Axel:

I lay under the covers of my bed. The smell of singed cloth filled my nostrils. I coughed and began to turn to my side. My room was dark, and the curtains drawn up. I couldn't see the time, mostly because I smashed the screen. I could hear someone coming up the stairs and opened the door slowly.

Roxas peered through the crack and whispered "Here's a bin bag for you. Are you sure you okay doing this? There is a lot of blood still on the walls."

Kara was bent down picking up the shards, she placed them in a pile and looked up. I couldn't see her face, but her body was stiff. "Thank you. It's okay really you guys look like you can do with a day off. I heard there was a special on at the bar... You guys should go and have a good time."

She then scooped them up and placed them into the plastic bag. They made a cracking sound as she piled the broken mirror pieces into the bag. Roxas looked over at me and smiled mischievously. " thanks... sounds like a good plan...You know Kara." He paused and waited for her to look back at him. "Axel has told us a lot about your past... even ya know." Roxas stuck his tongue out at her and watched her throw something at him. I felt my face go hot at the memory of telling Roxas everything between the two.

Roxas closed the door suddenly and then peaked his head back through. "Also we are heading out to see Leon for a bit for some help on tracking down Riku... Soooooo if you wanted to do something you can."

She threw another object at him, which he barely ducked.

"About the box..." Kara began.

Roxas facial expression changed. "I don't want to talk. Sora thinks he knows where Riku is... that's all I need to know."

"Your revenge wont solve anything!" she called out to him.

"Neither will he moping around as much as he is. Would you mind?" He made a circle gesture around his lower waist. He then smiled at me and winked as he closed the door, enveloping us back in darkness. I could hear his footsteps echo down the stairs. As I heard another door close my phone began to buzz.

I groaned and stretched my arms. I picked it up of the side, and tried to read the message through the cracked screen. It was from Sora.

Oi! Get your lazy ass out of bed and do something! He said when this is over the other parents should be okay! So no excuse for moping any more! We are off out anyway, taking the day off and all that. We'll be back with something to eat later.

I found myself smiling wearily. I placed the phone back down and the drawer next to my bed and rolled back over to face the window. I could feel a long breath escape my lips. They didn't say anything about their mum... As I closed my eyes, I found myself afraid. The memories of the nightmares I had been having fragmented memories flooding back. Roxas' mum staring at me, and trying to kill me. Then i find myself back in a dark room with barely any light. I am running round desperately trying to escape, and a light appears. As i run towards it i begin to sink in a thick substance. Hands reach out and grab me. "I will kill her..." a wicked voice laughed.

I could only see black hair, and then her face appeared. "No! Please... I am sorry! Anything else please!"

As i began to cry out for help, a blade slit through her skull. Her pale grey eyes filled with blood and she was pushed to the ground next to me. the last thing i could see on her face was a smile... "KARA!" I screamed at her to move. Calling her name trying to reach for air was growing thick and I could barely breathe. I could feel my body straining and fighting against wet sticky hands that gripped my limbs. "Axel... Axel... Axel!" I could hear the familiar sweet voice.

I opened my eyes again and found myself laying on my back sweating. Her cold hand was on my shoulder. I grabbed hold of her and held her close to me. "Axel, it's okay." She wrapped her arms around me, and i pulled her over me. She rested her head on my chest, and I could feel her heart beating against mine. "I'm okay... really." I whispered, but i realised that my voice sounded hoarse and not convincing.

Kara pushed of her hands and looked at me. I could just make out her eyes. I could feel my hands shaking, and as I looked down i could see myself surrounded by thick cherry coloured snow. My arms dyed red and the black markings scaling up my arm. Kara's eyes were red, and the knife was pushing through her forehead... That smile. "Go... please... I can't hep them any more... I am useless... Sora and Roxas think i am useless... hell even Diz doesn't want me to work for him any more." She pulled my face to hers and kissed me. Her lips were sweet and the longer it went on, the less afraid I was. She broke of from me and sat on my legs. "You idiot." She sighed. "If you were useless and they hated you, don't you think they would have left you to die?"

"I know." I whispered to her. "She wont get out of my head... And what would have happened if i couldn't save you? I can't even save Namine!... What's..."

"I love you no matter what you do Axel... I have stood by you and always will, but you have to stop thinking that you are the only one who can save others! you got caught cause you went off on your own! I am not going anywhere! I stay with family and friends and loved ones! But you! you take responsibility to a hole new level. That's why you can't work for Diz! Please! how many times do they have to ask for you to help them now? because before you were brave enough to do it without thinking like this."

