Fire & Moonlight, a Kingdom Hearts fanwork: 101 Theme Challenge by Wishing-Fire, written by Raberba girl

53. The Storm (rough draft)

Summary: Saïx isn't the only one with a phobia.

A/N: Stepsiblings universe, multiple perspectives. And I'm sorry for the overload of AkuSaiRokuShi and stuff (especially in this series that allegedly focuses on AkuSai), I can imagine it's getting repetitive... :/

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Xion

Monster chasing me but I can't run, trying and trying he's catching up

CRASH

HE BIT ME

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh it's my room, dark, I woke up in bed in my room raining, rain hitting the window NO

CRASH

SAÏX SAÏX SAÏX I NEED YOU I NEED YOU I NEED YOU ow that hurt, ow ow ow knee hurts have to get to Saïx SAÏX WAKE UP, WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UPPPPPPPP

Saïx

I awakened to find myself being violently shaken by my sister, as the sound of heavy rain struck the window. A flash of lightning made the situation clear to me, and she screamed in the next second, though it was nearly drowned in the crash of thunder that had incited it.

"Xion..."

I have learned, however, that nothing I say has an effect in these situations, and did not resist as she practically shoved me out of bed. I had just enough presence of mind to seize a pillow and blanket as she, in an impressive display of strength for such a small girl, hauled me across the room and into my closet before slamming the door. The storm was muted now, though we could both still hear it.

"Ugh..." I was too tired to deal with this. I lay down and allowed her to clamber over me and wedge herself between me and the wall.

"Saïx," she whimpered, "please please please sing the kittens song."

"Xion," I groaned.

"Please," she sobbed. "Sing to me like we sing at Christmas, please."

... I suppose it...was only fair...

I sighed and rolled over, folding some of the blanket across her as she nestled close to me. "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens..." I think I fell back asleep before finishing the song, but at least she wasn't shivering as much.

Axel

The storm wakes me up, though for a minute I just lie here stupidly until thunder crashes and I remember-

"Ah, dang it." Xion. Have to get to Xion, like, now.

I get up and hunt around for some pants, and I'm pulling them on when lightning blasts my room again.

I freeze. It was just for a second, but I thought I saw...

My back is already creeping. For a minute, I'm paralyzed, but then I force myself to dive for the light switch, telling myself, 'It's okay, Axel, it's okay, Axel, it's just your imagination, you're just jumpy because-'

HOLY CRAP NOT MY IMAGINATION IT'S THERE IT'S THERE IT'S THERE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAÏX! Saïx Saïx Saïx HOLY CRAP it's moving SAÏX!

The breath FREEZES IN MY FREAKING THROAT and I swear I'm going to faint for a minute because HE'S NOT THERE. WHERE IS HE. HE'S NOT HERE. I NEED MY BROTHER AND HE'S NOT IN HIS FREAKING BED AND WHERE IS HE.

I hurl the closet door open so hard it actually bounces back off the wall and nearly hits me in the face. "SAÏX." Then I feel bad because Xion's screaming. Oops. "Xi, it's m-me..."

Her screams fade into sobs, and Saïx makes an annoyed grunt. I can hear them but I can't see them, where's the dang light switch uuuuuggggghhhhhh, what if there's one on the wall crawling on the light switch, under my fingers, ugly gross hairy body filling my palm and eight legs rattling against my flesh and my back hits the wall and I can barely keep from screaming myself, it comes out as a strangled whimper. "Saïx!"

"Go away!" he wails.

"SAÏX TURN THE LIGHT ON."

"I'm trying to sleep."

"TURN THE LIGHT ON FOR ME I'M GONNA KICK YOU."

"Axel, I'm scared," Xion sobs. Crap, can't kick him, Xi's somewhere down there I might kick her too, but finally Saïx you jerk he's getting up and shuffling over here and flipping the switch so that the closet floods with awesome, wonderful light, except it just thundered again so Xion's screaming. I hate this.

"Just leave me alone," he groans. "There's school tomorrow."

"Bring your bed in here," I order. I am not sleeping on the floor, not where spiders can crawl up and crawl over you and uuuugggghhhh, can't stop swatting at the back of my neck because I can feel them there even though it's just my imagination...

Saïx flops back down and pulls the pillow over his head. Jerk.

"It's loud," Xion sobs.

I have to shut the door. I shut it and look everywhere, all over, the floor and the walls and the ceiling but I can't see anything. There's nothing. It's okay, Axel, it's okay, no spiders in here, just your poor freaking out little sister and your jerk brother. "It's okay X-Xi," I say. She watches with huge teary eyes as I shove Saïx against the wall - if they come crawling down the wall, they'll get on him and not me - and gingerly lie down and use him as a pillow. I'm at an angle where I can see most of the closet. I'll see them coming, if they come crawling up. Hopefully. I can see them if they come. I'll grab Saïx's arm and squish them with it. He's a jerk and he's asleep so he can be my spider-guard.

"It's still raining," Xion sniffles. She crawls over to me and I put my arms around her and we're miserable together. At least it beats being miserable alone.

Roxas

CRASH.

Not falling, 'cause I'm in bed and it was a dream.

Oh look, it's raining. I can say I'm scared and get to sleep with Axel.

Cold cold floor is cold, why is the light on

WHERE'S AXEL.

...

Maybe aliens took him, but maybe he went potty. I'mma go check.

Axel is not going potty.

Axel is not eating ice cream in the kitchen.

"AXEL WHERE ARE YOU."

Crash. Thunder. Xion's scared of thunder, she cries.

Oh. Axel went to hold Xion and sing to her and tell her everything's gonna be okay.

XION'S GONE. XION GOT KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS TOO. I'M ALL ALONE. I'M ALL ALONE.

Except Saïx. And Mom and Xem. If Saïx got kidnapped too then I'm all alone. But I have to see if his bed's empty

HIS BED IS EMPTY I'M ALL ALONE. "Axel!" I yell. "Axel I'm alone come back!"

Knock knock.

There is a monster in the closet. The monster ate Saïx. Maybe it ate Axel and Xion too.

I go and get my lightsaber and my helmet and I'm gonna bash it in the stomach really hard so it'll throw up Saïx and Axel and Xion like the monster did in Space Pizza Invasion and they'll be gross and covered with throw-up but I'll get them back. I hate bad monsters.

"Why is everyone in the closet?"

"We're scared," Axel says. He looks sad. "Come be scared with us."

"Okay." I come in.

"Close the door!" Axel and Xion yell.

Geez. I close the door. "I closed it." Saïx has a pillow on his head. It looks good to sleep on. I go and lie on the pillow and Saïx says Go away and Axel hugs me and Xion, and everything's okay now and I fall asleep.

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Author's Notes: ... This did not turn out nearly as cute or amusing as I thought it would. -.- (Except for Roxas's part. XD Little-kid Roxas is my favorite character to write ever. X3)

Axel's arachnophobia is from Christmas at the Castle, and Xion's thunderphobia is from Raindrops & Whiskers.

I'm...pretty sure by now that Axel & Roxas are supposed to share a room? I think? But the house is doing its magical author's needs rearranging again. orz I'll figure it out for the final draft...hopefully... (And why Xem & Lea are able to sleep through all that racket, idk yet. -.-)

And again, more AkuSaiRokuShi than AkuSai.

Fail drabble all around, whee!

Complete: 52/101