Dear god what is wrong with me?! Why is it I get all my inspiration during the ungodly hours of the night?! What is it now....1:40am. Eeesh.
Anyhoo, this chapter is a little shorter but, TaDaa!
DISCLAIMER: I own none of these people!
//thinking or mind to mind talking//
"Talking"
Homeroom was pretty uneventful. The only interesting thing about is that the twins learned that Axel was I their homeroom.(I have no idea how other schools work, but I my school homeroom is a mixture of grades.) It was a nice addition to Roxas, Sora, Olette, and, unfortunately, Seifer. When the twenty minute homeroom class of doing jack squat(most students used it to finish their homework last minute) Sora and Roxas met Demyx in the hallway and walked together what the two hyperactive teens insisted what would be the death of them. Which was also uneventful. There was a substitute for Ms. Belle, that resulted in a few pieces of chalk to the head when Roxas dozed in class, hey you'd be tired too after how early he woke up.
Roxas rubbed his forehead grudgingly where the chalk had hit with Sora and Demyx snickering behind him. The blond sighed when they parted with the older teen. Maybe science would be a little less boring. Turns out it was.
Five minutes after the bell rang, Dr. Stein walked in, thumping a book on the sleeping Roxas' head to wake him (Roxas was sitting right by the door).
"Class, today we will be starting our research reports of scientists from I don't care what time period as long as they did something important." Dr. Stein was really quite blunt, and incredibly creepy. He had stitches all over his body and loved to dissect things. Roxas was sure that if it wasn't for the school board, that's all they would ever do in the class, dissect things.
"We'll be going to the library to do research and pick out a scientist. Mind you all, there will be a Classical Literature class in there this hour. I personally don't care if you talk with them, but if Mrs. Joyce complains to me about it I'll knock five percentage points off your grades." Shiver. Dr. Stein was also extremely brutal.
In the library all the science students were scattered throughout the shelves. Sora was sticking to Roxas, pestering the blond for ideas.
"What are you doing, Rox?"
Roxas was flipping through a book as he replied. "I'm thinking Newton."
Sora scrunched his face. "Why Newton? Everyone knows what he did. It's an assignment Fifth Graders get."(no offence to anyone out there.)
Roxas snapped the book shut and glared at his twin. "You got any better suggestions?"
"Anyone but Newton."
Roxas returned his book to the shelf in exchange for another. "What have you got against gravity?"
"I can't fly."
Roxas looked up from the book to give his brother an exasperated look. "Fly?"
"Yeah! You know. Like birds!"
"I know what you mean. But you think without gravity we'd be able to fly?"
"Of course!" Sora beamed, which in turn made his blond twin sigh.
"You haven't been doing your science homework have you?"
"I have too!" Sora pouted. Then he pouted and began to twiddle his thumbs. "I just don't understand any of it."
Roxas snapped his book shut, but this time he used it to thump his brother on the head.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"Haven't I told you to come to me if you need help with homework?"
"Yeah."
"And why haven't you?"
"Well…."
"Well?"
"….You've been so happy hanging out with the gang lately, that I didn't want to take that away from you,"
Roxas blinked in surprised, and then sighed with a smile. "You really are troublesome." He said ruffling his brother's hair.
"Hey!"
"Do you think I'll be happy if my brother is held back a grade?"
Sora opened his mouth, then closed it when he couldn't think of what to say.
"Exactly. Next time you're confused you had better come to me for help."
Sora silently nodded, and it was a pretty nice moment, until the moment ruiner from last night popped up.
"Awwww…If that just isn't the cutest little thing then I don't know what is."
Roxas jolted forward nearly running into the bookcase. Axel's voice had been way to close for comfort for the blond.
Axel raised an eyebrow with an amused expression on his face. "Jumpy much?"
Roxas glared venomously at the older male, then stormed away from his twin and the red head until they were well out of his sight.
//I really despise that man.// Roxas fumed angrily.
//So I've noticed.// Some one answered coolly.
//Z, It's not polite to ease drop.//
//Isn't that what you do?//
//It isn't ease dropping if I can't help it.//
//Right. Here comes your brother and Axel.//
//What are they doing?//
//Talking about your mood.//
//I should have known.//
//Well what else would they talk about after you just glared hatefully at him. What did he say in such a short time to rile you up so much?//
//Don't ask.//
//Don't want me to continue airdropping for you?//
//You can eardrop, just tell me if Sora lets slip something he really doesn't need to know.//
//Fine. I wonder when I started taking orders from you.//
//You don't have to, but if I really had to answer, I'd say you were doing it out of pity.//
//You make me sound like I'm evil or your pitiful.//
//Whatever floats your boat.// Roxas sighed as he felt the connection break. The librarian wasn't cursed with empathy like Roxas did, Zexion was able to read memories at will.
Roxas glanced at the bookshelves around him. They were on fireworks and festivals, which made the blond irritably. He did not want to wander around and risk running into the Axel, and Sora would only make him somehow feel guilty for glaring hatefully at the red head.
Festivals didn't seem likely to have anything about scientists in so fireworks it was.
