The smell of the car exhaust and wet garbage filled Roxas' nose. With an umbrella in one hand and a pulled-along suitcase in the other, he walked down the rain slicked street. It had been raining for at least three days now. Roxas didn't mind the rain, it helped him think and relax. Even if that was the case he could hardly be relaxed right now. Two weeks prior to today he was sitting at home making card houses and eating way too much junk food. Summer break had just started and already he was bored out of his mind. All his friends had gone on vacation to Destiny Island while he was left to fend for himself for the whole summer. There was nothing wrong with spending his summer in Twilight Town except that he had no one to do anything with. This was going to be one long uneventful summer vacation.

"Roxas can you come down here for a second?" His mother Tifa was in the kitchen making him and his father, Cloud supper. He didn't bother to move from his bean bag chair or take his eyes off the TV. If she wanted to talk to him she could come up and see him. Having his friends leave him alone for the summer had caused him to become slightly bitter. He heard her stomping footsteps come closer to the door of his bed room. "Roxas I have some really good news! Didn't you hear me calling you?"

"No sorry. What is it…is Hayner, Olette and Pence coming back?" That was just about the only thing he could think of as being good news. Tifa lost her smile.

"No. It's nothing like that." She said as she reached into her pocket. Roxas watched her cautiously as she pulled out a brightly colored brochure. "I've signed you up for summer camp!" Roxas couldn't believe what he had just heard. He nearly fell backward in his chair, why on earth would his mother ever sign him up for something like that? What kind of horrible thing possessed her body when she made that choice? The blonde shook his head and groaned.

"No way. Mom what were you thinking? Summer camp for christ sake?" Tifa's face fell into an angry frown.

"Watch your mouth! Roxas you didn't honestly think I'd let you mope around the house all summer did you? Besides it will be fun, Sora is going." Oh of course Sora was going. This kind of thing would be right up Roxas' cousin's ally. Running around in the sun all day, swimming, horseback riding, camp fire songs, roasting marshmallows. That sounded like something Sora would do on a daily bases anyway but when it came to Roxas, not so much.

"Mom please, summer camp is for little 14 year old kids whose parents don't want them home for 2 months because then they can't have se-" He stopped when he saw the look on his mothers face. It was the look she gave him before she totally lost it and screamed at him.

"Roxas you're going and that's final. I obviously signed you up so you could be with kids your age, really how stupid do you think I am?" He didn't answer because she had to be pretty damn near brain dead to think up this horribly ridiculous idea. She eyed him impatiently.

"Urgh Fine! I'll go but I promise you I won't have a good time." Tifa smiled again and threw him the brochure. He grabbed it and stuffed it in his pocket.

And so one week later he was walking to the train station to meet his cousin Sora. His auntie insisted they go together and much to Roxas' dismay his mother agreed. It wasn't like he hated Sora or anything; he just couldn't stand his 24-7 ADHD and optimism. Sora was the kind of person that could be on the verge of death and still be smiling and laughing his last seconds of life away. Roxas found his attitude unnatural and unnerving. Of course when Sora found out Roxas was coming he hadn't let him have a moment's peace. He'd been calling and texting Roxas ever since. The only reason Roxas wasn't on the phone with Sora right now was because his hands were full.

He rounded the last corner before the station and sighed. This was the most miserable day of his life so far and he predicted many more once he reached Oblivion Summer Camp. Even the name made him cringe; it reminded him of boot camp. The station was almost empty when he got inside. This made him feel a little better. There wouldn't be any witnesses this way. He closed his umbrella and shook the rain out of his blonde hair. His mother had already pre bought his tickets the day before so all he had to do was find the train…and hopefully avoid Sora until they got to the camp. He walked further into the station and looked around for the designated train platform. His ticket said platform 13 and he was only at platform 5. The closer he got the train the more sick he felt. It was about to get a lot worse.

"Roxas! You finally got here! I was afraid you'd miss the train!" His plan to avoid Sora had just crashed and burned. The chipper brunette grabbed his wrist and turned him around. His sparkling blue eyes were full of worry.

