Hey there peoples. Just a mini side story for you all. At this point in time we're about half way through chapter 2 and that will be up shortly.

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Axel's Cooking Experience

"I'm telling you Roxas, this'll be the best food you'll ever have the pleasure of tasting!" Not too long ago, Axel convinced Roxas that he was the best chef in the Organisation. All it took was a bribe. Axel would buy sea-salt ice-creams for Roxas for a whole year if he would taste the pyro's cooking.

"And I'm telling you, this is a bad idea." Roxas was currently sitting on one of the table chairs as he watched Axel make a complete and total mess of the kitchen. He never should have agreed to this...but having Axel buying him ice-cream for a whole year? How could he say no?

"Don't worry. I know what I'm doing." The blonde watched his friend put some sort of vegetables in a frying pan; he wasn't paying attention all that much. Roxas did, however, watch the redhead when a giant fire emitted from the stove.

"AXEL!" Roxas yelled, looking franticly around the kitchen for a fire extinguisher. "I THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING!" Axel freaked, Roxas continued yelling at him for an extinguisher and why on earth there wasn't one. "Where's Demyx when you need him!"

Axel went back and forth, biting his gloved fingers, "whatdoidowhatdoidowhatdoido!?" By this stage, the cooker, counter half of the wall as already set on fire. Once again it was up to Roxas to get Axel out of his stupid mistakes.

The blonde dragged a very confused Axel out of the kitchen and closed the door to prevent it from spreading quicker. "Axel what did you do that ignited the cooker?" he asked calmly, trying to think of something.

The pyro scratched the back of his head. "Um...I used...there was vegetables...the oil stuff you put in the pan...and something else" he shrugged at the last comment.

Roxas was gobsmacked. How could someone not know what they were cooking, unless... "Axel? You weren't um... experimenting were you?"

Axel grinned and nodded, feeling like he had just accomplished something he never would. That wasn't the answer Roxas was looking for and for Axel's punishment for scaring the shit out of him, he smacked him upside the head as hard as he could. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT YOU WERE DOING!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. 'Note to self; never be in the same room as Axel when he's cooking.'

"Hey there." It was Demyx. Roxas prayed his luck.

"Hey there Dem-"

"Demyx!" interrupted Roxas, grabbing onto his friend's upper arms. "We desperately need your help."

"Well I'm happy to help, but if it's a mission then I can't help ya there." When on missions, Demyx was only ever helpful if it came to recon. Things like fighting heartless he'll never do. He even gave Roxas a prime example when they went to the Coliseum. Leaving Roxas to fight all the heartless by himself. What a lovely day that had been.

"Axel set the kitchen on fire and we need you to up it out!" said Roxas.

"Axel set-" began Demyx.

"No time to explain" interrupted Roxas. "Just get in there!" Demyx was pushed into the furnace known as the kitchen. The door was shut behind him and heard a smacking noise coming from the other side.

Having a quick glance around before setting to work, there was a thick layer of smoke above Demyx's head, the cooker was nowhere in sight, the wall on the far side had a hole in it and the counter had flames eating it away. "Work...how fun" sighed Demyx as he summoned his sitar. "Dance water dance" he muttered, strumming his instrument. Water spouted from the ground, gathering in one giant water ball. With the last note of the small tune, water engulfed the kitchen, flooding into the next room and out under the door.

In seconds the fire was gone. Now he could have a better look. As he suspected, the cooker had been burned to the ground, nothing left of it. The counter was partly saved; the stone top had smouldering black patches but the interior looked like it was going to collapse at any second. As for the hole in the wall, well lets just say Axel had a lot explaining to do.

"Kitchen's safe!" called Demyx. The first person to pop their head in was the last person Demyx wanted to see. It was the Superior, and he did not look pleased.

"What is the meaning of this!?" he demanded as he, Roxas and Axel entered the burned down room. "Who is responsible!?" Axel immediately hid behind Roxas, pushing the blonde slightly towards Xemnas. "AXEL!"

"Y-Y-Yes...? Superior?" Axel knew he was in trouble. It was only a matter of time before something like this would happen.

"I won!" Roxas, Axel, Demyx and the Superior looked towards the hole. There, peeking through it was Xigbar, Xaldin, Saix and Luxord. Out of the four of them, Luxord looked the most pleased, even though they were drowned rats.

"You...won?" asked Roxas bewildered.

"Yes" Luxord answered simply. "You see, the four of us here made a little bet a while back and now the results are in; I win." In Luxord's hands was a small black book full of bets and records.

"You made a bet on me? When was this?" Axel made his way over to the hole, followed closely by Xemnas.

"It was about a year ago. When I first joined actually. I knew sooner or later you would try and cook so we made a friendly bet." Luxord closed the book and placed it inside a silver box.

"So what did you win?"

"There's no time for that" said Xemnas, grabbing Axel by his hair. "I've decided on your punishment. One; you are banned from entering the kitchen. And Two; Roxas and Demyx can arrange something very special for you." Axel glanced over to Roxas and Demyx, seeing them whispering to one another.

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"OK...NOW!"

SPLASH!

Laughter rang through the Organisation. For Axel's punishment, Roxas and Demyx decided on dumping Axel in the middle of a freezing lake full of electric eels. First they tied the reluctant pyro to a pole, dangled it over the lake and Roxas cut the rope in one slash with the Keyblade.

"OK...I've learned my less-AH!" Axel swam around the in water, trying his best to get away from the eels, but they just kept wrapping around one of his legs, giving him one heck of a shock. "Come on RoxAH!"

Roxas was still on the pole, lying down on his stomach so he could grip the pole and not fall and share Axel's fate.

Axel learned something that day; never cook around Roxas. He'll just come up with another ridiculous punishment.

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