potpourri; axel x roxas

Notes: Written for the 1sentence challenge with regards to the pairing Axel x Roxas. Implied RoxasNaminé, SoraRoxas/SoraRoxas at times. Many, many AUs up ahead, beware.

AU o1: Based on Airgear, Sora is the 'Wind King', and Axel the 'Flame King'; Roxas is self-appointed guardian of Sora. For those not in the Air Gear fandom, just know that you're 'supposed' to gather all the Kings (or at least the title and gear, which can pass on from person to person) on your team so you can aim to create the 'Sky King'. But there are many different teams! Or, something like that.

AU o2: Characters thrown into our world. There, Larxene is Roxas' step-sister and aims to torture Axel until Roxas and Axel get together and even after.

AU o3: Axel and Roxas are in the mafia; Roxas is the double agent inside there as he actually works for the police. Roxas' codename is XIII and Axel is VIII; XIII always works hooded, so no one knows what he looks like - not even Axel. Unfortunately for Axel, he and Roxas became friendly, and then Axel left because stuff happened. They meet again, but...

AU 04: In a world where magic exists, there's a place cornered off by the government and the Organisation exists within. Roxas betrayed the Organisation and they throw him away after erasing his memory; Axel tries to follow the same happens to him.


#01 - Motion
Axel usually spent meetings trying to plan out new and interesting things to do, but he sat up for a moment when Xenmas motioned for XIII to enter the room.

#02 - Cool
"I'm cool, yeah," Demyx crowed, pleased with Roxas' unintentional compliment, but Roxas had eyes only on Axel.

#03 - Young
"You're young," Axel whispered; Roxas smiled bitterly, "But I'm still one of you."

#04 - Last
He stood on the balcony of the castle, watching the last of the stars fade away; the only one remaining inside the castle, VIII wondered if XIII was worth it.

#05 - Wrong
As he lay dying, Axel realised how wrong he was to assume that Roxas had never loved him; the fallen tear was proof of that.

#06 - Gentle
The flames licking his skin felt just like the gentle soothing waves that swallowed him all summer on the beach - drowsily, Roxas wondered if he was to die.

#07 - One
The one with the potential to become Sky King was one in a million, but Roxas was, to Axel, one in infinity.

#08 - Thousand
A picture's worth a thousand words; the sketch of Roxas and Axel together, Naminé knows, is worth so much more.

#09 - King
"I don't care if he's a fucking king," Roxas muttered, "as long as he stands in Sora's way - I'll kill him."

#10 - Learn
"It's Axel. A-X-E-L. Got it memorized, kiddo?" Axel asks; Roxas replies, "Say what again?"

#11 - Blur
In almost no time, Axel became nothing but a blurred target; Roxas, left behind, gritted his teeth as he tried to catch up.

#12 - Wait
Axel's lips move: wait for me - but Roxas is already too far gone to see.

#13 - Change
Roxas know he can either kill Axel, or persuade the other to change; he resigns himself to the former because he knows Axel is impossible.

#14 - Command
He knows it's a command, he knows it's an order - but looking into darkened blue eyes, Axel chooses hell and lets his pride fall.

#15 - Hold
Roxas holds in his arms the lithe body of a blond girl who shares his existence; he holds inside his heart the image of a red-haired man he was sure he could never meet again.

#16 - Need
Even though XIII needed to deal away with VIII quickly, Roxas knew he needed Axel by his side.

#17 - Vision
He peers into the simulation quietly, and watches his target runs about - inwardly, Axel wishes he was there beside Roxas.

#18 - Attention
"You're flashy," Roxas remarks distastefully; Axel snorts, "You're the one with two keyblades, idiot."

#19 - Soul
Oh, Demyx mumbles to Axel, there's nothing special about him; IX smiles suddenly as he remarks, but he has the kind of eyes who'll see right through to your soul.

#20 - Picture
Naminé smiles softly to herself as she gazes upon the image of two best friends standing together.

