Both couples packed and warped to Destiny Islands, setting up tents on
a small tiny sized Island connected to the main island. The
mini-island had a few bushes and flowers and a tree who's branches
grew sideways, making a perfect bench. Axel made a fire pit with a
sand trench and Demyx began to teach Roxas how to fish.
"All right, Roxy!" Axel cheered when Roxas brought back his first
fish. "How do you want it cooked?" Axel asked, heating up the flames
while Zexion read a book on various herbs and native plants of the
island.
After the four ate, they gathered around the fire to roast
marshmallows and tell scary stories.
"All right who knows a good one?" Demyx munched on his burnt sugary treat.
"I do. It's called the Shadow of Paopu Boy." Axel began in a scary voice.
"Paopu boy? What could that possibly be about?" Roxas scoffed.
"It's about a boy who used to live on this island, before the
heartless scared everyone away. He lived a happy peaceful life like
anyone else would have if they lived on a nice calm island like this.
He was around fourteen and quite small, but he lived life without any
fears on this perfect little piece of land. But then, on the night
the heartless invaded, the night of a full moon, he transformed into
what we now know as the Shadow of Paopu Boy.
"You see, the heartless destroyed all the houses and people along with
the village, but that particular night, while the main land was
getting trashed, Paopu Boy was on this mini-island we're camping on.
He ventured here just to enjoy the nice sunset, but fell asleep and
when he awoke, everything and everyone he knew was slaughtered.
"At first he wanted to run back over the bridge to the main island to
try to save whatever could be left, but he soon realized that there
was nothing left to salvage. When he saw the corpses of his family and
friends, he burned with anger and rage that only drew the heartless
towards him. They pounced on him and attacked him, but he needed his
revenge, so he kept his heart strong and fought back as best he could.
"The heartless took his legs and one of his eyes, but in the end, his
light drove them away, and for good. Now, none of the heartless ever
come here in fear that Paopu Boy will destroy them with his light. But
theres only one problem with that theory: Paopu Boy doesn't have a
heart to hold light; nor does he have a body to host a heart. When the
heartless attacked him, his blood was mixed with their black blood
that slowly corroded his body away and now, a shadow is all that is
left of him.
"Every night he wanders the island to try to find remnants of his
village, and every full moon, he comes to this little island to try to
find a host for his heart where he can increase his revenge on any
being lacking hearts." Axel ended with a cruel smile that had Roxas
and Demyx shivering while Zexion tried to appear less than bothered.
"But, tonight's a full night," Demyx looked up at the moon and the
remaining trio followed his lead.
"Yeah, and we don't have any hearts." Roxas put a hand on his chest
and tried not to look as scared as he really was.
"It's just a story, lets try to get some sleep." Zexion suggested and
everyone nodded. Within thirty minutes, they were all snuggled in
their sleeping bags, each couple in a tent.
"Thanks Axel, for everything." Roxas inched his sleeping bag closer to Axel's.
"Don't mention it, it was my," Axel's words halted when a low
whistling noise was heard, followed by a crash.
"What was that?" Demyx yelled from his tent and Axel got out from his
sleeping bag.
"Don't go out there!" Roxas begged as Axel exited the tent and Roxas
followed cautiously.
"You heard it too?" Zexion asked, also out of his tent.
"Yeah, it wasn't natural whatever it was." Axel heightened the fire to
scare away anything and anyone besides themselves.
"I don't think I can sleep now." Roxas admitted, his night ruined.
"Me either." Demyx was standing in his sleeping bag by the others near
the fire pit.
"Alright, we'll sleep under the stars and keep an eye and ear out for
whatever it was." Axel instructed.
They worked hard to quickly take the tents down and arranged the
sleeping bags with Axel and Demyx at the ends and the two smaller boys
in the middle. Axel extended the fire pit to go completely around them
and put a spell on it so it wouldn't go out, grow, fade, or move
without his voice commanding it to do so. Within two hours, to all of
their surprise, they each fell asleep, until they heard the sound
again.
"Shit, there it is again!" Demyx shook fearfully in his sleeping bag
when the noise repeated itself.
