Its short...very short. But the way this ends will leave you BEGGING for more, so here all you lovely folks go.
I do not own Kingdom Hearts in any way, shape, or form (Oh, but how I wish...).
PLUM WINGS & A MIDNIGHT DIRGE - HEARTPOUNDING
Axel ran away... That line kept repeating in my head for the rest of the day, ever since I heard Marluxia say it. It got my mind thinking, actually.
Its not like Zexion would care, anymore, I would think. Its prob'ly best if I ran away anyway... That's when I started to plan my getaway, but I knew better than anyone it would be one hell of a mission to get past Zexion without him knowing. The worst part was that he was suspicious of me. He came right out and said something about it, right to my face and out of the blue.
"Demyx," I thought that he would have apologized to me, but he didnt. He said my name like he was demanding something of me, and I didnt like it. "That news today, with Axel. What triggered in your mind after hearing that?" I put my pencil down on my homework and looked him straight in the eye. If he wasnt going to be nice to me, I wasnt going to be nice to him.
"I think you know the answer to that, already, Zexion." I spat his name like it was a bad taste in my mouth, but I saw no real effect come over him. Of course not, no, he's Zexion, he doesnt have emotions, I forgot. He was becoming such a heartless guy I was surprised we used to be so close. His voice was full to the brim with anger when he spoke.
"I don't know what you think you're going to do, but don't think you'll be able to leave without my knowing, or without my tracking you down. Im not going to have my only real friend in this world be lost because of some mistake I made." His only real friend? Yeah, right. That's why he was treating me like trash. Then he turned away, and I went right back to finishing my work. I not only had to keep up doing what I was already doing to stay under the radar, but I had to plan everything down to the last hair. It was the only thing I had really cared about in a long time.
Another week or so went by before anything was finished. I wasnt expecting it to take so long, but I figured I had to be careful, so waiting for that time was alright, I guess. Anyway, in the middle of the night I snuck out with my things, but I dont know if I woke Zexion up. I hoped I didnt, because he'd be coming after me. If he was true to his word like he used to be, I would have a hard time getting him off my trail.
I walked out of the school's campus as quickly as I could without being noticed, and started for Twilight Town. Originally, I had planned to go to that old Haunted Mansion out in the woods, but something told me it would be a better idea to stay away from that place, so instead I headed up to a place I had found a long time ago in the woods behind the Mansion. It was a hike, but it didnt matter to me at the time, I just wanted to get away from the school. When I got to the place and set my stuff down to relax, though, it seemed like my only safe haven. There was a curve in the side of the mountain that gave me a small cave-like place to be more or less sheltered by, with five feet or so of walking room in front of it before it dropped down into a deep and dark ravine. I had tried, many times, as a kid to see the bottom of it, but about halfway down and before it was a little too dark to make anything out, there were a bunch of trees and bushes and other plants that made a canopy over the bottom of it, so I never found out what was really down there. And as clumsy as I was now, I wasnt planning on looking over that edge anytime soon.
The wind at the place I had stopped was just light enough to be cooling after my long hike, and I honestly thought Zexion had not followed me. Then, I heard footsteps coming closer to me from the woods, and I started to panic. But when Zexion's shadow came out of the trees, my panic went to rage. I stood to my feet, confronting him.
"Why did you follow me?" There was no love in my voice, no care for the man I had once thought of as my brother. To tell you the honest truth, I had grown to hate him these past months.
"I told you, I wasn't going to let you run away. I live up to my word."
"Well, why don't you stop that?" I burst. "Im grown up enough to do what I want and I dont need you bossing me around like Im five years old!"
"Im not, Demyx. Im here to keep you safe from hurting yourself."
"Im not going to hurt myself!" My fists were clenched and I was raging mad. I didnt want him to be here. He needed to leave.
"Demyx, listen to me," I felt drops of water on my cheeks and looked up to the sky, the clouds were covering the moon and it had begun raining. I looked back to Zexion, a glare stuck on my face.
"No! I won't listen! Not to-"
"You're being irrational-"
"-someone who doesnt even care about me!" I jumped forward and tackled him to the ground. We rolled over and over, me, trying to hit him and him, trying to dodge me. I was blinded with rage, nothing on my mind but the fact that I didnt like Zexion. He said some things but I couldnt hear them, we rolled over twice more and suddenly I found myself being pulled down by gravity. Time slowed down in my mind as I realized what had just happened; I was falling off of the cliff and into the revine. Everything was a blur, I had no time to think. I thought I was going to die, but when I stopped falling, I looked up and saw Zexion, holding me up by the wrist, keeping me from falling to my death.
"Demyx, you overexaggerating idiot would you LISTEN to me?" He was angry, teeth gritting together and using all of his strength to try and hold me. "Dont you dare say I dont care about you! You, of all people should know that I stand by my word no matter what the consequences are!"
"Then why have you been so heartless!" I demanded.
"Because I didnt want you to-" The clouds thundered, making Zexion look like a shadow against the night sky for only a second. He stood up from his kneeling position, using his strength to pull me up only a little. I was eye-level with his shoes and saw the rain-soaked mud slipping out from underneath him. I clawed at the wet ground to pull myself on the cliffside but it didnt work, and when I handed my weight back to Zexion he slipped on his back and we went sliding downward. I tried to cling to the mud but it slipped through my fingers each time until there was nothing to grab on to anymore, and before I knew it we were falling into the bottomless pit of the revine with no way of getting back.
