The Magic of the Earth and the Sky

by Flare Haynekie

Disclaimer: …………
Warnings: AU, OOC-ness, shonen-ai
Author's note: Well, due to Kelly's lovely advice, the fic's now expanded a couple of more chapters… probably. XD I should sit down one day and do the whole thing in one sitting. I could do it, but I'm a lazy girl XD. Oh well. Here's a couple of unplanned things, that came as a way of explaining everything. If I'm still missing some, I'd be happy if someone would point them out to me, again. So again, Kelly, thank you so much!

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Chapter 30: Sacred ponds and chocolate kisses
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Aqua eyes looked up and narrowed.

"I have to what?" he asked, cautious. Prince or not, there was no way he would do that.

"Marry the lovely Hikari." His father repeated. "It's an honor, Rikue. Learn to appreciate it."

"Father, you know very well I don't get along with her." He tried to reason with his father, but he was dismissed.

Angrily he made his way to the outside of the castle's main hall and towards a large white door that lead to a transporter.

It was incredibly sunny when he finally dared to open his eyes. The salty air gave the young earth prince a sense of freedom. Happily, he wagged his silver wolf tail and ran up to the small island and looked down into the clear waters of the sea, the same color of his eyes.

"This is amazing!" he smiled, noticing his ears and making them disappear along with his tail. "There. I look like a human now." He took off his shirt and shoes and jumped down. "This is amazing. Such liberty. And best of all, Hikari is not here!"

After swimming, he took a walk around and found the small pond with an equally small waterfall. He got close to the water and sniffed it, scrunching his eyes in disgust.

"Ew. Heaven kin blessed water. That's not going to taste very good." He got up, walking around again. "It's not like it's poisonous to us, but it's not very tasty. Bleh."

After going around for a while, he returned to the pond, finding a cute brunet dressed in baby blue clothing staring at the water. Heaven kin blessed water is holy to humans, so they don't drink it at all. In fact, they consider it taboo to do such a thing. So why was this cute little brunet staring at the water… and drinking it!

"What in the world are you doing!" he exclaimed, silently chuckling when he saw the brunet fall into the pond with a startled jump. He ran up to the side of the pond. "I'm sorry, are you okay?" he smiled, then gasped as he took in the big blue eyes that stared up at him.

"I'm wet." The brunet slightly whined.

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Shion gave a sigh. He looked over at his wife, who just shrugged at him. He looked over to their middle son, Roxaius. The blond only looked up puzzled.

"Your older brother, Cloud, for some strange reason has decided to give up the heir rights." Shion said. "So, it's bound to be regulation that it's now you who's the heir. Look alive, enjoy it, and hurry up. Cloud's lessons are now yours and… you're late."

Roxaius twitched, glared, and gave a small scream as he stomped out the main hall.

"Lessons! I can't believe this!" Roxaius argued. "I will kill that idiot Claudius when I catch him!"

He stomped all the way to Cloud's room, and entered, slamming the door open. Cloud looked up startled, dropping the books he was holding.

"Gods, Ro! What's wrong with you? You scared me!" Cloud chuckled, then dropped the smile when he saw Roxaius face. "Uh-oh. Dad already told you…"

Roxaius growled. "Yes, he did. What in the world do you think you're doing resigning to the heir right like it was some kind of hand-me-down! What about the great huge pride that was the first crown prince Claudius of the heavenly kin? Have you gone insane?"

"Go away, Ro. I know what I'm doing. This is not your fault." Cloud gave a deep sigh before pushing Roxaius out the room. "Go away. Play with the little one. I'm busy." And he closed the doors, locking them this time.

With a growl, Roxaius kicked the door in frustration, earning a chuckle from a passing guard.

"Taking your anger out on a miserable and defenseless door is not very becoming of a young prince." He said, his green eyes showing amusement.

"What do you care? Go back to your post."

The guard chuckled again. "Can't go back to my post, I was just relieved of it. So I'm off duty until tomorrow." He grinned. "Want to go out for a while? You could use a little break." He removed his helmet, his long red and spiky hair practically popping out.

Roxaius gave a sigh. "In that?"

"No, I'm going to go change first. If you want to go out for a while, wait up for me… um… hmmm…"

"In the piano room?" he offered, which the red head nodded to.

"Okay. The piano room it is." He smiled and ran off.

Roxaius went and waited in the piano room, playing with the piano. A maid, rather small, and probably a friend of Selai, came in, carrying a tray of sweets and placing it in front of Roxaius.

"Pick one!" she happily said.

Roxaius looked up at her. "Angel… I'm not hungry right now."

She aww-ed. "But Selai told me to bring you some sweets!" she grinned. "Pick one! Or I'll sing."

"Okay, I'll pick one!" Roxaius looked at the plate and grabbed the piece of double layer chocolate cake. Angel gave a twirl with the tray and all, and ran out the piano room, Roxaius hearing a giggle from Selai.

The young prince stared at the cake and placed it on the piano keys. He kept playing with the keys, his fingers jumping over the cake as he waited. Was the guard just joking with him? Playing with him? Was he really coming?

