Disclaimer: Don't we all wish we owned Kingdom Hearts? Or at least just a teeny tiny bit? Yes, us fangirls/boys do I'm sure.
Side Note: The inside joke from the last chapter was that me and my friend were messing around pretending that our favorite characters from a book or game were in the room. Apparently so Axel tried to kiss Roxas in the middle of the Orchestra room(the room we were in) and Roxas got mad and found a random pipe going on a rampage against Axel who hid behind me and my friend. It was funny 'cause Roxas came up behind my friend and almost smacked her over the head with the pipe. X3 Which in turn got her Edward mad. Yes she's an Edward Cullen fangirl.
p.s. For those of you who don't know who Edward Cullen is. He's a vampire from Stephanie Meyer's series of books which are Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. I have read all three and like them although I am not an Edward fan. I just like him as a character and its my opinion in the end how I look at it. Hey look on the bright side fangirls, one less competitor for your Edward's love against Bella, if you're like that though.
Chapter 8
Warning: Beware of flying objects
Now Zexion looked at the target for a moment then said to himself in a mutter," Well that was boring." Taking off the hood of the target he found it was a guy and a blonde. What's up with this world and having a million blondes? he wondered for a moment before sighing and picking him up by the hood and dragging him, not too carefully either, to the meeting that was soon to take place in the castle.
Now it was to be expected that people would see Zexion dragging our poor little target/Roxas along. People who worked in the castle would hear the Commander rustling along with his cargo and maybe raise an eyebrow at the silver haired man but say nothing to him. He looked irritated and only from that they could tell it wasn't a good idea to ask why he was dragging a kid down the hallway to the meeting. Sometimes Zexion caught them staring and they quickly went back to their work although their eyes strayed back always to the strange sight.
After much glaring and murmuring along the hallways Zexion made it to the meeting room. There was a door to get inside although many didn't use it as they could just use the dark realm portal to get inside it was used in special occasions to bring in targets that couldn't be brought in through the portal or something else.
Opening the great heavy white door Zexion stepped inside, still dragging Roxas, and shut the door behind him. It seemed like everyone was already seated and he was on time, as usual. Zexion walked calmly to the foot of the tall chairs that were positioned in a circle in the room. Looking up at The Superior Zexion listened as he spoke.
"What have you brought to the meeting VI?" The Superior spoke to Zexion arms resting firmly on the arm rests of his chair.
Holding Roxas up by his hood Zexion then replied," Axel's target." he looked up at Axel when he said the words studying his face carefully. Axel seemed a bit nervous, but other than that there was nothing there that seemed to show that the member cared of what happened to the target, just as it should be. Setting the target down on the small table-like circle in the middle of the chairs with their symbol on it Zexion transported himself to his chair.
"It seems odd that you were having trouble with this mission VIII." This time it was another person speaking," Usually you complete your missions with almost flawless execution. Answer me this. What is it about this one in particular that makes you fail us, twice none the less?"
Axel stayed quiet for a moment then replied," There isn't anything." The tiny voice in his head condradicted him, you liar, Axel told it to shut up and then continued," I ran into some problems along the way, that's all. Some of his little friends came and a three vs. one didn't seem at all too well in my favour and the second was that there were too many to fight at the moment, no time for a distraction." he knew he was lying on the second part, but Saix couldn't tell the difference. Could he? Axel shook away the thought from his mind.
"I see." Was all Saix answered.
It was then The Superior spoke again," That was a very good point VII. Now, since the target has been returned we must move onto more urgent matters of buisness concerning him, but first he must be moved to a more, suitable place." he waved an arm at Demyx. "IX, take him to Axel's room for the time being. I'll send VIII to fill you in when we're done. Remember your orders, and do not let him escape. We may not get a second chance at this and I don't want any screw ups. Understand?"
"Yessir." Demyx answered quickly disappearing to the bottom of the room and taking Roxas out of the room by draping Roxas's arm over his shoulder and leading him outside. When they were outside the door Demyx hissed under his breath," I thought I told you to get out of here. Idiot."
"Sorry." came a voice from Roxas, it had a very tired and cocky tone to it.
Demyx was a little surprised, but opened Axel's door and lead Roxas inside throwing some things off the bed and sitting Roxas down on it. "How long were you awake?" he asked a bit nervously.
"Until just a few seconds ago." Roxas replied drowsily looking around then found that he was back in Axel's room with this strange person from that weird alter-demension place. Jumping up he summoned his keyblades pointing Oathkeeper at Demyx's throat. "Who are you?" he snapped.
"I'm D-demyx." Demyx stuttered fighting to stay calm. "Who're you?" Demyx figured questions to the target would help calm him down at least a little bit.