"Ha-ha yeah I guess I made it…" He looked over his cousin's shoulder at the black train. It had Oblivion Rail Lines written in sliver and blue letters across every cart. If the name wasn't intimidating enough the train defiantly was. He looked back at Sora and pried his hand from his wrist.

"I'm so excited about this! I've never been to camp before. You haven't either right? That's why I suggested you come with me to auntie Tifa." Roxas glared at him.

"You suggested this?" Sora shrugged and looked at his feet.

"Please don't be mad Roxas, I just thought…you know…maybe because we never get to see each other anymore this might be a nice way to hang out." How could Roxas be mad at him when he put it like that? He softened his look and tried to smile.

"Well I guess when you say it like that it might not be so bad…maybe. So you've never been there then?" Sora smiled again and his put arm around Roxas.

"Nope! But I heard its super fun, apparently they let you sleep in and have really great meals. I also heard they have live shows and bands play there throughout the summer. The councillors are really nice and the lake is like glass!" The train whistle blew and he and Sora made their way over to it. To Roxas' surprise the train to hell was packed. Twilight Town must have been the last stop. There were people in every seat and he was suddenly worried he might have to sit on the floor the whole way there. One of the train workers looked at their tickets and said they were in the very last cart in the room on the right.

Sora pushed his way cheerfully through the crowded hallways and finally he and Roxas made it to the last cart. By this time the train was already well on its way. He opened the door to their room and saw it a guy with longish sliver hair. He looked up from a rock magazine he was reading, his light sea foam green eyes narrowed. He was wearing a dark red and black hoodie and dark washed jeans with a metallic silver belt. His white scarf was bunched up in the sit beside him.

"Oh there's someone in here already!" If there was one thing Sora was good at it was pointing out the obvious. The young man looked at them and then to the magazine he was reading like he was trying to decide which was more important. He looked back at Sora and smirked before closing his magazine.

"Hey…I'm Riku." The silver haired boy said as he stood and shook Sora and Roxas hand. Sora smiled back brightly.

"I'm Sora and this is Roxas. We're cousins and we're both 17…Hey do you like sea salt ice cream? I was just about to go buy some from upfront!" Riku looked a little taken aback by Sora's forwardness. He chuckled.

"It's nice to meet you guys. And no I don't like ice cream at all actually…sorry." He smiled weakly and took his seat again. Sora's mouth dropped.

"What! You don't like ice cream! That's impossible you obviously have never had sea salt ice cream before. You have to try it…I'll be right back with one for each of us." Before anyone could say anything to him, he was gone. Riku looked at Roxas and smirked again.

"Is he like that all the time?"

"Yeah…usually it's worse. The rain must have mellowed him out a little bit." Roxas said as he tried to push his and Sora's bags into the overhead compartment. Riku looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Wow…I'd say I'd like to see that but I'm not sure I would…" Roxas rolled his eyes.

"Trust me you really don't." They both laughed. "So…I guess you're going to camp too eh? You don't really look like the kind of guy that would enjoy singing campfire songs and watching nature." Riku shrugged.

"I go for the bands they have preform there. Last year they had The Jokers and IBWB play. It was pretty much the highlight of my life." Roxas was shocked.

"I love IBWB! How did they manage to get them to play at a summer camp?"

"Apparently the head councillor, Xemnas, is in with a lot of good bands. I think is dad owns his own recording studio and signs bands too." Before Roxas could answer, Sora burst through the door with three sea salt ice creams. Riku eyed the treat nervously.

"Here you go! They were almost out I was lucky to even get three!" Sora panted, he had run the whole way back so the ice cream didn't start to melt before they could eat it. The two boys each took one and unwrapped it. Sora watched Riku as he took the first bit. There was a moment of silence as the blonde and the brunette waited for Riku's reaction.

"This actually isn't so bad." Sora beamed down at him and ate his in one bit. Roxas took his seat across from Riku and Sora grabbed a pillow and laid across the floor. The three boys continued to talk until they all drifted off to sleep.