I could see her eyes turning cold. with my body shaking my mind began to argue with itself, and the head ache came creeping back. I clutched my head and began to feel my eyes water. In an attempt to stop myself I lifted myself up and leant against the backboard of my bed. I could still smell the burnt fabric, but i didn't care. I looked around and couldn't see any more mirror pieces. I turned my head to meet her gaze, she was looking at me with a faint smile on her face. "Your right... I need to get up and get dressed... Need to find a map so I can tell everyone where i think Riku is. Then I... i mean we... need to kick Riku's scrawny ass."

"We can do that when the others get back." her smile began to warm through my body and she began to hold me. "See... everything will work out just fine... Just keep believing."

"Oh great i can stay in bed for longer. can we change the subject?" Kara's mood had suddenly changed. She looked almost annoyed and yet playful.

"So you told Roxas everything." She shifted her weight on my legs.

I couldn't help but laugh. "Well I missed out a few things."

"Like what?" She looked away.

I pulled on her legs, forcing her forward. She let out a small yelp and within seconds she was up against me. "Someone's becoming more like their old selves." She smiled teasingly at me.

" I have reason to be happy." I pushed myself forward and pulled her down, "and this is what we are going to be doing till the others come back?"

Before I could kiss her she put her hand over my mouth. "And what is this reason?" she laughed, she didn't even try to answer my question.

I looked at her and she began to laugh. I knew she was only teasing me, but it felt so cruel. "Stop teasing me." I grumbled and fell back against the wall.

She bent forward and began to kiss the side of my neck. "I think you will find that is teasing." She whispered seductively into my ear.

She moved her hips and I felt myself moan. I pulled her to the side and leaned over her. She began to pull on my shirt, and slowly raised it over my head, as she bent forward kissing my exposed skin. She looked up at me, and her eyes flashed yellow. Her skin was growing coder. "What... Are you okay your freezing!" i could feel y body quiver at the touch of her cold fingers.

"Your too easy." I heard a laugh from above me.

Before i could move, a sword was pushed through Karas chest. The blood dripping down on to my body, dying my skin pink. I could feel my body push up and frantically try to move her. but when i touched her body, she twitched, cracked her head to the side. and glared at me. Mouth oozing blood and eyes a hellish yellow. She smiled crookedly, her teeth sharp. "This is a dream..." I kept telling myself. But then...

She rose up and stood over me. She then lifted me up with an unfamiliar strength and pushed me against the wall. As i hit my head, i knew it wasn't a dream. She began to choke me, and i could feel the life flow from me. She pulled the sword from her shest and drove it into my shoulder. As i was beginning to give up and the pain began to numb, Demyx pushed through the door, and slammed into her.

She screamed and howled at him, frantically pushing him off her as he dug the sword deep through her. She started to laugh. "It doesn't even hurt... Pathetic... useless human... I hate your worthless kind."

"Where is she?" Demyx asked the creature calmly. It cackled and hissed. No answer.

Demyx forced a bubble around her face and it began to fill with water. he was drowning it slowly. He moved it on and off repeatedly. After a long time the creature died. And a figure that looked like Kara began to turn to shadows. A crooked smile on its face. When its remains had disolved, there was only one small thing left. Kara's old necklace she had got from Diz when she was a child... Her only treasure, was now stained in crusted blood.

As Demyx pulled up the sword, there were markings of blue black scales spiraling up its sharp edge. "I killed her too didn't I!" I screamed at Demyx.

"Axel..." Demyx pinned me down as I frantically pulled away. "AXEL! she isn't dead... She is just missing."

"How do you know she isn't dead!"

"Because Riku can't kill her, just like he can't kill Namine and Kairi. They mean too much to him. He will try to push her to her dark side, which is easy considering she barley has a heart." Demyx looked down at me and then moved his stare to my shoulder. "You don't have pick some wacko's."

"She wasn't a wacko until she tried to kill me... why does she remember everything? have her things?"

"Come on Riku knows every one of your weaknesses. He is pushing all of you over the edge and its working... you wanted to die a few days ago so much so that you would hurt yourself. Look at your arms!"

As i looked down i could see burns and open cuts across them. They began to sting and ooze a white liquid. Demyx began to poke them,. "Fuck off!" i screamed at him.

"Okay... Jeez... If your interested... I found an open portal hidden away behind a bookshelf."

"Are you shitting me? that is so cliché... no way Riku would be that obvious."

"It doesn't lead to Riku. It leads to Sephiroff. Who wants Riku dead. Managed to have half of one arm bitten off by his pet... so you can imagine he is pretty pissed."

"No! I aint working with a knob head!" i yelled.

"Your one too! i am sure you two will get along, come on before the others come back... and be nice! I actually want our friends back in one piece.

As we headed for the door, something fell in front of me. It was a small guitar pick. As i picked it up it a glow began to shine of it, and writing formed in a spiral. The center words said Don't look for me.