"Roxas." Roxas replied then lowered his keyblade although kept them ready in case of a fight. "Why am I here? I thought your 'Superior' might've wanted to, 'take care of me' if you catch my drift, already."
"No." Demyx shook his head," That isn't the plan that The Superior has. How do you even know his name?" Demyx was surprised when Roxas had said Superior.
"I managed to hear it from your little buddies when trying to take your advice and get the hell out of this deathtrap." Roxas replied sharply.
"..." Demyx didn't say anything for a moment, but did when Roxas tried to move towards the door," Why did you jump into the dark realm portal after Axel?" The question had been bugging him for awhile and he also needed a way to keep Roxas in the room. Fighting wasn't an option for he knew he'd surely lose the fight and he had to wait for Axel to come back too.
"Why? The fight wasn't over yet and I still needed to get back at that jerk for that stunt he pulled back at the borderline." Roxas clenched his grip tighter around the keyblades just thinking about it.
Demyx nodded. "That was very stupid of him." Roxas threw him a look of confusion which soon changed to amusement then confusion again as if he couldn't pick an expression that he was comfortable with or something.
"Why're you being so nice Demyx? I mean you're a Commander like the others right?" Roxas asked finally letting his keyblades disappear.
"Yeah, I am, but that doesn't mean I can't be nice when I'm doing my job right? I'm nice by nature." Demyx replied finally letting a smile escape him as he felt Roxas smile back with a laugh and him finally warming up to him. That was until Axel walked into the room, that's when things got crazy.
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Axel watched as Demyx walked the unconscious Roxas out of the room. After the door closed behind Demyx and Roxas Axel felt a little more comfortable than when Zexion had stepped inside the room with Roxas. When he caught Zexion studying his face he did his best to hide the feeling of dread at the conversation that was sure to come although he did nothing to hide his nervousness, it simply wouldn't let him. After Zexion had looked away Axel let out a silent breath and felt eyes watching him. Giving sharp glances around the room he felt Demyx staring at him.
Don't tell me this is my fault Demyx. I didn't know he'd come here! How'd he get here anyway? As he silently questioned Demyx who'd turned his attention to Zexion again while he, Axel, cursed himself for not being more careful and Saix's questions just made him feel worse. He anticipated that was the goal of the berserker as he spoke again to him once Demyx and Roxas left.
"Axel." Saix started," Does anyone from Destiny Kingdom know Roxas came after you?"
So they saw, eh? Then he must've jumped in after me, that idiot. I wonder what happened after that? Maybe Demyx knows. Axel thought before answering," I'm not sure. Probably the other kid that was with 'em. He seemed a bit familiar too."
"Familiar?" Saix asked. "Was he someone you knew before or after?"
Axel raised a thin eyebrow at Saix, he seemed interested in this other person or maybe he was just trying to get him killed. He responded in a shrug," He just looked familiar, I don't know him."
"What did he look like?" The question now came from the Superior.
Axel scoffed," Silver hair, blue eyes, wearing one of our coats like he was one of us." he then added a bit sneakily in his mind, Is he someone you know Xemnas?
Xemnas thought a moment and gave a hmm, but then waved the matter away. "From what I've seen we have intruders in the teritory. The discription of this person matches your target's companion a bit except for the clothes. He appears to have changed them, maybe to throw us off or something in case we saw him when the target jumped into the dark portal after Axel." he seemed to be speaking to the whole group that was seated now. "There was also a brown haired boy and a red haired girl. Have you seen them before Axel too?" Axel gave a nod, but was sure this conversation was coming to an end for everyone seated in the room, but he had a sinking feeling that Xemnas would continue the conversation with him, possibly alone or with Saix.
"The orders are as follows. No one is to attack them, yet. We need more information on them first and then we'll plan an attack strategy. Vexen continue with the orders you were assigned at the last meeting. Xaldin, Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, and Xigbar will scope out our territory once more and gather information on our visitors. Saix, myself, Axel, Zexion, Demyx, Lexaeus, and our newcommer to the castle will stay here and look after things. Axel, your new orders are to look after thirteen although you may ask Demyx and Zexion to help you if you need anything. I expect a full report tomorrow. Dismissed." With that Xemnas disappeared along with Saix following and everyone else afterwards except Axel.
"How the heck did I get myself into this mess?" he breathed a bit before finally disappearing through the portal to show up behind the door in which the meeting had taken place behind. "Dammit." he cursed as he walked to his room. How am I gonna do this now? The kid wants to kill me and I have to make him stay here? Damn.
Opening the door Axel found his room hadn't changed much except for that Demyx was on the bed that had obviously been cleaned of stuff and onto the floor. Roxas was standing up and laughing at Demyx and Axel stopped at the doorway and listened.
