Chapter 2
Grand Master
Roxas wandered around the town looking for a job. He couldn't seem to find any fliers around. People looked at him a bit awkwardly and he shrugged on through the dark alley to the sandlot.
Down to the end of the alley and down the stairs he heard some banging and voices.
"Haha, you just can't seem to keep that ball in the air."
"You're one to talk, you can't even run fast!"
"You two guys are a couple of clowns."
Roxas looked over to them and saw it was the kids, about the same age as him. Two boys and one girl were playing Grandstander in the Sandlot.
The blond boy noticed Roxas watching them, "What you think you can do better?"
Roxas was bewildered, "Who me?"
"Yeah you! You think you can do better?"
"Hayner, stop picking on that guy!" the girl yelled at the blond boy.
"Well he's looking at us like he's big stuff!" Hayner yelled back.
Roxas stood up and looked at Hayner, "Sure I'll try."
"Whoa man, do you even know how to play?" The dark haired boy asked with enthusiasm.
"How hard can it be?" Roxas asked with a cool attitude about it.
"See how many times you can hit the ball with it in the air with out it touching the ground five times." the dark haired boy said.
Roxas walked up to the ball and he felt a tap on his shoulder, "Here, you need to use a struggle bat." Hayner shoved the bat into Roxas's chest.
Roxas got down in an attacking position as the three kids walked back to the side walk. He got ready and Hayner yelled out, "GO!"
Roxas swung the bat upwards sending the ball into the air and he jumped up and slammed it over to the wall.
He landed on the ground and ran up to the ball falling dangerously close to the ground, and he propelled it higher than the buildings and he jumped up and slammed the bat into it enough that the ball and himself seemed to float in the air.
To the kids' amazement to how good he was the started to cheer him on.
The girl cried out, "Come on guy, you can do it!"
The dark haired boy yelled, "Doin' great man, keep it up!"
Hayner just sat there pouting.
Roxas made one mistake as he launched the ball to the ground just to have it bounce back up into the air. Roxas dropped and rolled over to where the ball would land again and he would miss it just as it hit the ground again.
"Oh no, he's messing up!" the dark haired boy grabbed his hair and pulled on it.
Roxas got up from his stumble and started over and hammered at it to make it go back up into the air. He reared back and struck it on the side and it flew right pas t Hayner's head.
"Watch it man! You could have taken my head off!" Hayner yelled in terror and fell to the ground.
A few minutes passed and Roxas had deflated the ball. "Whoa! That was some amazing grandstanding!" The dark haired cried out and waved his hands in the air.
"Just amazing! You blew my mind away." the girl said clapping her hands together.
Roxas shrugged and scratched the back of his head.
Hayner got up and walked over to Roxas, "I gotta hand it to you, what's your name?"
"Roxas,"
The other two broke in, "I'm Olette," the girl spoke first followed by the dark haired boy, "I'm Pence, nice to meet you."
Hayner broke through, "I'm Hayner, you new here?"
Roxas looked away remembering the first few days in the Organization and most of his missions, "I've been around a bit, but I finally decided to settle down."
"Cool, so you plan on workin' some where, because the armor shop is looking for help." Hayner asked.
"I was looking for a job..." Roxas said but was inturrupted.
"Well you could always go to the Candy Shop or do street performance." Pence said.
Roxas got in his thinking position and said, "Well, I'll look into it." He turned and waved good bye and walked to the main area, he walked a bit to the ramp and the trolly rolled by right past him.
End of chapter 2
