A mute boy with golden blonde hair in short, windswept spikes and wearing a hooded black coat was following a taller figure clad in the same thing. He introduced himself as Axel, the boy reminded himself, And my name is… Roxas.
Looking up in determination as Axel removed his hood and summoned the flaming Chakrams to fight Heartless with, Roxas began mentally singing:
Whatever you do, I'll do it too.
Show me everything and tell me how.
It all means something,
And yet nothing to me.
I can see there's so much to learn, Roxas sang in his head, eating his first ice cream,
It's all so close and yet so far.
I see myself as people see me. His initiation flashed though the blond's mind.
Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there. He looked at the Sunset, for some reason briefly reminded of another involving a beach and a crooked palm tree.
I wanna know, can you show me? Roxas thought, following Axel through castle corridors.
I wanna know about these strangers like me.
Tell me more, please show me!
Something's familiar about these strangers like me.
Some time later, Roxas had made another new friend. Her name was Xion.
Every gesture, every move that she makes, he mentally sang as they worked,
Makes me feel like never before.
Why do I have
This growing need to be beside her?
Memories of Sora flickered through Roxas' mind.
"Ooh, these emotions I never knew
Of some other World far beyond this place," the blond sang aloud, looking out his window.
"Beyond the trees, above the clouds," he added, standing in front of the abandoned mansion.
"I see before me a new horizon."
"I wanna know, can you show me?" Roxas asked Axel in the Castle That Never Was.
"I wanna know about this stranger like me." He recalled Sora. As Axel mentioned that boy being Roxas' Somebody, the blond grabbed his arm when the redhead moved to leave.
"Tell me more, please show me!
Something's familiar about this stranger like me."
Frustrated that Axel wasn't telling him anything and worried about Xion, Roxas pleaded with her to return with him:
"Come with me now back to our World,
Where there's a story beyond your dreams." Xion shook her head, still thinking of Sora.
"Can you feel the things I feel?" Roxas asked, getting desperate.
"Right now, with you.
Take my hand." She gave him a sad smile and ran off. When Roxas didn't find her, he fell to his knees and murmured:
"There's a World I need to know." Destiny Islands flashed through his mind.
"I wanna know, can you show me?" Roxas asked Axel again when they met up in Digital Twilight Town.
"I wanna know about this stranger like me.
Tell me more, please show me!
Something's familiar about this stranger like me
...I wanna know."
This chapter was made by Nat.