Hello, Axel!
By Kiki Lelsissia
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Hello Dolly, or anything else I used in this. Actually, I don't even own the concept. One of my friends came up with it. I'm just writing my version.
Warning: Various male Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy characters performing in a musical. A romantic comedy. Slash. Characters may be OOC.
Thoughts are in italics.
Chapter 1 - Enter the Players
-X-
It's the third day of the spring term at Square Oblivion Boys School, called Square by its students. All around the campus, boys from ninth grade to seniors in college wake up and get ready for the new day.
There's a new poster plastered all around the school today.
"Square spring musical: Hello, Dolly! Auditions begin tomorrow after classes." A boy reads. His name is Reno Sinclair, and he's a sophomore in the college at Square. Reno grins and pulls his cell phone out; it's red to match his hair. He shrugs before dialing a number and beginning to walk away. Sure, so he'll see his roommate in the dining hall, but this is too good to resist.
"Hey Vince! Guess what today is!"
-X-
Axel Sinclair was awakened by his best friend, one Demyx Raines, kicking the door open and shouting gleefully.
"Hey, Axel! Guess what today is?"
Axel moans an incomprehensible response. A shorter boy with blue-grey hair over one eye is sitting on the other bed, already fully dressed.
"Oh! Sorry Zexion, didn't see you there…" Demyx sweatdrops.
Zexion shrugs. Being the quietest of the three friends, he's gotten used to Demyx forgetting he's there sometimes. That doesn't mean it hurts any less each time though. Zexion figures he's just gotten used to it.
Axel moans again and finally drags his head out from under the duvet.
"What, Demyx?"
"Today's the day they announce their choice of musical!" Demyx cries joyfully.
Axel groans and Zexion goes slightly paler. The musical.
"Well… just hope it's better than last year." Axel laughs weakly.
"Well? Get up! Let's go find out what it is!" Demyx grins.
-X-
On the opposite side of the dorm building, two friends are waiting outside the door of another dorm room, listening to the various noises coming from inside. It sounds sort of like someone is picking their way through the piles of stuff that no doubt cover the floor. The blond raises a hand to knock. Before he can, a spiky haired brunet boy yanks the door open, grinning wildly.
"Hi Hayner! Hi Pence! Come on in! Roxas just got up."
"Sure, Sora." Pence smiles.
Pence and Hayner follow Sora into the room, which is just as messy as they expected it to be. Inside they are greeted by their other friend Roxas, one of Sora's many siblings. Roxas and Sora make up two of the Strife family triplets. The third and youngest is their sister Naminé, who is attending school back in Radiant Garden, where the Strife family lives during breaks in school. The oldest Strife child graduated last year from Naminé's school in Radiant Garden. Cloud, the second oldest, is a senior in Square's high school.
The four friends make their way across campus to the dining hall along with the rest of the students. Everyone is chatting about the announcement of the annual musical: Hello, Dolly!
As Roxas, Sora, and Hayner sit down at their normal table, Pence waves to someone across the dining hall.
"Hey Demyx!"
From the opposite side of the room, at his own table, Demyx waves back at his roommate.
"Hi Pence!"
Pence grins and sits down. Roxas is scowling.
"Look, Roxas." Pence sighs. "I know you don't like Demyx and his friends, but I'm not going to ignore my roommate just because you don't like him."
"I don't mind Demyx, its Axel Sinclair that drives me insane!" Roxas snaps.
"Stop it Roxas."
Roxas quiets down at his brother's scolding. Pence smiles at Sora, conveying a silent thank you.
Sora nods at Pence and then sighs himself.
'Hard to believe Cloud and Reno are such good friends since Roxas hates Axel so much.'
A/N: Well… that's shorter than I'd hoped. Anyway, do you like it so far? If you're wondering, one of my friends actually had a dream about KH characters performing in Hello Dolly while we were doing it at my school this year. I got inspired and I absolutely had to write this. I really intended this to be longer, but I'm happy with how it turned out.
I'll update again as soon as I can, probably no sooner than four days from now. I have up to chapter 4 written, I just need to find the time to type them all up.
So, please review! Any and all are appreciated. I even enabled anonymous reviews. Constructive criticism is great, or even just a word or two!
Thanks!
-Kiki Lelsissia
