Hi, I'm new here and well here it is, my first story, and Kingdom hearts no less! Now in a nutshell, this story revolves around that point in 358/2 days near the end when the trio split up and Axel had to fight Xion? You know, well any way, this is basically Axel's andperhaps Interpretation of What was going on in those last few days as memories of a traitor from the past resurface; now usually I don't use Oc's in a story. well yeah, i kinda do, but that is beside the point! As this one has no big part in the story as i really see it but let's let you decide!
R/R Enjoy
KH fanfic- You two...
(Exterior Castle Oblivion, timelapse- Before Sora had finished off Ansem Seeker of Darkness and almost two days since Roxas has been in Organization 13)
"Axel... promise me that when... She wakes up in a couple days... promise me that you'll try to to remember her okay?" a cloaked person had said, his frame was built like a 16 year old young man, almost 6'3 compared to Axel, The flurry of flames, number nine in the organization; taller than the young cloaked man with spiky flame red hair and two green triangle shaped tattoos under each of his eyes, his fists were clenched and he was just staring at the young man. "Grei-" "At this point, my name means nothing Axel, i'm just 0" the young man intterupted.
"But i dont understand what you mean by that at all. why do this at all, now of all times? it doesnt make sense" Axel said in a quiet protest.
"Now that Thirteen is here, Xemnas will no longer have any good use for me, i mean sure I can use a keyblade but other than that... im worthless to him. Besides, the gates are going to close soon as well as kingdom hearts, this plan of Xemnas's; it isnt right and ill stop it even if i fade into nothing." The young man started to walk towards a glass cylinder that contained a female figure dressed with a white cloak , suspended by two thin metal like tubes while water was surrounding the girl. " Xion"
"Huh?" asked Axel to the Nhilth member of organization thirteen who put one of his gloved hands on the glass cylinder that was a small centerpiece of the white lab from which they were having there conversation.
"Her name wil be Xion, figured that since she was found and fixed by me and vexen, i have a say as to what to name her right?" "
Yeah... sure." said Axel as the young man summoned an ethereal keyblade with a clocklike head with a light neon-blue bridged blade that led to a silver handle with a key-chain that had an hourglass with neon-blue sand in it. "I'm going now Axel, this conversation never happened as well as me..." said 0 as axel began to block the way to the door leading to the b4th floor of the castle.
"I cant let you leave, you realize what the organization will do if they find out youre gong to betray them?" Axel yelled
"I know of the consequences that will happen Axel, ever since the beginning; but now that Roxas is here, im not needed; Axel" Number 0 brought his keyblade up at Axel "dont try to fight me, because we both know how it will end. hope you make some friends while im gone, Got it memorized axel?" the last thing the nhilth member had said before going past Axel and leaving the room. Axel looked at the new figure Xion.
"Yeah.. I will." was all Axel could say.
(Scene end, cue KH theme. Time fowards into the events of 358/2 days, the Nhilth member is gone with his last request to Axel was to protect project 14 and Roxas, all files assosiated with him have been terminated by Xemnas himself whilst life in a sense to a nobody, goes on. With Riku's influence on the organization's puppet Xion, she has decided for the second time to escape the organization in hope's of stopping Xemnas's plan to complete Kingdom hearts while Sora is still asleep, regaining his memories by the nobody of Kairi, Namine. Fed up with all the lies he has been subjugated to by the organization and in hopes of finding Xion, Roxas leaves the organization. exterior, The Dark city)
Roxas is walking alone through the streets at night; having already beaten Saix, there is now no turning back on his plan; it is here that the imaginary camera of fate turns to the side as Roxas goes past Axel.
"So your mind's set then?" Axel said as Roxas stopped 2 feet from him.
"Why did the Keyblade choose me? Why am i even here at all? i'll find those answers faster by leaving here"
"But they'll destroy you!" Axel yelled at Roxas "You get on the organization's bad side and nothing good will come of it!"
"No one will miss me" Roxas said coldly to Axel before continuing.
(Flashes of images circle through Axel's mind as he sees in the altar of naught a fallen figure that is on the ground with Xemnas crouching near him in pain, The nhilth Member's words come up in Axel's mind)
"No one would miss me, i'm worthless now"
"That's not true!" Axel said in concern towards his best friend and looking down "I would." His arms seemed they were hanging by a string to Axel. He already Lost Xion again, Now Roxas?
Roxas looked at Axel for a second but then continued going foward, knowing that what has already happened, cannot be forgiven.
(30 minutes later)
Axel was still in the same spot in the corner, he was slumped and on the ground. To him, it had been the first in a long time where he didnt actually know what to do about the situation. It was at this point as to sleek inhuman beings came to be in front of Axel; The Dusk, the most common of the lesser being nobodies that Organization Thirteen used to complete their motives. Their hoods opened and one of them spoke, although none of them spoke with actual voices, Dusks, as well as most lesser nobodies had a form of telepathy to their superiors.
"Good evening my liege." said the first Dusk "where is master 13?"
Axel got up from the ground and looked down on the dusk and with a fake smile he said "How would I know where the little guy is? Hehe-"
"We know you saw him master" Interrupted the second dusk "please tell us where he is so we can bring him back to the castle."
Axel paused for a moment and said "Well i bet that Roxas is just on another mission, why not give him a break eh? Tell you what, why don't you just forget to get Roxas and I'm sure nothing bad will happen to him, that's an order." Axel said in both a cheerful yet serious tone
"uh.." Began the first dusk "I cannot do that master, this order came from the superior himself."