Roxas woke-up with the sun shining in his face. His bright blue eyes looked around the room and saw that Riku was gone. Sora was still laying bald eagle style across the floor, snoring and murmuring. Roxas smiled to himself, even when Sora was sleeping he still talked. He lifted his head from against the window and walked over the sleeping Sora. Maybe this train served breakfast. It was cold in the train hallway and a lot of people were still sleeping. There were even a few people sleeping outside of their rooms.

'Fire Hazard' He thought with a frown.

Roxas made his way to the front of the train, tripping over people and bags as he went. If the majority of people were sleeping before he came along they were all awake now. It was their fault for sleeping in the hall anyway. He could smell pancakes and sausage as he got closer to the front and it was making his mouth water. When he finally made it to the dinning cart he was more than ready to eat until he puked. He spotted Riku sitting at a table by himself and reading the newspaper. Some girls sitting a few tables down from him were pointing and giggling in his direction. Roxas rolled his eyes…girls where a complete mystery.

He walked over to the breakfast buffet and loaded his plate with pancakes and sausage. He grabbed two bowls of fruit and decided that would be enough to start. He got questioning looks from people he walked by. Riku looked up from his reading when he heard Roxas sit at his table.

"What…your parents never feed you?" He smirked. Roxas shrugged and stuffed an uncut pancake in his mouth. The girls from before made disgusted sounds and one said "For being so cute, he sure eats like an animal". Roxas rolled his eyes and continued to eat like he'd never eaten before. Once he polished off his breakfast he sat with his hands on his stomach and waited from Riku to finish reading. His thoughts were interrupted by a familiar sharp voice.

"Well look who it is…Not that I'm really surprised. If someone says all you can eat sausage Roxas is the first one there." Roxas whipped around and scowled. Of all places to be…why did Seifer have to be here? He just smiled innocently back. Riku looked at them both and then went back to reading. He wasn't getting involved in something like this so early in the morning.

"Funny seeing you here…I thought for sure that you would be spending your summer in the youth correctional center." It was common knowledge that Seifer was the worst kind of juvenile, well common knowledge to people from Twilight Town anyway. The sandy blonde sneered and looked at Riku.

"This your boyfriend? Nice hair you fag." Riku acted like Seifer wasn't even there.

"Speaking of boyfriends, where's Rai? I bet you miss your ass monkey." Riku choked on the coffee he was drinking. Roxas smiled up at Seifer who looked like he might explode. Just when Roxas thought he might get punched in the face, Sora came into the dinning cart looking very distrait. He spotted Roxas and glared as he marched over to their table. As happy as Sora was…this was the only time of day he just couldn't seem to be joyful about…he was not a morning person.

"Roxas! Why didn't you tell me where you were going? I was so worried when I woke up and no one was there!" Everyone female in the room "awed" at his whining. This made Sora scowl even more; he turned his rage on Seifer. "What the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in prison or something? Whatever I don't care just get out of my sight before I get Riku to beat you up." Sora threatened as he sat down beside Roxas. Riku looked up surprised.

"Eh?" Riku, Roxas and Seifer said together.

"You better watch yourself Sora. You're not king shit where we're going, id have no problem tearing you a new asshole." Everyone at the table burst out laughing. Seifer turned red, he had meant it as a threat not how they were taking it. He pointed at Sora and then narrowed his eyes before storming out of the dinning cart. The three sat at the table trying to recover from their laughing fit.

"Well now that's over, how much longer is this train ride?" Sora had calmed down considerably.

"Um about another 30 minutes I think." Riku looked at his watch and nodded. Roxas poured himself another glass of orange juice and chugged it in one gulp. "You guys might want to think about changing into something a bit more…summery. It's not raining where were going….It never rains there." He said the last part as if it was something he hated. Now that Roxas looked at him, he noticed he had changed into summer clothes too.

"How could it never rain in a forest?" Sora looked utterly perplexed.

"I wonder the same thing…this will be my third year going there and I've never seen it rain even once. But everything's so green you'd think It rained everyday." He looked at Sora and then smiled into his cup of coffee. Roxas shrugged off the conversation and brought-up something else less nature centric.

"So…besides having good bands and live shows…what else is so good about this place?" Riku thought for a moment.

