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.
Warning: No Saix's were killed in the making of this chapter. ((DAMN IT!)) Rated for language and violence... and cliffies... and random authoress ourtbursts... and dangerous unexplained plotholes sucking unwanted characters to a horrible painful death through the ground... yeah
Disclaimer: I dont own Kingdom Hearts(is riku in bondage?)
Ch.4: Only The Best For Him
They sat side by side on the concrete wall encasing the long set of stairs rising to the entrace to the Postern. Axel and Riku sat in total silence, both boys with their knees drawn up to their chests, staring blankly anywhere and nowhere. They had not said a word since they got Roxas to some help. A cool breeze blew from the passageto their left, mussing red and silver hair, blowing it into their face. They didn't notice.
"Boys?" An abnormally tenative voice asked. A girl with short black and a strange, um... interesting outfit hopped up from the ground to stand next to them, balenced on the wall. She attempted a quick smile when Riku acknowledged her with a quick glance.
Axel didn't respond.
"Helloooooooooooo..." she waved a hand in front of his face, leaning precariously over Riku, who, if it weren't for the situation, would have tickled her, just to see her fall.
Still no response.
"Well, that aside, I have good news." She carefully stepped away from Axel. Yuffie attempted to pull Riku away to, but he just yanked his arm back.
"Your funeral..." she muttered under her breath. "Axel, we are done ixing up Roxas. He'll be fine and you can go see him."
Riku, hearing this tried to scramble out of the way, but it was too late. Axel tramled him in his desperation to make Yuffie verify her news. The silver haired boy was nearly flung off the wall. The girl nodded her head vigorously as the rabid redhead, who had her by the shoulders and was shaking he unconciously - or unconcious - as he fired question after question on Roxas' well-being.
"Just see for yourself!" The brunette finally screached at him. Axel stopped for a moment, contemplating this strange new idea. Axel spun around and charged through Riku, who dove out of the way. Unsuccessfully. This time he did fall off the wall to plummet something like 15 feet before rolling to avoid bodily harm. Unfortunatly he was mentally scarred by a very scary nobody...
Axel busted the door off its hinges in his rush to get to Roxas' side. Squall narrowly avoided being crushed between wall and flying door. Cid, standing next to him, was not so lucky. Aeris, who was previously attending the blond nobody. wandered over to the pilot and began happily proding him with her staff.
Axel, finally calming down, knelt gently and quietly next to the bed. "Roxas..."
Riku enterd soon after, dusting himself off. He noted Squall leaving, but thought nothing of it. "Axel?" he spoke for the first time that day. The man just continued to stare at Roxas. "Axel, I'm sorry. You know I didn't want him to get hurt." Axel nodded but did not remove his eyes from the blond.
Riku sighed and walked next to the red haired man. He was about to speak again when Squall came back into the house. He was walking quickly, a look of concern on his normally cold face.
"Riku. Explain." the brunette ordered, shoving and paper under the boy's nose.
He took the letter curiously and read through it quickly, his aqua eyes widening. He growled and crushed the letter in one hand. "Damnit!" he yelled, throwing the leter to the ground, He's taunting me!" Riku stomped to the door, intent on causing someone excruciating pain, but a leather clad glove stopped him. He spun to face the grey eyed man. "What!" he spat.
"I said 'Explain.',"Squall was unperturbed.
Silence.
"It said he had Sora."
Silence.
"Andyou didn't tell us!" Was Squall raising his voice?
Silence.
"I'm going to get him back" He answer, finally. He aqua eyes would not meet the steely grey ones.
Squall ignored this statement and spun Riku around to shove him into a seat. The silver haired boy just stared, never having been traeted this way before.
Axel picked up the crumple peice of paper and glanced at Squall berating a terrified looking Riku about not telling people who could help, and who cared. Irraionality and not planning ourt his actions may have come into the monologue as well. But he wasn't listening... or laughing... Axel chucked before glancing at the letter.
His merriment ceased immediately.
Dearest little Axel and Riku,
I hope that you will get this soon. I'm sorry to say that I made a mistake. It was quite foolish of me and I think I shall make a habit of thoroughly analyzing my plans before setting them into action. A lovely idea, don't you think?
Now, as you know, I have Sora, true, and he is doing wonderfully at his new job. It's so sad that he doesn't seem to be enjoying it, however. He lookes quite pained actually.