Xemnas?. thought Axel as he watched both Dusks looking around, turning their bodies in an acrobatic fashion when out of the blue, a third dusk appeared. "Hey! I caught master Roxas's scent, he's heading down this way!" the dusk pointed towards the corner as a white portal appeared with more dusks coming out.
"I'm sorry my liege but we must leave now" said the second dusk as both it and the other left with group, hot on Roxas's trail.
"Urgh." Axel groaned in anger as they started dissapearing from his view.
(scene end, whilst new one begins, with a cloaked person heading towards an abandoned mansion on the world called Twilight Town. The gate opens as the Cloaked person heads inside the mansion. Inside the decrepit old building, the person follows a glowing path that leads to a white room filled with wht appears to be childish drawings of a boy with a giant key with a anthromorphic dog knight and Duck magician; while another picture shows the same boy is haking hands with another boy with spiky blond hair in a swhirling like pattern.)
The cloaked person looks at this picture when she hears a voice.
"Hello Xion" a girl's voice said as the cloaked person turned around over to the table to see a young girl about 14-15 years old with blond straight hair with sea blue eyes wearing a silk white dress/ night gown. "Come, sit here" the girl pointed to a chair opposite to where she was as the cloaked person sat down and took off her hood revealing a raven short- haired girl with the same blue eyes that the other girl had.
"Um...Hello-" "Namine is my name" she said smiling " and you are Xion, we have much to talk about." she continued.
"What's happening to me?" said Xion "These memories that me and Rox- him have been having, they both seem like they belong to each of us, but that can't be true... Can it?" asked Xion.
"The Boy you and Roxas keep seeing is his other." said Namine
"So...Sora?" said Xion
"Correct" said Namine "Roxas is Sora's nobody, created when Sora released his heart with a keyblade to release his childhood friend's"
Images flow through Xion's mind showing a girl that has the same short hairsty;e as her but with red hair wearing a white t-shirt and purple shorts smiling at Sora and Riku.
"Kairi." said Xion
"Yes, you see however noble it was to sacrafice himself to release Kairi's Heart, unlike her's that was pure light, his heart was still darkened and when he released his heart; he did the same to himself and became a heartless, during that time his original body was split in two, one became a heartless that was soon restored to the original by Kairi in Hollow Bastion, while the other became- " said Namine before Xion finished her sentence.
"Roxas." said Xion
"Hehe Yep" smiled Namine but then she looked down "but i did a terrible thing to Sora in Castle Oblivion"
Xion winced in pain as she remembered the place that caused her to collapse all those times
"I took away his memories and replaced them so that he would become a puppet for Marluxia who was planning a Coup d'etat against Xemnas, during that time, the memories had to go somewhere so they came to Roxas"
"And me." replied Xion
" Yeah " said Namine
"But then why would i have some of Sora's memories, why can i Use the Keyblade at all... am I his nobody too?" Grimaced Xion in the form of a question.
"... No, Xion, i'm afraid you aren't Sora's nobody at all... You were.." Namine stopped, unsure of what to say to Xion
"I was what? please tell me!" pleaded Xion before she winced in pain from continuing to hear his name. " You were a puppet created by Vexen and the Nhilth member of Organization 13 as a failsafe or back-up in case Roxas went against their orders; should the day ever come, you would absorb him and take the role as Sora's nobody."
The words had haunted Xion, She knew she wasn't a somebody but now the realization that she wasn't even a Nobody had frightened her, and the whole idea that she would be forced to kill Roxas; the person she cared about the most in the worlds had terrified her to death.
"I would have to kill Roxas to stay alive?" Xion managed to say after two minutes of silence " But what about Sora?"
"That's the thing" Namine said "Because his memories were taken by you and Roxas, he is stuck in a suspended sleep along with Goofy and Donald until his memories are restored... he cant wake up and as of now his memories that are Roxas's are now being stolen by you, it's already starting Xion; the process of stealing his memories and killing Rox-"
"No!" Xion yelled " I won't believe that at all.. I.. I ... Can't" Xion was crying now, it was too traumatic for her to handle. "I.. just can't, I would never hurt him or Axel like that!"
Namine frowned, maybe she said too much at the moment for poor Xion too handle. " Um... I'm sorry" namine had apologized to Xion She then gasped as she saw Xion with her raven black hair starting to turn Brown and then back to Black like before; it was happening faster than she and DIZ thought. "well maybe you can give Roxas back the memories." Namine lied in a truthful expression in the idea that could possibly be false.
Xion was rubbing her eyes from the tears with her coat sleeves , nobodies or in her case Puppets couldn't cry but because of the memories and projected emotions that were being formed from Sora's past were starting to make her seem more like a somebody than ever. "H..Huh?" Xion was gasping lightly for breaths from the tragic breakdown of her own origins.
"Maybe if you can meet with Roxas, you two can transfer sora's memories to him but there's no way of telling how or what will happen to you or those memories during the process; you could fade away as well." Namime had answered to Xion's Confused response.
"You mean that i can make things better if i give Roxas my memories of Sora?" asked Xion now with a pondered look to Namine.
"Yes i think... would you be willing to take such a risk, once you do the organization will be most likely be after you to get revenge on their 'failed experiment'?" answered Namine
Xion had thought about it, if she did, Axel, her and Roxas would be traitors to the organization, they would be on the run forever and what about Sora? He needed his memories back didn't he? It was tough to decide on the reprecussions that she would face but she decided there and then. "I'll do it." She ansered " Xemnas and the organization must be stopped at all costs no matter what, i don't want Roxas or Axel to be Harmed because of them or me." She stood up and smiled at Namine while she smiled back "Goodbye Namine" she said before leaving through the door she came in while Namine had finished a new sketch on her notepad of a black-haired girl hugging two people, a boy about the same size as her with spiked blonde hair and a young man that was taller than the two of them with Red spiky hair.
