I do not own any of the characters except for Theena/Xanethe. All rights belong to Square Enix and Disney.
Axel ran around the castle, making sure everything was set for that evening. He spoke to Roxas, making up some story about how the inhabitants of the town would be crowding the tower for a festival that night, so going up wouldn't be a good idea. After clearing that up, he began to search the castle for Saix,but with no luck. It seemed that he was nowhere to be found. Axel's brow furrowed.
"That's strange…" Axel muttered to himself. Saix was usually easy to find, it was his job to assign missions after all. Axel sighed, and figured he would just speak with him when he returned to the castle that night. Anxious, and unwilling to wait any longer, Axel left for his day's mission.
Xanethe paced up and down the beach. She was both eager and nervous to go to Twilight Town. It would be yet another sunset she would get to watch with Axel, but she also knew that Twilight Town was very heavily monitored by the organization. She thought for a moment. Axel had given her his word, and she trusted him, without a doubt. She sighed and took a seat in the soft sand. Finally, the sound of a dark corridor opening behind her signified Axel's arrival. She turned to see the redhead walking towards her, a grin lighting up his face.
"Ready to go Thee?" he asked, holding a hand out to her.
"Ready as I'll ever be I suppose," she said, taking his hand, and getting to her feet. He chuckled.
"That's the spirit." He got behind her, and placed his hands over her eyes. "Alright, I'll guide you there, just don't open your eyes until I say so." She nodded, and Axel began to walk her forward. She could hear the waves of the beach fade and then finally disappear as they went through the dark corridor. Soon, she could feel a gentle breeze tickling her face, and she assumed that they had arrived.
"Can I look now Lea?"
"Hold on." He turned her slightly. "You need to see it from the best angle," he added, then took his hands away from her eyes. She blinked a couple of times, her eyes adjusting to the bright light. The sky seemed to be on fire with the colors of the sunset. She could see the whole town, which was saturated by an orange glow. There was as train track that appeared to run all the way to the horizon and beyond. Axel looked at her expectantly. "Do you like it?" he asked hopefully.
"Lea...it's gorgeous," she stated simply, at a loss for words.
"Really? That's great!" he said, growing excited. "Alright, you just sit there." He put a hand on her shoulder, and motioned to the tower's edge. "Stay there, and I'll be right back." He turned and ran.
"What? Lea wait!"
"Be right back!" he yelled back. Xanethe couldn't help but laugh. Axel always seemed to get very flustered when he was excited, she saw it as one of his many charms. She turned her focus back to the sunset that Axel had been so eager to share with her. Now she understood why. It truly was brilliant. Before she knew it, she heard footsteps coming up behind her, and Axel sat beside her on the tower's edge.
"What was that about?" she questioned. He grinned.
"The icing on the cake."
"Wha-?" He held out two blue popsicles. Xanethe took one and examined it. Axel nodded, urging her to taste it. She took a small bite, and instantly the salty sweetness flooded over her tongue. "This is...delicious." she said with a big smile.
"It's sea salt ice cream, my favorite," he explained, taking a bite of his own popsicle. As they ate, Axel pointed out and talked about all of the areas of Twilight Town that had some sort of significance to him, and Xanethe listened intently.
"You make being in the organization sound almost fun," she stated. "I wish I could have gone on some of these missions of yours."
"Nah." Axel took the popsicle stick out of his mouth. "Sure, sometimes it's alright, but...you said it yourself. There's something about that place that just drags you down." He sighed. "Now the places you've been, the things you've done, that sounds fun." Xanethe shrugged.
"It was fun, for a while anyways. But it did start to feel pretty lonely." She smiled. "That's not a problem anymore though. Not now that you found me." Axel smiled and stared out over the town for a moment, then stood, stretching.
"Six years...now that we've been back together these past few weeks, that time apart feels like nothing," he said, leaning against the tower wall behind them. Xanethe stood as well, walking over to stand in front of Axel.
"No, it doesn't…" she agreed. "I mean, I don't even feel like a nobody anymore, it's almost like in finding you, I-"
"I found my heart," Axel finished. She looked up at him, he violet eyes betraying some of her surprise. Then she nodded. Axel stood up straight, close to Xanethe. He looked at her hands, and took them in his own, then returned his green gaze to her eyes. "Theena, I…"
"Yeah?" she asked, moving slightly closer to him.
"I...I uh…" He bent down a little to meet Xanethe's height. He saw her eyes start to close, and closed his own. That warm sensation was flowing endlessly throughout him as their noses touched. Just as their lips began to brush one another's, the sound of a dark corridor shattered the quiet. They both whipped around to see a group of white creatures emerge from the darkness, twisting unnaturally.
"What the hell?"
"Dusks! Damnit...Theena, run!" Axel got between her and the dusks, summoning his chakrams.
"But-
"Go!" She nodded hesitantly, and held her hand out to open a portal of her own. Before she could, a white tendril wrapped around her wrist. She gasped as she saw that another corridor had opened, allowing more dusks on to the tower. She formed a lance in her free hand, and sliced at the dusk. Once free, she formed a dagger in her other hand and began to slash at the creatures. Axel was also swinging at them, creating a wall of flames to hold them off.
"What the hell is going on?" she grunted, taking out another dusk.
"Yes Axel, why don't you tell her?" They both turned, shocked to see yet another dark corridor open, this time a blue haired man in an organization coat appeared.
"Saix?"
"Isa…" Xanethe was shocked to see her brother. "Lea, what is he talking about?" she asked, continuing to fend off the dusks.
"I have no idea!" he stated, fighting them off as well.
"Oh, don't be modest Axel. You know that without your intel, we never would have been able to track down the deserter," Saix explained.
"Wh-what?" Xanethe questioned, looking at Axel. Slowly, her struggled ceased, and she allowed the dusks to wind themselves around her. The dusks that had been attacking Axel vanished, leaving him to stand dumbfounded.
"No, Theena, I didn't do this!"
"Of course you did," Saix stated, grabbing Xanethe's arm and opening a new dark corridor. "You led me right to her."
"I didn't do this!" he repeated, desperately shaking his head. "Theena, I didn't do this. I didn't do this," he insisted. His breathing became heavy as he looked at Xanethe.
"You should have know sister, that playing with fire could result in burns," Saix said quietly. She said nothing, just stared at Axel, her expression a mix of disbelief, confusion...and hurt. Saix began to pull her through the corridor. "No...no! Saix!" he growled as the overwhelming confusion bubbled into fury. He launched flames at Saix, but too late. The portal faded away, leaving the fire to hit the wall and fizzle out.