Ice Cave Survivors

Disclaimers: All Kingdom Hearts characters are owned by Disney and square Enix and are all copied without permission. I have made this story for fun and not profit.

Writer's Note: This idea came to me while doing an RP with one of my super close friends.. While it's been a while since I've posted a story for KH, I wanted to make this.. I apologize if the idea may not make much sense, but we've been working through the RP as we go, so hopefully it doesn't sound too weird.. (Rated for suspense)

Prologue

The only sound that filled the air was the quiet gusts of wind which blew across the mostly barren and snow covered landscape. Axel was lying on his side as the heavy white flakes fell all around him, the world dark. The wind blew around him, whipping the powdery, newly fallen snow up from the ground. Not far from his position, Roxas lay motionless, the snow having already begun to coat him in white.

Axel's eyes shot open, feeling the bite of the cold against his exposed skin. He tried to get up, but he immediately cried out in agony as pain shot through one of his legs.

'Ugh.. Great. Crash landed on some snowy plain AND suffering a broken leg. Real Keyblade warrior you are, Axel...' He thought to himself, dragging himself over to Roxas and shaking him as he said, "Hey, Roxas.. Probably be a good idea if you woke up right about now.."

Roxas didn't so much as flinch from Axel's attempts at waking him. At closer inspection, it was easy to see Roxas's clothes were in tatters and were stained with blood. There was a large gash on Roxas's forehead which ran down his left temple, staining his hair and the snow crimson. After an agonizing moment, Roxas let out a weak groan as he began to stir.

"Axel.." he croaked out groggily. "My head.. It really hurts."

"Right.. Hang on." Axel stated, going through his pockets before pulling out a potion, popping off the cork and bringing it to Roxas's lips.

"Alright, drink up, buddy." he said, pouring the life-saving mixture into his mouth.

Despite the smell and taste of the potion causing Roxas to become lightheaded, he managed to drink it before going into a coughing fit. He felt something hot and bitter shoot up into his throat making him gag. Roxas nonetheless forced it back down and winced as the potion began to do its work.

"Right.. Next order of business while that's healing you up." Axel grunted, his Keyblade forming for a moment before turning into his signature chakram, spinning in front of his hand as he said, "Burn, baby."

With that, a small spout of fire began to form in front of him, melting the snow along the ground as he began to melt out an emergency shelter, crawling forward while gritting his teeth in agony.

Roxas watched in dumbfounded amazement as the snow melted instantly from the fiery weapon, hissing and bubbling as it dissolved into water. Fighting the pain in his head, Roxas got up and began following him through the tunnel of ice and snow. Roxas felt a sharp pain ripped through his shoulder as his right hand made contact with the ground and he collapsed in the snow with a yelp as of agony.

"A-Axel.."

He fought to get up, forcing his body to move to follow behind Axel into the improvised shelter.

"Oh, no. Got yourself a broken bone too?" Axel rasped, disbanding his keyblade after making a sufficient hole for them to rest before placing his back against the wall, hissing in pain. "Man...those Heartless ships really did a number on us, huh? You did good on maneuvering the ship into this world's atmosphere. We might not be that well off right now, but...well, we certainly could be worse off."

After managing to join Axel inside the icy shelter, Roxas collapsed against the opposite wall, gasping for air as he instinctively pressed his injured shoulder into the ice, causing a smear of red as he tried to numb the pain.

"It was thanks to you for taking out a lot of them.. You were right about adding a flame cannon to the front."

He suddenly hissed in pain as he tried in vain to get into a more comfortable position, the pain in his body having become more intense. He instinctively gripped at his shoulder and cried out as he felt it had become shattered from the impact.

"G-guess.. I c-can't really u-use my right arm.. N-now.." Roxas gasped.

He however froze as her took in the sight of Axel's injures.

"O..O-oh my God.. A-Axel.. Y-your LEG!"

The bones in Axel's leg were now unmistakably visible through his tattered clothing, the tibia jetting out to the side and causing Axel's foot to turn the wrong way. After recovering from his shock, Roxas summoned one of his Keyblades and painfully made his over to Axel's side before setting it down on the icy 'floor' of the shelter.

"I'm going to try and fix it.."

Roxas cringed as he forced his right arm to move, white hot pain ripping through his shoulder. Clumsily, he managed to grab hold of Axel's leg. He'd never set a bone before, but Roxas wasn't willing to allow his friend to suffer any more pain. As Roxas moved to repair his leg, Axel took a portion of his jacket and bunched it up, shoving it into his mouth before biting down on it, already starting to tear up as his friend grabbed the out of place bone.

"Okay.. On three... One.. Two.."

Roxas suddenly applied pressure and with one quick motion..

*CRACK!*

As it snapped back into place, Axel let out a muffled scream, the leather stuffed in his mouth preventing his teeth from shattering as he bit down hard. Roxas winced but soon looked at Axel's leg and dispute it being covered in blood, his leg seemed to have been put back correctly. Using his teeth, Roxas tore a few strips from his jacket and after making sure to keep Axel's leg as straight as possible, Roxas carefully began to wrap Axel's leg up with the help of his Oathseeker Keyblade.

Leaning back against the wall, Axel panted heavily, pulling his coat out of his mouth as he rubbed his sore jaw. After finishing with wrapping his friend's leg, Roxas slumped back painfully against the wall.

"Boy.. What a riot. We should do that more often." Axel replied sarcastically, attempting to use humor to lighten the mood. "How about you, bud? That collar bone of yours isn't too far gone, is it?"