"Goodbye Xion"
As Xion ran out of the mansion's gate and was heading towards the forest; she stopped in her tracks as a young man taller than her with Spiky red hair blocked her path. "Axel!"
(SCENE END)
(NEW SCENE- 2 HOURS EARLIER at the Castle that never was, in the halls of non-intervention between the Grey room and the hall of empty melodies just before Roxas started to escape the Castle. The camera of Fate turns to a depressed Axel walking towards The door heading out to the Dark city of the world when it switches to A man with the same height as him with Long blue hair and reddish- brown eyes, a muscular frame with a defining x scar over his fore-head.)
Axel was walking past him with the diary that vexen had over Xion's creation; the journal was very informative but there had seemed to be pages ripped out of the journal and taken away by force it would seem.
"How long will you try to put up with this farce." Saix said as Axel was walking by.
Axel had stopped, with the journal hidden from Saix's keen sight "Huh?" Axel had sad monotonley to Saix as he looked to him.
"This whole charade with Thirteen and the puppet; surely by now you know that it is interrupting our plans despite you and Thirteen always protecting whats already brok-"
"Don't say that!" Axel yelled at Saix who merley shrugged it off as if the sudden outburst was nothing.
"You know it's true" he responded coldly "with her dissapearance and number thirteen's newfound rebellion towards the organization, it is only a matter of time before he too leaves in search of her and his origin."
Axel was taken aback by that last part, he didn't know that Roxas had known about Sora yet. He looked down in what seemed to be a small sense of despair. "He does, doesn't he?" he finnaly said.
"Correct, you know of the conseuences that would bring to both the organization and the wrath Lord Xemnas will subject to us and the others." He handed Axel a manilla folder. "You're next mission, intel suggests that Number 14 is located in Twilight Town, find it and capture for reprogramimmng"
"She's not an it" Axel spoke coldly to the blue haired man who eyes widened in suprise at the pyrokinetic's uncharactheriticaly cold response.
"What" Saix had dully bt with a hint of suspicion in the mix said to Axel.
Axel didn't respond, looking out the window of the hallway; Shining high above the clouds was Kingdom Hearts, the reason why The organization operated, why they stole the hearts of both somebodies and the heartless; The reason why Roxas and Xion was needed, they're Keyblades. And look where it got them, Xion was gone and Roxas, now knowing that he was lied too the entire time is on the verge of leaving too. "Kingdom Hearts" Axel spoke silently as he gazed at the golden yellow Heart shaped moon... maybe there was still time to make things right. "I'm going out now... Ias" Axel spoke to him before he went pass Saix through a dark corridor who only looked at him then frowned before heading towards the docking bay to patrol there for any intruders.
(Exterior- present, Location: Twilight Town the outside of the mansion, moments before Xion left to find Roxas)
A dark corridor appeared in the clearing that viewed where the gate to the mansion was; coming from inside the dark portal was Axel who had failed in stopping Roxas from leaving but still had the chance to get Xion to get him back to the castle. Images flashed through Axel's mind as he stood there waiting for her to eventually come out. Images of his friendship with Roxas, Xion, Saix when he was still Ias. "Could not remember what changed him into such an asshole hehe." Axel fake laughed at how the two had become; but then there were the memories of a member of the organization who dissapeared after the convergence of the second to third day that Roxas was in Organization Thirteen; A friend of his that could use the Keyblade too and was as intellectual as vexen and Zexion combined who had helped with Project:14. "Xion" Axel looked down, when he first saw her Number Zero said that when she was born her true body hadnt formed yet so she still had the partial appearance of a Dusk; he said that was why she was in that glass cylinder. "So I guess i was lied too as well hehe" Axel chuckled at the false truth he was given by his friend... He knew she was a puppet created now but still it didn't seem right how it seemed to play out. "This whole year has been messed up hasn't it?" Axel said once more looking up to see the perpetual sunset that was always on Twilight Town; He remembered that he told Roxas that the sun was always red because out of all the colors of the sun, red shined the most and traveled farther than the other colors. A few Shadows appeared from a dark hole in the ground, climbing up and standing, looking at Axel, there were only three, there small black covered bodies wh only pale yellow eyes and feelers that always twiched along with it's body. The shadows were staring at Axel, not doing anything before disapearing once more. "I guess that leaves more time for me to think then" he smirked before hearing a gate open from behind, looking foward he saw a raven haired girl with Sea blue eyes with a suprised look on her face.
"Axel!"
The Dark corridor was still there, Axel wanted it in case he had changed his mind, but now was too late. "Why do I get stuck with all the icky jobs?" he sighed Before closing the corridor once more (Xion's Theme plays)
"Axel..." Xion spoke towards the red haired nobody
"Xion..." Axel responded "What are you going to do?" He asked
"I've decided I Have to go Back to where I belong" She looked down still shaken at her new plan
"Well to be honest, I felt that was the best right from the very beginning." His memory of the nhilth member kicked in to the moment he left.
Xion's words had matched his
"I decided I have to back where I belong... and finish this." He had said
"But you know it still really bugs me" Axel continued "Something about this just stinks" His hand was clenched into a fist as he looked down, the memory still going through his head, the member bringing up his keyblade when Axel tried to block him
"Axel, don't bother, we both know how this will end" He had said, his form now projecting as a hologram next to Xion.
