Kingdom Hearts: take 2

Prologue: This Ain't A Scene... It's A F0cking Mess

"Roxas, alright! Fight, fight, fight!" A cloaked figure stepped out of the shadows giving a round of applause. His vibrant red hair stood spiked on it's ends, an almost creepy smirk curling across his lips from under his bright green eyes. He slowly approached the blonde-haired hero, his eyes fixed on him. What he wanted with the boy was uncertain to everyone but himself. Suddenly he let out a startled yelp as he stepped on his long black jacket and fell face first into the hard ground of the Struggle Battle Arena.

"...and CUT!!" the director shouted from the side. He shook his head in disappointment and gave an irritated sigh. "Axel, this is the third time in a row that you have tripped on your own damn feet."

Axel groaned as he pulled himself to his feet slowly and brushed the dirt off himself, "It's not my feet I'm tripping over... it's these damn COATS that you make us wear! It's too long!" He glanced up to see Roxas, his fellow actor and hero of the show trying to contain a fit of giggles behind a single hand. The blond finally couldn't hold it anymore as he bursted into a fit of laughter, holding his stomach with both slender arms as he nearly doubled-over from the hilarity of the situation before pointing a finger to his taller co-actor.

"You should have seen the expression on your face! It gets me every time!" Roxas could hardly breath through his laughs as Axel gave him a embarrassed-yet-angry glare. "It looked a little like this..." Roxas exclaimed as he gave a rather accurate imitation of Axel's latest head dive. Axel's face changed to a red almost that of his hair as the entire studio erupted in laughter. Everyone from the cast, crew, extras, and body guards were there and all apparently found the incident to be simply priceless. Growling under his breath, Axel roughly pushed past Roxas, knocking the boy to the ground as he hurried off the set and out of the studio. So maybe he was a little bit of a klutz. Is it really that funny? He could hear the director and the rest of the staff attempting to apologize through their laughter but that just wasn't enough. He was growing tired of the random bullshit from everyone, tired of the pointing, the laughing, the so-called accidents that he was pretty sure were purposely being set up for him to fall into. That bucket of water above the door early in the morning? Like anyone stores a bucket of water on top of a partially open door unless they are planning to soak the next person who goes through it. Hell, his clothes still felt rather damp from it and the bump on his head from the bucket was nothing to brush off either. He stormed through the parking lot to his trailer as quickly as he could, hoping to avoid everyone before they had a chance to come after him. His hopes were crushed as he heard a familiar voice call out from behind him.

"Dude. That was totally uncalled for back there", Xigbar shrugged his shoulders in disappointment. "I mean, come on... as if they haven't fallen flat on their faces in front of the camera before either, right? What a shame." Somehow, Axel just wasn't feeling very comforted by Xigbar's concern. As a matter of fact, he felt even worse. "But in all honesty, dude, the way you ate it was just-"

"SHUT UP!!" Axel whirled around and let out a frustrated scream. "I've HAD it with you people making a mockery of me! You know what? I quit!" His hands clenched tightly into fists, his knuckles turning white under his black gloves. "Yeah, you heard me, I QUIT! Q-U-I-T! Got it memorized?!" He slammed the trailer door shut, his mind blurred with anger as it bounced back open, ruining the dramatic ending of their conversation. "Stupid f0cking door!" He growled as he reached out and tried two more times to close the tin door before it finally locked in place leaving Xigbar to stand alone in the parking lot. A smirk spread across his face as he tried his hardest not to laugh at the poor pyro for his misfortune.

Xemnas sighed, tapping his fingers slowly on the smooth white desk before him. He carefully looked at each person on the table. The keybladers and all but one member of Organization XIII were present as well as the director, producer, and the rest of the filming staff. "Well, this certainly puts us in a bit of a problem now, doesn't it?" He rubbed his forehead with two fingers, keeping a steady beat flowing from his finger tips against the hard surface of the desk.
"We can always continue without him," the director spoke, pushing his thick coke-bottle glasses up the bridge of his nose. "No one would miss him".

"That's not true!" Roxas stood up and exclaimed, all eyes focusing on him, "...I would". He gained a few chuckles from those around him who recognized what he said to be lines from a earlier part of the script that they have acted out a few days ago. He earned a disapproving look from the Superior, Xemnas.

"That is exactly the kind of behavior that made Axel quit, Roxas." the silver-haired leader frowned, "Perhaps if you were to be more mindful of your jokes-"

Roxas cut him off, "Hey, he is the ass who used to pants me in the middle of filming on the first 2 days! You think I'm not going to get back at him for all of HIS pranks?" Xaldin and Larxene both gave a soft snort, silently laughing as they recalled Axel waving Roxas's pants in the air, leaving his white ass and more in plain recorded view. Shooting them both a dirty glance, Roxas continued on, "Besides, it's not my fault that he can't take what he serves." A few others nodded in approval, admitting that he did have a point.

"Either way" the director cut in, "We still need to continue to film. We have a deadline, you know. I say we just get a replacement for him. It can't be too hard to find one."

"Out of the question", Zexion finally spoke up, having been silent through the entire discussion thus far, "Axel plays a very important role in the series. You can't simply cast him aside and think that no one will notice. No one can play his part as well as he can". He brushed his long bangs carefully to one side of is face as he stared down the director intensely.

"I'd have to side with Zexion on that one", Leaxeaus nodded his head in agreement. "It just wouldn't be the same without Axel.
"Why don't we just convince Axel to come back?" Demyx chimed in, "I'm sure if we just apologize he'll be glad to come back". He gave an excited smile to everyone but was only greeted with looks that could only be interpreted as "WTF?". His smile slowly faded, "I-it was just a suggestion..."

Everyone went silent as they pondered what to do. Convince Axel to return or simply replace him? It was not a decision to be taken lightly. Xemnas broke the silence. "We shall give him a chance. If Axel absolutely refuses to return to the set with us, then we will find a replacement for him immediately". For once, everyone was in agreement.

Authors Notes: Yeah, ok, that's enough for now. sweat I know it's short but I kind of just wrote this out on a whim. I wonder if anyone is even going to like it? I don't really care if anyone likes it, really. I wrote it out to kill time, honestly. I guess I can try to continue this or something, you know, make an actual effort. Yeah, yeah, I spelled the f-word with a "0" to help censor it. How lame. Perhaps when I have more free time to kill, I'll write out more. Until next time (I hope)!