God. That's so nice to listen to. He leaned against the doorway a bit, but when he realized what he was thinking he didn't need to have any help to vanquish the thoughts. Someone beat him to it.
"Hey Axel!" Demyx said cheerily making Roxas stop laughing and shoot a death glare in the redhead's direction.
Axel gave a small wave. "So," he started not moving from his position in the doorway," It seems as if I'm stuck with Roxy during the time he has here." he smiled which made Roxas's face change from aggrivated to surprised and even more angry.
"The hell as if I'm staying in here with you." Roxas retorted at Axel.
"Wheather you like it or not this is where you're gonna be. Make yourself comfortable." Axel said shutting the door behind him and taking a seat in one of the two abandoned chairs next to the desk in the room.
"Yeah sure." Roxas said sarcastically," I'm gonna be cooperative and stay here." He walked towards the door. "I'm leaving."
He was interrupted by a flaming chakram as it hit the door right in front of him sticking in front of the door, but not too deep so as to break the door but still enough to give it a dent that would surely be there once the chakram was removed. "No you're not. You can't be leaving home so soon Roxy."
"Excuse me?" Roxas said resuming his glare at Axel. "I'm going home, I'm not home stupid."
"That's what you think." Axel said obviously getting himself worked up over the stresses of his orders and getting caught up in this argument with Roxas. "You really think that you're from Destiny Kingdom?"
The question hit Roxas like a gun pointed at his head. "Of course I do! Do you think you're from Oblivion Kingdom? Hmm?" What Axel said had obviously confused the blond into making him more angry.
Meanwhile Demyx was still sitting on the bed unsure of what to do. Axel was diving into treacherous waters while Roxas looked like he would tear the room apart. Honestly he had no clue of what to do and could only listen as the two bickered even more.
"Heh. You really don't know anything do you?" Axel said leaning back on his chair.
"Then would you care to explain yourself fully?" Roxas said venom seeming to drip from his voice.
That was something Axel didn't see coming. "Explain myself? Fully?" He repeated Roxas's words. Roxas just nodded his harsh cobalt eyes not letting Axel out of their sights. He snickered a bit then when he caught Roxas sigh.
"What's so funny?" Roxas shot at Axel who was still snickering.
"Nah, nevermind. How about a comprimise?" Axel said his devious mind now thinking of something that wouldn't get him shredded badly trying to get Roxas to stay in the room.
"Why should I make a compromise with you?" Roxas said, but then a thought came to his head. Maybe this is a good oportunity to check this place out. Get some information on this place and then when the others come...they will come right? Of course they will! Riku saw you jump into that black portal thing didn't he? You'll just have to trust him! It was then Roxas decided and then added," What is it though? I might as well just hear you out."
Axel was surprised that Roxas would listen to him and smiled. "Really? What's the change in heart?"
Is it really worth information to put up with this bastard? Roxas thought then shook the thought, he'd have to or at least for now put up with the idiot. "Shut up. At least I'm trying to come up with options if it seems I can't get out of this stupid place until I come up with a better plan."
"Hmm. Well if you put it that way." Axel put his head in the palm of his hand as his elbow rested atop the desk. "Here's the compromise. If you stay here at the castle and cooperate just for now I'll let you leave if you want to in two weeks." He held up two fingers when he said the number with his other hand leaving a shocked Demyx and Roxas on the other side of the room.
"But Axel-" Demyx was cut off by Roxas.
"Agreed." Roxas said picking up a somewhat heavy book from the floor and dusting it off. "Two weeks. Do you ever clean up in here?"
Axel widened his eyes at Roxas's agreement. "Then we have a deal. Don't worry Demyx I'll sort out everything later." he shook his hand at the worrying dirty haired blond who had stood up and was now standing by the bookcase.
"But-" Demyx was cut off again, but this time it was his own doing as Roxas threw the book at Axel's head.
"Hey, I'm still here you know and just cause I'm here doesn't mean I have to like it or make it any easier on you." he said with a triumphant smile at Axel who was on the floor now rubbing his head from the heavy book.
"Okay, I got it, I got it!" Axel said feeling the pain in his head bringing on another headache. "By why that book? God."
"Because it seemed like it'd do the trick and I also needed to get a little revenge for that stunt you pulled." Roxas said before dusting himself off a bit.
"Uh why don't we go get something to eat?" Demyx said trying to lighten the heavy dark mood that seemed to have fallen into the room yet again.
"I'll be here." Axel said from the floor slowly getting up.
"I guess I'll have to go with you Demyx. Seeing as I definitely do not want to be in this room with him around." Roxas growled before opening the door and shutting it behind him.