Both voices spoke to Axel, each saying the same thing "It's for the good of everyone."
Axel was still loking down, his mind showing him a mix between the marble floors of Castle Oblivion and the ground of grass of Twilight Town. "But how do you know that?" he looked at him and her with an annoyed face saying angrily "Everyone thinks there right..." he looked to the side to see number zero start to leave, Axel wanted to stop him that day but it was already too late.
The man and Xion continued repeating the same words "This is right" they both spoke with a sadness in their eyes.
"They're going to destroy you! uh!" Axel was suprised to see Xion had summoned her Kingdom Keyblade while Number Zero had left; she was in her stance ready to fight back if provoked, the scene had vanished from Castle Oblivion to The castle again in the Altar of Naught, The fallen figure that was number Zero was on the ground with a small hole in the centor of his chest, down on the ground with a strange fused Keyblade next to him while A Xemnas was Crouched down in pain; Axel remembered this all too well.
(Exterior- The convergence of the 2nd to 3rd day Roxas was in the organization Location: The altar of Naught, The other promise mixed in with the Organization Thirteen theme was playing in a fused formation)
Kingdom Hearts was collapsing on Itself, dissapearing from the Keyblades unlocking beam; panting, A young man was arching his back foward, blood, sweat and energy was starting to dissapate from him as the Keyblade that he held was falling from his hands, He was extremley exhausted; defeating each of the members of Organization Thirteen excluding the new member and Axel who was watching from a distance was a challenge that could take arguably a whole week or two for Sora let alone a night.
"Hah...Hah...it's finally done! I succeeded, now all that Sora has to do is- Uh?" What was lying next to him was supposed to be an unconscious Xemnas who had appeared to be defeated but instead was crouching and brought an etheral blade stabbing it into Number Zero who proceeded to fall down as other members of the organization who had got back up from each of their respective bouts with the nobody ,also exhausted and weak had watched as a tattered and physically exhausted Xemnas had stabbed the Traitor.
"You...You Traitor!" He yelled uncharecteristically yelled in a fit of rage before releasing the blade to shock the member again; the other members were taken aback by there leader's yell and had each backed away, Axel was shocked while Saix's and Xibar's eyes had widened to a degree as they heard the change of voice in Xemnas's anger; to Xibar it sounded so familliar that he weakly smirked in fear; while Saix was standing there frightened as to what Xemnas was going to do.
"No" Axel mouthed in silence as the others watched as Number 0 screamed in agony as the etheral sparks were shocking him to near death, Roxas blankly looked at the scene showing no emotion at all but still tried to move to stop his leader from harming the man any further until Demyx who was beside the younger, new nobody, grabbed his hand stopping him.
"No" he said to Roxas who must have understood as he continued to watch in agony
"This is barbaric." Zexion with a half torn cloak watched the pained zero scream more
"Indeed so" Vexen had said parts of his cloak were ripped as he watched beside Lexaus who merely grunted but deep inside wanted to help the fallen comrade, even if he was a traitor; this kind of pain was too much to be given to someone of his age.
"Serves that bastard right" Larxene said smugly as she cackled at from seeing the poor member in pain while Luxord eyes widened at the treatment his fellow gambler was taking; a certain risk he betted on and lost horribly, despite how close he was to succeeding
"This is enough Xemnas!" Luxord yelled to Xemnas, the first time in a while since he called the leader by his name,who in response didn't look at him but still spoke with the changed voice and continued mersicilly beating the poor member with more shocks and stabs of his blades as he tried to get up only to be kicked down againby Xemnas; it was a wonder how he didn't fade yet that had alluded Luxord who, his position, would have already dissapeared into nothing.
"Shut up Number Ten!" Xemnas spoke in a young man's voice that sounded all too familliar to Xigbar
Xadin and Marluxia wanted to protest the act that they were witnessing but decided not to, afraid that they recieve the same torture as zero when this was done.
Saix was actually afraid at this point, something that was clearly shown on his face as he looked up to see that the once glorious sight of Kingdom Hearts had vanished as well as the brutality he was viewing from Lord Xemnas
"Stop this!" Axel roared at Xemnas who ignored his pleas to stop while the others had looked at the flurry of flames in suprise at his sudden outburst, Xemnas at this point was beyond the point of no return as he saw that the hole that was in Zero was returning to normal meaning regeneration; only fueling his hatred even more; his plan was now in shambles and back to square one with the reality gates closing; A significantly rare event that had helped give Xemnas the majority of Hearts needed to create the Heart-shaped moon, he had summoned five interdiction etheral blades that were ready to utterly finish off the traitor when in an event that suprised everyone, Number Zero's voice was converging with a female voice at the same time while his hair had temporarley created Blue streaks across his semi- Long Brown Hair!
"Such.. a... a pow- powerful darkne-ness. Te-Terra plea- please stop this!" The two voices pleaded while tears were forming from Zero's eyes; the blades instantly stopped and dissapeared inches from stabbing him in the back
"Wh-What?" Xemnas's voice had switched back to normal before he clenched his head in pain and confusion as he got up and backed away from the traitor seeing a young woman in her early 20s in the same position as Zero was in.
The whole organization was suprised by Xemnas's action Saix went too him and spoke while the fused Keyblade of Oathkeeper and Oblivion had vanished; in the form they were in; the handles were joined together the blades were standing by eachother as a cracked sword-like blade was on top of them.
