"You okay, you look like you nearly fell off a building," Axel asked looking at a very pale Roxas. After thinking about it, Roxas was more afraid of the dream than he was mad that he had it. The voice was right; he knew that Sora was his only family left, that wasn't out to kill him anyway, so he had to protect him, even if that meant he couldn't be with him.
That's not what I meant, a voice said in his head.
"Then what did you mean," Roxas asked out loud which got the others suspicious.
"What are you talking about," Demyx asked halfway through his burger.
"Nothing," Roxas mumbled and he took his burger that Axel was holding out for him.
It's better if you talk to me mentally, if you talk to the little voice in your head outside of your head, people will think your crazy the voice told him.
I would have an excuse, Roxas snapped at the voice.
That would be the voice asked.
That going crazy is genetic in my family. Roxas thought.
I think I'll leave you alone for a few hours and just like it had come the voice wouldn't talk to Roxas anymore.
"So, what are we going to do when we get there," Axel asked after he had taken a bite of his cheeseburger.
"I don't know, maybe we would find the answer at our old house," Sora suggested.
"Worth a shot," Roxas stated simply.
"We should be there in about a thirty minutes," Axel told them looking at a map that he had.
"Well, let's get going then," Axel threw the burger wrapper in the paper bag and started the jeep and pulling out of the parking lot. Roxas was the last to finish his burger and he tossed the wrapper in the bag and leaned back and looked out the window.
"Aren't your parents going to be mad about the whole running away thing," Sora asked.
"Well, at least my parents will notice something about me," Axel mumbled.
"Guys, is it just me or are those guys following us," Demyx asked looking back. Roxas turned to see a silver car with tinted windows so he couldn't see who was inside.
"I don't know, but I know how to find out," Axel sped up from sixty to eighty and the silver car sped up keeping close.
"Why are they following us," Sora asked turning back around.
"Why do you guys keep asking stupid questions, I don't know but I am going to loose them," Axel yelled.
"They're getting closer," Demyx told them watching the rear view mirror. Axel dodged the other cars on the highway.
"We have to get away from the traffic," Axel told them swerving to the left to dodge another car.
"Closer,"
"Demyx, look on that map thing and tell me the closest route off the highway," Demyx opened the map and looked at it.
"Right, there," He said pointing to the exit. Axel turned off it and they sped off the ramp and onto the street. Luckily this street looked like it wasn't traveled much so it was empty of any cars. Then there was a loud crack.
"What the hell was that," Axel yelled trying to keep his eyes on the road.
"It was a gunshot, they're shooting at us," Sora told him.
Hello Roxy, having fun the voice laughed in Roxas' head.
A little help here, I would like to live to see my eighteenth birthday at least Roxas yelled in his head.
What do they want most the voice asked as Roxas got slung across the car into Sora.
I don't know
You Roxas
Again, I come to my point of wanting to live to see my eighteenth birthday.
Use your brain Roxas; it gives you all the answers that you need again Roxas felt the voice leave. He tried to do what the voice told him, he thought about it. He noticed that the world suddenly went quiet. He looked around and Axel's mouth was moving, then the world slowed down. Roxas saw the bullets going past the car, almost like they weren't trying to hit them. Roxas looked back at the silver car and there was the man with the eye patch again. Roxas looked at what speed they were going at. Ninety but to Roxas, it was almost like standing still.
I wonder Roxas opened the car door and walked over to the silver one, he had to be going faster then ninety miles an hour or he could never do this, it was like someone put the world in slow motion, Roxas punched the guy in the face and took the gun from him, he shot out the tires flat from the silver car and went back to the jeep.
Very good Roxas, you learn quickly, the voice told him in his head.
So how do I get out of this…place, Roxas asked.
Same way you got in, the told simply.
That's the thing; I don't know how I got in.
Think about it, you felt threatened, not because they were about to kill you, but they put your friends in danger, so when you feel your friends are out of danger, you will be able to come out. Roxas relaxed he had made sure that his friends were okay, he had taken care of the threat, so it was all good. The world sped up again and he heard the screeching behind them. He looked down in his hand and the gun was there.
