I had some troubling writing this chapter -_-' Oh well. We had a giant snow storm today! It was Aweosme! Hop eyou enjoi this chaptah that I have worked very hard on.
Disclaimer- Still don't own Kingdom Hearts...
Chapter 9- Your Fault
"Zexion, tell Roxy he's being a jerk!"
"Axel, why would I waste my breath relaying messages for you two?"
The full moon above us illuminated the path we were to take to get to the abandoned house for the 'test of courage' thing. What are we gonna have to do anyway? Find an item in the dark deserted house or something? I was hoping with all my might that ghosts would not be involved. I really dislike ghosts, and most scary things for that matter. This was mostly likely because my mother would lock me in the room with her when she watched scary movies. This only benefited her because A- she got to watch her movies without being too freaked out. B- I would have to endure the most bloody and terrify movies at age nine. See what you've done to me Mom? This is entirely your fault. I felt a tugging at my shirt and gave a start.
"Oh, it's just you, Sora." I looked down to the small brunet trying to get my attention. "What's up?" I said warmly trying to hide the fact that my heart beating fast from the fright he gave me.
"Ummm, well, Axel says your being a meanie…" My warm expression was replaced by a scowl as my eyes went from Sora to Axel. He was waving stupidly at me, trying to make me comment. I gave him a disapproving look and continued down the path. "Is he ignoring me too now!? Axel! Look what you did!" Sora shrieked.
"How was I supposed to know he would do that?!" Axel shrieked back. They started to squabble as the rest of us proceeded to the house.
"If you would just talk to him, we wouldn't have to deal with all his bitching, you know?" Zexion asked from beside me.
"Zexion, don't deny me my fun." I replied with a smirk.
"Axel's right. You are a meanie." Demyx interjected from behind us.
"That's right, Demyx; just don't let him hear that."
"Is it a secret?"
"Yes it is. A very important secret."
"I would appreciate it if you don't tell him lies." Zexion said with a slight growl in the voice.
"You should teach him to be able to tell when somebody is lying. I mean it would be bad to have your bride kidnapped on your wedding night or something."
Zexion's face turned a lovely red and he looked at me with an expression of pure embarrassment. "S-shut up!" He yelled at me. I started to laugh at his reaction to my teasing. "Seriously Roxas, shut up! Or do you want me to tell Axel that you blush every time he gets too close to you!" This shut me up. We continued to walk in silence, both of our faces a light shade of pink. Noises from Axel and Sora's bickering punctured the peace of the night. We reached the house after climbing through some tropical sun shade, all hoping we weren't allergic.
"Finally made it." Saix was standing next to the entrance with his arms folded. "Ready to begin?"
"What exactly are we doing?" Josh asked timidly.
"I'm glad you asked." A very familiar voice issued from directly behind me. A hand rested itself upon my shoulder. I jumped, still on the edge from this whole situation. "You okay, Roxas?" The voice said. I peered over my shoulder to find a large mane of buddle gum pink hair.
"Oh, hi Marluxia." I sighed, holding my chest. Then I realized something. How in hell would he be able to get over there without me noticing at all?! Did he come out of the plants or something?!
"So to answer your question small child-." Marluxia continued.
"It's Josh." He cut in.
"I don't care. Anyways, you guys are going to have a test of courage," Marluxia explain, joining Saix beside the door. "The test consists of staying in this abandoned houses for as long as possible, you can go anywhere in the house, first or second floor, it doesn't matter. If you want to get out, the front door will be unlocked, so come out at anytime. One of us will be here. Any questions?" He looked at us expectantly.
"Will we have flashlights?" Wakka asked.
"Yes, we have three flashlights you all can use." Saix gave us the flashlights and returned to his spot by the door.
"So, in other words we just have to stay in this creepy house until dawn, and if we get scared we can leave?" William said.
"Precisely."
"Can we just get this started already? We're burning moon light." Axel blurted out before any more question could be asked. Marluxia's face broke into a rather sadistic smirk.
"Alright, you can all enter now." We all walked through the doors that Saix and Marluxia were holding open. When we entered the lavish looking entrance hall Marluxia said: "Hope to see you all in the morning…" and with that, the doors were closed and our fates were sealed. The room was completely dark, except for our flashlights and the moon light shining through the scarce windows.
"What'll we do now?" Jeremy asked as he peered around the room.
"Let's go upstairs, it might be lighter up there." Zexion suggested. We all nodded in agreement and walked up the stairs directly in front of us. The stairs twisted up to the left and lead to a hall way lined with windows on one side and doors on the other. The eerie blue light of the moon did nothing to clam my nerves. The floor creaked under our feet as we slowly made our way down the hall way.
"Well, this is pleasant…" Riku said trying to lighten the mood, and stop Sora from shaking. Sora, you're not the only one. Everyone was starting to move more reluctantly, not wanting to go deeper into the cold, dark hallway.
