A/N: First of all, happy belated AkuRoku Day, everyone. I would've gotten this fic up sooner (like yesterday XD), but it was my older cousin's seventeenth birthday yesterday, and yeah. XD
-ahem-
Finally decided to write a little (okay, I admit, it's not little, but big) AkuRoku...yeah, not a cracky one-shot or a smutty songfic, but actual ficcage. :D (OMFG, chapters. XD)
Also, I finally decided to switch over to OpenOffice for fic-writing, instead of my usual WordPad. (I used Microsoft Word at one point, but that's another story.) I've had it on my computer for at least three months now, but yeah. (I know, I'm a complete friggin' idiot.)
...Jeez, I'll feel weird cussing with this thing. XD
Even though this is just the prologue (a really short prologue, at that), I promise there'll be at least four chapters. XD Perhaps over fifteen, if I'm feeling up to it.
I'll need suggestions every once in a while (I'll say it at the end of a chapter whenever I run into writers' block for the following chapter) due to the fact that I only have the prologue, beginning, ending, and epilogue in my head at this moment...that's when YOU get the chance to help this poor fanficcer out with this fic:D
Oh, and about this scene...I didn't think it up. Tetsuya Nomura-sensei did. I read a brief description of it in an interview at KHU kh2(dot)co(dot)uk, and the prologue is just my interpretation of it. Sad to know the event scene didn't actually make the scene-cut, though...
Well, every part that actually is Tetsuya Nomura-sensei's ends with the voice saying "Take this name", after that, it's all me and my imagination. XD
-ahem- This fic is gonna be my version of what happened "behind the scenes" during Chain of Memories, while Sora is away finding Castle Oblivion/inside Castle Oblivion "reliving" his memories.
Thanks to Nii-san, for giving me a bunch of ideas for this fic, and giving me help while I was trying to figure out the title of the fic. XD If I didn't know better, I'd say he was my muse. XD
Ah well. Enough of my blabbering, eh?
Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, or Kingdom Hearts II, trust me, I wouldn't waste my time writing fanfics. I'd be making them CANON!
Philophobia
by Kyoto-chan
Prologue
Achluophobia
Blue eyes stared out into the wide open space engulfed completely by darkness. Laying down, the figure sat up, one hand touching the handle of a giant key, and the other feeling around on the floor. It was not visible, but it was still there. Questions such as 'where am I' and 'who am I' roamed his mind, immediately leaving as four large letters in yellow appeared in front of him.
SORA
Shocked, he opened his mouth and read the word out loud.
"So...ra..."
He felt that he was supposed to know this word, feeling a small familiarity with it. But he had no recollections of it.
As if on cue, the letters rearranged themselves.
ROAS
A small flash caused him to close his eyes. When he opened them, an X appeared in the middle.
ROXAS
Again, he read it out loud.
"Rox...as..."
A foreign voice echoed through the vast emptiness. It sounded so distant, yet at the same time, it rang in his ears.
Take this name...
"Name...?"
It is yours.
"My name...? Is...Roxas?"
Yes.
A bright flash engulfed the darkness, and the teenager now known as Roxas found himself in a dimly sunlit alleyway, dressed only in a raggedy poncho-like sheet, the giant key from earlier having disappeared.
Where am I? he thought yet again, finding himself sitting against a brick wall and a concrete floor this time.
Just as he stood up, a dark portal, encircled by what looked like moving black thorns, appeared against another wall, and a hooded person wearing a long black cloak walked out from it. The portal disappeared afterwards.
Roxas knew it wasn't exactly the best thing to do, but he walked up to the figure and began to speak to it.
"Excuse me?"
The figure stopped walking and turned towards the teen.
"Do you know where I am?"
The figure merely replied, "Twilight Town, got it memorized?"
"Thank you, Mister...um..." the would-be Keyblade holder began, stumbling over the loss of the figure's name.
"The name's Axel, got it memorized? What's yours, kid?"
"It's Roxas...I think..."
If Roxas could see this Axel's face, he would know that the other male had raised an eyebrow.
"You think?"
Roxas nodded reluctantly.
He said nervously, "A voice told me that my name was Roxas..."
"A voice, huh. ...so you're another one...come with me," Axel said, turning towards the wall and opening the portal yet again.
He walked in, and Roxas complied with Axel's order, following him into the portal.
When they saw light again, the portal had opened up once again, and Axel had walked out of it into a large white room, furnished with white furniture. A large tan man with icy blue hair sat in a white chair, the top of the backboard hovering near it being three times larger than him. A petite blond-haired girl in a short white dress sat near him, in an identical chair.
"Why have you come back so early from the mission, number eight?" the man asked coldly.
The redhead replied, "Mission aborted. I found another one."
He pointed at Roxas, who merely blinked in confusion.
"Another one?" the girl squeaked.
"Are you sure?"
"Positive, Superior. He said he got his name from that voice..."
The man with the icy blue hair smiled, with a hint of evil in it.
"That voice, eh? Well...the more the merrier..."
End Prologue
I said it was a short prologue, didn't I? Only two pages long (the only thing long about this is my horrendously huge author's note at the top XD), and 571 words long. XD Half of this document is my author's note...jeez, that's a freakish thought. XD Hopefully my real chapters won't be as short...-sweatdrops-
As for the next chapter, just so no one will get lost, it takes about two, three weeks after this prologue. Assume that Xemnas has introduced Roxas to everyone in the Organization, formally added him to the group, and that Roxas now knows he is a Nobody. And wields a Keyblade.
As for me, it's like midnight right now, and I gotta wake up in around seven hours...X.X;
I'll work on the first chapter when I can...tomorrow. So wait up for that, all right? XD
-does not really care if people actually care about this fic-
Review and get a cookie! XD
Philophobia – (n.) The fear of falling in love
Achluophobia – (n.) The fear of darkness