Lead Astray
AKUROKU
(-whiteribbons-)
"Aiel!" The skies began to cloud, and the rain began to pour rapidly.
"Bi Runw, oyr rgua xilr ib, Eizla." The brunette handed him a acid proof rain coat, something to protect him from the pelting rain.
"Qglr lviyr sls?" The worried look oh the blonde's face and the way his ears were bent forward in uncertainty. The sound of clashing swords behind them was anything but reassuring.
"Rgua ua gua vlrrkw, Eizla." The brunette sighed, putting on his own coat. But even Eizla saw the same pained look in his matching azure eyes.
"Qglr'a fiubf ri gloowb ri ya biq?"
Chapter 1 : Head Underwater
Obscure ocean blue jewels came out of hiding from behind drowsy eyelids as talking continued around him. He wanted to wake up back at home, but at the same time didn't, or maybe it would have been better to wake up in heaven, where an angel was waiting to take him away.
"Eizla." Blue eyes flashed up when they recognized the voice.
A kind and assuring smile came across the brunette's voice from above him.
"Aiel!" He would have just jumped forward and glomped the boy if he had the strength, but he was indeed too weak, his body stiffened instead of moving. All he could do was let tears excape his eyes as he muttered out words of relief, "U'n ai fkls tiy'ew lkeufgr!" His eyes slowly began to close, but as he opened him…
…the brunette had disappeared.
"Is he okay? He seems dazed, and he's crying." Axel stared his emerald orbs straight towards the boy, examining the drunken look.
"Such happens when you give him tranquilizer. His wound should heal soon, by the way." Blue orbs switched from the emerald to a mysterious man from behind the red-head who saved him. The man had hair that flowed over one of his dark eyes that looked as if they weren't concentrated at anything. It was as if the man could see everything in the room with just that eye.
Eizla, as if understanding, turned to his left arm which was now wrapped tightly in a cast. He couldn't feel it still, but he was at least glad the pain was gone. In truth, he wanted to thank the mysterious man for whatever he did, but couldn't, due to the sad fact that they both had their languages, and they both couldn't understand a word they said to eachother.
Instead, he let out a defeated sigh.
"Axel." He said, memorizing the red-head's name.
Axel looked up, it was probably the only thing in English the boy knew.
But Axel understood when Eizla was trying to get up with just his right arm.
"You shouldn't." He said, stopping him and laying him back down.
"He needs some time to heal, I did find it odd that his healing time is tremendously speedy, but he still at least needs a day for a wound that large." Axel was attempting to translate Zexion using hands, which included him pretending to sleep, pointing to his watch, and acting like he was in pain because his arm was broken. Eizla' contorted look was enough of a response to make Axel stop.
So instead he just went physical.
Crawling into the bed with the boy, he pinned him down, putting the covers over him. The blonde could only squeak under the man, his paled face going pink at the position. "Fwr idd!" He yelled, suddenly finding the strength to kick Axel to the side.
"Ow…" Axel sad, rubbing his stomach in pain on the ground while the boy glared at him from under the covers, furious. "Well sorry you took that as a sexual innuendo." Axel said hoarsely before sitting up and just hoping he'd get it through three simple words, "Stay in bed."
…that of course he couldn't understand.
But it wasn't like Eizla could really move in that position anyway.
The three sat in the room rather quietly for a while after that, Zexion continuing his omniscient staring, Eizla laying on the bed immobilized by his wounds, and Axel, searching up things on the laptop he had brought in along with Zexion.
"Qglr lew riy siubf?" He asked, curiosity bursting through wickedly angered eyes. The device was not foreign to him. His world contained the exact same thing, the models differed, but it was definitely the same thing, what he wondered however, was why Axel was using it.
"If you're asking, I'll guess, and it's not like you'd understand, but I'm trying to find a way to translate your language." Eizla continued to stare, obviously still a little blank on whatever the man had said. Zexion only shook his head disapprovingly.
"There's no use, Axel, this boy isn't of this world." Axel scrunched his face.
"I could tell that much, where on earth do cat people live?" Axel's response was obviously sarcasm, though. What he truly suspected was that the boy was just mutated, not that it mattered to him.
