Roxas's Secret

Chapter Four

Now that Roxas had told them, he turned back around, his Keyblades vanishing. "Now, I have to go help my friend," he told them and began walking out of the cave. He hoped that Axel was still in Traverse Town. He heard footsteps behind him and noticed that Riku and Sora had gotten up and were following him. He blinked, "What do you guys want?" he asked them, obviously confused.

"We want to go with you-to help your friend." Riku explained.

"Yeah, we don't want you to get yourself in trouble you can't get out of!" Sora replied cheerfully.

Roxas sighed, what could it hurt? "Alright, I guess-but don't let Axel see you for right now…he um…already killed two people…"

Sora and Riku blinked, but they didn't say anything as Roxas summoned a dark portal and stepped through it. He appeared in Traverse Town in the second district. He looked around for Axel, but he didn't see the pyro anywhere. "Axel?" Roxas questioned, calling for his friend. "Axel!"

He didn't get a response as Riku and Sora came out of the portal behind him and then it shut. "Damn!" Roxas swore, looking around. He walked around, jumping up onto a ledge. "Where did he go?" Suddenly he heard footsteps coming from beside him. And they didn't belong to Riku or Sora.

Roxas turned his head to see Axel walking along the ledge, eating an ice cream, "Hi Roxas! Ya know, this place isn't half bad!" he said in a slurred voice. Roxas stared at Axel and then groaned. "Hey! You guys got some Keyblades too!" Axel suddenly shouted, throwing his hands up. Roxas turned around to see Sora holding his Kingdom Key, glaring at Axel.

"Sora, put the Keyblade away. Axel!" Roxas growled, approaching his friend. "Have you been drinking again?"

Axel blinked, "Yeah…you should try it sometime Roxas-you'd love it! Weee!" Axel spun around in a circle, nearly falling off the ledge-he did, however, succeed in dropping his ice cream on Sora's head, who whipped it off rather irritably.

"Axel! You know you're not supposed to drink! All right! That's it! You're coming with me!" Roxas growled, grabbing Axel's cloak. A dark portal appeared and Roxas kicked him into it. "Get in there!"

He turned to look at Sora and Riku with a stern look, "Axel is drunk! Damn it, he's such an idiot! But for now, we'll forget about that. Now let's go," he ordered and then leapt in the dark portal after the drunk pyro.

Sora and Riku looked at each other and shrugged. They headed towards the portal, but just as they did, a hand shot out and grabbed Riku by the collar of his shirt. In a strangled voice, Riku yelped in shock as he jerked forward, throwing all of his weight towards the dark portal Roxas had summoned. Sora, who Riku now hated with utter aversion, had ever-so-stupidly stepped through the portal, not noticing Riku was gone until the portal had closed.

Riku snarled, feeling his shirt rip from his attempt to break free. Spinning around, his Way to Dawn appeared in his hand in a flash of dark light. His eyes flashed as they landed on a silver-haired man staring at him with glowing orange eyes. "Who are you?" he demanded, pointing his weapon aggressively at the man who wore a long black cloak like the Organization did.-Like Saix and Axel.

"A friend, that is who. Now if you will calmly follow me, Riku, there will be no fight." The silver-haired man's voice was calm, but icy and dangerous.

Riku glared, snorting, "Like I'd be stupid enough to do that!"

"Your funeral," and with that, the man held out both of his hands. A flash of red in each palm and blade of red energy appeared in each gloved hand. "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get, but no one has ever defeated me: Xemnas, leader of Organization XIII."

Meanwhile back on Destiny Island, Roxas had failed to notice that Riku was gone due to two new problems that had come up. 1. Axel was drunk and playing in the sand. 2. Demyx was with him, building a sand castle, and pretending that he was a three-year-old. Maybe Vexen had hypnotized Demyx or something…

"Demyx, you aren't even supposed to be here! Now get out!" Roxas snapped.

Demyx looked up at him and grinned. "Hi Unca Roxas! Wanna build a sand castle?"

"Hey Roxas! Looky! A birdy!" Axel yelled, pointing at the sky. Roxas groaned…this was one hell of a mess he was in…As if things couldn't get any worse…

"Hey Roxas! Riku's missing!" Sora suddenly shouted after cleaning his hair of the ice cream that Axel had dropped into his perfectly spiky hair. Roxas dropped to the sand in dispair and nearly screamed. Crazy people!

Instead, he tried to regain his composure. "Fine, you two stay here and play in the sand. Sora, we'll go back to Traverse Town and look for Riku." Sora nodded, fixing his wet hair, but it didn't work. His spiky hair was ruined!

Roxas didn't pay any mind to Sora as he opened another dark portal. At least he could still do this…

And all the while he was doing this:

A figure clad in all red sat in front of a screen, looking at it. "I wonder when he figures out what has become of his friend, how will he react?" the figure asked in a deep voice. There was no one there at the present time, so he merely talked to himself, but it did not matter to him. "Roxas, you will need to hurry to save your friend, however,"

A soft chuckle, and then silence descended upon the red-clad man.