And now for chapter 6. Last Saturday I stayed up all night watching Neon Genesis Evangelion all the way through with some of my friends…it was madness. To answer Illyric's question, I really have no idea if the structure will be like that. So this chapter took so long, I had writers block…and homework as well -_-'.
Chapter 6- Boot to the Head
Much like train rides having a boot thrown in your face is a marvelous thing, especially when the boot was thrown to wake you up. That is exactly how I woke up on the second day of my hell. Just like on day one I awoke spouting gibberish, I was told it sounded something like this:
"holyshitissorastuckupthepalmtreegetzexionnowaxelheistheninja…I hate you all."
Most of breakfast was spent laughing at my awesomeness. At least breakfast was waffles, not that I got to enjoy them or anything. Namine and Kairi's cabin came over to eat with us too. It was Selphie turn to clean the bathroom so she wasn't at breakfast. Their persistent giggling nearly drove all of us into hysterics, and not the good kind. A girl named Larxene shoved Sora's face into his waffles, in turn making me lose my own, because Sora's were ruined and he was eyeing mine for the next five minutes. Thus breakfast was over, and the epic game of tag began, again.
Now being lunch time I am sitting between the most beautiful person in the world and the one who seems to be the most attached to me. However, the greenish tinted food in front of me didn't seem very appetizing, so I settled for drinking the orange juice that came with lunch.
"If you don't eat your not gonna grow." Axel said in a very know-it-all voice. I gave him a death glare. You didn't just bring up my height, did you?!
"For your information my parents are under five four, so I really have no hope of growing anymore then I already have."
"Never say never!" Demyx said cheerily, his mouth had ketchup all around it.
"Well Demyx, I didn't say 'never' in that statement, so what you're saying makes no sense in the context…" He looked slightly disappointed and confused. Zexion gave me a scowl.
"Roxas stop teasing Demyx." Axel said rather jokingly, as if he didn't care either way.
"Yeah well, maybe if I didn't get a boot thrown in my face this morning maybe I wouldn't be like this." I gave him a sideways glare.
"Don't blame me," Axel said innocently holding his hands up in mock surrender, "It was Zexion's idea."
"Z-zexion's," I sputtered, I looked across the table to my right, and Zexion was sitting there sipping his tea like nothing was being said about him, "You told them to drop a boot in my face?!"
"You weren't getting up, we couldn't think of any other way." Zexion said in a cool voice, but he had on a small smirk just visible under his stereotypical emo hair. I was stunned. They're all out to get me.
"Cheer up Roxas; we have a nature walk after this." Tidus interjected before I had the chance to run for my life. I gave a small sigh. A nature walk won't be too bad, I mean it's just walking around and talking about the plants right, what could happen. Oh, how wrong I was.
After lunch we found ourselves standing next to a large clump trees waiting for something to happen. I turned to face Axel who was standing next to me.
"Who do you think is gonna be the one taking us on the walk?"
"Hmm, well we know it's not Xigbar, that guys in charge of the arrow shooting range. Xemnas wouldn't demean himself to walking through dirt all day. Anyone one I forgot?"
"What about that one blue-haired-," My sentiment was cut short by a pink haired figure stumbling out of the bushes. The figure straitened itself up and said.
"…I'm late aren't I?"
"Indeed." Said Zexion.
All of the campers were fixated on the figure's bubble gum pink hair; the figure just happened to be Marluxia. He noticed their gazes and gave a sigh. This must be why he hates working with the kids for long periods of time.
"Okay, staring at my hair time is over. Time to start the nature walk." He motioned for us to following him over to a small dirt path barely visible between the large tropical bushes on either side. "We are going to walk down this path going through the small forest, there are many different kinds of plants in this part of the world and today I shall tell you about the ones we encounter." Marluxia sounded like he had done this too many times to be excited or at least to act like it. Marluxia I understand your pain.
And thus started the nature walk from hell, not that I would've known that at the time. Everyone in the cabin had to pick a partner just in case they got lost in the small forest, because it was obliviously possible to get lost in the extra small tropical forest. The pairs were: Riku and Sora, Adam and Josh, William and Jeremy, Tidus and Wakka, Zexion and Demyx, and last but not least me and Axel. It wasn't planned or anything like that, what are you talking about? Everyone started down the path, Marluxia was in the lead while Axel and I were bringing up the rear.
"On your left you will see a couple of Papou trees, there is a myth that says if you share the fruit with someone then your densities shall become intertwined. However it's never been proven." Sounds nice. I glanced over to Axel to see what he thought of having his destiny intertwined with someone. His expression was unreadable. I guess he doesn't care for all that romantic crap; most guys don't. The Path was now on the side of a small hill like thing that was covered in the same bushes that were at the beginning of the path. Marluxia still hadn't had to courteously to explain what they were.
"Watch out for snakes, they are fairly common around there." Marluxia said disturbing my thought process.
"Hey Marly, what are these huge bushes call?" It was Axel. You give everyone stupid nicknames don't you? Soon he'll be calling Zexion, Zexy or something.
"Don't call me that. The bushes are the Tropical Sun Shade; some people can be very allergic to them."
"Wow, he has the same reaction to nicknames as you do Roxy."
"Yea, but it doesn't seem to deter you at all."
"Nope." He gave a chuckle at the pout on my face.
