Author's Note: This is a very experimental type of fic, I'd enjoy feedback if you read it. Furthermore, I don't own the characters, but oh, if only I did. Without further ado, here goes…

The Trip of Your Life

Sora's POV

Sora sat on the paopu tree once again, looking out at the ocean. He sat calmly taking in the quiet calm of the perfectly still day. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them, a ray of light had appeared before him and out of that light stepped Donald and Goofy.

"Time for an adventure, Sora." Moments later, he was free falling, first through the ocean then through the air. A beautiful tune played in the background, setting a theme song for his dramatic experience.

Axel's POV

Axel sat back in an observation room where he could view the patients' behavior without being seen. Three patients sat in a padded room with three beds and a strange amount of graffiti all over the wall. Tapping his pen, he frowned as one of the three, who had previously been sitting calmly on his bed, suddenly and violently overthrew the sheets, revealing two stuffed animals beneath. (One of a dog and one of a duck). After he has some imagined conversation with them, he once again resumes his destructive habit of jumping off the highest point he can find. The floors have been given extra padding for this event. Interestingly, this does not appear to be for suicidal reasons. Unfortunately this has not been curable in this patient. The female is now playing a recorder, seemingly oblivious to what is going on around her. It makes a racket, though it appears that at one point she may have known how to play. The third patient, the taller of the two males, is sulking in the corner, cuddling a stuffed mouse dressed all in black. He appears to be jealous of the first male.

Another interesting note is that the shorter male is always saying that he has the key. I'm not sure what he means by that. It would seem that he would mean the key to his cell, however not one time has he ever tried to open the door.

Dr. Marluxia came up behind Axel and snatched the paper he was taking notes on. Looking it over he made several 'tch' noises.

"They have names you know? Just because they're suffering from schizophrenia, doesn't mean you should dehumanize them, intern."

Axel, though he was trying to make a good impression, knew not to take Dr. Marluxia too seriously.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll start using the names. Sora, Kairi, and Riku was it?" Axel waved him off as if he were taking his own job too seriously.

"You know, sometimes I really wonder what's going on in their heads. Like does he think his blue blanket is water or something? Maybe we should get him a different color?" Axel looked in on the three of them as the taller male, err… Riku stood atop the blue blanket beckoning Sora. However when Sora came running to him, Riku would throw the blanket over his head and run away laughing.

"They seem to be enjoying themselves." Marluxia laughed. "Besides which it is important not to disturb their environment without solid reason. We wouldn't want any traumatic emotions for them. I guess it just shows you weren't around when they tried to move Riku and Kairi to a different cell for awhile."

"Oh?" Axel raised an eyebrow curiously. "And what happened when they did that?"

Marluxia shrugged and laughed. "He got out. The little one did. Dr. Xemnas was coming up to check on the patients and there he was just standing there! Apparently he got out and took his plushies and went around to all these different cells looking for them. No one could figure out how he did it!" Marluxia continued laughing hard, apparently getting a real kick out of it. "Really brought old Xemnas off his high horse too." He grinned.

'Ahh, so that's why he thinks it's so funny.' Axel noted. Maybe Marluxia had a little problem with authorities?

For several more moments, Axel and Marluxia watched in silence as they watched an odd ritual between the three friends. "Cave drawings?" Axel exclaimed. For goodness sake was humanity regressing?!

"Nah… not cave drawings, Axel!Keep watching! We've given them tools for expressing themselves." Marluxia hushed him. Somehow Riku had produced a pen from somewhere and was scratching out pictures of people eating stars on the wall.

"Ahh, so that's how that gets there…" Axel noted about the graffiti. Interesting how there were only pictures, and occasional sloppy letters and rarely any coherent words. Axel decided he didn't care what Marluxia said, they were so cave drawings. Cave drawings by psychos. He grinned to himself, wondering how much money he could get for those drawings if he tried to sell them as art.

"What are you smiling about, intern?" Marluxia frowned. "I think maybe its time you got on your job? First give them lunch, then individual sessions."