The book was actually pretty interesting, with pictures of all the interesting designs they could make. A book entitled Explosion of Beauty and Destruction finally had what he was looking for, a name. Ascanio Sobrero, the scientist that discovered Nitroglycerin.
Much more interesting than gravity with Newton.
Careful not to lose his page, Roxas searched his pockets for something to keep track of the name, Roxas would never be able to remember how to spell it long enough to write the name down, and he still didn't feel like going to find his brother. All the blond managed to produce was a pen he borrowed from Olette during homeroom, still, better than nothing. Roxas rolled up his left sleeve while still holding the book and pulled the cap off the pen with his teeth. The blond quickly jotted down the scientists name just when he heard Dr. Stein call out that it was time to head back to the classroom.
Roxas closed the book and replaced it back onto the shelf. He jogged down to the end of the case and silently cursed at not being with Sora right then. Roxas had a horrible sense of direction. As Sora and Cloud liked to put it, the younger blond couldn't find his way through a video game with a map. If only the school's library wasn't so large.
The poor lost blond jogged past some more bookcases until the widows came in view, which he promptly jogged towards. Once he reached them he finally located the entrance of the library to his right. Finally.
//Lost much, Roxas?//
Roxas growled under his breath. //Shut up, Z.//
Roxas made his way to the front when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye, out in the school courtyard. The library was on the second floor, giving the blond an excellent view of the deserted school grounds and front gate. Nothing inside of school peaked his interest, it was the small group of people outside the gate. Seifer, Fuu and Rai were loitering by the gate, talking about who knows what, once again, it appeared as if the group skipped.
//Boneheads.// Roxas continued walking, ignoring Zexion when he asked who. But then a thought struck him. //Why would they hang around school if they were skipping?//
Roxas glanced out the window once more, and regretted it when he made eye contact with the scar-faced blond outside. Once Seifer saw Roxas was looking an absolutely villainous grin broke out on his face. And then he began…
"Oh, Hell no." Roxas breathed. Seifer began glowing a faint red and appeared to be chanting while drawing symbols the same red color as the glow with a bet up foot long stick, a wand, and those symbols definitely weren't Glamour.
When the hell did Seifer learn Sorcery?!
Roxas turned away from the window and sprinted to the front of the library, ignoring his still aching joints and reopening scabs from yesterday's tumble.
//Zexion!!!// The blond practically screamed in his mind. //Seifer-// He cut of by the window right next him shattering with such force that all the windows in the library shattered, and some thing tackling him into a bookcase. The bookcase, unable to handle the extreme force that had suddenly bore down upon it, toppled over into another bookcase, starting a domino effect for the row.
Roxas groaned and waited for his vision to clear, but that was also thwarted as whatever tackled him lifted him by the scruff of his shirt and threw him at the fallen bookcases. The blond was losing consciousness rapidly. His body couldn't take much more of this. There was shouting in the distance and the sound of doors banging open. He once more tried to open his eyes, and was once more abruptly stopped, this by a fist to the stomach. That was the last straw. He was out cold
Damn this wasn't his week.
The first thing Roxas was sure of when he woke up was that his entire body hurt like hell. The second thing he was sure of was the emotions hanging in the air. It was heavy with worry, and anger. The blond sat trying to recollect his thoughts.
Library, gravity, jackass, fireworks, Sobrero, Seifer, oh….Seifer. Now he remembered, that jerkwad attacked him! At school!
Roxas snapped his eyes open, then immediately shut tem in recoil. The room was too bright.
"Ah!" Roxas slid his eyes open slowly, letting them adjust to the light. His twin was blocking the light this time, face hovering above Roxas'. Sora broke out in a smile. "He's awake!" There was some movement behind the blue-eyed brunette, and Roxas let his gaze glide over the cause of the movement.
Axel, Demyx, and Riku were in there group to the blond's right, and Hayner, Pence, and Olette were to his left….along with Namine, Cloud, and Leon? When did they get to school? And now that he thought of it, when did the library get so white? And…was he in a bed?
It seemed to hit Roxas like a ram driving him away from its territory. "Somebody tell me I'm not in the hospital." The poor boy moaned, rubbing his eyes with his hand.
He heard his eldest brother chuckle and peaked out from under his hand. "You're not in the hospital." Cloud said. "We're at the infirmary at the Olympus hall. Aerith brought you here."
"Why?" The Olympus hall was the building all the magic world meetings were held at.
"You guys fill him in." Cloud said. He turned to leave with Leon right behind him. "We need to inform the rest of the council that Roxas is up."
The minute the door closed, Sora Hayner, Axel, Demyx, and Pence all began talking at once. Roxas couldn't tell who aid what, not what who was saying anyway.
"Shut up!" Roxas cried, clamping his hands over his hands over his ears. Too many voices, too many thoughts trying be conveyed, too many emotions, all rushing into the poor empath's head at once.
Once the room had quieted he ignored the confused stares of the new students in the back of the room and pointed to his brother in the chair beside him. "You, just you, tell me what happened."
