Roxas gulped and glanced over the railing. The courtyard he had just been exploring now seemed very, very far away. He had only been looking for a way onto the second floor so he could find the library and read some more books about Heartless and Keyblades. Instead he was clinging for his life on a small balcony near the fourth floor. How had he gotten stuck up here in the first place? "Hey-hey! Someone, help please!"
Just below him, Goofy was just passing by when he heard the boy call out. "Hey! Help!" He looked up, searching for the owner of the voice.
"Roxas?" he asked, looking around the courtyard. "Where are ya? Are you hiding again? You better not have broken something!" He looked but he couldn't find the boy.
"No, I didn't break nothing! I was exploring and now I'm stuck up here, Goofy, up here, by the roof! Can you help me down?"
Goofy finally looked up. "Oh dear. Hold on, I'll go find Donald for ya! Don't move!" He raced out of the courtyard, calling for the magician.
"No! Goofy, don't leave me!" But he was already gone. Roxas moaned and clutched at the railing even tighter. "Why do I always end up lost or in extremely high places?"
It had been four days since Riku dropped off Roxas to be watched over by the King. After being shown his room, Roxas had stared at it for an hour before running outside and following one of the servants around the castle. He didn't do much but stare at everything that first day, but the next three kept everyone in the castle on their toes.
First thing the next morning Donald and Goofy had to track Roxas down because no one could find him. That took them half an hour. Then Roxas decided to look around some of the older rooms in the castle, and got stuck in a secret passageway. King Mickey had to come rescue Roxas himself. And if that wasn't enough, he somehow found his way onto the kitchens, where he promptly helped one of the new cooks blow up a cake.
After cleaning the mess up, Mickey assigned Donald, Goofy, and Queen Minnie to watch over Roxas from now on. "A very…adventurous boy should be watched over constantly." were his exact words to the three. And so the babysitting began.
Next day: Roxas discovered two more secret passageways, locked himself up in the King's library, somehow got covered in flour, sugar, and milk, all at different times, and managed to make everyone the castle like him. How? There was just something about Roxas and his baby-like innocence that made everyone watch to see what he would do next.
Third day: nothing bad happened until lunch, when Goofy realized no one had seen Roxas since he woke up and ate breakfast. A two hour search later revealed him to be locked up in one of the nurseries playing with two year olds. Donald, Goofy, and Minnie decided to leave him there, for his enjoyment and their sanity. King Mickey couldn't stop laughing when he heard where they found Roxas.
"What an interesting boy," he murmured, writing a letter to Riku about all of the boy's adventures so far. "I wonder if it's because he is practically a baby, or because he simply has no memory of anything." In any case it was amusing to watch what the boy did. And wonder what he would do next.
Fourth day: Roxas had got up onto a fourth story balcony and was stuck there. He swore to himself that we would never explore again if he could just get down from there.
"Urg…" The wind pulled at him, threatening to push him off the railing. "How did I get stuck up here, again?" He leaned back, into the building, trying not to panic. "Stupid window. Why'd you have to lock yourself? I can't jump from here! It'll, like, kill me!"
He closed his eyes, waiting for help. Riku, he thought, you never came to visit me. Where are you? Am I ever going to see you again? Please, please, please, someone help me!
"Roxas!" He looked down, towards the voice that called out. "Close your eyes-I'm going lift you off the railing and down here. Don't fight my magic! You'll fall!"
Roxas nodded. Slowly he felt Donald's magic pulling him up, then lowering him to the ground. As soon as his feet hit the floor everyone crowed around him.
"Roxas! What were you doing up there?"
"Cool! Can you show us how to climb up there?"
"Can't stay out of trouble for one day, huh?"
"Come on, Roxas." Queen Minnie took Roxas's hand and led him away from the gaggle of people. "Let's get you cleaned up. Why, you're as pale as a sheet! That must have been terrifying."