"Lord Xemnas. Are you alright?" Saix asked in concern towards his master while Xemnas looked blankly at the body who was half unconscious from the pain. Zero was starting to black out
"Keep... them ... safe Axel ugh!" He mouthed to Axel while grunting in pain who gasped at the words while Roxas looked at Axel in confusion. Zero looked over towards the spot where Kingdom Hearts once was, only showing the empty night sky. "Guess this is it eh?" Zero coughed in pain while laughing from said pain, that made everyone cringe; believing him to had fade or already pass out, truly Zero's endurance was something to be observed and studied by Vexen
"Woah" Demyx said in awe and suprise at the younger member's response
"I know right?" Xigbar smirked at the mysterious enigma's response to his own defeat
"But you know what?" Zero continued to smirk looking above towards Xemnas and Saix who were looking at him in utter confusion from the young man's response "It was worth..." He shook his head and coughed up blood, trying to keep his vision in focus. "It was worth it. Hey Axel" he looked over too the man who looked at him with sorrow and a little bit of rage and confusion. "Keep them safe." He weakly put his hand up to his face before leaving two fingers out and did a salute to him "Got it... Memorized? uh" That was the last thing he said to his friend before blacking out; the whole organization was silent except for the panting of some but in that instant Axel outbursted to his fallen friend
"You... You IDIOT!" Axel was on the verge of crying for the traitor who was now gone from hearing him; this turned everyone's attention towards Axel
'Lea' thought Saix as he watched him arched down with his fists clenched in anger, he had looked defeated even though he didn't fight; Larxene who was one too laugh at the pain of others had silenced herself, none of the members had seen this from the Flurry of Flames before, Demyx took Roxas away from Axel; with the intention for the key of destiny not to see him like this up close and personal. The others were each thinking of how it ended up like this.
"What's your problem?" Small sparks of flames were surrounding Axel appearing before he started to speak again "You said you were going to do what you thought was best; that you could do anything!" the sparks had become small flames, images of him and zero were on their own on the clocktower of Twilight Town watching the sunset to Seeing zero practicing sitar with demyx, reading books with zexion, meditating with lexeaus, gambling with luxord; shooting with Xigbar during target practice, discussing theories with vexen, cooking with xaldin, listening to larxene, watching the newly formed Kingdom Hearts with Saix; planting with marluxia and even being taught the theories of the heart with Xemnas and trying to teach Roxas how to speak on the first day. "Everything that you did; and you end up screwing up doing this as a final farewell? No!" The flames were rising around Axel while his outburst was shaking everyone. "No!.. gh No! ...No no no..." Axel was hesitating hoping for an answer, a sign that the nhilth member was still there.
There was no response, no witty saying that zero wold say ever again, the flames were starting to die down as a small watery substance fell from Axel's eyes into the ground which shocked Xemnas. Nobodies didn't have emotions meaning there was no real reason to cry in sorrow, only to fake it during an attempt to get away during a mission if the situation arised where they needed to abort; with something as lying, petty though it may be. But here it was staring everyone in the face, Axel was crying a real tear of sadness, it wasn't fake it was indeed real. "You weren't worthless" Axel said still hoping for a response that would never come, as the flashback of Zero leaving for his final fight was saying the same thing "I'm worthless now." ..."You weren't!" Axel yelled at the body "You weren't!... You weren't" Axel Looked up with a sorrowful face towards the body, nothing could be said now; it was over.
"Axel." Larxene for the first time had a worried expression on her face as she came over and put her hand on his shoulder. truly showing a true concern for the nineth member that was indeed a facade, but enough to prove that she did in fact feel bad for him; something that was next to impossible to be seen from her.
" Well fine then!" he yelled as he shrugged off larxene's arm and looked with a renewed anger "Then you got it memorized as well!" he pointed towards the fallen body of his friend as a small orb of fire was starting to appear fro mhis fingertips ready to be shot at the body.
"Ax...Axel?" everyone turned around to see what they just heard, a new voice had joined the conversation, none that nobody had heard except Xemnas who was still panting from the fight; seeing that it indeed was Roxas who spoke his first word since he learned his own name from Xemnas himself.
"Woah he can talk!" spoke Demyx as he looked at the youngest member while the others had turned their gaze momentarily at the young keyblade weilder.
Axel had dispersed the fire as he too turned around to see the nobody look at him with a confused expression but with a small grin on his face while seeing a projected smile from Zero in his mind. "Keep them safe, she'll be complete in a couple of days, see ya around buddy! Got it memorized? Axel." sentences that he had heard Zero say to him through they're time together as friends were now being heard in his mind; with a brief smile he spoke. "Yeah i'll keep it then... Greixar."
(Exterior: Present, Twilight Town, Xion's theme playing)
It was only a couple of hours until Greixar or should we say number Zero was sent to the last portal of the reality gate by Saix and Xemnas to say that he would return to them was unknown but Axel always hoped that he would.
now the memory of Roxas saying in the same attitude towards Axel as he had only now this time Axel had broken the promise he kept to Greixar, Xion and Roxas were no longer safe and as he watched as the Keyblade was pointed towards him by Xion as she said with the mix of the same voice as Greixar
"Please don't hold back Axel. Promise?"
Axel looked down with all the renewed anger surging through his mind then looked back towards Xion and seeing Greixar in the same position with a saddened look on his face. "Urgh! What's Your problem?" He yelled at Xion as she cringed at the volume of his voice. He arched down as he kept on seeing the fallen form of Greixar . "You both..." Or should we say three as he saw Xion, Greixar and Roxas each on the Clocktower with him; staring at the sunset "Think you can do whatever you want..." An image of Saix appeared in his head as he said it recalling the moment when he was given this assignment. He looked at her while staring into it's eyes, yes he finnaly given up on trying to protect Xion's identity as a nobody just like Saix had from the very beginning; what point was there? Roxas was gone, Xion had left both of them in the dust without so much as a goodbye and now willing to fight him to the death to escape and then there was Greixar, his old friend who just went up and betrayed him and the organization for a reason he wouldn't even tell his best friend, he was sick of it, never getting a word as to protest them from changing their mind or to tell them his oppinion on the subject at hand; well you can't control people he thought but now was his chance to vent it all out on a puppet that he once called friend. "Well I'm sick of it." Flames were forming around his gloves as his chakrams were summoned.
