Friendship
"Look what Roxas dragged in!" Axel commented cheerfully as Roxas and Skyxar walked towards him and Xion. They were on top of the Station Tower of Twilight Town, a favorite stop of Roxas, Axel, and Xion.
"Don't you mean 'look what the cat dragged in', Axel?" Xion asked as the two newcomers sat down with them. Axel shook his head.
"It doesn't really matter. Hey there, Skyxar. I'm Axel. Got it memorized?" Axel said to the hooded boy.
"He should have got it memorized already," Roxas joked. "His element is Memories, remember?" The three broke out in laughter. Even Skyxar managed a grin at Roxas's joke.
"Skyxar, want some sea-salt ice cream?" Xion asked, holding up a light blue ice cream bar. She was licking another one.
"Wait," Axel looked confused, "so you're not giving Roxas or me any?"
"Of course I'll give you two some," she reddened. "I just want to make him welcome."
"Sure, I'll have some," Skyxar said slowly, accepting the bar from Xion.
"The name of the ice cream is sea-salt ice cream. Got it memorized?" Axel also accepted one from Xion. The boy licked it and smiled.
"It's salty, but sweet," he answered, taking another lick.
"Xion and I said the same thing when we both tasted this ice cream for the first time," Roxas licked his own ice cream, which he finally got with some difficulty from Xion. She smiled.
"I hope we can be friends, Skyxar," she said, "all of us." Skyxar looked at her and smiled back.
"I want to be friends with you guys too."
FLASH!
I yawned and fell back onto the sand, only to see a face shielding the sun's rays.
"Whoa!" I cried, getting up. I turned and, on my knees, saw a girl's face laughing at me. "Gimme a break, Kairi!"
"Sora, you lazy bum!" she declared. "I knew I'll find you snoozing down here!" I held my hands, palms up, towards her, trying to explain.
"No! This huge, black THING swallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't… Ow!" Kairi stopped me right there by hitting me on the head.
"Are you still dreaming?" she asked me, leaning forward a bit.
"It wasn't a dream!" I claimed. "Or was it? I don't know. What was that place? So bizarre…"
"Yeah sure," she teased, walking to the shoreline of the beach.
"Say, Kairi," I turned my upper body around, "what was your hometown like? You know, where you grew up?" She looked out to the sea.
"I told you before. I don't remember."
"Nothing at all?"
"Nothing."
"You ever want to go back?" I was sitting on the beach now.
"Well, I'm happy here. Really… But you know… I wouldn't mind going to see it," she explained.
I turned and put my arm on my knee. "I'd like to see it too. Along with any other worlds out there! I want to see them all!" She turned to look at me.
"So what're we waiting for?" she said cheerfully.
"Hey," a new voice piped up. Kairi and I turned to look at the source of the new voice. "Aren't you guys forgetting about me? So, I guess I'm the only one working on the raft." Riku continued smilingly. He tossed the log he was carrying to me. Sitting down, I caught it but fell in the attempt. He walked towards Kairi. "And you're just as lazy as he is!"
"So you noticed," Kairi giggled. "Okay, we'll finish it together. I'll race you!" She pointed to Riku and me as he sat down next to me.
"Huh?" I asked, looking up at her.
"What, are you kidding?" Riku asked in a surprised voice.
"Ready?" Kairi started. "Go!" Riku and I looked at each other. Then we sprinted down the beach. Kairi ran slower after us, laughing all the way.
FLASH!
"Ugh!" I held my head. I had finished my ice cream.
"Are you alright?" Xion asked, worried. Axel and Roxas also looked concerned. I smiled reassuringly at my new friends.
"I'm all right," I told them. "It's just these headaches I'm getting now and then."
"Sure?" Roxas asked, finishing his ice cream.
"Sure!" I said, also finishing my ice cream. Xion and Axel finished theirs too.
"Weeell," Axel laid stress on the word. "We meet back here every time we finish our missions. How does that sound, Skyxar. I smiled
"Agreed."
…
"Hey, Skyxar. How are you-," Axel stared at the spiky haired boy in front of him. Some of his black hair was striped in white. Skyxar looked almost like Roxas, only almost because of his hair color. The boy smiled.
"Surprised, Axel?" he teased at the open-mouth redhead. Everybody else was staring at the boy too. Marluxia was only surprised because his apprentice decided to take of his hood.
"You look almost like Roxas!" Demyx exclaimed. "Of course we would be surprised!" Skyxar looked over to the sitar player sitting in one of the couches in the Grey Room.
"Well, now you can say," he said, looking at everyone in the room, "that Sora has two Nobodies."