Me: YES I FINALLY HAVE A FANFICTION ACCOUNT! NOW I CAN TYPE DOWN ALL THESE IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN BOTHERING ME LIKE CRAZY!
Axel: Wait what am I doing here?
Me: You're my favorite character, DUH!
Axel: Great another fangirl...
Me: All characters belong to their rightful owners, so unfortunately I own nothing...
Axel: Well you do own Arek-
Me:SHHH YOU'LL SPOIL IT! I HAVEN'T TYPED THAT CHAPTER YET!
~Beginning~
"Bakunetsu Screw!" Shouted Axel as he performed his fire hissatu technique
"Hammer of wrath!" Mark used this move to stop the shot
"That was a great shot Axel!"
Said boy only nodded in response
"Hey Axel"
Axel turned to face the genius playmaker of the team, Jude Sharp
"Yes Jude, What is it?" said Axel giving him a questioning glance
"That shot you just performed, I noticed you were holding back a little, is everything okay?"
Though Axel seemed calm in the outside, inside he was panicking
'Oh God, he noticed? Well what would you expect from the team's genius... But I can't say anything, like usual'
"You're just imagining it Jude, I'm fine"
Jude looked doubtful but decided to let it be for now
~Time Skip~
Once football practice was over everyone went to the dining hall to eat, as they did they complimented each other on their football skills, they were so lost in their chat that no one noticed Axel who seemed to be fidgeting uncomfortably in his seat, throwing a few glances at the window with what seemed to be a look of longing.
"Hey Axel, are you okay?" asked Jude for the second time that day, the question got everyone quiet and look at their fire friend
"Hm? Oh yeah I'm fine..." said Axel not even looking at Jude
Now everyone was concerned, its like he wanted to go outside again, but they just did, so what was it that, if anything at all, gave Axel the need to go outside again.
"Okay Axel this isnt the first time I've noticed you acting strange, but one night I couldn't sleep, while I was laying there I heard a door creaking open, as I also opened the door I saw someone walking away, I got slighty curious and decided to follow, what I didn't expect to see was you leaving the house!"
Everyone looked at Axel expecting an answer but surprisingly all they got was a worried look
"You left the building too! At night! When I went after you you were gone! Nothing but a few white feathers left! And today during practise you didn't use all of your power! What's gotten into you?!"
Jude didn't mean to shout, but he's worried for the flame striker and can't keep this bottled up anymore
But then the strangest and most shocking thing happened
A single silver tear ran down Axels' smooth and pale face
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"A-Axel?" asked Nathan stuttering slightly by the shock, as did everyone else since they had never before in their entire lives seen Axel Blaze let out a single tear
"Why would you care?! You've all never noticed anything before! What's so different now?! Besides I'm not plannning on ever telling you why I'm like this, you would never accept me! You would never accept a-a... A MONSTER!"
It was all silent, nothing could be heard aside from the crickets, Axel realised what he said and covered his mouth with both of his hands.
"I-I... I have to go"
Axel tried walking towards the door where he could leave to go to the forest and calm himself, but a hand grabbed his wrist stopping him from moving, Axel turned to see
"Jude?"
"Axel I'm sorry I shouted at you like that, but don't ever call yourself a monster, there's absolutely no reason to for a sweet boy like yourself"
Axel blushed slightly but sighed, he was expecting this, it was always the same, but when someone doesn't know something like him exists in the world they obviously would say 'don't call yourself a monster' but of course when they see the problem they freak out and run away, laugh at his appearance or shout and scream at him for not telling them this and that he should go to a freak show
"I have to go"
Axel once again tried to walk away but Jude refused to let go
"Jude" he said warningly
"Let go of my hand" he said with the same tone, however Jude could've sworn he heard a hint of fear in there
"No"
Axel stared at him in utter shock
"NO?! JUDE LET GO OF MY WRIST THIS INSTANT!"