But I digress, as I was saying, it appears I need our litte Roxas as well. Would you be so kind as to bring him to me? It should be easy, I banged him up pretty nicely. Did you ask about his injuries? Is he doing well? I need him alive, you see.
Of course I understand how you wouldn't want to do that, but I have a little deal that might intrest at least one of you. Riku? Wouldn't you like to see Sora again? I thought so. Although I can't give him back, you understand. But you can see him, maybe say hello, or ask how working for me is going. Not that he can answer, he already used up his voice, poor boy.
Bring Roxas to the castle at the edge of "Reunion". To get there set the coordinates at the bottom of the page to your Gummi ship.
Axel may want to come, as this wll be the last time he sees his little Roxas. You see he won't even have a body to gaze regretfully at when I'm finished. You both may want to come, becaue I know how you work, and you will want to stop me. You might actually stand a chance if you team up.
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"GodDAMN HIM!"Axel yelled turning to the door only to find that Squall had just finished locking it. (People can find the real door somewhere in my plothole sometime in the near future... or far future... depends on when I can think of a new person to be sucked in, any ideas?-Maria )
The leather clad man turned to face the two desperate boys. "You will calm down and think rationally." he stated. He leaned back on the door and crossed his arms, looking at them coldly. His stormy eyes, however, betrayed his worry.
"We can't give Roxas to him." Axel clarified quickly, taking a seat.
"Of course not. I still need him." Riku agreed.
The red head glared at him.
Squall pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. "Well, what will you do then?"
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Axel and Riku stepped off the gummi ship, stumbling on the hard ground. Axel instantly bent down and kissed the ground. Riku just stood there looking shaky and really, really scared.
"I'm never stepping off you again!" the red head told the dirt he was currently making out with.
"Oh, get up."
The nobody glared at at him. "I swear to your god that I will NEVER let you drive again!"
The silver haired boy pouted. "Oh, I'm not -"
"Yes you are! I nearly got a concussion every Five Seconds!" Axel rubbed his head, getting up.
Both men faced their path, growing serious again. Back at Merlin's house, in Radiant Gardens, they had carefully went over their options. Unfortunatly, the best option had been to leave Roxas under the protection of Squall, and to raid the castle themselves and rescue Sora. They knew this was incredably risky, and Axel had wanted to stay and protect Roxas, but they knew Saix was right in one point, they needed to team up to beat him. The only high point was that Roxas should be safe, with Squall, Yuffie, Cloud and everyone else.
They looked down the broken, rocky cliff-like path to a monumental black ruin of a castle perched on a broken off chunk of lce;and, just big enough for it. It was all floating in the strange empty bluish space that this old, dying world occupied. Its turrets and towers were crumbling down and it gate and drawbridge were rusty and rotten. The walls were filled with more holes than swiss cheese and the shiny, black material it was made of was dulled and scratched. In the middle of the mysterious ruin rose a silvery steel dome, obvious centuries younger than the castle. This oddity in the ancient crumbling world was where they were headed. The steel obstruction sported a circular door that had no handle, knob, or hinges to aid in entrace from the outside.
"Let's blast it." Axel muttered summoning his weapons.
"Let's."
The resulting explosion was a bombs dream come true. A terrifying mixture of fire, darkness, and magic directed at a singular six foot area.
That door didn't stand a chance.
The two men walked in, heavily guarded and took in their surroundings. The circular room was a laboratory. One side was covered with expensive equitment and a huge computer portraying and monitoring data. There were several desks positioned around the room, all of them covered with paper, both blank and filled with notes and diagrams. There was one chalkboard with, strangely, nothing on it, but the walls were covered with more notes and pictures and seemingly meaningless numbers. The floor was a little dirty, but not filthy-disgusting, and thankfully not covered with dark, ominous stains. It was littered with wires both attached to machines, an on their own.
The very center of the room is what drew their attention. Ther was a long, eliptical, starch white table. It had no discernable legs and looked completly solid. To their horror, floating noislessly above the table was...
"SORA!" Riku exclaimed, stepping toward the boy.
He didn't respond, not even a twitch. The brunette floated gently above the table, his head tipped back. His eyes were wide and unseeing, staring vacantly at the space directly in front of him. Sora's mouth hung open ever so slightly and a miniscule red trickle colored the corner of it, accenting his unnaturally pale skin.
