Fall to pieces
By: the Maria half of Zeida and Maria
Summery:What if my freakish fleeting thought, the result of not having finished the first game, and not having played Chain of Memories, was true? Basicly, Sora was... not... just not. and Riku was was trying to make him him again.
Disclaimer: I dont own Kingdom Hearts(is riku in bondage?)
Ch.2: Old Friend
Roxas lept out of bed, throwing his blankets over the intruder. He rolled to the left and grabbed his struggle club.
Wham!
"Roxas!" he cried out in alarm, stumbling dizzily over to the bed. He ulled the blanket off, revealing curly blond hair. "What the hell! You're hyped up for the Struggle, aintcha?" Hayner exclaimed.
Roxas forced a laugh, "Sorry, I thought my dream was real... again..." he sat on the bed, next to his best friend.
Hayner looked him up and down, worried, "I hope you're ready."
"Yeah.." Roxas muttered, looking tired.
"Those dreams are causeing alot of trouble. Maybe it's a- Nevermind. But tomorrow we're all going around town to try and figure out what's happening to you." Hayner wrapped an arm around Roxas' shoulders and squeezed comfortingly. "Anyway, get dressed quick, Struggle's in half an hour."
"What!" Roxas looked up, alarmed. He lept out of bed, and began shoving Hayner out of the room. "Out!"
When Hayner was gone, Roxas collapsed back on the bed. "I guess it couldn't be real..." he thought out loud. "I have this strange feeling that i would be dead it it was."
Roxas groaned as he rolled over to see his clock had just ticked by five more minutes. He quickly began to dress.
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Pleliminaries always went fast in the Struggle. The people who entered were always very, very good, or... not. This year, to evereybodys suprise, Vivi made it into the finals.
Vivi was a small, young boy who was fairly new to Seifers 'Disciplinary Gang'. Seifer himself, of course, also made it. Hayner and his friends didn't get along with Seifer and his gang, the Struggle just got personal!
The first fight, to their own distress, was Roxas vs. 'his best friend and local attitude problem' Hayner. To a roar of suprise and approval from the crowd, he beat Hayner. Hayner just laughed it off. As far as he was concerned, it just meant he had trained Roxas well.
They stood on the side lines together, watch the next fight. They looked on as their arch enemy duked it out with the new battle-ready Vivi. Vivi was fast! Roxas and Hayner stared as Vivi bounced around the ring, leavingvarious hard blows all over Seifer. The older boy was growing mad, he was just about to release his special attack, when Vivi seemed to explode.
WHAM!
Seifer slid across the arena floor, his bat flew to the other side. ZThere was a collective gasp. The ref, very confused, named Vivi the victor. An odd laugh echoed across the Sand Pit, hee hee hee , and Roxas shivered. Strangely, no one else seemed to have noticed it.
Roxas had started to climb into the ring as soon as everyone was ready for the next match, when he heard a voice behind him, addressing him.
"That's not Vivi, thrash 'em!" Seifer said as he walked away.
Roxas and his friends watched him leave, looking at him strangely.
"Wow. Seifer wants us to win?"
"He's just sore"
"I actually kinda wanted to face him." Roxas sighed.
In the ring the ref gave both Roxas and Vivi long blue and yellow clubs and briefly explained the rules. "Play fair now!" he excliamed then motion fo them to begin.
Roxas had an easier tiome than he had imagined. vivi was going all out, but Roxas was matching him blow for blow, He even got in a couple nice hits, all in all, he was winning.
"Time's up! Roxas wins!" the ref yell. He was mimiced by the announcer and the crowd roared.
Then, it stopped.
Roxas looked around in confusion, nothing was moving. He spotted his friends, cheering, and frozen in their jubilant positions. Suddenly he noticed a movement at the edge of his vision. Vivi. The creature lunged at him, going from small hatted boy to a long white monster in a strange broken blur. The thing looked as though it was only held together by the many zippers running down its length. It let out a silent roar, ripping open the zipper that was its mouth. Roxas lept out of the way as the white clawed hand slashed the air. It landed on all fours, rising to face him again in halting movements, like a broken toy. Roxas backed up, attempting to flee the mysterious foe, but he couldn't leave the arena for some reason.
"Guess I'll have to fight!"
Roxas thrust out his hand with the club, quickly going into his favorite fighting stance. He gaped at his hand as the weapon that was pereviously a Struggle bat turne into a beautifully simple, and strangely key-shaped, sword.
Something else seemed to take him over after that. Roxas utterly destroyed the colorless creature and several others when the appeared to back up their fellow.
"Go, Roxas!" He spun in suprise to see a, male, black robed figure speaking to him "Fight, fight, fight!" the strange man said.
"You!" Roxas exclaimed.
The black clad man, the one who... well, Roxas wasn't sure what he had done, but he didn't like it!
The man froze, then reached up and pulled off his hood. "You... remember me?" he asked. His previous cocky attitude was gone, he sounded almost relieved
Roxas looked at the tal man in front of him, frowning. This wasn't the silver haired boy. This man had the brightest red hair he was sure he'd ever see. The peson didn't even have to same colored eyes, his were a dark, forest green. They were like exact opposites.