"What?" Axel objected. "I didn't know I had to be doing sessions with them?" He gulped, not necessarily knowing how to handle himself around one schizophrenic, much less three.

Marluxia simply rolled his eyes and recalled Axel's earlier words to Xemnas. "No complaining, Mr. I-want-to-be-a-psychologist-please-let-me-intern."

Axel groaned loudly as soon as Marluxia was out of earshot. After a few deep breaths he rose lazily from his seat and ventured to the cafeteria where Zexion grumpily handed him three trays. "Where's Cid?" Axel equally grumpily inquired about the head cook. He liked Cid, but he wasn't too excited about his shady bookwormish apprentice, Zexion.

Zexion stared at Axel coldly and replied sarcastically. "Too busy to waste time chatting with you."

Axel glared at Zexion as he grabbed the trays and exited the room. Upon examination of the lunch tray, it was all cold food. Jello… a milk carton… cold eggs… a plain bagel… and a granola bar?! Eww! Axel felt a huge internal relief that he wasn't a patient and had perfectly well packed some leftovers for his own lunch.

In the hallway on his way back, he ran into Cid. "Oh hiya Axel, why are you delivering lunch? Want me to take it for you?"

Axel was about to explain that he just did what he was told when he was given an opportunity to cop out of entering the padded cell. His expression brightened. "Really? Could you? Do you want to?"

"Course!" Cid laughed, taking the trays from Axel's hands. "I love those three. Real characters they are."

He frowned at the contents of the tray, but didn't mention it out loud. Axel smirked when he looked away. He hoped Zexion would get a talking to!

Axel returned to the observation room as Cid entered the cell with the food. "Hey boys! I've got something for ya!" Cid smiled as he set the food on the table.

"GUMMI BLOCKS!!!" Sora screamed, picking up the square of green jello and ran to place it under his bed. Upon observation he had a large stash of congealing, half melted stickiness that was once jello festering there. Axel simply groaned, dreading going in there later. What would he even say to them? Axel curled up in his chair and watched Kairi cut up her jello into a star shape. She proceeded to hand half of it to Sora, who excitedly grabbed it and hopped off to add it to his jello collection. Riku was picking at his food, trying to dip his bagel in his concoction of milk mixed with eggs and bits of granola bar. The whole episode ended with Riku wrapped in the red blanket that was supposed to go on his bed. Sora was screaming something about how Diz didn't need to touch a single blonde hair on his head. 'Blonde?!'

All too soon Cid was exiting the room and patting him on the back. "Good luck, kid." He waved.

Axel watched his back as he left. He gulped and adjusted his shirt, stalling for time. At long last he placed his hand on the door and slowly turned the handle. He entered the room and looked around at the three of them. "H-hi." He mumbled. He had been warned to wear a football helmet around the female, so he looked at the two males. Maybe he'd go for the shorter one first? He seriously doubted the kid could do any serious harm to him. 'Geeze this kid only looks about 16 or 17 years old… such a tragic illness at such a young age.' He gulped trying not to show fear. Could they smell fear?! He took a deep breath, trying to remember what Marluxia had said about acting like they were regular people.

"Umm… Sora, could you come with me for a little while?" He ventured.

Sora's POV

Sora was just getting done storing away the gummi blocks he'd acquired at Cid's shop when it happened. A portal to the darkness opened up and through it stepped none other than Axel! Axel himself!

Sora hopped up from where he was sitting and yelled excitedly. "Axel! I thought you were dead!"

He ran up to Axel and gave him a hug. "I thought you had died!" He practically sobbed into his shoulder.

"Err… nope. Not dead." Axel squeaked, unsure of how to react when Sora hugged him.

Axel reopened the portal to the darkness and beckoned him to come with. Sora turned around and nodded to Kairi and Riku. "We're connected. I'll always be back." With that and a smile, he followed Axel into the darkness and he was gone.

A/N: What did you think? Good crack or bad crack?So that was a lot of stuff from Axel's POV. I'm planning on mixing it up more in the future. In future chapters you will discover even more odd things about the delusional world of Kingdom Hearts.