"Well the girls are easy…2 months in the forest and they go crazy I guess. Um…if you like team sports and stuff they have a lot of that, and they have an arts cabin for the people who like that kind of thing. There are two people cabins but last year I got one to myself which was nice. The meals are good and the reck room has a huge screen for movies and video games and whatever." He paused for a moment. "The only thing I don't like about the camp is the councillors. They're a real pain in the ass. They are nothing but a bunch of power hungry, rule abusing morons who think just because they run the camp they can get away with whatever they want. I honestly believe the camp staffs itself with convicts. Remember what I said about Xemnas and how his dad owned a recording studio, will he also owns the camp and that's why Xemnas is the head councillor. They call themselves Organization 13…but there are only twelve of them. How fucking retarded is that?…Anyways I guess I'm just trying to say you guys should steer clear of that lot." Sora nodded and looked at his empty plate.

"I didn't even get to eat." He said quietly.

"Here have my fruit bowl." Riku pushed his bowl across the table and Sora practical inhaled it. "Looks like you too are related after all…not that I had any doubts about that, you're practically twins." Sora and Roxas looked at each other and rolled their eyes; if they had a quarter for every time they heard that one they'd probably have $19.75.

"I guess we should probably go get changed now, uh and thanks for the advice." Roxas grabbed Sora's arm and drug him to his feet. The cousins made their way back to the cart room to get their suitcases. He opened his and pulled out a pair of white and blue checkered board shorts and a matching blue wife t-shirt. Sora sat on the floor by his suitcase and began to dig out something extremely colorful. Roxas gave his cousin a questioning glace but kept his opinion to himself. If Sora wanted to wear florescent green and pink board shorts then that was his problem. He pulled out a black t-shirt and then repacked his bag. They changed quickly and put the suitcases by the door so they were ready from when it was time to leave.

"Oh I'm getting really excited again! I can't wait to see what it looks like! I hope the councillors aren't as bad as Riku says." Roxas couldn't look at Sora without getting blinded by his shorts so looked past him and nodded.

"I just hope I don't actually have to do anything. I hate group activities." The train started to slow and Roxas couldn't deny that he was starting to get a little excited too.

Roxas was a little disappointed when the first thing he saw when they got off the train was 4 large school buses…just how far away was this place? A 12 hour train ride and 2 hour bus ride later and they were finally getting close enough to see the first set of cabins. Sora was practically bouncing in his seat as he hung his head out the window.

"YAY WERE HERE!" Sora yelled at nothing. He sat back down in his seat when the bus driver yelled at him but continued to show his excitement by tapping his foot. Roxas slouched in his seat…he didn't want anyone to think he and Sora were together until Sora calmed down. There were a lot of black and white cabins lined up to his left. And to his right was a large beautiful blue lake it looked like it stretched on forever.

"You don't think there are any sea monsters in there do you." Roxas asked jokingly. Sora looked out the window at the large lake. He had clearly been to preoccupied by his excitement to notice the large body of water beside him before.

"Oh My God, it's huge! I've never seen anything that beautiful before! I want to go swimming right now!" He resumed his foot tapping. The bus stopped in front of a huge mess hall, it looked more like a ski lodge but without the snow. Huge glass windows took over most of the front wall. Everyone started to pile out of the buses and gather in front of the gigantic building. Sora was looking around completely amazed by what he saw. Roxas on the other hand was wishing he never agreed to come. They were literally in the middle of nowhere. If something ever went wrong there would be no way for the outside world to know. There were pine trees everywhere and were there wasn't any trees there was either a large bush or a cabin. The whole setting was making him feel like he couldn't breathe.

Sora sat down on his suit case and looked around the crowd.

"I wonder where Riku is…I haven't seen him since we got off the train." Roxas was more worried about where Seifer was then Riku.

"He's a big boy Sora, I'm sure he can take care of himself." Sora blushed and shrugged. A group of girls standing behind them started whispering about how cute the two boys were. Roxas hated being called cute. He was a man dammit! Sora didn't care either way. He turned and smiled at the group of potential fan girls.