Everyone flinched at the booming voice, who could blame them? Axel has never once shouted in front of them
"No"
Axel started struggling to get out of Jude's suprisingly strong grip
"Jude" Said Axel dangerously, the voice sounded so threatining that Jude almost let go in fear
"No"
Axel wasn't sure why but he started feeling uneasy by Jude's stare and the way he was using his voice certainly did not help matters
"C-come on Jude just let go"
Jude inwardly grinned at Axel's stutter, he was slowly giving in
"No"
Axel started shaking, if he didn't leave soon he would start crying in front of everyone, that would be really embarassing
Jude realised Axel was starting to get overwhelmed and would soon break down
'That's a good thing though, if he does cry he'll feel better afterwards and then we have a higher chance for him to spill the beans'
"J-Jude l-let g-go"
Axel's shaking grew worse and Jude saw tears forming in the corner of his eyes
'Now or never'
Jude suddenly hugged Axel in a protective embrace, and in the state Axel was in it did it
Axel started crying
"Shh it's okay Axel, it's okay"
"I-its n-not f-fair" Axel whispered clutching Jude's shirt and placing his forehead on Jude's shoulder crying as quietly as he could
"It's okay Axel just let it all out" as Jude said this he started rubbing Axel's back calming him down slightly, not soon after Axel fell aleep due to exgaustion and truth be told Jude thought Axel looked cute whilst he slept
'Wait.. did I just say cute? Since when did I find anything let alone Axel cute? sigh this is so confusing'
"W-what do we do now?" asked Jack hesitantly
"I'll take him to his room first, when he wakes up don't ask what happened and stuff like that okay?"
Once everyone nodded Jude picked up Axel bridal style and almost gasped in suprise, Axel didn't weigh a thing!
This was all very confusing for Jude but decided not to ask this soon, however that didn't mean he wouldn't worry, the others don't know but Axel and him are childhood friends and still are the best of friends
After they left Rika said
"Whoever thinks Axel and Jude love each other put their hand up!"
Everyone put their hand up
"Well then how about we help them get closer eh?"
"YEAH!"
"SHH honestly wake up the whole island while you're at it!" Rika whispershouted
~What's wrong Axel?~
"sigh Axel why won't you tell me what's wrong, do you not trust me enough? Even after everything we've done together?"
Jude remembered the time they first met, no one would believe the little boy was actually Axel, Jude started stroking Axel's hair and smiled, it was still soft
~FLASHBACK~
"Hello again Sera, I've brought my sweet little angel with me just like you asked, now where is your bundle of joy?" said a lady with brown hair and chocolate coloured eyes
"Oh hello Minerva! So is this your son?"
Another lady with dreadlocks that fell on her shoulders and ocean blue eyes looked at the little boy
"What's your name?"
The boy didn't answer but rather ran behind his mothers legs, his mother giggled and crouched down to the boy's level
"It's okay my little angel, don't be shy and just say your name okay?"
The boy hesitated but nodded ever so slightly
He walked slowly towards the woman while looking at the floor, then looked up
"My name is Axel mam, its very nice to meet you"
He bowed to show respect to the older of the two
"My my so sweet, my son could learn a thing or two from you"
Axel's head shot up and widened his eyes at the mention of another boy then bolted behind his mother's legs shaking like a leaf
"Now now Axel I know your shy but I brought you here to make friends with this boy. I've seen you at school and you don't seem to talk to anyone it will be a good experience"
"...okay..."
"That's my boy now go inside while I talk with Sera okay?"
"Okay mother goodbye and thank you for inviting me"
Axel turned and walked off looking only straight ahead, not bothering to look around
"Sigh I worry for him sometimes.."
Sera just looked at Minerva in confusion
"What do you mean? He seemed fine to me, very polite boy by the way"
"That's the problem"
"What?"
"My little angel acts as if he's a grown woman than a little boy, he doesn't have that childhood curiousity and studies for school oh so much, don't get me wrong I'm proud that he's the top student at school but he never plays around, he rarely talks he won't get dirty, he won't voice his opinion on anything-"
"Doxophobia"
"What?"
"Doxophobia the fear of expressing or voicing opinions, he's trying to be perfect for you so he could also be Atelophobic which is the fear of imperfection, I believe he's more of the latter than former but I'm 100% sure he has one of the two phobias"
Minerva stared at her with a look of shock and worry
"To fix this you need to speak to him instead of leaving him alone, that's what I think anyway, I'm no phobia expert but he does need help"
Minerva thought for a while then suddenly smiled, Sera looked confused
"I believe Sera your son might get rid of this phobia of his"
"Heh I hope so"
~Let's see what Axel is doing!~
'It's simple I simply introduce myself then leave quickly, he won't know what happened'
However a small part of him actually wanted to be friends with the boy, then he immediately shook his head at the silly thought
'No, I don't need friends, I just need to make my mother proud and be perfect, I HAVE to be perfect, otherwise I won't live up to my parents expectations and they might replace me with someone better'
As Axel thought this he suddenly heard strange noises coming out from the other side of a door, he put his ear on the door and listened closer
"HA YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT ME BAAAAAAAAANG"
Then suddenly the voice changed to a higher pitch as if they were trying to be a girl
"Oh no the explosion in the tower was set off and there is only one tower left Foxy what will we do?"