"Hello? Are you still here?"

Roxaius looked up, grabbing the cake and walking to the door where the red head was, looking around. He smiled when he noticed the prince walking to him shyly.

"There you are! What's that?"

"It's chocolate cake." Roxaius looked up. "Angel gave it to me."

"That's cool." He lowered his head and took a bite out of the cake. "It's good!"

"You can have it. I'm not fond of sweets, but Selai insists on feeding them to me because Sorae likes them." Roxaius placed the cake in the red head's hands. "You have it. Really."

The red head took a bite out of it, then pulled the blond closer and kissed him, the young prince showing no resistance. They separated, the taste of chocolate in Roxaius tongue.

"You disgusting pervert!" the blond prince replied, slapping the red head.

The guard stopped the second strike. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you, but you didn't have to hit me!"

"How could you! You… you…" Roxaius sniffed, tears finally falling, the frustration of everything that happened ever since he went to see his parents hours before finally breaking through. "Stupid idiot. I don't even know your name."

The red head softly smiled, holding the blond in his arms and rubbing his back. "I'm sorry. I'm Lae Bastion. I've taken care of you countless of times. You just never remember me."

"Lae…" Roxaius cuddled him. "I'm not fond of sweets… but that tasted good."

"That's good!" Lae smiled, raising the blond in his arms. "Now, come on! I promised you to get you out for a while. You need it."

Roxaius smiled. "Idiot. What if someone sees us?"

Lae laughed. "Doesn't matter! Let's have some fun!"

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To Be Continued!
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(EDIT)
Hehe, typos! Fixed a few, and I fixed your thing, Juju! Sorry about that! XD

(Author's rants)
I'm sorry this is kinda short! And, gasp! Too much AkuRoku instead of RikuSora! Shame on me. XD But this was fun. Finally writing Axel's and Roxas' past relationship was quite interesting.

(Things you should know)
Axel's past name (first and last) was made thanks to Juju when I was one day at her house musing about this. So, half the credit for his name is hers.

BTW, I was not on crack when I wrote the last chapter… it just… came weird like that…

As for the little mission thing from last time, I would like to thank AngelicOrgueil for finding out where the song was from! So in honor of my word, the bubbly maid Angel was created. She's Selai's friend! Fun, fun!

(Things I was hearing and/or working on while writing this chapter)

Hearing:
1. More DDR and anime music (it's there by default on my playlist XD).

2. Repeats of the second season of 4400 (OMG this is awesome!)

3. Random cartoon shows.

4. OMG, "Ōban: Star Racers" is awesome! Much fun. I loved the first two episodes! Yay!

5. The original OP of "Ōban: Star Racers"… does anyone know if the show is Japanese or French, or a collab between the two? Cuz the original OP song passed on the French3 channel starts in Japanese but ends in French, so I'm not sure… No, it's not a mission, sorry… (no mission cuz I have no idea what to give as prize)

Working:
1. More of the AlbelFayt fic "A little bit of love"

2. Math book (bleh).

(Reviews)

1. AngelicOrgueil – My god, you're so hyper! Hehehe! But, thank you for telling me what anime it was from! I never would've thought it was from Sonic X. Must've been really long ago that I downloaded it then! And the white stuff, don't eat that!

2. Kelly – you know what? You're right! This chapter is slightly dedicated to you for the idea! Yay, I'm crerative! Whoot!

3. Bonnie Mizuhara – I'm sorry that Sora drowned. Hehehe, I don't think I smoked anything when I wrote it. It was too strange? I'm sorry?

4. Largo-sensei – Hahaha. I think I've had people go "how can you live in that heat and not die of dehydration or something!". So yeah. I've heard that Florida's actually hotter than my lil island because of so many people and tourist (this being Miami), but since I've never been to the states I can't prove that. Oooh! Jamaima pancakes! Darn, I haven't had those in ages! Yum! I'm awesome? Aww, thanks! Ahh, I don't think you've told me, but thank you! I'm quite flattered!

5. Prozacfairy – Yes, he drowned! I'm sorry… that idea was already in my head since over five chapters ago… so was Irvine and Selphie! Yay! Yes, Kairi is overly evil in this fic! But in my vampire one she's kinda nice… well, she's Sora's maid, there's not much she can do there.

6. Kayrana – Aww, that's so sweet! Reviewing even though you were so lazy! For some reason, I don't feel that chapter to be random and fasy paced… okay, scratch the random part. But it was mostly it was to finally throw Irvine into the fray. XD. It feels like someone left the heater on? How hot is it there? Here it's from 88 to 95 degrees farenheit (I proved it!), and I get by the day stuck with my fan, or outside… XD Good luck with those final days of school! And, I'm glad you like my story. Yay!

7. losthimagain – no! It's not on crack! Hehehe. Does it really sound different? Ah, but I'm glad you liked it!

So! All in all! Thanks to everyone. Your updates make me happy! Whoot! See ya later!