"Hey I'm Sora." He said in a deep tone that surprised Roxas. Since when was Sora a lady killer…especially in those god awful shorts? Before their conversation could continue everyone was shushed by a short girl with strange blonde hair who had just come to stand on the large deck in front of the lodge. She was wearing a black t-shirt that said "Councillor" in silver and blue letters. She was followed by a tall blue haired, older looking guy and then a joyful looking blonde boy with a mullet. No one in the crowd talked as they waited for something to happen.

More Councillors walked onto the deck of the mess hall. They all looked a little strange, one in particular caught his eye…or maybe it was just because his hair was brighter than Sora's shorts. He had fire engine red hair that fell just below his slender shoulders; he was lanky but muscular and looked to be one of the tallest males there. Roxas thought for a complete freak he was quite good looking.

"Oh what am I thinking? He's a guy!" He thought angrily. The red head was wearing a black hoodie over his black t-shirt. When he caught Roxas staring at him he smirk back. Roxas looked away quickly. Finally a tall white haired man walked onto the deck and all the councillors sat down behind him. He looked at the crowd of campers and smiled…or maybe that was a grimace. It was hard to tell.

"Welcome to Oblivion! I am Xemnas your head councillor." He practically growled. "I'm looking forward to meeting you all and I hope you all enjoy your summer at this camp. Behind me are our staff and other councillors who are here to look out for you and make everyone feel at home." Roxas thought he sounded a little bored. "First we have Larxene." He pointed at the only girl up there. "She's the only girl councillor on site so ladies if you have any problems please go to her. Next is Saix, the life guard and disciplinary. Then we have Demyx who is in charge of theater. This is Marlexia the onsite flouriest and botanist…" He worked his way down the line until he got the red head. "This is Axel…he's in charge of absolutely nothing and does just about the same as that." There were cheers from some of the campers.

"Come on Mansex! I'm in charge of the ladies!" He said in a deep seductive voice as he winked at the group of girls behind Roxas and Sora…or was he winking at Roxas? Xemnas just rolled his eyes and continued his speech.

"Now about cabin arrangements, if you're under the age of 17 you must share a cabin with someone, anyone older is welcome to share a cabin or have one to themselves." Roxas looked at Sora. It went without saying that he'd have to share with him. Xemnas waited for everyone to finish talking before he continued. "Breakfast is served at 7am, lunch at 12noon and supper at 6pm." He said and then walked back into the mess hall. The campers scattered in hopes of getting the perfect cabin. Sora took off and was among the ones that made it to a cabin first. Roxas grabbed both of their suitcases and started to drag them over the cabin Sora had picked out but not before looking once more at the redhead Axel. He was having an argument with Xemnas about something. Roxas couldn't help but feel a little bad for him, after all Xemnas didn't look like the nicest guy ever.

"Roxas hurry up! I want to get unpacked before dinner!" Roxas turned and rolled his eyes. The cabin Sora picked was white and had a window in the front. The inside was cozy looking and nicely furnished with two large beds, two white dressers and a white leather couch. The floor was dark stained hardwood and the walls were painted a deep wine red. Sora grabbed his suitcase from Roxas and started unpacking.

"It's nice in here eh! I'm going to like staying here I just know it! I wonder what's for dinner…do you think we'll get to go swimming?" Roxas shrugged and started to make his bed. His black comforter would match the room well…Sora's astro boy blanket on the other hand…well at least he wouldn't be cold at night. They put their clothes in the drawers of the dressers and worked on making the room look more like they lived in it and not an old lady. Roxas moved his bed and Sora put the couch closer to the door. The boys flopped down on their beds when everything was to their liking.

"I'm glad you came Roxas, I don't know what I'd do if you didn't." Roxas chuckled.

"You'd probably be out looking for Riku….or drowning in that lake."

"We have 30 minutes until dinner…what do you want to do?" Sora sat-up and crossed his legs.

"I don't know…want to go check things out?" Sora nodded happily and Roxas sat-up slowly, he wasn't sure why he wanted to go a look around but if he was going to be living here for the next 2 months he mine as well get to know the area. Sora grabbed his hand and dragged him outside leaving their cabin and his bad mood behind.