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Title: Scaredy Cat
Chapter: 1, Axel
Couple: Akuroku +More
Warnings: Halloween obsessed mind writing a story lol, Language and all that good stuff
Taking a running start, Axel got to the required speed, and then dropped onto his knees. It would have hurt terribly if they weren't protected by metal platted pads that allowed him to slide against the floor. His hands following as well, dragging on the floor, metal plates on the fingers of the gloves he wore.
Sliding as far as he wanted, Axel raised one of his legs, catching himself and stood up, momentum making him walk a few steps forward to keep his balance.
"Perfect!"
The red head grinned; walking back over to the place he started his run. "So, I'm in?"
The man he was talking too, a tall blue haired man with gold eyes and an x scar on his face nodded. "Yes, Axel, you're in. But you have to finish up the warm ups."
"I figured." He shrugged and walked away from the line as the man called for the next person to do as he just did. The red head walked over to where another boy sat, pads on his knees and gloves as well.
"Axel, you're a little too good at that." He said, a dirty blonde mullet sprouting from his head.
Axel shrugged. "I've been practicing all winter." And it was the truth. Never before had a theme park did what this one was going to do. The biggest Theme Park in Radiant Gardens was actually going to have a Halloween special. It would have monsters running threw out the whole park, scaring the crap out of anyone who dared walk inside of its gates. Mazes people could walk through and be terrified at the actors and scenic props specialists would make were also being included as well as things only the weirdest people could come up with.
And Axel wanted in. He wanted to be involved in the worst way possible. The boy, for some reason, ate, slept and breathed horror. He had since he was a kid and his cable ran out and all they had to watch where his brother's old horror movies.
The blonde laughed. "I believe you. You haven't stop talking about this since you saw the ad."
"Shut up, Demyx." Axel laughed. The two boys laughed together as a woman with blonde hair did the same as Axel had moments before. She slide across the floor then stood up, turning to look at the blue haired man who said it was perfect.
"Alright, gather around." Man with the scar called out. Axel stood up and helped Demyx, both of them walking towards the rest of the group. "Here are the ones who'll be sliding this year, Axel, Demyx, Marluxia, Larxene, Zexion and Xigbar. The rest can try out for regular monsters or work in mazes, but you'll have to talk our manager, Xemnas. I want everyone else to get started on the warm ups. Thank you." He turned to walk away, leaving a small crowd of disappointed hopefuls and another crowd of people excited, Axel one of them.
"Fuck yes, dude!" Axel cried out, high fiving Demyx. The shorter male laughed loudly, enjoying the excitement of one of his best friends as a small group walked towards them.
"Hey, you're really good." Axel looked up at a pink haired male grinning at him, holding out his hand. "I'm Marluxia."
Axel shook his hand and the rest began to introduce themselves, the shortest boy with hair covering his eyes, the only girl chosen to slide with the rest of the boys and the oldest one with an eye patch. The ones he'd be working with from summer to autumn.
They'd be in costumes, sliding on the floor to the costumers, scaring them as much as possible. After all, that was what they paid for.
"Do you know what the theme is for our costumes?" Zexion asked, flipping the hair out of his face. The short boy was apparently more aerodynamic than the rest of them, able to slide much farther then any of them could get, even skinny Larxene who got pretty far when she lowered her body towards the floor.
"I don't think they even know." Marluxia answered, stretching out to take a running start. "I heard Saix talking about who would look good in what costume." The long haired man run off, then dropped his body on the floor, twisting his body so he twirled as he slide, then stood up, running as if he never slide at all.
The warm ups where underway, each of them having to get used to the feeling of dropping their bodies on the floor, their muscles getting used to the positions and getting as good as they can.
"Saix?" Demyx asked, looking at the others.
"The blue haired guy with the scar." Zexion chuckled. "He's like the right hand man of this whole thing. If you want to talk to the manager, you talk to Saix first."
"As if! How would know?" Xigbar asked, his long black streaked hair in a ponytail so it wouldn't get in the way as he followed Marluxia's example, running to gain as much speed as he could.
"I know someone who's working with them." The short boy shrugged. "It's how I knew about this in the first place."
Axel nodded and watched the man named Saix walk towards them with pads on his knees. "You're a slider too?"
Saix smirked, his gold eyes flashing. "What did you think I was going to be doing?"
Axel chuckled again and Saix called attention once more. "I'll be the one putting you threw drills. We want to make sure you're able to control yourselves as much as possible so you don't hit anyone or run into anything."
"That would suck, dude." Xigbar agreed, in his most eloquent way of speaking.
"Exactly. Now, line up because by the time I'm done, you'll wish you were in mazes."
If Axel could groan in pain, he would have. Unfortunately he was in too much pain to even express how much he was hurting. He was basically collapsed on the floor, the back of his legs throbbing painfully, Demyx and Zexion next to him, close to passing out.
Marluxia and Larxene sat up against the metal face closing off the spacious zone, panting and sweating while Xigbar lay sprawled out on the floor a few feet away, unable to get up anymore.
Saix was the only one standing, a grim smile across his lips. "Well, this is interesting."
"… no… more…" Demyx panted out, whipping sweat from his forehead.
The sadistic man had them running laps and sliding in intricate controlled patterns, then standing up and running all over again. Needless to say, they were all about to die.
"Don't worry, we're done today, but tomorrow we got more work. You'll be sliding from dusk till dawn, 7 days a week when the park opens. Start getting used to it." In reality, Saix was totally right and Axel felt more exhausted then he'd ever felt before. "Tomorrow, you'll meet the ones you'll be working with, our engineers and make-up artists."
With that, Saix turned, leaving a mass of tired bodies in his wake.
Axel was beginning to wonder if this was a good idea after all.
SO! A new Story! =D I'm actually really excited about this 33 I freaking Love Sliders, when guys do it, they look super cute lmao (God I'm a freak xDD)
lol ANYWAY! This will have Akuroku, but Later! I swear! lol xDD Among other couples! lol So yeah!
Videos on Sliding so you get what I'm talking about:
youtube . com/watch?v=6WRAFa_lN0k
youtube . com/watch?v=HPtREIF76Bo&feature=related
(Just remove the spaces)
Please Review! =D
~DurHaruZombie