"It's not a joke." Zexion corrected, standing up and walking towards the boy, "He was running from his planet when he arrived here." He gave a soft rub above the blonde's cat ears making him fall right to sleep.
"…well, if you know everything, why can't you translate him?" Axel said in a 'oh yeah, smart ass?' kind of tone.
Zexion only smiled at him, "My power is to sense dreams, not even I understood the language they spoke in his memories." And without even a 'bye' he walked out of the room, most likely headed back to the hideout. It's best that way, it wouldn't arise too many suspicions.
The last thing Axel needed was for the boy to be found.
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Albhed was nowhere near the language.
Not even Arabic letters made any sense when translating anything the boy had said.
He was even getting into languages that NO ONE would EVER know.
Zexion was right, there were no translators for an alien language. Axel raked his hair with his nails, frustrated. He wanted to help, but how could he if they couldn't even communicate?
But now that he thought about it, why was he going out of his way to help someone he doesn't even know, someone who came from some planet with a huge gash on his arms, someone who doesn't understand English.
"Axel." A weak voice called from across the room. Green eyes finally opened back into reality, staring at the half-awake boy who laid in the ashes of his old bed and under a blanket he had dragged along with him. Axel made a mental note about finding a much better place for the blonde to stay.
"Yes?" he responded, giving the boy his full attention.
"U'n gybfet." He said slowly. Axel could only stare puzzled until the cat-boy started biting at the air.
"Hungry? Food?" Axel asked, repeating the boy's actions of eating air.
"Hungry. Food." The boy echoed, repeating Axel. He hoped that meant what he thought it meant, and made a mental note of what he… thought it meant.
"Wait here." Axel said, standing and running off. The boy could only sigh, maybe it didn't.
He let out a defeated moan as his stomach growled again, "U qlbbl fwr iyrrl gwew…" he complained, rolling to his back so that he could stare at the ceiling. The flames hadn't reached a few star decorations that were painted at the top of the room. Each was a different color, and the each had a word description on it.
Carefully, he read out each word in order, recognizing the characters as the alphabet.
"R-e-d…red."
The star was to the far left, a color Eizla recognized as Ews.
"O-r-a-n-g-e…orange."
The star was to the right of the 'red' one. This color was ielbfw.
"Y-e-l-l-o-w…yellow"
Twkkiq
"G-r-e-e-n… green."
Fewwb.
"Blue?" Eizla' attention averted from the stars to the man at the door. He was holding a small bag that had a huge yellow M on it, and he was breathing heavily.
He must have ran at his top speed to grab that thing.
Of course, Axel had to, seeing as the nearest McDonalds was just about five miles away.
"Vkyw." Eizla responded out-loud, pointing to the blue star. Axel looked at the stars as well and smiled. He painted those on himself, something that made him feel at home, because before he joined the gang, it was exactly what sat above his ceiling.
"Hey, Axel, why don't we ever get rid of those?"
"I don't know, they're really babish, but mom says she likes them there."
"Well, they've been there so long that it'd be awkward to get in bed at night and not look up to see those stars."
"…you know what, little bro. You're right."
Axel looked down in pain as he remembered those words he had transpired with his late younger brother. He was interrupted however when the boy pointed to the purple star.
"Oyeokw."
"Purple." Axel translated.
The blonde's ears perked as he turned back to Axel, smelling the food, "Hungry. Food."
And Axel couldn't help but find humor in that. It sounded a lot like Tarzan, excepting the fact that Eizla wasn't some buff man raised by a bunch of gorillas.
He took the cheeseburger out of its wrapping, noting the confused look on the boy's face. It was likely the boy's planet didn't have a McDonald's, no matter how many of them were on Earth.
"Eat it." Axel said, handing the boy the burger. He reluctantly took it with his right hand, holding it above his head to examine it. Axel rolled his eyes and took the burger again, ripping a piece off and eating it himself, the boy only blinked as the burger was given back to him.
He hesitated a bit before following Axel, ripping a tiny piece off and sticking it in his mouth. He chewed, the grease squirting in his mouth. It wasn't decent, but it was good enough for him to eat, he concluded.
(A/N: Just ew, Just ew.)
Axel went back to his searching, taking his coat off and throwing it randomly while taking up the French Fries and eating them himself.
