger of the two turned back into a cat and jumped into the bag. Ienzo zipped it up, leaving a space where the cat could breath and went out through the front door. He locked it behind him, then hid the key under the mat. He ran off towards the woods, leaving his old life behind and into the life of being on the run, again.
