Fire and Ice
Chapter three
Namine gave me the picture and I thanked her for it, assuring her that I would tack it to my wall when I got in my room. I sprinted up the spiraling staircase the rest of the way. Feeling better, and yet more confused, than ever.
I ran into my room and placed the picture on my dresser, looking about for something to hang it with. I pulled an ice spike out of the air and thought about tacking it up on the wall with that. I realized that it would melt, destroying the picture. So I dismissed the spike and placed the picture safely in an empty drawer.
I re-examined my self in the mirror. My face was flushed and slightly pink from the run up the stairs. My hair was out of place from my tussle with Axel. This angered me, so I decided to remedyit by taking out a hairbrush and re-doing my hair.
Finally, I unzipped my coat and slid my left arm out of the sleeve. It had been bothering me slightly since Axel had picked me up by it. Of course, he used both arms, but he grabbed this one harder. I looked at the place and saw that it was beginning to bruise faintly. Oh well.
I checked the right arm as well, but it didn't look like it was going to pose a problem. I pulled the sleeves back up and zipped the coat. I drew the hood up and looked at my self in the mirror. It was cool and mysterious. Neat.
I practiced my poses, should I ever meet anyone I wanted to impress. One was both hands at my sides, sort of an 'at-ease' pose. The other one was a 'thoughtful' looking one- One hand near my chin, the other arm stretched across my body to my opposite hip. Then a fighting pose, my arms stretched out like a bird's wings, my feet were at least a shoulder width apart.
I then took the opportunity to practice summoning my kodachi. It took a moment, and I decided that 'a moment' would do me no good in a surprise attack. I finally got them to show up and I quickly practiced looking cool in my mirror. I held the blades in an X-shape and I flailed them around and spun with them. The fun was endless…until a knock on my door interrupted my pleasurable moment.
I put both kodachi in one hand and walked to the door. First, I let down my hood and then I pulled the door open. It was Demyx. I opened the door up a little further and let him in. I closed the door back and walked over to where he stood now.
"Are you alright?" he asked, looking at me.
"Of course, why?"
"You seemed angry when you left. You stomped out yelling about how we were all stupid."
"Oh…that," I said, "I didn't mean you."
"It's okay if you did," He said, "Most people don't like me anyways. Mostly just Axel…and Roxas… I mean, he used to."
"I'm sorry," I said almost randomly.
"For what?"
"Calling you all stupid. I guess it wasn't very nice. So I'm sorry," I said, looking away from him.
"You don't like it, do you?"
I turned rapidlyand faced him, "What?"
"Apologizing. You must not like it, you aren't very good at it." he said, chuckling. I did not find it funny.
We stood silently for a moment. Demyx finally asked me, "You got weapons?"
"What? Oh these?" I brandished my kodachi, "Yeah, I did. Neat, huh?"
"Yup," He said.
"Demyx? Can you… fight me?" I asked.
"Why?"
"Because I want to see how good I am." I stated.
"Well, I'm not any good…" he said sadly, scuffing a toe against my carpet.
"Well, neither am I, so it's even." I smiled.
"Okay… let me think… um… where can we go…" he scratched his chin. Soon, he snapped his fingers and said, "Ah ha! I know exactly where to go!"
He reached out at a wall and I studied what he was doing very carefully. He reached out and focused on the wall. He flexed his gloved and it went, shoop, Darkness Door A La Mode.
He held it open with his foot and swept his hand through, allowing me to go first.
We stepped into a bleak, blue and black looking cave. I was thoroughly freaked out by the ever-present fog swirling around my feet and the rocks that looked like they were going to fall on my head and kill me.
Demyx stepped through and the Door dissolved quickly behind him. He smiled at the place fondly.
"What is this place?" I asked.
"The underworld," he said. Seeing my eyebrows raise doubtfully, he said, "No really, it's in another world. It's called the Underworld."
"How do you know about it?" I asked.
"I came here the other day, to…borrow something," he said.
"What did you borrow?" I asked nosily.
"This," he said, holding up a small yellow stone with a cloud and a lightning bolt on it. He tossed it to me and said, "You hold it for me."
I put it in my pocket without thinking. Then I said, "Okay, let's do it."
"okay…" he said uncertainly, cracking his knuckles. A white light flooded the room and when it dimmed, he was holding a blue sitar.
"Nice," I said, getting in what I guessed was a ready position.
"Dance, water, Dance!" he yelled, strumming out a quick melody on his sitar. Soon, little water people rose from the floor.
"Doppelgangers?" I said.
"Oh yeah!" he yelled over his own music.
The doppelgangers swarmed at me and I furiously hacked at them with my kodachi. Then, I had an idea. The next doppelganger that came at me, I reached inside him and froze him, quickly removing my hand. I hit him with my Kodachi, one from each angle, and it exploded. Soon, the first layer was gone but more kept coming. I decided to focus on Demyx, not the doppelgangers. I sliced cleanly through one of them and ran for Demyx.