Riku tried to lift the boy away, to hold him close and comfort both of them. When his hands met the air above the edge of the table, they bounced away and it glowed bright a second.
"Sora!" the silver haired boy rammed his fist into the barrier, panicking. He couldn't save him! He couldn't save him! He couldn't save him!
A cold laugh echoed through the room. "Like that's going to work." Saix cooed, walking through a dark portal to his lab.
The two men turned to him. "No..." Axel whispered, his green eyes widened as a cold, penetrating fear shot up his spine. This couldn't be happening.
They stared at the form held in the blue haired man's arms, like a rag-doll. Roxas. All Axel could see was the other nobody, surrounded in a blood red fog. He lunged, fully intending to rip the man into tiny little pieces and roast them. Saix mearly laughed again and held up the injured blond. Axel froze, but the blue-haired maniac's laugh was soon cut off anyway. He flew sideways, nearly dropping his hostage as metal collided with head and the rest soon followed. Riku had stepped quickly and deftly behing the distracted nobody and dealt a heavy blow to his head with Way to Dawn.
"Urg... You'll pay for this..." he held out his hand toward his other captive and smiled. Sora arched his body in pain, tears streaming out of his eyes. A silent, heart wrenching scream ripped from his bloody mouth. The brunette writhed for a moment before falling limp, his eyes half lidded. Saix smiled again and summoned darkness around himself, and stretching it to the rest of the room. Slowly it began to sink into the ground, the dark reaching up to pull it in. Everything sank in hesitant jumps, first one side, than the other as it was absorbed into the darkness.
Riku ran back to Sora, crying his name and willing him to wake, trying to break through the barrier. The silver haired boy attacked it with his sword, inciting momentarily glowing blotches with each strike. The sword was flung from his hand after a particularly powerful hit and forcefull rebound by the invisible wall. Unfazed, or over fazed, Riku went back to striking with his fists. He pounded on it, straight out punches, kicks, ramming it, untill his hands were a bloody mess. Nothing worked, Sora continued to sink into the floor.
"Sora..." he sobbed, pounding on the ground with bloody hands, like a warped tantrum, desperate for the darkness to swallow him as well. He had to be with Sora! He had to rescue him! Riku collapsed on the blackish earth left behind, shuddering. He lost him again.
"Sora..."
Axel had lunged at the bluehaired man but Saix vanished much quicked than the rest of the room. Axel just crashed harmlessly into the rapidly evaporating wall behind the other nobody. He sunk to his knee, dropping his spiked rings and clutching his head in his hands. This can't happen. This can't happen. How many times had he been just not enough to keep Roxas!
"No..." they unknowingly echoed each other.
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A/N: awwww dont you feel sorry for them? Dont worry it gets better in the next chappie.
Next chapter: Axel and Riku get back to Radiant gardens to chew out Squall about losing Roxas, only to find Merlin's house covered with blood and the corpses of their friends. Outside stands my OC (who i like to use a lot so he will show up in other stories.) getting berated by a very angry, very loud, and very bloody (loss of limb) Squall. Last chapter except for maybe and epilogue! Should I do one?
About the Reviews: I do not mean to hold my story hostage for reviews. It was mean to hurry me up. You see; I get my review, I update instantly. I dont get my reviews, I update hopefully a week later. But I messed up, I'm sorry! I won't mess up again!
And maybe a new story ((hint hint)))
Review Responses:
SoulSociety: I took note of what you said. In the first game, hey were icy, but I took a look at pictures from the second, where this is taking place so I would have to use that, and they were as you said, so I changed that. A cookie and a pancake for being so helpful!
ArosxIrukxOxarsxLeax: Yeah it does, doesn't it? It only get worse in this chapter, but the next one is better!
Hyxrst: I'm soooo sorry for not updating for so long, I hope this makes up for it!
SquirrelySoraSquirrel: I'm Sorry! ((sniff)) I couldn't reread this chapter either, because... just because. But we have a beta now so these will get fixed up and re-submited.
AXENATOR: We may never know! seiously, even I don't know! Oh! Zeida said that you have an evil chara (Axel's dad) in your story, could I borrow him to torture some unfortunate b- in my plothole sometime? I had this really awesome idea...
betaed version
I want 5 reviews!