"Axel hungry, food?" Eizla asked, making Axel giggle a bit.
"Axel hungry. Eizla hungry. Eizla eat."
The blonde just stared at him weird before pointing to the burger, "Food?"
Axel smiled, at least he caught on quick, "Yeah, that's food."
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So lunch was long over, and Axel had forgotten completely about trying to find an online translator. Instead, he looked up certain things and went ahead and raised Eizla' vocabulary while he had the time.
He did wonder if the rest of the gang was wondering where he had gone, he left his headband back in his room to make sure no one would know about where he belonged. Zexion, who had his band on his left leg, must have told them a few good lies, and Axel was glad about it. He at least knew a few people in the gang that felt the same, not exactly liking their part, Zexion, Demyx, and Xigbar were a few.
But then again, there were those who just plain enjoyed it, Marluxia and Larxene from the day before were obviously in that group.
"A-huc." Axel looked up from where he was showing what a clock was when he heard the obvious start of a nice case of the hiccups.
"Water." The blonde stated, it was one of his early words, and it was obvious he needed it.
Axel reached over to the water dispenser, pouring water into a paper cup and giving it to the boy. He had brought in a couple of things, randomly going to convenient stores and using the money income he got and never used to buy whatever the boy would need.
It wasn't really a problem, it just started looking like a house covered in ashes after a while.
It wasn't until Eizla had downed the entire drink did he sit up easily and crawl over to the computer.
He clicked at the search engine, typing a few things in.
"Blue… vkyw."
The first thing Axel noticed was that each word had the same number of letters.
"Water… qlrwe."
It still made no sense to him, but he felt he got a pretty good hint from the number of letters. He began to suspect it to be some kind of code, something like what a spy uses.
"Relbaklruib id 'English.'" The blonde said, before beginning to type the random words he had in his mind in both English and his language again.
"There's no use, Axel, this boy is from a different world."
Axel's eyes wandered from the search engine to the boy's rapid typing. Surely his planet must have had something similar to a computer, because the WPM was that of a boy who's typed all his life. That would only mean the boy was used to the alphabet.
"A B C?" Axel asked, making the cat-boy turn with a smile.
"D E F G."
It was obvious the boy was familiar with the order of the alphabet too.
Then what was so hard about understanding the language he spoke?
The blonde continued typing.
B l u e
V k y w
It was in the same exact motion, just jotted to the left.
"Wait." Axel said, grabbing the keyboard and trying something out.
He slowly typed, "Ua rgua giq tiy rtow tiye klbfylfw?"
"Yes." Eizla said aloud.
What an odd name
He then typed down Eizla in the English way.
Roxas.
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A/N: Whoo, so Axel finally found out! Do you get it now? Roxas' language is typing English, but moving one to the left. I CALL COPYRIGHT ON THAT LANGUAGE. It's called Luyu, and yes, I developed it myself x3
Now to state the winners.
Mai-chan was the first to find out (I owe her chocolate now xD –knows her in real life-)
Then it was Blaze Moonlight (My first reviewer, it was so interesting when she found out xD I was like 'woaaah!')
Usaku-chan, though I had to tell her xD but it's fine, we love her anyway!
And… no one else even tried … 8D
Well, I was on a roll yesterday, so I got this chapter done as well. As promised it's about six-seven pages. I really need to work on making them longer.
Also, candy for anyone else who tried? 8D IDK. I love anyone who read, but I adore those who take the time to flame/review. I really need it guys, tell me what I do wrong so I can fix it, okay? –only reason she's here-
ANYWAY, YOU WANNA HEAR ABOUT WHY I'M SO HIGH RIGHT NOW?
Well, recently, I went to Arizona and got bad allergies, then it turned to a bad cough, then into a bad cold. I had a fever yesterday and was given some drugs to calm it down, my throat hurts like hell, but I feel giddy. My dad says it's because I'm on drugs, and I believe him x3
BTW, I also found I'm writing this story a lot easier than I'm writing my RikuSora story. I think it's because, -even though I'm Riku- I'm more in character with Axel and Roxas, because I spent a great amount of time in their fandom. I'll work on making Sora and Riku in character before continuing my other story, lol.
Well, reviews please? 8D