We all walked on in silence listening to Marluxia's ranting about the different plants on Density Island. He seemed to be enjoying himself. God he must love plants. The path was still bordering the cliff thing when a strange noise came from the plants closest to me. I looked down in time to see a bright orange snake launching itself right at my feet. I let out the manliest squeal you've never heard. I mean it would've had ballerina's running to protect their manhood. However along with the squeal came me trying with all my might to distance my left foot from the snake, and that meant throwing myself at Axel, who in turn, lurched off the path and down the small hill, I also came along for the ride. We tumbled through the Tropical Sun Shade into a small gully at the bottom of the hill. I had myself positioned with my back to Axel's chest and my head on top of his right hand; he was about an inch away from groping me with that other hand. Both of us were too shocked to move or talk.
"You guys okay!" Zexion yelled down at us. I blinked several times trying to decipher what the hell had just happened.
"urggggh, Roxas your not as light as you look…" Axel groaned from underneath me. I sprang up as fast as possible and managed to make myself dizzy in the process. I clucked my head in my hand to stop the world from spinning. "You okay Roxas?"
"ugh, yeah just kinda dizzy, what happened."
"Well, you attacked me and we fell into this here gully thing… or whatever the hell you call this."
"I didn't mean to attack you," I said defensively, "there was a snake."
"And here I thought you were just trying to get into my pants."
"Excuse me." I managed to spit out. Get into your pants!? What are you taking about? I have no such motive, nope, none at all!
"I was only joking." He said quickly just in case I decided to punch him in the face for his totally true comment.
"Enough of the lover's quarrel, just tell us if you are hurt or not so we can get on with our lives." This time it was Marluxia yelling at us.
"We're okay." Axel replied.
"Alrighty now that that is settled lets move on with the nature walk."
"Are you just gonna leave us here?!"
"To get out of the gully you'll have to walk down to the beach and then go around, unless you wanna risk the chance of being allergic to the Sun Shade."
"…fine, we'll walk."
"Good idea, we'll be off then, say goodbye to your counselors everyone." All of the boys waved at us or made jeering sounds at our predicament. Sora looked down at me with worry in his eyes.
"Come back to the cabin in one piece okay, Roxas." He yelled down at me. Riku, who was standing behind Sora, had a look on his face that clearly said: I-really-wouldn't-mind-if-you-get-eaten-by-a-snake. I gave him a wave as the precession turned a corner and vanished out of our view. Axel got up, wiped the dirt off his shorts, and picked me up by the collar of my shirt.
"gah, what the heck Axel?!"
"You weren't moving so, that's what you get," He said flatly eyeing our surroundings as I massaged my neck, "What way do you think the beach is?"
"We probably have to go down stream to get there, so that would be… this way." I pointed in the way I was trying to indicate to Axel.
"Well let's go so we can get to the cabin before the campers do."
"Sounds good to me." I shrugged and began the journey to the beach. For a while we walked in complete silence with only the splashing of our feet was the only thing to break the monotony of it all, "So Axel what's your home town like?" I said in a last ditch effort to make small talk.
"Hollow Bastion? It's pretty nice, kinda broken down if you know what I mean; lots of construction too. What Twilight Town like? I've never even seen pictures of it."
"It's nice, I mean besides that fact that there is not really much to do there, unless you like Struggle and sea salt ice cream."
"Struggle?"
"Yea, it's a really fun sport. Sorta like sword play only there is a tournament for it and you can win prizes. I beat my best friend Hayner and won last year."
"Hmm, sounds pretty fun, I would love to watch you." Again he had that sly look on his face and I couldn't tell if he was being serious of not.
"Well if you come to Twilight Town maybe you will see."
"Can I go visit after camp is over then?" I couldn't believe the words coming out of his mouth.
"Axel, we've only known each other for like three days," and I've totally fallen for you! No that's not the point here. What would mom say if I sudden brought home a very pretty guy?
"So we have twenty eight more days to get to know each other."
"That's true…" Why was Axel saying all this to me? Did he really have an interest in me or am I just being delusional?
"Look! It's that beach, we're freeeee!" Axel said in a giddy voice running towards the picturesque water arms flung high over his spiky red hair. Well that just killed the mood. Oh well at least he's smiling.
"Wait up!" I yelled at his retreating back running after him. We made our way to the cabin and to our delight the campers and Zexion were still on the nature walk. We occupied our time by plying cards on the floor. Axel won all the games; he said his friend Luxord taught him how to play. Luxord was supposedly the best gambler in Hollow Bastion, stripped twenty profession players to their boxers in a game of poker once. I'm glad we are not playing strip poker.
After the campers got back we went to dinner which was pretty uneventful compared to breakfast and lunch. Then came the showers, and finally lights out time. Before I entered the cabin to go to sleep I looked over at my good friend the palm tree and gave it a thumbs up. No need to worry palm tree, everything's going great. I stepped into the cabin and lay down in bed after saying goodnight to everyone and getting my good night glare from Riku. Sleep came quickly; after all it was a pretty great day, even if the way I was woken up could've been better. Who the hell would bring boots to a beach?
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Again sorry this took so long -_-'. Happy late Thanksgiving for all of you who celebrate it!! Hope you guys weren't in turkey induced coma's like I was on the 27, it was aweosme. So I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Reviews are always welcome. Maybe next chapter the palm tree shall get a name...just maybe.
-Tsubaki-kun