"You think he's still mad at me?" Axel joked a bit.
"This is what you get for being an idiot Axel. Anyways, you want something from the food hall? I'd be happy to get you something."
"Nah, I'll be fine. Just go and keep Roxas situated alright? I'll take over tomorrow." Axel said with a smile before dusting himself off and going over to dust the rest of the books off the bed.
"Well if you're sure..." Demyx said and left the room shutting the door behind him. He looked at Roxas who was confusedly staring down the hallway. "What?" Demyx asked at seeing the confused look.
"Are all the walls white?" he asked pointing down the hallway.
"Yeah. Why d'you ask?" Demyx said, usually people didn't comment about the wall color before, but just accepted that it was that color nobody seemed to ask why.
"Seems kinda boring seeing the same thing everywhere you go. I mean in Axel's room it was a different color. Is yours?" Roxas asked he was initially curious.
"Y-yes its blue." Demyx stammered a bit then said quickly," Lets get down to the food hall now." He then started to walk down the hallway seeing Roxas shrug as a response before following the dirty blond down the hallway.
Soon they were in the food hall in which Demyx had grabbed some food for each of them sitting across the table in which Roxas had sat down in. "Thanks," Roxas said accepting the food from Demyx and then after a minute or so of silence asked," What is Axel's problem?"
Demyx looked up from his food and ignoring the glances the other people in the room were giving them replied quietly," Axel doesn't have a problem. He, well he's different when it comes to getting his point across at times. I kinda made it tougher on him by snapping at him for well you know the-" he was cut off by Roxas, that seemed to be happening a lot lately.
"No need to bring up that again. Its been settled as long as I'm concerned. Is Axel always like this though?" Roxas wanted to know what he was actually getting himself into by staying in the castle for two weeks.
"Axel? No not all the time. He can actually be very patient sometimes, but he's the type of person who you can't really describe. You have to be with him for a day or so to actually get him if he lets you that is." Demyx laughed a bit, he'd known Axel quite awhile and still thought he didn't know much about his fiery friend.
"Hmm." Was all Roxas answered as he started to finish up his food while Demyx followed in suit. The rest of the time they were eating was in silence and the same as they were back in the hallway. All of a sudden Roxas asked," Hey Demyx. Do you know where I could find some ice?"
"Ice? Sure, but why?" Demyx asked with a confused look at the teen.
"I'm just feeling a bit sore from the fight before and from that knock to the head." Roxas said stopping as Demyx did.
"Oh. Sure then. I'll be right back then." Demyx said disappearing for a few seconds only to come back with a bag of ice and some on his hair.
"Do I want to know?" Roxas asked the now frosty haired Demyx who responded with a sigh, today just wasn't his day.
"Vexen threw some of his ice at me when I accidentally bumped into some experiment he was doing." Demyx sighed and handed Roxas the ice and pointed to the door that was across the hall from Axel's with the letters X-I-I-I printed on it. "There's your room. As for me I think I'm going to go lie down." Demyx then walked down the hall and opened his room's door and disappeared inside flopping down on the bed falling asleep in the seconds that followed soon after.
Roxas turned to his room, but then thought to himself about today's earlier events. Maybe I was a little too harsh on Axel. Walking over to the door he took a deep breath before knocking a few times on the door.
After a few seconds Axel's voice came from inside the room," Come in." Obviously he was tired as Roxas could definitely hear it in his voice.
Walking inside Roxas saw Axel on the bed with a pillow over his face. Raising a silent eyebrow he said nothing as he walked over to the bedside. "Demyx?"
"Nope. You'd know it wasn't Demyx if you didn't have that stupid pillow in front of your face." Roxas remarked before pulling off the pillow and setting the ice on Axel's head where there was an obvious bump there from the book that Roxas had thrown. Taking a few steps back he started to exit the room, but was stopped by Axel.
"Thanks Roxy." Axel said sitting up a bit with a smile.
"Its Roxas." Roxas said irritatedly," And you're welcome. Sorry for exploding like that. Anyways I guess I'll see you tomorrow." With a nod Roxas stepped out of Axel's room and into his own. Looking around he cocked an eyebrow, but sighed and decided to get some sleep since tomorrow was sure to be the strangest day of his life.
Back in Axel's room the redhead was still smiling and he layed back down on the bed and went to sleep thinking to himself.
These two weeks are going to be very interesting.
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Author's Note
Kiesha: Well I decided to use this chapter to the events after Roxas jumped in after Axel also throwing in a little moment there. I apologize for making Roxas hate Axel so much, but I can promise things will get better between the two. As for the Sora, Kairi and Riku stuff that will come in the next chapter. 'Till the next chapter then.