"What the hell just happened," Axel asked still speeding down the road. The twins were staring at the gun in Roxas' hand.
"I don't know," Sora mumbled not taking his eyes of the gun.
"Roxas, where did you get that," Demyx asked looking back with a shocked face.
"The guy who was shooting at us," Roxas told them, He hardly believed what was happening himself.
"Okay Roxas you're scaring me," Demyx told him.
You learn VERY quickly, the voice sounded a little surprised.
"How did you do that," so Roxas explained to them what had happened.
"Well, this could be what you needed to know," Axel told them as they got back on the highway.
"Maybe, but I have a feeling that this is only the beginning," Roxas told them.
"And I have a feeling that someone put something on those cheesebirgers we ate," Demyx told them.
"Well, there's Destiny Islands," Axel told the a few minutes later. Roxas looked out the window. The highway was built over the ocean and was going to the island. Roxas smiled seeing the island again, although he didn't know why. So many bad memories were there, but still. The days when Riku would take Roxas and Sora to the beach, and when the first day they went to school. Well that wasn't really a happy memory because there was a guy that was Riku's age that kept calling them clones and Riku beat them up. Still it made him laugh a little when he thought about it.
Welcome Home Roxas, the voice in his head told him. Roxas nodded.
"So, where's your old house," Sora and Roxas looked at each other, they had forgotten where their old house was. Then Roxas saw a old yellow house that was boarded up. Then an image flashed in his head of a picture, with him Riku and Sora standing in front of the house.
"There," Roxas told him. Axel pulled into the driveway. There was yellow tape on it that said do not enter on it. The just ducked under it and into the climbed in one of the open windows.
"Wow, everything's like it was back then," Sora said in wonder as he looked around the room.
"Only, less screaming," Roxas mumbled. They walked down the hallway and opened the door to Riku's room. It was painted green like it had been when they were little. The bed was in the same place.
"Let's see our room," Sora told him. Roxas nodded and they went across the hall an opened the door. The wall was painted blue which was dimly lit. Roxas started down the steps. When his feet hit the hardwood floor, he looked around the room. There was the toy box and a few toys scattered around the room. Then there were the bunk beds. The bottom had a green blanket on it and the top had an orange one. The room was dimly lit from the small window above the top bunk. Roxas climbed up and lay on the top bunk, you could see the blue sky turning black outside the window. Roxas sat up and looked over the room.
(Flashback)
"My fire truck beats your jet any day," the young boy in the white T-shirt and red shorts told him.
"Nu-uh," the other boy;s face dropped.
"You two shouldn't fight, you're brothers, one day your lives might depend on each other and you can't fight each other then," the older boy with short silver hair told them.
"Okay Riku," they said together.
"RIKU," the voice roared. Riku looked up the stairs and back at his younger brothers.
(End of Flashback)
"It wasn't ever fair, was it," Roxas asked slipping of the bed.
"What wasn't," Axel asked leaning against the wall by the stairs.
"Never mind," Sora looked over at his brother. Roxas knew that he understood what he had said, that's all that mattered.
"What's in here," Sora asked himself opening the toy chest. Roxas looked in it to. Sora took out the old toy jet the rockets, a bag of water balloons, and a box.
"What's this, I don't remember this," Sora opened it and there was only a key and a piece of paper. There in Roxas and Sora's hand writing was a map of different places.
'Well, it's a lead let's see where it takes us," Axel told them looking over Roxas' shoulder. Then they heard something upstairs.
They looked around for a place to hide. Sora and Roxas got under the bed and Axel got in the closet and Demyx hid in the place under the stairs. Roxas heard footsteps coming from down the stairs. Who ever the person was walked into the room stopped. All Roxas could see was a pair off black boots. It was a good thing that there wasn't a light in their room or he would have seen him in a minute. He walked across the room, and stopped again in front of the bed.
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A/N: Sorry about waiting so long for the update. I promise that I won't wait that long after this one because I left you guys that kind of cliffhanger, but suspense is good.
-Kidd
