Got It Memorized?

by Luigi man21

This is the tale of Axel on Day 358 of 358/2 Days, just after the story has ended for the day. He goes through the daily motions, but...it doesn't feel right. While his is just a simple short story, it contains spoilers for Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days.

AN: I have recently finished playing Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and I felt that I should give a short story to close out the time of my first play through by writing an ending with my favorite character, Axel.

Axel lay upon his bed in The World That Never Was and sighed. Just where did Roxas go, and what did he plan to do, he wondered as he stared straight above to the gray ceiling of his room. Whatever his friend was doing, Axel decided it was time to get up and out of bed. Once he did so, he turned and noticed something on his window seal; an envelope.

He walked over to the white, paper container and opened it. What he found inside was a wooden popsicle stick with the phrase, "WINNER" written next to a crown symbol. He frowned, as he knew who sent it. After all, there wasn't any other member of the organization that he had eaten sea-salt ice cream with on the clock tower. ...right?

Later the next day, after he had finished his mission, Axel ventured over to the ice cream shop in Twilight Town and got the free sea-salt ice cream that came as a reward for having the stick, and bought another stick, just in case. He felt as though he should buy a second stick, but, who would he give it to? So he simply shrugged the feeling off and took his two ice cream sticks up to the usual spot: the clock tower. There Axel sat and waited with the hopes that his friend Roxas might show up as he ate his sea salt ice cream.

Hours passed and the sun had almost completely disappeared below the horizon, with the red hue of the sunset nearly faded. Axel sighed and put down the second stick of ice cream when he knew that Roxas wasn't going to show up. However, he still had the feeling there was something, no, someone missing; someone other than Roxas that he knew, or at least should have known. Someone that, as surprising as it was to him, was a distant memory that was leaving his mind. It was the memory of a dear friend, that he could not quite recall the name or face of. It was so unusual, so saddening to the Nobody.

Axel frowned as he stared at the horizon, where the sun had just dropped below the distant horizon.

"I...I guess I didn't have that person memorized..." He sighed as he walked away from the edge of the clock tower and returned to The World That Never Was with the thought of the person leaving his mind for good.