It took Roxas a moment to register Axel's question but soon he answered.

"I can still m-move my arm but I c- Nnggghhh!"

He gripped his shoulder and froze as he found it felt jagged and the bones were now unmistakably visible beneath his skin. Roxas let out a whimper as he tried in vain to force it back into place as tears of agony spilled down his cheeks.

"Whoa, whoa there, buddy. Better leave that to me, fair turn after getting me straightened out." Axel interrupted, grunting slightly as he moved towards him. "Got something to bite into? Don't want your teeth to shatter when you clench your teeth."

Roxas bit his lip but soon reached into his pocket, pulling out a black and white plaid bandanna. Shakily, Roxas started trying to put it in his mouth, the immense pain causing him to drop it a few times. He nonetheless managed to get it bunched up in his mouth and bit down hard as he clenched his eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable.

"Right, then. Brace yourself, this is gonna feel a little worse than a bee sting." Axel warned, putting his hand over the bone and prepping himself before pushing as hard as he could, the bone setting back in place with a sickening crack.

Roxas screamed into the bandanna like he'd never screamed before. The pain was instant and intense as white hot agony shot through his shoulder. His body collapsed against the wall as fresh tears poured from his eyes. Roxas panted heavily, lying there as he tried to recover from the immense pain. Roxas forced himself to look up as he choked back a pained sob.

The pain was excruciating but the bone had thankfully been snapped back into place. Roxas fumbled with removing the bandanna but finally managed to do so and winced, trying to close his jaw as the muscles fought to stay locked in place.

"T-thanks.." he choked out, fighting through the throbbing pain. "I'm.. I'm g-glad you decided to go w-with me on the mission."

"No big, buddy. We'll get through this together." Axel promised, patting him on the shoulder that wasn't recently mutilated. "Now, since we've gotten our bones somewhat straightened out, we're gonna need to sort out what we're going to do. I don't suppose you still have your Gummi Phone on you?"

Roxas nodded and reached into his pocket, soon pulling out the device. He was horrified to find the screen had a spiderweb crack along the top left corner.

"Oh crap.."

Now feeling a bit of adrenaline, Roxas frantically began pressing the buttons to try and turn the phone on. He soon felt a wave of relief as the phone sprang to life.

"Using the face-cam is out.. But at least it still works."

Roxas looked at the screen and was disheartened to see the words; 'No Service'. He soon glanced up at Axel.

"I'm going to have to go out to get a signal."

Roxas panted heavily as he forced himself to get up. Using another strip of his jacket, he put his arm in a sling to keep his shoulder in place. Now only having the use of one arm, Roxas turned and looked toward the way they came in. Outside, he could still see a wall of white and sighed.

"Looks like it's now or never." He turned to look back at his best friend. "I'll be back as soon as I can, okay? I'm going to head out now."

"Do what you've gotta do. Just...don't stay out too long.". Axel muttered.

Roxas nodded before turning back toward the entryway to the cave and slowly managed to crawl out into the wind and snow as Axel lay on the floor of the snowy cavern as boredom mixed in with the pain he was feeling.

"Hrm...what I wouldn't do for a nice stack of playing cards right now..."

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

Roxas winced as the freezing air made contact with his wounds. He let out a sigh and slowly began walking through the heavy, wet, knee-deep snow. Roxas shivered, each breath becoming a cloud of frost. He lifted up his phone to try and gauge where he could find the strongest signal. He took another step, finding the snow waist deep in most places. Every place the snow touched his skin burned like a white hot iron, but he couldn't stop, Axel was counting on him. The blonde teen looked at his phone and stopped as he saw there was one bar.

He quickly but clumsily began to contact Ienzo. As it got through, Roxas spoke frantically.

"Ienzo? Ienzo! We need your HELP! We crash landed in a frozen world and Axel's badly hurt- we both are and need some HELP!"

Roxas heard a buzzing and could see the battery was nearly dead.

"Please hurry! Our shelter is near our crashed Gummi Ship!"

Roxas heard a beeping and soon found the battery had gone dead. Roxas tightly closed his eyes as he tightly gripped the now useless Gummi Phone. He gazed down at it as tears of hopelessness filled his eyes. He however was brought out of his despair as he saw something black move within the white.

"No.. Not now.."

As the words left Roxas's mouth, the large group of Shadow Heartless sped toward him! On instinct, Roxas readied his Oblivion Keyblade with his good hand and slashed at a few. It however wasn't enough as more continued to rise up. Roxas turned and bolted for the shelter, stumbling a bit as he tried to avoid falling down. Eventually, he reached the mouth of the shelter when one of the Heartless leapt onto his back, shoving him to the ground. As the Heartless slashed up his back, Roxas let out an agonized scream.

A/N: As I've mentioned before, this is an RP I've been doing with a friend and my original plan was to make it a One-Shot but since both of us have hectic work schedules and have lives that get the better of us, it may take a while for us to be able to get more than a few more parts finished.. This is why I decided to put this into chapters instead.. Also, since we've been talking through where we wanted the RP to go, it might seem like it doesn't give the feeling a real.. Well.. Feeling.. But I personally think it helps in building the logistics and emotion on how things might go throughout the story.. I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't want you guys to enjoy reading, even though we know the ups and downs of it, you all don't really know how things will go and I want you all to enjoy it.. I'll wrap this up so I'm not rambling.. I'll post the first few chapters we've got done so you all can get the feel of what this story is about and if you want more, just let me know