"Go on, you just keep running! but i'll always be there to bring you back!" he was now holding his chakrams in his battle stance while Xion shivered, nervous of having to battle her friend;but having no choice...
-All Hell Was About To Break Loose
(New scene but still at the same spot as a mix between the beginning of xion's battle theme and Axel's battle theme was heard as the camera turned towards them.)
Axel had thrown one of his chakrams at xion who blocked it with her keyblade when Axel had appeared behind her trying to slash her with the first chakram as the other appeared at the second hit; spinning in a 360 fashion as Xion desperatley tried to block the multiple attacks, taking some slight cuts to her coat from the chakram blades before jumping back and producing a giant shard of ice at the tip of her keyblade.
"Blizzaga!" she yelled as the ice shot foward towards Axel whose chakrams became surrounded by flames as he threw them at Xion, the two weapons collided with the ice shard as the ice melted taking out the first one while the second went past aiming for Xion who batted it away; sending it to the ground nearby the mansion's wall while Axel had dissapeared. Xion looked around trying to pinpoint Axel's location all the while as she kept hearing him chuckle at her fruitless attempt; Within a minute that passed, Axel had instantly appeared before she could even tell he was behind her 2 feet or so as he kicked her in the torso in a frontal style; crashing into the the tree nearby causing a small dent in Xion's image as she fell to the ground trying to get back up from the suprise attack.
"I won't hold back just like you said!" Axel yelled at Xion "Got it memorized?"
Xion got up and looked at him with one eye open, already she was being exhausted from blocking his attacks that seemed to be draining her of her stamina but that wouldn't stop her. Not yet, she brought up her keyblade that formed 3 orbs of air that gathered at each focal point as she opened her other eye and aimed at Axel. "Aeroga!" she yelled as the orbs of air grew huger as they shot in the air while two hit the ground aiming at Axel who summoned his Chakrams again.
"Xion please, dry air like that only fans the flames; Now burn Baby!" Azel grinned as his Chakrams returned on fire once more as he threw them towards her and just as Axel had explained, the fired Chakrams passed through each of the orbs of air triggering a small backdraft as each set off an explosion that clouded the entire field in smoke as the chakrems and Axel had vanished from Xion's sight.
'This could be good for both of us' she thought but was suprised to see a siler circular shaped blade pass her and graze past her head as a small strand of hair fell of the girl's or puppet's head as she gasped "uh!" she said as another past her going again and again repeatedly as Axel's laughter could be heard within the smoke.
"Haha this is too good! This is just too good" Axel laughed "Face it Xion you did this too yourself for using aeroaga on a assasin that can use fire! haha burn baby!" He yelled again as this time the chakrams had caught on fire going through the smoke causing more ash and smoke to form as Xion desperatley tried to dodge the chakrams; if she wanted to escape from this torturous task anytime soon than she needed a plan. she knew what to do but it could go either way, 'If Axel's chakrams hit this then i won't stand a chance' she tought about it more but she needed to get to Roxas fast to end this. a light shone on the keyblade as she yelled in determination, through the smoke, Axel wondered what she was planning so he fired the chakrams once more before jumping up through the smoke into the sky seeing the view from a nearby tree that was outside the blast zone when he saw something that he saw a kid that looked like Roxas a long time ago do 'what was his name again? Oh yeah Ventus huh? hmm...' the keyblade that Xion had shone with an exuberant light as it the air, attached to it was an aura similar to aeroga as the chakrams missed hitting the keyblade and came back to Axel as the keyblade arose from the smoke as it spun high in the air clearing the smoke from the area as the keyblade kept shining light so much that Axel had to cover his eyes from it. After it cleared, he was suprised to see xion in front of him as she kicked him down into the ground as she charged at him with the keyblade back in her hands as she tried to slash at Axel who used his chakrams as shields momentarily while spun around her and got her in a head lock as he struggled in the air to get out. true to his word, Axel was merciless in the fight and Xion was sort of regretting she made the choice of asking him not to hold back. She tried to think of a way to attack him but to no avail, it was like her first fight with Riku.
The keyblade shone once more as she thought of something Sora had done before but if she did it, she didn't know how much it would exhaust but the effect would be worth it; she needed time to distract Axel a little bit before doing it."Roxas? " She convincingly pulled the lie off as Axel looked over to the clearing where she pointed.
"Roxas!" Axel looked in confusion as he turned back to Xion to see she was above brick-wall of the mansion as she pointed the keyblade creating a purple, red, and yellow layered orb was near the tip, a purple aura appeared around Xion as she had a determined look on her face. "Ragnarok!" Xion yelled as the orb shot itself directly towards Axel, splitting off into thirty beams of energy that was in all directions coming to him.