He held up his sitar to block my attack, but it phased right through me, even though I dealt damage to him. He dropped to his knees weakly.
"Demyx!" I yelled, rushing to him, "What was that?"
"The Underworld's curse," he said, "It drains everyone here."
"Then why didn't it drain me?" I asked, helping him up. He simply patted my leg where my pocket was, where the rock was.
"The stone wards off the curse." He said.
I heard echoing footsteps and a young boy's voice say, "Over here guys!"
"Gawrsh, Sora. This place sure is creepy…" said a weird voice. There was another weird sounding, squeaky voice that I couldn't under stand very well. It sounded like, "I don't like it either…" or something like that.
Demyx gasped and held out his hand to me. He said, "The rock!"
I reached in my pocket and dug around for it, but the pocket was so big and the stone… it kept slipping…and the footsteps…they were coming closer…
"Hurry!" encouraged Demyx, shaking his hand urgently. I looked at him while trying to catch the stone that seemed to be evading my touch.
Demyx pulled up his hood to his coat and then he reached over and pulled up mine for me as well.
The boy's voice came again, louder this time, "Hey, do you hear that?" It was right outside our little cave!
I finally grabbed the stupid rock and yanked it from my pocket. I handed it to Demyx quickly and he put it in his own pocket.
"Hey!"
I turned around quickly and saw a boy in the entrance to the cave. He wore long, black shorts with yellow belts crossing all over them. He wore a black shirt and a little jacket over it. He held a… was that a giant Key?
Following close behind him was a humanoid figure that looked somewhat like a dog with orange pants and a green shirt covered by a black vest. He pointed at us and said, "Ahyuk, It's them Organization guys!"
"Yeah!" Yelled the boy, pointing his key at us, "That's them!"
"Roxas?" yelled Demyx, sounding almost hopeful.
"Excuse me?" cried the boy, raising an eyebrow.
"Roxas?" said Demyx again, pulling off his hood.
"What are you talking about?" asked the boy.
"Aw, it's no use." Said Demyx sadly. He pulled out a paper and looked at it while removing his hood.
"…If the subject fails to respond… use aggression to liberate his true disposition…" Demyx read from the slip of paper. He shoved it back into his pocket and said, "Great. Boy did they pick the wrong two for this one."
"Two?" I hissed at him, "I wasn't even in on this!"
"Well, you are now Kaxer. Just act tough." He said.
"You two are bizarre…" said the boy.
"Ah…" Demyx pulled out the golden rock and showed it to the boy, who gasped.
"They've gotta be the thieves!" yelled the dog.
"Well, that's just plain rude!" said Demyx, holding the stone over the two of us. A light flashed and swirled around us. Demyx pulled out his sitar and I summoned up my kodachi.
"Dance water dance!" yelled Demyx, Pulling out a tune from the instrument. At least a hundred of his doppelgangers rose from the ground and danced around the boy and his friends.
"Let's get frosty!" I yelled, holding up my arms and summoning a cold fog that encircled the boy. I was hoping to mess up his vision.
"Listen, Kaxer, you have to go back to the castle! If you got hurt, I'd get in trouble! You aren't even supposed to be here!" He yelled.
"I won't leave!" I yelled, trying to keep up the fog.
"You have to!" he yelled again, taking a hand from his sitar and opening a darkness door behind me. He shoved me through roughly and yelled, "Sorry!"
I fell out of the darkness door in a white room. My first instinct was to jump up and run back through the Darkness Door. But it dissolved before I could get to it.
"Demyx!" I yelled, pounding my hands on the wall, "Demyx!"
"Would you shut up! I wastaking a nap!" came and angry voice and I gasped and pressed back against the wall, thankful thatI was still wearing my hood.
I realized I was not in my room, but someone else's!
I glanced around and saw that the room had the same floor plan as mine and I looked at the bed. There was a large lump and it stirred and sat up and said, "Kaxer?"
I saw who it was… and I think I fainted.
A/N: Arg, Author notes.Anywho, Last chapter, I used the phrase, "Enchante." in Kaxer's meeting with Namine. Its french and I'm pretty sure it means, "Charmed." as in, "It's a pleasure to meet you." In this chapter, I used, "A La Mode" somwhere... I think it's somewhat french and I have no idea what it means. But it sounded cute.
Also, on another note, I haven't done a disclaimer with the story. So, here it is. I do not own, nor doI claim rights to, Kingdom Hearts or any of it's characters or games.
On a third note, I know the story isn't turning out so great. Axel seems horribly out of character. I'm afraid Kaxer is fallingthe descentinto Mary-Sue land. Oh well. Perhaps it'll make a turn around.
-Kurai