Here be the second chapter! Arg! P3 Ooh..pirates..wait! This isn't a pirate story..my bad. :( I like pirates. Pirates are cool. Especially Kingdom Hearts themed pirates. Like..an Axel pirate. Or a Roxas pirate..EVEN A RIKU PIRATE! XD Sqweeeeeee! Ahaha, I'm on a pirate high.
Pirates rock.
Riku opened his eyes, only to shut them tightly once more, silently begging for the light to be off and for the person that he saw staring back at him not to be there. He could sense the light dimming and he vaguely wondered what kind of room this actually was and what it was used for. On second thought, he really didn't want to know. What he did want to know, however, was where he was and why Marluxia was hovering above him, a twinkly look in the sky blue eyes of the Nobody. He sat up, stretched, and rubbed his eyes of the sleep that was in them.
"Oh my god, it really is you! Riku, my darling! You've come back to me!" And before he could say anything, he was enveloped (glomped) in a nicely tight bear hug given by the obsessive Number 11 of Organization 13.
Confuzzled beyond belief, Riku gave him a glare and shoved him off, totally missing the warmth it brought to his cold limbs. He was in the chilly basement of the Castle, he now realized--with very weird dimming lights--and he was only wearing what he had been back at Destiny Islands. A pair of swim shorts and a loosely fitting torn up t-shirt he had found lying around in his room. "One, I'm not your darling. Two, I was never yours to begin with so how could I come back to you? Three, how are you here? I saw Sora kill you. Four, How many others are here? and Five, what am I doing here?"
"You sure do talk a lot. And you're curious too! That only makes you even more cuter!' Marluxia giggled. 'He's obviously on something.' Riku thought. 'I hope he's sharing.'
"Answer my questions, you airhead." Riku scowled. Marluxia was babbling about something that didn't seem very important. Something about daisies and lackeys that fail..
"Oh, your questions. I thought they were rhetorical, silly me. You should have told me! Well, to start off.. Anyone can come back to me. You were there in Castle Oblivion with me and then you left so technically, you've come back to me. I am here because, well, I'm just awesome like that."
"Don't listen to him." A voice cut in. Riku froze. If that was who he thought it was, then hand him a gun cause he wasn't going to live much longer. The one person that got on his nerves twenty four seven, the one and only...
"Axel!" Riku groaned. It was him. "I haven't seen you in ages! where've you been? Did mean ol' Xemnas send you on one of those missions?" Marluxia squealed out. What had the world come to?
"Nawh, I was stalking Demyx, but I lost him about a couple hours ago." Vexen, who was nearby conducting yet another experiment, perked up. He turned to all the babbling idiots who infiltrated his laboratory and decided Axel didn't deserve to know where Demyx was. He waved dismissively at the three and turned back to his work, thinking that maybe Demyx's tunnel was an escape route.
"Anyways, shut up." Marluxia pouted and sat down on the chair behind him with a huff. Marluxia turned his head the other way, not wanting to look at Axel. Sometimes Axel got on his nerves. This time Axel was stealing his spotlight! And everybody knows you can't steal Marluxia's spotlight. (well, at least now you do)
Axel turned to Riku, much to his dismay, and say down next to him on the table. "You know how we all 'faded'? Well, when you and Sora 'killed' everybody, but me, of course, wouldn't you think that someone as pure and innocent as Sora would at least have a slightly guilty conscience about killing people?"
"Well, you aren't people, are you." Riku said snidely. He really didn't see where Axel was getting at. 'Maybe he's on something too..'
"Yeah, we're people. Just not 'whole' people. We're still missing our hearts which still makes us Nobodies, but where I was going has nothing to do with that. You know how Xemnas has power over Nothing?"
"You mean he doesn't have a power? Then why's he the Superior?" Axel shook his head and rolled his eyes. Marluxia turned back to the two, seemingly over whatever got in his pants and died.
"What darling Axel means is, Xemnas resurrected us because of his element. Sora didn't have a guilty conscience because he wasn't really killing us since we were going to be resurrected anyway." Riku nodded in half understanding. He made a mental note to go to Marluxia whenever he was confused about something. The Nobody seemed to have a very good way at explaining things. Even though that didn't really make sense to him..