"I'm sorry, " Roxas said tohim, "I mistook you for someone else."
The poor man mimiced the anime sweat/jaw drop perfectly. "You- yoou mistook me for someone ELSE!" He stalked up to Roxas, who took a step back warily, and put a hand to his forehead. "Nope, not warm, so you're not delirious... Who the hell could you mistake me for!"
Roxas opened his mouth, intending to answer, when he was interupted by the very topic of their dicussion.
"He confused you for me, although i can't for the life of me figure out how." Riku steed through a portal of darkness, looking at the red-head with contempt. "Axel, it's too late for you."
No! Get away from him! I'm taking him!"
Roxas turned to stare at him. "Axel...?" Why did that name sound so familiar?
"Now do yuo remeber? Come over here, don't let him near you."
Riku ignored him, stepping out to the boy. "Roxas, I... need to ask a favor."
Roxas blinked in suprise and noticed, by his reaction, that Axel hadn't expected this either. "W-what?" he didn't mean to stutter, he really didn't!
Riku opened his mouth, closed it again. He sighed, he really didn't want to do this! "Would you make a deal," he finally said, "with Sora? I'll take you to him"
"No! Don'rt do it! He'll just steal your body!" Axel yelled dramatically, stepping foward.
Roxas spun again, in suprise. "What?" He demanded of Riku,"That's what you did to me! That's- that's DISGUSTING!" He was utterly horrified at this epiphany.
The was a pause, a long one. No one spoke and all stared at Roxas.
Still no one spoke.
Finally, "You... think that I-" Riku began
"Bastard!" Axel lunged at Riku, although he knew, somewhere in a dark corner of his mind that Roxas had gotten really mixed up.
"Use your common sense! Roxas jumped to conclusions!" Riku yelled to the furious red head while dodgeing the pair of large, brightly colored, spiky rings being thrown at him.
Suprisingly, this stopped the man and he just stared, confused, at Riku.
"Then you didn't...?"
"Nope"
"So he's still..."
"Yep."
"But you're-!
"Yep."
"And now you're-!"
"Correct, for Sora."
"Oh..." Axel thought for a second then turned to his favorite blond. " Roxas, say no to everything he says! Got it memorised?"
"Roxas, would you not come with me to talk to Sora?" Riku asked, smirking at Axel.
Dispite himself, Roxas laughed. "Well, I don't know why I'm saying this, but... I'll come, on three conditions."
Riku frowned, he hadn't expected that. Then again he hadn't expected Roxas to comply at all. "What?" was all he responded.
"One: Make it so they," he gestured to the audience, "arn't frozen."
"Later."
"Two: I don't know why, but take Axel too."
The two men looked at him in suprise.
"Why-" began Axel.
"Only if he forfeits his weapons over too me." interupted Riku. He wanted this to be as peaceful as possible. It wasn't because he liked to annoy the older man... No, of course not. Although he did.
"Three: yu.. um... you didn't really, well... to me... did you?"
"No! GODDAMNIT! I. Don't. Like. You!" Riku exclaimed, turning red. "There! all your needs met! Come on! " Riku stalked back to his portal, looking like a wet cat. A really wet one...
Roxas took a last look behind him. He saw his friends and smiled sadly. For some reason, this felt like the last time he would see them. He turned once again, following Riku into the darkness. Axel trail sightly behind, trying desperatly not to put a comforting arm around Roxas' shoulders. ZRoxas would freak if he couldn't remember him.
"Axel, give me those wagon wheels you call weapons." ordered Riku. Axel grugingly toswedd him over Roxas head, he twitched, and Riku caught them. Roxas took a look at his surroundings, not that there was much to see. It was a vast black nothingness.
"Where's your friend?" Axel spat at Riku.
He glared at him, but turned to the nothingness with his hands to his mouth. "Sora!" he yelled.
Roxas looked around, seeing no one coming. He looked quizically to Riku, and jumped.
A delicate looking boy had wraped his arms around Rikus neck and was leaning his translucent head agaist Riku's own. The boy had too be floating because you could tell by porportions that he as much shorter than the silver haired boy he was wrapping himself around.
Riku looked very happy and at the same sad to see the transparent boy. Roxas turned to see Axels reaction. Even he looked depressed at the sight of the boy.
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A/N: well there you go! Ch. 2. What do you think? It turned a littlemore cheerful. Oh, yeah, this is a fairly short story, im goessing five more chapters. It will (depending on reactions) probably have a sequel. which will be much more cheerful.
R&R! I want Three more!
Relpies:
SquirrelySoraSquirrelAnd you are the reason (half of it) that i continue! ((Gives brownie))
Kingdom-Hearts-Final-Fantasy-lover-FOREVER: Nice name... Thank you! And the Story gets more cheerful! (as you can see).
Bye Bye for now and R&R!
the Maria half of -Zeida-and-Maria-