Disclaimer: ...what? No I still do not own Kingdom Hearts! I mean how am I suppose to get that thing from up there down here?! -cough- Oh that other thing, no it still doesn't belong to me.
Side Note: I am in Hawai'i for Spring Break! Yay! That is all.
Chapter 6
A Mission, A Fight, and an Axel. Oh no!
It was then that Roxas looked over at the clock in the Library which hung over the huge doors that served as the entrence/exit to it. "I'd better get going," Roxas said to Namine who looked a little disappointed.
"Yeah, I guess so." Namine said," You still have that meeting with the King right? I'm sure Sora's also looking for you with Kairi."
Roxas nodded. "Probably. Although I'm sure that we'll just all meet up where the meeting's supposed to be."
Namine smiled. "Yeah, you'd better hurry then! Sorry to have kept you so long."
"Its fine." Roxas smiled now. "I should really leave now. See you around Namine!" Roxas waved and then took off out the door and down the hall. It was as he was running he finally figured out that he'd skipped breakfast and he sighed, but luckily it was close to lunch so he knew he would be eating soon.
As Roxas came to the door he knocked politely and a voice came from the other side. "Come in!" Roxas opened the door and stepped inside politely shutting the door behind him. Looking up he saw Kairi, Sora and King Mickey, but there was someone else. Leaning against the bookcase was someone in a Commander's cloak, it was one! Pulling out his Oathkeeper keyblade her attacked, but he was blocked by Sora. "Sora! What are you doing?" Roxas said stepping back a bit with a glare at the hooded person.
"He's not our enemy! He's our ally Roxas, he's in disguise!" Sora said and Roxas arched an eyebrow at Sora and then turned to the King. "Why couldn't you have given me warning before?"
King Mickey sighed before answering. "It needed to be kept on a low key matter." he quickly changed the subject after that. "So now that you're all here I'd like you to meet a very good friend of mine. Riku." he motioned to the hooded man who was named Riku.
Riku took his hood off so that Roxas could see his face. He smiled and looked at first Roxas then Sora then Kairi with his aquamarine colored eyes. Running a hand through his silver hair he said," Yeah I'm Riku. Just to get some questions out of the way, I'm not from either Kingdom and I'm your comrade for this mission."
Roxas just narrowed his eyes a bit, but said nothing. Sora smiled and said to Kairi," He's really nice! Trust me." Kairi nodded, she obviously agreed with him. In the end Roxas just shrugged when Sora's gaze turned to him.
"Now for the breifing part." Mickey interrupted a bit with a cough. "Your mission is to somehow infilrate the Oblivion Kingdom's castle and feed us information through an agent we have already stationed in the territory. Her name is Yuffie and she'll meet you here at your rendevouz point. Okay?" Mickey pointed on a map to a certain spot and all four nodded as to say they understood where to meet. "You'll meet with her once a week whenever possible. If it isn't then we'll either assume something's gone wrong or you haven't managed to slip away yet and go off on our back-up plan. The plan is that if you've been discovered we'll sneak Yuffie in with her attack squad and break you out or we'll give you another week. Now here is where you'll enter the territory..." Mickey then went on about the minor details and such of the mission always checking to make sure all four understood. It was a very delicate situation for them to be in after all, if something were to go wrong... Mickey shook away his thoughts on the subject.
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After the meeting the King sent them to get ready and get some lunch. They could do whatever they wanted after doing that so Sora decided to take the time to go into the village after lunch. Roxas was still eating when he left and shook his head at the request of asking to come with him. In the end it was Kairi who came with him and Sora was o-kay with that.
"So where did you have in mind that you wanted to see in the village?" Kairi asked looking up at him.
Sora shrugged. "Nowhere in particular, just...around."
Kairi smiled and nodded. "That sounds like a good plan then. How about we walk near the shops a bit? We haven't been there since, well since like ever!" She was exaggerating, but she didn't care. It was nice to be walking with Sora and stuff.
"Sure. Where's the harm in things? And it is true we haven't been there in awhile anyway." Sora said putting his hands behind his head as they walked. After that they just talked about little things like how things were going for Kairi at home and about things that they liked, like their favorite ice cream flavor.
"So what's your favorite kind of ice cream Sora?" Kairi asked and stopped at the ice cream place which was to the right of them.
"Hmm. I like Vanilla quite a bit." he said with a smile. "Now what's yours?"
"Me? I like Strawberry." Kairi answered then walked over to the ice cream guy who got out the ice cream for them as they ordered it.
"We should get Roxas some ice cream too. He loves that stuff!" Sora said," Otherwise he'll be in a sour mood the rest of the day!" Kairi laughed at that as Sora ordered some Sea-salt ice cream for this brother.
Seeing the sun going down Sora and Kairi walked back to the castle quickly so the ice cream wouldn't melt. As they entered the hallway where Roxas and Sora's rooms were they spotted the blonde making his way down the hallway. "Roxas!" Sora called catching his brother's attention.
"Yeah?" Roxas asked walking over and then saw an ice cream being handed to him he smiled as he took it. "Thanks you guys."
"No problem. Right Kairi?" Sora smiled at her. She smiled back and then said," Well its getting late. I'd better get home soon! My mom'll worry about where I've been." she waved to both boys and then took off down the hallway. It was then she spotted Riku leaning against one of the pillars in the castle.