"ugh!" Axel yelled as he tried to dodge each of the beams one by one while jumping but to no avail as they chased him around the clearing; hitting him the arm sending him smashing into the ground as five more proceeeded to hit as well; He got out of there at the last moment as two more were going to collide with him. "Damn it." as the others were about go right for him as Xion was still in her stance worried that he would find a weakspot to continue the spell 'but that would be impossible' she thought as Axel telekinetically rose his chakrams as they caught on fire as he was rising too, to which Xion was suprised. The chakrams spun around him as flames were appearing in rings around him before the chakrams shot left and right. "Incinerate!" he had yelled as the ragnarok bursts were inches from where he was floating before a giant pillar of fire encircled him evaporating the rest of the beams as it soared in the sky, Xion had no time to react as she was caught in Axel's most powerful attack.
Outside into the the city of Twilight Town the whole population wastched as the strange pillar of fire had risen to the sky; some had panicked, others were curious to know how it suddenly appeared; ia boxed like alley near the main district six people were staring at the pillar in awe."Woah what do you think it is?" a raven haired young man had said to the brunette standing next to him, she was wearing a orange white shirt with white tan shorts, "Idon't know pence, Hayner maybe we should-" before she could finish, the blonde haired individual in question was racing a taller individual with a black snow cap and a white overcoat with a blue bat. "Hayner!" Pence had called "seifer wait up bro!" a tall tan man with a orange t-shirt and blue jeans as he was following him along with a silver haired girl as pence and the girl named Olette had chased after Hayner and seifer in the direction where the pillar was already fading.
Back at the clearing, Axel was panting hard from the attack, it was supposed to be used as a last resort, he didn't want to use it on her of all times; his coat was burned away only leaving him with his pants and shoes; sweat was coming off of him because of the heat; Xion was near the mansion gate with her hood up, which gave Axel the idea that it was wrong but he couldn't be more wrong as he heard her groan trying to get up, using the keyblade as a crutch;which infuriated Axel that she was still standing but when she almost fell from the step she was suprised to see she had taken on a new appearance. "What the..." He looked at the spot where Xion was but instead of seeing a Raven haired girl, who he saw instead was a 15 year old boy with gravity defying Brown hair; holding the keyblade while his hand was hand was on his forehead while he grunted, but instead of a voice of the boy that Axel knew; was replaced with Xion's voice as she was suprised to see herself like this now. "Sora?" Axel said as Xion-Sora looked at him before putting her hood back up; just like Namine had warned, The process was already starting.
"Axel!" she yelled as she grabbed the keyblade in both hands as it transformed into oathkeeper as she charged at Axel, who summoned his Chakrams in defense as she striked. Axel was being forced back a feww inches with each strike, not only had Xion's form had changed, her own power had increased.
"Why do you look like urgh Sora?" Axel grunted as he strained to stop Xion from pushing him back anymore.
"Forget it!" Xion spoke angrily as she backed up, thekeyblade glowed a neon-blue-white hue as her final limit had activated, the light formed a beam that increased the size of the keyblade as she stepped back did a frontal somersault towards Axel before striking him; which summoned 4 small white pillars of light that shot towards Axel who had dodged the first two by leaping out of the way trying to kick Xion with a reverse flying uppercut but failed as the other two pillars appeared before him in front of Sora-Xion as he hit the pillars head on; flying into the gates, nearly destroying them by the force of the impact. outside the forest heading towards the mansion; the six teenagers had each met up in the middle of the forest as an argument was already in motion between the ones that were named "Hayner" and "Seifer" ( Exterior: outside the town, forest clearing 15 minutes ago)
"Well i say we storm in and take care of the trash that almost caused a fire now!" yelled seifer as he was pointing his struggle bat towards the clearing that led to the abadoned mansion.
"Well i say we don't without a plan, we have no idea what's there and even if we did, who knows if we can fight it; we don't know what we're facing!" Hayner rebutted as the other four were watching the two argue as if they were the problem.
"Guys, can't we come to a descision soon, we're missing something incredible!" Pence had spoke up as Olette had looked over to the clearing hearing what she thought was blades clashing against eachother.
Both Seifer and Hayner said at the same time while still not looking at Pence. "Shut up Pence!" Pence jumped when he heard them yell as another shockwave from nearby sent a gust of wind that passed through the six as a small being who hid it's face with a hat and wore a mage outfit fell down on top of the silver haired girl named Rikku. The arguing stopped as Hayner and Seifer looked to see the being on top of Rikku a little shooken up by the gust of wind that made her fall.
"Vivi uh... get off me!" Rikku said as Vivi groaned from as she wobbled off of rikku and looked at the others in a drowsy expression on her expressionless face. "Oh..." yawned Vivi "Sorry um... what's going on? why is everybody here?" she asked while the others blinked at her in suprise as too the fact that she hadn't notice at all the power of the situation that was going on.
"Wait you haven't heard anything at all?" Pence had asked while Olette and Hayner were still suprised of what had just transpired.
"Um no not really" Vivi replied which made Olette giggle while going to her to explain what happened "Wow! You mean i slept through all of that, bummer" Vivi looked down before all seven had heard a girl's yell coming from the clearing as the seven took a minute to decide again what to do.
