Elizabeth's Doll here, so, I feel bad about this one. However! I think that it ends alright. I don't own any of the beautifully amazing characters...the belong to SE. I hope you enjoy!

"Pretentious stuck up brat..." Axel thought to himself. "What the hell makes this kid so special?" Axel leaned against the grey wall of Castle Oblivion while Xemnas introduced the thirteenth member of the Organization: Roxas.

"As you may tell, Roxas is a new Nobody so someone will need to teach him our ways and explain our journey to where we are and where we're going. I have already assigned someone to the task. Axel, you will be Roxas's guardian and mentor from now on," Xemnas explain.

"What! You can't be serious!No way!" Xemnas simply glared at Axel. Axel had no choice but to calm down and accept his assignment. He walked up to the small spikey-haired brat and grabbed his arm and began dragging him to the bridge. "Look kid, I don't like you and-"

"Uhm..What was your name again?" Roxas asked sheepishly.

"Axel. A-X-E-L. Got it memorized?"

"Well Axel, I'm not here to be liked," Roxas said, his voice becoming suddenly more aggressive.

Axel grinned, "Maybe you aren't too bad after all. But look, I have an assignment from Xemnas, soon enough you'll realize that, even if you don't want to look after some bratty kid, you do it anyway. So look, here you have it.

So we've been working towards one goal: Kingdom Hearts. By achieving this goal, we can be real again; humans again. I don't always agree with how we do it, like I said before if you're told to do it, you do it. But there's this other brat, Sora, that releases the hearts that make up Kingdom Hearts. We thought we had it once, but the three Keyblade wielders locked the door. So we've been fighting and collecting, collecting and fighting," Axel rambled on.

"Keyblade..?"

"Yep, a blade like a key. Get it? It opens ANY lock. The wielder brat is pretty cute too, haha."

Roxas reached out a hand and his Keyblade appeared in his hand. Axel's eyes went wide. "So that's why you're thirteen huh? How the hell..."

"From what you've said, it looks like I'll be able to handle myself."

"That's great kid but I'm still your guardian, got it memorized? So until I'm given orders otherwise, you're stuck with me." Axel said annoyed.

"Whatever," Roxas said equally annoyed. "Where's my room?"

"Room? Kid, you're a Nobody. What do you think that means? You don't need sleep. You don't need food. You don't need anything."

"What...you can't be serious!" Roxas just couldn't believe it. He tried and tried but he couldn't remember what food tasted like, he couldn't remember his past, nothing. "Why! Why can't I remember! I want to remember!" Roxas shouted, not at Axel, not at anyone. He just shouted. Axel, the Castle, the world, none of it was there. Roxas was lost in the despair he couldn't feel, the anger he wanted to surge, and the extreme emptiness within him. He wanted to cry but his eyes wouldn't produce the tears.

All the while Axel stood in an understanding shock. He knew what the kid felt. He, too, had felt it. But to see Roxas break right there in front of him struck something within the hardened Axel. "Hey! Come on, kid. Knock it off." "Although, realizing you're not real isn't easy,"Axel thought to himself. He hated himself for it but, he felt sorry for the kid.

Suddenly a Dusk appeared and handed Axel an envelope. "Well, wanna take some 'emotion' out? We've got an assignment. Come on, we'll use my portal, I don't feel like teaching you how to yet." Axel open his portal into the darkness and motioned for Roxas to go in.

Roxas didn't move. He stood. He thought. Then, "Axel, am I real?"

"You don't want to know," He said as he shoved Roxas through. "So look, kid-"

"My name is Roxas."

"Whatever. This is how we get around. Just make sure you close them afterwords."

Axel and Roxas wandered around in the darkness while Axel pointed out the different places around Castle Oblivion. "Alright, enough sight-seeing. We've got to round up and disperse some Dusk."

"How long have you been in the Organization?" Roxas asked as Axel showed him how to summon Dusk.

"You learn not to count, kid. We gotta make our rounds. You go that way," Axel said pointing to the left.

"Can't I go with you?"

"Why?" He paused. "Fine, just this once." Axel took him around The World That Never Was and showed the protocol for dispersing the Dusk. "Alright, let's go back."