Hooray! I am here with the sequel to Captive. Just be warned, though, this story doesn't have much of a Kingdom Hearts plot. It's basically all about what happens to Kat and everyone else after the defeat of Xemnas. But the people are all the same and in character (I hope).
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
Chapter One: It's Not Over Yet
Axel couldn'tbe sure how long he had still been conscious after he faded but he had closed his eyes and refused to open them to the darkness he was sure was there. He was tired of the dark. He was sure, though, that he wasn't dead (or whatever they call it for Nobodies) otherwise he wouldn't be able to think.
He was weightless in this place or maybe it was because he had used all his energy and thought he was weightless. He wondered about his situation again and twitched a finger. Nope, definitely not dead.
Now he went over his options: open his eyes to the dark or keep them closed so he could try to catch up on some sleep and keep trying to think he was dead. Well, better now or never, he thought and opened his eyes.
He didn't think he had even opened them at first because he couldn't see anything but darkness but he knew he was blinking so it was obvious he was just seeing dark.
Until, that is, a lavender light shone off in the distance. It was a little speck at first but it kept drawing nearer to him and soon took shape.
It was a girl that was walking toward him...or at least she seemed to be walking but it looked like she was floating to him. She was less than average height and had golden hair that shimmered in the darkness surrounding them. Her eyes were brown and her face was small and round. She stopped at his side and smiled down at him since he was laying on his back.
"Hello Axel." Her voice was silky but young.
He attempted to ask her who she was but he was too drained to talk and his mouth wouldn't form words.
She frowned slightly when he didn't speak but because she was young, it looked more like a pout. She crouched down beside him and ran a hand up his arm, across his chest, and down his other arm. He shivered when something familiar came into his mind. A lavender glow shone around him.
"There, now try to speak," the girl told him, settling down into a seated position in the air and pulling her white pant legs down over her white tennis shoes. Axel also noticed a gold belt and gold lining the neck of her white shirt and her belled sleeves.
"Who...are you?" he asked, the first word coming out weak and breathy.
"My name is...hmm, well I guess I've never thought about that. I suppose I don't have one but that's not important. You can call me Chance." She smiled and tossed some golden hair over her thin shoulder.
"Have I seen you before?" Axel asked propping up on his elbows. "You look familiar to me."
"I don't think so," Chance replied. "But then again, maybe you have and I didn't know."
"Hmm," he grunted. "Where are we?"
Chance looked surprised. "You mean you don't know? Aren't Nobodies supposed to fade back into darkness?"
"Well, yeah, we are but that's not where I am or else I wouldn't be talking to you. This darkness is different from what I'm used to so this can't be the Dark Realm."
"Oh? How so?" Chance asked.
"Well, usually you can see the darkness in the distance. This darkness is deep. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face if it wasn't for your glow."
Chance giggled and tossed her hair again. "Well you're right, this is not the Dark Realm. You did fade, Axel, and you would have been gone completely if I hadn't been called to save you."
"Why were you called to save me?"
"Someone didn't want you gone yet. It took me a long time to find you but I could feel you out here somewhere so I used my energy to keep you intact and in one place. Now I'm here to give you your existence back. A second, chance so to speak. Why did you think I gave you that name to address me?"
Axel leaned back on his hands and looked up at the nonexistent sky. He had stopped listening when she said that someone didn't want him gone. "Spitfire," he murmured.
He was hardly aware that Chance had wrapped an arm around his waist and put his arm around her shoulders to haul his lithe form to his feet.
"OK, Axel, here's the deal and I'm sorry if this seems a little harsh to you but my terms are different considering you are a Nobody and don't have a heart to return." She opened what looked like a cut revealing a sky stretching out before them and below: a town in the dead of night.
Axel looked at it with an expression of what could be called bewilderment coming from a normal person. She touched his chest again and the lavender light entered into him.
"Every person is given a test to earn their life back. I will grant you a temporary heart for the purpose of avoiding suspicion. These people are not aware of other worlds or Nobodies. In a month's time, you have to find your real heart."
"And if I don't?" Axel asked, a hint of worry in his normally cocky voice.
"You will be gone forever; you've cheated death once Axel. This is an extension of your life. You can use it wisely or give up and say goodbye to everyone you missed before. It's up to you but I can't save you twice." She spun him around, his back hanging out the cut while she kept him up by holding onto his forearms.
"Have no fear, though. I have faith in you. Your heart will fill in but only if you make the right choices," Chance spoke reassuringly.
And then Axel was falling backwards, out the cut in the sky and grabbing at air. Chance looked down after him. "Oh and say hey to everyone for me!"
The redheaded pyro dropped through the air and tensed upon noticing the nearing ground. He crashed into an empty lot in between a house and an ugly yellow-green building behind an old church. His back arched against the force of the impact and he gasped sharply.
In a cliched way of signaling the state of Axel's predicament, the sky gave a loud rumble and it began to rain.
He laid pathetically in the mud, letting his cloak fill with the raindrops while trying to decipher whether his back was broken or not. Probably not, he decided, because if it was, I'd have a lot more trouble breathing.
He finally got to his hands and knees and stayed breathing hard for a moment. He was still pretty drained. He eventually got up and stumbled over to the house.
After a moment of debating, Axel decided to knock on the window and ask for shelter from the rain. But who was he kidding? Who would let a stranger in a black cloak into their house in the middle of the night? It was still worth a shot, though, so he knocked.
He waited a minute, leaning against the tree that overshadowed the window. He knocked again a minute later but no one came. Axel's vision blurred as the window opened and someone with long hair stuck their head out. He fell back against the rough bark of the tree and felt the person grab his cloak to pull him toward the window before he passed out.
So this is the first chapter and it's kind of short but hopefully future chapters will be longer. This story is already written down but I don't like some parts of it so I'm open to suggestions. If there's anything you guys want to see, go ahead and leave it in a review.
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