"Well." Sora scratched his cheek as he thought carefully how to explain. "Well I guess the best place to start was when we went over to Zexion. I was waiting for you there with Axel when he started talking aloud, he said you saw some 'boneheads' outside. He went back to mumbling to himself. A few seconds later he suddenly jerked like someone had slapped him, and then the glass broke and the bookcases fell over. All the other students started shouting and evacuated from the library. We all," Sora gestured to the others, "And Zexion went running to the knocked over bookcases. When we got there Vivi, the demon Seifer summoned, just punched you out cold. He grabbed you and jumped out the window, didn't give any of us time to use our own magic. We followed him to the window, but he didn't even land before some fairies Aerith summoned dispelled him; then she rounded on Seifer and destroyed his rune gate, guy didn't even stand a chance. Anyway, Zack, who we're lucky was visiting, caught you and carried you here for Aerith. When the police showed up, Sergeant Pete and Setzer covered us leaving as taking us in for questioning and treatment. The entire thing's going to be covered in the papers and the news." Roxas pled a little an d Sora waved his hands rapidly. "No one was mentioned! They just said that it was a bomb made by a group of students gang that was remote controlled and exploded in the library knocking another poor student(you) out of a window and was luckily caught by a campus visitor taking a walk with a staff member. No names included, whatsoever!"
Riku raised an eyebrow. "Why are you worried about press coverage?"
Sora frowned and fiddled with his hands. Namine shuffled her feet. And Roxas engaged the edge of his blanket in a staring contest.
Axel growled in frustration. "What is with you people and all this god damned secrets?! I don't care how long we've been and how long we're going to be staying with you people, but I don't want to live in a house with people whispering their dirty little secrets behind our back!"
Hayner, Pence, and Olette shuffled, feeling awkward. "We'll just, go, and leave you talk this out." The herded themselves out, leaving the LeonHearts and their house guests in their awkward silence once more.
"Well." Riku stated. "Are you going to explain things?"
Namine opened her mouth to answer, but Roxas beat her to it. "No."
"Why not?" Axel fumed. "We have every right to know!"
Axel's anger stabbed ruthlessly into the empath's mind, and that did it. "How the freak do ya' figger that?!"
"Roxas clam down."
"I will not! We have three strangers staying in our house for five days and it hasn't even been half that when they decide to start prying into our private and past lives! How in the hell do you figure that because you aren't even staying a week at our house makes you entitled to know every secret? It wouldn't matter to me if you were staying a month! I'm not telling you anything! If you have a problem with me not telling my life's story to someone I've been around for less than twenty-four hours put together than you can just go stay in a hotel for all I care."
During Roxas' outburst all of Axel's rage had developed into guilt, it was obvious he hadn't looked at it that way and was now extremely guilty for yelling at the younger boy. Riku and Demyx had the same air of guilt around them, even though Demyx didn't even need to have it since he didn't press like the other two did.
Roxas flipped himself over, despite his screaming muscles and buried his face in the pillow.
Axel scratched the back of his neck. "Roxas, I-"
"I don't want to hear it!" The blond cried. "I…don't want to hear it. Not now….Later."
Axel struggled to find something to say, when nothing came to mind he sighed with defeat. "Later then." The red head left the room silently with Riku and Demyx right behind him.
When the door closed Sora sighed and began rubbing his brother's back to comfort him, didn't work at first though.
"Owwwwwwwwwww…"
"Ah, sorry."
Namine moved to the other chair next to Sora and sat down. "Did you have to be so mean Roxas? You were scaring me."
Roxas turned to look at his siblings. "Sorry Nam, I guess I just snapped under the pressure. But when he was angry about us keeping secrets it hurt. That guy can sure give off a lot of malice."
*Knock Knock*
Cloud poked his head in the room. "Hope I'm not interrupting but is there a specific reason everyone seems to be out moping in the hall, I just had to check to see that no one in here died while I was out."
Roxas just buried his head back in the pillow while Cloud moved fully into the room and shut the door behind him.
Sora gave a small smile to his older brother. "I'll explain later. For now, what's the good word?"
"Well, since just about everyone at school knows that Roxas was sent flying out a window, he's not allowed to be healed magically. Next Seifer's ass is in deep shit, pardon my French, in both the magic system and the legal system, he'll be lucky if he doesn't get expelled from the school. And finally, after another check up from the nurse we can all go home. Oh, and Roxas is excused from school and lessons for the next two or three days."
"I should say so." Namine said.
"Right. Anyways, tomorrow Setzer will be coming by the house to question you all about what happened for Seifer's trial, if he gets one."
"If?"
"It depends on if the school presses charges. So that's the basics, Roxas." No response. "Roxas?"
Namine put a finger to her lips. "He fell back asleep."
Cloud sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "First the car and now this. I swear. The council says that if something else happens before the week is over then they'll consider it to be sabotage, or worse."
Sora swallowed the fear that began to well inside of him. "I hope it's choice A, or just a bunch of extremely bizarre coincidences."
"Don't we all."
I hate myself for making Roxas so mean in this chapter, but I blame Mansex! And all the screeching Monty Python videos I was watching earlier.