I meant to wait till tomorrow to post another chapter, but what the hey, my mind has its own agenda. Anyways, I'd like to clear one little thing up that I should mention. This story might be considered AU, but the way it pans out in the end, it could actually fit in to the actual story line. So yeah. Anyways, enjoy if you read ^_^

Song: Time Warp- The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and all it's gloriousness, is sadlly not mine. D:

2

"They're coming! Everyone run there's no way to kill these things!" a voice sounded inside his sleeping head. He rolled over a bit, frowning in his half-sleep. 'A voice during sleep? That can't be normal' he thought groggily. Axel awoke suddenly, at the sounds of distant screaming. He shot up in what should've been his bed, only to hit his head painfully on a tree branch.

"Oww! What the h-" he began, but stopped short as he opened his eyes again. He was definitely not in The Castle That Never Was anymore. Around him stretched a dark wood, with dark, dead trees spread out in every direction. The only sound he could hear was that distant screaming. Alerted again to the direction the screams were coming from, Axel did not pause to investigate his surroundings or how he'd gotten there, but instead rushed towards the shrieks of horror, and some that sounded like pain. When he finally got to the source, he halted immediately. Before him, people were running screaming from what looked like a massive black blob in the darkness, flecked with spotlights of random yellow. But upon closer inspection, one would see hundreds and hundreds of Shadow Heartless, surging through the town, and spreading through each side street and the nearby woods. They of course just passed by Axel as usually, they never attacked him unless he initiated an attack first. He stood and watched as person after person, family after family, every man, woman, and child, got mauled by the black creatures, and their hearts stolen, creating even more Heartless. Only when he saw a small brunette boy about the age of seven get devoured did he stop to wonder what the hell was going on. 'Where am I? Why am I seeing this?' he wondered. A small voice in the back of his head that was not his spoke to him. 'This is a memory, made alive. Anything you do here will ultimately affect what happens late down the road if you so wish it,' is explained. He looked around as more and more people went down. 'A memory, you say? Whose?' he asked the voice. But before it could answer, he caught sight of a shock of blonde hair, moving swiftly towards the approaching black mass, rather than away. He starred, as a flickering image of Larxene approached the hordes of Heartless, with nothing but a rusty looking sword held firmly with both hands. Her image seemed to flicker, as if he wasn't seeing the right thing.

"_! Come back! You'll just be killed!" a woman's voice called after the flickering image of Larxene. He vaguely wondered why he hadn't heard the name the lady had called, 'For the same reason you can't see the real image of Larxene's Somebody, because you don't know her true name' the voice explained. 'Wait, Larxene's Somebody? So… this is a memory of how she died?' Axel asked the voice in his head. 'Exactly' it responded. A brilliant idea sprang up in Axel's mind, and as Larxene's Somebody raced towards the hording mass of black, Axel raced towards her. If he could just stop her from dying by a Heartless ripping her open and consuming her heart, then she'd never be part of the Organization. And in truth, he was doing her a favor. This way she'd never have to live as a heartless shell. The flickering image approached an area where a young boy was being jumped on by a Shadow.

"_! Help me!" the boys voice called, screaming in pain and fright as he tried to crawl away from the Shadows grasp. Larxene charged the Shadow, and Axel admired her bravery, knowing there was no way she could do anything as the rusty sword hardly had the right properties to vanquish a Heartless. Which is why, when she brought the clearly heavy broadsword down on the Shadows head, Axel was surprised to see it fade into darkness. This was some Somebody. Larxene kneeled down next to the boy, and they seemed to be conversing in quick whispers, before she lifted the boy up and began running back the way she'd come. Axel struggled to get to her, having to slice through Heartless after Heartless. Suddenly, he saw a large Navoshadow emerge from the ground behind the Somebody. With an extra outburst of energy, Axel released a flaming circle of fire that burned away every Heartless standing between him and Larxene. He threw a flaming chakram at the Novashadows back, and it sunk halfway into what should've been its spine. It turned its shining eyes on Axel, and the light of the fire from his chakram seemed to catch Larxene's Somebody's attention, as she spun around rather quickly, tripping in the process and landing roughly on her bottom, still holding the child bridal style. Her eyes became wide as she saw she had almost been ripped apart by the oversized Pureblood Heartless. Axel made a flying snapped his fingers, and the chakram exploded within the Novashadows spine, causing it to fade. Larxene was too busy starring wide eyed at where the Heartless had been to notice a Shadow sneaking up in front of her through the shadows. But the boy noticed, and just as the Shadow lunged itself at her, he threw himself up to protect her, successfully getting his heart clawed out and devoured. This woke Larxene from her daze.

"NO! BRENDAN!" she screamed, swinging the rusty broadsword heavily down on the Heartless skull, immediately killing it. But it was too late, she cradled the boy in her arms for a few seconds before his body shimmered and faded completely. Axel rushed up to her and grabbed her around the waist, hoisting her over his shoulder, not giving her enough time to get a grip on her broadsword, for which he was partly grateful, since she immediately began to claw at his back with her fingernails.

"Brendan! Brendan, no! My brother, please not him, take me instead!" she screamed at the Heartless.

"Shutup would you? I'm trying to save your ass here." Axel grunted. It's not that he was having trouble carrying her because of her weight, she was extremely light, it was because she was squirming so much, and the clawing at his back was a nuisance.

"Let me go! Where are you taking me?" she screamed at him over his shoulder.

"Somewhere where you won't get devoured by Heartless!" he yelled back. They came to a clearing in the woods, where he finally stopped and hefted her off his shoulder, but still held on to her shoulders in case she tried to bolt back towards the massacre. When he looked at her he was met by a chilling glare, the likes of which he hoped he never had to see again.

"Right, so I saved you, check. Now I just have to get you somewhere safe-" he said. Suddenly there was a loud crash behind him, and he turned to see five more Novashadows approaching rapidly through the woods. He turned back to Larxene's Somebody.

"Why are you saving me? I didn't need saving, my brother did." she said calmly, but he could hear her voice cracking. It was bazaar to see Larxene like this, not the normal taunting, unfeeling sadist. Axel heard another crash behind them, this time closer, and he opened a dark portal, took off his cloak, and threw it over her shoulders.

"Right, that portal will take you somewhere safe, and that cloak will protect you from the Heartless through that portal. Sorry I can't stay, stuff to do, blahbidy blah. But trust me, you'll thank me for this one day." he said to her, before giving her a shove towards the portal. She stopped and looked back at him, and he began to yell at her to leave but was cut off.

"What's your name?" she asked him, her eyes set in an unnerving steely gaze. Axel grinned.

"Names Axel, got it memorized? Now hurry up and get though there before the rest of them catch up with you and eat you alive." he said. She turned and walked through the portal, the cloak dragging along a bit behind her, being too big for her. Axel turned as soon as the portal disappeared, and expected to see five large Heartless looming over him. But instead, his eyes snapped open and he found himself in the white roomed walls of his bedroom.

I'm actually really enjoying writing this... probablly more than I should be. If you're wondering, no I'm not going to dive into Larxene's past as a somebody, I might put bits and peices here and ther, but it's going to remain extremley vague otherwise. I don't want to create something for a character that doesn't belong to me.

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