The voice changed again
"Aye don't ye worry about nothin', I will protect everyone here Bonnie"
The voice changed again
"Oh thank you but you have to hurry Foxy, Freddy and the others are down!"
"What even Marionette and Goldy?!"
"Yes you're our only hope gasp look out!"
"AAAH"
"BONNIE!"
"Please... save us... Foxy..."
"BONNIEEEEEEEE!"
Axel had enough he knocked on the door
"Ugh What is it Mum?! I'm busy!"
Axel was confused, were those noises he was doing and voice changing a part of a drama piece? It sounded interesting, Axel opened the door
"MUM WHY ARE YOU HERE?!"
The boy turned around only to see his mum... Wasn't his mum, but a rather cute boy
"Oh sorry I thought you were my mum" He suddenly gasped
"WAIT ARE YOU THE NEW BOY MUM WAS TALKING ABOUT?! YESSS A NEW FRIEND!"
The boy ran in front of Axel grinning from ear to ear
"HI MY NAME'S JUDE WHAT'S YOURS?!"
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"Soooo uh your name is?"
"...Axel..."
Jude smiled
"Cool name come in"
Axel stepped in the room and immedietly wanted to run back out
THIS
ROOM
WAS
MESSY
"It's great I know but you don't need to gawk at it"
"H-how can y-you live through t-this?"
"What do you mean?"
"It's so messy..."
Jude narrowed his ruby red eyes
"Well I'm busy playing all day"
"Don't you do your homework?"
"Well yeah at the like, last second"
"Wow you must be a really fast writer if can do all your homework in 1 second"
"What?"
"What?"
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"UGH MY HEAD! Anyway do you want to play with me?"
Axel merely tilted his head in confusion, giving off that innocent aura
"Play? What's that?"
"Wow you're weird"
Jude didn't realise what he said made Axel's heart beat faster and quicken his breath
'He thinks I'm weird? Then my mother thinks I'm weird and not... not... perfect'
"Hey you okay?"
Jude got worried when Axel croached down with his hands at the side of his head whispering things to himself
"Axel? Come on, say something"
"I'm not weird, I'm perfect, I'm not weird, I'm perfect"
Though Jude wasn't into studying he happen to read a book about phobias because he found it interesting, the one that caught his eye was
"Atelophobia, the fear of imperfection"
Jude panicked, he caused this
"Axel! AXEL COME ON SNAP OUT OF IT!"
Jude thought that he should try and shock Axel, but the thought that came to mind wasn't the best in the world, but he couldn't think of anything else at the moment and he needed to do something fast!
But he still couldn't believe what he was about to do
"Ugh you owe me after this"
Jude grabbed Axel's shirt and brought him close, he kissed Axel and the boy came to his senses but almost immedietly lost them again he didn't know what Jude was doing but it felt amazing
They separated once they ran out of breath and stared into each others eyes
"Jude?"
"Heh you know I really like you, as a friend of course, you're really interesting"
Jude gave Axel a toothy grin, which he returned with a small smile, that action caused Jude to widen his eyes in surprise
"Hey that's the first time I've seen you smile since you came here"
Axel frowned when that was said
"I don't remember the last time I've actually smiled"
"WHAT?!"
Axel jumped in surprise
"What?"
"How can you not remember the last time you smiled?"
Axel suddenly found the floor interesting and blushed ever so slightly, it was barely noticeable, Jude gave him a look of concern
"Hey, it's okay Axel, you don't need to smile, but you should a bit more, you do have a cute smile"
"You think I have a cute smile?"
Jude nodded
"O-okay I'll try, um can you teach me how to play?"
"Haha, Sure!"
Jude pat Axel's head as a friendly motion, but only to gasp in surprised when he felt it, Axel looked a little worried at this
"Are you okay?"
"Your hair is so soft! I didn't think it was natural, it's hard to find hair like this these days, you are so lucky!"
Jude knew for certain he's never forget the cuteness of Axel's smile, the sweetness of Axel's voice and most importantly the softness of Axel's hair
~End of Chapter~
Axel: OH GOD YOU MADE ME AN UKE?!
Me: Shut it it's my story I do whatever I want okay?
Axel: You made a kissing scene really quickly
Me: Well it wasn't a REAL real kiss, more like 'I better do this so you don't die' kiss, it doesn't mean anything
Axel: ... You're preparing me for the future aren't you?
Me: YUP! GOODBYE MINNA!
Axel: Goodbye