All of a sudden the flash lights started to flicker and died at the same time. Sora shrieked but was silenced quickly; as all the other yells were as well. I started to panic and fell to the ground, there was nothing but darkness around me and I couldn't seem to utter a word. A flickering light appeared.
"Roxas!" Axel called; he was holding a bright red lighter. "Where are the others?"
"They're not here?" I managed to choke out. It was true; there was only me and Axel standing in the hallway. He grabbed my upper arm and pulled me up from my resting place. The moon light seemed brighter and we could see more now.
"Shit. What happened?" Axel growled. Horror came over his face as his lighter went out. He tried several times to get it to light again, jamming his thumb down on the flint. "If this is a fucking joke, I'm going to kill them all. Shit. Why does this thing not-."
"Axel, did you hear that?" I said, interrupting his tirade. I had thought I had heard another voice besides ours, a much smaller voice. Axel abandoned the lighter and quieted to listen for the voice again. This can't be normal…
"-lay?"
"See, did you hear that!" I whispered loudly, squinting down the hallway.
"Yea, but what, or I mean, who was it?" Axel whispered back, coming closer to me.
"Wanna play?" We both turned quickly to face the depths of the hallway. A strange sight met our eyes; a small girl was standing only a few feet away from us, her straight forward brunette bangs covered her face from view. She wore a summer dress with bandages around her arms. "Wanna play?" She asked again in her unearthly high voice.
"Umm, why are you here?" I said still in a whisper, I stepped a little closer to her, to seem friendly.
"So, you don't wanna play?" She questioned, looking up at me, revealing her face. I jumped backwards with a large intake of air and clutched on to Axel's forearm, which was the first thing I could find.
"Oh god…" He uttered. The face of the girl was a stark white and whites of her eyes were pitch black. As we watched, some blood trickled from her mouth and her right eye. She tweaked her head, seemly confused.
"Don't wanna play?"
"Roxas Run! Now!!" Axel yelled at the top of his lungs, breaking my grip and taking my hand in his. I tore my eyes away from the freakish sight and ran as fast as possible down the stairs with Axel at my side. We both crashed into the front door and clawed at the door knob. Locked?! The doors would not budge.
"Why the hell are the doors locked Axel?!" I yelled, still tugging at one of the knobs.
"How the fuck am I supposed to know?! Saix! Marluxia! Let us out!" Axel replied, now pounding his fist on the door.
"Shit! Open up!" We continued to yell at the entrance, to receive no reply.
A small giggling noise filled the entrance hall. We both fell quiet immediately, the hair on my neck stood on end. We glanced at each other and then behind us to the stairs. The eerie little girl was now standing at the top of the stairs, her shoulders shaking from the giggles that were now filling my senses and clouding my common sense. Axel broke the trance over me by grabbing my hand once again and forcing me through one of the doors off the side of the entrance hall. I tumbled to the ground and Axel slammed the door shut. He leaned against it, breathing heavily.
"Axel…what was that?" I asked quietly.
"I-I don't know." He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, his eyes closed in relaxation. "You okay?"
"Yea…we need to get out of here though." I leaned up against the closest wall and brought my legs up to my chest.
"You're right." He sat down next to me, his chin in his hand thinking of a way out. You can do it Axel! Think! Think! Get us the hell out of here!! I kept this to myself not wanting to break his concentration. "What the-!" He yelled all of a sudden pointing to the other side of the room, his face contorted in confusion and terror. My eyes followed the direction he was pointed and I settle upon a truly freakish thing; it seemed to be a floating horse head with giraffe horns and an extremely long tongue flopping out of one side.
"Fucking house!" I roared, as Axel and I burst through the door we came in and ran to the door across the hall neither of us daring to look at the stairs. We didn't stop running until we had reached the kitchen deep inside the house. Yet again, we collapsed into two chairs around the circle table in the middle of the room.
"This house is seriously fucked up…" Axel muttered.
"No kidding." I replied staring up at the ceiling.
"Hey, you're talking to me now." I looked down at Axel, an eyebrow quirked upwards.
"Do you really think I wouldn't talk to you in this kind of a situation?"
"Well, you seemed pretty dead set on ignoring me."
"You overestimate me Axel, my will isn't that great."
"Ha, I guess you're right," He laughed, my heart felt twenty times lighter. "So we've had our entire cabin spirited away, a creepy little girl scare the shit out of us, and a strange horse head thing look at us. What's next?"
"Don't say that Axel, you're just asking for something creepier."
"Crap. Sorry about that."
"To answer your question, next shall be flying food…" I said sleepy, not really understanding what I was saying.
"Flying foo-" -Squash- a banana had rammed itself into Axel's face at full force. Holy shit, flying food! I ducked, dodging an egg headed for my head. "Son of a-." Axel exclaimed wiping the banana smush off his face.
"Get under the table, stupid!" I grabbed the end of his shirt and pulled him under the table. The different kinds of food whizzed over the table disappearing back into the dark from which they came.