"What about my other questions?" After saying that, the disastrous twinkly look in Marluxia's eyes returned and Axel backed away after getting off the table. Riku immediately regretted asking that because the look in Marluxia's eyes was starting to creep him out. He thought for only a second that he could retreat like Axel did, but he quickly dismissed the idea. He didn't like Axel.
"Well, like Axel said, everyone else is here! And you're here because I was strolling along in the corridors of Darkness on patrol," Axel snorted at that. Marluxia promptly hit him on the head. "when all of the sudden I see you laying there completely out of it! I thought to myself, 'Marluxia, if you were there, would you like someone to help you?' and of course, the answer was 'no' because I can't stand other people touching me-" Axel poked him in the side a couple times. Marluxia shivered and swatted him away. "Such a pest, Axel! Stoppit! You know I'm ticklish!" Marluxia giggled and just like that, Riku suddenly felt the need to bang his head on the wall.
"You know what, thank you for helping me, but I really must be going. I won't tell Sora about you guys, so you're safe. Just leave everyone else alone." Riku hopped off the table, ignoring Marluxia and Axel's similarly looking puppy dog pouts of cuteness. Marluxia, wanting to be in the spotlight, shoved Axel away by pushing him in the face. Riku rolled his eyes.
Riku tried to summon a portal to go back to Destiny Islands, but somehow it didn't work. He tried again. Again. Again. Again. Riku was beginning to get very frustrated indeed. He felt like an idiot just standing there holding his hand up. 'Like saying the pledge in elementary school..' Riku grimaced. He heard a snicker behind him and turned around slowly. Marluxia was grinning wickedly at him. Riku glared and with a ton of courage, decided it would be best to discuss this outside of the lab. That way, Vexen, whom was also glaring (he seemed to pick up on Riku's murderous intent) wouldn't also murder him for destruction of his property.
Axel, seeing Riku walking toward the door, rushed forward and out the door faster than you could say, 'marshmallow.' Riku glanced back at Marluxia who pranced after Axel with petals falling wherever he stepped. Riku's eyes widened. Did that always used to happen? 'Oh..dear Lord...'
Once outside the labs and in the meeting room, Riku proceeded to strangle the living daylights out of Marluxia. Axel, who did not care in the least, sat on the table flipping through Mission Plans Xemnas had left there earlier. After a while, Axel looked back to see that Number 11 had turned a glorious shade of purple. He took that as his cue to separate the two quarrelers. Axel sauntered over to the wall Riku was holding Marluxia up by and poked Riku's cheek.
Riku lost his sense of concentration after that poke and let go of Marluxia to glare at Axel.
"Works like a charm every time." Axel laughed and turned back to sit on the table again.
Riku turned back to the gasping Lord of Oblivion and demanded to know what had happened to his powers. He felt completely powerless, drained even. He couldn't summon his keyblade either.
"Um, well, you see, Ri. This Castle has been-"
"-has been formatted to fit your TV!" Axel said enthusiastically as he swung his dangling legs back and forth. Marluxia giggled at his antics.
"Well, no..it's like this, Xemnas is done dealing with people infiltrating our Castle and so he modified it to enhance our powers and drain any intruders."
"Almost like Viagra, only for our powers. Got it memorized?" Axel said with a smirk. Riku blanched at hoped to Kingdom Hearts that Axel would just shut up once in a while.
"So, you can't leave until someone feels like letting you leave."
"I'm a prisoner?" Riku said in disbelief. Marluxia shook his head and hopped up on the table with Axel. He threw his arm around Axel's shoulders, ignoring the excessively high body temperature the pyro was graced with.
They both said in unison, "Welcome to your Incidental Vacation!"
And there you have the second chapter. Kinda slow and not that humorous. But hey! I'm not good at humor. I don't think I'm good in any specific genre, really.. Hope this chapter was understandable. Or you could just be like Riku and go with it even though you're completely lost. I tell you, good pirates don't get lost. Riku, sadly, is not a good pirate.
Sora is the captain of my ship! AND everyone else is his crew! Why? "Because I am the one with the hat!" says he.
Ahem, excuse that bit, I extend love to you all! Thanks for reading! Don't steal!
Ooh, and.....if you guys that read this wanted to maybe extend a few idears for this story to me, that'd be awesomesaucetasticaful!
See ya round!
~Akilina-chan