Epic 25: Only the First

"It was back when we were in the Organization." He started quietly. "All of us, even Naminé, to an extent." He rubbed his blood stained gloves together nervously. I felt a queer sort of nausea upon realizing that all that blood on him was mine. I mentally shook the thought away and focused on his voice.

"I was sent on a long term mission to one of our alternative bases called Castle Oblivion. There were two teams that were sent, a basement team, consisting of numbers four, five, and six." His eyes narrowed briefly. "Vexen, Leaxus, and Zexion." He sighed leaning back in the chair folding his arms over his chest. "And the above team, Myself, Marluxia and Larxene. Marluxia was the technical master of the castle and was entrusted with Naminé."

"Entrusted?" I asked.

He scowled leaning forward again. "Nami never was particularly a part of the organization. She was more… someone we used, or tried to use." He snorted. "Kinda back fired majorly." There was almost a chuckle to that statement. "Our target was a boy named Sora…You've met him before."

My mind flashed back to the boy on the island, the Keyblade master. I remembered the weight in his heart, the responsibility the strength. I nodded in silence.

"See, Nami is the Nobody of Sora's girlfriend…" He cracked a small smirk. "You met her too actually." The girl from the islands. I nodded again. "And somehow because of that, she has the power to manipulate Sora's memories and the memories of everyone connected to him."

I scowled. "I, don't like where this is going…"

Axel chuckled again. "They used Naminé to manipulate Sora. Marluxia was going to use him to overthrow the rest of the organization. With Larxene and…my help."

I let out a short burst of laughter "And he calls you a traitor?" He was silent. "Axel…"

He sighed running a hand through his hair. "Vexen," He sighed. "I killed him, under Marluxia's orders." I grew pale. He rung his hands a little more, flickering quick looks up at me.

"Axel…" I breathed quietly.

He sighed. "Xemnas sent me to keep an eye on Marluxia. To prove that I could be trusted he had me destroy Vexen." He folded his arms over his chest. "So, I did, and then let Sora go to hell on Larxene, and Marluxia's asses. And while Sora went to town on Marly for taking Naminé, who he thought was an old childhood friend he'd promised to protect, his best friend, Riku, whipped out, Laxeus, and I kinda solicited the death of Zexion."

"Axel."

He shook his head. "Marluxia didn't lie when he said I was a traitor. I've done more then he knows. I've screwed up and pissed off any number of people off. I just never expected the dead to come back and bite me." He rolled his toxic eyes. "Go figure." He stood. "I thought I'd out run them, but I hadn't and I got you caught in the middle. For that I am sorry."

"Wait, Organization XIII, you pissed them all off?"

He nodded. "Well minus Roxas and Demyx." He smirked.

"But if, Flower Power and Rabid Slut are back, then will the others be?" I bit my lip.

Axel stared at me levelly for a moment before walking back, crouching down level to me. "Arienn, you're hurt." He stated. "You're in pain and need to recover." He pushed a strand of hair out of my face with his finger tips. I could feel a very tiny tremble to his hand. "We'll talk about it later." Something about the way he said it made the point that the conversation was over.

He left and a moment later the doctor came in with the pain killers. I don't remember much after that but it took forever to get back on my feet. My last day in the hospital came when Axel walked in and my instant reaction was to sit forward gripping the sheets tightly. "Get. Me. The. Hell. Out. Of. Here!" I hissed. He just laughed a little, making some comment about me looking like a caged bird.

We still haven't talked about his history in pissing off people…

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