Chapter 1:
Exit Stage Left…
You know the drill. I own none of this, people who are way brighter and cooler own this stuff…. Okay folks?
I woke up with him lying beside me. We both had on identical black robes and had seemingly been asleep for a while. I then noticed that I was completely shrouded in black, gloves and all. 'Whoever I am, I really don't have good taste in fashion.' I thought, not remembering a thing of my past. Something I would later find out I never really had. But that is another story. This is mine, got it memorized?
I then noticed we both held strange weapons, mine looked like two circular saw blades. His resembled keys, yet they reserved a blade like shape. Rising to my feet I straightened out my cloak… or whatever the hell it was and looked down at the slumbering teen beside me. I wondered if he remembered anything or if he had ended up like me.
Before I had time to look around or even examine my weapons any further he began to stir. I guess I was to eager saying "good your up" because after I said that, he got hostile. He swung his key things at me wildly and I met him for battle. This was odd. I had no memory of anything before waking up and yet it seemed as though I was fighting with the intensity of a man who had won wars by himself.
As the merciless clanging of blades rang through the hall where we were another noise soon came with them. A strange dripping noise, louder than anything else I had ever heard. I would grow to absolutely hate that noise.
We were held in a struggle, each blade blocking the other from doing any sudden movements. Each of us saw them out of the corner of our eyes. Fleshy bug like blobs of black about three feet tall were pouring into the hall where we had so foolishly ignored portals had appeared.
"What is your name?" The young man in front of me asked. He had a slight grimace on his face. "I think mine is… Roxas. Yeah, that's it. Roxas. What is yours?"
"The name is Axel, got it memorized?" I asked without thinking about what I was saying. It seemed I did remember one thing at least.
"Okay Axel." He said this with a grin, "what do you say we take this fight to them instead to one another." His voice was confident and I knew by his age he barely knew the definition of betrayal. I nodded quickly and subtly.
This battle was more difficult then the last. The creatures went down easy enough but when you killed one, two popped up. I didn't care, and neither did my new found comrade. We would fight until the creatures swallowed us whole. Now that I think about it we were very lucky that it didn't.
They finally fought us back into a corner. We had no where to go but up. However if we got up, we had to have a plan to exterminate the bugs before we came back down. "Throw your blades so they stick out of the ground. If I can fire a beam of light at both of them at once, and you use one hell of a fire attack we may close the portals and destroy the beings in one swift strike." Roxas seemed far to wise to be as young as he looked. And boy did he look young.
So I threw my blades into the ground, just as he had instructed. I then forced my arms out into the thin air. Soon two wheels of flames had surrounded my arms. And I shot them down into a swift pool of flame. Roxas had built up an intolerably bright light that he fired into the two of my blades. They bounced in every which direction, eradicating the creatures and destroying the portals from which they came. As we gently floated to the ground we realized we had done what we needed to do.
We both came down panting, I barely had any energy left. He was almost the same. "Well you have quite a brain for the fighting don't you?" I asked the young man. Who had wrestled my blades from the ground and was walking towards me, four weapons in hand.
"You are quite skilled yourself. I just want to know where we are." His voice trailed off. I could see by the distant look in his eyes that he was just not the talkative type. He had a face that was young, but the expression that he wore was far to sad to fit what should have been a youthful appearance.
"I just want to know who I am." I said, looking around sadly. The place where we had woken up in was a blue and green swirling cloud yet it was like we were on a vessel of glass that mystically floated above nothingness.
"You mean, you don't remember anything else either?" He asked me. His eyes were wide and I knew I had found our common ground. We had no memories. None whatsoever.
"I don't remember anything before I woke up with you beside me." I said, a sly grin on my lips. I patted him on the shoulder. "I have a feeling that we are going to be one inseparable duo kid."
"Well I hope so. I am going to need someone to be allied with in case more of those things show up. He smiled and put a hand on mine. For the first time I saw him he was full on grinning. It was an odd experience for him, I could tell.
"Work on the smile kid." I said, with a chuckle. "And lets look for a way outta hear." I said removing my hand and walking towards the light end of the vessel. This was a bad idea or so it would seem.
Suddenly from the darker side of the room hundreds of the bugs were flying out, it would never stop. It seemed like it could never stop. Roxas ran back to me and looked at me as though it were my fault. I said nothing and drew my blades.
This time, the fight was useless. We were tired from the last time and it showed. Just as we were about to get it, even more ugly creatures of white leapt onto their backs. The creatures were actually killing each other. The white far overpowered the dark ones and it seemed that they had even shut the portal from which the dark ones came.
Roxas and I were prepared to fight against the white ones just before they vanished. Only three men and black stood before us now.
Vexen.
Marluxia.
Larxene.
Organization 13 had found us out. If only I had exited stage left.