"Who's there?" Axel asked, standing up.
"Where's Zexion?" Roxas screamed and panic took over the remaining three.
"Zexion? Zexion!" Demyx yelled and
searched about wildly.
"Oh god, no, no, no, no, no, oh god!" Axel put a hand to his head,
trying to figure out what was going on.
"He's not here!" Roxas said, close to tears when he saw Demyx ready to
cry as well.
"Where is he?" Axel asked Demyx.
"I dunno!" Demyx's voice shook and he tried to accept the fact that
his love was missing.
"Fuck," Axel heard a strange noise that sounded like a heavy bag being
dragged across sand that continued and grew as it did so.
"What the fuck is going on?" Roxas put his hands to his head and
walked around in a small circle on top of the sleeping bag piles.
"AXE!" Demyx pointed, frozen in fear as a wall of fire was put out
before them. This empty space void of fire shocked Axel.
"There's no way that fire could disappear without me saying so!" He
pounded his temples roughly with his fists.
"AHHH!" Roxas shrieked and the two older boys saw a legless figure
crawling towards them, dragging his stomach behind his clawing arms,
his body black and eyes yellow.
"Get away!" Demyx commanded, summoning his sitar.
"Demyx, no! He might know where Zexion is. Don't hurt him!" Axel tried
to calm his friend down.
"He probably killed him and I wont let him get us!" Demyx strummed his
sitar loudly. "Kill water, kill!" Demyx sang authoritatively and Axel
raised the fire-wall to take the blunt blow of the crashing wave. When
the steam, fire, and water all faded away, the clear minds of the trio
returned.
"Is he gone?" Roxas coughed, trying not to inhale the leftovers of
Axel's and Demyx's science experiment that collided fire and water.
"If not yet, soon." Demyx also chocked, inhaling small shallow breathes.
"Ugh my head."
"He spoke!" Roxas pointed to the shadowy figure who laid helpless on the ground.
"Where's my boyfriend you bitch?" Demyx pointed his sitar at the shadow.
"Demyx, it's me!" The shadow boy transformed back into Zexion.
"What the? No! How? What's going on?" Demyx fell to his knees, confused.
"Hahahaha, you should have seen your faces!" Axel rolled on the floor
holding his stomach, laughing.
"AXEL! That's not funny!" Roxas stomped his foot down loudly.
"Zexy?" Demyx looked to his boyfriend with hurt watering eyes.
"Sorry Demy, but I couldn't help it. Please don't be too mad." Zexion
stooped down to hold Demyx.
"You're such an asshole Axel!" Demyx said.
"I cant believe you'd do that to us." Roxas sat down, angry, arms
folded and eyes looking away from everyone else's.
"Take the stick outa your ass and relax. It was just a prank." Axel
sat by Roxas, who scooted away.
"I'm really sorry, Demyx." Zexion apologized.
"I guess it was a good prank. It's fine, just don't scare me like that
ever again. I was so terrified that I might have lost you." Demyx held
Zexion back.
"Roxas, I'm sorry alright? I just wanted to give you a night to remember."
"Whatever. Just, don't do it again. I'm tired." Roxas sighed. Now that
he knew that there was nothing that could hurt them on that island all
he wanted to do was sleep.
The four got back in their sleeping bags and Axel rekindled the fire
as they tried for round two at sleeping.
"Goodnight everyone!" Demyx yawned.
"Night." Roxas answered.
"Nighty-night." Axel smiled into his pillow.
"See ya in the morning." Zexion sighed.
Author's Note: OMG This is the 2nd to last chapter! I'm so sad to see the end nearing, but I'm so happy that I have so many wonderful readers! Don't forget to keep an eye out for my Cleon, which I will start posting Saturday the 17th. Once all those chapters are up (1 per night) I will post the sequel for this, so please read my Cleon to get your fix of KH Yaoi fanfiction! Full of soriku and Akudem too! I also just started ANOTHER Akuroku today (not related to this storyline) so that will be coming up after the sequel is completed and fully posted. And like this fanfiction, all others will be a chapter a night, as best as I can. Thank you for all the love and support, they mean SO much to me!
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