a.s: Square-Enix own the characters and I don't use this for money, but you already knew that, right? :)


Traverse

"I wonder how they can play anything in this darkness..." whispered Axel, watching some students walking in the First District "Do you think they know something about the Vanitas?"

"I doubt any of them know something... But we can't let them know who we are..." however, after Saïx said that, a blond guy, with gray clothes, approached of them.

"Ahem! I don't think I know any of you... Are you new students?" asked him, with his sharp lavender eyes.

"Yes, sorry, but we're looking for Master Xehanort's office... Do you know..." started saying Saïx, but the look of the guy just got sharper.

"Heh, I think I know you both... You were at the first round in the contest... And lying like this for...HEY!"

All of a sudden Axel pulled Saïx by his arm and ran towards the Second District.

"What do you think you are doing?" complained Saïx, releasing his hand from Axel's grip "We must return to Radiant right now. We're busted, everything is lost..."

"I don't think so..." gasped Axel, trying to get air in his lungs "We must try to find Vanitas now that we're here. They'll inform Master Xehanort anyway. C'mon, we have to find something useful..."

"You don't even know where we are, moron"

"Explore, that's the trick. Got it memorized?"

Saïx just got an angry look and started walking carefully in the shadows.

"Do you remember the duet in the contest? We mustn't afford to run into them again" said Saïx, looking the sad faces of some students.

"It was that blond one and a guy with purple headphones... Hey, hey, look at that!" called Axel, poiting to a blond guy wearing a cap with a silver skull.

He was with another kid, smaller with a cap of skull too. Both of them looked pretty sad and worried.

"Ahn, sorry, but we're new here..." said Saïx, approaching them "We need to know where is Master Xehanort's office.

The small kid went behind the tall one, looking a little scared.

"You're going in the wrong direction. The office is in the Fourth District..."

"Stop, Beat!" screamed the blond guy from before, running towards them "They aren't from this academy!"

"Oh really? So it isn't my business anyway, let's go Rhyme" said the tall guy to the small one.

"I won't let you find whatever you're looking for!" said Joshua, blocking the way from Saïx and Axel, while the other two left.

"Oh? You and which army? We can beat..."

"No violence, Axel. We're not here for this. But I've been thinking... If you and your friend lost on purpose on the contest, you might know what your headmaster is planning" when Saïx said those words, the sharp look of Joshua faded instantly, being replaced by shock "Oh... I guess you don't know"

"Then you can start saying to us" said a voice, atop a building "It was already bothering me anyway".

"Neko!"