Roxas blindly followed, trying not to throw up. Minnie led him into his room and left him there, promising to be back in a moment. He went over to the bed and collapsed. Now that he was finally safe he could think about what exactly he just did.
Let's see, I climbed up to a fourth story balcony and hung there for…how long was I up there? He squinted at the clock, trying to read it. Oh, about an hour. "An hour?" he whispered. "Geez, I gotta stop exploring. I'm gonna end up getting myself killed."
He lay there, not moving, for a long time. "Where's Queen Minnie?" He finally pushed himself up, looking around for the female mouse. "She said she'd be right back." He glanced around the room.
"Well, it can't hurt just to walk down the hallway and look for her, can it?" Slowly, Roxas opened his door. No one was in sight. Carefully closing it behind him, he walked down the corridor, looking for Donald or Goofy. He came to the throne room, and descended the stairs.
"Where's King Mickey? He's usually here in the morning." Roxas looked around, feeling like a ghost in an abandoned house. "Hello?"
Footsteps behind him. "Well, Roxas, you sure have had a lot of adventures here in just three days."
Roxas spun around, not recognizing the speaker. "W-who are you? Are you a friend of the King's? How do you know me?"
The older man smiled. His dark blue eyes glanced at the boy, taking in every detail of his appearance. "And I half expected you to be still cloaked on our old uniform. I have to admit, though-this appearance suits you a lot more."
Roxas backed up, not trusting the man in front of him. "Who are you? Answer me! How do you know who I am?" He wondered if he could run up the stairs before the man could catch him.
"Roxas." King Mickey appeared from behind the other man. "Roxas, this is a friend of mine who knew you before. He has come here to help you remember your past. There is no reason you shouldn't trust him. He will help us help you."
"Oh." Roxas looked at the other man again. "You knew me before? Who are you?" He frowned. "Do you know why I lost my memories?" His bright blue eyes clouded over, making him look suddenly much older.
The older man smiled again. "Actually, yes, I do know why you lost your memories. I am here to help bring them back. And as for my name-"
The doors behind King Mickey burst open. "Hey! King Mickey!" A boy's voice called out. "You said we can finally meet the Organization members. Where are they?"
Mickey and the other man turned. Roxas stared at the three new arrivals. One was Riku, on the far left of the group. He sent Roxas a grin. On the right was a girl with blue eyes and brown hair. She seemed to be filled with light, in Roxas's eyes. In the middle of the group was another boy, with bright blue eyes and spiky brown hair. It was he had had called out when the group had first entered.
"Sora, Kairi, Riku." King Mickey greeted them enthusiastically. "Wonderful, you are here. Just like I promised, you can meet the two Organization XIII members."
Organization XIII? Roxas had never heard of such a thing before. He opened his mouth to speak when the older man put a hand on his shoulder, silencing him.
"All three of you, I would like you to meet Organization member number XIII, Roxas, and member XI, Zexion." King Mickey turned to smile at the two. "It is they who will help us restore light to all the worlds."
Roxas turned to Zexion. "What am I supposed to do?"
A/N: Whoo, first authoress's note I remembered to put in. Yeah...I'm lazy, don't care much.
Anyway, this is the second story I have successfully uploaded onto this site. Yay. Hopefully it doesn't end up like my first...deleted.(I'm not too sure how I did that...)
So all of you reading this please review and tell me if I suck horribly or am pretty good. But it's okay if you don't. I understand. Sometimes I'm too lazy to review.
Disclaimer: Look at the URL. '' FANFICTION. If I owned this game would I be on this site? Henceforth I will not put disclaimers up. I do own the plot and will put claimers on any OCs I create. Or worlds. Or whatever. They will be mine.
P.S: I am a very forgetful person. If there is something in this story that I'm missing, tell me. I never played KH2 and I don't plan to-I will cry. I played 358/s Days, though. I still cry a little when I think about Roxas...and Xion...WAAAAAAH!! So tell me if I'm missing something majorly important. Thanks!
HIPPIE GIRL SAYS-PEACE OUT