#21 - Fool
"I'm a fool," Axel whispered to no one, "I'm a fool for thinking I could love you."

#22 - Mad
Axel's flames are red, slightly tinted blue; Roxas smiles bitterly because he knows Axel means to kill him.

#23 - Child
"I'm not a child," XIII retorted, as VIII said, "Prove it to me."

#24 - Now
Axel couldn't care less about the future, because now was fine as long as Roxas remained.

#25 - Shadow
He's only a shadow, so Roxas never understands why a king would end up falling in love with him.

#26 - Goodbye
Axel never said goodbye, because he knew, somehow, they would meet again.

#27 - Hide
As they ducked around the corner, Roxas breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the angry mob run past their little hiding place.

#28 - Fortune
Naminé takes the paper offered and quietly reads to Roxas, "You'll fall in love with a red-haired man. Signed, Fortune-Teller Axel."

#29 - Safe
Before he met Axel, Roxas was satisfied with everything as long as Sora was safe.

#30 - Ghost
Roxas compares the Nobodies to ghosts, and Axel finds himself burning the midnight oil to search for the evidence he needed to say that ghosts existed.

#31 - Book
By chance, Sora wanders upon an photo album and finds himself smiling at the stilled frames of two males, more than friends, spending time together.

#32 - Eye
They stared eye to eye - a shocked VIII and an unmasked XIII - until Axel whispered, "Roxas?" in disbelief, and watched quietly as Roxas turned and ran away.

#33 - Never
Maybe it was the way he laughed, or the way he talked; Axel could never, ever, for the life of him, figure out what made Roxas so special to him.

#34 - Sing
He gaped openly at the computer screen, when the digital version of himself appeared to be singing what he knew was a familiar love song; Roxas, embarrassed, swore never to touch alcohol again in Axel's presence.

#35 - Sudden
"If I was a killer," Axel starts suddenly, than stops, shakes his head and shrugs; Roxas laughs on the outside, and inwardly wonders what Axel would think of him if he knew Roxas had murdered.

#36 - Stop
Roxas cried for Axel to stop, but Axel, ashamed, kept running and feared if Roxas were ever to find his bloodied hands.

#37 - Time
Time stopped the moment they first kissed, and the moment Roxas plunged the blade into Axel's heart.

#38 - Wash
He dips in his hand into the basin of water and watches the blood wash away - he wonders if letting go of Roxas would be as easy as this, but thinks otherwise.

#39 - Torn
Roxas had thought that nothing could ever make him feel like the time he'd left his friends behind, until Axel died and vanished forever; it was that day that Roxas finally found his heart - shredded.

#40 - History
They had their past, they had their scars; when they were together, they could - at the very least - forget.

#41 - Power
"I can read your mind," Axel swears; Roxas asks, "What?" and he ends up asking it again after Axel kisses him.

#42 - Bother
"I'd hate to be a bother," Roxas whispers, and Axel, gathering his courage, tugs the boy into a hug and murmurs, "You're not."

#43 - God
Before, Axel had believed in God; now, he believed in Roxas alone.

#44 - Wall
Shoved up against the wall, Roxas could only moan as Axel's hands wandered everywhere.

#45 - Naked
"One writhing and naked Roxas please," Axel orders, a hint of a smirk tugging at the sides of his lips as Roxas flushes.

#46 - Drive
Larxene smiles easily as she slips the photo of Roxas dressed in maid's dress into the donation box; the charity finds a cheque in their postbox the next day from a certain Mister Axel, asking for that image back.

#47 - Harm
Get him back or kill him; Axel sighs inwardly as he lifts his chakram to fight, knowing there was no way in hell he could bring himself to harm Roxas.

#48 - Precious
All that remained of Axel's memories was but a single name; Roxas.

#49 - Hunger
At times, Roxas hated sex because he feared the predatory look on Axel's face - he was tempted to believe the other was going to gobble him up.

#50 - Believe
When Demyx told Axel to believe in Roxas, Axel only said: "He's not coming back."