"Okay, this is just silly, I mean the girl was creepy, and the horse was hella weird, but this is just lame." He surveyed our surroundings trying to find where the ammunition was coming from.
"You have some banana on your nose."
"Shut up." He replied, furiously wiping his nose.
"We should move on to the next room, I don't want a pie in and face of anything like that." I glanced out from under the table to see if the food was still taking up our air space.
"Agreed. Okay, on the count of three, we run for the exit." He got into a staring position and followed suit.
"One. Two. Three. GO!" We sprinted past the deadly flying food attacks and entered a new room of the unknown. This room only had two doors. One we came from and the other with a padlock on it. The large window allowed moon light to filter through. A small table was in the center of the room with a single chair next to it. No other furniture was present, not even a painting.
"There is nothing in here, so we should be good for a while." Axel plopped down next to the window and leaded his head backwards against the wall. I walked over and sat next to him.
"You think this place is haunted?"
"Probably, I mean what was that girl? Couldn't have been human…" He responded, eyes set on the ceiling.
"I guess you're right." We rested in the quiet for a minute, pondering what was currently happening to us and what the hell happened to the others. This isn't what I signed up for. Oh wait, I didn't sign up at all. Nice one Mom. It's gonna be your fault if I get kidnapped by a ghost or monster or whatever the heck those things are. A scratching came at the padlocked door. I froze and slowly turned to Axel, as he turned to me.
"Wanna play?" The little girl's voice came from beyond the wood barrier.
"Shit! Axel, she found us!" I yelled hysterically grabbing at his arm.
"Calm down Roxas, the door is locked, she can't get in!" He held on to my hand, that was gripping his arm and we both stared at the door in anticipation.
"Wanna play?" The padlock started to jiggle and the scratching noises increased. The lock dropped off and the scratching stopped.
"Axel, I don't wanna die…" I was shaking with fear.
"My only regret is that you really don't like me." He sighed.
"Don't like…Axel, do you think I hate you?" I forgot our situation for a second to look at Axel in wonder.
"Don't you?" Axel said with a confused look on his face.
"No. I don't hate you. Hell, since we are going to die anyway, I can say that I actually really liked you." I said uncaringly, returning may vision to the door, waiting for death to be swift. All of a sudden Axel stood up quickly. "Axel?" I said questioningly.
"There is no way in hell that I am dying after hearing that!" He picked up the chair and hurled it at the window. It shattered. He grabbed my wrist and lifted me up. "We are getting out of here, right now!"
"Axel, you're a genius! I love you so much right now!" His face turned a slight color of pink. I gave a laugh.
"O-okay, well, we are going to jump out the window now. Ready?" I nodded my head eagerly. He clutched me close to his chest. "One. Two. Three. Jump!" We leaped through the window head first and soared through the air not but for a second before colliding with the sandy earth. The momentum made us roll several feet.
"We're free!" I shrieked with joy and hugged Axel tightly.
"Well you two seem to be getting along fine now." We looked up to see Marluxia standing over us with a smirk on his face. I hurriedly pushed Axel away from me and got off the ground.
"That's not important right now Marluxia." I said quickly changing the subject. "The others they just-just disappeared!" Flailing my arms to make a point.
"You mean those others?" He pointed over his shoulder to the entrance. The rest of our cabin was walking out of the house, looking over at us in wonder. Sora and Riku was holding the horse head that we saw floating in one of the rooms and Josh had an armful of fruit. My face that was at first, surprised, then contorted with rage. "You little…"
"I'm going to kill you all!" Axel growled from behind me, a killing aura surrounding him.
"Hold up there!" Zexion said holding his hands up to show his innocence. "We were just sick of your guys' fighting and wanted to stop it!"
"It was for your own good!" Sora yelled.
"Hey Axel." I said quietly, my hands clenching and unclenching.
"Yeah, Roxas?" He replied, grinding his teeth.
"I say we burn the cabin down while they sleep."
"I concur." A sadistic grin was scrawled across his features.
"Then you'll have to pay for repairs, it's not worth it." Marluxia said knowingly.
"Whatever, anyways, I see how you guys got the horse and flying fruit, but how did you make the creepy little girl?" I asked. "It was really scary." They all exchanged looks with raised eyebrows.
"Little girl?" Riku asked.
"Yeah, with the bandages and black eyes and everything…" My sentence trailed off. They really have no idea what I'm talking about…then that was. I looked up to a second story window to see the small girl with a large grin on her face waving at us, disappearing as soon as I blinked. I looked to Axel. He was staring at me with wide eyes. To everyone else's fright, we started to laugh hysterically, stumbling down that path back to the security and comfort of cabin number eight.
No one could get a sensible word out of us about what had happened, not even Josephine. Axel and I went to sleep with a simple good night. I stared at the wood wall trying to forget the house, dwelling on the things Axel had said and what I would write in a letter home.
Dear Mom,
I blame you for everything that has happened.
Love, Roxas
P.S. - send more sweatpants.
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-Tsubaki-kun