-x-X-x-
"See ya Kairi!" Sora shouted as she left at a quick pace.
"Yeah, bye!" Roxas called after Sora to the red wine-haired girl. "Sooooo, how was your walk with her?" Roxas decided to take this to his advantage for the wise-crack Sora had pulled about Axel being his 'admirer'.
"Pretty good. We had ice cream and brought you some." Sora said still unaware what was going to happen.
Roxas took a bite of his ice cream then asked with a smirk," Do you like Kairi?"
Sora turned red and stammered out," Wh-What?! Where did this come from?!"
"So you do like her." Roxas said nodding while eating his ice cream.
"I do not!" Sora shouted at him," We're just friends!"
"Uh Sora? It was just a joke, and you're making a scene." Roxas pointed out as a few people peeked out of their doors to look down the hallway.
Sora glared at Roxas then sighed. "Whatever, just don't do that!" he growled.
"Yeah sure, Sora, but its true what they say. Revenge is sweet and people can read you like an open book!" Roxas said before going into his room before Sora could explode on him. Not that Sora did it often, rarely unless you got him pretty mad.
"W-What? Revenge for...Roxas!" Sora said angrily being careful to keep his voice down. When he saw that his brother had gone up snuck into his room he pouted and opened the door to his own room. Stepping inside he shut it without a care and flopped down on the bed falling asleep quickly.
-x-X-x-
Roxas on the other hand was snickering to himself as he admired his handy work. He pulled a book from the bookshelf in his room and opened it removing the red tassle attached to the end as a bookmark. Sitting on the bed he began to read flipping the pages with his finger.
After awhile or so he absently looked out the window which was open and saw two black cloaked people in the garden. From what Roxas could tell one was Riku, while the other...wait a minute who the hell is that?! Roxas hurried to the door swinging it open and leaving it like that as he took off down the hallway.
-x-X-x-
It was true, Riku was in the garden with someone else and it wasn't a friend. "What do you want here?" Riku said summoning his keyblade, Way to Dawn, to his hand and pointed it threateningly at the hidden person.
"No reason, just out of a stroll in enemy grounds." the hooded person replied casually.
"Don't toy with me. What's the real reason?" Riku growled," This is the last time I'm asking nicely!"
"Oh? Is that so?" a little snicker sounded.
"What's so funny?" Riku said a bit confused by this person.
"What is? Why you of course! You want your reason? Give me a good time to remember and I might give you one." answered the hooded man summoning a pair of chakrams. "First things first. The name's Axel. A-X-E-L. Got it memorized?"
"Uh sure. I'm Riku, don't go forgetting that now!" Riku said jumping at Axel and slashing at him with Way to Dawn.
Axel smiled and flicked off his hood with a motion of his head before blocking Riku's attacks with his chakrams before jumping back and spinning them so that they lit fire right away throwing them at Riku who was pushed back a few feet by blocking them. They flew back to Axel who caught them with a smile and then both he and Riku dashed forwards slicing at each other with their weapons which were blocked by each other.
As they broke apart Axel took the chance to quickly race behind Riku as he dashed forwards while throwing his fire entinged chakrams at him.
Riku was unprepared for the attack and was pushed forwards while getting almost burned if it wasn't for his quick turn to the front and pulling his keyblade to help fend off the chakrams. Gritting his back teeth he managed to fling them away in which Axel caught them again with a smirk. Catching his breath for a moment Riku looked out of the corner of his eye to catch someone coming towards them calling his name. It was Roxas.
-x-X-x-
Roxas had dashed from his room, down the hallway and down the stairs to the garden. Stopping for only about a few seconds to catch his breath he finally made it to the garden. "Riku!" Roxas yelled summoning both Oblivion and Oathkeeper. Getting to Riku's side he asked," Are you okay?"
"Yeah, we'll take him on together." Riku said bringing up Way to Dawn in the attack position as Roxas did the same for his keyblades glaring at Axel. It was time for revenge.
"Well, well, well. Seems like I've got my work cut out for me don't I?" Axel said with a smirk. "And Roxy. I told you I'd see you around and here you are. Lets give ourselves a fight to remember hmm?" That said Axel attacked both of them in which Riku dodged one way and Roxas the other. As Roxas moved in to an attack swinging his keyblades in an X slash motion Riku ran around the other way getting ready to attack Axel if he blocked the attack from Roxas. Axel did block Roxas's attack with one chakram and Riku's with the other as he came in for a counter strike. Too bad the chakram that had been fending off Roxas's attack only held Oathkeeper in place. Roxas lashed out with Oblivion a few times cutting Axel so he had to break apart with his chakrams. Panting for a few seconds Axel got up with a smile then made a portal that looked like the one Roxas had seen before. "That was fun. I'll be sure to come back soon if it gets like this. Too bad I won't be able to complete my mission today though." he sighed and shrugged before walking into the dark portal.
"You wait a minute!" Roxas shouted and dashed inside the portal after Axel just as it closed.
"Roxas!" Riku shouted, but he was now alone in the garden.
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Author's Note
Kiesha: Yay for me. I'm in Hawai'i! Hey that made a rhyme! Cool. So I finally got the time to get this chapter done. Sorry for leaving you all at a cliffhanger! ; And again, press the cute little button at the bottom of the page to review please? Pleeeeease?