Back over to the mansion clearing, Axel and Sora-Xion's fight was starting to go to a standstill with Xion in the lead to have the edge. The final limit was still in set as she kept slashing her keyblade in the air as multiple pillars of light kept arising after Axel as he was quickly sidestepping past them; throwing his chakrams that were on fire, at high speeds that were brushing past the pillars and aiming for Xion; but she would just smack them out of the way with her keyblade. Axel charged in the direction of Xion after going past the last pillar; his coat was tatered and there was dirt and sweat on him since the explosion. Axel brought his fists together as he started swiftly punching Xion as she dodged only a few before taking two to the face and three more to the gut as she recoiled in pain; Axel continued the assault by jumping up and kicking her in the face as she was sent flying while he appeared behind her with amazing speed and repeated as last time for five time until uppercutting her in the air and shooting her down with a fireball as she used her final limit's true power as a pillar of light encircled her; stopping her from falling to the ground as she floated above the air, spinning her keyblade as more pillars shot out of everywhere
"haah!" she screamed as the pillars were getting closer to Axel ho only muttered shit before he was blastted twenty conscutive times by the pillars; when it was over Xion had looked back to normal as she normally was but was still too tired to try to attack, Axel was panting from the pillar's barrage, yes after all that effort she put into to stop her friend, Axel was still around. it was only seconds before she was being choked to passing out by the red-haired assasin who she could see in the end had a face that showed emotions of both Sorrow and Rage as he personally knocked her out cold...
(Exterior: same place but not for long Music: The Other Promise)
Her body was limp on his shoulders, as he had picked up the raven haired girl's body and summoned a dark coridor nearby a tree where nobody would see. His fight with her lasted much longer than he had hoped "Maybe i'm not as good as a killer as i once was." (15 minutes ago) during Axel's fight; after Xion had activated her final limit, Axel was suprised that she was going this far to escape; He didn't know where this would end when he heard a voice that almost caused him to allow the next pillar of light to hit him head on. "Axel, it's okay" said the voice as Axel nearly fell out of the air as the pillar barely passed him. the voice was from number zero; whether or not it was an illusion, Axel still kept on the offensive delivering blast after blast of fire towards Xion who was quickly dodging the fire and shooting ice shards now with the pillars. "Axel, though i wouldn't want you to take down the creation that me and Vexen did, things have to give for your survival. Just be gentle with her, alright?" The voice had said to Axel who wanted to speak with the voice once more but knew that he couldn't, and so he began the fight once more, quickly sidestepping past the pillars again...
(Present)
"We're here!" Yelled Pence as he and the others got to the site to see it completly undamaged except for a few schorched trees while a man with Spiky Red hair was looking over at the body of a young girl before picking her up. "Who's that?" Olette said Pence continued to watch.
"I've seen him before" He said "He was with that other kid, you know the one with the spiky hair that beat Hayner in Struggle what was his name?... Oh Yeah Roxas."
"Wait a second you mean the one from a couple of weeks ago?" asked Hayner in annoyance as Pence nodded "Yeah" Pence said "This guy was with him in the sewers when i was there one day doing... uh Research" Pence didn't want to reveal his project that he wanted to do at the end of the summer with his friends. "Uh... He's Axel" Pence pointed towards the man who was now carrying the girl. He was shirtless and there was dirt all or what was left of his attire, his pants were in ripped, showing a few holes as he was looking up to the sky watching the sunset.
"But who is that then?" Olette asked to Pence as the brunette put her hand to her hip in confusion to Pence's sudden knowledge of new people.
"I don't know, never seen her before, looks like they had a fight, doesn't it?" Pence said and asked as Rikku, Olette, Hayner and Vivi agreed, Seifer was still silent while Rai was scratching his head in confusion to the scene. Seifer went foward with his bat and looked at Axel.
"Seifer! what are you doing Bro?" Rai had asked "I don't care who this guy is" Seifer responded coldy "He's not getting away until I know who he exactly is, Hey You!" Seifer spoke as Axel looked around to see the teenagers starig at him, he knew the name of the raven haired kid pence; and he had seen the other two with Roxas and him on the Clocktower.
"I said you!" Seifer said as he pointed his struggle bat at Axel who only smirked at the sight of the toy.
"You know.. you shouldn't be pointing toys at me kid" Axel said as he walked away.
"Wait Axel!" Pence had called as the redhead turned towards the direction of Pence
"Oh it's you" Axel had responded cooly as Seifer watched in anger, the others were suprised that Pence's claims were proven true just now.
Axel looked at pence then continued to walk over to the forest as Seifer just charged at him with the struggle bat, before he could even land Axel, without dropping Xion, swiftly kicked Seifer in the legs as he fell to the ground as Axel ran in the dark corridor while the others ran to Seifer as Pence watched in awe at the portal as it closed.
(New scene- Exterior. The Castle that never was/ The Altar of Naught. Music Organization Thirteen with the Other Promise plays)
The light of Kingdom Hearts shone in the sky like it had always done in the castle; but to Axel, it was different; it was the first time in a while he had come here on purpose. He had broken his promise... his friendships with Roxas and... her? "Who was she?" Axel spoke with himself trying to remember who the girl he brought back to Xemnas was.
In reality the process had happened two hours ago. The Nilth member's final plan to screw with Xemnas, had the puppet be forcefully reprogrammed and forced to activate her directive, the puppet would erase the memories of all who knew it, to ensure that it's memories were never accsessed; unfortunatley, that meant that Axel would forget her too.
It became quiet,too quiet, usually in this silence you could hear the sound of Kingdom Hearts; radiating off it's aura to the worlds. But this was different, nothing could be heard, Axel thought what was wrong when he heard a strange pulsating sound in the distance as words formed in his head.
WHO ARE YOU?
Axel looked shocked when he thought the words, no sound or voice came from them as he turned around to find a transparent- appearing man walk over to the center of the Altar. He was about near Axel's height and wore the organization's coat; no sound came from him as he stared at Axel, blue light and gray thorn chains were surfacing around his hands. Axel could hear the threatening crackle from the energy as he spoke to the man
"Who... Are You?"
To be continued...
I'm going to end it with a slight cliffhangar as the final part comes in an undisclosed amount of time, hoped you guys liked it and Review!