Another Kingdom Hearts fic by yours truly staring…. AXEL!

Axel is one of my favorite KH characters and I thought he didn't get enough love in the games. This is the story of how Organization XIII returned and what their new plan is to obtain Kingdom Hearts- with Axel's new love interest!

Enjoy!

I grumbled in irritation as I trudged grumpily through the downpour. Since my element was fire, rain was not something I welcomed with open arms. I felt sullen and cranky as I always did when drenched with water as I walked from The Castle That Never Was into the dreary streets. Another mission of extermination. Hurray.

I never understood why I was always sent on the icky jobs. Did I seem like the person who takes delight in ending the lives of others? …Okay, maybe I did a little, but it was totally dependent on the individual. If it was some lower class Nobody it didn't really matter, they are just shells that aren't supposed to exist. All us Nobodies have to leave sometime. I just make "sometime" come a lot sooner for the losers.

"Ah!"

My ears perked as I heard footsteps slashing on the water-soaked cobblestone. A voice, probably female due to the higher pitch, was panting for air in what I concluded to be either fear, exhaustion or both. I stopped walking and turned my attention to my right. There was nothing but the wall of one of the many buildings in the courtyard, yet the noise didn't stop.

"Ugh! Ah!"

More sounds, yet I couldn't see anything. I looked around, but there was just me in the open. I was beginning to think I had finally lost it when it hit me.

I mean, it really hit me.

"Wah! Oof!"

Out of nowhere, a body came soaring at me, knocking us both off our feet and onto the wet ground, water splashing everywhere as we landed. I grumbled. The thing on top of me groaned.

I sat up, the weight of whatever was on me shifting as I did. I glanced down at the body to see a girl, out of breath and panting. She couldn't have been older than twenty. Her drenched black hair clung to her face, the pieces that didn't hung around her shoulders as she caught her breath. She was just as soaked as I was, maybe more considering she wasn't wearing a jacket in the rain. A simple pair of tight black pants and a shirt were the only things covering her body besides the boots she wore. I noticed a few accessories on her and an ornate looking earring near the top of her left ear, but I doubted those did anything to protect her from the shower.

She struggled to stand, or even to move off on me, as quick as possible but when she put pressure on her feet, her legs buckled and she tumbled back down to my lap in what looked like pain. I surveyed her, noticing the cuts and bruises littering her body and only just seeing the slashes in her clothes. I gently grabbed her upper arms and helped her to her feet as I stood as well.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked.

The girl looked up at me and my heart- if I had one- would have broke. She had the brightest green eyes I had ever seen, probably more dazzling than emeralds. But if that wasn't enough, they were filled with terror.

"I-I'm being chased!" She said, trembling, clutching my organization cloak in fear or to keep herself up or both.

"Who's chasing you? Uh, hang on. Where did you even come from?" I asked.

"I have no idea!" she said.

"You have no idea about which question?"

"Both!" She quivered. "I was walking by myself when all of a sudden these things came out of nowhere! They spoke into my mind, saying 'You must come with us'. They tried to grab me but I got away." She was frantic now. "They followed me, but I ran. I ran and ran and ran until I didn't even know where I was and then the things around me started to shift and I was in a building. The creatures still followed me so I kept running until I tripped. They nearly got me but I got back up and sprinted away, not caring where. When I looked up, I saw a wall but couldn't stop. I closed my eyes, waiting for the end, but I went straight through it as though it wasn't there. Then I landed on you. But those things are going to come after me again! They always come after me!"

"Whoa, whoa!" I said, trying to calm her down. "It's okay, I'll help. You're safe now. If the things come after you, I'll kill 'em, got it memorized? Now, what did they look like?"

"They were big, lanky and black." She said. "They had long scraggly antennae and claws the size of kitchen knives and- Oh Lord! They're here!" She cried, pointing to the wall she flew out of. Just as she had described, black creatures, gangly and menacing, crawled out of the edifice. I recognized them as a more powerful breed of heartless- Neoshadows.

I clutched the frightened girl to me, summoning a single chakram and got ready to attack. The Neoshadows emerged from the brick, one after the other after the other. How many were after this girl? I blasted the heartless closest to us but the next were fast approaching. I destroyed group upon group of them but there were always more to take their place when their comrades fell.

"Ugh, why are there so many!" I yelled to the air, engulfing another line of Neoshadows in flame. The girl looked on helpless. "What do they want with you?" I asked her.

She gazed up at me with her big, terror-filled, green eyes. "I don't know!"

"Well, I'm not sure how long I can keep this up." I said, feeling the exhaustion hit me. "They just keep coming!"

"I'm so sorry!" The girl cried, squeezing her eyes shut. "You should have never helped me!"

"Hey, don't talk like that." I said. "I couldn't just let you alone, now could I?"

"Yes, you could have! But you chose to help me and now we're both going to die! I am so sorry!" Tears slid down her cheeks as she began to cry and glow.

Wait.

Glow?

Her body emanated a green light, growing stronger and brighter with each second until I was blinded.

"Wha-?" I managed to say before the light erupted in a flash, forcing me to close my eyes. I could feel the power crackle in the air. God, I wanted to open my eyes. I didn't know what was happening.

Finally the light faded and I could see again. I readied another attack so I could destroy the next round of Neoshadows while they were stunned, but all that was left of the hoard were the crystal hearts that released once a heartless "died". I expected them to dance up into the sky as they always do without a keyblade present, but instead they danced toward us and disappeared into the girl's chest. "What the heck?" I asked, incredulously, peering down at the girl only to see her eyes closed and body limp in my arms. "Oh no."

I checked her pulse. Nothing.

"Damn it!"

Then I had a thought. I checked my own pulse. There was none. So now there were two possibilities. One: This girl was dead. Two: This girl was a Nobody who was just rendered unconscious. I hoped for the second.

I lifted her effortlessly into a bridal-style hold and carried her back to the castle. No one dies on my watch unless I say otherwise.

End of Chapter one!

How did you like it? I know Axel is slightly OOC, but those are his thoughts and you never know, he could be quite profound in his mind.

The next chapter has Demyx ^.^ and lots of dialogue that will bring out the Organization's characters.

REVIEW THE HECK OUT OF THIS CHAPTER AND THE NEXT ONE GOES UP WITHIN TWO DAYS!